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TOKYO, Feb. 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: RECASTING, ADDING DETAILS)
The Tokyo District Court sentenced a man to life imprisonment Wednesday for killing a 23-year-old woman who lived two doors down from him in a Tokyo condominium and mutilating her body last year.
While prosecutors highlighted the cruelty of the crime by Takanori Hoshijima by presenting unusually vivid crime scene images at the court to seek the death penalty, Presiding Judge Kiichi Hiraide determined it was not premeditated and the case should "not go so far as to give death sentence."
Given that Hoshijima, 34, admitted to the charges that he intended to sexually assault Rurika Tojo and then murdered her, the focus of the trial was on whether he would face the death sentence for killing one person. Hoshijima himself repeatedly called for the sentence.
Defendants in Japan who have killed one person, have no criminal record and whose crimes are found not to be financially motivated rarely face the death penalty.TOKYO, Feb. 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: RECASTING, ADDING DETAILS)
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TOKYO, Feb. 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The guitarist of a now-defunct popular rock band has been arrested for possessing cannabis, police said Wednesday.
Shigeru Suzuki, 57, a member of Happy End, who were popular in the was found possessing 27 grams of cannabis in his car Tuesday in Tokyo, according to the police.
The police said he told them it was his.
Happy End, joined by other popular musicians such as Haruomi Hosono and Eiichi Otaki, were known for performing rock music in Japanese.TOKYO, Feb. 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The guitarist of a now-defunct popular rock band... more
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In an unexpected twist to the economic crisis, several US states are weighing whether to abolish the death penalty as the execution process proves too great a drain on dwindling resources.
Death penalty laws remain on the books of 36 of the 50 US states, and capital punishment is supported by some two-thirds of the American public.
But across the nation, states as diverse and far-flung as Montana, Kansas, New Mexico and Maryland are among those actively considering abolishing capital punishment in a bid to overcome ballooning budget shortfalls.
"It is quite unusual that we've seen this blossoming of state legislative activity this year. It's because there is a renewed inspection of the death penalty," Steve Hall, director of the anti-capital punishment group Standdown, told AFP.
Most of the states involved in the move are those which have only executed a few people -- five or less -- in the past 30 years since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. But "state legislators across America seem to be re-examining the death penalty," he said.
The financial savings could be considerable.
Carrying out the death penalty can leave a state footing a bill that is 10 times higher than for an inmate serving life imprisonment.
On top of a complex and lengthy process, appeals can last years and the prisoners are often represented by lawyers paid by the state.
Guarding death rows and death chambers are also costly items on a state's budget.In an unexpected twist to the economic crisis, several US states are weighing whether... more
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AIDS has become China's deadliest infectious disease for the first time, the government said, with figures showing at least one person died on average every hour in the first nine months of last year.
AIDS overtook tuberculosis and rabies as the country's number one disease killer in 2008, the health ministry said in a report released on Tuesday.
Although full-year figures were not released, the ministry said the 6,897 people who died from AIDS from January to September made it the deadliest infectious disease.
It said 34,864 people had died from AIDS since it was first detected in China in the 1980s. A total of 264,302 people were confirmed to have contracted the HIV virus that leads to AIDS, the report said.
However those figures are a vast underestimate of the true picture, as the tally refers only to confirmed incidents of the condition.
China actually had an estimated 700,000 HIV/AIDS carriers in 2007, with an estimated 85,000 people infected that year, according to the ministry.AIDS has become China's deadliest infectious disease for the first time, the... more
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SINGAPORE (AP) - Oil prices languished below $35 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as further signs the U.S. recession is deepening spurred investor concern over crude demand.
Light, sweet crude for March delivery fell 13 cents to $34.80 a barrel by midday in Singapore on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract on Tuesday fell $2.58 to $34.93.
Investors are doubting whether a $787 billion stimulus bill, signed Tuesday by President Barack Obama, will be enough to jolt the U.S. out of its worst recession in decades.
General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC asked the government Tuesday for an additional $14 billion in aid. GM presented a survival plan that also calls for cutting a total of 47,000 jobs globally and Chrysler said it will cut 3,000 more jobs.
GM, the world's largest automaker, said it could run out of money by March without new funds.
"That's 47,000 more people who will be driving less," said Gerard Rigby, an energy analyst with Fuel First Consulting in Sydney. "It's mind-blowing. It makes you wonder whether these companies should survive."
