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member, oil-rich Venezuelajoined current Mercosurmembers Argentina, Brazil,Uru guay and Paraguay,which was suspended fromthe group late last month untilnew elections following theouster of its president Fer-nando Lugo.

BRASILIA (AFP) - After asix-year wait, Venezuela waswelcomed here yesterday asa full member of Mercosur,turning the regional tradingbloc into the world's fifthlargest economy as well as afood and energy giant.

Until now an associate

It is an annual Aruban ritual, abadge of honor and courage, as207 young island graduatesboarded the special KLM char-tered plane yesterday takingthem to Holland to attend uni-versities and technical schoolsscattered throughout theNetherlands.

The façade of Reina BeatrixInternational Airport wasmobbed with much more thanstudents, as family and friendscome to wish the youngsterswell as they travel over 6000miles from their home island tostudy; many are leaving Arubaand the family nest for the veryfirst time, and it shows.

Continued on page 3

Bittersweet goodbyes for island youth

off to Holland and higher learning

This hungry chipmunk must be a real health nut, as itappears to be reading through the list of ingredients ona breakfast bar wrapper before tucking in.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Just to be sure!

Bittersweet Goodbyes

Morning News contest winner Felipe Cardona is off toschool

Tearful hugs

Venezuela welcomed as full

member of Mercosur trading bloc

the live images will showstaff at mission control atNASA's Jet Propulsion Lab-oratory in California as theyawait the signal that the rovertouched down.

The images will be on theToshiba Vision screen, lo-cated just below the world-fa-mous New Year's Eve ball inTimes Square.

"In the city that neversleeps, the historic TimesSquare will be the place forNew Yorkers to participate inthis historic landing," saidJohn Grunsfeld, associate ad-ministrator for NASA's Sci-ence Mission Directorate.

"When you think of all thebig news events in history,you think of Times Square,and I can think of no bettervenue to celebrate this news-making event on Mars."

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Thehighly anticipated landing ofNASA's sophisticated $2.5billion rover on Mars will bebroadcast on a large screen inNew York City's TimesSquare, NASA said yester-day.

The touchdown of the Cu-riosity rover, equipped with asophisticated roving toolkitfor analyzing the terrain forsigns that microbial life onceexisted, is scheduled for Au-gust 6 at 1:31 am Easterntime.

A rocket-powered skycrane aims to lower the car-sized vehicle on to the sur-face of the red planet so it canembark on a two-year sciencemission.

Viewers will not be able tosee real-time video of thelanding -- no one will -- but

son congratulated both associ-ated for their promotion andhanded them their decree.

Also present during the fes-tive occasion were the ladiesrespective department chiefs.

Photo depicts Police ChiefRichardson flanked by, at left,Mrs. Mathilda and, at right,Mrs. Vrolijk, and other col-leagues.

Information Office of the Op-erations Department and nowshe is promoted to a higherrank within that same depart-ment.

Mrs. Rosa E. Vrolijk worksas telephone operator at theOperations Department at theNoord precinct, and she alsowas promoted to a higher rank.

Police Chief Mr. Richard-

Recently, Chief of the ArubaPolice Force invited two ad-ministrative employees, Mrs.Isolda U. Mathilda and Mrs.Rosa E. Vrolijk, to a pleasanthappening at the police officesin Macaurima.

Mrs. Isolda U. Mathildaworks in the “Bureau Docu-mentatie & Informatie voor -iening” - Documentation &

Aruba Police Force promotes two

administrative department associates

committee to contact are:Carina Tromp van de Poel

at 594-6869, Adelita Erasmusat 593-1552, Glenda Hoek at743-3344, Patricia Tromp at745-5083, or Astrid Simon at564-5175. Or, send an emailto: [email protected].

All ALM’ers are encour-aged to be sure to attend thisspectacular get togetherscheduled for August 25th2012 from 12:30pm at thePalm Island in Aruba.

everyone who worked forALM Aruba in any capacity.

Apparently there is a greatdeal of interest among formeremployees for this upcomingreunion to be held here onAruba. INSEL AIR, report-edly is contributing to theevent by offering to fly in anyformer ALM employee fromabroad for a reduced fair.

