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In his AJC interview, Hank Greenberg recalls how anti-Semitic taunts led to riots on the ball field. Speaking of a playoff game in 1931 in Decatur, Ill., Greenberg says, "Hell, they had to get the police to get me out of the ballpark."
Stephen Corrsin, a curator with the Dorot Division, estimates that 20 percent of the interview transcripts have been digitized. Among them: comedian Alan King, labor leader Victor Gotbaum, playwright Paddy Chayefsky, nightclub owner Art D'Lugoff, and Bella Abzug. In her interview, Abzug is asked if she felt discrimination in law school. She replies: "The professors were extremely nasty to us… they basically didn't take us too seriously."
Both the Dorot Division and the AJC have long, proud histories. Just two years after the New York Public Library was founded in 1895, the Dorot Division was created as a separate Jewish collection. More than 300,000 books, microforms, manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals and ephemera from all over the world comprise the collection. For its part, the AJC's impressive broadcasting legacy began during the 20th century. Its radio programs were produced for many years by Milton Krents, an NBC mail room and accounting department veteran.
For 44 years, Krents served as executive producer of "The Eternal Light," a Jewish program produced in conjunction with the Jewish Theological Seminary and broadcast on the NBC radio network. One of the most outstanding AJC radio programs was "Dear Adolph," in which the leading stars of the day, including James Cagney and Helen Hayes, read a series of letters written to the German dictator by Stephen Vincent Benet. AJC's ability to tap big names for its projects was still evident in 1968, when Louis G. Cowan, producer of the hit television shows "Quiz Kids" and "The $64,000 Question," and president of the CBS Television Network, was chosen to direct the organization of the AJC oral history project.
According to Corrsin, the prospects of finishing the process of digitizing both the transcripts of the AJC's oral history interviews and the audio recordings of the interviews are dependent on further funding. The project "covers a real range of the American Jewish experience," Corrsin said. "It was amazing what they did."
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As per usual, The Spin's Wednesday-morning flight down to Austin for South by Southwest was a who's who of Nashville rockdom, with representatives from Grimey's and The Basement, Mercy Lounge, We Own This Town, Serpents and Snakes and more amid the mob of Austin-bound, tune-craving travelers. We made it to Austin without too much trouble, managing to secure our press credentials at the convention center with only about half an hour's worth of hassle, and started our long weekend with a bit of soul music at Shangri-La.
We got to Shangri-La just after the start of longtime sultan of soul Lee Fields' set. He and his backing band, The Expressions, were precisely what we needed to start off our SXSW: deeply expressive, authentic soul music, with a crack horn section, a completely remarkable bass player/band leader, and pitch-perfect, anguished soul shouting from Mr. Fields. Inside, NO (yes, NO) was playing their pensive brand of indie rock. NO sounded a bit like The National, only a bit less compelling. But after having our pants, socks and everything else blown away by Fields and his Expressions (have we not mentioned that we were completely nude at this point?), we needed a little more than baritone vocals and a post-punky rhythm section to keep us rapt.
But hey, ask and ye shall receive. A pal of The Spin's has been singing the praises of Nick Waterhouse for the past few weeks, and out back at Shangri-La, we were lucky enough to catch every second of Waterhouse's performance with his backing band, The Tarots. Sure, Waterhouse is a young, white dude from California, but his wide-open garage-soul grooves are no less authentic than Fields' had been. Apparently, Waterhouse's first LP drops in May, and we'll be watching for that. Back inside, The Allah-Las — who Waterhouse has apparently worked with a bit — were doing their thing on the garagiest side of the soul spectrum. They were laid-back and psychedelic, like they probably really dig The Troggs and The Seeds and The Sonics — rad. Unknown Mortal Orchestra's set, however, was something of a train wreck. We like busy, far-out psych pop, but it was hard to make out much of anything over the feedback and the heavily distorted bass. UMO played three-and-a-half songs and basically blew off their set with a sort of stoner apathy.
We also made it over to the IODA day party at Red Eye Fly to decompress to the sounds of the self-proclaimed "semi-legendary Wedding Present." The Wedding Present is basically The Smiths without all the annoying parts. That is, if The Smiths had jettisoned the boner-killing preciousness and rocked hard, fast and loud. The speed-addled, indie-pop, C-86 gods still have the hooks, the jangle and all the dandy melodrama to cloak heartbreak in a unisex Slanket of gallows humor and dry Brit-wit, but they're not too tender to crank up the distortion and pin the pedal to the metal when it comes to the tempos.
That evening, we headed to Beauty Bar for Panache Booking's showcase — some familiar Nashville faces with a smattering of non-Music City talent. Natural Child led off with their swampy blues punk, their road-vetted, gritty riffs and doubled vocal melodies a sweaty, stoner-friendly pleasure as always. Wes Traylor probably has our favorite bass tone of any Nashvillian, and Natural Child is basically as much a comedy act as a rock band — what with their face-pulling and intentional cross-talk banter.
Then Turbo Fruits jump-kicked and wailed their way through a set of scuzzy psych-garage, bringing out the ladies from Habibi for backing vocals on "Mama's Mad Cos I Fried My Brain." We labeled the Fruits' latest tunes "sickadelic" — wildly energetic and full of bluesy cock-rock riffs. Beauty Bar was at capacity by this point, as an enthused crowd of Nashvillians and non-Nashvillians alike crowded the back lot. I'd say the Fruits are fine Music City ambassadors, pretty boys and practiced entertainers as they are.
We'd wanted to catch the ladies of Bleached (featuring Jessica and Jennifer Clavin, formerly of Mika Miko) at their recent appearance with The Black Belles at The End. We missed that, but were pleased to see that their sunshine-poppy vocal harmonies and up-tempo garage-rock arrangements are better live than we'd anticipated — at least a bit like The Go-Go's.
PUJOL made it hard to differentiate the Nashvillians from the rest of the crowd, as scores of fans crowded the stage and sang along with their literate, brainy vocals. Oh, the dichotomy of thoughtful lyrics and coarse, punk-rock sonics! Drummer Stewart Copeland was locked in, racing flawlessly through brutal, rapid-fire beats, with frontman Daniel Pujol setting up each song with a bit of backstory. "I talk as long as I want, baby," he responded after a "Play another song!" taunt.
