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BY MARGARET TALEV AND DION NISSENBAUM © 2010, McClatchy Newspapers NEW DELHI — President Barack Obama ended his three-day trip to India Monday with a call for raising the world’s biggest democracy to global power status by granting it a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. His remarks before the Indian parliament brought instant criticism from Pakistan, India’s bitter rival to the west. They also could rankle China, its giant neighbor to the north, one of the five permanent members, which could block the move with its veto. Indian leaders welcomed the first U.S. endorsement yet of their long- standing goal, and threw their sup- port behind controversial U.S. efforts to stimulate its domestic economy. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh jumped in to defend the Federal Reserve’s plan to inject $600 billion into the U.S. econo- my. The U.S. plan has come under international criti- cism and is likely to come up during Obama’s meeting later this with lead- ers of major economic powers. “Anything that would stimulate the underlying growth and policies of entrepreneurship in the United States would help the cause of glob- al prosperity,” Singh said at a joint news conference. Obama also announced the expected purchase of 10 C-17s by India and trade deals that he said would generate 50,000 jobs in the U.S. This was Obama’s first overseas trip since American voters upended Democratic control of the House of Representatives and sent a political message of discontent to the U.S. president. On Tuesday, he was heading to Indonesia, and later in the week was visiting South Korea, to attend an economic conference with 19 other countries, and Japan. While India’s U.N. aspirations still face an uphill battle, Obama’s direct endorsement offered powerful back- ing for the fight ahead. It also signals Obama’s intentions to bet more on the U.S.-India relationship. Pakistan still seeks U.N. interven- tion in the dispute with India over mostly Muslim Kashmir, where it says that decades-old U.N. resolu- tions haven’t been implemented call- ing for the population to decide their destiny. India is poised to join the Security Council in January as one of 10 member countries that serve two-year terms on the body. If India did get permanent Security Council status, “in Pakistan, people will say that heaven will fall,” said Hasan Askari Rizvi, an analyst based in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. “We are not prepared to accept certain realities, of India’s ris- ing, its economy, and the clout India had developed in the West.” Indian leaders have long sought American support for their coun- try’s addition to the five-member permanent members able to veto resolutions: Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States. 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Come in today and save. 109 East Third, Yankton, SD • 605-665-4416 • 800-798-4663 M-F 10-6, Sat. 10-5 • Closed Sundays, Evenings by appt. S AVE N OW O N K ARASTAN C ARPETS “Your Home’s Best Friend” FURNITURE &FLOORING www.hatchfurniture.com Held Over Until Nov. 29 th 218 West 4th Street • Yankton, SD 57078 • (605) 665-8042 To prevent the flu... let us have a shot at it! Get your shot at Roger’s Family Pharmacy. There is no appointment necessary, no waiting in line and the shots are only $29 or free with Medicare Part B, you must be 18 years or older. Fast and convenient in store flu shots. Power Source Electric electairinc.com Check Out Our New Website 260.8683 PAGE 8A www.yankton.net Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan ■ NATION/WORLD ■ Tuesday, November 9, 2010 NATION/WORLD DIGEST Elizabeth Smart Tells Jurors Of Kidnapping SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Elizabeth Smart remembers not being able to make out the threat, only the feel of cold knife at her neck. As the then-14-year-old lay in bed alongside her baby sister, the man repeated: “Don’t make a sound. Get out of bed and come with me, or I will kill you and your family.” She was his hostage, he told her. “I was shocked. I thought I was having a nightmare. It was just indescribable fear,” Smart, now 23, told jurors Monday on the first day of testimony in the trial of Brian David Mitchell, the man accused of kidnapping her in June 2002. That night, they fled up the hills above her home, with Smart in her red pajamas and tennis shoes, and the knife to her back. Her younger sister — a baby blanket wrapped around her head and neck — rushed to their mother, telling of the kidnapping. “It was utter terror,” their mother, Lois Smart, testified earlier Monday. “It was the worst feeling, knowing that I didn’t know where my child was. I was helpless.” GOP Taps 2 Tea Partiers For Transition Team WASHINGTON (AP) — To help lead the GOP’s transition to power in the House, Republicans on Monday tapped two newly elected congressmen who drew tea party backing in their campaigns. