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Height of 1 World Trade Center debated
BY JASON KEYSER
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Rising from the
ashes of 9/11, the new World
Trade Center tower has punched
above the New York skyline to
reach its powerfully symbolic
height of 1,776 feet and become
the tallest building in the country. Or has it?
A committee of architects recognized as the arbiters on world
building heights was meeting
Friday to decide whether a design change affecting the skyscraper’s 408-foot needle disqualifies it from being counted.
Disqualification would deny the
tower the title as the nation’s
tallest.
But there is more than bragging rights at stake; 1 World
Trade Center stands as a monument to those killed in the terrorist attacks, and the ruling
could dim the echo of America’s
founding year in the structure’s
height. Without the needle, the
building measures 1,368 feet, a
High death toll
expected after
typhoon slams
into Phillipines
BY JIM GOMEZ
Associated Press
TACLOBAN, Philippines —
The central Philippine city of
Tacloban was in ruins after
being ravaged by one of the
strongest typhoons on record,
as horrified residents spoke of
storm surges as high as trees
and authorities said they were
expecting a “very high number
of fatalities.”
At least 151 people were confirmed dead in the aftermath
of Typhoon Haiyan. But Philippine Red Cross Secretary
General Gwen Pang said that
agency field staff in the region
estimated the toll was about
1,000. Pang, however, emphasized that it was “just an estimate.”
The typhoon slammed into
six central Philippine islands
on Friday, wiping away buildings and leveling seaside
homes. At least 134 of the confirmed deaths were on hardesthit Leyte Island, where Tacloban is located, said national
disaster agency spokesman
Maj. Reynaldo Balido.
But after arriving in Tacloban
on Saturday, Interior Secretary
Mar Roxas said it was too early
to know how many people had
died in the typhoon. It weakened Sunday as it approached
central and northern Vietnam
where authorities evacuated
more than 500,000 people.
“The rescue operation is ongoing. We expect a very high
number of fatalities as well
as injured,” Roxas said. “All
systems, all vestiges of modern living — communications,
power, water — all are down.
Media is down, so there is no
way to communicate with the
people in a mass sort of way.”
President Benigno Aquino
III said the casualties “will be
substantially more,” but gave
no figure or estimate. He said
the government’s priority was
to restore power and communications in isolated areas to
allow for the delivery of relief
and medical assistance to victims.
The Philippine Red Cross
and its partners were preparing for a major relief effort
“because of the magnitude of
the disaster,” said the agency’s
chairman, Richard Gordon.
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number that also holds symbolic
weight as the height of the original World Trade Center.
What’s more, the decision is
being made by an organization
based in Chicago, whose cultural
and architectural history is embodied by the Willis — formerly
Sears — Tower that would be
knocked into second place by
a vote in favor of the New York
structure.
“Most of the time these decisions are not so controversial,”
said Daniel Safarik, an architect
and spokesman for the nonprofit
Council on Tall Buildings and
Urban Habitat. The 30 members of its Height Committee are
meeting to render a judgment
behind closed doors in Chicago,
where the world’s first skyscraper appeared in 1884.
The committee, comprising
industry professionals from all
over the world, will announce its
decision next week.
The question over 1 World
Trade Center, which remains
under construction and is expected to open next year, arose
because of a change to the design
of its tower-topping needle. Under the council’s current criteria,
spires that are an integral part
of a building’s aesthetic design
count; broadcast antennas that
can be added and removed do
not.
The designers of 1 World Trade
Center had intended to enclose
the mast’s communications gear
in decorative cladding made of
fiberglass and steel. But the developer removed that exterior
shell from the design, saying it
would be impossible to properly
maintain or repair.
Without it, the question is
whether the mast is now primarily just a broadcast antenna.
According to the architecture
firm behind the building, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP,
the needle will have a communications platform for radio and
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Associated Press
This combination made from file photos shows Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, in Chicago in March 2008, left, and 1
World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 5. Soaring above the city
at 1,776 feet, 104-story 1 World Trade Center is in contention with
Willis Tower for the title of America’s tallest building.
