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MIAMI — Emboldened by the Supreme Court decision that struck down the heart of the Vot-ing Rights Act, a growing num-ber of Republican-led states are moving aggressively to tighten voting rules. Lawsuits by the Obama administration and vot-ing rights activists say those ef-forts disproportionately affect minorities.

At least fi ve Southern states, no longer required to ask Wash-ington’s permission before

changing election procedures, are adopting strict voter identifi -cation laws or toughening exist-ing requirements.

Texas offi cials are battling the U.S. Justice Department to put in place a voter ID law that a federal court has ruled was dis-criminatory. In North Carolina, the GOP-controlled Legislature scaled back early voting and ended a pre-registration pro-gram for high school students nearing voting age.

Nowhere is the debate more heated than in Florida, where

the chaotic recount in the dis-puted 2000 presidential race took place.

Florida election offi cials are set to resume an effort to remove noncitizens from the state’s vot-ing rolls. A purge last year ended in embarrassment after hun-dreds of American citizens, most of whom were black or Hispanic, were asked to prove their citi-zenship or risk losing their right to vote.

Republican leaders across the South say the new measures are needed to prevent voter fraud,

even though such crimes are rare. Democrats and civil rights groups say the changes are polit-ical attacks aimed at minorities and students — voting groups that tend to lean toward Demo-crats — in states with legacies of poll taxes and literacy tests.

In North Carolina, for exam-ple, a state board of elections survey found that more than 600,000 registered voters did not have a state-issued ID, a requirement to vote under the state’s new law. Many of those voters are young, black, poor or

elderly.“We’re in the middle of the big-

gest wave of voter suppression since the Voting Rights Act was enacted,” said Katherine Culli-ton-González, director of voter protection for the Advancement Project, a Washington-based civil rights group that has under-taken legal challenges in several states.

For fi ve decades, states and lo-calities with a history of discrim-ination had to submit all election

Southern states move on voting rulesBY MICHAEL J. MISHAK

Associated Press

Radios cited in Arizona fire deaths

PRESCOTT, Ariz. — A three-month investigation into the June deaths of 19 fi refi ghters killed while battling an Arizona blaze cited poor communication be-tween the men and support staff, and revealed that an airtanker carrying fl ame retardant was hov-ering overhead as the fi refi ghters died. The 120-page report released Saturday found that proper proce-dure was followed and assigned little blame for the worst fi refi ght-ing tragedy since Sept. 11, 2001.

All but one member of the Granite Mountain Hotshots crew died June 30 while protecting the small former gold rush town of Yarnell, about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix, from an erratic, light-ning-sparked wildfi re. Hotshots are highly trained backcountry fi refi ghters who hike deep into the brush to fi ght blazes.

While maintaining a neutral tone, the investigation cited badly programmed radios, vague up-dates, and a 33-minute commu-nication blackout just before the fl ames engulfed the men. Though the report points to multiple fail-ures, investigators did not consid-er whether the deaths could have been avoided, raising questions about what lessons fi refi ghters can take from the tragedy.

—AP

BY FELICIA FONSECAAND HANNAH DREIER

Associated Press

Closed for business? Government shutdown historyWASHINGTON — OK, grid-

locked politicians we’re used to. But why padlock the Statue of Liberty?

You don’t see other democra-cies shuttering landmarks and sending civil servants home just because their political parties can’t get along. Belgian civil ser-vants, for example, carried on nicely for a year and a half while their politicians bickered over forming a new government.

The potential for a partial shutdown Tuesday is a quirk of American history. So if you’re bored with blaming House Re-publicans or President Barack Obama, you can lay some re-sponsibility on the Founding Fa-thers.

Or blame President Jimmy Carter for his rectitude. Or ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich for his hissy fi t over how he got off Air Force One.

A history of government shut-downs, American-style:

1789: Balance of powers

The framers of the Constitu-tion gave Congress control over spending as a way to limit the power of the presidency. The government can only spend money “in consequence of ap-propriations made by law,” or in other words, after Congress says so and with the president’s sig-nature.

1800s: Power struggles

Turns out it’s not easy to shoo

federal bureaucrats away from the piggy bank.

When they wanted to spend more than Congress gave, the War Department and other agencies ordered stuff on credit. Then they would go to Congress seeking an appropriation to pay the bills. Lawmakers felt obliged to cover the government’s debts, but they weren’t happy about it. The executive branch was under-mining Congress’s power of the

purse.Congress responded with a se-

ries of laws that eventually got one of those dreadful Washing-ton monikers: the Anti-Defi cien-cy Act.

Because of the act, offi cials who mistakenly spend money Congress hasn’t OK’d face dis-ciplinary action, ranging from fi ring to hours stuck in mind-numbing budget training. There are exceptions for spending to

protect lives or property.But willful overspending is a

crime that carries the threat of fi nes and two years in prison.

1900s: A delicate balance

The Anti-Defi ciency Act seems clear. But as usual, Congress sent mixed messages. Lawmak-

Associated Press

1 week later, Nairobi still shows nerves

NAIROBI — Someone has dropped a shopping bag just out-side the Nakumatt supermarket, and a bottle of juice has shattered. Cranberry, it looks like, or may-be cherry. The liquid leaks from the plastic bag and across the tile fl oor, puddling in fi st-sized splotches of red.

