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• (Photo: Reuters/Chris Keane)U.S. Republican presidentialcandidate and formerPennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum speaks during the Faithand Freedom Prayer Breakfast inMyrtle Beach, South CarolinaJanuary 15, 2012.Mark Rodgers, one of Santorum'sclosest confidants and who servedas his chief of staff during histime in Congress, dispelled anyrumors that Santorum would bebowing out of the race."No truth whatsoever," saidRodgers, who is now an adviser tothe Santorum campaign, to TheChristian Post. "We are hiringstaff and ramping up for theweeks and months ahead."Santorum himself was just asemphatic."We are just going to continue towork hard," Santorum said afteran event Thursday with theCollege Republicans inTallahassee, Fla., according toABC News. "We're not goinganywhere. We are going to be inthis race, we are going to stay inthis race for the long haul. We areplanning for the next states. Wetook a little time last night to takea little planning time and we arestaffing up, we are deployingresources."However, because of his inabilityto buy television and radio time inFlorida, some are questioning thedepth of Santorum's bank account.Like us onFacebook But Santorum told ABC News,"We've run a very conservativecampaign. We only spend themoney we get, we don't spend anymore."He added that they are in "cash-plus position" because of recentfundraisers and have "plenty of money to hire staff."Delegates will remain theultimate goal for Santorum. AfterFlorida's primary, Santorum willmove to Colorado, Nevada andMissouri in hopes of picking upsupport and delegates throughAugust."This is only the fourth primary.We have a long, long way to go.We got apportioned delegates inmost of the states and we feelvery comfortable that as we keepgoing we are going to pick updelegates," Santorum explained toABC. "We are going to stay inthis race and the longer we are init the better off we will be, themore people will recognize whatwe bring to the ticket…"Santorum's strong debateperformance may help theconservative former senator stayin the race another day. In thelatest Sunshine State News/VSSpoll taken before Thursday night'sdebate, Santorum is in third placewith 12 percent, behind bothRomney and Gingrich, who have40 and 31 percent, respectively.Paul came in fourth with 9percent.This entry passed through theFull-Text RSSservice — if this isyour content and you're reading iton someone else's site, please readthe FAQ atfivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.FiveFiltersrecommends:Donate toWikileaks.
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ROME (AP) – Costa CrociereSpA offered uninjured passengers €11,000, or $14,460, apieceFriday to compensate them forlost baggage and thepsychological trauma theysuffered after their cruise ship ranaground and capsized off Tuscany.By Pier Paolo Cito, APItalian firefighters approach thewrecked cruise ship CostaConcordia on Friday off theTuscan island of Giglio.But some passengers are alreadyrefusing to accept the deal, sayingthey can't yet put a figure on thecosts of the trauma they endured.Costa announced the offer afternegotiations with consumergroups who say they arerepresenting 3,206 passengersfrom 61 countries who sufferedno physical harm when themassiveCosta Concordiacruiseship hit a reef on Jan. 13.In addition to the lump-sumindemnity, Costa, a unit of theworld's biggest cruise operator,the Miami-based Carnival Corp.,also said it would reimburseuninjured passengers the full costsof their cruise, their return travelexpenses and any medicalexpenses they sustained after thegrounding.The deal does not apply to thehundreds of crew on the ship,many of whom have lost their jobs, the roughly 100 people whowere injured in the chaoticevacuation or the families wholost loved ones. Sixteen bodieshave already been recovered fromthe disaster and another 16 peoplewho were on board are missingand presumed dead.Passengers are free to pursuelegal action on their own if theyaren't satisfied with the deal and itwas clear Friday — two weeksafter the grounding — that somewould."We're very worried about thechildren," said Claudia Urru of Cagliari, Sardinia, who was onboard the ship with her husbandand two sons aged 3 and 12. Hereldest child, she said, is seeing apsychiatrist: He won't speak aboutthe incident