Crisis brewing among Israeli-US relations
BY JOSEF FEDERMAN
Associated Press
JERUSALEM — A pair of testy
public exchanges this week appear to have undone whatever
good will was created between
the Israeli and U.S. governments
during a high-profile visit by
President Barack Obama early
this year.
Tensions burst into the open
during a swing through the region by U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry. In an interview
broadcast on both Israeli and
Palestinian TV, Kerry questioned
Israel’s seriousness about peace
with the Palestinians. Hours later Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired back, vowing not
to cave into concessions to the
Palestinians — and also saying
he “utterly rejects” an emerging
nuclear deal between world powers and Iran.
The rancor signals a tough
road ahead for the twin American goals of finding a diplomatic
solution for Iran’s nuclear program and forging peace between
Israel and the Palestinians. And
it raises the specter of a return to
the uncomfortable relationship
that has often characterized dealings between Obama and Netanyahu.
Israeli news reports describe
Netanyahu as being in “shock”
over the possible Iranian compromise. Netanyahu, who sees
Iran as an arch-enemy, has
vowed to do anything, including
a military strike, to prevent Iran
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Associated Press
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks on a cellphone after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Friday. Netanyahu, before meeting with Kerry, said Friday
that he “utterly rejects” the emerging nuclear deal between western powers and Iran.
Historic items from JFK assassination on display
BY DAN SEWELL
Associated Press
DAYTON, Ohio — Many items
that make up the searing images
from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — from the
ill-fated presidential limousine,
to the gravesite eternal flame, to
the historic Air Force One plane
where Lyndon B. Johnson took
the oath of office — are available
for public viewing 50 years later.
In some cases, officials had to
scramble to make that happen.
Aboard the plane, now in a
hangar at Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base, visitors squeeze
down a narrow walkway to stand
where people packed into its
sweltering state room to watch
Johnson, Kennedy’s vice president, sworn in, with Jacqueline
Kennedy alongside in the suit
stained by her husband’s blood.
“Sometimes I see the looks on the
faces of visitors and it all comes back to
me. The story is so visceral.”
Jeff Underwood
Historian of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
“It’s getting hotter and hotter, people are crammed in,
emotions are getting higher and
higher,” explained Jeff Underwood, historian of the National
Museum of the U.S. Air Force,
reflecting the famous images
from the plane.
As on the morning of Sept. 11,
2001, it wasn’t clear in the first
hours after the shooting what
was unfolding, he said. Johnson
wanted to show the nation that a
constitutional transfer of power
had been made, and Mrs. Kennedy insisted upon being there,
Underwood said.
Visitors can also see the saw
cuts in a rear wall hastily made
by Air Force crew members who
didn’t want the late president’s
coffin carried in the cargo hold.
They removed two rows of seats
for the coffin, which Mrs. Kennedy sat across from on the flight
back to Washington.
Experiencing history in a personal way by being where it hap-
pened goes beyond reading it,
Underwood said Friday during a
news media tour.
“Sometimes I see the looks on
the faces (of visitors), and it all
comes back to me,” said Underwood, a fourth-grader in 1963.
“The story is so visceral.”
The federal spending reductions of the sequester had in May
halted shuttle bus trips from the
museum to the hangar, but museum officials decided to resume
the tours on a trimmed schedule
with the anniversary approaching. The Boeing jet — built specially in 1962 for presidential use
— was retired by the Air Force in
1998, having flown eight presidents starting with Kennedy.
Among the other items that
were part of the events of late
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Rival Nixon departed Dallas as JFK arrived in 1963
Associated Press
Richard Nixon, whose law firm represented Pepsi-Cola,
visited Dallas, from Nov. 20 to Nov. 22, 1963, for the
American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages convention.
On the day before John F. Kennedy’s assassination, he
gave a blunt, partisan critique of the president’s record.
Early Friday morning,
Kennedy looked down
from his room at several
thousand people gathered
expectantly in the rain to
hear him speak. Joined by
Gov. John Connally and
a few Texas legislators,
the president and Lyndon
Johnson walked across the
street to address the crowd.
In Dallas, at Commerce
and Akard streets, Nixon
climbed into a car in near
obscurity for his short ride
to Love Field. Leaving the
Baker behind, he looked toward the overcast sky and
saw red, white and blue
banners whipping in the
wind above Main Street.
