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Beloved TV icon Jean Stapleton dies
BY JAKE PEARSON
AND LYNN ELBER
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Jean Stapleton,
the stage-trained character actress who played Archie Bunker’s
far better half, the sweetly naive
Edith, in TV’s groundbreaking
1970s comedy “All in the Family,”
has died. She was 90.
Stapleton died Friday of natural
causes at her New York City home
surrounded by friends and family,
her children said Saturday.
“It is with great love and heavy
hearts that we say farewell to our
collective Mother, with a capital
M,” said her son and daughter,
John Putch and Pamela Putch, in
Associated Press a statement. “Her devotion to her
Cast members of “All in the Family” (from left) Carroll O’Connor, craft and her family taught us all
Jean Stapleton and Sally Struthers hold their Emmys backstage at great life lessons.”
the 1972 Emmy Awards in Hollywood.
Little known to the public be-
fore “All In the Family,” Stapleton
co-starred with Carroll O’Connor
in the top-rated CBS sitcom about
an unrepentant bigot, the wife he
churlishly but fondly called “Dingbat,” their daughter Gloria (Sally
Struthers) and liberal son-in-law
Mike, aka Meathead (Rob Reiner).
Stapleton received eight Emmy
nominations and won three times
during her eight-year tenure with
“All in the Family.” Produced by
Norman Lear, the series broke
through the timidity of U.S. TV
with social and political jabs and
ranked as the No. 1-rated program
for an unprecedented five years in
a row. Lear would go on to create a
run of socially conscious sitcoms.
“No one gave more profound
‘How to be a Human Being’ lessons than Jean Stapleton,” Lear
said Saturday. In a statement,
Reiner added: “Jean was a brilliant comedienne with exquisite
timing. Working with her was one
of the greatest experiences of my
life.”
Stapleton also earned Emmy
nominations for playing Eleanor
Roosevelt in the 1982 film “Eleanor, First Lady of the World” and
for a guest appearance in 1995 on
“Grace Under Fire.”
Her big-screen films included
a pair directed by Nora Ephron:
the 1998 Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan
romance “You’ve Got Mail” and
1996’s “Michael” starring John
Travolta. She also turned down
the chance to star in the popular mystery show, “Murder, She
Wrote,” which became a showcase
for Angela Lansbury.
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Alcoholic drinks Frightened residents flee tornadoes
may soon attach
nutritional labels
BY MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Alcoholic beverages soon could
have nutritional labels like those on food packaging,
but only if the producers want to put them there.
The Treasury Department, which regulates alcohol,
said this past week that beer, wine and spirits companies can use labels that include serving size, servings
per container, calories, carbohydrates, protein and
fat per serving. Such package labels have never before
been approved.
The labels are voluntary, so it will be up to beverage companies to decide whether to use them on their
products.
The decision is a temporary, first step while the Alcohol and Tobacco Trade and Tax Bureau, or TTB, continues to consider final rules on alcohol labels. Rules
proposed in 2007 would have made labels mandatory,
but the agency never made the rules final.
The labeling regulation, issued May 28, comes after
a decade of lobbying by hard liquor companies and
consumer groups, with clearly different goals.
The liquor companies want to advertise low calories
and low carbohydrates in their products. Consumer
groups want alcoholic drinks to have the same transparency as packaged foods, which are required to be
labeled.
“This is actually bringing alcoholic beverages into
the modern era,” says Guy Smith, an executive vice
president at Diageo, the world’s largest distiller and
maker of such well-known brands as Johnnie Walker,
Smirnoff, Jose Cuervo and Tanqueray.
Diageo asked the bureau in 2003 to allow the company to add that information to its products as lowcarbohydrate diets were gaining in popularity.
Almost 10 years later, Smith said he expects Diageo
gradually to put the new labels on all of its products,
which include a small number of beer and wine companies.
“It’s something consumers have come to expect,”
Smith said. “In time, it’s going to be, why isn’t it there?”
Not all alcohol companies are expected to use labels.
Among those that may take a pass are beer companies,
which don’t want consumers counting calories, and
winemakers, which don’t want to ruin the sleek look
of their bottles.
