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Tuskegee Airmen Get Medal 6 Decades Late

WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush saluted the Tuskegee airmen on Thursday, six decades after they completed their World War II mission and returned home to a country that discriminated against them because they were black. "Even the Nazis asked why African-American men would fight for a country that treated them so unfairly," Bush told the group of legendary black aviators, who received a Congressional Gold Medal the most prestigious Congress has (o offer. "These men in our presence felt a special sense of urgency. They were fighting two wars. One was in Europe and the other took place in the hearts and minds of our citizens," he said. Bush then saluted the airmen, saying he offered the gesture to "help atone for all the unreturned salutes and unforgivable indignities" they endured. "We are so overjoyed," said Roscoe Brown Jr., after he and five other Tuskegee Airmen accepted the medal on behalf of the group. "We are so proud today and I think America is proud today." Bush, members of Congress and other dignitaries joined some 300 airmen, widows and other relatives in the sun-splashed Capitol Rotunda for the ceremony recognizing the Tuskegee Airmen some of them walking with the aid of canes, others being pushed in wheelchairs for their long-ago heroism. "It's never too late for your country to say that you've done a great job for us," retired Col. Elmer D. Jones, 89, of Arlington, Va., said in an interview this week. Jones was a maintenance officer during the war. Retired Lt. Col. Walter L. McCreary, shot from the sky during a mission in October 1944 and held prisoner for nine months in Germany, said it hurt that the group's accomplishments had not been honored years earlier. "We took it in stride. It's a recognition long overdue," said McCreary, also 89, of Burke, Va. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., the highest-ranking black member of Congress, echoed McCreary's sentiment. Many of the Tuskegee Airmen also trained at VValterboro Army Airfield in his congressional district. "People are now beginning to come to grips with our history," Clyburn said Thursday in an interview. "Our history is what it is. It's never going to change." The Tuskegee Airmen were recruited into an Army Air Corps program that trained blacks to fly and maintain combat aircraft. President Roosevelt had overruled his top generals and ordered that such a program be created. But even after they were admitted, many commanders continued to believe the Tuskegee Airmen didn't have the smarts, courage and patriotism to do what was being asked of them. Nearly 1,000 fighter pilots trained as a segregated unit at an air base in Tuskegee, Ala. Not allowed to practice or fight with their white counterparts, the Tuskegee Airmen distinguished themselves from the rest by painting the tails of their airplanes red, which led to them becoming known as the "Red Tails." Hundreds saw combat throughout Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa, escorting bomber aircraft on missions and protecting them from the enemy. Dozens died in the fighting; others were held as prisoners of war. "The Tuskegee airmen left a segregated country to fight in war, and unfortunately returned to one that was still segregated," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "Though Hitler was defeated, prejudice was not. ... Today we are trying to right that wrong." It was long thought the Tuskegee Airmen amassed a perfect record of losing no bombers to the enemy during World War 11. But new research has cast doubt on that. Two historians recently said Air Force records and other documents show at least a few bombers escorted by Tuskegee pilots were downed by enemy planes. A former World War II bomber pilot said last year that his plane was shot down while being escorted by the unit. Congress has awarded gold medals to more than 300 individuals and groups since giving the first one to George Washington in 1776. Originally, they went only to military leaders, but Congress broadened the scope to include authors, entertainers, notables in science and medicine, athletes, humanitarians, public servants and foreign officials. Other black recipients include singer Marian Anderson, athletes Joe Louis, Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson, civil rights activists Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, the Little Rock Nine, Rosa Parks and Dorothy Height, and statesmen Nelson Mandela of South Africa and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. The medal for the airmen, made possible through legislation by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., and signed last year by Bush, will go to the Smithsonian Institution for display. Individual airmen will receive bron/.e replicas.

