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Monday 1 1 The CountyDown East Houlton Commission seeks proposals for E-911 service B2 Deer Isle 2 teens escape serious injury in Route 15 crash B3 I Unbeaten Bangor defeats Mt. Blue for third win Cl hSoVUMT I Jan Smith becomes news director at WVU-TVC7 'I I i 1 i1 II what you need. To know. Vh mi t' 9 Besfr calls tom Ladem prime suspect Afghanistans Taliban possible retaliation target Search and rescue workers form a bucket brigade to search the debris at the site of the World Trade Center wreckage AP PHOTO BY LAWRENCE JACKSON in New York on Sunday. Doughty, 36, is the son of Paul and Charlotte Doughty of Union.

He graduated from Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro in 1982, then attended Providence College, where he studied fire science. He later completed law school at Roger Williams College, and began working in Providence as both a firefighter and attorney. Hes a type A personality, his mother joked Friday. She and Doughty's father anxiously are watching the television coverage, hoping they wont hear of any injuries suffered by the rescuers. He knows what hes doing, but you cant anticipate the dangers, Charlotte said.

Smce the mid-1990s, Doughty has served on a regional Federal Emergency Management Agency team. He was sent to Atlanta in 1996 to be on hand for the Olympics, and in recent years, has taught urban search and rescue at the Rhode Island fire academy Doughtys father is a firefighter with the Union Fire Department, and even though he lives Providence, the younger Doughty main Lubec church quietly mourns Couple killed in hijacking disaster remembered by friends By Tom Raum The Associated Press WASHINGTON President Bush, vowing not to be cowed by evildoers, pledged a crusade against terrorists Sunday as top administration officials on Sunday zeroed in on Saudi exile Osama bin Laden and Afghanistans Taliban militia for possible retribution for last weeks terrorist attacks. No question, he is the prime suspect. No question about that, Bush said, brushing off a reported denial of responsibility by bin Laden. As Bush sought to rally Americans to get on with their lives and jobs, administration officials asserted on the Sunday talk shows that nations that harbor terrorists would face the full wrath of the United States.

They emphasized that the battle against terrorism would be long and include legal, diplomatic and economic offensives as well as military action. Vice President Dick Cheney disclosed that after suicide hijackers slammed planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon on Tuesday morning, Bush ordered the military to shoot had been the church clerk. Sundays service was the first at the church since the couple died Tuesday when their hijacked plane was deliberately crashed into one of the towers at fhe World Trade Center in New York City They had flown to Boston from Bangor that morning, and were on them way to California to the wedding of Jacquelines 38-year-old son, Jason Seymour. To the casual stranger, the service may have seemed typical. Some of the parishioners smiled at each other and shared brief jokes as they filed into the sanctu cans are accepting them in the interest of the common welfare.

But civil libertarians fear a creeping challenge to the freedoms considered fundamental to the American way of life. We can very well'accomplish ourselves what the terrorists couldnt do on their own: Destroy the United States as we know it, said Lauren Weinstein, moderator of an online privacy forum. Even if we dont tear the Constitution up Man from Union toils at N.Y. site Rescue expert calls job gruesome i A I (i i' 1 i 1 I i 1 i I. I By Bill Trotter Of the NEWS Staff LUBEC Nothing was typical Sunday at Lubec Congregational Christian Church.

To begin with, the congregation was bigger than usual. The Rev. Edwin Randall said that normally they have between 20 and 25 people at their services. On Sunday, they had roughly 60. More important, Robert and Jacqueline Norton were not there.

Robert Norton, 85, was a deacon in the church for 44 years. Jacqueline Norton, his 61-year-old wife, Bush Cheney down any commercial aircraft that disobeyed orders to turn away from Washingtons restricted air space. Bush, upon returning to the White House from Camp David, said: I gave our military the orders necessary to protect Americans. Of course, that was difficult. Bush, who was in Florida at the time of the attacks, added: Never did I dream we would be under attack this way The president also said that the nation and its limping economy were resilient and would bounce back.

