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Show ' FAST FACT In the days, MORNING BRIEFING ey V Hitler 1 used the Brownshirts commanded by Ernst Roehm as bodyguards and for breaking up rival political meetings. ... Compiled from Daily Herald wire services SwwIBaflpAofWaldFs TT The WORLD The Nation rift. - . V'',:- - 1 KHAUL Press HAMRAAssociated sit in the rubble after their Israeli army incursion into an in was house destroyed family Gaza Strip, early southern Younis the Khan refugee camp, Saturday morning. A Palestinian woman and her child 1 1 Army bulldozers raze 35 Palestinian homes 5V GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israeli army bulldozers razed 35 homes in a Palestinian refugee camp Saturday, a UN. official said, a day after a resident of a nearby Jewish settlement was killed by mortar fire from the area. The army said most of the demolished structures in the Khan Younis camp were uninhabited and served as cover for militants shelling the nearby settlement of Neve Dekalim. However, after troops withdrew Saturday, dozens of Palestinians pulled clothes, kitchen utensils, school books, mattresses and other belongings from the rubble. One resident said he and his four children had fled in their pajamas as the family's two-stor- y house was de- f ' jvj CAROLYN KASTERAssociated Press Charles J. Juba, the national director of Aryan Nations from Leola, Pa., second from left, is flanked by Josh Webster of Center Point, Ala., rally on left, and Barbara Marie Kreis, 1 0, with her father Pastor August B. Kreis III, right both from Sebring, Flo., during a neo-Nathe amphitheater stage at Valley Forge National Historic Park, in Valley Forge, Pa., on Saturday. zi White supremacists and counter-demonstrato- rs rally at Valley Forge VALLEY FORGE, Pa. white supremacists rallied at Valley Forge National Historical Park on Saturday as nearly twice as many opponents heckled them from a nearby hillside. Both groups were outnumbered by federal law enforcement officers. National Park Service spokesman Phil Sheridan said no arrests were made at the rally site, but one person was arrested after a scuffle in a parking lot. and Ku Klux Klan members shouted slogans from a stage at the park, where about 11,000 Revolutionary War soldiers commanded by George Washington camped from December 1777 to June About 100 Neo-Naz- is 1778. NationThe Minnesota-base- d al Socialist Movement, which sponsored the rally, claims Washington held separatist and a position views disputed by most historians. anti-Semit- ic vnr TUn ait An UaIsI e tUn Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Rally organizers have said they were unaware of the holiday when they planned the event. Still, Jeff Schoep, commander of the NSM, launched the rally with an attack on Jews, who he said planned "the destruction of all races through the evils of race mixing." Other speakers criticized America's role in the Iraq war, calling it "Israel's War." in a cordoned-of- f area several hundred feet away shouted "Bull!" and waved placards with slogans such as, "Get out of our melting pot." Noah Qsner, 25, said he joined the counterprotest to show there are people willing to stand up against racism. "I think hate begets hate," he said. "I think it's scary to see such a volume of hate in one small area." Counter-demonstrato- 27 by the was not a surprise, "Lynndie's case is a heck of a lot stronger than it used to be," he said. Orr did not say what charges his client will face, but hearing officer CoL Denise Arn has recommended that England be on 17 counts of abuse and indecent acts. Democratic-controlle- d state Legislature, would have' allowed up to 2 million immigrants to drive legally. Religious leaders joined activists Friday in downtown Los Angeles to protest Schwarzenegger's stance. The legislation's supporters contend that allowing illegal immigrants to have licenses would improve public safety by requiring them to know the rules of the road and obtain insurance. Opponents have cited, security and illegal immigration concerns. Mike Wilzoch of the Service Employees International Union, which has 30,000 workers statewide, said his organization may protest the governor's veto after the November election. Union leaders, however, doubted a boycott would cause Schwarzenegger to change his court-martial- Hispanics threaten California boycott over license bill veto SAN DIEGO Angered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto of a bill to let undocumented immigrants drive legally, Hispanic leaders and political groups are organizing protests and a national boycott of California to disrupt convention business. Supporters of the bill accuse the Republican governor of reneging on promises to reach a compromise. Instead, they say, Schwarzenegger tacked on a demand that calls for licenses to be specifically marked differentiating