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Sen. Tom Coburn, P-Okla., is pursued by members of the mer
after leaving a Republican policy luncheon.
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looms, GOP
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WASHINGTON (AP) -
House Republican leaders
are considering a short-term
increase in the U.S. debt limit
as a possible way to break the
gridlock that threatens, the
nation with an unprecedented
default in as little as a week,
officials' said Wednesday
night.
These officials said there
is far less urgency inside the
leadership about ending the
current nine-day partial gov-
ernment shutdown, which
has caused inconvenience and
financial concern for many
individual Americans but
appears not to threaten the
widespread economic damage
a default might bring.
The officials declined to say
what conditions, if any, might
be attached to legislation to
raise the $16.7 trillion debt
limit for an undetermined
period, perhaps a few weeks or
months. The GOP rank and file
is expected to meet privately
to discuss the issue on Thurs-
day, before a delegation led by
Speaker John Boehner goes to
the White House to meet with
President Barack Obama.
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igh short-term
)efore default
describing the Lew has told lawmakers they
te Wednesday must raise the debt limit
ndition of ano- by Oct. 17 to avoid risking a
they were not default, but neither house has
isclose details yet scheduled a vote.
rations. In the Senate, Democrats
aid he won't have proposed a no-strings-
a debt limit attached $1 trillion increase
tnditions are in borrowing authority that is
blicans indi- designed to prevent a recur-
lays ago they rence of the current confronta-
spending cuts tion before the 2014 elections.
its, measures A test vote is scheduled for
environmental the weekend, and Republicans
changes in the have yet to indicate how vigor-
tld health care ously they might oppose it.
In addition to House lead-
ly, the GOP- ership conversations, a group
se has passed of conservatives met privately
ate a 20-mem- during the day for what sev-
wmakers from eral officials described as a
enate to nego- wide-ranging discussion on
se and other the debt limit and the threat -
ll makes no or lack of it - posed by default.
ncrease in the No consensus was reached,
:he two topics but among those who spoke
ed in a poten- was Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.,
way out of the the 2012 GOP vice presidential
candidate who is chairman of
res came as the House Budget Committee
t the White and a prominent deficit hawk.
afternoon for In an op-ed article published
ur with House during the day in The Wall
told them that Street Journal, he wrote, "We
prefer legisla- need to pay our bills today.and
he Treasury's make sure we can pay our bills
ty beyond the tomorrow. So let's negotiate
se would also an agreement to make modest
rm bill. reforms to entitlement pro-
cretary Jack grams and the tax code."
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Attack on Jerusalem grave
sites unnerves Christians
Israeli settlers reports. Rosenfeld could not
immediately confirm the reports,
arrested for and the record of the court session
d n h i was sealed because minors were
damaging historic involved.
Naoum said the reported alibi
graves was suspect. An ancient Jewish
ritual bath was excavated on the
JERUSALEM (AP) -Christian premises but it contains no water,
leaders in Israel are up. in arms and an old well nearby has a nar-
over what they say is a string of row opening and would be dan-
relentless attacks on church prop- gerous to enter, he said.
erties and religious sites - most Naoum said his staff saw reli-
recently the desecration of a his- gious Jewish youths breaking into
toric Protestant cemetery where the cemetery again on Tuesday
vandals toppled stone crosses and Wednesday, though no dam-
fromgraves andbludgeonedthem age was reported. Israeli media
to pieces. have said two of the original sus-
The attack in the Protestant pects were students at a nearby
Cemetery of Mount Zion, one of Jewish seminary known for its
Jerusalem's most important his- ultranationalist views.
toric graveyards, has struck a par- Naoum said he is reporting the
ticularly sensitive nerve because events to the German and British
some of the damaged graves embassies, which have represen-
belong to famous figures from the tatives on the cemetery admin-
19th and20thcenturies, akeyperi- istration board, as well as to the
od in Jerusalem's history. Among Archbishop of Canterbury.
