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MOSCOW (AP) — A half-cen- tury-old tourist boat with 188 peo- ple on board listed and sank quickly in one of the world’s largest reser- voirs amid wind and rain Sunday, authorities and survivors said, and dozens of children were believed to be among the 101 people missing. Two bodies were recovered. About 30 children gathered in a cockpit in the double-decker Bul- garia moments before it sank into the reservoir on the Volga River, a survivor told the Interfax news agency. Russia’s Vesti 24 television quoted another survivor as saying that the boat “tilted to the right and sank within minutes.” Crew members had time to open only two lifeboats, and could re- lease only one from the ship, sur- vivors told the Itar Tass news agency. By early Monday, only two bod- ies had been recovered from the 20- meter-deep (66-foot-deep) waters of the giant Kuibyshev reservoir, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from shore. The regional emergency min- istry of Tatarstan said two men managed to swim to shore, while a passing riverboat picked up an- other 83 people and the lifeless body of a woman. The body of an- other woman was found later, au- thorities said without giving details. All aboard were believed to be Russian. Monday, 7.11.11 ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net NEWS DEPARTMENT: [email protected] 5 PRESS DAKOTAN world/life CALENDAR C O M M U N I T Y The COMMUNITY CALENDAR appears each Monday and Thursday. Contributions to this list of upcoming events are welcome and should be sub- mitted two weeks before the event. Submissions MUST be typewritten or legi- bly printed and include the name and phone number of a contact person. Send items to P&D Calendar, PO Box 56, Yankton, SD 57078, or email to [email protected]. MONDAY Line Dancing, 9:30 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Quilting, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Cardio Exercise, 11 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Daily Reprieve, noon, open meeting non-smoking, 1019 W 9th St. Interchange, noon, open meeting, Minerva’s Bar and Grill, 605-660-8849. Cribbage, 1 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Pinochle, 1 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Whist, 1 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 River City Harmony Sweet Adelines, 6:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 11th and Cedar, 605-661-7162 Daily Reprieve, 7 p.m., closed meeting non-smoking, 1019 W 9th St. SECOND MONDAY Yankton Diabetes Support Group, 1 p.m., Benedictine Center, AVSHH, 605-668-8000 ext. 456 Yankton Republican Party Executive Meeting, 5:30 p.m., 2507 Fox Run Parkway, 605-260-1605 Yankton School Board Meeting, 5:30 p.m., YSD Administration Building, 2410 West City Limits Road, 605-665-3998 Yankton Area Writers Club, 7 p.m., Books & Beans, downtown Yankton, 605-664-6582 Tri-State Old Iron Association Meeting, 7 p.m., JoDeans Restaurant, 605-665-9785. Yankton City Commission, 7 p.m., RTEC, 1200 W. 21st Street YHS Booster Club Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Summit Activities Center Meeting Room, 605-665-4640 THIRD MONDAY Yankton Golf Advisory Board Meeting, noon, Fox Run Golf Course, 600 W. 27th Street, 605-668-5205 Friends Of The Yankton Community Library, 5:30 p.m., Yankton Li- brary, 515 Walnut Yankton Lions Club, 6 p.m. dinner, 6:30 p.m. meeting, JoDeans, 605- 665-4694. Yankton American Legion Auxiliary, 7:30 p.m., VFW Building, 209 Cedar Street FOURTH MONDAY NARFE Chapter 1053, 10 a.m. at The Center, located at 900 Whiting Drive. TUESDAY Table Tennis, 8:30 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Yankton Community Forum, 8:30 a.m. coffee, 9 a.m. meeting at Hill- crest, 605-664-5832 Ladies Pool, 10 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Weight Watchers, 10:30 a.m., 413 W. 15th Street. Weigh in 1/2 hour be- fore. Yankton Alanon, noon, non-smoking session, 1019 W 9th Street Nurse, 12:30-3:30 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Open Cards, 12:45 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Connections Support Group, 1:30-3 p.m. Use basement door of the former Sir Charles Hotel with the address of 301 Capital above the doorway., 605-661-4434. Bingo, 7-9 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Open Billiards, 7-9 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Yankton Alcoholics Anonymous STEP Sessions, 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.. 