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Tim Scott of South Carolina, who won endorsements by Sarah Palin and support from tea party activists, are part of a 22-member team charged with crafting new rules and smoothing the GOP’s shift from minority to majority. The team, led by Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon and headquartered in the basement of the Capitol, was to gather over Chinese food Monday evening in Republican leader John Boehner’s office suite and meet again Tuesday. The team includes several seasoned veterans and influential members: 15-term Rep. David Dreier of California, in line for his sec- ond stint as head of the powerful Rules Committee; Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, in line to head the Budget Committee; and Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, the campaign committee chief. Rep. Doc Hastings of Washington, one of a large crop of GOP law- makers who came to Congress 16 years ago, the last time Republicans gained control of the House, is part of the group. Two other freshmen, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Martha Roby of Alabama, are also on the roster. Walden said he didn’t choose the team based on whether they had tea party backing, telling reporters last week that he wasn’t sure whether those he was recruiting were supported by the conser- vative-libertarian movement. “It’s a nice cross-section of our Republican conference,” he said of the group. But it’s clear Republicans are aware that the grass-roots move- ment that helped propel them to big wins in last week’s elections will be an important part of their new House majority and bolstered Senate minority. Dems: Hoyer Faces Showdown With Clyburn WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland congressman Steny Hoyer has made it official: He’s running to keep his position as the Democrats’ second-in-command next year. The announcement Monday sets up a showdown with Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, the most senior black office holder in the Democratic caucus. But it’s not clear the contest will last long. The confrontation is one Democrats have been hoping to avoid, and there is talk that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wants to remain leader of her party even in the minority, might create a lead- ership position for whoever drops out of the race. Both men have been working the phones to line up support since the midterm elections delivered the House majority to Republicans. ■ Get Updates At Yankton Online (www.yankton.net) BY SETH BORENSTEIN AND DINA CAPPIELLO Associated Press WASHINGTON — The BP oil rig explosion and spill wasn’t about anyone purposely trading money for safety, investigators on a special presidential com- mission said Monday. Instead it was more about seemingly acceptable risks adding up to disaster. Investigators at the commis- sion’s hearing outlined more than a dozen decisions that at the time seemed questionable but also explainable. It was how those cascaded and crashed together that fueled catastrophe. Yet there was no evidence of a conscious decision on the BP rig to do things on the cheap at the expense of safety, investiga- tors stressed several times. Likewise, representatives of the companies involved in the disas- ter denied that corners were cut because of cost. Critics — including a top aca- demic, a congressman and peo- ple on the temporarily polluted Bayou — are balking at what they see as something close a free pass for BP’s history of cost cutting. In the first nonpolitical and independent investigation of the disaster, commission officials say they aren’t excusing BP at all, but pointing out there was no clear single decision that came down solely to money. “Anytime you are talking about a million and a half dollars a day, money enters in. All I am saying is human beings did not sit there and sell safety down the river for dollars on the rig that night,” said commission chief attorney Fred H. Bartlit Jr. That doesn’t mean that a gen- eral culture of cost cutting was- n’t an issue, added commission co-chairman Bob Graham, the former Florida senator and gov- ernor. Graham wrapped up the day by saying he was worried that there was “a compulsion to get this rig completed in that April 19-April 20 timetable.” And panel co-chairman William K. Reilly said in an inter- view after the hearing that BP does deserve a good share of blame: “A lot of the key deci- sions were in fact made by BP.” He said that while it might look as if the commission wasn’t con- cerned about the culture of cost cutting at BP, it will address that broader corporate problem in the future. Monday was more about what immediately led to the disaster. Halliburton