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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 2006
Page
3
New documents show hundreds of trucks boats planes and federal officers sitting unused in Katrina search and rescue after the hurricane. An internal FEMA email provided to Senate investigators says operations in Louisiana were halted three days after the Aug 29 storm due to security concerns.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez joined Cindy Sheehan at a rally and said she plans to pitch a tent again outside President Bush's ranch during Holy Week in April. The activist, considering a Senate run, spoke with Chavez about the planned protest.
A mine fire in central Canada forced 70 miners at a Saskatchewan potash mine operated by Mosaic Company to retreat to refuge rooms with oxygen and supplies. Marshall Hamilton, Mosaic spokesman, confirmed the incident occurred Sunday about a mile underground.
In Man, two black rib boned coal trucks led the funeral procession for Don I. Bragg a WV coal miner killed in a deep underground fire this month Dozens gathered at Man High School field house with signs praising coal workers. In Helsinki Finland Tarja Halonen won a second six year term defeating Sauli Niinisto 51 8 to 48 2 with nearly full vote count.
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned Hamas militants would be liquidated if attacks resume and said Israel would halt tens of millions in tax rebates to the Palestinian Authority if Hamas forms the government. Police said about 7,000 troops trained to dismantle two West Bank outposts in Amona and Hebron as Israel prepares a first post Gaza evacuation.
Paula Eleazar Mendez 43 is jailed after police found three children ages 6 and 8 dead at a De Queen home. Notes may aid investigators into the killings. Prosecutor says charges are likely but pending formal homicide counts. The priest says she expressed tremendous remorse.
A two month old girl was discovered inside a plastic bag floating in a Belo Horizonte lake after passers by heard crying. Rescuers pulled the bag from the water and the infant was released from hospital in good health. The mother, arrested, denied throwing the child in the lake and said she gave the baby away due to poverty.
Kuwait's Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah took the oath as emir after parliament confirmed him, ending a succession dispute following Sheik Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah's death. He vowed to uphold the constitution and defend Kuwaiti interests amid regional tensions from Iraq's 1990 invasion and the subsequent U.S. led operations.
In Katowice Poland rescuers end a three day search after 66 people died and 160 were injured when a 2000 era exhibition hall collapsed under heavy snow. Heavy machinery will tear down remaining debris as authorities confirm no further survivors.
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