Four hours later, with
the sun shining, they would
be part of the tableau of the
final minutes of Kennedy’s
life.
For some, Nixon’s November 1963 visit to Dallas is a log to feed the fires
of conspiracy. In the 1995
biopic “Nixon,” Oliver
Stone walked the razor’s
edge between fiction and
libel by placing the future
president at a secret Nov.
21 meeting of Dallas millionaires and obliging call
girls at the home of Larry
Hagman’s character, Jack
Jones, an amalgam of H.L.
Hunt and Clint Murchison.
The reality was less sinister. Kennedy and Nixon in
close proximity was such a
common occurrence, it was
almost banal.
■■■
On Wednesday evening,
former vice president to
American Airlines Flight
82. The plane promptly
departed for New York’s
Idlewild Airport.
Nixon was in a taxi
in Queens when a man
rushed up to the driver at
a light near the 59th Street
Bridge. “Do you have a radio in your cab?” he asked.
“I just heard that Kennedy
was shot.”
The cab had no radio and
Nixon was uncertain what
the comment meant. But
when the car stopped at his
home at Fifth Avenue and
East 62nd, his doorman
approached with tears on
his face: “Oh, Mr. Nixon,
have you heard, sir?”
Nixon entered the cocoon of his 10-room apartment overlooking Central
Park. The long hallway was
hung with Chinese paintings, a gift from Madame
Chiang Kai-shek. The living room featured light
colored drapery and large
Oriental jardinieres.
His private library was
furnished with comfortable, upholstered easy
chairs and sofas. On the
mantel was his extensive
collection of elephants
made from teak, ivory,
crystal, stone and plastic.
“That night, I sat up late
in my library,” Nixon remembered. He thought of
his brothers Arthur and
Harold, dead at ages 7 and
23, both from tuberculosis. He thought of Kennedy
and the close-knit Kennedy
family.
From father Joe down to
youngest child, Ted, Nixon
knew all of the Kennedys.
And he thought of Jackie,
who had once interviewed
him as part of her job as the
“Inquiring Photographer”
for the Washington TimesHerald.
While Jackie waited
out the autopsy and embalming of her husband at
Bethesda Naval Hospital,
the fire in Nixon’s library
burned itself out.
Before the dawn of Nov.
23, he put pen to paper.
Nixon began, “Dear
Jackie, While the hand of
fate made Jack and me political opponents, I always
cherished the fact that we
were personal friends from
the time we came to the
Congress together in 1947.”
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DALLAS — In the postmidnight darkness, as Nov.
21, 1963, slipped into Nov.
22, 1963, a cold front that
had carried Pacific moisture across the American
Southwest
approached
Fort Worth and Dallas.
Before dawn, the moisture
began to fall in a misty drizzle — unremarkable except
that it fell on the 35th, the
36th and the 37th presidents of the United States.
In downtown Dallas, behind durable drapery and
metal Venetian blinds, former Vice President Richard Nixon slept alone in
his suite at the Baker Hotel. Outside in the hallway
stood a single Dallas police
officer who was stationed
at the nearby door of actress Joan Crawford to protect her from jewel thieves
and autograph seekers.
It had been one year
since Nixon’s political selfimmolation. After he lost
his 1962 comeback race
for California governor, he
resentfully told the press,
“You don’t have Nixon to
kick around anymore.”
Now, he was a corporate
lawyer visiting Dallas on
behalf of his client, PepsiCola.
Just 30 miles west in Fort
Worth, President John F.
Kennedy slept under a Vincent van Gogh landscape.
The might and majesty of
the presidency radiated
out from his Suite 850 at
the Hotel Texas. In the inner ring, warrant officer
Ira Gearhart slept in Room
804 near a satchel bearing
the nuclear launch codes.
At Carswell Air Force Base,
the 43rd Bombardment
Wing of B-58 Hustlers was
joined by two well-guarded
707s — Air Force One and
Air Force Two.
Nov. 20, Nixon flew to Dallas for the annual meeting
of the American Bottlers
of Carbonated Beverages
at Market Hall. Aboard
the same private plane was
Joan Crawford, widow of
the late Pepsi chairman Alfred Steele.
