.... The Daily Sentinel • Tuesday, March 9, 2010 5A Obama: Put health care over politics NATION SENTINEL WIRE SERVICES WIRE REPORTS he tries to push the legislation position to labor unions. In another White Palin: Family used Canadian health care through a final series of votes several of its House proposal, a Senate-passed PHILADELPHIA — President in Congress in the next several provisions. provision to raise Medicare taxes ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin has criticized Canada’s Barack Obama challenged wa- weeks. He appeared intent on re- Both houses on the wages of upper income health care system, saying it should be dismantled in favor of free vering members of his party on assuring his party that he is as then would earners would probably be enterprise, and denounced President Barack Obama’s health plan as Monday not to give in to political confident as ever in his powers follow by extended — possibly at a higher being socialized medicine. fears about supporting health to explain, persuade and capture approving a rate — to investment income But during a weekend speech in Calgary, the former Republican vice care legislation, asserting that the the politics of the moment. companion such as interest and dividends presidential candidate acknowledged her family used medical care in urgency of getting a bill through Appearing before 1,800 stu- measure as well. Whitehorse, the capital of Canada’s Yukon Territory, when they lived Congress should trump any con- dents and other members of the to make A key Michigan Democrat, in remote Skagway, Alaska, when she was an infant and toddler. Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, said his family went to the Whitehorse cern about the consequences for public at Arcadia University, just changes in BART STUPAK Rep. Bart Stupak, said Monday hospital only twice — when a daughter had rheumatic fever and when Democrats in November. outside of Philadelphia, Obama that first Michigan Democrat that prospects are good for resolv- In a high-octane appearance struck a populist tone, setting up bill. Sev- ing a dispute over abortion that his son severely burned his leg. “I still had to pay the bill, being an that harkened back to his “yes the health insurance industry as eral officials, signals progress on has led some House Democrats to American citizen,” Heath said. we can” campaign days, Obama his main target. speaking on abortion language threaten to withhold support. jettisoned the professorial de- The two-step approach now be- condition of “I’m more optimistic than I was Two of oldest people in U.S. die meanor that has cloaked many ing pursued by the White House anonymity, said a Senate-passed a week ago,” Stupak told The As- of his public pronouncements on calls for the House to approve a excise tax on high-cost insur- sociated Press between meetings WESTMORELAND, N.H. — Two of the oldest the issue, instead making an emo- Senate-passed bill from last year, ance plans would be scaled back with constituents in his northern people in the world have died on the same day. tional pitch for public support as despite House Democrats’ op- in deference to objections from Michigan district. Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, died Sun- day at age 114 years, 294 days at a nursing home, Deaths could hit 500 in Nigerian religious violence her granddaughter Katherine Ray said. Ray died just hours before Daisey Bailey, who was 113 years, 342 days, died in Detroit, said L. Stephen Coles, a director of the Gerontology Re- WIRE REPORTS dump truck and tossed them women and children — may have when dozens of Muslims were search Group, which tracks and studies old people DAISEY BAILEY into the mass grave. A crowd been killed near the central city slaughtered in and around Jos. and certifies those 110 or older, called supercente- Just shy of 114 DOGO NAHAWA, Nigeria began singing a hymn with the of Jos, long a flashpoint for ten- At a local morgue, the bod- narians. — The killers showed no mercy: refrain, “Jesus said I am the way sions between Christians and ies of children, including a They didn’t spare women and children, or even a 4-day-old baby, to heaven.” As the grave filled, the grieving crowd sang: “Jesus, Muslims. The dead were Christians and diaper-clad toddler, were tangled together. One appeared to have Baby fatally attacked by dog in Oklahoma from their machetes. On Monday, show me the way.” members of an ethnic group been scalped. Others had severed PERKINS, Okla. — Authorities in Oklahoma say an infant has Nigerian women wailed in the Officials and human rights that has been feuding with the hands and feet. died after being attacked by a dog on tribal land near Perkins. streets as a dump truck carried groups in Nigeria sharply in- Hausa Fulani, Muslim herders Nigeria is almost evenly split Stillwater firefighters dispatched an ambulance to Iowa Tribe dozens of bodies past burned-out creased the count of the dead whom witnesses and police of- between Muslims in the north land about 11:20 a.m. Monday after receiving a call that a child had homes toward a mass grave. after a weekend of vicious ethnic ficials identified as the attackers. and the predominantly Christian been bitten by a dog. Fire Battalion Chief Rick Hauf said the child Rubber-gloved workers pulled violence, saying that as many Officials said the attack was a south. died at the scene. ever-smaller bodies from the as 500 people — many of them reprisal for violence in January, BUSINESS SENTINEL WIRE SERVICES WORLD SENTINEL WIRE SERVICES Market watch N. Korea creates Haitians free U.S. You’d be surprised March 8, 2010 army missile force missionary; 1 left to know what Dow Jones industrials -13.68 10,552.52 +5.86 SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has recently created an army division in charge of newly developed intermedi- PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — One of two Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released and flew people said. Nasdaq ate-range missiles capable of to Miami on Monday, but the composite 2,332.21 striking U.S. forces in Japan and U.S. group’s leader remained in Guam, a South Korean news custody. Standard & -0.20 agency said today. 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