Troops shocked, amazed during African journey

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Volume 3, No.63 © SS 2005 MIDEAST EDITION
SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 2005
Troops shocked,
amazed during
African journey
PHOTOS BY CHARLIE COON/Stars and Stripes
Top: Nigeriens along the road watch Thursday as the convoy of
Team Niger passes through their town in southwestern Niger. The
soldiers of Team Niger are there for Flintlock 05, a seven-nation
exercise to train African soldiers and to strengthen U.S.-African
ties. Above: Soldiers from Team Niger get back onto their bus
after a break during a 15-hour convoy from Niamey to Tahoua.
Team Niger endures 15-hour convoy
to reach camp for Flintlock 05
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· S TARS AND S TRIPES · M IDEAST E DITION ·
Sunday, June 12, 2005
War on terror
Accidental shooting: A Marine
whose gun went off while he was cleaning it, killing a comrade in Afghanistan,
was sentenced in absentia Friday to 12
years in prison.
Lance Cpl. Frederico Pimienta, 23, was
convicted at Camp Lejeune, N.C., on Thursday of involuntary manslaughter in the
death of Lance Cpl. Russell White, who was
shot in the head last year.
Pimienta was tried in absentia: He left the
base without permission before the trial,
and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Business
Enron scandal: Tens of thousands of
Enron Corp. investors who lost money because of the energy trader’s collapse moved
a step closer on Friday to recouping at least
some of their losses.
Citigroup Inc., the nation’s largest financial services company, said it will pay $2 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit over its
role in helping Enron orchestrate a massive
accounting fraud that led to the company’s
collapse in 2001.
Attorneys in the case hope for similar settlements with eight other banks and brokerages as well as several former Enron executives.
Nation
Mad cow disease: The government says
there is no new health risk from mad cow
disease despite fresh suspicions about an animal that was previously cleared of the lethal infection.
The Agriculture Department said Friday
night it will seek further testing of a tissue
sample from a “downer” beef cow — one unable to walk — after receiving conflicting results on tests of it for mad cow disease.
Church sex abuse: The Archdiocese of
San Francisco agreed Friday to settle 15
pending lawsuits involving allegations of
sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests for
$21.2 million, the church said.
Under the settlement brokered by a retired judge who is still mediating about 40
cases, the archdiocese will pay out $6.6 million, with the rest coming from its insurers.
Several other cases have gone to trial.
Patriot Act debate: The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones
at a raucous hearing Friday on the Patriot
Act.
The House Judiciary Committee hearing,
with the two sides accusing each other of
being irresponsible and undemocratic,
came as President Bush was urging Congress to renew those sections of the
post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism law set to expire in September.
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the panel, abruptly gaveled the meeting to an end and walked out, followed by
other Republicans. Sensenbrenner declared
that much of the testimony, which veered
into debate over the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, was irrelevant.
World
Afghan disarmament push: Afghanistan’s
government Saturday launched a new disarmament campaign aimed at ridding the
country of illegal weapons left over from a
quarter century of war.
The program, which will run for up to
three years, aims to disarm up to 1,800
groups, such as criminal gangs and private
militias. It will be set up in each province
and will start by urging armed people to
peacefully give up their weapons and if they
don’t they will be forcibly disarmed.
Day care death: The driver of a day care center van was arrested Friday in the death of a
2-year-old girl who was left in the vehicle for hours on a hot, muggy day. The body of Asia
Jones was discovered Thursday afternoon when her mother arrived at the day care center in
suburban Milwaukee and workers could not find the girl. Pictured from left, Kael Lampe,
Justine Jamke, 8, and Lampe’s daughter, Winter, 10, place flowers, a cross and a teddy bear
near the playground of the Come and Grow With Me Learning and Arts Center.
“We will disarm all groups throughout the
country with this program,” said Mohammad Karim Khalali, chairman of the Disarmament and Reintegration Commission.
“We don’t want armed groups or illegal
groups. We don’t want individuals with
weapons.”
U.N. reform: The United States and 22
other nations sent a letter urging U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi
Annan to stay focused
on U.N. finances and
management as he forges ahead with efforts to
reform the world body.
The letter, obtained
Friday by The Associated Press, comes at a
crucial time: Republicans in the U.S. Congress are pushing to
withhold U.N. dues unAnnan
less the United Nations
enacts drastic budget
changes.
While much of the debate over Annan’s reform agenda announced earlier this year
has focused on redesigning the Security
Council, the signatories said they don’t want
other key reform issues to be ignored.
Ethiopian opposition leaders: Ethiopian
authorities placed two opposition leaders
under house arrest Saturday, saying they
were threatening the security of the state
and were behind a week of protests that saw
police fire on demonstrators, leaving 29
dead.
Information Minister Bereket Simon accused the main opposition Coalition for
Unity and Democracy of reneging on an
agreement struck Friday with the ruling
party and another opposition coalition to
work together to end protests.
The government has accused the opposition of engineering the protests by students
and others angered that the ruling party has
claimed victory in recent parliamentary
election. The opposition denies it orchestrated the protests, but has said the elections
were flawed by fraud and violence.
Japan war shrine visit controversy: A powerful conservative group representing families of Japan’s war dead has asked Prime
Minister Junichiro Koizumi to reconsider
his visits to a controversial shrine because
of tensions they are causing with other
Asian countries, media reports said Saturday.
In an unusual move, the Nippon Izokukai,
which has long backed visits by Japanese
prime ministers to Tokyo’s Yasukuni
Shrine, cautioned Koizumi about his annual
pilgrimages, saying “it is necessary to give
consideration to neighboring countries and
obtain their understanding,” NHK public
broadcaster said.
Yasukuni Shrine honors Japan’s 2.5 million war dead, including wartime Prime
Minister Hideki Tojo and 13 other leaders
convicted of the most serious war crimes at
a 1946-1948 international war tribunal in
Tokyo. Koizumi’s visits there have outraged
China and other Asian countries that suffered during Japan’s brutal conquest of the
region.
Lebanon assassination fears: The recent
killing of an anti-Syrian journalist has revived fears among Syria’s opponents in Lebanon that Damascus and its local allies may
be planning further political assassinations
despite the withdrawal of the Syrian army
six weeks ago.
Syria’s opponents in Lebanon, who loudly
demanded Syria end its control of Lebanon
after the Feb. 14 assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri, have said they may be targeted by remnants of the joint Lebanese-Syrian security services and are taking precautions.
Such fears were buttressed by accusations from the United States Friday that
Syria has not fully withdrawn its intelligence operatives from Lebanon and that it
was perhaps even organizing political assassinations.
Military
Fort Riley murders: A military jury found
an Army sergeant guilty Friday of premeditated murder in the shootings of two fellow
soldiers last year.
Sgt. Aaron Stanley, 23, of Bismarck, N.D.,
faces a sentence of life in prison. He took
the stand in Fort Riley, Kan., during the sentencing phase to read an apology to the victims’ families.
Closing statements were to be presented
Saturday morning.
Stanley was convicted of killing Staff Sgt.
Matthew Werner, 30, and Spc. Christopher
Hymer, 23, at his rural farmhouse near Fort
Riley in September.
Stories and photos from The Associated Press
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Bombers, gunmen kill at least 23 in Iraq
BY PAUL GARWOOD
U.S. deaths in Iraq
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber dressed as a policeman blew
himself up during roll call at the
heavily guarded headquarters of
an elite commando unit Saturday
as attacks in and around Baghdad
killed at least 23 people.
Interior Minister Bayan Jabr,
meanwhile, said an Iraqi-led offensive to weed out militants in
the capital had led to 1,318 arrests and reduced the number of
car bomb attacks from an average of 12 a day to less than two.
Two U.S. Marines were killed
Friday in a roadside bomb attack
near the volatile Anbar province
town of Saqlawiyah, west of Fallujah, the military said Saturday.
The attack at the two-story
Baghdad headquarters of the
Wolf Brigade followed weeks of
accusations against the Shiite
Muslim-dominated
force
by
Sunni Arab leaders, who accuse it
of kidnapping and killing Sunnis,
including clerics.
Jabr said the attacker was a
former Wolf Brigade member
who was targeting the commando
force’s commander, Brig. Mohammed al-Quraishi.
“Today’s attack does not constitute an infiltration of the police
forces,” Jabr said. “The only
thing left of the bomber was his
head and feet.”
Three people were killed in the
blast, Jabr said, adding that police were searching for two of the
suspect’s former colleagues. A
witness, Maj. Falah al-Mahamdawi, said five people were killed
and seven wounded. The discrepancy could not immediately be
reconciled.
Gunmen also opened fire on a
minibus in Diyara, 30 miles south
of Baghdad in the so-called Triangle of Death, killing at least 11
Iraqi construction workers employed at government and U.S.
bases, police said.
In Baghdad, gunmen in a speeding car attacked an Interior Minis-
AP
A member of the Iraqi Interior Ministry’s al-Hussain brigade escorts a
suspected insurgent in Baghdad on Saturday. The brigade arrested 41
suspects in recent raids in Baghdad.
try commando convoy in western
Baghdad’s Mansour area, killing
three Iraqi forces, police said.
Another suicide car bomber
blew himself up Saturday in front
of the Slovakian Embassy in
southeast Baghdad, injuring four
people, according to Iraqi and Slovak officials. Slovakia has 109 soldiers in Iraq mostly for de-mining
efforts.
It was unclear how the attacker
managed to enter the tightly
guarded compound in eastern
Baghdad’s Bab Sharqi neighborhood with his explosives undetected, but his police uniform may
have helped him avoid the stringent checks in place.
People entering the compound,
which also houses the 10-story Interior Ministry building, must go
through metal detectors and be
searched by policemen and dogs.
Al-Mahamdawi said the attacker was disguised as a policeman
and detonated explosives during
a roll call for new commandos.
“I was inside the headquarters
building when the explosion took
place,” al-Mahamdawi said. “Then
I saw five dead bodies lying on the
ground plus seven injured people,
most of them are policemen.”
“There was a group of newly
graduated commandos gathered
in the yard at the time of the explosion,” he added. It was unclear if
the bomber was standing among
the graduates or was nearby.
As of Friday at least 1,691
members of the U.S. military
have died since the beginning of
the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press
count. At least 1,293 died as a result of hostile action, according
to the Defense Department.
The figures include five military civilians.
The AP count is six higher
than the Defense Department’s
tally, last updated at 10 a.m.
EDT Friday.
The latest deaths reported by
the military:
■ A soldier died Thursday of
a nonbattle injury near Tuz,
Iraq.
The latest identifications reported by the military:
Killed Thursday in an explosion in Haqlaniyah, Iraq:
■ Marine Lance Cpl. Thomas
O. Keeling, 23, Strongsville,
Ohio; assigned to Marine Forces
Reserve, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Akron, Ohio.
■ Marine Lance Cpl. Devon
P. Seymour, 21, St. Louisville,
Ohio; assigned to Marine Forces
Reserve, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Akron, Ohio.
■ Marine Cpl. Brad D.
Squires,
26,
Middleburg
Heights, Ohio; assigned to Marine Forces Reserve, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th
Marine Division, Akron, Ohio.
■ Marine Lance Cpl. Dustin
V. Birch, 22, Saint Anthony,
Idaho; assigned to Marine Forces Reserve, 4th Tank Battalion,
4th Marine Division, Boise,
Idaho.
■ Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel
Chavez, 20, Seattle; assigned to
1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine
Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton,
Calif.
■ Army 1st Lt. Michael J. Fasnacht, 25, Columbus, Ga.; killed
Wednesday when an explosive
detonated near his vehicle in
Tikrit, Iraq; assigned to the 1st
Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry
Division, Fort Benning, Ga.
■ Marine Lance Cpl. Marc L.
Tucker, 24, Pontotoc, Miss.;
killed Wednesday in a vehicle
accident in Iraq; assigned to the
9th Engineer Support Battalion,
3rd Force Service Support
Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan.
■ Army Sgt. Roberto Arizola,
Jr., 31, Laredo, Texas; killed
Wednesday when an explosive
detonated near his vehicle in
Baghdad; assigned to the Army’s 297th Military Intelligence
Battalion, 513th Military Intelligence Brigade, Fort Gordon,
Ga.
■ Army Capt. Phillip T. Esposito, 30, Suffern, N.Y., and
Army 1st Lt. Louis E. Allen, 34,
Milford, Pa.; died Wednesday of
injuries suffered Tuesday in an
explosion in Tikrit, Iraq; assigned to the Army National
Guard’s Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, 42nd
Infantry Division, Troy, N.Y.
■ Army Lt. Col. Terrence K.
Crowe, 44, New York; killed
Tuesday by grenade and small
arms fire in Tal Afar, Iraq; assigned to the Army Reserve’s
10th Battalion, 98th Regiment,
4th Brigade, 98th Division, Lodi,
N.J.
■ Army civilian Linda J. Villar, 41, Franklinton, La.; died
June 3 in a mortar attack in
Baghdad; worked for the U.S.
Army Field Support Command,
Fort Stewart, Ga.
■ Navy Cmdr. Joseph Acevedo, 46, New York; died of a nonhostile cause in Manama, Bahrain, on April 13, 2003; assigned
to U.S. Naval Forces Central
Command, Tampa, Fla.
U.S. soldier dies after ambush in Afghanistan
BY DANIEL COONEY
KABUL, Afghanistan — An
American soldier was killed
and three U.S. troops were
wounded when insurgents ambushed a patrol Friday in eastern Afghanistan — the third
deadly attack on U.S. forces in
the border region in a week.
Seven militants were killed
in fighting set off by the ambush of U.S.-led coalition and
Afghan forces in Paktika province, a U.S. military statement
said. The militants fled after
the fighting and American forces deployed attack aircraft in
pursuit.
Fighting in Paktika has killed
five U.S. troops in the past
week. The province is next to
the Pakistani border and militants based in tribal regions on
the other side of the mountainous frontier often cross into Af-
ghanistan to launch attacks.
Seventeen suspected Taliban
militants were reported captured in the area Monday.
Two
American
soldiers
wounded in Friday’s attack
were taken to a nearby base for
treatment while the third was
treated and returned to duty,
the military statement said.
“Our patrols of coalition and
Afghan forces are relentless in
the pursuit of the enemy,”
Army Brig. Gen. Jack Sterling
was quoted as saying of Friday’s clash. “We are deeply saddened by the loss of our soldier
and will honor him by continuing to take the fight to the
enemy.”
“The enemy may still be powerful at times, but not nearly as
powerful as the combined efforts of Afghan and coalition
forces when fighting alongside
each other,” U.S. military
spokesman Lt. Col. Jerry
Afghan army crash kills three
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan army truck collided with
a bus Saturday in southern Afghanistan, killing three villagers
and wounding seven, the interior minister said.
The crash occurred on the highway from the southern city of
Kandahar to the Pakistani border, Interior Minister Ali Ahmad
Jalali told reporters in the capital, Kabul.
He said reports by officials in the area that a U.S. military vehicle was involved and that 10 people were killed were wrong.
A local police commander, Abdul Wasai, and Gen. Raziq
Khan, a senior defense ministry official based in the district of
Spin Boldak where the accident occurred, had earlier told The
Associated Press an American military Humvee vehicle was involved and 10 people were killed.
Wasai also said U.S. troops had cordoned off the area and an
investigation had been launched into the cause of the crash.
The local officials couldn’t be reached for further comment.
O’Hara said.
The death brought to 149 the
number of U.S. military person-
nel killed in and around Afghanistan since the Taliban were
driven from power in 2001.
AP
Members of the 82nd Airborne Division
307th Forward Support Battalion carry a
stretcher with the body of a soldier killed in
southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday. A
battle in the same area Friday resulted in
the death of another U.S. soldier.
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Convoy trip across Niger
eye-opening for soldiers
Lengthy journey to camp for Flintlock 05
provides a glimpse into African culture
BY CHARLIE COON
Stars and Stripes
TAHOUA, Niger — Some of the
dark faces flashed bright white
smiles and bright white eyes. Others had toothless smiles and yellowish eyes. But they were smiling.
And they were impressionable,
so the Americans smiled and
waved to make a good impression.
“I like the reception of the people,” said Sgt. Merle Sullivan.
Sullivan, of Sullivan County,
Pa., and a medic with the 160th
First Surgical
Team
from Landstuhl, Germany, had seen
worse.
“It’s a lot
different
than Somalia
[1993-94],”
said Sullivan,
who
had
served in Operation ReSullivan
store Hope in
eastern Africa. “It’s like the people want us to be here and help
out.”
For Team Niger, the exercise
called Flintlock 05 continued
Thursday with a 15-hour convoy
that chugged through the heat like
a choo-choo train. Flintlock 05 is a
seven-nation “peace operation” to
train national armies to defend
their nations. It also aims to make
friends.
For many of the soldiers on
Team Niger, the convoy was a
sweaty, eye-opening introduction
to Africa.
The asphalt strip on which they
traveled pierced through a vast
land of bronze-red dirt stretching
for miles into the horizon. Out of
its dirt floor grew short green
trees and bushes. The soldiers
rode past cows and goats grazing
on the plants under shepherds’
watchful eyes.
A feathery blanket of cirrus
clouds made the sky bluish-white.
The clouds helped filter the sun,
but did not diminish the 100-degree heat.
At noon, the convoy stopped
along a deserted stretch of the
road for a
break. After
the soldiers
got back on
the bus and
its
engine
turned, one
made pointed observation.
“We better
get to where
we’re going,”
Draper
he drawled,
“or
we’re
gonna start smellin’ like bull
frogs.”
The soldiers rode through villages that were identified by small
white road signs with black block
letters: Diawondo, Tombo Valley,
Birni Gauore. Many of the villages
were no larger than a football
field.
Some dwellings were made
from the red dirt and had holes in
them for windows; others were
like tepees, made from branches
that came to a point on top and
built on top of tree stumps for elevation to protect occupants from
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rainy-season flooding and critters
that slither and crawl.
In larger towns, the roadside
was lined by ramshackle shops.
Smoke rose from piles of meat
cooking over wood fires. People
with nearly jet-black skin stood in
small groups or sat in the shade.
Women
wore
flowing,
wrap-around gowns of red, green,
yellow and blue and carried buckets on their heads.
All watched as the convoy
passed.
“Honestly, I’m shocked but at
the same time amazed,” Spc.
Terry Draper said. “Shocked because of the way the people are living, amazed at how many happy
kids run up and wave to the vehicles.”
Youngsters wave to the Team Niger convoy as the soldiers travel
through southwestern Niger on the way to camp for Flintlock 05.
The seven-nation exercise is to train African soldiers to defend their
countries and to strengthen ties between Africa and the U.S.
Draper, of Shreveport, La., and
a medic with the 160th FST, was
humbled.
“It makes you thankful for what
you have,” Draper said, “because
a lot of people don’t have as
much.”
About 12 hours into the desert
road trip, the convoy pulled over
for gas. As they got off the bus, the
soldiers were engulfed by vendors
hawking cold drinks, jewelry and
other souvenirs. They bartered for
deals as the vehicles were being refueled, then reboarded.
Justin, a Special Forces specialist from the Alabama-based 20th
Special Forces Group who asked
that his last name not be used,
thought about the training mission
that would begin at the end of the
Thursday’s journey.
“What level are [the Nigerien
soldiers] already at?” he asked.
“Are they at the baby stage or an
intermediate level?
“You just don’t know how much
they know until you get there.”
E-mail Charlie Coon at:
[email protected]
Detaining of Iraq contractors highlights rift with military
BY T. CHRISTIAN MILLER
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Matt Raiche knew he
was in trouble when the Marines handed
him an orange jumpsuit, a bottle to urinate
in, a Quran and a Muslim prayer rug.
Marine guards put the former Marine
into a six-foot by six-foot concrete cell,
locked the steel door and told him to keep
his mouth shut. In cells nearby, he heard imprisoned insurgents screaming in Arabic.
“They took us to be ... insurgent terrorists,” said Raiche, 34, one of 16 U.S. contractors arrested by the Marine Corps last
month on suspicions of firing indiscriminately at U.S. soldier and Iraqi civilians.
“We said we were Americans. We didn’t
know what was going on.”
So began three days of captivity for the
employees of North Carolina-based Zapata
Engineering, apprehended after Marines allegedly witnessed them firing weapons
from an armored convoy passing through
Fallujah.
While details remain unclear, the May 28
incident reflects the long simmering tensions between the military and private business in Iraq.
American security workers complain of false
imprisonment, poor treatment from Marines
Even though the government has hired
private companies to perform many functions in Iraq, it does not formally oversee
their activities, allowing misunderstandings
and disputes to fester.
Raiche said the Marines seemed angry at
the higher salaries that contractors in Iraq
enjoy: “One Marine gets me on the ground
and puts his knee in my back. Then I hear
another Marine say, ‘How does it feel to
make that contractor money now?’ ”
The contractors who were detained have
said they are innocent of the accusations.
They were released and are in the process
of returning home. Three unarmed Iraqi
subcontractors for Pasadena, Calif.-based
Parsons Corp. who were passengers in the
convoy also were held and released.
The Zapata contractors, who were held in
a Marine base near Fallujah, acknowledged
firing warning shots to prevent a suspicious
vehicle from approaching their convoy but
said they never aimed at Marines or civilians.
Marines officers confirmed that the Department of Justice was reviewing the incident.
The Marine documents said the Zapata
contractors, besides firing on civilians, had
“unauthorized” weapons in their vehicles —
AT4 anti-tank weapons and grenades. Several of the contractors claimed they were
given those weapons by the Marines in the
months before the confrontation.
The incident also renewed questions
about the general treatment of prisoners in
Iraq by the U.S. military. One of the few
things that both sides largely agree on was
that the Marines treated the contractors like
any other detainees — treatment that the
contractors found humiliating and abusive.
The Marines are investigating the contractors’ abuse complaints, but have found
“nothing to substantiate those claims,” said
Lt. Col. David Lapan, a Marine spokesman.
The case is believed to be the first time
that U.S. military has detained private con-
tractors in Iraq on suspicion of endangering
Iraqi civilians or U.S. soldiers.
Almost since the beginning of the U.S-led
invasion, there have been tensions between
the private forces and the U.S. military.
The contractors previously denied firing
any shots at the Marines, and on Friday two
of them, Raiche and Rick Blanchard, repeated those denials. Blanchard, 42, a former
Marine and Florida state trooper, said he believed that the Marines had confused the Zapata convoy with an earlier security convoy
that had fired indiscriminately.
Blanchard and Raiche claimed they were
physically and mentally abused by their Marine guards. They said the Marines taunted
them about their allegedly large salaries,
slammed them around and threatened them
with a guard dog.
“They were treating us like we were the
insurgents,” said Blanchard. “It broke my
heart, the way the Marines treated us.”
The military denies any physical abuse occurred. “We treat all detainees professionally and in accordance with strict procedures,” said Lapan.
Lapin said the release of the men after
three days does not mean the Marines considered them innocent.
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Care packages are either hit or miss
Family and friends, you’re too generous and your offerings are, well, weird
BY TERI WEAVER
Stars and Stripes
CAMP LIBERTY, Baghdad
t. Taysha Deaton held up
what she said was the
worst care package item
she’d received in her
eight months in the Middle East.
“What do you think this is?” the
public affairs officer for the 256th
Brigade Combat Team asked,
holding a clear tube of what
looked
to
be
a
popular
name-brand hygienic lubricant.
“It’s toothpaste,” she said, unveiling the tube’s name: Security
Personal Care. “Would you put
that on your teeth? It’s wrong. It’s
so wrong.”
The “gift” came in a package
from a well-meaning, distant family member who didn’t quite hit
the mark. Deaton, 25, from Lake
Charles, La., would rather have
the Fruity Pebbles and Special K
breakfast bars her mother sends
in bulk supply.
Care packages in wartime are
heaven-sent and no soldier
doubts the good intentions and
generosity of people who donate.
Even the most meager packages
make soldiers feel a little closer
to home.
“In my experience, anything is
good,” said 2nd Lt. Japheth
Johnson, 25, of New Orleans and
also a member of the Louisiana
National Guard. “Just to open a
letter,” he said, means the world.
Still, complaints are as much a
part of war as homesickness and
boredom, and some soldiers honestly — but carefully — say
there’s a difference between a
smart care package and one that
has more good intentions than
good supplies.
So, please, many say: Take it
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TERI WEAVER/Stars and Stripes
2nd Lt. Japheth Johnson, 25, of New Orleans, shows off a care package
from his girlfriend. She sent him a box of Dorito’s, candy and other
snacks, which he offered to his friends as soon as he opened the box.
“She sends way too much,” he said, though definitely not complaining.
Pool, video games offer GIs small respite
BY ANTONIO CASTANEDA
BAGHDAD — One young man
cannonballed into the cool blue
pool, another applied suntan lotion to his girlfriend’s shoulders
— and a third swung his machine
gun onto a lawn chair. A pair of
Black Hawk helicopters hovered
above.
The men and women could
have passed for American college students, but they were U.S.
soldiers at Camp Liberty in western Baghdad, seeking a break
from the war raging just beyond
the blast walls. Hours later, some
would don helmets and flak jackets, jump into armored vehicles
and patrol through violent Baghdad neighborhoods.
“When I come here, I don’t feel
like I’m in Iraq,” said Sgt. Jeanne
Crochet, a nurse in the 256th Brigade of the Louisiana National
Guard, who sat next to her suntanning boyfriend, Sgt. Bryan Ebeling, as Jimmy Buffett tunes
played in the background.
“I don’t complain much about
living conditions.”
In this war, troops — particular-
ly infantrymen who regularly patrol and conduct raids — struggle
to relax and get away from the violence that relentlessly creeps up
on them.
Even inside bases such as
Camp Liberty and the adjoining
Camp Victory that stretch for
miles, insurgents continue to kill
When I come here,
I don‘t feel like
I‘m in Iraq.
Sgt. Jeanne Crochet
on the Camp Liberty pool
and injure soldiers by launching
mortars and rockets over fortified walls.
Just last week word flashed
through the camp of a big-screen
showing of the new Star Wars
movie, generating a flood of excitement.
But then insurgents fired a
rocket into the base, slamming
close to shops and fast-food eateries where the movie was to be
shown, killing one soldier.
“The soldiers came in and
yelled, ‘Save yourselves and run
to the bunker,’ ” remembered Jericho Aquino, a Filipino worker at
the Cinnabon dessert shop close
to where the rocket struck. Future screenings were canceled.
But the U.S. military has
brought other slices of Americana to this dusty complex of white
trailers and palaces once used by
Saddam Hussein.
A Burger King and Pizza Hut
compliment a dining hall that can
compete with most corporate dining facilities — lobster and a
dozen desserts are often on menu
— and a local store resembles a
major retail outlet, complete with
rows of CDs, DVDs, and big
screen TVs.
Some soldiers relax over video
games or bootleg DVDs on their
laptops.
Others look forward to seeing
celebrities. A recent visitor was
actor Vince Vaughn, a local favorite.
But the most popular venue on
base may be the palace pools
where soldiers lie in the sun or
swim with friends, ignoring the
occasional explosion that reverberates in the distance.
easy on the baby wipes. Ditto on
the hand sanitizer. No more little
bottles of shampoo swiped from
hotels. Just how many tubes of
toothpaste does one man need?
“I’ve got 20 tubes in my room,”
said 1st Lt. Jon Clark, 30, of Manhattan and the New York National Guard’s 101st Calvary.
At Baghdad’s Camp Independence, troops have piles of woodworking magazines. “I’m like, I
don’t even own a hammer,” said
Lt. Mark St. Romain, 23, of Baton
Rouge, La., and the Louisiana National Guard.
What soldiers need depends on
where they are deployed. At the
bigger camps with large post exchanges and mess halls, lip balm
and shampoo are in good supply.
Smaller camps, however, have little more than cigarettes, soda and
Skoal for sale.
To make their wishes known,
many soldiers use www.anysoldie
r.com. The Web site lets troops
say what they need or want, and
anyone around the world can log
in, adopt a wish list, and send a
care package directly to that person.
Last week, the requests ranged
from movies and magazines to
feminine hygiene products.
Even when there are piles of
leftovers, nothing goes to waste.
Troops pack up the unneeded
candy, toiletries and Beanie Babies and pass them out to Iraqi
families. Some units give the surplus to Iraqi soldiers who patrol
with the Americans.