Facing New Struggle, Edwardses Speak of Son

By NEDRA 1'ICKLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON ( A P ) As he tries to explain how he'll cope with the return of hi-; wile's cancer, presidential hopeful John lidwards is opening up about another family struggle the death of his teenage son Wade 11 years ago. His family life suddenly in the spotlight, Edwards has responded by speaking about an experience bound to bring him sympathy, humanize his campaign and focus on perseverance after tragedy. The discussion began last Thursday when John and lili/.abeth Edwards announced her breast cancer had spread to her bone. It continued Saturday when Edwards was asked if he could balance the campaign anil her diagnosis. "This is not the first challenge like this Elizabeth and I have been through." Edwauls said at a candidate forum in Las Vegas. "As many of you know, we lost our son about 10, actually about I I years ;iuo now in 1996."" Wade Edwards was 16 when he died, on the way to lhe f a m i l y bench home in their home stale of North Carolina, when a gust of wind swept his Jeep olf the highway. Wade's name is spoken frec|iienlly in the Edwards household, those closeto them say, alive in lhe memories of his parents and sister and even wellknown by two siblings born alter his death. But Hdwaids had been hesitant to bring his oldest son into his political life, even though by many accounts Wade inspired his lather to run for office. Edwards wore his son's Outward Bound pin on his suit jacket in silent tribute throughout the 2004 campaign. He sometimes wears the pin on the 2008 trail. The Edwarclses didn't want his son to be remembered for his death, but his life, those close to them say. They started a foundation in Wade's name to suppoit causes important to h i m . such as scholarships and a computer lab where students, can yet after school help. A peison close to the Edsvardses. who did not want to be (juoted talking about their f a m i l y decisions, said they are talking more openly about their experience with Wade's death because they believe it helps answer legitimate questions about how the\ will cope with Mrs. Edwards' cancel. When asked during last Thursdav's news conference how (hey could stay focused on the campaign and perhaps e v e n t u a l l y with r u n n i n g the country Mrs. Edwards cited hei husband's work on the Wade Edwards Foundation. "He has an unbelievable toughness, a reserve that allows him to push torward with what needs lo happen." she said. " I t ' s w h a t happened a l t e r our son died in 1996." Edwards was asked iti an inteiview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "60 M i n utes" u h y he and his wife w a n t lo go through a presidential campaign when

Death Toll Mounts as Storm Sweeps Plains

Qwest, AT&T, Verizon Win Telecom Contract

WASHINGTON (AP) AT&T, Qwest Communications and Verizon on Thursday were awarded the government's largest telecommunications contract ever, a 10-year deal worth up to $48 billion. The contract winners, who beat out Sprint Nextel Corp., don't simply split a pool of money. They now have to compete with each other for the various telecom needs of dozens of federal agencies, the General Services Administration announced. The contract covers voice, video and data services and technologies for as many as 135 agencies operating in 190 countries. Several major departments, including Homeland Security and Treasury, have already signed up. While AT&T Inc., Qwest Communications International Inc. and Verizon Inc. gained an important and deep-pocketed client, the announcement was a huge blow to Sprint, analysts said, because it has been providing telecom services to the federal government for nearly 20 years. "The federal government was Sprint's first major customer since the company started," said technology consultant Warren Suss of Jenkintown, Pa. While current GSA officials would not say why Sprint lost out, Boh Woods, a former official at the agency who now works as a consultant, surmised that Sprint could not meet the low prices of its competitors. Woods estimated that Sprint could lose roughly $200 million to $250 million annually in existing government business. Executives from Sprint plan u> meet with GSA officials next week u> discuss why their contract proposal fell short, and the company svill decide afterwards whether to file a protest, spokeswoman .Sukhi Salmi said in an e-mail.