them are a German diplomat, the The attack joins a list of high-
founder of an orphanage who was profile Christian sites that have
a significant contributor to mod- been vandalized within the past
ernizing the city, and a relative of year. They include a Trappist
the owners of a prominent hotel. monastery in Latrun, outside
Though members of the clergy Jerusalem, where vandals burned
say interfaith relations between a door and spray-painted "Jesus
top religious leaders have never is a monkey" on the century-
been stronger; and police have old building, a Baptist church in
been more responsive to such Jerusalem, and other monaster-
attacks in recent years, they say ies. Clergymen often speak of
attacks continue unabated. Some being spat at by ultra-Orthodox
activists say not enough is being religious students while walk-
done to stop them. ing around Jerusalem's Old City
"We are strivingsohardtopro- wearingfrocks and crosses.
mote dignity and respect among Christian citizens of Israel,
the living. And here we have our including Roman Catholic and
dead people ... vandalized," said Orthodox streams of Christian-
the Very Rev. Hosam Naoum, ity, make up less than 2 percent of
caretaker of the Protestant cem- its nearly 8 million people. About
etery. "No human would agree three-quarters of them are Arabs,
with this." and the others arrived during a
Police arrested four young wave of immigration from former
Israeli settlers from the West Soviet Union countries that began
Bank last week, two of them 20 years ago. Tens of thousands
minors, in connection with the of Christian foreign workers and
cemetery attack, said police African migrantsalsoliveinIsrael.
spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. The population figures include
But Rosenfeld said the four were Christians in Israel and east
subsequently released without Jerusalem, the section of the city
charge until further questioning. captured by Israel in 1967 and
Two of the suspects had been claimed by the Palestinians.
banned from entering the West Over the past three years, 17
Bankbecause of their connections Christian sites in the Holy Land
to the "hilltop youth," a move- have been reported vandalized,
ment of young Jewish extremists according to Search for Com-
blamed for a spate of attacks in mon Ground, a nongovernmental
recent years on mosques, Chris- group that monitors press reports
tian sites and Israeli army prop- of attacks on religious sites.
erty to protest government policy. Researcher Kevin Merkelz
The four suspects claimed said a police detective in charge
they had entered the cemetery to of Christian affairs told the orga-
immerse themselves in a ritual nization the numbers are actu-
bath there, according to media ally higher, but Christian leaders
chose not to report many attacks
to the press.
"The Christians who are still
here want to keep a low profile
when attacked," said Merkelz. He
said the group does not include
sites in the politically sensitive
Old City of Jerusalem in its sur-
vey, because many sites are in dis-
pute and the group does not want
to be seen as taking sides.
Christian leaders are often
afraid to complain to police
because many clergymen reside in
Israel on special visas and wish to
keep good relations with authori-
ties, said Hana Bendcowsky of
the Jerusalem Center for Jewish-
Christian Relations. "There is a
very strong feeling that the police
are not doing enough ... and not
doing work to prevent the phe-
nomenon," she said.
Rosenfeld, the police
spokesman, said Israeli police
recently set up a task force to
combat "nationalistic" motivat-
ed crimes, and last week arrest-
ed 14 youths in connection with
attacks on Arabs.
He said police are carrying
out more patrols around holy
sites and are considering install-
ing security cameras to protect
them. He also claimed the num-
bers of attacks against Christian.
sites remains relatively low.
"There is more awareness that
holy areas have to be watched
closer and protected better,"
Rosenfeld said.
The Rev. Pierbattista Pizza-
balla, one of the Roman Catho-
lic church's top officials in the
Holy Land, said such attacks
"have become routine and tar-
get not only Christians. They're
conducted by extremists and go
against the spirit of tolerance.
But it's also true that they're
strongly condemned by the
Jewish community, by people
opposed to them."
Naoum, the cemetery care-
taker, said a group of 15 Jewish
religious figures will be paying a
solidarity visit to the cemetery
this week.