Football made for some decent jokes — "Wanna go watch some Football?" etc. — but we skipped a couple songs in order to grab some breakfast tacos. Then it was time for Thee Oh Sees, who are probably one of the country's finest touring live bands right now. It's a wild, double-drummered, mic-swallowing, relentless, surfy, feverish, rafter-scaling, punk-rock experience, with frontman John Dwyer barking at you like a psychedelic, punk-rock drill sergeant and cycling through riffs and shout-along choruses. Our inner overprotective au pair told us we were about to witness a spinal injury at the sight of Oh Sees auxiliary drummer and part-time guitarist Lars Finberg shimmying up the flimsy poles that held the up the stage during the set-ending "Dead Energy."
Honestly, if you're a fan of rock 'n' roll music and The Boss is on your confirmed agenda, it's difficult to be anything but thoroughly psyched. The Spin woke up Thursday morning to find that we'd all won the lottery to see Bruce Springsteen that night at The W Hotel's Moody Theater. As far as the rest of the day was concerned, it was all just Bruce's undercard.
And that undercard even included an early afternoon appearance from The Boss himself, who — arriving 20 or 30 minutes late to one of the convention center's exhibition halls — delivered SXSW's keynote speech before a crowd of a couple thousand. The speech was an honest-to-God inspiring, bon mot-riddled, foul-mouthed hour-plus account of his life as a rock 'n' roll, R&B, country, hip-hop, punk and folk fan.
Later that day, we found ourselves amid the familiar décor of The Stage for one of Paste's showcases. Despite their name, Rubblebucket was not, in fact, a Blueshammer-y, classic-rock cover band that plays most of its gigs at a crawfish restaurant. As a matter of fact, they were rather good, with sax-playing frontwoman Annakalmia Traver leading them through a set of world-infused, dense dance pop. They were like Yeasayer in that eclectic-Brooklynite sort of way, but with more sugary vocal melodies, and they marched around the crowd at the end of their set while a pair of gigantic robot puppets made out with one another.
As much as we'd like to enjoy the rootsy, alt-country indie rock of Blitzen Trapper, The Spin personally has a difficult time getting enthused for most mellow alt-country. Anyway, they were really tight with exceptional vocal harmonies. Outside, Maps and Atlases were doing their really intricate and brainy indie-rock thing — loads of finger-tapping and hammer-ons and syncopation and a great number of things we don't know the technical terms for (ask a Berklee grad).
But we could only catch 15 minutes of Maps, because inside, our personal hero Doug Martsch and his now 20-years-reigning outfit of indie-rock originators, Built to Spill, were set to decimate us. Lucky us, they played Keep It Like a Secret's "Time Trap," not to mention There's Nothing Wrong With Love's "Distopian Dream Girl" and another fistful of '90s classics, with true-to-form three-part guitar hooks and Martch's Neil Young-gone-college-rock lead vocals. To be honest, we would have been perfectly happy to hear more new material, and while Martsch is known for his rather stoic delivery, no fanboy or fangirl in the room could have possibly been disappointed.
Despite the focused, impassioned performance Springsteen and his now-augmented-to-16-piece (which featured the late, great Clarence Clemons' nephew Jake Clemons standing in on sax) E Street Band delivered of the new songs, those were far from the show's highlights. Same even goes for old, ever-rousing warhorses like "Badlands" and "Thunder Road." No, it was the encore set that featured surprise guest appearances from Jimmy Cliff (who the E Streeters backed through sky-reaching renditions of "The Harder They Come," "Time Will Tell" and a stirring "Many Rivers to Cross") and The Animals' Eric Burdon (who took to the mic and delivered a brilliantly spiteful "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"). The pinch-self emotional moments reached their apex during a penultimate "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out," midway through which a moment of musical silence for Clemons caused the audience to erupt in deafening, heavens-reaching howls of applause cued by the famous "... and The Big Man joined the band" line. The night's final holy-shit highlight came when Springsteen called up Escovedo, Joe Ely, Tom Morello, Garland Jeffreys, The Low Anthem and Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Regine Chassagne to join the band in a stadium-sized campfire sing-along of "This Land Is Your Land" in honor of what would have been Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday.
Teetering on the brink of black-out drunk, we ambled down the swanky steps of the hotel, managing to meet and we think somehow offend Joe Ely (if only we could remember what we said!) and executed a successful one-eyed stumble up to The Belmont to catch The Jesus and Mary Chain's one and only appearance at the festival.
We could barely see the band from beneath the glare of neon lights and haze of rock fog that engulfed them, not to mention our own blurred vision. Also, The JAMC is so not a band to see while drunk. "Head On," "Sidewalking," "Snake Driver," "Just Like Honey" — the band note-perfectly played one great song after another, but in our state it all sounded too fast and looked too slow. Also, our lucky-but-tardy entrance meant that, instead of having an opportunity to get up front and pogo along with the legitimate fans, we were stuck in the back with all the chatty, fratty Hollywood types. And truth be told, the only reason we stuck it out before sleepwalking back to the hotel was to say we went the distance with it.
"Whoopi Goldberg is giving a birthing seminar inside." "Yeah, and Topanga from Boy Meets World is in there, too." This is how rumors get started. Friday afternoon, as we wandered down Fifth in a desperate attempt to find some music worth seeing, a pair of jokers shouted false promises at passersby, likely in an attempt just to amuse themselves.
We'd started our Friday by catching our old pal Tristen and her band — known sometimes as The Ringers — at Cedar Street Courtyard. At this point, we're extremely familiar with Tristen's songs — both the folk-pop gems from last year's Charlatans at the Garden Gate and her newer, as-yet-unreleased dance-pop numbers about intellectual integrity and so forth. At least, we think that's what these songs are about. Maybe we're overthinking it at this point. Regardless, new southpaw drummer Jamie Dick is a fine player, and Tristen's crew is sounding road-tested and Austin-approved.
And then it was back into the fray all by our lonesome, hoping to catch Mississippi's Bass Drum of Death at Peckerheads. No BDOD, but we did hear the last couple of songs from literate, socially conscious rapper Brother Ali. He's a brainy rapper, and we respect brainy rappers. But after a couple of tunes from Bear Hands — dancy post-punk that was somewhat catchy, if a bit derivative — and seeing a Peckerheads employee fish the mat out of a clogged urinal with his bare hands (not Bear Hands), we felt compelled to find someplace else to be.