Everyone nearby sees it it. Some shoppers visibly fl inch, and take wide circles around the scene, which looks far too much like something else, somewhere else.

On Saturday afternoon at Nai-robi’s Junction shopping center, many people were thinking about that somewhere else. They were focusing on what had begun one week earlier at the Westgate Mall a couple miles away, where a team of Islamist gunmen had launched a bloody four-day siege. By the time it ended, at least 67 people were dead, smears of blood trac-ing the path of the attack.

BY ADAM SCHRECKAND TIM SULLIVAN

Associated Press

Iranians praise Rouhani, offer pockets of angerAssociated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranians from across the political spec-trum hailed Saturday the histor-ic phone conversation between President Barack Obama and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, refl ecting wide sup-port for an initiative that has the backing of both reformists and the country’s conservative cleri-cal leadership.

Despite the broad-based praise, the hard-liners opposed to any improved contact with Washington made their objec-tions clear at Rouhani’s arrival in Tehran. Several dozen pro-testers chanted “Death to Amer-ica” and tried to block Rouhani’s motorcade. The semioffi cial Mehr news agency reported that at least one demonstrator hurled a shoe — a common gesture of contempt in the Middle East — in the direction of Rouhani. Oth-er reports said eggs were thrown at his car.

“Dialogue with Satan is not ‘hope and prudence,’” some chanted, using the Rouhani’s campaign from the June elec-tion.

Rouhani supporters, mean-while, greeted his return from New York with cheers placards thanking him for seeking peace

instead of confrontation. One banner read: “Yes to peace, no to war.”

Rouhani now has the diffi cult mission of trying to unite the country behind his outreach to ease a three-decade-long es-trangement with the U.S. and

move toward a possible settle-ment to roll back sanctions im-posed over Tehran’s nuclear program. Rouhani’s effort ap-pears to have the critical backing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

But even the endorsement

from Iran’s most powerful fi gure is not enough to silence criticism of the fast-paced developments during the past days.

Alaeddin Boroujerdi, who heads Parliament’s foreign poli-cy and national security commit-tee, was quoted by Iranian me-dia as saying that the 15-minute telephone talk with Obama on Friday showed Iran’s “might.” But the hardline rajanews.com news website said there was no justifi cation for Rouhani to talk to the “Great Satan,” its term for the United States, and that the conversation was “a strange and useless step.”

Rouhani has followed a policy of moderation and easing ten-sions with the outside world, a marked distance from the bom-bastic style of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Rou-hani says Iran is ready to provide assurances that Iran’s nuclear program won’t be weaponized by offering greater transpar-ency and cooperation. He has demanded lifting of sanctions in return.

The West says Iran’s program aims at developing weapons technology, while Tehran says it is for peaceful purposes.

Associated Press

Mike Fetters afixes a closed sign on a door at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in Wash-ington as parts of the federal government were shut down due to a federal budget impasse between President Bill sClinton and the Republican Congress in 1995.

Associated Press

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani (center) arrives at Mehrabad airport on Saturday in Tehran, Iran. Iranians from across the po-litical spectrum hailed the phone conversation between President Barack Obama and Rouhani, reflecting wide support for an initia-tive that has the backing of both reformists and the country’s con-servative clerical leadership.

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Navy Yard guard remembered as lovingSEVERN, Md. — Slain

security guard Richard “Mike” Ridgell was a loving father and steadfast pro-tector of 2,000 workers at the Washington Navy Yard, where he died maintain-ing his lobby post to keep a shotgun-wielding man from leaving the building, mourners said at a memo-rial service Saturday.

The 52-year-old West-minster resident was re-membered at a church service in the Baltimore suburb of Severn, near his boyhood home. The funeral was one of the last two me-morial services for the 12 people gunned down Sept. 16 at the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters.

Another service was held Saturday in Washington for network security ad-ministrator Sylvia Frasier, 53, of Waldorf.

Ridgell, a Maryland State Police trooper for 17 years before he entered the pri-vate security fi eld, was known in Building 197 for his cheerful disposition and strict adherence to security procedures, said Vice Admiral William Hila-rides, NAVSEA command-er. Ridgell, an employee of Hawaii-based security con-tractor HBC Management

Services, had been working the lobby for about a year when computer technician Aaron Alexis opened fi re upstairs with the shotgun he had brought to work in-side a bag when he entered the building that morning using a valid badge, ac-cording to the FBI.

Hilarides said Naval Dis-trict of Washington Police

Chief Michael McKinney told him that that as po-lice offi cers rushed upstairs that morning, McKinney told Ridgell, “whatever you do, don’t let him out of the building.”

The FBI says Alexis shot a number of people on the third and fourth fl oors of Building 197 before he went downstairs, killed Ridgell

and took his 9mm hand-gun. Alexis used Ridgell’s gun to shoot others before he was killed by a U.S. Park Police offi cer, according to the FBI. “Mike made the ul-timate sacrifi ce protecting all of us. For that sacrifi ce, we his Navy family, honor him and we will never for-get him,” Hilarides said.