Stock markets, which oil investors look to as a broad measure of sentiment about the economy, fell Tuesday as the New York Federal Reserve said its regional index of manufacturing activity is showing the sharpest contraction in February since it started the gauge in 2001.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 3.8 percent, just above a 5-year low.SINGAPORE (AP) - Oil prices languished below $35 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as further... more
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GIFU, Japan, Feb. 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The Gifu District Court on Wednesday acquitted a nurse who was accused of failing to perform appropriate medical care for a diabetic girl at an organic food research facility in Ena, Gifu Prefecture, in July 2005.
While the girl, then 12, eventually died, Judge Mihoko Tanabe ruled that Masako Amaha, 49, does not bear criminal responsibility, saying, "It remains unknown whether the girl would have survived even if the defendant provided proper medical care."
The girl stayed at the facility for the treatment of diabetes and fell into a coma on July 18, 2005.
Amaha was indicted without arrest in June 2007 for unintentional homicide, with prosecutors arguing she failed to take appropriate measures such as injecting insulin and bringing the girl to a doctor.
She was also indicted for selling natural foods in 2005 without state permission, by appealing their effectiveness as drugs in violation of the pharmaceutical law.
The court found her guilty, saying the sales "directly affect human health." It sentenced her to one year in prison, suspended for three years, and 500,000 yen in penalties.
Prosecutors had demanded an 18-month prison term and 1 million yen in penalties.GIFU, Japan, Feb. 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The Gifu District Court on Wednesday... more
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SEOUL, Feb. 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—South Korean foreign minister Yu Myung Hwan called on North Korea on Wednesday not to launch a long-range ballistic missile, warning it could face U.N. sanctions if it did.
"Whether North Korea launches a missile or a satellite, it is a violation of resolutions adopted at U.N. Security Council and thus sanctions will follow inevitably," Yu told a meeting of foreign envoys and senior journalists.
The U.N. Security Council adopted resolutions when North Korea test- fired long-range missiles and conducted a nuclear test in 2006.
In response to media reports about its ongoing preparations to test- fire a long-range ballistic missile, North Korea said Monday it has the independent right for space development.
North Korea test-fired missiles in July 2006, including what is believed to be the long-range Taepodong-2, in a move that sparked criticism from its neighbors.
In August 1998, Pyongyang also fired a missile, believed to be a Taepodong-1, part of which flew over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean.
North Korea says that was the launch of a satellite that successfully entered into orbit.SEOUL, Feb. 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—South Korean foreign minister Yu Myung Hwan called... more
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has approved adding about 17,000 U.S. troops for the flagging war in Afghanistan, administration, defense and congressional officials said Tuesday.
The Obama administration is expected to announce on Tuesday that it will send one additional Army brigade and an unknown number of Marines to Afghanistan this spring and summer. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the official announcement.
About 8,000 Marines are expected to go in first, followed by about 9,000 Army troops.
The new forces represent the first installment on a larger influx of U.S. forces widely expected this year. Obama's decision would get several thousand troops in place in time for the increase in fighting that usually comes with warmer weather and ahead of national elections in August.
The additional forces partly answer a standing request from the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, who has sought as many as 30,000 additional U.S. forces to counter the resurgence of the Taliban militants and protect Afghan civilians.
The United States has slightly more than 30,000 troops in Afghanistan now.
The new units are a Marine Expeditionary Brigade unit from Camp Lejeune, N.C., and an Army Stryker brigade from Fort Lewis in Washington state.
Ahead of his first foreign trip, Obama told a Canadian news organization that the United States will seek a more comprehensive, diplomatic approach to Afghanistan, where the U.S. has been engaged in war since 2001.
"I am absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region solely through military means," the president said in a White House interview with Toronto-based Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
Obama is scheduled to make a quick day trip to Ottawa on Thursday.WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has approved adding about 17,000 U.S. troops... more
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A married Chinese businessman who could no longer afford five mistresses held a competition to decide which one to keep.
The businessman and his spurned mistress met in Qingdao, pictured here last August, local media report.
But the contest took a fatal turn when one of the women, eliminated for her looks, drove the man and the four other competitors off a cliff, Chinese media reported.
The spurned mistress died and the other passengers were injured, the reports said.
Police initially thought the car had plummeted off a mountain road in eastern China on December 6 by accident. Then they learned of the contest through a letter the dead woman had left behind, the Shanghai Daily newspaper said.
The 29-year-old woman, identified only as Yu, was a waitress when she met the businessman at a restaurant in the coastal city of Qingdao in 2000.
