at the Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon, Portugal, to Lehigh this fall to teach a new class, "Optical and Photonic Glasses," to seniors and graduate students.

The co-principal investigator in the Lehigh IMI is Carlo Pantano, director of Penn State's Materials Research Institute.

The new IMI will be overseen by a U.S. board of directors, with 10 members representing 10 universities and national labs, and an international board of directors, with 10 members representing 10 countries. The two boards, along with a trio of advisers from glass companies, will help Jain and Pantano evaluate research and collaboration proposals.Based on a complaint filed by SAI after an internal investigation, the Jnanabharati Police Station in Bengaluru also registered a criminal complaint against Hosamani. Based on a complaint filed by SAI after an internal investigation, the Jnanabharati Police Station in Bengaluru also registered a criminal complaint against Hosamani.

A train ticket, a letter to his wife and son, and an October 11 letter from the Sports Authority of India director general placing him under suspension in the light of charges of sexual harassment of a minor girl were found in the hotel room where kho kho and kabaddi coach R V Hosamani was found dead on Monday.

Hosamani, 59, committed suicide at a small lodge in Harihar town, some 350 km away from Bengaluru, sometime between October 13 and 15


after he was placed under suspension by SAI following a sexual harassment complaint on October 9 by a child he was coaching at the SAI Institute in Bengaluru.

Based on a complaint filed by SAI after an internal investigation, the Jnanabharati Police Station in Bengaluru also registered a criminal complaint against Hosamani on October 11 under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act, 2012.

When he was found dead at the MS Lodge in Harihar town of Karnataka’s Davangere district on Monday, the local police found that the kho kho and kabaddi coach – who has been with SAI since 1988 – had scribbled a note on the letter ordering his suspension and transferring him to Delhi. “Respected Madam, I don’t have any wrong or bad intentions inSport

Antenucci signs for Leeds

ITALIAN striker Mirco Antenucci has joined Leeds United for an undisclosed fee.

The 29-year-old had been at Elland Road for talks and tweeted a photograph of himself in front of the pitch as well as one of him signing his papers with the club's football consultant Graham Bean.

He wrote: "Proud to be a part of this club. I hope to give you a lot of satisfaction."

Leeds then confirmed the player had signed a two-year deal, subject to international clearance.

Antenucci has done the rounds in Italian football, playing for the likes of Giulianova, Catania, Ascoli, Torino and Ternana, where he scored 19 goals last season.

His best return came in the 2009-10 campaign when he netted 24 times for Ascoli to win the Serie B golden boot.

He arrives


at Leeds the day after their 2-0 home defeat to Brighton – their second loss from three Championship games under new coach David Hockaday.

Antenucci's signing is Leeds' 11th of the summer and he becomes the fourth Italian purchased by owner Massimo Cellino.

The former Cagliari president said last week that he still hopes to sign a further five or six players and is understood to be pursuing a move for Adryan, the Brazilian playmaker on loan at his old club from Flamengo.Bob Dole was never one to surround himself with advisers. But
now? They've got him surrounded

By Michael Duffy/Washington

(TIME, March 25) -- In the moments that have mattered most in Bob Dole's life, he has found himself alone. He was alone when he charged up a rocky
hill to a German machine-gun nest, to be torn apart by an
artillery shell. That experience took him to places where no one
could help him. The surgeons could do only so much. His mother,
who would have done anything for him, couldn't do anything when
she came upon him hanging from the rafters of their garage by
his shattered arm, trying to make it work again.

Twice before he has lost his party's nomination, and now that he
is finally on the verge of clinching it, he finds himself again
alone


in a place he has never been before: in the finals, facing
a formidable incumbent President. The new experience has left
the Candidate of Experience "somewhat off balance," says a top
aide, a little unsure of his next move. So early next month Dole
is going to take a week off, fly to Florida, sit in the sun
outside his condominium and then gather around him a group of
wise men and women to think through the campaign. Just holding
such a meeting is unusual for Dole, who has never been quick to
seek or take advice. "He has no peers,'' says a top aide. "He
has colleagues; he has friends. But all his real peers are dead.
He's outlived them all."

Dole has captured one of politics' greatest prizes without one
of the most important ingredients of any successfulcampaign: a
tight circle of trusted advisers who can tell him when he's
right, when he's wrong and when he needs to shape up. Dole
simply believes he knows more about politics than anyone else.
The last man whose advice he wholly trusted was Richard Nixon.
"That was the only time I ever saw him sit up and sit still for
more than 10 minutes and listen," said Tom Korologos, describing
a trip the two men made to the sage of Saddle River a few years
back. Otherwise, Dole has preferred to keep his own counsel and
even make fun of anyone who tries to change him. When an aide
recently gave him an advance text of a speech, the candidate
quipped with trademark sarcasm, "Let me show this to my council
of advisers." He pushes back when pushed too


hard. When Senator
Al D'Amato of New York urged Dole two weeks ago to attend a
debate before the Texas primary--"You gotta go," D'Amato said,
"you gotta go"--Dole teased, "Well, if you want me to, I won't."

After 35 years in Washington, Dole has an astonishingly small
circle. He has a coterie of old friends, including Democratic
Party viceroy Bob Strauss and Archer Daniels Midland Co.
chairman Dwayne Andreas, but he does not seek their counsel.
Other than his wife Elizabeth, who is an ad hoc adviser on
nearly everything, Dole's inner circle is made up of Senators
Pete Domenici of New Mexico, John McCain of Arizona and Bob
Bennett of Utah, and even they say they are not sure what he
absorbs. He taps experts on specific policy matters when he
needs them--including his chief of staff, Sheila Burke, and
adviserRobert Lighthizer--but does most of the political
thinking himself.

Whether or not he goes looking for advice, advisers come looking
for him. Two weeks ago, a group of Senators approached Dole and
urged him to use them regularly as sounding boards. A few days
later, they faxed talking points on trade and other matters to
his campaign plane; Dole surprised them by using the material.
Meanwhile, campaign manager Scott Reed has reached out to a
group of elected officials, from House Speaker Newt Gingrich to
New Hampshire Governor Steve Merrill, to help Dole sharpen his
message.

People who aspire to counsel him have learned they must do it
obliquely. Before the South Carolina debate in February, McCain
urged Dole to smile more, and like a high school drama coach, he
planted himself in the front row and smiled widely through the
entire forum.


Two weeks ago, Dole was diluting the emotional
high point of his speech--his painful convalescence--by rambling
on about other things, like Bosnia. Utah's Bennett, who was
traveling with Dole, waited a few hours after one run-on speech
and then pulled Dole aside in a relaxed moment. "When you've
told the story of Russell," said Bennett, "the speech is over.
That's it." At the next event, Dole brought the room to a hush
with the story of his recovery; he was clearly "aching" to go
on, recalls Bennett, but closed quickly with "God bless America."

Members of Dole's inner circle don't know if any of this advice
will stick. When he returned to the Senate Wednesday morning,
dozens of his colleagues were waiting outside his office with
ideas about how to beat Bill Clinton. They grabbed him in the
halls and corneredUndersecretary hosts closed-door debates over HQ cuts, strategy

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Army Undersecretary Brad Carson, during a visit to Afghanistan in April. At the Pentagon, Carson hosts regular meetings with Army brass to war-game strategic decisions with far-reaching effects to the service. (Army)

To map deep cuts throughout Army headquarters, or decide any other thorny issue facing the service, the Army’s top leadership has launched a new weekly power huddle at the Pentagon.

Spearheaded by Army Undersecretary Brad Carson, a former Oklahoma congressman and Army general counsel who took office in March, the forum is called the Army Management Action Group, or AMAG. Carson, in an Aug. 5 interview with Army Times, described how strategic budget decisions are being made, and how they could fundamentally reshape the force.

Carson and former


exceeding the minimum requirements for the National Recreational Boating Safety Program.

In 1987, US SAILING was set-up and was also mandated by the Congress [Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act of 1978] to served as the national governing body for the sport of sailing.

Unfortunately at the moment, Ted Stevens is currently being convicted of felony and has been asked to resign from the Alaskan Senate. However, Sen. Stevens has vowed to appeal the result of the trial, which he said was tainted by prosecutorial misconduct, and is free on bail. He returned to Alaska to fight for re-election. In fact, the 84-year-old Stevens has brought back $3.5 billion in special projects to his state which has made him close to a father figure there. More details on thisthe North American Yacht Racing Union (NAYRU) on October 30, 1897. As the National Governing Body for the sport of sailing, US SAILING's mission is to provide leadership for the sport of sailing in the United States. The organization works to achieve this mission through a wide range of programs and events, geared towards providing an equal level playing field for all sailors.


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Day #76 Blomkamp’s Films Answer AP Literature Open Response Question

I recently watched two films by South African director Neill Blomkamp, whose trademark is a blend of political science and science fiction. A repeated theme in his work highlights the conflict between those with wealth and power to those who have nothing, themes in District 9 (2009) and Elysium (2013). Watching both movies, I thought about how the two main characters in his films could answer the free response question on the 2014 Advanced Placement English Literature exam :

It has often been said that what we value can be determined only by what we sacrifice. Consider how this statement applies to a character from a novel or play. Select a characterUS sanctions threat hammering the ruble to multi-month lows

The Russian currency is slipping on Thursday after Washington proposed the latest round of anti-Russian sanctions. The ruble has hit the lowest level against the US dollar in nearly two years.

The US government is considering a broadened ban on dollar transactions by Russian lenders and operations with Russia's newly-issued sovereign bonds.

