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KUWAIT: Police stuff arrested workers into the back of an SUV during a raid in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh on Wednesday. — Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh Local FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

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Kuwait’s my business Conspiracy Theories Here’s why you don’t Dollar deal!!! love your job, but could

By Badrya Darwish An unhappy franchisee can do more damage than an unhap- By John P Hayes py employee. One of the best requests I made as a CEO was to ask my controller to produce a list of our 200 franchisees in order of their monetary value to our company. In other words, I want- [email protected] [email protected] ed a rank ordered list showing how much money each franchisee paid us annually. When I got the list, I was shocked. The franchisees who I assumed were the most valuable were he hundred fils shop or half KD shop if the iring in the Kuwait public sector may not lend itself to not. At the top of the list, I’m embarrassed to say, were several item is of better quality - what is the story Hasking questions about a job candidate’s personality names that I didn’t even know. Then I asked the controller for T because the emphasis is not on matching the job to the same list, but to include each franchisee’s personality pro- with shops that sell such merchandise. All the employee. The emphasis is on providing jobs. But it’s a file. Amazingly, the top franchisees all had the same profile. of a sudden in the last couple of years, these much different story in the private sector, although most Equally as amazing, the bottom franchisees shared a profile, places have increased. They are in every souq. business owners and managers don’t treat it differently. Few too, but it was different than that of the top franchisees. companies spend any time matching the job to the employ- Really bad news They are always packed with shoppers. People ee. Consequently more employees are unhappy than happy, From there the news got worse. When we looked at the love to buy cheap things and this trend is not and all parties, including the employee, the employer, and last 25 franchises sold, we had sold them to the wrong per- only seen in Kuwait but even in the West. I see the customers, suffer as a result. sonalities. Those franchisees would end up in the bottom 25 many one-pound shops in London. In the US If you’re an employee, you want to be happy, and in fact, percent of our list. Franchisees at the bottom of the list you want to do the best possible job for your employer. If required more of our support and training than the top fran- and Canada, they have them too, but call them you’re an employer, you want happy employees who will chisees because they were not prepared for the job of a fran- one-dollar shops. productively help leverage your company’s assets, customers, chisee. Even worse news: Franchisees at the bottom of the list What is the secret of all these shops? Do they suppliers and stakeholders. complained more than the top franchisees, and they paid us sell goods made in China? If this is the case, Does your job stress you? the least amount of money. How did this happen? It hap- How are we doing with those goals? Not so well. pened because until we saw that list no one knew the ideal things around the world are imported from According to a 2012 poll by Bayt.com: 74 percent of employ- personality of a top-producing franchisee in our network. But China but they are made under the license of ees in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region claim their once we figured it out, we didn’t sell a franchise again until the certain brands. Even big brand merchandis- job stresses them. A survey by the global market research we matched the job to the personality. firm, Ipsos, discovered that only 55 percent of US employees Do you love what you do? ers manufacture their goods in China under the love their jobs. What’s the problem? It’s complex, and any The late Steve Jobs told us that the only way to do great brands’ quality control. Such goods will be solution must address several socio-economic factors, but a work is to love what you do. And the best way to make sure much cheaper if produced in the East because huge first step is matching the job to the employee’s person- that your employees (or franchisees) love their work is to of the cheaper labour. I understand this mathe- ality. Unfortunately, no one seems to be listening. match the job to the personality. Want to find out how this The matchup is easy to do can help you? Email me. If you’re one of the first 12 people to matics but the math behind the one-dollar And yet, this matchup couldn’t be easier, especially with send me an email with the subject line: What’s my personali- shops is what I don’t get. the variety of tools that are available. As a speaker in the US, ty? I will assess your personality for free and tell you the kinds Do they sell illegal goods from factories “Leading With Your Personality” was my most popular semi- of work that you would love to do. nar. As a former CEO of a major American franchise brand, I shipped all over the world? I doubt it. If it is ille- insisted on using a personality profile before we hired key gal, there will not be so many at every corner. employees. Not only that, we would not sell a franchise Dr John P Hayes heads the Business Administration department Or is it that these are bad quality goods that are unless we could match the requirements of a franchisee’s job at GUST. Contact Dr Hayes at [email protected], not given certificates by the health authority in to the prospective franchisee’s personality. Franchisees are or via Twitter @drjohnhayes. By the way, he loves his work not employees, but this matchup is still critically important. because he’s a perfect match for the job the country of origin. The reason why I am asking is because I have heard of many stories about the bad quality of goods. Many people bought plastic plates, cups and what not which In my view turned out to be creating health hazard issues. If this is the case, why are these available in the Legal and illegal expats shops? I heard that often these kinds of merchandise are made of recycled material. I heard cannot be treated alike that even many sell defective imported goods. Are these made in illegal factories or sweat- By Labeed Abdal shops? One-dollar shops are interesting places. They sell pens, plates, souvenirs, garden equipment, party items and what not. I personally see a lot [email protected] of cosmetics. This is where I want to question how safe are they. If it comes to food, the dollar eporting the whole family of an expat who has vio- those who are facing genuine problems and wish to either store is a big no-no place to shop. In such Dlated Kuwaiti laws, particularly if his wife and chil- work here or seek asylum for humanitarian reasons. Such places, I am not sure what the origin of the food dren hold dependent visas, calls for a little reconsid- cases highlight the need for modernisation, flexibility and eration. The rule of law states that irrespective of the more reasoning on our part. is. degree of violation a person might have committed, the Although, we have seen many of our senior officials from Lately, I saw vitamins and energy pills in punishment should not be extended to his family mem- the Ministry of Interior (MOI) show a lot of understanding those places. If I were you, I would avoid it. I bers. Even the constitution of Kuwait states that punish- while dealing with such cases, we also hear negative stories ment must be personal. It is good that law-violating expats about some lower-ranking officials and their random raids. would advise you to buy it from the local phar- will be allowed to designate a person to follow up their cas- That indeed is a cause for much concern. We must enforce macy. Towels are OK to buy because you can es until the completion of their deportation-related proce- the law in a responsible fashion, ensure that the rights of always throw them if they smell. But if you swal- dures. Maybe here I would like to point out a few things: expats are never infringed upon by public employees and low something, it is not so easy to recover. Do First, it is the responsibility of every expat to avoid such see to it that no one is wrongly treated. At the end of the situations, whether it be defaulting on car loans, non-pay- day, expats should not have to live in fear of unknown not bargain with your health for a dollar deal! ment of apartment rent and mobile phone bills or violating threats, especially when they are obeying the law. They #BadryaD residency laws. Yet we must not take away the rights of should be treated as equals. 4 Local FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Expat lives in turmoil amid MoI crackdown

KUWAIT: Policemen issue tickets at a checkpoint in Khaitan in this June 3, 2012 photo. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Mothers stop working, cars refuse lifts as rumors spread By Sunil Cherian caught by the police. Worse,” Dalia said, “my phones centres have faded away. Sharing their babies to the workplace after their more friend’s husband told her not to drive to accommodation has become a thing of the understanding employers green-signalled the eekend parties cancelled, babysit- Jahra all alone. Now both of us hire a taxi past. And the newest things to become idea. Another bright idea that some employ- Wting plans scrapped and tuition cen- from Hawally to Jahra and back, costing us extinct are apps like Viber and Skype. ers have come up with is to make the mothers ters closed. Even the routine family each KD 6 a day. Carpooling was a great idea Over the past three months, 12,000 peo- work from home. As a last resort, families are monthly shopping for groceries is on hold. and I never paid any money to my friend ple have been deported and the traffic chief sending children to their home country. The expatriate community, especially Asians except what I paid at the gas stations.” has warned that “deportations will continue “Supermarkets are empty, but baqalas are in Kuwait, is living in a state of panic as the “The law does not prohibit anyone from indefinitely”. But as checking of vehicles, resi- thriving. See the glass half full, not half emp- Ministry of Interior tightens its grip to osten- dropping off a friend or a colleague,” said a dency permits and suchlike continues, stories ty,” said an optimist who wanted to remain sibly cleanse the country of illegal residents police officer who did not want his name to about what is happening add fuel to the fire. anonymous. He said he still carpools to go to and other violators. be published. “But it is the commuters’ Suddenly, there are advice-givers who voice work. “This time we all go by one taxi,” he Deportations have turned into a night- responsibility to prove to the police that they cautionary quips and quotes. “If you have 3 said. People leaving their car in the parking mare for many. Emails are circling around are friends or colleagues. The police have the mokhalafat (fines), you are out of the coun- lot and using a taxi is not a strange thing in cautioning people about certain ‘safety right to stop and question because there is so try” is one such quip. Another story going Kuwait now. There are reports about police measures’ that they should observe and much illegal transport in the country.” around is customers at Asian supermarkets frisking bus commuters and confiscating their rumors about detentions and deportations In an attempt to put the brakes on the ille- with large cartons and crates of foodstuff are licenses. “I want no mukhalafa, no cancelation are spreading too. One story has it that a man gal activities in the country, the interior min- being arrested because they could sell it to of my license and no deportation,” said a man who went to the airport to drop his friend istry, along with the traffic department, has someone else. on the condition of anonymity. “After years of was arrested on charges of plying an illegal become stringent in checking violators of all But what is true is that the expats are suf- driving, I travel by bus now since the roads taxi and was sent home on the same flight as kinds. As a result, ageing and smoke-belching fering. Working mothers had to take the hard are clear and I see sights I had never seen his friend’s. cars are now a rarity on the roads as are decision of leaving their jobs to tend to their before,” he said. “I used to go to work with my friend,” said maids loitering around or beggars wander- babies since maids started disappearing. Last heard: Laborers who used to go Dalia, who lives in Hawally and works in ing. Buildings notoriously known as brothels Many mothers have either resigned or asked searching for work are now staying at home. If Jahra. “Now my friend tells me she can’t take and distilleries stand cleansed. The mush- for a sabbatical from their sympathetic anybody calls them for work, they say please me along anymore as she is scared of being rooming babysitting centers and Internet employers. Some mothers have begun taking come and take me in your car.

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Photos show the FTZ restaurant zone when it was shut down in Dec 2010 (left) and the zone as it stands today - still shuttered and empty. —Photos by Ben Garcia FTZ remains a ghost town

By Ben Garcia

t was Dec 2010 when the Ministry of ICommerce and Industry’s inspection teams, accompanied by several police operatives, trooped into the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) in Shuwaikh to implement an order to shut down commercial establishments in the area. This reporter was among those who witnessed the order being implemented, and clicked many photographs depicting its implementation. The Municipality closed down a majority of the commercial establishments in the Free Trade Zone, with only a handful of exceptions, under the pretext that these establishments did not have the necessary health permits. The Municipality refused to issue health permits to these establishments because the businesses in the Free Trade Zone fell within the jurisdiction of the Public Authority for Industry which was responsible for all the businesses there. The problem was not resolved quickly as was expected; instead it dragged for years until an agreement was finally reached. Kuwait Times went back to the same spot and the photographs are testimony of the deserted area which once saw teeming crowds. Three years later, through a new decision, the Capital Governorate Committee of the Municipal Council approved an ‘organizing structure’ for the Free Trade Zone. The head of the committee, Muhalhal Al- Khalid, said that the approval “allows companies and commercial establishments wishing to open businesses in the FTZ to obtain necessary licenses from the Kuwait Municipality and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry” before they apply for a power connection. The area at that time was already thriving with restaurants and several businesses as the loca- time - it was so short-lived,” recalled Batool, faced by investors. These problems pertain to sure.” Earlier reports at the time had said that tion was just a stone’s throw away from the who at that time was a second year student at issuance of commercial visas for establish- the FTZ management company and the gov- biggest campus of the state-run Kuwait Kuwait University. ments in the Free Trade Zone”. He added that ernment were embroiled in a legal case over University. Now Batool has graduated from the univer- he hoped the issue would be resolved within a management of the FTZ. “The place had a life of its own. It has a sity but she is still hoping that the restaurant month. Kuwait is the third wealthiest country in the beautiful and really amazing new area for din- area within the Free Trade Zone will open “The FTZ is set to come back to life through Middle East as far as per capita statistics are ing. You could some people enjoying the once again. The Assistant Undersecretary for decisions that the Municipal Council will make concerned. But rules and regulations keep place, jogging and spending time with friends. Technical Affairs at the Ministry of Commerce within a maximum time of a month,” Ali was changing overnight, affecting mostly busi- The location is just so beautiful; you’ll see the and Industry Abdullah Al-Ali told Al-Anba quoted in the report published on May 29. nesses and human resources. Kuwait also has calmness of the Gulf sea and the birds flying newspaper that the ministry plans to work “in “The MCI looks to end this issue and allow the multi-billion dollar projects listed in its by the seashore. The area is wonderful, and I cooperation with the Kuwait Municipality and FTZ to open as an area with organized activi- National Development Plan for 2009-2014, cried when the place was closed down at that Municipal Council to end all the problems ties as opposed to the situation before its clo- many of which are stalled. Local8 FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

British MP hails Kuwait democratic experience LONDON: The democratic experience in human rights enshrined in the UN declara- East are still coming to terms with the happen in Iran as well.” Kuwait is unique in the region and is con- tions. However, he suggested: “Each coun- upheaval that has recently shaken some The lawmaker noted that “Iran has tinually evolving, Robert Buckland, the try has its fundamental set of circum- of their neighbours like Tunisia, Egypt, many different ethnicities within it and Chair of the Human Rights Commission stances, but these principles are universal.” Libya and now Syria. hence the West must be aware that it in the British Conservative party, said. In The prominent Conservative MP was Buckland voiced hope that the GCC has its different set of characteristics and an exclusive interview with KUNA at the speaking to KUNA on the sidelines of a states would be able to adapt in a way circumstances that are fundamentally House of Commons yesterday, the senior seminar on Iran held at the British parlia- that preserves the stability of the region different from those in the Arab World,” MP paid tribute to the vibrant and endur- ment. Buckland affirmed that he “does and continue to enhance the human he maintained. Two of the eight candi- ing long-standing values of freedom of not believe for one minute that we rights of the people there. On today’s dates running in the upcoming presi- expression exercised by the Kuwaiti peo- should impose the form of Western presidential elections in Iran, Buckland dential elections have dropped out of ple. The Kuwaiti parliamentary traditions democracies in the region, as this would insisted that “only free and fair elections the race, offering different reasons for are based on free and fair participatory be totally wrong”. “Every country has its in Iran would guarantee the rule of law doing so. The elections are the eleventh elections in which the rule of law pre- specific traditions and experiences and and the fundamental freedoms that are to choose a president of Iran since the vails, Buckland MP pointed out. therefore it should find out its original part and parcel of the UN declarations. It revolution there in 1979. It will take He said he was impressed by Kuwait’s and unique solutions,” he asserted. The has happened in Egypt, in some other place on the same day as the local coun- respect for the fundamental principles of MP believed that countries in the Middle countries in the Middle East, and it must cil elections. —KUNA Kuwait keen to protect foreign worker’s rights Rashidi insists workers fully protected in state

GENEVA: Kuwaiti Minister of Social Affairs country’s keenness to protect the rights of number 109 for the year 2013 was passed and Labor Thekra Ayed Al-Rashidi high- foreign workers, noting that it guarantees to establish the Public Authority for lighted yesterday the importance of clarify- a decent treatment to them, which Manpower as an independent body under ing certain measures taken by Kuwait and includes offering appropriate conditions at the supervision of Minister of Social Affairs steps to protect the rights of foreign work- the workplace, means of transport and and Labor, she said. This authority under- LONDON: Kuwait’s Ambassador to the UK Khalid Al- ers. She added in remarks to KUNA on the safety standards for healthy work condi- takes the responsibilities of the labor min- Duwaisan inaugurates the Kuwaiti-UK exhibition sidelines of the annual conference of the tions, in accordance with international istry in supervising the employment of and forum on Wednesday. —KUNA International Labor Organization (ILO) late standards. expatriates in the private and oil sectors on Wednesday that the Kuwaiti govern- Kuwait, with its vital economic activi- and bringing and recruiting foreign labor ment is working hard to improve regula- ties, has become an attractive labor market on behalf of employers. Kuwait-UK forum tions related to workers’ rights, alongside for a large number of foreign workers, Kuwait is working hard to offer new other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) which obliged the Cabinet to offer them job opportunities as more and more proj- opens in London countries that are keen to come up to rele- protection, especially by enabling them to ects are being implemented in the coun- vant international standards. receive medical treatment in government try, offering new jobs for both men and LONDON: Kuwait’s Ambassador to the UK Khalid Al-Duwaisan The Gulf region is witnessing continu- clinics and hospitals, besides making it women, she added. In order to ensure inaugurated a Kuwaiti-UK exhibition and forum on social justice, and protect workers in case Wednesday with Kuwaiti and British officials attending. of any casualty at work, law number 101 Speaking to KUNA and Kuwait TV, the ambassador said the for the year 2013 was issued for ensuring exhibition aims to promote Kuwait’s bright image and major insurance against unemployment and achievements in many fields and economic and cultural sec- offering social security for employees in tors. Several Arab ambassadors and representatives of British the private and oil sectors in case of their and Islamic organizations and agencies were also present in dismissal. A government-financed fund the event. for protection of workers against unem- The exhibition is also meant to bolster and consolidate ployment was established for the pur- Kuwaiti relations with friendly countries like Britain, he point- pose, she said. ed out. He hailed the participation of the Ministry of Awqaf Such new laws and regulations come and Islamic Affairs in the event, delivering a noble message on within the framework of regulating the the tolerant religion of Islam to Europe. He hoped that the labor market in Kuwait, coping with the London exhibition would attain its goals and deliver its mes- related international measures, which pro- sage on progress in Kuwait. —KUNA tect the worker from mistreatment, extor- tion or forced labor. Law number 6 for the year 2010 related to the private sector Kuwait eyes e-media guaranteed that any employee would have to served a three-month advance in crime prevention warning in he is to be dismissed from work. Earlier, the notice period was only 15 TUNIS: The Kuwaiti delegation to the 10th Arab Security days, she explained. This law has increased Media Conference has underscored the important role of the financial benefits that would accrue to electronic media, particularly social networks, in raising such workers and made it obligatory upon security awareness and countering crimes. In statements the employers to commit to pay their to KUNA on the sidelines of the conference, Head of Media salaries according to contracts and transfer Department at Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior and Head of GENEVA: Kuwaiti Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Thekra Ayed Al- the wages into the employees’ bank Kuwait’s delegation to the conference Maj Nasser Eid Abusaleeb said the electronic media and social network- Rashidi addresses the annual conference of the International Labor accounts, she added. Kuwait exerts all possible efforts to pro- ing sites have to feature high on the Arab security media Organization (ILO) yesterday. —KUNA tect the rights of foreign manpower. The strategy. state advocates equality between men “Security agencies can no longer depend solely on tradi- ous economic growth and various devel- mandatory for the employers to offer for- and women, reflected greatly in the labor tional media outlets of TV, radio and press, given their grow- opmental projects which attract a large eign workers in the private sector free market, considering the remarkable partic- ing role of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter number of foreign workers, she affirmed. medical treatment, she stated. ipation of women in the country’s parlia- and YouTube in awareness and crime prevention campaigns This requires to deal with the countries Kuwait is a pioneer in achieving the ment. The ILO annual conference is being worldwide,” Abusaleeb told KUNA. He stressed the need for exporting foreign manpower and look for goals set by the ILO, and implementing the held with the participation of 5,000 digni- a comprehensive Arab security media strategy that greatly certain measures since such countries decisions resulting from the annual meet- taries including ministers, representatives employs the latest information and telecommunication might have their own conditions and crite- ings of the organization. Such an approach of labor syndicates, worker unions, and technology to achieve security and fight crimes. Abusaleeb ria related to this issue, Rashidi added. should suffice to remove all doubts about employers’ unions, to discuss relevant also called for intensifying media campaigns in the Gulf and Speaking for Kuwait at the International there being any form of exploitation of for- issues at the regional and international Arab regions to cope with the growing security challenges in Labour Conference, Rashidi stressed on the eign manpower happening in Kuwait. Law levels. —KUNA the two regions. —KUNA FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Hardliners still split as Mandela ‘responding Massive storm Iran campaigning ends well’ to treatment surges toward 11 13 Mid18-Atlantic

BUENNOS AIRES: Rescue workers are seen at the site of a commuter train crash in Castelar, some 30 km west of Buenos Aires, yesterday. At least three people were killed and 70 injured yesterday when a commuter train crashed west of Buenos Aires, according to the municipality of Moron, where the accident took place. — AFP 93,000 killed in Syrian conflict: UN Kuwait flight delayed as Damascus airport comes under fire

BEIRUT: Nearly 93,000 people have been con- briefly disrupting flights to and from the also battled regime forces for control of a key calling it one of the “most critical” regime out- firmed killed in Syria since an uprising against Syrian capital, officials said, a few weeks after military base in the central Hama province posts in the region. President Bashar Assad began more than two the government announced it had secured after chasing soldiers out and setting fire to State-run TV reported yesterday that years ago, the UN said yesterday, a sharp rise the airport road that had been targeted by installations there, activists said. troops have secured four towns in the central in the death toll as the fighting turns increas- rebels in the past. It was the first known attack Following dawn battles, rebels took con- province of Hama after killing 60 members of ingly sectarian and the carnage gripping the to hit inside the airport, located south of the trol of the base on the northern edge of the al-Qaida-linked group Jabhat Al-Nusra. It said country appears unstoppable. capital. The country’s transportation minister town of Morek, which straddles the country’s the towns included Masaadah, Abu Hanaya The grim benchmark came as Assad’s Mahmoud Ibrahim Said told Syrian TV that a strategic north-south highway leading to and Abu Jbeilat. Meanwhile in Geneva, the regime has scored a series of battlefield suc- mortar round fired by “terrorists” struck near a Aleppo. By midday, regime forces shelled the UN human rights office said it had document- cesses against the rebels seeking his ouster warehouse, breaking its windows and wound- base and sent reinforcements in an apparent ed 92,901 killings in Syria between March and international efforts to forge a round of ing a worker there. He said the attack delayed attempt to regain control of the area, said the 2011 and the end of April 2013. But the UN peace talks have stalled. After regaining con- the landing of two incoming flights, from Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human high commissioner for human rights, Navi trol of the strategic town of Qusair near the Latakia and Kuwait, as well as the takeoff of a Rights. The Observatory, which has a vast net- Pillay, said it was impossible to provide an border with Lebanon, regime forces appear Syrian flight to Baghdad. No passengers were work of Syrian activists on the ground, said exact number, which could be far higher. set on securing control of the central harmed and no planes were damaged, he the rebels killed six government fighters and The figure was up from nearly 60,000 provinces of Homs and Hama, a linchpin area said. The regime refers to rebels as “terrorists.” seized ammunition and weapons. Two rebel through the end of November, recorded in an linking Damascus with regime strongholds on Tarek Wahibi, head of operations at the air- fighters were killed. analysis released in January. Since then, UN the Mediterranean coast, and Aleppo to the port, said takeoff and landing then resumed An amateur video posted on Hama officials had estimated higher numbers, most north. normally. activists’ Facebook page showed flames rising recently 80,000. The latest report adds more In continued violence, a mortar round The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for from the burning compound and the bodies confirmed killings to the previous time period slammed into an area near the runway at the Human Rights said rebel fighters had targeted of some of the killed fighters. In the video, and an additional 27,000 between December Damascus International Airport yesterday, the airport with homemade rockets. Rebels fighters celebrated the capturing of the base, and April. — AP 11 International FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

Ethiopia ratifies Nile accord opposed by Egypt

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia’s parliament yes- Desalegn responded Tuesday, forcefully to replace the 1929 treaty written by Britain of any other Nile” states. terday ratified an accord that replaces vowing “nothing” and “no one” will stop that awarded Egypt veto power over Ethiopian Minister of Water and Energy colonial-era deals that awarded Egypt the dam’s construction. He downplayed upstream countries’ Nile projects. Sudan Alemayehu Tegenu told parliament that and Sudan the majority of the world’s the prospect of conflict, saying Egypt lead- and Egypt signed a deal in 1959 splitting Ethiopia made two bold decisions con- longest river. ers won’t go to war unless they “go mad.” the Nile waters between them without giv- cerning the dam. The first, he said, was to The vote comes amid a bout of verbal African Union head Nkosazana Dlamini ing other countries consideration. postpone ratification of the agreement by jousting between Ethiopia and Egypt after Zuma on Wednesday urged dialogue and The new cooperative agreement - a year to accommodate Egypt’s request for Ethiopia last month started to divert Nile cooperation between Ethiopia, Egypt and signed by Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, time until an elected government was in waters for a massive $4.2 billion hydro- Sudan. A 10-person Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia Uganda, Kenya and Burundi - aims to place. electric dam dubbed the Grand Ethiopian experts panel concluded that the dam will establish a commission to oversee Nile “The second one was to let experts, Renaissance Dam. Ethiopia’s growing not “significantly affect” water flow to projects. Congo and South Sudan, which including from Egypt and Sudan, inspect economy frequently suffers from power Egypt and Sudan, according to Ethiopian succeeded from Sudan in 2011, have our Renaissance Dam,” he said. “No other cuts and needs more electrical capacity. officials. Sudan said it accepts the outcome announced plans to join the new pact. country does this but we did it in coopera- But Egypt fears the dam will mean a dimin- of the finding and this week announced Eritrea is participating as an observer in the tion and friendly spirit. But we are seeing ished share of the Nile, which provides that it supports Ethiopia’s project. 10-nation Nile Basin Initiative. how our good intentions are being respond- almost all of the desert nation’s water Ethiopia’s 547-member parliament Egypt has previously said that it accepts ed to. We can no longer wait. We need to go needs. unanimously endorsed the new Nile River most of the new agreement. But it opposes ahead with the ratification.” After ratifying Egyptian politicians have suggested Cooperative Framework Agreement, an a clause saying member countries would the legislation, lawmakers called on the oth- attacks against Ethiopia to sabotage the accord already signed by five other Nile work to ensure “not to significantly affect er five signatory countries to follow suit. dam, and Egyptian President Mohammed River countries. the water security of any other Nile Basin Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam has been under Morsi on Monday warned that “all options The accord, sometimes referred to as State.” Egypt wanted the clause to say construction for two years on the Blue Nile are open” to challenge Ethiopia’s Nile proj- the Entebbe Agreement, is the product of countries would not “adversely affect the River in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz ect. Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam decade-long negotiations. It was conceived water security and current uses and rights region near Sudan. —AP Hardliners still split as Iran campaigning ends Rohani may show last-minute surge at today’s polls