At the time, the businessman, identified only by his last name -- Fan -- was married and had four other mistresses, according to the Peninsula Metropolis Daily newspaper in Qingdao.
The women knew of one another, but none elected to break up with the man and give up their rent-free apartment and a 5,000 yuan ($730) monthly allowance, the reports said.
When the economy soured, the businessman apparently decided to let go of all but one mistress.
He staged a private talent show in May, without telling the women his intentions. An instructor from a local modeling agency judged the women on the way they looked, how they sang and how much alcohol they could hold, the Shanghai Daily said.
The judge knocked out Yu in the first round of the competition based on her looks. Angry, she decided to exact revenge by telling her lover and the four other women to accompany her on a sightseeing trip before she returned to her home province, the media reports said.A married Chinese businessman who could no longer afford five mistresses held a... more
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Juliana Redding was 21, an aspiring actress and model who, like so many others before her, had moved from Arizona to southern California in pursuit of the Hollywood dream. She wound up the victim in a real life murder mystery -- one few people are willing to talk about in any detail.
Juliana Redding, an aspiring model and actress, was found murdered in her Santa Monica apartment.
By the age of 18, Redding had earned her first film credit, appearing in a 2005 independent film called "Kathy T Gives Good Hoover," about college students and the graffiti culture.
In 2006, she moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Santa Monica, California, with her pet Yorkshire terrier.
She was also taking college courses while working part-time in a trendy Venice Beach bar.
Friends grew worried in March when they couldn't reach Redding for a few days. They called her mother in Redding's hometown of Tucson, Arizona. Her mother called the Santa Monica police.
Police found Redding dead inside her apartment. "The manner of death is homicide," said Sgt. Rinaldi Thruston of the Santa Monica Police Department.
Although there are unconfirmed reports that the cause of death was blunt force trauma, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office denies that. "Those media reports are not accurate. The cause of death was not blunt force trauma. The file has been sealed by police, so we cannot disclose the actual cause of death."Juliana Redding was 21, an aspiring actress and model who, like so many others before... more
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SYDNEY, Feb. 16 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The death toll from Australia's deadliest bushfires has reached 189, with the number of victims expected to rise as the investigation continues, Victoria state police said Monday.
Fires raged across southeastern Australia on Feb. 7, devastating 1,834 homes and destroying 4,500 square kilometers of land.
There are eight fires still burning out of control within the state.
Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Stephen Fontana said the process of identifying bodies was made difficult because of the intensity of the heat, which left few remains.
Victim-identification teams have arrived from Indonesia to assist with the investigation.
Meanwhile, the man charged with lighting one of the fires that left 21 people dead has been named as 39-year-old Brendan Sokaluk.
Sokaluk has been remanded in custody and is set to appear before the Melbourne Magistrates Court on May 26.SYDNEY, Feb. 16 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The death toll from Australia's deadliest... more
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Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
By Ali Sina
2008/09/22
I must confess I was not impressed by Sen. Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident – a wholesome presidential package. It is so instinctive for most people to want to see blacks succeed. It is as if all humanity is carrying a collective guilt for what the ancestors of blacks endured. However, despite my initial interest in him, I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words.
It is surreal to see the level of hysteria in his admirers. This phenomenon is unprecedented in American politics. Women scream and swoon during his speeches. They yell and shout to Obama, “I love you.” Never did George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt. Martin Luther King Jr. or Ronald Reagan arouse so much raw emotion. Despite their achievements, none of them was raised to the rank of Messiah. The Illinois senator has no history of service to the country. He has done nothing outstanding except giving promises of change and hyping his audience with hope. It’s only his words, not his achievements that is causing this much uproar.
When cheering for someone turns into adulation, something is wrong. Excessive adulation is indicative of a personality cult. The cult of personality is often created when the general population is discontent. A charismatic leader can seize the opportunity and project himself as an agent of change and a revolutionary leader. Often, people, tired of the status quo, do not have the patience to examine the nature of the proposed change. All they want is change. During 1979, when the Iranians were tired of the dictatorial regime of the late Shah, they embraced Khomeini, not because they wanted Islam, but because he promised them change. The word in the street was, “anything is better than the Shah.” They found their error when it was too late.There's always someone trying to do this type of comparison. Just a scary look... more
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Reporting from Washington -- Slowly over the last few weeks, some of Barack Obama's most fervent supporters have come to an unhappy realization: The candidate who they thought was squarely on their side in policy fights is now a president who needs cajoling and persuading.
