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Netanyahu: Sanctions ing could imperil the world more than a nuclear-armed Iran.'' deter Iran UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Thurs- day that Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb by next summer and urged the world to draw a clear ''red line'' to stop it in its tracks. Saying it was getting ''late, very late'' to stop Iran, Netanyahu flashed a diagram showing the progress Iran has made toward creating a bomb. He said Iran had already completed the first stage of uranium enrichment, and then he drew his own red line on the diagram to highlight the point of no return — the completion of the second stage and 90 percent enrichment. ''Iran is 70 percent of the way there and ... well into the second stage. By next summer, at current enrichment rates, they will have medium enrichment and move on to the final stage,'' Netanyahu said. ''From there it is only a few more weeks before they have finished the enough for a bomb.'' Netanyahu has repeat- enriched edly argued that time is running out to stop the Islamic Republic from becoming a nuclear power and the threat of force must be seriously consid- ered. ''I believe that faced with a clear red line, Iran will back down — and it will give more time for sanctions and diploma- cy,'' the Israeli prime min- ister said. ''Red lines don't lead to war, red lines prevent war ... noth- have failed to GOP Libya WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans lashed out at President Barack Obama and senior admin- istration officials over their evolving description of the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Con- sulate in Libya, a late campaign-season broad- side challenging the veracity and leadership of an incumbent on the upswing. challenges Obama on explanation of 9/11 attack in WORLD BRIEFING polls. ''Amid Middle East turmoil and six weeks before the election, Presi- dent Obama refuses to have an honest conversa- tion with the American people,'' Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republi- can Party, wrote in an arti- cle for the website Real Clear Politics. ''The country deserves honesty, not obfuscation, from our president.'' Republicans say the administration has been slow to call the assault a terrorist attack and has criticized its initial insis- tence that the attack was a spontaneous response to the crude anti-Islam video that touched off demon- strations across the Mid- dle East. Obama sums up his case as early Desperate to reverse the apparent trajectory of the White House race, Republicans sense a polit- ical opportunity in Obama's reluctance to utter the words ''terrorist attack'' as well as the varying explanations emerging from the admin- istration about the assault in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Talk of Watergate-style scandal, stonewalling and cover-up echoed in the GOP ranks on Thursday, from the head of the party to members of Congress to Mitt Romney's cam- paign staff. This full- throated criticism comes five days before the first debate between Obama and Romney, with Repub- licans determined to cast the president as dishonest and ineffectual on both foreign and domestic pol- icy. voters begin locking in Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama pledged to create many more jobs and ''make the middle class secure again'' in a campaign-closing appeal on Thursday — more than five weeks before Elec- tion Day — to voters already casting ballots in large numbers. their choices VIRGINIA BEACH, ney, focusing on threats beyond American shores, accused the commander in chief of backing dan- gerous cuts in defense spending. ''The idea of cutting our military is unthink- able and devastating. And when I become president we will not,'' declared the challenger, struggling to reverse a slide in opinion Republican Mitt Rom- Romney and Obama campaigned a few hun- dred miles apart in Vir- ginia, 40 days before their long race ends. They'll be in much closer quarters next Wednesday in Den- ver — for the first of three presidential debates on the campaign calendar and perhaps the chal- lenger's best remaining chance to change the tra- jectory of the campaign. In a race where the economy is the dominant issue, there was a fresh sign of national weakness as the Commerce Depart- ment lowered its earlier estimate of tepid growth last spring. Romney and Friday, September 28, 2012 – Daily News 5A his allies seized on the news as evidence that Obama's policies aren't working. officials back NEW YORK (AP) — The replacement officials are gone and the NFL is sorry it took so long. Now fans can go back to complaining about the calls made by the regular refs. NFL regular The sport's experi- ment with replacements ends Thursday night when a veteran crew works the Browns- Ravens game. Commissioner Roger Goodell apologized to fans for the anxiety of the last three weeks while denying that using replacement officials increased the chances of flagrant mistakes. After two days of marathon negotiations — and mounting frustration across the league — the NFL and the officials' union announced at mid- night Wednesday that a tentative agreement had been reached to end a lockout that began in June. The return of the regu- lars couldn't come soon enough for many players, coaches and fans. eight-year