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Australian government to
apologize to Aborigines
Edwards ends
presidential bid
Democrat John Edwards bowed
out of the race for the Democratic
presidential nomination on yester-
day, saying it was time to step aside
"so that history can blaze its path"
in a campaign now left to Hill-
ary Rodham Clinton and Barack
Obama.
"With our convictions and a lit-
tle backbone we will take back the
White House in November," said
Edwards, ending his second cam-
paign in the same hurricane-rav-
aged city where he began it more
than a year ago.
Edwards said Clinton and
Obama had both pledged that "they
will make ending poverty central to
their campaign for the presidency."
"This is the cause of my life and
I now have their commitment to
engage in this cause,"he said before
a small group of supporters. He was
joined by his wife Elizabeth and his
three children, Cate, Emma Claire
and Jack.
SIMI VALLEY, Calif.
Giuliani drops out
of presidential race
Rudy Giuliani, who sought to
make the leap from New York
mayor to the White House, bowed
out of the Republican presidential
contest Wednesday and endorsed
front-runner and longtime friend
John McCain.
"John McCain is the most quali-
fied candidate to be the next com-
mander in chief of the United
States," Giuliani said. "He's an
American hero."
Once the front-runner himself,
Giuliani decided to abandon the
race after a dismal performance
in Tuesday's Florida primary, a
contest on which he had bet his
political fortune. Instead, McCain
won and Giuliani came in a distant
third.
Giuliani, recalled he had said
in an earlier debate that McCain
would be his choice for president
if he were not running himself.
JERUSALEM
Report: Olmert
cleared in 2006
Lebanon war
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
emerged relativelyunscathed from
the final report yesterday on his
handling of Israel's 2006 war in
Lebanon, even though the inquiry
criticizes'.. both the government
and the army for "serious failings
and flaws."
The report stopped short of
blaming Olmert personally for
what many Israelis saw as a stun-
ning debacle that emboldened the
Jewish state's enemies. A harsher
indictment could have threatened
Olmert's rule and his stated goal
of signing a peace treaty with the
Palestinians within a year.
The head of a five-member in-
vestigative panel, retired judge
Eliyahu Winograd, described a
U.N.-brokered cease-fire as an
"achievement for Israel."
CINCINNATI, Ohio
Judge upholds
* deportation order
for Nazi guard
Afederal appeals court onyester-
day rejected an alleged Nazi death
cahip guard's challenge to a final
deportation order by the nation's
chief immigrationjudge.
A panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals ruled there was no
basis to John Demjanjuk's challenge
of a December 2005 ruling that
he could be deported to his native
Ukraine or to Germany or Poland:
The government initially claimed
Demjanjuk was the notoriously sa-
distic guard at the Treblinka camp
known as "Ivan the Terrible." Of-
ficials later concluded that he was
not, but a judge ruled in 2002 that
documents from World War II
prove Demjanjuk was a Nazi guard
at 'various death or forced labor
camps.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports
3 941
Number of American service mem-
bers who have died in the war in
Iraq, according to The Associated
Press. No new deaths were identi-
fied yesterday.
Prime Minister
vows to apologize for
past wrongs against
native population
MOUNT DRUITT, Australia
(AP) - As a girl, Mari Melito Rus-
sell felt out of place. She was darker
than the other kids at school, she
felt more comfortable in the forest
than her suburban home and she
had vivid dreams of an Aboriginal
woman beckoning her. ,
At age 24, she learned a shocking
truth thathelped explain her unease
and set her on an agonizing search
for an identity snatched away from
her the day she was born.
Russell is among thousands of
Australian Aborigines who were
forcibly removed from their fami-
lies under policies that lasted for
decades until 1970, leaving deep
scars on countless lives and the
nation's psyche.
Australia's government said
yesterday it would formally apolo-
License
gize to the so-called "stolen gener-
ations" as the first item of business
of the new Parliament, on Feb 13.
The issue has divided Austra-
lians for decades, and an apology
would be a crucial step toward
righting injustices many blame
for the marginalized existence of
Australia's original inhabitants
- its poorest and most deprived
citizens.
"It's not going to bring back my
life," Russell, 72, told The Associ-
ated Press yesterday at her home
on Sydney's outskirts. "It's not
going to bring back my mum. It's
not going to take away the abuse
that I had to endure when I was
growing up."
"But at least it's a start."
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd,
elected last November and whose
pledge to apologize overturns a
decade of refusals by his predeces-
sor, has ruled out paying compen-
sation. But hesays he isdetermined
to help all Aborigines achieve bet-
ter health, education and living
standards.
"This is about getting the sym-
bolic covenant, if you like, between -
indigenous and non-indigenous
Australia right and then moving
on," Rudd said this week.
Indigenous Affairs Minister
Jenny Macklin said yesterday the
apology would "be made on behalf of
the Australian government and does
not attribute guilt to the currentgen-
eration of Australian people."
Her statement reflects the lin-
gering concerns of many Austra-
lians that they should not be made
responsible for mistakes by their
forebears.
Aborigines - 450,000 among
Australia's population of 21 million
- are the the country's poorest eth-
nic group and are most likely to be
jailed, unemployed and illiterate.
Their life expectancy is 17 years
shorter than other Australians.
From 1910 until 1970, some
100,000 mostly mixed-blood
Aboriginal children were taken
from their parents under state and
federal laws that argued the race
was doomed and that integrating
the children was a humane alter-
native.
Mayor breaks silence
Kilpatrick - one that could land him in prison
forup to15years if he's convicted of
apologizes, affirms lying under oath.
A prosecutor is investigating
he won't resign whether the mayor and chief of staff
Christine Beatty lied on the stand
DETROIT (AP) - Mayor Kwame during a whistle-blower's lawsuit
Kilpatrick reemerged from a week- last summer in which both denied
long, self-imposed exile last night, having a physical relationship.
using the shadow of a church pulpit Kilpatrick vowed to remain
to express contrition for "the embar- mayor in the speech that aired live
rassmentand disappointment" recent in prune time on Detroit television
events have caused Detroit residents, and radio stations.
alluding toa text messaging scandal "Make no mistake about it, since
that came to light a week ago and has 2002, I have been in charge of
engrossedthe city. the city. There have been ups and
During the made-for-television downs. There have been hills and
event, Kilpatrick was careful not to mountains and valleys. But through
get into specifics, knowing a perju- it all, I remain in charge of the city,"
ry investigation hangs over his head he said.
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LANSING (AP) - State law-
makers today are expected to
begin fixing what some consider
unintended consequences of
Michigan's reinterpreted driv-
er's license laws.
People who are here legally
but not permanent residents
- including employees from
other countries temporarily
working for Michigan compa-
nies - haven't been able to get
new state driver's licenses since
last week.
That's due torules implement-
ed by Secretary of State Terri
Lynn Land requiringmore docu-
mentation to get driver's licenses
for first-time applicants. Her
decision was based on a recent
opinion from Attorney General
Mike Cox, which said only per-
manent Michigan residents are
eligible for driver's licenses.
Cox was asked to rule on
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