—AP

BY DAVID DISHNEAUAssociated Press

Father of stabbed Dodgers fan to speak outSAN FRANCISCO — The

father of a Dodgers fan fatality stabbed during a melee with Giants fans is planning to make a public plea for witnesses to the in-cident after San Francisco’s district attorney said he lacks evidence to charge the man suspected of the killing.

A family member said the victim’s father plans to speak outside the Giants’ stadium before the sched-uled 1:05 p.m. PDT Sunday game with the San Diego Padres. Michael Montgom-ery was released from jail Friday night after the San Francisco district attorney said police had insuffi cient evidence to charge him in the death of Jonathan Denver. The district at-torney said police had not spoken with any indepen-dent witnesses who may have witnessed the fi ght Wednesday night. Robert Preece believes someone may have recorded the melee with mobile phones, said Preece’s sister Jill Pre-ece Haro.

The man suspected in the stabbing death of a Los Angeles Dodgers fan after a Dodgers-Giants game in San Francisco has been released from jail as pros-ecutors seek more evidence before deciding whether to fi le charges, authorities said. Michael Montgomery, 21, of Lodi was released shortly after 9 p.m. pend-ing further investigation and could be rearrested, Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Susan Fahey said.

The release came a few hours after District Attor-ney George Gascon said his offi ce was not satisfi ed with the evidence gathered so far and has asked po-lice for more in the death of Jonathan Denver, 24, on Wednesday night a few blocks from AT&T Park.

“We are extremely con-cerned about the loss of life and want to make sure jus-tice is served,” Gascon said in a statement. “In order to meet our ethical obligation in charging this case, we must have a good faith ba-sis to believe we can prove the case beyond a reason-

able doubt.”Gascon said not all wit-

nesses had been ques-tioned, and no independent witnesses had been inter-viewed in the stabbing.

“It is vital for our offi ce to have independent cor-roboration of the incident in order to meet our ethi-cal obligation to charge this

case,” Gascon said.San Francisco police did

not immediately respond to messages left seeking comment. Police Chief Greg Suhr said earlier that Montgomery made “in-criminating statements” that led to his booking the night after the stabbing.

Suhr said Denver, 24,

was with his father, older brother and two other people a few blocks from the Giants’ ballpark when they exchanged words with some Giants fans.

“The back and forth, ‘Go Dodgers!’ ‘Go Giants!’” Suhr said. “And it deterio-rated from there.”

—AP

BY PAUL ELIASAssociated Press

Associated PressBURBANK, Calif. —

Five people were killed early Saturday morning after their car spun out and burst into fl ames in Burbank, trapping people inside, offi cials said.

Firefi ghters assisted the coroner’s offi ce in remov-ing the bodies, which were burned beyond recogni-tion, Burbank Fire Capt. Peter Hendrickson said.

Lt. Larry Dietz of the

Los Angeles County Medi-cal Examiner-Coroner Offi ce said fi ngerprints or dental records would be used to identify those killed depending on how badly they were burned.

There was one survivor, an 18-year-old woman who managed to crawl out of the burning Nissan and was found by police about 50 yards away from the wreckage when they ar-rived shortly after 4 a.m.

Fiery crash kills 5 in California

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Shirley Ridgell and her husband Dick Ridgell (right) are comforted by friend Michael W. Beasley after the funeral of their son Richard Michael Ridgell, 52, of Westminster, Md., on Saturday at The Church at Severn Run, in Severn, Md. Ridgell was one of the 12 victims fatally injured in the Washington Navy Yard shooting.

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Transformers to restore rail serviceNEW YORK — Offi -

cials announced a plan to supply partial power to a heavily traffi cked line of the nation’s second largest commuter railroad as tens of thousands of commut-ers took to the highways and continued to scramble for alternative routes after a power failure disrupted service along the line serv-ing the densely populated Connecticut suburbs and New York City.

New York-based util-ity Consolidated Edison was setting up three trans-formers to try and supply 13,000 volts of power to a high-voltage line that failed Wednesday at a suburban New York Metro-North Railroad station, Connecti-cut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said at a news conference in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal Thursday evening.

But it was unclear how many electric trains could be served by the transform-ers’ power to the line, which normally needs about 138,000 volts, Malloy said. Offi cials said they’d be test-ing the alternative power source over the weekend to see if it could work.

A second high-voltage line serving the trains to New Haven, Conn., had

been out of service for two weeks for planned repairs, offi cials said, and it was un-clear if its absence caused extra strain on the line that failed Wednesday.

The Metropolitan Transit Authority, which oversees Metro-North, and Con Ed both said Thursday they believed full service could be maintained by the single feeder line. It hasn’t been determined what caused the outage.

Meanwhile parts of In-terstate 95 turned into a

virtual parking lot for much of Thursday as commuters facing hours-long delays took to the roads despite warnings that the problem could last for weeks.

“I’m the governor of 125,000 pretty unhappy commuters right now,” said a frustrated Malloy at Grand Central Terminal, calling the service disrup-tion “a horrendous situa-tion.”