The latest punitive measures are being considered in response to Russia’s alleged involvement in the nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the UK. The Russian government has repeatedly denied involvement and has called for an open investigation.

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The news sent the Russian currency falling to 66.48 against the dollar, its weakest since November 2016.

The dollar-denominated RTS, an index of 50 Russian stocks


the US Office of Environmental Education. Internationally, both the 1975 Belgrade Charter out of an International Workshop on Environmental Education hosted by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as well as the 1977 Tbilisi Declaration, brought international attention to the field of environmental education. Legislation stemming from these conferences included resolutions of the European Union Council of Environmental Education in 1988, the 1995 National Environment Statute in Uganda [@pone.0059519-Palmer1], and the Environmental Education Act of 1990 in the United States, which reestablished the Office of Environmental Education after its elimination in the 1980s [@pone.0059519-Palmer1]. Most recently, a groundswell of support for connecting children to nature spurred the No Child Left Inside Act of 2011 (NCLI) in the United States, which wouldLeon Ware's exotic production that relied on keyboards as well as drums and basses as rhythm instruments, I Want You was a giant leap for Gaye. The feel of the album was one of late-night parties in basements and small clubs, and the intimacy of the music evokes the image of people getting closer as every hour of a steamy night wears on. The first 11 tracks on disc one comprise the album as it was issued. Tracks 11 through 14 are mixes of the title track and instrumental versions of it and "Strange Love (Feel All My Love Inside)." Disc two features unedited mixes of "Come Live with Me Angel" and "I Wanna Be Where You Are," alternate mixes of "After the Dance" and "Since I Had


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In 1992 Congress authorized the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to implement the Delaware River deepening project, which would deepen the river's shipping channel from 40 to 45 feet. In 2002 GAO reviewed the Corps' economic analysis of the project, concluding that it contained significant limitations. GAO recommended that the Corps prepare a comprehensive economic reanalysis, which the Corps completed in 2004. GAO was asked to determine the extent to which (1) the reanalysis addressed the limitations GAO identified; (2) the reanalysis's benefit projections, as updated, reflect current and anticipated market and industry conditions; and (3) the Corps has accounted for other key issues that could affect the project. GAO reviewed Corps project documentation and interviewed federal officials along with representatives of affected states, firms, and


oil and refined petroleum, but not for the remaining commodities. In the 6 years that have elapsed since the Corps completed its reanalysis, current and anticipated future market and industry conditions have changed significantly. Several of the assumptions that underlie the Corps' estimates of the project's benefits are inconsistent with these changes. For example, the Department of Energy has lowered its long-term forecasts for growth in East Coast refinery capacity and U.S. imports of crude oil. Also, in the fall of 2009, Delaware River refinery firms closed two major facilities. Further, steel imports have declined since 2006 according to the benefiting facility identified in the reanalysis, and were well below the reanalysis's growth projection for 2009. However, the Corps' 2008 and 2009 economic updates for the project didagainst the Corps in the fall of 2009, charging that the Corps lacks the environmental approvals needed to proceed with the project, among other concerns. Finally, New Jersey and several environmental groups have challenged in court the Corps' National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process for the project. Although the Corps completed an environmental assessment (EA) in April 2009, stakeholders believe that the process for soliciting public comment on its scope was unclear, did not allow enough time for comment, and that a new supplemental environmental impact statement is needed. Also, at the Army's direction, the Corps did not provide a public comment period for the draft EA as it had proposed to do.

Recommendations for Executive Action

Status: Closed - Implemented

Comments: In September 2011, the Corps issued an Economic Analysis


report, the Corps partially concurred with this recommendation, stating that it had no reason to believe its existing regulations and guidance regarding this subject are defective or in need of modification, but nonetheless agreeing to review and evaluate its existing guidance. In January 2012, the Corps reported that it completed this review and concluded that additional guidance is unnecessary. The Corps stated that the Council on Environmental Quality was established within the Executive Office of the President by Congress to promulgate national environmental policy such as suggested by the GAO report. The Corps stated that the Council was at that time soliciting interagency comments on efficient and timely environmental reviews. In addition, the Corps stated that specific to the Delaware River Deepening Project, the Corps Philadelphia District hascommon west of the Plains states and in several Southeastern states. Inland flood events—not caused by tropical cyclones—often occur in states near large rivers or the Gulf of Mexico, which is a warm source of moisture to fuel rainstorms. Drought impacts are mostly focused in the Southern and Plains states where crop and livestock assets are densely populated. Severe local storm events are common across the Plains, Southeast, and Ohio River Valley states. And, winter storm impacts are concentrated in the Northeastern states while tropical cyclone impacts range from Texas to New England but also impact many inland states.

In total, the Central, South, and Southeast regions typically experience a higher frequency of billion-dollar disasters than other regions.

To visualize the frequency and cost of billion-dollar disasters, check out our


Exclusion of the HLA locus from a large portion of the long arm of chromosome 6.
HLA antigens were determined in two infants with multiple congenital anomalies and in their healthy parents and one sibling. One infant had a deletion of a major portion of the long arm of chromosome 6. The other child had a translocation of a similar piece of chromosome 6 to the short arm of chromosome 3. The mother and the maternal grandmother showed this translocation in a balanced state. The HLA types of both children and their parents exclude the localization of the major histocompatibility locus from the deleted or translocated portion of the long arm of chromosome 6.the car- the driver and front seat passenger- then doused the vehicle in a flammable substance and deliberately set it alight.

The car became engulfed in flames, which spread to the building, causing damage totalling €1.8 million worth of damage, Gda Plunkett said. Two staff members were working in the gym at the time.

There was no evidence anyone was injured.

Gda Plunkett said the incident was captured on CCTV which showed the car pulling up in front of the gym and the front seat passenger getting out, carrying a plastic container and running toward the front door of the building.

He was seen giving a hand signal to the driver, who drove through the doors. The driver then exited the car and both men poured a substance over the car and


set it alight before fleeing to the corner of the retail park, Gda Plunkett said.

Both appeared to be wearing latex gloves and DNA evidence was taken from a glove that was discarded.

Applying for bail, defence solicitor Michael French said Mr Harte denied the allegations against him and was entitled to a presumption of innocence.

The accused was in receipt of social welfare and looking for work as a labourer. He was a “promising association footballer” in his time and had gone on a scholarship to the University of Tennessee, Mr French said. He had returned home and was still involved in refereeing underage matches.

It was a “serious matter by any standards” and involved almost €2 million worth of damage, Judge O’Shea said.

“Another factor” he considered was that there wereOfficers in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, say evidence does not support claims of woman, who is recovering in intensive care

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Indian police say they have found no evidence that a woman who claims she has been the victim of at least two acid attacks was targeted again at the weekend.

The woman, who was allegedly raped by two men in 2008 as part of a property dispute, told police she was attacked with acid on Saturday night while staying at a women’s hostel in Uttar Pradesh.

She has claimed the same two men who allegedly raped her nine years ago also burned her with acid in 2013 and in March this year. Police said they had cleared the


men in the rape case and the subsequent allegations of acid-throwing.

Since the alleged attack in March, during which the woman said she had been forced to drink acid, she has been receiving 24-hour police protection.

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According to police, the 35-year-old woman said her assailants scaled the walls of her hostel and scalded her with acid on Saturday, leaving her with burns on her face and neck.

The woman is being treated for burns to her neck and shoulders, but police in the Uttar Pradesh capital, Lucknow, said investigations had raised questions over aspects of her account.

“Whatever evidence we have gathered doesn’t support the theory she was attacked by acid by anybody else,” said Vivek Tripathi, a police officerBurn patients during the Summer Solstice festivities: A retrospective analysis in a hospital burn unit from 2005 to 2015.
San Juan (Summer Solstice) is an annual festival celebrated in many parts of Spain on June 24 by lighting bonfires on beaches and in open air. The aim of this study is to analyse the patient profile of those sustaining burns the night before San Juan. The data of 179 patients who sustained burns on June 23 and 24 between 2005 and 2015 were collected retrospectively. The average age of the patients involved in this study was 27.33 years, with males constituting a higher proportion. Hands were the most affected area of the body, and the average burn area was 3.39%. No statistically significant relationship was found between the tidal


them into the global food supply. The current USDA process takes longer than they would like due to ‘public interest, legal challenges, and the challenges associated with the advent of national organic food standards‘ says USDA deputy administrator Michael Gregoire.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, problems like public interest (activist groups attempting to bring the dangers of GMO crops to light), legal challenges (farmers suing Monsanto over genetic contamination), and national food standards are all getting in the way of their prime goal — to helpMonsanto unleash their latest untested GMO creation. In fact, the concern is that Monsanto may be losing cash flow as nations like Brazil speed genetically modified seeds through laughable approval processes.

Steve Censky, chief executive officer of the American Soybean Association, statesThis spring, we began what turned out to be an ambitious project to follow the seasons of Europeans and Americans eligible to play for European countries in their spring seasons at American universities and high schools. We started with a list of several dozen, but discovered more and had many names submitted by national federations and parents. The list now numbers 66, including six commitments for upcoming seasons.