Co., which had the crucial job of cementing the well, was on the hotseat as much as BP on Monday, clashing more often with investigators than the oil company. And the commis- sion still hasn’t dealt with the blowout preventer, a key instru- ment, because it is still being examined. No written report was issued on Monday. Bartlit, the panel’s chief investigator, revealed in a letter last month that testing on cement mixtures similar to those used in the well showed that the formula was unstable before the blowout, but BP and Halliburton used it anyway. Bartlit said the companies should have recon- sidered the type of cement used in the well. Cement is an essen- tial barrier to preventing blowouts. GULF OIL SPILL Panel: Cost Did Not Undercut Safety On Rig NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man was condemned to death Monday for a night of terror inside a suburban home in which a woman was strangled and her two daughters tied to their beds, doused in gasoline and left to die in a fire. Jurors in New Haven Superior Court voted unanimously to send Steven Hayes to death row after deliberating over the span of four days. Judge Jon Blue will impose the sentence on Dec. 2. “You have been exposed to images of depravity and horror that no human being should have to see,” Blue said in thanking the jurors for their service. Dr. William Petit, the husband and father of the victims, said the verdict was not about revenge. “Vengeance belongs to the Lord,” Petit said. “This is about justice. We need to have some rules in a civilized society.” He also said it wouldn’t bring closure, saying whoever came up with the concept was “an imbe- cile.” “It’s a hole with jagged edges,” he said. “Over time the edges may smooth out a little bit, but the hole in your heart, the hole in your soul is always there.” Hayes’ attorneys had tried to persuade jurors to spare him the death penalty by portraying him as a clumsy, drug-addicted thief who never committed violence until the 2007 home invasion with a fellow paroled burglar. They called the co-defendant, Joshua Komisarjevsky, the mastermind and said he escalated the vio- lence. They also said Hayes was remorseful and actually wanted a death sentence. BETTINA HANSEN/HARTFORD COURANT/MCT The Rev. Richard Hawke, father of the late Jennifer Hawke-Petit, gives a statement to the media as Dr. William Petit and family stand by Monday outside New Haven (Conn.) Superior Court after jurors found Steven Hayes eligible for the death penalty. Connecticut Man Sentenced To Die For Fatal Home Invasion Obama Takes India’s Side On U.N. Endorsement Obama
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BY MARGARET TALEVAND DION NISSENBAUM
© 2010, McClatchy Newspapers
NEW DELHI — President BarackObama ended his three-day trip toIndia Monday with a call for raisingthe world’s biggest democracy toglobal power status by granting it apermanent seat on the UnitedNations Security Council.
His remarks before the Indianparliament brought instant criticismfrom Pakistan, India’s bitter rival tothe west. They also could rankleChina, its giant neighbor to thenorth, one of the five permanentmembers, which could block themove with its veto.
Indian leaders welcomed the firstU.S. endorsement yet of their long-standing goal, and threw their sup-port behind controversial U.S.efforts to stimulate its domesticeconomy.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh jumped in todefend the FederalReserve’s plan toinject $600 billioninto the U.S. econo-my. The U.S. planhas come underinternational criti-cism and is likely tocome up duringObama’s meetinglater this with lead-
ers of major economic powers.“Anything that would stimulate
the underlying growth and policiesof entrepreneurship in the UnitedStates would help the cause of glob-al prosperity,” Singh said at a jointnews conference.
Obama also announced theexpected purchase of 10 C-17s byIndia and trade deals that he saidwould generate 50,000 jobs in theU.S.
This was Obama’s first overseastrip since American voters upended
Democratic control of the House ofRepresentatives and sent a politicalmessage of discontent to the U.S.president.
On Tuesday, he was heading toIndonesia, and later in the week wasvisiting South Korea, to attend aneconomic conference with 19 othercountries, and Japan.
While India’s U.N. aspirations stillface an uphill battle, Obama’s directendorsement offered powerful back-ing for the fight ahead. It also signalsObama’s intentions to bet more onthe U.S.-India relationship.
Pakistan still seeks U.N. interven-tion in the dispute with India overmostly Muslim Kashmir, where itsays that decades-old U.N. resolu-tions haven’t been implemented call-ing for the population to decidetheir destiny.
India is poised to join the
Security Council in January as oneof 10 member countries that servetwo-year terms on the body.