DUBAI: Campaigning in Iran’s presidential discouraged by authorities, in favor of A high voter turnout might benefit election ended yesterday, a day before the Rohani in Tehran late into the night. Large Rohani, but more liberal Iranians likely to vote in which the sole moderate candidate rallies were also staged in the Iranian capital back the mid-ranking cleric are debating has an unlikely chance to steal victory from by supporters of hardline candidates. whether to vote at all, given their wide- his hardline rivals. Hardliners have failed to Rohani, best known for his conciliatory spread belief that the result will be fixed as agree on a unity candidate, potentially split- stance in nuclear talks with Western powers they say it was in 2009. Some middle-class ting their vote and improving the chances of between 2003 and 2005, could benefit from Iranians though, while not enthused about moderate cleric Hassan Rohani to progress his rivals’ failure to unite behind a single any of the candidates, may vote to try to to a run-off poll. hardline candidate even after months of stop a hardliner such as Jalili getting in. “Up The next president is not expected to trying. to today I had no intention of voting. I could- produce any major policy shift on Iran’s dis- Despite his endorsement by reformists n’t bring myself to, but now to anyone who puted nuclear program or its support for sidelined after 2009, Rohani is still very much asks, I say if I vote, I will vote for Rohani,” Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad since DUBAI: The Cayan tower (center), the world’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tallest twisted tower stands at Dubai’s Marina calls all the shots on the big issues. Yet all on June 11, 2013 in the United Arab Emirates, but one of the candidates - chief nuclear UAE. —AFP negotiator Saeed Jalili - has advocated a less intransigent approach to nuclear talks with world powers. The president can influence Dubai inaugurates the tone of Iran’s foreign policy with his choice of trips abroad. Khamenei, 73, never world’s tallest travels outside Iran. The president will also have the task of trying to fix an economy ‘twisted’ tower battered by intensifying international sanctions and soaring inflation fed by state subsi- DUBAI: Dubai has inaugurated the world’s tallest twisted dies and corruption. tower built at a cost of $272 million, setting a yet another Today’s presidential election is the first in record for skyscrapers and other engineering marvels. The Iran since 2009 when reformists said the 310-metre (1,017-foot), 75-storey residential Cayan Tower TEHRAN: Iranian couples sit in a restaurant in Valiasr street in northern vote had been rigged to ensure the re-elec- Tehran. —AFP is twisted at 90 degrees from top to bottom and was inau- tion of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, touching gurated earlier this week in Dubai Marina-a man-made off the biggest protests since the 1979 canal overlooking the Gulf. Developer Cayan Real Estate Islamic revolution. an establishment figure, though one less wrote another Iranian on Twitter. With no Investment and Development Company said 80 percent Khamenei is determined to see a less dogmatic and more open to conciliation independent, reliable opinion polls in Iran, it of its residential units have already been sold. troublesome, more compliant president, with the West. In an interview with the is hard to gauge the public mood, let alone Construction began in 2006, but was delayed due to analysts say, but above all no repeat of the Arabic newspaper Sharq Al Awsat published the extent to which Khamenei and the pow- major technical problems and the 2009 economic down- 2009 unrest that dented the Islamic yesterday, Rohani said Israel was behind a erful Revolutionary Guards will exert their turn in Dubai triggered by the global financial crisis. The Republic’s legitimacy. Consequently cam- campaign of disinformation to label influence over the ballot. tower was designed by Chicago-based Skidmore Owings paigning, which ended at 8 a.m. local time Tehran’s peaceful nuclear activities a The election of little-known Tehran may- and Merrill, the masterminds behind Burj Khalifa, which is on Thursday, has been tightly restricted and weapons program. or Ahmadinejad as president in 2005 took the world’s tallest tower and also in Dubai. The 828-metre subdued. But Rohani appeared to be show- “If I were to be elected president of the many by surprise and there is no telling (2,717-foot), 160-storey Burj Khalifa broke engineering and ing a last-minute surge with large crowds on country, I will reflect these beliefs through whether there will be a similar shock result architectural records when it opened in January 2010. the streets of the eastern holy city of regaining international trust and exposing this time round. In May 2012, Dubai opened the 413.4-metre (1,356- Mashhad for his final election gathering on these hidden motives,” he said. “The United Jalili has run a strong campaign, but has foot) Princess Tower, the world’s tallest residential build- Wednesday. States and its allies have to stop this deceit,” been heavily criticised, even by fellow hardlin- ing, according to the Guinness World Records website. “Rohani was amazing in yesterday’s rally. Rohani told the Saudi-owned newspaper. ers, for his intransigence in nuclear talks and And later in 2012, the emirate inaugurated the world’s It was a huge welcome and unprecedented He would judge U.S. President Barack for failing to stop the imposition of tough tallest hotel-the 355-metre (1,165-foot) twin tower JW in Mashhad,” wrote one supporter on Obama “by his actions, not his words” and new sanctions. He is alone among the candi- Marriott Marquis Dubai. —AFP Twitter. Pictures on social media showed called for sanctions to be lifted in order for dates in defending Iran’s current robust, ideo- what appeared to be sizeable public rallies, ties to improve. logically driven foreign policy. —Reuters International12 FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Turkey PM gives protesters ‘last warning’

ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister country against Erdogan and his point of two weeks of protests, let us clean Gezi park and return and “looters”, has faced interna- Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday Islamic-rooted government, seen prompting a day of violent clashes it to its rightful owners... the peo- tional condemnation over his issued a “last warning” for thou- as increasingly authoritarian after with tens of thousands of protest- ple of Istanbul,” Erdogan said, handling of the crisis. sands of protesters to evacuate an more than a decade in power. ers. The intervention fuelled fears urging environmental protesters Four people have been killed Istanbul park at the centre of mass Erdogan inflamed tensions on that the adjoining Gezi Park would to withdraw so that police could and nearly 5,000 demonstrators anti-government demos, ratchet- Tuesday, when riot police stormed be cleared next. clear the site of “illegal organiza- during the unrest, tarnishing ing up tensions in two weeks of Istanbul’s Taksim Square, the focal “Don’t sadden us anymore, tions”. The ultimatum came after Turkey’s image as a model of deadly unrest. Erdogan on Wednesday made Islamic democracy. The United A day after meeting with his first concession yet by offer- States said it had been following protest leaders and offering to ing to hold a popular vote on the events with “great concern” hold a referendum on plans to plans to build a replica of and cautioned the authorities in redevelop Gezi Park, Erdogan Ottoman-era military barracks in Turkey , a key regional ally, resumed his combative stance on the park. against seeking to punish the environmental protest that Demonstrators, many still demonstrators for exercising has morphed into the biggest reeling from Tuesday’s violence their right to free speech. challenge to his Islamic-rooted that sent clouds of acrid tear gas Overnight, police again fired government’s decade-long rule. into their tents, have reacted tear gas and water cannon to “I’m making my last warning: coolly to the referendum idea disperse some 2,000 demonstra- mothers, fathers please withdraw and criticized the government tors in the capital Ankara. your kids from there,” Erdogan for cherry-picking the represen- The mood was more subdued said in a live television broadcast. tatives invited to the talks. in Taksim, where demonstrators “Gezi Park does not belong to “We don’t agree (with the ref- gathered peacefully around a occupying forces. It belongs to erendum). We are angry that piano for a live concert, sporadi- everybody.” Tayyip spoke to people who cally chanting: “Everywhere is Demonstrators have been ISTANBUL: Anti-government protestors unfurl the don’t represent us,” said 29-year- Taksim, everywhere is resist- camping out in the park since May Turkish national flag in Taksim Gezi Park yesterday in old Iskender Sisman, sitting out- ance!” as riot police looked on. 31, when police cracked down side a tent in Gezi Park. “Tayyip By Thursday afternoon, there heavily on a small campaign to Istanbul after a large clean-up operation removed all must apologise for everything, was a much smaller police pres- save the site’s 600 trees from being evidence of unrest, the square cleared of of stray tear for the park, for the tear gas,” he ence on the square and traffic razed. The crackdown sparked an gas canisters, anti-Erdogan banners and makeshift added. Erdogan, who has brand- was flowing freely, with no sign outpouring of anger across the barricades. —AFP ed the protesters “extremists” of fresh protests. —AFP Qatar change may usher in little shift in policy Amir PM will not disappear from view

DOHA: A planned leadership change Brotherhood, the Islamist movement with preparations for the World Cup in that could see Qatar’s US-allied Amir whose influence has grown sharply in 2022 in full swing, much change in eventually ceding power to his son is the Arab world since revolts against domestic momentum was unlikely. unlikely to change the Gulf state’s taste autocratic rule began in early 2011, Michael Stephens, researcher at the for bold investments overseas and Partrick noted. Royal United Services Institute based in assertive support for Arab Spring But “Tamim is unlikely to want or to Doha, said he also expected little revolts. Analysts say Heir Apparent be able to deviate too far from the change because Sheikh Tamim had TUNIS: Tunisian rapper Ala Yaacoubi, better known Sheikh Tamim will probably pursue the rather more important US axis, even if been involved in drawing up domestic by his rap name “Weld El 15” (left), arrives for his trial policies of his father, under whose rule he continues to see Qatari weight as spending initiatives and setting their alongside Tunisian rapper Emino (right), at the court the US-allied gas exporter has become being achieved by befriending Islamists deadlines. in the Tunis suburb of Ben Arous yesterday. —AFP a force in global sports, media and busi- outside of his own country”, he said. “Given all the budget allocations ness and an enthusiastic political ally of Arab and Western diplomats said this that have been made, it would be Tunisia rapper ‘afraid’ the Muslim Brotherhood. week Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim was inconceivable that he could, or would, The current prime minister, Sheikh preparing to quit in a wider power undo all that work. With the way the ahead of trial Hamad Bin Jassim Al-Thani, 53, also reshuffle that might also see Sheikh country’s domestic plans have been expected to step down under the Tamim succeed the emir. set, you either put the break on, or go BEN AROUS: A Tunisian rapper who risks up to seven years in reported transition plan, will likely They expected the reshuffle to take forward; you can’t reverse the direction prison for insulting the police said he was “afraid” ahead of his remain head of the Qatar Investment one of two courses- either Sheikh of the ship,” he said. trial yesterday and criticized the authorities for not respecting Authority, providing continuity in a Tamim would replace Sheikh Hamad The country has embarked on a freedom of expression. “I am afraid because in a country like vital arm of state power. bin Jassim as the prime minister until $150 billion urban makeover that will Tunisia the law is not applied, you can expect anything,” said Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim has nego- he takes over as emir when his father transform the capital city over the next Ala Yaacoubi, better known by his nom de rap “Weld El 15.” tiated some of the fund’s most promi- eventually steps down, or the current decade, giving it a sprawling new air- The musician was handed a two-year jail sentence in absentia in March for posting a rap video called “The Police nent deals, including talks with Deputy Prime Minister, Ahmed al- port, metro system, seaport and hun- are Dogs” on the Internet. He is to be retried by the same Glencore’s chief last year when Qatar Mahmoud, would become the next dreds of kilometers (miles) of new court in the Tunis suburb of Ben Arous, following a decision to demanded better terms for backing the prime minister when Sheikh Hamad bin roads. turn himself after three months on the run. firm’s purchase of Xstrata. The compa- Jassim steps aside. No Qatari officials The emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa, “In the song, I used the same terms that the police used to nies eventually merged to create have commented on the reports. Eman seized power from his father in a blood- speak about the youth. The police have to respect citizens if Glencore Xstrata. Sheikh Tamim is 33, Ebed Alkadi of Eurasia Group consult- less coup in 1995. He and his second they want to be respected,” Yaacoubi said. young compared to other Gulf Arab ants wrote that she did not expect wife, Sheikha Mozah, have gained a “There is no reason or legal basis for putting me in prison,” rulers. But Neil Partrick, a Gulf security Qatari domestic priorities or its foreign reputation as modernisers and raised he added. The rapper’s lawyer Ghazi Mrabet said his client was expert who contributes to the London policies to change significantly with a the country’s profile significantly with charged with conspiracy to commit violence against public School of Economics Gulf Studies change of ruler. the launch of the Al Jazeera television officials, and insulting the police, offences punishable by up to Program, said the emir, Sheikh Hamad “... Tamim has controlled key policies network and initiating the country’s seven years in prison. bin Khalifa Al-Thani, would likely “exer- in Qatar for some time, and shares his successful World Cup bid. Delegation of “These crimes are unfounded, these articles in the penal cise considerable power over his rela- fathers’ views on political development duties to his son has steadily increased code do not apply to artistic production,” he argued. The tively inexperienced son”. Sheikh in Qatar and economic diversification.” over the past two years, with Sheikh singer is heard saying: “Police, magistrates, I’m here to tell you Tamim is understood to be genuinely National budgets had been agreed Tamim now publically referred to as the one thing, you dogs; I’ll kill police instead of sheep; Give me a enthusiastic about the Muslim up until 2016-2017, Alkadi wrote, and “Deputy Amir.” —Reuters gun I’ll shoot them.” —AFP International FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Mandela ‘responding well’ to treatment

JOHANNESBURG: Nelson In a statement, members of pital in the capital Pretoria in the Another resident of Mthatha, the 20th century. As an anti- Mandela has been “responding the cabinet wished the revered early hours of Saturday for a pul- Retselisitsoe Thethe, 29, said he apartheid revolutionary, Mandela well to treatment”, the South anti-apartheid icon a quick recov- monary condition that has felt Mandela should be allowed spent 27 years in prison during African government said yester- ery and said they were “pleased plagued him for years. President to die in peace. white racist rule, walking free in day, the frail former president’s that he is responding well to Jacob Zuma had told the country “They should just let him natu- 1990 before becoming South sixth day in hospital battling a treatment”. The 94-year-old elder on Wednesday that Mandela was rally die. They are keeping him Africa’s first black president four lung infection. statesman was admitted to hos- responding better to treatment alive but his body is tired,” he told years later. He has a long history of after “a difficult last few days”. AFP. “His spirit says yes, but his lung problems since being diag- It is Mandela’s fourth stay in body you know is dead,” he said. nosed with early-stage tuberculo- hospital since December, leading “It’s time now. We would really sis in 1988 while in prison. Friends to a growing acceptance that the appreciate to let him rest in have spoken of his failing memo- much loved father of the peace.” Members of Mandela’s ry, a far cry from the sharp-witted “Rainbow Nation” may be near- family, known for frequent inter- dancing statesman celebrated ing the end of his life. Despite the nal feuding, have been visiting all over the world. In December he more positive assessment of him regularly in a public display of underwent surgery to remove Mandela’s state of heath after the unity. Yesterday his youngest gallstones as he recovered from a government previously described daughter Zindzi visited the states- lung infection. Then in March he his condition as “serious but sta- man briefly. His wife Graca Machel was admitted for a scheduled ble”, concerns remained among has been at his bedside almost overnight check-up. South Africans. “I don’t trust the constantly since calling off a trip Two months ago he was disinformation that I’m hearing to London last week. charged after treatment for pneu- because they say he’s in a stable His eldest daughter Zenani, monia. Mandela, who turns 95 condition but a bad condition,” who is South Africa’s ambassador next month, has not been seen in said Anele Ndabeni, 28, a resident to Argentina, as well as his daugh- public since the World Cup final in of the city Mthatha in the Eastern ter Makaziwe and his ex-wife South Africa in July 2010. He Cape province close to Mandela’s Winnie Madikizela-Mandela have appeared frail and distant in a rural home village of Qunu. visited him almost daily. The fami- much-criticized April video show- JOHANNESBURG: Children walk in front of a year old mural “They should tell the public ly said on Wednesday it was ing Zuma and other members of outside former South African President Nelson Mandela’s and stop hiding what they’re say- “deeply touched” by the world- the ruling African National former Alexandra township residence in Johannesburg yes- ing. I think there’s something wide support for the man consid- Congress visiting Mandela at his terday.—AP bad, but I’m not sure what it is.” ered one of the greatest figures of Johannesburg home. — AFP Cyprus TV host gets life in mafia-style mogul killing NICOSIA: A glamorous TV host, her brother and Hadjigeorgiou admitted to his part in the crime two others were sentenced to life in prison yester- then turned state’s witness to give evidence day after being found guilty of the mafia-style mur- against the other four. The defense argued his testi- der of a Cypriot media boss in a case that shocked mony was not credible. the island. During the three-year trial the court heard the Media tycoon Andis Hadjicostis, 42, was TV journalist and her brother ordered the hit on gunned down outside his home near the heavily Hadjicostis for a 50,000-euro ($60,000) fee. And in guarded US embassy on January 11, 2010. The mil- return those who successfully carried out the task lionaire was shot twice from close range and died would also be given jobs at the station. A detailed instantly. Elena Skordelli, a 42-year-old mother of list of the amount of shares purchased by the sib- two, her brother Tassos Krasopoulis, 37, Andreas lings in the media group Sigma Radio TV was also Gregoriou, a 33-year-old meat supplier and revealed during the lengthy trial. plumber Grigoris Xenophontos, 29, were all found The criminal court heard that they purchased a guilty of the contract killing. Under Cyprus law, pre- 20-odd percent stake holding in the media compa- meditated murder carries an automatic life sen- ny owned by the victim’s family for over three mil- tence. lion euros. A large crowd gathered outside the Nicosia What evolved was a story of revenge as courthouse for the climax of the trail, with scuffles Skordelli had lost her job at Sigma and she held breaking out between police and relatives and Hadjicostis responsible. Prosecutors said the chat- friends of the accused. The three-judge criminal show presenter hatched the plot to kill her ex-boss- court based its decision on the testimony given by the scion of an influential family-in a conspiracy to NICOSIA: The mother (center) and father (left) of key prosecution witness Fanos Hadjigeorgiou-the take control of his media empire. Cypriot media boss Andis Hadjicostis leave the court self-confessed getaway motorbike driver. The high profile case has both scandalized and with their driver (right) after hearing the verdict for the “The testimony of key prosecution witness fascinated Cypriots in equal measure. Media bosses murder of their son at the court in Nicosia, the capital Fanos Hadjigeorgiou is not only true but emanates wield great influence on the island where there is of the eastern Mediterranean island, yesterday. (Inset) from his desire to tell the whole truth to investiga- also a high regard for journalists in general and Cypriot TV anchor Elena Skordelli — AFP tors,” said the 380-page court verdict. where attacks on public figures are rare. — AFP Tsvangirai rejects July 31 poll date S Africa vows to return HARARE: Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan before any poll to ensure it was fair. An hour Tsvangirai yesterday rejected a plan by before Tsvangirai’s comments, Mugabe fast- Gaddafi assets to Libya President Robert Mugabe to hold an election on tracked changes to electoral laws by using a July 31, accusing his rival of breaking the consti- presidential decree to by-pass parliament in a JOHANNESBURG: South Africa will return funds closely controlled by Gaddafi. South tution and fomenting a political crisis in the bid to comply with a constitutional court order assets and cash stashed by the slain Libyan dic- Africa’s treasury said the assets will be returned southern African nation. Tsvangirai said to hold elections by July 31. tator Muammar Gaddafi in the country after in line with UN rules. South African media last Zimbabwe could hold an election no earlier than He has been pushing for early elections, say- reaching an agreement with Tripoli, the finance week reported that Libyan investigators had Aug. 25, adding that Mugabe, his partner in a ing the unity government has outlived its tenure. ministry said yesterday. approached the treasury with evidence that the factious unity government, was violating a pow- But Tsvangirai said he would not accept a situa- The two governments agreed on “the repa- assets were held by four local banks and two er-sharing agreement set up after bloody and tion in which Zimbabweans were “railroaded” triation from South Africa of Libyan funds” that security companies. disputed polls five years ago. into “another illegitimate election”. Tsvangirai are thought to include diamonds and gold “The decision was informed by the fact that “Mugabe is deliberately precipitating a con- and his Movement for Democratic Change want worth more than $1 billion. The assets were the government of Libya established a single stitutional crisis,” Tsvangirai told a news confer- to open up broadcast media to all parties and placed in South Africa by the Libya Investment body in 2012 to coordinate the repatriation of ence. He reiterated his view that the state media impose a code of conduct to stop the army and Authority, the Libya Africa Investment Portfolio assets to Libya,” the South African government and security forces needed to be reformed police meddling in the vote. — Reuters and the Libya Africa Investment Company said.—AFP International FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

G8 summit to press Russia on Syria BERLIN: Britain and Germany aim to use next Lebanon, said the official, who briefed reporters week’s summit of major economic powers to on condition of anonymity in line with govern- press Russia’s leader to use his leverage with the ment rules. Syria’s upwardly spiraling violence government of President Bashar Assad to calm has resulted in the confirmed killings of almost the fighting in Syria. Leaders at the G8 meeting 93,000 people since March 2011, the United starting Monday will push President Vladimir Nations’ human rights office said Thursday, but it Putin, “who has a special responsibility and a said the real number is likely to be far higher. particular influence to contribute to a de-escala- Russia has shielded Assad from UN sanctions and tion as (Syria’s) weapons supplier,” a senior has continued to provide his regime with German official said yesterday. weapons. Moscow has said it’s only providing The issue has become more urgent because arms such as air defense missile systems to proof the “increasingly sectarian character” of the tect Syria from a foreign invasion. civil war, pitching Shia and Sunni Muslims British Prime Minister David Cameron will be against each other, including the increased role meeting Putin in London on Sunday for talks on of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia fighting alongside Syria, ahead of the two-day G8 summit in PARIS: French President Francois Hollande leaves with the ruler of Syrian government forces, the official said. Northern Ireland, and has pledged to have Dubai Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum after their meet- The worsening situation also increasingly frank and open discussions with the Russian ing at the Elysee Palace in Paris yesterday. —AP threatens to destabilize neighboring Iraq and leader. — AP New Irish abortion Serbia readies flood defenses bill, after PM sent letters in blood as Danube nears record high DUBLIN: Ireland published a draft new abortion bill yesterday after Prime Minister Enda Kenny said he had received Army on standby, weekend settlements evacuated plastic foetuses and letters written in blood claiming he is BEZDAN, Serbia: Water levels in the a murderer. Serbian stretch of the Danube river The parliamentary bill was published ahead of the neared a 50-year high yesterday as release later in the day of a long-awaited report into why the Balkan country braced for a wave an Indian-born dentist who was miscarrying died after of floods that have already ravaged being refused an abortion in an Irish hospital. The death of parts of central Europe. Authorities Savita Halappanavar, 31, in October ignited calls for the stressed they did not expect the kind new legislation in Ireland, a predominantly Catholic coun- of damage seen in Germany, Austria, try. The new legislation is aimed at clarifying the rules that Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic legalise abortions in exceptional cases where doctors and Hungary, where at least a dozen deem it necessary to save a woman’s life.Abortion is cur- people died and tens of thousands rently illegal in Ireland except if there is a substantial risk to fled their homes. the mother’s life but there has been much confusion about The army was placed on standby implementing it. Kenny said he had received a barrage of and dozens of people were evacuated insults over the legislation. from mainly weekend settlements on “I am getting medals, scapulars, plastic foetuses, letters the banks of the Danube in Serbia’s written in blood, telephone calls all over the system,” he told northern Vojvodina province, border- parliament on Wednesday. “I am now being branded by per- ing Hungary and Croatia. Croatia, too, sonnel around the country as being a murderer, and that I said it was taking “preventive meas- am going to have on my soul the death of 20 million babies.” ures” to cope with the impact of the Kenny said he was a Catholic but he was proud to be a swell. “Dikes have been checked, all Taoiseach, or prime minister, for all the Irish people. — AFP teams are at potential hotspots, mov- able barriers and pumps are in place,” Predrag Maric, the head of the Serbian Interior Ministry’s emergencies France gambles department, told Reuters. “It will be tense until Saturday,” he said. on Syrian rebels In the northern region of Bezdan, the Danube reached 752 centimetres PARIS: It’s a warm day on the Turkish-Syrian border. (25 feet), just below its 1965 high of France’s recently recalled ambassador to Syria is incognito 776 centimetres. Bane Bozanic, an with his deputy and a security agent. After checking the sur- engineer with the state hydro-meteo- roundings are clear, the diplomat pulls out a stash of brown rological institute at the scene, said Houses near Halasztelek submerged by the floods from the Danube river. envelopes stuffed with thousands of dollars. The recipients Yugoslav-era dikes had been doubled Central Europe still battles floods that have left 19 dead, forced thousands are ‘viable’ rebels operating in zones no longer under in height and reinforced in the 1950s. to evacuate and caused billions of euros in damage. — AFP President Bashar al-Assadís control. The scene last “They built them five decades ago and September, recounted by French officials, could have come they’re still holding all this water,” he from a spy film. Now Assadís forces appear to be regaining said. “It (the river) peaked this morn- the upper hand on the battlefield. ing and this is the highest it will go.” Queen’s portrait in The change in the balance of power is causing alarm in Severe flooding would hit the frag- Westminster Abbey defaced Western and Arab capitals. Having clamoured for Assad to ile Serbian economy, which is heavily step aside, none of his foes are ready to take the risk of pro- dependent on agriculture mainly in LONDON: A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on display at Westminster Abbey viding anti-aircraft or anti-tank weapons that could tilt the the northern plains of Vojvodina. But has been defaced with paint. The abbey says the painting by Ralph balance. With the opposition fragmented, the West fears with the swell losing steam, Serbia on Heimans hanging in the building’s Chapter House was vandalized at that weapons could fall into the wrong hands, notably al Wednesday turned down an offer of lunchtime yesterday. Qaeda-backed militants and the Islamist Nusra Front, and 1,000 troops from northern neighbor It has been removed from public view until it can be restored. The portrait wants ‘guarantees’ from opposition fighters before provid- Hungary to help in the flood effort. by Australia-born artist Heimans was commissioned to mark last year’s ing the arms. With cast iron guarantees unlikely and time Maric said the Serbian military was anniversary of the queen’s 60 years on the throne. It was on display until running out, the way France has developed its networks in ready to act. “It’s our assessment that March in Australia’s National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Last week the Syria since the uprising started more than two years ago we don’t need them right now, but monarch attended a ceremony in the abbey to mark the 60th anniversary of they have machinery and teams at the offers an idea of how Western powers may assess future mil- her coronation there in June 1953. — AP itary help. — Reuters ready,” he said. — Reuters International FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