And then we fortuitously stumbled across a show that really grabbed us. We spotted Nashvillians Cy Barkley and Sean "To the Wall" Thompson on the sidewalk in front of Beerland, where they were watching Denton, Texas, band Wiccans annihilate everyone in earshot with their brutal, totally authentic hardcore punk. Their frontman swung from the iron bars of Beerland's patio fence, jumping to the sidewalk, knocking over a motor scooter and hopping right back up again. Nothing like a bit of death-defying, aggro-but-happy hardcore to mend the wounded spirit.
We decided to spend most of the evening at the Merge Records showcase at Frank, where Hospitality lived up to their name, greeting us warmly with their sweet, friendly, bouncy indie pop. It was all dreamy guitars and vocal melodies backed by a totally adroit rhythm section — seriously, one of the best drummers we saw all week, with smooth transitions and loads of finesse.
Eleanor Friedberger's solo material is straight-ahead, writerly fair — certainly more straight-ahead than her experimental output with her brother Matthew under the moniker The Fiery Furnaces. She played without a backing band, and her finger-picked, emotionally revelatory love songs were verbose and lyrically unique. But by set's end, we found ourselves literally lulled to sleep in a corner. The Love Language perked our shit up, however, as they blew wildly through their lilting, sunshiny, '60s pop-inspired tunes. Just a touch sloppy, punctuated with friendly bits of banter, and vigorously performed, despite mild equipment problems.
Crooked Fingers — the alt-country-imbued project of Archers of Loaf frontman Eric Bachmann — were mellow, folky and reflective. The tunes didn't really seem to adhere to alt-country's genre-defining characteristics by design — they just kind of come out a little country-like, and a little Lambchoppy in bits. Masters of driving '90s power pop Imperial Teen certainly filled the room with a bit more energy — they make the sort of shimmering, ELO-inspired rock tunes that we probably should have listened to more of in high school.
Now, we could have hung around for a set from legendary Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould, but his contemporaries Dinosaur Jr. were just about to play many, many blocks away at Bar 96. Anyway, it's sacrilege to speak ill of Dino Jr., right? Well, no worries. In the mob at Bar 96, we found representatives of excellent (and at least partially Dino Jr.-inspired) Nashville rock acts Glossary and The Features, all of whom appeared to be "fucking stoked," as they say. Dino frontman J. Mascis' blown-out noodling issued from three full amplifier stacks, drowning out every other sound within a square mile. Like a grunge jellyfish, Mascis' stringy, silver, wizardly mane swayed and billowed with each booming transition, his rhythm section barreling through career-spanning college-rock gems, ending each song with slackerly banter, bits of tuning and random noodling. No dope-smoking, longhaired alterna-dude (or babe) could have possibly been disappointed.
Saturday was, of course, St. Patrick's Day, and the sea of inebriated, green-clad street-roamers wouldn't let us forget it. We got back to our roots and saw how our Nashvillian local-rock faves were faring by hightailing it over to Beerland to catch Diarrhea Planet's 1 p.m. set at the Get Bent bash. That's pretty damn early to muster the youthful vigor an always-spirited DP performance demands, but we knocked back a couple cold ones and nodded along approvingly as the band worked to warm up the cold crowd. By set's end all 40 or 50 won-over festivalgoers were crowding the front of the stage, bopping along to the band's life-affirming party-punk anthems.
A short hop, skip and jump around the corner and we were at a party hosted by Athens, Ga.'s 40 Watt Club, which had set up a sort of pop-up club — complete with a stage flanked by LED screens — in time to catch Diamond Rugs, a supergroup that features members of Black Lips, Deer Tick, Dead Confederate, Six Finger Satellite and Los Lobos (yeah, Los Lobos) and calls Nashville home. Have you heard of them yet? Well, their swaggering, pontoon-ready Southern pop-rock fuckin' rules. Basically, the sprawling, scruffy ensemble is like a contemporary Southern answer to Rockpile. One of our favorite discoveries of South by.
Then we checked Dead Confederate's sludgy, grungy, down sort of Southern rock for a bit before heading back to Beerland for Memphis' Ex-Cult (formerly Sex Cult), who were playing post-punk that sounded like hyped-up Television Personalities. It was a little bit far-out, and full of melodically entwined guitars and just a few subtle pop and New Wave touches.
Back at 40 Watt, Ponderosa was playing big, anthemic, arena-ready, U2- and Radiohead-cribbing rock, constantly milking anticipation and build-ups. Our old hometown hero Jonny Corndawg was just about to do his thing at the 40 Watt's side stage. It's hard to think of Corndawg's material as novelty, comedic trad country when it features such a remarkably gifted backing band (from Josh Hedley on fiddle to Spencer Cullum Jr. on steel and everyone in between). But it still remains as hilarious as the first time we heard it — a feel-good, mirthful hoedown, and clearly a delight for the many folks who hadn't heard JC before.
We managed to catch Bass Drum of Death back at the Get Bent showcase, and their Mississippi garage rock — now a three-piece, but still no bassist — was fast and loose, but well played in the dingy, End-like setting of Beerland. Then it was the front patio for Texas' own Bad Sports, who play a relentlessly up-tempo, Ramones-y style of punk rock.
The Spin & Co. then scurried south by foot and painfully slow pedicab to catch Nashville's Tristen and Madi Diaz at some sort of oyster-themed soiree at Hotel St. Cecilia. But this was a crowd that seemed more interested in hobnobbing and eating free oysters than hearing live music. Anyway, Rooney Mara, several members of Arcade Fire and, allegedly, Terrence Malick were in the crowd, and free booze and oysters were indeed had by all.
But we couldn't spend our whole evening soaking in the good life — or basking in the goods of someone else's good life, rather — as we needed to head back north for the Serpents and Snakes showcase at Lucky Thirteen. You see, Serpents and Snakes is the imprint launched by Kings of Leon, and the bill featured a lot of Nashville talent. We missed opening sets by Snowden and Turbo Fruits — though we did hear a bit of the Fruits' psychedelic rock 'n' roll while waiting to slip in the back. Nashvillians The Kingston Springs make tight alterna-rock with bluesy riffs and slick lead vocals, and their tireless onslaught certainly seemed to go over well before a sloppy-drunk and increasingly weary crowd.