1019 W. 9th St. Vermillion Unity Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., closed session, Trinity Lutheran Church at 816 E Clark St. Vermillion. Vermillion Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., non-smoking closed session, 16 1/2 Court St. Vermillion SECOND TUESDAY VFW Auxiliary, 7:30 p.m., 209 Cedar Street THIRD TUESDAY Yankton Area Banquet, 6 p.m., United Church of Christ, Fifth and Walnut WEDNESDAY Line Dancing, 9:30 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Quilting, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Nurse, 10 a.m.-noon, The Center, 605-665-4685 Cardio Exercise, 11 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Daily Reprieve, noon, non-smoking open session, 1019 W. 9th St. Whist, 1 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Yankton Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., non-smoking session, 1019 W. 9th St. Springfield Footprints, 7:30 p.m.,non-smoking open session, Catholic church, Springfield SECOND WEDNESDAY Duplicate Bridge, 1 p.m., Partnership Bridge, 1 p.m., The Center, 605- 665-4685 THIRD WEDNESDAY Partnership Bridge, 1 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 THURSDAY Table Tennis, 8:30 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Ladies Pool, 10 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Yankton Sertoma, noon, Pizza Ranch, 605-661-7159 Daily Reprieve, noon, non-smoking open meeting, 1019 W 9th street. Avera Sacred Heart Hospital Toastmasters, noon, Benedictine Center; open session 605-665-6776 Pinochle, 12:45 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Dominos, 1 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685 Weight Watchers, 4 p.m., 413 W. 15th Street. Weigh in 1/2 hour before. Weight Watchers, 5:30 p.m., 413 W. 15th Street. Weigh in 1/2 hour be- fore. Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS #SD 45), Weigh-in 5:30-6:30 p.m., meeting 6:30-7:30. RTEC building, 1200 W. 21st St. For more information call 605-665-3738 or 667-9274. Yankton Area Banquet, 6 p.m., United Church of Christ, Fifth and Walnut Celebrate Recovery, 7 p.m., Calvary Baptist Church, Youth Room #4, 2407 Broadway, Yankton, 605-665-5594 Freeman Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., non-smoking closed meeting, City Hall, 3rd and Poplar, Freeman. Yankton Alcoholics Anonymous, 8:30 p.m., open session, 1019 W 9th St. Yankton Alanon, 8:30 p.m., 1019 W 9th Street THIRD THURSDAY HSC Friendship Club, 5 p.m., July: Max Pub, Volin, 605-665-5956 Summer Food Service Program Monday — Stuffed-crust pizza dippers Tuesday — Chicken strips Wednesday — Hard-shell tacos Thursday — Chicken fried steak Friday — Hotdogs Menus listed below are for the week of July 11-15. Menus are subject to change with- out notice. All meals are served with milk. YHS Combo Line meals are served with choice of milk or shake. Body Shop Asthma/Allergy Relief Is a Phone Call Away! SIOUX CITY ALLERGY & ASTHMA ASSOCIATES, P.C. For Appointments Phone: (712) 274-6884 Satellite clinic in Yankton on the 3rd Thursday of each month. • Same Day Skin Test Results • Treatment of Asthma, Cough & Sinus Problems FREE ESTIMATES Heating & Cooling Systems on Lowest Prices Guaranteed HEATING & COOLING 920 Broadway • 665-9461 1600 E. 39th St., Yankton • Harry Lane, Owner 605-665-6612 Prompt Service • Quality Workmanship Competitive Prices Emergency Services Available ELECTRIC L&S L&S L&S COMMERCIAL, RESIDENTIAL & FARM WIRING New Construction or Remodeling www.LandSelectric.com FRANCIS WIEPEN An open house for Francis Wiepen to celebrate his 80th birthday will be held at 2-6 p.m. Saturday, July 16, 2011, at the St. He- lena Social Club, St. Helena, Neb. No gifts are re- quested. If you are unable to attend, you can send a card to 56091 897th Rd., Fordyce, NE 68736. AGNES HORACEK Agnes Horacek will be cele- brating her 80th birthday with an open house hosted by her chil- dren, grandchildren and great- grandchildren on Saturday, July 23, 2011, from 2-4 p.m. at Sunrise Apartments, 2015 Green St. Yank- ton. The family