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Show Vege ee eeses sey ~ MORNINGBRIEFING DAILY Wednesday, February 8, 2006 HERALD FAST FACT In 1909, “Gertie the Dinosaur,” created by NewYork Journal cartoonist Winsor McKay, became the first cartoon shown movie houses along with a regular feature. ‘ ‘Source: The Book of Answers Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The WORLD The NATION FourU.S.presidents join perature for the month was 39.5 degrees Fahrenheit, 8.5 degrees above average for January, the National Climatic Data Center said Tuesday. The old record for January warmth was 37.3 degreesset in 1953. 10,000 at King’s funeral LITHONIA,Ga. — Ten thousand mourners — including four U.S.presidents, numerous members of Congress and manygray-haired veterans ofthecivil rights movement Poll: Growing number of peoplecite Iran as most dangerous to U.S. — said goodbye to Coretta Scott King on Tuesday, with President Bushsaluting her as “a woman who worked to make ournation whole.” The immensecrowdfilled the NewBirth MissionaryBaptist Church — a modern,arenastyle megachurchin a suburban Atlanta county that was once a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan . but today has oneof the most : affluent black populations in the + country. More than three dozenspeak- + ers at the funeral took turns : remembering the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King after battling ovarian cancer - andtheeffects of a stroke. - America’s warmest : January on record January wasa fair-weather ! friend. : Recording the warmest Janu- ary on record allowed Ameri* cansto save on their heating bills. Butlike all good things, last month’s mildness seems to ; have beentoo good tolast. The country’s average tem- Number of Reserves, Guard to drop in Mideast The National Guard and Reserves will play a much smaller role next year in Iraq and Afghanistan, dropping to less than threat to the U.S., 27 percent, one-fifth of overall U.S.forces than say that about any other there,the nation’s top military country, including North Korea, officer told senators Tuesday. China andIraq, according to the In responseto repeated quesPew Research Center for the tions about the strain on rePeople & the Press. serveforces onthe front lines, Asrecently as October, Iraq Gen.Peter Pace, chairman of and China wereseenas the big- the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told gest threats, closely followed by the Senate Armed Services North Korea. Committee that Guard and Reserveswill makeupjust 19 percentof the forces deployed Bomb-screeningstarts in Iraq and Afghanistan over at Jerseytrain station the nextyear. Currently they make up JERSEYCITY, N.J. — Commuters heading to work in about 30 percent of U.S.forces Manhattan walked through in those countries, Pace said. metal detectors Tuesday at a That means the planned reducbusy train station and fed their tion would lowerthe reserves’ bagsinto X-ray machinesat the proportion of total American start ofa test of an airport-style forces in Iraq and Afghanistan security screening program. by about onethird. The $1 million test program There afe now about 138,000 was being run on PATHtrains, American troops in Iraq and which take passengers between 19,000 more in Afghanistan. Radicalcleric sente: ing on to main settlement blocs for inciting to; kill pahowGomes Serie ares he’sees Israel's future fi- LONDON — radical Muslim cleric linked to Sept. 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to seven years pipe Tee) Ace ees followers to kill non-Mt whenhe led a London Abu Hamza al-Masri also faces terrorism charges in the United States, and a Justice Dement esman said the US. “stands ready to resume eran pre i ante’ the British case is completed. ca Haitians overwhelm election workers PORT-AU-PRINCE,Haiti — Scuffles broke out and polling stations opened hours late Tuesday as masses of Haitians waited — i in milelong lines — to vote under the protection of U.N. peacekeepers crouching behind machine guns andpatrolling alongside armored vehicles. Outside the gang-controlled Cite Soleil slum,frustrated voters pounded on empty ballot boxes and chanted,“It’s time for Cite Soleil to vote!” ee . Japan's Princess Kiko : nal borders. In his first broadcast interview since coming to power last month, Olmert told Channel 2 TV that if his Kadima Party wins March 28 elections, Israel would hold on to Jerusalem and three major West Bank settlement blocs, along with the strategic Jordan River valley, and it might move by itself if no agreement can be reached with the Palestinians. MAX NASH/Associated Press Sunni community leader Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, with a masked bodyguard, is seenin April 2004. Al-Masri was sentenced to seven years forfomenting racial hatred and inciting his followers to kill non-Muslims. The announcement came as the government considereda plan to allow a woman to assume the throne forthe first time in twocenturies in a bid to avert a successioncrisis. Kiko’s husband,Prince Akishino,is second in line to the throne. is pregnant Israel's leader wants o main settlement blocs TOKYO Princess Kikois pregnant, the Imperial Household Agency said Tuesday, raising the possibility of the first male heir tothe Chrysanthemum Throne in 40 years. JERUSALEM — Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said TuesdaythatIsraelwill give upterritory andrelinquish _control over most of the West Bank's Palestinians, while hold- assassinated - BAGHDAD,Iraq — Gunmen assassinated a Sunni community leader Tuesdayin the former extremist stronghold of Fallujah — part of an insurgent ign to ent prominent Sunni Arabs from _joining the U.S.-backed political process. ‘ Bombs andbulletskilled at least 11 other people, including four Marines who died in a pair of bombings in western Anbar province. Sheik Kamal Nazal, a Sunni preacher and chairman of the Fallujah city council, was pane downin a hail of bul's from twopassing ee om cars8 Chief Brig. 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