We remained in the VIP area overlooking the stage for fellow Nashvillians The Weeks, who had some diversity in their tunes, with a bit of gospel organ over hard-rock and pop arrangements. Moreover, they were clearly excited to be there and to be a new part of the Serpents clan. Apache Relay was up next, though we must be honest: When listening to Apache, we've always heard more Mellencamp/Bruce-influenced Bruce influence than actual Bruce influence.
As far as the evening's headliners went, we will never stop going to bat for The Features. Why? Because The Features will never stop climbing onstage to deliver pitch-perfect, poppy indie rock with guts and electrifying performances from each member. Even when half the room appears to be too inebriated to recognize the combination of technical proficiency and smart, pop-savvy songwriting they're in the presence of, The Features will still play like it's their last set ever.
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Reconstructive methods to replace the nasal units demand many surgical steps, sometimes with suboptimal results. A case report of a 19-year-old patient with a posttraumatic nearly complete amputation of the nasal dorsum after falling during a seizure is presented, causing an avulsion of the dorsum, the tip, and the right ala subunits. The flap remained connected to the nasal structure by only a small left ala pedicle.
First, we considered completing the amputation and repairing the receptor site with a conventional mediofrontalis flap. Because of the presence of incipient capillary bleeding at the cranial part of the flap after dermal prick, and a cyanotic nuance when the nasal flap was set in place, we decided to preserve the pseudoavulsed tissue. Anesthesia was accomplished with propofol and dormonid. The anesthesiologist also infiltrated the receptor site with 1% lidocaine without epinephrine and administered an infraorbitalis nerve block with 0.5% bupivacaine without epinephrine to improve the vascular supply by sympathetic blockade of the ala pedicle region. The flap was then reattached over its original bed with 6-0 vertical mattress suture, despite the discrepancy between the pedicle pattern and flap size (Fig. 1). The patient rested with their head at a 45-degree angle, in a warm room (28 to 30°C), for 5 days. A nurse cleaned the reattached flap with warm saline every 4 hours, and the flap's cranial segment was pin-pricked followed by a smooth massage to facilitate venous drainage. Cefazolin (1 g three times per day), acetylsalicylic acid (100 mg two times per day), and the patient's regular anticonvulsive drugs were prescribed. On the fifth postoperative day, the flap had satisfactory vitality and the patient was discharged for ambulatory follow-up (Figs. 2 and 3).
Facial angiosomes demonstrated abundant nutrition around the neck, the face, and the nasal subunits.1 In our patient, the ala lateral nasal artery was responsible for the arterial supply of the avulsed flap. Most successful replanted noses have been reported to be possible without venous anastomosis.2–5 Easing the venous drainage can be effective in difficult situations as demonstrated in our case report. Finally, the synchrony between the medical and paramedical staff made a difference in flap survival in our patient despite the minimal flap arterial pedicle supply without venous anastomosis.
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Afghanistan: the role of "show-of-presence" aircraft in the first democratic elections.
In the spring of 2004, members of the 25th Infantry Division (Light) headquarters element arrived in Bagram, Afghanistan, and replaced outgoing elements of the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) as part of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). At the time, Operation Mountain Storm--a spring offensive against remnants of the Taliban and Al Qaeda--was taking shape. The effects of this operation would pave the way for Operation Lightning Resolve designed to establish safe and secure conditions for the first democratic elections in Afghan history.Throughout this build-up to election day, the joint fires element (JFE) of Combined Joint Task Force-76 (CJTF-76) worked closely with task force-level fire support elements (FSEs) as well as multiple Air Force components to create an air support plan that would ensure mission success. When executed, this plan to use fixed-wing air in "shows of presence" would provide maneuver units an overwhelming advantage over the enemy.
The goals of this pre-election air support would be three-fold: provide security to Coalition Forces operating throughout the combined joint operations area (CJOA); instill a sense of instability and insecurity in anti-coalition militia attempting to disrupt election safety and participation; and provide a sense of security and support to local nationals as they prepared to participate in their first-ever democratic voting experience.
Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB). The integration of fixed-wing air support into the elections process began with an analysis of the terrain and historical enemy activity. Terrain analysis was modified from its standard observation, cover and concealment, obstacles, key terrain and avenues of approach (OCOKA) that dealt with slope grade, foliage, etc. Rather, our terrain analysis was quite unconventional and tied into the effects-based goals of providing the greatest security to the greatest number of voters in the highest threat areas.
To that end, the realization that population centers would be the primary focus areas of air support took hold. Terrain analysis, therefore, came in the form of gathering census data and considering where the greatest effects of air coverage would be throughout the country.
This terrain analysis, however, conflicted somewhat with our ongoing enemy analysis started well before our arrival in country. We were very aware of where the enemy operated from, where he considered his safe-havens and where he likely would try to attack and influence the elections. Maneuver FSEs wanted as much air support as possible over these high-threat areas. They surmised that this would enable their friendly elements freedom of maneuver while they patrolled the villages and main supply routes (MSRs) in and around their high-threat regions.
Historically, the anti-Coalition militia has operated in low-population density areas. Yet to create a globally recognized impact on elections, we believed they had no choice but to focus their attention on harassment and intimidation in main population centers (given the increased number of targets that these centers presented).
Incorporating both the supported regional command's operational requirements and overarching election coverage mandates presented a dilemma for the allocation of resources. The bottom line was there simply were not enough assets to provide every task force all the air support requested and still provide adequate cover over the population centers in their areas of operations (AOs). The decision was made to keep aircraft planning under centralized control at the CJTF-76, thus providing theater-wide support where it would best be used to achieve the objectives.
Pre-Election Build Up. To best employ air coverage leading up to the election, the tactic of shows of presence would be established over the main population centers of the country. Shows of presence are non-threatening, lower level aircraft flights that ensure ground personnel are keenly aware of aircraft in the area. Specific guidance during Afghan election flights was for A-10 pilots to fly no lower than 5,000 feet above ground level (AGL) and B-1 pilots to fly no lower than 8,000 feet AGL. This ensured the aircraft would establish both a visual and audible presence without being overbearing on the local populace.
Exactly where these flight patterns would take place was still undecided. A compromise was devised between maneuver unit requests and population analyses as pre-election routes were created. (See the map.) These routes were over distinct regions of the country and incorporated all major population centers in the CJTF-76 AO.
