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Police beat
U.S. troops, Shiites agree to withdraw from holy cities
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tors will be arrested once located.
Al-Sadr’s rebellion began
announced al-Sadr had agreed
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uprising two months ago,
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and his decision to send 3,000
Italian troops to Iraq, polls show
the U.S.-led war and occupation
of Iraq, a sentiment common
throughout western Europe.
’ ■ - medal of freedom, America’s and in the Holy Land,” the pope
memorate the June 1944 libera- highest civilian award, calling
,„b„ „ tion of Rome and the allied.D- him “a devoted servant of God.”
with signs Day invasion of Normandy. He
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sion of tampered U.S. currency.
The man was charged with felony
possession of a controlled sub-
stance and felony possession of
a criminal instrument and the
women were charged with felony
possession of a criminal instru-
ment. All three are being held on
$2,000 bond. During the investi-
gation, $7,248 was seized.
years when the Federal Reserve
next meets June 29. A quarter-
point increase in the Fed’s key
federal funds rate is close to cer-
By MARIAM FAM
The Associated Press
ByTOMRAUM
The Associated Press
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said.
“In the past few weeks, other
deplorable events have come to
light which have troubled the
civic and religious conscience
of all.”
Although
more Iraqi police will defuse
tensions and allow the agree-
ROME — President Bush got
a sharp dose of Europe’s opposi-
tion to his Iraq policy Friday,
quietly in the halls of the Vatican
from Pope John Paul II and
loudly in the streets of Rome
from thousands of demonstra-
tors. “ •
The ailing pontiff complained
about recent “deplorable’,
events,” an apparent reference to
the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by
U.S. troops. In the absence of a
commitment to shared human
values, “neither war nor tenor-
ism will ever be overcome,” he
said, struggling to speak.
However, the pope welcomed
the recent establishment of an
Pope denounces ‘deplorable events’ in Iraq Hiring continues,
million jobs added
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Woman loses cash
at Wal-Mart
At 10 a.m. Thursday, a woman
reported that she had lost a
large amount of cash at the Wal-
Mart store on Garth Road some-
time, between 3 and 5 p.m.
Another woman had reported to
the store’s customer service
department that she had found
the same amount of cash, but
she left the store with the money
and did not leave her contact
information.
troops from Iraq. A score of international economic summit
demonstrators hurling stones next week in Sea Island, Ga. —
ble, but not easily understood.
His hands trembled from Neither would papal spokesman
145 calls
Between 6 a.m. Thursday and
6 a.m. Friday, Baytown police
responded to 145 calls, including
eight alarms, three assaults, two
auto thefts, three burglaries, nine
disturbances, two forgeries, five
thefts, two major accidents and
four minor accidents.
Police Beat is compiled from
Baytown Police Department
reports. Crime Stoppers pays
cash for tips and callers remain
anonymous. Call 281^427-TIPS.
The Baytown police Web site is
police.baytown.org.
Contractor takes
money, does no work
At 10:20 a.m. Thursday, a
Baytown woman reported that on
April 8, she hired a contractor to
install an air conditioning system
at a location in the 2800 block of
Market Street, giving him a down
payment of $2,250. Since then,,
the man has failed to start the
job, and has been evading the
woman. The Harris County District
Attorney's office accepted
charges of theft, and the contrac-
Local authorities in Najaf handing the streets over to the
and Kufa hope the presence of cleric’s al-Mahdi Army.
Najaf Gov. Adnan al-Zurufi tion forces in the interest of
announced Friday’s agreement, peace. ------------------o-—
s But by late Friday, militia- to remove his fighters from the
around holy shrines south of |
.Baghdad and turn over security
to Iraqi police, an Iraqi official
-said. 'Five U.S. soldiers were
killed and five wounded in an
ambush in Baghdad.
In a televised address to the
nation, the new prime minister,
Iyad Allawi, said that a rapid
U.S. withdrawal from Iraq after
the handover of sovereignty
- would be a “major disaster”
since Iraqis are not ready to
handle their own security.