Metro-North has said it could accommodate about 33 percent of its regular

ridership and has urged customers to stay at home or fi nd alternative trans-portation. Twenty-four diesel trains were running Thursday, said a MTA spokesman, in addition to about 60 shuttle busses.

At Grand Central Ter-minal on Thursday, tick-et windows for the New Haven, Conn., line were closed. Commuters who rode other lines said those trains were more crowded than usual.

—AP

BY JENNIFER PELTZAssociated Press

Dispute involving child of billionaire hits court

HACKENSACK, N.J. — A bitter fi ght between two of the New York area’s wealthiest families is play-ing out in the modest trap-pings of a county court-house more used to seeing low-level drug offenders and alimony cheats.

On one side is James Co-hen, son of the founder of Hudson News, the news-stand operator with stores in airports and train sta-tions across the country. On the other is Cohen’s niece, Samantha Perel-man, the 23-year-old daughter of billionaire Revlon Chairman Ron-ald Perelman. Samantha Perelman claims her uncle systematically squeezed her out of her grandfather Robert Cohen’s will as he suffered from the debili-tating effects of a Parkin-son’s-like disease before dying in 2012.

The case fi gures to turn on whether Perelman’s at-torneys can demonstrate to state Superior Court Judge Estela De La Cruz that James Cohen used undue infl uence to get his father to change his will several times to reduce Perelman’s share.

Cohen’s attorneys don’t mince words in court fi l-ings, calling Perelman’s lawsuit “brazen beyond

belief” and the product of “pure gall.” They claim that even under Robert Cohen’s last will, penned in 2009, Samantha Perel-man stood to inherit jew-elry and real estate worth more than $20 million and insurance policies worth more than $47 million. They also claim her lawsuit is a thinly veiled attempt by Ron Perelman to use his daughter to get control of the Hudson News empire.

“This shameless lawsuit is fi lled with repackaged claims, and we are con-fi dent that the truth will again prevail as it has in every previous iteration of this nuisance litigation,” James Cohen said through a spokeswoman.

Christine Taylor, a spokeswoman for Saman-tha Perelman, called the accusations regarding Ron Perelman “simply not true.”

“It’s something they feel if they repeat enough times it’ll be true,” she said. “It couldn’t be fur-ther from the truth, it has never been the case and it has never been contended that the business should go to Ronald Perelman or Samantha. They would like to make it about Ronald because it’s easier to beat up on a grown-up than a 23-year-old girl.”

—AP

BY DAVID PORTERAssociated Press

Associated Press

Emergency personnel work at the scene where two Metro North commuter trains col-lided on May 17 near Fairfield, Conn. Riders on Metro-North, the nation’s second larg-est commuter railroad, have faced several disruptions in 2013.

Associated Press

Samantha Perelman (center), daughter of billionaire Ronald Perelman and granddaughter of the late Hudson News patriarch Robert Cohen, watches during opening arguments in her lawsuit against the Cohen family in Su-perior Court on Sept. 23 in Hackensack, N.J.

Gun-control law leads to record firearm sales

PASADENA, Md. — Maryland residents have been buying guns in re-cord numbers before a law takes effect Tuesday, with provisions aimed at help-ing keep guns away from criminals and the mental-ly ill, strengthening safety training and banning 45 types of assault weapons.

Opponents decry what they call an ineffective law that will only make it harder for law-abiding citizens to exercise Second Amendment rights. They say the state also failed to prepare properly for im-plementation after Gov. Martin O’Malley, who is considering a run for the White House in 2016, pushed the complicated measure through the Gen-eral Assembly to build his credentials for a potential Democratic primary race.

On Thursday, oppo-nents of the restrictions sued in federal court in Baltimore, seeking to block the legislation from taking effect. The court scheduled a hearing for Tuesday on their motion for an order that would temporarily block imple-mentation while the court

considers whether to per-manently bar Maryland from enforcing the law.

When O’Malley signed the legislation in May, he highlighted a provision that will require residents who buy a handgun to be fi ngerprinted to own a handgun, making Mary-land the sixth such state to do so.

“States with similar li-censing provisions have substantially lower gun death rates than states that do not. So, if we want better results, we have to make better choices, and this legislation is part of that series of better choices that we are mak-ing,” the governor said. The other states are Con-necticut, Hawaii, Massa-chusetts, New Jersey and New York.

But state Sen. Nancy Jacobs, a Republican who opposed the measure, questioned the effective-ness of the law, including the fi ngerprinting provi-sion. She said she submit-ted the required digital fi ngerprints when she made a recent gun pur-chase and was told they could not be recognized correctly.

—AP

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No. 2 nuclear officer suspendedWASHINGTON — The

No. 2 offi cer at the military command in charge of all U.S. nuclear war-fi ghting forces is suspected in a case involving counterfeit gam-bling chips at a western Iowa casino and has been suspended from his duties, offi cials said.

Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina has not been ar-rested or charged, Iowa Di-vision of Criminal Investi-gation special agent David Dales said Saturday. The state investigation is ongo-ing. Giardina, deputy com-mander at U.S. Strategic Command, was suspended on Sept. 3 and is under in-vestigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Ser-vice, a Strategic Command spokeswoman said.