We broke down the group into various categories, including national federation, level of play, position, and year in education in our previous updates, available here: Part I Part II Part III. Great Britain, Greece, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic had, by far, more players than elsewhere, while the various levels included eight high schoolers, 17 in junior college (a two-year


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Matteo Bocchi, RHP (JR, No. 14 University of Texas [42-23], Tx.) [Bio]

After struggling with his control in the first few weeks of the season, Bocchi improved significantly and, by the postseason, was pitching high leverage innings. Bocchi had six strikeouts in game one of the Super Regional, a personal best, before earning the start in game three of the Super Regional, scattering five baserunners over five one-run innings, whiffing three. As Texas concluded its season at the College World Series, Bocchi tossed a scoreless inning over Arkansas, finishing with a 1.00 ERA and nine strikeouts in nine postseason innings.

Overall, the Italian wentNCAA DI College World Series. Although it appears he did not reside their for long, Campbell was born in Portugal, which last fielded a senior national team in 1998, when Campbell had just turned one.

Campbell was a regular starter for the Razorbacks, making 18 appearances, only one in relief. Campbell, however, was either brilliant or awful in virtually every appearance, with the high points including eight shutout innings and eight Ks against No. 4 Kentucky and another eight whiffs in 5 1/3 innings of two-run ball versus Florida in the College World Series. Campbell was also yanked in the World Series finals in a game Arkansas would lose 5-0, ending their season, and had a 4.86 ERA in the postseason.

Campbell had ten games against teams with European-eligible players,


 -- Vice President Mike Pence today said he was "disappointed" that now former national security adviser Michael Flynn misled him about the nature of his conversations with Russian officials during the presidential transition period.

"I was disappointed to learn that the facts that had been conveyed to me by Gen. Flynn were inaccurate," Pence told reporters at a joint news conference with the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels. "I fully support the president's decision to ask for his resignation."

It was Pence's first time speaking about President Trump's asking Flynn to resign.

"I'm very grateful for the close working relationship I have with the president of the United States," Pence said. "It was the proper decision. It was handled properly and in a timely way. AndI have great confidence in the national security team of this administration, going forward."

Trump asked for Flynn's resignation after learning he did have communications in December with the Russian ambassador to the United States about pending sanctions by the Obama administration, after initially believing there was no such discussion.

In late-January, the Justice Department informed the White House that Flynn may have misled the vice president and other senior White House officials about his call with the Russian ambassador. It wasn't until two weeks later that Pence learned he may have been misled, according to a timeline provided by a spokesman for Pence.

"What I would tell you is that the vice president became aware of incomplete information that he had received on February 9th last Thursday night based on


Syrian Rebels Launch New Strikes on Aleppo

BEIRUT (AP) -- Emboldened Syrian rebels launched a major operation in the north, targeting security compounds and bases around the country's largest city of Aleppo, activists said Friday.

The coordinated strikes come two days after President Bashar Assad conceded his forces have been unable to quell the more than 17-month-old rebellion against him.

Weeks of intense bombardments by the Syrian military, including airstrikes, have failed to dislodge the rebels. Instead, Assad's opponents have become more brazen as fighting rages and the civil war shows no sign of ending soon.

The rebel offensives in Aleppo, which began shortly before midnight Thursday and continued through Friday, were being led by a brigade mainly consisting of army defectors who specialize in operating artillery and tanks, said Mohammed Saeed,an activist based in the city.

The new operation, called "The Northern Volcano," will focus on coordinated attacks on specific military and intelligence targets in the city and surrounding province of the same name, Saeed said via Skype.

Saeed said the first attacks began shortly before midnight Thursday and lasted until Friday, when the "Brigade of Free Syrians" launched coordinated strikes on several security compounds in Aleppo.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels killed and wounded a number of regime forces at one compound in the Aleppo neighborhood of Zahraa, but it gave no figures.

Saeed said rebels attacked four security buildings around Aleppo with tanks, rockets and machine guns. The state-run news agency, SANA, said troops killed and wounded several gunmen in the clashes.

Rebels seized several areas in


Aleppo, Syria's commercial capital, last month, marking a turning point in the conflict because the region had long been staying out of the conflict. Rebels also control much of the wider Aleppo province, including areas on the border with Turkey.

Government forces have been fighting to recapture the territory, but the two sides have found themselves stalemated.

Fighting also continued elsewhere in Syria, including the capital, Damascus, showing that the rebels have a presence in main population centers, not just the outlying districts where the uprising began.

The Observatory and the Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, reported clashes and shelling between troops and rebels in the southern province of Daraa, around Damascus and in the central region of Homs.

Heavy clashes raged for a third day inside the sprawling Abu Zuhourair base in the northwestern province of Idlib, the Observatory said, adding that anti-government gunmen were storming officers' housing units.

The reports could not be confirmed independently.

Activists estimate more than 20,000 people have been killed in the uprising Assad's regime, which began in March 2011 with peaceful protests but rapidly evolved into a civil war.

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Bean,” who titles himself as “prince of the Princess Movement For Freedom” and is suspected of being a prince (since he is very well known for leaking significant cases coming out of the Kingdom), tweeted this leak and it was then posted on Alahennews. The tweet stated that “Ben Nayef informed [the King] Salman that he intends to execute Nimr on the same date of the memory of the death of his father Nayef. [King] Salman reserved the date and kept it private fearing revenge”.

Bin Nayef is Muhammad Bin Nayef Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the crown prince and first deputy prime minister and the minister of interior of Saudi Arabia. He is heir apparent by King Salman. As crown prince, he is first in line to the throneLONDON/ULAANBAATAR (Reuters) – Nearly 10 years on from the launch of a giant copper and gold project in Mongolia, Rio Tinto is still looking to secure a domestic power source it needs for the mine under an agreement with the government.

Oyu Tolgoi, located in the South Gobi region near landlocked Mongolia’s southern border with China, is scheduled to complete a $5.3 billion underground expansion for first production by 2020, creating one of the world’s biggest copper suppliers.

The project, launched in 2009 and 34 percent-controlled by Mongolia, is set to transform the country’s tiny economy, and is also key for Rio as the biggest potential growth area for its copper business. But it has been beset by squabbles over cost overruns and claims of unpaid taxes.

Under an agreement with


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Last night one of televisions’ most successful franchises, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, took on the issue of rape as a weapon of war in Eastern Congo. Anchor Jeb Sharp speaks with Neal Bear, the program’s executive producer of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, about why he chose to tackle the subject.Download MP3

Darfur ceasefire on knife edge

Matt Brown, Foreign Correspondent

Last Updated: March 08. 2010 8:41PM UAE / March 8. 2010 4:41PM GMT

NAIROBI // One year after Omar al Bashir, the Sudanese president, was indicted for war crimes in the western Darfur region, the violence there continues to linger. Clashes have erupted in the past week despite a ceasefire deal signed last month between the government and a major rebel group.

As the international community shiftsunder-reported stories… Later we’ll talk with some parenting experts on raising children in a peaceful and productive way…

But first some listener comments about yesterday’s program. All five of the comments were about the last few callers who were urging low income people to go to college and who were defending controversial talk show host Alex Jones….here’s what some listeners had to say…

Congo-Kinshasa: 'Blood Diamonds' Inspire 'Conflict Minerals' Campaign

Nairobi — A campaign is growing in the United States to end wars and atrocities in eastern Congo by discouraging the export of what organisers describe as "conflict minerals."

The effort is inspired by the movement a few years ago that helped stop murderous conflicts in West Africa by successfully targeting the "blood diamonds" that were financing them.

The Congo initiative is also


modelled on the influential US varsity-based campaign to halt mass killings in Darfur as well as on the earlier push against US corporate investment in apartheid South Africa.

Prof Herbert Weiss, a Congo expert at a Washington think tank, noted at a US university forum last week that an increasing number of Americans are at last paying attention to Congo.

The organiser of the conflict-minerals campaign John Prendergast told activists to rally behind proposals in the US Congress to create a global certification system for four valuable metals found in large quantities in Congo.

Monitoring would be put in place to ensure lawful control of these minerals, which are essential for the manufacture of telecommunications devices, Mr Prendergast said.

Sudan: U.S. Worried As Southern Region Heads for Secession

Kevin Kelley

8 February 2010

Nairobi —With Southern Sudan now believed virtually certain to vote for independence in less than a year, worries are growing in Washington not only over a possible resumption of the North-South civil war, but also over the likelihood that the newly independent state will not prove viable.

Pessimism appears prevalent both inside and outside the Obama administration.

Officials and advocates alike fear that East Africa's largest country may again be convulsed by violence after a concerted, protracted and ultimately successful US-led effort to end 20 years of disastrous fighting.

Renewed North-South warfare might yet be averted, a panel of 20 Sudan experts suggested in a report published a few months ago, but only if major disagreements are resolved before the southern Sudanese take part in a referendum scheduled for January 2011.

And "absent


a change in the status quo," added the report by the nongovernmental US Institute of Peace, "most of the important substantive issues between North and South -- oil revenue sharing, security arrangements and the demarcation of boundaries -- will not be resolved before the referendum."

Early this year, the United Nations sent its favorite dictator-whisperer, Nigerian diplomat Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, to Sudan, hoping to nudge the country's leader and alleged war criminal, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, toward peace. Gambari, a veteran of U.N. missions from Zimbabwe to Myanmar, has developed his knack for counseling autocrats on the job -- by working for one, Sani Abacha, the notorious late strongman president of Nigeria, whom Gambari served as U.N. ambassador from 1990 to 1999.