On Thursday morning,
Nov. 21, Nixon agreed to
meet print, TV and radio
reporters in his suite at the
Baker.
The approaching horror of Nov. 22 would make
future dispassionate assessments of Kennedy’s
presidential record almost
impossible. But on the day
before Kennedy died, just
a few blocks from Dealey
Plaza, Nixon gave a blunt,
partisan critique. “Despite
the fact that President Kennedy has one of the largest
majorities in Congress of
any president in history,”
Nixon said, “it’s one of the
poorest percentage records
of accomplishment in history.”
On Friday morning, Nov.
22, 1963, American Airlines VIP liaison Walter
Hagen was at his post at
Love Field preparing for
the deluge of humanity that
would signal the arrival of
the Kennedys, Johnsons
and Connallys.
Looking to the street
from the concourse window, he spotted Nixon. “He
didn’t look like he had a
friend in the world,” Hagen
remembered. “Somebody
dropped him off at the curb
there at the American Airlines ticket counter. I, of
course, greeted him. He
was very sociable.”
“It looks like you’re going
to have a big day, today,”
Nixon said.
“Yeah, we are expecting
to in about an hour to an
hour and a half,” Hagen
replied as he escorted the
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The airport in Tacloban,
a city of 200,000 located
about 580 kilometers (360
miles) southeast of Manila, looked like a muddy
wasteland of debris Saturday, with crumpled tin
roofs and upturned cars.
The airport tower’s glass
windows were shattered,
and air force helicopters
were busy flying in and out
at the start of relief operations.
“The devastation is, I
don’t have the words for
it,” Roxas said. “It’s really
horrific. It’s a great human
tragedy.”
Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said Aquino
was “speechless” when he
told him of the devastation
the typhoon had wrought
in Tacloban.
“I told him all systems
are down,” Gazmin said.
“There is no power, no
water, nothing. People are
desperate. They’re looting.” U.S. Marine Col.
Mike Wylie surveyed the
damage in Tacloban prior
to possible American assistance. “The storm surge
came in fairly high and
there is significant structural damage and trees
blown over,” said Wylie,
who is a member of the
U.S.-Philippines Military
Assistance Group based in
Manila.
U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry said in a statement that America “stands
ready to help.”
At the request of the
Philippine
government,
Defense Secretary Chuck
Hagel directed U.S. Pacific
Command to deploy ships
and aircraft to support
search-and-rescue operations and airlift emergency
supplies, according to a
statement released by the
Defense Department press
office.
Tacloban is near the
Red Beach on Leyte Island
where U.S. Gen. Douglas
MacArthur waded ashore
on October 20, 1944, fulfilling his famous pledge,
“I shall return,” made in
March 1942 after President Franklin D. Roosevelt
ordered him to relocate to
Australia as Japanese forces pushed back U.S. and
Filipino defenders.
Tacloban was the first
city to be liberated by U.S.
and Filipino forces and
served as the Philippines’
temporary capital for several months. It is also the
home town of former Filipino first lady Imelda Marcos, whose nephew, Alfred
Romualdez, is the city’s
mayor.
The president of the European Commission, Jose
Manuel Barroso, said in
a message to Aquino that
the EC had sent a team
to assist the Philippine
authorities and that “we
stand ready to contribute
with urgent relief and assistance if so required in
this hour of need.”
Weather officials said
Haiyan had sustained
winds of 235 kilometers
per hour (147 miles per
hour), with gusts of 275
kph (170 mph), when it
made landfall. By those
measurements,
Haiyan
would be comparable to a
strong Category 4 hurricane in the U.S., and nearly in the top category, a 5.
Hurricanes,
cyclones
and typhoons are the
same, but have different
names in different parts of
the world.
One Tacloban resident
said he and others took
refuge inside a parked
Jeep to protect themselves
from the storm, but the ve-
hicle was swept away by a
surging wall of water.
“The water was as high
as a coconut tree,” said
44-year-old Sandy Torotoro, a bicycle taxi driver
who lives near the airport
with his wife and 8-yearold daughter. “I got out of
the Jeep and I was swept
away by the rampaging water with logs, trees and our
house, which was ripped
off from its mooring.”