or even look attelevision footage of thegrounding."He's terrorized at night," she toldThe Associated Press. "He can'tgo to the bathroom alone. We'reall sleeping together, except myhusband, who has gone intoanother room because we don't allfit."As a result, she said, her familyhas retained a lawyer becausethey don't know what the realimpact — financial or otherwise— of the trauma will be. She saidher family simply isn't able tomake such decisions now."We are having a very, very hardtime," she said.Some consumer groups havealready signed on as injuredparties in the criminal case againstthe Concordia's captain,Francesco Schettino, who isaccused of manslaughter, causinga shipwreck and abandoning theship before all those aboard wereevacuated. He is under housearrest.In addition, Codacons, one of Italy's best-known consumergroups, has engaged twoU.S.lawfirms to launch a class-actionlawsuit against Costa andCarnival in Miami, claiming thatit expects to get anywhere from$164,000 to $1.3 million perpassenger.German attorney Hans Reinhardt,who currently represents 15Germans who survived theaccident and is in talks torepresent families who lost lovedones, said he is advising hisclients not to take the settlement.Instead, he, like Codacons, isworking with the U.S. law firm topursue the class-action suit inMiami."What they have lost is muchmore than €11,000," he told theAP.But Roberto Corbella, whorepresented Costa in thenegotiations, said the dealprovides passengers with quick and "generous" restitution thatconsumer groups estimate couldamount to some $18,500 perpassenger when it includes theother reimbursements."The big advantage that they haveis an immediate response, no legalexpenses, and they can put thiswhole thing behind them," he toldAP.Angry passenger HerbertGreszuk, a 62-year-old Germanwho left behind everything he hadwith him, including his tuxedo,camera, jewelry, and even hisdentures, told the AP before thecompensation deal wasannounced that it was an issue of accountability."Something like this must not beallowed to happen again. So manypeople died; it's simplyinexcusable," he said.The Concordia gashed its hull onreefs off the island of Giglio afterSchettino made an unauthorizeddeviation from its approved routeto bring it closer to Giglio. Some4,200 passengers and crew werehastily evacuated.Search efforts for the missingresumed Friday as salvage crewsset up to begin extracting some500,000 tons of heavy fuel oil onSaturday before it leaks into thepristine waters surrounding theship. That pumping operation isexpected to last nearly a month.Italy's civil protection office onFriday released a list of some of the other possibly toxicsubstances aboard the cruise liner,including 50 liters of insecticideand 41 cubic meters of lubricants,among other things.But so far, even though somefilm has been detected in thewaters around the ship, tests onthe waters indicate nothingoutside the norm, according toTuscany's regional environmentagency."Toxic tests have all resultednegative," the agency said.The crystal clear seas aroundGiglio are a haven for scubadivers and form part of a marinesanctuary for dolphins, porpoisesand whales.Passengers have said theevacuation was chaotic, with crewmembers unprepared to deal withan emergency and constantlydownplaying the seriousness of the situation. Coast guard datashows the captain only soundedthe evacuation alarm an hour afterthe initial collision, well after theConcordia had listed to the pointthat many lifeboats couldn't belowered.Schettino has admitted he hadtaken the ship on "touristicnavigation" near Giglio but has
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JACKSONVILLE – Republicanpresidential hopefulsMittRomneyandNewt Gingrichcame
