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Calif. moves ahead with $10.7-billion bond deal

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger quietly gave the green light Friday to a plan to borrow $10.7-billion without voter approval - a plan he had previously criticized.

The plan was authorized by the Legislature last summer.

Schwarzenegger said shortly after being elected in the Oct. 7 recall election that voters should approve the bonds.

But Friday, the California Fiscal Recovery Financing Authority voted to move forward with the $10.7-billion bond sale.

WASHINGTON - A former prison inmate on a Honolulu-to-Seattle flight charged toward the cockpit, shouting that he wanted to see the pilot, and was subdued by air marshals who were on board to monitor him, officials said.

The incident involved Reno U. Maiava, 29, and occurred on Thursday's Northwest Airlines Flight 924, according to the federal air marshal service. Maiava charged toward the cockpit shouting that he wanted to see the captain, officials said.

MIAMI - Ten Cubans trying to reach Florida likely drowned when their homemade boat was destroyed by rough seas.

The Coast Guard on Monday picked up a man who is believed to be the boat's sole survivor.

The survivor, whose name was not released, said he and 10 other people had left Cuba, on Nov. 27 in a 14-foot vessel that was later destroyed in bad weather.