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4B Daily News – Saturday, September 29, 2012 Obama invokes rarely used law to void Chinese purchase of US wind likely to be another irritant in the increasingly tense economic relationship between the U.S. and China. It also comes against an election-year backdrop of intense criticism from Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney, who accuses Obama of not being tough enough with China. farms WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing national security risks, President Barack Obama on Friday blocked a Chinese company from owning four wind farm pro- jects in northern Oregon near a Navy base where the U.S. military flies unmanned drones and elec- tronic-warfare planes on training missions. It was the first time in 22 years that a U.S. president has blocked such a foreign business deal. Obama's decision was In his decision, Obama ordered Ralls Corp., a com- pany owned by Chinese nationals, to divest its inter- est in the wind farms it pur- chased earlier this year near the Naval Weapons Systems Training Facility in Board- man, Ore. president's desk after the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, known as CFIUS, determined there was no way to address the national security risks posed by the Chinese company's pur- chases. Only the president has final authority to prohib- it a transaction. The case reached the Tidbits of information give little insight into Colo. shooter DENVER (AP) — The suspect in the Aurora movie shooting case mailed ''burnt currency,'' along with a notebook, to his psychiatrist before the attack. He threat- ened a professor and was banned from a university campus before withdrawing from its neuroscience gradu- ate program. His defense team has added a psychia- trist. than two months ago. The documents shed lit- tle light on Holmes' possible motives or whether the uni- versity ignored warning signs about him. That's part- ly because Arapahoe Coun- ty District Judge William B. Sylvester continued to keep under seal the key docu- ments in the case — the affi- davit that lays out prosecu- tors' case against Holmes, and the search warrants that allowed them to gather evi- dence against him. Holmes, 24, faces 152 charges in the July 20 shoot- ing that killed 12 people and injured 58 others. Some of the documents are entirely blacked out. In others, Sylvester's rulings on legal disputes, references to years-old case law and even copies of newspaper articles are redacted, along with information about the investigation. Syria rebels launch broadest push yet for city BEIRUT (AP) — Rebels on Friday pressed their broadest assault yet to drive President Bashar Assad's forces out of Syria's largest city, activists said, with fierce fighting erupting in an Aleppo neighborhood that is home to Kurds, an ethnic minority that has mostly stayed out of the civil war. In Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said intelligence suggests Assad has moved some of Syria's chemical weapons to better secure them. Panetta said the main sites are believed to be secure, though his com- ments indicated that there are lingering questions about what happened to some of the weapons. On the diplomatic front, top representatives from Western nations and Middle East allies met Friday at the U.N. to urge Syria's frac- tured opposition to unite. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told the Friends of Syria group that the U.S. would deliver an additional $15 million in non-lethal aid and $30 million in humanitarian support, on top of more than $175 million already given to political opposition. Diplomacy has been largely sidelined in the 18- month-old Syria conflict because a key tool — U.N. Security Council action — has been neutralized by vetoes from Assad allies Russia and China. Those were the few tid- bits of information in hun- dreds of pages of heavily- redacted court documents released Friday, which serve as the best chance the public has to understand what hap- pened before James Holmes allegedly opened fire at a midnight screening of the new Batman movie more WORLD BRIEFING opposition NEW YORK (AP) — The Obama administra- tion moved Friday to rally Syria's opposition with pledges of $45 million in new non-lethal and humanitarian assistance as the administration and other world leaders lamented the failure of diplomatic efforts to push Syrian President Bashar Assad from power. US seeks to rally Syrian Presidential contest shifts to money Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. would con- tribute an additional $15 million in non-lethal gear — mostly communica- tions equipment — to the civilian opposition trying to oust Assad as well as $30 million in new humanitarian assistance to help those affected by the continuing violence. She also delivered a new, stark warning to Iran that it must stop arming and supporting the Assad regime. ''It is no secret that our attempts to move forward at the U.N. Security Council have blocked repeatedly, but the United States is not waiting,'' Clinton said as she announced the new aid at a gathering of the Friends of Syria group that she hosted at a New York hotel on the side- lines of the UN General Assembly. She and other foreign ministers from the group met with nine Syri- an opposition figures, including several who traveled from Syria to attend Friday's session, to discuss strategy. With U.N. action been PHILADELPHIA (AP) — For a day, the presidential contest was almost all about money — money to wage the presi- dential contest, that is. Mitt Romney promised to help Americans earn more, but he and Presi- dent Barack Obama focused mostly on private fundraisers and big checks to fuel their 40- day sprint to Election Day. blocked by Russia and China, Clinton said the rest of the world must support the Syrian oppo- sition. She also said it was urgent that the fractured foes of the regime unite around plans for a politi- cal transition that could put an end to more than three decades of Assad family rule. Activists say the current 18-month long conflict has led to more than 30,000 deaths. The military battle for control of the country has also been locked in a stale- mate, most visibly in Alep- po, a northern city of 3 mil- lion. Since a rebel offensive on Aleppo two months ago, each side has controlled about half of the city and has repeatedly tried — but failed — to capture the rest. Alep- po would be a major strate- gic prize, giving the victor new momentum. Nations UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's use of a car- toon-like drawing of a bomb to convey a mes- sage over Iran's