“I’ve got a good mother,” said
Spc. Eugene Dolan, a 23-year-old
New York Guard member serving with the 256th Brigade.
Dolan’s mother shops at a local
Italian grocer and sends packets
of sauces: marinara, pesto, steak.
And don’t get Dolan, of Albertson,
N.Y., started on salad dressings.
“Balsamic vinegar with white
wine …,” he starts, shaking his
head as he recites the ingredients. In late May, he was down to
only two bottles.
But sometimes even a simple
request to a close friend can get a
little out of hand.
Staff Sgt. Frank Fernandez, 48,
of Napanoch, N.Y. and the 101st
Calvary, gets an urge for dip
every once in a while, and he
asked a buddy back home to send
some of his favorite. “I ended up
getting 100 cans,” he said.
No one, however, said he or she
wanted the packages to stop.
E-mail Teri Weaver at:
[email protected]
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House of trust
Germany shoot house prepares
GIs for the close-quarters combat
they’ll face in Iraq, Afghanistan
BY TERRY BOYD
Stars and Stripes
BAUMHOLDER, Germany —
Before big missions in Iraq or Afghanistan, it’s not unusual to see
bands of soldiers with M-4s
raised, walking slowly and purposefully through small mazes of
plywood
sheets
simulating
“rooms,” counting off steps like
dancers rehearsing a complicated routine.
That’s one way to rehearse
clearing a building.
A better way is shooting your
way through real ones using live
ammunition. After all, nothing
says “I trust you” like working
with team members firing weapons a few inches away.
The most crucial part of preparing for urban fighting is building
team confidence, said 1st Sgt. Joseph Cotto of the 1st Armored Division’s Baumholder-based 2nd
Brigade, 6th Infantry Regiment.
“The guy next to you is firing
within a foot you,” Cotto said.
“You need that confidence.”
The Range 21 Shoot House at
Baumholder is the newest firing
house — and only the second in
Europe — that allows soldiers to
practice clearing buildings using
live ammunition. The range
opened Friday after a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony with Baumholder and 7th Army Training
Command officials, then a demonstration by 2-6 soldiers without
live ammunition.
The Baumholder shoot house
— Europe’s other one is in
Grafenwöhr — is a product of the
division’s first Iraq deployment,
said Sgt. 1st Class Cameron Richardson, master gunner for the
2nd Brigade.
Before, there was not as much
emphasis on urban warfare training, said Richardson, who’s been
in the Army for 11 years. “Now
our focus has changed. We knew
once we hit [Iraqi] cities like Fallujah … that we’d have to go in the
buildings and clear them.”
At one point in the 1st AD’s April
2004 campaign against Muqtada
Little time to think
with lives on the line
BAUMHOLDER, Germany — A four-man stack lines up against
the wall of an Iraqi house.
Is the door locked?
The team leader checks it, then silently signals it is.
After he’s certain his team is ready, his thumb goes up for “1.”
His index finger goes out for “2.”
His middle finger goes out for “3,” and a soldier kicks in the door.
All four rush in, each with a section of the room to secure. Each
must chose the path of least resistance to his
“point of domination,” said Sgt. 1st Class Cameron Richardson, master gunner for the the 1st
Armored Division’s Baumholder-based 2nd
Brigade.
Each team member relies on the others to do
his job. If one fails, they all die.
The team must stay out of the “fatal funnel”
of doorways, through which the enemy can
fire. They must exercise “target discrimination,” Richardson said. Do they shoot? Do they
not shoot?
Information starts flying. The number of
Richardson
people. Dead. Wounded. The layout. Long hallways with lots of rooms; short hallways to one room. There are
endless distractions.
As other squads clear nearby buildings, there may be shooting all
around. A Squad Automatic Weapon gunner or a M-240B gunner
may be firing support from a position outside the building, Richardson said.
Taking a squad into a building and clearing it “is a thinking man’s
game,” said Sgt. Josh Brunick, 30, a squad leader with Company B
of the Baumholder-based 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment.
Brunick is the squad leader who gave a brief building-clearing
demonstration at Friday’s ribbon-cutting for Baumholder’s new
live-fire shoot house. But he has done the real thing, learning the
trade in Iraq.
The shoot house helps build confidence and trust for a task that
calls for total mutual reliance, he said. In training scenarios, teams
switch up positions and learn one another’s jobs. But clearing buildings in urban warfare puts great pressure on the team leader, who
controls the inside of the building, and the squad leader, who decides how and when teams will move next, and which door they’ll
open next, Brunick said.
Open that door, he said, “and the team leader makes a thousand
decisions in two seconds.”
— Terry Boyd
TERRY BOYD/Stars and Stripes
Pfc. Matthew Erickson, 22, from Othello, Wash., and Company B of the 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment,
boots open the door Friday during a demonstration at Baumholder’s new shoot house, where soldiers can fire
live rounds as they learn to clear buildings. Ready to go in with Erickson are Spc. Willis Sanft, 18, from Waco,
Texas, center, and Spc. Jesse Roderiguez, 24, from Chicago, Ill. They are members of the same unit.
al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army, his unit
cleared 200 buildings at night in a
12-hour period, Cotto said. Incredibly dangerous and demanding, it
was physically and mentally draining work, he said.
To hone their skills, soldiers
took bombed-out buildings on the
Butler Range, east of Baghdad,
and started using them for
live-fire training. Master Sgt.
Alec Lazore, formerly the brigade master gunner, came up
with the design, which cost about
$7,000 to build, Richardson said.
“[Lazore returned from Iraq
saying], ‘We want a shoot house
and we want it now,’ ” Jose Larroy, training support center supervisor said during Friday’s ribboncutting ceremony. “He said, ‘The
brigade needs it.’ ”
Col. Ralph O. Baker, recently
departed 2nd Brigade commander, blessed the project. Eighteen
months and $363,000 later, the facility opened.
To the untrained eye, the new
Baumholder complex doesn’t
look like much. It’s a series of
small, crude, roofless buildings
with 7-foot-high walls. But the
walls are steel — representing
most of the construction cost —
which absorbs the rounds, lined
inside by easily replaceable wooden two-by-fours.
Building designs give soldiers a
lot of different looks, Richardson
said. Soldiers enter one building
and see multiple doors right off
the bat. Enter another, and
there’s one way in, one way out.
Depending on the building, halls
are short, halls are long. There
are single-room and multi-room
setups inhabited by target silhouettes that can be positioned anywhere.
The shoot house is close to
other training facilities, including
Baumholder’s Close Quarters Battle range and Military Operations
on Urbanized Terrain ranges.
But soldier after soldier talked
about how the shoot house is as realistic as it gets.
“It’s not training for training’s
sake,” said Sgt. Josh Brunick, one
of the 2-6 soldiers in the demonstration.
The surrounding open ground
can be integrated into all sorts of
scenarios, such as a patrol taking
small-arms fire from a compound, pulling up to it, securing
the perimeter and then clearing
the buildings, Richardson said.
Cott said he’d like to see more
obstacles inside each building:
sofas and refrigerators to negotiate, and closets for suspects to
hide in, just like Iraq.
Training officials are trying to
scavenge old furniture that the
housing office is about to pitch,
Larroy said, to make things as realistic as possible.
So now, for 1st AD soldiers,
staying alive in Iraq will start
with a noisy day in Germany’s
shoot house.
“This,” Richardson said, “is
going to save lives.”
E-mail Terry Boyd at:
[email protected]
PAGE 9
IN THE WORLD
G8 officials OK canceling
$40 billion in debt relief
BY ED JOHNSON
LONDON — Finance ministers
from the Group of Eight industrialized nations agreed Saturday to
a historic deal canceling at least
$40 billion worth of debt owed by
the world’s poorest nations.
Britain Treasury chief Gordon
Brown said 18 countries, many in
sub-Saharan Africa, will benefit
immediately from the deal to
scrap 100 percent of the debt they
owe to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the
African Development Bank.
As many as 20 other countries
could be eligible if they meet
strict targets for good governance
and tackling corruption, leading
to a total debt relief package of
more than $55 billion.
“The G8 finance ministers
have agreed to 100 percent debt
cancellation for Heavily Indebted
Poor Countries,” Brown told a
news conference in London.
Aid agencies welcomed the
deal, saying it would save the 18
countries a total of $1.5 billion a
year in debt repayments that
could now be used for health
care, education and infrastructure development.
Finance ministers from the
United States, Britain, Japan, Canada, Russia, Germany, Italy and
France agreed to the package during a two-day summit in London.
“A real milestone has been
reached,” U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said. “President
Bush’s commitment to lift the
crushing debt burden on the
world’s poorest countries has
been achieved.
This is an achievement of historic proportions.”
Nations in sub-Saharan Africa
alone owe some $68 billion to international bodies. Rich nations
had long agreed the debt must be
relieved, but the international
community could not agree on a
formula for tackling the problem.
The package agreed to Saturday was put forward by the United States and Britain following
talks in Washington last week between Bush and British Prime
Minister Tony Blair.
The agreement will initially
cover 18 nations eligible for debt
relief under the HIPC initiative,
including Benin, Bolivia, Burkina
Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guyana
and Mali.
AP
A 17-year-old Dutch-born man is seen with a towel over his head as
he is arrested in front of his home in Noord, Aruba, on Thursday in
connection with the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway on
May 30. Prosecutors say they are at a crucial point in the case.
Suspect in missing
teen case: ‘Something
bad happened’ to her
BY MICHAEL NORTON
ORANJESTAD, Aruba — One
of the young men detained in the
disappearance of an Alabama
honors student admitted “something bad happened” to the
woman after they took her to the
beach, a police officer said, while
prosecutors said Saturday the investigation was at a crucial point.
But prosecutors refused to comment on the statement by Deputy
Police Commissioner Gerold
Dompig, who told The Associated
Press that the man who made
that admission was leading police
to the scene. He refused to identify which of the three young men
who took Natalee Holloway, 18, to
a northern beach the night she
went missing made the statement.
Police refused Saturday morning to say whether they discovered anything overnight to solve
the mystery of what happened to
Holloway, who was last seen in
the early hours of May 30.
Referring to Dompig’s statement, prosecution spokeswoman
Vivian van der Biezen said Saturday: “We neither confirm nor
deny any information coming
from other sources ... [about] al-
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leged statements of suspects in
this case.”
“The investigation at the moment is the following: Five suspects are being held ... and we are
at a very crucial, very important
moment in our investigation,” she
said.
Police investigating Holloway’s
disappearance arrested a man at
dawn Saturday but later said he
had nothing to do with the case.
The three young men arrested
Thursday — two Surinamese
brothers and the 17-year-old
Dutch son of a high-ranking island judicial official — were to appear before a judge Saturday, government spokesman Ruben Trapenberg said. Authorities have refused to say on what grounds they
were being held. The judge would
decide whether police have sufficient grounds to continue holding
them.
Police also have detained two
other men — former security
guards at a hotel near the one
where Holloway was staying. No
one has been charged in the case.
Island-wide
searches
by
Aruban police, Dutch marines
and hundreds of volunteer islanders and tourists continued Saturday, Trapenberg said.
Associated Press reporter Jay Reeves in
Mountain Brook, Ala., contributed to
this report.
PAGE 10
Saudis pressed for more nuclear openness
BY GEORGE JAHN
VIENNA, Austria — The United States,
Europe and Australia are joining forces in
an unusually stark reflection of concern in
urging Saudi Arabia to allow in nuclear inspectors before a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, officials
said Friday.
Diplomats accredited to the agency and
European officials told The Associated
Press that both the European Union and
Australia will send formal diplomatic
notes to the Saudi government this weekend asking it to consider allowing in the
IAEA inspectors.
Washington already has done so, but its
chief delegate to Monday’s IAEA board
U.S., Europe, Australia to send requests for
Saudis to allow inspectors to verify nuke status
meeting, Jackie Sanders, will renew the request at a weekend meeting in Vienna with
her Saudi counterpart, said the diplomats
and officials, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to
the media on such issues.
State Department press officer Tom
Casey confirmed that U.S. diplomatic note
had been delivered to the Saudis, saying
Washington hoped that the country will
agree to independent verification of its nuclear status “on a voluntary basis.”
The joint diplomatic push is being
sparked by concerns the Saudis could be
exempt from any outside policing of their
nuclear agenda under an agreement they
have negotiated with the IAEA, and by
past Saudi nuclear ambiguities, including
reported interest in a weapons program.
Senior Saudi foreign policy adviser Adel
al-Jubeir sought to deflect such concerns
Wednesday, telling the AP in Washington
that his country has “no desire to acquire
any type of weapon of mass destruction, period.”
He also said reports, some based on U.S.
intelligence, that Saudi Arabia has sought
possible nuclear weapons help from Pakistan are “not correct.”
The diplomats said the Australian and
EU diplomatic notes will urge the Saudis to
go beyond the letter of the arrangement
and commit to allow IAEA inspectors into
the country, at least to take stock of what
nuclear equipment and materials the Saudis might have.
The Saudis deny any plans to develop nuclear arms, and diplomats close to the
IAEA say the agency has no firm evidence
to the contrary. But the Saudi push to formalize minimal monitoring for the country
comes amid increased nuclear-generated
tensions in the region, fed by suspicions
that rival Iran might want to develop the
bomb.
Japanese cops question student bomber
Bullying may have played role in attack that injured 58 teens
BY NATALIE OBIKO PEARSON
AP
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II arrives to inspect the troops at London’s
Horse Guards before the annual Trooping the Colour parade marking
her official birthday on Saturday. Some 1,220 troops took part in the
spectacular display of precision formation marching and horsemanship.
Britain marks queen’s
birthday with pomp
LONDON — Britain put on one
of its grandest annual shows of
royal pageantry on Saturday with
celebrations of Queen Elizabeth
II’s official birthday.
In a spectacular display of precision marching and horsemanship choreographed to military
band music,
about 1,220
soldiers in
ceremonial
red
dress
and
huge
black bearskin caps saluted
the
monarch in
the Trooping
the Color ceremony at the
Horse
Guards Pa- Queen Elizabeth II
rade ground
near Buckingham Palace.
The “color” being paraded on
London’s Horse Guards this year
is the flag of the 1st Battalion
Irish Guards.
The queen turned 79 on April
21, but public celebrations of the
British monarch’s birthday are always held on a Saturday in June,
when the chances of fine weather
are good.
Thousands of people filled sidewalks around the palace on a partly cloudy day, hoping to catch a
glimpse of the queen.
“I’ve got goose bumps. It’s wonderful. I’ve got to see the queen,”
said Beryl Sixsmith, 64. She had
come to London from her home in
Manchester, a city in northern England.
The queen and her husband,
Prince Philip, who celebrated his
84th birthday Friday, rode in an
open carriage from Buckingham
Palace along the wide, tree-lined
Mall from the palace to the parade ground near Admiralty
Arch.
Prince William, 22, elder son of
Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, rode in a separate carriage with his stepmother, the
Duchess of Cornwall. The duchess, the former Camilla Parker
Bowles.
Earlier Saturday, the queen released her annual list of birthday
honors to many Britons, including veteran rockers Brian May,
Jimmy Page, John Mayall and
Midge Ure.
Of the 894 names on the list,
more than 500 are involved in voluntary work of some kind, according to Prime Minister Tony
Blair’s office, which draws up the
list for the monarch to approve.
TOKYO — Police questioned an 18-year-old student on Saturday about why he threw a homemade
bomb into a high school classroom in southern
Japan, wounding 58 teenagers when the gunpowder-filled jar exploded, spraying the room with glass
shards and nails.
News reports said the boy told police he made the
explosive using instructions found on the Internet
and had planned the attack because his “pride had
been hurt” repeatedly by other students and that he
“had a grudge.”
One male student was seriously injured with cuts
to his legs and abdomen, and another student broke
his finger in the attack Friday at Hikari public high
school in Yamaguchi prefecture (state). The other injuries were minor.
Police said the boy fashioned the bomb from a
glass bottle filled with a combination of gunpowder
and other substances.
The more severe injuries were caused by several
dozen nails which were stuffed into the bottle along
with gunpowder stripped from firecrackers and connected to a crude fuse, Asahi TV and the Mainichi
newspaper reported. Public broadcaster NHK said
he told police he used instructions from a Web site
to make the bomb.
Investigators uncovered evidence indicating the
suspect had also been building a second bomb,
Kyodo News agency reported.
The suspect was arrested soon after the attack on
charges of assault. But police have not ruled out the
possibility of raising that charge to attempted murder, the Yomiuri newspaper said.
Teachers and administrators from the high school
convened Saturday to set up a team to investigate
why the incident occurred and arrange counseling
for traumatized students, school official Norio Fukano said.
School officials and news reports described the
boy as quiet, courteous and a conscientious student
who never skipped class and had an academic
record “above average.” The suspect’s name was
being withheld because he is a minor.
But they also described a loner who was often bullied since middle school and was extremely withdrawn. “Of course we will be looking into whether
bullying may have had something to do with the incident,” Fukano said.
When the boy threw the bomb into the classroom,
it burst into flames and exploded with a loud bang
as it landed just in front of the teacher’s desk,
spreading shards of glass, nails and white smoke
across the room. Of the 58 students treated after the
incident, 17 were hospitalized.
PAGE 11
IN THE STATES
U.S., N. Korea seeking
common voice on nukes
BY JENNIFER LOVEN
WASHINGTON — President
Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun pressed
North Korea to rejoin deadlocked
talks on its nuclear weapons program on Friday and tried to minimize their own differences over
how hard to push the reclusive
communist regime.
Roh, whose government has resisted the tougher approach advocated by the Bush administration
toward ending the impasse, said
he agreed that six-nation talks remain the best way to persuade Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear
ambitions.
While Bush emphasized that
the two allies “are of one voice”
on the issue, Roh, who is presiding over a South Korea newly assertive about its role in the region, raised the issue of remaining differences.
“There are, admittedly, many
people who worry about potential
discord or cacophony between
the two powers of the alliance,”
he said through a translator.
Roh opposes military action if
diplomacy with North Korea fails.
South Korea also is cool to the
idea of taking the North Korean
standoff to the U.N. Security
Council for possible sanctions.
South Korea instead is pursuing a
policy of engagement with the
communist North and supports a
security guarantee or economic
incentives to entice North Korea
to return to six-nation talks it has
boycotted for nearly a year.
Bush, however, wants South
Korea — as well as China — to
take a more aggressive stance.
The president said Friday he had
no new inducements for North
Korea beyond those offered last
June, when the North was told it
could get economic and diplomatic benefits once it had verifiably
disarmed. Anything else, in the
U.S. view, would amount to a reward for nuclear blackmail.
While insisting the U.S. has no
intention of launching a military
strike, Bush also has steadfastly
refused to take that option off the
Bush pushing
energy bill,
Social Security
WASHINGTON — The future economic security of the
nation is in the hands of Congress, President Bush said Saturday.
Setting the stage for a week
in which he will push stalled
sections of his domestic agenda, Bush told his weekly radio
audience that lawmakers need
to get an energy bill to his desk
within weeks and embrace his
ideas for changing Social Security.
On Wednesday in Washington, he’ll renew his call for Congress to act on an energy plan.
Despite opposition from the
White House, a growing number of Republican and Democratic senators want to address
global warming as part of the
country’s broad energy policy.
The Senate is scheduled to take
up energy legislation next
week. Whether to include a measure on climate change, such as
limiting heat-trapping emissions, will be sharply debated.
table. And the administration is
increasingly hinting it is closer to
pursuing U.N. sanctions.
North Korea, widely believed
to have enough weapons-grade
plutonium for a half-dozen nuclear bombs, has sent mixed signals
on whether it will return to negotiations with the United States,
South Korea, China, Japan and
Russia. North Korean diplomats
indicated earlier this week they
were willing to come back, but
they set no date.
Roh campaigned in 2002 promising to put South Korea on a
more equal footing with the United States, using language some
viewed as anti-American.
AP
Approaching Tropical Storm Arlene produces strong waves Friday at Pensacola Beach, Fla., on the northern
Gulf Coast. Officials expected the storm to hit land on Saturday.
Tropical Storm Arlene
approaches Gulf Coast
Residents from Florida to Mississippi brace for possible hurricane
BY BILL KACZOR
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. — Heavy rain
drenched the Florida Panhandle early Saturday and
heavy surf pounded beaches as Tropical Storm Arlene plodded toward the Gulf Coast, chasing a few
weather-weary residents into shelters.
The storm had wind blowing at a sustained 70
mph, and the National Hurricane
Center posted a hurricane warning
along 125 miles of coast from Pascagoula, Miss., to Destin in the western
Florida Panhandle.
Meteorologists said Arlene could
build into a Category 1 hurricane by
landfall, with its heaviest wind and
rain east of the storm’s center. The
center of the storm was expected to hit the northern
Gulf Coast during the mid to late afternoon, the hurricane center said.
Bob Garcia checked into a Red Cross shelter at
Gulf Shores, Ala., with his son, Tommy.
Garcia said they live in a mobile home in Sommerdale, Ala., and there was “no sense in taking chances” with the possibility of tornados developing as
the storm plowed ashore. He was one of only 13 people in the shelter Saturday morning.
One death had been blamed on the storm — a Russian exchange student died after she was pulled
from the rolling waves off Miami Beach on Friday.
The worst fears were in the Florida Panhandle,
still reeling from Hurricane Ivan nine months ago.
Piles of debris, gutted homes and storm-damaged
roofs covered by plastic blue tarps are vivid reminders of Ivan’s wrath.
“I was pretty shocked to see how bad it still was,”
said tourist Roddy Rogers, 46, of Springfield, Mo.
“I’ve been in third-world countries and it looks kind
of like that in some places.”
Officials urged thousands of people in low-lying areas of three Panhandle counties to evacuate, and people flocked to hardware stores to
buy generators, flashlights and
other hurricane supplies.
At the Islander Package and
Lounge in Pensacola Beach, a sign
read “Here we go again.”
By midmorning, about 4,000 Gulf Power customers in Escambia County, Fla., were blacked out,
though most service was quickly restored.
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush declared a state of emergency Friday.
At 11 a.m. EDT Saturday, the storm was centered
85 miles south-southeast of Mobile, Ala., and was
meandering toward the north-northwest at 14 mph.
Hurricane watches and tropical storm warnings extended west to Grand Isle, La., and east to Indian
Pass, Fla. A tornado watch was issued for a huge
swath of the Gulf region.
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Associated Press writer Garry Mitchell contributed to this
report from Gulf Shores, Ala.
Bush picks Redd for counterterrorism post
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — President
Bush Friday nominated retired
Vice Adm. John Redd, who
served as executive director of
the presidential commission on intelligence, to run the National
Counterterrorism
Center
in
McLean, Va., and called on Congress to renew the USA Patriot
Act to help law enforcement officials like such as Redd hunt and
capture terrorists.
AP
President Bush, listens Friday as South Korea’s President Roh
Moo-hyun, left, talks in the Oval Office of the White House.
Visiting the new Northern Virginia facility, which is responsible
for analyzing intelligence on ter-
rorism and for the strategic planning of counterterrorism operations, Bush said Redd is a “man of
enormous experience” who will
be a “good boss” at the NCTC.
Redd is a 36-year Navy veteran
and was commander of the Navy’s Fifth Fleet in the Middle
East. Most recently, he served as
deputy administrator and chief
operating officer of the Coalition
Provisional Authority in Baghdad. He has never been involved
in counter-terrorism operations.
The NCTC, which is part of the
domain of John D. Negroponte,
the new director of national intel-
ligence, will draw information
from 26 different government networks, including air-traffic control; its analysts come from the
CIA, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security, as
well as other agencies. The CIA,
the FBI and other government
law-enforcement units are expected to carry out anti-terrorism operations based on information collected by the NCTC.
If confirmed by the Senate,
Redd, 60, would will replace John
Brennan, a longtime CIA official
who has served as the center’s acting director. Redd will report directly to the president.
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Perception is the key
“Bell didn’t visit motor pool” (letter,
June 3) says: “Second is about the Quran
in Cuba and how it was mistreated, or
whatever. I think it will be out of line to
punish our troops for that. These people
burn our flag outside of base, yet it’s OK.
Do you see anyone apologizing for that?”
The enemy’s leaders use extremist
Islam to motivate followers. Anything
America does to look bad toward Islam
will be blown out of proportion by the
enemy, motivating them to keep killing
and abusing our people. In the Middle
East, where the Crusades are regarded as
current events, an occurrence such as the
Abu Ghraib abuses, however out of the ordinary, will be depicted by our enemies as
typical U.S. behavior and will be used as
an example of America’s bad intentions,
not for years, but for generations.
If the United States is not sensitive to
how it is perceived, extremists will explain away atrocities by claiming they’re
retribution for an alleged American abuse.
The United States needs for enemy atrocities to be seen as evil acts. To do that we
cannot be perceived as being equally as
bad as the enemy.
The United States has an interest in not
mistreating enemies and civilians. We
can’t be credible when we ask for humane
treatment of Americans if we haven’t treated foreigners with respect. We can’t ask allies for help and ask them to condemn the
enemy’s wrongful acts if we’re perceived
to be acting just as badly.
Part of war is how events occur and how
they are perceived. To succeed, we have to
win the fight for perception. We cannot
cede the moral high ground. If we do, it
won’t matter how successful we are in actual combat.
Maj. William McKern
Camp Speicher, Iraq
‘Racing Stripes’ not on Guard
I really enjoyed “Racing Stripes” (June
3), about which branch of service sponsors
each driver.
The thing I didn’t understand was the article mentioned the Coast Guard and National Guard only in a small-bullet comment. Now, I’m not a hard-core NASCAR
fan, but I do believe you should give due
credit to the other two racing teams.
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Your own stats on driver standings
show that Greg Biffle, who is the National
Guard car driver, is holding second place
over some of the most popular drivers of
the sport. (Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart,
Dale Earnhart Jr.)
I’m a member of the Army National
Guard. Most of my time in the military
was on active duty in Mannheim, Germany, and I do try to keep track of both
Army- and Guard-sponsored drivers. I
just think that you could have mentioned
the National Guard in a little more depth
to show your readers in the Guard that you
are covering all the angles.
Staff Sgt. Richard C. Cancino
Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo
Make badge mean something
While the recent trend in the Army
seems to be “give everyone everything,” I
would like to ask those in charge of awarding the Combat Action Badge to make it
worth something.
Going outside the wire one time and seeing a little tracer fire should not entitle you
to any sort of badge or award. It disgusts
me to hear people talk about how they deserve one of these badges after a short trip
outside the wire. I agree with the sergeant
who said it should require a set number of
missions to earn it, except for extreme circumstances.
Now I hear people who want to go out
just so they can earn the badge. I have
seen many people awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Combat Medic
Badge who did not deserve it. Commanders, you have the chance to ensure that
this badge does not become simply another combat patch.
Use the criteria “performing satisfactorily in accordance with the prescribed rules
of engagement” wisely. Sitting in a Humvee is not “performing.” Do not allow this
to become just another Iraq or Afghanistan souvenir.
Staff Sgt. Daniel Truex
Camp Liberty, Iraq
No targets on our backs
The United States military is the largest
all-volunteer force in the world, and the
majority of that group voted for President
Bush (“A repeat of Vietnam,” letter, May
22).
We who serve in the military, diplomatic corps, or as government contractors
have a unique perspective of what is a
threat, probably because we are in the
ships, embassies and bases when they are
attacked or blown up. Perhaps that’s why
we support stopping tyrants who support
those attacks against us, as opposed to the
letter writer’s view that we should just
paint targets on our backs and take it.
As to “enduring bases” and a “secure
diplomatic compound,” it would seem to
be the right course of action to maintain
the stability of a region, while protecting
your most important resources — your
people.
Of course the letter writer, a retired
major, brings up tax dollars. Does a retired major living in Germany pay taxes?
Well, how about a national identification
card, I have carried one for 21 years. I
would think that a retiree would certainly
have his so he can use those base facilities
our tax dollars support. I for one support
our country, the president and, most of all,
the men and women who serve it.
The biggest hindrance to the country is
the myopic view expressed by the liberal
press that consistently refuses to show the
good, probably because it doesn’t sell as
well as the bad.