The reported agreement with
cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr in the
twin cities of Najaf and Kufa is
broadly similar to the accord
that ended the bloody, three-
week Marine siege of Fallujah,
. a Sunni insurgent stronghold
Police looking for
murder suspect
Baytown police are searching
for a fugitive who is suspected in
the Sunday stabbing of a Baytown
woman.
Jose Luis Paz, 35, is a suspect
in the killing of Marivel Garcia.
Garcia was found stabbed to
death in her
I home on the
I 400 block of
: I North Street,
. I wrapped in a
I sheet. Paz
I was her com-
I mon-law hus-
■ band.
| Paz is about 5
feet 8 inches
tall, weighs
200 pounds
and has black hair and brown
eyes.. ■
Paz is a fugitive from Tarrant
County near Fort Worth and is
wanted for a probation violation of
aggravated assault with a deadly
weapon.
Paz may be driving a gold 1999
Chevy Lumina four-door, with
Texas license plate, L79-KFZ,
which is registered to the couple.
Baytown Crimestoppers will pay
$500 for information that leads
to the arrest of this suspect.
Anyone with information on Paz’s
whereabouts can call 281-427-
TIPS (8477). All callers will
remain anonymous.
By LEIGH STROPE
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S.
employers hired almost a quarter- min’ followed by another hike in
August.
On Wall Street, the report sent
stocks moderately higher. The
average
Bush is on a three-day trip to .the pontiff with the presidential the Middle East, both in Iraq
walls, tens of thousands of pro- Italy and France to help com-
testers took to the streets to
demonstrate through central
Rome, many
an Iraqi force commanded by his militia fighters battled American soldiers,
former officers from Saddam
Hussein’s army.
NAJAF, Iraq — The U.S.
‘ military and Shiite militia loyal
to a radical cleric agreed
Friday to withdraw from areas
authority closed his newspa-
per, arrested a key aide and
announced a
and said they agreed to a arrest in the April 2003 murder
request by al-Zurufi to reposi- of a moderate cleric in Najaf.
hotels and restaurants.
“What is really key is that
every major sector had improve-
ments,” said John Silvia, chief
economist for Wachovia
Securities. “That suggests these
gains are sustainable.”
The struggling manufacturing
sector also is reawakening,
adding 32,000 new jobs last
month. Based on revised figures,
it was the fourth straight month of
payroll increases after almost
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million new workers in May,
swelling payrolls by nearly 1.2
million for the year so far in a
jobs market steadily-gaining Dow Jones industrial*
steam ahead of November’s pres- gained 47 points to close at
idential election. 10,243, while the Nasdaq com-
The nation's unemployment posite index rose 18 to 1,979.
rate held steady at 5.6 percent as Hiring last month was wide-
more jobless workers renewed spread, with the biggest gains in
their searches and re-entered the construction, health care, profes-
labor pool, the Labor Department sional and business services and
said Friday.
May^s payroll increase of
248,000 was on top of revised
employment figures for March
and April showing 74,000 more
jobs were added than previously
reported. Three quarters of the
total jobs created this year were
added in the past three months.
“These blowout numbers so far
this year are the convincing evi-
dence that the economic recovery
is here to stay, said Sung Won years of continuous losses.
Friday’s repOrt was g00Cj news
for President Bush, who has been
■' j on continued employ-
ment growth to boost his re-elec-
were
on ,
were attacked in east Baghdad phone, read his statement in
served as a reminder that Iraq English in a voice that was audi-
Despite Berlusconi’s backing, remained an extremely danger-
ous place. ~ ..
