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Tuesday, October 9, 2007 - 3
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BAGHDAD
Iraqi gov't seeks
compensation from
U.S. for killings
Iraqi authorities want the U.S.
government to sever all contracts
in Iraq with Blackwater USA
within six months and pay $8 mil-
lion in compensation to each of the
families of 17 people killed when
the firm's guards sprayed a traffic
circle with heavy machine gun fire
last month.
The demands - part of an Iraqi
government report - also called
on U.S. authorities to hand over
the Blackwater security agents
involved in the Sept.16 shootings to
face possible trial in Iraqi courts.
The tone of the Iraqi report
appears to signal further strains
between the government of Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki and
the White House over the deaths
in Nisoor Square - which have
prompted a series of U.S. and Iraqi
probes and raised questions over
the use of private security contrac-
tors to guard U.S. diplomats and
other officials.
LONDON
Britain to halve
number of troops
in Iraq by spring
Britain will halve its remain-
ing troop contingent in Iraq next
spring, Prime Minister Gordon
Brown announced yesterday. A
British official later said they could
not guarantee that any troops
would remain in Iraq by the end of
2008.
Brown, under fire over his deci-
sion not to call an election for this
year, said Britainwouldlower troop
levels to 2,500 by mid-2008 and
redeploy logistics staff to neighbor-
ing states. The British leader was
clearly hoping the announcement
would help boost his popularity
among a public weary of the war.
CRANDON, Wis.
Shooter had prior
relationship with
victim
An off-duty sheriff's deputy
who killed six young people fired
30 rounds of ammunition after he
burst into a home where friends
had gathered, investigators said
yesterday.
Tyler Peterson, 20, who later
died after exchanging gunfire with
law enforcement officers, had been
in a relationship with one of the
victims, authorities said at a news
conference.
"They were in a relationship for
a few years," said Police Chief John
Dennee. "They had broken up and
gone back and forth."
The rampage raised questions
among residents of the remote
northern Wisconsin community
about how Peterson could have
met requirements to become a law
enforcement officer. No psycholog-
ical testing was performed, but he
had undergone other background
checks and completed all required
training by the state.
WASHINGTON
Edwards, Dems
won't get SEIU
endorsement
None of the Democratic presi-
dential primary contenders will
get the endorsement they've been
fervently seeking from the Service
Employees International Union,
an especially painful blow to John
Edwards.
The union said yesterday it
won't choose a national candidate
for the primary elections, under-
scoring divisions that had been
apparent among SEIU supporters
of Edwards and the Democrats
he trails in national polls: Hill-
ary Rodham Clinton and Barack
Obama.
The union will instead let its
locals make decisions state by
state.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports
U,,. CA SUA LT IES
3,815
Number of American service
members who have died in the War
in Iraq, according to The Associ-
ated Press. There were no deaths
reported yesterday.
UAW sets deadline
for Chrysler strike
- Negotiations
continue over pay,
benefits
DETROIT (AP) - Tomorrow's
strike deadline set by the United
Auto Workers maybe atacticto get
Chrysler LLC to give a little more.
It also makes one thing abun-
dantly clear: Chrysler isn't going
to just agree to the same contract
terms as General Motors Corp.
As negotiations stretched into
yesterday night at Chrysler's
Auburn Hills headquarters,
several industry analysts said
Chrysler's needs are different
than GM's, so it requires a dif-
ferent deal with cost cuts in dif-
ferent places.
The union may have set the
strike deadline for its 49,000
hourly workers because of how
far Chrysler bargainers want to
go in demanding cost cuts.
"We think that they may be
holding out for something more
than GM got," said Aaron Brag-
man, an industry analyst for the
consulting firm Global Insight.
The UAW went on strike for
nearlytwodayslastmonthbefore
coming to a tentative agreement
with GM on Sept. 26.
Workers with the nation's
largest automaker are expected
to wrap up voting on the agree-
ment by tomorrow.
The union normally settles
with one U.S. automaker and then
uses that deal as a pattern for an
agreement with the other two.
Among the differences this
time, analysts say, are health
care givebacks granted to GM
and Ford Motor Co. in 2005 that
Chrysler didn't get, which are
worth approximately $340 mil-
lion a year.
A person briefed on the nego-
tiations said the two sides have
not agreed on giving the same
deal to Chrysler.
The person requested ano-
nymity because the talks are
private.
Higher health care costs are
one major reason why Chrys-
ler pays its workers an average
of $75.86 per hour in wages,
pension and health care costs,
among the highest with regards
to Detroit automakers.
A short strike might not hurt
Chrysler much.
Five U.S. plants were sched-
uled to be shut down during the
next two weeks due to lower
market demand for their prod-
ucts.
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