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Nation in brief
Muslim chaplain selection to change
By wire services
Published October 15, 2003
WASHINGTON - The three Islamic organizations that recommend Muslim chaplains for the armed forces and federal prisons will no longer have that job to themselves, Pentagon and prison officials said Tuesday.
This follows the arrest of a Muslim chaplain, Army Capt. Yousef Yee, who has been accused of leaving the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with diagrams of the compound.
The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences and the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council recommend chaplains to the military. The Islamic Society of North America refers Muslim clerics to the Bureau of Prisons.
The military and the federal prisons are working on new guidelines for military and prison chaplains, officials said.
Democrats to end boycott on EPA nomination
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats plan to end a boycott Wednesday on Utah Republican Gov. Mike Leavitt's nomination to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
The GOP-led Senate Environment and Public Works Committee was scheduled to vote on the nomination on Oct. 1, but the committee's eight Democrats didn't show up, denying the quorum needed for a vote. Sen. James Jeffords, I-Vt., who typically votes with the Democrats on environmental issues, said that "out of respect for Gov. Leavitt" the Democrats would not delay the vote.
Pentagon says it doesn't have base closing figures
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon will take a creative approach to shrinking its military base structure, but it has not set targets for the number of bases to be closed, a senior official said Tuesday.
Larry Di Rita, spokesman for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, said Rumsfeld has not instructed his staff to reduce the base structure by any specific percentage, although Rumsfeld often has said studies show a 20 percent to 25 percent surplus of base capacity. Di Rita disputed a news report Tuesday that Rumsfeld plans to close at least 100 bases.
Elsewhere . . .
ONIONS BLAMED IN HEPATITIS OUTBREAK: Green onions are believed to be the source of hepatitis A outbreaks that sickened more than 280 people in Georgia and Tennessee last month, health officials said Tuesday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is trying to determine where the onions originated, said Richard Quartarone of the Georgia Division of Public Health.
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Obituaries of note
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