The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 79, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 2004 Page: 3 of 16
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President Bush retreats on predictions of new jobs this year
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“Now they’re already walking mist N. Gregory Mankiw’s asser- since Herbert Hoover,
backwards on their own predic- tion that “outsourcing” American
in Tikrit.
Coalition and military offi-
cials said at least 106 people Filipinos and an American,
were hurt in the blasts, which
151 calls
From 6 a.m. Tuesday to
6 a.m. Wednesday, Baytown
police responded to 151 calls,
■ including two alarms, three
assaults, three burglaries, 13
disturbances, one forgery, one
sexual assault, three thefts, one
major accident and four minor
accidents.
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Suicide attacks kill 10, wound over 100
U.S. arrests seven suspects linked to al-Qaida in northern raid
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Stranger punches man
A man reported being
punched in the back of the head
by a stranger while being
harassed by another stranger in
the San Jacinto Mall parking lot
Tuesday. The man said he was in
the parking lot at about 6 p.m.
when a dark-colored Chevy S10
pickup truck pulled up beside
him. Two men he did not know
got out, and one asked the victim
why he had been talking trash.
While the victim was telling the
first man he did not know them
nor was he being verbally abu-
sive, the other man walked
around behind him, then
punched him in the back of the
head. They then drove off.
Bush himself avoided embrac-
ing the 2.6 million number when
asked about it Wednesday. “I think
the economy is growing,” Bush
said. “And I think it’s going to get
stronger.” He said he was pleased
that 366,000jobs have been added
since August
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town south of Baghdad.
Earlier Wednesday, U.S.
troops arrested seven militants
believed linked to al-Qaida in
the turbulent city of Baqouba,
north of the capital, the military
said. It gave no details on the
nationalities of the militants.
There was no indication the
attacks and the U.S. raid were
directly linked.
Troops from the 4th Infantry
Division carried out the raid
early Wednesday targeting an
“anti-coalition cell” that may
have ties to Osama bin Laden’s
terror group, a statement from
the U.S. command said.
Suicide attacks have killed
300 people, mostly Iraqis, since
the beginning of die year. They
have fueled speculation that
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HILLAH, Iraq — Suicide
bombers detonated explosives
outside a Polish-run base
Wednesday, killing 10 Iraqis
and wounding more than 100
people, more than half of them
coalition soldiers. The United
States arrested seven guerrillas
believed linked to al-Qaida in
an early morning raid to the
north.
The attack in Hillah, the third
suicide bombing of security tar-
gets in two weeks, was part of a
wider effort “to isolate US from Associated Press photo/Brennan Linsley
the Iraqi people,” coalition mil- WISSAM AU, RIGHT, age 7, and his sister Gezek, 6 months old, are
itary commander Lt. Gen. treated at a hospital in Hillah, Iraq after they were injured when two
Ricardo Sanchez told reporters explosivesJaden trucks were detonated outside a Polish military
camp in Hillah, south of Baghdad Wednesday.
blew up after hitting a concrete Islamic extremists, possibly
The casualty toll could have barrier. linked to al-Qaida, were play-
happened in the Hayy Babil been much higher had guards The 7:15 a.m. blasts — from ing a greater role in the anti-
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___, „ The 7:15 a.m. blasts —from ing a greater role in the anti-
neighborhood near Camp not opened fire and prevented 1,540 pounds of explosives— coalition insurgency. U.S. mili-
Charlie. The wounded included the bombers from entering the flattened 11 homes nearby and tary officials had believed the
32 Iraqis and 26 Poles, as well camp. One truck exploded blew down the entire sides of attacks
Hungarians, Bulgarians, under the gunfire and another several other houses in this Saddam Hussein loyalists.
NASSAU BAY, Texas —
Supporters of President
Bush’s goal of sending
manned flights to the moon
and Mars told a U.S. Senate
subcommittee Wednesday that
private dollars should be used
to help pay for such missions. ,
“Every dollar that comes in
commercially is a dollar the
taxpayer doesn’t have to come ’
up with,” said Charles Chafer, •
president of private aerospace
company Team Encounter,
“There is money that is
required. Fortunately, there is
money that is available.”
Bush last month announced
his election-year initiative to
send astronauts to the moon, ’
Mars and beyond. He wants :
robotic missions to the moon
no later than 2008 and the *
first manned flight of a new
spacecraft by 2014. The mis-
sions are likely to cost hun-
dreds of billions of dollars.
Robert Lorsch, who has.
lobbied for decades to com*’ -
mercialize the space program,
told the subcommittee’s chair-
man, Sen. Sam Brownback,
R-Kansas, that raising private
dollars would not be difficult.'.
He suggested corporate spon-
sorships of space missions or
selling downloaded screen ;
savers of the Mars rovers for
$1 apiece.
“There is so much enthusi-
asm, support and good will,”
Lorsch said. “There is just no
way for people to express it”
“We have got to get
resources to this program to
make it work,” Brownback
told Lorsch, adding he would
work to try to introduce legis-
lation incorporating Lorsch^s
ideas.
Lorsch said he had present-
ed his ideas before, but was
turned away because there
was no way to ensure the
money would make it to the
space agency. .
“If this program had been
implemented, the space pro-
gram could have earned more
than $5 billion, not counting
space station opportunities,”
Lorsch said. “Working with
NASA, this program can
become a reality starting
now.”
NASA associate adminis-
trator William Readdy said
the agency is “committed to
fulfilling tiie new challenge.”
He said portions of money
needed already exist within
NASA and can be reappro-
priated to focus on the new
priorities.
For example, a large
amount of money will be
available when the space shut:
ties are retired at the end of
the decade, Readdy said. He
said there is no way to retire
the shuttles sooner because of
the nation’s obligation to the
International Space Station.
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hackwards on their own predic- tion that “outsourcing” American The forecast of 2.6 million new
tions,” Democratic presidential jobs overseas was good for the jobs was contained in the annual
US. economy in the long run. Economic Report of the President,
Bush, House Speaker Dennis a 412-page volume of charts,
Hastert and other Republicans graphs and text that predicted a
quickly disavowed Mankiw’s bright economic future. The fore-
remarks, and the economist had to cast came under special scrutiny
The jobs controversy came on apologize for a “lack of clarity.” after Treasury Secretary John
* * r. a sensing political Snow and Commerce Secretary
issue for Bush as he fights to Don Evans refused to repeat the
keep his own job in a second optimistic prediction as they
term. The economy has lost 2.2 toured Washington and Oregon to
million payroll jobs since Bush promote the president’s economic
took office, the worst job-cre- programs.
ation record of any president
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