The highly unusual ac-tion against a high-ranking offi cer at Strategic Com-mand was made more than three weeks ago but not publicly announced at that time. The command is lo-cated at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Neb.

Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler, who heads Strate-gic Command, suspended Giardina, according to the command’s top spokes-woman, Navy Capt. Pamela Kunze. Giardina is still as-signed to the command but is prohibited from per-forming duties related to nuclear weapons and other issues requiring a security clearance, she said.

Kehler has recommend-ed to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that Giardina be reassigned, Kunze said. Giardina has been the dep-uty commander of Strate-

gic Command since De-cember 2011. He is a career submarine offi cer and prior to starting his assignment there was the deputy com-mander and chief of staff at U.S. Pacifi c Fleet.

DCI agents stationed at the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa, discovered the counter-feit chips, Dales said. He would not say when the discovery was made or how much in counterfeit chips was found, only that “it was a signifi cant monetary amount.”

Council Bluffs is located

across the Missouri River from Omaha.

“We were able to detect this one pretty quickly and jump on it,” Dales said. He declined to give specifi cs on how authorities deter-mined that casino chips had been counterfeited or how Giardina might have been involved.

Strategic Command oversees the military’s nuclear fi ghter units, in-cluding the Navy’s nuclear-armed submarines and the Air Force’s nuclear bomb-ers and nuclear land-based missiles.

Kunze said Strategic Command did not an-nounce the suspension because Giardina remains under investigation and action on Kehler’s recom-mendation that Giardina be reassigned is pending. The suspension was fi rst reported by the Omaha World-Herald.

Kunze said a law enforce-ment investigation of Giar-dina began June 16. Kehler became aware of this on July 16, and the follow-ing day he asked the Naval Criminal Investigative Ser-vice to begin a probe. —AP

BY ROBERT BURNSAssociated Press

Kenya blasts US over travel warningNAIROBI, Kenya — Ke-

nya on Saturday sharply criticized a decision by the United States to reissue a travel advisory for the country in the wake of the deadly attack on an upscale mall in the capital Nairobi, highlighting fears that the assault could hurt the East African nation’s lucrative tourism industry.

The U.S. State Depart-ment released the updated advisory on Friday that made specifi c reference to the September 21 terror-ist attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi that left at least 67 people dead, in-cluding several foreigners. Five Americans were in-jured in the attack, accord-ing to the State Dept.

The advisory, which con-tained similar wording to one issued in June, warned Americans to take caution in light of ongoing terrorist threats and the high rate of violent crime in some ar-eas.

It noted that U.S. author-ities continue to receive in-

formation about “potential terrorist threats aimed at U.S., Western, and Kenyan interests in Kenya, includ-ing in the Nairobi area and in the coastal city of Mom-basa.”

Kenya’s Ministry of For-eign Affairs condemned the U.S. decision to issue the statement Saturday, saying it was “unnecessary and uncalled for.” It urged Washington to withdraw the advisory and said it has made its concerns clear through diplomatic chan-nels.

“Terrorism, such as in the attack on Westgate Mall, is a global problem. The United States itself, has suffered terror attacks before, and so have other

countries right across the globe,” the ministry said. “Issuing travel advisories ... is not what we expect of our friends.”

The militant group al-Shabab has said it carried out the mall attack to pun-ish Kenya for sending its troops into neighboring Somalia to fi ght the al-Qa-ida-linked militant group that had seized large parts of that country for years before being dislodged from the capital, Mogadi-shu.

—AP

BY ADAM SCHRECKAssociated Press

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Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina is seen in a 2011 Navy photo. The U.S. Strategic Com-mand, the military command in charge of all U.S. nuclear warfighting forces, says it has suspended its No. 2 commander, Giardina, for unspecific reasons, and he is un-der investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

Syria foreign minister: No transition without Assad

UNITED NATIONS — Syria’s government will not accept any transition peace plan that excludes President Bashar Assad, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem told The As-sociated Press in an inter-view Saturday.

He spoke on the side-lines of the United Na-tions General Assembly, a day after the Security Council approved a reso-lution that obliges Syria’s government to comply with an international plan to destroy its chemical weapons arsenal.

The resolution also en-dorsed the outcome of the Geneva conference between the government and the opposition in June 2012, which called for the establishment of a transitional government with full executive pow-ers.

The Syrian opposition, which has been embroiled in a bloody confl ict with Assad’s forces for two and a half years, has repeat-edly said it will not take part in any transition gov-ernment that includes the

president.The latest statement

from al-Moallem could mean that efforts to or-ganize a second meeting of the opposition and the government later this year in Geneva may fail.

“For the Syrian people, Bashar Assad is the elect-ed president until mid-2014, when presidential elections will be held,” al-Moallem said. Other candidates are welcome to run under the country’s constitution, he added, stressing that only the Syrian people can choose their president, not out-side governments or the opposition, which is based abroad.

Syria’s opposition ac-cuses Assad’s government of carrying out a brutal campaign against Syrians that culminated in a nerve gas attack in suburbs of the capital, Damascus, on Aug. 21 that left hundreds dead.

The government de-nies its involvement in the attack, but it has since pledged to give up its stockpile of chemical weapons.

