July 14th, 2006
According to the New York Times; listed below are the 10 most read articles read online (NYTimes.com) from June 13 - July 12, 2006.
1. What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage By AMY SUTHERLAND, Published: June 25, 2006 I wanted - needed - to nudge my husband a little closer to perfect.
2. At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust By TAMAR LEWIN, Published: July 9, 2006 A quarter-century after women became the majority on campuses, men are trailing in more than just enrollment.
3. Star Jones Reynolds's Departure From 'The View' Was in the Works for Months By JACQUES STEINBERG, Published: June 28, 2006 Ms. Jones Reynolds said she had been told sometime before the announcement of Rosie O'Donnell's hiring that her contract was not being renewed.
4. Rogue Giants at Sea
By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Published: July 11, 2006 Scientists are now finding that rogue waves are far more common and destructive than once imagined and are launching new research projects to study them.
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6. Lay's Death Complicates Efforts to Seize Assets By SIMON ROMERO, Published: July 6, 2006 In yet another bizarre twist to the Enron saga, the sudden death of Kenneth L. Lay may have spared his survivors financial ruin.
7. Surprising Jump in Tax Revenues Is Curbing Deficit By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Published: July 9, 2006 Tax revenues are climbing twice as fast as the administration predicted in February, so fast that the budget deficit could actually decline this year.
8. A Star Falters, France Fades, Italy Rejoices By JERE LONGMAN, Published: July 10, 2006 Italy won its fourth World Cup title, but the match is certain to be remembered for Zinedine Zidane's behavior.
9. Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power By JOHN MARKOFF and SAUL HANSELL, Published: June 14, 2006 A sprawling new data center in
10. Enron Founder Dies Before Sentencing By JEREMY W. PETERS and SIMON ROMERO, Published: July 5, 2006 Kenneth L. Lay, who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy, faced the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison.
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Israel at War
July 13th, 2006
Soccer Dad has several good posts on the Israeli response to the naked unwarranted series of provocations by mashugga militant Palestinians.
He is a mentsh and his blog may very well be the best place for a plethora of good information and analysis.
It would appear that
You may want to also follow developments in the Jerusalem Post.
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NEW YORK Jul 10, 2006 (AP)— The syndicator of Ann Coulter's newspaper columns rejected allegations that she had lifted material from other sources, saying a review of the work in question turned up nothing that merited concern.
"There are only so many ways you can rewrite a fact and minimal matching text is not plagiarism," Lee Salem, editor and president of Universal Press Syndicate, said Monday in a statement.
"Universal Press Syndicate is confident in the ability of Ms. Coulter, an attorney and frequent media target, to know when to make attribution and when not to."
According to the New York Times; listed below are the 10 most read articles read online (NYTimes.com) from June 13 - July 12, 2006.
1. What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage By AMY SUTHERLAND, Published: June 25, 2006 I wanted - needed - to nudge my husband a little closer to perfect.
2. At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust By TAMAR LEWIN, Published: July 9, 2006 A quarter-century after women became the majority on campuses, men are trailing in more than just enrollment.
3. Star Jones Reynolds's Departure From 'The View' Was in the Works for Months By JACQUES STEINBERG, Published: June 28, 2006 Ms. Jones Reynolds said she had been told sometime before the announcement of Rosie O'Donnell's hiring that her contract was not being renewed.
4. Rogue Giants at Sea
By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Published: July 11, 2006 Scientists are now finding that rogue waves are far more common and destructive than once imagined and are launching new research projects to study them.
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6. Lay's Death Complicates Efforts to Seize Assets By SIMON ROMERO, Published: July 6, 2006 In yet another bizarre twist to the Enron saga, the sudden death of Kenneth L. Lay may have spared his survivors financial ruin.
7. Surprising Jump in Tax Revenues Is Curbing Deficit By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Published: July 9, 2006 Tax revenues are climbing twice as fast as the administration predicted in February, so fast that the budget deficit could actually decline this year.
8. A Star Falters, France Fades, Italy Rejoices By JERE LONGMAN, Published: July 10, 2006 Italy won its fourth World Cup title, but the match is certain to be remembered for Zinedine Zidane's behavior.
9. Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power By JOHN MARKOFF and SAUL HANSELL, Published: June 14, 2006 A sprawling new data center in
10. Enron Founder Dies Before Sentencing By JEREMY W. PETERS and SIMON ROMERO, Published: July 5, 2006 Kenneth L. Lay, who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy, faced the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison.
US Mint: The History of Presidents on Our Coins
For both coin collectors and folks avidly interested in presidential history, the “Nuggets from the Vault” section of The United States Mint has penned an informative “History of Presidents on Our Coins.”
The United States Mint: Nuggets from the Vault
The History of Presidents on Our Coins
July 12, 2006
In 2009, the
The decision to change the design of the 1909 penny was reported in the Annual Report of the Director of the Mint without any explanation of the reasons why the Agency was abandoning more than 115 years of tradition by placing the image of a President on a circulating coin. Researchers and numismatists appear to agree that Theodore Roosevelt’s earlier discussions with sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens may also have included the topic of honoring Lincoln, but the artist’s death in 1907 ended the possibility of a Saint-Gaudens designed coin commemorating the birth of our 16th president.
For more than a century after the founding of our nation, American Presidents led this new Republic, with its system of self-government untested and unmatched in all the world, through a period of rapid growth and development that included massive industrial advancement, one of the most devastating civil wars in all of human history and the conquest of the skies on the sandy dunes of North Carolina. In the context of a lifetime, this first American century could accurately be described as a very active childhood.
The success or failure of what George Washington himself dubbed “this great experiment” depended on our ability to steer clear of the obstacles and pitfalls which, over time, may have contributed to the downfall and ultimate collapse of other civilizations once deemed great.
Like our representative government itself, the images chosen to appear on American coins were another statement of difference between the system against which American colonists rebelled and the government for which American citizens would work.
It is reasonable to suggest that it was a belief in unrestricted opportunity as an American birthright that helped guide the Congress in the creation of many of the federal institutions charged with governing the new nation, including the United States Mint, whose chief purpose was the coining of American money. With respect to the images that would be featured on American coins, the Mint Act of 1792 specifically states “…there shall be the following devices and legends, namely: Upon one side of each of the said coins there shall be an impression emblematic of liberty…” The elected representatives knew that they could more effectively strengthen the democratic principles on which the nation was formed by stamping coins with designs of
In executing the blueprint of our nation’s democracy, one of the masterstrokes of the founding fathers was their understanding of the universal appeal and importance of ideals to the average citizen. In a time of obvious inequality and institutionalized slavery Thomas Jefferson’s simple declaration that “all men are created equal” was more likely meant to convey an understanding by our leaders that this new government was not a constitutional monarchy; that a man from humble beginnings could rise to hold the nation’s highest office, a story made real by the emergence of a self-educated lawyer from the American heartland, Abraham Lincoln.
As decades passed and the American experiment continued to gain legitimacy through its continued growth and prosperity, honoring the vision of the nation’s founders and great leaders became an important and, some would say, necessary public discussion. More so, it was already being done. From great portraits and statues honoring battlefield accomplishments to important volumes of the nation’s early history, men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant were being written and molded into the fabric and folklore of the country.
Interestingly, when President Theodore Roosevelt began to discuss invigorating American coin design with the world-renowned sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, it was Roosevelt’s desire to bring elements of classically influenced sculpture that eventually resulted in both Saint-Gaudens’ Liberty, and Adolph A. Weinman’s Walking Liberty. Each of these designs was used for a time on circulating coins, yet both would be retired before the 20th Century was half over.
Although the collaboration with Saint-Gaudens resulted in some of the country’s most beloved numismatic designs, the gifted sculptor was often frustrated by what he believed to be excessive and unnecessary bureaucracy in his dealings with both the Treasury Department and the
Unlike Saint-Gaudens, the sculptor Victor David Brenner was dedicated to furthering the ties between sculpture artists and numismatics. Towards the end of the 19th Century he served as an instructor at
It remains unclear as to precisely how and when the decision was reached to use Brenner’s portrait of
The public response to the new one-cent coin was, predictably, mixed. While many Americans embraced the new design, there was no doubt a significant number who opposed the change. Considering that a large number of Civil War veterans were still living in 1909, those who had fought for and wore the uniform of the Confederacy may have found it difficult, if not impossible, to carry the image of Lincoln, the man responsible for vanquishing their secessionist dreams, in their pockets.
