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Terror leader nabbed during Baghdad raid Insurgents fight back, kill 30 BY PATRICK QUINN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTOS BY DENISE FARWELL
“This is the least we can do when you think of it,” said Johanna Rhodes (left) as she and Kellye Palmer, seniors at Nokomis Regional High School and students in a class called “WWII and the Holocaust,” wash the gravestones of Cecil, Frank and Maurice Caldwell in Palmyra on Friday. The three young brothers died in World War II, two of them within several hours of each other in the Pacific and the other in Germany later on. Another brother, George, was wounded in battle almost two years later.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi police fought pitched battles with insurgents Sunday as thousands of security forces backed by American troops swept through Baghdad’s streets to flush out militants responsible for killing more than 720 people since Iraq’s new government was announced in April. Insurgents lashed back — killing at least 30 people, including a British soldier — and a senior U.S. military intelligence official acknowledged there are few indications they “are packing their bags.’’ Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s alQaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for nearly all the attacks in Internet statements that
White House eyes list for high court
Sister recalls memory of 3 Maine siblings killed in WWII
Ambivalence rules among Vietnam vets BY TOM GROENING OF THE NEWS STAFF
BY DEB RIECHMANN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY SHARON KILEY MACK OF THE NEWS STAFF
The image of the last U.S. helicopter departing Saigon from a rooftop with South Vietnamese men and women clinging to its runners is seared into the American consciousness. It’s not an image that elicits feelings of pride or patriotism, the way images of V-E Day do. Earlier this month, the 60th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, which marked the end of World War II, was duly noted and celebrated. But the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, got nowhere near the same amount of attention, though many Vietnam veterans were well aware of the date. The lack of fanfare is fitting, See Vietnam, Page A5
WASHINGTON — The White House has laid the groundwork to place more conservatives on the Supreme Court, scrutinizing the backg rounds and legal views of a shrinking list of candidates amid speculation that ailing Chief Justice Rehnquist William Rehnquist soon will step down. Keenly aware that a chapter of President Bush’s legacy is at stake, conservative and liberal advocacy groups are preparing for what both sides believe will be a bruising confirmation fight.
PALMYRA — Clustered near a low stone wall, deep in the shade of a local cemetery, three white gravestones stand tall in a row. AppropriateInside ly, forget-me-nots bloom wildly at Schedule of Memorial their bases. These are the Day events graves of the Page B5 Caldwell brothers, three young men — none of them having reached his 25th birthday — who were killed in World War II, two within hours of each other in the Solomon Islands in the Pacific and the third on the banks of a river in Germany.
Greta Bowman, the youngest of the Caldwell siblings, lives just two doors down from the cemetery where her brothers are buried. She remembers getting the news of their deaths by telegram when she was 11 years old.
Next to them are the graves of Harry and Cora Caldwell, both born in the 1800s, who may be the only Maine parents who gave so many sons to the war. Nokomis Regional High School history students, a group of 10 seniors and their teacher, David Harville, used bleach and scrub brushes Friday to clean
the white markers for Memorial Day. They raked leaves and put flowers on each of the three soldiers’ graves. “These heroes only die when there is no one to resurrect their memories,” Harville, who has taught at Nokomis for 34 years, said. See Caldwell, Page A4
Experts believe Rehnquist will step down
Patrick proves her mettle at Indy with 4th place BY PAUL NEWBERRY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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INDIANAPOLIS — Danica Patrick knew she could hang with the boys. She nearly beat them at the Indianapolis 500. Patrick overcame a couple of rookie mistakes to finish fourth Sunday, the strongest showing for a woman in the race’s 89year history and a thrilling performance that restored some luster to the storied event. Nearly all of the 300,000 fans were standing Inside and waving their arms Dan Wheldon when Patrick wins grabbed the Indianapolis 500 lead on a Page C1 restart with only 10 laps to go. For a fleeting moment, the 23-year-old driver had visions of sipping milk in Victory Lane. “Sure, I thought about it,’’ Patrick conceded. But she had to conserve fuel to make it to the end and couldn’t hold off winner Dan Wheldon. Teammate Vitor Meira and Bryan Herta also got past before the race finished under yellow, the result of a crash with one AP PHOTO BY JAMES YEE lap to go. Talk show icon David Letterman, co-owner of Rahal Letterman “If we could have run with a Racing, congratulates Danica Patrick on her fourth-place finish full fuel load, you never know,’’ Sunday in the Indianapolis 500.