Maoist rebel attack on train in India kills 3

PATNA: Dozens of suspected rebels and fled, Bhardwaj told the guards’ weapons as the sus- statement that civilians should Indian states for more than 40 Maoist rebels fired at a passenger reporters. pected rebels took two guns. The never be military targets. Last years, and claim inspiration from train passing through their The dead were a security train carrying 1,500 people later month, nearly 200 suspected Chinese revolutionary leader Mao stronghold in eastern India yes- guard and two passengers, he resumed its journey. Maoist rebels set off a land mine Zedong. They demand land and terday, killing three people and said. Two other people, including India’s junior Home Minister and opened fire on a convoy of jobs for impoverished tribal com- injuring two others, police said. the other train driver, suffered RPN Singh denounced the attack cars carrying local leaders and munities they say are ignored by The attackers, estimated to be bullet wounds, Bhardwaj said. and said it was unfortunate that supporters of India’s ruling the government. about 100, surrounded the train Police officer Abhyanand, who Maoists had started targeting Congress party after a political India’s Prime Minister near Jamui, a small town 230 kilo- uses only one name, said the trains and political rallies and rally in Chhattisgarh state, also in Manmohan Singh has called the meters (140 miles) southeast of attackers fled into a forested area killing people in a barbaric man- the country’s east. The attack left rebels India’s biggest internal Patna, the Bihar state capital, after security guards on the train ner. 28 dead and 24 others hurt. security threat. They operate in police officer S K Bhardwaj said. fired back. The Asian Centre for Human Thursday’s attack was also in a 20 of India’s 28 states and have One of the two drivers stopped Bhardwaj said the motive of Rights condemned the attack “as known stronghold of rebels who thousands of fighters, according the train on seeing the suspected the attack appeared to be to loot an act of terrorism,” saying in a have been fighting in several to the Home Ministry. — AP Goa state seeks to limit outside landowners CM raises concerns with premier PANAJI: The Indian tourism state of involves non-agricultural land. But the Goa’s houses are vacant and are most Goa is seeking to restrict the sale of area has also become an increasingly likely second homes. land to outsiders who flock to the popular spot for retirement and holiday Citing the latest census data, coastal belt to set up retirement and homes for Indians from outside Goa. Parrikar said one third of Goa’s 1.6 mil- holiday homes due to a rising tide of “This has led to a huge boom in lion residents are migrants from else- newcomers. Lawmakers fear the local building activities in the state in the where, with only 51 percent of the HYDERABAD: Indian students of the Telangana Joint ethnic population will become a minor- last 10 years or so,” Parrikar said, point- state speaking its official Konkani lan- Action Committee (T-JAC) throw stones at police pre- ity by the year 2021, pointing to the ing out that more than 20 percent of guage. — AFP venting the students from marching to the ‘Assembly’ number of migrants moving to the former Portuguese colony. during a pro-Telangana protest in Hyderabad yester- Goa’s Chief Minister Manohar day.—AFP Parrikar led a delegation from the state to the national capital New Delhi on India mulls special Wednesday to express concerns to the central government and request spe- session on food bill cial powers to restrict land sales. A memorandum submitted by NEW DELHI: India’s government is considering calling a spe- Parrikar to Prime Minister Manmohan cial session of parliament to pass a populist but hugely expen- Singh, and seen by AFP, said that “the sive bill to provide subsidized food to millions of people, a top unrestricted immigration and whole- minister said yesterday. scale transfer of land is beginning to The landmark Food Security Bill, approved by cabinet in submerge the unique Goan identity”. 2011, would provide subsidized rice, wheat and millet to more “Though we have been noticing this than 700 million Indians. The bill is seen as a vote winner for trend in the last decade or so, it has the ruling Congress party ahead of elections due by next year, now reached menacing proportions. but critics say the measure will further strain the country’s The apprehension is that by 2021 the troubled finances. Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the migrant population will outnumber the government would meet members of the opposition shortly local Goans,” it said. to see “whether they will cooperate in passing the bill in a Goa, with its long sandy beaches special session of parliament”. and laid-back atmosphere, has been a “If that support is forthcoming, the bill will be passed in a haven for tourists since the days of the special session of parliament based upon the response of the hippie trail in the 1960s and 1970s. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan gestures main opposition parties,” he told reporters in New Delhi after In recent years the southwestern a cabinet meeting. “We would like to pass the bill as early as state has stopped signing sale deeds to supporters on his way to the airport for Islamabad, in Lahore yesterday. possible.” Opposition parties have attacked the Congress-led for foreigners seeking properties, Khan arrived in Islamabad after doctors cleared him for travel. Khan was government for attempting to push the bill, saying there has although it is technically allowed if they injured when he fell off a forklift during election campaigning in Lahore on not been enough discussion of its impact on farmers and con- have business visas and the sale May 7.— AFP sumers. Rajnath Singh, head of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, said it would be “undemocratic” if the government tried to push through the bill without a parliamentary Kerry to visit Pakistan this month debate. “We definitely would like the Food Security Bill to be ISLAMABAD: US Secretary of State once they had been finalized. US ning the May 11 election, Sharif told passed in the upcoming monsoon session of the parliament John Kerry is to visit Pakistan this officials previously said Kerry would foreign journalists that he would with some amendments,” he told reporters. The measure, month for the first time since taking visit once the new government was extend “full support” to the United which government officials have said would increase the office, Islamabad said yesterday. in place. States as it withdraws combat annual subsidy bill by 1.1 trillion rupees ($19 billion), is considered key to the Congress-led coalition’s fortunes ahead of It is the most senior foreign visit Pakistan and the United States troops from Afghanistan by next elections. Food prices have soared in India over the last seven to be announced since Nawaz Sharif are key allies in the war in year. Pakistani-US relations nose- years, causing increased hardship for the 455 million people was sworn in as Pakistani prime Afghanistan and the fight against dived in 2011 after US Navy SEALs estimated by the World Bank to live below the poverty line. minister after May elections. “US Al-Qaeda, but relations can be tracked down and killed Osama bin Critics of the bill say India can ill afford such a costly sub- Secretary of State John Kerry will be strained. US drone strikes targeting Laden in the northwestern town of sidy at a time of slowing economic growth, galloping inflation visiting Pakistan in the last week of Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives in Abbottabad in May. and a yawning budget deficit. The bill will target 75 percent of June,” Pakistani foreign ministry northwest Pakistan are publicly the For seven months Pakistan also the rural population and up to 50 percent of the urban popu- spokesman Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry greatest sticking point. cut off NATO overland supply lines lation, providing a monthly supply of between three kilos told a weekly press briefing. Kerry earlier this month defend- into Afghanistan after botched US (seven pounds) and seven kilos of grain per person, depend- He said the specific dates of ed the strikes although Sharif has air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers ing on need and priorities. —AFP Kerry’s visit would be announced called for them to end. After win- near the Afghan border. — AFP International FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Briton tells of terrifying Indonesia kidnap ordeal Abductors free Primrose without ransom PARSI PUTIH, Indonesia: A shaken British immediately agree to pay, they simply are providing consular assistance.” energy worker told yesterday of his terrify- gave up and released her husband later East Aceh district police chief Muhajir ing ordeal at the hands of kidnappers in that evening. Primrose, in his early 60s, is said he had picked up the Briton after he the restive Indonesian province of Aceh. originally from Scotland but has not lived was discovered alone at a security check- Malcolm Primrose was abducted on there for many years. His kidnap sparked a point in the plantation. Security forces Tuesday by a group of armed men who huge search by security forces, with more were still hunting for the kidnappers, he stopped his car as he was being driven to a than 150 police and soldiers deployed. added. Primrose had been working as a work site in East Aceh district at around Provincial police spokesman Gustav Leo sub-contractor for a subsidiary of 11:00 am (0400 GMT). He was released late said Primrose was freed in the middle of a Indonesian oil and gas company Medco DENPASER BALI: Colombian Vice Minister of Foreign Wednesday after his captors’ demands for palm oil plantation in the Perlak area of Energi Internasional. He had been working Affairs Monica Lanzetta ( second left), Brunei’s Minister ransom were not swiftly met, and picked East Aceh and was in good health. A on a drilling project to explore for gas in of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Bolkiah (center) and up early yesterday by police in a palm oil spokesman for the British embassy in the jungles of resource-rich Aceh and Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (right) plantation in the same district. Jakarta said: “We are delighted to confirm Tuesday was meant to be his last day in the arrive for the FEALAC conference in Nusa Dua on Struggling to hold back tears, Primrose that Malcolm Primrose has been released. province, according to a source familiar Indonesia’s resort island of Bali yesterday.— AFP said: “It’s an experience that I don’t think Embassy officials are with Mr Primrose and with the case. —AFP anybody should have to go through. You don’t know if you are ever going to see Pakistani charged your family again.” “Excuse me if I am a little bit emotional,” with US he told reporters at a press conference at the police station in Parsi Putih village in East Aceh, sitting alongside his Indonesian pastor murder wife. “I can only thank God that everything turned out all right.” Wearing blue work KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian court yesterday charged a Pakistani overalls and a traditional patterned security guard with the murder of a US pastor, who was found stran- Indonesian scarf, the drilling supervisor gled at his home in Kuala Lumpur last month, a report said. David added he was thankful his captors “didn’t James Ginter, 62, was found dead in his home on the outskirts of the hurt me in any way”. “Whilst I was afraid, Malaysian capital in May, his hands and feet bound, and a mobile they didn’t hurt me, they fed me,” he said. phone charger cable wrapped around his neck. A Kuala Lumpur dis- He added that when they released him, the trict court charged Shahbaz, 25, with the murder, which carries a kidnappers showed him the way to the mandatory death penalty by hanging, Bernama news agency report- area where he was eventually picked up by ed, adding that four accomplices were believed to still be at large. It police. His wife Nurasiah described how said the defendant was recorded as having only one name and that the kidnappers called her initially to no plea was recorded. The next court date was set for July 18. demand a ransom of one billion rupiah The report gave no further details, such as a possible motive. ($100,000). When she tried to negotiate, Freed kidnap victim British energy worker Malcolm Primrose (right) and Court officials and prosecutors could not be reached by AFP. Ginter they raised it to five billion. She said they his Indonesian wife, Inur appear at a press conference at East Aceh district had been a senior pastor at the Bridge International Church in Kuala called back later with a lower demand of police station after he was released unharmed by unidentified kidnappers Lumpur for three years. Police previously cited robbery as a possible 250 million rupiah. When she did not yesterday.—AFP motive, noting that the pastor’s car was missing from his house. Reports of burglaries and violent crime have surged in recent years in the Muslim-majority country. Police say statistics show they have managed to reduce crime, but In first response to Snowden, anecdotes of break-ins, bag-snatching and violent crimes abound in the press and social media, fuelling widespread doubt about official China skirts direct comment crime figures. — AFP BEIJING: China refused to be drawn yester- week of the agency’s programs to monitor news briefing, in China’s first official Fukushima official day on revelations of US electronic surveil- data at big companies such as Google Inc response to questions about the case. lance and on the American in Hong Kong and Facebook Inc. “China will not take a clear-cut stand Twitter tirade who leaked the information, and a senior He told Hong Kong’s South China now,” said a source with ties to China’s lead- source said Beijing does not want to jeop- Morning Post newspaper on Wednesday ership, noting that the presidents of the two under fire in Japan ardize recently improved ties with that the US government had been hacking nations held a successful summit less than a Washington. into Hong Kong and mainland Chinese com- week ago. TOKYO: A public official charged with helping victims of Japan’s China has been on a long holiday since puters for years. “We have seen the relevant “China will not become involved at this nuclear disaster who launched a foul-mouthed Twitter tirade National Security Agency (NSA) contractor reports, but I regret that I have no informa- stage and will wait for things to develop,” faced calls to quit yesterday. Edward Snowden told Britain’s Guardian tion to give you on this,” Foreign Ministry the source told Reuters, requesting In a posting on the micro-blogging site Yasuhisa Mizuno said newspaper and the Washington Post last spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular anonymity to avoid political repercussions citizen groups demanding measures to protect people against for speaking to a foreign reporter. radiation were “lefty shit”, a report said. “I can’t help but only feel “China is likely to refrain from using pity for their lack of intelligence,” he wrote, under the handle harsh words against the United States now. @jp1tej. Americans and the rest of the world are The Tweets, which had been deleted by Thursday, were already criticising the United States.” Hua, reported by the Mainichi newspaper. Reconstruction minister the spokeswoman, also refused comment Takumi Nemoto, who oversees the agency employing Mizuno, on any possible extradition request from the apologized for the remarks, and hinted action would be taken. “In United States or any move by Snowden to terms of reprimand, we want to take this case appropriately seek asylum in Hong Kong, which has a based on results of our probe,” he said. Opposition parties round- large degree of autonomy but answers to ed on the remarks, and called on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Beijing on diplomatic matters. Cyber securi- sack the official. “We strongly demand the dismissal of the recon- ty is a major irritant between China and the struction agency councillor who used abusive language on United States and was one of the main top- Twitter,” Socialist leader Mizuho Fukushima said. “We request the ics on the agenda at the first summit Abe cabinet and the reconstruction agency build a system to help between President Xi Jinping and President (victims).” More than 18,000 people were killed when an enor- Barack Obama, held last week. Hua did not mous tsunami crashed into Japan in March 2011 after a huge directly comment on the allegations, repeat- undersea earthquake. The waters swamped cooling systems at ing China’s long-held position that it is one the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, sending reactors into melt- INCHEON: South Korean soldiers with their machine guns jump out of a mil- of the world’s biggest victims of hacking down. Tens of thousands of people were forced to leave their itary truck during an anti-terror drills ahead of the 4th Asian Indoor and and noted that Washington and Beijing had homes by the spreading radiation, with some expected never to Martial Arts Games Incheon, which starts from the end of June, in Incheon, agreed to discuss the issue.— Reuters be able to return. —AFP west of Seoul, yesterday.—AP International FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 US whites now losing majority among babies Rural US loses population for first time: Census

WASHINGTON: For the first time, achieve this goal,” said Timothy Smeeding, spots for baby boomers. America’s racial and ethnic minorities now an economics professor at the University The new estimates, as of July 2012, make up about half of the under-5 age of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in show that would-be retirees are opting to group, the government said yesterday. It’s income inequality. “This specter of stay put in urban areas near jobs. Recent a historic shift that shows how young people are at the forefront of sweeping changes by race and class. WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama shakes hands The new census estimates, a snapshot with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Oval of the US population as of July 2012, Office of the White House in Washington. The White comes a year after the Census Bureau House says Obama has spoken with Abe about North reported that whites had fallen to a minor- Korea’s nuclear program and a territorial dispute with ity among babies. Fueled by immigration China. —AP and high rates of birth, particularly among Hispanics, racial and ethnic minorities are now growing more rapidly in numbers White House lawyer than whites. Based on current rates of growth, whites in the under-5 group are replacing CIA deputy expected to tip to a minority this year or next, Thomas Mesenbourg, the Census WASHINGTON: CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell is stepping Bureau’s acting director, said. down and being replaced by White House lawyer Avril Haines, The government also projects that in who will be the first woman to hold the post. five years, minorities will make up more When President Barack Obama named a successor to former than half of children under 18. Not long CIA Director David Petraeus in January, Morell was passed over in after, the total US white population will favor of the White House counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan. begin an inexorable decline in absolute Morell had been acting director since Petraeus’ resignation. numbers, due to aging baby boomers. FERNLEY: Tom Moore rides through downtown Fernley, Nevada, with his Morell, 54, announced his retirement Wednesday, saying he The imminent tip to a white minority daughters, Bridget and Meara. In a reversal of fortunes due to the recent will leave his CIA post Aug. 9. The White House announced he among young children adds a racial recession, rural America is now losing population, in towns like Fernley, for has been appointed to the President’s Intelligence Advisory dimension to government spending on Board, a group of mostly retired intelligence officers who advise the first time, because of waning interest among millions of baby boomers early-childhood education, such as in moving to far-flung locations for retirement and recreation. —AP the president on intelligence policy. President Barack Obama’s proposal to sig- “While I have given everything I have to the Central nificantly expand pre-kindergarten for unequal opportunity may be the biggest weakness in the economy means some Intelligence Agency and its vital mission for a third of a century, it lower-income families. The nation’s demo- negative social outcome of the continuing boomers have less savings than a decade is now time for me to give everything I have to my family,” Morell graphic changes are already stirring dis- American inequality boom.” ago to buy a vacation home in the coun- said in a statement released Wednesday by the agency. cussion as to whether some civil rights-era The gap between rich and poor in the tryside, which often becomes a full-time Morell is retiring after 33 years at the CIA, including two stints programs, such as affirmative action in col- US has now stretched to its widest since residence after retirement. Cities are also as acting director - during the last stint he managed the fallout lege admissions, should be retooled to 1970, making opportunities to reach the boosting urban living, a potential draw for inside the agency after Petraeus resigned over an extramarital focus more on income rather than race middle class increasingly difficult. boomers who may prefer to age closer to affair. Morell ordered an internal investigation into his former and ethnicity. The Supreme Court will rule Rural America is losing population for accessible health care. boss’ conduct that is ongoing. on the issue this month. the first time ever, largely because of wan- About 46.2 million people, or 15 per- “I was most looking forward to ... the opportunity to work Studies show that gaps in achievement ing interest among baby boomers in mov- cent of the US population, reside in rural side-by-side once again with Michael Morell,” said Brennan, not- by both race and class begin long before ing to far-flung locations for retirement counties, which spread across 72 percent ing that they’d begun their careers at the CIA in 1980. “As much college, suggesting that US remedies to and recreation, according to new census of the nation’s land area. From 2011 to as I would selfishly like to keep Michael right where he is for as foster equal opportunity will need to estimates. Long weighed down by dwin- 2012, those non-metro areas lost more long as possible, he has decided to retire to spend more time reach earlier into a child’s life. dling populations in farming and coal than 40,000 people, a 0.1 percent drop. with his family and to pursue other professional opportunities.” “The educational system is likely to be communities and the movement of young The Census Bureau reported a minuscule Haines, 43, has been a White House deputy assistant and the most widely used and most accept- people to cities, rural counties are being 0.01 percent loss from 2010 to 2011, but deputy counsel for national security affairs since 2010. Before able policy tool we have for equalizing life hit by sputtering growth in retirement and that was not considered statistically signif- that, she was assistant legal adviser for treaty affairs at the State chances. But it does not seem so far to recreation areas, once residential hot icant and could be adjusted later. —AP Department, according to a White House statement.—AP If US does not arm Syria rebels, Arabs, EU may

WASHINGTON: Among the con- chemical weapons use by the gov- to their patrons and undercutting for months, while European states that in various ways over the com- sequences facing US President ernment have all triggered a re- efforts to develop a unified rebel such as Britain and France have ing weeks and months in order to Barack Obama if he decides evaluation of US policy. front. “If there is no (US) decision made clear they are considering make it more likely that we can against arming Syria’s rebels is Next week’s Group of Eight this week, I think other actors will doing so as well. Under their pres- achieve a political solution in that Arab and European states summit will give Obama a chance act. The Arabs can’t afford to lose sure, the European Union allowed Syria,” he told a news conference may step in more aggressively, to discuss options with leaders of Syria,” said a diplomat who spoke its arms embargo to expire, free- with US Secretary of State John perhaps further fracturing rebel Britain, France and Russia and on condition of anonymity. “If we ing them to provide weaponry. Kerry. forces. could influence any decision to don’t act ... you’re going to end up In Washington on Wednesday, The United States has balked Having watched government arm the rebels or otherwise do with Arab arms and Euro arms British Foreign Secretary William at giving weapons to the anti- forces seize the strategic town of more to support them. Diplomats being provided,” said Aaron David Hague hinted at the possibility of Assad forces in part because of Qusair from the rebels last week, and analysts said if Obama choos- Miller, a former senior State doing more to support the rebels, close links between some of the Obama’s senior national security es not to arm the rebels, or to take Department official now at the although he did not provide rebels and al Qaeda and the fear advisers have held a series of a more active role in coordinating Woodrow Wilson Center for details. “We’ve met several times that the arms could end up being meetings on what more, if any- the flows of arms and money from International Scholars think tank ... to coordinate our actions and used against Western targets and thing, they are willing to do to others, he may find states such as in Washington. our diplomacy and our support for US allies such as Israel. help the opposition. Saudi Arabia and Qatar pouring in “The logical consequence will the (opposition),” he said of the But Western diplomats said The fall of Qusair, signs that the even more money and materiel. be to accelerate the degree of ... core “Friends of Syria” group, 11 representatives would be meeting military balance may be tipping in The danger, they said, is that dysfunction, the lack of organiza- nations including the United Free Syrian Army commander favor of President Bashar al-Assad, this could accelerate a trend in tion that (already) exists among States and its European and Salim Idriss - seen as a moderate the entry of Lebanese Hezbollah which outside powers arm and these groups,” he added. Arms regional allies. who is trusted by US officials - on fighters on his side, and the grow- fund preferred militants in Syria, and funding from Gulf Arab states “We will continue to do that, Saturday in Turkey to discuss posing credence of allegations of creating client militias beholden have flowed to the Syrian rebels and we may well have to intensify sible new aid.— Reuters International FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Massive storm surges toward Mid-Atlantic Widespread destruction, power outages forecast

WASHINGTON: A massive storm system developed. And Greg Carbin of the our restaurant was,” Abel said. His wife originally forecast to affect one in five National Weather Service’s Storm and an employee were able to get out of Americans from Iowa to Maryland surged Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said, the restaurant and sought shelter in a yesterday toward the Mid-Atlantic after “With each hour that goes by, it’s less like- basement. causing widespread power outages but ly.” While the Midwest dodged a derecho, In Iowa, at least two businesses and a largely failing to live up to its billing in several tornadoes, large hail and flooding home were damaged, authorities said. A ferocity through the Upper Midwest. did some damage. storm ripped through a farm in rural The Washington, DC, area braced for In the small town of Belmond, Iowa, Alexander, destroying a motor home. Tens the storms and the National Weather about 90 miles north of Des Moines, of thousands of people across the Upper An aerial view of the cooling units at the NSA’s Utah Service issued severe thunderstorm Duwayne Abel, owner of Cattleman’s Midwest lost power. In Wisconsin, authori- Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah. — AP watches and warnings for much of the Steaks & Provisions restaurant, said a tor- ties said thunderstorms packing heavy region. Forecasters warned the storms nado demolished part of the building. No rain and high winds caused a Wal-Mart could produce damaging winds and large one was in the restaurant at the time. “I roof to partially collapse. Lake Delton Fire NSA head: Spy hail and a flash flood watch was in effect. was, oh, 8 miles west of town and I looked Chief Darren Jorgenson says two employ- State and local officials warned resi- toward town and I could see a funnel ees had minor injuries, but no customers programs foiled dents to prepare for the storms and possi- cloud, having no idea it was exactly where were hurt.—AP ble power outages. Power companies said they were preparing for storm response. terror attacks Storms with swift, straight-line winds soaked parts of Ohio, damaging trees and WASHINGTON: Once-secret surveillance programs were cru- barns and leaving many without power cial in enabling the US government to thwart dozens of terror- early yesterday as commuters dodged fall- ist attacks, says the director of the National Security Agency in en branches on roads and faced backups a forceful defense of spy operations that have stirred fears of at intersections where traffic lights were government snooping and violations of privacy rights. Army out. Gen Keith Alexander, in his first congressional testimony since Straight-line winds topping 70 mph disclosure of the secretive programs, offered few details on were reported and more than two dozen Wednesday about the disrupted terror plots but asserted that tornado warnings were issued as two the two government programs - they have collected millions rounds of storms pummeled the state, but of telephone records and kept tabs on Internet activity - were no twisters have been confirmed, said imperative in the terror fight. Phillip Johnson, who was part of the team The director of national intelligence has declassified some monitoring developments for the Ohio details on two thwarted attacks - Najibullah Zazi’s foiled plot Emergency Management Agency. In New to bomb the New York subways and the case of David Jersey, officials opened the soaked state’s Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American who used his US pass- Emergency Operations Center on port to travel frequently to India, where he allegedly scouted Thursday morning to monitor the storm’s out venues for terror attacks on behalf of the Lashkar-e-Taiba progress. The National Weather Service terrorist organization. Alexander said he is pressing for the issued a flood watch for most of the state. CHICAGO: Lightning strikes the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) in intelligence community to provide details on the other plots. Forecasters predicted 1 to 2 inches of rain downtown on Wednesday in Chicago, Illinois. A massive storm system with “I do think it’s important that we get this right and I want the will fall on swollen rivers and streams. heavy rain, high winds, hail and possible tornadoes is expected to move American people to know that we’re trying to be transparent By early yesterday, a derecho hadn’t into Illinois and much of the central part of the Midwest today.—AFP here, protect civil liberties and privacy but also the security of this country,” Alexander told a Senate panel. He described the steps the government takes once it sus- pects a terrorist organization is about to act - all within the Thousands flee Colorado wildfire laws approved by Congress and under stringent oversight from the courts. He said the programs led to “disrupting or COLORADO SPRINGS: Jaenette Coyne and her husband later watched on televi- five more. The fire was among several that contributing to the disruption of terrorist attacks,” without estimates she had five minutes to leave sion this week as flames engulfed their surged rapidly Tuesday along Colorado’s offering specifics. Half a world away, Edward Snowden, the home after calling 911 to report forest fire house. “I don’t know how to tell you in Front Range. 29-year-old former contractor who fled to Hong Kong and smoke behind her home. There was no words what it felt like,” she said. “It’s the Fueled by hot temperatures, changing leaked documents about the programs, said he would fight time to grab wedding albums, fingerprint worst thing I’ve ever felt in my whole life.” gusts, and thick, bone-dry forests, the any US attempts to extradite him. American law enforcement artwork by her 20-month-old daughter, Sheriff’s officials released a preliminary Black Forest Fire has prompted evacuation officials are building a case against him but have yet to bring quilts her grandmother made, her family’s list Wednesday showing the Black Forest orders and pre-evacuation notices to charges. three cats. Fire northeast of Colorado Springs has between 9,000 and 9,500 people and to “I am not here to hide from justice; I am here to reveal crim- “We left with nothing,” she said. She destroyed at least 92 homes and damaged about 3,500 homes and businesses, sher- inality,” Snowden said of the surveillance programs in an iff’s officials said. interview with the South China Morning Post. In plain-spoken, Part of neighboring Elbert County, measured tones, Alexander answered senators’ questions in including two camps with a total of about an open session and promised to provide additional informa- 1,250 children and adults, also was evacu- tion to the Senate Intelligence Committee in closed session ated. A separate Colorado wildfire to the yesterday. south has destroyed 20 structures, includ- But he also warned that revelations about the secret pro- ing some in Royal Gorge Bridge & Park, grams have eroded agency capabilities and, as a result, the and prompted evacuations of about 250 U.S. and its allies won’t be as safe as they were two weeks ago. residents and nearly 1,000 “Some of these are still going to be classified and should be, medium-security prison inmates who because if we tell the terrorists every way that we’re going to were taken to other facilities. To the north, track them, they will get through and Americans will die,” he another fire burned in Rocky Mountain said, adding that he would rather be criticized by people who National Park. think he’s hiding something “than jeopardize the security of Wildfires also were burning in New this country.” Mexico, Oregon and California, where a Alexander said he was seriously concerned that Snowden, smokejumper was killed fighting one of a former employee with government contractor Booz Allen dozens of lightning-sparked fires. Hamilton, had access to key parts of the NSA network, a devel- On Wednesday, the US Forest Service opment that demands a closer examination of how well the mobilized a pair of Defense Department agency oversees contract employees. cargo planes to help - a step taken only Alexander said Snowden was a system administrator who when all of the Forest Service’s 12 con- didn’t have visibility into the whole NSA network but could COLORADO SPRINGS: A firefighter fights a blaze in a detached garage in tracted tankers are in use. At least one was access key portions of it. —AP the Black Forest area, Wednesday in Colorado Springs.—AP fighting the Black Forest Fire.—AP Business

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ATHENS: Protesters gather at the entrance of the Greek public broadcaster ERT headquarters in Athens yesterday during a 24-hour strike over the government’s sudden ERT shutdown as part of sweeping cost-cutting measures and to call to reverse the controversial lockup. — AFP ( See Page 20 ) Boom-and-bust cycle a risk for Dubai: IMF UAE finances improve, needs to balance budget