In the oldest section of the
Protestant Cemetery of Mount
Zion, just outside the walls of
Jerusalem's ancient Old City, the
tops of large stone monuments,
many written in German, were
bare, and the stone crosses that
used to top them lay broken into
a few pieces.
Graves damaged belong to a
British Mandate policeman and
important figureheads in the
city.
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Morsi trial date stokes political
drama in Egypt following force-out
Prosecution charges
Pres. incited followers
to kill opponents
BUENOS AIRES, Argen-
tina (AP) - The doctors who
removed a blood clot from the
brain of Argentina's president
said Wednesday that she's
improving "without complica-
tions." But their terse report
gave no information suggesting
how long the government will
be without its charismatic lead-
er in charge.
Their three-sentence report
said Cristina Fernandez's vital
signs were "normal" and her
spirits "very good." It said the
60-year-old leader would begin
eating later Wednesday.
Her spokesman, Alfredo Scoc-
cimarro, appeared briefly before
a crowd outside the hospital to
announce the doctors' report,
adding'only that the president
had slept well and "sends a big
kiss to all the Argentines."
And that was it. The only
government official authorized
to release details about Fernan-
dez's condition left without tak-
ing questions.
The lack of details frustrated
Argentines such as Fernando
Ballester, a 40-year-old office
administrator. "She has the
obligation to inform us. The
president's health is a matter of
state," he said.
"The country can't function
without Cristina," he said. "Our
political system is focused on
the presidency, and especially
the president we have now, who
makes all the decisions."
Laboratory worker Silvina
Caceres agreed: "It's not OK
that the president of the repub-
lic doesn't keep the people
informed about her health. Her
life is not private ... If not, all
she feeds to the people is para-
noia."
Caceres was among many
who are convinced Fernandez
will keep working behind the
scenes. "She keeps governing
from the clinic," Caceres said.
Even Vice President Amado
Boudou, nominally in charge of
the executive branch while Fer-
nandez recuperates, suggested
as much on Tuesday, the day
of her surgery. He declared in
a speech that "to Cristina, her
country is more important than
her own health!"
Brain surgeons not involved
in Fernandez's surgery consult-
ed by The Associated Press said
there was no reason to think that
the surgery could have lasting
complications, but they said the
risks would increase if she tried
to go back to work too soon.
They also differed widely on
how long such patients generally
need to recuperate - the Argen-
tines consulted said she could
be out from 30 to even 90 days,
while U.S. experts said she could
be back to work in a week.
A member of the surgical
team, Dr. Pablo Rubino, sug-
gested Wednesday that Argen-
tines have little need to worry.
"Once she's completely recov-
ered, there won't be any prob-
lem. She'll be able to do any sort
of activity," he said.
But Rubino, the chief of vas-
cular surgery at the Fundacion
Favaloro, where Fernandez
remained in intensive therapy,
stressed that confidential:
ity vows prevented her doctors
from saying how long she might
need to recover.
"We can't enter into details,
but the information was abso-
lutely faithful. The com-
munications are absolutely
accurate," Rubino said. Pressed
by a government radio host to
say whether Fernandez could
be out for a month, he said,
"Some need less, some need
more."
Argentina's looming chal-
lenges include the Oct. 27 con-
gressional elections, in which
the ruling party now lacks its
top campaigner. Another devas-
tating loan default became more
likely this week when the U.S.
Supreme Court rejected Argen-
tina's initial appeal in its debt
fight. The economy has slowed,
the currency is losing value and
inflation is soaring.
Ruling party lawmakers were
making the best of it, debating
the 2014 budget Wednesday. But
many had questioned Boudou's
leadership because of the cor-
ruption investigations he faces,
and the presidency didn't make
public the formal -transfer-of-
power document that usually
indicate how long a president
would need to be replaced.
"It's like we're on stand-by,"
Caceres said. "Nothing impor-
tant is going to happen until she
takes the reins again."