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Obama vows to
end war in Iraq
FAYETTEVILLE. N.C. (AP)
Barack Obama suggested
Wednesday that Hillary Clinton
could not be trusted to end the
Iraq War because she only started
opposing it when she began her
bid for president.
The Democratic presidential
hopeful told military families
and local officials that the war
has emboldened al-Qaida, the
Taliban. Iran and North Korea.
Obama used the five-year
anniversary of the Iraq invasion
to again cast himself as the only
true anti-war candidate.
Obama urged to
accept primaries
DETROIT (AP) Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton bluntly chal
lenged Barack Obama to agree to
new primaries in Michigan and
Florida on Wednesday and said
it was “wrong, and frankly un-
American" not to haw the two del
egations seated at the Democratic
National Convention.
Obama has yet to declare his
support or opposition, although
his campaign has raised a num
ber of procedural and legal ques
tions about the most recent pro
posal for an early June primary in
Michigan.
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Ruling could expand Sunni presence
in Iraqi provincial administrations
BAGHDAD (AP) - Under
strong U.S. pressure, Iraq's
presidential council signed off
Wednesday on a measure paving
the way for provincial elections
by the fall, a major step toward
easing sectarian rifts as the
nation marks the fifth anniver
sary of the war.
The decision by the council,
made up of the country's presi
dent and two vice presidents,
lays the groundwork for voters
to choose new leaders of Iraq’s
18 provinces. The elections open
the door to greater Sunni repre
sentation in regional administra
Activists criticize
Olympic sponsors
BEIJING (AP) McDonald’s,
Coca-Cola and other sponsors
paid tens of millions of dollars to
link their names with the Beijing
Olympics. Now they’re trying
to mollify- activists pressing for
change on Tibet. Darfur and other
issues, without angering China.
The Olympics almost always
attract activists interested in
leveraging the popular event to
publicize their causes. The Beijing
Games have generated more
heat, in part because of an array
of activist groups long critical of
China's policies —and newer ones
focused on its economic and dip
lomatic clout.
Deadline extended to March 25th
tions.
Many Sunnis boycotted the
last election for provincial offi
cials in January 2005, enabling
Shiites and Kurds to win a dis
proportionate share of power at
the expense of the Sunnis even
in areas with substantial Sunni
populations. . .
That in turn helped fuel the
Sunni-led insurgency and the
wave of sectarian bloodlet
ting which drove the country
to the brink of civil war before
President Bush rushed nearly
30,000 U.S. reinforcements to
Iraq last year.
Swath of country
suffers flooding
PIEDMONT, Mo. (AP)
Residents of low-lying towns
evacuated Wednesday after a foot
of rain pushed rivers and creeks
out of their banks in the nation's
| midsection. At least 13 deaths
had been linked to the weather,
and three people were missing.
Record or near-record flood
crests were forecast at several
towns in Missouri. Flooding
was reported in large areas of
Arkansas and parts of southern
Illinois, southern Indiana and
southwestern Ohio, and schools
were closed in parts of western
Kentucky because of flooded
roads.
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allows for multiple interpretations
of the law. Easley claims that the
e-mails he deleted no longer held
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N.C. Press Association General
Counsel Amanda Martin said
documents such as fax cover
sheets and hotel reservations are
the type eligible for immediate
disposal.
“There’s nothing in the regula
tions set out by cultural resources
that would suggest that it's just at
the whim of the public official," she
said.
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other offices to delete their own e
mails. Agencies' public information
officers have corroborated his deni
als, Martin said.
“Even if his interpretation of the
cultural resources instruction is
accurate in regards to his records.
I still don’t think it gives him the
authority to tell someone else when
they have to get rid of their records,"
she said.
Public records laws are designed
to ensure ethical government
behavior and public understanding
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of government function.
“The law doesn't give you a
right to demand answers to your
questions.... It gives you a right
to look at documents that might
answer your questions,” Martin
said.
“If those documents are destroyed,
then you lose one of the key tools you
have to understand the operation Of
public business," she said.
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