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates is succeeding in strengthening prices have been rising. The IMF said it welcomed the UAE’s plans of imprudent risk-taking and re-leveraging by GREs (government- its state finances by restraining spending, and managed last year to to continue consolidating its finances: “For 2013, continued fiscal related entities) and private companies, which could also affect reduce the oil price which it needs to balance its budget, the consolidation of around 2 percent of non-oil GDP is planned. banks’ balance sheets in light of their strong interconnectedness International Monetary Fund said yesterday. “Fiscal consolidation is expected to be driven by a rationaliza- with GREs. “In the absence of prudent policies, this could fuel short- But the possibility of another boom-and-bust cycle in debt- tion of capital spending and subsidies and transfers, while spend- term growth at the expense of medium-term stability.” Dubai’s laden Dubai is a risk for the UAE economy in the medium term, the ing on goods and services, defense and security, and the wage bill total debt remains substantial at $142 billion, or around 102 per- IMF warned after the emirate announced a string of huge real are expected to increase.” The UAE’s finances are difficult to analyze cent of its GDP, and $35 billion of that amount is in government estate development projects. The IMF’s report, released after annu- because oil-rich Abu Dhabi, which accounts for roughly 80 percent and government-guaranteed debt, the IMF said. al consultations with the UAE, indicated the country is doing more of the country’s fiscal spending, does not publicly release details of The emirate’s GREs have increased their debt to an estimated than other Gulf Arab oil exporters to rein in growth of government its annual budgets and outcomes. In October, the federal finance $93 billion from $84 billion in March 2012, and about $60 billion of spending and reduce its vulnerability to any steep fall of the oil ministry published 2011 consolidated fiscal data, releasing such that debt falls due in 2013-2017, it added. price. Hit by the global financial slump, Gulf Arab countries boosted information for the first time ever, but there has been no update on In the last few months, state-linked Dubai companies have spending sharply from 2009, and increased it further in the wake of 2012 so far. Because of lower oil prices, the IMF predicted the UAE’s announced billions of dollars of new real estate projects. For exam- the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011. The higher spending has suc- fiscal surplus would shrink to 8.1 percent of GDP this year, before ple, last week Emaar Properties and Meraas Holding said they ceeded in keeping economies growing, but means state budgets narrowing gradually to 5.1 percent in 2018. formed a venture to develop a huge area near Dubai’s downtown; could fall into deficit if oil prices slide. The UAE began curbing its Despite its approval of the UAE’s overall policy direction, the IMF a commercial centre, low- and mid-rise residences, an 18-hole golf spending last year, more than doubling its total fiscal surplus - the warned of risks in Dubai, which suffered a crippling corporate debt course and other facilities would be built over 11 million square combined surplus of the federal government and all of the UAE’s crisis in 2009 but is now recovering strongly on the back of metres (2,700 acres). “While further investment in the develop- seven emirates - to 8.8 percent of gross domestic product from 4.1 rebounding real estate prices. “At the emirate level, a faster pace of ment of Dubai’s economy is welcome, the authorities should percent in 2011, the IMF calculated. consolidation in Dubai would be desirable to address the emirate’s ensure that, in line with current intentions, execution will be grad- This lowered the oil price which the UAE needs to balance its continued debt-related risks,” the IMF said. ual and flexible depending on demand,” the IMF said. combined budget to $74 per barrel last year from $84 in 2011, the It also described “insufficient domestic policy reform to mitigate “New investments should be structured in a way that strictly IMF said. Brent crude oil is now around $103. the risk of a renewed boom-and-bust cycle” as a risk for the UAE limits risk-taking by the still highly indebted GRE sector,” it said, By contrast, other Gulf Arab countries continued to increase economy. “Renewed optimism fuelled by rising real estate prices adding that availability of financial data on the health of Dubai’s state spending substantially last year and their budget break-even and loose global liquidity conditions could prompt a renewed cycle GREs was still inadequate.—Reuters Business FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Oil slips to $103 on demand worries

LONDON: Oil slipped to $103 a barrel yesterday as a had lent support to Brent. “The only thing that is likely motor fuel demand rises, gets under way. The subdued outlook for global demand due to weak eco- to have prevented its price from falling is the weaker International Energy Agency said modest economic nomic growth outweighed disruptions on the supply US dollar.” growth was limiting oil demand worldwide, and some side and a falling US dollar. The dollar was near a four-month low against a bas- developed economies would see absolute declines in The World Bank cut its outlook for global growth, ket of currencies, falling as investors reduced bets on oil consumption in 2013. saying the economy should expand by 2.2 percent gains in the US currency taken out on expectations the The two other oil forecasters closely watched by versus 2.3 percent in 2012, citing a deeper-than- Federal Reserve would soon scale back monetary eas- investors, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting expected recession in Europe and a slowdown in ing. A weak dollar makes dollar-denominated com- Countries and the US government’s Energy some emerging markets. Brent crude slipped 51 modities cheaper for holders of other currencies and Information Administration, cut their global oil cents to $102.98 a barrel by 0903 GMT. Prices have tends to support oil prices. demand growth forecasts on Tuesday. declined from a 2013 high near $120 reached on Feb A number of reports this week have highlighted a Oil also drew support from disruption to flows. 8. US oil fell 52 cents to $95.36. weak demand outlook. On Wednesday, a US govern- Libya is struggling to hold output stable, while supply “The demand picture is still very subdued at the ment report showed inventories of gasoline on the of North Sea crude which underpins Brent is expected moment,” said Carsten Fritsch, analyst at East Coast rose to their highest since February 2012, to be more sharply reduced than usual by mainte- Commerzbank, who added that the falling US currency suggesting ample supplies as the summer, when nance this summer. — Reuters Greeks strike as fury over TV closure grows Trains, buses grind to a halt

ATHENS: Trains and buses ground to a halt yesterday in elections becomes especially strong,” Kathimerini said. Athens as Greek workers staged a nationwide strike to Samaras seemed to take a step back late on Wednesday protest against the government’s dramatic shutdown of after his coalition partners blasted the closure of ERT as public broadcaster ERT. “unacceptable”. A government source said the prime min- Thousands demonstrated outside ERT’s headquarters in ister would call a meeting with his partners to confer over a northern suburb of the capital, calling on Prime Minister the issue. Antonis Samaras to reverse his decision to pull the plug on Samaras had earlier defended the closure, saying on the broadcaster as part of sweeping cost-cutting measures. Wednesday: “We are eliminating a hotbed of opacity and ERT employees, stunned by the sudden loss of their jobs, waste... We are protecting the public interest.” The broad- were defiantly transmitting rogue broadcasts on the caster’s television and radio stations were abruptly pulled RAWALPINDI: Pakistani laborers sit underneath the shade of a tree as they Internet and the Communist party television channel. off air late Tuesday and its nearly 2,700 staff suspended. await work in Rawalpindi yesterday. Pakistan on June 12 announced the The 24-hour strike called by the major trade unions to The administration quickly presented legislation creat- budget for the fiscal year 2013-14, which begins July 1, which comes against a support them saw public services across the country shut ing a new broadcaster called New Hellenic Radio, Internet backdrop of weak economic growth, high inflation, dwindling foreign and left hospitals operating on emergency footing. “This and Television (NERIT) to replace the 60-year-old ERT. exchange reserves and unprecedented power cuts. — AFP has to stop,” said Olga Papaiossif, a 41-year-old pre-school The broadcaster will reopen with around half its current teacher as she protested in Athens. number of employees, officials said. “They want to sell everything in Greece, the TV, the “You can’t fix a car while it is running, you have to take it water, everything. And in the rest of Europe too,” she told off the road,” said government spokesman Simos Kuwait oil price AFP. Air traffic controllers were due to participate in a two- Kedikoglou. “It is a temporary postponement... Everything hour work stoppage starting from 1200 GMT and broad- will pass by parliament, I assure you it’s all legal,” he said, cast journalists were on an indefinite strike because of the promising a “restart” during the summer. falls to $99.55pb government’s shock move. The sudden shutdown of ERT has caused a national Greek media yesterday raised the prospect of early elec- uproar, with journalists kicking off their strike on KUWAIT: Price of Kuwaiti crude oil pations that the crude prices would tions, warning that Prime Minister Samaras could have Wednesday while defiant staff staged sit-ins in Athens and dropped 52 cents reaching $99.55 per drop due to the rise of the reserves. pushed his coalition allies too far this time. The socialist and Greece’s second-largest city Thessaloniki. The government barrel (pb) on Wednesday compared However, weak rating of the US dollar moderate leftist supporting his government are already has imposed sweeping public cutbacks demanded by the to $100.07pb on Tuesday, Kuwait vis a vis other major currencies and facing internal pressure over the unpopular austerity meas- debt-laden country’s international lenders in return for a Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said yes- instability in the Middle East, among ures Greece has been applying for a fourth year. As if on massive bailout. terday. other others factors, led to rise of the cue, the state data agency on Thursday said the jobless rate But its spokesman insisted ERT’s closure was not part of Meanwhile, in the western hemi- oil prices. Forward crude contracts for had climbed to 27.4 percent in the first three months of the Greece’s bailout obligations to the European Union, sphere, a report released by the US July posted highest rise in the New year, from 26 percent a year earlier. International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank. energy authorities showed increase of York market, yesterday, at $95.86- “A solution in one week or elections,” said liberal Greece is caught in a six-year recession which critics say the American crude reserves by 2.5 mil- 95.47pb. The Brent crude contracts for Kathimerini daily while centre-left Ta Nea spoke of “danger- has been exacerbated by successive pay and pension cuts lion barrels, against backdrop of antici- July rose to $103.49pb. — KUNA ous acrobatics.” “In case of a deadlock, the scenario of early imposed at the behest of its creditors.—AFP

BofA-Merrill raises Qatar to overweight, cuts UAE

DUBAI: Bank of America Merrill Lynch MSCI-related fund flows to the UAE raised its assessment of Qatar’s stock will be smaller while it is already fully val- market to overweight from neutral, and ued after this year’s strong performance, cut the United Arab Emirates to neutral it said. BofA Merrill also reiterated that it from overweight, according to a BofA saw Saudi Arabia as a preferred market, Merrill Lynch Global Research report seen and kept an overweight rating on Turkey, yesterday. though it said this was “conditional on an The investment bank cited Qatar’s uneventful end to the protests” in Turkey. surprise upgrade to emerging market sta- “Crucially, even with somewhat high- tus by Morgan Stanley Capital er interest rates than today, Turkey International, announced on Tuesday, remains a country that can see accelerat- which it said could attract $600 million of ing growth in 2013 and 2014 without index-linked funds to Qatar. It also cited needing an improvement in the global TACOMA: Cargo container cranes are shown in early morning fog at the Port of Tacoma, in Tacoma, Washington. attractive stock valuations. economic backdrop,” it said. — Reuters The government reported yesterday how much US businesses adjusted their stockpiles in April. —AP Business FRIDAY, JUNE 14 , 2013

Japan confident over ‘third arrow’ growth package

TOKYO: The Japanese government shrugged off stock employment of women and the elderly, among a wide- growth measures, he said. But the market’s wild market gyrations yesterday, saying a raft of reforms range of other initiatives. volatility could serve as a reminder for the Abe cabinet including tax breaks for firms wanting to invest would They also aim to shift labor to growth sectors, to keep its eyes on the economy even after the elec- boost the economy. As the Nikkei 225 began another increase exports of infrastructure, and to enhance med- tion, in which the ruling bloc is expected to perform precipitous drop that saw it close the day 6.35 percent ical services. The cabinet will officially approve the well, Kumano said. Hiromichi Shirakawa, an economist lower than it started, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide measures today, as the government prepares for an at Credit Suisse, said the market’s big swings may Suga said the world’s third largest economy remained important upper house election in mid July. Some ana- have pushed the government to firm up plans for tax on a path to recovery. “Our nation’s economy is steadily lysts have criticized the growth policies as lacking breaks. picking up,” he told a briefing in the morning. detail, a viewpoint some say is borne-out by the wild “We positively view the government’s announce- “The real economy and leading indicators are fluctuations on the Tokyo stock exchange in recent ment it will be offering dramatic investment tax improving. We want to continue to manage the econo- weeks, as a fast-running bull market has become a bear. breaks,” he said. Private investments could boost the my with confidence,” he said. The cabinet of Prime But participants say worries over a quick end to the economy in the medium to long-term and should mod- Minister Shinzo Abe will Friday endorse the so-called huge monetary easing program in the United States is erate negative impacts from the low birth rate and age- “third-arrow” of his program of growth and reforms, in a the main driver, pushing the yen higher as players buy ing population, Shirakawa added. scheme dubbed “Abenomics”. the currency for its safe haven status. But others said Abe’s package repeats failed promis- The two earlier “arrows” came in the form of aggres- Japanese economists welcomed Abe’s new moves, es of past governments. BNP Paribas, in a note to sive monetary easing and massive public spending saying they signal the conservative premier’s contin- clients, said Abe’s two-percent growth target was unre- aimed at ending years of vigor-sapping deflation. The ued commitment to an economic agenda. “The invest- alistic and ignores economic realities like Japan’s draft proposals place emphasis on medium to long- ment tax break is significant. The government is show- shrinking workforce. “In setting the target..., one has to term goals that Abe hopes will generate two-percent ing its resolve to stick to its economic policies,” said wonder if the Abe administration even has the slightest real GDP growth annually over the next decade, far out- Hideo Kumano, chief economist at Dai-ichi Life idea of the economy’s performance these past two stripping the rate in the last ten years. Research Institute. Recent plunges of Tokyo stocks are decades,” it said. “When we consider the growth rates They promise major investment tax breaks, the cre- largely a reaction to inflated hopes for the earlier cen- of other countries, it becomes clear that Abe’s growth ation of special economic zones and boosting the tral bank monetary easing, and less to do with the target is a very high hurdle.” — AFP India’s finance minister pledges more reforms Chidambaram seeks to allay fears over rupee

NEW DELHI: India may further raise caps on foreign direct investment to spur more inflows of funds, as part of efforts to kickstart the sluggish economy before next year’s general elections, the finance minister said yesterday. Finance Minister P Chidambaram SYDNEY: Pedestrians cross an intersection in the central business district of also appealed for calm over the Sydney yesterday. Australia’s unemployment rate eased to 5.5 percent in rupee, saying steps have been taken May, an unexpected fall that could see the central bank hold off on cutting to halt the slide in the currency, interest rates next month. — AFP which hit new lifetime lows this week, in part on concerns over the Indian economy. Chidambaram said EU ministers face French the government was in the final stages of reviewing caps on foreign hurdle on US trade talks direct investment in some sectors, including defense, in a bid to attract BRUSSELS: EU trade ministers will try was not necessary for South Korea to overseas capital and speed up today to resolve deep differences with exclude it to get what they wanted,” the much-needed infrastructure projects. France on whether its prized “cultural source said.“Starting the negotiations by NEW DELHI: A cashier working at an Indian restaurant counts money in “In June, you can expect a num- exception” should be included in free excluding some sectors would not be New Delhi yesterday. The Indian rupee has fallen sharply and has been ber of decisions taken and imple- trade talks with a United States which wise ... and would come at a cost,” the hovering around the 58 mark against the dollar while nearly touching 59 mented that will accelerate reforms believes there should be no exceptions EU source said. But France fears that if in a lifetime low this week. — AP at all. Negotiations with Washington the audiovisual sector is included, it and spur investments in critical sec- already promise to be difficult but France might get caught up in the inevitable tors,” the minister told reporters in ODI (one-day cricket international) The government is forecasting insists that culture and its special status horse-trading. French Prime Minister New Delhi without giving details. match where a wicket or a six is growth of six percent this year after within the EU is a no-go area and Jean-Marc Ayrault threatened The Congress-led government has expected every ball. That’s not the the economy grew at five percent has threatened to block agreement Wednesday to veto the talks. “France will been dogged by a string of corrup- way economic reforms can take last year, the slowest pace in a rather than accept a carefully worded oppose the opening of the negotiations tion scandals during its second term place,” he said. decade, hit by high inflation, a bal- compromise minimizing possible dam- if culture and the cultural industries are in office, which has derailed efforts “Significant results have been looning deficit and policy paralysis. age. France jealously guards its own cul- not protected, are not excluded,” Ayrault to push through promised pro-mar- achieved in the last nine months and Chidambaram said there was “no tural assets and those of Europe as a told the French parliament, saying this ket reforms and revive the economy I am looking forward to achieving reason for panic” over the falling whole, fearing US influence in the shape was a “crucial issue.” before elections in 2014. more desired outcomes.” rupee, which has been hit by robust of low-brow TV soap operas and The EU source refused to be drawn The government last September Global ratings agency Fitch on US jobs data and concern about the Hollywood’s dominance of the film on how Brussels would deal with such an reduced limits on FDI in various sec- Wednesday improved India’s sover- South Asian economy. “Steps have industry. To get around the problem, the outcome, arguing that it would be up to tors from retail to aviation. But eign rating to stable from negative, been taken to cure the currency’s current Irish EU presidency has suggest- a dissenting member state to push the attempts to pass bills to open up the citing steps taken to curtail the fall,” he said.”There is no reason for ed a compromise-culture and the audio- issue to a unanimous vote.“I can’t imag- insurance and pension sectors as budget deficit, in a rare piece of panic. Countries with large current visual sector would be included in the EU ine Europe launching the biggest trade well as simplify the process of buy- good news for the Congress govern- account deficits have taken a hit on negotiating mandate but it would also negotiation ever without consensus,” the ing of land for business have stalled. ment. Chidambaram said the econo- their currencies. The rupee will be made clear that there would be no source added. Washington and Brussels Chidambaram launched a my was stronger than last year and regain losses suffered in the last few change to current quota and subsidies in hope the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and defense of his government’s efforts the government would meet its days.” a future accord. Investment Partnership will deliver a to revive the staggering economy spending targets and lower the pub- The rupee skidded to a lifetime An EU source said this was how South major boost to growth and jobs, espe- and boost investor confidence, one lic deficit, which ballooned to 4.89 low of 58.98 to the US dollar on Korea had resolved a similar problem cially in Europe where the debt crisis has day after a ratings agency raised percent of gross domestic product Tuesday, prompting India’s central when it negotiated its Free Trade left the economy stuck in the dol- India’s credit rating from negative to last year from 4.20 percent the previ- bank to intervene by selling dollars, Agreement with the United States. “It drums.—AFP stable. “It (the economy) is not an ous year. before strengthening. — AFP Business22 FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Global stocks plunge on monetary worries Investors fear Japan, US cash tightening

PARIS: Japan’s stock market plunged months investors have finally woken up year. The stimulus has been one of the and other global shares followed yester- to the fact that current stock valuations main reasons why many assets, such as day amid concerns that central bankers are not supported by fundamentals in global stock markets and emerging marin the US and Japan might turn off the the current low-growth environment, kets, have bounced back. tap of money that has kept markets and all the QE (quantitative easing) in Analysts said markets will likely afloat during the economic crisis. The the world can’t address that particular remain on edge until next week’s Fed worry has been growing ever since chief issue.” policy meeting for greater clarity on the of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, The Nikkei 225 index plunged 6.4 timing and extend of any tapering. said it might pull back on its $85 billion- percent to close at 12,445.38. Adding to Ahead of the opening bell, Wall Street a-month bond-buying program - known the woes was the dollar’s recent fall, appeared headed for losses. Dow Jones LONDON: Google executive Matt Brittin gives evi- as quantitative easing - if economic trading at about 94 yen late Thursday, futures fell 0.25 percent while S&P 500 dence to a parliamentary Public Accounts Committee data, especially hiring, improves. Now slipping momentarily to 93-yen levels. A futures lost 0.3 percent. on tax avoidance, in the Boothroyd Room, London in Elsewhere, the Hang Seng index fell this May 16, 2013 file photo. —AP 2.2 percent to 20,887.04, while the Kospi in South Korea lost 1.4 percent to British lawmakers 1,882.73. Mainland Chinese were pummeled as accumulating signs of a slowdown in call for Google growth in the world’s No. 2 economy caused investors to retreat. The tax probe Shanghai Composite Index slid 2.8 percent to 2,148.36, its lowest close in six LONDON: A powerful committee of British lawmakers called months. Juichi Wako, equity market yesterday for a tax probe into Google, after concluding that the strategist at Nomura Securities Co. in US Internet giant sought to avoid paying corporation tax on Tokyo, said the drop in Asia was due to a profit earned in Britain. The House of Commons Public Accounts reversal of the money flow that had Committee revealed its findings in a report which attacked flooded Japan in recent months, partly Google for claiming that sales were conducted in Ireland which on inflated hopes for “Abenomics,” as has the lowest corporation tax rate in the euro-zone-and not in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s fiscal and Britain. monetary policies have been dubbed. Google reacted by saying that it abided by the law and that Much of the overwrought excitement politicians, not companies were responsible for how tax law was was calming and the money was revert- drafted. The cross-party committee said it had received informa- ing to the US, where monetary easing tion from ex-Google employees that Britain-based staff were might be winding down as well, he said. directly engaged in selling services. KARACHI: Pakistani stockbrokers watch the latest share prices on a digi- In April, the Bank of Japan announced a In reaction, Google insisted that it had cooperated with tax tal board during a trading session at the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) massive stimulus in an attempt to get laws, but welcomed any moves to make the system “simpler and inflation up to 2 percent. The euphoria more transparent”. in Karachi yesterday. The benchmark KSE-100-Index was 22824.95, with The committee’s report was published ahead of next week’s increase of 500.38 points in mid of the day’s session. —AFP that drove the Nikkei up to five-year highs but has since seen wild fluctua- G8 summit in Northern Ireland, where host Britain will seek to Japanese media reports are saying over- rising yen spells bad news for Japanese tions and the index is now around 20 tackle tax avoidance, which is legal, and tax evasion which is not. seas hedge funds may be dumping the manufacturers because it will make their percent down from its recent peak. “To avoid UK corporation tax, Google relies on the deeply country’s equities following disappoint- exports look more expensive overseas. The euro dropped to $1.3327 from unconvincing argument that its sales to UK clients take place in ment over the Bank of Japan’s decision In early afternoon trading in Europe, $1.3331 late Wednesday in New York. Ireland, despite clear evidence that the vast majority of sales earlier in the week to refrain from addi- Britain’s FSTE 100 fell 1 percent to 6,233. The dollar fell to 94.40 yen from 95.71 activity takes place in the UK,” the report said. “The big account- tional monetary easing measures. Germany’s DAX fell 1.5 percent to 8,018 yen. Benchmark crude oil was down 35 ancy firms sell tax advice which promotes artificial tax structures, “Ever since talk of Fed tapering was while France’s CAC-40 shed 0.8 percent cents to $95.54 per barrel in electronic such as that used by Google and other multinationals, which first mentioned US bond yields have to 3,762. trading on the New York Mercantile serve to avoid UK taxes rather than to reflect the substance of edged higher and money has leaked out Markets are also looking at the future Exchange. the way business is actually conducted.” of emerging markets and emerging course of US monetary policy following AP Business Writers Pamela Sampson The report concluded that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) market currencies,” said market analyst a solid, if unspectacular, improvement in in Bangkok and Elaine Kurtenbach in — Britain’s taxation authority-needed to probe and challenge Micahel Hewson of CMC Markets. “Of economic data. Investors now expect Tokyo contributed to this report. what it called “artificial” tax arrangements. course there is the other reason that for some reduction in the Federal Reserve’s Research Fu Ting contributed from “HMRC is hampered by the complexity of existing laws, all of the stock market gains of recent monthly asset purchases sometime this Shanghai. —AP which leave so much scope for aggressive exploitation of loop- holes, but it has not been sufficiently challenging of the mani- festly artificial tax arrangements of multinationals,” the report said. “HM Treasury needs to take a leading role in driving inter- The big money bails on Argentina, again national action to update tax laws and combat tax avoidance.” The committee found that Google had generated $18 billion BUENOS AIRES: More than a decade after Argentina’s epic financial Lavagna, who as economy minister from 2002 to 2005 helped create of revenue in Britain between 2006 and 2011. No information collapse of 2001-02, many investors are rushing for the door once Argentina’s current export-driven policy framework, and is still widely on profits was available. again. From big Chinese and Brazilian companies like miner Vale SA, to respected on Wall Street. However, during this time, it paid just $16 million in corpora- small-business owners and savers, the fear of a new crisis has led to While everyone agrees any crisis won’t be as bad as the 2001-02 tion taxes in the country. The committee concluded that it was canceled investments and suitcases of cash leaving the country. meltdown - which saw nationwide riots, two presidents quit, and the “extraordinary” that British authorities had failed to challenge The mass exodus, which has been limited only by leftist President economy shrink by one-fifth - it could still be enough to severely dis- the tax structure of Google, and other multinationals operating Cristina Fernandez’s capital controls, is threatening to undermine Latin rupt lives and business plans. By relying on short-term fixes such as in Britain. “We accept that HMRC is limited by resources but it is America’s No 3 economy even further by leaving it short of hard cur- price controls and bans on Argentines buying dollars, Fernandez may extraordinary that it has not been more challenging of Google’s rency and new jobs. just be delaying the inevitable while piling up even more problems. corporate arrangements given the overwhelming disparity The underlying problems range from Fernandez’s hostile treat- “The longer they try to delay things, the worse they will be,” said between where profit is generated and where tax is paid,” it ment of the private sector, to severe financial distortions such as a par- Lavagna, who worked for Fernandez’s late husband and predecessor, added. allel exchange rate, to the general feeling that Argentina is due for one Nestor Kirchner, before falling out over what he saw as the couple’s “HMRC needs to be much more effective in challenging the of the periodic spasms that have racked the country every 10 years or increasingly anti-business agenda. “You can’t have growth without artificial corporate structures created by multinationals with no so going back to the 1930s. Some say such worries are overblown, investment.” Key ministers in Fernandez’s government declined to be other purpose than to avoid tax. “HMRC should now fully inves- arguing that Argentina has defied doomsday predictions for the past interviewed for this story. Following a sharp slowdown in Argentina’s tigate Google in the light of the evidence provided by whistle- decade, which was by some measures its best economic run since economy over the past year, and growing concern in places like blowers,” it added. World War Two. Washington and Brasilia, Reuters recently spoke to about two dozen Google has repeatedly claimed that it is doing nothing Yet for many, the feeling is of a gathering storm. “The end of this leading figures in industry, finance, academia and politics to try to wrong because it routes all of its European advertising sales story has already been written, and it ends in crisis,” said Roberto gauge where the country is headed. —Reuters through its offices in Ireland, where corporate tax rates are low compared to rates elsewhere in Europe. —AFP

