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Tuesday, September 11, 2012 – Daily News WORLD BRIEFING Chicago teachers hit For the first time in a quarter-century, thou- sands of Chicago teachers walked off the job Mon- day, escalating a bitter contract dispute over eval- uations and job security and forcing parents to scramble for somewhere to send idle children. Both sides went back to the bargaining table around midday, hours after the walkout began when the two sides failed to agree on a contract before a midnight dead- line. The strike affected nearly 400,000 public school students and their families in the nation's third-largest district. While negotiators said picket lines CHICAGO (AP) — they had made progress on salary and a longer school day, they remained divided on a host of other issues. Delano Roosevelt didn't want to anger Josef Stalin, an ally whom the Ameri- cans were counting on to defeat Germany and Japan during World War II. French television station BFM. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel pushed to end the confrontation quickly. He repeatedly said nego- tiators were within reach of a deal and that the strike was unnecessary. The mayor acknowledged tensions with union over longstanding issues, but urged a quick resolution. ''Don't take it out on the kids of Chicago if you have a problem with me,'' Emanuel said Monday at one of the churches that is serving as a gathering spot for students during the strike. airstrike SANAA, Yemen (AP) — An airstrike killed al- Qaida's No. 2 leader in Yemen along with six oth- ers traveling with him in one car on Monday, U.S. and Yemeni officials said, a major breakthrough for U.S.-backed efforts to cripple the group in the impoverished Arab nation. Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader in Yemen killed in because they weren't authorized to release the information to the media. Late Monday, after speculation surfaced that the attack was carried by a U.S. drone, Yemen's Defense Ministry issued a statement saying al-Shihri and six companions were killed during an operation by Yemeni armed forces in Wadi Hadramawt, but it did not elaborate on how they were killed. both improve MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) — It's all about Ohio — again. Economy, Obama standing improved here, and so has President Barack Obama's standing, putting pressure on Republican Mitt Romney in a state critical to his presidential hopes. The economy has won the White House without winning Ohio, and Romney hopes to catch Obama here by slashing at his jobs record in working-class regions. ''America doesn't have No Republican has withholding the transfer of scores of inmates, reportedly out of concern that Afghan authorities may simply let some detainees go and no longer hold dangerous prisoners without charge. American irritation was apparent at the cere- mony at the prison, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Kabul. No higher ranking American officers attended, although the Afghan government sent its defense minister, army chief of staff and other officials. Karzai also did not attend, though he released a statement calling the handover a ''very big step regarding the sovereignty of Afghanistan.'' ''Now, the Bagram prison is converted to one of Afghanistan's regular prisons where the inno- cents will be freed and the rest of the prisoners will be sentenced according to the laws of Afghanistan,'' the statement said. Declassified documents add to proof that US Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the U.S. military prison at Guan- tanamo Bay, was killed by a missile after leaving a house in the southern province of Hadramawt, according to Yemeni mili- tary officials. They said the missile was believed to have been fired by a U.S.-operated, unmanned drone aircraft. Two senior U.S. offi- cials confirmed al- Shihri's death but could not confirm any U.S. involvement in the airstrike. The U.S. doesn't usually comment on such attacks although it has used drones in the past to go after al-Qaida mem- bers in Yemen, which is considered a crucial bat- tleground with the terror network. Yemeni military offi- cials said that a local forensics team had identi- fied al-Shihri's body with the help of U.S. forensics experts on the ground. The U.S. and Yemeni mil- itary officials spoke on condition of anonymity to have the long face it has had under this presi- dent,'' the Republican shouted Monday to a cheering audience in hard-scrabble Mansfield, just weeks after Obama visited. ''We can get America rolling again, growing again.'' In a sign of the state's importance, hardly a week goes without the candidates appearing in Ohio. Same goes for their running mates; Republi- can Paul Ryan was cam- paigning in the Appalachian southeast Wednesday, following a similar weekend trip by Vice President Joe Biden, who is to return to the state Wednesday. Afghans take control of Bagram up massacre WARSAW, Documents released Monday and seen in advance by The Associat- ed Press lend weight to the belief that suppression within the highest levels of the U.S. government helped cover up Soviet guilt in the killing of some 22,000 Polish offi- cers and other prisoners in the Katyn forest and other locations in 1940. The evidence is among about 1,000 pages of newly declassified docu- ments that the United States National Archives released and is putting online. Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who helped lead a recent push for the release of the documents, called the effort's success Mon- day a ''momentous occa- sion'' in an attempt to ''make history whole.'' Historians who saw the material days before the official release describe it as important and shared some highlights with the AP. The most dramatic revelation so far is the evi- dence of the secret codes sent by the two American POWs — something his- torians were unaware of and which adds to evi- dence that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity rela- tively early on. Syrian general who defected says regime can powers to give the opposi- tion ''all the aid and sup- port'' needed to topple Assad. Foreign military inter- He called on outside vention, however, ''could not provide a solution'' to the conflict, he said. The uprising against Assad's regime began in March 2011 with mostly peaceful protests against the family dynasty that has ruled Syria for four decades. But the battle has transformed into a civil war, and activists estimate that at least 23,000 people have been killed. Lawmakers return to kick the can down 3B keep pace with a slight increase in spending permit- ted by ''caps'' set by last summer's hard-fought bud- get and debt accord. The 2012 budget year ends on Sept. 30. But not a single one of the 12 annual agency appropriations bills has become law, requiring lawmakers to step in with the stopgap funding mea- sure to avoid a disastrous partial shutdown of the gov- ernment. Consumers cut back on the road WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress returned to Washington on Monday for an abbreviated pre-election session in which it appears likely to do the bare mini- mum: making sure that the government doesn't shut down. Almost everything else of consequence, most notably a set of automatic, economy-rattling spending cuts and tax increases that have been dubbed a ''fiscal cliff,'' will get put off until a post-election lame duck ses- sion — and maybe beyond. Top lawmakers hoped to helped cover (AP) — The American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of decay in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, proof that the killers could not have been the Nazis who had only recently occupied the area. Poland the infamous massacre of Polish officers might have lessened the tragic fate that befell Poland under the Soviets, some scholars believe. Instead, it myste- riously vanished into the heart of American power. The long-held suspicion is that President Franklin The testimony about prison BA GRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — President Hamid Karzai welcomed Monday's han- dover of the main Ameri- can-run prison to Afghan forces as a victory for Afghan sovereignty, though he and U.S. offi- cials remain locked in a dispute over the fate of hundreds of Taliban and terror suspects behind bars. The United States is MON.-FRI. 8AM-6PM SAT. 8AM-5PM Syria's most prominent defector said in an inter- view that aired Monday that he opposes any foreign military intervention in the country's civil war and that he is confident the opposi- tion can topple President Bashar Assad's regime. But Manaf Tlass, a Syr- ian general who was the first member of Assad's inner circle to join the opposition, said the rebels need weapons. 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But the measure expected to be unveiled Monday actually allows for a less than 1 percent increase to every program to credit card use WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans cut back on borrowing in July for the first time in nearly a year. Credit card use fell for the second straight month, sug- gesting many consumers remain cautious in the face of high unemployment and slow growth. Total consumer borrow- ing dipped $3.3 billion in July from June to a season- ally adjusted $2.705 trillion, the Federal Reserve said Monday. It was the first decline since August 2011. The drop in credit card debt offset a small rise in a mea- sure of auto and student loans. icans have borrowed much more than previously esti- mated after it revised con- sumer borrowing data back to December 2010. June's figure was increased to $2.708 trillion, or $130 bil- lion higher than initially thought. It's also well above pre-recession levels. 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