If India did get permanentSecurity Council status, “in Pakistan,people will say that heaven will fall,”said Hasan Askari Rizvi, an analystbased in the eastern Pakistani city ofLahore. “We are not prepared toaccept certain realities, of India’s ris-ing, its economy, and the clout Indiahad developed in the West.”
Indian leaders have long soughtAmerican support for their coun-try’s addition to the five-memberpermanent members able to vetoresolutions: Britain, China, France,Russia and the United States. Obamaalso has supported Japan’s quest formembership.
China has long resisted India’sambitions.
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NATION/WORLD DIGESTElizabeth Smart Tells Jurors Of Kidnapping
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Elizabeth Smart remembers not beingable to make out the threat, only the feel of cold knife at her neck.
As the then-14-year-old lay in bed alongside her baby sister, theman repeated: “Don’t make a sound. Get out of bed and come withme, or I will kill you and your family.” She was his hostage, he toldher.
“I was shocked. I thought I was having a nightmare. It was justindescribable fear,” Smart, now 23, told jurors Monday on the firstday of testimony in the trial of Brian David Mitchell, the manaccused of kidnapping her in June 2002.
That night, they fled up the hills above her home, with Smart inher red pajamas and tennis shoes, and the knife to her back.
Her younger sister — a baby blanket wrapped around her headand neck — rushed to their mother, telling of the kidnapping.
“It was utter terror,” their mother, Lois Smart, testified earlierMonday. “It was the worst feeling, knowing that I didn’t know wheremy child was. I was helpless.”
GOP Taps 2 Tea Partiers For Transition TeamWASHINGTON (AP) — To help lead the GOP’s transition to power
in the House, Republicans on Monday tapped two newly electedcongressmen who drew tea party backing in their campaigns.
Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Tim Scott of South Carolina, whowon endorsements by Sarah Palin and support from tea partyactivists, are part of a 22-member team charged with crafting newrules and smoothing the GOP’s shift from minority to majority.
The team, led by Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon and headquarteredin the basement of the Capitol, was to gather over Chinese foodMonday evening in Republican leader John Boehner’s office suiteand meet again Tuesday.
The team includes several seasoned veterans and influentialmembers: 15-term Rep. David Dreier of California, in line for his sec-ond stint as head of the powerful Rules Committee; Rep. Paul Ryanof Wisconsin, in line to head the Budget Committee; and Rep. PeteSessions of Texas, the campaign committee chief.
Rep. Doc Hastings of Washington, one of a large crop of GOP law-makers who came to Congress 16 years ago, the last timeRepublicans gained control of the House, is part of the group.
Two other freshmen, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Martha Robyof Alabama, are also on the roster.
Walden said he didn’t choose the team based on whether theyhad tea party backing, telling reporters last week that he wasn’tsure whether those he was recruiting were supported by the conser-vative-libertarian movement. “It’s a nice cross-section of ourRepublican conference,” he said of the group.
But it’s clear Republicans are aware that the grass-roots move-ment that helped propel them to big wins in last week’s electionswill be an important part of their new House majority and bolsteredSenate minority.
Dems: Hoyer Faces Showdown With ClyburnWASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland congressman Steny Hoyer has
made it official: He’s running to keep his position as the Democrats’second-in-command next year.
The announcement Monday sets up a showdown with Rep.James Clyburn of South Carolina, the most senior black office holderin the Democratic caucus. But it’s not clear the contest will lastlong.
The confrontation is one Democrats have been hoping to avoid,and there is talk that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wants toremain leader of her party even in the minority, might create a lead-ership position for whoever drops out of the race.
Both men have been working the phones to line up support sincethe midterm elections delivered the House majority to Republicans.
■ Get Updates At Yankton Online (www.yankton.net)
BY SETH BORENSTEINAND DINA CAPPIELLO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The BP oilrig explosion and spill wasn’tabout anyone purposely tradingmoney for safety, investigatorson a special presidential com-mission said Monday. Instead itwas more about seeminglyacceptable risks adding up todisaster.
