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Former American envoys oppose Bush nominee to U.N.
Challenging the White House, 59 former American diplomats are urging the Senate to reject John
R. Bolton’s nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “He is the wrong man for
this position,” they said in a letter to Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. The Indiana Republican has scheduled hearings on Bolton’s nomination for April 7
Their criticism dwelled primarily on Bolton’s stand on issues as the State Department’s senior
arms control official. But the former diplomats also chided Bolton for his “insistence that the U N
is valuable only when it directly serves the United States.” That view, they said, would not help
him negotiate with other diplomats at the United Nations.
Schiavo's husband plans autopsy
The feud between the brain-damaged woman's parents and husband escalated when the latter
requested an autopsy once she dies in order to prove that she could not have recovered. George
Felos, the attorney for husband and guardian Michael Schiavo, said the chief medical examiner
for Pinellas County, Dr. John Thogmartin, had agreed to perform an autopsy before her remains
are cremated. He said that Michael Schiavo, who has convinced courts that his wife told him years
ago she would not want to be kept alive artificially under such cirx;umstances, wants definitive
proof showing the extent of her brain damage. An attorney for Schiavo’s parents, David Gibbs m,
said her family also wants an autopsy.
^ My takes a trip to Afghanistan
First lady Laura Bush set out f * • •
forces are still battling a a war-torn country where American
Afghanistan for a couple of years insurgency Mrs. Bush has wanted to visit
Her trip was kept secret until iust hpf ^ journey, mostly because of security concerns.
She arrived in Kabul at middav W ^ Andrews Air Force Base near Washington,
most of her time being briefed n about five hours on the ground, spending
President Hamid Kar^ai and h«H initiatives for Afghan women. She also met with
“d had dmner w„h U.S. forces at BagL, Air Base north of Kabul.
U.S. officials DromicA i „
U.S. offictals are promising raoid •
Indonesia, reacting to criticism th^ victims of the latest earthquake off the coast of
stmck the region in December “We’ ^ §^™nent responded too slowly to the tsunami that
so that we can be prepared to be we’ve learned from the previous earthquake
Department spokesman Adam Erer^^^”^^^ quickly and in a meaningful way,” deputy State
State Department and American sc’* ^he response was swift to Monday’s quake, with the
The quake stmck at 11:09 a.m all sending out warnings and alerts to the area,
out a report of the tremor with a nmr ^ half-hour the U.S. Geological Survey had sent
ond, 6.7-magnitude quake occmitpH^”^^ magnitude of 8.2. It was later upgraded to 8.7. A sec-
q ake, occurred around 1:30 p.m EST, the survey said.
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