illegal immigrants' licenses from those of U.S. citizens and legal residents. "If this is the posture the governor wants to take, then our community is going to be forced to kick it up a notch," said Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican American Political Association and Hermandad Mexicana, based in Southern mind. Christians against gay marriage, abortion seek Supreme Court changes WASHINGTON Christian conservatives are casting a wider net this year in their search for likely voters especially conservative ones by asking people on the phone how they feel about same-se- x marriage as well as their views on abortion, a standard question in previous election cycles. "The federal marriage amendment will be an important issue in the states it's on the ballot," Roberta Combs, president of the Christian Coalition of America, said Saturday during an election training con- - California. Lopez planned to organize a national boycott aimed at steering conventions' away from San Diego, Los Angeles, Anaheim and San Francisco. The measure, approved Aug. ar Mi. al RALEIGH, N.C Army Pfc. Lynndie England, who has come to symbolize the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, will face a court martial, one of her lawyers said. The Army will announce the The incursion began just afmidnight Friday with a missile strike that killed a Palestinian and wounded five other people. The army said the missiles were aimed at militants trying to launch a rocket. Tanks and army bulldozers then drove into the camp, drawing fire from Palestinian gunmen. The fighting took place close to Neve Dekalim, where a Hamas mortar killed Tif eret Tratner, an on Friday. The attack marked the first time a Gaza settler was killed by Palestinian shelling. ter re-ele- Israeli-America- Lobbyists worked both sides of Indian gambling public relations consultant Michael Scanlon quietly worked with conservative religious activist Ralph Reed to help the state of Texas shut down an Indian tribe's casino in 2002, then the two quickly persuaded the tribe to pay $42 million to try to get Congress to reopen it. written by Dozens of the three men and obtained by The Washington Post show how they built public support for then-TexAttorney General John Cornyn's effort get the courts to close the Tigua tribe's Speaking Rock Casino in El Paso in late 2001 and early also reveal 2002. The what appears to be an effort on the part of Abramoff and Scanlon to then exploit the financial crisis they were helping to create for the tribe by securing fee both the multimillion-dolla- r and $300,000 in federal political contributions, which the tribe court-marti- I t lit'; ! ' ?, I t . YV ' 4 ,1 post. TRAVIS MORISSeAuoclated Press Scottish dancing Geddy Avery, 10, of St. Louis, right, dances at the Highland Dance Competition during the McPhenon, Kan., Scottish Festival as Iain McKee, of Overland Park, Kan., plays the bagpipe on Saturday. Ten days after the Tigua Incasino dians' $60 million-a-yea- r was shuttered in February 2002, Abramoff wrote a tribal representative that he would get Republicans in Congress to rectify the "gross indignity perpetuated by the Texas state authorities," assuring him that he had already lined up "a couple of Senators willing to ram this through," according to the n, 2,000 rebels threaten Afghan election WASHINGTON Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and one-thir- d Delta. It is not so much .1- - a labor shortage there are still tens of millions of peasants and former employees of the factories whoneed state-owne- KABUL, Afghanistan ' ' . What he did not reveal was that he and Scanlon had been paying Reed, an avowed foe of gambling, to encourage public support for Cornyn's effort to close two Indian casinos in Texas. Abramoff, one of Washington's powerhouse Republican lobbyists until his work , came under scrutiny by law enforcement agencies this year, has long been close to Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition and now i southern regional chairman of ' President Bush's campaign. Both have political ties to House Majority Leader as does Tom DeLay, Scanlon, who had served as his spokesman. US-hacke- China's labor pool shifts as urban workers .seek better lives DONGGUAH China In a country with a supposedly bottomless supply of labor, the Daojiong Hequn Plastic Processing factory has somehow hit bottom. The plant in southern China can no longer find enough young women willing to ' . . spend theirhours bending over machinery slicing artifi-dal hair for toy doDs bound for the United States. . The $50 monthly pay is too little. The days are too long. In China's burgeoning economy, there are better op ur d jobs as a mismatch between the cutthroat wage demands of the export trade and the rising expectations of Chinese workers. The government report blames the situation on poor working and living