requests no gifts. Greetings may be sent to 2015 Green St, Apt 166, Yankton SD 57078. Wiepen BIRTHDAYS MENUS Shuttle Makes Final Hookup With Station CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As the miles melted between At- lantis and the International Space Station, the emotions grew — in orbit and on the ground. At Mission Control on Sunday, lead flight director Kwatsi Alibaruho declared “this is it” as he gave the OK for the final docking in space shuttle history. Flashbacks to the shuttle’s very first space station docking — with Russia’s Mir in 1995 — flooded his mind as viewed the shuttle on the screens. He was a NASA trainee back then. About 240 miles above the Pacific, the station’s naval bell chimed a salute — one of many landmarks, or rather spacemarks, of this final two-week shuttle mission that are being savored one by one. “Atlantis arriving,” called out space station astronaut Ronald Garan Jr. “Welcome to the International Space Station for the last time.” “And it’s great to be here,” replied shuttle commander Christopher Ferguson. Train Derails In India, Killing At Least 31 FATEHPUR, India (AP) — Rescuers searched for survivors in the wreckage of a packed express train that derailed in northern India on Sunday afternoon, killing at least 31 people, while officials said a sec- ond train derailment hundreds of miles (kilometers) to the northeast appeared to have been caused by a remote-controlled bomb. Rescuers were working to reach the second derailment, which oc- curred late Sunday night in a rural area of Assam state, injuring at least 100. The two railway incidents did not appear to be related. In the first crash, the Kalka Mail train was on its way to Kalka, in the foothills of the Himalayas, from Howrah, a station near Kolkata in east- ern India, when 12 coaches and the engine jumped the tracks at Mal- wan station, near the town of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh state, senior railway official A.K. Jain said. The cause of the derailment was not immediately clear but it ap- peared that the driver applied the emergency brakes, Jain said. At least 31 people were killed and rescue workers pulled at least 100 injured passengers out of the wreckage, said Brij Lal, a state police offi- cial. Panetta In Iraq To Meet Officials, Commanders BAGHDAD (AP) — From one war front to another Sunday, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta hopped from a U.S. outpost in Afghanistan’s south- ern desert to Baghdad, where he sought to encourage Iraqi leaders to decide soon whether they want a residual American military force be- yond year’s end. He refused to say whether the Obama administration wants the ex- tension, but he expressed concern at a spike in U.S. deaths caused by what American officials believe are sophisticated explosive devices made in Iran. Panetta prepared for talks Monday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Ma- liki and other senior members of a government politically divided more than a year after national elections. Iraq has gone that long without de- fense or interior ministers, whose departments are responsible for the military and police. The approximately 46,000 U.S. troops remaining in Iraq are to de- part by the end of 2011 under an agreement negotiated in 2008 by the Bush administration, which went to war in 2003 to topple Saddam Hus- sein’s government. Asking even a few thousand to stay longer carries political risk lead- ers in both countries. Murdoch Flies To UK To Cope With Scandal LONDON (AP) — Rupert Murdoch touched down in London on Sunday to take charge of his media empire’s phone-hacking crisis as his best-selling Sunday tabloid, the News of the World, published its last. The scandal lives on despite his sacrifice of the 168-year-old paper at the heart of it. The scrapping of the News of the World has not tempered British anger over improprieties by journalists working for Murdoch, and his $19 billion deal to take full control of satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting re- mains in jeopardy. The 80-year-old News Corp. CEO was seen reading the paper’s last issue in a red Range Rover as he was driven to the east London offices of his U.K. newspaper division, News International. Later, at his London apartment, he