—AP

BY AMIR BIBAWYAssociated Press

“Terrorism, such as in the attack on Westgate Mall, is a global

problem. The United States itself, has suffered terror attacks before, and so have other countries right

across the globe.”

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BALI, Indonesia — Miss Philippines, Megan Young, was crowned Miss World on Saturday amid tight se-curity on Indonesia’s re-sort island of Bali, where the contest’s fi nal round was moved following pro-tests by Muslim hardliner groups.

“I promise to be the best Miss World ever,” Young, 23, said after winning the 63rd annual event, as a large number of Filipino fans who traveled with her celebrated by jumping and waving the country’s fl ag.

Despite threats from the Islamic Defenders Front to disrupt the contest, police said no rallies were staged Saturday. The group has

demonstrated for weeks, calling for the government to cancel the pageant be-cause members say it shows too much skin and goes against Islamic teachings.

The 127 contestants vy-ing for the crown were in-troduced Saturday wearing evening gowns shimmering in sequins, many of them with plunging necklines and slits up the leg. Four candi-dates dropped out earlier, mainly due to illnesses, said Syafril Nasution, one of the local organizers.

Young, who took the crown from Wenxia Yu of China, the 2012 winner, was born in the United States. When she was 10 she moved to the Philippines, where she has appeared in fi lms and as a television

host. Miss France, Marine Lorphelin, 20, took second place, while Miss Ghana, Carranzar Naa Okailey Shooter, 22, came in third.

Miss World organizers had earlier agreed to cut bikinis from the swimsuit competition, replacing them with more conserva-tive sarongs. But pressure continued to mount, and more mainstream groups joined in and called for the show to be banned.

Indonesia’s government announced three weeks ago that the fi nal would be moved from the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, and instead held on the Hindu-dominated resort island of Bali, where earlier rounds were taking place.

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Search growing bleak in India building debris

MUMBAI, India — Fran-tic relatives kept up a vigil Saturday at the site of a col-lapsed apartment building that killed at least 42 people in India’s fi nancial capital of Mumbai, as the search for around a dozen people missing in the rubble grew bleak. Rescuers found just one person alive during the day.

The cause of Friday morning’s cave-in was not known, but neighborhood residents complained of builders using substandard materials — with some ex-pressing fear that their own buildings might also fall down.

Between 83 and 89 peo-ple were in the fi ve-story building when it collapsed, according to residents. Res-cuers have pulled 33 people out of the rubble alive since the cave-in, but the search-ers have not detected any signs of life recently, Alok Awasthi, local commander of the National Disaster Response Force, said Sat-urday. Still, he vowed that rescuers would continue to search for the missing people.

It was the third deadly building collapse in six months in Mumbai, which like much of India has lax building inspections and corruption that can form a

deadly combination.Rudiben Parmar sat with

several weeping relatives near the rubble on Satur-day, waiting for news of the last of fi ve family members who were in the building. Three — a nephew and two of his children — had already been found dead. The nephew’s wife was rescued, but the couple’s young daughter was still unaccounted for Saturday morning.

Parmer said she didn’t know who was to blame for the disaster, but didn’t care about anything but learn-ing of all her relatives’ fate.

“We will be OK once all members of our family are recovered,” she said.

The building, located in southeast Mumbai, caved in early Friday morning, trapping dozens of people and launching an intense search mission.

Emergency workers la-bored for six hours Satur-day to free a 50-year-old man who was trapped for more than 30 hours be-neath the wreckage with his leg crushed by part of a wall.

Rescuers reached him and lifted up the slab of ce-ment using a specialized compressed air-pressure bag, and the man was rushed to a hospital in the afternoon.

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QUETTA, Pakistan — A major earthquake rocked Pakistan’s southwest Sat-urday, killing at least 15 and sending panicked peo-ple running into the street just days after another quake in the same region killed hundreds, offi cials said.

The U.S. Geological Sur-vey said on its website that a 6.8 magnitude quake was felt in Pakistan’s south-western Baluchistan prov-ince.

Pakistan’s Meteorologi-cal Department measured the earthquake at 7.2 mag-nitude, saying its epicenter was about 150 kilometers (90 miles) west of the town of Khuzdar.

Baluchistan government spokesman Jan Moham-mad Buledi said those killed Saturday died in the Mushkay area of Awaran. The death toll from Tues-day’s disaster was 359, he added.

Little may have been left to damage after Tuesday’s disaster. Few of the mud and homemade brick hous-

es in the area survived the 7.7 magnitude quake that leveled villages and buried people in the rubble. Since then tens of thousands of people have been sleeping under the open sky or in tents.

Chief Pakistani meteo-rologist Arif Mahmood told Pakistani television that Saturday’s earthquake was an aftershock and such tremors could continue for weeks.

Pakistan television showed people at the main hospital in Awaran district fl eeing into the street.

In the provincial capi-tal of Quetta, the tremor was so strong it prompted members of the local par-liament to evacuate the building.

Baluchistan is Pakistan’s largest but least populated province.

The rough terrain and the lack of decent roads have made access diffi cult for rescue staff. The Paki-stani Air Force has been air dropping supplies and using helicopters to ferry injured people.

