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Nation in brief

Approval of Bush, Congress hit low for AP-Ipsos poll

By wire services
Published June 11, 2005

WASHINGTON - When it comes to public approval, President Bush and Congress are playing "how low can you go."

Bush's approval mark is 43 percent, while Congress checks in at 31 percent, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll found. Both are the lowest levels yet for the survey, started in December 2003.

The public also is showing concerns about the direction of the country as the war in Iraq drags on. Only about one-third of adults, 35 percent, said they thought the country was headed in the right direction. Forty-one percent said they supported Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, also a low-water mark.

Bush's popularity reached its zenith shortly after the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, when various polls found nearly 90 percent approved of the job he was doing.

The AP-Ipsos poll of 1,001 adults was taken June 6 to 8 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

WASHINGTON - Nissan North America Inc. is recalling 49,200 Sentra sedans because of concerns over possible fuel leakage, officials said Friday.

The recall affects Sentras from the 2005 model year.

Company officials told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that in some vehicles a vapor hose in the fuel tank may not have been properly manufactured.

There have been no injuries or fires reported, Nissan spokesman Kyle Bazemore said.

WASHINGTON - A second booster shot against the returning menace of whooping cough won government approval Friday - this one for adults as well as teens.

Sanofi-Aventis won Food and Drug Administration approval for its whooping cough booster, Adacel, for people ages 11 to 64.

Both combine protection against whooping cough, also called pertussis, in the same shot as an already standard booster against tetanus and diphtheria. How quickly adults will be urged to get a pertussis booster - and how often - is unclear.

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