conditions, stagnant pay and chronic violations of China's labor regulations in the sprawling manufacturing towns that have based their growth on selling to the world market. Where once a paycheck, even under harsh conditions, was enough to entice tens of millions of people to leave their villages in China's interior and flock to factories on the coast, workers are beginning to turn their backs on the prospect of laboring in lOOndegree heat, living in dormitories and being cheated out of their earnings. forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of vi--. olence from about 2,000 insurmilgents, including itants slipping in from Pakistan, an American general said Saturday. In the latest bloodshed, j Afghan police said suspected Taliban gunmen killed nine militia soldiers in two attacks on checkpoints in a troubled southern province. Two weeks before the presidential ballot, Lt. Gea David Barno said violence would "mofe than likely" increase, and urged NATO forces and the United Nations to steel themselves. "We must stand firm and not allow a tiny minority of terrorists to negate, the hard ' work, commitment and z courage of millions of Afghans who have regis- tered to vote, said Barno, the top American commander in Afghanistan. " Taliban rebels threatening to disrupt the Oct. 9 election appear, to have already stepped up their campaign. Militants killed three American soldiers last week, and interim leader Hamid Karzai escaped a rocket attack on his helicopter earlier this month. . 24-ye- ar U.S.-le- d pakL -- England, 21, is one of seven members of the 372nd Military Police Company of Cresaptown, Md., charged with the abuse that occurred last year at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Photographs were transmitted around the world showing the reservist holding a naked prisoner by a leash, smiling and pointing at a hooded detainee's genitals and posing behind a pyramid of nude Iraqis. Although the court-marti- stroyed as Lawyer. England to face court-martifor Iraqi scandal abuse prisoner on Monday and may schedule the military trial to begin in January, defense attorney Rhidian Orr said Friday. An Army spokesman at Fort Bragg, where England has been assigned while her case is pending, confirmed that a decision regarding the case is scheduled to be released Monday. The decision rests with Lt. Gea John Vines, commander of the 18th Airborne Corps at the ference for activist members. "It will have an impact on us getting out the vote." Proposals on amendments on gay marriage are expected to be on the ballot in 11 states, including the swing states of Arkansas, Oregon, Michigan and probably Ohio. Those people who say they are likely to vote and who oppose abortion and favor traditional marriage will be heavily recruited by the coalition on Election Day. The coalition hopes to help President Bush and add a handful of conservative US. senators who will support its agenda. The ultimate goal is loftier: changing the US. Supreme Court and the federal judiciary. The coalition is finishing interviews of lawmakers for its voter guides, which national field coordinator Bill Thomson called the "B-- 2 bomber" in its arsenal Combs wasn't ready to say exactly how many coalition voter guides will be printed. The group handed out 70 million in 2000. portunities elsewhere. Throughout the southern province of Guangdong, whose factories produce nearof China's exly ports, and in other industrial areas along China's coast, la- bor is suddenly wanting particularly the 18- - to old women who have become the staple workers of China's export trade. According to a recent report from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, China's factories lack 2.8 million workers, 2 million alone in the prime manufacturing zone along the Pearl River Politicians want Arabs to leave city ot'Kirkiik A KIRKUK, Iraq tense confrontation is building in this refugee-swolle- n city, with hardline Kurdish politicians demanding the departure of some 200,000 Arabs who settled here during ' a government campaign of Arab migration to parts of northern Iraq. "The Arabs must go back," Azad Jindyany, director of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's media office, said in the northern city of this week. "This is the central policy for every Kurdish party and all Kurdish movements." Kurdish parties appear to be trying to recreate a majority they held long : ago in the contested province, traditionally a multiethnic place with Christians, Turkomen and some Arabs who trace their roots back hundreds of years. An August report that came from New York-base- d Human Rights Watch said the hardline Kurdish position underscores a "dramatic change in power relations in northern Iraq that has left Arab fami- lies "almost completely powerless" and Kurdish parties creating conditions for "a major -- 30-ye-ar oil-ric- h |