“When we were being
swept by the water, many
people were floating and
raising their hands and
yelling for help. But what
can we do? We also needed to be helped,” Torotoro
said.
In Torotoro’s village,
bodies could be seen lying along the muddy main
road, as residents who had
lost their homes huddled,
holding on to the few
things they had managed
to save. The road was lined
with trees that had fallen
to the ground.
Vice Mayor Jim Pe of
Coron town on Busuanga,
the last island battered by
the typhoon before it blew
away to the South China
Sea, said most of the houses and buildings there had
been destroyed or damaged. Five people drowned
in the storm surge and
three others were missing,
he said by phone.
“It was like a 747 flying
just above my roof,” he
said, describing the sound
of the winds. He said his
family and some of his
neighbors whose houses
were destroyed took shelter in his basement.
Philippine broadcaster
ABS-CBN showed fierce
winds whipping buildings
and vehicles as storm surges swamped Tacloban with
debris-laden floodwaters.
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Associated Press
The airport devastated by powerful Typhoon Haiyan that slammed into Tacloban city,
Leyte province, Philippines is seen on Saturday. The central Philippine city of Tacloban
was in ruins a day after being ravaged by one of the strongest typhoons on record, as
horrified residents spoke of storm surges as high as trees and authorities said they
were expecting a “very high number of fatalities.”
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television equipment, but
it will also be topped with
an LED beacon that will
fire out a horizontal blaze
of light visible from up to
50 miles away on a clear
night — a feature that has
been described as a crowning beacon of hope.
The developers tested
the lights Friday night, and
hundreds of red, white and
blue LED modules illuminated lower Manhattan.
Safarik said the committee could consider
amending its height criteria — a move with much
broader implications that
could force a reshuffle in
the rankings of the tallest
buildings in the world.
If the matter weren’t
so steeped in emotion it
might have set off some of
the good natured ribbing
emblematic of the history
of one-upmanship between New York and Chicago. But 1 World Trade
Center is a monument to
American resilience admired well beyond Manhattan.
“I don’t think anybody’s
going to argue with the
pride in building that new
tower,” said 31-year-old
software developer Brett
Tooley, who works across
the street from the Willis
Tower.
“Not only is it going to be
the tallest building; it’s going to be one of the strongest buildings in the history of America. It’s a marvel
of engineering.”
“We take our hats off to
them out here in Chicago
and the Midwest,” said
Robert Wislow, chairman
and chief executive of U.S.
Equities, the firm that
manages the Willis Tower.
“And we welcome the
building to the elite club of
the tallest buildings in the
world. Nobody’s looking at
this like a competition.”
Still, the Willis has a central place in Chicago’s history, speaking to the city’s
own tradition of recovering from adversity ever
since the 1871 Great Fire
and its history of creating
architectural marvels, said
Peter Alter, an archivist at
the Chicago History Museum.
Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill, headquartered in
Chicago, also designed the
Willis.
Then known as the Sears
Tower, it was completed
in 1973 and remained
the tallest building in the
world until 1996 when
the council ruled that the
Petronas Twin Towers in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
had knocked it from the
top spot.
And the Willis can still
claim to get visitors up
higher: The highest occupied floor in the 1,450foot (not including antenna height), 110-story
Willis Tower is still higher up than that of the
104-story 1 World Trade
Center. In a sign of just
how in dispute building
measurements can be, the
council says the Willis has
108 floors.
At the Willis’ 103rd floor,
thrill-seekers can step out
into one of the glass boxes
known as The Ledge that
extend outside the building’s steel frame and look
straight down 1,353 feet.
In New York, the debate was upsetting to Jim
Riches, a retired fire department deputy chief who
lost his 29-year-old firefighter son, Jimmy, in the
terrorist attack.
“You know what? I think
it’s a ridiculous argument.
It doesn’t matter to me
what height it is,” he said.
“You know, my son’s not
going to walk back in that
door again. And that’s the
big thing. He’s gone.”