tree limbs and debris. One woman By COLLEEN SLEVIN whose house was destroyed wept as Associated Press Writer HOLLY, Colo. (AP) A massive she searched for a wedding ring. "We all have a finite period of "Homes were there and now time, and the idea that we know what spring storm spawned dozens of torthat finite period is, is a fantasy to be- nadoes from the Rockies to the Plains, they're gone," Prowers County Adgin with," Edwards responded. "As killing at least four people in three ministrator Linda Fairbairn said. we learned in 1996, with our son, we states, including a woman who was "Many, if not all, the structures in flung into .a tree by a twister as wide town suffered -some degree of damdon't know what's going to happen." age." The cruel tragedy of Wade's death as two football fields. At least 11 tornadoes were reported Sixty-five tornadoes were reported changed everything for the Edwardses. Mrs. Edwards quit her job as an late Wednesday in Oklahoma, Texas, throughout western Nebraska, deattorney, their daughter Gate canceled Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska, the stroying or damaging three homes and her plans to attend boarding school National Weather Service said. By at least 10 miles of power lines. Two and a year later John Edwards began early Thursday, the storm system twisters touched down in far northstretched from South Dakota to Texas. west Kansas, severely damaging three campaigning for the Senate. Rosemary Resales, 28, was found homes, authorities said. He declined to talk much about In Oklahoma, Vance and Barbra Wade in that race and in his first critically injured in the tree after the White House run. His most extensive huge tornado destroyed several homes Woodbury were killed when the storm revelations about Wade during the and damaged dozens of others in Hol- blew apart their home near Elmwood. "We set off the tornado sirens, but 2004 presidential race came in his ly, a town of 1,000 people about 235 book, "Four Trials," in which he de- miles southeast of Denver near the they live too far out to hear them," said Dixie Parker, Beaver County's scribed the loss as "the undercurrent Kansas line. In Oklahoma, a twister killed a emergency management director. of my life." "Nothing in my life has ever hit me couple as it blew their home to pieces. "The house was just flattened, the out and stripped everything away like my In Texas, a man was found dead in the buildings are gone. All that's left is debris." son's death," Edwards wrote. "That tangled debris of his trailer. Tornadoes in the Texas Panhandle At least seven other people were moment, those days, belong to our hurt when the tornado skipped for a uprooted trees, overturned trucks and family." Just weeks before Wade died, the mile-and-a-half through Holly and injured at least three people. The region also got baseball-sized hail. teen was honored at the White House surrounding areas. Monte Ford, 53, was killed near "All they heard was this big ugly by then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, now Edwards' chief rival for noise, and they didn't have no time to Amarillo when he was thrown about the Democratic nomination, for an es- run," said Victoria Resales, the vic- 15 feet from his oilfield trailer, which say he wrote about going into the bal- tim's sister. She said the woman and was rolled by the wind. The Colorado tornado killed dozens lot box with his father as a young boy. her husband, Gustavo Puga, were in Other presidential candidates have the kitchen and their 3-year-old of cattle and injured others so severely openly talked about their tragedies on daughter, Noelia, was sleeping in a they have to be shot. "It's better than letting them sufthe campaign trail. Former Vice Pres- front room when the tornado hit. Puga was holding onto the little girl fer," said rancher Bill Lowe, who had ident Al Gore discussed his sister's death from cancer, and former House when rescuers found them, said his about 800 cattle in his feedlot when Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt, brother, Oscar Puga. The two were in the tornado hit. He lost at least 35 anpromoting his health care plan, spoke fair condition Thursday at a Colorado imals in the storm. Just three months ago, back-to-back about his son's successful cancer Springs hospital. As residents sifted through their blizzards and subzero temperatures treatment. "Some people like to say that their scattered belongings, the streets were killed more than 10,000 livestock on private life is separate, but I think littered with utility poles, power lines, farms across southeastern Colorado. that's a myth," said Erik Smith, a top adviser on Gephardt's 2004 campaign. "The reality is that if you are running for president, your life isn't private any more. "Personal stories and personal anecdotes help them overcome voter 51 24 .02 snc Cheyenne cynicism," Smith said. "A lot of time 50 46 .09 cdy Chicago 65 53 .48 cdy people assume the worst about politiCincinnati 49 39 clr Cleveland cians and assume their positions come Today, 40 percent chance of rain 87 60 cdy from polling, and particularly on pres- ind snow showers, high of 40. Friday, Columbia.S.C. 64 51 .10 cd> Columbus.Ohio idential campaigns, it's important for tnostly cloudy, high of 40, winds to Concord.N.H. 51 29 clr 80 69 rn people to understand that those poli- 15 mph. Saturday and Sunday, temDallas-FtWorth 61 47 .01 cdy Dayton cies come from a personal place." Deratures in the 40s. 65 28 .07 sue Denver Democrat Joe Biden, another can67 52 rn DesMoines didate in the 2008 race, has also expe54 38 cdy Detroit 35 33 cdy rienced tragedy. 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House Approves Budget; Assumes Tax Cuts End