The Wine Institute, which represents more than a
thousand California wineries, said in a statement that
it supports the ruling but “experience suggests that
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Associated Press
People search and gather items Saturday after a storm destroyed a house on Haversham Drive in St. Charles County,
Mo. The National Weather Service confirms at least two tornadoes were part of a Friday night storm that damaged
hundreds of homes but causing no serious injuries.
People leave behind homes with memories still fresh of fatal twister
BY SEAN MURPHY
Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — It’s a warning
as familiar as a daily prayer for Tornado Alley residents: When a twister approaches, take shelter in a basement or
low-level interior room or closet, away
from windows and exterior walls.
But with the powerful devastation
from the May 20 twister that killed
24 and pummeled the Oklahoma City
suburb of Moore still etched in their
minds, many Oklahomans instead
opted to flee Friday night when a violent tornado developed and headed toward the state’s capital city.
It was a dangerous decision to make.
Interstates and roadways already
packed with rush-hour traffic quickly
became parking lots as people tried
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Cars damaged by a tornado sit in a parking lot Friday at Canadian Valley Technical Center on State Highway 66, west of Banner Road in El Reno, Okla.
Judge: Google must comply with FBI’s demand for customer’s data
BY PAUL ELIAS
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Google
must comply with the FBI’s demand for data on certain customers as part of a national security
investigation, according to a ruling by a federal judge who earlier
this year determined such government requests are unconstitutional.
The decision involves “National
Security Letters,” thousands of
which are sent yearly by the FBI to
banks, telecommunication companies and other businesses. The
letters, an outgrowth of the USA
Patriot Act passed after the Sept.
11 attacks, are supposed to be
used exclusively for national security purposes and are sent without judicial review. Recipients are
barred from disclosing anything
about them.
In March, U.S. District Court
Judge Susan Illston sided with the
Electronic Frontier Foundation in
a lawsuit brought on behalf of an
unidentified telecommunications
company, ruling the letters violate
free speech rights. She said the
government failed to show the letters and the blanket non-disclosure policy “serve the compelling
need of national security” and the
gag order creates “too large a dan-
ger that speech is being unnecessarily restricted.”
She put that ruling on hold while
the government appeals to the 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In the latest case, Illston sided
with the FBI after Google contested the constitutionality and necessity of the letters but again put her
ruling on hold until the 9th Circuit
rules. After receiving sworn statements from two top-ranking FBI
officials, Illston said she was satisfied that 17 of the 19 letters were
issued properly. She wanted more
information on two other letters.
It was unclear from the judge’s
ruling what type of information
the government sought to obtain
with the letters. It was also unclear
who the government was targeting.
Kurt Opsah, an attorney with
the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said he was “disappointed
that the same judge who declared
these letters unconstitutional is
now requiring compliance with
them.”
Illston’s May 20 order omits
any mention of Google or that the
proceedings were closed to the
public. But the judge said “the petitioner” was involved in a similar
case filed on April 22 in New York
federal court.
Public records obtained Friday
by The Associated Press show
that on that same day, the federal
government filed a “petition to
enforce National Security Letter”
against Google after the company
declined to cooperate with government demands.
Neither Google nor the FBI
would comment.
The letters issued by the FBI can
be used to collect unlimited kinds
of private information, such as financial and phone records. The
FBI sent 16,511 letters requests for
information regarding 7,201 people in 2011, the latest data available.
—AP
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Catholic sway wanes amid gay marriage fight
BY STEVE PEOPLES
Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. —
Frank Ferri made peace
with God years ago. He defeated the Roman Catholic
Church just last month.
The openly gay state representative led the fight to
legalize same-sex marriage
in what may be the most
Catholic state in the nation’s most Catholic region.
And, in early May, Rhode
Island became the sixth
and final New England
state to allow gay couples
to marry when its Democratic-dominated Legislature, led by an openly gay
House speaker, reversed
course after years of the
Catholic Church successfully lobbying lawmakers
to resist legalization.
“They put the fear of God
into people,” Ferri said,
claiming that “the influence of the church” had
been the primary stumbling block as every other
neighboring state — and
many people across the
country — started embracing gay marriage.
Ferri’s victory marked
the Catholic Church’s most
significant political defeat
in an area where more than
40 percent of the population is Catholic. Perhaps
more problematic for the
church: Its state-by-state
setbacks on gay marriage
illustrate a widening divide between the church
hierarchy and its members,
which may be undermining
Catholic influence in American politics.
The disconnect plays out
in polling.