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Protesters say Sudan police fired on funeral marchKHARTOUM, Sudan —

Sudanese security forces in pickup trucks opened fi re on Saturday on hundreds of mourners marching af-ter the funeral of a protest-er killed a day earlier, the latest violence in a week of demonstrations calling for the ouster of longtime President Omar al-Bashir.

The man killed was a pharmacist from a promi-nent family, suggesting the heavy security crackdown could deepen discontent, spread unrest and upset the complex network of power centers al-Bashir relies upon to stay in power. In a rare scene to emerge on-line, video clips circulated by activists showed mourn-ers kicking out al-Bashir’s aide Nafi e Ali Nafi e from the slain protester’s house where he went to pay con-dolences to the family.

Three female protesters interviewed separately said dozens of pickup trucks and security forces surrounded them in a main street in the capital Khartoum be-fore fi ring tear gas and live ammunition. It was not

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relatives were being treated for gunshot wounds.

The violent crackdown that aims to quash Sudan’s most extensive street dem-onstrations in two decades could now actually be pro-pelling them, activists said.

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any political cover and it is declaring a war against its own people,” said Khaled Omar, a member of the Change Now youth move-ment, one of the groups calling for protests. “This will backfi re internally, in-side the regime itself and cause cracks within and lead to its collapse,” he

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Yet in what could be fi rst sign of disenchantment within the ruling regime, 31 politicians, including members of al-Bashir’s ruling party and military offi cials signed a petition calling on the president to carry out reforms because his rule is “at stake.”

Among them are a lead-ing member of the ruling National Congress party, Hassan Ali Rizk, and Ghazi Salah Eddin, a former in-formation minister and a presidential adviser. The petition called for revers-ing austerity measures, creating a mechanism for national consensus and investigating the killings of protesters. Among the signatories are members of the Islamic Movement, a pillar of al-Bashir’s regime, which activists say is look-ing out for its own survival.

The protests, which erupted Sunday night, were initially triggered by the lifting of fuel and wheat subsidies. But over the past days demands have esca-

lated to call for the resigna-tion of al-Bashir, who has ruled for 24 years.

“The cars came from the back and the front while we were marching in the street,” another female protester said. “The tear gas was very strong. The people fl ed trying to es-cape, taking shelter inside homes,” she added.

Earlier in the day, wom-en, crying and hugging, blocked a side-street to prevent police from de-ploying to the funeral of 26-year-old pharmacist Salah al-Sanhouri. His family says he was shot outside his pharmacy as a march went by Friday, on the same street where the protest came under attack again on Saturday.

The death toll from a week of protests is sharply contested. Amnesty In-ternational and the Afri-can Center for Justice and Peace Studies have accused the government of us-ing a “shoot to kill” policy against protesters, saying they had documented 50 deaths in rioting on Tues-day and Wednesday alone.

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Sudanese relatives of Salah Sanhory, 26, who was killed Friday by security at an an-ti-government protest, mourn during his funeral on Saturday in Khartoum, Sudan. The regime of President Omar al-Bashir is trying to stop public anger over fuel price hikes from turning into an Arab Spring-style uprising against his 24-year rule.

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ers routinely failed to pass most of each year’s dozen or so appropriations bills on time. Sometimes agen-cies went a full year without a budget. Usually lawmak-ers would smooth that over with a short-term money approval, called a “continu-ing resolution” in Washing-ton-speak.

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lay workers’ pay and put items such as travel and new contracts on hold. But they assumed Congress didn’t want them to turn off the lights and go home. Eventually lawmakers would cough up a spending bill to retroactively paper over the funding gap.

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This look-the-other-way system worked for decades. Until the Carter adminis-tration.

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When it does not, gov-ernment must send em-ployees home. They can’t work for free or with the expectation that they will be paid someday.

What’s more, Civiletti declared, any agency chief who broke that law would be prosecuted.

Five days later, fund-ing for the Federal Trade Commission expired amid a congressional disagree-ment over limiting the agency’s powers. The FTC halted operations, canceled court dates and meetings, and sent 1,600 workers packing, apparently the fi rst agency ever closed by a budget dispute.

Embarrassed lawmakers made a quick fi x. The FTC reopened the next day. The estimated cost of the brou-haha: $700,000.

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Iran’s stock exchange re-acted to the historic phone conversation between the two leaders, with the index improving by 687 points, to 46,400 on Saturday. The rial, Iran’s national currency, strengthened against the U.S. dollar as the news broke. The dollar was trading at 29,500 rials in foreign currency shops, compared to 30,200 rials on Thursday.

“Historic contact on the fl ight back home” was the front-page headline in the moderate Etemad daily Saturday. Arman, another newspaper, wrote: “The world was caught by sur-prise.”

Upon returning home, Rouhani told reporters that the U.S. gave him a 2,700 year-old artifact, in-

terpreted as a new token of friendship between the United States and Iran. The artifact had been in New York since 2003, when an art dealer smuggled it into the U.S. from Iran.

Mina Yazdi, a Tehran resident, said she was “very happy” to hear about Rou-hani’s phone conservation with Obama, which was organized after Rouhani’s staff reached out to the White House with the pro-posal. The two leaders were both at the U.N. on Tues-day following speeches to the General Assembly, but did not meet.