Seated next to the pope, Bush Parkinson’s disease. Joaquin Navarro-Valls, although
’ ’ “Mr. President, your visit to he did not dispute characteriza-
for “human liberty and human Rome takes place at a moment
dignity,” without m<
Sohn, chief economist at Wells
Fargo & Co. in Minneapolis. “The
last piece of the puzzle, jobs, has counting
fallen into place.” i
The job-creation numbers tion prospects. His campaign
exceeded analysts’ expectations rushed out a new television ad
and cemented predictions of the praising the new job-creation
first interest rate increase in four numbers.
west of Baghdad. The Marines offices in the Baghdad district of Sadr City Friday after clashes with Division,
struck a deal there to lift the
........ U.S. soldiers. al-Sadr criticized the new Iraqi government Friday and
siege and hand over security to said he would accept "nothing less” than an elected leadership, as after the U.S.-led occupation
> At the Vaticaft, Bush sat
killed and five wounded impassively as t
Friday when their vehicles pope, seated in front of a micro- ians in Iraq by Islamic militants
and the beheading of an
American contractor.
The pope did not elaborate.
imh
Associated Press photo/Charles Dharapak
interim government and called PRESIDENT BUSH MEETS with Pope John Paul II at his private library at the Vatican Friday,
for a speedy transfer of sover-
eignty to the Iraqis.
Not far from the Vatican
were instructed only to put
their weapons up — not to
withdraw.
About 15 Iraqi police moved
a half a mile from the shrine,
but militia officials said they
would not withdraw from the
area without firm guarantees
that American troops would
not hunt them down.
The agreement would be a
major step toward ending a
two=month Shiite uprising in
the south and parts of Baghdad
as the U.S.-led occupation
draws to a close and a new
Iraqi government prepares to
take power June 30.
In Baghdad, unknown
assailants attacked a U.S. Army
patrol near the Shiite district of
Sadr City, killing five U.S. sol-
diers' and wounding five oth-
I ers. The 10 soldiers were mem-
Associated Press photo/Karim Kadim bers of Task Force Baghdad,
ARMED MILITANTS loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, pictured which is made up primarily of
on placard next to them, take positions on a rooftop of the cleric’s the Texas-based 1st Cavalry
Ardeatine Cave Memorial,
where Nazi occupiers massa-
cred 335 Italian citizens in 1944. Although the remarks
march. Others threw firecrack- among leading nations for a new Bush, alone, approached the appeared directed at abuses of
ers and set a trash can on fire. U.N. resolution to deal with wreath, straightened its blue rib- Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops at
Bush had dinner with a top post-occupation Iraq. boh and bowed his head as a Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison,
ally on Iraq, Italian Prime But the announcement in bugler played. they could also be taken to
Minister Silvio Berlusconi. On Baghdad that five U.S. soldiers At the Vaticaft, Bush sat include other atrocities such as
Saturday, the president heads to were killed and five wounded impassively as the 84-year-old the kidnapping of foreign civil-
Paris to meet with one of his
sharpest war critics, French
President Jacques Chirac.
tensions and allow the agree- ’ t ,
ment to take hold where an ear- in which he said both sides
lier deal with al-Sadr did not. agreed to withdraw from men showed no intention of streets and send home any .
Many Iraqi police deserted around the shrines in Najaf and leaving the Imam Ali Shrine in militiamen who lived outside
when al-Sadr launched his Kufa. The Americans refuse to Najaf. They told The the Najaf and Kufa areas if the
negotiate directly with al-Sadr Associated Press that they Americans pulled back too.
Three arrested for
possession of drugs
At 11:14 a.m. Thursday, offi-
cers of the Baytown Police
Narcotics Division investigated a
report of possible drug activity in
a room of the Super 8 Motel in
warrant for his I the 1900 block of Interstate 10.
i The man residing in the room was
found to be in possession of
On May 11, Shiite leaders methamphetamine, narcotics
j _! i__j paraphernalia and a handgun, as
well as tampered U,S. currency
believed to be intended for
defrauding gaming machines.