In March, a Washington
Post-ABC News poll found
that a majority of Catholics,
60 percent, felt the church
was out of touch with
the views of Catholics in
America today. And a CBS
News/New York Times poll
in February found that 78
percent of Catholics said
they were more likely to follow their own conscience
than the church’s teachings on difficult moral
questions. That poll highlighted several areas where
most Catholics break with
church teachings: 62 percent of American Catholics
think same-sex marriages
should be legal, 74 percent
think abortion ought to be
available in at least some
instances and 61 percent
favor the death penalty.
All this comes amid a
leadership shift in the
Vatican, where the newly
selected Pope Francis has
traditionally taken a more
pragmatic approach than
his predecessor on divisive social issues. While a
bishop in Argentina, Francis angered other church
leaders by supporting civil
unions for gay couples
ahead of that country’s vote
to legalize gay marriage.
He has taken no such position as pope.
Kathleen
Kennedy
Townsend, a member of
one of the most storied
Catholic families in American politics, says she’s encouraged by Francis’ early
leadership but warns that
the church’s political influence will continue to wane
unless it adapts.
“Gay marriage is part of a
larger refusal on the part of
the church to listen to, and
to understand, the people in
the pews,” said Townsend,
who still regularly attends
church and wrote the book,
“Failing America’s Faithful:
Associated Press
Rhode Island State Rep. Frank Ferri stands Wednesday inside the Statehouse in
Providence, R.I. A faithful member of his Catholic church choir for decades, the openly gay state representative led the fight to legalize same-sex marriage in what may be
the most Catholic state in the nation’s most Catholic region.
How Today’s Churches Are
Mixing God With Politics
and Losing Their Way.”
Church officials in Washington, Boston and Providence declined to be interviewed for this report.
The church for decades
has employed aggressive
lobbying efforts across the
country on a host of political issues, with Catholic leaders having used the
power of the pulpit and
substantial financial resources to maintain clout.
At times they’ve gone so far
as to tell leading Catholic
lawmakers they were not
welcome to receive communion if they opposed
church teachings on issues
like abortion and gay marriage.
—AP
Audio: Bus driver defied gunman in bunker drama
Associated Press
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. —
When a gunman barged
onto Charles Poland’s
school bus and demanded
that he turn over young
passengers, the driver simply said no.
“Sorry, you’re going to
have to shoot me,” Poland
told the intruder.
Moments later, Jimmy
Lee Dykes did just that,
killing
Poland
before
snatching a 5-year-old boy
and holing up in a homemade bunker during a sixday standoff that ended
when members of an FBI
hostage rescue team raided
the shelter.
Poland’s words were captured in an audio recording
taken from a bus surveillance tape released by the
FBI.
First aired Friday by
ABC News, the recording
confirms that the 66-yearold Poland, who has been
hailed as a hero, didn’t
back down in the face of
Dyke’s threats.
“It’s my responsibility to
keep these kids on the bus,”
he said. “I can’t turn them
over to somebody else.”
In other recordings,
Dykes, 65, can be heard
cursing negotiators and
ranting that the standoff
would cause chaos and lead
to riots.
“People are going be
standing up to this (expletive) dictatorial, incompetent, self-righteous, bunch
of sorry bastards in government,” he said.
The hostage rescue team
stormed Dykes’ underground bunker near Midland City in early February, killing him before he
could harm Ethan Gilman
or detonate an improvised
explosive that authorities
said was in the 6-foot-by-8foot shelter.
The FBI confirmed the
existence of the recordings
but declined to immediately release the material to
The Associated Press.
In interviews with ABC,
FBI agents said they decided to raid the bunker after it became apparent that
Dykes was handling weapons and an improvised explosive device inside the
shelter more often than he
had been at the beginning
of the standoff.
Dykes
apparently
planned to have the child
detonate the bomb if he
was killed, said FBI Special
Agent Steve Richardson.
“Jim Dykes relayed to the
negotiators, ‘If anything
happens to me, I have told
Ethan to pull the trigger,’”
Richardson said. “That
meant he had told Ethan
to detonate the IED, the
second IED that was inside
the bunker.”
Dykes snatched Ethan
off the school bus in late
January.
“I need two boys 6 to 8
years old,” he is heard saying angrily in the recording. “Six to 8 years old. I
mean it. Right now! Right
now!”