Air Force Master Sgt. Daniel Lissolo
Madrid, Spain
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OPINION
What newspapers
are saying at home
The following editorial excerpts are selected from a cross section of newspapers
throughout the United States. The editorials are provided by The Associated Press
and other stateside syndicates.
Panel right to press Congress
The Dallas Morning News
They’re not backing down.
That’s the best way to sum up Monday’s
first unofficial meeting of the members of
the panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks.
And they are wise to keep pushing Washington. The Sept. 11 commission may have published its recommendations last summer,
but Americans still face homeland security
risks. Here are two problems:
■ Congress still hasn’t reorganized itself
sufficiently. The House recently tried to
eliminate confusion about who’s keeping
America safe by creating a Homeland Security Committee. But the committee doesn’t
have the House’s entire homeland security
portfolio. For example, it must compete with
the House’s transportation committee to ensure airport screeners are doing their work.
The Senate’s worse. Its Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
oversees only 30 percent of all homeland security spending and 8 percent of all homeland security personnel. … House Speaker
Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist should get on this by consolidating
power in these committees by year’s end.
■ Nukes still could get in the wrong
hands. Russian leaders, for example, are
quibbling with the United States over who
would be liable if an old Russian nuke went
off while Russian and U.S. scientists were decommissioning it. The White House should
push hard on this one so both sides can get to
the real task of neutering nukes.
None of us has forgotten the images of
Sept. 11, 2001. But some of us have lost a
sense of urgency about keeping the country
safe. More power to the Sept. 11 panel members for keeping Americans focused on our
present dangers.
‘Curious crew’ motivated Felt
Chicago Tribune
High drama and high mystery. The revelation of W. Mark Felt as “Deep Throat” tantalizes because it creates so many new mysteries.
Why did Felt, the No. 2 man at the FBI at
the time, become a prime source for Washington Post reporters? The Vanity Fair article in which Felt breaks his cover to author
John D. O’Connor reveals that Felt harbored
“increasing contempt for this curious crew
at the White House, whom he saw as intent
on utilizing the Justice Department for their
political ends.”
It may have been personal, too. After [FBI
Director J. Edgar] Hoover died, Felt was
passed over for the top job when L. Patrick
Gray became the bureau’s interim successor. A patriot out to save the country? A guy
with a grudge? That’s another mystery, the
motivation of the leaker. …
Watergate wasn’t just about a mishandled
break-in of Democratic Party headquarters.
It was what followed the break-in that
caused Nixon’s fall, the cover-up, the abuse
of power, the White House’s attempted misuse of government agencies, including the
FBI. …
Watergate was a scandal unlike any other
in American history, leading to the only resignation by an American president. … Yet
Watergate can still surprise, can still turn up
an old FBI man who fought encroachments,
protected his turf and helped save the country from further grief.
Look at charges, not source
Journal Star, Peoria, Ill.
Last month Newsweek magazine retracted a small story reporting that interrogators
at Guantanamo Bay had flushed the Quran
down the toilet. The magazine said its
source wasn’t sure. Unfortunately, the next
two weeks produced better sources for stories of more hideous abuse. The allegation
from Amnesty International that the Cuba
prison camp is “the gulag of our time” has
gotten the most notoriety, understandably.
… By the Stalinist standards identified with
the term, Guantanamo is no “gulag,” and
President Bush said so earlier this month. …
Americans who were aghast at the pictures from Abu Ghraib should be equally disturbed by … two of Amnesty International’s
conclusions: The United States tried to dilute the generally accepted torture ban, and
its mistreatment of prisoners has granted a
license to other nations to do the same.
This is not the kind of light this nation
wants to shine, nor is it likely to get
would-be attackers and their allies to buy
President Bush’s argument that we are the
country that “promotes freedom around the
world.” …
A president who sees the world in terms
of right and wrong should not have been so
ready to dismiss Amnesty’s findings because the accounts came from “people who
hate America.”
Jets playing Games with N.J.
Win secure, Gregoire can lead
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire now
has a full four-year term to finish serving as
governor. For Republicans, the 2004 election is over.
For Washington voters, Monday’s court
ruling means a chance to see whether Gregoire can sustain the remarkably strong leadership she displayed during the first legislative session. …
Voters also have an opportunity to demand changes in slipshod election procedures brought to light by the examination of
Gregoire’s narrow victory over Republican
Dino Rossi. Chelan County Superior Court
Judge John Bridges said the “voters of this
state are in a position to demand” improvements. …
For Washington, the facts on the ground
have been clearly established. Gregoire is
governor, by right of a 133-vote victory. …
Washington’s progress on education, economic development and every other issue
will depend a great deal on how well she
leads from now until 2008. She has 3½ years
to make a better state.
Working parents need daycare
The Record of Bergen County, N.J.
The Republican, Springfield, Mass.
At what point will reality sink in for the
New York Jets? New York City’s bid for the
2012 Summer Olympics grows shakier by
the day, and so does the $2 billion stadium
boondoggle planned for Manhattan’s West
Side. Sooner rather than later, the team
must realize that its future lies in the Meadowlands, in a new stadium that it could
share with the Giants.
As a practical matter, it makes no sense
for the Jets to seek a new home on the West
Side or anywhere else across the Hudson
[River]. The Giants already have the
go-ahead to build a terrific $750 million stadium in the Meadowlands Sports Complex.
The Jets would be wise to get involved now,
while the team can still have input in the design. …
Oddsmakers in London now list Paris as
the 1-4 favorite to get the Games. In contrast, New York City is a 33-1 long shot.
In other words, it’s time for the Jets to
punt — and stay in the Meadowlands. And if
New York City hopes to win the Olympic bid
sometime after 2012, a brand-new stadium
nearby in the Meadowlands might come in
handy.
The landmark 1996 welfare reform act requiring almost all parents to work — including those with preschool-age and younger
children — is due to expire at the end of the
month, and legislation now before Congress
calls for even stiffer work requirements.
The Bush administration’s rationale for
the tougher rules was bluntly expressed by a
White House spokesman. “Part-time work
doesn’t get you out of poverty,” he said.
“Let’s not have a system that throws a party
when people get part-time jobs.”
Requiring parents to work full-time
hours, however, means that they’ll have to
pay more for child care. And that’s if they
can find it.
Under the current system, child-care subsidies — and the nation’s supply of care providers — have not kept pace with the needs
of hundreds of thousands of workers on welfare and other low-income workers who are
not welfare-dependent.
Both groups of workers compete for the
subsidies under the same federal grant. The
amount of that grant has become the focus
of the debate as the June 30 reauthorization
deadline approaches. …
Without increased subsidies, poverty will
continue to be a way of life for far too many
Americans, and their children’s futures will
be bleak. The societal price will be high.
Surely, that’s nothing to party about.
Medical pot still has backers
The Philadelphia Daily News
Time to drop the doobie. Marijuana is bad
for you, even if it’s the only drug that makes
the cancer that’s killing you manageable.
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
that states can’t make marijuana legal for
medicinal purposes — trashing the laws of
10 states that did just that. …
The ruling was hailed by the White
House: Drug czar John Walters said, “Today’s decision marks the end of medical marijuana as a political issue.”
He may be wrong about that. … While
we’re not ready to completely decriminalize
marijuana, it’s way past time for a more humane and rational approach. It’s hard to
think of grass as a major battle in the war on
drugs, especially when you consider the
harm and addictive properties of other legal
drugs, like OxyContin.
Ten states — and their voters — saw the
wisdom of treating marijuana differently
from other controlled substances.
We suspect the rest of the nation would
feel the same way — if Congress would
allow itself to consider the issue.
Ills on both sides of border
Los Angeles Times
Just as surely as the sky is blue, law enforcement in Mexico is corrupt. That assumption may too often be true, but it is incomplete. A federal sting that exposed surprising openness to bribery among U.S. soldiers and law enforcement officers on the
U.S.-Mexico border ought to turn on a light
bulb.
Recent stories … showed that Army National Guard Humvees were used to deliver
hundreds of pounds of cocaine to an Arizona
hotel. …
Higher-level officials are apparently not
immune. A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted a former immigration service intelligence chief in San Diego on charges of covering up a drug and immigrant smuggling
ring. Even Forest Service rangers have been
caught smuggling marijuana in Arizona. …
The Arizona bribery sting is commendable, even if it shatters a few U.S. illusions. It
also ought to raise some radical questions
about the enforcement and results of our border policies.
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Following Reagan’s path
New biography on Gov. Schwarzenegger points
to similarities between actors who went political
BY BETH FOUHY
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ronald Reagan
SAN FRANCISCO — A new biography
of
Gov.
Arnold
Schwarzenegger compares the
actor-turned-politician favorably
to California’s Republican icon,
former President Ronald Reagan.
However, author Laurence
Leamer also paints a cautionary
tale in “Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
He suggests the gifts the Repub-
lican governor shares with Reagan — unstinting optimism combined with a righteous populist
anger — may not be sufficient to
push through a business-backed
government reform agenda out of
step with the state’s heavily Democratic population.
Schwarzenegger, elected in
2003, has seen his popularity slide
as he pushes proposals to cap
state spending and make it harder
for teachers to gain tenure.
He has been feuding with
groups he calls “special interests” — teachers, nurses and
other public employee unions
who accuse him of shortchanging
education, health care and other
programs.
Leamer presents Schwarzenegger’s gamble in a positive light,
suggesting he is risking his own
image to make bold changes in
state government.
Schwarzenegger’s
personal
story has been told many times
before — that of the penniless
Austrian bodybuilder who emigrated to the United States to become a one-man business and entertainment empire before turning his focus to politics.
In the book, Leamer weaves
the story together in exhaustive
detail, offering new insight into
Schwarzenegger’s calculations behind his choice of movie roles and
his relationship with his wife,
former
television
journalist
Maria Shriver.
While Republicans have expressed deep suspicions about
Shriver’s influence over her husband’s policy decisions, Leamer
describes her as a committed
partner whose only agenda is that
he be well-served by those
around him.
Leamer, though, warns that voters’ trust in Schwarzenegger
could disintegrate as he resembles more and more the kind of
traditional politician he once decried.
Despite
Schwarzenegger’s
pledge to remove special interest
money from politics, he raised
$26.6 million in his first year
alone, almost all from business interests with a stake in legislation.
Former senator dies
LINCOLN, Neb. — Jim Exon, a
Democrat who served two terms
as governor and three terms in
the U.S. Senate for Nebraska,
died Friday. He was 83.
Exon died of natural causes at
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, his family said in a statement
released by the hospital. He had
been treated for cancer several
years ago, but declined to discuss
it publicly, saying in 2003, “It’s
not a highly malignant type of cancer and I’m not in dire straits.”
The broad-shouldered senator
once dubbed “Big Jim” started in
the party as a precinct worker
and was chairman of the state
Democratic Party when he made
his first bid for public office, winning the governor’s seat in 1970.
Exon was elected to the Senate
in 1978, serving through 1996.
From The Associated Press
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Sunday Horoscope
Previously buried emotions
bubble to the surface, and with
Mercury now exploring Cancer, it’s
safe to express them to people in
the inner circle. But anyone else —
well, you’ll think twice before showing even a glimpse of vulnerability.
While the moon is void, there’s an
inevitable lull in the action.
You may as well relax and Holiday
enjoy.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY
(June 12). The fruits of
your labor are big and
juicy this year! Work is so
much more than a means
to an end — but your bank
balance still matters. By
this time next month, you’ll
have that padding you
need to take a leap of
faith. Your graceful acceptance of what everyone has to give
makes you lucky in love. Singles hit
it off with Libra or Scorpio loves.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Cupid is an impish child who thinks
it’s funny to play “chemistry set”
with your heart. Keep in mind that
chemistry and infatuation are approximately the same thing and
neither has much to do with true
love.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Anyone can turn something simple
into a complex activity. But your
strength is taking something complicated and making it simple — and
that’s why you’ll be sought out,
rewarded and admired.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). All
behavior that is learned can be
unlearned. You’ll be trying your
best to do just that. Instead of
beating your head against the wall,
take a break and try again tomorrow when your incentive will be
greater.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
With Mercury newly visiting your
sign, you are more willing to express every feeling that flickers
across your heart — and you find
the words to do so, too! You won’t
feel very productive today, but try
to do some organizing tonight.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You
put your complete self into a task,
expecting fast results that don’t
come. Now that you know this, you
can enjoy your activities more fully.
The luckiest endeavor is to find a
place of compassion between
humans.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Emotional security is a valid need.
You want answers to your relationship quandaries — answers that
are not easily given, but it doesn’t
hurt to start the conversaIf single and looking,
Mathis tion.
the best opening line is
“hello.”
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.
23). You’ll meet someone
who represents the worst
traits of a parent — and,
of course, fall immediately
under this person’s spell.
There’s a difference between trusting your heart
and being the victim of
your own whim. Strike a
balance.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
You may not think you are flirting,
but your attitude does the flirting for
you! Therefore, be aware of loved
ones who are feeling sensitive, raw
and underconfident. Give special
care where it is needed.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). It’s the hardheaded, practical
ideas that work brilliantly — and
you’ll have dozens of these to
choose from if you surround yourself with earth signs (Taurus, Capricorn and Virgo). Affection is lavished on you tonight.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Just as proper nutrition is key
to keeping your body in condition,
frequent chatting sessions with
friends can do the same for your
mind. Bounce your latest and
greatest ideas off your pals for
instant positive feedback.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
Though you have blossomed into a
responsible adult, some people
you know never did. Don’t let them
guilt you into doing things that you
find juvenile. Singles: An admirer
sends subtle signals.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).
Being apathetic is generally not
considered positive, but when
loved ones bring their personal
drama into your realm, apathy is
the way to go. Avoid acknowledging conflict, or you will get drawn
into the madness.
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Get help with taking child,
leaving abusive husband
Dear Abby: I’ll make a long
story short. I was married to an
abusive man I’ll call Tony. We
had a child together, which I
suppose is why I stayed with him
for four years.
Anyway, we separated, and
now I’m in love with his
Dear
brother, “Joe.”
I thought I was so in
love with Joe that I let
my heart take control.
The problem is, he’s
abusive to me, too. He
tried to choke me to
death. I want to leave
him, but I’m scared
because he told me that
my husband and his
family are trying to take
my daughter away from
me — and he says if I
leave him he’ll make sure they
get her.
I’m scared to go to the police
because I’m sure I’m going to
lose my daughter, and I love her
dearly. I can’t stand the thought
of losing her. I have spoken to
Tony about this. He says he
would never take my daughter
away from me. But I have heard
so many things I don’t know what
to do. I no longer want to be with
Joe. I just want to be alone with
no headaches. Please help me.
— Afraid and Confused
in New York
Dear Afraid: One way abusers
control their victims is through
fear, and that’s what Joe is trying
to do with you when he threatens
you with losing your child. Because this man can be violent,
it’s even more important that you
get your daughter away from
him. Many abusers have no
compunction about acting out on
a child if they feel proAbby voked.
Pick up the phone
and call 1-800-799-7233.
It’s the toll-free number
of the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
They will help you to
formulate a safe escape
plan for you and your
child. I wish you the
best of luck.
Dear Abby: Something happened on a
flight to the southwest part of the
United States recently, and I’m
still seething about it. The flight
attendant was taking drink orders. When she took the orders
for my nieces, she instructed
them to say “please” when giving
their order. My sister and I
looked at each other in stunned
silence. There were other children seated around us, and we
listened to see if she would ask
them to also say please. They
didn’t, nor did she ask them to.
Please note that my sister and
I are African-American.
My nieces are of mixed-race
parentage; the children sitting
around us were Caucasian.
When the drink orders arrived
and were being distributed, the
flight attendant told my nieces to
say “thank you.” Abby, my nieces are very polite girls. They
were always taught to say please
and thank you. Having someone
demand that they say it before
they had an opportunity to do so
on their own was humiliating not
only to them but also to my sister
and me.
What should we have done?
Should we have taken the attendant aside and asked for an
apology, ignored it, or spoken to
the airline about it? The whole
incident has left a bad taste in
our mouths.
— Embarrassed in Elgin, Ill.
Dear Embarrassed: The flight
attendant’s behavior was patronizing, presumptuous and discriminatory. If you had called her on it
during the flight, the situation
might have escalated into an
incident that was even more
embarrassing.
Do not ignore it. Write a letter
to the president of the airline and
describe what happened, including the date it occurred, the flight
number, and a description of the
person who insulted you.
Letters for this column — with your
name and phone number — should be
addressed to Dear Abby, P.O. Box 69440,
Los Angeles CA 90069. Readers can write
to Abby on the Internet at
http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby
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Bluntly call father out on his
viewing of Web pornography
Dear Annie: I am a
15-year-old girl. I really like
going on our family computer
and surfing the Internet, but I
have a problem with my father.
He is constantly going on pornographic websites.
I know because I have to
clean out the “cookie”
Annie’s
files that tell where
people have been, and I
know for a fact that my
mother and sister
would not go to pages
like that.
The sites don’t have
underage girls on them,
or anything illegal like
that, but it still bothers
me because we are
constantly getting viruses and spyware on our
computer.
I’ve been dropping hints to
Dad that I know what he is
doing, but he doesn’t seem to
get it.
This really disgusts and embarrasses me, and I do not understand why he needs to look
at things like that so often. What
should I do?
— Embarrassed in Manitoba
Dear Embarrassed: It’s time to
be more direct with Dad regarding the porn sites.
Show him exactly how you
know where he’s been so he can
clean up his own act and not
expect you to do it for him. He
also could use some updated
virus protection.
If things don’t change, tell
Mom.
Annie: My
Mailbox Dear
older sister, “Ernestine,” has all the old
family photo albums,
as well as boxes of old
family home movies.
Over the years, I’ve
made many requests
for her to lend me the
photos and films so I
can make copies, but
she has totally ignored
me.
I know these things are collecting dust in Ernestine’s attic
and that she doesn’t look at
them. The photos and films
clearly mean very little to her,
but they are precious to me, and
my frustration is turning into
anger and resentment.
Ernestine and I are not particularly close. She says she’ll
make the films and pictures
available to me “one of these
days,” but she’s been saying this
for the last 20 years. She insists
she doesn’t have the time to
search for them. She offered to
give them to our brother (whom
she likes more than me) so he
can make copies for everyone,
but he said he is not interested.
These films and photos contain the only images of me with
my late parents, and it hurts
deeply that my sister is preventing me from seeing them. I
would pay for the duplication
and will return the originals to
her.
How can I best articulate to
Ernestine how much these
images mean to me?
— Pictureless in Boston
Dear Pictureless: Either Ernestine is terribly lazy or she doesn’t
want to accommodate you. You
can ask her directly, “Why won’t
you give me the photographs?”
although she may not give you a
satisfactory answer.
Can you offer to go through the
attic and look for the pictures
yourself? Otherwise, since she is
willing to give them to your brother, ask him to intercede on your
behalf. If he will simply accept
the pictures from Ernestine, you
can then make copies.
Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy
Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime
editors of the Ann Landers column.
Please e-mail your questions to [email protected], or write to:
Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate,
5777 W. Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los
Angeles, CA 90045.
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Fin fine
DIEGO — A federal
CA SAN
judge ordered a Hong
Kong company to pay for 29 metric tons of shark fins found
aboard one of the company’s contract vessels in open seas off Guatemala.
Tai Loong Hong Marine Products, which signed the order Monday, said in court papers it plans
to appeal the agreement, which required it to pay the nearly
$620,000. A federal law passed
five years ago makes it illegal for
vessels to hunt sharks for their
fins in U.S. waters and for any
U.S. fishing vessel to have shark
fins on board without the rest of
the carcass.
Black history class
PHILADELPHIA — City
high school students will
be required to take a class in African and African American history, a move that education experts
believe is unique in the nation.
The requirement in the
185,000-student district, which is
about two-thirds black, begins in
September, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
The yearlong course covers subjects including classical African
civilizations, civil rights and black
nationalism, said Gregory Thornton, the district’s chief academic
officer. The other social studies requirements are American history,
geography and world history.
PA
Doc weeded out
— A state
IN COLUMBUS
medical board has suspended the license of a former New
York City doctor accused of growing marijuana in his home.
Dr. Arnaldo F. Trabucco, a urologist, is prohibited from practicing
medicine in Indiana until the suspension is resolved, according to
the emergency order by the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana.
Trabucco and his wife, Pamela,
face charges of possession of marijuana, filed after Bartholomew
County sheriff’s deputies and U.S.
postal inspectors found marijuana plants growing in the couple’s
Columbus house.
AMERICAN
ROUNDUP
ment of Agriculture is still probing accusations of animal abuse.
A nine-page report released by
three outside zoological professionals found flaws in the zoo’s hierarchy, staffing and planning —
but no evidence of “serious deficiencies.” A separate investigation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is under way.
Kris Nelson, a veterinarian
who serves on the zoo’s Animal
Health Committee, last month
publicly disclosed a list of more
than 30 incidents in which she
said animals suffered or died unnecessarily.
‘Get your ice-cold pot!’
MEMPHIS — An ice
cream man is getting a
chilly reception from police.
Marshall Gene Beasley, 27, was
arrested on charges of selling
marijuana along with his other
frosty fare.
“This is a guy going down neighborhood streets who’s around and
near children,” said David McGriff, drug task force director.
“I’m not saying he sold to children, but we bought marijuana
from him while he was operating
the ice cream truck.”
The company Beasley worked
for will get back the truck and its
stock because there’s no evidence
the business knew of his alleged
activities.
TN
Family has right stroke
CHENANGO FORKS —
Cousins Joanie Villecco
and Ruthie MacDonald are quite
a pair — a pair of aces, to be exact.
NY
Fungi no fun for maples
— A fungus
ME LEWISTON
that thrives in wet conditions is infecting maple trees from
Wells to Bangor, leaving blotched
or blackened leaves that make it
seem as if the trees are dead.
But appearances may be deceiving, according to Lewiston
city arborist Steve Murch. He
said that unless the tree is sick to
begin with, new, healthy leaves
should return in about a month.
“My biggest fear is that people
are just going to cut down a healthy
tree,” he said. “Don’t do it.”
The culprit is maple anthracnose, a fungus that thrives in wet
conditions, said Clark Granger,
plant pathologist for the Maine
Forest Service. The fungal spores
infect trees as they bud, and the
fungus eventually eats away at
the leaves.
Zoo investigated
— Independent
AZ PHOENIX
experts cleared the Phoenix Zoo of allegations of
wide-ranging problems with its
animal care, but the U.S. Depart-
The women got back-to-back
holes-in-one on the third hole at
the Valley State Park Golf Course
near Binghamton.
Villecco carded the first ace.
But she says her 15 minutes of
fame was more like “five seconds
of glory.” MacDonald teed-up
next and sunk a hole-in-one, too.
“We just couldn’t believe it,”
MacDonald said. “We started
screaming. They could hear us all
over the course. To have it happen
twice like that is just a miracle.”
Just about. According to Golf
Digest, the odds are 17 million-to-1 for two players in the
same foursome to hit a
hole-in-one on the same hole.
Prostitution patrol
CLEMENS —
MI MOUNT
Some community activists
are walking the streets to fight
streetwalkers.
North Gratiot Neighborhood
Watch members spent two days
last month posing as prostitutes
and vagrants in an area known
for its street crime.
When potential customers pull
over, the activists hand out fliers
that read: “If you’re soliciting sex
and/or drugs in this neighborhood, you are being videotaped.”
The flier adds, stay tuned for the
11 o’clock news.
Watch group organizer Deborah Roberts said the homeowners
are using the new technique because they are tired of motorists
driving around the block asking
law-abiding men and women for
crack cocaine or sex for money.
Fernando Diaz adjusts his
sunglasses while posing as the
Statue of Liberty in Battery Park in New York.
Gentleman Liberty
Whale gets tangled
— A young
AK ANCHORAGE
humpback whale calf was
spotted in Southeast Alaska with
commercial fishing gear entangled in its mouth, a federal fisheries biologist said.
The calf and its mother were
first spotted by a recreational sailor at the mouth of Gastineau
Channel just south of Juneau.
A piece of gill net is entangled
in the whale’s upper jaw.
“The calf appears to be healthy
and active, swimming and breathing freely alongside its feeding
mother,” said Aleria Jensen, a
fisheries biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “At this point, it is
not a life-threatening situation for
the calf.”
Jensen said the Coast Guard and
NOAA enforcement officers have
twice gone out to check on the
20-foot-long calf, which probably
was born in Hawaii last winter.
Graduates from Harvard Law School Jacob
Hodges, center, and Lynn Poss, right,
hold up gavels with others celebrating during commencement ceremonies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.
School’s out!
Snake bite death
Panda popsicle
Giant panda Tian Tian cools off
with an icy treat in the heat at the
National Zoo in Washington. The
7-year-old male panda dined on a
snack consisting of sweet
potatoes, apples, and pears frozen in diluted apple juice.
ROCK — A mediAR LITTLE
cal examiner has confirmed that a man from Scotland
found dead in a car last year died of
a bite he suffered from one of four
snakes he had recently bought.
The body of Garrick Wales, 49,
of Kilmacolm, Scotland, was
found in the sports utility vehicle
on May 13, 2004.
A medical examiner’s autopsy
report released recently said the
cause of Wales’ death was a
snakebite. The report said it was
not possible to tell which of the
four snakes — a forest cobra, a
green mamba, a black mamba
and a twig snake — bit Wales, because of the nature of snake
venom and the way it breaks
down in the body.
Newlyweds Kathryn and Stephen
O’Hara dance after being married
during “Once Upon 100 Weddings” in Las Vegas. One hundred couples
were married simultaneously during the event.
Vegas weddings
Stranger saves girl
GROVE — A
CA ELK
12-year-old girl suffered
only a minor injury in an attack in
a city park after an unidentified
passerby fought off her assailant.
The girl was walking through
Simpson Park when she was confronted by a boy, described as
being about 16 years old, police
said.
The teenager threw her to the
ground, pinned her arms over her
head, stuffed a rag in her mouth
and began to remove her clothing,
according to the police report. He
then pulled a knife and ran it over
her torso, the report states.
The passerby then tackled the
assailant and the two fought before the attacker fled.
The girl, who suffered a minor
knife injury to lower abdomen,
did not know her attacker or the
person who came to her aid, police said.
Vouchers vanquished
Storm warms up
An evening thunderstorm moves across south St. Louis County over
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, near St. Louis, Mo.
CITY — The
MO KANSAS
state eliminated a program that gave low-income mothers and seniors vouchers to buy
produce at farmers’ markets.
Farmers say the move has cost
them thousands of dollars.
Last summer, 37,700 Missourians bought more than $426,000
worth of produce with the coupons.
History gets a facelift
— The DelDE GREENVILLE
aware Museum of Natural
History has reopened after a
nine-month, $5 million renovation. The museum now has more
exhibit space, an educational
wing and a snack area.
Visitors said the building is
brighter and more open. More
than 1,000 patrons showed up during the reopening celebration.
A better bottom line
She was hungry
Henry Matherine, 11, keeps
cool by dumping a bucket of
water on his head outside his Gray, La., home while playing with his
siblings, Shahana, 7, right, and Tyler, 6.
Why wait for the hose?
Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Va.,
eats her way to victory by
consuming 10 boxes of popcorn
in 12 minutes, then two more in a
playoff to see who will set a new
world popcorn-eating record, in
Los Angeles.
— The state’s
GA ATLANTA
money managers expect a
surplus of $150 million to $200
million when the fiscal year ends
June 30. The revenue picture is
far different from recent years,
when Georgia had to dip into reserves and engage in a series of
budget cuts to stay in the black.
Officials said revenue for the first
11 months was $13.2 billion, up
$966.6 million, or 7.9 percent,
from a year ago.
Money mismanagement
— State CompNY BUFFALO
troller Alan Hevesi recommended the state install a control
board in Erie County to fix a budget mess he blamed on “colossal
mismanagement.” A budget review by Hevesi’s office projects a
$118.4 million budget deficit for
the current fiscal year, despite
the elimination of 1,500 jobs and
severe cuts in programs and services earlier this year.
Admissions drop-off
Seal checks out the scene
A seal pokes its head up from the ice at the Leconte Glacier
just outside Petersburg, Alaska.