Anywhere else, Gambari's Abacha connection might be acareer breaker. But since joining the United Nations in 1999, Gambari has thrived, managing crises from Angola to Cyprus and raising money for Iraq's reconstruction. According to U.N. staffers, his old-school capabilities as a diplomat, coupled with his Muslim faith and eminent standing in Africa, make him a formidable mediator. The Sudan assignment provides an opportunity to test whether Gambari's experience and easy rapport with unsavory political players can translate into concrete progress on the main challenges of the day: a settlement in Darfur and resolution of the standoff over the South's quest for independence.

American Lisa and Congolese Lisa

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF

My Thursday column is about the war in eastern Congo, looking at the work of Lisa Shannon and her Run for Congo Women. Readers sometimes ask why I


US Charge on Arms Transfers to South

Date: Wednesday, February 03 @ 00:00:00 GMT
Topic: Main News

UNITED NATIONS - (Reuters)

Sudan's U.N. ambassador on Friday dismissed as "irresponsible" U.S. allegations that weapons from northern Sudan were going to armed groups in the semi-autonomous south ahead of a nationwide April election.

Earlier this week the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said Washington was concerned about the flow of arms, including heavy weapons, into southern Sudan, and believed they were coming from northern Sudan and neighboring countries.

Sudanese Ambassador Abdalmahmoud Abdalhaleem told Reuters that Khartoum "categorically denied" Rice's allegations. "The statement by the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. attributing arms flows to south Sudan to the north is most irresponsible," he said in an interview.

Five years ago, Lisa Shannon watched “Oprah” andlearned about the savage, forgotten war here in eastern Congo, played out in massacres and mass rape. That show transformed Lisa’s life, costing her a good business, a beloved fiancé, and a comfortable home in Portland, Ore. — but giving her a chance to save lives in Congo.

I found myself stepping with Lisa into a shack here. It was night, there was no electricity, and a tropical rainstorm was turning the shantytown into a field of mud and streams. Lisa had come to visit a woman she calls her sister, Generose Namburho, a 40-year-old nurse.

Generose’s story is numbingly familiar: extremist Hutu militiamen invaded her home one night, killed her husband and prepared to rape her. Then, because she shouted in an attempt to warn her neighbors, they hacked


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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Booker extraordinaire George Scott, who cut his teeth booking for Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling, helped transform Mid Atlantic (Jim Crockett, Sr) from a tag team based to a singles focused in the 1970s, was the matchmaking force behind the first Wrestle Mania and Saturday's Night Main Event in the Vince McMahon led World Wrestling Federation (1984-1986), and had a cup of coffee booking in the Jack Adkisson controlled WorldClass Championship Wrestling and Jim Crockett, Jr. controlled National Wrestling Alliance after his stint in Titanland.

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Monday, June 22, 2009

B. Brian Blair, everyone's favorite Killer Bee has set th' interwebs abuzz this weekend with a stinging report of his arrest! Seems all's not well back at the Blair Family Hive as his teenage kids are obviously out late perhaps flitting from flower to flower:

"According to the arrest report, Blair, shoved his son Brett in the chest at about 4am Sunday morning. When Brett tried to walk away, Blair grabbed him, punched him in the face and put him in a choke hold, the


report states. He then let go of Brett, grabbed younger son Bradley by the throat and punched him, deputies said. Both sons identified their father as the person who attacked them, and Blair was taken to the Hillsborough County jail on two felony counts of child abuse.

Blair appeared in a Florida court this morning after spending last night in jail. The presiding judge in this morning's proceedings ordered Blair to be released from jail and turned over the case to the Department of Children and Families. "

And what a card they have assembled for the cretins, mutants, inbreds, filthy degenerates, online fantasy gamers, mom's basement dwellers, and chronic masturbators of the Twin Cities metropolitan area this evening. The lazy right eyed and as of last Saturday night formerof his top priorities since taking over the helm of the Justice Department in February 2017. A key part of that effort involves a crackdown on primarily Democrat-governed cities and states that Sessions claims are"sanctuaries" that protect illegal immigrants from deportation.

Sessions is expected to formally announce the lawsuit, which will name as defendants the state of California, Governor Jerry Brown and the state's attorney general, Xavier Becerra, during a speech on Wednesday morning in Sacramento.

Brown in October signed into law a bill that prevents police from inquiring about immigration status and curtails law enforcement cooperation with immigration officers.

The Justice Department lawsuit will cite a provision of the US Constitution known as the "Supremacy Clause," under which federal laws trump state laws.

"The Department of Justice and the Trump administration


are going to fight these unjust, unfair and unconstitutional policies that have been imposed on you," Sessions plans to tell a group of law enforcement officers, according to prepared remarks seen by Reuters.

Early into his tenure, Trump signed an executive order that sought to block municipalities that failed to cooperate with US immigration authorities from receiving federal grant funding.

However, the Justice Department's attempts to carry out the order to date have been stymied by lawsuits in the federal courts in Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia.

At issue is whether sanctuary cities are violating a federal law that requires them to share information about people they arrest with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

The Justice Department is already embroiled in several pending legal battles with the Trump administration relatedto sanctuary policies.

One case is now on appeal, after a federal judge in San Francisco blocked Trump's executive order to block funding to sanctuary cities.

Another case in San Francisco argues that the Justice Department's efforts to cut off funding rests on a flawed interpretation of federal immigration law and tramples California's right to enforce its own laws as it sees fit.

Similar kinds of cases are under way in other parts of the country, including a case on appeal in Chicago after a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction barring the government from blocking grant money typically used to help local police combat violent crime and help victims.

The Justice Department's planned lawsuit against California will target three state laws, senior Justice Department officials said on Tuesday in a press


briefing.

One law, known as Assembly Bill 450, prohibits private employers in California from voluntarily cooperating with federal immigration officials and imposes fines of up to US$10,000 if a business owner fails to comply.

A second law, Senate Bill 54, prevents state and local law enforcement from giving federal immigration officials information about when they intend to release an illegal immigrant from their custody.

The third law, meanwhile, empowers the state to inspect federal immigration detention centers.

Collectively, the Justice Department officials said, these three laws improperly attempt to regulate federal immigration at the state level.

The department also plans to seek a court order from a judge to temporarily block the state from enforcing the laws.O n 2 November 1987, Bruce Willis, having just dashed from the set of hit TV romcom Moonlighting, found himself gazing down from the roof of a five-storey parking garage on the Westside of Los Angeles.

It was his first night shooting his new movie. He was about to make a literal leap into the unknown, jumping into the crisp LA night as a ripple of explosions lit up the dark behind him.

The film, of course, was Die Hard. John McTiernan’s valentine to every-dude grit, pump-action one-liners and blood-stained vests would achieve more or less immediate recognition as one of the greatest action movies ever made. When it had its inaugural British screening at London Film Festival a little over a year later, on 27 November 1988, it reduced


rollicking energy as McClane’s man on the outside, Sergeant Al Powell – but it functioned as a family drama, too. The only reason McClane was in Nakatomi Plaza, after all, was to reconcile with wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia, aunt of Macaulay Culkin) who had jeopardised their marriage for her soaraway corporate career (the only aspect of the plot to feel horribly dated).

Rickman with Bonnie Bedelia in ‘Die Hard’: the actors didn’t expect the film to be such a huge success (Rex) (Rex Features)

Amid the mayhem were lashings of dark humour. Gallows wit was a sensibility Willis had picked up on during his research for the part, when he spoke to cops who had found themselves in real-life hostage situations.

“This could easily become a very heavy, kill everybody film,”struck those involved as fantastical. Willis simply wanted to make it out alive. Everyone else wanted to make it out with their reputation intact.

The script, by veteran Steven de Souza (Commando, 48 Hrs) and newcomer Jeb Stuart, was still very much a work in progress, with many of Die Hard’s most memorable scenes cobbled together on the fly. Consider the sequence in which Gruber runs into McClane and pretends to be a hostage. It came about after De Souza overheard Rickman trying out his American accent on the crew. Several hours later, he’d bashed out a page of dialogue and cameras were rolling.

Willis initially turned down the film due to other work commitments (Rex) (REX)

One glimmer amid the chaos was the one-liner Stuart and De Souza had already


else entirely – and conventional wisdom in the late Eighties held that for an action movie to punch through, it had to star a bulging strongman who acted with his pecs.

It was exactly this formula that had given director McTiernan his breakout smash with Predator. But where that film had featured an established action A-lister in Arnold Schwarzenegger, the stars of his new project were either unknown (Rickman) or regarded as the very opposite of a muscled hero (Willis).

Willis had, in fact, been at the bottom of the wish list for producers Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver (48 Hrs, Lethal Weapon). For complicated contractual reasons, they’d been obliged to offer the part of John McLane to Frank Sinatra, then in his seventies. Rather improbably, in 1968 Sinatra hadheaded the cast in a loose prequel to Die Hard, The Detective (both films adapted from thrillers by Roderick Thorp) and had first dibs on the follow-up.

When he sensibly declined, Schwarzenegger was approached. Ironically, as Willis was trying to escape from comedy, Schwarzenegger was attempting to break into the genre by starring alongside Danny DeVito in Twins – also released in 1988 – and so turned Die Hard down.

With Schwarzenegger out, Gordon and Silver cast their net a little wider. Richard Gere, Burt Reynolds, Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Nick Nolte, Don Johnson, Mel Gibson, even MacGyver himself Richard Dean Anderson were all sounded out. Each said no. As did Willis initially – for reasons that had less to do with Die Hard than with his contractual obligations to


a couple of years, I was still really learning how to act, so most of what went into making John McClane from a character standpoint was the South Jersey Bruce Willis – that attitude and disrespect for authority, that gallows sense of humour, the reluctant hero.”