out swinging Thursday night overtheir views on exploring spaceand dealing with Cuba, managingtheir personal finances andrunning their political campaignsin a debate five days before apivotal Florida primary that maysort out their tumultuouscompetition.• By Joe Raedle, Getty ImagesRepublican presidentialcandidates Newt Gingrich andMitt Romney greet one anotherbefore the start of Thursday'sdebate in Jacksonville, Fla.By Joe Raedle, Getty ImagesRepublican presidentialcandidates Newt Gingrich andMitt Romney greet one anotherbefore the start of Thursday'sdebate in Jacksonville, Fla.Staying on the offensive throughthe two-hour forum, Romneyaccused Gingrich of "repulsive"and "over-the-top rhetoric" in acampaign ad that had labeled him"anti-immigrant." He demandedan apology for what he called"highly charged epithets," whichGingrich took off the air afterFlorida Sen.Marco Rubiocomplained.Gingrich declined to say he wassorry, instead suggesting thephrase was an accuratedescription of Romney'sopposition to his proposal toprovide a path to legal residencyfor "grandmothers andgrandfathers" who have been inthe country illegally but havedeep roots here."Our problem isn't 11 milliongrandmothers," Romney replied,to cheers from the audience. "Ourproblem is 11 million peoplegetting jobs that many Americans,legal immigrants, would like tohave."The 19th televised debate, held attheUniversity of North Floridaand aired onCNN, was the mostcontentious of the long primaryseason. After victories by a trio of candidates in the GOP's threeopening contests — formerPennsylvania senator Rick Santorum in Iowa, Romney inNew Hampshire and Gingrich inSouth Carolina— the results inFlorida on Tuesday willdemonstrate who has the stayingpower to prevail in one of thenation's largest battlegroundstates.The topics ranged from theirrelative devotion toRonaldReaganto the assets of their wivesas first lady to statehood forPuerto Rico.In a speech Wednesday in Cocoa,Fla., Gingrich had proposedbuilding a base on the moon,relying in large part on privatesector investments and arguingthat a vigorousU.S.spaceprogram was one way to prove thecountry was not in decline.Romney took aim at that idea."I believe in a man-in-spaceprogram; I'm not looking for acolony on the moon," Romneysaid. "I think the cost of thatwould be hundreds of billions, if not trillions. I'd rather berebuilding housing here in theU.S."Texas Rep.Ron Pauladded, "Idon't think we should go to themoon; I think we should sendsome politicians up there."Paul, generally overlooked in theevening's most heated exchanges,won laughter with a series of quips. In response to a questionabout his health, the 76-year-oldcongressman said he would bewilling to release his medicalrecords, then said he could"challenge any of these gentlemento a 25-mile bike ride in the heatof Texas." Asked what he wouldsay if Cuban leader Raúl Castrocalled him at theWhite Houseat3 a.m., he replied, "Well, I'd ask him what he called about."There was less laughter and morefireworks in the exchangesbetween Romney and Gingrich,especially over their personalfinances.Gingrich criticized Romney forinvestments he has made inmortgage giantsFreddie MacandFannie Maeand inGoldmanSachs, which he says is even nowforeclosing on Floridahomeowners. Romney replied that"my investments are not made byme; my investments for the last 10years have been in a blind trust,managed by a trustee."As a blast of Gingrich campaigne-mails to reporters quickly noted,however, Romney had taken adifferent view of blind trustswhen he was challengingMassachusetts Sen. EdwardKennedy in 1994. He had calleddeflecting questions aboutinvestments because they were ina blind trust "an age-old ruse,"noting that the trustee can beinstructed about what investmentsto avoid.On stage, Romney then criticizedGingrich for being paid $1.6million to promote Fannie Maeand Freddie Mac.All of which prompted Santorumto plead that his rivals stoptargeting Gingrich for his recordas House speaker and Romney forhis wealth. Calling it "pettypersonal politics," he urged themto "focus on the issues."Later, Santorum took Romneysharply to task for the health careplan he signed as governor of Massachusetts, which included arequirement that everyone havecoverage. "Your mandate is nodifferent fromBarack Obama'smandate," he said. "Folks, wecan't give this issue away in thiselection."Gingrich has continued to drawlarge, enthusiastic crowds, butseveral Florida polls indicated thatthe surge that started during theSouth Carolina campaign mayhave been capped.Romney leads Gingrich inFlorida by 7 to 8 percentagepoints, according to the threeautomated polls releasedThursday. A fourth survey,sponsored byQuinnipiacUniversity, showed Romney to bea stronger candidate againstObama in Florida, one of thenation's prime battleground states.In the nationwide Gallup dailypoll, Gingrich led Romney 31%-25% among likely Republicanvoters. An NBC News/ WallStreet Journal poll showed
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