ARBOR — The numMI ANN
ber of black and Hispanic
freshmen admitted to the University of Michigan for the fall term
increased from a year ago, when
minority admissions plummeted
after the U.S. Supreme Court
quashed the school’s undergraduate admissions policy. The total of
6,597 enrollment deposits re-
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ceived as of May 15 includes deposits from 473 blacks, up 20.1
percent from 394, and from 421
Hispanics, up 15.3 percent from a
year earlier.
Live mascot miffs some
— The UniverCA MERCED
sity of California-Merced
has adopted a live bobcat kitten at
the zoo to be its “Golden Bobcat”
mascot, but animal rights advocates say the cat should rightfully
be returned to the wild.
Critics say the city-run zoo and
the university want to keep the animal for publicity as the new campus prepares for its opening in late
August. They also assert that state
wildlife biologists failed to ensure
that the animal got its best chance
to be released from captivity.
The 4-month-old bobcat, covered with mites and fleas, was
found April 21 abandoned in a
closed satchel next to a trash can
at Merced’s Applesgate Zoo. The
state Department of Fish and
Game determined that for its own
safety it should not be released and
allowed the zoo to keep the kitten.
An end to memorials
CITY —
OK OKLAHOMA
State transportation officials will ask a group to remove the 3,000 white crosses it
placed along state highways to
show where people died in traffic
accidents. The group promotes
passage of a gas tax increase to
improve highways and bridges.
Life support drama ends
— A woman
MA BOSTON
whose daughter went to
court to block Massachusetts General Hospital from ending her life
support has died before the hospital could take her off a ventilator,
the daughter’s attorney said. Barbara Howe, who had Lou Gehrig’s disease and was on life support since 1997, was due to be
taken off a ventilator by June 30.
She was 80.
Empty cages for rent
HONOLULU — Two years
after strict rules were eased
for pets entering Hawaii,
the state has a lot of empty cages.
With nearly 90 percent of the pet
dogs and cats entering the state
being released directly from the
airport in five days or less, nearly
two thirds of the available kennels
at the Animal Quarantine Facility
in Halawa Valley are empty.
Now the state is looking to lease
out part of the facility.
With fewer animals to care for,
the state Department of Agriculture has had to shift employees
from the quarantine facility to
other departments or state agencies.
HI
The cop didn’t help
— A police ofNC GASTONIA
ficer responding to an
emergency call of a man struck by
a car accidentally ran over the victim with his cruiser, authorities
said.
Investigators remained uncertain whether the victim was already dead when he was struck a
second time by the police car, said
Sheriff’s Department Capt. Tony
Robinson. The North Carolina
State Highway Patrol was investigating.
Stories and photos from wire services
PAGE 22
YOUR MONEY
It’s new car smell vs. used car price
BY RON JENSEN
Testing ‘Old Betsy’
Stars and Stripes
N
ew or used?
When buying a car,
deciding between a hot
little number on the
showroom floor or something
“pre-owned” is a sensible and rational way to begin.
The answer is as clear as crankcase oil.
“There’s certainly pros and
cons to each,” said Michael Quincy, who evaluates and writes
about cars for Consumer Reports,
a longtime trusted source for information about vehicles, both
new and used.
In a telephone interview with
Stars and Stripes, Quincy said a
new car’s main advantage is its
warranty, which covers nearly everything that could break down.
“The downside of a new car is
that as soon as you drive it off the
dealer’s lot, it depreciates. The
value plummets,” he said.
The attraction of a used car,
Quincy said, is “it’s already gone
through its steepest depreciation.” Its value is not going to
drop precipitously after you buy
it.
The downside of buying a used
car, of course, is “you don’t know
its history,” he said. Has it been
in a crash? Driven hard? Poorly
maintained?
For those reasons, Larry Webster, who drives and reviews cars
for Car and Driver Magazine,
said the new-car route is the only
way to go.
In fact, he recommends buying
a new car every three years.
“During the whole time you
own that car, you don’t have to
pay to repair it,” he said, referring to the warranty. “You’re not
going to need new brakes. You’re
not going to need new tires.
You’re not going to need new
shocks.”
His route may cost more
money each year, he said, unless
you figure in the cost of repairs
for a used car. The idea of driving
a car until it simply dies, he said,
doesn’t work these days because
“a car never just dies.”
AP
A customer browses the car lot for Hummers at Mount Kisco Chevrolet
Cadillac & Hummer on Thursday in Mount Kisco, N.Y. “The downside of
a new car is that as soon as you drive it off the dealer’s lot, it depreciates. The value plummets,” says Michael Quincy, who evaluates and
writes about cars for Consumer Reports.
Instead, it is you who is going to
get gnawed to death by a string of
constant repairs, he said in a telephone interview.
When buying a car overseas, another factor to consider is the
sales tax required by most states
when you take the car home.
Sarah Wellman, wife of Sgt. Jeremy Wellman, said she was surprised she had to pay taxes on the
family’s Honda Accord — purchased at Baumholder, Germany
— when the Wellmans moved to
their new duty station at Fort
Knox, Ky.
The Auto Exchange at Ramstein, where they purchased the
car was festooned with “tax free”
signs.
“You get that mind-set of ‘tax
free’ before you even decide to
purchase,” she said. “Every single one of these places advertises
that.”
She said they eventually paid
$700 in sales tax for the
three-year-old car.
Tom Sweeney, manager of
Auto Exchange, said in an interview that an explanation of the
tax system is part of every salesman’s pitch.
“We have to be crystal clear on
it,” he said. “It’s of absolutely no
value to anybody to duck or dive
on the issue.”
In the end, the decision to buy
new or used, comes down to what
the buyer can afford, Quincy said.
“You don’t want to get upside
down on a car loan,” he said.
E-mail Ron Jensen at:
[email protected]
Buying a used car can be akin
to shooting craps at a Las Vegas
casino.
Dealers may provide some
level of comfort with a limited
warranty, but buying from a private person selling “Old Betsy”
leaves the buyer more vulnerable.
The Federal Citizen Information Center home page —
www.pueblo.gsa.gov — provides used-car buyers with
some tips.
Determine what car is right
for you by asking yourself how
the car will be used, who will
use it and what features are required to fit your needs.
After narrowing the choice to
a few makes and models, check
them out for safety features, performance and track record for
repairs.
Don’t sell the test drive short.
Put it through its paces on city
streets, open highways and
rural roads if the car will be
used away from towns.
Have a trusted mechanic give
the car a once-over, but do some
looking yourself. Lift the hood
and look for worn belts or hoses.
Check to see if the oil or any fluids are dirty.
Climb behind the wheel and
turn the key to the accessories.
Are all the lights and gauges
working? Start the car and
check out the signal lights, warning lights and all other lights.
Look at the odometer. Odometer fraud costs consumers billions of dollars annually, according to estimates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Be direct when asking the seller the history of the
car. Ask to see repair and maintenance records.
Mike Quincy, who evaluates
cars for Consumer Reports, said
used-car buyers should “look,
listen and feel.”
Check the brake and gas pedals for wear, he said, which will
give an indication of the car’s
true mileage. Look along the
car’s body for ripples that might
indicate major repairs due to a
crash. Also look for subtle changes in paint color.
Take along a refrigerator magnet and stick it on the car at several places. Any place is doesn’t
stick, he said, is where fiberglass has been used for repairs.
Smell the car, Quincy said. A
musty odor will indicate water
damage. Do this inside the car
and in the trunk.
“It’s a lot of simple things,” he
said.
The Federal Citizen Information Center says to have all your
payment questions out of the way
before the car search begins. A
“rule of thumb” is that the monthly auto loan payment should not
exceed 20 percent of your available money each month after
your usual living expenses.
— Ron Jensen
Getting started
The Federal Citizen Information Center’s Web page suggests several Web sites that can help make a used-car purchase a satisfying one:
■ Auto Trader: www.autotrader.com
■ Better Business Bureau: www.bbbonline.org
■ Carfax Inc.: www.carfax.com
■ Consumers’ Checkbook - Car Bargains:
www.carbargains.org
■ Edmunds.com Inc.: www.edmunds.com
■ Kelley Blue Book: www.kbb.com
■ National Automobile Dealers Association Guides Online:
www.nadaguides.com
600,000 join list of world’s millionaires
NEW YORK — A strong global economy
gave 600,000 people an entree last year into a
highly envied group: the world’s millionaires.
The annual World Wealth Report, released
Thursday by Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. and the
Capgemini Group consulting firm, found that
there were 8.3 million people worldwide with
$1 million or more in financial assets at the
end of 2004, up from 7.7 million a year earlier.
Their total wealth rose 8.2 percent to $30.8
trillion in 2004, giving them control of nearly a
quarter of the world’s financial assets, according to Petrina Dolby, vice president of
Capgemini’s wealth management practice.
The 8.2 percent increase was the strongest
since an identical 8.2 percent rise in 1999, she
said.
Not surprisingly, the expansion of the millionaire class was especially strong in North
America because of the solid economic
growth last year in both the United States and
Canada.
“Significantly, North America surpassed
Europe both in total high net worth individuals population and wealth for the first time
since 2001,” when North American investors
were hard-hit by the bursting of the technology stock bubble and the terror attacks on the
World Trade Center and Pentagon. The
Asia-Pacific region also showed strong
growth.
According to the latest figures, the number
of high net worth individuals included 2.7 million in North America with a total of $9.3 trillion in assets; 2.6 million in Europe with $8.9
trillion; 2.3 million in the Asia-Pacific region
with $7.2 trillion; 300,000 in Latin America, including Mexico, with $3.7 trillion; 300,000 in
the Middle East with $1 trillion; and 100,000
in Africa with $700 billion.
The study also looked at what it termed
“ultra high net worth individuals,” who have
at least $30 million in financial assets.
Their ranks increased by 6,300 individuals,
or 8.9 percent, in 2004 to 77,500 worldwide,
the study said.
Although the international economy was
growing rapidly last year, the world’s millionaires were more cautious in their investment
and asset allocation strategies, the study said.
“With returns drifting lower and market volatility increasing in 2004, high net worth individuals leveled off their commitments to equities,” it said.
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YOUR MONEY
Interest-only loans not for novices
Q: The interest-only loan has piqued my interest because I want to buy a house in an expensive area but probably will sell it or refinance in 10 years when my children are
older. I have a question that may seem silly
and naive, but I know very little about home
buying. Since I don’t build equity with this
kind of loan, who gets the increased value of
the home? If I buy for $400,000 and sell for
$450,000, does the lender get the $50,000 increase in equity?
A: No, you get to keep increases in equity
that result from home price appreciation.
Here’s how it might work. Let’s assume you
buy the home for $400,000, using a 10 percent,
or $40,000, down payment and an interest-only loan. Since your initial mortgage payments cover just interest and don’t pay down
the principal, your loan balance would remain
at $360,000 for the first several years.
If you sold the home for $450,000 during
this period, you probably would pay 6 percent
in real estate commissions, leaving you with
$423,000. After paying off your mortgage balance, you’d net $63,000 in cash — giving you a
profit of $23,000.
But the fact that you needed to ask this question, along with your status as a first-time
buyer, indicates that an interest-only loan
probably isn’t the way to go.
These mortgages are fairly complicated
and full of traps for the unwary. If your home
value drops rather than increases in the early get wary when consumers start to max out
years, you’re more likely than most borrow- their cards, and may raise her rates. And
ers to become “upside down” — owing more using more than 30 percent of any card’s limit
on your home than it’s worth — since you’re can hurt a borrower’s credit scores.
not building equity with your payments. That
You might try to ask your card issuers for
could be a major problem if you need
lower rates, and you should work
to move earlier than you think.
on paying those balances off.
Money Talk hard
Also, the rate on interest-only loans
Q: My wife and I, who are in our
is typically fixed only for a certain peearly 60s, have always prided ourriod of time, usually five, seven or 10
selves on paying as we go and never
years, but sometimes much less.
using credit. After the column in
Once the fixed-rate period ends, your
which you wrote about thin credit,
payments could rise. Your payments
however, we decided that we might
also will rise — substantially — when
build up our credit. When my wife
the interest-only portion of the mortapplied for a credit card, though,
gage ends and you start paying down
her application was rejected bethe principal.
cause of “inactive or insufficient reIf you’ve never bought a home becent credit history.” How do people
fore, you could easily underestimate
Liz Pulliam Weston like us with no debt and no recent
the costs of homeownership and find
credit history get a credit card?
yourself critically strapped for cash when
A: You may need to start by getting a seyour payments increase.
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with a total credit limit of $10,000. My interbank. Look for a card that doesn’t charge
est rates average over 20 percent. My wife steep upfront fees and that converts to a reguhas $4,000 in debt on two cards with a total lar credit card after 12 to 18 months of
credit limit of $14,000, and her rates are 6
on-time payments.
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FRIDAY’S MARKET SUMMARY
Name
Dow Jones Industrials
Dow Jones Transportation
Dow Jones Utilities
NYSE Composite
Amex Index
Nasdaq Composite
S&P 500
S&P MidCap
Russell 2000
DJ Wilshire 5000
NYSE
Net
Chg
+9.61
-7.72
+2.17
-12.02
-3.56
-13.91
-2.82
-.59
+.10
-23.95
Last
10,512.63
3,521.49
373.16
7,200.11
1,527.79
2,063.00
1,198.11
679.06
626.33
11,875.98
%
YTD 52-wk
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+.09
-2.51
+.98
-.22
-7.28 +16.42
+.58 +11.41 +37.03
-.17
-.69 +9.81
-.23 +6.52 +27.39
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-.23
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+.02
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-.20
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NASDAQ
AMEX
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
Name
NortelNet
FordM
GnMotr
Lucent
TimeWarn
Pfizer
Calpine
Elan
AMD
GenElec
Vol (00)
Last
Chg Name
473649
278453
248039
241475
185483
163935
156770
143986
135295
134226
2.58
10.33
34.51
2.86
16.66
27.68
3.18
7.13
17.57
36.63
-.23
+.31
+2.70
+.01
-.12
+.15
+.35
-.24
-.64
-.16
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Last
SPDR
358622
SemiHTr
244373
iShRs2000 s 185480
iShJapan
100273
SP Engy
95045
OilSvHT
56719
SP Fncl
52204
DJIA Diam
50064
BemaGold
41362
iSh EAFE s
39827
120.19
34.60
62.45
10.18
43.65
99.24
29.35
105.17
2.25
52.34
KEY DEFENSE STOCKS
Name
Div PE
Alliant Technosystem
Armor Holdings
Boeing
Computer Sciences
Engineered Sup Sys
General Dynamics
General Electric
Halliburton
Harris Corp.
Allied Signal
L-3 Communications
Lockheed Martin
NorthropG
Raytheon
Rockwell Intl.
Sequa Corp.
Texas Instruments
Textron Inc.
United Technologies
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...
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1.60
.88
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.24
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1.00
1.04
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1.40
1.76
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13 37.33
29 64.65
11 44.89
19 35.67
18 111.25
22 36.63
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24 31.60
21 36.40
21 75.31
22 65.15
16 56.61
40 39.53
17 49.51
25 64.21
25 27.38
24 77.28
19 104.93
-.29
-.70
+.13
-.05
-.05
+.56
-.09
+.19
+.15
-.20
Nasd100Tr
Intel
JDS Uniph
Microsoft
SunMicro
Cisco
Oracle
ApldMatl
AppleC s
SiriusS
Vol (00)
Last
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826915
738441
383445
379390
372187
340601
287831
253804
240387
211975
37.55
26.98
1.54
25.43
3.69
19.24
12.64
17.15
35.81
5.65
-.40
-.72
-.03
-.08
+.09
-.23
-.03
-.25
-1.84
-.11
KEY MUTUAL FUNDS
YTD
Chg %Chg
+.08
-.05
-.46
-.40
-.06
+1.12
-.16
+.27
+3.35
+.25
+.14
-.05
+.23
+.27
-.40
+1.96
-.65
-.16
-1.09
Chg Name
+8.6
-20.6
+24.9
-20.4
-9.7
+6.4
+.4
+14.4
+2.3
+2.8
+2.8
+17.3
+4.1
+1.8
-.1
+5.0
+11.2
+4.7
+1.5
Name
NAV
Fidelity Invest: GroInc
Fidelity Invest: GroCo
Fidelity Spartan: EqIdx
Amer Century Inv: Ultra
Putnam Funds A: GrInA p
Fidelity Invest: A Mgr
Frank/Temp Frnk A: SMCpGrA
Fidelity Invest: USBI
AIM Investments A: Const p
Fidelity Invest: Ovrsea
Fidelity Advisor T: GrOppT
Fidelity Advisor T: EqInT
Scudder Funds S: GroIncS
Putnam Funds A: GlbEqty p
AIM Investments A: ChartA p
AIM Investments A: WeingA p
Merrill Lynch I: BalCapI
Scudder Funds S: Intl FdS
Fidelity Advisor T: OvrseaT
Lord Abbett A: DevGtA p
Merrill Lynch I: USGvtMtg
Scudder Funds S: Income S
Scudder Funds S: Devel
Putnam Funds A: GlGvA p
37.72
55.61
42.53
28.46
19.35
16.04
33.41
11.10
22.36
34.79
30.41
28.28
21.73
8.41
12.75
12.97
26.72
43.89
17.42
15.34
10.28
13.00
20.32
12.77
A former British Airways PLC
executive will start a new airline
this year to fly between New York
and London.
The new airline, called Eos and
founded by David Spurlock, said
Wednesday that it will begin business-class-only trans-Atlantic service in the third quarter.
The airline will lease three 757
airplanes and configure them
with 48 seats, rather than the typical 200 seats, giving each customer 21 square feet of space. They
will fly between New York’s
Kennedy airport and London’s
Stanstead.
Eos will join a host of new,
small, boutique airlines offering
luxury service targeted at business travelers. UAL Corp.’s United Airlines flies a premium transcontinental service between New
York and San Francisco or Los
Angeles. Deutsche Lufthansa AG
offers premium service within Europe through partner Privatair.
And Eos will have direct competition if British company Fly First
raises money to start premium
service between London’s Luton
airport and Newark.
Eos’ fares will be about 20 percent to 25 percent below the premium-class fares of rival airlines, as
Spurlock plans to keep the airline
small.
From wire reports
EXCHANGE RATES
INDEXES
52-week
High
Low
10,984.46 9,708.40
3,889.97 2,959.58
374.28
270.33
7,455.08 6,215.97
1,539.14 1,186.14
2,191.60 1,750.82
1,229.11 1,060.72
683.73
548.29
656.11
515.90
12,108.93 10,268.52
New luxury airline
YTD
Chg. %Ret.
-.12
-.38
-.10
-.14
+.01
-.03
-.05
-.03
-.13
-.12
-.13
-.02
-.03
-.02
...
-.09
-.03
-.21
-.06
-.03
-.03
-.03
-.05
-.06
-1.0
-.8
-.4
-3.5
+.4
-.5
-2.2
+1.7
-2.1
-1.7
-.4
+.3
-.4
-.5
-.5
-.5
-.8
-1.9
-3.5
+1.6
+1.9
+4.3
-2.3
Military rates
Euro costs (June 13) ........................$1.2558
Dollar buys (June 13) .....................€0.7963
British pound (June 13) ......................$1.87
Japanese yen (June 13) ....................105.00
South Korean won (June 13) ...........979.00
Commercial rates
Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.377
British pound ....................................$1.8119
Canada (Dollar) .................................1.2513
Denmark (Krone) ..............................6.1029
Egypt (Pound) ....................................5.8025
Euro .......................................$1.2117/0.8253
Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................7.7778
Hungary (Forint) ................................204.58
Iceland (Krona) ..................................65.015
Israel (Shekel) ....................................4.4326
Japan (Yen) ........................................108.50
Kuwait (Dinar) ....................................0.2919
Norway (Krone) .................................6.4305
Philippines (Peso) ................................55.25
Poland (Zloty) ........................................3.30
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .........................3.7501
Singapore (Dollar) ............................1.6709
South Korea (Won) ........................1,008.90
Switzerland (Franc) ...........................1.2685
Thailand (Baht) ....................................40.63
Turkey (New Lira) ...............................1.358
(Military exchange rates are those
available to customers at military banking facilities in the country of issuance
for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
For nonlocal currency exchange rates
(i.e., purchasing British pounds in Germany), check with your local military banking facility. Commercial rates are interbank rates provided for reference when
buying currency. All figures are foreign
currencies to one dollar, except for the
British pound, which is represented in
dollars-to-pound, and the euro, which is
dollars-to-euro.)
PRECIOUS METALS
New York Merc close
Gold ...................................................$427.40
Silver ....................................................$7.276
INTEREST RATES
Prime rate ..............................................6.00
Discount rate .........................................4.00
Federal funds market rate ..................3.00
3-month bill ...........................................3.03
30-year bond .........................................4.30
Sources: The Associated Press, Bank of
America
Backing up computers
MarketWatch
NEW YORK — These days
our computers play a variety
of roles from financial manager to family photo album.
With all this important and irreplaceable
information
being stored on our hard
drives, it’s vital that it remain
safe and secure.
While just about all users
know they should backup
their computers, not many of
us do it with any regularity.
Years ago, making backups
was a real chore because floppy disks didn’t hold much
data and tape drives were so
slow. Now there are more
choices.
Writeable CDs provide an
inexpensive and relatively
permanent way to save all
your data files. Even better is
using a writeable DVD drive,
with which you can back up
several gigabytes of data.
Backing up to a hard drive
is the fastest way to save information.
Over the last several years,
hard disks have drastically
lowered their price. Using
USB (or better, USB 2.0) or
Fire-wire, you can back up
your information to a separate hard drive.
External hard drives, from
companies such as Maxtor or
Western Digital, often come
with their own backup software.
Or you can buy a second
hard drive with a program
like Norton Ghost or Partition
Magic, which can back up
your entire hard drive.
If you don’t want to lose
any of your digital valuables,
get in the habit of backing up
at least once a month.
Remember to keep a set of
backups in a different location, in case of a total disaster.
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NORWAY
Shown is today’s
weather. Temperatures are today’s
highs and tonight’s
lows. Pressure systems and fronts are
for noon today.
Reykjavik
56/49
Oslo
60/45
•
Stavanger
58/46
LATVIA
Copenhagen
59/47
Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
63/43
Moscow
79/52
•
• 61/47
•B
Frankfurt
64/43
•
Paris
73/46
Geneva
74/55
•
•
Sarajevo
61/46
•
Bucharest
75/54
SERBIA
Pristina BULGARIA
66/45
BOSNIA
77/60
TURKEY
MACEDONIA
•
•
ITALY
Izmir
76/50
•
• Sigonella
SICILY
•C
79/61
Portugal, Spain: Partly to Mostly
cloudy with isolated rainshowers and
thunderstorms on the east coast.
Highs in the mid-80s to upper 90s,
lows in the 60s to 70s.
RETE
Souda Bay
80/63
European forecast for 11 June 2005
TUNISIA
L
KEY:
Sunny
Pt. Cldy. Mostly cldy.
Cloudy
Showers
T-storms
Rain
Rain/snow
Cold frnt.
Snow
Warm frnt. Trough
AFRICA
TURKMENISTAN
Cape Town
Dakar
Freetown
Kinshasa
HI
62
86
87
85
LO
46
77
76
70
Mogadishu
Nairobi
Rabat
Tripoli
HI
84
75
75
98
LO
76
59
57
71
Incirlik
84/63
•
Baghdad
106/79
SYRIA
THE WORLD
Amsterdam
Bahrain
Beijing
Beirut
Bermuda
Caracas
Helsinki
Hong Kong
Lisbon
HI
62
102
92
80
77
92
70
89
76
LO
48
80
66
69
70
80
52
80
59
Tel Aviv
83/66
HI
Manila
92
Mexico City
86
Montreal
89
Riyadh
108
Rio de. Jan
80
Seoul
84
Sofia
70
Sydney
66
Tokyo
78
LO
77
61
69
82
67
62
50
48
66
•Cairo
•
•
•
•
TURKEY
IRAQ
• Dhahran
94/68
SAUDI ARABIA
Zahedan
86/67
Islamabad
100/73
Kandahar
94/68
•
•
MAN
Hi Lo Otlk
95 72 PCldy
84 69 Rain
85 68 Rain
85 57
Clr
85 66 PCldy
60 89
Clr
65 49 PCldy
75 65 Rain
78 69 Rain
81 65 PCldy
94 72 PCldy
87 67 Cldy
92 73 PCldy
64 47 Rain
81 72 Rain
73 54 PCldy
66 46
Clr
91 69 PCldy
85 67 PCldy
96 78 PCldy
87 71 PCldy
85 68 Rain
80 60 Rain
72 39 PCldy
86 72 PCldy
84 68 Cldy
81 68 Rain
81 71 Rain
62 45 Rain
85 67 PCldy
83 68 Rain
Cleveland
Colorado Springs
Columbia,S.C.
Columbus,Ga.
Columbus,Ohio
Concord,N.H.
Corpus Christi
Dallas-Ft Worth
Dayton
Daytona Beach
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Duluth
El Paso
Elkins
Erie
Eugene
Evansville
Fairbanks
Fargo
Flagstaff
Flint
Fort Smith
Fort Wayne
Fresno
Goodland
Grand Junction
Grand Rapids
Great Falls
Green Bay
Greensboro,N.C.
Harrisburg
84
69
85
84
84
88
90
95
82
87
68
83
85
72
91
79
83
69
80
74
76
72
85
89
85
90
78
74
85
57
84
83
86
70
48
71
72
69
67
76
74
69
73
48
66
71
55
68
64
70
46
69
52
55
41
70
72
71
60
55
49
70
43
63
68
68
Rain
Cldy
Rain
Rain
Rain
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
Rain
Rain
Rain
PCldy
Rain
PCldy
Clr
Rain
Rain
PCldy
Rain
Cldy
PCldy
Clr
Rain
PCldy
Rain
Clr
Rain
Cldy
PCldy
Rain
PCldy
Cldy
PCldy
SUN & MOON
INDIA
Hyderabad
99/81
•
Mumbai
90/84
•
Sunrise (Baghdad)
Sunrise (Frankfurt)
Sunset (Baghdad)
Sunset (Frankfurt)
New moon
x
First qtr.
x
Today
x
x
x
x
Full moon
x
Tomorrow
x
x
x
x
Last qtr.
x
THE UNITED STATES TODAY
TODAY’S STATESIDE OUTLOOK
Abilene,Tex.
Akron,Ohio
Albany,N.Y.
Albuquerque
Allentown,Pa.
Amarillo
Anchorage
Asheville
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Austin
Baltimore
Baton Rouge
Billings
Birmingham
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Bridgeport
Brownsville
Buffalo
Burlington,Vt.
Caribou,Maine
Casper
Charleston,S.C.
Charleston,W.Va.
Charlotte,N.C.
Chattanooga
Cheyenne
Chicago
Cincinnati
•
•
Karachi
93/83
•O
Turkey: Partly cloudy with isolated
thunderstorms in central and
NorthEast Turkey. Highs in the upper
70s in Portugal and mid-80s in
Spain, lows in the mid-50s to mid60s.
For current weather watches, warnings,
and 5-day forecasts go to the USAFE
Operational Weather Squadron home
page at:
https://ows.sembach.af.mil
http://ows.public.sembach.af.mil
New Delhi
107/84
PAKISTAN
Dubai
100/84
106/82
Low High
•
•
Kabul
75/55
•
IRAN
H
MIDEAST
Ashgabat
100/71
AFGHANISTAN
•
Tehran
93/77
Kuwait City
113/81
Occluded fr. Staty. front
Mazaresharif
84/63
Southern Italy: Sunny. Highs in the
upper 70s, lows in the mid- 60s.
Norway: Mostly cloudy with isolated
rainshowers. Highs in the 60s, lows
in the lower 40s.
Athens
81/63
• • Moron
99/64
Northern Italy: Mostly cloudy with isolated rainshowers. Highs in the mid
to upper 60s, lows in the mid-50s.
Kosovo: Partly cloudy. Highs in the
mid-60s, lows in the mid 40s.
•
GREECE
SARDINIA
ALGERIA
• Instanbul
• Skopje
• 77/51
SPAIN
MOROCCO
Hungary: Mostly cloudy with isolated
rainshowers. Highs in the upper 60s,
lows in the mid-50s.
ALBANIA
Naples
79/62
•
•
Southern Germany: Mostly cloudy
with isolated rainshowers. Highs in
the 60s, lows in the upper-40s to
lower-50s.