Poland refused. “I can’t
do it,” he responded. Seconds later, Poland said,
“Sorry, you’re going to have
to shoot me.”
“How about I shoot a kid
then,” Dykes replied.
Poland refused again,
saying it was his “responsibility to keep these kids on
the bus.”
Dykes shot Poland dead
moments later, and a student on the bus called 911
to alert authorities. —AP
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Angel evokes tragedies
at service for teenager
BY JIM FITZGERALD
Associated Press
WARWICK, N.Y. — After
Joseph and Betty Ginley’s
firefighter son was killed
in the Sept. 11 attack on the
World Trade Center, they
found some solace in the
tall steel angels crafted as
memorials by sculptor Lei
Hennessy-Owen.
The Pennsylvania artist
had been erecting them to
commemorate
tragedies
including the 2001 terror
attacks, a pipeline explosion in Washington and the
friendly fire death of former
NFL star Pat Tillman.
The Ginleys, of Warwick,
were on hand in 2011 when
Hennessy-Owen unveiled
an angel honoring the
youngest victim of the mass
shooting in Tucson, Ariz.,
that injured then-U.S. Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords.
On Thursday, they helped
dedicate another angel, this
time to their granddaughter, killed in March in a car
accident in Virginia.
“I never thought we’d
get an angel for my granddaughter,” Joseph Ginley
said. “I take some comfort
in it.”
Christina Ginley’s death
at age 18, on her way to a
soccer tournament, was not
a high-profile tragedy like
the others. But her grandparents had befriended
Hennessey-Owen over the
years, and the artist was
struck by their double loss.
“It was terrible for the
Ginleys, losing Christina after losing their son,” Hennessy-Owen said before the
dedication.
She said making an angel
“was the only good thing I
could think of. I thought
it might give the Ginleys
something to focus on after
this awful thing.”
Hennessy-Owen, originally a painter and landscape artist, got into memorial sculptures in 1999,
crafting an angel when
two 10-year-old boys were
killed in a pipeline explosion in Bellingham, Wash.
—AP
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Home of hams ponders buyout
BY MICHAEL
FELBERBAUM
Associated Press
SMITHFIELD, Va. — You
can’t go far in this historic southeastern Virginia
town without seeing a pig.
A herd of life-size swine
statues lines its downtown, an ornament of a
piglet wearing a bandanna
adorns a front lawn, hams
hang in storefronts and a
pickup truck flaunts the
license plate “PIG TIME.”
The home of the world’s
largest pork producer and
maker of famous Smithfield hams is divided in
its reaction to news that
the company agreed to
be bought by a Chinese
company. The reception
is as mixed as whether the
locals favor salt-cured or
sugar-cured ham.
Smithfield Foods Inc.
agreed to a $4.72 billion
offer from Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd.,
the majority shareholder
in China’s largest meat
processor. The deal, which
would be the largest takeover of a U.S. company by
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A truck leaves Smithfield Foods Friday in Smithfield, Va. Smithfield Foods has
agreed to be bought by Shuanghui International Holdings for about $4.72 billion.
Residents in this southeastern Virginia town have mixed reactions to the idea that
the maker of their famous cured hams may soon be owned by a Chinese company.
a Chinese firm, still faces a
federal regulatory review
and Smithfield shareholder approval.
Steps from the site
where the company was
founded in 1936, residents
in the “Ham Capital of the
World” greet each other
on a main street lined with
white picket fences and
Victorian-style
homes,
and welcome a neighbor
back from a recent trip
out of town. Just down the
road, workers shuffle into
the company’s packing
plants for their shifts. —AP
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such information is not a key
factor in consumer purchase
decisions about wine.”
Spokeswoman
Gladys
Horiuchi said the group
knows of no wine companies
that plan to use the new labels.
The beer industry praised
the agency for acknowledging that labels should take
into account variations in
the concentration of alcohol
content in different products.
The industry has opposed
the idea of defining serving
size by fluid ounces of pure
alcohol — or as 12 ounces of
beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5
ounces of 80-proof liquor —
on the grounds that you may
get more than 1.5 ounces of
liquor in a cocktail depending on what else is in the
drink and the accuracy of
the bartender.
The ruling would allow
the labels to declare alcohol
content as a percentage of
alcohol by volume, the approach favored by the beer
industry.