met with News International’s chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, who led News of the World when its reporters committed some of the most egre- gious ethical lapses. The drama gripping media watchers in Britain and beyond has ex- panded at breakneck pace following allegations News of the World journal- ists paid police for information and hacked into the voicemails of young murder victims and the grieving families of dead soldiers. Three people have been arrested, including Prime Minister David Cameron’s former com- munications chief. BY DOUGLAS BIRCH Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s decision to sus- pend $800 million in aid to the Pakistan’s military signals a tougher U.S. line with a critical but sometimes unreliable partner in the fight against terrorism. President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, William Daley, said in a broadcast interview Sunday that the estranged relationship be- tween the United States and Pak- istan must be made “to work over time,” but until it does, “we’ll hold back some of the money that the American taxpayers are commit- ted to give” to the country’s pow- erful military forces. The suspension of U.S. aid, first reported by the New York Times, followed a statement last week by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, that Pakistan’s security services may have sanctioned the killing of Pak- istani journalist Saleem Shahzad who wrote about infiltration of the military by extremists. His bat- tered body was found in June. The allegation was rejected by Pakistan’s powerful military estab- lishment, including the Inter-Ser- vices Intelligence Agency, which has historic ties to the Taliban and other militant groups and which many Western analysts re- gard as a state-within-a-state. George Perkovich, an expert on Pakistan with the Carnegie Endow- ment for International Peace in Washington, said Mullen’s com- ments and the suspension of aid represent “the end of happy talk,” where the U.S. tries to paper over differences between the two na- tions. Daley, interviewed on ABC’s “This Week,” suggested the deci- sion to suspend military aid re- sulted from the increasing estrangement between the U.S. and Pakistan. “Obviously there’s still a lot of pain that the political system in Pakistan is feeling by virtue of the raid that we did to get Osama bin Laden,” Daley said. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters traveling with him to Afghanistan on Sat- urday that the U.S. would continue to press Pakistan in the fight against ex- tremists, including al-Qaida’s new leader, Ayman al- Zawahri. “We have to continue to em- phasize with the Pakistanis that in the end it’s in their interest to be able to go after these targets as well,” Panetta said. “And in the discussions I’ve had with them, I have to say that, you know, they’re giving us coop- eration in going after some of these targets. We’ve got to con- tinue to push them to do that. That’s key.” The U.S. has long been un- happy with Pakistan’s evident lack of enthusiasm for carrying the fight against terrorists to its tribal areas, as well as its covert sup- port for the Taliban and anti-In- dian extremist groups. But tensions ratcheted up in January, when CIA security con- tractor Raymond Davis shot and killed two Pakistanis who he said were trying to rob him. They spiked in May, when U.S. forces killed bin Laden during a covert raid on a home in Abbottabad, the location of Pakistan’s military academy. In the U.S., there was anger at the possibility that some Pakistan officials had harbored the terror- ist leader. In Pakistan, there was outrage that the U.S. operation had violated its sovereignty. The $800 million in suspended aid represents 40 percent of the $2 billion in U.S. military aid to Pak- istan, and according to the Times includes money for counterterror operations. The report said some of the money represented equipment that can’t be set up for training because Pakistan won’t give visas to the trainers. About $300 million was intended to reimburse Pak- istan for the cost of deploying 100,000 troops along the Afghan border, the newspaper said. U.S. Halting Military Aid To Pakistan $800 Billion To Be Held Back Daley 101 Missing After Russian Tourist Boat Sinks