•
•
Tirana
75/53
•
CORSICA
Barcelona
75/66
•
Northern Germany: Partly cloudy with
isolated rainshowers. Highs in the
60s, lows in the mid-40s.
ROMANIA
Belgrade
68/59
CROATIA
Tuzla
61/50
Rome
77/61
Budapest
69/53
HUNGARY
LOVENIA
Pisa
68/61
•
•
Vienna
67/52
•S
Nice
75/62
Madrid
84/56
•
•
Munich
68/54
Aviano
68/54
FRANCE
France: Sunny. Highs in the mid-70s,
lows in the 50s to lower 60s.
UKRAINE
MOLDOVA
SLOVAKIA
CZECH REP.
AUSTRIA
SWITZ.
•
•
Stuttgart
63/46
•
Ramstein
63/46
•
Kiev
63/51
POLAND
Prague
64/47
•
ELG..
Brussels
63/46
Lajes
72/61
•
Berlin
•
Croatia and Bosnia: Mostly Cloudy.
Highs in the lower-60s, lows in the
upper 40s.
Warsaw
61/43
NETH.
EUROPEAN FORECAST
Benelux: Mostly cloudy with isolated
rainshowers. Highs in the 60s, lows
in the mid to upper 40s.
Britain, Ireland: Mostly cloudy with
isolated rainshowers. Highs in the
upper 50s, lows in the 40s.
BELARUS
GERMANY
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London
65/45
Rota
86/62
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RUSSIA
SWEDEN
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77/53
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STARS AND STRIPES · MIDEAST EDITION ·
ESTONIA
Stockholm
64/48
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LITHUANIA
Dublin
60/45
PORTUGAL
W E A T H E R
Hartford Spgfld
Helena
Honolulu
Houston
Huntsville
Indianapolis
Jackson,Miss.
Jacksonville
Juneau
Kansas City
Key West
Knoxville
Lake Charles
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Lubbock
Macon
Madison
Medford
Memphis
Miami Beach
Midland-Odessa
Milwaukee
Mpls-St Paul
Mobile
Montgomery
Nashville
New Orleans
90
56
88
94
81
85
87
86
63
84
89
80
94
85
95
84
82
89
74
85
93
86
84
77
84
87
97
82
82
86
86
82
91
69
44
76
73
71
68
70
71
41
66
81
69
74
70
73
70
65
72
62
71
65
71
66
50
74
79
66
64
61
75
72
70
77
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PCldy
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PCldy
New York City
Newark
Norfolk,Va.
North Platte
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Paducah
Pendleton
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Pocatello
Portland,Maine
Portland,Ore.
Providence
Pueblo
Raleigh-Durham
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Roanoke
Rochester
Rockford
Sacramento
St Louis
St Thomas
Salem,Ore.
Salt Lake City
San Angelo
San Antonio
San Diego
89
90
88
76
88
82
90
82
72
87
86
98
84
61
87
67
88
78
87
72
78
90
84
90
85
89
85
88
66
67
96
94
69
71
70
70
55
70
65
73
69
47
68
67
76
67
39
63
50
66
50
69
52
48
70
68
70
66
56
71
79
47
46
73
75
62
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PCldy
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PCldy
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Clr
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PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
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PCldy
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PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
San Francisco
San Jose
San Juan,P.R.
Santa Fe
St Ste Marie
Savannah
Seattle
Shreveport
Sioux City
Sioux Falls
South Bend
Spokane
Springfield,Ill.
Springfield,Mo.
Syracuse
Tallahassee
Tampa-St Ptrsbg
Toledo
Topeka
Tucson
Tulsa
Tupelo
Waco
Washington,D.C.
W.Palm Beach
Wichita
Wichita Falls
Wilkes-Barre
Wilmington,Del.
Yakima
70
79
90
80
80
87
65
93
82
79
86
64
87
85
89
87
90
85
85
95
87
82
95
86
87
84
94
89
85
72
55
55
77
46
59
72
51
73
62
57
70
45
68
68
68
73
75
68
66
67
71
69
73
68
79
65
71
67
67
47
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PCldy
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PCldy
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Rain
Rain
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As of noon, Eastern U.S. time
FRONTS:
COLD
Via Associated Press
WARM
STATIONARY
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SCOREBOARD
AFN TV & Radio
Sunday
AFN-Sports, 9 a.m.-Baseball: Seattle at
Washington (dld).
AFN-Atlantic, 1 p.m.-Soccer: MLS, Colorado at Columbus (dld).
AFN-Sports, 1:30 p.m.-Horse racing: 137th
Belmont Stakes (dld).
AFN-Pacific, 6 p.m.-Auto racing: IndyCar
Season, Danica Patrick’s Race to Indy (dld).
AFN-Radio, 6:30 p.m.-Auto racing: Nextel
Cup Pocono 500.
AFN-Atlantic, 7 p.m.-Auto racing: Nextel
Cup Pocono 500.
AFN-Sports, 7 p.m.-Auto racing: IndyCar
Bombadier Learjet 500 (dld).
AFN-Pacific, 8 p.m.-Baseball: N.Y. Yankees
at St. Louis.
AFN-Sports, 9 p.m.-Arena football: Arena
Bowl XIX, Georgia vs. Colorado.
AFN-Radio, 11 p.m.-Baseball: Cleveland at
San Francisco (jip).
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L Pct
6 1 .857
5 3 .625
4 3 .571
3 3 .500
3 4 .429
2 6 .250
2 6 .250
Friday’s games
Washington 64, Seattle 52
Detroit 69, Charlotte 55
Indiana 62, New York 59
Connecticut 77, Houston 57
Sacramento 73, Phoenix 61
Saturday’s games
Washington at Minnesota
Connecticut at San Antonio
Sacramento at Los Angeles
Sunday’s games
Detroit at New York
Seattle at Charlotte
Sacramento
Seattle
Houston
Minnesota
Los Angeles
Phoenix
San Antonio
GB
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1½
2
2½
3
4½
4½
NCAA Div. I Super Regionals
AFN-Atlantic, midnight-Miscellaneous: Beyond the Glory, Mike Tyson, Part II.
AFN-Sports, 1 a.m.-Outdoors: FLW Outdoors, Wheeler Lake, Ala.
AFN-Atlantic, Pacific, Sports and Radio,
2:30 a.m.-Basketball: NBA Finals, Game 2, Detroit at San Antonio.
AFN-Sports, 9 a.m.-Golf: Booz Allen Classic, final round (dld).
AFN-Sports, 2:30 p.m.-Baseball: Boston at
Chicago Cubs (dld).
AFN-Sports, 7 p.m.-Basketball: NBA Finals,
Game 2, Detroit at San Antonio (dld).
(Best-of-three)
Friday, June 10
Nebraska 3, Miami 1, Nebraska leads series 1-0
Tennessee 3, Georgia Tech 2, Tennessee
leads 1-0
Florida 8, Florida State 1, Florida leads 1-0
Cal State Fullerton 3, Arizona State 2, Cal
State Fullerton leads 1-0
Saturday, June 11
Miami (41-18-1) at Nebraska (55-13)
Clemson (42-21) at Baylor (42-21)
Rice (44-17) at Tulane (53-9)
Tennessee (45-19) at Georgia Tech (45-18)
Florida State (53-19) at Florida (44-20)
Arizona State (37-23) at Cal State Fullerton
(46-16)
Texas (49-15) at Mississippi (47-18)
Southern California (40-20) at Oregon
State (44-9)
Sunday, June 12
Rice at Tulane
Miami at Nebraska, if necessary
Clemson at Baylor
Texas at Mississippi
Tennessee at Georgia Tech, if necessary
Arizona State at Cal State Fullerton, if necessary
Florida State at Florida, if necessary
Southern California at Oregon State
Monday, June 13
Southern California at Oregon State, if necessary
Clemson at Baylor, if necessary
Rice at Tulane, if necessary
Texas at Mississippi, if necessary
Pro football
NFL Europe
W L T Pct
x-Berlin
7 3 0 .700
x-Amsterdam
6 4 0 .600
Cologne
6 4 0 .600
Hamburg
5 5 0 .500
Frankfurt
3 7 0 .300
Rhein
3 7 0 .300
x-clinched World Bowl spot
World Bowl XIII
At Duesseldorf, Germany
Saturday, June 11
Amersterdam 27, Berlin 21
PF
241
265
188
213
163
203
PA
191
207
212
196
246
224
Auto racing
Soccer
Chex 400K
Major League Soccer
Eastern Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
New England
6 0 4 22 19 8
Chicago
6 5 1 19 18 17
Kansas City
4 2 5 17 20 15
MetroStars
4 3 4 16 17 11
D.C. United
3 4 3 12 12 12
Columbus
3 6 1 10 7 17
Western Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
FC Dallas
7 1 3 24 22 10
Los Angeles
6 2 2 20 18 12
San Jose
3 3 5 14 14 14
Real Salt Lake
3 6 2 11 8 17
Colorado
2 7 2 8 11 16
CD Chivas USA
1 9 2 5 12 29
NOTE: Three points for victory, one point
for tie.
Saturday’s games
Colorado at Columbus
New England at Kansas City
Real Salt Lake at Los Angeles
Sunday’s games
D.C. United at MetroStars
FC Dallas at Chicago
San Jose at CD Chivas USA
Wednesday, June 15
Chicago at D.C. United
Los Angeles at Colorado
Saturday, June 18
Kansas City at Chicago
Columbus at MetroStars
New England at D.C. United
Los Angeles at FC Dallas
Real Salt Lake at San Jose
Colorado at CD Chivas USA
Pro basketball
NBA Finals
(Best-of-seven)
San Antonio vs. Detroit
Thursday, June 9
San Antonio 84, Detroit 69, San Antonio
leads series 1-0
Sunday, June 12
Detroit at San Antonio
Tuesday, June 14
San Antonio at Detroit
Thursday, June 16
San Antonio at Detroit
Sunday, June 19
San Antonio at Detroit, if necessary
Tuesday, June 21
Detroit at San Antonio, if necessary
Thursday, June 23
Detroit at San Antonio, if necessary
WNBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L Pct
5 1 .833
5 1 .833
5 3 .625
3 5 .375
2 4 .333
1 6 .143
Connecticut
Detroit
Indiana
Washington
New York
Charlotte
GB
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—
1
3
3
4½
Tennis
Stella Artois Championships
Saturday
At The Queen’s Club
London
Purse: $804,600 (Intl. Series)
Surface: Grass-Outdoor
Singles
Semifinals
Andy Roddick (2), United States, def.
Radek Stepanek (4), Czech Republic, 6-3, 2-6,
6-2.
Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, def. Thomas Johansson (6), Sweden, 6-4, 7-6 (7).
College baseball
Monday
All times are Central European; dld indicates delayed broadcast. All listings are subject to change. Visit www.myafn.net for
more information.
R.Craven, 1,304. 3. B.Hamilton, 1,259. 4. R.Hornaday Jr., 1,255. 5. D.Setzer, 1,234. 6. J.Spencer, 1,184. 7. M.Crafton, 1,178. 8. T.Cook,
1,153. 9. J.Benson, 1,128. 10. J.Sprague, 1,119.
NASCAR Trucks
Friday
At Texas Motor Speedway
Fort Worth, Texas
Lap length: 1.5 miles
(Start position in parentheses)
1. (7) Jack Sprague, Chevrolet, 167, $72,850.
2. (4) Johnny Benson, Toyota, 167, $46,775.
3. (13) Dennis Setzer, Chevrolet, 167,
$32,400.
4. (1) Mike Skinner, Toyota, 167, $24,500.
5. (20) Matt Crafton, Chevrolet, 167,
$16,925.
6. (14) Ron Hornaday Jr., Chevrolet, 167,
$15,325.
7. (22) Terry Cook, Ford, 167, $14,675.
8. (19) Clay Rogers, Dodge, 167, $11,925.
9. (3) David Starr, Chevrolet, 167, $14,075.
10. (23) David Reutimann, Toyota, 167,
$15,425.
11. (33) Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet, 167,
$11,625.
12. (12) Eric Norris, Chevrolet, 166, $13,690.
13. (10) Ricky Craven, Ford, 166, $13,590.
14. (26) Ted Musgrave, Dodge, 166, $13,490.
15. (16) Brandon Whitt, Toyota, 166,
$11,640.
16. (11) Steve Park, Dodge, 165, $13,290.
17. (31) Bobby Hamilton, Dodge, 165,
$14,190.
18. (9) Deborah Renshaw, Dodge, 165,
$10,840.
19. (2) Rick Crawford, Ford, 164, $12,965.
20. (29) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 164,
$13,165.
21. (15) Jimmy Spencer, Dodge, 163,
$12,865.
22. (5) Bill Lester, Toyota, 163, $12,665.
23. (6) Chad Chaffin, Toyota, 163, $11,315.
24. (32) Jimmy Kite, Chevrolet, 163, $11,215.
25. (25) Todd Kluever, Ford, 163, $11,115.
26. (18) Tracy Hines, Chevrolet, 161,
$10,015.
27. (30) Brendan Gaughan, Dodge, 160,
$9,915.
28. (8) Robert Huffman, Toyota, 160, $9,815.
29. (34) Kelly Sutton, Chevrolet, 158, $9,715.
30. (27) Todd Bodine, Toyota, 118, transmission, $9,615.
31. (35) Robert Pressley, Dodge, 107,
$9,490.
32. (21) Timothy Peters, Dodge, 102, $9,390.
33. (28) Chase Montgomery, Dodge, 93, accident, $9,300.
34. (36) Blake Mallory, Chevrolet, 81, engine failure, $9,265.
35. (17) Shige Hattori, Toyota, 71, accident,
$9,240.
36. (24) Johnny Chapman, Chevrolet, 28, oil
line, $9,214.
Race Statistics
Time of Race: 1 hour, 43 minutes, 46 seconds.
Margin of Victory: 1.286 seconds.
Winner’s Average Speed: 144.844 mph.
Caution Flags: Four for 15 laps.
Lead Changes: Nine among seven drivers.
Lap Leaders: M.Skinner 1-31; J.Sprague
32-34; M.Skinner 35-75; E.Norris 76; M.Skinner 77-120; R.Hornaday Jr. 121-135;
M.Crafton 136-141; D.Setzer 142-154; D.Reutimann 155-158; J.Sprague 159-167.
Driver Standings: 1. T.Musgrave, 1,321. 2.
DFS Classic
Saturday
At Edgbaston Priory Club
Birmingham, England
Purse: $200,000 (Tier III)
Singles
Semifinals
Jelena Jankovic (3), Serbia-Montenegro,
def. Laura Granville, United States, 6-2, 6-2.
Maria Sharapova (1), Russia, def. Tatiana
Golovin (5), France, 7-5, 6-1.
Gerry Webber Open
Saturday
At Gerry Weber Stadion
Halle, Germany
Purse: $804,600 (Intl. Series)
Singles
Semifinals
Roger Federer (1), Switzerland, def.
Tommy Haas (7), Germany, 6-4, 7-6 (9).
Marat Safin (2), Russia, def. Guillermo
Canas (4), Argentina, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
Golf
LPGA Championship
Friday
At Bulle Rock Golf Club
Havre de Grace, Md.
Purse: $1.8 million
Yardage: 6,488; Par: 72
a-amateur
Second Round
Annika Sorenstam
68-67—135
Laura Davies
67-70—137
Natalie Gulbis
67-71—138
Il Mi Chung
71-68—139
Moira Dunn
71-68—139
Marisa Baena
70-69—139
Tina Fischer
68-71—139
Laura Diaz
67-72—139
Nicole Perrot
72-68—140
a-Michelle Wie
69-71—140
Young Kim
73-68—141
Rosie Jones
72-69—141
Liselotte Neumann
70-71—141
Meena Lee
70-71—141
Paula Creamer
68-73—141
Sae-Hee Son
73-69—142
Gloria Park
71-71—142
Jeong Jang
71-71—142
Kristi Albers
70-72—142
Angela Stanford
69-73—142
Sung Ah Yim
68-74—142
Emilee Klein
74-69—143
Meg Mallon
74-69—143
Jill McGill
73-70—143
Heather Bowie
72-71—143
Karen Stupples
72-71—143
Lindsey Wright
71-72—143
Carin Koch
74-70—144
Beth Daniel
73-71—144
Brittany Lincicome
72-72—144
Beth Bader
72-72—144
Leta Lindley
72-72—144
Lorena Ochoa
72-72—144
Birdie Kim
72-72—144
Suzann Pettersen
72-72—144
Jennifer Rosales
71-73—144
Bernadette Luse
70-74—144
Mi Hyun Kim
69-75—144
Rachel Hetherington
74-71—145
Christina Kim
73-72—145
Janice Moodie
73-72—145
Stephanie Louden
73-72—145
Candie Kung
72-73—145
Pat Hurst
72-73—145
Hilary Lunke
71-74—145
Jamie Hullett
70-75—145
Juli Inkster
75-71—146
Nancy Scranton
75-71—146
Paula Marti
74-72—146
Cristie Kerr
74-72—146
Reilley Rankin
74-72—146
Joanne Morley
72-74—146
Patricia Baxter-Johnson
71-75—146
Michele Redman
75-72—147
A.J. Eathorne
74-73—147
Kim Saiki
74-73—147
Katie Allison
73-74—147
Jimin Kang
73-74—147
Hee-Won Han
73-74—147
Yu Ping Lin
71-76—147
Maria Hjorth
70-77—147
Laurel Kean
77-71—148
Kris Tschetter
76-72—148
Barb Mucha
75-73—148
Tina Barrett
73-75—148
Heather Daly-Donofrio
73-75—148
Stacy Prammanasudh
72-76—148
Nadina Taylor
71-77—148
Laurie Rinker
71-77—148
Dawn Coe-Jones
79-70—149
Shi Hyun Ahn
78-71—149
Wendy Doolan
78-71—149
Catherine Cartwright
77-72—149
Lorie Kane
75-74—149
Catriona Matthew
75-74—149
Johanna Head
75-74—149
Karrie Webb
74-75—149
Candy Hannemann
74-75—149
Katherine Hull
74-75—149
Aree Song
70-79—149
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Booz Allen Classic
Friday
At Congressional Country Club, Blue Course
Bethesda, Md.
Purse: $5 million
Second Round
Robert Allenby
68-65—133 -9
Adam Scott
68-67—135 -7
Matt Gogel
63-72—135 -7
Steve Elkington
68-67—135 -7
Lee Westwood
66-69—135 -7
Paul Goydos
67-69—136 -6
Ernie Els
69-67—136 -6
Shigeki Maruyama
69-67—136 -6
Tommy Armour III
68-68—136 -6
Jim Furyk
67-69—136 -6
Tom Kite
68-69—137 -5
Rory Sabbatini
69-68—137 -5
Ben Crane
67-70—137 -5
Tim Clark
67-70—137 -5
Steve Allan
67-70—137 -5
Joe Durant
70-67—137 -5
Luke Donald
70-67—137 -5
Alex Cejka
69-68—137 -5
Geoff Ogilvy
68-69—137 -5
Davis Love III
69-68—137 -5
Fredrik Jacobson
66-71—137 -5
Rocco Mediate
70-68—138 -4
Phil Mickelson
71-67—138 -4
Jonathan Byrd
71-67—138 -4
Kevin Stadler
65-73—138 -4
Kevin Sutherland
67-71—138 -4
Ryan Palmer
72-66—138 -4
Kirk Triplett
69-69—138 -4
Jeff Maggert
69-69—138 -4
Bill Glasson
69-70—139 -3
Bo Van Pelt
69-70—139 -3
Jerry Kelly
70-69—139 -3
Sergio Garcia
71-68—139 -3
Ted Purdy
71-68—139 -3
Stuart Appleby
70-69—139 -3
Zach Johnson
73-66—139 -3
Tom Pernice, Jr.
68-71—139 -3
Craig Barlow
71-68—139 -3
Neal Lancaster
69-70—139 -3
Tom Byrum
68-71—139 -3
Billy Mayfair
68-71—139 -3
Jason Bohn
70-69—139 -3
Brandt Jobe
70-70—140 -2
Chris DiMarco
73-67—140 -2
Brett Quigley
72-68—140 -2
Brenden Pappas
72-68—140 -2
Carl Pettersson
69-71—140 -2
Vijay Singh
71-69—140 -2
Jonathan Kaye
72-68—140 -2
Retief Goosen
70-70—140 -2
J.L. Lewis
71-69—140 -2
Daniel Chopra
71-69—140 -2
Brett Wetterich
66-74—140 -2
Michael Allen
67-74—141 -1
Olin Browne
71-70—141 -1
Len Mattiace
71-70—141 -1
Joey Sindelar
70-71—141 -1
Bob Estes
69-72—141 -1
Richard Green
72-69—141 -1
Dennis Paulson
71-70—141 -1
Ryuji Imada
70-71—141 -1
Chad Campbell
72-69—141 -1
Jeff Sluman
71-70—141 -1
Rod Pampling
70-71—141 -1
Loren Roberts
72-69—141 -1
James Driscoll
70-71—141 -1
Brad Faxon
70-71—141 -1
Fred Funk
73-68—141 -1
Mark Calcavecchia
69-72—141 -1
Joey Snyder III
69-72—141 -1
Bayer Advantage Classic
Friday
At the Nicklaus Golf Club at LionsGate
Overland Park, Kan.
Purse: $1,650,000
Yardage: 7,192; Par 72 (36-36)
First Round
R.W. Eaks
32-33—65 -7
Gil Morgan
33-32—65 -7
Jim Ahern
34-32—66 -6
Rodger Davis
32-35—67 -5
Dan Pohl
34-33—67 -5
Tom Watson
33-34—67 -5
Jim Colbert
35-32—67 -5
Lonnie Nielsen
34-33—67 -5
Gary McCord
31-36—67 -5
Dick Mast
33-34—67 -5
Mark McNulty
34-33—67 -5
Dana Quigley
33-34—67 -5
Jim Dent
32-36—68 -4
James Mason
35-33—68 -4
D.A. Weibring
35-33—68 -4
Morris Hatalsky
32-36—68 -4
John Harris
34-34—68 -4
Don Pooley
33-36—69 -3
Mike McCullough
34-35—69 -3
Andy Bean
36-33—69 -3
Jerry Pate
34-35—69 -3
Mark Hayes
34-35—69 -3
Tom Jenkins
34-35—69 -3
Jim Thorpe
33-36—69 -3
Norm Jarvis
37-32—69 -3
Mark Johnson
36-33—69 -3
Ron Streck
35-34—69 -3
Bob Charles
34-36—70 -2
Gary Player
35-35—70 -2
Bob Ford
36-34—70 -2
Mike Reid
36-34—70 -2
Wayne Levi
34-36—70 -2
Dave Barr
36-34—70 -2
Brad Bryant
35-35—70 -2
Howard Twitty
33-37—70 -2
Hugh Baiocchi
34-36—70 -2
John Bland
35-36—71 -1
Mark James
36-35—71 -1
Bob Eastwood
35-36—71 -1
Danny Edwards
35-36—71 -1
Jim Albus
36-35—71 -1
Mike San Filippo
37-34—71 -1
Keith Fergus
36-35—71 -1
Bruce Fleisher
38-33—71 -1
Don Reese
33-38—71 -1
Allen Doyle
35-36—71 -1
Jay Sigel
37-34—71 -1
Ed Dougherty
35-36—71 -1
Jose Maria Canizares
37-35—72
E
Bob Gilder
36-36—72
E
Bruce Summerhays
35-37—72
E
Larry Ziegler
37-35—72
E
Pete Oakley
38-34—72
E
Dave Eichelberger
35-37—72
E
John Ross
37-35—72
E
Jimmy Powell
36-37—73 +1
Mike Sullivan
37-36—73 +1
Jack Nicklaus
38-35—73 +1
Bobby Wadkins
Joe Inman
David Eger
Leonard Thompson
Bruce Lietzke
Ed Fiori
Dave Stockton
Mike Ferguson
Walter Zembriski
Rocky Thompson
Graham Marsh
Walter Hall
Tom McKnight
John Jacobs
Hale Irwin
Gary Koch
Gary McClure
DeWitt Weaver
36-37—73
38-35—73
37-36—73
39-34—73
36-38—74
35-39—74
38-36—74
36-38—74
38-36—74
39-36—75
37-38—75
39-36—75
38-38—76
35-41—76
37-39—76
38-40—78
40-38—78
38-43—81
+1
+1
+1
+1
+2
+2
+2
+2
+2
+3
+3
+3
+4
+4
+4
+6
+6
+9
Dutch Open
Saturday
At Hilversumsche Golf Club
Hilversum, Netherlands
Purse: $1.84 million
Third Round, Leading Scores
Gary Emerson, Britain
69-63-69—201
Paul Broadhurst, Britain
66-67-69—202
G. Fernandez-Castano, Spain 66-70-66—202
Markus Brier, Germany
67-68-69—204
Alessandro Tadini, Italy
70-64-71—205
Maarten Lafeber, Netherlands 68-67-70—205
Peter Senior, Australia
70-67-68—205
Miguel Angel Martin, Spain
69-67-70—206
Andrew Oldcorn, Britain
69-67-70—206
Steven O'Hara, Scotland
70-65-72—207
David Lynn, Britain
70-67-70—207
Gregory Bourdy, France
71-69-68—208
Robert Coles, England
71-67-70—208
Markus Fraser, Australia
68-69-71—208
Carlos Rodiles, Spain
73-68-67—208
G. van der Valk, Netherlands 66-70-72—208
Anthony Wall, England
69-71-68—208
Richard Bland, England
71-64-74—209
Pierre Fulke, Sweden
67-73-69—209
Andrew Marshall, England
72-69-68—209
Damien McGrane, Ireland
68-70-71—209
Henrik Nystrom, Sweden
66-72-71—209
Deals
Friday’s transactions
BASEBALL
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Optioned OF Napoleon Calzado to Ottawa of the IL.
LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Activated OF
Vladimir Guerrero from the 15-day DL.
Placed RHP Kelvim Escobar on the 15-day
DL.
OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Agreed to terms
with LHP Brad Davis, OF Jeff Bieker, RHP
Steven Bryant, RHP Michael Madsen, C
Shawn Callahan, SS Ben Ingold, SS Zeke Parraz, LHP Ronald Madej, RHP Jess Lacasse, 2B
Michael Klug, LHP Brad Kilby, RHP T.J. Franco, RHP Josh Kay and RHP Anthony Rea.
TAMPA BAY DEVIL RAYS—Agreed to terms
with RHP Wade Townsend on a minor
league contract.
TEXAS RANGERS—Placed RHP Nick Regilio
on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Juan
Dominguez from Frisco of the Texas League.
Purchased the contract of LHP C.J. Wilson
from Frisco. Optioned LHP Michael Tejera to
Oklahoma of the PCL.
National League
COLORADO ROCKIES—Placed LF Matt Holliday on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Jorge Piedra from Colorado Springs of the PCL.
FLORIDA MARLINS—Assigned RHP Zach
Lerch to Greensboro of the South Atlantic
League.
HOUSTON ASTROS—Recalled RHP Mike
Burns from Round Rock of the PCL. Optioned
OF Todd Self to Round Rock. Announced C
Raul Chavez cleared waivers and accepted
an outright assignment to Round Rock.
MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Agreed to terms
with 3B Matthew Gamel, OF Michael Brantley, LHP Steven Hammond, LHP Stevenson
Garrison, RHP Patrick Ryan, LHP David
Welch, RHP Dane Renkert, 1B John Alonso,
INF Kenneth Holmberg, C Brad Willcut and
SS Ryan Crew. Assigned Gamel to Helena of
the Pioneer League and Brantley to the Brewers of the Arizona League.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Traded RHP
Tomo Ohka to Milwaukee for 2B Junior Spivey. Claimed RHP Ryan Drese off waivers
from Texas and RHP Jacobo Seuqea off waivers from Baltimore. Optioned Seuqea to Harrisburg of the Eastern League. Announced
the retirement of OF Jeffrey Hammonds.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
DETROIT LIONS—Agreed to terms with DB
R.W. McQuarters on a one-year contract.
NEW YORK GIANTS—Released T Kyle Wallace.
COLLEGE
ALABAMA STATE—Announced resignation
of Joe Proctor, men’s interim basketball
coach, to become men’s assistant basketball coach at Southern University.