“We applaud the TTB’s
conclusion that rules be
based on how drinks are
actually served and consumed,” said Joe McClain,
president of the Beer Institute.
McClain said the beer industry is pleased that the
ruling provides “substantial
flexibility” in terms of the
format and placement of the
disclosure on packaging.
It is unclear whether beer
companies will actually use
the labels, however.
Consumer advocates criticized the regulation.
“It doesn’t reflect any con-
cern about public health,”
said Michael Jacobson, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
He said the rules are too
close to what the alcohol
companies had sought.
Consumer advocates have
said that listing alcohol content should be mandatory so
consumers know how much
they are drinking. Jacobson and others also support
having calorie counts on labels, but they said the labels
should not include nutrients
that make the alcohol seem
more like a food.
—AP
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injured in tornado
BY JUSTIN
JUOZAPAVICIUS
Associated Press
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The next
time meteorologist Mike
Bettes talks about the
power of tornadoes on The
Weather Channel, he can
speak from personal experience.
Bettes was nursing minor
injuries Saturday, including stitches in his hand, a
day after the SUV that he
and two photographers
were riding in was thrown
200 yards by a twister in
Oklahoma. The Weather
Channel said all the occupants were wearing safety
belts and walked away from
the banged-up vehicle.
It’s the first time one of
the network’s personalities has been injured while
covering violent weather,
spokeswoman Shirley Pow-
ell said.
“That was the scariest
moment of my life,” Bettes said. “I had never been
through anything like it
before, and my life passed
before my eyes.”
He and the photographers were trying to outrun
a tornado they spotted in El
Reno, Okla., and failed.
Bettes said it felt like the
vehicle tumbled over several times and was floating
in the air before crashing to
the ground.
The Weather Channel
quickly posted video of
the experience since the
team kept cameras rolling
throughout. The tape largely showed a black screen
with audio of crashes until
it came to rest with the picture sideways.
—AP
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to escape the oncoming
storm. Motorists were
trapped in their vehicles —
a place emergency officials
say is one of the worst to be
in a tornado.
“It was chaos. People
were going southbound
in the northbound lanes.
Everybody was running
for their lives,” said Terri
Black, 51, a teacher’s assistant in Moore.
After seeing last month’s
tornado also turn homes
into piles of splintered rubble, Black said she decided
to try and outrun the tornado when she learned her
southwest Oklahoma City
home was in harm’s way.
She quickly regretted it.
When she realized she
was a sitting duck in bumper-to-bumper
traffic,
Black turned around and
found herself directly in
the path of the most violent
part of the storm.
“My car was actually
lifted off the road and then
set back down,” Black said.
“The trees were leaning literally to the ground. The
rain was coming down horizontally in front of my car.
Big blue trash cans were
being tossed around like a
piece of paper in the wind.
“I’ll never do it again.”
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Betsy Randolph said the roadways
were quickly congested
with the convergence of
rush-hour traffic and fleeing residents.
“They had no place to
go, and that’s always a bad
thing. They were essentially targets just waiting for
a tornado to touch down,”
Randolph said. “I’m not
sure why people do that
sort of stuff, but it is very
dangerous. It not only puts
them in harm’s way, but it
adds to the congestion. It
really is a bad idea for folks
to do.”
At least nine people were
killed in Friday’s storms,
including a mother and her
baby sucked out of their car
as a deadly twister tore its
way along a packed Interstate 40 near the town of El
Reno, about 30 miles from
Oklahoma City.
A 4-year-old boy died
after being swept into the
Oklahoma River on the
south side of Oklahoma
City, said Oklahoma City
police Lt. Jay Barnett. The
boy and other family members had sought shelter in a
drainage ditch.
More than 100 people
were injured, most of those
from punctures and lacerations from swirling debris,
emergency officials reported.
Oklahoma wasn’t the
only state to see violent
weather on Friday night. In
Missouri, areas west of St.
Louis received significant
damage from an EF3 tornado that packed estimated
winds of 150 mph. In St.
Charles County, at least 71
homes were heavily damaged and 100 had slight to
moderate damage, county spokeswoman Colene
McEntee said.
Tens of thousands were
without power, and only
eight minor injuries were
reported. Gov. Jay Nixon
declared a state of emergency.