It would be twenty-three more years before another former President would join
Official rules were released to the public early in 1932, and participants were instructed to model their designs on the bust of
The work of accomplished sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser, whose husband James had designed the Indian Head (sometimes called the
The practice of placing American Presidents on circulating coins continued in 1938, when the United States Treasury Department announced a public competition to solicit designs to replace those featured on the obverse and reverse of the 5-cent coin that year. The rules of the competition specified that the new nickel’s obverse must feature an authentic portrait of Thomas Jefferson and that the coin’s reverse would recognize
After 390 sets of models were submitted by some of the country’s most accomplished artists and sculptors, the designs of German-American sculptor Felix Schlag were selected, earning him the advertised $1,000 prize in April 1938. The portrait he submitted, the familiar left-facing profile of Thomas Jefferson, was based on a bust by sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon and featured Jefferson dressed in a period coat and wearing a traditional 18th Century peruke wig.
The Jefferson nickel remained unchanged for 66 years, until the release of the first coins of the Westward Journey Nickel Series™ in 2004.
As the 1930s came to a close, Presidential portraits had replaced traditional Liberty-themed images on three of the Nation’s five most common coins; the penny, the nickel and the quarter. When American soldiers went overseas in the early 1940s, they still carried with them half-dollars that featured Walking
Shortly after the end of WWII, one of these designs would be retired to honor the man who led the United States longer than any other, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Elected to an unprecedented four terms as America’s Commander in Chief, FDR had battled polio since contracting the disease in 1921, a fight that ultimately claimed victory over the great man in April, 1945. Two factors that contributed to Roosevelt being honored on the ten-cent coin were his strong support for the March of Dimes and the fact that the winged Liberty design had been in use since 1916, a period of 29 years, thus obviating the need for new legislation to make the change.
Liberty, as a design, was removed from the obverse of the last circulating coin in 1948, though for the first time the place of honor did not pass to a former American President. The release of the 1948 Benjamin Franklin half-dollar did not coincide with a noteworthy anniversary, but was rather a project driven by the desire of long-time Director of the United States Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross to see two iconic American images – Benjamin Franklin and the Liberty Bell – so honored. Again, the long run enjoyed by Weinman’s Walking
Following the release of the
Everything changed on November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on the streets of
The process begun in 1909 was complete in 1964, when American Presidents were featured on every regular issue circulating coin; Abraham Lincoln on the cent, Thomas Jefferson on the nickel, Franklin Roosevelt on the dime, George Washington on the quarter-dollar and John F. Kennedy on the half-dollar.
One final addition to this group would be made in 1971, when United States Mint Director Eva Adams presented Richard Nixon and Mamie Eisenhower with the first new one dollar coins issued by the United States since the Coinage Act of 1965 ordered a five-year moratorium on the coins. The issuance of the Eisenhower dollar followed the tradition established by the
In 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Presidential $1 Coin Act, ensuring an extension of this great tradition by at least 10 years – 10 very busy years that will see the striking and release of four new dollar coins each year, honoring the service of all of the United States Presidents in the order in which they served.
While our country moved steadily towards honoring presidents on the face of our coins, our connection to Liberty, one of just two images named by the founders for use on our earliest coins, remains as strong as ever. The image each of these new Presidential $1 Coins will share is a rendition of sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi’s Lady Liberty, who has stood as a welcoming beacon of freedom in
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Happy Birthday Kay Church
July 13th, 2006 by
Carroll County Commissioners Julia Gouge, Dean Minnich, and Perry Jones surprise
People Carroll County, Carroll County Commissioners, Carroll County Government News
Related: 20060706 KDDC Aunt Kay Birthday Cake and the Commissioners
Last Thursday was a milestone birthday for the receptionist at the
How old is she did you ask? Well, here at the Westminster Eagle, we’re not in the business of competing with The New York Times when it comes to divulging state secrets, but we will give you a hint. She’s the same age as President George W. Bush.
