| Bush invites Dems for a meeting, not a negotiation on war spending
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said Tuesday he wants to talk with Democrats about the standoff over war funding, but made it clear he will not embrace any timetable for a U.S. troop withdrawal. Democrats questioned the point of a meeting if the president won't negotiate. "We can discuss the way forward on a bill that is a clean bill -- a bill that funds our troops without artificial timetables for withdrawal, and without handcuffing our generals on the ground," Bush said in a speech to an American Legion audience in nearby Fairfax, Va. On one hand, Bush extended an offer to meet with lawmakers next Tuesday. On the other, the White House bluntly said it would not be a negotiating session. The president said if lawmakers don't send him a bill he will sign -- one that does not include timetables or money for pet projects in their home districts -- it would be Congress, not the White House, that will have to answer to troops.
6 Executive Committee Members Booted Out
Six Executive Committee members were over the weekend booted out of the Executive Committee of the Liberia Football Association (LFA) at an extraordinary of that body held at the YMCA in Monrovia.
Those thrown out of the LFA Executive Committee are Premiership representatives, Rodney Wilson and Mustapha Raji, 1st division representatives, Kadiattu Findley and Peter Kabia, 2nd division representatives, Abayomie Caulcrick and Uriah Glaybo.
The extraordinary, which came about due to the mediation of the Liberia national Olympic Committee was one of heavy tension and argument.
Serving as Master of Ceremony, the Secretary General of the LFA began activities with roll call, taking due note of absentees.
The first tension erupted when the Chairman on Women Soccer, Mr.
Panel rules Landis' urine samples can be tested again
Embattled Tour de France winner Floyd Landis' bid to clear his name of doping allegations was dealt a setback when an arbitration panel ruled that officials could re-test seven urine samples. In a release issued through New York spokesperson Michael Henson, Landis confirmed that the the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), which is prosecuting the case against him, will conduct tests on urine samples that had already been declared clean. Furthermore, Landis is angered that the new tests are to be carried out at the French laboratory that processed his original -- and disputed -- positive test. Landis has charged the Labaratoire National Depistage de Dopage's (LNDD) at Chatenay-Malabry with mishandling his original samples. "Putting aside the fact that the retesting shows just how far USADA will go in breaking its own rules to support its `win at all costs' mentality, I'm amazed that they insist on having the LNDD test these samples," said Landis, who would prefer the samples to be tested at an accredited laboratory at the University of California Los Angeles.
HILL HAS DIFFICULT NEGOTIATION
There are some jobs you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. Joke writer for Vladimir Putin, say, or literary agent for O.J. Simpson. But it would be hard to find a more onerous assignment than the one inflicted on Christopher Hill: chief U.S. negotiator with North Korea. -Reason Magazine
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Steelworkers sign off on Goodyear contract
The contract was approved by 78percent of the members of Local 959 of the United Steelworkers of America, said Darryl Jackson, president of the group. Union and non-union workers will be subject to the terms of the agreement until 2009, when the contract comes up for re-negotiation. Under the terms, Goodyear will close down for one week during the summer each year while workers take a mandatory vacation. In addition, the plant will go to an around-the-clock schedule, although it isn’t clear when that will happen. Jackson, earlier this week, said it would likely begin in late spring or early summer. Among other issues addressed in the contract were scheduling, hiring and vacation time. Wages and benefits were not subject to negotiations since they were handled in the master contract, which was approved in December.
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