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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 2010
Page
14
California voters will decide on a November ballot measure to legalize adult use of marijuana. If approved, California would become the first state to legalize recreation use. Marijuana is currently legal for medical purposes in California and 14 other states.
Defense Secretary Gates approved new guidelines under the 1993 ban on serving openly. The rules, described as common sense, will apply immediately to open cases and serve as a stopgap until Congress acts on repeal efforts tied to President Obama.
Washington and Moscow announced a breakthrough on a historic arms treaty to cut long range nuclear weapons to about 1,500 each. President Obama and President Medvedev will sign in Prague after final technical details are resolved, marking a major step toward disarmament and trust.
The United States and Russia near an agreement on a new START treaty to shrink deployed strategic warheads. Obama and Medvedev laid a verbal framework last summer and plan to finalize by phone this week, with Senate ratification and Duma approval expected to take months. Nuclear-arms analyst Robert S. Norris notes ratification may be difficult.
Prince Charles, in fatigues, visited Camp Bastion Helmand province to honor fallen troops. He recalled worry for his son Harry during his brief deployment and expressed sympathy for families, noting Britain has suffered 276 military deaths since 2001 with Helmand as a key Taliban battleground.
The Vatican rejected a push to defrock Rev. Lawrence Murphy amid accusations of molesting about 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin. Documents show two Wisconsin bishops urged a church trial under Cardinal Ratzinger in the mid-1990s, saying the Milwaukee deaf community sought justice.
About 100 Australian police are under investigation for circulating racist and pornographic emails through the internal system. One officer in the scandal has died by suicide, though the chief said the deceased was not responsible for the racist material. The probe also flagged a small minority of officers as racist.
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