So just what does an “information desk receptionist” do? After all, I have always been focused on the fact that she has a friendly greeting, warm smile, and almost always has cookies. She sits almost exactly where the old Crowl ice cream factory used to be, long before the office building was there, so she is continuing a great tradition of hospitality through food.
When I wander into the building, Aunt Kay is quick to tell me where to go. In my years of working for the public I’ve been told where to go on a number of occasions, but no one does it as nicely as Aunt Kay.
According to our sources, Aunt Kay is part guidance counselor, honorary bailiff (armed with a salad shooter and hard carrots at the ready,) tour guide and mother confessor.
She is also the mother of two grown children. Well, three, if you count her husband, Ron, who also works for county government in the Bureau of Development Review.
Aunt Kay has worked for the county since August 1988, when, after working for Black and Decker in Hampstead, the Manchester Pharmacy and the Hampstead sewing factory, she took a job in personnel services (now called production distribution,) on the bottom floor of the building.
In November 1989 she got a promotion and a raise – to the first floor, where she has been found ever since in her “command station” at the main entrance of the building.
As for her job, Aunt Kay says, she’s “taken an avocation and turned it into a career. I like people and I like talking.”
Recently I had an opportunity to sit down with Aunt Kay so she could talk a little about her job. And talk is exactly what she did. It was like opening the flood gates of genuinely friendly southern charm.
Then again, getting Aunt Kay to talk was not only easy, but getting Aunt Kay to take a break is not really that unusual since she always takes time to help citizens as they hustle and bustle by her command post. And usually, no matter how busy she is, she acts like her sole job is to help you.
“I love serving the public.
She’s not the first to be the friendly public gatekeeper for the building, Bea Sauble had served in the position for ten years. Aunt Kay was quick and adamant to be sure that it was mentioned that she works with a team that includes, Patsy Hughes, Brenda Wetzel, Gina Ellis, Courtney Hammond and JoAnna Crone.
“This building is really something,” she elaborated. “Oh, everyone has their day now and then, but by far, this is the greatest, kindest and most caring group of folks … This building is all one big team.”
She also quickly added that she wished everyone could be aware of the “dedication, hard work and everything that goes into public service” by the county employees.
As Aunt Kay has now worked for county government for three decades and five different commissioner administrations, she has seen some changes over the years.
Every commissioner she “has ever worked with has been really dedicated. They take the time to get to know each employee’s name and they make you feel like an equal and valuable part of a team. Each and every one of them has been especially good to me.”
“Of course, the building was smaller. The county was smaller, but county government is still small enough to know its customers and be in the customer service business.
“I used to walk to work until the traffic began to worry me”, she lamented. Of course, what most readers don’t know, is that when Aunt Kay, the energizer bunny, talks about walking to work, we’re not just speaking of traveling by foot from around the block. “Its only 10 miles from home to the county office building,” she adds casually.
One of her goals when she retires is the walk the 2,144 mile Appalachian Trail from
Asked how the tradition of the cookies began, she said that “cookies have always been a part of who I am. Being raised in the south, when visitors come you feed them. Besides, I love to bake.”
“This job… working with the public has been so good to me that the cookies are the least I can do to give something back. Folks used to be surprised (that cookies are available at the receptionist desk,) now folks stop by her desk before they see the bailiffs and ask for a cookie.”
Always greeting citizens with a smile and a cookie does give way to humor from time to time. When asked for a funny story or two, she lit up and immediately responded, “My favorite one - and it happens every day is the question: ‘Do these stairs go down?’”
For Kay Church everything is always looking up and the county is fortunate to have her and the many other hundreds of great county employees working for our quality of life and future.
Next time you are in the county office building - or call, say happy birthday to Aunt Kay. Her birthday was last week, but when you walk in the county office building, every citizen is special and every day is your birthday.
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His columns and articles appear in The Tentacle - www.thetentacle.com; Westminster Eagle Opinion; www.thewestminstereagle.com and Winchester Report.
Throughout the article, columnist Bill Carter writes about Countdown’s ratings only by it’s growth and not by actual numbers. An ignorant reader would come away thinking Olbermann is some television star who is a real competitor in the cable news race. The only indication Carter gives of Olbermann’s actual ratings is when he calls Countdown a “dot in the rearview mirror of Fox News.”Read the rest here.
