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LONDON (AP) — A committee of British lawmakers called Rupert Murdoch unfit to run his global media empire — a finding that reflects just how deeply the phone hacking scandal born of his defunct News of the World has shaken the relationship between the press and politics. The divisive ruling ... - PAGE B3
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May 2, 2012
Obama in Afghanistan; sees ‘new day’
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) — On a swift, secretive trip to the war zone, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday night that after years of sacrifice the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan is winding down just as it has already ended in Iraq. “We can see the light of a new day,” he said on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death and in the midst of his own re-election campaign.
“Our goal is to destroy alQaida, and we are on a
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path to do exactly that,” Obama said in an unusual speech to America broadcast from an air base halfway around the world.
He spoke after signing an agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to cover the decade after the planned final withdrawal of U.S. combat troops in 2014. Obama said American forces will be involved in counter -terrorism and training of the Afghan military, “but we will not build permanent bases in this country, nor will we be
patrolling its cities and mountains.” The president landed in Bagram in darkness, and his helicopter roared to Kabul for the meeting with Karzai, under close guard with only the outlines of the nearby mountains visible. Later, back at the base, he was surrounded by U.S. troops, shaking every hand. He ended his lightning visit with the speech delivered straight to the television camera — and the voters See OBAMA, Page A3
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President Barack Obama addresses troops at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, earlier today.
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Bingaman speaks to higher ed costs
Sen. Jeff Bingaman chats with Judy Stubbs during the ENMU-R Foundation for the Future banquet at the Civic Center, Tuesday.
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TRAINER’S FIRST DERBY; HE’S 71
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Mike Harrington is content watching the hubbub of Kentucky Derby week from afar. The 71-year-old trainer is happily tucked away in a non-descript barn that lacks even the teeniest view of Churchill Downs’ magnificent Twin Spires. Let the visitors be entertained by Bob Baffert’s jokes or eavesdrop on Todd Pletcher’s training tidbits. Harrington prefers laying low with Creative Cause, likely to be one ... - PAGE B1
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With the issue of doubling student loan rates pending in Congress, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M.,
spoke to the cost of higher education and addressed the issues facing the country’s educational system.
If Congress does not act by July 1, interest rates
on new student debt will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Congress is expected to vote on the issue within the next couple of weeks. The real debate is centering
around how the federal government can offset the costs of extending the current student loan interest rate. Speaking confident-
New Mexico is experiencing an elevated number of cases of hand, foot and mouth disease. Chad Smelser, M.D., an infectious disease epidemiologist for the New Mexico Department of Health, confirmed the entire state is experiencing an increased number of people who seek infor mation about the treatment of the disease. The disease commonly affects children and infants under the age of 5, but can affect adults. When it does present in adults, many may not experience any symptoms, which include fever, mouth sores, skin rash and blisters on the palms of hands or soles of the feet. “Outbreaks of hand, foot and mouth disease are not uncommon,” Smelser said. In fact, a recent publication by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discussed March outbreaks of the disease in Alabama, Connecticut, California and
RPD arrests suspect City dedicates extension project
Roswell Police Department Sgt. Cruz Zavala apprehended Patricia Kanmore around 1 p.m. Tuesday. He located her as he was on his way to a class. She was walking along Highway 70 about 10 miles northeast of Roswell. A warrant was issued on Monday for Kanmore on charges of attempted murder and kidnapping, after the police responded to a call about unknown trouble and found a 53-year -old woman who had been tied up and severely beaten for five days at her residence on the 200 block of West Mathews Street. A neighbor concerned for her safety contacted the police because she had not seen the victim for two
See BINGAMAN, Page A3
See VIRUS, Page A3
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Patricia Kanmore
days. RPD spokesman Sgt. Jimmy Preston said, “We’ve had several incidents lately where the citizens and neighbors have really stepped up to help out.” Kanmore is being held on a $100,000 cash or surety bond.
An integral improvement to Roswell’s infrastructure, the West College Boulevard extension project, marked its nearcompletion, Tuesday, with a dedication ceremony, “a sign of the kind of progressive activities that the city of Roswell has Mark Wilson Photo been engaged in for a long time,” U.S. Sen. Jef f Juan Rodriguez directs traffic during the ceremony to dedBingaman, D-N.M., said. icate the College Boulevard extension, Tuesday morning. The 1.7-mile stretch connects College Boulevard, percent of the funding percent from local matchcame from the federal es, according to City to the Relief Route. The $4 million project government, another 40 Engineer, Louis Najar. began on Oct. 24, and the percent from the New In 2005, money was road officially opened to Mexico Department of traffic on April 12. Forty Transportation, and 20
RHS, GHS art students prep for Convergence at RMAC See ROAD, Page A3
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Laurie Rufe, director at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, gives a tour to Goddard High School art students,Tuesday morning.
Art students from Goddard High School got their first look Tuesday at the gallery where they will place their artwork at Roswell Museum and Art Center, readying for an exhibit that will open May 19. The upcoming student exhibit is the product of an RMAC program called Convergence, funded by Pioneer Bank, Kerr Foundation Inc. and the city of Roswell. Convergence has linked art students at Goddard and Roswell high schools
with artists Nancy Fleming and Corwin Levi from the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, offering the students a chance to work with professional artists twice a week for an entire semester, and to develop the many concepts behind art installation. Goddard High art director Joseph Lopez said RMAC contacted the two schools about the program in August, and together planned an exhibition that would unite all of the students’ ideas, a convergence of their pasts, present and futures. “The idea, overall, is a
journey, and how the kids are seeing their jour ney varies in different ways,” Lopez said. “We’re unsure how it will come together, but I guess that’s the surprise of it; you work with the medium that you’re given, and then it potentially (comes) together as a story.” Lopez said students have been developing their ideas in groups, working with several materials, including papier mâché, old technology items and poster paper. He said that seeing what comes of their collaboration See RMAC, Page A3