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Show DAILY wsday, February 16, 2006 HERALD -| to luncheon with senators * Criminal profilers have joined hundreds of task-force investigators from the FBI, andstate and local law enforcement. They are working out of a bustling operations center at the Tuscaloosa airport. Their bright-colored crime-scene gloves now litter the scattered church sites surrounded by yellow crime-scene tay pe. In the late 1990s, three black churches near Boligee in Greene County were among those burned in a series of church arsons across the Southeast. Those fires have never been solved, but they provided experienceto the inveseee working these cases,officials Wes Smith THE ORLANDOSENTINEL cat] ponalecer byae eee acon Charles Spencerstudied Teach of M Star Mi: urch and vowed to protect his own ice of worship 10 miles away. ‘Wehavesix churches within eight les of our church in Union, and me d my deacons have been watching in ifts every night,” Spencer said. Amid the piney woods, swamplands d cotton fields of rural Alabama stand ndreds of remote “family copee of tothe Jan. 36-death and subsequent: tributes paid to civil-rights icon retta them — all isolated Baptist churches Scott King, whose late husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was a Baptist RAINIER EHRHAROT/Associated Press is shown Sunday in Damage caused by a fire at Beaverton Freewill Baptist Church ul Beaverton,Ala. Investigators have determinedthatthe fire was arson. dear to those whose families have held baptisms, marriages, funerals and other momentous events in them for generations, “Country people love their churches as part oftheir lives,” Farley said. “And now they are feeling vulnerable.” In several cases,the arsonists have passed up more-accessible sites of Methodist and other denominations of churchobs before kicking in the Baptists’ doors, jing their pulpits and pewswith acomnis andsetting them afire. “These people have got to be rounded up immediately, andthis has got to stop. Wedon't allow churches to be burned in America,” said the Rev. Bobby Welch of fer. But investigators and others noted that four of the nine churches burned had mostly white members.Still, many think that whoeveris settingthefiresis trying to send an anti-religion message. In those churchesthat weren't burned to the ground,investigators have determined thatthefires wereset directly in front of the pulpits and Communion Daytona Beach, Fla., Southern Baptist Convention president, whohas visited all of the burned-churchsites “to hug necks andtell them wearethere for them.” Only four of the churcheshit are part of his predominantly white organization, but Welch said emergency cash and additional support have beenofferedtoall that were burned. Twoofthe destroyed churches already have $65,000 “mobile sanctuaries” ontheirsites. “These guys burned downbuildings, but they didn’t burn down churches, le are the churches,” because the Welchsaid. “This tiny,silver-haired woman at one burned churchte'd me. ‘We are not going tolet the devil whip us.’ ” would end decades of law- suits against manufacturers andtheir insurers,potentially saving them great sums of money. “It's business as usual in Washington,” said Roberta Baskin,executive director of the Center for Public Integrity. “The feeding frenzy for reform right now is mostly a 2 8 o m,setting fire to five churches — four th predominantly white congregations d the other black. Last Tuesday, they uck again,setting ablaze four church, three with black congregations,in ree rural counties in western Alabama. Thefires haveleft those who worship Alabama's rural churches fearful and | thealert. “It’s a scary time;it really is,” said ary Farley, missions director for the uuthern Baptist churches in Pickens yunty, where one church was burned st week. Thereareatleast 150 churchesfor ,000 residentsin his county alone, Fary said. Manyolder churches werebuilt ose to the rural homes of people who id to walk to them: Today, those churches ofven stand one, miles from towns. Yet, they are tered lobbyist for companies such as Honeywell and the Dow Chemical Co., which are advocatingpassageofa bill to limit the liability of companies facing asbestos-related claims. Heattended Tuesday’s luncheon,just hours before a crucial vote onthebill, which cae church membershere voiced « Suspicions that the blazes could be linked 0 years or more. Tavesugaiors say meonehas goneto considerable effort ring the past two weeks to target nine b. 3 in Bibb Countysouth of Birming- WASHINGTOR — Republicans may changethe rules allowing formersenators to attend weekly GOP luncheon meetingsafter retired Sen. LauchFaircloth attended a session while lobbying bill pending onthe floor. Faircloth, R-N.C., isa regis- ried denominations, some dating back andset them ablaze. Arsonistsfirst struck before dawn Andrewtaylor Sif: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “They kicked in a door in our other building and walkedall the way through our offices and classroomstosetthefire in here,” said the Rev. Glenn Harris as heled an insurance adjuster through his Spring Valley Baptist Churchoutside Gainesville, Ala., last week. war of words.” The episode cameas lawmakerson both sides of Capitol Hill — the Houseand Senate — are examining waysto reform lobbyingrules in the wakeof the Jack Abramoff scandal, Just two weeks ago, the Housevotedto take away accessto the floor and “I think they are mad with God, or this has something to do with hatred of religion,” Harris said. “It is a misguided anger of somekind.” the House gym from former members whoare nowregistered lobby The Tuesday meeting hosted by the Republican Policy Coinmittee is a weekly lunch where Republicans “gather and discussissues before the Yampaign to teach military about finances in wake of money abuses MarcyGordon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and for financial counselors located on bases. A new Website, http//www.SaveAndInvest.org, will provide information for military personnel and their families, and there will bea global advertising Rollend Morethan 2,000 military spouses already have appliedto becomefinancial counselors, according to the NASD. “We knowthat military per-. sonnel want and need objective, unbiased information to help them makesoundfinancial decisions,” said NASD Chairman and CEO Robert Glauber. At atime whensoldiers are fighting and dyingin Iraq, lawmakers os denounced wide-. WASHINGTON — Abusive arketing to military recruits “overpriced, unsuitable mual funds andlife insurance s led to a campaign to eduite service members and their ouseson financial matters. The campaignis being anounced today by the National ssociation of Securities Dealers - the brokerage industry's self-_ slicing organization —as well ; several members of Congress nd governmentofficials. The NASD’s$6 million proram will provide financial ‘aining programs for military _spreadinstances offinancial companies targeting military personnel with high-pressure sales tactics and charging them exorbitant fees. Legislation that would curbsales to military pecsoanel of exploitive mutual fundplans, insurancepolicies andother investment a passed the House in 2004 anc 2005 but has yet to be eeron. in the Senate. The$6 million for the education program is coming from fines imposed by NASD and the Securities and Exchange Commission in December 2004 a First CommandFinanjal Planning Inc., a company that sold high-feemutual funds to military officers. First Command, basedin Fort Worth, Texas, agreed to pay.a totalof $12 million, with the other $6 million going to compensate certain customers. The company neither admitted nor denied the regulators’ charges thatit used misleading sales material to promote the socalled “contractual plan” mutual funds,butit did agree to be censured andto refrain from future violations of securities laws. The NASDhas issued a warning to investors regarding contractual plan mutualfunds,... which charge commissions that can take 50 percent of the inyestor’s contributions in the »;s* first year. Also called systematic investmentplans or periodic paymentplans, they allow investors to accumulate sharesofa mutual fund by making monthly payments,usuallyas little as $50, over ‘a long investmentperiod of10, 15 or 25 years. Senate, reviewthe anticipat- ed agenda,anddiscuss policy options.” according to the RPC's website. “The RepublicanPolicy Thefund plansall but disap- 4 Committee chairmen have peared fromcivilian markets in the 1970s and thereafter a long-standing tradition of welcoming former senators to the weekly policy lunch. 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