Advocates for stem cell research thought Obama would quickly sign an order to reverse former President Bush's restrictions on the science. Now they are fretting over Obama's statement that he wants to act in tandem with Congress, possibly causing a delay.
Critics of Bush's faith-based initiative thought Obama had promised to end religious discrimination among social service groups taking federal money.
But Obama, in announcing his own faith-based program this month, said only that the discrimination issue might be reviewed.
And Obama's recent moves regarding a lawsuit by detainees have left some liberal groups and Bush critics, including the American Civil Liberties Union, feeling betrayed, given that Obama was a harsh critic of Bush's detainee policies when running for office last year.
The anxiety is also being felt in the labor movement, one of Obama's most important support bases. Some union officials and their allies are frustrated that at a crucial point in negotiations over his massive stimulus package, Obama seemed to call for limits on "Buy American" provisions in the bill aimed at making sure stimulus money would be spent on U.S.-made materials.
Obama has been president for less than a month, and his liberal critics concede that the economic crisis has understandably taken the focus off their issues. But some of the issues in play were crucial to building excitement on the left and mobilizing grass-roots support for Obama's candidacy.
"He made very clear promises, and he should live up to them," said Arthur Stamoulis, director of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, which received an unqualified "yes" from Obama on a campaign questionnaire last year when the group asked if he would support "Buy American" requirements. "The fact that he's hedging on this is not promising. He's catering much too much to the desires of Republicans who are not going to support the change that voters wanted."
Thea Lee, policy director of the AFL-CIO, said, "We would like to have him stand more forthrightly behind the positions that he took during the campaign."
Obama has long said his administration will be driven by competence, not political ideology. He has blamed the nation's problems on a failed and highly partisan political system, and has said that solutions should come by building coalitions that cross the traditional battle lines in Washington policy fights.
Moreover, White House aides say, Obama has already fulfilled promises such as enacting a labor-backed pay equity law and beginning the process of closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Reporting from Washington -- Slowly over the last few weeks, some of Barack... more
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The current No. 1 best-selling Christian author in the nation says the Vatican is believing Charles Darwin over Jesus in accepting evolution.
In challenging a report by Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, saying Darwin's theory is compatible with Christianity, Ray Comfort, author of the hottest Christian book on Amazon, "You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence But You Can't Make Him Think," points out Jesus himself backed up the Genesis account of Creation when he said, "In the beginning God created them male and female."
"But the Vatican has chosen to officially believe Darwin rather than Jesus," added Comfort. "That belief reveals a shallow understanding of the claims of atheistic evolution. God gave us six senses, and the sixth one is common sense. That one doesn't get used when it comes to Darwin's theory. And that's the problem – its devoted believers don't think too deeply. That's why I wrote the book. It shows that Darwin's theory is a fantasy – a ridiculous and unscientific fairy tale for grownups."
Autographed copies of Ray Comfort's new book, published by WND Books, are available exclusively in WND's online superstore – along with two other bonus book free!
Alluding to statistics that show nearly one in four professors in U.S. colleges and universities is either atheistic or agnostic, Comfort said, "They are turning out atheists like there's no tomorrow. Most young people don't know that they are just embracing the theory of a man with an over-ripe imagination, who had lost his faith in God. It's no wonder that so many young people are losing their own faith in God and turning to atheism."The current No. 1 best-selling Christian author in the nation says the Vatican is... more
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday she hopes for a "positive start" with Russia.
"We are hoping for a positive start with Russia," Clinton told reporters during a refueling stop in Alaska on her way to Asia, her first overseas trip as chief US diplomat.
"I will be meeting with (Russian) Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in about two weeks," she confirmed, without naming the exact time and place.
"And that is part of an effort on behalf of this administration to engage on all levels with Russian counterparts. But we have made no decisions about anything."
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said earlier this week that Clinton would meet with Lavrov in Geneva in early March. Clinton is due to attend a NATO meeting in Brussels on March 5 that will not be attended by the Russians.
US lawmakers are set to visit NATO headquarters in Brussels next week for high-level talks on the war in Afghanistan and the alliance's relations with Russia, officials said.
Clinton confirmed speculation that she and Lavrov would discuss negotiations for a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expires at the end of the year.
"We think there are tremendous opportunities to work with the Russians on nuclear proliferation, from the START treaty, which expires at the end of this year, on a range of concerns that we think connect us, particularly in respect to Afghanistan," she said.
The United States has been negotiating with Poland and the Czech Republic to install 10 missile interceptors, which would not carry explosive warheads, and a radar system on their territories.