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While the UOSSM maintains it takes no sides, tries that supply weapons to rebels must coor- ISyria is incognito with his deputy and a secu- Paris has some say where the aid is dispatched. dinate better and ensure they work solely rity agent. After checking the surroundings are Artillery Discussed It enables it to form a detailed analysis of devel- through Idriss. Secondly, Western nations that clear, the diplomat pulls out a stash of brown The subject of providing artillery to protect opments on the ground. “Our biggest challenge remain cautious in providing weapons must envelopes stuffed with thousands of dollars. these zones was under already discussion, is that other countries just don’t want to give widen the scale of their help, either in terms of The recipients are “viable” rebels operating in although the implications were deemed too money to an NGO that isn’t known,” UOSSM equipment or “technical assistance” such as zones no longer under President Bashar Al- complicated. Paris felt that until a legitimate official Obaida al-Moufti said. “The French are through battle tactics or weapons training. Assad’s control. The scene last September, opposition government was in place it would very official. We present our project, document “We’ve tested a certain number of these FSA recounted by French officials, could have come from a spy film. Now Assad’s forces appear to be regaining the upper hand on the battlefield. The change in the balance of power is causing alarm in Western and Arab capitals. Having clamoured for Assad to step aside, none of his foes are ready to take the risk of providing anti- aircraft or anti-tank weapons that could tilt the balance. With the opposition fragmented, the West fears that weapons could fall into the wrong hands, notably Al-Qaeda-backed militants and the Islamist Nusra Front, and wants “guarantees” from opposition fighters before providing the arms. With cast iron guarantees unlikely and time running out, the way France has developed its networks in Syria since the uprising started more than two years ago offers an idea of how Western powers may assess future military help. “It’s not possible to say that we can be 100 percent sure about where the weapons go,” said a Western diplomat. “But the risks of porosity are less than the risks of doing nothing.” France’s active support of rebels in its former colony stems in part from a wish to secure trade interests. It fears that the window to unite the opposition is disappearing and the longer dis- unity prevails, the more likely Islamist and Al- Qaeda elements, hostile to the West and now among the insurgents fighting Assad, will emerge on top. France and Britain can now technically arm rebels after they pushed to have an EU arms embargo lifted. The United States is reviewing its position. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey already supply light weapons. A Syrian rebel fighter belonging to the Martyrs of Maaret al-Numan battalion holds a position yesterday in the southern Clandestine Help Syrian town of Maaret al-Numan in front of the army base of Wadi Deif, down in the valley. — AFP Almost from the onset of the uprising Paris tried to develop internal networks and gain not be possible to give military support. That it and even though it’s medicines they demand elements,” French foreign ministry spokesman trust among opposition activists. Before recall- was in part why President Francois Hollande draconian traceability conditions.” Philippe Lalliot said. “We’ve built up trust and ing its ambassador from Damascus in March was first to recognise the Syrian National it’s the similar types of assurances that we 2012, the embassy had been smuggling medi- Coalition in November. How Viable is Free Syrian Army? would like for weapons.” cines clandestinely to makeshift hospitals and The coalition would have a military wing The French insist that these humanitarian, Ultimately the easiest way to ensure food for protesters. Six months later, Foreign that Paris could deal with. Gone were the medical and civilian networks have been tested weapons do not fall into the wrong hands Minister Laurent Fabius announced a plan to brown envelopes. Almost immediately France and provide a “cartography” of where future would be to find ways to track them. Fabius aid so-called “free zones” in northern Syria. The diverted its bilateral help to the coalition’s Aid help could go. “One needs to have precise said last month that Paris was studying ways to objective was primarily to reach local communi- Coordination Unit run by vice-president Suheir knowledge of these fragmented groups,” said a monitor and neutralise weapons under certain ties no longer under Assad’s control and help Atassi. French diplomat. “We have a slight advantage conditions. According to one official, options them revive local administration and restore In parallel to this, France also channelled because for a long time we’ve had direct con- would include programming a time period for basic needs, such as bakeries. medical and humanitarian aid in large part tacts in the liberated zones and have already their use, limiting ammunition, placing global Paris insisted on a strict system of traceabili- through the Union of Syrian Medical Relief delivered material.” Their primary interlocutor positioning systems on them or even turning ty for how its cash was spent. For every dollar, Organisations (UOSSM), a non-governmental for the last six months has been the head of the them off from afar. “I imagine that would only receipts and as much photographic and video association based in Paris that brings together Free Syrian Army, Salim Idriss, whom French happen with more sophisticated weapons such evidence as possible had to be provided. It also 14 groups. France is its largest donor. Medical officials hold in high regard. Non-lethal aid as shoulder-fired MANPADs (man-portable air relied on informers who reported back. Most of convoys - the latest a 20-tonne cargo due to ranging from bullet proof vests, night vision defence systems),” said Jeremy Binnie, Middle the “revolutionary councils” had civilian and arrive in Turkey in the next few weeks - are sent goggles or communications equipment has East and Africa editor for IHS Jane’s Defence military branches. The military wings were the to a hospital partly built with French cash just gone through him. Weekly. “It is technically possible you could get embryo of the Free Syrian Army. It enabled Paris across the Turkish border. From there the goods But his credibility is under question. Without something in there to disarm them, but how to begin mapping fighters. “It wasn’t technical are distributed across Syria including to some of money, munitions and weapons, he is strug- much cost and the time it’s going to take I think advice. It was first and foremost to develop links the areas where there has been fierce fighting, gling to assert his authority on the disparate may be more of the issue.” — Reuters FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 www.kuwaittimes.net Monster Tour2013.—AP rock groupinGermanyduringtheir 12, 2013.Itistheonlyconcertof Berlin, Germany,WednesdayJune band Kissperformsonstagein terday, bassistGeneSimminsofUS In thispicturemadeavailableyes- Food FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

By Cindy Hoedel

was about 11 and bored out of my mind in Greensburg, Kan, the day my grandma, Frances Loucks Peterson, taught me how Ito make bread. My parents would have been moving from someplace on one coast to someplace on the other coast during my father’s Navy career. The moves were frequent, every couple of years, and always resulted in me and my younger brother and sister getting shipped to Kansas in the blast-furnace heat of July. Out on the sun-baked prairie under a vast cloudless sky, cousins, aunts and uncles in small towns and remote cattle ranch- es took turns trying to kill us by subjecting us to physical labor that was entirely foreign to our sheltered upbringing. We rode you’re a school kid on summer break. I loved the taste of their homeland, don’t ask me why), just as I was missing the banana-seat bikes and roller skated and took sailing lessons. They Grandma’s soft whole-wheat bread. It tasted sort of like Roman extraordinary everyday breads of Europe, an old friend in Kansas drove pickups and combines and shot coyotes with real guns. Meal, which was what we ate at home, but not as squishy. That City had discovered “Beard on Bread.” In that seminal cookbook, Being at Grandma’s house in Greensburg, across the street from summer when I first learned how, I made bread once for my par- James Beard attempted to solve the problem Julia Child identified the “World’s Largest Hand Dug Well!” was better than being at my ents after leaving Greensburg to join them in our new digs, but it when she famously asked how a nation can call itself great when aunt and uncle’s Bar X Ranch in Wilmore, Kan, but still boring. felt forced. It didn’t fit in with my normal life of school, swim team its bread tastes like Kleenex. So when Grandma announced we were going to make bread, I and backyard barbecues. I let it go. My friend was turning out beautiful crusty loves of French was relieved. It beat doing chores on the ranch, such as painting In college I picked it up again for one year with one roommate. bread that I found superior to actual baguettes in France, which the exterior of the hired hands’ house when it was 105 degrees We didn’t have a big budget for food, but we had an Asteroids seem to be 80 percent crust, 10 percent bread and 10 percent air outside, or stacking hay bales while being attacked by grasshop- video game and a patio with a grill that attracted lots of friends pockets. Some of the loaves he filled with cheese, but I liked the pers, or making fried chicken for 20 in a steamy kitchen. Of course, on weekends who needed to be fed. I quickly discovered that if I plain ones best. His bread underscored the sadness of grocery relief is not joy. But that morning, as I watched the yeast get could recruit guests to bring soup and I made bread, I came out store bread. (This was just before Farm to Market began putting foamy in Grandma’s giant stoneware bowl the same one I use ahead, financially, time-wise and in terms of people thinking you good bread in local store shelves.) today joy showed up, and it still shows up every time I grab that did something truly amazing, even though I think a good soup is My German husband was inspired by our American friend’s bowl and unleash the aromatic alchemy that happens when yeast harder to pull off. French loaves, but he couldn’t abide white flour, so he procured a spores hook up with wheat. You can spend a lot of money on fancy ingredients for bread, dry sour starter mix and a rye-blend flour from Germany. Every Baking bread, at least the way I do it, is at once invigorating but my version of my grandmother’s bread is not fancy. It costs week he made a couple of giant round loaves that were the tex- and soothing. You can take out aggression on dough, hurl it at less than $2 per loaf to make, even though I always buy good ture of a moist sponge on the inside. For two years we never the counter from a foot high and punch it with your fists if you quality Hudson Cream flour from Hudson, Kan, and I use honey or bought bread. Then our kids got to the Scouting and sports phas- want. You can’t hurt it. Or you can find a gentle reverie in the sorghum, which cost a little more than the sugar Grandma used. es that squeeze out all civilized, refined pastimes, including bak- dough, squeeze its cool pillowy sides with your finger and rock And when it comes to time, baking bread takes a long time ing bread, and it was back to the bagged stuff. the heels of your hands lazily back and forth in the center. The but not a lot of time. My bread, which rises twice, takes about Bread-baking returned to me several months ago when I main thing is to find a rhythm and just keep going. three hours start to finish, but during a lot of that time I’m doing bought a little house on a big lot in the Flint Hills. Grandma’s Grandma liked to tell how proud Grandpa was of her bread. It other things. I bake four loaves every Saturday morning because I stoneware bread bowl was too big to fit into any of the little cabi- was lighter and had a finer crumb than the bread his friends’ can do other chores such as laundry, gardening or housecleaning nets, so I decided to leave it sitting out, first on the counter, then wives made. “You just have to knead that dough,” she would say. at the same time. That is, unless I decide to read the paper, do on top of the wall cabinets with other pieces of pottery. But the And boy, did she ever. Her big soft hands seemed to never tire as puzzles or prowl around on eBay. Either way, baking bread fits bowl looked sadly out of place. Stained and chipped, it was not as she lifted, turned and folded the heavy dough with her stout fin- into my Saturday morning as easily as a second pot of coffee. pretty as the other display bowls. A decade after it had come into gers, then mashed it with the heels of her hands. Baking bread went out of my life again the 11 years I lived in my possession, the bowl was once again at home on the prairie. It All the while she could be looking out the window over the France and Germany after college. That’s because over there, bak- needed to be put back in service turning Kansas wheat into kitchen sink and commenting on the birds in the rose bed with- ing bread is so respected as a skilled trade that most Europeans wholesome bread. out grunting or having to pause to catch her breath. When it was would no more bake their own bread than make their own shoes. I have found the rhythm of making bread each week. Every my turn I was timid, worried about dough sticking to my fingers. When every neighborhood has a trained, experienced baker with Saturday, while the coffee is steeping in my French press, I pour “Rub more flour on your hands and keep going. You’re not tired a huge hot oven who turns out delicious bread six or seven days a two little packets of yeast into warm water. The combination of already, are you?” Grandma asked in her cheerful, high-pitched week, buying it is clearly the way to go. those two smells is euphoria-inducing. Grandma’s recipe makes voice. And yet eating dense, yeasty, crusty delicious bread every day four loaves of bread, and I need only two a week, so I often use My skinny arms were burning but I kept going. I had learned set up the inevitable return of bread-baking to my life. When I the other two portions for cinnamon rolls or pizza crusts, both of that in western Kansas you never admitted to being tired, even came back to the States (as all Americans living overseas refer to which can be frozen after the first rise for later use. when given an opening to do so. If you just push through, I I wanted to exchange ideas and information with other bread learned, you end up surprising yourself with what you can accom- bakers, so I sent out emails to my many foodie friends asking who plish. Pulling open the oven door and seeing perfectly vaulted else bakes their own bread by hand, not in a bread machine. I was golden loaves of bread that smelled like comfort and toast was surprised how hard it was to find anyone. nothing short of thrilling. When I find Kathy Smith of Shawnee in her kitchen after let- Even today, the combination of mild physical exertion and ting myself in the front door, her mane of shoulder-length silver mental drifting makes me feel better, even when I’m already feel- hair obscures the opening of the oven. Smith is checking the inte- ing fine. There is no better aromatherapy than the scent of freshly rior temperature of a loaf of bread a technique I’ve never heard of baked bread. Realtors know this, which is why they often tell but later learn is important because her breads are filled, and the home sellers who don’t bake to pour a package of yeast into a filling can alter how long it takes to get the inside of the bread ful- cup of warm water before showing the house to prospective buy- ly cooked. ers. It is a magical scent that taps into primal feelings of security Smith has been baking since she was 9 years old. Like me, she and contentment. learned at the side of her grandmother, Dott Wharton. “She made Even though I made my first loaf some 40 years ago, baking the best rolls on the planet she had these tiny hands that were bread has not been a constant in my life. It is also not a ritual food bent with arthritis, and she would squeeze the dough out stunt that I perform once a year for a special occasion. Nor is it an between two fingers. But she would not teach anyone else how activity I seek out in response to a stressful day or week. to do it,” Smith recalls with a bright smile. Rather, baking bread has found me at different stages of my In the 1970s, Smith began baking old-fashioned, double-rise life, each time easing its way back in effortlessly like a longtime whole-wheat bread with a girlfriend. “We were home bodies, and friend returning after an extended absence. it just seemed like a natural thing to do.” When life got busier, the The first stage was those summers in Greensburg. Grandma bread-making fell away. When Smith came back to it, she was made four loaves of bread once a week, always on the same day. looking for an easy standby food for entertaining at her and her It seems like Friday, but days of the week all seem the same when Food FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

Cassandra Leal makes bread in the kitchen of her Bonner Springs home. Cassandra Leal slices into a loaf of freshly baked bread in the kitchen of her Bonner Springs home. — MCT photos husband’s lake house. She found the recipe she was looking for in Tips cup wheat bran or wheat germ Judith Fertig’s “200 Fast & Easy Artisan Breads.” Combining 1 cups (375 mL) hot with 1cups (375 mL) cold tap Stir with a wooden spoon, then add 1 cup at a time until you Fertig’s Master Recipe number 1 is a no-knead, single-rise water will result in lukewarm water of approximately 100 degrees. can’t stir any more: recipe that can be baked plain for a hearty country white loaf, or (38ºC). 4 cups whole-wheat flour rolled out and filled with any number of ingredients. Smith keeps Before storing the dough in the refrigerator, use a permanent 4 cups white flour. Reserve cup for the kneading surface. jars of marinated mozzarella, pesto, roasted red peppers and arti- marker to write the date on the plastic wrap so you’ll know when When the dough becomes too stiff to stir, continue adding the chokes on hand for quick and easy fillings. Thinly sliced smoked you made your dough and when to use it up 9 days later. remaining white flour into the bowl and pushing it into the ham is another favorite. 6 cups unbleached all-purpose or bread flour 1.625 L dough with the spoon or your fingers so the dough won’t be “Homemade bread is the perfect food for a party. It makes the 1 tablespoon instant or bread machine yeast 22 mL sticky when you turn it out. house smell good, and everyone loves it. If it has some kind of fill- 1 tablespoon fine table or kosher salt 22 mL Sprinkle the reserved flour on the kneading surface and roll it ing, you don’t need anything else,” Smith says. The yeast is bub- 3 cups lukewarm water (about 100 degrees) ºF/38ºC) 750 mL around to coat the outside with flour. Add more flour to the bling up in a bowl, and Cassandra Leal of Bonner Springs hesi- 1. Measure. Spoon the flour into a measuring cup, level with a kneading surface as needed to prevent sticking. tates as she picks up the box of instant potato flakes. She turns to knife or your finger, then dump the flour into the mixing bowl. Knead by grasping the top half of the dough with both hands look at the iPad propped on her counter, where a picture of a 2. Mix. Add the yeast and salt to the flour. Stir together with a and folding the top third down then pushing it back into the stained index card in her grandmother’s cursive handwriting lists wooden spoon or Danish dough whisk. Pour in the water and dough with the heel of one hand. Lift the dough off the surface, the ingredients for her great-grandmother, Neva Boyd’s, Welsh stir together until just moistened. Beat 40 strokes, scraping the give it a quarter turn, and repeat the kneading motion. potato bread/. bottom and the sides of the bowl, until the dough forms a If the dough sticks to the surface when you lift it, remove the Leal’s potato bread makes a dense dough that is “therapeutic” lumpy, sticky mass. stuck bits with a pastry scraper or spatula and sprinkle more flour to knead, she says. “It’s soothing.” It also gives Leal a sense of con- 3. Rise. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let rise at room on the surface. nection to her mother and grandmother, who live in southwest temperature (72 degrees) ºF/22ºC) in a draft-free place for 2 Knead until the dough becomes shiny and elastic, about 10 Missouri. “I don’t get to see them that often, and when I miss hours or until the dough has risen nearly to the top of the minutes. If you don’t knead long enough, the dough will not rise them I make bread.” bowl and has a sponge-like appearance. fully. If you over-knead it, it can be too crumbly inside. I just finished reading Michael Pollen’s new book, “Cooked,” in 4. Use right away or refrigerate. Use that day or place the dough, Rinse and dry the mixing bowl, then butter the bottom half of which he examines four cooking techniques that utilize the four covered with plastic wrap, in the refrigerator for up to 9 days it. Shape the dough into a large ball and place it rounded side elements: fire, water, air and earth. The air chapter is devoted to before baking. down into the bowl, then carefully flip it over so the side that is his quest to make sourdough bread from homemade starter. It Neva boyd’s bread up is buttered. was an interesting read and it made me realize my bread-baking In a small bowl, combine: Wet a clean tea towel with hot water, wring it out and drape it is not a quest for a perfect texture or extraordinary taste. I’m in it 2 packages yeast over the bowl. Place the bowl in a warm spot free of drafts. On for the relaxation, so for now; I’ll stick to my version of Grandma’s 2 teaspoons sugar cold days, you can preheat the oven to the lowest setting, then soft whole-wheat bread. Familiarity with the recipe breeds con- cup warm water turn it off and let the dough rise in the oven. tentment in the process. In a large bowl, combine: Allow the dough to rise one hour or until doubled in size. When my arms start to burn and they still do I have learned 2 cups very warm water Butter four 8-inch by 5-inch loaf pans. the worst thing to do is to slow down. You will never be able to 1/3 cup sugar Punch the dough down with your fists, then divide into four regain that momentum. Instead I try to find some birds to look at 3 teaspoons salt portions. Shape each portion into a loaf and place in a buttered out the window. Sometimes I hear Grandma’s voice in my head, 2/3 cup shortening, oil or butter pan. You can also reserve one or more portions to roll out for cin- “You’re not tired already, are you?” And I keep going, pounding 3 eggs namon rolls or pizza crusts. The dough will keep up to 2 days in the dough into submission, until it’s pillowy soft and shiny and I 1 cup instant potato buds the refrigerator in a sealed glass or plastic container. know it will bake up into a light loaf with a fine texture that she When the yeast is done proofing (10 minutes), add the yeast Cover the loaf pans with a warm damp tea towel and allow to would be proud of. mixture to the potato mixture. Then add, one cup at a time: rise in a warm place until doubled in size, 30 to 45 minutes. 7 to 8 cups flour Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Master recipe number1 easy artisan dough When the dough can’t be stirred any more, turn it out onto a Bake the bread 25 minutes until golden brown on top. Let the This first master recipe introduces you to the basics of the Easy floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic. bread rest in the pans 10 minutes, then turn them out. Let cool 10 Artisan bread method. As you begin to make bread, all of this will Cover bowl with plastic wrap and a tea towel and place in a more minutes if possible before slicing. — MCT get even easier. You won’t have to check the temperature of the warm, draft-free spot. Let rise one hour. water, as you’ll know what lukewarm feels like. You’ll get quite Shape into four loaves and put in 8-inch by 5-inch pans. Let good at forming the various types of loaves and sliding them rise 30 minutes, covered. onto the hot baking stone. You’ll be able to tell, by how fast the Preheat oven to 350 degrees. temperature rises on the instant-read thermometer, when your Bake 25 minutes or until the bread sounds hollow when you bread reaches 190 degrees (90ºC) and is done. Your artisan loaves thump it. will have a crisp, darkened crust, a tender, moist crumb and a mel- Cindy’s soft whole-wheat bread low, toasty flavor all with this easy method. The dough will also In a large mixing bowl, combine: make delicious rolls, pizza or flatbread. 4 cups lukewarm water Makes enough dough for bread, rolls, pizza or flatbread to 1 cup honey or sorghum serve 12 to 16 Add: Equipment: 2 tablespoons (two packages) yeast Instant-read thermometer Let rest 10 minutes, then add: 16-cup (4 L) mixing bowl 2 tablespoons salt Wooden spoon cup vegetable oil or melted butter Travel FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Rust, grit mark Pittsburgh’s historic, colorful Carrie Furnaces

The blower engine house at Carrie Furnaces in Rankin is 220 feet long, 104 feet wide and 84 feet high. It produced air for the blast furnaces.

he Carrie Furnaces are intrigu- toiled. The two remaining furnaces The blast furnaces consumed National Historic Landmark and the ing, gritty historical attractions, offer an up-close look at the time approximately four tons of iron ore, focal point of the proposed 38-acre Tif you can find the now-aban- when the Pittsburgh area was the coke and limestone for every ton of Homestead Works National Park doned blast furnaces. The two 13- No. 1 steel region in the world. Iron iron produced. The cooling system devoted to the region’s industrial story furnaces, rusting and dilapidat- from the Carrie Furnaces became required more than 5 million gallons history. Under that plan, the two fur- ed, sit on the north side of the steel that was used in the Empire of water daily. Carrie 6 and 7 each at naces would undergo a stabilization Monongahela River near the Rankin State Building, the battleship its peak produced 1,000 to 1,250 and renovation costing tens of mil- Bridge, seven miles from downtown Missouri, the Gateway Arch, the tons of iron a day. The molten iron lions of dollars to enable visitors to Sears Tower, the Golden Gate was moved in special 35-ton ladle climb catwalks and see the furnaces Bridge, Panama Canal, the United rail cars across the river on a special up close. In its 105 years, the Nations Building, the George bridge the Hot Metal Bridge to the Homestead Works with its open- Washington Bridge and the Alaska Homestead Works to be turned into hearth mills produced more than oil pipeline. steel. The Carrie Furnaces were 200 million tons of steel. It was the The Carrie Furnaces are rare among 48 blast furnaces in and flagship plant for US Steel and one examples of pre-World War II iron- around Pittsburgh in the early of the world’s largest steel mills, cov- making technologies, the only two 1900s. ering 430 acres with 450 buildings blast furnaces from that era that sur- The two remaining furnaces are a and employing 200,000 workers vive in the United States. Carrie 6 is intact; Carrie 7 has been partially dis- mantled on the 13-acre site. They were constructed of 2.5-inch-thick steel plate and lined with refractory brick to withstand temperatures as high as 3,500 degrees. The first Carrie Furnaces were built in 1884. The furnaces operated as independ- Pittsburgh, surrounded by almost ent merchant iron furnaces that sold nothing. The complex with the giant their pig iron to other companies. furnaces and associated buildings in Blast furnaces were named after Rankin and Swissvale boroughs is an women; the Carrie name was a fami- industrial ghost, a relic of ly name of one of the initial owners. Pittsburgh’s colorful steel-making The furnaces were acquired in 1898 past. by Andrew Carnegie and became At 92 feet tall, the two furnaces part of US Steel in 1901. Carrie 6 and are the biggest attraction in the 7 were built in 1907 by US Steel. The Rivers of Steel National Heritage Carrie Furnaces operated until 1978 Area and are becoming a bona-fide as the heart of the giant Homestead tourist draw. The Rivers of Steel Steel Works, the adjoining steelmak- Corp. offers tours of the Carrie ing complex across the river in Furnaces where 3,000 workers once Homestead. Travel FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

Guides on the Carrie Furnaces tours in Rankin, Pennsylvania are often retired steelworkers. Guided and self-guided tours are available at the furnaces that once produced iron for US Steel’s Homestead complex.

over the years, 15,000 during World furnaces. Visitors love an unlikely War II. It was shut down in 1986. attraction: a metal sculpture of an The old complex has been rede- oversized deer’s head that towers veloped as The Waterfront with over part of the facility, about 45 stores, hotels and restaurants in feet by 35 feet in size. It was con- Homestead. Rivers of Steel offers structed in 1997-1999 by a crew of two Carrie Furnaces tours: guided, artists, the Industrial Arts Collective, and self-guided with docents at using materials found on the site. appropriate stops. Carrie Furnace The tours are designed for ages 8 attractions include the two furnaces, and up. No high-heeled or open- an oversized brick blower house, the toed shoes are allowed on the ore yard, car dumper, torpedo car, industrial site. Getting to the Carrie blowing engine house, hot stoves, Furnaces was an adventure. The cast house and a 15-ton crane for interstate was closed for tunnel moving iron ore. repairs and traffic was detoured on a It is a big and unpolished facility. long, winding route through the For example, the blowing engine streets of Pittsburgh and suburbs. house for the two furnaces is 220 That killed our printed directions feet long, 104 feet wide and 84 feet and delayed our arrival by 40 min- high. It housed four large gas utes. engines to produce air for the blast The industrial furnaces are in the middle of nowhere. You can cross come up the river on barges to active railroad tracks and pass reopen the plant. After a day of gun- through tunnels and wind along dirt fire, 10 were dead and the roads that are barely passable to get Pinkertons had surrendered. But to the fenced-off site. It is surround- Carnegie kept the steelworkers from ed by a lot of desolation and noth- unionizing for decades. ingness. Rivers of Steel offers tours The Pump House at 880 W. of the Carrie Furnace site from April Waterfront Drive houses exhibits through October. Guided two-hour today. It is near a trailhead on the tours are offered at 10 a.m. on 141-mile Great Allegheny Passage Saturdays May through October and trail that runs from Pittsburgh to at 10 am Fridays June through Cumberland, Md. August. Rivers of Steel also offers a look Rivers of Steel, a federal historic at a historic foundry in Rices area, also houses a museum at the Landing on the Monongahela River Bost Building in Homestead. The in Greene County. The W.A. Young building, an old hotel built in 1892 & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop and a National Historical Landmark, is open for tours from April through played a key role in the infamous October. It also offers two bus 1892 Homestead Lockout and Strike. tours: Pittsburgh Memories and That pitted the Amalgamated Babushkas and Hard Hats. It also Association of Iron and Steel offers cellphone and MP3 tours. Workers against the Carnegie Steel Rivers of Steel won federal designa- Co. tion from Congress in 1996, spot- The Pump House in Munhall is lighting the industrial, cultural and the site of the bloody battle in which ethnic heritage of eight counties locked-out steelworkers squared off around Pittsburgh—MCT against Pinkerton guards who had Health FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Here comes the summer sun! What’s the best way to care for your skin this season? o you think of your skin as a beautiful amount of time needed to cause a sunburn harmful rays reach your scalp and your ears away from your body. Clothes with tight feature to be bared when the weather on unprotected skin. For example, with an when you leave your noggin unprotected. weaves or knits prevent penetration of harm- Dwarms up? Or is it simply a protective SPF 2 sunscreen a person who normally (with- And remember, baseball caps are not nearly ful rays. shell, an instrument for touch, or a telling clue out sunscreen) would turn red after 10 min- as effective as hats with broad brims, because Lip balm. The lip is a common site for skin to your age? While your skin may be all of utes of sun exposure would take 20 minutes they leave your ears exposed. and lip cancer, primarily because of extended these things, it is also your body’s most to turn red. A sunscreen with an SPF of 30 Garments designed to ward off skin-can- sun exposure. Cracked, peeling, scaly lips that prominent organ. So it’s essential you take would allow that person to multiply that ini- cer-causing rays are now available in specialty aren’t helped by lip balm or petroleum jelly care of it, especially during the summertime, tial burning time by 30, which means it would stores. These are given an Ultraviolet may be signs of actinic keratoses. The condi- when UV levels can wreak havoc on exposed take 30 times longer to burn. However, SPF Protection Factor (UPF) rating, indicating how tion can be the earliest stage of the develop- skin. While those killer rays may feel sensa- should not be used to determine time in the much of the sun’s rays are absorbed by the ment of skin cancer, and has the potential to tional, the effects of sun exposure may not be sun. Skin damage can happen even without a fabric. Articles with UPF 30, for example, allow progress to deadlier forms of the disease. as agreeable over time. According to the burn. Plus, higher SPF numbers do not give only 1/30 of UV light to penetrate. People either forget to put sunscreen or balm American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), proportionate protection. SPF 15 deflects 93 These clothes are a foolproof way of in the area, or lick it off. To fully protect lips: one in five Americans will develop some form percent of sun-burning rays, whereas SPF 30 shielding against skin damage, says Cyndi Look for lip-specific products that have SPF of skin cancer during their lifetime. deflects 97 percent, reports the AAD. Yag-Howard, MD, FAAD, a dermatologist and 15 or higher, recommends Shelton. Use a lip Prolonged ultraviolet exposure may also It provides broad-spectrum protection, SPF clothing entrepreneur in Naples, Fla. balm with SPF 30 or higher if you have a his- lead to cataracts, which affects more than 20 which is in sunscreens containing benzophe- “They basically act like a really good sun- tory of lip and skin cancer. Apply lip product million Americans over age 40, reports the National Eye Institute. Then there’s premature aging a of the skin. The National Institute on Aging has pointed to sunlight as a major culprit of wrinkles, dryness, and age spots. The best way to avoid trouble? Block harmful rays when you’re out during the day; even during cloudy days use sun protection. Sun rays can penetrate light clouds, mist, and fog. The danger exists in all seasons, and the damage builds up each year. “The fall, winter, and spring will account for at least 20 percent of the [UV] exposure that we have,” says Ron Shelton, MD, FAAD, FAACS, a board-certified dermatologist, and assistant professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. “Yet, there’s no doubt that the bulk of the sun damage happens in the summer months.” Whether you’re driven by medical concerns, beauty, or both, gear up with WebMD’s Summer Skin Survival Guide before hitting the beach, the golf course, or even the back yard-and keep your skin glowing with good health all year round.