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MOSCOW (AP) — A half-cen-tury-old tourist boat with 188 peo-ple on board listed and sank quicklyin one of the world’s largest reser-voirs amid wind and rain Sunday,authorities and survivors said, anddozens of children were believed tobe among the 101 people missing.Two bodies were recovered.

About 30 children gathered in acockpit in the double-decker Bul-garia moments before it sank intothe reservoir on the Volga River, a

survivor told the Interfax newsagency. Russia’s Vesti 24 televisionquoted another survivor as sayingthat the boat “tilted to the right andsank within minutes.”

Crew members had time to openonly two lifeboats, and could re-lease only one from the ship, sur-vivors told the Itar Tass newsagency.

By early Monday, only two bod-ies had been recovered from the 20-meter-deep (66-foot-deep) waters of

the giant Kuibyshev reservoir, 3kilometers (2 miles) from shore.

The regional emergency min-istry of Tatarstan said two menmanaged to swim to shore, while apassing riverboat picked up an-other 83 people and the lifelessbody of a woman. The body of an-other woman was found later, au-thorities said without giving details.All aboard were believed to beRussian.

Monday, 7.11.11ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net

NEWS DEPARTMENT: [email protected] 5PRESS DAKOTANworld/life

CALENDARC O M M U N I T Y

The COMMUNITY CALENDAR appears each Monday and Thursday.Contributions to this list of upcoming events are welcome and should be sub-mitted two weeks before the event. Submissions MUST be typewritten or legi-bly printed and include the name and phone number of a contact person.Send items to P&D Calendar, PO Box 56, Yankton, SD 57078, or email [email protected].

MONDAYLine Dancing, 9:30 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Quilting, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Cardio Exercise, 11 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Daily Reprieve, noon, open meeting non-smoking, 1019 W 9th St.Interchange, noon, open meeting, Minerva’s Bar and Grill, 605-660-8849.Cribbage, 1 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Pinochle, 1 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Whist, 1 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685River City Harmony Sweet Adelines, 6:30 p.m., First United Methodist

Church, 11th and Cedar, 605-661-7162Daily Reprieve, 7 p.m., closed meeting non-smoking, 1019 W 9th St.

SECOND MONDAYYankton Diabetes Support Group, 1 p.m., Benedictine Center, AVSHH,

605-668-8000 ext. 456Yankton Republican Party Executive Meeting, 5:30 p.m., 2507 Fox

Run Parkway, 605-260-1605Yankton School Board Meeting, 5:30 p.m., YSD Administration Building,

2410 West City Limits Road, 605-665-3998Yankton Area Writers Club, 7 p.m., Books & Beans, downtown Yankton,

605-664-6582Tri-State Old Iron Association Meeting, 7 p.m., JoDeans Restaurant,

605-665-9785.Yankton City Commission, 7 p.m., RTEC, 1200 W. 21st StreetYHS Booster Club Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Summit Activities Center Meeting

Room, 605-665-4640

THIRD MONDAYYankton Golf Advisory Board Meeting, noon, Fox Run Golf Course,

600 W. 27th Street, 605-668-5205Friends Of The Yankton Community Library, 5:30 p.m., Yankton Li-

brary, 515 WalnutYankton Lions Club, 6 p.m. dinner, 6:30 p.m. meeting, JoDeans, 605-

665-4694.Yankton American Legion Auxiliary, 7:30 p.m., VFW Building, 209

Cedar Street

FOURTH MONDAYNARFE Chapter 1053, 10 a.m. at The Center, located at 900 Whiting

Drive.

TUESDAYTable Tennis, 8:30 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Yankton Community Forum, 8:30 a.m. coffee, 9 a.m. meeting at Hill-

crest, 605-664-5832Ladies Pool, 10 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Weight Watchers, 10:30 a.m., 413 W. 15th Street. Weigh in 1/2 hour be-

fore.Yankton Alanon, noon, non-smoking session, 1019 W 9th StreetNurse, 12:30-3:30 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Open Cards, 12:45 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Connections Support

Group, 1:30-3 p.m. Use basement door of the former Sir Charles Hotel withthe address of 301 Capital above the doorway., 605-661-4434.