The realism was further heightened by the choice of the still under construction Fox Plaza as stand in for Nakatomi tower. Because 20th Century Fox had a stake in the unfinished building, McTiernan was able to use several floors as his own private playground. The early scene where McClane dukes it out with Gruber’s goons was, for instance, filmed in an actual construction site – providing a grittiness that action movies of the period typically lacked.

As Die Hard would make thumpingly clear, McTiernanBroadway run of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

Alan Rickman was a relatively obscure stage actor when he landed the role of Hans Gruber

In his early forties, Rickman was perfectly happy as a well-regarded, thoroughly obscure stage actor. What Die Hard represented was a paycheque and an opportunity to dip a toe in cinema. He had little inkling as to where it would lead.

“Die Hard was a huge event in my life,” Rickman told me in 2015, less than a year before his death from pancreatic cancer at the age of 69. “I walked into a screening in New York anonymous and walked out not anonymous. You are aware that something has happened. It was the first film I ever made – I was very ignorant. Nowadays, everyone wants to be


there is curious beauty; the dense mineral content of the lake makes a border of fluffy white foam around the lake, and the wind picks up bits and it kind of floats around. Manitou Beach has been a resort town forever, and it hasn’t been invaded by any major developers yet, so it still has old school charm and ‘50’s style hamburger stands. We passed some nice B&Bs and a Drive-In movie theatre. The jewel of Manitou Beach Resort Town, though, has to be DanceLand.

The Legendary Danceland

When we went in there was a jazzy live dance band and couples doing some sort of ballroom dancing. It was a 5000 square foot dance floor warmly decorated. The guy I asked for road directions from turned out to be Arniesocial and economic problems.The HZDS said its campaign was motivated by the results of research prepared for the HZDS by an independent agency which the party has refused to identify. According to the results, the party says, 51% of the citizenry would participate in the referendum, with 69.5% voting in favour of early elections.Indendent polling agencies have put the figures much lower.Kalman said that the research also indicated that 65% of the population finds the situation in Slovakia has worsened since the 1998 parliamentary elections, while 73.5% believe their situation would improve with a change of government.President Rudolf Schuster, who gave the go-ahead for the referendum after the HZDS presented him with nearly 700,000 signatures on a referendum petition, told Czech radio last week that he was certain


remaining 15 minutes. No broadcast time was devoted to the Czech or Ruthenian minorities. Of the 220 stories aired, 209 were neutral but with no positive information. There were 10 negative stories about the Romanies, and one negative report on the Hungarian minority.

Dzurinda testifies in illegal bonuses case

Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda testified on August 10 in the case of his having distributed bonuses illegally to members of his cabinet. Although Dzurinda paid the illegal bonuses to his ministers, he is not being criminally prosecuted because the investigator ruled that he did not intentionally violate the law.Former Prime Minister Jozef Moravčík also testified last week, although he never paid illegal bonuses to his ministers. The only former PM accused of abuse of state power with regards to bonuses isformer Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar. According to documents the investigator obtained, from June 21, 1993 to March 11, 1994 and from June 20, 1995 to October 9, 1998, Mečiar violated the law on payment conditions for civil servants, costing the state budget 13,815,625 ($295,000).Members of the Dzurinda cabinet are ready to return bonuses that they were paid illegally by the end of the year. Some of the ministers have already returned the bonuses.

Norway suspends visa requirements for Slovaks

Visa requirements for Slovaks travelling to Norway were droppped as of August 16, the Slovak Foreign Ministry announced. The move by the Norwegians was credited to a recent visit to Norway by Slovak Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan, during which he met with Norwegian Justice Minister Oystein Maeland to discuss the problem


of asylum-seeking Slovak Romanies.Kukan and other Norwegian representatives agreed to maintain a close cooperation in monitoring the asylum policy of the Norwegian Kingdom. The visas were introduced for Slovaks on on July 26, 1999 following a similar decision by the Finnish government earlier that month.

HZDS would win elections if held now

A recent poll carried out by the Public Opinion Bureau of the Slovak Statistical Office revealed that once again, the opposition HZDS party of three-time former Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar would win elections if held now with 26.1% support, only slightly below the 27% the HZDS took in 1998 national elections.The non-parliamentary Smer party of independent MP Róbert Fico came second in the poll, at 20.8%, support the party has enjoyed steadily since its founding earlier this year.Victorious Admiral of Venice Otello returns home to his beautiful wife Desdemona. Iago succeeds in driving Otello mad with jealousy to captain Cassio. Desdemona falls victim to the devilish conspiracy

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Cyprus, late fifteenth century.

The Moor Otello, governor of the island and a general in the Venetian army, arrives in port as a tempest rages. Iago, Otello's ensign, confers with Roderigo, a fop who has come to Cyprus because of his unrequited love for Desdemona, a Venetian beauty recently married to Otello. Promising to help Roderigo, Iago says Desdemona should soon tire of her Moorish husband, adding that he himself has reasons for revenge on Otello, who passed him over for advancement, promoting Cassio instead. Iago proposes a toast; when Cassio declines any more drink, Iago


says he cannot refuse to salute Otello's new wife. Cassio consents and grows tipsy as Iago provokes Roderigo to a duel with Cassio. When Montano, Otello's predecessor in command, tries to separate the two, Cassio attacks him as well. Otello comes out of the castle to restore order. When he sees Desdemona disturbed by the fray, he takes away Cassio's recent promotion. Sending everyone home, Otello turns to his bride, and they recall their courtship. Leading her back into the castle, Otello kisses her.

A room in the castle, opening on a garden.
Iago tells Cassio that by presenting his case to Desdemona he can be reinstated, because Otello is influenced by his wife. As soon as Cassio is out of sight, Iago declares his belief that a cruel Godcreated man wicked, and life has no meaning. Iago watches as Cassio approaches Desdemona in the garden, and when Otello comes in, the lieutenant makes casual remarks about Desdemona's fidelity. Softened by his wife's beauty, Otello greets her, but she brings up the question of Cassio's demotion, annoying him. When she offers a handkerchief to wipe his brow, he throws it to the ground, where her attendant, Emilia, retrieves it. As Desdemona tries to calm Otello, Iago orders Emilia (his wife) to give him the handkerchief. Otello asks to be alone, and the others leave, except for Iago, who hangs back to observe Otello's growing suspicion. To fan the flames, Iago invents a story about how Cassio spoke lovingly of Desdemona in his sleep. Then he mentions her


handkerchief, saying he saw it in Cassio's hand. Beside himself, Otello swears to have vengeance, and Iago joins in the oath.

In the armory.
Iago tells Otello that more proof is forthcoming of his betrayal by his wife and Cassio. Desdemona enters, and Otello speaks calmly until she revives the subject of Cassio. When Otello demands the handkerchief he gave her, she again pleads for Cassio. Otello calls the shocked woman a courtesan and dismisses her. He cries out that heaven could have afflicted him with anything but this, then hides as Iago returns with Cassio. Iago flashes the handkerchief he stole and leads Cassio on in banter in such a way that Otello overhears only fragments and thinks they are talking about Desdemona. As trumpets announce dignitaries from Venice,Otello vows to kill his wife that very night. The Moor greets Lodovico, who recalls him to Venice and appoints Cassio to govern Cyprus. Losing control at this news, Otello pushes his wife to the floor with insults. He orders everyone out and collapses in a seizure as Iago gloats over him, crying, "Behold the Lion!"

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Despite extensive diagnostic workup, including, among others, bone marrow and liver biopsy, a diagnosis has never been established.

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In fact, UMG currently distributes only about 30% of the music consumed in the US, and because, like all the majors, it distributes some music over which it has no ownership rights (including no ability to set prices), it owns only 24% of music purchased in the US. EMI’s share of distribution, as we noted, is around 9%, and it has experienced significant turmoil in recent years. Meanwhile, the independent labels that some critics seek to exclude from the market (and which, ironically, probably distribute the bulk of the music they listen to) sell 30% of the records sold in the US today and do so digitally largely through a single distributor, Merlin—essentially a fifth major record label.


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Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich hit for the cycle in a game against the Reds back on August 29. It was a career night for Yelich, who finished 6-for-6 from the plate with three RBI in a wacky Brewers win. Yelich hit three dingers and drove in nine runs in that three-game series, so the Reds were very happy to move on to the non-Yelich portion of their late-season schedule.

But Monday night was the start of another series between the Brewers and Reds, and Yelich used it as an occasion to do what no other player in MLB history had ever done before: he hit for a cycle for the second time in one season against the same team.

This time Yelich did it infour at-bats, and in time to be substituted out in the eighth inning. And like all the best ones, this cycle ended with a triple, by far the rarest and hardest part of any cycle. Baseball has been around for a very long time, and there have only been 322 cycles in its recorded history, and Yelich has now hit the last two of them. This is arbitrary but fun: Aaron Hill in 2012 is the last player whose name appears consecutively on this big list of cycles, when he hit two in 11 days as a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Prior to that you have to go all the way back to John Reilly, who hit the third and fourth cycles in baseball history in a


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This unpublished study of social change focused on the inhabitants of Katharine Buildings in Stepney, London. The Buildings were established in 1885 as an experiment in improving working class housing conditions and were influenced by the ideas of Octavia Hill, Beatrice Webb and Ella Pycroft. Professor Townsend's study includes his analysis of the original ledgers and notes kept by Webb and Pycroft. In addition interviews with residents, some of whom were descendants of the original inhabitants, were also conducted. The accounts of interviews and questionnaires - with many open-ended questions - provide a unique picture of a working class community in transition through such issues as family history, household composition, occupation, income and leisure pursuits.

