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Bangor Daily News SaturdaySunday September 17-18 2005 A3 Spotlight short hospital stay The vice president will return to work shortly Gov son faces charges after arrest AUSTIN Texas The youngest son of Florida Gov Jeb Bush was arrested early Friday and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest law enforcement officials said John Ellis Bush 21 was arrested by agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission at 2:30 am on a corner of AP PHOTO BY YVES LOGGHE ATOMIC VIEW The new shiny spheres of the Atomium in Brussels are seen on Friday The Atomium one of most famous landmarks was restored to its shiny splendor Friday the faded aluminum sheets on the nine balls fully replaced with hardy stainless steel Names Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger (photo) confirmed art open secret Friday telling supporters that running for reelection next year an early announcement designed to reenergize his sagging political momentum going to follow through with this here not in there for three years I originally got into this to finish the job in there for seven he told an enthusiastic crowd of about 200 invited guests Schwarzenegger had hinted as much for weeks saying Wednesday he wanted to stay to fix the of state government The challengers already are lining up State Treasurer Phil Angelides and Controller Steve Westly have announced they will seek the Democratic nomination Two liberal Hollywood luminaries director Rob Reiner and actor Warren Beatty also have been mentioned as possible candidates Schwarzenegger whose popularity among Democrats and independents has eroded badly must generate enthusiasm within his base if several ballot initiatives he has championed are to pass in a Nov 8 special election Mike Tyson is beloved in Chechnya judging from the spectators who mobbed him on the streets Thursday and jammed the stands to watch him open a boxing tournament in the city of Gudermes The former heavyweight champion was the first international celebrity to visit the strife-torn Russian republic besieged for a decade by guerrilla conflict between separatist Muslim rebels and Russian troops Tyson converted to Islam while in prison on a 1992 rape conviction The Nation replacement topic of Bush meeting WASHINGTON President Bush has invited key lawmakers to a White House meeting next week to begin consultations on a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day officials said Friday The meeting to be held Wednesday signals the White House is moving to find a successor to as Judge John Roberts awaits confirmation as chief justice Bush invited Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist R-Tenn and Democratic leader Harry Reid D-Nev as well as Sen Arlen Specter the Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the Sen ate Judiciary Committee and Sen Patrick Leahy of Vermont the senior Democrat the officials said The officials spoke on condition of anonymity saying they were not authorized to disclose the invitations NASA sets 2018 target for astronauts on moon CAPE CANAVERAL Fla NASA hopes to return astronauts to the moon by 2018 nearly a half-century after men last walked the lunar surface by using a distinctly retro combination of space shuttle and Apollo rocket parts The space agency presented its lunar exploration plan to the White House on Wednesday and on Capitol Hill on Friday An announcement is set for Monday at NASA headquarters in Washington The fact that this successor to the soon-to-be-retired shuttle relies so heavily on old-time equipment rather than sporting fancy futuristic designs good technological and Forces said the explosive had been placed in a bag that was hidden between two cars and detonated with a timing device UN takes first step toward larger goals UNITED NATIONS largest gathering of world leaders fell far short Friday of completing the major changes UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan sought to fight poverty terrorism and human rights abuses but the leaders took a first step At the end of a three-day summit the leaders adopted a 35-page document by consensus and then burst into applause The approval of the document which commits governments to achieving UN goals to combat poverty and creates a commission to help move countries from war to peace came alongside important developments in other areas New Zealand election to affect US relations WELLINGTON New Zealand New Zealanders went to the polls Saturday in an election that could redefine the policy on nuclear weapons and its relationship with the United States National Party leader Don Brash a 64-year-old economist and former central bank governor has said he would be prepared to dismantle New 20-year-old nuclear-free laws to help prepare the way for a free trade deal with Washington although he first would seek approval for the move in a referendum Two-term Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark says she is appalled at the prospect of Brash ending the nuclear provisions From Wire Service Reports Sixth Street bar district said commission spokesman Roger Wade The nephew of President Bush was released on $2500 bond for the resisting arrest charge and on a personal recognizance bond for the public intoxication charge officials said not the first time first family has experienced legal problems with one of their children Noelle Bush the daughter was arrested in January 2002 and accused of trying to pass a fraudulent prescription at a pharmacy to obtain the anti-anxiety drug Xanax The World Beirut bombing kills at least 1 wounds 7 BEIRUT Lebanon A powerful bomb exploded in a Christian neighborhood of eastern Beirut late Friday killing at least one person and wounding 23 officials said It was the latest in a series of bomb attacks to rock capital The bomb detonated just before midnight and heavily damaged the balconies and facades of several buildings along a street and destroyed at least two cars Maj Gen Ashraf Rifi commander of the Internal Security The crime rocked north woods in part because four of the victims were shot in the back and all but one were unarmed according to testimony The slayings also occurred during the state's beloved deer hunting season and exposed racial tension between the predominantly white north woods residents and immigrants from the Hmong ethnic group of Southeast Asia Cheney to have surgery to treat aneurysm WASHINGTON Vice President Dick Cheney will undergo an elective surgery next weekend to treat an aneurysm in an artery behind his right knee The condition