Bingo, 7-9 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Open Billiards, 7-9 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Yankton Alcoholics Anonymous STEP Sessions, 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m..

1019 W. 9th St. Vermillion Unity Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., closed session,

Trinity Lutheran Church at 816 E Clark St. Vermillion.Vermillion Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., non-smoking closed session,

16 1/2 Court St. Vermillion

SECOND TUESDAYVFW Auxiliary, 7:30 p.m., 209 Cedar Street

THIRD TUESDAYYankton Area Banquet, 6 p.m., United Church of Christ, Fifth and Walnut

WEDNESDAYLine Dancing, 9:30 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Quilting, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Nurse, 10 a.m.-noon, The Center, 605-665-4685Cardio Exercise, 11 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Daily Reprieve, noon, non-smoking open session, 1019 W. 9th St.Whist, 1 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Yankton Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., non-smoking session, 1019

W. 9th St.Springfield Footprints, 7:30 p.m.,non-smoking open session, Catholic

church, Springfield

SECOND WEDNESDAYDuplicate Bridge, 1 p.m., Partnership Bridge, 1 p.m., The Center, 605-

665-4685

THIRD WEDNESDAYPartnership Bridge, 1 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685

THURSDAYTable Tennis, 8:30 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Ladies Pool, 10 a.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Yankton Sertoma, noon, Pizza Ranch, 605-661-7159Daily Reprieve, noon, non-smoking open meeting, 1019 W 9th street.Avera Sacred Heart Hospital Toastmasters, noon, Benedictine Center;

open session 605-665-6776Pinochle, 12:45 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Dominos, 1 p.m., The Center, 605-665-4685Weight Watchers, 4 p.m., 413 W. 15th Street. Weigh in 1/2 hour before.

Weight Watchers, 5:30 p.m., 413 W. 15th Street. Weigh in 1/2 hour be-fore.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS #SD 45), Weigh-in 5:30-6:30 p.m.,meeting 6:30-7:30. RTEC building, 1200 W. 21st St. For more informationcall 605-665-3738 or 667-9274.

Yankton Area Banquet, 6 p.m., United Church of Christ, Fifth and WalnutCelebrate Recovery, 7 p.m., Calvary Baptist Church, Youth Room #4,

2407 Broadway, Yankton, 605-665-5594Freeman Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., non-smoking closed meeting,

City Hall, 3rd and Poplar, Freeman.Yankton Alcoholics Anonymous, 8:30 p.m., open session, 1019 W 9th St.Yankton Alanon, 8:30 p.m., 1019 W 9th Street

THIRD THURSDAYHSC Friendship Club, 5 p.m., July: Max Pub, Volin, 605-665-5956

Summer Food Service ProgramMonday — Stuffed-crust pizza dippersTuesday — Chicken strips Wednesday — Hard-shell tacosThursday — Chicken fried steakFriday — Hotdogs

Menus listed below are for the week ofJuly 11-15. Menus are subject to change with-out notice. All meals are served with milk.YHS Combo Line meals are served withchoice of milk or shake.

� Body Shop

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ASSOCIATES, P.C. For Appointments Phone:

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• Same Day Skin Test Results • Treatment of Asthma, Cough & Sinus Problems

FREE ESTIMATESHeating & Cooling Systems on

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HEATING & COOLING920 Broadway • 665-9461 1600 E. 39th St., Yankton • Harry Lane, Owner

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New Construction or Remodeling www.LandSelectric.com

FRANCIS WIEPENAn open house

for Francis Wiepento celebrate his80th birthday willbe held at 2-6 p.m.Saturday, July 16,2011, at the St. He-lena Social Club,St. Helena, Neb.

No gifts are re-quested.