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Camp Ped

Long after Roman Catholic leaders knew pedo-priests couldn't be cured, Cardinal Roger Mahony kept packing off his worst offenders to a notorious New Mexico rehab center By Ron Russell

Los Angeles New Times

August 15, 2002 http://bcsd.freeservers.com/C/sex/081802_cardinal_roger_mahony.htm To know Father Michael Baker was to love him. Handsome, articulate and charismatic, he practically oozed trust. The parents of altar boys adored him for the special attention he gave their sons. Of course, they had no idea how special. The boys Baker zeroed in on also adored him. Unfortunately, he couldn't resist manipulating them for sex. In December 1986, after deciding to confess some of his sexual sins, his secret weakness was about to cost him big-time. Or so he thought. Baker didn't turn himself in to just anyone. He wentstraight to Roger Mahony, then as now the titular head of the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, fully expecting to be drummed out of the priesthood after confessing to having had sex with "two or three" of his altar boys. There had apparently been others. Carlos Perez-Carrillo, 36: His alleged abuser, convicted child-molester John Salazar, thrived as a priest after getting out of prison. Photo by Steven Dewall. But, astonishingly, Mahony wasn't inquisitive. The archbishop and then soon-to-be cardinal seemed more concerned with damage control. To Baker's relief, Mahony—a close friend and confidante—squelched the idea of turning him over to police. Neither were unsuspecting parishioners at the L.A.-area churches where his admitted abuses had occurred informed that a predator was among them. Far from being over, his priestly


career was merely sidetracked. Instead of notifying the cops, Mahony—in typical fashion—quietly packed his pal off to a remote corner of New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains. There, near the village of Jemez Springs, at a secluded retreat operated by a little-known Roman Catholic religious order called the Holy Servants of the Paraclete, Baker joined other priests receiving "therapy" for pedophilia. It was an exercise that Mahony—and, indeed, fellow bishops from coast to coast—already knew, or should have known, was a sham. Since at least the early 1970s Catholic scholars had collectively provided an unambiguous warning to the church hierarchy that too many of its priests suffered from sexual disorders. One of those experts, Father Michael Peterson, a clinical psychologist who in 1982 founded St. Luke Institute inMaryland, had sought to provide a more professional approach to treatment than ever existed at Jemez Springs. He was part of the chorus of experts who, in sharp contrast to the prevailing view of the '60s and '70s, concluded that people who sexually abuse young children stand little chance of getting cured. By the time Peterson began his work, the psychology profession had come to realize that recidivism, or the relapse rate, for pedophiles is second only to that of exhibitionists. In 1985, on the heels of a notorious case involving a Louisiana priest, Peterson and two other highly respected Catholic insiders issued a secret 92-page report on priestly sex abuse that dismissed the church's attempts to rehabilitate pedo-priests as a colossal failure. The report, which came to


be known as "the manual," was delivered to every bishop in the United States. Mahony received his copy while bishop of Stockton. It urged church leaders back then to immediately remove priests accused of sexual misconduct, report such priests to law enforcement and to never reassign them to new parishes if the allegations proved to be true. But Mahony and other church leaders scarcely needed the manual to understand that shuffling errant clerics off to New Mexico, or anywhere else, for supposed rehabilitation was a fool's errand. Camp Ped, as even some of the priests assigned to psychosexual treatment there derisively referred to it, had become more than the American hierarchy's dirty little secret. It was a cruel joke. From the time the Paraclete brothers—over the objections ofthe order's founder—began treating pedophiles there in 1965, Camp Ped was little more than a recycling center for child-molesting priests. Bishops used it as a holding tank for clerical sickos until they could foist them on new and unsuspecting parishioners. Its miserable track record can be measured in countless children's ruined lives. Ex-altar boy and abuse victim Lorenzo Najera at L.A.’s Santa Teresita Parish Church. Photo by Gary Leonard. As documents and interviews show, long before Mahony sent some of his most notorious offenders there, including Baker in late 1986 and Father Michael Wempe the following year, the retreat's dismal reputation was well established among church leaders, even if they pretended not to know. (The late Father Ted Llanos, who molested at least 35 altar boys to become


the L.A. Archdiocese's most notorious child abuser, had pulled time at Jemez Springs in the early '70s under Mahony's predecessor, Cardinal Timothy Manning.) After all, the bishops were dealing firsthand with Camp Ped's failures—clerics who invariably had been discharged by the Paracletes with a clean bill of health and who, like Baker, resumed molesting after settling into new assignments back home. New Times has learned that a few bishops, including the recently retired Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, actively recruited new priests from the ranks of Jemez Spring's pedophiles. Camp Ped is where Matthiesen found Father John Salazar, the former Los Angeles priest who not only had been caught molesting boys at an Eastside parish in the 1980s, but who had served three years in prison and wasnewly paroled when the bishop swooped into the retreat in 1990 and revived his career. As ecclesiastical parole officers, the Paracletes were an easy touch from the outset, turning loose their uncured "patients" with abandon despite whatever advice they may have received from outside medical professionals. Astonishingly, even while pedo-priests were ostensibly being treated there, the religious order's supervisors allowed many to be furloughed on weekends or sometimes for weeks at a stretch to fill in as parish priests in New Mexico and nearby states. Notorious Massachusetts pedo-priest James Porter, who arrived at the retreat in 1967, received three such furloughs, each time molesting new victims. Yet his Paraclete superior, Father John B. Feit, continued to write glowing letters of recommendation on Porter's behalf, and was instrumental in


placing him in a Minnesota diocese at the end of his "treatment"—where he molested again before ultimately being sent to prison. Jemez Spring's outrages caught up with it in 1994, when the Paracletes were forced to close the psychosexual treatment operation there as the result of scores of lawsuits by abuse victims across New Mexico. The litigation cost the Archdiocese of Santa Fe more than $50 million and pushed it to the brink of bankruptcy. "What went on there was abominable," says Father Tom Doyle, a U.S. Air Force chaplain and co-author of the manual. Placing the blame for the abysmal Camp Ped experiment at the feet of American bishops, Doyle is especially disdainful of Mahony's repeated insistence that his mishandling of pedo-priests was the result of followingthe prevailing medical advice of the day. "It simply isn't true!" he says. "He's replaying the same tired and meaningless excuse. He knew that sexual abuse of a child was harmful, that it was the vilest form of crime and that sex offenders [of children] are considered the lowest form of life even in prisons. He knew it was and is a felony in every state. So just what is it that Mahony didn't know?" In Baker's case, Mahony apparently did little to monitor him after his return. It is claimed in a letter of complaint—which led to a $1.3 million payment to two victims whom Baker allegedly abused for years after Mahony welcomed him back into the L.A. Archdiocese—that Baker kept pictures of the victims in his


room at a rectory long after returning from Camp Ped. The photos were taken during times he had molested them in his quarters. In 1999, after two of Baker's nine known accusers came forward, Mahony apparently hoped to buy the silence of the victims and their attorney by authorizing the payment before a lawsuit could be filed. One well-placed source calls it "maybe the fastest payoff of its kind ever." This source says that when an Arizona attorney for the victims showed up in L.A. after merely announcing an intent to sue, Mahony personally "took her to the Wilshire Country Club and later had a check in her hand so fast it would make your head swim." Having kept Baker's misdeeds secret for at least 14 years, thecardinal quietly arranged for his retirement from the archdiocese in late 2000. It wasn't until earlier this year, after the current scandal erupted, that Mahony reluctantly turned over Baker's name, along with a handful of others, to law enforcement. Nowhere, with the possible exception of Boston, has the church's failed rehabilitation model come to haunt it more than in the sprawling L.A. Archdiocese, which includes Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. At least 72 of Mahony's current or former priests are under investigation by law enforcement in at least 142 cases. As this article went to press, the L.A. County Grand Jury was known to have issued subpoenas for materials related to 17 priests—after Mahony spent months stonewalling District Attorney Steve Cooley and investigators from the Los