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US poor higher than official rate
US military group wants
to create ‘Iron Man suit’
BY HOPE YEN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
number of poor people
in America is 3 million
higher than the official
count, encompassing 1 in
6 residents due to out-ofpocket medical costs and
work-related
expenses,
according to a revised
census measure released
Wednesday.
The new measure is
aimed at providing a fuller
picture of poverty but does
not replace the official government numbers. Put in
place two years ago by the
Obama
administration,
it generally is considered
more reliable by social scientists because it factors in
living expenses as well as
the effects of government
aid, such as food stamps
and tax credits.
Administration
officials have declined to say
whether the new measure
eventually could replace
the official poverty formula, which is used to allocate federal dollars to
states and localities and
to determine eligibility for
safety-net programs such
as Medicaid.
Congress would have
to agree to adopt the new
measure, which generally
would result in a higher
poverty rate from year to
year and thus higher government payouts for aid
programs.
Based on the revised
formula, the number of
poor people in 2012 was
49.7 million, or 16 percent.
That exceeds the record
46.5 million, or 15 percent,
that was officially reported
in September.
The latest numbers
BY DAVID S. CLOUD
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
WASHINGTON — Army
Capt. Brian Dowling was
leading his Special Forces team through a steep
mountain pass in eastern
Afghanistan when insurgents ambushed his patrol,
leaving two of his soldiers
pinned down with lifethreatening wounds.
After a furious firefight,
the two men were rescued,
but that episode in 2006
would change Dowling’s
life.
Now employed by a small
defense company, he is
part of a crash effort by U.S.
Special Operations Command to produce a radically new protective suit for
elite soldiers to wear into
battle — one with bionic
limbs, head-to-toe armor,
a built-in power supply and
live data feeds projected on
a see-through display inside the helmet.
They call it — what else?
— the “Iron Man suit.”
“We’re taking the Iron
Man concept and bringing it closer to reality,” said
Dowling, referring to the
Marvel Comics character
Tony Stark, an industrialist
and master engineer who
builds a rocket-powered
exoskeleton, turning himself into a superhero.
The Special Operations
Command began soliciting
ideas for the suit this year
from industry, academia
and government labs, and
has held two conferences
where potential bidders,
including Dowling’s company, Revision Military,
demonstrated their products. Military officials say
they are trying to produce
a working prototype within
the next 12 months. But no
contracts have been signed,
and the Pentagon has not
ventured to make a cost estimate.
The metal suit the Pentagon wants would be all
but impervious to bullets
and shrapnel, and be able
to continuously download
and display live video feeds
from overhead drones. Relying on tiny motors, the
exoskeleton would enable
a soldier to run and jump
without strain while carrying 100 or more pounds.
It would, at least in
theory, be able to stanch
minor wounds with inflatable tourniquets — in the
unlikely event the armor
is breached. It also would
carry a built-in oxygen supply in case of poison gas,
a cooling system to keep
soldiers comfortable and
sensors to transmit the
wearer’s vital signs back to
headquarters.
“They want an Iron Man-
“They want an
Iron Man-like
suit; they’ve
been quite open
about that. You
won’t get all of
it. It’s not going
to fly. But I think
it’s doable.”
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open about that,” said
Adarsh Ayyar, an engineer
at BAE Systems, one of the
defense contractors seeking to build a working exoskeleton prototype. “You
won’t get all of it. It’s not
going to fly. But I think it’s
doable.”
Even the project’s formal
name is an homage to Iron
Man. It’s the “tactical assault light operator suit,”
or TALOS, the giant bronze
warrior of Greek mythology
who defended, not always
successfully, the island of
Crete from invaders.
Some experts question
whether the project represents a misunderstanding
of the lessons of the last
dozen years of war, when
U.S. soldiers, despite being
equipped with technology
and weaponry far beyond
anything their enemies
possessed, were dueled to
a virtual draw in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Describing the TALOS
suit at a conference of engineers and defense executives in Tampa, Fla.,
in August, Adm. William
McRaven, a Navy SEAL
and head of the Special Operations Command, urged
them to think about a spe-
cial operations soldier preparing to assault a house.
“He has to open that door
not knowing what’s on the
other side,” McRaven said.