could not be independently verified. In their biggest coup of “Operation Lightning,’’ Iraqi and U.S. soldiers arrested a former general in Saddam Hussein’s intelligence service who was also a member of his Fedayeen secret police during a raid in western Baghdad, the scene of some of Sunday’s heaviest fighting. “He now leads the military wings of several terror cells operating in the west Baghdad neighborhood of Ghazaliyah,’’ the military said in its announcement about the former general. It did not release his name or provide further details. As fighting raged in Baghdad’s western neighborhoods, Iraq’s freshly minted legislators See Iraq, Page A6
Patrick said. “I’d like to think I could have won it. But we had to sacrifice somewhere to come from where we were.’’ Patrick came to Indy this month recognized more for her looks than her racing. She gained plenty of notoriety when she posed in a bikini for a men’s magazine, but there were plenty of skeptics questioning whether she could run up front. Not anymore. “This just shows what she’s made of,’’ said her mother, Bev Patrick. “She had to overcome plenty of obstacles with the stigma of the male-female thing.’’ Danica had to overcome plenty of obstacles in Sunday’s race — two of them the sort of miscues that rookies tend to make at Indy. First, after starting fourth and becoming the first woman to lead a lap at Indy, Patrick stalled her car in the pits, knocking her from fourth to 16th. She worked her way back to seventh, then had another embarrassing mistake during a caution with 45 laps to go. Patrick was revving her engine to take green when her No. 16 car suddenly swerved to the right between the third and fourth turns, colliding with See Race, Page A5
Court experts expect that Rehnquist, who is battling thyroid cancer, will leave by the end of June when the current court session concludes. “The vacancy could come anytime after this Memorial Day weekend, we think,” said Sean Rushton, director of the conservative Committee for Justice, which has close ties to the White House counsel’s office. “They have been winnowing the list down for some time now. I imagine they’re down to maybe three or five — a handful anyway — who are their first choices,” he said. White House officials say it is inappropriate to discuss filling a vacancy that does not exist. They refuse to disclose publicly any details about how Bush See Court, Page A6
System allows parents to spy on kids’ lunch BY DANIEL YEE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MARIETTA, Ga. — As Garin Hughes picks through his school-lunch burrito and unidentifiable apple-pear dessert, he has a secret. Hidden underneath the eighth-grader’s right leg is a chocolate cookie in shrinkwrapped plastic. That’s for dessert. In the past, his parents had no clue when he bought a treat at school. Now, thanks to a new school-lunch monitoring system, they can check over the Internet and learn about that secret cookie. Health officials hope it will increase parents’ involvement in what their kids eat at school. It’s a concern because federal health data show that up to 30 percent of U.S. children are either overweight or obese. “My parents do care about what I eat. They try, like, to keep up with it,” said Hughes, a 14year-old student at Marietta Middle School. Three school districts in the Atlanta area last week became See Lunch, Page A6
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Terror leader nabbed during Baghdad raid Insurgents fight back, kill 30 BY PATRICK QUINN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTOS BY DENISE FARWELL
“This is the least we can do when you think of it,” said Johanna Rhodes (left) as she and Kellye Palmer, seniors at Nokomis Regional High School and students in a class called “WWII and the Holocaust,” wash the gravestones of Cecil, Frank and Maurice Caldwell in Palmyra on Friday. The three young brothers died in World War II, two of them within several hours of each other in the Pacific and the other in Germany later on. Another brother, George, was wounded in battle almost two years later.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi police fought pitched battles with insurgents Sunday as thousands of security forces backed by American troops swept through Baghdad’s streets to flush out militants responsible for killing more than 720 people since Iraq’s new government was announced in April. Insurgents lashed back — killing at least 30 people, including a British soldier — and a senior U.S. military intelligence official acknowledged there are few indications they “are packing their bags.’’ Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s alQaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for nearly all the attacks in Internet statements that
White House eyes list for high court
Sister recalls memory of 3 Maine siblings killed in WWII
Ambivalence rules among Vietnam vets BY TOM GROENING OF THE NEWS STAFF
BY DEB RIECHMANN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY SHARON KILEY MACK OF THE NEWS STAFF
The image of the last U.S. helicopter departing Saigon from a rooftop with South Vietnamese men and women clinging to its runners is seared into the American consciousness. It’s not an image that elicits feelings of pride or patriotism, the way images of V-E Day do. Earlier this month, the 60th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, which marked the end of World War II, was duly noted and celebrated. But the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, got nowhere near the same amount of attention, though many Vietnam veterans were well aware of the date. The lack of fanfare is fitting, See Vietnam, Page A5
WASHINGTON — The White House has laid the groundwork to place more conservatives on the Supreme Court, scrutinizing the backg rounds and legal views of a shrinking list of candidates amid speculation that ailing Chief Justice Rehnquist William Rehnquist soon will step down. Keenly aware that a chapter of President Bush’s legacy is at stake, conservative and liberal advocacy groups are preparing for what both sides believe will be a bruising confirmation fight.
PALMYRA — Clustered near a low stone wall, deep in the shade of a local cemetery, three white gravestones stand tall in a row. AppropriateInside ly, forget-me-nots bloom wildly at Schedule of Memorial their bases. These are the Day events graves of the Page B5 Caldwell brothers, three young men — none of them having reached his 25th birthday — who were killed in World War II, two within hours of each other in the Solomon Islands in the Pacific and the third on the banks of a river in Germany.