Angeles Police Department, the Sheriff's Department and other agencies. Now, with the Labor Day opening of Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral (the lavish $193 million monument to the cardinal's legacy) only weeks away, sources tell New Times that more subpoenas are imminent and that authorities may soon begin to arrest some of Mahony's clerics. ________________________ Father John Salazar rumbled through his victims' lives like a runaway train. But unlike most priestly sex abuse victims, those he molested at least had the satisfaction of seeing him sent to prison. That was in 1988, after the then 31-year-old cleric pleaded guilty to molesting two boys, ages 13 and 14, who were students at Santa Teresita Parish School in the City Terrace section of L.A.'s Eastside. As a member ofthe Piarist Fathers, a small order of priests based in Italy who oversee several parishes in the L.A. Archdiocese, Salazar taught at the school and helped out with mass on Sundays. His admissions didn't come easily. In fact, if it had been left to church officials, he would have gotten off scot-free. After the mother of one of the boys went to Salazar's superiors in 1986 upon learning that her son had been molested, she was told that it was the boy's fault—even while she was assured that Salazar would receive "counseling" from the church. She and the parents of a second child who came forward refused to let the matter drop. Two years later, facing the prospect of a much longer jail term, Salazar copped a plea


to two felony counts in exchange for a six-year sentence. Although Salazar served at Santa Teresita under Mahony's authorization, the archdiocese—as it typically does with miscreant "order" priests assigned within its jurisdiction—washed its hands of him, passing the buck to the Piarists. About the same time Salazar was cutting his deal with prosecutors, another scandal erupted involving one of Mahony's priests at a neighboring parish in El Sereno. At least 26 altar boys there and at a South-Central L.A. church accused Father Nicholas Aguilar Rivera of molesting them. Mahony ordered Rivera hauled into the chancery office for interrogation over a weekend after the first few of the accusers lodged complaints, but didn't bother to notify Los Angeles police until two days later. By then, Rivera had fled tohis native Mexico and vanished. As they've often done during Mahony's tenure, the cardinal's subordinates concocted a lie to tell parishioners to explain the priest's departure, chalking it up to a "family emergency." Like the Salazar episode, the Rivera caper passed with almost no publicity. Salazar's victims in Los Angeles may have thought they had heard the last of him, but his extraordinary saga didn't end with his imprisonment. Paroled in 1990 after serving three years behind bars (including time spent before sentencing), Salazar was sent by church officials to Jemez Springs for psychosexual treatment. California parole authorities agreed to the move, obliging Salazar to report regularly to authorities in New Mexico as a condition of his parole. No one could have predicted that within a few months


of his arrival at Camp Ped the convicted felon's moribund career as a priest would be revived, courtesy of Amarillo's Matthiesen. Shortly before Christmas of 1990, Matthiesen arrived at Camp Ped with his vicar general and three members of his diocesan personnel committee, hoping to recruit a priest or two. The bishop was immediately impressed with Salazar. His Paraclete superiors had reported their pedophile guest as well-mannered, studious and hard-working. Like countless priestly child molesters funneled through the infamous retreat before him, Salazar was deemed ready to resume active ministry. That was good enough for the bishop. As for the prison rap, Salazar had reportedly told Matthiesen that he had gotten a raw deal and that he had expected to receive probation upon pleading guilty instead of goingto jail. By the bishop's account, the priest also claimed that there had been only one victim. If the Paracletes knew otherwise, they didn't say. In fact, besides the boys he was convicted of molesting, there were at least two other accusers from Salazar's stint at Santa Teresita, although neither had come forward. Carlos Perez-Carrillo, 36, now a supervisor with the L.A. County Department of Social Services, tells New Times that he was abused by Salazar off and on for at least three and a half years beginning in 1981. Perez-Carrillo, who grew up in Sun Valley, met Salazar at a gathering his parents hosted at home (his father was a church deacon) and quickly joined the circle of boys whom the priest regularly took on weekend outings


to a Catholic vacation retreat near Lake Arrowhead and elsewhere. Perez-Carrillo says he didn't begin to come to grips with his molestation until he was newly married and living in Las Vegas in 1986, after his dad called with news that Salazar had been accused of molesting boys. Typical of many victims, Perez-Carrillo had previously assumed that he had been the only one. But by the time his father called, he says, "I had been losing a lot of weight and I was mistakenly convinced that he had given me AIDS. It was a horrible time in my life." From a devout and well-connected Roman Catholic family (he recalls the family driving to Tucson, Arizona, in 1982 for the induction of his father's friend—and Mahony crony—Manuel Moreno, asthe new bishop there), Perez-Carrillo turned to his dad for help. He says his father approached a well-placed friend at the time, newly installed L.A. auxiliary bishop G. Patrick Zieman, to complain about Salazar but that Zieman "turned his back on my dad. He just blew him off." (Zieman, a longtime protégé of Mahony's, is the disgraced former bishop of Santa Rosa who was accused of extorting a subordinate priest for sex in 1999 and who looms as a key figure in Mahony's coverups of sex abuse in the L.A. Archdiocese. Last August, shortly before Mahony would have been forced to answer potentially embarrassing questions about Zieman at a civil trial, the cardinal approved a $5.2 million settlement with abuse victim Ryan DiMaria. As part of the settlement,


Mahony was forced to accept a list of demands by DiMaria. Since then, Mahony has shamelessly pitched the demands as his own initiatives while becoming one of the first American hierarchs to adopt "zero tolerance" as a public relations mantra. Zieman remains a bishop, living in ecclesiastical exile at an Arizona monastery, courtesy of Tucson's Moreno. The person in charge of his "spiritual rehabilitation" is yet another Mahony crony, San Francisco archbishop William Levada, who like Moreno was a Mahony classmate at St. John's Seminary College in Camarillo. Just last month, a former Huntington Park altar boy filed a lawsuit accusing Zieman of sexually molesting him for nearly two decades ending in 1987. Not long afterward, and subsequent to New Times' reporting about Zieman's violation of the termsof his stay at Holy Trinity Monastery near the hamlet of St. David, the Vatican took the highly unusual step of stripping the bishop of his priestly duties, including his presiding at Mass on the monastery grounds.) Someone else who might have come forward against Salazar but didn't is Lorenzo Najera, 37, who with his physician wife and three children lives in the eastern San Fernando Valley. Najera says he rebuffed an attempt by Salazar to fondle his genitals during one of numerous trips to the Lake Arrowhead retreat that he and fellow altar boys from Santa Teresita took in the 1980s. Najera says he and about six other boys were staying with Salazar and another priest at the retreat's two-story cabin when he awoke early one morning


to find Salazar kneeling beside his bed and attempting to slip his hand beneath his underpants. On another occasion, he says, when he got up in the night to go to the restroom, he saw Salazar performing oral sex on an altar boy in an upstairs bedroom. Najera says he later told one of Salazar's Piarist superiors about the incident and that the priest "didn't want to hear it." Najera says he himself was being molested at the time by another priest at the same parish, an abuse that began when he was 12 and lasted until about age 17. "I was so mixed up and fearful that I never opened my mouth about [Salazar] again," Najera recalls. "I just tried to blot it out of my mind,even though I certainly knew he was dirty." ________________________ Not dirty enough, however, to prevent a Roman Catholic bishop from scooping him up out of pedophile treatment. Early in 1991, after Matthiesen saw to it that he was released from Piarist vows, Salazar left Jemez Springs and was encardinated, or officially installed, as a regular priest of the Diocese of Amarillo, assigned as pastor of churches in the farming communities of Tulia and Kress. He was placed under no restrictions with respect to proximity to children. Indeed, parishioners were never told that their priest was a convicted felon. As Mahony had done with child-molesting clerics Baker, Wempe, Carl Sutphin and others, Matthiesen kept his new priest's history of pedophilia a closely guarded secret. It wasn't easy. Especially after


officials in California discovered in 1993 that their parolee was no longer in New Mexico. Salazar was given an edict: He could return to California or New Mexico, or he would be sent back to prison. He chose to go to back to Jemez Springs. So with the bishop's help, he made up a plausible story to tell his Texas parishioners as to why he needed a leave of absence and left for the Paraclete retreat to fulfill the remaining nine months of his parole. No one was the wiser. Upon returning to Texas with parole behind him, Salazar assumed a bolder public profile. In 1995, he spoke before a large gathering of Promise Keepers, an evangelical men's movement (whose ranks include growing numbers of Roman Catholics) whoemphasize moral rectitude and family values. Telling the men to value themselves because they were made in the image of God, he added, "That is the [message of] Jesus Christ we need to bring, especially to other men and to young men." Something else had also changed about him. In Los Angeles, he had been known simply as John Salazar. In Texas, he took to using his full name. He became Father John Anthony Salazar-Jimenez. Salazar enjoyed popularity with Matthiesen until the bishop's retirement in 1997, and afterward with his successor, current bishop John Yanta. From the outset, Yanta was privy to Salazar's criminal background. As with his predecessor, it apparently hadn't offended his sensibilities that one of his priests was a known sex offender. In fact, there


privacy," the diocese quotes him as saying. But after the Boston scandal broke last January and pedo-priests became a hot topic everywhere, Yanta—in an echo of Mahony's maneuvers in L.A.—finally had to toss overboard his so-called "therapeutic" clerics, including Salazar. Monsignor Harold Waldow, Amarillo's vicar for clergy, tells New Times that although each of the seven priests his boss quietly placed on inactive status before the national bishops conference in Dallas in June had "very good ministerial track records" and (as far as is known) had not reoffended, "it became clear that many priests who had engaged in sexual misconduct were not going to be able to remain in ministry." As an ex-convict, Salazar zoomed to the head of that class. Among other things, he was "uninsurable," Waldowsays. Asked how a convicted felon and child molester could have come out of prison and been installed as a parish priest in the first place, Waldow deflected criticism from his boss, saying, "Maybe you should ask Bishop Matthiesen, since he's the one who brought him here." Matthiesen doesn't skip a beat in defending his appointment of Salazar and is amazingly open about his frequent trips to Jemez Springs for the purpose of acquiring priests during 17 years as Amarillo's bishop. "I've never had any reason to regret that decision," he says, referring to the Salazar appointment. "I can understand his case looks particularly bad because he was convicted and spent three years in prison, but I must tell you he was one of the best pastors I