Of Free Speech and Personal Security
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that someone isn’t really out to get ya
July 10th, 2006 by Kevin Dayhoff
In an ideal world, the Blogsosphere would be the perfect vehicle to realize a great democratizing-leveling of intellectual and respectful dissent, discussion and dialogue about the challenges we face in the new millennium.
What a great sentence. What a great ideal.
If only it were true.
For us geeks who were around in the beginnings if the internet, many shared a renewed sense of utopian hope for the great futures that could be provided by this new technology.
Especially for those of us who hold so dear the concepts of Jeffersonian direct participatory democracy in which all citizens may have a direct say in how government governs. In the beginnings of our great country, when, to state the obvious, the population was not as large, we could actually get together physically in a “town meeting” and have our voices heard.
That’s obviously not possible now that we want millions of folks to participate as opposed to several hundred… From an historical perspective, the internet and blogs have certainly been timely. Now, more than ever, the “town meeting” is facilitated by blogs.
Fortunately a great deal of the internet represents the best of our greater community.
However, as with all great things, there is a “but’ required…
And that is – BUT unfortunately, as it has painfully developed, the Blogsosphere is also a reflection of a not-so-pretty picture of the unpleasant soft underbelly of our society. That is the part about people behaving badly.
It is enough to make you despair – and worry about one’s livelihood, safety and of the well-being of your family simply because someone out there forgets to take their medication and wants to “visit you” either metaphysically as in examples of “DDOS” (Distributed Denial Of Service attack) or actually behave in a threatening manner. Certainly one can disagree with a position without discussing or disclosing a debate opponent’s home address.
Some bloggers have chosen to write under a non de plume, for various reasons. Some of us, from the more idealistic set, write under our real names and are nevertheless careful not to give out too much information as to locational whereabouts out a sense of responsibility for our families and for our own safety.
Great examples of which are not only the recent Kabuki Morals play acted out for “Protein Wisdom,” but also played out in “20060421 Support Your Local Michelle Malkin” or here, here, “Taking down a blogger,” “Post Turns Comments Off,” “Crossing a Line” – and Mr. Goldstein’s response at: “Inside Higher Ed: “We are as fair as we can bring ourselves to be”
Kevin Dayhoff writes from
E-mail him at: kdayhoff@carr.org
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Time for
July 10th, 2006 by Kevin Dayhoff
A Yahoo News video report this morning says, “‘Japan Considers Strike Against North Korea.’
Additionally, Yahoo News is carrying an Associated Press article by Mari Yamauchi this morning that certainly begins to put the crisis over
That is, if the world and the United Nations won’t live up to its responsibilities, perhaps
Meanwhile, where is
Okay, asking
Gee, if this isn’t déjà vu all over again.
When President George W. Bush was attempting to reign in
Well, duh, the reason we could get no cooperation out of the French, Germans and Russians was simple. They were making too much money off of Saddam Hussein. Oh never mind that he was a weapon of mass destruction all by himself, as long as they were making money, what the heck. Besides, the
In a case of situational ethics, Senator Hilary Clinton has said that the president’s policy on
What was it that she said, that the president was outsourcing United States foreign policy. Oi gevald!
But other liberals have criticized the president for acting unilaterally in
My moonbat decoder ring is not helping me at the moment as to just what the liberals would want us to do with
Maybe it is time that
Won’t
Okay
For a reality check, any pre-emptive strike against
And oh, I did decide to somewhat ignore the issue of one wonders what all the moonbat, “cut and run” anti-military folks in California think of the current sorry state of affairs now that North Korea is trying to plug in the coordinates of San Francisco into their rockets.
So far, the only folks in peril from the North Koreans are fisherman in the
One wonders which side of her mouth California Senator Dianne Feinstein or Representative Nancy Pelosi is currently using - now that it may settling-in on her that Cindy Sheehan or Michael Moore are no match for the North Koreans.