“He’s got to be able to shoot,
move and communicate.
He’s got to be able to survive in that environment. …
If we invest in the TALOS
suit, it will reduce the operation’s risks and therefore
the operation’s costs.”
How much of this is Hollywood and how much is
truly possible is uncertain,
designers
acknowledge.
There is no prototype, only
a smorgasbord of ideas and
off-the-shelf components
that still need to be combined into a suit for actual
combat.
The key, designers and
officials involved say, is to
make a suit that provides
better protection than the
heavy armored vests and
Kevlar helmets that soldiers already wear, without
being so bulky that it prevents them from moving in
combat.
To make it work, designers need a battery to power
the exoskeleton, the communications gear and the
data stream. Too big a battery weighs down the suit,
too small and it could run
out of juice in the middle
of a mission. In the movies,
Iron Man is powered by a
fictional “arc reactor” stuck
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in Tony Stark’s chest,
sometimes falters and sends
him tumbling to Earth.
“The Iron Man movies
got it right: Power is the
Achilles’ heel with all these
devices,” said Russ Angold,
founder of Ekso Bionics,
a company in Richmond,
Calif., that is developing a
power-saving exoskeleton
that it hopes the Special
Operations Command will
choose.
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Measuring U.S. poverty
An alternative calculation for poverty by the Census Bureau
finds the percentages of some groups living in poverty are
higher, and others lower, than official estimates for 2012:
Official measure
Under 18
22.3% living in poverty
18
18 to 64
13.7
15
65 and older
9.1
14.8
All people
Alternate measure*
15
16
*Known as the Supplemental Poverty Measure; includes factors such as
living expenses and the effects of government aid.
SOURCE: Census Bureau
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come as more workingage adults picked up lowwage jobs in the slowly
improving economy but
still struggled to pay living
expenses. Americans 65
and older had the largest
increases in poverty under
the revised formula, from
9.1 percent to 14.8 percent, because of medical
expenses such as Medicare
premiums,
deductibles
and other costs not accounted for in the official
rate.
There also were increases for Hispanics and
Asian-Americans, partly
due to lower participation
among immigrants and
non-English speakers in
government aid programs
such as housing aid and
food stamps.
African-Americans and
children, helped by government benefits, had
declines in poverty compared with the official rate.
“This is a real incongruity, when 1 in 6 people
face economic insecurity
here in the richest country in the world,” said Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia
University economist and
former chairman of the
White House Council of
Economic Advisers who
has argued for more government action to alleviate
income inequality.
“When so many citizens
are worse off year after
year, with food insecurity
and health care insecurity,
there’s no way you can say
that’s a successful economy.”
Among states, California had the highest share
of poor people, hurt in
part by high housing costs
and large numbers of immigrants, followed by the
District of Columbia, Nevada and Florida. Under
the official poverty rate,
more rural states were
more likely to be at the
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from reaching weapons capability.
“If there were a synoptic
map for diplomatic storms,
the National Weather Service would be putting out
a hurricane warning right
now,” diplomatic correspondent Chemi Shalev
wrote on the website of the
newspaper Haaretz. “And
given that the turbulence
is being caused by an issue
long deemed to be critical
to Israel’s very existence,
we may actually be facing a
rare Category 5 flare up, a
‘superstorm’ of U.S.-Israeli
relations.”
Obama and Netanyahu
took office just months
apart in 2009, but seemed
to share little in common.
At joint appearances they
appeared uncomfortable
and even occasionally
sparred. In one famous instance, Netanyahu lectured
Obama on the pitfalls of
Mideast peacemaking in
front of the TV cameras at a
White House meeting.
The lack of chemistry
seems rooted in vastly different world views. Obama
is a proponent of diplomacy and consensus, while
Netanyahu believes Israel
can trust no one and must
protect itself.
Netanyahu also enjoys
strong ties with U.S. Republicans. In 2012, he was
widely perceived to have
backed challenger Mitt
Romney.
And there has been constant friction over Netanyahu’s insistence on continuing to settle Jews on
occupied land even as he
negotiates with the Palestinians.
