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HAMLISCH DEAD AT 68
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marvin Hamlisch, who composed the scores for dozens of movies including “The Way We Were” and the Broadway smash “A Chorus Line,” has died in Los Angeles. He was 68. Family spokesman Jason Lee said Hamlisch collapsed and died Monday after a brief illness. - PAGE A6
THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
August 8, 2012
Hate music part of supremacist circles
MILWAUKEE (AP) — When they aren’t ranting in Internet forums, many of the nation’s white supremacists seek a louder outlet for their extreme views: thunderous, thrashing heavy metal or punk music with lyrics that call for a race war. Wade Michael Page, the gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin before being killed by police, was deeply involved in the “hate rock” scene — a shadowy world of hundreds of performers in the U.S. and Europe, most of them playing metal or hardcore punk. Some also play country, folk and
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other genres. Largely unknown to most Americans, this musical subculture is an integral part of neo-Nazi circles, of fering a way for likeminded followers to connect with each other and socialize, recruit new members and raise money for their cause. “It really was a good political weapon for the agenda,” said Jason Stevens, who once fronted a white-power band called Intimidation One in Portland, Ore. Page once played guitar and bass with Intimidation One, as well as in bands called Definite Hate and
End Apathy. Stevens, who turned his back on white supremacy in 2004 and now owns a small business, said he was shocked to hear that a friend he remembered as “mellow and quiet” had committed such a heinous crime. The two last talked on the phone in 2010, and Stevens said Page was “his usual laid-back self.” At the time, Stevens said, he had a job at a Colorado metalworking shop. Stevens said money raised by his band’s tours See MUSIC, Page A3
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Members of the Sikh community hold a candlelit vigil in Easton, Pa.'s, Centre Square in honor of the victims of the Sikh temple massacre in Wisconsin, Tuesday.
Gov: NM to use UVA program
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U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich meets with supporters at Cattleman’s Steakhouse while visiting Roswell, Tuesday morning.
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LONDON (AP) — Two Olympic gold medals are just fine with Gabby Douglas. Same for Aly Raisman, though that bronze was pretty sweet, too. While the all-around champion failed to add to her medal haul Tuesday, Raisman wrapped up the London Olympics in style. Her gold on floor exercise was the first for a U.S. woman, and her bronze on balance beam was a bit of karmic payback. - PAGE B1
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U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich, DN.M., pushed for bestowing a voice to the middle class and
putting its members back to work during a meet-and-greet event in Roswell, Tuesday morning. Heinrich is running against Heather Wilson for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Jeff
Bingaman, a Democrat, who is retiring at the end of this year. “As we work to recover this economy, I think it’s going to be important to fight to make sure
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Struggling schools that received a D or F grade under the state’s new grading system will have a chance to participate in a University of Virginia-based program known for dramatically improving math and reading scores, Gov. Susana Martinez announced Tuesday. Speaking to a workshop for troubled schools, the governor said the program, known as School Turnaround Specialist Program, and $3.5 million in state funding will help the underperforming schools with leadership training and professional development. She said the goal is to improve student achievement at the state’s schools, some which have been struggling for years. “We need to build more leaders in New Mexico,” Martinez said, referring to educational administrators. “Because once you turn around a school, you’ll be needed at another school.” The University of Virginia’s School Turnaround Specialist Program has earned praise nationally for helping schools dramatically improve math and reading scores with its intensive intervention and leadership development focus. The program has been adopted by Louisiana schools and
Commission proposes UN: 22K Iraqis in Syria flee war 2 for Supreme Court
SANTA FE (AP) — An independent commission on Tuesday recommended a pair of veteran Albuquerque lawyers, a Democrat and a Republican, to GOP Gov. Susana Martinez for possible appointment to the New Mexico Supreme Court for what could be a very short tenure. The judicial nominating commission unanimously recommended former Justice Paul Kennedy, a Republican who is a prominent criminal defense
lawyer, and career prosecutor Steven Suttle, a Democrat who worked for 14 years in the attorney general’s office before retiring in 2010. Suttle also served as an elected district attorney in Oklahoma before moving to New Mexico to become a prosecutor in the district attorney’s office in Albuquerque in 1991. They were the only applicants for a court vacancy created by the retirement of See COURT, Page A3
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BAGHDAD (AP) — At least 22,300 Iraqis who fled to Syria several years ago have streamed home in the past three weeks, United Nations officials in Baghdad said Tuesday, preparing for more refugees fleeing the escalating Syrian civil war. The retur ning Iraqis have been joined by some 3,600 Syrians who have crossed into Iraq since July 23, when Baghdad AP Photo announced it was opening its western borders to A Syrian girl sits on a desk at the school where she and her family took refuge from the fighting, in the town of Kafr Hamra, six miles north of the center of Aleppo, Syria, TuesSee SYRIA, Page A2 day.
Hurricane Ernesto aims at Yucatan GOP picking a nominee CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds of tourists evacuated beach resorts along Mexico’s Caribbean coast as Hurricane Ernesto headed toward a Tuesday night landfall near Mexico’s border with Belize, bringing the threat of power ful winds and torrential rains.
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A view of the coast in Mahahual, Mexico, Tuesday, as Ernesto was expected to slam into the Caribbean coast as a hurricane. The heart of the storm was expected to hit south of Cancun and the Riviera Maya and officials prepared shelters there as a precaution.
Ernesto strengthened from a tropical storm earlier in the day, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said it had winds of 80 mph by late afternoon and was moving west-northwest at 15 mph. It was centered about 140 miles east of
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for Missouri’s Senate race
WASHINGTON (AP) — All along, the Republicans have considered Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri one of their top targets in the Senate this year. They just haven’t known who her GOP opponent would be. Party voters decided on Tuesday among three contenders — Sarah Palinbacked Sarah Steelman, businessman John Brunner and Rep. Todd Akin, who was endorsed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee — in the marquee contest of four states’ primaries. No clear favorite emerged in advance of the Missouri balloting that was
setting up one of November’s most anticipated Senate contests. All three Republicans cast themselves as the best conservative alternative to McCaskill, who is seeking re-election for the first time since winning her seat in 2006. Other races in the four states with elections Tuesday included: •A Republican primary in Michigan to determine who will take on Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. •Member - vs.-member See GOP, Page A3