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IMMIGRANTS FILL LABOR GAP
DALLAS (AP) — As the U.S. debates immigration policy, former President George W. Bush says it should “do so with a benevolent spirit and keep in mind the contribution of immigrants.” “Immigrants have helped build the country that we’ve become and immigrants can help build a dynamic tomorrow,” Bush said Tuesday as he opened a conference ... - PAGE B3
THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
December 5, 2012
Makings of a deal behind hot rhetoric
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bluster and hot rhetoric aside, the White House and House Republicans have identified areas of significant overlap that could form the basis for a final agreement after “fiscal cliff” posturing gives way to hard bargaining. Both sides now concede that tax revenue and reductions in entitlement spending are essential elements of any deal. If the talks succeed, it probably will be because House Speaker John Boehner yields on raising tax rates
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for top ear ners and the White House bends on how to reduce spending on Medicare and accepts some changes in Social Security. The White House and Boehner kept up the ridicule of each other’s negotiating stances on Tuesday. But beneath the tough words were the possible makings of a deal that could borrow heavily from a near-bargain last year during debt-limit negotiations. Then, Obama was willing to reduce cost-of-living increases for Social Security beneficiaries and
increase the eligibility age for Medicare, as Boehner and other top Republicans have demanded. On Tuesday, Obama did not shut the door on Republican ideas on such entitlement programs.
At the core, the negotiations center on three key points: whether tax rates for upper income taxpayers should go up, how deeply to cut spending on entitlements such as Medicare and how to deal with raisSee FISCAL, Page A2
Dusty harvest
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President Barack Obama, flanked by National Governors Association (NGA) Chairman, Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, left, and NGA Vice Chair, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, meets with the NGA executive committee regarding the fiscal cliff, in the White House, Tuesday.
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INSIDE SPORTS Workers harvest their crop at a pecan orchard west of Roswell, Tuesday morning.
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Chaves County Sheriff’s deputy Sgt. Daniel Ornelas said the inter-agency meeting between Chaves, Lea and Eddy county sheriffs, New Mexico State Police, and the Hobbs and Artesia police departments had been a success in terms of coordinating their efforts. The agencies are involved in different aspects of the investigation of the two bodies found in Chaves County. Juan Uribe-Vidal, 25, of Hobbs, and James Gomez, 22, of Hager man, were arrested for the shooting of Lea County Sheriff’s deputy
100K-plus protest at Ailicec helps in Sandy relief presidential palace NMMI DEFEATS GATEWAY
In the matchup between the New Mexico Military Institute and crosstown opponent Gateway Christian, NMMI came out with a victory by a large margin, 64-38. It was all NMMI from the get-go. The Colts jumped out to an early first-quarter lead, led by point guard Angel Reyes. He single-handedly outscored the Warriors in the first quarter, 8-6. The Warriors struggled offensively during the course of the game, but to an extreme extent in the first half. - PAGE B1
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CAIRO (AP) — More than 100,000 Egyptians protested outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Tuesday, fueling tensions over Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi’s seizure of nearly unrestricted powers and the adoption by his allies of a controversial draft constitution.
The outpouring of anger across the Egyptian capital, the Mediterranean port of Alexandria and a string of other cities pointed to a prolonged standoff between the president and a newly united opposition.
Morsi’s opponents, long fractured by bickering and competing egos, have been re-energized since he announced decrees last month that place him above oversight of any kind, including by the
courts, and provide immunity to two key bodies dominated by his allies: The 100-member panel drafting the constitution and parliament’s upper chamber. The decrees have led to charges that Morsi’s powers turned him into a “new pharaoh.” The large tur nout in Tuesday’s protests — dubbed “The Last Warning” by organizers — signaled sustained momentum for the opposition, which brought out at least 200,000 protesters to Cairo’s Tahrir Square a week ago and a comparable number on Friday to demand that Morsi rescind the decrees. The huge scale of the protests have dealt a blow
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Missouri Avenue Elementary presented American Red Cross of Southeaster n New Mexico a donation of $302 to benefit the organization’s Superstorm Sandy disaster relief fund, Tuesday. Students, parents and staf f contributed the money during a threeweek fundraiser, said principal Glenda Moore. The school’s PTA organized the effort following an idea from fifth-grader Ailicec Gomez. PTA president Carlos Cruz said it was nice “for someone to think of others.” “Other students probably thought about it,” he See RELIEF, Page A7
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Missouri Avenue fifth-grader Ailicec Gomez spearheaded an effort involving the student body to help victims of Superstorm Sandy by raising $302 for the Red Cross. On hand with Ailicec for the check presentation on Tuesday were PTA president Carlos Cruz, left, his wife Trisha, and Izaak Guajaca, disaster captain for the Red Cross.
Woman discovers dead reptile Cosmic radio waves mimic weather.
Animal Control Officer Andrew Gross, who is Animal Services’ reptile expert, said he thought it was a Savannah monitor, a popular pet. He explained that the monitor as a cold-blooded species requires specific conditions including a heat source in order to survive.
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Savannah monitor lizard
Roswell Animal Services received a call from the 100 block of South Missouri from a woman who said she had some kind of reptile in her yard. When Animal Control Of ficer Jesse Ramirez
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arrived, he discovered a monitor lizard wedged between two fences. The animal was dead, and Animal Services believe it may have been someone’s escaped pet that succumbed to the recent cold
The Savanna monitor is a stocky lizard from Africa where it spends most of its time on the ground or in a burrow. It can reach a length of 5 feet and is usually a gray or dull yellow color. The Savanna is one of the more common monitors available as a pet. They can become quite tame.
chirping of ‘alien birds’
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Twin spacecraft have captured the clearest sounds yet from Earth’s radiation belts — and they mimic the chirping of birds. NASA’s Van Allen Probes have been exploring the hostile radiation belts surrounding Earth for just three months. But already, they’ve collected measurements of high-energy particles and radio waves in unprecedented detail. Scientists said Tuesday these waves can provide an energy boost to radiation belt particles, somewhat like ocean waves can propel a surfer on Earth. What’s more, these so-called chorus waves operate in the same frequency as human hearing so they can be
heard. University of Iowa physicist Craig Kletzing played a recording of these highpitched radio waves at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. “Not only do you hear the chirps — the alien birds as my wife calls them — but you hear that sort of cricket-like thing in the background,” Kletzing told reporters. Before, those background sounds were inaudible. “So this is really a fantastic new measurement,” he said. While the chorus has been audible even before the Space Age — ham radio See COSMIC, Page A2