Northeast of St. Louis
and across the Mississippi,
the city of Roxana was hit
by an EF3 tornado as well,
but National Weather Service meteorologist Jayson
Gosselin said it wasn’t clear
whether the damage in
both states came from the
same EF3 twister or separate ones.
Back in Oklahoma, Amy
Williamson, who lives
just off I-40 in the western Oklahoma City suburb
of Yukon, said when she
learned the tornado was
moving toward her home,
she piled her two young
children, baby sitter and
two cats into her SUV.
“We felt like getting out
of the way was the best
idea,” Williamson said. “It
was 15 minutes away from
my house, and they were
saying it was coming right
down I-40, so we got in the
car and decided to head
south.”
Williamson said she
knows emergency officials
recommend taking shelter
inside a structure, but fresh
in her mind was the devastation of the Moore tornado. Seeing homes stripped
to their foundation made
her think that fleeing was
the best idea, she said.
“I’m a seasoned tornado
watcher ... but I just could
not see staying and waiting for it to hit,” she said.
She ended up riding out the
storm in a hospital parking
garage.
On Saturday, muddy
floodwaters stood several
feet deep in the countryside surrounding the metro
area. Torrential downpours
followed for hours after the
twisters moved east — up
to 7 inches of rain in some
parts — and the city’s airport had water damage.
Some flights resumed Saturday.
The Oklahoma County
Sheriff’s Office said the body
of a man who went missing
from his vehicle early Saturday near Harrah, east of
Oklahoma City, was found
later in a creek by deputies.
Roadways around the area
were crumbling because of
water, especially near an
intersection in northeastern Oklahoma City and in
Canadian County south of
I-40, between Mustang and
Yukon.
—AP
TULSA, Okla. — At the
time it premiered, “Twister”
put forth a fantastical science fiction idea: Release
probes into a storm in order
to figure out which tornadoes could develop into killers.
It’s no longer fiction.
Oklahoma State University
researchers are designing
and building sleek, Kevlarreinforced unmanned aircraft — or drones — to fly
directly into the nation’s
worst storms and send back
real-time data to first responders and forecasters.
“We have all the elements
in place that make this the
right place for this study to
occur,” said Stephen McKeever, Oklahoma’s secretary
of science and technology.
“We have the world’s best
natural laboratory.”
Oklahoma is the heart
of Tornado Alley, and has
emerged
battered,
yet
standing, from seven tornadoes with winds exceeding 200 mph — tied with
Alabama for the most EF5
storms recorded. The May
20 tornado in Moore that
killed 24 people was one of
them. The federal government’s National Weather
Center, with its laboratories
and the Storm Prediction
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— bprepare their aircraft for flight during SpeedFest III in April at Oklahoma State
University in Stillwater, Okla.
Center, are appropriately
headquartered in Norman,
but research is done statewide on Earth’s most powerful storms.
If all goes as planned,
OSU’s research drones will
detect the making of a tornado based on the humidity,
pressure and temperature
data collected while traveling through the guts of a
storm — critical details that
could increase lead time in
severe weather forecasts.
The drones would also be
equipped to finally answer
meteorologists’ most pressing questions.
“Why does one storm
spawn a tornado and the
other doesn’t, and why does
one tornado turn into an
EF1 and another into an
EF5?” asked Jamey Jacob,
professor at OSU’s School of
Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, which is developing the technology.
The drones could be oper-
ating in roughly five years,
designers estimate. But
there are limitations on immediately using the technology, including current
Federal Aviation Administration rules that mandate
where and how drones can
be safely launched in U.S.
air space. The agency’s
regulations also require operators of such machines to
physically see the aircraft at
all times, limiting the range
to a mile or two.
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no to polio vaccine
BY ALI AKBAR DAREINI
AND BRIAN MURPHY
Associated Press
BY ABDI GULED
Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia
— Islamic extremist rebels are fighting a campaign
in Somalia to administer
a polio vaccine, charging
that it contains the virus
that causes AIDS or could
make children sterile, a
battle of words that is frustrating health workers.
Al-Shabab, the rebels
linked to al-Qaida, have
discouraged many parents
from getting their children
inoculated against polio, a
disease that is an incipient
problem in this Horn of Africa nation long plagued by
armed conflict and disease,
according to health workers who spoke to The Associated Press.