Tomorrow when you get back to work, work hard like you always have, he told Americans. My administration has a job to do. We will rid the world of evildoers. See Bush, PageA8 ary. The nine-member choir sat where it always does, to the right of the organ and facing out toward the curved wooden pews where the Nortons had at last week.

Randall gave his sermon from the same pulpit, leading the people as they prayed in the large second-story sky-blue painted room. There was little direct mention of the Nortons during the service. But for their friends and relatives, the absence was obvious, despite the larger crowd. It doesnt seem right, that they wont be here, said Sidney Maker See Nortons, Page A8 explicitly, we can do it one piece at a tune. Already at airports, passengers are facing tougher measures: longer lines and more scrutiny at security checkpoints, nonticketed relatives further restricted from accompanying loved ones to gates.

Internet service providers and car rental companies have turned over information to law enforcement sometimes without search See Security, PageA4 A sailboat passes a collapsed sectiorvof the Queen Isabella Causeway in Pert Isabel, Texas, Sunday. Personal liberties acquiesce to security By Tom Groaning Of the NEWS Staff Crawling each night through the remains of an underground shopping mall near the site of New Yorks World Trade Center must seem worlds away from his childhood in rural Union, Maine. But for Paul Doughty, helping to find survivors of this sort of disaster is just what he has trained for, and what he has trained others to do. Speaking to the Bangor Daily News by cell phone Friday evening, Doughty said morale wasnt good for rescuers. Itsreally declining pretty fast, he said.

Doughty had been awakened two hours before the interview an hour or so earlier than had been the norm because President Bush was on the scene, touring the disaster area. After speaking outside, Bush filed past many of the rescuers inside, Doughty said, thanking them for their efforts. The president passed within 10 feet of Doughty, he said. iffaitir i tains his membership with the small department in the Knox County town where he grew up. Doughty and his colleagues were mobilized within two hours of the attack on New York.

They arrived Manhattan on Tuesday evening. He has been sleeping, along with 500 or 600 other emergency personnel, in a large convention room at the Jacob Javits Center on West 39th Street, he said. The first challenge he faced was adjusting his biological clock to workmg nights and sleeping days. Its very grueling, trying to change your whole body, he said. The men traveled from Rhode Island with 24-hour packs, he said, See Doughty, Page A4 By Anick Jesdanun The Associated Press NEW YORK More scrutiny at airports.

No coolers or backpacks at baseball stadiums. More information-sharing with law enforcement, with or without search warrants. The suicide attacks on the nations landmarks already have prompted some sacrifices of personal liberties. So far, most Ameri Safety concerns delay bridge rescue efforts At least 5 dead after barges cause Texas span to collapse collapsed Saturday afternoon, suspending recovery work indefinitely while engineers evaluated the structural integrity of remaining sections of the four-lane bridge, said Adrian Rivera, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety. a concern with the structure and we dont want to put divers at risk, Rivera said early Sunday Officials said it could be late Sunday or even Monday before recovery efforts resumed.

An unknown number of people were missing in the 50-foot-deep Laguna Madre, part of the Intracoastal Waterway shipping route along the Gulf Coast, officials said. Thirteen people See Bridge, Page A2 By Lynn Brezosky The Associated Press PORT ISABEL, Texas Safety concerns on Sunday delayed the work to recover victims missing smce barges smashed a section out of a major bridge and dropped cars 85 feet into a shipping channel, killing at least five people. The impact of the barges hitting a piling knocked two adjacent 80-foot segments of the Queen Isabella Causeway into the Laguna Madre channel early Saturday. The bridge is the only link between the mainland and the popular South Padre Island resorts on the Gulf of Mexico. A third 80-foot section of the bridge OO 2001 Bango Publishing Co PenoOtcals postage paid at Bangor Maine 04401 Publication number USPS 041000 in 13781 12345 -I 4 i i I.

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