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Afghan killings suspect remembers little
FOR T LEAVENWOR TH, Kan. (AP) — The lawyer for the Army staff sergeant accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians in a nighttime shooting rampage met his client for the first time Monday and said the soldier has a sketchy memory of the massacre. Lawyer John Henry Browne said Robert Bales remembers some details from before and after the killings, but very little during the time the military believes he went on a killing spree through two Afghan villages. “He has some memory of some things that happened that night. He has some memories of before the incident and he has some memories of after the incident. In between, very lit-
tle,” Browne told The Associated Press by telephone from Fort Leavenworth, where Bales is being held. Pressed on whether Bales can remember anything at all about the shooting, Browne said, “I haven’t gotten that far with him yet.” Bales, 38, has not been charged yet in the March 11, shootings, though charges could come this week. The killings sparked protests in Afghanistan, endangered relations between the two countries and threatened to upend American policy over the decade-old war. Earlier Monday, Browne met with his client behind bars for the first time to begin building a defense and said the soldier gave a powerfully moving account
Obama, Romney sweep health-care laws under a rug
WASHINGTON (AP) — Now here’s a tag team for the ages: Richard Nixon, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama. The arc of history joins all three in the cause of universal health care, a goal promoted by Nixon four decades ago and advanced in laws enacted by Romney and Obama in turn. So where are the high fives between the president and the former Massachusetts governor? The most significant health care law since Medicare gets barely a shout-out from Obama. And when Romney must talk about the law he won in Massachusetts, it’s because someone’s got him on the defensive in the Republican presidential primary campaign. The Supreme Court will decide if the new federal health care overhaul or any part of it is unconstitutional after arguments next week. If the law that Republican opponents call “Obamacare” survives, “Romneycare” will stand in the history books as a guidepost for it, hardly the first See HEALTH, Page A3
SECRET CIRCLE MOVES UP DERBY LIST
March 20, 2012
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AP Photos
In this Aug. 23, Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System photo, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 1st platoon sergeant, Blackhorse Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division participates in an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif.
More ‘Prime Time’ to come
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Members of Prime Time, a group from Oklahoma, perform at the First Baptist Church, 500 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Monday evening. The group will put on two more live performances Tuesday and Wednesday from 6 to 7 p.m., at First Baptist. The performances feature fun, energetic music and a clear gospel message. Other spectacles include fire eating, fire juggling and illusions. Child care is available for children under the age of 2.
Dickinson arrested on 3 counts involving minors Shay Dickinson, 37, was arrested this weekend for three counts of criminal sexual penetration of a minor and three counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor. According to the criminal complaint filed in Magistrate Court, the child victims were ages 2, 4 and 7 years. The parents noticed strange behavior upon the part of the children. Upon questioning, the family unearthed facts about alleged incidents that occurred during a period from November 2011 through February and possibly on March 14. The court records state when Dickinson was asked if he ever touched the children inappropriately, he said that he may
of what it is like to be on the ground in Afghanistan. Browne said he and Bales, who is being held in an isolated cell at the military prison, met for more than three hours in the morning at Fort Leavenworth. Browne, co-counsel Emma Scanlan and Bales were expected to talk again in the afternoon. “What’s going on, on the ground in Afghanistan, you read about it. I read about it. But it’s totally different when you hear about it from somebody who’s been there,” Browne told The Associated Press by telephone during a lunch break. “It’s just really emotional.”
Shay Dickinson
have done so, but he claimed it was an accident. Dickinson works at Roswell Job Corps as a security guard.
He is currently being held at Chaves County Detention Center on a $100,000 cash surety bond.
NM GOP holds pre-primary convention JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER
More than 750 delegates, voting in person and by proxy, ensured that the names of many of the Republican candidates running in New Mexico’s primary election were automatically placed on the ballot. The Republican Party of New Mexico held its pre-primary nominating convention Saturday at the Crowne Plaza in Albuquerque. State Rep. Conrad James, R-Albuquerque, who served as convention chairman, Monty Newman, RPNM chairman, Lt. Gov. John Sanchez and Secretary of State Dianna Duran were the headline speakers at the event. Newman fed of f the excitement and engagement generated on the floor
by the attendees. This year’s convention saw a doubled support in terms of the number of delegates present compared to two years ago. He emphasized the need to elect Republicans from the top to the bottom of the ticket. Newman even took a few shots at President Barack Obama. According to Annaliese Wiederspahn, communications director for the RPNM, Newman criticized the president’s “failure to deliver a cohesive energy policy, a cohesive jobs plan to get our economy, our energy security back on track.”
In the race for U.S. Senate, for mer Congresswoman Heather Wilson received 83 percent of the vote. Her contender, Las Cruces businessman Greg Sowards, received 17 percent. U.S. Congressman Steve Pearce, R-N.M., who
is running uncontested in the primary for his 2nd Congressional District seat, received 100 percent of the vote. Pre-primary candidates were automatically placed on the primary ballot if they received 20 percent of the pre-primary votes. Those that did not make this mark will have to gather additional signatures to secure a place on the ballot. “People are excited about what Republican solutions mean for the state of New Mexico. Gov. Martinez has been such a great leader. People want to see more leadership like her. They want to see more solid, bold Republican solutions. That was evident throughout the convention,” Wiederspahn said. RPNM held its Lincoln Day Dinner later Saturday evening.
‘Looking to kill’: 4 slain at French Jewish school TOULOUSE, France (AP) — A motorbike assailant opened fire with two handguns Monday in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two young sons and a girl. One witness described him as a man chasing small children and “looking to kill.”
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A student, second from left, is flanked by an unidentified woman and police officers as they leave a Jewish school after a gunman opened fire in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday.
One of the guns he used also had been fired in two other deadly motorbike attacks in the area that targeted paratroopers of North African and French Caribbean origin, officials said. French President
Nicolas Sarkozy suggested one person was responsible for all the killings.
A massive manhunt was under way and the terrorism alert level was raised to its highest level ever across a swath of southern France surrounding Toulouse. Hundreds of officers increased security at schools, synagogues and mosques around the country, and Sarkozy said 14 riot police units “will secure the region as long as this criminal” hasn’t been caught. Monday’s attack revolted
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France and drew strong condemnation from Israel and the United States. Sarkozy called it the worst school shooting in French history. France has seen a low drumroll of anti-Semitic incidents but no attack so deadly targeting Jews since the early 1980s. This country is particularly sensitive toward its Jewish community because of its World War II past of abetting Nazi occupiers in deporting Jewish citizens. French prosecutors were
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