Sun shields Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the US. There’s strong evidence that excessive sun exposure raises the risk of melanoma, the deadliest form of the disease. According to the American Cancer Society, there will be about 62,000 new cases of melanoma in 2006, and nearly 8,000 will die of the ailment. Sunscreens. Sunscreen is a highly recommended defense against sunburn and skin cancer. It is now available in lotions, creams, ointments, gels, wax sticks, and spray. Some have glitter and tint, too. What’s the best kind? That depends on you. “It’s nice to use a product with a higher SPF, but it’s more important you find a sunscreen that you like because you’ll use it more,” says Andrew Kaufman, MD, a dermasurgeon and a member of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery. Make sure to apply sunscreen 15 to 30 minutes before you go out. Put on enough so that it takes a full minute to rub in. If at the beach, spread at least 1 ounce-enough to fill a shot glass-on nones (oxybenzone), cinnamates (octylmethyl screen,” she says, noting most people don’t every two hours or so, based on the amount your face and entire body. Use more if you cinnamate and cinoxate), sulisobenzone, sali- apply enough sunscreen for it to be effective. of contact with the UV rays. While in the sun, need to for good coverage. If you swim, cylates, titanium oxide, zinc oxide, and At the same time, there’s no need to buy stay away from baby oil, petroleum jelly, or sweat, or are outdoors for a long time, reapply avobenzone (Parsol 1789). Unless it has these special products for sun protection. Try your high-shine lip gloss. every two hours. Your sunscreen should also agents, the sunscreen may filter only UVB closet. According to the Skin Cancer If you decide to wear lipstick, try darker have the following qualities: It is water resist- light, the major culprit for sunburn and skin Foundation, clothes with certain qualities can shades as they provide more UV defense than ant. Sweat or water cannot easily remove it. cancer. Yet, protection from UVA is important, prevent harmful rays from reaching the skin. sheer, glossy ones. Better yet, wear lipstick It has SPF of 15 or higher. According to The too. It is responsible for premature aging and Garments made of unbleached cotton, with SPF, or apply a lip conditioner with SPF American Academy of Dermatology, sun- the development of skin cancer. high-luster polyesters, and thin, satiny silk can and antioxidants under lipstick for extra mois- screen-SPF rating is calculated by comparing absorb or reflect UV radiation, preventing ture and protection. the amount of time needed to produce a sun- Clothing and lip balms damaging rays from reaching the skin. Darker burn on sunscreen-protected skin to the Clothing. Start with a hat, because those materials tend to absorb UV light, keeping it www.webmd.com Lifestyle FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

Review Tom Hanks Reteams With ‘Cloud Atlas’ Director on ‘A Hologram For the King’ om Hanks is reteaming with his in a last-ditch attempt to stave off “Cloud Atlas” director Tom foreclosure and do something mem- TTykwer on a feature adaptation orable with his life. Hanks and his of Dave Eggers’ novel “A Hologram Playtone partner Gary Goetzman will For the King,” TheWrap has learned. produce with Stefan Arndt, Uwe Tykwer adapted the book and will Schott and Tykwer of X Filme direct the indie movie, for which CAA Creative Pool. Hanks, who can cur- is in the process of securing financ- rently be seen on Broadway in Nora ing. “A Hologram For the King” was a Ephron’s play “Funny Guy,” will soon finalist for the National Book Award be seen in Sony’s “Captain Phillips” when it was published by and Disney’s “Saving Mr. Banks,” in McSweeney’s last year. which he plays Walt Disney. He’s rep- Hanks will play a struggling busi- resented by CAA. The news was first nessman who heads to Saudi Arabia reported by Deadline. —Reuters Mom’s a drag Chris Tucker to Star in Relativity in lively Comedy ‘Second Honeymoon’ ‘The Silver Cord’ aul out the evil mother-in-law jokes; Mrs Phelps fter a five-year hiatus from the finance, produce and distribute the for eight Academy Awards. The motor- is a real doozy. A mother’s selfishness can take big screen, Chris Tucker eased his project, which Todd Garner mouthed comic’s other feature credits many forms, but dramatist Sidney Howard way back into Hollywood with a (“Zookeeper”) is producing with include “Friday,” “Dead Presidents” and H A (screenwriter for “Gone With the Wind”) created a real well-received supporting turn in David Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh and “Money Talks,” as well as Quentin O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook.” Tucker’s producing partner Karen Bell. Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown” and Luc monster in his 1926 domestic drama, “The Silver Cord.” Now Tucker is ready to return to leading Tucker will serve as an executive pro- Besson’s “The Fifth Element.” He’s His manipulative Mrs Phelps, a long-widowed, middle- roles, as he has signed on to star in ducer. Tucker, who is best known for repped by WME. aged mother of two adult sons, gives new meaning to Relativity Media’s comedy “Second starring opposite Jackie Chan in Brett Joanou, who previously directed The the term smother. The title of “The Silver Cord” refers to Honeymoon.” Ratner’s hit “Rush Hour” trilogy, recently Rock in “Gridiron Gang” and the steamy the umbilical cord (translation: money) that the narcis- Phil Joanou (“Gridiron Gang”) will played Bradley Cooper’s friend in “Silver thriller “Final Analysis” with Richard sistic widow uses to cripple her sons’ independence and direct the movie and rewrite the script Linings Playbook, which was nominated Gere, most recently directed the popu- bind them to her side. by Peter Gaulke and lar viral short film “The Peccadillo Theater Company has mounted a con- Kevin Heffernan. Story Chris Tucker Punisher: Dirty densed, well-done revival with a twist: The mother is follows a married couple Laundry.” He’s repped played by Dale Carman, in drag. This conceit has who return to Antigua by Paradigm, Todd worked well in recent plays when the character is on their second honey- Smith and Associates played comically, but director Dan Wackerman has moon in an effort to and attorney Harold Carman play the role seriously. Carman is very good at spice things up. Brown. enacting a woman, but by playing it straight - so to However, the legacy Relativity’s upcoming speak - he slightly distracts from the genuine and lively they left ten years ago releases include the cor- drama unfolding. comes back to haunt porate espionage Effeminate and genteel, eyes darting about with both of them, and thriller “Paranoia” on barely-concealed malice, Carman makes a delicate gri- before they know it, the Aug. 16, Scott Cooper’s mace of delight whenever Mother scores a devious trip is less about trying gritty drama “Out of the point in her machinations to trick her sons into staying to reconnect with their Furnace” on Oct. 4, near her. If that means getting rid of annoying fiancÈes younger, wilder selves Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s and even wives, by whatever means necessary, this har- and more about trying daring directorial debut ridan is briskly ready to do whatever it takes. Insidious, to get off the island “Don Jon” on Oct. 18 poisonous lies are her weapon of choice to divide her alive. and the animated bud- Relativity Media has dy comedy “Free Birds” sons from whatever female threatens her. Her evidently worldwide rights to on Nov 1. —Reuters brainwashed and spoiled sons worship their scheming matriarch and are oblivious to her chicanery. Thomas Matthew Kelley seems worldly as the favorite, David, but he blindly follows his mother’s cruel advice when events take a negative turn. Wilson Bridges gives a naive credibility to younger brother Robert. David’s pregnant new wife, Christina, a modern- thinking, professional scientist, is played with intelligence and increasing ferocity by Victoria Mack. Snoop Dogg, cen- Christina catches on to mommie dearest’s nefarious ter, a cast mem- game pretty quickly, and she’s not afraid to speak out to ber in the animat- save her husband and her marriage. However, emotion- ally fragile Hester (Caroline Kaplan, charmingly melo- ed 3D film dramatic), who engaged to Robert, is less mentally “Turbo,” per- tough, and doesn’t fare so well against her fiancÈ’s con- forms alongside triving mother. dancers at a party Beautiful costumes and a well-appointed set by for the film at Harry Feiner provide a lovely background for the tense Nokia Plaza on drama. In one completely creepy scene, Mother snug- Wednesday in Los gles up to David in his bed and kisses him on the mouth. More than once. Whether Christina will be able Angeles. —AP to keep the father of her unborn child or lose him to the lucrative promises of his malicious mother becomes the main battle of the play, and the final act is an exciting, knock-down, drag-out verbal confrontation between the two women. —AP Lifestyle FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

This file picture taken on September 15, 1992 shows French rocker and actor Johnny Hallyday This file picture taken on March 7, 1962 shows fans greeting French rocker Johnny Hallyday as performing at the Bercy Palais omnisports in Paris. he returns from the US, at Orlyís airport.

e never cracked the US and few outside the French-speak- to a Paris square in 1963 with scenes of hysteria similar to the ing world have heard of him, but at home rocker Johnny Beatlemania across the English channel at the same time. French HHallyday is a national treasure whose 70th birthday on music journalist Bertrand Dicale described Hallyday as “ridiculous Saturday will be celebrated in front of 20,000 adoring fans. Tickets but sublime” and said his enduring appeal lay in his uniquely for the concert, due to be broadcast live on national television, sold French identity. “Every country has a Johnny Hallyday. Johnny is out in less than two hours. A second smaller concert scheduled for the embodiment of something essentially French. He represents later the same day attracted 50,000 applications for just 800 seats. our way of looking at life,” he told AFP. Such is his popularity that the ups and downs of Hallyday’s life have “He is the embodiment not of rock ‘n’ roll but of France’s idea of become a national saga with acres of newsprint dedicated down rock ‘n’ roll. He is rock ‘n’ roll combined with traditional French vari- the years to everything from his marriages and numerous health ety entertainment and whatever the melody, whatever the rhythm, scares to his tax arrangements and oft-postponed retirement plans. whatever the lyrics, it’s always very French,” he added. Saturday’s Often compared to Elvis Presley, Hallyday has sold over 110 mil- second concert will be something of a homecoming for Hallyday. lion records and played live to tens of millions over a five-decade- The Paris theatre where he will go on stage late on Saturday night long career, but international success has largely eluded him. One is just a few streets from where he was born Jean-Philippe Smet on of his early concerts is famed for attracting 100,000 young people June 15, 1943. But the milestone does not look likely to herald any serious move towards retirement. Like his ageing British contemporaries Tom Jones and Mick Jagger, Hallyday has no plans to give it all up. Just six months after the end of a gruelling 65-date tour, Hallyday goes back on the road from Sunday with his “Born Rocker Tour” to celebrate both his 70th and his new album “L’Attente”. The tour will include 14 concerts in France, Belgium, Austria and Monaco. “A few years ago I could not imagine singing at 70. But now I think I’ll be on stage at 80,” he was quoted as saying recently by Le Parisien newspaper. Not everyone agrees. An opinion poll this month found that 65 percent of French people thought he should retire. But Hallyday remained unmoved, telling the RTL radio station days later: “I still think as if I am 20 or 30 years old. I honestly don’t see the difference!” “I am no more tired now when I do a concert than before. It seems incredible to me that I am 70 in a few days,” he added. — AFP

This file picture taken on April 29, 1969 shows French rock This file picture taken on September 2, 1982 shows French singer Johnny Hallyday performing on the stage of the Palais rocker Johnny Hallyday posing with a golden disc in Paris. des Sports in Paris. — AFP

Tunisian rapper who risks up to seven years in prison for legal basis for putting me in prison,” he added. The rapper’s Several cases related to freedom of expression have sparked insulting the police said he was “afraid” ahead of his trial lawyer Ghazi Mrabet said his client was charged with conspiracy outrage in Tunisia since the January 2011 revolution, and Ayesterday and criticized the authorities for not respecting to commit violence against public officials, and insulting the activists have often accused the ruling Islamist party Ennahda of freedom of expression. “I am afraid because in a country like police, offences punishable by up to seven years in prison. seeking to muzzle them. In April last year, two youths were jailed Tunisia the law is not applied, you can expect anything,” said Ala “These crimes are unfounded, these articles in the penal code do for seven and a half years for publishing caricatures of the Yaacoubi, better know by his nom de rap “Weld El 15.” The musi- not apply to artistic production,” he argued. In the video Prophet Mohammed on Facebook. On Wednesday, three cian was handed a two-year jail sentence in absentia in March for (http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=6owW_Jv5ng4) the singer European members of the radical women’s protest group Femen posting a rap video called “The Police are Dogs” on the Internet. is heard saying: “Police, magistrates, I’m here to tell you one were jailed for four months for staging a topless demonstration He is to be retried by the same court in the Tunis suburb of Ben thing, you dogs; I’ll kill police instead of sheep; Give me a gun I’ll in Tunis in support of a detained Tunisian activist. — AFP Arous, following a decision to turn himself after three months on shoot them.” Before the March trial, in which four others were the run. “In the song, I used the same terms that the police used handed prison sentences but later released, the interior ministry to speak about the youth. The police have to respect citizens if said the song’s lyrics were “unethical, abusive and threatening” they want to be respected,” Yaacoubi said. “There is no reason or towards pubic officials. Lifestyle FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

cclaimed Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa cellation, Ozawa still plans to perform at this year’s has pulled out of a trip to Switzerland that Saito Kinen music festival on August 12 and Awas to mark his return to the podium in September 7 in Matsumoto, central Japan, where Europe after years of poor health, an official told he serves as general director. AFP yesterday. The 77-year-old maestro had “Now he is rehearsing (in Japan), and he is planned to take part in lessons at the Seiji Ozawa fine,” the official said. In a career that has spanned International Academy Switzerland in Rolle, start- the globe, Ozawa spent nearly three decades at ing June 22. But he has decided to cancel the plan the Boston Symphony Orchestra before moving as his condition would not allow him to “take such to Austria in 2002 to become musical director for long flights”, said the official at his office in Tokyo. the Vienna State Opera. — AFP This was his second straight cancellation of annual lessons at the academy. Ozawa, who underwent surgery for cancer of the oesophagus in 2010 and was treated for a hernia in 2011, has been away from the podium for extensive periods during his battle back to health. Despite the can- This file picture taken on April 8, 2013 shows Japanese maestro Seiji Ozawa speaking to AFP reporters during an interview at the French ambassador’s official residence in Tokyo. — AP

ennifer Lopez says Latinos in the United States are starting to Lopez was meeting later Wednesday with the Congressional realize their power in politics and media, making the timing Hispanic Caucus, the National Council of La Raza and Sens. Harry Jgood for her latest undertaking: lobbying for greater diversity Reid, D-Nev., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J. She said businesses are in TV programming. getting on board too because of the tremendous buying power of The entertainer spoke Wednesday at the Cable Show, a com- Latinos, which is why she is also the creative chief officer of the Viva munications convention, ahead of new programming set to launch Movil brand for Verizon. The entertainer is opening a chain of 15 July 18 on the NUVOtv network. Lopez serves as chief creative offi- cell phone stores with bilingual staffers starting this month to cater cer of the English-language Latino channel. “It’s an extension of to the Hispanic market. While Lopez, 43, continues to undertake who I am as an artist,” she said about her new role in an interview creative ventures, she said she will never stop performing. with The Associated Press. “As I grow in this business - I’ve been in “It’s a new day when it comes to women,” she said. “The world is the business close to 20 years now - that creative spark that you realizing that women are not even coming into their own until have doesn’t go away. It keeps growing almost.” they’re in their 40s, that they have so much to offer. That you can Lopez said that working behind the scenes is just as rewarding stay in shape, that your life is not over once you have kids and it as performing, if not more. “Singing and acting and dancing and becomes only about your kids, that to be a great mother, or great performing live, it’s always going to be my passion,” she said. “But parent or great woman in this world you have to be a great individ- at the end of the day, when you’re given the opportunities to be ual first, you know what I mean, and that’s very empowering and more creative, to create things more from the ground up, to really, we’re all realizing this,” she said. Lopez said many major actresses in really do things like NUVO, which is really for me empowering a Hollywood are in their 40s and in the prime of the careers including community, that means so much to me.” The actress-singer-dancer Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts and Halle Berry. “It’s said these are exciting times across the board for Latinos. “There’s a a new day for women, it’s a new day for Latinos, it’s a new day,” she big revolution going on, it’s like a media and cultural revolution of said. — AP Latinos here in the United States,” she said. “We’re realizing our File photo released by Verizon Wireless shows singer Jennifer power. We’re realizing that we matter here. You know, we’re not Lopez at the Verizon Wireless meet Jennifer Lopez Flyaway just, you know, the guys working behind the scenes in the kitchens Contest in Santa Monica, Calif. — AP and as a plumber.”

he headliners usually get all the ink and this year’s group at over a lot influential fans. They’re managed by Roc Nation, recent- the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is definitely ink-worthy: ly collaborated with Diplo and Kid Cudi, and are working on a TPaul McCartney, Mumford & Sons and Tom Petty. It’s the debut album. down-list acts, though, that make this a particularly strong Jason Isbell: The Alabama-raised, Nashville-based singer-song- Bonnaroo lineup with a number of must-see acts you ought to writer is the Americana community’s cause celeb du jour. He check out before they’re so big you’ll be standing at the back of releases his new album “Southeastern” this week, just in time to the crowd watching them on the video screens. Here are 10 to take his brand of Southern rock to the masses. see: Japandroids: Just when you think the two-man band thing has Alt-J: This Mercury Prize-winning quartet plays angular pop run its course, up pops Vancouver-based Japandroids, a band songs that are oddly intoxicating. Like fellow Brits McCartney and guaranteed to generate more decibels per band member than Mumford, the group has a gift for sugary songs that are impossi- any other on the farm. Their soaring, anthemic rock is perfect for ble to resist. Bonnaroo. Action Bronson: The burly, bearded rapper from Queens is Kacey Musgraves: Bonnaroo has had its share of edgy country poised to release his major-label debut later this year and has acts over the years and Musgraves keeps the tradition rolling. This been whipping up a frenzy in London before returning to the champion of Nashville songwriters has the off-kilter, left-leaning states for Bonnaroo. Expect stage diving, East Coast harmonics world view that fits right in at the festival. and lots of naughty humor. Portugal. The Man: This Portland-based band of spacey rockers Charli XCX: The alternapop princess has had the bloggers has joined with producer Danger Mouse on its fun new album, buzzing for a couple of years. Now she’s attached to a worldwide “Evil Friends.” Fans at Bonnaroo will be hearing the new music for hit - she features on Icona Pop’s “I Love It” - and has the highest the first time. There will be buzz. profile of her career coming into Manchester. Tame Impala: Australian rocker Kevin Parker is the premiere Father John Misty: Former Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman purveyor of freaky, fuzzed-out psychedelic rock at the moment. left the band and released his first solo album under this new Last year’s “Lonerism” was one of rock’s most praised albums and moniker after several releases as J. Tillman. “Fear Fun” was on Bonnaroo could be a defining moment. — AP many year-end lists and it will be interesting to see how far Tillman’s mostly hushed folk-rock will carry at Bonnaroo. HAIM: Los Angeles-based sisters Este, Danielle and Alana Haim form a girl group for the 21st century, mixing lush vocal har- File photo shows Kacey Musgraves at the Barista Parlor in monies with high energy, beat-oriented grooves that have won Nashville, Tenn. — AP photos Lifestyle FRIDAY, JUNE 14 , 2013

hen China’s new first lady Peng Liyuan, a presence in China of around 100 shops. Their glamorous former folk singer famous in designs concentrate on natural fabrics such as Wher own right, chose homegrown fashion linen, silk and wool in styles that create a sense of label Exception de Mixmind for her husband’s first “freedom”. “We wanted to define contemporary overseas trip, speculation on Chinese social media lifestyle in China with the brand and for people to went into overdrive. Was this Exception’s “Jason discover the beauty and aesthetics of oriental phi- Wu moment”? people asked, referring to the losophy through the designs,” Mao said. The label’s young Taiwanese-Canadian designer who shot to first fashion show in 2004 was held in a derelict fame after Michelle Obama dazzled at the first inau- electric switch factory in Beijing. The factory no gural ball in an ivory one-shoulder Wu creation. Or longer exists having long since been demolished to would Peng’s championing of a domestic fashion make way for a vast shopping mall, a now familiar label in the midst of a government “frugality” drive sign of rapid development in the nation of 1.3 bil- send a message to top officials’ wives to ditch the lion. bling? For many labels such publicity is the stuff of Mao estimates that any one point around 40 marketing dreams. shopping centres are under construction in each of But in his first interview since Peng accompa- the major cities such as Shanghai or Beijing. He is nied her husband President Xi Jinping to Russia in careful, however, to distance Exception from such March, Exception founder Mao Jihong looks rampant consumerism, describing its clients as uncomfortable when the “first lady issue” is raised. people who “love culture and art and have their Peng, a star in China for over three decades, has own aesthetic point of view”. But he predicts that been wearing Exception for 12 years and some even those with an entirely different mindset can clothes were specially designed for her, Mao told soon be expected to adopt a more sophisticated AFP in an interview in Paris. And while the publicity approach to fashion buying. “I think it is a process surrounding her choice of an Exception double- of development,” he said. breasted trench coat and leather handbag on her “In China there is no ‘noble’ class. There is no Russia trip was undoubtedly good for the brand, it difference of social status and if people in China has also been “lots of trouble”, he said. want to show that they are different they use a “We just want to do fashion quietly. We never consumer item to identify who they are. “I think do campaigns or advertising but after the first lady that sooner or later the consumer will find them- wore our clothes (in Russia) lots of people came selves and they may not need those kinds of looking for us,” he said. “We want to present the items to show off who they are,” he said. Now brand rather than use the first lady to make us plans are afoot to launch Exception in Europe famous. We never really wanted that,” he added. after approaches from French department stores The Exception story closely mirrors the short histo- and buyers. “We are working on those interna- ry of fashion design in modern-day China. tional plans... Everything is under discussion,” Mao Graduating in 1991 from one of the country’s first said, adding however that the label was still very fashion design courses, Mao and his ex-wife Ma Ke much a work in progress. “We have never defined set about offering an alternative to the drab, shape- ourselves as a successful brand and I think we less clothes they saw around them. “We were haven’t reached that yet. We are still on the way,” among the earliest design students in China. Back he said. — AFP then clothing in China had no beauty and everybody was wearing the same thing like a uniform,” he said. Today their label, one of the country’s very first Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife lady Peng Liyuan visit the archaeological site of to be established in the early 1990s, has a “tiny” Chichen itza, State of Yucatan. — AFP

my Adams stunned in a strapless Valentino dress mother-of-one previously said she favours an “effortless” at the ‘Man of Steel’ European premiere. The 38- style and hates looking like she tries too hard, especially Ayear-old actress looked effortlessly chic in a knee- when she’s spending time with her two-year-old daugh- length gown from the fashion house’s Spring 2013 cou- ter Aviana. She said: “I try to keep it pretty simple; I don’t ture collection as she walked the blue carpet in London’s want to look as though I’m trying too hard. I want to be Leicester Square on Wednesday night to promote her comfortable, but at the same time I also like to look ele- new film. The A-line style enhanced Amy’s dainty waist, gant and feminine. “I try to make it look as effortless as while the gown’s nude andblack palette complemented possible - that’s important to me, especially now that I’m her porcelain complexion. The redhead kept accessories a mom. I want my clothes to be functional, but at the to a minimal, finishing off the look with Casadei heels, same times very chic.”— Bang Showbiz three-tier drop earrings and pulling her hair into a simple bun, held back from her face by a black headband. Despite the rainy British weather, the star appeared to be having a blast at the event, where she was joined by her co-stars Henry Cavill and Russell Crowe. The Lifestyle FRIDAY, JUNE 14 , 2013

Miss Universe Organization, Miss Virginia USA 2013, Shannon McAnally competes in Miss Ohio USA 2013, Kristin Smith her evening gown during the 2013 Miss Miss Nevada USA 2013, Chelsea Caswell Miss Texas USA 2013, Ali Nugent USA Competition Preliminary Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday June 12, 2013. — AP