The move has angered Russia as it sees the system as a threat to its security, while Washington argues the proposed shield is only directed at "rogue states," primarily Iran.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday she hopes for a "positive... more
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian hospital officials say a 25-year-old Gaza man has been killed and five people have been wounded in a blast along the border with Israel.
Palestinian security officials say the explosion in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya was caused when people who were melting down scrap metal for recycling inadvertently threw an explosive device into the fire.
Residents initially reported Monday that a shell exploded.
Meanwhile, Israel's military says two rockets fired from Gaza in violation of an informal truce landed in Israel. No injuries were reported.
Israel ended a three-week military offensive in Gaza on Jan. 18, and the territory's Islamic Hamas rulers declared a cease-fire the same day. But sporadic violence has continued as Egypt tries to mediate a long-term truce.GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian hospital officials say a 25-year-old Gaza man... more
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KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led troops have killed a wanted Taliban commander in an air strike in Afghanistan's southwestern province of Badghis, U.S. and Afghan officials said on Monday.
Mullah Dastagir along with eight other militants were killed in a raid on a village near Turkmenistan's border on Sunday night, they said.
Dastagir was behind a series of attacks in Badghis, including an ambush in which 13 Afghan soldiers were killed last November, they added.
Before that ambush, Dastagir had been jailed but was released by order of President Hamid Karzai, a defense ministry official said.
The U.S. military confirmed the air strike and the casualties including Dastagir's killing.
The Taliban could not be reached for comment.
Ousted in a U.S.-led invasion in 2001, in reprisal for sheltering al Qaeda leaders responsible for the September 11 attacks on America, the Taliban have managed to extend the scope and extent of their insurgency in recent years.KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led troops have killed a wanted Taliban commander in an air... more
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A 74-year-old man is in serious condition after falling as he entered an elevator even though the elevator car had not arrived on the ground floor of a building in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Monday, local police and fire department officials said.
The man, who came around noon to deliver food, fell about 5 meters down the elevator shaft in the five-story building which also has a basement floor. The cage of the elevator, which has manually operated doors, was on the fifth floor at the time, they said.
The man is still unconscious, the officials said.
A person who works in the building noticed the elevator door was open and found the man collapsed, they said.(AP) - TOKYO, Feb. 16 (Kyodo)—(EDS: ADDING INFO THAT ELEVATOR HAS MANUALLY... more
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HONG KONG (AP) - Most Asian stock markets fell Monday, as new figures showed Japan's economy contracted the most in 35 years and Group of Seven finance ministers warned the global slump will drag on through most of the year.
The fourth quarter GDP numbers out of Japan, worse than many forecasts, were a sobering reminder of the toll on Asia's export-driven economies as world demand collapses amid the worst slump in decades. The world's second-biggest economy shrank 3.3 percent from the previous quarter, or at an annual pace of 12.7 percent.
Investors also seemed disappointed after finance chiefs from the Group of Seven developed countries finished their meeting in Rome with pledges to work together to boost growth and unemployment, but stopped short of concrete measures.
Increasingly, investors are unconvinced governments around the world are acting quick enough to solve the credit crisis, plummeting consumer demand and other problems at the heart of the economic slowdown, analysts said.
"The global recession is deeper than anticipated. At the same time policy makers are failing to deliver measures to address the problems," said Dariusz Kowalczyk, chief investment strategist for SJS Markets in Hong Kong. "It seems that what they're doing is too little too late."
Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average edged down 22.45 points, or 0.3 percent, to 7,756.95, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index dropped 204.62 points, or 1.5 percent, to 13,350.05. South Korea's Kospi lost 1.4 percent to 1,176.23.
Markets in Australia, India and Singapore also declined, while benchmarks in Shanghai and Taiwan gained.HONG KONG (AP) - Most Asian stock markets fell Monday, as new figures showed... more
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The administration of US President Barack Obama will create an inter-agency task force on restructuring the troubled auto industry instead of naming a "car czar" as was planned by the Bush administration, The Wall Street Journal reported late Sunday.
Citing unnamed senior administration officials, the newspaper said Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers will jointly oversee the task force
Geithner will also oversee the 17.4 billion dollars in federal bailout agreements between the automakers and the US government, The Journal said.
General Motors and Chrysler are required to submit extensive restructuring plans by February 17 to a presidential designee, commonly called the "czar."
The "czar" had been expected to be in place by the middle of February to analyze the restructuring plans.The administration of US President Barack Obama will create an inter-agency task force... more
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