The al-Shabab extremists have been pushed out
of virtually all of Somalia’s
cities and face continued
military pressure from
African Union and government troops. Health
workers are gaining access
to more children to give
the life-saving polio vaccine. But some mothers
and fathers are refusing
the inoculation, apparently
heeding the advice of the
Islamic militants who warn
that the vaccination exercise is part of a foreign conspiracy to kill or weaken
Somali children.
Vaccination workers who
walked door to door in the
capital, Mogadishu, were
turned away by some parents who often didn’t state
why they objected to the
vaccination. One man told
the workers to leave immediately because they were
carrying “toxic things.”
Al-Shabab militants are
spreading rumors against
the polio vaccine in communities where they still
have some influence, alleging the vaccine can make
girls barren and that it is
manufactured in Christian countries, said a senior United Nations health
worker in Somalia, who
insisted on anonymity because he isn’t authorized
to speak about the vaccination program.
Al-Shabab did not respond to questions about
the allegations that they are
spreading rumors against
the vaccination campaign.
“Al-Shabab are paranoid
about potential infiltration
by spy agencies disguised
as humanitarian workers.
That’s probably a principal reason for discouraging vaccination,” said Abdi
Aynte, the director of the
Somali-based think-tank
Heritage Institute for Policy Studies.
Somali government officials say the numbers of
parents who reject the immunization campaign are
far fewer than those embracing it, but health workers don’t want to leave any
—AP
unvaccinated.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranians have seen it before: A
youngish presidential candidate firing up crowds with
fist-waving rants against
the West, then displaying
his Islamist bona fides with
courtesy calls to hard-line
clerics.
Saeed Jalili, familiar to
outsiders because of his
prominence as a nuclear
negotiator, has tried to distance himself from outgoing
president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has fallen out
with the clerical leadership
that controls Iran. But he is
employing the same strategy that worked for Ahmadinejad eight years ago
— and in the murky world
of Iranian politics, where
there are no credible polls
and elections are a highly
controlled affair, it has
made him, for many, the
presumed front-runner.
“No compromise! No
submission!” shouted supporters at rallies this week
that had men in front and
women segregated in the
back.
Perhaps more than any of
the other seven candidates
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Associated Press
Iranian presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani (left back to camera) gestures to his
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A negotiator who seems to
dislike give-and-take; an
opponent of international
outreach who nonetheless
noted in a 2006 interview
that Iran’s “big question” is
whether it can ever restore
relations with Washington.
The answer, judging by
his statements ahead of the
June 14 vote, may be: Not
necessarily.
“I’m opposed to detente,”
he declared at one campaign stop. “The principle
for us is to counter threats
— not rapprochement. We
have to implement the discourse of resistance in society.”
In an attempt to showcase his piety, Jalili traveled to the seminary city of
Qom, where he respectfully
adjusted a microphone
Wednesday for Ayatollah
Mohammad Taghi Mesbah
Yazdi, once considered the
spiritual mentor of Ahmadinejad. A day later, he
told a women’s gathering
to shun Western ways and
embrace motherhood as
their “core identity.”
Iran has no credible voter
polling to handicap the candidates, but there is a sense
of momentum behind Jalili. He is clearly popular with
the ruling clerics who handpick the ballot list and faced
widespread accusations of
vote rigging four years ago
to keep Ahmadinejad in
power.
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Rockets from Syria hit
Hezbollah stronghold
BY KARIN LAUB
Associated Press
BEIRUT
—
Eighteen rockets and mortars rounds from Syria
slammed into Lebanon on
Saturday, the largest crossborder salvo to hit a Hezbollah stronghold since
Syrian rebels threatened to
retaliate for the Lebanese
militant group’s armed
support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The rockets targeted the
Baalbek region, the latest
sign that Syria’s civil war
is increasingly destabilizing Lebanon. On Friday,
the Lebanese parliament
decided to put off general elections, originally
scheduled for June, by 17
months, blaming a deteriorating security situation
in the country.
In Qatar, an influential Sunni Muslim cleric
whose TV show is watched
by millions across the region, fanned the sectarian
flames ignited by the Syria
conflict and urged Sunnis everywhere to join the
fight against Assad.
“I call on Muslims every-
“I call on Muslims everywhere
to help their brothers be
victorious. Everyone who has
the ability and has training to
kill ... is required to go.”
Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Sunni Muslim cleric
where to help their brothers be victorious,” Yusuf
al-Qaradawi said in his
Friday sermon in the Qatari capital of Doha. “If I
had the ability I would go
and fight with them.”
“Everyone who has the
ability and has training to
kill ... is required to go,”
said al-Qaradawi, who is
in his 80s. “We cannot ask
our brothers to be killed
while we watch.”
He denounced Assad’s
Alawite sect, an offshoot
of Shiite Islam, as “more
infidel than Christians and
Jews” and Shiite Muslim
Hezbollah as “the party of
the devil.”
He said there is no more
common ground between
Shiites and Sunnis, alleging that Shiite Iran — a
longtime Syria ally that has
supplied the regime with
cash and weapons — is trying to “devour” Sunnis.
The Syrian conflict, now
in its third year, has taken
on dark sectarian overtones. It has escalated
from a local uprising into
a civil war and is not increasingly shifting into a
proxy war.
Predominantly
Sunni
rebels backed by Sunni
states Saudi Arabia, Qatar
and Turkey are fighting
against a regime that relies
on support from Alawites, Shiites and Christians
at home, and is aided by
Iran and Hezbollah. The
Syria conflict is also part
of a wider battle between
Saudi Arabia and Iran for
regional influence. —AP
Egypt’s long-scorned legislature
deepens rift after finding power
BY MAGGIE MICHAEL
Associated Press
CAIRO — When voters went to the polls more
than a year ago to vote for
Egypt’s upper house of parliament, most presumed
the legislature would be the
powerless talk shop that
it had always been for 30
years. Few candidates were
known outside their families, parties or neighborhoods. Only seven percent
of the electorate bothered
to cast a ballot.
Thanks to the twists and
turns of the rocky transition that followed Egypt’s
2011 uprising, the Shura
Council is now the sole lawmaking body in the land.
The legislature found itself
in this unexpected position
after a court dissolved the
lower house of parliament,
prompting an Islamist-led
panel that drafted the new
constitution to include a
clause handing the council
legislative powers until a
new parliament is elected.
Like the lower house before it, the Shura Council
now finds its fate in the
hands of the courts. On
Sunday, Egypt’s constitutional court is expected to
rule on the legality of the
legislature’s election, which
was conducted under the
same law as the lower
house that was disbanded
on an electoral technicality.
It’s well within the realm
of possibility that the court
could order the Shura
Council to dissolve — and
may even render its works
invalid, including the country’s Islamist-backed constitution, bringing Egypt’s
political process back to
square one. Such a move,
while far from certain,
would push Egypt into legal limbo and could trigger
a new political crisis.
Much of the criticism of
the council stems from its
shaky popular foundations.
Of the legislature’s 270
members, 180 are elected
with the other 90 being appointed by the president
— a throwback to its days
under Hosni Mubarak,
the authoritarian leader
ousted in 2011, when the
legislature’s seats were
often sinecures for loyalists or favored members of
the opposition. Today, five
percent of its members are
Christians — about half the
proportion of the population — and four percent are
women.
When elections were held
in early 2012, not only did
many voters stay away but
so did many political parties — especially several of
the newborn liberal groups
with smaller budgets. Over
70 percent of the seats were
taken by Islamists.
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England stock player and
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But Edith was honest
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Archie’s inflated ego,” she
added.
She confounded Archie
with her malapropos —
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misery is the best company” — and open-hearted
acceptance of others, including her beleaguered
son-in-law and AfricanAmericans and other mi-
norities that Archie disdained.
As the series progressed, Stapleton had
the chance to offer a
deeper take on Edith as
the character faced milestones including a breast
cancer scare and menopause. She was proud of
the show’s political edge,
citing an episode about a
draft dodger who clashes
with Archie as a personal
favorite.
But Stapleton worried about typecasting,
rejecting any roles, commercials or sketches on
variety shows that called
for a character similar to
Edith. Despite pleas from
Lear not to let Edith die,
Stapleton left the show,
re-titled “Archie’s Place,”
in 1980, leaving Archie to
carry on as a widower.
“My decision is to go
out into the world and do
something else. I’m not
constituted as an actress
to remain in the same
role.... My identity as an
actress is in jeopardy if I
invested my entire career
in Edith Bunker,” she told
—AP
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