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Haddon Township looks through a scrapbook of poems that he found in Brandon visits his mother, Carleen Hamilton, at Spring Hills Assisted Living in Cherry Hill, and shows this room of the Cherry Hill house where he grew up. —MCT her some of the poetry. ‘No Time feelings every day. That fire that you have on weather, as in hers: Spring Hills Cherry Hill, in the old Sheraton Only Love. your honeymoon, they kept it alive.” In the Snowfalls warm me. Post Hotel on Route 70. I really love you. summer of 1974, George Hamilton had just Like in your arms, She was up and dressed, sitting on her You’re beautiful’ buried his first wife, who died from cancer they hold me safe. bed. after years of suffering. A mutual friend fixed Poems often were more universal and He sat beside her. It was a sunny room. Carleen Hamilton wrote the first poem on him up with a recent divorcee, a mother of timeless. He showed her the book. a napkin, sitting in a coffee shop in Bermuda, four, whose husband suffered mental illness. Him, on 3/18/82: “I didn’t realize that you saved all these on their honeymoon, Oct 29, 1974. George drove to Upstate New York, where All things considered, poems,” he said. “Did you know that?” Oh, how I glowe Carleen lived, and the first thing he noticed, it’s a perfect life. She nodded slightly. and grew being an astronomer and director of a plane- You’re mine. I’m yours. “You remember writing all these?” to inconceivable brilliance in his loving fire. tarium, was her medallion, depicting a moon. And we soar above the world. “Yep.” And we were called Sun and Moon. He often wore one himself of a radiant sun. Happy, hand in hand. He pointed to one. Complete life. He said he simply had to borrow hers for a In love. “Do you remember writing this poem?” Virtually every workday for the next 29 planetarium show, but would drive back the They tried their best never to miss a day. Silence. years, she wrote a poem on a napkin and following weekend and return it an excuse to On 3/16/82, he wrote: He read one to her. packed it in her husband’s lunch. And George see her again. The date was Aug 17, 1974, No Time I’m proud you’re my love. Hamilton, director of the Fels Planetarium at because in one poem he writes: Only Love. I’m proud of the way you make me feel ... the Franklin Institute, inspired by his new Time had a beginning, August 17 1974. I really love you. When he finished, she said: “And that was wife, her poetry, her devotion, and his own And with it I was born. You’re beautiful. me.” happiness, returned the kindness. Every They fell deeply and passionately in love. Each of his has the piece of tape on the “Did you know you wrote these?” he asked. morning, perhaps when she was fixing his By late September, according to their son, top. “I used to brag about them all the time,” lunch, he wrote his own poem, and taped it to George told Carleen, “snows are coming, and Carleen wrote her last poem on Dec 16, Carleen said. the mirror in the master bath. these back roads will be impassable. I can 2003, the day he retired. They put down the binder, and looked out Four children grew up in that Cherry Hill, come back in spring, or you can marry me Last day of work the sunny window into the courtyard. Then NJ, house, and knew, vaguely, that this was now and move to Cherry Hill.” First day of us Brandon walked with her slowly, holding her going on. But they never knew the extent. George was 47. Carleen was 37. They had how sweet it is, planning dreams, planning hand, down the hall to a group activity in a Until last month. George died in July at 87. no children together. But he adopted her four us common area. He sat her down, kissed her. Carleen, 77, suffers from advanced children. He had three of his own, who were I’ll catch up in a month “I’ve got to go to work, Mom. I’ll be back on Alzheimer’s and was moved into assisted liv- grown, and whom Carleen embraced. freedom to be us. Sunday.” ing in September. In their poetry, she was the moon, and he The sun and the moon again. Leaving, he was pleased. A son, Brandon Hamilton, was cleaning out the sun. And so many expressions of their She retired weeks later. Life was good for a “I could see that she got it, that she actual- the house, getting it ready for an estate sale love focused on space and sky. while. “The last years were tough on him, tak- ly realized it,” he said. “I could tell from her April 10, when he found 16 binders of nap- She wrote in 1974: ing care of Mom,” Brandon said. “She would kins, saved by his father, stored in boxes in My moon stood wanting in his warmth think he was a stranger. I’d have to talk her expression, and the way she smiled, that she the back of his workbench area. Then he dis- He took my darker side and fired it through down. It was sad. I saw my dad get frustrated.” definitely remembered.” covered three much thicker binders of poems, the racing stars to hold me still. George had congestive heart failure and died Driving home, he was quiet for a bit, saved by his mother, stacked on a closet shelf She wrote mostly on white napkins, but at home of a heart attack. “The Alzheimer’s reflecting. in a spare bedroom. occasionally on a green, yellow, or even pink lessened the blow of his death,” Brandon said. “The experience with the poems has “I find what they did so incredible,” said one. His canvas alternated between lined “Fairly quickly she forgot about George. brought me lots of closure,” he said. “The last Brandon, 45, who lives in Haddon Township, paper abundant, since she became a Cherry “What is interesting is how she’ll react today.” couple years, seeing them both deteriorate, N.J. “Not only the discipline of doing it every Hill teacher for 27 years and stationery. Brandon brings a binder of napkins with was very painful. “But now I’ve been able to day, but the closeness that they had in their While each poem was dated, the authors him for the first time on a recent visit to his see them as they were before, and not as they marriage because of sharing your innermost rarely referenced daily events other than mother. She lives in an Alzheimer’s unit at were at the end.” — MCT Stars FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

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Daily SuDoku Yesterday’s Solution Sports FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Giants fall to Pirates

PITTSBURGH: Starling Marte had a career-high REDS 2, CUBS 1 four hits and scored four times, and the In Chicago, Mike Leake combined with Pittsburgh Pirates beat the San Francisco Giants Aroldis Chapman on a three-hitter and Todd 12-8 on Wednesday night. Frazier hit a tiebreaking home run in the seventh Neil Walker and Alex Presley homered for inning against Travis Wood, leading Cincinnati to Pittsburgh. Jordy Mercer, Andrew McCutchen a record 12th straight victory at Wrigley Field. and Gaby Sanchez had three hits each as the Leake (6-3) allowed Nate Schierholtz’s second- Pirates set season highs for runs and hits. inning homer but won for the fourth time in five Francisco Liriano (5-2) got through six erratic decisions. Chapman struck out two in a perfect innings for the win. Joaquin Arias knocked in ninth for his 17th save in 19 chances. The previ- three runs for the Giants and Hunter Pence dou- ous record for consecutive wins by a visitor at bled twice but San Francisco continued to strug- Wrigley was 10. Wood (5-5) gave up two runs gle on the road. The defending World Series and four hits in seven innings, his third loss in champions have lost 12 of 16 away from home. four decisions. Barry Zito (4-5) allowed eight runs and 11 hits in 4 2-3 innings as his road ERA ballooned to 11.28. METS 5, CARDINALS 1 In New York, Dillon Gee had his third DIAMONDBACKS 8, DODGERS 6 straight stellar start, Lucas Duda hit one of In Los Angeles, Martin Prado hit an RBI dou- three Mets homers and New York scored the ble during a four-run 12th inning to help Arizona most runs allowed by St. Louis rookie Shelby ST. PETERSBURG: Shotstop Stephen Drew No. 7 of the Boston Red Sox tags out Yunel Escobar beat Los Angeles. There was no repeat of the Miller in his young career. David Wright and No. 11 of the Tampa Bay Rays as he attempted to steal second base during the game at brawl that occurred in the seventh inning of the Marlon Byrd also connected for the Mets, who Tropicana Field. — AFP Dodgers’ 5-3 victory a night earlier, when six snapped a three-game skid and improved to 2- players and coaches were ejected. No batters 6 in June. Duda drove in two runs, including a were hit by pitches this time. Prado put the first-inning single that scored Daniel Murphy Red Sox defeat Rays Diamondbacks ahead 5-4 with a ground-rule from first base. double off Ronald Belisario (3-5), charged with With prized pitching prospect Zack Wheeler ST. PETERSBURG: Alfredo Aceves threw six solid giving up three singles, striking out eight and four runs and three hits in two-thirds of an nearing his promotion to the big leagues, Gee innings, Daniel Nava homered and the AL East- walking two in a 117-pitch outing, his second- inning. He walked two and didn’t retire any of (5-6) has done everything possible to protect his leading Boston Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays highest total this season. Greg Holland (2-1) the four batters he faced in the 12th. spot in the rotation. The right-hander has yield- 2-1 on Wednesday night. pitched a perfect 10th for the win, striking out Arizona made it 6-4 on Cliff Pennington’s ed only three earned runs over 21 innings in his Aceves (3-1), recalled before the game from Torii Hunter and Miguel Cabrera and retiring bases-loaded RBI single off Brandon League. past three starts - all wins. Gee scattered six hits Triple-A Pawtucket, allowed one run, four hits and Prince Fielder on a lineout, and Miguel Tejada sin- Gerardo Parra added a two-run single. Josh in this one and and struck out seven in 6 2-3 four walks. This is the right-hander’s third stint gled off Phil Coke (0-4) leading off the bottom Collmenter (3-0) got the win with two innings of innings. He gave up a homer to Allen Craig, his with the Red Sox this season. half. relief. The Diamondbacks had 20 hits while second in two days against the Mets. Nava put the Red Sox up 2-0 on a third-inning, improving to 7-2 against the Dodgers this sea- Miller (7-4) gave up four runs and five hits in two-run homer off Chris Archer (1-2), who gave ASTROS 6, MARINERS 1 son. Heath Bell gave up two runs in the bottom six innings. He struck out 10 without a walk. up two runs, four hits, four walks and struck out In Seattle, Houston rallied to score six runs off of the 12th but retired pinch-hitter Tim David Freese went 0 for 4 for the Cardinals, end- seven over four innings. The Rays right-hander closer Tom Wilhelmsen in the ninth inning and Federowicz with two on to end it. ing his career-best hitting streak at 20 games - exuberantly left the mound after striking out Nava beat Seattle, snapping a six-game losing streak longest in the majors this season. with the bases loaded to end the fourth. and giving the Astros their first victory this season PADRES 5, BRAVES 3 when trailing after eight innings. In San Diego, Edinson Volquez struck out a BREWERS 10, MARLINS 1 INDIANS 5, RANGERS 2 Trailing 1-0, Jason Castro and J.D. Martinez led season-high nine in seven innings, rebounding In Miami, Carlos Gomez had four hits, includ- In Arlington, Jason Kipnis had a home run off with a pair of singles and advanced to third on from the worst start of his career to help San ing two triples, and Jonathan Lucroy drove in among his three hits and Cleveland got a series- a sacrifice bunt from Carlos Corporan. After an Diego to a three-game sweep of NL East-leading four runs to lead Milwaukee over Miami. clinching victory over Texas. intentional walk of Carlos Pena, Chris Carter dou- Atlanta. Chris Denorfia hit a two-run homer for Gomez also drove in three runs and scored A night after ending an eight-game losing bled off the wall in left field to score a pair and the Padres, who swept the Braves in San Diego three times. Jean Segura homered for the streak, and a span of 12 straight losses away from give the Astros their first lead of the game. for the first time since May 2005. The Braves Brewers, who have won five of six. home, the Indians earned consecutive victories to Another intentional walk loaded the bases again were swept for just the second time this season. Alfredo Figaro (1-0) pitched seven scoreless clinch their first road series in a month. They had and brought the hook for Wilhelmsen (0-2), who Everth Cabrera got his major leaue-leading innings to earn his first victory since Sept. 26, gone 0-4-1 in series since taking two of three May blew his fourth save in his last nine tries. Paul 30th stolen base ahead of Denorfia’s homer. 2009, at the Chicago White Sox. He retired 16 in a 10-12 at Detroit, the only American League team Clemens (4-2) earned the victory for Houston. Volquez (5-5) held the Braves to one run and six row at one point and struck out four. with a better home record than Texas this season. hits. In his previous two starts, he had allowed a Gomez and Lucroy both had bases-loaded Mike Aviles also homered for Cleveland, which ATHLETICS 5, YANKEES 2 combined 13 earned runs and 17 hits in 7 1-3 triples. They combined to go 12 for 24 with 12 also won 5-2 on Tuesday after losing the series In Oakland, Brandon Moss hit a two-run homer innings. Paul Maholm (7-5) allowed five runs, RBIs in the three-game series.It was the largest opener 6-3. The Indians get a day off before start- and a solo shot for his third career two-homer four earned, on seven hits in 5 2-3 innings for margin of victory for Milwaukee this season, ing a nine-game homestand Friday against game, and Oakland beat New York for its 10th Atlanta. even though Ryan Braun (right thumb) missed Washington. Ubaldo Jimenez (5-4) allowed one consecutive home victory. his third consecutive game.—AP run pitching into the sixth. Moss’ power stroke helped Dan Straily (4-2) win his third straight decision. Moss hit his 10th ANGELS 9, ORIOLES 5 homer in the second inning and 11th with a solo In Baltimore, Aybar hit a bases-loaded triple drive in the eighth. He also connected twice April and Albert Pujols homered during a six-run sev- 29 against the Angels. Of his five hits over 40 at- enth inning, helping Los Angeles beat Baltimore bats in his last 19 games, all are home runs. to stop a four-game losing streak. John Jaso added an RBI double and a run-scor- Hank Conger homered, Pujols had three hits ing single. The A’s (40-27) won for the 20th time in and Howie Kendrick contributed two doubles to 25 games and are off to their best start since 1990. help the Angels avert a three-game sweep and put a positive finish on a 2-4 trip that began in INTERLEAGUE Boston. Chris Davis hit his major league-leading TWINS 4, PHILLIES 3 21st homer for Baltimore off Jerome Williams (5- In Minneapolis, Clete Thomas had a career- 2), ending a 1-for-17 skid with his first home run high four hits for Minnesota and came home on a and RBI since June 2. wild pitch for the go-ahead run in the eighth Pedro Strop (0-3) gave up the triple to Aybar. inning, sending Philadelphia to its fifth straight As Aybar slid into third, the relay throw from Ryan loss. Flaherty bounced out of play, allowing Aybar to Thomas went 4 for 4 with two RBI doubles. He score for a 6-4 lead. drove in Oswaldo Arcia both times, including in the eighth when his drive off the tall wall in right ROYALS 3, TIGERS 2 field against Antonio Bastardo (2-2) tied the game. In Kansas City, Lorenzo Cain hit a tying, two- Delmon Young and Ben Revere hit RBI singles run homer off Jose Valverde with two outs in the for the Phillies against their former team, but ninth and Eric Hosmer had a winning single in the starter Mike Pelfrey kept the game close with a 10th as Kansas City overcame Justin Verlander’s season-high seven innings and Glen Perkins PITTSBURGH: Alex Presley No. 7 of the Pittsburgh Pirates drives a home run to right field seven scoreless innings in a victory over Detroit. pitched a perfect ninth for his 15th save in 17 against the San Francisco Giants at PNC Park. — AFP Verlander did not allow a batter past first base, tries. — AP Sports FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Heat vow not to have any repeats of ‘horror movie’

SAN ANTONIO: There were no smiles on the faces of the Miami game in the regular season but has yet to crack 20 points in the first Heat players on Wednesday as the defending champions discussed three games of the Finals. their listless performance in the third game of the NBA Finals. The But James’s teammates were not interested in pointing any fin- Heat suffered one of the most lopsided losses in NBA Finals history gers, preferring to focus on making the adjustments in time to sal- on Tuesday when they fell 113-77 to a San Antonio Spurs team that vage a season they began as overwhelming favorites. took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. “We can’t concern ourselves with that. In the books Miami Heat Miami entered the playoffs as the top seed after cruising lost the ballgame,” said Wade. “We win together, we lose together through the regular season with a franchise-record 66 wins, but as a team. We all played bad and the Spurs played great. were a pale imitation of that team as they shot a lousy 40.8 percent “So everyone has an opinion, and everybody uses their opinion. from the field. “We watched the film and it was worse than a horror But we can’t control what we can’t control.” Miami won their only movie to be honest with you,” Miami forward Chris Bosh told regular season visit to San Antonio this past regular season but are reporters. 3-23 here all-time, a record they will need to improve on quickly “We didn’t give the effort we needed to give and it was embar- with the next two games of the Finals being in the Alamo City. rassing to be a part of that.” Miami’s Big Three of Bosh, four-time James said his 15 points on 7-of-21 shooting was unacceptable and league most valuable player LeBron James and nine-time All-Star he accepts full responsibility for the loss and vowed to be better Dwyane Wade were outscored 51-43 by the largely unheralded when the series resumes. “I’m just confident in my ability. And my Spurs duo of Danny Green and Gary Neal. With the next two games teammates are going to put me in positions to succeed. And the scheduled for Thursday and Sunday in San Antonio, the Heat need coaching staff will put us in positions to succeed,” said James. “I’m a to discover their form quickly if they want to repeat as NBA champi- positive guy. I love the game. I have fun with the game. As dark as it ons. Much of the blame for Miami’s recent struggles is being placed was last night, can’t get no darker than that, especially for me. “So I SAN ANTONIO: Chris Andersen of the Miami Heat shoots during squarely on the shoulders of James, who averaged 26.8 points a guarantee I’ll be better tomorrow for sure.”—Reuters a practice session ahead of game 4 in the NBA finals. — AFP

Jorge Lorenzo Clock ticking on Olympics, says NHL commissioner

CHICAGO: Time is running out to complete a deal that would see the National Hockey League free players for the Sochi Olympics, commissioner Gary Bettman said on Wednesday. Speaking before the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals in what has become his annual state of the league address, Bettman fielded a wide-range of questions but the most-far reaching centered on the league’s Olympic future. With 2014 Winter Games less than eight months away, talks between the NHL, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) continue to drag on even as all parties seem committed to having NHL players in Russia. Bettman said negotiations were ongoing but the league had not foreseen the issue taking this long to resolve. NHL owners and officials have long been unhappy with what they perceive as second class treatment by the IOC and is seeking some form of compensation for shutting down for two weeks in the middle of the season and turning over their most important assets - the players. Spanish trio target The key issues standing in the way of an agreement, which would also have to be approved by the NHL Players’ Association, are believed to be travel, insurance and hospitality for players’ and owners’ families. The NHL victory in Catalonia also wants to increase its influence and be treated more like a rights holder or top sponsor and be able to trade on the Olympic brand to help sell and promote their product. MADRID: Reigning MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo is look- “It’s difficult to say now whether it will be a Honda circuit or a While the IOC, IIHF and NHL have not struck a deal, ing to build on his impressive victory at the Italian Grand Prix a fort- Yamaha circuit, but I hope that the bike goes well there and that we Bettman made it crystal clear that league has big plans on night ago when attention switches to the Catalan Grand Prix this can have a good race against the Yamahas. I would say that victories expanding its brand beyond North America borders. weekend. are key at this stage of the championship and, with strong rivals, it is Lorenzo, who has won twice at the Montmelo track in 2010 and important to be on the podium.” And there is another Spanish rider Bettman said the league is in discussion with the play- 2012, still trails compatriot Dani Pedrosa by 12 points in this season’s in the championship shake-up as Pedrosa’s young team-mate Marc ers’ union about reviving a World Cup and scheduling championship after five races, but brought himself right back into Marquez currently stands third in the stadings in his first season in more European games but emphasized the Olympic issue contention with a dominant ride in Italy after a disappointing sev- MotoGP. After a stunning start to the season in which he finished on was at the top of the international agenda. enth placed finish at the French Grand Prix last month. “I’m quite the podium in each of the first four races, including becoming the “We’re in discussion with the players association work- satisfied after our great result at Mugello that completed an almost youngest rider to win a MotoGP when he won the Grand Prix of the ing on time table for international competition,” Bettman perfect weekend,” he told Yahama Team Racing’s webiste. Americas in the United States, 20-year-old Marquez lost ground on told reporters. “Compared to Mugello, Montmelo is a little bit slower but at least his compatriots at Mugello as he crashed out when seemingly set “The first step is figuring out what we are doing with there are no first gear corners and hopefully that will help us a lot. for runners-up spot after passing Pedrosa. the Olympics, we are going to take a look at world cham- This is a good track for us and we have to profit from it and try to However, he has been cleared to race again this weekend and pionship participation and we are very much committed repeat the victory. It could be great for the Championship.” Pedrosa can’t wait to get back on the track. “After crashing out at Mugello, I to bringing back a World Cup and doing it on a regular though is hoping home advantage can spur him onto a third victory really can’t wait to get back on the bike at my home Grand Prix in basis. of the season. The 27-year-old Honda rider hails from Sabadell bare- Montmelo!” he also told motogp.com “I am more relaxed after see- “Once we get the Olympics figured out we will start ly a half an hour drive from the circuit in Montmelo and believes it is ing Dr. Mir last week and he confirmed there are no complications focusing on a long term, Olympic, World Cup, world difficult to say who will have the advantage as Yamaha and Honda with my injuries and I am on my way to feeling 100% again. championship international competition calendar. “These go head-to-head once more. “This is another track where all the other riders have much more are all things we are intrigued by and think are great “It is obviously a good feeling to be coming back to this race experience than me and they will be extra tough to beat, but we will opportunities for hockey worldwide.”— Reuters because it is always an exciting one for me,” he told motogp.com. keep to our own programme, work hard and try our best.”— AFP Sports FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 44 ‘He already won — just by being here’

ARDMORE: It isn’t until you run across a bet it would be hockey or baseball. He was the same way. He played pro hockey, ory to it. We’ll see if this sticks,” he said. story like Jesse Smith’s that you remember learned those games from his father, Guy, then went back to school to become an It might be too much to expect a guy why this is called the US Open. a full-blooded Mohawk who played at the equine veterinarian. He wanted Jesse to with such a thin resume to make it into the There’s no shortage of long shots, University of New Hampshire and in the follow his own path. weekend. If so, the small gallery that wannabes and never-weres in the field. old World Hockey Association before “I guess,” she said, brightening, “this is accompanied Smith around Wednesday - But scan a bio of any of the 155 other becoming a high school coach. it.” It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Glenz was back on the bag, and a handful entrants who tee off Thursday and you One day, Guy Smith dropped his son finally making it into the field at a U.S. of Guy Smith’s old UNH hockey pals were won’t find even one like his. off at the UNH rink, went to park the car Open was a struggle, too. On the second escorting Lynn Smith from hole to hole - Smith is 33 and has yet to hit a shot on and suffered a fatal heart attack at age 44. day of qualifying at Old Oaks Country Club was determined to wring as much satisfac- the PGA Tour. Golf wasn’t even on his In the aftermath, the golf courses Jesse some 10 days ago, Smith found himself tion as possible from every moment. radar until he was well into his teens. He played sparingly growing up became the short-sided at the par-4, 11th, facing a deli- On one of the tees, a reporter pulled didn’t have much of an amateur career, quiet places he turned to cope with his cate pitch shot to a sliver of a green. He Smith over to one side and asked him either, unless you count talking his way father’s death. “From morning till the sun would have been happy to keep it within whether there were any questions he’d onto the Colgate golf team. While trying to went down, he’d hit me ground balls,” 15 feet. Instead, he holed it for an eagle to missed. Smith thought about it for a carve out a living on the mini-tours from Smith said Wednesday, on a final tour of get to 3 under, then put years of persever- moment, asked this question and then Canada to the deep South afterward, he Merion Golf Club in preparation for his ing to good use by taking that score to the answered it without waiting for a reply: spent part of each year living in his grand- opening round. “When he coached us, clubhouse as co-medalist and punching “Am I half crazy?” he laughed. “I think father’s log cabin on the Six Nations he’d hit more to me than the other kids, his ticket to the Open. everybody that does this for a living has to Territory near Brantford, Ontario. It was probably harder grounders, too. But he All those people who came to believe be at least half crazy. hardly a hotbed for the game. never short-changed me on the teaching Smith might be that one-in-a-million late “But what keeps me coming back is “One day up there, it was 95 degrees, end, either. ... “He touched a lot of people,” bloomer finally had something to hold that the game is a lot like life. Everybody is really hot for that place, so I knocked off Smith said. “When I qualified to play here, I onto. “A shot in the arm,” is what David faced with adversity, in different ways and after four or five hours of playing and got more than a few text messages from Glenz called it. He is Smith’s coach and was different times, but what you end up with,” came inside,” Smith recalled. “My grandfa- friends reminding me of that.” his caddie that day. “The self-belief this kid he said finally, “is usually a good reflection ther came straight over and looked me in Outside the gallery ropes, Lynn Smith has is infectious. I finally saw what I knew of how you dealt with it.” the eye. All he said was, ‘Jesse, if you want was near tears - and this was just the prac- was in him. ... Down the fairway, Lynn Smith watched to be better, you have to practice more.’ tice round. “I always knew it would hap- “I’ll be honest. I almost expected more her son settle over an approach shot and “I turned around and went back out. He pen,” she said. “He struggled with golf, and sooner, because he has plenty of talent. smiled one more time. “See the logo?” she died six years ago, but I can still hear those as a mother I had a hard time with it. He’d But considering Jesse’s background, said, pointing to her son’s cap. “That’s a words,” he said. Yet anyone who expected say, ‘Trust me,’ but honestly, it was hard. maybe that’s where the lack of experience dream catcher. “He’s already won,” she Smith to reach the big-time would have “He struggled so much. But his father comes in. Winning at any level has a mem- said, “just by being here.” —AP Woods the player to beat at rain-softened Merion