Many of the largest cities in the country are located in the International Security Assistance Force's (ISAF's) AO, and fixed-wing assets where specifically allocated for them to support these areas. Therefore, while British GR-7 Harriers and our F-16s worked in both ISAF and CJTF-76 AOs, there was no integrated planning effort between the two organizations.
Analyzing the areas inside the specified air routes, major cities were selected and designated for at least daily shows of presence. Guidance to pilots would be for their aircraft to be seen and heard from within the city as they flew overhead, maintaining their presence in each area for approximately 10 minutes. This tactic of low-altitude missions could only be possible with a lack of a substantial surface-to-air threat; intelligence provided such an assessment for those flights. Once outside the city, aircraft would climb back to cruising altitude and proceed to their next designated target area.
Air requests were created by CJTF-76 Fires and passed through the battlefield coordination detachment (BCD) and air support operations center (ASOC) on DD Form 1972 Air Support Requests (ASRs). The newly created routes were submitted in early September and provided to the Air Force master air attack plan (MAAP) cell as well as aircraft squadrons so they could become familiar with the desired effects. At the same time, task force FSEs continued to submit their own ASRs, based on their evolving tactical picture and in synchronization with friendly operations.
Bottom Up Revisions. With everyone on board, the show-of-presence flights began approximately three weeks before election day. At the same time, battalion fire support officers (FSOs) and air liaison officers (ALOs) continued to work their elements' fire plans and submit their requests to CJTF-76 Fires.
CJTF-76 Fires then "flexed" air support in combination with the show-of-presence routes throughout the country. This flexibility was key and likely could not have been possible had there not been a well founded relationship between CJTF-76 Fires, the BCD and the ASOC. Communications with the BCD and ASOC about operational plans and their integration into those plans paid enormous dividends that continued in future operations.
Implementing the Election Plan. Feedback on the shows of presence from the ground was almost immediate. The local populace conveyed to civil affairs and provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) the feeling of safety they received from the air presence over their cities and villages.
Freedom of movement for locals to carry out their daily activities without the threat of attack was a great burden lifted from their shoulders. The realization that coalition Forces were in Afghanistan to help protect its citizens, ridding them of terrorists who had tormented them and their way of life for so long, truly had sunk in.
Additionally, with this increased force protection, coalition elements moved freely on their presence patrols with little harassing fire or engagement from the enemy. The immediate results validated the tremendous psychological effects air presence can have. Even without the coalition's employing munitions, the anti-coalition militia respected the quick-strike capabilities and devastation close air support (CAS) can produce when incorporated into a ground maneuver plan. These low-level flights reinforced not only the possibility of coalition air responses to the enemy, but also served as a visual presence and the ultimate deterrent.
To capitalize on the success of this pre-election support, a significant increase in fixed-wing air coverage was requested as the election drew near. Our intelligence reports and enemy analyses pointed toward the likelihood of increased enemy activity on the days immediately preceding and directly following election day.
With help from the air combat control element (ACCE) and BCD, requests for additional air strike assets were sent to and approved by the combined air operations center (CAOC). The tactical nature of exact missions, flight hours and locations will not be discussed in this forum; however, the average daily CAS flight hours nearly doubled for what we deemed an "election surge."
These additional flight hours came from extended A-10 sorties, additional B-1 sorties and the added presence of GR-7s as well as F-16s in the ISAF AO. Based on the high enemy presence in the Jalalabad-Asadabad and Khowst regions along the Pakistani border, A-10s were primarily employed along Routes Yankees and Cubs. With their high-fuel capacities and ability to provide extended time on station, B-1B platforms were employed mostly throughout the expansive south and west of the country. The GR-7s remained primarily in the southern regions of the country and provided significant support along Routes Padres, Dodgers and Marlins. With air assets continually supporting these varied regions, ground elements were never far from the nearest aircraft.
Election Success. The increase in air presence allowed CJTF-76 to simultaneously support multiple areas throughout the theater of war. Due to the considerable size of the country and the significant dispersion of friendly forces throughout, this was a necessity. The country is approximately the size of the state of Texas and contains more than 3,000 separate polling sites. Maneuver units were stretched remarkably thin as they patrolled their AOs and neutralized the anti-Coalition militia threat.
However, with CAS integrated into task force maneuver planning and the continuous presence of air operating throughout the AO, response to all enemy activity was swift and decisive.
The actions and effects of ground forces leading to and during election day on 9 October 2004 were nothing short of exemplary. Battling a decentralized, innovative and determined enemy, forward planning and preemptive striking stopped many enemy attacks. Coupled with the overwhelming effects of increased air support throughout the theater, the enemy threat was greatly neutralized.
Yet on the occasions when the enemy was able to engage, CAS was strategically positioned and tactically flexible to provide near-immediate support. In one instance, air was positioned in such an opportune location and was overhead eight minutes after the initial call for support. And while the longest recorded CAS response time to any reported enemy activity during the six-day "air surge" was 39 minutes from air request to on-station time, the average response time during the two-week period preceding election day was 28 minutes. That translates to a joint terminal attack controller (JTAC) or ground commander first picking up the radio and requesting air and having a fast mover over his head in less than half an hour.
With the relatively small amount of aircraft in theater and the significant amount of enemy engagements that took place, this was amazing.
While Soldiers, Sailors and Marines took the fight to the enemy on the ground, CAS was only a radio call away and ominously circled the skies over a desperate enemy. Backed by the most powerful Air Force in the world, a potential for catastrophic election-related violence turned into a great step forward for a new democratic nation.
By Captain Joseph A. Katz
Captain Joseph A. Katz is a Combined and Joint Task Force-76 (CJTF-76) Fire Support Officer in Bagram, Afghanistan, serving in Operation Enduring Freedom. In his previous assignment, he was as a member of the 25th Infantry Division (Light) Fire Support Element (FSE) in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. He was a Platoon Leader and Executive Officer in C Battery, 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery (C/1-37 FA), part of the 2d Infantry Division Stryker Brigade at Fort Lewis, Washington. He is a 2003 graduate of the Infantry Captain's Career Course, Fort Benning, Georgia, and the Ranger School, also at Fort Benning.
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October 18, 2011, 12:22 AM EDT
Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The top U.S. derivatives regulator is slated to
vote today whether to curb trading in oil, wheat, gold and other
commodities after a boom in raw-materials speculation, record-high
prices and years of debate and delay.
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rules. The agency missed deadlines to impose position limits in energy
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revision of the rule proposed in January is to be voted on today.