ARKANSAS—Named Dan Hipsher men’s assistant basketball coach.
BOSTON COLLEGE—Named Joe Shirley assistant athletics director of facilities.
CINCINNATI—Named Pam Mork rowing
coach.
CLEMSON—Named Will Wade men’s graduate assistant basketball coach and Alex
Welp coordinator of men’s basketball operations.
DUKE—Named Dan Colella swimming
coach.
GANNON—Announced the resignation of
Mike Polon, women’s basketball coach.
HANOVER—Named Shayne Stock baseball
coach.
LIPSCOMB—Named Kristin Peck softball
coach.
METHODIST—Announced the resignation
of Kelly Callahan, women’s tennis coach.
MINNESOTA—Named John Hill men’s assistant ice hockey coach.
MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY—Announced the
resignation of Erin McGinnis, women’s assistant basketball coach.
SOUTH CAROLINA—Named Tammy Holder
women’s assistant basketball coach.
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Davies keeps Sorenstam in sight Huskers
outduel
Only two strokes separate
golfers going into weekend
BY BOB LENTZ
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. —
With her game rounding into
shape, Laura Davies welcomed a
pairing with Annika Sorenstam in
the third round of the LPGA
Championship.
It would be even better to play
with her two days in a row.
“I would like to on Sunday,”
Davies said after she wound up
two shots behind Sorenstam on
Friday, an unenviable spot for
anyone these days. “You can’t
win it tomorrow, but you can certainly put yourself out of it.”
On a steamy day at Bulle Rock
Golf Club, Sorenstam left little
doubt who is the player to beat.
Sorenstam started the second
round a stroke out of the lead and
used a rousing finish that included tap-in birdies on three of the
last five holes for a 5-under 67
and a 9-under 135 total — just as
Davies had predicted.
“I’ll be more surprised if she’s
not 9, 10 under,” Davies said
about an hour before Sorenstam
made her charge.
The long-hitting Englishwoman made her own move, overpowering Bulle Rock for a 2-under 70
that put her in the final group
going into the weekend.
Equally predictable was the
way Davies tried to shorten Bulle
Rock. The highlight of her
high-powered round came on the
330-yard, par-4 16th hole, when
she drove within about 30 feet of
the pin and made the chip for
eagle.
“If ever I was going to do well,
this is the sort of course,” Davies
said. “It’s built for a long hitter.”
But the 2 was just the low number of an inconsistent round that
included the eagle, four birdies
and four bogeys.
Sorenstam, trying to become
the first woman in 65 years to win
the same major three straight seasons, had her only bogey at the
11th, a lone blemish on an otherwise solid round.
Natalie Gulbis hung with Sorenstam as long as she could, but she
missed three birdie chances inside 6 feet over the final five
holes. At the 18th, she saved par
with a 20-footer on the 18th for a
71.
She was at 6-under 138, and
likes her chances of making her
first LPGA victory a major.
“I’m definitely in a good spot,”
Gulbis said.
Marisa Baena (69), Tina Fischer (71), Laura Diaz (72) and
Moira Dunn (68) were at 5-under
139, followed by amateur
Michelle Wie.
The 15-year-old from Hawaii
was in the first group off the 10th
tee, but failed to make a move,
missing a number of birdie chances and settling for a 1-under 71,
five strokes behind Sorenstam.
Canes
LINCOLN, Neb. — Joba Chamberlain struck out 13 while outdueling first-round draft pick Cesar
Carrillo, and
Nebraska beat
Miami 3-1 Friday in the
opener
of
their NCAA
super regional.
Daniel Bruce hit a tiebreaking
home run in the fifth inning for
the
Cornhuskers
(55-13).
Third-seeded Nebraska needs
one win to wrap up the
best-of-three series and advance
to the College World Series.
College
baseball
roundup
Tennessee 3, Georgia Tech 2:
At Atlanta, Rob Fitzgerald’s
two-run homer in the ninth inning gave Tennessee the win in
the opener. Fitzgerald’s sixth
homer came on the first pitch
from reliever Matt Wieters (3-3).
Florida 8, Florida St. 1: At
Gainesville, Fla., Brian Jeroloman, Brandon McArthur and
Brian Leclerc hit consecutive
home runs in the fifth inning to
lead the Gators over their rival in
the series opener.
AP
Laura Davies of England chips onto the 15th green Friday during the
second round of the LPGA Championship at Bulle Rock in Havre de
Grace, Md. Davies finished the round two strokes off the lead.
Cal State Fullerton 3, Arizona
St. 2: At Fullerton, Calif., Cal
State Fullerton scored two runs in
the bottom of the ninth, the second on a balk during an intentional walk, to take the opener.
Aussies take over Booz Allen Nationals make move,
BETHESDA, Md. — Aussie!
Aussie! Aussie! An invasion from
Down Under has taken over the
Booz Allen Classic, where Australian Robert Allenby is on top,
with countrymen Adam Scott and
Steve Elkington right behind.
Allenby shot a 65 in Friday’s
second round to give him a
9-under-par total of 133, two
strokes ahead of first-round leader Matt Gogel, Lee Westwood, Elkington and defending champion
Scott.
The leaderboard really isn’t surprising, given that hardly a week
goes by without someone from
the growing Oz contingent making some noise at a PGA Tour
event.
“We have so many,” Elkington
said. “I haven’t gotten around to
introducing myself to all of them
yet. ... As a rule, Australian sportsmen travel really well. They’ve always done well in the Olympics
and big events for some reason.
Australians can leave their home
and compete and do well.”
Allenby’s round was the best of
the day on the unusually player-friendly Blue Course at Congressional Country Club.
Allenby’s solid iron play Friday
helped overcome his lack of feel
while putting. He didn’t make a
putt longer than 10 feet, and he
didn’t have a
three-putt. He
took advantage of an
early tee time
to birdie four
of his first six holes as Congressional played considerably easier
in the morning than in the afternoon for the second straight day.
To even consider putting
“easy” and “Congressional” in
the same sentence might have
been heresy in the past — Ernie
Els won the U.S. Open here in
1997 with a score of 4 under. But
heavy rain Monday night left the
course soft and manageable. The
earlier the better has been the
rule, with the greens more
smooth, the winds calmer and the
humidity a tad less overbearing
in the morning hours.
“I don’t think we thought it was
going to play like this,” said Phil
Mickelson, who followed an
even-par afternoon round Thursday with a 4-under morning
round Friday. “It’s playing as
easy as it can because of the softness of the greens, and guys have
been able to attack some pins.”
Eaks shakes off shank,
shares lead with Morgan
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. —
R.W. Eaks overcame a shanked
sand wedge on his third hole to
shoot a season-best 7-under 65 on
Friday for a share of the
first-round lead with Gil Morgan
in the Champions Tour’s Bayer
Advantage Classic.
Jim Ahern opened with a 66,
and hometown favorite Tom Watson, playing with Jack Nicklaus
on a course the Golden Bear designed, was in a group at 67 along
with Dana Quigley, Rodger
Davis, Don Pohl, Lonnie Nielsen,
Gary McCord, Mark McNulty
and another Kansas City native,
Jim Colbert.
Play was suspended for 1 hour,
24 minutes when rain and wind
blew through this suburb south of
Kansas City, causing several players to finish late. The same storm
system on Wednesday night uprooted trees in the area and destroyed the media tent at the Nicklaus Golf Club at LionsGate.
Eaks, starting on the back nine,
bogeyed the 592-yard par-5 12th
hole after shanking his sand
wedge.
Then he made a 17-foot birdie
putt on the par-3 14th and, one
hole later, launched a string of
four straight birdies.
D.A. Weibring, coming off a
playoff loss to Tom Jenkins last
week in the Allianz Championship in Polk City, Iowa, was at 68
along with Jim Dent, James
Mason, Morris Hatalsky and
John Harris.
Jenkins opened with a 69.
trade Ohka for Spivey
WASHINGTON — Making
clear they won’t stand pat, the NL
East-leading Washington Nationals acquired second baseman Junior Spivey from the Milwaukee
Brewers in exchange for pitcher
Tomo Ohka on Friday, and
claimed right-hander Ryan Drese
off waivers.
The trade for Spivey, a 2002 NL
All-Star who fills a hole left by
Jose Vidro’s injury, hinged on the
Nationals being able to replace
Ohka. Drese was designated for
assignment Wednesday by the
Texas Rangers.
“Our feeling is that Drese could
do what Ohka was doing, and we
can solve our infield situation,”
Nationals general manager Jim
Bowden said. “Every game’s important. This is a race where we
all see how close it is, and this
makes us a better team today. It
allows people to be in their right
positions on the team.”
Washington entered Friday on
a seven-game winning streak and
1½ games ahead of Philadelphia
in the tight NL East.
Lions pick up McQuarters
ALLEN PARK, Mich. — The
Detroit Lions have agreed to
terms on a one-year deal with
former Chicago Bears defensive back
R.W.
McQuarters.
The Bears released McQuarters on May 23. He had signed a
$21 million contract extension
with the Bears in January 2002
that ran through 2006.
The Lions had shown interest
in McQuarters and former New
England Pro Bowl cornerback Ty
Law. But Law is recovering from
a broken foot and Lions President
Matt Millen said he didn’t want to
lose McQuarters while waiting on
Law’s rehabilitation.
Pats’ Seymour still absent
FOXBORO, Mass. — Richard
Seymour missed his second
straight day of the New England
Patriots’ mandatory minicamp
Friday, but teammates didn’t
seem overly concerned.
The three-time Pro Bowl defensive end has complained about
the six-year contract he signed as
a rookie in 2001, and coach Bill
Belichick has called his absence
“unexcused.”
Seymour has two years remaining on a $14.3 million deal he
signed in 2001 after being drafted
in the first round out of Georgia.
Garland gets
10th victory
with a strong
outing vs. S.D.
Two ‘embarrassing’
Yankees, Red Sox red-faced after being routed
BY BERNIE WILSON
SAN DIEGO — Jon Garland
and Aaron Rowand pitched right
in for the Chicago White Sox.
Garland pitched seven innings
to join Dontrelle Willis as the only
10-game winners in the big
leagues, and Rowand, the center
fielder, made a key throw as well
as a nice catch as the White Sox
beat the San Diego Padres 4-2 on
Friday night.
Garland (10-2) also got his first
career RBI with a single to right
field during Chicago’s two-run
second.
“Nothing feels any different,”
Garland said. “I just want to go
out and give my team a chance.
Things have been going my way
this year and hopefully they’ll continue to go that way.”
The AL Central-leading White
Sox, who at 41-19 have the best
record in the majors, won their
fourth straight and eighth in nine
games. Dustin Hermanson, who
was with the Padres in 1995 and
1996, allowed a run on Brian
Giles’ RBI groundout in the ninth
before getting his 15th save in as
many chances.
Giles drove in both runs for the
Padres, still atop the NL West despite having lost seven of nine.
They’ve scored only 19 runs in
those nine games and have already lost more game in June (7)
than in May, when they went
22-6.
Garland allowed one run and
six hits in seven innings, struck
out four and walked one. He held
the Padres hitless until Phil
Nevin doubled into the right-field
corner with one out in the fifth.
Giles homered to right-center
on the first pitch he saw from Garland with one out in the seventh.
His ninth homer pulled the Padres to 3-1. Two clutch plays by
Rowand later in the inning kept
the Padres from scoring more.
Nevin singled to left and
Ramon Hernandez singled to center, with the ball deflecting off
Rowand’s glove enough for Nevin
to try to take third, only to be
thrown out by Rowand on a close
play.
Nevin tossed his helmet aside
and argued with umpire Marty
Foster, and manager Bruce
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AP
Jon Garland became the AL’s first
10-game winner by going seven
innings to beat San Diego 4-2 in a
clash of division leaders.
Bochy came out to argue, too, and
was ejected.
“I’m not going to get very upset
unless I’m right, and I was,”
Nevin said. “It came at a bad
time.”
Nevin said he didn’t look at a replay. “I didn’t have to. I’m going
to feel him if he tags me,” he said.
“I knew it was close,” Bochy
said. “It was a bang-bang play
and you want it to go your way.”
Rowand said the ball stayed
down on him.
“When I looked up and saw he
tried to go, I knew I had a chance
to get him,” Rowand said.
“The good thing is, Rowand
never gives up,” manager Ozzie
Guillen said. “He goes and gets
the ball when he missed it and he
throws the guy out.”
Robert Fick then doubled into
the right-field corner to move
Hernandez to third, but Rowand
made a nice diving catch of Khalil Greene’s sinking liner to end
the threat.
In the White Sox seventh, A.J.
Pierzynski homered off Woody
Williams with two outs, his ninth.
Joe Crede singled leading off the
eighth to chase Williams and
eventually scored on a wild pitch
by Rudy Seanez.
The White Sox took a 2-0 lead
against Williams (2-4) in the second, with the bottom of the order
doing the damage.
With runners on first and third
and two outs, No. 8 batter Crede
singled to center to score Jermaine Dye, who had singled with
one out. Crede had hit just .127 in
his last 23 games. Garland then
singled to right to score Uribe,
who had reached on a fielder’s
choice.
Joe Torre thought his team’s
performance was embarrassing.
Bronson Arroyo felt the same
way about his pitching.
Two of Friday’s most anticipated interleague games turned into
routs, mostly because of the New
York Yankees’ sloppiness in the
field and Arroyo’s ineffectiveness
on the Wrigley Field mound.
New York tied its season worst
with three errors, ruining Torre’s
return to St. Louis with an 8-1 loss
to the Cardinals. The night ended
with Torre holding a closed-door
meeting after the Yankees lost for
the eighth time in 10 games on a
season-high 12-game trip.
“I’m just not
very happy. It
was an ugly
game,” Torre
said. “We didn’t
play
hard
enough,
we
didn’t do anything to help ourselves win. It was an embarrassing game.”
Jason Marquis (8-3) allowed a
run and six hits in eight innings
and Albert Pujols singled, doubled and homered for St. Louis,
which opened its second straight
high-profile interleague series.
The Cardinals took two of three in
a World Series rematch with the
Red Sox, winning the first two
games by a combined 16-3.
Boston opened another series
with a bad loss Friday. The Chicago Cubs had four homers — one
by winning pitcher Greg Maddux
— among 20 hits in a 14-6 victory.
Arroyo (4-3) allowed seven
runs and 10 hits in four innings,
quickly taking away the suspense
in the first meeting between the
teams since the 1918 World Series.
“It’s a worst-case scenario.
Going out there against a guy like
Greg Maddux, to give him seven
runs early, it’s putting us in a hole
that’s almost impossible to get out
of most of the time,” Arroyo said.
“You never want to go out there
and get embarrassed, like I did
today.”
Maddux (5-3) allowed seven
hits and three runs in 62/3 innings
to earn his 310th career victory.
Rockies 2, Tigers 0: At Denver, Jamey Wright pitched six-hit
ball into the eighth inning and
Garrett Atkins hit a two-run
homer off Mike Maroth (4-7).
Baseball
roundup
AP
New York’s Jason Giambi saw nothing to smile about during Friday
night’s 8-1 loss to St. Louis, the Yankees’ 10th setback in 12 games.
Pirates 7, Devil Rays 2: At
Pittsburgh, Jason Bay and Daryle
Ward each drove in three runs as
Pittsburgh won for the eighth
time in 11 games to move within
one game of .500.
Orioles 4, Reds 3: At Cincinnati, Melvin Mora hit a three-run
homer off Aaron Harang (4-4) in
Baltimore’s first visit to Cincinnati since the 1970 World Series.
It was the first time three
500-homer players appeared in
the same game — Sammy Sosa
(580), Rafael Palmeiro (559) and
Ken Griffey Jr., who hit a solo
shot in the eighth for No. 511.
Nationals 9, Mariners 3: At
Washington, Brian Schneider hit
a go-ahead two-run single and the
Nationals took advantage of five
walks in the eighth inning to
break open a tie game for their
eighth consecutive victory.
Athletics 6, Braves 4: At Atlanta, Eric Chavez hit a tie-breaking,
two-run homer in the seventh inning and Oakland snapped an
11-game road losing streak.
Astros 4, Blue Jays 2: At Houston, Willy Taveras, Morgan Ensberg and Jason Lane homered
and Wandy Rodriguez (2-2)
pitched out of several jams over
six-plus shaky innings.
Marlins 12, Rangers 5: At
Miami, reliever Doug Brocail
(3-1) walked Luis Castillo on four
pitches to force in the go-ahead
run in the eighth and Mike Lowell
hit a grand slam one out later.
Indians 10, Giants 2: At San
Francisco, C.C. Sabathia (5-3) allowed five hits in eight innings
and also hit a two-run double off
Brett Tomko (5-8) in Cleveland’s
first trip to San Francisco.
Dodgers 6, Twins 5: At Los Angeles, Hee-Seop Choi hit his second homer of the game off Terry
Mulholland (0-2) in the ninth inning to give the Dodgers a victory
over Minnesota.
Diamondbacks 12, Royals 11
(10): At Phoenix, Troy Glaus led
off the 10th inning with a home
run against Mike MacDougal
(2-3). It came after the Arizona
bullpen blew an eight-run lead in
the last two innings. Shawn
Green drove in five runs, three
with a pair of home runs.
National League
Phillies 5, Brewers 2: At Philadelphia, David Bell’s three-run
homer with one out in the ninth inning led the Phillies to their 13th
victory in 15 games. Jim Thome
added a two-run homer.
Guerrero returns, Angels break out
NEW YORK — Vladimir Guerrero didn’t need to provide the
big hit in his return from the disabled list. His mere presence in
the Los Angeles Angels’ lineup
was enough.
Guerrero had three hits and
scored three runs, a more modest
offensive output than teammates
Steve Finley and Darin Erstad,
who each homered in the Angels’
12-2 victory over the New York
Mets on Friday night.
Bartolo Colon won his fourth
straight decision in Guerrero’s
first game since the reigning AL
MVP partially dislocated his
shoulder May 20.
“He makes everyone around
him better. There’s no question
what he does to a lineup,” Angels
manager Mike Scioscia said. “It’s
not going to relate to 12 runs all
the time.”
Colon (8-3), with four victories
in six starts since losing May 7 to
Detroit, went six innings, allowing two runs and seven hits. He
struck out three with no walks.
Ishii (1-5) was overpowering
his first two times through the An-
gels’ order, but his dominance
ended in the sixth.
He gave up a four-pitch walk to
Chone Figgins and allowed a
tying homer to Erstad.
Bloop singles by Guerrero and
Garret Anderson set the stage for
Finley’s three-run shot to
right-center.
Finley, who went 3-for-4, also
had a sacrifice fly, giving him 16
RBIs in his past 13 games.
Orlando Cabrera capped the
Angels’ outburst with a three-run
homer in the ninth.
Esteban Yan finished up the Angels’ ninth win in 14 games.
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Major League Baseball scoreboard
American League
East Division
W L Pct GB
36 24 .600 —
32 28 .533
4
31 30 .508
5½
29 31 .483
7
20 41 .328 16½
Central Division
Chicago
41 19 .683 —
Minnesota
35 24 .593
5½
Cleveland
29 30 .492 11½
Detroit
27 31 .466 13
Kansas City
19 41 .317 22
West Division
Los Angeles
35 25 .583 —
Texas
32 27 .542
2½
Seattle
26 33 .441
8½
Oakland
24 36 .400 11
Friday’s interleague games
Chicago Cubs 14, Boston 6
Colorado 2, Detroit 0
Washington 9, Seattle 3
Pittsburgh 7, Tampa Bay 2
L.A. Angels 12, N.Y. Mets 2
Baltimore 4, Cincinnati 3
Florida 12, Texas 5
Oakland 6, Atlanta 4
Houston 4, Toronto 2
St. Louis 8, N.Y. Yankees 1
Chicago White Sox 4, San Diego 2
Cleveland 10, San Francisco 2
Arizona 12, Kansas City 11, 10 innings
L.A. Dodgers 6, Minnesota 5
Saturday’s interleague games
Oakland at Atlanta
Boston at Chicago Cubs
N.Y. Yankees at St. Louis
Texas at Florida
Toronto at Houston
Seattle at Washington
Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh
L.A. Angels at N.Y. Mets
Baltimore at Cincinnati
Detroit at Colorado
Kansas City at Arizona
Chicago White Sox at San Diego
Minnesota at L.A. Dodgers
Cleveland at San Francisco
Sunday’s interleague games
Oakland (Zito 2-7) at Atlanta (Ramirez 4-4)
Texas (Ric.Rodriguez 0-0) at Florida (Moehler 2-3)
Seattle (R.Franklin 2-7) at Washington
(Armas 2-3)
L.A. Angels (Lackey 5-2) at N.Y. Mets
(P.Martinez 7-1)
Baltimore (Ponson 6-3) at Cincinnati
(Ra.Ortiz 1-4)
Tampa Bay (Hendrickson 2-3) at Pittsburgh (Fogg 4-3)
Toronto (Towers 5-4) at Houston (Oswalt
6-7)
N.Y. Yankees (Pavano 4-5) at St. Louis
(Morris 7-0)
Detroit (Robertson 2-3) at Colorado
(Kennedy 3-6)
Cleveland (Lee 6-3) at San Francisco (Rueter 2-4)
Chicago White Sox (Garcia 6-3) at San
Diego (Lawrence 3-6)
Minnesota (Radke 5-4) at L.A. Dodgers
(Houlton 1-0)
Kansas City (Carrasco 2-1) at Arizona
(Webb 7-2)
Boston (Wakefield 4-6) at Chicago Cubs
(Rusch 5-1)
Monday’s interleague games
Cincinnati at Boston
Houston at Baltimore
St. Louis at Toronto
Milwaukee at Tampa Bay
Arizona at Chicago White Sox
Atlanta at Texas
Washington at Los Angeles Angels
Baltimore
Boston
Toronto
New York
Tampa Bay
Friday
Cubs 14, Red Sox 6
BOSTON
CHICAGO
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Damon cf
3 0 1 1 NPerez ss
5 1 2 0
Olerud ph
0 1 0 0 CPttson cf
5 0 2 0
Rnteria ss
4 0 1 1 DeLee 1b
4 2 2 1
RVazqz ss
1 0 0 0 Ohman p
0 0 0 0
DOrtiz 1b
5 2 2 3 Bartosh p
0 0 0 0
MRmrz lf
4 0 0 0 Burnitz rf
5 3 3 3
Nixon rf
3 0 0 0 ARmrz 3b
4 2 3 1
Payton rf
1 0 0 0 Macias 3b
1 0 0 0
Varitek c
3 0 2 0 TWalkr 2b
4 2 2 0
Embre p
0 0 0 0 Hrst Jr 2b
1 0 0 0
Millar ph
1 0 1 0 Hlndsw lf
5 2 2 3
Timlin p
0 0 0 0 Barrett c
4 1 3 3
Mueller 3b
4 2 1 0 Mddux p
2 1 1 1
Bllhorn 2b
4 1 2 1 Wuertz p
0 0 0 0
Arroyo p
1 0 0 0 Dubois ph
1 0 0 0
Yukilis ph
1 0 0 0 EWlson 1b
0 0 0 0
Hlama p
0 0 0 0
Shppch c
2 0 0 0
Totals
37 6 10 6 Totals
41 14 20 12
Boston
001 001 103— 6
Chicago
034 004 30x—14
E—Varitek (4). LOB—Boston 7, Chicago 5.
2B—Varitek (11), Mueller (8), CPatterson (8),
DeLee (19), TWalker (6), Hollandsworth (7),
Barrett 2 (12). HR—DOrtiz 2 (16), Bellhorn (3),
Burnitz 2 (10), Hollandsworth (2), Maddux
(1). SB—CPatterson (9). S—Maddux.
IP
H R ER BB SO
Boston
Arroyo L,4-3
4
10 7 7 0 4
Halama
2
5 4 4 0 0
Embree
1
5 3 3 1 1
Timlin
1
0 0 0 0 1
Chicago
Maddux W,5-3
62/3 7 3 3 1 5
1
/3 0 0 0 0 0
Wuertz
Ohman
1
1 0 0 1 0
Bartosh
1
2 3 3 1 1
WP—Arroyo, Embree. T—2:52. A—39,215
(39,538).
Rockies 2, Tigers 0
DETROIT
Inge 3b
Planco 2b
DYong 1b
RoWhte lf
IRdrgz c
Monroe rf
Grrtno ss
Logan cf
Maroth p
Shltn ph
JWlkr p
Grman p
Frnswr p
Totals
Detroit
Colorado
ab r h bi
4 0 1 0
4 0 1 0
4 0 1 0
4 0 0 0
4 0 0 0
4 0 0 0
3 0 0 0
3 0 2 0
1 0 1 0
1 0 1 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
32 0 7 0
COLORADO
Grabito 2b
Wtsick p
Fentes p
LuGnzl rf
Helton 1b
PrWlsn cf
Mohr lf
Atkins 3b
Rlaford ss
Ardon c
Wright p
Sllivan lf
ab r h bi
4 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
4 0 0 0
4 0 1 0
2 0 0 0
3 1 2 0
4 1 3 2
3 0 0 0
3 0 1 0
3 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
Totals
30 2 7 2
000 000 000—0
000 002 00x—2
DP—Colorado 2. LOB—Detroit 6, Colorado
7. 2B—Logan (9), Helton (15), Ardoin (1).
HR—Atkins (5).
IP
H R ER BB SO
Detroit
Maroth L,4-7
7
7 2 2 2 3
1
JWalker
/3 0 0 0 0 0
1
/3 0 0 0 1 0
German
1
Farnsworth
/3 0 0 0 0 0
Colorado
Wright W,4-5
71/3 6 0 0 1 3
2
/3 0 0 0 0 1
Witasick
Fuentes S,6
1
1 0 0 0 2
WP—Maroth 2, Fuentes. T—2:21. A—20,275
(50,449).
Nationals 9, Mariners 3
SEATTLE
WASHINGTON
ab r h bi
Wlkrsn cf
2 0 1 1
Church lf
4 1 1 1
JGillen rf
5 1 2 2
NJhnsn 1b
4 1 1 0
Castilla 3b
3 0 0 0
Baerga 2b
2 0 0 0
Spivey 2b
0 2 0 0
Schndr c
3 2 2 2
CGzmn ss
2 0 0 0
WCdero ph
1 0 0 0
Carroll ss
1 1 1 1
SKim p
1 0 0 0
Short ph
1 0 1 1
Tucker p
0 0 0 0
Mjwski p
0 0 0 0
Byrd ph
1 0 1 1
Ayala p
0 0 0 0
Blanco ph
0 1 0 0
HCrsco p
0 0 0 0
Totals
36 3 10 3 Totals
30 9 10 9
Seattle
000 201 000—3
Washington
000 011 16x—9
E—Baerga (4). DP—Seattle 2, Washington
1. LOB—Seattle 9, Washington 7. 2B—Church
(8). 3B—Wilkerson (3). HR—Sexson (14).
S—Pineiro, Castilla, Schneider.
IP
H R ER BB SO
Seattle
Pineiro
6
6 2 2 1 1
Villone
1
1 1 1 2 0
1
Hasegawa L,1-2
/3 3 6 6 3 0
2
/3 0 0 0 2 0
Thornton
Washington
SKim
5
5 2 2 1 2
Tucker
1
3 1 1 0 0
Majewski
1
0 0 0 1 0
Ayala W,6-3
1
1 0 0 0 0
HCarrasco
1
1 0 0 0 0
PB—ReRivera. T—3:11. A—28,704 (45,250).
