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. WASHINGTON - Hold the
phone! Consumers who thought
they would get a reprieve from
telemarketing calls starting next
week may have to wait longer
for some peace and quiet.
A federal Judge in Oklahoma
City sided with telemarketers
that sued to stop the Federal
Trade Commission’s "do-not-
call” iist. The FTC asked the
court Wednesday to block the
ruling and filed a notice that it
would appeal.
More than 50 million phone
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national “do not call” list was beyond the authority of the Fedjurai t
Trade Commission. tfiat Congress intended for the
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judge was addressing the new federal law,” said Terry Hadley,,
spokesman for the Texas Public Utilities Commission, which
enforces the state law. logic, deems necessary.”
Texas’ nocall list became effecth/EJuly 1 2002. Because it Is a Re Edward Mark
state law, it does not fall under federal jurisdiction. ,.jf
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implement the list. left alone.”
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Lawmakers from both parties
whether the judge ’s order would decision and pledged to
stop that from happening. 1 J ’ "
The FTC said consumers can tions about FTC
numbers have been submitted to continue to sign up for the free
the FTC registry by people who service. “It’s business as
do not want business solicitation usual," spokeswoman Cathy
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at least 20,000 are National
Guard and Reserve.
Of the 302 U.S. troops who
involvement and length of their Guard or Reserve.
An additional call-up is more
More National Guard
By ROBERT BURNS
The Associated Press
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attacks rattle Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) —
Bombs rocked a teeming quar-
ter of Baghdad and a sex-film
theater in Mosul on
Wednesday, reportedly killing
at least three Iraqis and
wounding dozens. In a string of
ground dashes, the U.S. mili-
tary said they killed nine Iraqis
on one of the bloodiest days of
cOmbat in weeks.
The nine deaths were all in
the region around Tikrit,
Saddam Hussein’s hometown.
U.S. troops aborted two
ambushes by antiAmerican
forces, killing five Iraqis, and
came under fire elsewhere In
exchanges that left at least
four Iraqis dead.
The surge in attacks came
as world leaders worked to find
agreement in New York on how
to restore stability to Iraq.
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A bdmt) rocked the
Azamiyah district, .
killing one Iraqi and
HyM x wounding 18.
Bomb blasts and ground dashes ' 0 100 mi
marked one of the bloodiest days of ■
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Ing reserves are coming soon— United Nations this week, said a
lusc waiiing iuugci wuuiii seniui U.S. uiiiuai, wiiu added
cut into the mobilization and that the question of sending
training time they would need troops did not even come up
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whether the Bush administration short of its goal of persuading “We need to be making deci- leaders of Pakistan and India,
is asking citizen soldiers to other countries to contribute a sions about alerting reservists The United States will con-
shoulder too much of the burden, total of 10,000 to 15,000 troops over the next four to six weeks,” . tinue seeking a new UN. reso-
The United States has about for security duty in Iraq. The Pace said.
130,000 troops in Iraq, of which Pentagon needs to know soon
whether it can count on them
being there early in 2004.
Thus, decisions about activat-
duty in Iraq have raised political- r _o r iri.
ly sensitive questions about likely if the administration falls to deploy early next year. during Bush’s talks with the
short of its goal of persuading
other countries to contribute a sions about alerting reservists
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President Bush did hot other countries to send troops,
receive arty offers of troops for . tat it may take months to work
Iraq during two days of iheet-x out, said the official, speaking
ings with foreign lexers jHhfr on condition of anonymity
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Federal judge throws future of do-not<all list into confusion
WASHINGTON - The
United States may have to alert
thousands more National Guard
and Reserve troops within
weeks that they are needed for
duty in Iraq, the Pentagons sec-
ond-ranking general said
Wednesday.
The Bush administration still
hopes that Turkey, India,
Pakistan or South Korea will
contribute thousands of troops
for security duty in Iraq, said
Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace,
vice chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
But military planners are not
counting on it.
“Hope is not a plan,” Pace said
in an interview with a group of
reporters at a Washington, hotel.
Although reservists are called
upon to serve in every overseas have died in Iraq since the war
conflict, the scope of their began, at least 47 were National because waiting longer would senior U.S. official, who added
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walkouts and thret
sions, Texas Repul
have what they’ve
summer: a GOP c
redistricting plan
the state Senate.
"Today certain!
end of a very long
process,” said Rep
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to vote against it.
In 1890, Wilford Woodruff, president of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, issued a Manifesto formally renounc-
ing the practice of polygamy.
Today is Thursday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2003. There are
97 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On September 25, 1789, the Hist U.S. Congress adopted 12
amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for
ratification. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.
On this date:
In 1493, Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with
a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western
Hemisphere.
In 1690, one of the earliest American newspapers, Publick
Occurrences, published its first and last edition in Boston.
In 1775, American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was
captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal.
In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed a measure estab-
lishing Sequoia National Park.
In 1957, with 300 U.S. Army troops standing guard, nine black
children forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little
Rock, Ark., because of unruly white crowds were escorted to
class. k
In 1973, the three-man crew of the U.S. space laboratory
Skylab 2 splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after spend-
ing 59 days in orbit.
In 1978, 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest
Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided over San Diego.
In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as the first female
justice on the Supreme Court.
Ten years ago: Three U.S. soldiers in Somalia were killed when
their helicopter was downed by a rocket-propelled grenade.
The Associated Press
Thought for Today _
"It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink (at) facts because they
are not to our taste."
— John Tyndall, English physicist (1820-1893) ;
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Miami Beach
MidlandOdessa- 83
Milwaukee
Mpls-St Paul
Nashville
New Orleans 87
New York City
Norfolk.Va.
Oklahoma City 87 60
Omaha
Orlando
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland.Maine 66
Portland,Ore.
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Sunrise —7:10 a.m.
Sunset — 7:11 p.m.
High tide — 10:53 a.m.
Low tide — 3:28 p.m.
Sunrise — 7:09 a.m.
Sunset — 7:13 p.m.
High tide — 10:40 a.m.
Low tide —2:53 p.m.
— Tides for Point Barrow, Trinity Bay
80s. East winds around 10 mph.
Lows in the upper 60s. South
winds around 10 mph in the
evening.
Tomorrow
Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
Today
Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of mainly afternoon show-
ers and thunderstorms. Highs in
the upper 80s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph.
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