The rule calls for traders to aggregate their positions, a change that
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lawyer for more than 20 years at CFTC, said in a phone interview.
Senators Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, Maria Cantwell, a Washington
Democrat, Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, and Bernie Sanders, a Vermont
independent, have criticized the agency, chaired by Gary Gensler, for
the delay.
Levin, chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, had
scheduled a hearing on Oct. 6 to scrutinize the CFTC's compliance with
the position limit requirement. He delayed the hearing to Nov. 3 after
the agency said it would vote on the regulations as early as today.
Speculation Inquiries
Levin's committee has led inquiries into speculation in the past five
years as raw-material investing gained in popularity. The first
exchange-traded funds in 2003 allowed investors to bet on raw materials
without the hassle of storing physical materials or managing a futures
The SPDR Gold Trust, best known by its ticker GLD, went on the market in
2004 and has $66 billion in assets backed by physical gold. Investment
in agricultural exchange-traded products reached a record in April,
according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Derivatives made the boom possible. Unlike futures contracts, which
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authority, allowing traders to amass large unregulated positions.
Off-exchange bets played a role in the September 2006 collapse of
Amaranth Advisors LLC, a hedge fund that lost $6.6 billion on
natural-gas bets. The Greenwich, Connecticut-based fund had sidestepped
limits and built a large position in IntercontinentalExchange Inc.
contracts after being told to reduce its futures position on the New
York Mercantile Exchange.
Amaranth's implosion triggered Senate scrutiny. In June 2007, the Senate
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Amaranth for distorting prices. Amaranth later paid $7.5 million to
settle CFTC allegations of manipulation.
Record High Prices
Rising commodity prices kept Congress and consumers focused on market
regulation and the role of speculators. Wheat reached a record of
$13.495 a bushel in February 2008, and oil soared to $147.27 a barrel
five months later. Gold futures hit an all-time high of $1,923.70 last
The CFTC is also poised to complete a rule designed to broaden access to
clearinghouses for interest rate, credit and other derivatives. The
agency in December proposed requiring clearinghouses to open membership
to firms with $50 million in net capital. Clearinghouses could scale a
member's participation depending on the amount of capital a firm holds.
MF Global Holdings Ltd., Jefferies Group Inc., hedge funds and other
smaller brokers and banks have supported lowering the capital
requirements from current standards to allow more participants. Wall
Street's largest dealer banks have said members need experience and
adequate resources to manage defaults.
The CFTC is also set to propose a delay for Dodd-Frank rules that were
scheduled for completion last July. The agency already delayed some
rules from taking effect in the market until as late as the end of the
year. Gensler said on Oct. 11 that the agency would vote on an
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Jewel-Osco's parent company said that it is buying five additional Dominick's locations and named the president of its Boston-area division as the new president of Jewel-Osco.
The five former Dominick's stores that Jewel-Osco plans to remodel and reopen include one in Rogers Park and one in Cabrini Green that were on the Chicago Mayor's office Grocery Store Task Force priority list.
The new locations announced on Thursday are: 1763 Howard Street and 424 W. Division in Chicago; 3243 S. 115th St in Merrionette Park; 800 NW Highway in Fox River Grove and 345 S. Rand Road in Lake Zurich. The company has not said yet when the stores will open.
Shane Sampson was named president of Jewel-Osco, which is New Albertson's largest division. Sampson fills the role that had been held by Jim Rice on an interim basis since January. Sampson was most recently president of New Albertson's Boston-based Shaw's division. Now, Rice will become the president of the Shaw's division.
Sampson's role is a vital one for Jewel-Osco. The longtime Chicago area chain is battling against competitors such as Mariano's and Whole Foods in the bid to win over former Dominick's shoppers. California-based Safeway shuttered the Dominick's chain in late 2013.
New Albertson's Inc. said that it is investing about $100 million in new projects and remodels for Jewel-Osco this year. The company has now purchased nine old Dominick's locations. Jewel-Osco also completed 18 remodels of its own stores in December and has more than 25 remodels planned for this year.
As of Thursday afternoon, a Safeway realty web site showed 28 Dominick's locations that were still available for sale, including one at 2101 E. 71st St. in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood. The remaining 27 stores are outside of the city itself. Safeway Inc. also is now in talks to sell itself.
Jewel-Osco previously opened four locations it took over from Dominick's -- 1340 South Canal Street and 2550 N. Clybourn Avenue in Chicago, 1340 Patriot Blvd in Glenview and 14200 South Bell Road in Homer Glen.
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The World Bank has said it will lend Brazil $485 million for rebuilding and disaster prevention efforts following devastating mudslides that killed more than 700 people.
Brazil, which saw imports from China surge 61 percent last year, may ask the World Trade Organization to look into what action can be taken against countries that weaken their currencies, a Finance Ministry official said.
Brazil's central bank is widely expected to raise interest rates on Wednesday for the first time since July, hoping to fend off inflation at a six-year high in one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
Brazila**s state-owned nuclear development company IndA-ostrias Nucleares
do Brasil (INB) said the country plans to expand its uranium enrichment
capacity to an industrial scale this year, fulfilling the requirements
posed by its current national nuclear programme.
Cocoa arrivals from Bahia, Brazila**s biggest growing region, fell from a
week earlier, in line with the seasonal decline seen in previous years,
analyst Thomas Hartmann said.
The head of Brazil's Supreme Court has said that convicted fugitive Cesare
Battisti may be extradited if he is found to be in the country illegally,
in a reversal from the Lula government's position
Elbit Systemsa** Brazilian subsidiary AeroeletrA'nica Ltda. (AEL) has won
a contract to supply additional Hermes 450 unmanned aerial systems to the
Brazilian Air Force (FAB). The contract follows one year Brazilian
operation of two Hermes 450 unmanned aircraft and one ground station under
lease for one year.
World Bank lends Brazil $485 mln in disaster aid
(AFP) a** 7 hours ago
WASHINGTON a** The World Bank has said it will lend Brazil $485 million
for rebuilding and disaster prevention efforts following devastating
mudslides that killed more than 700 people.
"We expect the first tranche of the loan, worth $290 million, to be
approved in the next few weeks," said the Bank's Brazil director Makhtar
"Meanwhile, we have reassigned $20 million from a loan earmarked for the
Rural Rio Project to the state's emergency efforts," he said.