If you are unable to attend,you can send a card to 56091897th Rd., Fordyce, NE 68736.

AGNES HORACEKAgnes Horacek will be cele-

brating her 80th birthday with anopen house hosted by her chil-dren, grandchildren and great-grandchildren on Saturday, July23, 2011, from 2-4 p.m. at SunriseApartments, 2015 Green St. Yank-ton. The family requests no gifts.

Greetings may be sent to 2015Green St, Apt 166, Yankton SD57078.

Wiepen

B I RT H DAYS

M E N U S

Shuttle Makes Final Hookup With Station CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As the miles melted between At-

lantis and the International Space Station, the emotions grew — in orbitand on the ground.

At Mission Control on Sunday, lead flight director Kwatsi Alibaruhodeclared “this is it” as he gave the OK for the final docking in spaceshuttle history. Flashbacks to the shuttle’s very first space stationdocking — with Russia’s Mir in 1995 — flooded his mind as viewed theshuttle on the screens. He was a NASA trainee back then.

About 240 miles above the Pacific, the station’s naval bell chimed asalute — one of many landmarks, or rather spacemarks, of this finaltwo-week shuttle mission that are being savored one by one.

“Atlantis arriving,” called out space station astronaut Ronald GaranJr. “Welcome to the International Space Station for the last time.”

“And it’s great to be here,” replied shuttle commander ChristopherFerguson.

Train Derails In India, Killing At Least 31 FATEHPUR, India (AP) — Rescuers searched for survivors in the

wreckage of a packed express train that derailed in northern India onSunday afternoon, killing at least 31 people, while officials said a sec-ond train derailment hundreds of miles (kilometers) to the northeastappeared to have been caused by a remote-controlled bomb.

Rescuers were working to reach the second derailment, which oc-curred late Sunday night in a rural area of Assam state, injuring at least100. The two railway incidents did not appear to be related.

In the first crash, the Kalka Mail train was on its way to Kalka, in thefoothills of the Himalayas, from Howrah, a station near Kolkata in east-ern India, when 12 coaches and the engine jumped the tracks at Mal-wan station, near the town of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh state, seniorrailway official A.K. Jain said.

The cause of the derailment was not immediately clear but it ap-peared that the driver applied the emergency brakes, Jain said.

At least 31 people were killed and rescue workers pulled at least 100injured passengers out of the wreckage, said Brij Lal, a state police offi-cial.

Panetta In Iraq To Meet Officials, CommandersBAGHDAD (AP) — From one war front to another Sunday, Pentagon

chief Leon Panetta hopped from a U.S. outpost in Afghanistan’s south-ern desert to Baghdad, where he sought to encourage Iraqi leaders todecide soon whether they want a residual American military force be-yond year’s end.

He refused to say whether the Obama administration wants the ex-tension, but he expressed concern at a spike in U.S. deaths caused bywhat American officials believe are sophisticated explosive devicesmade in Iran.

Panetta prepared for talks Monday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Ma-liki and other senior members of a government politically divided morethan a year after national elections. Iraq has gone that long without de-fense or interior ministers, whose departments are responsible for themilitary and police.

The approximately 46,000 U.S. troops remaining in Iraq are to de-part by the end of 2011 under an agreement negotiated in 2008 by theBush administration, which went to war in 2003 to topple Saddam Hus-sein’s government.

Asking even a few thousand to stay longer carries political risk lead-ers in both countries.

Murdoch Flies To UK To Cope With Scandal LONDON (AP) — Rupert Murdoch touched down in London on Sunday

to take charge of his media empire’s phone-hacking crisis as his best-sellingSunday tabloid, the News of the World, published its last. The scandal liveson despite his sacrifice of the 168-year-old paper at the heart of it.

The scrapping of the News of the World has not tempered British angerover improprieties by journalists working for Murdoch, and his $19 billiondeal to take full control of satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting re-mains in jeopardy.