“I hope that, after these talks, the economic prob-lems of Iranians are eased,” said Yazdi.

Prominent conservative fi gures have publicly en-dorsed Rouhani’s “heroic fl exibility.” —AP

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CONTINUED FROM 1BSyria vows to obey UN resolution

BEIRUT — Syria will cooperate fully with U.N. inspectors charged with securing and destroying the country’s chemical weapons stockpile, the na-tion’s prime minister said Saturday.

The comments from Wael al-Halqi came a day after the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to purge Syr-ia of its chemical weapons program. The U.N. reso-lution, passed after two weeks of white-knuckle negotiations, marked a major breakthrough in the paralysis that has gripped the council since the Syr-ian uprising began in March 2011.

“This resolution is in

line with Syria’s approach toward joining the chemi-cal weapons convention,” al-Halqi said in an in-terview with Lebanon’s Al Manar TV. “Syria will stand by what it promised. We will cooperate and fa-cilitate the work of the in-spectors. We have provid-ed lists with the chemical weapons we have and they can check all our institu-tions.”

The U.N. resolution al-lows the start of a mis-sion to rid Syria’s regime of its estimated 1,000-ton chemical arsenal by mid-2014.

It also calls for con-sequences if President Bashar Assad’s regime fails to comply, although those will depend on the

council passing another resolution in the event of non-compliance.

The vote also enshrined a plan adopted by the world’s chemical weapons watchdog that lays out benchmarks and timelines for cataloguing, quaran-tining and ultimately de-stroying Syria’s chemical arms, their precursors and delivery systems.

The dizzying diplomatic developments of the past two weeks are rooted in the Aug. 21 poison gas at-tack that killed hundreds of civilians in a Damascus suburb. The U.S. blamed the Assad regime for the attack, and threatened to launch punitive missile strikes.

That set in motion a

fl urry of diplomatic ma-neuvering that led even-tually to Friday’s Security Council resolution.

For the fi rst time, the council also endorsed the roadmap for a political transition in Syria adopt-ed by key nations in June 2012, and called for an in-ternational conference to be convened “as soon as possible” to implement it. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has set mid-November as a target date for a new peace conference in Geneva.

Speaking to Al Manar, al-Halqi said the Syrian government is ready to “negotiate with opposition forces both inside and out-side of Syria — if they’re willing to.”

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9 AM - 6 PM*With Approved Credit. No interest if paid in full by 6/1/2018. $2,499 minimum purchase for 5 yrs, $199 processing fee, $1,999 minimum purchase for 4 yrs, $169 processing fee, $1,499 minimum purchase for 3 yrs, $129 processing fee. $999 minimum purchase on 2 yrs, $99 processing fee. Minimum Payment Required. Interest will be charged to your account from the purchase date if the purchase balance [including premiums for optional credit insurance] is not paid in full by 6/1/2018 or if you make a late payment. If the purchase amount, plus any applicable fees or charges is not paid in full by the end of the promotional period, interest will be charged at the APR for purchases on any

remaining balances until paid in full. The current APR for purchases is variable 28.99%. APR for purchases on existing accounts may vary between 26.99-28.99%. If any required minimum payment is 60 days past due, the Penalty APR, currently variable 29.99% will apply to remaining balances. Minimum interest charge $2.00. A one-time processing fee of $199.99 on 5 year interest free, $169 on 4 year interest free, $129 on 3 year interest free. $0 on 2 year interest free. will be applied to the account for this transaction. Offer subject to credit approval on a Renovate credit card account.

Ashley King Storage Bed Discount Price $848$848 Dresser Dresser & Mirror Retail Price& Mirror Retail Price $1,127 $1,127 1/2 off sale 1/2 off sale $563$563

Chest Sale Chest Sale $348$348 or up to 60 months no interest or up to 60 months no interest

Signature Design Pad-over Chaise Dual Reclining Sofa Discount Price Discount Price $798 $798

Dual Reclining Love Seat Retail Price Dual Reclining Love Seat Retail Price $1096$1096 1/2 Off Sale 1/2 Off Sale $548$548 Or Up To 60 months interest free. Or Up To 60 months interest free.

Signature Design Dual Reclining Pad-over Chaise Sofa Discount PriceDiscount Price $964 $964 Dual Reclining Console Love Seat Dual Reclining Console Love Seat

with cup-holders Retail Price with cup-holders Retail Price $1351$1351 1/2 off Sale 1/2 off Sale $675 $675 or up to 60 mo Interest Free.or up to 60 mo Interest Free.

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Buy 1st Item At Regular Discount Price & get 2nd Item Of Buy 1st Item At Regular Discount Price & get 2nd Item Of Equal Or lesser Value Equal Or lesser Value 1/2 OFF1/2 OFF Retail Price Retail Price

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Ashley Power Pad Over Chaise Ashley Power Pad Over Chaise Recliner Durablend Leather Recliner Durablend Leather

Discount Price Discount Price $698$698 2nd Recliner Retail Price2nd Recliner Retail Price $999 $999

1/2 Off sale 1/2 Off sale $499$499