Investigators at the commis-sion’s hearing outlined morethan a dozen decisions that atthe time seemed questionablebut also explainable. It was howthose cascaded and crashedtogether that fueled catastrophe.
Yet there was no evidence ofa conscious decision on the BPrig to do things on the cheap atthe expense of safety, investiga-tors stressed several times.Likewise, representatives of thecompanies involved in the disas-ter denied that corners were cutbecause of cost.
Critics — including a top aca-demic, a congressman and peo-ple on the temporarily pollutedBayou — are balking at whatthey see as something close afree pass for BP’s history of costcutting. In the first nonpoliticaland independent investigation ofthe disaster, commission officialssay they aren’t excusing BP atall, but pointing out there was noclear single decision that camedown solely to money.
“Anytime you are talkingabout a million and a half dollarsa day, money enters in. All I amsaying is human beings did notsit there and sell safety down theriver for dollars on the rig thatnight,” said commission chief
attorney Fred H. Bartlit Jr.That doesn’t mean that a gen-
eral culture of cost cutting was-n’t an issue, added commissionco-chairman Bob Graham, theformer Florida senator and gov-ernor. Graham wrapped up theday by saying he was worriedthat there was “a compulsion toget this rig completed in thatApril 19-April 20 timetable.”
And panel co-chairmanWilliam K. Reilly said in an inter-view after the hearing that BPdoes deserve a good share ofblame: “A lot of the key deci-sions were in fact made by BP.”He said that while it might lookas if the commission wasn’t con-cerned about the culture of costcutting at BP, it will address thatbroader corporate problem inthe future. Monday was moreabout what immediately led tothe disaster.
Halliburton Co., which hadthe crucial job of cementing thewell, was on the hotseat as muchas BP on Monday, clashing moreoften with investigators than theoil company. And the commis-sion still hasn’t dealt with theblowout preventer, a key instru-ment, because it is still beingexamined. No written report wasissued on Monday.
Bartlit, the panel’s chiefinvestigator, revealed in a letterlast month that testing oncement mixtures similar to thoseused in the well showed that theformula was unstable before theblowout, but BP and Halliburtonused it anyway. Bartlit said thecompanies should have recon-sidered the type of cement usedin the well. Cement is an essen-tial barrier to preventingblowouts.
GULF OIL SPILL
Panel: Cost DidNot UndercutSafety On Rig
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — AConnecticut man was condemnedto death Monday for a night ofterror inside a suburban home inwhich a woman was strangledand her two daughters tied totheir beds, doused in gasolineand left to die in a fire.
Jurors in New Haven SuperiorCourt voted unanimously to sendSteven Hayes to death row afterdeliberating over the span of fourdays. Judge Jon Blue will imposethe sentence on Dec. 2.
“You have been exposed toimages of depravity and horrorthat no human being should haveto see,” Blue said in thanking thejurors for their service.
Dr. William Petit, the husbandand father of the victims, said theverdict was not about revenge.
“Vengeance belongs to theLord,” Petit said. “This is about
justice. We need to have somerules in a civilized society.”
He also said it wouldn’t bringclosure, saying whoever came upwith the concept was “an imbe-cile.”
“It’s a hole with jagged edges,”he said. “Over time the edgesmay smooth out a little bit, butthe hole in your heart, the hole inyour soul is always there.”
Hayes’ attorneys had tried topersuade jurors to spare him thedeath penalty by portraying himas a clumsy, drug-addicted thiefwho never committed violenceuntil the 2007 home invasion witha fellow paroled burglar. Theycalled the co-defendant, JoshuaKomisarjevsky, the mastermindand said he escalated the vio-lence. They also said Hayes wasremorseful and actually wanted adeath sentence.
BETTINA HANSEN/HARTFORD COURANT/MCTThe Rev. Richard Hawke, father of the late Jennifer Hawke-Petit,gives a statement to the media as Dr. William Petit and family standby Monday outside New Haven (Conn.) Superior Court after jurorsfound Steven Hayes eligible for the death penalty.
Connecticut ManSentenced To Die ForFatal Home Invasion
Obama Takes India’s Side On U.N. Endorsement
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