The announcement came after Brazil's new president Dilma Rousseff and
other officials met with World Bank Vice President for Poverty Reduction
Otaviano Canuto in Brasilia.
The World Bank has been preparing a new lending strategy for Brazil that
is expected to be approved in July and will include disaster prevention
Emergency crews were still hard at work recovering bodies and providing
aid as the death toll from last week's catastrophic mudslides rose above
700, making it the worst such disaster in the country's history.
Rio's state authorities said another 14,000 people were homeless or unable
to return to unstable areas.
Paulo Gregoire
Brazil May Ask WTO About Action on Weak FX Rates, Official Says
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil, which saw imports from China surge 61
percent last year, may ask the World Trade Organization to look into what
action can be taken against countries that weaken their currencies, a
Finance Ministry official said.
Carlos Marcio Cozendey, the ministrya**s international affairs secretary,
said the government hasna**t decided whether to consult the Geneva-based
WTO and that ita**s too early to say if global trade rules apply to
currency policies. He said he wasna**t referring to any specific country
or currency.
a**If the currency is out of place or there are factors inadequately
influencing the currency, it can work as a kind of subsidy to exports,a**
Cozendey said in an interview yesterday in Brasilia. a**Ita**s a real
problem. It affects trade.a**
President Dilma Rousseffa**s administration is voicing more concern about
the yuana**s peg to the U.S. dollar than her predecessora**s government at
the same time policy makers are stepping up measures to curb a 38 percent
rally of the real against the dollar since 2008. The gains outpace all 25
emerging market currencies tracked by Bloomberg and compares with a 3.7
percent gain by the yuan in the same period.
Cozendey, who headed the economics department at Brazila**s Foreign
Ministry from 2007 to 2010, said raising the currency issues at the WTO
can spur better coordination among the Group of 20 nations. Finance
officials from the G-20 meet next month in France ahead of a summit in the
Mediterranean resort of Cannes Nov. 3-4.
a**The discussion can go many ways or generate a discussion that corrects
the source of the problem,a** Cozendey, 47, said. a**It can generate
greater coordination.a**
WTO Comments
WTO chief Pascal Lamy said in October that disagreements about
exchange-rate policies may threaten economic stability and commerce while
putting the global economic recovery in a**serious jeopardy.a** He said
the International Monetary Fund, and not the WTO, may be the best
institution to deal with these issues.
U.S. lawmakers and European officials have pressed China to raise the
value of its currency, and the House of Representatives last year passed a
measure that would allow U.S. companies to seek import duties to counter
the effect of a weak yuan.
Brazil Trade Minister Fernando Pimentel this month said Chinaa**s currency
policy would be a a**prioritya** in bilateral talks when Rousseff travels
to China in April. Marco Aurelio Garcia, one of her top foreign policy
aides, said in a Jan. 10 interview that Brazil has as many a**problemsa**
with Chinaa**s currency policy as it does with a weak U.S. dollar.
Currency Actions
Rousseffa**s government since taking office Jan. 1 has taken three steps
to strengthen its artillery in what Finance Minister Guido Mantega has
called a global a**currency war.a**
On Jan. 14 the central bank auctioned $1 billion worth of reverse currency
swaps, the equivalent to buying dollars in the futures market, for the
first time in 21 months. Policy makers also set reserve requirements on
short dollar bets while Mantega authorized the countrya**s sovereign
wealth fund to buy dollars in the futures market.
Brazila**s interest rates, at 10.75 percent is the highest in the G-20
after Argentina, have been making the country a magnet for capital inflows
that the World Bank on Jan. 13 warned may be a**destabilizinga** its
exchange rate.
Trade Measures
At the same time Brazil is fighting currency gains, the government has
increased tariffs on Chinese-made goods.
Last month, the government increased to 35 percent from 20 percent a duty
on imported toys after local manufacturers complained they were being
harmed by a flood of cheap, Chinese- made goods. China is the target of 28
of 70 antidumping measures adopted by Brazil under WTO rules, Trade
Ministry figures show.
Brazila**s state-development bank said in a study last month that a surge
in Chinese imports, boosted by the yuana**s competitive exchange rate,
threaten to displace domestic sales by local manufacturers and has
a**important implicationsa** for the countrya**s industrial development.
Brazil had a $23.5 billion trade deficit with China in manufactured goods
last year, a 60 percent increase over 2009, the Sao Paulo Industrial
Federation, known as Fiesp, said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.
Imports from China increased 61 percent last year, to $25.5 billion.
Brazil had an overall $5.2 billion trade surplus with China last year.
a**Brazila**s relationship with China is important, but from an industrial
perspective ita**s awful,a** Roberto Giannetti, head of Fiespa**s
international department, said in the statement.
Brazila**s trade surplus may narrow to $9 billion this year from $20
billion last year, according to the median estimate in a central bank
survey of about 100 economists published this week.
--With assistance from Andre Soliani in Brasilia. Editors: Joshua Goodman,
Richard Jarvie.
To contact the reporter on this story: Arnaldo Galvao in Brasilia Newsroom
Paulo Gregoire
Brazil seen raising interest rates to curb prices
BRASILIA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank is
widely expected to raise interest rates on Wednesday for the
first time since July, hoping to fend off inflation at a
six-year high in one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
The decision will be the first under President Dilma
Rousseff, who took office on Jan. 1 promising to extend
Brazil's economic prosperity while keeping inflation in check.
Alexandre Tombini, who will preside over his first meeting
as central bank chief, is under pressure to take tough measures
to curb rising prices.
The central bank is seen hiking the benchmark Selic rate
BRCBMP=ECI by 50 basis points to 11.25 percent, according to
all 21 economists in a Reuters poll. It will announce the
decision after 6 p.m (2000 GMT). [ID:nSPG003198]
Brazil's central bank is trying to balance the need to
fight rising prices with the risk that a hike in borrowing
costs will attract even more capital inflows -- which would
push its already overvalued currency even higher.
Graphic on the Selic rate: link.reuters.com/pup68k
Brazil's economic growth: link.reuters.com/huf64p
Investors will also focus on the bank's statement for any
clues how much further rates will be raised in the future.
"If the statement is neutral, and not very informative, it
is probably indicating that the pace of rate hikes going
forward will be in 50 basis point increments," said Roberto
Padovani, chief Brazil economist at WestLB in Sao Paulo.