ISuzuki rf
Winn cf
Beltre 3b
Sexson 1b
Ibanez lf
BBoone 2b
Morse ss
ReRva c
Hsgwa p
Thrntn p
Pineiro p
Villone p
Brders c
ab r h bi
5 0 1 0
4 1 2 0
5 1 0 0
4 1 2 2
4 0 1 1
3 0 0 0
4 0 3 0
4 0 1 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
2 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
Pirates 7, Devil Rays 2
TAMPA BAY
PITTSBURGH
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Crwfrd lf
4 0 2 0 Lawton rf
3 1 0 0
Lugo ss
3 0 0 0 TRdmn cf
3 3 2 0
EduPrz 1b
3 0 0 0 Mckwk 3b
3 1 2 0
TLee 1b
1 0 0 0 Bay lf
2 2 2 3
Huff rf
4 1 1 0 Ward 1b
2 0 1 3
Hollins cf
4 0 2 0 Castillo 2b
3 0 0 1
Cantu 3b
4 1 2 1 Ross c
4 0 0 0
THall c
4 0 1 1 JWilsn ss
4 0 0 0
NGreen 2b
3 0 1 0 MRdm p
3 0 0 0
Nomo p
2 0 0 0 Grabow p
0 0 0 0
ASGzlz ph
1 0 0 0 RiWhte p
1 0 0 0
TreMllr p
0 0 0 0
LCrter p
0 0 0 0
Totals
33 2 9 2 Totals
28 7 7 7
Tampa Bay
000 000 200—2
Pittsburgh
200 030 20x—7
DP—Pittsburgh 3. LOB—Tampa Bay 5, Pittsburgh 5. 2B—Cantu (13), Ward (12).
3B—Crawford (4), TRedman (3), Bay (4).
CS—Crawford (3). SF—Bay, Ward, Castillo.
IP
H R ER BB SO
Tampa Bay
Nomo L,3-6
6
4 5 5 4 2
2
TreMiller
/3 3 2 2 0 1
LCarter
11/3 0 0 0 0 0
Pittsburgh
MRedman W,4-4
7
8 2 2 0 2
1
/3 0 0 0 1 0
Grabow
RiWhite
12/3 1 0 0 0 1
HBP—by Nomo (TRedman). T—2:25.
A—27,517 (38,496).
Angels 12, Mets 2
LOS ANGELES
NEW YORK
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Figgins 2b
5 1 0 0 Reyes ss
4 0 2 1
Erstad 1b
5 1 1 2 Cairo 2b
3 0 0 1
Yan p
0 0 0 0 Beltran cf
4 0 0 0
VGrero rf
5 3 3 0 Floyd lf
4 0 1 0
Ktchm 1b
0 0 0 0 Cmeron rf
4 0 0 0
GAndsn lf
3 2 2 0 Wright 3b
4 0 1 0
JRivra rf
0 0 0 0 Mntkw 1b
3 0 1 0
BMolna c
2 1 1 1 Ring p
0 0 0 0
McPrsn 3b
4 0 0 0 Aybar p
0 0 0 0
Peralta p
0 0 0 0 KMtsui ph
1 0 0 0
DVnon lf
0 1 0 1 RCstro c
3 2 2 0
SFinley cf
4 1 3 4 Ishii p
1 0 0 0
OCbera ss
5 2 2 3 DeJean p
0 0 0 0
Colon p
3 0 1 1 MrAnd 1b
1 0 0 0
AKndy 2b
2 0 0 0
Totals
38 12 13 12 Totals
32 2 7 2
Los Angeles
000 006 105—12
New York
001 010 000— 2
E—JRivera (1), Reyes (8). DP—Los Angeles
1. LOB—Los Angeles 7, New York 5. 2B—OCabrera (12), Floyd (10), RCastro (2). HR—Erstad (3), SFinley (8), OCabrera (4). SB—Reyes
(17). S—BMolina, Ishii. SF—BMolina, SFinley,
Cairo.
IP
H R ER BB SO
Los Angeles
Colon W,8-3
6
7 2 2 0 3
Peralta
2
0 0 0 0 1
Yan
1
0 0 0 0 0
New York
Ishii L,1-5
52/3 6 5 5 2 9
DeJean
1
4 2 2 0 0
Ring
11/3 1 0 0 0 0
Aybar
1
2 5 5 3 0
WP—DeJean. T—3:01. A—31,131 (57,369).
Orioles 4, Reds 3
BALTIMORE
BRbrts 2b
Newhn cf
BRyan p
Mora 3b
Tejada ss
SSosa rf
RPlmo 1b
Surhoff lf
GGil c
RLopez p
Kline p
Mrrero ph
Wliams p
Parrish p
Julio p
Nivar cf
Totals
Baltimore
Cincinnati
ab r h bi
5 0 1 0
4 1 0 0
0 0 0 0
4 2 2 3
4 0 2 1
3 0 0 0
4 0 1 0
3 0 0 0
4 1 1 0
2 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
34 4 7 4
CINCINNATI
Freel 2b
Randa 3b
Casey 1b
Grf Jr. cf
WPena rf
Dunn lf
FLopez ss
LaRue c
Harang p
JaCruz ph
Merckr p
RWgnr p
ab r h bi
4 0 0 0
4 0 0 0
4 1 1 0
4 1 2 1
4 0 1 0
3 0 0 0
4 1 2 1
4 0 0 0
2 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
Totals
34 3 6 2
003 000 010—4
001 001 010—3
E—RPalmeiro (4). LOB—Baltimore 7, Cincinnati 5. 2B—Mora (14), Tejada (21), WPena (9).
3B—Tejada (3). HR—Mora (13), Griffey Jr.
(10), FLopez (9).
IP
H R ER BB SO
Baltimore
RLopez W,5-2
51/3 5 2 2 1 1
2
Kline
/3 0 0 0 0 0
Williams
11/3 0 0 0 0 1
1
Parrish
/3 1 1 1 0 0
1
/3 0 0 0 0 1
Julio
BRyan S,16
1
0 0 0 0 3
Cincinnati
Harang L,4-4
7
5 3 3 2 10
Mercker
1
2 1 1 2 2
RWagner
1
0 0 0 0 1
WP—Kline. T—2:53. A—24,276 (42,271).
Athletics 6, Braves 4
OAKLAND
ATLANTA
ab r h bi
4 0 1 0
5 0 0 0
5 1 1 0
4 2 2 2
4 2 2 2
0 0 0 0
4 1 2 0
3 0 0 0
4 0 1 0
0 0 0 0
3 0 1 2
1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
ab r h bi
Kendall c
Furcal ss
4 0 0 0
MEllis 2b
MGiles 2b
5 1 2 1
Kotsay cf
Btemit 3b
4 0 0 0
EChavz 3b
LaRche 1b
4 1 1 0
Crosby ss
AJones cf
3 1 2 0
Scutaro ss
Lngrhn lf
3 0 0 0
DJnson 1b
JuFrco ph
1 0 1 0
Swisher rf
Jhnson lf
0 0 0 0
Wtson lf
BJordn rf
4 1 1 1
Byrnes lf
Mccann c
3 0 2 1
Haren p
Davies p
1 0 0 1
Calero p
Colon p
0 0 0 0
RRincn p
Orr ph
0 0 0 0
Street p
Brnero p
0 0 0 0
Kolb p
0 0 0 0
AMrte ph
1 0 0 0
Totals
37 6 10 6 Totals
33 4 9 4
Oakland
000 301 200—6
Atlanta
030 010 000—4
DP—Oakland 2. LOB—Oakland 6, Atlanta 7.
2B—Crosby (5), DJohnson (3), Watson (2),
LaRoche (13). HR—EChavez (8), Crosby (2),
MGiles (4). SB—AJones (2), Orr (2). S—
Davies.
IP
H R ER BB SO
Oakland
Haren W,4-7
62/3 6 4 4 2 4
Calero
1
1 0 0 0 1
RRincon
0
1 0 0 0 0
Street S,3
11/3 1 0 0 1 1
Atlanta
Davies
52/3 8 4 4 2 4
1
Colon L,0-3
1 /3 2 2 2 0 0
Bernero
1
0 0 0 0 1
Kolb
1
0 0 0 0 0
RRincon pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. HBP—by Haren (AJones). T—2:56. A—28,535
(50,091).
Marlins 12, Rangers 5
TEXAS
FLORIDA
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Dllucci lf
5 0 1 1 Pierre cf
4 2 2 0
MYong ss
5 1 3 0 LCstillo 2b
4 2 2 1
Txeira 1b
5 1 1 0 Cbrera lf
4 2 2 2
Blalock 3b
3 0 0 0 CDlgdo 1b
2 1 1 0
Hidalgo rf
4 1 1 1 Lowell 3b
5 1 1 4
Nix cf
4 1 1 2 L Duca c
4 2 2 2
Brajas c
3 1 2 1 JEcrcn rf
5 0 3 0
DeRosa 2b
3 0 0 0 AGnzlz ss
4 1 3 2
Park p
2 0 2 0 Burnett p
2 0 0 0
Dominguez p 0 0 0 0 Bentz p
0 0 0 0
Mathws ph 1 0 0 0 Mota p
0 0 0 0
Loe p
0 0 0 0 TJones p
0 0 0 0
Brocail p
0 0 0 0 LHarrs ph
0 1 0 0
BShse p
0 0 0 0 Conine ph
1 0 1 0
wilson p
0 0 0 0 Mecir p
0 0 0 0
Mench ph
1 0 0 0
Totals
36 5 11 5 Totals
35 12 17 11
Texas
000 010 040— 5
Florida
000 230 07x—12
DP—Texas 3, Florida 2. LOB—Texas 7, Florida 9. 2B—MYoung (9), Nix (8), Barajas (9),
Pierre (5), Cabrera (16), CDelgado (19), Lo
Duca 2 (10), JEncarnacion (14). HR—Lowell
(3). S—Burnett. SF—Lo Duca.
IP
H R ER BB SO
Texas
Park
42/3 8 5 5 4 3
Dominguez
11/3 1 0 0 1 1
Loe
1
0 0 0 1 0
1
/3 3 5 5 2 1
Brocail L,3-1
1
BShouse
/3 4 2 2 0 1
1
/3 1 0 0 0 0
wilson
Florida
Burnett
71/3 7 3 3 3 10
1
/3 0 0 0 0 0
Bentz
Mota
0
2 2 2 0 0
1
TJones W,1-1
/3 1 0 0 0 0
Mecir
1
1 0 0 0 1
Wilson pitched to 1 batter in the 8th, Mota
pitched to 2 batters in the 8th. WP—Park,
Brocail. T—3:15. A—16,622 (36,331).
Astros 4, Blue Jays 2
TORONTO
HOUSTON
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Jhnson lf
5 0 0 0 Tveras cf
4 1 2 1
Rios rf
4 0 0 0 Burke lf
4 0 1 0
Walker p
0 0 0 0 Biggio 2b
4 0 1 0
Hinske ph
1 0 0 0 Brkmn 1b
4 0 2 0
VWells cf
4 0 2 1 Ensbrg 3b
4 1 1 1
Hlnbrn 1b
3 1 1 0 Lane rf
4 1 1 1
AHill 3b
2 0 1 0 Lidge p
0 0 0 0
Mnchno 2b
3 0 0 0 AEvrtt ss
3 1 0 0
OHudsn 2b
1 0 0 0 Quitr c
3 0 0 0
Zaun c
2 0 1 1 Hrvlle p
0 0 0 0
JMcDld ss
2 0 0 0 Sprger p
0 0 0 0
Adams ph
1 0 1 0 OPlmro rf
0 0 0 0
Lilly p
2 0 0 0 Rdrgez p
2 0 1 1
Ctlnotto lf
1 1 0 0 Asmus c
1 0 0 0
Totals
31 2 6 2 Totals
33 4 9 4
Toronto
010 000 100—2
Houston
110 101 00x—4
DP—Houston 2. LOB—Toronto 9, Houston
6. HR—Taveras (3), Ensberg (13), Lane (7).
IP
H R ER BB SO
Toronto
Lilly L,3-7
6
7 4 4 1 1
Walker
2
2 0 0 0 1
Houston
Rodriguez W,2-2
6
4 2 2 6 3
Harville
1
1 0 0 0 1
Springer
1
0 0 0 0 1
Lidge S,16
1
1 0 0 0 3
Rodriguez pitched to 1 batter in the 7th.
HBP—by Rodriguez (Hillenbrand). WP—Rodriguez. T—2:26. A—28,607 (40,950).
Cardinals 8, Yankees 1
NEW YORK
ST. LOUIS
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Jeter ss
4 0 1 1 Eckstin ss
4 0 0 0
Wmack lf
3 0 0 0 Grdzln 2b
4 1 1 0
Qantrill p
0 0 0 0 Pujols 1b
4 3 3 2
RuJnsn ph
1 0 0 0 Edmnd cf
4 1 2 1
Groom p
0 0 0 0 Tguchi cf
1 0 0 0
Shffield rf
3 0 0 0 LWalkr rf
2 1 1 1
ARod 3b
4 0 1 0 RSndrs lf
4 1 2 1
Matsui cf
4 0 1 0 Nunez 3b
3 1 1 0
Posada c
3 0 1 0 YMlina c
4 0 0 0
JaGbi 1b
3 0 0 0 Mrquis p
3 0 0 0
Cano 2b
4 1 2 0 Seabol ph
1 0 0 0
Wang p
1 0 0 0 Flors p
0 0 0 0
TMrtnz ph
1 0 0 0
BWllms cf
2 0 0 0
Totals
33 1 6 1 Totals
34 8 10 5
New York
000 010 000—1
St. Louis
205 001 00x—8
E—ARodriguez (9), Cano (5), Wang (1).
LOB—New York 8, St. Louis 8. 2B—Jeter (8),
Cano (10), Grudzielanek (16), Pujols (17),
Nunez (4). HR—Pujols (15).
IP
H R ER BB SO
New York
Wang L,3-2
4
7 7 4 5 2
Quantrill
3
2 1 1 0 0
Groom
1
1 0 0 1 2
St. Louis
Marquis W,8-3
8
6 1 1 2 3
Flores
1
0 0 0 1 1
PB—Posada. T—2:33. A—50,250 (50,345).
D-backs 12, Royals 11 (10)
KANSAS CITY
ARIZONA
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Berroa ss
4 0 0 0 Cunsell 2b
5 2 2 0
Affeldt p
0 0 0 0 Cintron ss
5 2 4 2
Brown rf
1 1 0 1 Clayton ss
1 0 0 0
DJesus cf
5 2 1 3 LGnzlz lf
3 1 2 2
Stairs 1b
4 0 1 1 Hrston cf
2 0 0 0
Long rf
4 1 2 1 Glaus 3b
6 2 3 1
Grffnno 2b
1 0 0 0 ShGren rf
4 3 3 5
Teahen 3b
5 1 2 1 JoCruz cf
5 0 0 0
Gotay 2b
5 1 2 3 Tracy 1b
3 0 2 1
Burgos p
0 0 0 0 Stnet c
5 1 2 1
Diaz ph
1 0 0 0 RuOrtiz p
3 1 2 0
McDgal p
0 0 0 0 EGnlz p
0 0 0 0
Costa lf
5 1 2 0 Herges p
0 0 0 0
Buck c
4 2 2 0 JrLopz p
0 0 0 0
Grinke p
2 1 1 1 Crmer p
1 0 0 0
Stemle p
0 0 0 0 Bruney p
0 0 0 0
MWood p
0 0 0 0
Nunez p
0 0 0 0
McEng ss
1 1 0 0
Totals
42 11 13 11 Totals
43 12 20 12
Kansas City
100 011 062 0—11
Arizona
401 240 000 1—12
No outs when winning run scored.
DP—Kansas City 3, Arizona 1. LOB—Kansas
City 11, Arizona 10. 2B—Long 2 (10), Teahen
(8), Gotay (10), Costa (1), LGonzalez (16),
ShGreen (14), Tracy 2 (11), RuOrtiz (1).
3B—DeJesus (6), Cintron (2). HR—Gotay (4),
Greinke (1), Glaus (14), ShGreen 2 (6), Stinnett (1). SF—ShGreen.
IP
H R ER BB SO
Kansas City
Greinke
41/3 15 11 11 2 2
Stemle
0
0 0 0 0 0
2
MWood
/3 2 0 0 0 1
Nunez
1
0 0 0 1 0
Affeldt
1
1 0 0 1 1
Burgos
2
1 0 0 1 2
MacDougal L,2-3
0
1 1 1 0 0
Arizona
RuOrtiz
7
7 3 3 3 4
1
EGnlz
/3 2 4 4 2 1
1
Herges
/3 1 2 2 2 0
JrLopez
0
0 0 0 2 0
Cormier
11/3 3 2 2 1 0
Bruney W,1-2
1
0 0 0 0 1
MacDougal pitched to 1 batter in the 10th,
JrLopez pitched to 2 batters in the 8th.
WP—EGnlz. T—3:47. A—22,731 (49,033).
White Sox 4, Padres 2
CHICAGO
SAN DIEGO
ab r h bi
4 0 1 0
4 0 0 0
4 0 0 0
4 0 1 0
4 1 1 0
4 1 2 1
3 1 0 0
3 1 2 1
2 0 1 1
1 0 1 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
ab r h bi
Pdsdnk lf
Brrghs 3b
3 0 0 0
Iguchi 2b
Jkson 2b
1 0 0 0
Rwand cf
Blum 2b
3 0 0 0
Knerko 1b
Klesko lf
4 1 1 0
Dye rf
BGiles cf
3 1 1 2
Przyns c
Nevin 1b
4 0 2 0
Uribe ss
RaHrdz c
4 0 1 0
Crede 3b
Fick rf
3 0 1 0
Grland p
KGreen ss
3 0 0 0
TPerez ph
WWlms p
2 0 1 0
Cotts p
Seanez p
0 0 0 0
Hrmns p
Ojeda ph
1 0 0 0
CHmnd p
0 0 0 0
Totals
33 4 9 3 Totals
31 2 7 2
Chicago
020 000 110—4
San Diego
000 000 101—2
E—Rowand (2). DP—Chicago 2, San Diego
2. LOB—Chicago 2, San Diego 4. 2B—Nevin
(10), Fick (2). HR—Pierzynski (9), BGiles (9).
CS—Blum (2).
IP
H R ER BB SO
Chicago
Garland W,10-2
7
6 1 1 1 4
Cotts
1
0 0 0 0 0
Hermanson S,15
1
1 1 0 0 0
San Diego
WWilliams L,2-4
7
8 4 4 0 1
Seanez
1
1 0 0 0 3
CHammond
1
0 0 0 0 1
WWilliams pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.
HBP—by Garland (Blum). WP—Hermanson,
Seanez. T—2:19. A—38,126 (42,445).
Indians 10, Giants 2
CLEVELAND
Szmore cf
Cora ss
Crisp lf
Brssrd 1b
VMrtnz c
Blliard 2b
Gerut rf
Boone 3b
Sbathia p
Hafner ph
Howry p
ab r h bi
5 2 3 1
5 0 1 1
5 0 1 2
5 0 0 0
4 1 1 0
4 1 1 0
4 3 3 1
3 2 2 2
3 0 1 2
1 1 1 1
0 0 0 0
Totals
39 10 14 10
Cleveland
San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO
ab r h bi
Ellison cf
4 0 0 0
Vizquel ss
4 0 0 0
Feliz lf
4 0 0 0
Alou rf
3 2 2 1
Niekro 1b
3 0 1 1
DCruz 2b
4 0 1 0
Alfonzo 3b
3 0 0 0
Mtheny c
2 0 0 0
Tomko p
1 0 0 0
Chrstns p
0 0 0 0
Grssom ph
1 0 1 0
Levine p
0 0 0 0
Eyre p
0 0 0 0
Totals
29 2 5 2
020 001 205—10
000 101 000— 2
DP—Cleveland 1, San Francisco 1. LOB—
Cleveland 3, San Francisco 4. 2B—Sizemore
(9), VMartinez (8), Gerut (3), Sabathia (1),
Niekro (7). 3B—Gerut (1), Boone (1).
HR—Alou (11). CS—Niekro (1). S—Tomko.
IP
H R ER BB SO
Cleveland
Sabathia W,5-3
8
5 2 2 2 6
Howry
1
0 0 0 1 0
San Francisco
Tomko L,5-8
7
7 5 5 1 2
Christiansen
1
0 0 0 0 2
2
Levine
/3 6 5 5 0 0
1
Eyre
/3 1 0 0 0 0
WP—Sabathia. T—2:16. A—37,102 (41,584).
Dodgers 6, Twins 5
MINNESOTA
LOS ANGELES
ab r h bi
Izturis ss
4 1 1 0
Choi 1b
4 2 2 3
JDrew cf
4 0 1 0
JKent 2b
2 2 1 0
Werth rf
3 1 1 0
Perez 3b
4 0 2 0
Grbwsk lf
4 0 1 0
Repko rf
0 0 0 0
JPhllps c
3 0 0 0
Penny p
2 0 0 0
Edwrds ph
1 0 0 0
Snchez p
0 0 0 0
Brzban p
0 0 0 0
Saenz ph
0 0 0 0
Gagne p
0 0 0 0
Totals
36 5 9 5 Totals
31 6 9 3
Minnesota
122 000 000—5
Los Angeles
400 001 001—6
No outs when winning run scored. E—Mauer (2), JJones (1), JCastro (3). DP—Minnesota
1. LOB—Minnesota 4, Los Angeles 8. 2B—ShStewart 2 (8), JCastro (8). 3B—Morneau (3).
HR—JJones (9), Choi 2 (8). SB—JKent (3).
S—Choi.
IP
H R ER BB SO
Minnesota
Mays
51/3 7 5 3 2 1
Crain
12/3 0 0 0 2 0
JRincon
1
1 0 0 1 1
Mulholland L,0-2
0
1 1 1 0 0
Los Angeles
Penny
6
9 5 5 0 3
Sanchez
1
0 0 0 0 2
Brazoban
1
0 0 0 0 1
Gagne W,1-0
1
0 0 0 0 0
Mulholland pitched to 1 batter in the 9th.
HBP—by Mays (JKent). WP—Mays, Crain,
JRincon. T—2:48. A—46,713 (56,000).
ab r h bi
3 2 2 1
1 0 0 0
4 0 0 0
4 0 2 1
4 0 1 1
4 1 1 1
4 1 1 0
4 0 0 1
4 1 1 0
3 0 1 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
ShStwrt lf
LFord lf
LRdrgz 2b
Mauer c
THnter cf
JJones rf
Mrneau 1b
Cddyer 3b
JCastro ss
Mays p
Crain p
JRincn p
MRyan ph
Mlhllnd p
National League
East Division
W L Pct GB
35 26 .574 —
34 28 .548
1½
31 29 .517
3½
30 28 .517
3½
31 30 .508
4
Central Division
St. Louis
39 21 .650 —
Chicago
32 27 .542
6½
Pittsburgh
29 30 .492
9½
Milwaukee
28 32 .467 11
Houston
24 35 .407 14½
Cincinnati
24 36 .400 15
West Division
San Diego
35 26 .574 —
Los Angeles
32 28 .533
2½
Arizona
33 29 .532
2½
San Francisco
25 34 .424
9
Colorado
20 39 .339 14
Friday’s game
Philadelphia 5, Milwaukee 2
Saturday’s game
Milwaukee at Philadelphia
Sunday’s games
Milwaukee (Sheets 2-5) at Philadelphia
(Lidle 5-4)
Monday’s game
Florida at Chicago Cubs
Washington
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Florida
New York
Friday
Phillies 5, Brewers 2
MILWAUKEE
PHILADELPHIA
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Krynzl cf
4 0 0 0 Rollins ss
4 0 1 0
Cirillo 3b
3 1 2 1 Lofton cf
3 0 0 0
Ovrbay 1b
4 1 2 0 BAbreu rf
4 0 0 0
CaLee lf
4 0 1 0 Burrell lf
4 1 1 0
BHall 2b
4 0 1 1 Thome 1b
2 1 1 2
Jenkins rf
4 0 0 0 Chavez pr
0 1 0 0
Hardy ss
3 0 0 0 Utley 2b
2 1 0 0
Moeller c
3 0 1 0 DaBell 3b
4 1 1 3
VSants p
2 0 0 0 Lbrthal c
3 0 0 0
Mgrder ph
1 0 0 0 BMyers p
3 0 0 0
JuStna p
0 0 0 0 Madson p
0 0 0 0
Wise p
0 0 0 0
Totals
32 2 7 2 Totals
29 5 4 5
Milwaukee
100 100 000—2
Philadelphia
000 200 003—5
One out when winning run scored.
DP—Philadelphia 1. LOB—Milwaukee 4,
Philadelphia 4. 2B—Cirillo (12), BHall (13).
HR—Cirillo (3), Thome (5), DaBell (3). CS—Cirillo (2).
IP
H R ER BB SO
Milwaukee
VSantos
6
3 2 2 3 4
JuSantana
1
0 0 0 0 0
Wise L,0-2
1 1/3 1 3 3 2 1
Philadelphia
BMyers
8
7 2 2 0 6
Madson W,3-2
1
0 0 0 0 1
HBP—by
BMyers
(Cirillo).
T—2:34.
A—27,225 (43,826).
MLB calendar
July 12 — All-Star Game, Detroit.
July 31 — Hall of Fame inductions, Cooperstown, N.Y. Last day to trade a player without securing waivers.
Oct. 4 — Playoffs begin.
Oct. 11 — League championship series
begin.
Oct. 22 — World Series begins.
October/November TBA — Free agent filing period, first 15 days after World Series
ends.
Nov. 7-11 — General managers meetings,
Indian Wells, Calif.
Dec. 5-8 — Winter meetings, Dallas.
Dec. 7 — Last day for teams to offer salary
arbitration to their former players who became free agents.
Dec. 19 — Last day for free agents offered
salary arbitration to accept or reject the offers.
Dec. 20 — Last day for teams to offer 2006
contracts to unsigned players.
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Major League Baseball statistics
Through June 10
National League
American League
TEAM BATTING
AB R
H HR RBI Avg
Baltimore
2092 318 599 86 307 .286
Tampa Bay 2081 288 579 49 276 .278
Boston
2076 319 577 65 306 .277
Texas
2081 329 566 94 315 .271
Minnesota
2058 280 557 59 269 .270
New York
2064 308 547 72 294 .265
Detroit
1988 253 526 50 236 .264
Toronto
2066 282 544 53 270 .263
Chicago
2001 282 527 68 271 .263
Los Angeles 2061 284 540 51 270 .262
Kansas City 2035 260 520 52 237 .255
Seattle
1997 252 508 41 239 .254
Oakland
2050 248 510 38 236 .248
Cleveland
2041 240 500 65 231 .244
INDIVIDUAL BATTING
Based on 180 plate appearances
AB R H HR RBI Avg
BRoberts Bal
211 39 77 11 33 .365
CGuillen Det
169 25 60
2 16 .355
Damon Bos
236 42 80
1 32 .339
Tejada Bal
245 43 81 17 51 .331
Varitek Bos
183 28 60 11 26 .328
ARodriguez NYY 220 48 71 19 53 .323
Logan Det
170 24 54
0 10 .318
GAnderson LAA 226 29 71
7 48 .314
Mora Bal
240 40 75 13 42 .312
MYoung Tex
244 43 76
8 33 .311
Winn Sea
224 26 68
1 17 .304
Hillenbrand Tor 231 40 70
6 27 .303
DOrtiz Bos
231 41 70 16 50 .303
Teixeira Tex
245 46 74 16 48 .302
ISuzuki Sea
245 41 74
3 18 .302
Inge Det
226 35 68
5 26 .301
Ibanez Sea
217 28 65
8 32 .300
Sheffield NYY
211 34 63 10 38 .299
MiSweeney KC 208 23 62
9 37 .298
ShStewart Min
245 40 72
9 30 .294
RoWhite Det
197 23 58
6 29 .294
Crisp Cle
184 29 54
7 22 .293
Sizemore Cle
216 29 63
5 25 .292
Mauer Min
161 19 47
5 21 .292
Cantu TB
199 24 58
7 29 .291
JJones Min
196 25 57
9 33 .291
Jeter NYY
228 38 66
6 24 .289
IRodriguez Det 211 32 61
5 24 .289
ASoriano Tex
229 44 66 15 36 .288
Belliard Cle
184 22 53
7 24 .288
Nixon Bos
170 28 49
7 34 .288
Iguchi ChW
195 26 56
5 28 .287
Rowand ChW
216 32 62
4 25 .287
Podsednik ChW 195 33 56
0 14 .287
LFord Min
194 28 55
3 24 .284
Blalock Tex
236 33 67 10 34 .284
Mench Tex
181 31 51 10 30 .282
Kotsay Oak
234 31 66
2 27 .282
Crawford TB
260 38 73
7 38 .281
Posada NYY
185 23 52
7 28 .281
Lugo TB
236 28 66
2 27 .280
Erstad LAA
239 36 67
3 29 .280
Rios Tor
201 30 56
3 25 .279
Hatteberg Oak
198 22 55
4 23 .278
DeJesus KC
210 28 58
2 24 .276
THunter Min
217 34 60
9 38 .276
THafner Cle
178 27 49
7 24 .275
Figgins LAA
229 39 62
4 29 .271
Mueller Bos
170 29 46
2 17 .271
Renteria Bos
226 31 61
5 23 .270
Matsui NYY
229 34 61
4 39 .266
Gibbons Bal
189 33 50
9 32 .265
DYoung Det
211 31 56 11 29 .265
Hinske Tor
193 36 51
6 26 .264
Broussard Cle
198 26 52
6 26 .263
CEverett ChW
179 20 47
7 38 .263
Brown KC
168 27 44
7 28 .262
Dye ChW
204 24 53 10 27 .260
Reed Sea
189 24 49
2 20 .259
Millar Bos
193 21 50
4 26 .259
Cuddyer Min
190 28 49
3 19 .258
Dellucci Tex
155 41 40 10 23 .258
Monroe Det
195 24 50
7 36 .256
Huff TB
215 23 55
4 32 .256
Berroa KC
237 30 60
5 16 .253
Bellhorn Bos
182 27 46
3 16 .253
VWells Tor
230 30 58 13 32 .252
RPalmeiro Bal
195 24 49
8 28 .251
Sexson Sea
196 39 49 14 49 .250
Womack NYY
208 29 52
0 10 .250
MRamirez Bos
209 32 52 11 43 .249
Kendall Oak
214 26 53
0 17 .248
Scutaro Oak
171 23 42
3 14 .246
OHudson Tor
211 23 52
3 24 .246
Uribe ChW
183 22 45
4 28 .246
SSosa Bal
164 17 40
6 18 .244
OCabrera LAA
222 25 54
4 19 .243
EChavez Oak
233 28 56
8 33 .240
BBoone Sea
218 22 52
5 29 .239
BWilliams NYY
168 14 40
3 19 .238
Beltre Sea
232 34 55
5 30 .237
Konerko ChW
211 35 50 15 40 .237
TMartinez NYY 156 29 37 12 32 .237
Crede ChW
182 25 43
8 24 .236
SFinley LAA
206 25 48
8 37 .233
Hidalgo Tex
183 28 42 11 31 .230
Infante Det
175 16 37
3 20 .211
AP
Minnesota Twins pitcher Jesse Crain leads the majors with a 0.71 ERA.