ARDMORE: Merion Golf Club has been linked “Winning four times already is just amazing. times major champion Woods said. “It happens. with some of the most iconic moments in cham- He seems to be back clicking again and when And move on from there. pionship golf and Tiger Woods will aim to add a he’s on, he can do things that most of the rest of “I had a good week of practice last week at chapter of his own at this week’s US Open where us can’t do. It’s fun to have him playing well. home. We had a tropical storm roll through there, he is a heavy favorite. “But the great thing about the game of golf, I guess it was getting us ready for this one.” A host of other players can lay claim to being anybody who tees it up has a chance to win. Bad weather has already been a huge factor genuine contenders for the year’s second major, Every field we play on the PGA Tour, the top to at Merion with more than six inches (15cm) of rain which begins late yesterday, but Woods is widely bottom, there’s a lot of strength.” saturating the area since Friday and severe thun- viewed as the likeliest winner based on his out- Woods has revived memories of his glory derstorms have been forecast for the latter part of standing record and the often dominant form he days in the late 1990s and early 2000s with much Thursday’s opening round. ARDMORE: Spectators wait out a rain delay during the has shown this season. of his play this year and he will be eager to end a “You’re not going to see a firm US Open this first round the US Open at Merion Golf Club. —AFP Though Woods did not fare well in his most major title drought dating back to his playoff vic- year,” said twice former US Open champion Ernie recent start, languishing joint 65th in a field of 73 tory at the 2008 US Open. Els. “We’re going to have a soft golf course ... all at the Memorial Tournament 10 days ago, he has Though the American world number one was week. Storm halts play triumphed four times on the 2013 PGA Tour and bitterly disappointed with his overall game at the “It means that if you’re on your game you’re is clearly the player to beat at Merion. Memorial Tournament, and especially his putting, going to have a lot of birdie putts. There are quite at US Open “Tiger Woods is playing some awesome golf,” he has put that down as a blip in an otherwise a few par-fours where you’ve just got to put it in fellow American Matt Kuchar, who won the successful season. the fairway ... then you’ve got quite a short sec- ARDMORE: Bad weather brought play to an abrupt halt at the 113th Memorial title to give himself a significant boost “I didn’t really do much that I was real pleased ond shot. “I’m not going to say anybody is going US Open yesterday after just under two hours of first-round play had for this week, told reporters on Wednesday. about, but it was just one of those weeks,” 14- to shoot a 62 at a U.S. Open, but you’ve got more been completed. The disruption had been widely expected for the birdie opportunities than ever.” last few days with a strong storm system tracking out of the Midwest Merion’s iconic East Course will be hosting its and into Pennsylvania and there were fears that worse was to come fifth U.S. Open this week, but its first in 32 years during the day. after long being regarded as too short to host a When play was suspended, English Ryder Cup hero Ian Poulter had major. stormed to the top of the nascent leaderboard with birdies at his first The par-70 layout located in the Philadelphia three holes. Big-hitting Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts, a teammate of Poulter suburb of Ardmore has been stretched to 6,996 at Medinah last September, was at two-under after seven holes. yards since Australian David Graham triumphed He was joined on that mark after just a handful of holes by South by three strokes in the 1981 edition, and Woods African pair Tim Clark and Charl Schwartzel along with American Charley appreciates that precise shot-making is required Hoffman. “This is one really nasty looking storm that will hit at 9am and for success. last the entire day. Not much golf,” Poulter had posted on his Twitter This is a course, after all, where Bobby Jones account before his round got going. completed his “grand slam” by winning the 1930 Tournament favorite Tiger Woods one was not due off until 1:14 pm US amateur, where Ben Hogan claimed the 1950 (1714 GMT), going out with the two players next to him in the global U.S. Open just 16 months after being involved in a rankings-Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott. But the entire 156-strong field near-fatal motor vehicle accident and where Lee were subject to what the weather gods were about to throw at them. Trevino beat Jack Nicklaus in a playoff to win the The historic East course at Merion has already been doused by heavy 1971 US Open. “If you look at the list of champi- rain in the last few days and there was apprehension over what might ons, they have all been really good shot-makers,” follow on Thursday with the possibility of damaging winds, flash flood- said three-times US Open champion Woods. ing and hail. “They have all been able to shape the golf ball. United States Golf Association (USGA) executive director Mike Davis “That’s what it lends itself to. You have to be believes that Merion, at 6,996 yards, the first US Open course under able to shape the golf ball, and you have to be so 7,000 yards since Shinnecock Hills on Long Island in 2004, will survive Tiger Woods of the US hits a shot in this file photo disciplined to play the course.” —Reuters both the storm and an assault from the world’s best golfers. —AFP Sports FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Blackhawks soar over Bruins in Cup opener

CHICAGO: The Chicago Blackhawks guy like that on our team. He’s not things you’re going to want to fix for know all about Andrew Shaw’s reputa- afraid.” next game. But as far as the game is tion around the league. They also know Generously listed at 5-foot-10 and concerned, it was a hard-fought the pesky little forward is so much more 180 pounds, Shaw still decided to shove game.” than just another irritant for opposing the 6-9 Chara after play stopped in the Rask made an astounding 59 saves players. first. Bruins coach Claude Julien called in a finals marathon that surpassed SYDNEY: Captain of the British and Irish Lions rugby The diminutive Shaw sparred with Shaw an agitator who is “good at Pittsburgh’s 4-3 win over Detroit on union team Sam Warburton (left) speaks as coach Zdeno Chara, dished out nine hits and embellishing, too, at times.” June 2, 2008, when Petr Sykora scored Warren Gatland (right) listens during a team was in the right place when his team But he also has four assists in the at 9:57 of the third overtime. Game 2 is announcement press conference. — AFP needed him the most Wednesday night playoffs after he had nine goals and six tomorrow at the United Center. in a thrilling start to the Stanley Cup assists while playing in all 48 games dur- “That’s playoff hockey,” Bruins cen- finals. ing the regular season. “The bigger the ter Rich Peverley said. “It’s fun to Lions ready for Shaw popped back up after he was stage, the bigger the challenge, he rises watch, so we’ll think about this until knocked down and skated to the front to the occasion,” Blackhawks coach Joel we get out of here and then shake it beefed up Tahs of the goal to get a deflection on Dave Quenneville said. off and get ready for Saturday.” Bolland’s tip for the winning score in the Milan Lucic had two goals and an Bolland and Johnny Oduya scored Blackhawks’ 4-3 victory over the Boston assist for the Bruins, who had won five in the third period for Chicago, which SYDNEY: British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland has Bruins in the fifth-longest game in the straight and nine of 10. Patrice never would have made it to the third given his team everything to play for against a belatedly history of the NHL’s biggest series. Bergeron scored a power-play goal overtime if not for an impressive per- beefed up New South Wales Waratahs tomorrow, having “We knew it wasn’t going to be pret- and David Krejci finished with two formance by goaltender Corey extended the audition process for his test team to a fifth ty at that point,” Shaw said. “You could assists. “Not disappointed in our Crawford. Brandon Saad had his first tour match. With just a week to go before they get down tell both teams were physically exhaust- effort,” Julien said. “There’s certain goal of the playoffs. —AP to the business end of tour with the first test against the ed. We’ve preached it: Go to the net, Wallabies in Brisbane, 23 Lions will take to the field aiming you’ll find a way to get a greasy goal. to impress the coach and praying they will not get injured. We did a heck of a job of it there in the Even with the late addition of Wallabies Dave Dennis third overtime.” and Rob Horne, the Waratahs know they are unlikely to hand the tourists their first tour defeat but are keen not to Shaw was knocked down near the dishonour a history of tough games against the tourists boards but got up as the puck came out going back to 1888. to Michal Rozsival, who started the win- A rash of niggly injuries to his backs has forced Gatland ning sequence with a shot from the to abandon the idea of putting out a shadow test team at right point into traffic. Bolland’s tip then the Sydney Football Stadium and he is hoping above all went off Shaw’s right leg and past that his side come through the match unscathed. Tuukka Rask at 12:08 for his fifth goal of “We don’t want to pick up any more knocks or injuries,” the playoffs. he told reporters yesterday. “We’ve got a full complement And just like that, the longest finals of forwards, which is great, but the backs have tended to game in five years was over. Shaw skat- take the punishment. ed off to the side and pumped his arms “Probably because of the way we’ve been playing. furiously, then joined his teammates for We’ve been moving the ball a lot and playing some good a weary celebration. rugby. The meterage that some of our backs have covered, “I mean, I think you could ask players the amount of work that they’ve done, has taken its toll a on other teams and they’ll tell you that little bit.” The full complement of forwards includes seven he’s not the type of guy that they like to play against,” Blackhawks captain CHICAGO: Tuukka Rask No. 40 of the Boston Bruins makes a save against back rowers who have to a man impressed in the tour Jonathan Toews said. “But that’s what the Chicago Blackhawks in Game One of the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Final at matches to date. That not only leaves Gatland with a likely we love about him. We love having a United Center. —AFP selection headache next week but tour captain Sam Warburton, who missed the first two matches of the tour with a sore knee, in a battle to secure his test place. The openside flanker lines up in a back row alongside blindside Tom Croft and number eight Jamie Heaslip knowing that All Blacks seek continuity he is unlikely to have another chance to stake his claim. The Lions will also be anxious that Jonny Sexton, who and France series victory starts at flyhalf, and replacement Owen Farrell will not suffer any damage after picking up knocks over the last week, WELLINGTON: New Zealand coach Steve Hansen’s 2015 should not be overlooked by his team. The former Wales however impressive fullback Stuart Hogg was at number World Cup redevelopment strategy will get a serious coach estimated the All Blacks had made at least 25 10 in midweek. examination when the All Blacks meet a revamped unforced errors in the first test and he expected them to The test shirts would seem to be theirs to lose for the France in the second of their three-match series in reduce that number at Rugby League Park in Addington. experienced lock combination of Paul O’Connell and Alun Christchurch tomorrow. If they do not, they could find a fired-up France side Wyn Jones, while Welsh centres Jamie Roberts and Hansen remains committed to building a squad capa- locking the series at 1-1 and heading to the final match in Jonathan Davies have a chance to shine with Brian ble of defending the World Cup in England and resisted New Plymouth with their confidence on the up - a dan- O’Driscoll and Manu Tuilagi resting knocks. the temptation to change a team that won 23-13 last gerous scenario that numerous All Blacks teams have fall- Michael Cheika has promised his makeshift Waratahs week, instead putting the onus back on them to seal the en foul of in the past. side, still missing eight players on Wallabies duty and three other injured internationals, would not be going out for a series with a game to spare. France shaded the breakdown battle at Eden Park, “glorious defeat”. The former Leinster coach also said there The 54-year-old did make changes on the bench, with were incisive on the counter, and then showed their would be no repeat of the thuggery that marred the last prop Tony Woodcock and scrumhalf Piri Weepu back attacking intent and cutting thrust in a 38-15 victory over game between the sides in 2001, when Waratahs fullback from injury, while he swapped stalwart hooker Keven the Auckland Blues on Tuesday. Duncan McRae punched a prone Ronan O’Gara in the face Mealamu for Andrew Hore, allowing Dane Coles to con- Coach Philippe Saint-Andre mixed up his selections for 11 times. tinue his development by getting a second successive the Blues match, bringing in several players who had “I think those days have gone,” he said. “Even back start. Hansen also resisted calls for positional changes arrived in New Zealand late following the French club then, it was over the top. But physicality can occur in lots such as shifting Ben Smith to fullback in place of Israel final, while giving those who have recovered from long- of ways - rucks, scrums and the contacts have got to be Dagg to allow the bullocking Rene Ranger a start on the term injury some game time. big from our lads. “We have to be big ... anything in red right wing. “We didn’t come very close at all to making He made four personnel changes for the second test that moves we’ll have a go at it.” Gatland said he had any changes, at this time of the year you need to get a bit from the team that played the first, with the most watched a similarly weakened Waratahs side beat the of consistency... or improvement in this case,” Hansen notable in the backs, where experienced flyhalf Frederic Western Force in the last round of Super Rugby and had said on Thursday. The addendum about “improvement” Michalak replaced Camille Lopez. — Reuters been impressed. —Reuters 46 Sports FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

McNish chasing Le Mans hat-trick Photo of the day

LONDON: Thundering down the long ‘Dindo’ Capello in 2008. more tiring than in the dry. Mulsanne Straight at more than The Scot was second last year after “From a driving point of view, I 240kph in the dark, with the car hitting the barriers three hours from prefer a dry race just purely because I squirming on rainsoaked asphalt and the end. In 2011, he walked away think we’re in pretty good shape in the headlights searching through a from a massive impact after contact the dry. In the wet you can’t control murky wall of spray, is no place for with a much slower Ferrari in the first whether the guy spins in front of you. the faint-hearted. hour sent his Audi flying into the bar- You can’t in the dry either but you’ve Allan McNish, two times Le Mans riers, where it disintegrated. got more chance of it happening in 24 Hours winner and a strong con- Toyota are again the main threat the wet.” tender in the number two Audi when with their hybrid car and McNish With qualifying scheduled for next the sportscar classic celebrates its expected them to be in contention all Thursday, McNish’s immediate priori- 90th anniversary next week, is more the way after making a strong return ty is to stock up on rest. He stays at of a braveheart. in 2012 following a 13-year absence. home, preparing for a weekend when The Scot, a former Formula One “I don’t think we necessarily saw sleep is sporadic at best. driver whose ex-Toyota team mates their pure performance at the races “I am very fortunate, I can sleep are Audi’s big rivals, walked away so far this year and certainly we didn’t anywhere any time,” said McNish. from a spectacular crash at the Circuit see it at the weekend,” he said. “But it’s very easy to get caught up in de la Sarthe in 2011 and has no hesi- “I would say we’ve got to be keep- the race. This is Le Mans. tation in coming back for more. ing an eye on the upper end of the “As a driver at my first time in it, as “If there’s something lurking in the pitlane to see what those characters soon as I got out of the car I wanted back of your mind, you stop racing are up to. to know what was happening, I was and you do something else and you “Obviously I know the people watching the data, I was looking at get a desk job. It’s that simple,” he there... I know the team and I hope the lap times, I was living it as if I was told Reuters in a telephone interview they have a fantastic race and finish a still driving the car. “So physically, I from his Monaco home. “If your inner very fine third or fourth behind the wasn’t driving but mentally I was. And instinct says you don’t want to drive Audis,” added the Scot. “There’s no it was absolutely exhausting. With down a circuit at an average speed of question they will be good, they will experience, you realise you can’t do 150mph in the middle of the night be taking the fight to us.” that. So you do tend to have your then you don’t do it. “My inner Lapping slower cars is an occupa- switch-off point and you can get instinct says that there’s another Le tional hazard at Le Mans, where sleek away from it and try to conserve a bit Mans race victory that’s up for grabs LMP1 prototypes mingle with regular of energy.” and a world championship at the end sportscars and fatigue can dull reac- Audi will have four specially of the year and that’s what I’m focus- tions. McNish hoped for a dry race. equipped containers right behind the ing on doing,” added the 43-year-old. “Physically Le Mans isn’t demand- pits for the drivers to sleep and show- McNish is partnering Denmark’s ing because you’ve got such long er in as well as having doctors, phys- eight-times winner Tom Kristensen straights,” he said. “But when you are ios and dieticians on hand. That much and Frenchman Loic Duval in the going down the Mulsanne at 210 and is under control. The rest can be in number two factory Audi R18 e-tron the car’s aquaplaning underneath the lap of the gods. quattro. The trio were fastest in last you... you do naturally tense up on “Motor racing is always that risk weekend’s eight hours of testing. the steering wheel, you are naturally and reward. There is always the Audi have won Le Mans 11 times on the edge of your wits all of the chance that it can go wrong with a in the last 13 years but McNish’s most time. “A wet race, and just driving technical failure or an accident,” said B-Boy Hush performs at the Red Bull BC One Cypher at Al Zumoroda recent victory was with Kristensen generally in the wet around there, is McNish. “It’s a 24 hour race, it’s like a Hall in Kuwait City, Kuwait. —www.redbullcontentpool.com and now-retired Italian Rinaldo significantly mentally and physically grand prix season in a day.” —Reuters Murray sends Mahut packing Leffler killed LONDON: Andy Murray avenged last year’s tricky proposition on grass. But top seed exchanges. But, in chilly conditions, he turned embarrassing Queen’s Club exit against Murray had taken the first set on Wednesday up the heat on Mahut in the tie-break, pro- in New Nicolas Mahut as the world number two and was level at 2-2 in the second before the ducing two sublime passing shots to finish off kicked off a hectic day with a 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) vic- third rain interruption of the day caused the the match after 43 minutes. tory in his rain delayed second round clash. match to be postponed. Lleyton Hewitt continued his giant-killing Jersey crash Murray had suffered a shock defeat When they finally resumed 24 hours later, run as the Australian moved into the quarter- PHILADELPHIA: against Mahut at the same stage of the pre- Murray found himself under pressure and he finals with a 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 victory over NASCAR driver Jason Leffler died from Wimbledon warm-up event 12 months ago, had to save three break points in the early American sixth seed Sam Querrey. injuries suffered when his car slammed into the wall of a but the US Open champion’s dominant dis- Hewitt is a four-time champion at the pre- dirt raceway in New Jersey, state police said. play ensured there would be no repeat. The Wimbledon warm-up event, but thoughts of a The crash occurred during a race at the Bridgeport 26-year-old will have little time to savour his record fifth crown were some way from the Speedway in Logan township in southern New Jersey, win as he is scheduled to return to court later former world number one’s thoughts when near Philadelphia, state police spokesman Sergeant on Thursday to face Australia’s Marinko he arrived at the start of the week. Matosevic in the last 16 as the tournament The 32-year-old is well into the twilight of Adam Grossman said. catches up following several days of bad his career and his lowly 82nd position in the Leffler, 37, of Huntersville, North Carolina, was rushed weather. The gruelling schedule will be a sig- world rankings reflects that diminished status. to the Crozier Hospital in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he nificant test for two-time Queen’s champion But the former Wimbledon champion has was pronounced dead at 9:02 p.m., police said. Murray, who missed the recent French Open always thrived on grass and he produced one The raceway calls itself the “Fastest Dirt Track in the after aggravating a recurring lower back of his best performances of 2013 to brush East.” It consists of a spacious 5/8-mile high-banked dirt injury during a match against Marcel aside the highly-regarded Grigor Dimitrov in oval, where average speeds reach well over 100 miles Granollers in Rome. This was the Scot’s first the second round before cutting big-serving competitive action for a month, but he Querrey down to size on Thursday. per hour (160 kph), according to the track’s website. showed few signs of rust despite the slippery Hewitt will face former US Open champion Leffler was a two-time winner of the Nationwide conditions on the grass courts in west Juan Martin del Potro or British wildcard Series. He had been racing for over a decade, with expe- London. Daniel Evans in the last eight. Czech second rience in so-called midget race cars as well as the “The back felt great, especially with the seed Tomas Berdych maintained his strong Indianapolis 500, where he placed 17th in 2000, his web- conditions we have had,” Murray told the BBC. start to the tournament as he progressed to site noted. New Jersey State Police said in a Twitter post- “It is very cold and I’m sure, as anyone who the quarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over ing that the accident was under investigation. “NASCAR has had a back problem knows, that’s not Slovenian 16th seed Grega Zemlja. World good. But even with all the stopping and number six Berdych, a Wimbledon finalist in extends its thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies to the family of Jason Leffler who passed away earlier this starting it feels great and that is probably the LONDON: Britain’s Andy Murray reacts 2010, next faces defending champion Marin evening,” the organization said in a Twitter posting. “For most satisfying thing about the match.” after beating France’s Nicolas Mahut in Cilic or Feliciano Lopez. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Mahut, a former Queen’s finalist who played the French fourth seed, finally won his more than a decade, Jason was a fierce competitor in their ATP Aegon Championships tennis the longest match in tennis history against delayed second round tie against compatriot our sport and he will be missed.” —Reuters John Isner at Wimbledon in 2010, can be a match at the Queen’s Club. —AFP Eduoard Roger-Vasselin. —AFP Sports47 FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 Ivory Coast, Egypt eye World Cup progress

JOHANNESBURG: Ivory Coast and Egypt are must win and have a favourable result from But the defence of a Congo team coached World Cup for the first time in 24 years has among seven nations who could qualify this the other group game. by Frenchman Kamel Djabour has not been become an obsession for American coach weekend for the final round of 2014 World Among the top seeds in the 10 groups, breached in 360 minutes of mini-league Bob Bradley and his mix of ageing stars like Cup eliminators in Africa. Burkina Faso are not the only team under action and veteran goalkeeper and captain midfielder Mohamed Abou Trika and young Victories will secure the ‘Elephants’ and pressure as a loss in Addis Ababa will spell the Barel Mouko acknowledges the changing role ones like Salah. the ‘Pharaohs’ unassailable leads in four-team end for 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa. of his team-mates. “We started as outsiders Group C leaders Ivory Coast face second- mini-leagues, and the ‘Walyas Antelopes’ of Should Ghana suffer a stunning defeat and have since become the team to beat. Our place Tanzania in Dar es Salaam and welcome Ethiopia and the ‘Carthage Eagles’ of Tunisia away to lowly Lesotho, the 2010 quarter-final- squad is solid mentally and physically and it is back Arsenal offensive midfielder Gervinho, are in a similar situation. Amid countless per- ists would also be out of the running for Brazil nice to be in control of our destiny,” said the who missed a 3-0 victory in Gambia because mutations, even drawing might suffice for the if Zambia beat struggling Sudan. Congolese. of suspension. Ivorians, Egyptians and Tunisians depending Congo, whose best known current foot- Jonathan Pitroipa, a France-based wide Ethiopia, a country where Olympic gold on the results of closest challengers, but shar- baller is giant centre-back Christopher Samba midfielder voted the best player at the Cup of medal-winning athletes have dominated ing the points would not take the Ethiopians from relegated English Premier League club Nations in South Africa this year, scored the domestic sporting headlines for decades, through. A draw at home to shock 2013 Africa Queens Park Rangers, are in unfamiliar territo- winner in Niger last weekend while Congo were the fourth seeds in Group A behind Cup of Nations runners-up Burkina Faso will ry having come close to qualifying only once forced a 0-0 draw in Gabon. South Africa, Botswana and the Central certainly be enough for the ‘Red Devils’ of before. Egypt, seven-times African champions but African Republic. However, there has been Congo Brazzaville during the penultimate The ‘Devils’ have scored just twice in four only twice World Cup qualifiers, beat nothing fourth rate about their displays and series of second-round fixtures. matches, although the Group E standings Zimbabwe 4-2 in Group G thanks to a regular goals from Getaneh Kebede and The ‘Chipolopolo’ (Copper Bullets) of show five goals because they were awarded a Mohamed Salah hat-trick and visit Salahdin Ahmed have produced three wins, a Zambia and the ‘Desert Foxes’ of Algeria are 3-0 win after the Burkinabe were punished for Mozambique to face a team reeling from a draw and a two-point advantage over Bafana other countries who could advance, but they fielding an ineligible player in a goalless draw. six-goal hiding by Guinea. Playing at the Bafana (The Boys).—AFP Namibia derail Nigeria’s early qualification hopes

WINDHOEK: Namibia derailed Nigeria’s relieved at the end with their share of the hopes of becoming the first side through spoils. Nigeria’s Ahmed Musa, their best to the last round of African World Cup player on the night, proved a livewire qualifying by holding the continental attacker and some superb saves from champions to a 1-1 draw in Windhoek on Namibia’s goalkeeper Virgil Vries stopped Wednesday. Nigeria defender Godfrey the Super Eagles from running away with Oboabona struck home an 83rd-minute the match. Nigeria might have gone freekick to deny Namibia an upset after ahead after 40 seconds when Vries made the plucky hosts had gone ahead through a double save to deny Nnamdi Oduamadi substitute Deon Hotto in the 77th minute. and Anthony Ujah. Nigeria stay top of Group F, two points Soon after John Obi Mikel, who drifted ahead of Malawi, who drew 2-2 with in and out of the game, went narrowly Kenya earlier on Wednesday, going into wide with a freekick. Musa’s persistence the last round of matches in September. down the wing opened up more opportu- The result continued Nigeria’s patchy nities and a clever backheel by the PETAH TIKVA: Spain’s midfielder Pablo Sarabia (left) form since winning the African Nations Russian-based player set up Ujah, who challenges Netherlands’ defender Bram Nuytinck for Cup finals in February and will have come shot straight at the goalkeeper. the ball during the 2013 UEFA U-21 Championship as a blow to morale ahead of their partici- Musa’s pace carved out a similar Group B football match. —AFP pation in the Confederations Cup in Brazil, chance on the stroke of halftime only for which starts on Saturday. Vries to block the opportunity on the A win for Nigeria on the artificial sur- stretch. Oduamadi beat the offside trap to Spain blanks face of the Sam Nujoma Stadium would find himself clear at the back post in the have ensured top spot in the group and a 66th minute but seemed surprised when place in October and November’s final the ball reached him and put his header Netherlands round of playoffs for the 2014 finals. into the side netting. They must now wait until September A swift counter attack and some smart Euro Under-21 when they host Malawi, needing at least a passing then allowed Hotto to score from draw to progress. After dominating from close range to the delight of the partisan PETAH TIKVA: A rampant Spain beat the Netherlands 3-0 on the start and coming close on several crowd. Namibia, however, gave away an Wednesday to set up a semi-final against Norway in the Euro Under- occasions in the first half, Nigeria let the unnecessary freekick seven minutes from 21 championships. Three Spain strikers scored in a flowing perform- game slip in the second and looked time and paid a heavy price.—Reuters Godfrey Oboabona ance as a much-changed Netherlands side, who will now clash with Italy in the second semi-final, were less tight in defence than in their two previous tournament outings. Real Madrid’s Alvaro Morata slot- Iran demand Korean apology ted home an easy chance in the 26th minute to set the dominant Spaniards on course for victory. Malaga playmaker Isco hit the second ‘Bad manners’ jibe on 32 and Alvaro Vasquez of Getafe made it 3-0 in the 90th minute. The Dutch had their moments, but failed to convert a number of SEOUL: South Korea coach Choi Kang-hee ference of plus one after they lost 1-0 to the fication for both Korea and Iran unless the chances against Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea, who humiliated the Iranian people when he said Koreans in Seoul this week. Despite that vic- Uzbeks can score a big win over Qatar, who twice had the crossbar to thank for maintaining his record of not con- he had been ‘badly treated’ in Tehran last tory, Choi said there was little danger of his are out of contention, which would push the ceding throughout the tournament. year and wanted to stop the West Asian’s side easing off against Iran and said he would West Asians into third and a playoff place. “We are delighted to be in the semi-finals. It would show a lack of qualifying for the World Cup, Iran boss Carlos prefer it if Uzbekistan joined them in qualify- The two third-place finishers in the Asian respect to say we prefer to play Norway... Against a team as physically Queiroz said yesterday. ing after suffering poor hospitality and bad qualifying groups will face off over two legs imposing as Norway it’s something to take into account,” Spain coach The top two sides in Group A of World manners during their 1-0 defeat in Tehran in with the winners advancing to take on a Julen Lopetegui said. Germany beat Russia 2-1 in the second group Cup qualifying in Asia clash in Ulsan on October. South American side in two matches for a match in Netanya between the two eliminated teams. Alan Dzagoev Tuesday, while Uzbekistan host Qatar look- Queiroz, however, denied the claims after berth in Brazil. put Russia ahead in the 22nd minute but Germany hit back through ing for a big victory to sneak ahead of the landing in Korea for the crunch clash where Because of the importance of goal differ- Patrick Hermann in the 34th and a Sebastian Rudy penalty in the 69th West Asians in the final round of matches. he hopes to secure a fourth World Cup finals ence, Queiroz was frantically gesticulating on minute. Italy finished top of Group A, which was completed on South Korea have 14 points from seven appearance for Team Melli. the sidelines against Lebanon on Tuesday, Tuesday, with two wins and a draw, after they equalised late in injury matches and a strong goal difference of plus “Choi should apologise to the Iranian keen for his side to rack up a bigger victory time to edge Norway into second spot. seven means they could lose to Iran and still people,” the Portuguese told reporters. “He against their beaten and struggling oppo- Spain, who are defending the trophy they won two years ago, will qualify for Brazil. said the Korean team was badly treated in nents. “It’s never easy to score four goals, but play Norway in the earlier of Saturday’s two semi-finals in Netanya, Iran, who beat Lebanon 4-0 on Tuesday, Iran but we gave the best treatment avail- I believed we deserved to score one more, while the Netherlands return to Petah Tikva to face Italy. The final will have 13 points and a goal difference of plus able. He humiliated the Iranian citizens.” A especially in the dying minutes of the game,” be played in Jerusalem on June 18.—Reuters five while Uzbekistan have 11 and a goal dif- draw in Ulsan would secure automatic quali- Queiroz said. —Reuters Heat vow not to have any repeats of ‘horror movie’

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LONDON: Scotland’s Andy Murray celebrates after beating France’s Nicolas Mahut in their ATP Aegon Championships tennis match at the Queen’s Club. — AFP