"If the statement highlights rising inflation risks, then
probably it is opening the door for an even bigger future rate
hike of 75 basis points."
The decision to resume monetary tightening after three
meetings with no action comes as the central bank tries to
bring price pressures back to the center of its target.
Annual inflation in Brazil was 5.91 percent in 2010 -- way
above the middle of the central bank's target of 4.5 percent.
Analysts raised their inflation forecasts for 2011 for a
sixth week running to 5.42 percent in a weekly central bank
Strong commodity and food prices are expected to keep
putting pressure on local inflation.
A strong labor market and domestic demand could also
continue to fuel price pressures. Bradesco bank highlighted in
a recent note to clients that inflation pressures were rising
in sectors other than food, such as in services.
Still, some government officials, like Finance Minister
Guido Mantega, have publicly downplayed the inflation risks.
That has created the perception among some analysts that
the government is pressuring Tombini to be restrained in
tightening and help sustain a surge in consumer credit at the
heart of Brazil's economic boom.
(Editing by Brian Winter and Kenneth Barry)
Brazil boosts uranium enrichment capacity
under News January 19th, 2011 by IFandP Newsroom
Brazila**s state-owned nuclear development company IndA-ostrias Nucleares
do Brasil (INB) said the country plans to expand its uranium enrichment
capacity to an industrial scale this year, fulfilling the requirements
posed by its current national nuclear programme.
INB is investing US$700m on converters and centrifuges that will be
installed in the next few weeks at its uranium enrichment plant in
Resende, Rio de Janeiro state, said its director Samuel Fayad Filho. The
planta**s technologies have been developed by the Brazilian navy, he
The Resende plant will be equipped with 16 a**cascadea** production lines
and 200 enrichment units. This would offer sufficient capacity to supply
all fuel requirements by the 1405MW Angra III nuclear power station, due
to start operations at Angra dos Reis in 2015, as well as other nuclear
power plants in the pipeline. a**Wea**re going to use 100%
nationally-produced fuel at Angra 3,a** Fayad Filho said. a**The
nationalisation of Brazila**s nuclear industry is underway.a**
Although Brazil will be technically self-sufficient in uranium enrichment,
INB will continue to honour the existing contract for enriched uranium
supplies with Urenco, an Anglo-German-Dutch consortium. This sees
Brazilian-mined uranium exported to Europe for enrichment and then
re-imported into Brazil for use at Angra I and II.
Brazil has 278,000t of recoverable uranium reserves, making it the sixth
largest in the world. However, the country has only prospected one third
of its resources.
Paulo Gregoire
Paulo Gregoire
Cocoa Arrivals From Brazila**s Bahia Region Decline, Hartmann Says
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Cocoa arrivals from Bahia, Brazila**s biggest
growing region, fell from a week earlier, in line with the seasonal
decline seen in previous years, analyst Thomas Hartmann said.
Arrivals from Bahia totaled 20,038 bags in the week ended Jan. 16,
Hartmann wrote in a report dated yesterday. That compares with 28,414 bags
that he reported a week earlier. Total arrivals from Brazil were 32,541
bags, compared with 43,692 bags a week earlier. A bag weighs 60 kilograms
(132 pounds).
Bahia represents at least 70 percent of the countrya**s output, Hartmann
said Sept. 2. He is a board member of the Commercial Association of Bahia
and is in charge of the groupa**s statistical service on Brazilian cocoa
output, according to an e-mail that day.
--Editors: Richard Dobson, Matthew Oakley.
To contact the reporter on this story: Luzi Ann Javier in Manila at
Paulo Gregoire
Brazil judge: Italian fugitive could be sent home
(AFP) a** 8 hours ago
RIO DE JANEIRO a** The head of Brazil's Supreme Court has said that
convicted fugitive Cesare Battisti may be extradited if he is found to be
in the country illegally, in a reversal from the Lula government's
"If the Supreme Court decides that is not within the terms of the
(bilateral extradition treaty), he will have to be extradited," said Judge
Cezar Peluso told reporters about the Italian former leftwing militant's
presence in Brazil.
The fugitive has been convicted in Italy for the murders of four people in
the 1970s, and Rome has repeatedly sought his return.
The full Supreme Court is due to weigh the legality of Lula's decision
when it reconvenes in February, after a summer vacation recess.
Battisti previously sought his freedom following Brazilian ex-president
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's decision on his last day in office, December
31, to refuse Italy's extradition demand.
Lula's rebuff of its extradition demand has infuriated Italy, which
considers Battisti a "terrorist" and has been seeking his return for the
past three decades. In 1993, he was convicted in absentia for the murders.
Battisti, 56, has been kept in a Brasilia jail for the past three years as
the extradition efforts played out.
He previously lived in Mexico and in France, where he started a new career
as a crime novelist.
Battisti maintains his innocence, claiming Italy is persecuting him.
Peluso earlier this month said he found nothing in the court documents to
suggest such persecution, and found no compelling argument justifying
Battisti's release pending the court's decision.
He also signaled his skepticism of Lula's stance, writing in his ruling
that the Supreme Court has already last year determined that no legal
grounds existed to make Battisti a refugee.
Although Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has vowed to pursue the
matter, he insists the affair will not affect ties between Brazil and
The issue is one of the first big foreign policy problems faced by Lula's
successor, Dilma Rousseff, who took over as Brazilian president early this
Paulo Gregoire
More Hermers 450 UAVs to Brazil
January 19, 2011
Elbit Systemsa** Brazilian subsidiary AeroeletrA'nica Ltda. (AEL) has won
a contract to supply additional Hermes 450 unmanned aerial systems to the
Brazilian Air Force (FAB). The contract follows one year Brazilian
operation of two Hermes 450 unmanned aircraft and one ground station under
lease for one year.
Through this evaluation phase the Brazilian Air Force and Navy were
defining their operational requirements for unmanned vehicles. It is
assumed that the current order will comprise two additional systems
fielding operational capabilities with the Air Force, bringing the total
systems operated by the Brazilian forces to three. Further units are
expected to be added in the future, as the FAB expands the services
provided by unmanned systems. According to Elbit Systems, the project is a
part of the Brazilian Air Forcesa** objective to establish independent UAS
capabilities, allowing for self-reliant operation and development of UAS
in Brazil.
Paulo Gregoire
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