The right-hander is 5-0 with 11 strikeouts and has given up 13 hits.
VMartinez Cle
Blake Cle
Boone Cle
191 18 40
6 19 .209
196 21 37
6 16 .189
181 19 34
6 19 .188
TEAM PITCHING
ERA H ER BB SO Sh Sv
Minnesota
3.38 514 202 102 352 3 17
Chicago
3.46 486 208 177 391 4 25
Cleveland
3.55 489 211 159 378 3 19
Los Angeles
3.71 527 221 175 421 5 19
Detroit
3.94 510 226 174 344 1 14
Baltimore
4.02 511 239 200 414 4 16
Toronto
4.10 543 244 154 338 5 13
Oakland
4.48 506 261 213 381 3 11
Seattle
4.52 521 259 196 305 3 18
New York
4.60 607 268 140 353 3 13
Texas
4.61 565 268 187 340 3 17
Boston
5.03 577 292 166 338 4 13
Kansas City
5.56 567 323 210 351 0 10
Tampa Bay
5.82 584 341 256 335 0
8
INDIVIDUAL PITCHING
Based on 5 decisions
IP H BB SO W L ERA
Crain Min
25 13 8 11 5 0 0.71
Rogers Tex
83 70 25 33 8 2 1.62
Bedard Bal
60 49 14 52 5 1 2.08
JWalker Det
19 16 5 14 2 3 2.29
Marte ChW
23 22 14 25 3 3 2.35
Halladay Tor
99 81 15 70 9 3 2.45
Shields LAA
36 20 19 44 4 3 2.75
Harden Oak
45 38 15 42 2 3 2.80
CSilva Min
74 84 3 22 4 3 3.04
Chacin Tor
74 73 26 43 6 4 3.04
JRincon Min
26 22 11 32 3 2 3.08
Colon LAA
87 82 21 68 8 3 3.09
Contreras ChW
72 53 29 57 3 2 3.12
Buehrle ChW
91 82 15 55 7 1 3.15
Young Tex
70 69 17 57 5 3 3.18
Millwood Cle
59 61 15 46 1 4 3.20
Garland ChW
86 82 14 42 10 2 3.23
DBaez TB
27 22 16 22 4 2 3.25
ClLee Cle
71 68 19 54 6 3 3.27
JoSantana Min
92 71 11 114 7 2 3.31
JJohnson Det
81 79 19 39 4 5 3.33
Sabathia Cle
75 68 21 51 5 3 3.36
Robertson Det
64 63 32 30 2 3 3.48
Donnelly LAA
28 23 6 20 4 1 3.49
FGarcia ChW
82 72 20 57 6 3 3.51
BChen Bal
77 73 19 52 5 4 3.61
Mays Min
73 75 17 25 3 2 3.70
Clement Bos
80 80 30 60 6 1 3.79
Washburn LAA
Kazmir TB
Bonderman Det
Lackey LAA
Sele Sea
Radke Min
RJohnson NYY
Fossum TB
Haren Oak
Mussina NYY
OHernandez ChW
MacDougal KC
Byrd LAA
Pavano NYY
Zito Oak
Lohse Min
Wang NYY
Williams Bal
RLopez Bal
Arroyo Bos
Maroth Det
Towers Tor
Saarloos Oak
Meche Sea
RFranklin Sea
Bush Tor
Ponson Bal
Westbrook Cle
RuHernandez KC
DWells Bos
Cabrera Bal
Wakefield Bos
Elarton Cle
Moyer Sea
Park Tex
KBrown NYY
Waechter TB
Astacio Tex
Foulke Bos
Greinke KC
Hendrickson TB
Blanton Oak
Pineiro Sea
Brazelton TB
Drese Tex
Cerda KC
Nomo TB
Ledezma Det
Lilly Tor
Harper TB
Lima KC
74
70
80
73
70
87
84
44
80
79
58
29
78
76
81
61
48
26
79
73
79
68
55
70
71
53
74
75
78
60
65
73
61
65
68
61
58
62
28
70
58
61
61
42
69
19
70
49
57
33
64
88
63
78
79
71
98
85
40
77
92
65
29
91
98
73
70
47
19
82
76
88
81
59
69
67
59
90
72
81
71
60
81
69
83
76
84
69
72
32
87
77
68
74
46
96
21
78
61
71
36
82
24
38
22
28
26
3
20
21
29
20
26
13
11
14
32
15
14
13
28
16
21
11
20
32
27
10
29
22
39
4
30
36
19
20
35
14
15
11
10
18
18
27
22
29
24
11
40
24
26
11
27
41
52
67
64
30
53
73
43
59
55
39
31
41
44
56
27
17
18
46
42
47
42
14
36
28
26
42
40
47
30
60
45
37
39
51
39
28
42
18
42
26
25
35
25
20
18
38
30
41
23
32
3
2
6
5
5
5
5
2
4
6
7
2
5
4
2
5
3
4
5
4
4
5
2
5
2
0
6
2
3
4
5
4
3
5
6
4
2
2
3
1
2
1
2
1
4
1
3
2
3
1
0
3
4
4
2
5
4
5
4
7
4
1
3
5
5
7
4
2
3
2
3
7
4
4
4
7
5
3
9
7
4
4
6
2
2
1
6
3
7
3
7
3
6
3
7
6
4
6
4
7
4
5
3.86
3.86
3.90
3.93
3.99
4.03
4.07
4.23
4.27
4.33
4.34
4.34
4.38
4.38
4.41
4.43
4.44
4.50
4.52
4.54
4.54
4.61
4.75
4.76
4.77
4.89
4.94
5.00
5.03
5.07
5.10
5.13
5.14
5.21
5.40
5.43
5.55
5.60
5.79
6.01
6.05
6.13
6.20
6.43
6.46
6.63
6.69
7.07
7.26
7.49
8.16
TEAM BATTING
AB R
H HR RBI
Florida
1945 256 535 47 243
Chicago
2051 275 566 77 262
Philadelphia 2075 305 569 66 285
St. Louis
2062 318 560 65 297
Colorado
2026 275 550 57 262
San Francisco 2010 253 541 51 242
Los Angeles 2027 292 543 64 279
Washington 2030 255 538 44 247
New York
2059 270 542 64 253
San Diego
2111 284 553 56 275
Arizona
2126 282 556 63 275
Pittsburgh
1981 243 513 56 235
Cincinnati
2055 299 530 76 284
Milwaukee
2020 256 514 60 243
Atlanta
2008 266 493 56 248
Houston
1942 216 472 48 212
INDIVIDUAL BATTING
Based on 180 plate appearances
AB R H HR RBI
DeLee ChC
221 47 84 17 53
NJohnson Was
212 37 72
8 38
Cabrera Fla
216 38 73 10 37
Pujols StL
234 46 79 15 49
Barmes Col
225 40 74
8 34
BClark Mil
249 44 82
6 25
CDelgado Fla
207 34 67 12 42
Casey Cin
215 28 69
3 28
BAbreu Phi
224 46 72 15 44
Burrell Phi
200 24 64 12 51
Grudzielanek StL 214 34 68
3 26
NPerez ChC
217 29 68
7 26
Izturis LAD
252 35 78
1 20
LGonzalez Ari
226 41 70
9 40
Alfonzo SF
202 25 62
2 29
Eckstein StL
229 33 70
2 19
Freel Cin
160 36 49
2
9
Wright NYM
204 33 62 10 34
FLopez Cin
171 29 52
9 28
Loretta SD
160 24 48
0 13
Bradley LAD
188 35 56 10 26
Counsell Ari
213 36 63
3 21
Beltran NYM
207 27 61
7 29
Randa Cin
201 32 59
8 35
Alou SF
154 27 45 11 27
Holliday Col
196 26 57
4 23
Bay Pit
221 39 64 11 30
CaLee Mil
238 32 69 15 55
JGuillen Was
221 35 64 10 31
DRoberts SD
156 24 45
2 22
Vizquel SF
208 26 60
0 17
Tracy Ari
186 22 53
6 26
Ensberg Hou
193 30 55 13 33
BGiles SD
207 42 59
9 35
Lo Duca Fla
183 19 52
2 23
Ward Pit
176 29 50 11 34
JKent LAD
218 42 62 12 49
RaHernandez SD 212 25 60
6 31
AGonzalez Fla
187 13 53
3 23
JEstrada Atl
170 19 48
2 26
JEncarnacion Fla 209 31 59
8 37
Floyd NYM
202 34 57 14 39
CJones Atl
156 30 44
7 26
Taveras Hou
200 28 56
3 10
Overbay Mil
175 24 49
7 29
JDrew LAD
200 38 56 10 28
ARamirez ChC
211 34 59 12 31
MGiles Atl
201 35 56
4 15
Edmonds StL
190 35 53 11 37
Wilkerson Was 216 28 60
3 21
Griffey Jr. Cin
217 28 60 10 41
Biggio Hou
210 31 58
8 26
Castilla Was
207 24 57
5 32
Burroughs SD
168 15 46
1
8
Reyes NYM
260 33 71
3 24
Lawton Pit
217 32 59
7 26
RSanders StL
173 32 47 12 30
JPhillips LAD
166 17 45
4 28
Nevin SD
225 26 61
8 42
Feliz SF
211 28 57
8 35
CPatterson ChC 227 30 61 10 21
Rollins Phi
257 39 69
5 19
DaBell Phi
209 22 56
3 21
ShGreen Ari
224 33 60
6 31
Burnitz ChC
228 32 61 10 37
Klesko SD
190 27 51 11 29
Helton Col
204 28 53
5 24
PrWilson Col
170 28 44
9 32
Durham SF
174 25 45
2 13
Pierre Fla
222 30 57
1 13
Glaus Ari
219 35 56 14 38
Piazza NYM
185 21 47
6 28
YMolina StL
177 19 44
2 19
LaRoche Atl
169 21 42
7 35
AJones Atl
217 31 54 12 31
LWalker StL
165 37 41
5 23
Jenkins Mil
214 32 52
6 23
KMatsui NYM
171 20 41
3 21
AEverett Hou
193 20 46
5 22
Lane Hou
177 19 42
7 23
Dunn Cin
194 37 46 15 31
Spivey Mil
182 22 43
5 17
JWilson Pit
215 19 50
3 11
BJordan Atl
173 20 40
2 20
Clayton Ari
194 22 44
1 18
Kearns Cin
170 22 38
6 25
Lowell Fla
192 20 43
3 24
Avg
.275
.275
.274
.271
.271
.269
.267
.265
.263
.261
.261
.258
.257
.254
.245
.243
Avg
.380
.340
.338
.338
.329
.329
.324
.321
.321
.320
.318
.313
.310
.310
.307
.306
.306
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Furcal Atl
233 29 52
4 22 .223
Mientkiewicz NY 169 20 35
7 20 .207
CGuzman Was
204 12 38
1
8 .186
TEAM PITCHING
ERA H ER BB SO Sh Sv
St. Louis
3.60 525 214 172 373 4 25
Florida
3.63 497 208 191 394 5 12
Atlanta
3.70 543 218 201 325 6 16
Milwaukee
3.74 477 221 223 432 2 14
Chicago
3.77 471 221 214 463 5 13
Pittsburgh
3.89 492 227 220 339 3 20
Washington
3.90 537 236 216 318 2 19
San Diego
3.94 554 243 179 431 4 18
New York
4.01 505 240 198 434 4 13
Houston
4.19 506 241 164 435 2 16
Philadelphia
4.63 552 279 184 415 2 18
Los Angeles
4.69 563 278 155 369 3 19
Arizona
4.84 630 301 201 382 3 22
San Francisco 5.06 573 295 221 315 0 14
Cincinnati
5.51 641 324 193 355 1 12
Colorado
5.73 602 326 270 330 1
9
INDIVIDUAL PITCHING
Based on 5 decisions
IP H BB SO W L ERA
Clemens Hou
81 54 21 80 4 3 1.67
Hampton Atl
59 47 16 22 4 1 1.83
Rusch ChC
61 53 27 42 5 1 2.07
Willis Fla
84 75 19 66 10 2 2.13
CHammond SD
29 19 5 18 5 0 2.15
BMyers Phi
88 66 21 88 5 3 2.24
PMartinez NYM
88 46 13 104 7 1 2.45
Ayala Was
35 38 1 16 6 3 2.52
Moehler Fla
62 65 14 33 2 3 2.59
Peavy SD
81 62 15 84 5 1 2.67
VSantos Mil
75 62 30 53 2 5 2.74
MRedman Pit
86 70 21 43 4 4 2.80
Prior ChC
58 42 18 62 4 1 2.93
Zambrano ChC
79 52 31 75 4 3 2.94
Burnett Fla
81 71 27 80 3 4 3.09
Beckett Fla
83 69 30 78 7 4 3.13
Oswalt Hou
89 83 23 67 6 7 3.13
Turnbow Mil
25 19 10 26 4 1 3.16
Eaton SD
79 81 23 61 9 1 3.18
Smoltz Atl
83 90 27 63 4 5 3.24
Marquis StL
82 74 32 45 8 3 3.27
Ohka Was
54 44 27 17 4 3 3.33
LHernandez Was 99 97 38 61 9 2 3.35
DLowe LAD
86 89 17 59 5 5 3.35
THudson Atl
83 86 34 48 6 4 3.36
KWells Pit
82 72 41 63 5 4 3.39
Capuano Mil
84 75 31 67 5 5 3.40
Madson Phi
34 25 5 36 3 2 3.41
Thomson Atl
50 49 14 32 3 2 3.42
Pettitte Hou
76 74 15 52 3 6 3.43
Morris StL
65 60 12 46 7 0 3.43
Webb Ari
81 87 25 66 7 2 3.44
Wuertz ChC
28 21 15 31 4 2 3.45
Loaiza Was
85 82 26 65 2 4 3.48
Halsey Ari
72 81 13 41 4 3 3.48
Carpenter StL
87 89 26 83 8 4 3.49
Harang Cin
79 67 23 74 4 4 3.52
BSheets Mil
44 40 12 44 2 5 3.65
DDavis Mil
85 72 38 67 8 5 3.68
Benson NYM
43 38 11 31 4 2 3.74
Heilman NYM
52 47 15 45 3 3 3.78
Chacon Col
51 46 28 27 1 4 3.83
Penny LAD
62 69 8 32 3 2 4.04
DWilliams Pit
64 59 23 41 5 5 4.06
Tomko SF
86 84 27 49 5 8 4.07
Maddux ChC
81 86 13 50 5 3 4.11
Mulder StL
77 82 22 46 7 3 4.17
Fogg Pit
64 67 22 30 4 3 4.20
Zambrano NYM
63 63 39 45 3 6 4.26
Suppan StL
69 82 21 36 5 5 4.28
Backe Hou
79 81 29 50 6 3 4.31
Wolf Phi
74 82 23 58 6 4 4.38
JVazquez Ari
84 90 11 72 6 4 4.39
Estes Ari
72 76 27 43 4 4 4.46
Lidle Phi
72 83 18 45 5 4 4.46
Carrara LAD
26 32 12 27 5 2 4.50
OPerez LAD
48 44 10 32 4 4 4.50
Claussen Cin
40 50 17 26 2 3 4.50
TGlavine NYM
77 94 30 39 4 5 4.56
WWilliams SD
47 54 16 29 2 4 4.56
Lieber Phi
82 87 19 47 8 4 4.61
Dempster ChC
46 49 25 49 2 3 4.63
Rueter SF
69 79 25 14 2 4 4.65
Belisle Cin
40 44 15 28 2 5 4.65
Lawrence SD
75 83 18 33 3 6 4.78
Armas Jr. Was
36 33 18 12 2 3 4.91
HRamirez Atl
66 74 21 23 4 4 5.05
Francis Col
68 81 35 43 5 3 5.24
Weaver LAD
80 87 19 55 6 5 5.27
RuOrtiz Ari
72 88 41 32 4 5 5.45
Hawkins SF
23 25 10 16 1 5 5.48
Ishii NYM
47 41 25 29 1 5 5.48
Lowry SF
68 78 28 54 2 6 5.53
Wright Col
69 88 34 42 4 5 5.68
Schmidt SF
55 59 33 52 3 2 5.69
JJennings Col
71 80 45 43 3 6 5.93
ROrtiz Cin
44 67 16 26 1 4 6.25
BKim Col
36 34 26 32 0 5 6.38
OlPerez Pit
60 62 37 58 4 4 6.41
Padilla Phi
42 49 25 29 3 5 6.43
Leiter Fla
53 54 37 30 2 6 6.45
Glover Mil
49 65 17 39 3 4 6.70
Kolb Atl
23 28 20 20 1 5 7.04
JKennedy Col
62 86 34 39 3 6 7.07
Erickson LAD
42 52 19 9 1 4 7.17
Milton Cin
70 96 21 41 3 7 7.46
PWilson Cin
46 68 17 30 1 5 7.77
Redding SD
24 35 11 13 0 5 8.76
PAGE 31
Translation: Language barrier hindering Latinos
TRANSLATION, FROM BACK PAGE
every day in the majors after being a
seven-time batting champion in his native
country. When a team makes such a financial commitment to one player, hiring an interpreter just becomes another aspect of
the investment. Years later, he still uses an
interpreter for most interviews.
Short of providing translators, many
teams try to make their Spanish-speaking
players’ transitions smoother by sponsoring academies in the Dominican Republic
and elsewhere that offer English training
and guidance about cultural differences.
Some teams also organize activities and
teaching sessions during spring training
that deal with everything from how to use
a bank to the appropriate tipping standards at a restaurant.
“I think Major League Baseball as well
as individual clubs have the last few years
made more efforts to make the baseball experience more than just playing the
game,” said Giants assistant general manager Ned Colletti. “It’s giving many players who English is not their native language the chance to not only learn the language but learn the customs. We go to
great lengths to teach our Latin kids.”
Still, Boston’s David Ortiz and others in
the majors have said Hispanic players
sometimes either misunderstand memos,
such as baseball’s steroid rules, or miss
messages altogether. Some players say
they’ve accidentally thrown away paperwork left in their lockers because they
were unable to read it.
“We’re kind of used to it,” said Ortiz, a
native of the Dominican Republic and one
of baseball’s most outspoken players on
language issues. “There are lots of Latinos
and only a few from Japan.”
Francona can relate to the frustrations
of his star player, whose timely hitting last
October helped the Red Sox win their first
World Series title in 86 years.
“I understand what he’s saying. If that’s
the case, it shouldn’t be the case,” Francona said. “That’s a little bit scary. We have
an obligation to follow through on a lot of
things.”
Giants manager Felipe Alou had no help
when he came to the United States in 1956
from the Dominican Republic as a minor
leaguer. He was not only one of the first
Latino players, but a black man living in
the South.
He once almost missed a road trip because he didn’t know the team was leaving
town. He boarded the team bus with the
clothes he was wearing and nothing else.
Alou would get stumped by certain
words: “I was taking English classes in
school, but it’s not the same.”
By his third year, he had reached the big
leagues with the Giants, and had learned
English. Still, he became furious when reporters didn’t correct the grammar in
quotes from him and his Latino teammates. Alou believes the media deliberately mocked the players’ limited English and
accents — quoting Hispanics phonetically
with phrases like “I heet de ball” — despite
the players’ efforts to communicate in an
unfamiliar language.
Alou, his brothers Matty and Jesus, and
Hall of Famers Juan Marichal and Orlando Cepeda even collected clippings of their
unflattering quotes.
“After time went by, we found out what a
lack of respect it was, what an insulting
way to put down our countries and our language,” Alou said. “The only reason the in-
terview was taking place was because we
knew a little English.”
Colombian-born Luis Torres, 56, began
covering baseball in the United States in
1980. He wound up translating for Hispanic players, carefully compiling a list along
the way of baseball words for each Spanish-speaking country. A player from Mexico might say something differently than a
player from Puerto Rico.
Torres, now employed by the Giants’
media relations department, believes his
vocabulary list of nearly 2,000 words is the
most extensive in the country.
“Even translating was hard,” he said. “So
I put together a dictionary of the words.”
Decades later, are teams doing enough to
prepare players for the language barrier?
Not according to Oakland reliever Ricardo Rincon, who speaks little English and
rarely does interviews. Because he played
professionally in his native Mexico for
seven seasons and worked only a few innings in the minors in three stints before
coming to the majors, he missed opportunities to become comfortable with English.
He thinks some young Latin American
players are so eager to rise through the system that they might unknowingly take supplements that are approved in their countries but banned by baseball, simply because they can’t read the rules.
A review of birth places earlier this season by The Associated Press showed that
players from Spanish-speaking countries
were getting tripped up by baseball’s new
steroids rules at a disproportionate rate.
About half of the first 50 players suspended for positive tests on the major and
minor league levels were born in Latin
America. Three of the five players suspended under the big league policy so far were
born outside the United States: Minnesota
reliever Juan Rincon (Venezuela), Tampa
Bay outfielder Alex Sanchez (Cuba) and
Texas pitcher Agustin Montero (Dominican Republic).
“They need to use their heads,” Rincon
said in Spanish. “Baseball can do more to
help make sure every Latino doesn’t take
these things after the season.”
San Francisco’s Edgardo Alfonzo, a Venezuelan who came up with the Mets, initially was so worried about doing interviews
in English that he’d start planning what to
say even while rounding the bases after a
home run.
“Every time you’re doing good, you’re
thinking, ‘Now I’ve got to deal with the
press and speak English,’ ” Alfonzo said.
“You want to say something from your
heart, and a translator says things with no
feeling. Times when I had a great game, I
was thinking what I was going to say to
these people. You get nervous because you
don’t want to say something wrong.”
Despite their language challenges, they
have each other. Before the Giants hosted
the Padres last month, Alfonzo and teammate Yorvit Torrealba stood behind the
batting cage, socializing with San Diego’s
Ramon Hernandez and Miguel Ojeda. It’s
a common scene among Hispanic major
leaguers.
Japanese players, meanwhile, are often
alone in their clubhouses.
Francona is among those who think the
major leagues could do more to help players adjust.
“I think it’s a very misunderstood subject,” he said. “I think we as Americans
who speak English, we thumb our noses at
everybody. If they don’t speak English,
they’re dumb. You know what, everybody
tries to speak English.”
STARS AND STRIPES, MIDEAST EDITION · Sunday, June 12, 2005
SPORTS
Nationals send disgruntled
starter Ohka to Milwaukee
for 2B Spivey, Page 26
Different translation
Garland becomes
first 10-game
winner in AL as
White Sox win
in San Diego
AP
Seattle outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, MLB’s first
Japanese position player to play every day,
was given an interpreter upon his big league
arrival in 2001. He still uses one today.
Page 27
In big leagues,
Japanese players
get interpreters,
most Latinos don’t
BY JANIE MCCAULEY
OAKLAND, Calif. — When Keiichi Yabu
and Brad Fischer argued about string cheese
while sitting in the clubhouse before a game,
they had a former anthropology professor,
Andy Painter, with them to translate every
word.
“You’re always eating cheese. Is cheese
good for you?” Yabu said in Japanese, smiling
as Painter quickly put the pitcher’s words in
English for Oakland’s first-base coach.
“It’s better than sushi!” Fischer barked
back.
Engaging in such casual conversation is an
important step for foreign players who come
to the majors, but it’s a lopsided luxury —
while Japanese players have interpreters to
help them with everything from getting a driver’s license to communicating with team-
AP
Boston’s David Ortiz, a native of the Dominican Republic, believes Latino players who do not
speak English are typically not given ample help in dealing with media and learning U.S. culture.
He says the language barrier contributes to Latino players violating baseball’s steroid rules.
I think it’s a very misunderstood
subject. I think we as Americans who
speak English, we thumb our noses at
everybody. If they don’t speak English,
they’re dumb.
Lopsided loss
in St. Louis
embarrasses
Yankees’ Torre;
Guerrero’s return
ignites Angels
Page 27
Terry Francona, Boston Red Sox manager
AP
San Francisco infielder Edgardo Alfonzo, a
Venezuelan, used to be so worried about
speaking English in postgame interviews that
he’d think about what to say while rounding
the bases after a home run. “Every time you’re
doing good, you’re thinking, ‘Now I’ve got to
deal with the press and speak English.’ ”
mates and coaches, most Latin Americans are
left to fend for themselves.
Fair or not, there are just a handful of Japanese players in the big leagues, all of whom
get translating support if needed, while hundreds of players from Spanish-speaking countries must rely on each another to figure
things out.
“You look at some of these kids, they’re 18,
19 years old, they’re scared to death,” Red Sox
manager Terry Francona said. “They’re away
from home probably for the first time. They’re
in a foreign country. Just because we like hamburgers doesn’t mean they do. It’s very unfair.
I think we have a responsibility to help them.
“The quicker they can communicate, they
do better off the field, which I think directly
translates to them succeeding on the field.”
Of 829 major league players on opening day
rosters and disabled lists, 23.5 percent were
born in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico,
Mexico, Venezuela or Cuba, according to the
commissioner’s office. Nearly 40 percent of
minor leaguers are from those five places.
The New York Yankees provide a full-time
interpreter for Japanese outfielder Hideki
Matsui. When Kaz Matsui signed with the
New York Mets before last season he not only
insisted on having an interpreter for himself,
but one for his wife.
The Yankees also hired a translator for Cubans Orlando Hernandez and Jose Contreras
when they were with the team. But most organizations can’t spend as freely as New York
teams. Last year’s AL MVP, Angels right fielder Vladimir Guerrero, depends on the club’s
Spanish radio color analyst, Jose Mota, to help
him through interviews.
Japanese players get more translation help
for several reasons.
One is that their language is completely foreign to most people in the major leagues. The
other is the clout they’ve earned along their
different route to the majors.
The Seattle Mariners paid $13 million to the
Orix Blue Wave for the rights to Ichiro Suzuki, the first Japanese position player to play
SEE TRANSLATION ON PAGE 31
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Allenby leads
Aussie brigade
at Congressional
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