WASHINGTON (Al ) The House Thin sday n i i r i o w l y passed a $2.9 n i l l i o n D e m o c r a t i c budget b l u e p r i n t p i e d i c i i i u ' a hi! 1 s u r p l u s in five yeais but iclyiii!. 1 on the expiration of tax cuts to ilo .0. The 2 1 0 - 2 1 0 v o t e sets up neyotialions w i t h the S e n a t e , \ \ h i c h last ueek passed a lunlj'.ei b l i i e p i m t w i t h s i m i l a r l y lai;_!e s p e n d i n g incieascs lor education, ilelense. h ' i m e l a i i d security and v e t e r a n s p i o y i a m s The inea.Miie c i u n c 1 in icspoiise to Democialic c o m p l a i n t t h a i Bush has shoi (changed d o m e ic p n i i a m s lunded each ycai b\ appiopi lalions l i i l l s - i n c l u d m ; ' ei teseaich a n d s j i a n t 1 incuts w h i l e awardinL1 delicit1 boostim lax '.'til-. I l l ' 1 d l o u a u l l i i ' 1 alflueni. D e u u i c i a t s '-aid lhe ^<1(> i i i l i i o n plan I ' H ne\l > e . u v . m i l d pom; t h e u a y i" a s i n p l u s a i i c i _sc M-, of i i - d ink u n d e r Hii-.h and a ( i ( H' c m i i i i -lied C'oii'.'u -.-.. R i ' ( i u b l i c : i n : - -aid t h a t ^ 15.} b i l l i o n - n i ' p l u s in ' O l '' '.'.mild appear onls i! la\ '.--ills passed i n 2001 and 20().^ e x p i i e in I ' H i i s c . i i , ..iinoiinti n In ill'. 1 "laisje.>l l:r> mcieasc ill Ainci lean hisioi \ . The I n l i n e o l the l U i s l i l a x cui:, > v i l l l i k e l v he decided a t l e i the 200.S piesic l c n t i a l election. W h i l e i n l i i e m a i o r i ly, conj.'.res.sional R e p u b l i c a n s n-'ver held \oles to make all ul i h c m \-- MIUIi t e i i i . despite Buslf , a n n u a l . a l K i > do
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10 YEARS AGO March 1997 The 1997 Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery closed Sunday after seiners caught 3,218 tons of fish in just over an hour. It was the fifth opening in six days, all at the north end of Sitka Sound. 25 YEARS AGO March 1982 Ariel Estrada, Sarah Estrem and Stacy Davidson were selected for outstanding musicianship at Blatchley Junior High adjudication. 40 YEARS AGO March 1967 After Dick Button and Mike Leacah of the state Division of Lands outlined procedure for transfer of mental health lands in the Sitka area for general grant lands, the Greater Sitka Borough directed borough chairman Torn Stein to file an application for the Cascade Creek Subdivision.
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Today in History
Today is Thursday, March 2<), the 88lli da> of 2007. There arc 277 days left in liitf year. Today's Highlight in History: On March"2'J. I'J73. Hie last U.S. cuinhal troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War On this date. In 1638, Swedish colonists settled in p i e sent-day Delaware In 1790, the 10th president of the Uniled Slates, John Tyler, was born in Charles I'ily County, Va. In 1847, victorious forces led by Genei.il Wmfield Scott occupied the city ol Veia C i u / after Mexican defenders capitulated In 1807. Britain'* Parliament passed the British North America Act I later k n o w n as the Constitution Act) to eieate the Dominion "I Canada. In 1882, the Knights of Columbus was clui lered in Connecticut Today's Birthdays: Political commentator John MeLaughlin is 80. Author Judith Guest i, 71 Former British Prime Minister John Major is 04 Comedian Eric Idle is 04 Compu.ici Vongelis is 04. Singer Bobby Kimball (Totu) i.> 00- Actor Christopher Law Ibid is 52. Olympic gymnast Kurt Thomas is 51. Actor Chr^iophei Lambert is 50. Rock singer Perry Farrell (Porno for Pyros; Jane's Addiction) is 48. Comedian actress Amy Sedaris is 40. Model tvlle Macpherson is 44, Rock singer-musician John Popper (Blues Traveler) is 40 Actress Liuy Lawless is 39. Country singer Regma Leigh (Regina Regina) is 34. C'ounlr. singei Biad> Seals is 3S- Tennis player J e n n i f e r Capiiali i > 31

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increases of 6 percent over current levels, far the less than the less than 1 percent increases recommended by Bush. Congress' annual debate on the budget is guided by an arcane process in which a nonbinding budget resolution sets the stage for subsequent bills affecting taxes and benefit programs such as Medicare, as well as the annual appropriations bills. In most years. Congress leaves alone difficult budget issues such as the unsustainable growth in benefit programs such as Medicare and simply focuses on the 12 annual bills funding the budgets of Cabinet agencies such as Defense, Education and Agriculture. "'This year is likely to be such a stand-pat year. Decisions on the fate of the Bush tax cuts are expected to wait until after next year's presidential election. Extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts would cost about $250 billion in 2012 alone, which would balloon to $389 billion after accounting for extending other tax cuts and adjusting the alternative minimum tax so that it does not ensnare more than 20 million additional middle class taxpayers. Democratic leaders view passing a congressional budget plan as a key test of their ability to govern. The GOP-controlled Congress failed to pass a budget last year, which fouled up passage of the annual spending bills lawmakers pass each year. The Democratic budget blueprint calls for a nearly $25 billion increase next year for domestic programs popular with lawmakers in both parties, approving Bush's record $50 billion budget increase for the Pentagon's non-war budget and $145 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan next year. Those spending boosts would cause the deficit to rise from $209 billion this year to $241 billion in 2009 before increased revenues from the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts iapidly generate a surplus.

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