And also remember, it is a San Franciscan city councilmember that questions why the
It’s time, for some other nations and American elected officials to take on a renewed sense of responsibility in these matters. Perhaps that time is now. /Kevin Dayhoff
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Japan may postpone North Korea resolution
By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Writer 52 minutes ago
TOKYO - Japan said Monday it was considering whether a pre-emptive strike on North Korea's missile bases would violate its constitution, signaling a hardening stance ahead of a possible U. N. Security Council vote on
The vote itself could be delayed for several days, a news agency reported.
China asked Japan to postpone the vote until later this week and Japan is prepared to accept, Kyodo News agency said.
Japanese officials had earlier vowed to push ahead with a resolution that would impose sanctions on North Korea for its missile tests last week, but said
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters his government wants a vote on the measure "as soon as possible."
"I think we must send a message that's as clear as possible" to
Japan was badly rattled by North Korea's missile tests last week and several government officials openly discussed whether the country ought to take steps to better defend itself, including setting up the legal framework to allow Tokyo to launch a pre-emptive strike against Northern missile sites.
"If we accept that there is no other option to prevent an attack ... there is the view that attacking the launch base of the guided missiles is within the constitutional right of self-defense. We need to deepen discussion," Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said.
Read the rest of the Yahoo News article here.
Kevin Dayhoff writes from
Time for
July 10th, 2006 by Kevin Dayhoff
A Yahoo News video report this morning says, “‘Japan Considers Strike Against North Korea.’
Additionally, Yahoo News is carrying an Associated Press article by Mari Yamauchi this morning that certainly begins to put the crisis over
That is, if the world and the United Nations won’t live up to its responsibilities, perhaps
Meanwhile, where is
Okay, asking
Gee, if this isn’t déjà vu all over again.
When President George W. Bush was attempting to reign in
Well, duh, the reason we could get no cooperation out of the French, Germans and Russians was simple. They were making too much money off of Saddam Hussein. Oh never mind that he was a weapon of mass destruction all by himself, as long as they were making money, what the heck. Besides, the
In a case of situational ethics, Senator Hilary Clinton has said that the president’s policy on
What was it that she said, that the president was outsourcing
But other liberals have criticized the president for acting unilaterally in
My moonbat decoder ring is not helping me at the moment as to just what the liberals would want us to do with
Maybe it is time that
Won’t
Okay Russia and China, if you don't want Japan to re-arm, how about stepping up to the plate and having a meaningful conversation with your buddy in North Korea.
For a reality check, any pre-emptive strike against
And oh, I did decide to somewhat ignore the issue of one wonders what all the moonbat, “cut and run” anti-military folks in California think of the current sorry state of affairs now that North Korea is trying to plug in the coordinates of San Francisco into their rockets.
So far, the only folks in peril from the North Koreans are fisherman in the
One wonders which side of her mouth California Senator Dianne Feinstein or Representative Nancy Pelosi is currently using - now that it may settling-in on her that Cindy Sheehan or Michael Moore are no match for the North Koreans.
And also remember, it is a San Franciscan city councilmember that questions why the
It’s time, for some other nations and American elected officials to take on a renewed sense of responsibility in these matters. Perhaps that time is now. /Kevin Dayhoff
_________________
Japan may postpone North Korea resolution
By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Writer 52 minutes ago
TOKYO - Japan said Monday it was considering whether a pre-emptive strike on North Korea's missile bases would violate its constitution, signaling a hardening stance ahead of a possible U. N. Security Council vote on
The vote itself could be delayed for several days, a news agency reported.
China asked Japan to postpone the vote until later this week and Japan is prepared to accept, Kyodo News agency said.
Japanese officials had earlier vowed to push ahead with a resolution that would impose sanctions on North Korea for its missile tests last week, but said
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters his government wants a vote on the measure "as soon as possible."
"I think we must send a message that's as clear as possible" to
Japan was badly rattled by North Korea's missile tests last week and several government officials openly discussed whether the country ought to take steps to better defend itself, including setting up the legal framework to allow Tokyo to launch a pre-emptive strike against Northern missile sites.
"If we accept that there is no other option to prevent an attack ... there is the view that attacking the launch base of the guided missiles is within the constitutional right of self-defense. We need to deepen discussion," Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said.
Read the rest of the Yahoo News article here.
Kevin Dayhoff writes from
E-mail him at: kdayhoff@carr.org
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