disputed nuclear program follows in a long and storied tradi- tion of leaders and diplo- mats using props to make their points at the United Nations. Here are a few memorable examples: US shows embassy Abrief history of props used by speakers at the United bug to expose Soviets In May 1960, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accused the Sovi- ets of espionage, produc- ing before the Security Council a wooden Great Seal of the United States which had been presented by a group of Russian cit- izens at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Lodge then extracted a tiny micro- phone out of the eagle's beak with a pair of tweez- ers, and said dozens of lis- tening devices had been found in U.S. embassies in communist bloc coun- tries. ''From what plays were these props taken and when will it open?'' the Soviet delegate responded. Earlier that month, the Soviet Union had shot down an Ameri- can U-2 spy plane over Russia. Man apparently shoots self in head on live TV PHOENIX (AP) — A man apparently shot him- self in the head Friday on live national television at the end of a high-speed chase that began in Phoenix. Fox News was cover- ing the chase that began at midday using a live heli- copter shot from Phoenix affiliate KSAZ-TV when the man driving what appeared to be a crossover sedan stopped, ran into the desert and appeared to place a handgun to his head and fire. Fox News anchor Shepard Smith told view- ers minutes later that the video was supposed to be on a 10-second delay so it could be cut off from air- ing if something went awry. ''We really messed up, appeared to be a late- night burglary attempt, only to discover he had killed his 15-year-old son, police say. ''It's something out of a Hollywood script,'' said John Hodge, the first selectman, or top elected official, in the town of about 14,000 people. He said he couldn't recall another killing in his eight years on the job. No immediate charges were brought against the father, Jeffrey Giuliano, in the shooting of his son, Tyler, around 1 a.m. Thursday. Police said they were investigating whether the father's hand- gun was registered. State police said Jef- frey Giuliano got a call from his sister next door saying that someone might be trying to break into her home. Giuliano grabbed a gun and went outside to investigate, troopers said. He confronted some- one in a black ski mask and black clothing and opened fire when the per- son came at him with a knife, police said. No sign of remains in soil in new search in Washington on Friday, while his Republican challenger did the same in Philadelphia and Boston, both men trading swing- state rallies for fundrais- ing in places unlikely to play a significant role in the election of the next president on Nov. 6. Romney admitted as much during a fundraiser at Philadelphia's exclu- sive Union League Club. The former Massachu- setts governor said it would surprise everyone if he carried Pennsylva- nia, a state that hasn't supported a Republican presidential candidate in nearly a quarter century. ''We really would shock people if early in the evening of Nov. 6 it looked like Pennsylvania was going to come our way and actually did come our way. That can happen,'' Romney told about 200 donors who paid between $2,500 and $50,000 to hear his remarks. ''My priority is job creation and growing incomes,'' Romney con- tinued. ''My priority is not trying to punish peo- ple who have been suc- cessful.'' Obama courted donors Rockwell's models gathering in Vt. hometown to remember artist for Hoffa ROSEVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Jimmy Hoffa is presumed dead, cocooned in mystery and innuendo and missing for the past 37 years. Patricia Szpunar just hopes that if the for- mer Teamsters boss' remains do turn up, they're not in her back- yard. Over the years, author- and we're all very sorry,'' Smith said. It wasn't immediately clear if the man survived. till later NEW FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — A popular fifth-grade teacher fatally shot a masked, knife- wielding prowler outside his house during what Masked teen killed by father had knife; dad didn't realize it was his son ities have dug up a Michi- gan horse farm, looked under a swimming pool and pulled up floorboards in their quest for Hoffa. The latest search led police, droves of local and national reporters and dozens of curious onlook- ers to Szpunar's brick ranch-style home in Roseville. ''I'm looking forward to everybody going home,'' she told The Associated Press on Fri- day from her front porch. Szpunar has lived at the house since 1988. Minutes earlier, a small mob of people scooted by, following closely behind police who were carrying tubes of soil samples taken from two 6-foot holes drilled through the concrete floor of her backyard shed. Tehama County Youth Bid and or buy at the Jr. Livestock Auction Support Saturday Sept. 29 at 10:00 a.m. Champions sell at 1:00 p.m. Tehama District Fairgrounds Northern California Farm Credit Red Bluff (530) 527-1941 • Chico (916) 895-8698 • Willows (916) 934-7071 in the Don Smith Pavilion for more info call 529-2416 ARLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Don Trachte's cowlick has been tamed. Mary Hall is no longer a towhead. Butch Corbett is still thin, but not the bean- pole he once was. And Tom Paquin's carrot top is thinner and grayer. Twenty or so people who were children when they posed in the 1940s for their neighbor Norman Rockwell in the small Ver- mont town of Arlington are reuniting Saturday to share their memories of the great American artist who once lived in their midst. Rockwell captured scenes of everyday life in his paintings and illustra- tions for covers of Saturday Evening Post, the Boy Scouts and its publication Boys' Life, art now consid- ered the very definition of Americana. He would pay his neighbors $5 a pop to appear in Hallmark cards, in calendars and on maga- zine covers that ended up gracing the coffee tables and littering the tree houses of millions of magazine readers young and old. ''The Saturday Evening Post came out weekly, and we couldn't wait to get it to see what was on the cover,'' said Hall, who posed for Rockwell four times. ''You could always recognize who it was.'' She appeared as a blond girl wrapped in a quilt and being carried out of a flood by a Boy Scout in an image that became a cover of Boys' Life, and as a teenager in a skirt, white blouse, bobby socks and loafers on a Post cover from 1948. It was called ''Christmas Home Com- ing'' and showed people welcoming a boy home from school who's carrying a suitcase full of dirty laun- dry.