Greta Bowman, the youngest of the Caldwell siblings, lives just two doors down from the cemetery where her brothers are buried. She remembers getting the news of their deaths by telegram when she was 11 years old.
Next to them are the graves of Harry and Cora Caldwell, both born in the 1800s, who may be the only Maine parents who gave so many sons to the war. Nokomis Regional High School history students, a group of 10 seniors and their teacher, David Harville, used bleach and scrub brushes Friday to clean
the white markers for Memorial Day. They raked leaves and put flowers on each of the three soldiers’ graves. “These heroes only die when there is no one to resurrect their memories,” Harville, who has taught at Nokomis for 34 years, said. See Caldwell, Page A4
Experts believe Rehnquist will step down
Patrick proves her mettle at Indy with 4th place BY PAUL NEWBERRY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BANGOR | AUG. 26-28, 2005
Did you know? It takes almost 200 volunteer shifts and about 800 hours to help set up the festival site.
88 days to go! Sponsored in part by the Bangor Daily News
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INDIANAPOLIS — Danica Patrick knew she could hang with the boys. She nearly beat them at the Indianapolis 500. Patrick overcame a couple of rookie mistakes to finish fourth Sunday, the strongest showing for a woman in the race’s 89year history and a thrilling performance that restored some luster to the storied event. Nearly all of the 300,000 fans were standing Inside and waving their arms Dan Wheldon when Patrick wins grabbed the Indianapolis 500 lead on a Page C1 restart with only 10 laps to go. For a fleeting moment, the 23-year-old driver had visions of sipping milk in Victory Lane. “Sure, I thought about it,’’ Patrick conceded. But she had to conserve fuel to make it to the end and couldn’t hold off winner Dan Wheldon. Teammate Vitor Meira and Bryan Herta also got past before the race finished under yellow, the result of a crash with one AP PHOTO BY JAMES YEE lap to go. Talk show icon David Letterman, co-owner of Rahal Letterman “If we could have run with a Racing, congratulates Danica Patrick on her fourth-place finish full fuel load, you never know,’’ Sunday in the Indianapolis 500.
could not be independently verified. In their biggest coup of “Operation Lightning,’’ Iraqi and U.S. soldiers arrested a former general in Saddam Hussein’s intelligence service who was also a member of his Fedayeen secret police during a raid in western Baghdad, the scene of some of Sunday’s heaviest fighting. “He now leads the military wings of several terror cells operating in the west Baghdad neighborhood of Ghazaliyah,’’ the military said in its announcement about the former general. It did not release his name or provide further details. As fighting raged in Baghdad’s western neighborhoods, Iraq’s freshly minted legislators See Iraq, Page A6
Patrick said. “I’d like to think I could have won it. But we had to sacrifice somewhere to come from where we were.’’ Patrick came to Indy this month recognized more for her looks than her racing. She gained plenty of notoriety when she posed in a bikini for a men’s magazine, but there were plenty of skeptics questioning whether she could run up front. Not anymore. “This just shows what she’s made of,’’ said her mother, Bev Patrick. “She had to overcome plenty of obstacles with the stigma of the male-female thing.’’ Danica had to overcome plenty of obstacles in Sunday’s race — two of them the sort of miscues that rookies tend to make at Indy. First, after starting fourth and becoming the first woman to lead a lap at Indy, Patrick stalled her car in the pits, knocking her from fourth to 16th. She worked her way back to seventh, then had another embarrassing mistake during a caution with 45 laps to go. Patrick was revving her engine to take green when her No. 16 car suddenly swerved to the right between the third and fourth turns, colliding with See Race, Page A5
Court experts expect that Rehnquist, who is battling thyroid cancer, will leave by the end of June when the current court session concludes. “The vacancy could come anytime after this Memorial Day weekend, we think,” said Sean Rushton, director of the conservative Committee for Justice, which has close ties to the White House counsel’s office. “They have been winnowing the list down for some time now. I imagine they’re down to maybe three or five — a handful anyway — who are their first choices,” he said. White House officials say it is inappropriate to discuss filling a vacancy that does not exist. They refuse to disclose publicly any details about how Bush See Court, Page A6
System allows parents to spy on kids’ lunch BY DANIEL YEE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MARIETTA, Ga. — As Garin Hughes picks through his school-lunch burrito and unidentifiable apple-pear dessert, he has a secret. Hidden underneath the eighth-grader’s right leg is a chocolate cookie in shrinkwrapped plastic. That’s for dessert. In the past, his parents had no clue when he bought a treat at school. Now, thanks to a new school-lunch monitoring system, they can check over the Internet and learn about that secret cookie. Health officials hope it will increase parents’ involvement in what their kids eat at school. It’s a concern because federal health data show that up to 30 percent of U.S. children are either overweight or obese. “My parents do care about what I eat. They try, like, to keep up with it,” said Hughes, a 14year-old student at Marietta Middle School. Three school districts in the Atlanta area last week became See Lunch, Page A6