discovered earlier this year during a routine checkup needs to be treated to not become a problem over Steve Schmidt counselor to the vice president said Friday procedure will be performed under local Schmidt said will take place next weekend It will involve a management said John Logsdon director of George Washington space policy institute Truck driver guilty of killing deer hunters HAYWARD Wis A jury on Friday convicted an immigrant truck driver of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of six deer hunters during a confrontation over trespassing rejecting his claims that he fired in self-defense after one hunter used racial slurs and another shot at him Chai Soua Vang 36 faces mandatory life in prison Wisconsin does not have a death penalty Jurors deliberated about three hours before convicting Vang on six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of attempted homicide In addition to the six dead two hunters were wounded in the shootings Nov 21 that began when the group of hunters confronted Vang for being on private land Ophelia heads for New England coast beaches with high winds and giant waves On Friday power was still off at about 9000 homes and businesses down from a peak of more than 200000 Roads on Hatteras Island a main link in the Outer Banks chain of barrier islands sat under water inches deep though the island was otherwise largely unscathed Carteret County appeared to have suffered the most In the tourist area of Atlantic Beach workers at restaurants and other businesses were cleaning up stacking chairs and tables outside in the sunlight and piling debris from roofs into trucks to be hauled away is our communication line to the world right now" said Marci Wilson manager of a private ambulance company as she pulled out a personal cell phone Environmental officials worried about erosion AIR Worldwide Corp a riskmodeling firm based in Boston said the damage included lost roof shingles awnings and the like along with damage from fallen trees BY KRISTEN GELINEAU THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HATTERAS NC Ophelia finally took leave of North Carolina on Friday downgfaded to a tropical storm but picking up speed for a possible run-in with the New England coast The storm left extensive damage in eastern North Carolina including beach erosion and ravaged homes and businesses but overall the region was spared the devastating blow that some feared when Ophelia first brushed the coast Tuesday One risk modeling company estimated on Friday that losses would top out at $800 million were really blessed We had a potential to be neck-deep where said lifelong Hatteras resident Allen Fagley 54 Ophelia which meandered north after forming off the Florida coast last week was offshore again moving north-northeast at about 8 mph the National Hurricane Center said At 5 pm EDT Ophelia was centered about 355 miles south-southwest of Nantucket island AP PHOTO BY DON BRYAN Ralph Murphy walks past a boat that came to rest in a parking lot by Bicentential Park on Thursday in Swansboro NCThe boat was tied up in the White Oak River and ended up in town when tropical storm Ophelia moved through Fight brews in Oregon over tax cap proposal BY brad CAIN in 16 states and some of those the associated press proposals are pending In Oregon labor unions and SALEM Ore Oregon is other interest groups are becoming the next battleground preparing for an all-out fight to in a spreading fight between try to defeat the spending limit anti-tax activists who want to which they say has damaged cap government spending and education public health and their opponents who say such a other public services in Col-move would put schools and orado and would do the same important social services at thing in Oregon risk Oregon AFL-CIO President Tax foes riding high from Tim Nesbitt said the spending crushing a proposed $800 mil- limit being promoted by Free-lion tax hike for Oregon in 2004 dom Works is aimed at racheting are promoting a spending limit down state revenue and spend-that matches the most stringent ing without regard for the harm one in the nation enacted by to programs and services for Colorado voters in 1992 That needy people and schoolchild-cap limits spending increases to ren population growth and infla- no government too tion small to satisfy these The group going to lead Nesbitt said of the tax foes who the Oregon campaign Washing- are pushing for state spending ton DC -based FreedomWorks caps said it expects to be able to Dick Armey the former begin collecting petition signa- majority leader of the US tures within a month to place House and now the national the spending limit initiative leader of FreedomWorks was before voters in the November in Atlanta this past week to tes-2006 election tify in favor of a spending limit already have our signa- being proposed by Georgia ture gatherers in place We are Republicans ready to hit the streets with it" Armey in an interview said said Russ Walker the Oregon the proposals in Georgia Ore-director for FreedomWorks gon and other places represent The coming fight in Oregon the best hope taxpayers have to mirrors battles in other states rein in what he calls excessive between tax foes who want to spending by state and local gov-restrict government spending ernments and by implication tax the typical government increases and those who say budget they decide how much such limits would decimate money they want to spend then important public services they go out and raise taxes to A spending limit proposal cover he said the advocated by Gov Arnold spending limit we re saying to Schwarzenegger will be on Cali- government your ballot this fall One sim- ing fit our ilar to will be placed Opponents say the spending before Ohio voters in November limits being advanced by 2006 and voters in Maine Neva- Armey and his allies will have da and Arizona might be look- drastic impact on public servicing at such measures next year es and they say people need to This year spending limits look at what has happened in were considered by legislators Colorado A tropical storm warning was posted Friday for Rhode Island's coast and southeastern Massachusetts including Nantucket and Vineyard The warning means tropical-storm force winds of 39 mph or higher were expected Stuart Smith the harbormaster in Chatham Mass off Cape Cod said fishermen were moving their boats to sheltered waters His patrol boats were checking remaining boats for loose moorings The storm took its time off the North Carolina coast where its 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