ever had." The bishop emeritus says that "from 1990 until now I've never heard a negative word about him, and there were never any reports of his reoffending" with a minor. Asked how he could know, especially since there was no one to observe Salazar with a knowledge of his problem other than himself and, later, Yanta, Matthiesen says, "There was a parole officer who came up once a month for a while." Matthiesen defends keeping parishioners in the dark about Salazar, saying that he "had a lot of confidence" in the rehabilitation program at Jemez Springs and was "convinced that [Salazar] was able to stay within the boundaries" in his dealings with young people. Pressed as to how he could bring into the diocese a child molesterand convicted felon fresh out of prison without feeling an obligation to inform parishioners, Matthiesen says, "Well, sure, I suppose hindsight can be much better than foresight." In April, Yanta, the current bishop, met with Salazar and gave him the advance word: He would still be on the diocesan payroll, but he would have to give up his parish. A month ago, to the shock of parishioners who finally heard the truth about their priest, Salazar abruptly left town, having been shuffled off to a church retreat in Canada where Waldow, the vicar for clergy, describes him as being "in transition." To what isn't exactly clear. Now that Governor Gray Davis has signed a landmark California law to give any alleged sex-abuse victim a one-year window of opportunity


track record, the manual could have been written with him in mind upon its release in 1985. As revealed earlier by New Times, Mahony surrendered his license as a California social worker in March 1980, shortly after he was installed as Stockton's bishop. He thus removed himself from any legal obligation to report incidents of child abuse at a time when, as a new bishop, he would have become privy to such information regarding priests. (Clerics in California weren't required to report child abuse until 1997, when, over the vigorous opposition of the church, the law was changed.) He then proceeded to cover up for notorious former priest Oliver O'Grady, who molested more than 20 children, including a nine-month-old girl, after Mahony promoted him, despite knowing that O'Gradywas a sex abuser. And in 17 years as L.A.'s archbishop, Mahony's dismal record of reshuffling and harboring known pedo-priests has come to rival—if not exceed—that of Boston's much-maligned Cardinal Bernard Law. The American hierarchy turned its back on the manual, its members preferring to hide the problem of priestly sex abuse under their cassocks. That the bishops were well aware of the problem in 1985 is irrefutable. A 1992 letter from Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk of Cincinnati, then the president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, to Doyle, the manual's co-author, makes that clear. In response to Doyle's plea for the bishops to stop resisting the report's recommendations seven years after they were issued, Pilarczyk wrote, "The fact remains that your report presented no new issue (of


which the NCCB was unaware) or presented information that required some materially different response." As a driving force behind the U.S. bishops' ad hoc committee on sexual abuse, established in the early 1990s, Mahony played a key role in helping turn back some of the same reforms that he now pretends to champion. "The Mahonys and the Laws within the church won out and, as we've seen even since the current scandal erupted, they're still treating it as if it's only a public-relations problem rather than pursuing real reform," says Doyle, who is also a canon lawyer. He was an aide to the Vatican's ambassador to the United States when the report was issued. Besides Peterson—St. Luke's founder, who is now deceased—the document's other author was former Louisianadefense attorney Ray Mouton. Since opening its doors 20 years ago, St. Luke has become the primary treatment center for sex-abusing priests and nuns. "St. Luke, at least in the early years, offered a more professional approach than anything available at Jemez Springs," says Michael Schwartz, a Washington, D.C., lobbyist and former director of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, an advocacy group. He became involved in helping abuse victims in the 1970s after befriending a Florida man who filed the first known lawsuit accusing a sitting Roman Catholic bishop of sex abuse. In 1993, a judge dismissed the suit against former Hawaii bishop Joseph Ferrario, ruling that it had not been filed in a timely manner. Ferrario's critics at the time accused him and several


other unnamed bishops of stocking their dioceses with priests who were alums of Jemez Springs. Says Schwartz, "No one wants to admit it [with the obvious exception of Matthiesen], but the truth is, there were plenty of bishops who recruited out of there." ________________________ Nestled in a scenic canyon 60 miles north of Albuquerque, next to the ruins of a 17th century Spanish mission, the Father Fitzgerald Center, as the Jemez Springs retreat is formally known, lies secluded among 2,000 acres that have belonged to the Paracletes for more than half a century. The order's founder, Father Gerald Fitzgerald, a former military chaplain, chose the spot in 1947, the year reports of "flying saucers" made the New Mexico town of Roswell famous and, just over the mountains, theU.S. government was settling the secret atomic city of Los Alamos. Fitzgerald's was a noble idea: to provide a refuge for priests having difficulties with their vocations, mainly alcoholics and those suffering from depression who couldn't cope and had nowhere else to go. At its peak in the '70s and '80s more than 1,000 clerics a year spent time there, soaking in its mineral baths and inhaling the clear air for a few weeks or months at a time. Ironically, Fitzgerald had wanted nothing to do with clerical child abusers, holding the view that they were incurable and should be forcibly removed from the priesthood. In 1965, after losing a battle within the order to devote one of the several communal halls at the facility to pedophile treatment,


Fitzgerald left in disgust, accepting a new assignment in Italy for the remaining four years of his life. Amazingly, before the momentous decision to introduce child-abusers at Jemez Springs, officials of the order briefly considered buying a remote Caribbean island where banished pedophile clerics from throughout the United States could be sent. Few Roman Catholics, much less anyone else, knew about the psychosexual treatment offered there. Jemez Springs, along with a handful of smaller treatment facilities in the Northeast and elsewhere, operated in strictest secrecy. For a while, at least, even locals were in the dark. "The retreat used to invite the local kids to come use the pool during the summer," recalls Jay Nelson, 50, of Albuquerque, who spent summers as a child at his family's vacationcabin near Jemez Springs. "They'd tell the parents, "Send them down. We'll watch them.'" Although there was opposition at first, residents who've long relied on the business generated by the retreat, came to tolerate Camp Ped, he says. Once, when a local parish priest, himself a Paraclete, complained to officials that clerics from the treatment center were making eyes at some of his altar boys, "they packed him off to a new assignment immediately," Nelson says. From the outset, Camp Ped was a disaster. Even Father Peter Lechner, the Paracletes' current director, whose office is in St. Louis, acknowledges that mental-health professionals were ill-equipped in the early years of the retreat to deal with molesters. But its problems went beyond merely the limits of medicine. "They may have


had competent outside professionals working with the priests, but there was a disconnect in the way the "patients' wound up being shuffled through there and back into active priesthood," says Schoener, the clinical psychologist. He and others suggest that Camp Ped operated in a kind of netherworld between vacation retreat and treatment center. Considering its dismal track record, as exemplified by scandals involving numerous of its priestly alumni, Mahony and other bishops appear to have sent their bad-boy priests there to get them out of their hair rather than to treat them. There's no denying the Paracletes' proclivity for giving pedo-priests a clean bill of health, and bishops' propensity for welcoming such priests back and foisting them on unsuspecting parishioners. Take the notorious Father James Porter, for example.A three-time Camp Ped veteran, the Massachusetts native was finally sentenced to prison in the early 1980s after molesting more than 100 boys at parishes in the Northeast, Midwest and Southwest. In 1967, the staff at Jemez Springs saw "real hope" for Porter's rehabilitation and recommended that he be allowed to conduct mass on a trial basis at several churches in New Mexico while receiving treatment. But not long after filling in for a vacationing priest in the town of Truth or Consequences, Porter returned to his old ways, molesting at least six children, including a boy confined to a full-body cast in a hospital. Ever optimistic, a few months later the staff gave him another probationary assignment, this time in Houston, where he molested more children before


he was shipped back to New Mexico. Incredibly, in 1969, Porter was cleared for release from Camp Ped and on the recommendation of the Paracletes was assigned to a parish in Bemidji, Minnesota, where he resumed molesting children. The Minnesota bishop who had agreed to take him had no clue as to his long sordid record when he showed up there. Astonishingly, a letter from the Paracletes, a copy of which was obtained by New Times, simply says that he had suffered a nervous breakdown. "During the throes of his illness he did have some moral problems which were, from all appearances, the result of his illness, something for which he was not responsible. Now, having recovered, he gives every sign of having the former problems under control,"the letter says. ________________________ The author of that letter and other glowing reports about Porter and fellow priests who molested during furloughs from Jemez Springs during its early days was Father John B. Feit, who became the superior in charge of the psychosexual treatment program after only two years there. Feit, who had no professional training other than in theology, exemplifies all that was wrong with Camp Ped, not to mention the cynicism—or incompetence—of bishops who sent their priests there. Incredibly, Feit had switched from another religious order to join the Paracletes in 1962, just months after pleading "no contest" to a reduced charge of assault while a priest in Texas. A 20-year-old school teacher had accused him of attempting to sexually assault her as she knelt to


pray inside a church in Edinburg, Texas, where he was the pastor, in 1960. What's more, Feit had been a suspect—although no charges were filed against him—in the murder of a 25-year-old South Texas beauty queen. Three days after she went missing, the woman's partially clad body was found in a drainage ditch near the same Edinburg church, barely a month after the assault on the teacher. Irene Garcia had been raped and suffocated. Garcia's car was found parked at the church, where Feit, who had heard her confession, was the last known person to have seen her alive. "It pains me even now that the person who killed that girl was never brought to justice," retired McAllen, Texas, police officer W.L. "Sonny" Miller, now 70, tells NewTimes. Miller reviewed the evidence at the request of a now-deceased police chief in the 1970s. Four polygraph tests administered to Feit were "inconclusive," and for lack of physical evidence no charges were brought in the case against anybody, he says. Garza's clothing and other items remain in an evidence locker at the McAllen Police Department. Miller has pushed in vain to have authorities use DNA testing, which wasn't available at the time of the murder, to revive the investigation. "It's the only right thing to do," he says. Feit, now 69, left the priesthood years ago and works for a Catholic charity in another state. He did not respond to interview requests from New Times, but he told the Brownsville Herald newspaper—which cited the four inconclusive polygraph