Last March, Obama traveled to Israel for a visit
widely seen as an attempt
to reboot relations. The two
leaders appeared together
at a series of events, smiling and sharing jokes. But
even then there were signs
of trouble. Obama urged
an audience of university
students to pressure Israeli leaders to change their
ways and take bold new
steps to reach peace with
the Palestinians.
Since then, officials on
both sides have stressed
the countries are close allies regardless of politics.
But the atmosphere gradually soured again as Obama
pressed forward with his
two major diplomatic initiatives.
Over the summer, Kerry
persuaded Israel and the
Palestinians to return to
the negotiating table for
the first time in nearly five
years. The sides agreed to
talk for nine months, with
an April target date for
reaching a peace deal.
To get talks going, Palestinians dropped a longstanding demand for an
Israeli freeze on settlement
construction in the West
Bank and east Jerusalem,
captured territories that
the Palestinians claim for
a future state. To get Palestinians back to talks, Israel
committed to releasing 104
long-serving
Palestinian
prisoners. The U.S. also apparently gave vague assurances settlement construction would be restrained.
With negotiations making no visible progress, Israel’s release of a second
round of Palestinian prisoners two weeks ago — all
jailed for killing Israelis —
set off an uproar. Netanyahu followed the release by
announcing plans to build
thousands of settler homes,
infuriating the Palestinians, the Americans and
also the moderate camp in
Israel itself.
In surprisingly blunt
comments, Kerry told Israel’s Channel 2 TV on Thursday that Israel faced the
possibility of international
isolation and renewed violence with the Palestinians
if peace efforts failed. He
also said the continued settlement construction raised
questions about Israel’s
commitment to peace.
“How can you say, ‘We’re
planning to build in the
place that will eventually
be Palestine?’” Kerry said.
“It sends a message that
somehow perhaps you’re
not really serious.”
Netanyahu
responded
the next morning ahead of
a meeting with Kerry. “No
amount of pressure will
make me or the government of Israel compromise
on the basic security and
national interests of the
State of Israel,” the visibly
agitated premier said.
Netanyahu also slammed
the emerging agreement
with Iran.
“Iran got the deal of the
century, and the international community got a bad
deal,” he said. “This is a
very bad deal and Israel utterly rejects it.”
He warned that Israel is
“not obliged” to honor the
agreement and would do
“everything it needs to do
to defend itself.” Following
a tense meeting stretching more than two hours,
a planned joint appearance
with Kerry and Netanyahu
to the media was canceled.
While negotiators in Geneva hammered out details
Saturday, the discussed
deal appeared to include
some relief from painful
economic sanctions in exchange for limits on Iranian nuclear activity. However, chances of a deal being
struck looked slim late Saturday.
—AP
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November 1963 on display around the county:
■ The eternal flame
was recently returned
to its spot at Kennedy’s
gravesite in Arlington
National Cemetery in Virginia after months of repairs and upgrades. The
flame was on a temporary
burner in the cemetery
visible to tourists during
the project.
■ The limousine the
Kennedys were riding in
when the president was
fatally shot in Dallas is at
the Henry Ford Museum
in Dearborn, Mich.
■ The flag that draped
the president’s coffin and
the saddle, sword and
boots from the “riderless
horse” in his funeral procession are among the artifacts being exhibited for
the first time starting Nov.
22 at the Kennedy Library
in Boston.
■ A drum and drumsticks from his funeral are
among items on display at
the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American
History in Washington.
■ The Texas School
Book Depository from
where Lee Harvey Oswald
fired the fatal shots houses the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.
■ The suit worn by Texas Gov. John Connally,
which has bullet holes
and blood stains from the
shooting that also seriously wounded him as he rode
in the limo, recently went
on display at the Lorenzo
de Zavala State Archives
and Library in Austin.
Oswald’s rifle and the
blood-stained pink suit
Jacqueline Kennedy wore
that day are not on display.
They are among assassination-related items and
documents kept by the
National Archives and Records Administration.
Kennedy library spokeswoman Rachel Flor said
the whereabouts of Mrs.
Kennedy’s hat aren’t
known, while the outfit worn by the late John
Kennedy Jr. when the toddler saluted his father’s
funeral procession has remained with the Kennedy
family.
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