The 80-year-old News Corp. CEO was seen reading the paper’s last issuein a red Range Rover as he was driven to the east London offices of his U.K.newspaper division, News International. Later, at his London apartment, hemet with News International’s chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, who ledNews of the World when its reporters committed some of the most egre-gious ethical lapses.

The drama gripping media watchers in Britain and beyond has ex-panded at breakneck pace following allegations News of the World journal-ists paid police for information and hacked into the voicemails of youngmurder victims and the grieving families of dead soldiers. Three peoplehave been arrested, including Prime Minister David Cameron’s former com-munications chief.

BY DOUGLAS BIRCHAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — The Obamaadministration’s decision to sus-pend $800 million in aid to thePakistan’s military signals atougher U.S. line with a critical butsometimes unreliable partner inthe fight against terrorism.

President Barack Obama’schief of staff, William Daley, said ina broadcast interview Sunday thatthe estranged relationship be-tween the United States and Pak-istan must be made “to work overtime,” but until it does, “we’ll holdback some of the money that theAmerican taxpayers are commit-ted to give” to the country’s pow-erful military forces.

The suspension of U.S. aid, firstreported by the New York Times,followed a statement last week byAdm. Mike Mullen, chairman ofthe U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, thatPakistan’s security services mayhave sanctioned the killing of Pak-istani journalist Saleem Shahzadwho wrote about infiltration of themilitary by extremists. His bat-tered body was found in June.

The allegation was rejected byPakistan’s powerful military estab-lishment, including the Inter-Ser-vices Intelligence Agency, whichhas historic ties to the Talibanand other militant groups andwhich many Western analysts re-gard as a state-within-a-state.

George Perkovich, an expert onPakistan with the Carnegie Endow-ment for International Peace inWashington, said Mullen’s com-ments and the suspension of aidrepresent “the end of happy talk,”where the U.S. tries to paper overdifferences between the two na-tions.

Daley, interviewed on ABC’s“This Week,” suggested the deci-sion to suspend military aid re-sulted from the increasingestrangement between the U.S. andPakistan. “Obviously there’s still alot of pain that the political systemin Pakistan is feeling by virtue ofthe raid that we did to get Osamabin Laden,” Daley said.

Defense Secretary Leon Panettatold reporters traveling with him to

Afghanistan on Sat-urday that the U.S.would continue topress Pakistan inthe fight against ex-tremists, includingal-Qaida’s newleader, Ayman al-Zawahri.

“We have tocontinue to em-phasize with the

Pakistanis that in the end it’s intheir interest to be able to go afterthese targets as well,” Panettasaid. “And in the discussions I’vehad with them, I have to say that,you know, they’re giving us coop-eration in going after some ofthese targets. We’ve got to con-tinue to push them to do that.That’s key.”

The U.S. has long been un-happy with Pakistan’s evident lackof enthusiasm for carrying thefight against terrorists to its tribalareas, as well as its covert sup-port for the Taliban and anti-In-dian extremist groups.

But tensions ratcheted up inJanuary, when CIA security con-tractor Raymond Davis shot andkilled two Pakistanis who he saidwere trying to rob him. Theyspiked in May, when U.S. forceskilled bin Laden during a covertraid on a home in Abbottabad, thelocation of Pakistan’s militaryacademy.

In the U.S., there was anger atthe possibility that some Pakistanofficials had harbored the terror-ist leader. In Pakistan, there wasoutrage that the U.S. operationhad violated its sovereignty.

The $800 million in suspendedaid represents 40 percent of the $2billion in U.S. military aid to Pak-istan, and according to the Timesincludes money for counterterroroperations.

The report said some of themoney represented equipmentthat can’t be set up for trainingbecause Pakistan won’t give visasto the trainers. About $300 millionwas intended to reimburse Pak-istan for the cost of deploying100,000 troops along the Afghanborder, the newspaper said.

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