While the police were in the
room, two women arrived who
also were found to be in posses-
that a majority of Italians oppose promised his nation would work . ... r
r„. “i------i------ d—tions that the comments referred
raking any of great concern for the continu- primarily to abuse at Abu
reference to Iraq. He presented ing situation of grave unrest in Ghraib prison.
demanding Italy withdraw its was also using the trip — and an Laura laid a green wreath at the
demonstrators hurling stones next week in Sea Island, Ga. —
clashed with police during the to try to build more support
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company to make an official
statement. But Greene empha-
sized that the report’s informa-
tion about Benton being either
fatigued or asleep came from a
budget workshop. Citing attor-
ney-client privilege, Randle
would not discuss what he
might recommend to Council.
According to the workshop
agenda, following the executive
^session, Council will hold a
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asleep, but Alexander said she
saw the 18-wheeleronthe.high- Alexander said, but
middle of the bus, broke her
said. Some passengers were nose during the wreck.
: Benton might have dozed off,
no one
law enforcement officers you even school buses took the pas-
talk to will say there are no acci- sengers to area hospitals and
$un- sible action on issues arising
For that reason, Randle said. frorn the executive session.
3 The budget workshop is
provide scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday at
the City Hall complex, 11607
Eagle Drive.
Gregg Rosenberg, the attor-
ney for SSM1, could not be
passenger’s statements.
“But that’s not our under-
standing at this time,” she said.
Pollan could not be reached
for comment.
“The law basically says you district attorney who can file
can’t turn to the left or to the <
was in the lane when the two either driver. When DPS com-
vehicles collided, but it does not pletes an investigation, it often
Ruling:
who sat next to Alexander in the Continued from Page 1A
that under the terms of the man-
agement agreement, the city has
not had access to the detailed
way driving slowly in front of could prove it when everyone salary records requested by The pUb)jc discussion and take pos-
the bus. was sitting behind him. $un- „ < s'b'e acft°n on issues arising
“The main thing we have to
was sitting behind him.
„ “We couldn’t see the driver’s
say was thank God it wasn’t a face. Only he would know that,” “rhe onus is on Strong Sports
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the records as ordered in the
judgment.
Randle said he asked that the
wreck, so clearly they attorney believes a grand jury
„ '2_ " would react. In this case,
stressed that the Chambers County will handle
preliminary; no criminal charges, if ahy are filed, gas truck,” Alexander said.
_____“Sometimes there is some-
tickels have been issued at this thing clear-cut where you’re
time. She expects it will take a going, ‘Oh' yeah,’ and some-
few weeks for the department’s times it really is an accident,”
accident reconstruction team to Mange said. “Although most
1 f she said. “But- if he did fall Management”
Since the bus had no exits, the asleep, he wouldn’t admit it.
passengers waited for about 15 Nobody would.”
minutes before firefighters Liz Greene, spokeswotrian
arrived to free them, she said, for Coach USA, said the report matter be put on the executive
LifeFlight, ambulances and is “a little too premature” for the agenda of Monday s scheduled reached for comment.
finish work and any changes or
additions are made.
Even though a death resulted dents. Pretty much all crashes medical clinics.
from the wreck, Mange said this are preventable if you slow Alexander traveled to Winnie
moving from the shoulder does not necessarily mean crim- down, if you’re wearing your Community Hospital where she
into the right lane or already inal charges will be filed against seatbelt, if you’re not speeding was treated for a cut on her fore-
— if you do everything right.” head and X-rayed for bangs and
Baytonian Stella Alexander bruises on her left side from her
make a difference, Mange said, hands reports over to a county’s was on the bus with her friend neck down to her knee. Rice,
Dolores Rice when the “horri-
charges or present it to a grand ' fying” wreck happened, she
right or go into a different lane jury for review, she said.
if you cannot do.so safely, Every county handles reports
meaning nothing bad is going to differently, Mange said, often
happen,” Mange said. “There dependent on how the district
was a t ' . ' .
weren’t able to do that safely."
Mange s.——
report is preliminary; no
charges have been filed and no
m.
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