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Obama tries persuading on Syria
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BRUIN, 92, IS TRIED FOR NAZI WAR CRIME HAGEN, Germany (AP) — Germany put a 92-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS on trial Monday on charges that he killed a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944. Dutch-born Siert Bruins, who is ... - PAGE A6
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama worked on Monday to persuade skeptical lawmakers to endorse a U.S. military intervention in civil war wracked Syria, winning conditional support from two leading Senate foreign policy hawks even as he encountered resistance from members of his own party after two days of a determined push to sell the plan. Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Obama still needs to make a strong case for attacking the regime of President Bashar Assad, but they toned down past criticism that the president’s plan was too weak to change the
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course of the fighting in Syria in favor of the opposition. “We have to make it clear that a vote against this would be catastrophic in its consequences,” now and in future international crises, McCain told reporters outside the White House following an hour-long private meeting that he and Graham had with Obama and White House national security adviser Susan Rice. But the outcome of any vote remained in doubt amid continued skepticism in a war -weary Congress. Several Democrats in a conference call with administration officials pushed back against military action, questioning both the intelligence about a chemi-
cal attack last month outside Damascus and the value of an intervention to United States interests, according to aides on the call. Others demanded narrower authorization than that requested by the administration. “The White House has put forward a proposed bill authorizing the use of force that, as drafted, is far too broad and open ended, and could be used to justify everything from a limited cruise missile strike to a no fly zone and the introduction of American ground troops,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House intelligence committee. See SYRIA, Page A3
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President Barack Obama delivers remarks about the crisis in Syria at the White House, Saturday.
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The children on the right: Luke Simmons, 2, and his sister Brooke, 3, are joined by two more kids while they try playing the drums at the "Instrument Petting Zoo" Monday before the Roswell Symphony Orchestra's Labor Day Concert at the Spring River Park and Zoo.
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The Roswell Symphony Orchestra entertained an estimated 500 attendees this year during the Labor Day Concert at the Spring
River Park and Zoo. Adults and children alike crowded around the stage in lawn chairs and on blankets enjoying the pleasant, breezy evening while listening to patriotic marches and arrange-
Drug agents plumb vast database of call records
SEATTLE (AP) — For at least six years, federal drug and other agents have had near -immediate access to billions of phone call records dating back decades in a collaboration with AT&T that officials have taken pains to keep secret, newly released documents show. The program, previously reported by ABC News and The New York Times, is called the Hemisphere Project. It’s paid for by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and it allows investigators armed with subpoenas to quickly mine the company’s vast database to help track down drug traffickers or other suspects who switch cellphones to avoid detection. The details of the Hemisphere Project come amid a national debate about the federal government’s See CALLS, Page A3
ments. “I’m excited and I know you are also,” Mayor Del Jur ney told the crowd about the return of the orchestra to the park after a year hiatus. Jurney served as Mas-
ter of Ceremonies for the event. “We brought it back this year,” said RSO Board President Fawn AlcornSee CONCERT, Page A3
JEMEZ SPRINGS (AP) — Crews were back on the ground on Monday searching for a Forest Service firefighter who vanished in the Santa Fe National Forest in northern New Mexico on Friday while sizing up a wildfire’s perimeter on an ATV. Forest Service spokeswoman Karen Takai said 100 searchers were scouring mesas and canyons amid heavy timber, brush and grass for 41-year-old Token Adams in the area of Jemez Springs. He failed to return to a pre-arranged meeting point Friday afternoon with two other firefighters who were also riding ATVs around the 25-acre wildfire southeast of Fenton Lake. Forest Service spokesman John Helmich said the lightningstarted wildfire was fully contained late Friday. Takai says the search area initially covered about See SEARCH, Page A3
Nyad swims to Fla from Cuba without cage KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Looking dazed and sunbur ned, U.S. endurance swimmer Diana Nyad walked ashore Monday, becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the help of a shark cage. The 64-year -old Nyad swam up to the beach just before 2 p.m. EDT, about 53 hours after starting her journey from Havana on Saturday. As she approached, spectators waded into waist-high water and surrounded her, taking pictures and cheering her on. “I have three messages. See SWIM, Page A3
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Long endurance swimmer Diana Nyad makes the last strokes to shore in Key West, Fla., Monday, after swimming from Cuba.
Study: Superstorm Sandy’s ‘freaky’ path may be less likely in the future WASHINGTON (AP) — Man-made global warming may further lessen the likelihood of the freak atmospheric steering currents that last year shoved Superstorm Sandy due west into New Jersey, a new study says.
But don’t celebrate a rare beneficial climate change prediction just yet. The study’s authors said the once-in-700years path was only one factor in the massive $50 billion killer storm. They said other variables such
as sea level rise and stronger storms will worsen with global war ming and outweigh changes in steering curr ents pr edicted by the study’s computer models. “Sandy was an extremely unusual storm in several respects and pretty freaky. And some of those things that make it more freaky may happen less in the future,” said Columbia University atmospheric See STORM, Page A3
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This Nov. 9, 2012, aerial-file photo shows damaged homes in New Jersey after the region was pounded by Superstorm Sandy.