European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 11 in the states hundreds still displaced by wildfire the associated press Lake authorities on Sun Day reopened 90 Miles of two interstate highways crossing North Florida into geor Gia that had been blanketed in smoke from a massive hundreds of Florida residents were still to return to 570 Homes evacuated Between interstate 10 and the Florida Georgia state authorities had closed a 50mile stretch of interstate 75 from to Lake As Well As a 40mile stretch of 110 in from live Oak to Sander As the fire approached them saturday officials warned that storms in the fore cast sunday could bring much needed rain or much dreaded but the Windi or conditions were helping to push the smoke off the two said Florida Highway patrol Michael weve made our move in the game of chess and Are waiting on the weather to make its Burroughs firefighters working saturday and through the night to control the Blaze got some help from previous prescribed Burns near Lake Florida officials the fire burned into an area of the of John a portable sign warns motorists along the Florida Turnpike of smoke from a Forest fire thursday in the Highway was reopened on Ceola National Forest that had done a pre scribed Burn in the so there were less fuel to said part of a joint Federal state forestry management officials said sunday morning that the wildfire that has raced through the Okefenokee swamp in Southeast Georgia and into Northern Florida has charred More than acres or about 365 Square Miles since a lightning strike ignited it a week hundreds of North Flor Ida residents were ordered out of their Homes thursday As the fire cooler weather slows Blaze the associated press cooler weather aided firefighters saturday As they battled to sur round a wildfire in the unpopulated Interior of Santa Catalina is land while a nearby resort no longer returned to the fire was about two thirds contained and was expected to be encircled by tues Day los Angeles county fire Andrew Olvera one Home and six businesses burned thursday but no one had been seriously nearly evacuated residents had started returning to the where dam age was estimated at the fire appeared to have been ignited by contractors working on antennas at a radio station in the islands Ava Lon fire chief Steven Hoefs the fire started As firefighters were mop Ping up a More than 800acre Blaze in los Angeles Griffith the Parks famous Griffith Observatory and the los Angeles zoo reopened but some areas of the Park closer to the fire remain Bush visits a to Mark 400th anniversary president who is fond of promoting the endurance of made a pilgrimage sunday to the settlement where America began to take shape centuries in swampland As a British Bush came to Honor the 400th anniversary of americas first Perma nent English it began in 1607 As a grueling commercial and Over became a Starling Point of representative free Enterprise and Cul Tural Virginia has thrown major Jamestown celebrations every 50 but this one has Given More recognition to three Cul Tures african and Indian to Tell a Fuller floodwaters near highest Point on Missouri River Jefferson the Missouri River neared its highest Point in the states capital City saturday after a week of flooding towns but hydrologists said it want nearly As bad As the River reached about 29 feet Satur Day some 6 feet above flood that was High enough to flood stretches of the Riverside Katy Trail hiking and biking route and some Lowling plus nearly acres of it was Short of the predicted 34foot which could have wiped out Many Farmers crops for the year and inundated the Jefferson City from the associated press officials preparing emergency survival plan by James Sterngold san Francisco chronicle As concerns grow that terrorists might at tack a major american City with a nuclear High level government and military officials have been quietly preparing an emergency survival program that would in clude building bomb Steps to pre vent panicked evacuations and the possible suspension of some civil Many experts say the likelihood of Al Aida or some other terrorist group producing a working nuclear weapon with Illic itly obtained weapon Grade fuel is not but such a strike would be far More frightening and disruptive than the attacks of not Only could the numbers killed and wounded be far but the explosion experts ignite widespread shut Down most halt much economic activity and cause a possible Dis integration of government the efforts to prepare a detailed Blue print for survival took a step Forward last month when senior government and Mili tary officials and other organized by a joint Stanford Harvard program called the preventive defense met behind closed doors in Washington for a Daylong the called the Day was premised on the idea that efforts focusing on preventing such a strike were no longer and that the Prospect of a collapse of government order was so great if there were an attack that the country needed to begin preparing an emergency the 41 participants discussed How All Levels of government ought to respond to protect the country from a second nuclear to limit health problems from the radioactive fallout and to restore civil the Public at Large will expect that their government had thought through this possibility and to have planned for said Harvard Ashton a senior defense department official during the Clinton years and one of the projects voters in Dallas suburb of immigrant rent ordinance the associated press Farmers Texas voters in this Dallas suburb saturday overwhelmingly approved a measure Banning land lords from renting to most illegal Immi in the first Public vote on any of the More than 90 measures local governments around the country have proposed to crack Down on illegal with two thirds of precincts the measure had 68 percent with 32 percent it requires apartment managers to verify that renters Are citizens or Legal immigrants before leasing to with some it says especially to Congress that were tired of the out control illegal immigration that if Congress Doest do something about cities said Tim a City Council member who was the ordinances Lead Council members approved the Ordi Nance in then revised it in Janu Ary to include exemptions for seniors and some families with a mix of Legal residents and illegal Farmers Branch has become the site of protests and angry and opponents of the regulation gathered enough signatures to Force the City to put the Mea sure on the municipal election with saturdays approval of the opponents plan to fight it in and will seek a restraining order to Stop the City from enforcing the City was already facing four lawsuits brought by civil rights property owners and businesses who con tend the ordinance discriminates and that it places landlords in the precarious Posi Tion of acting As immigration  m save thousands on your new car 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