Tropicana Aruba Resort &Casino is offering a specialroom rate, while Payless CarRental is also cooperatingwith a reduced car rental rate.The organizers have reportedthat several local businesseshave contributed with cashdonations to help keep thecosts down and to make thismassive reunion possible.Other businesses have con-tributed with special doorprizes and gifts.

All former ALM employ-ees are encouraged to contacta member of the committeeas soon as possible for furtherinformation. Members of the

ORANJESTAD -- FormerALM Aruba employees haveplanned a special reunionwith the intention of spend-ing an entire afternoon from12:30 midday until sunset atthe Palm Island which is ex-pected to end with a festivesunset dansant.

They plan on enjoying allthe facilities of the Palm Is-land, enjoyable conversationwith the pleasant tunes ofDJ’s which will culminate inenjoying the beautiful settingof the sun while dancing tothe music of a popular localband.

The planning committeeconsists of a few ex cabinpersonnel of ALM AUA. Thegoal of this reunion, they in-dicate, is to meet again and toreminisce about the wonder-ful times back then withALM.

One special feature of thisyear’s reunion is that not onlyhave they invited ex cabinpersonnel and ex pilots, but

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First reunion of former ALM Aruba staff New York's Times Square

to broadcast Mars landing

through the immigrationcheck, for a final glance backbefore they were gone fromsight.

THE MORNING NEWSwishes all the new universitystudents every success in Hol-land and may they have a won-derful time discovering the bigwide world and advancingtheir education, beyond dis-covering Dutch beer on draft!

by Rosalie Klein

very own. This is where thetears begin in earnest, mixedwith hopeful smiles and fer-vent hugs.

Any parent who has experi-enced the landmark moment ofwatching their child make thatgiant leap into adulthood,going off to study and live ontheir own, far from their lovingand watchful eye, understands.It is a wonderful and exciting,but painful moment; thoughmany a child and parent triedto “tough it out,” they almostalways broke down at that finalparting, lingering to watchtheir baby walk all the way

Most maintained brave facesuntil the moment of truth,when the youngsters mustleave the parents at the barrierand walk to the gate on their


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One student gets goodbyes from a huge collection of fam-ily and friends

Off to school for scholasticsuperstar Marifer Aguirre

familes and friend say farewell

Standing by to revive prostrate parents

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day August 12 will constitutea series of 5 races. The resultsof these races will decide therankings of the regatta compe-tition. For sunfish and beachcat par ticipants a series of 7races will be decisive for theclassification. The competi-tion in the windsurfing andkite surfing classes will beorga nized according to theweather conditions.

All events and races takeplace at Eagle Beach, one ofthe largest and most beautifulbeaches of Aruba. This re-gatta will surely be an eventyou shouldn’t miss! Mostparticipants are alreadypreparing for the races and anumber of international com-petitors have already con-firmed their parti cipation inthe races. You can pre-regis-ter for the races via our con-tact form or call (+)2975656887.

Visit www.aruba-regatta.com for more information.

the Aruba Beach TennisRanking Tournament.

The success of last year’sevent, having over 200 peopleparticipating in the differentcompetitions, inspired the or-ganization to make this year’sedition even better and bigger.A regatta village will be builton Eagle Beach where CaféRembrandt will ensure enter-tainment, music, food andbeverage and a spectacularview on the races. The ArubaRembrandt Regatta is not onlyan event for the participants inthe yacht races: the regatta vil-lage is a gathering point forpeople who want to enjoy aview of the races, have a re-laxed afternoon on the beachor, of course, are looking for abeach party.

The traditional ‘AroundAruba Race’ will be sailed onFriday August 10. Yachts thatprefer not to race can also joinfor a fun-rally. Yacht races onSaturday August 11 and Sun-

This year on August 10, 11and 12 the fourth ArubaRembrandt Regatta will takeplace on Aruba. Three daysof action and competition foryachts, beach cats, sunfishes,optimists, windsurfers andkite surfers; three evenings ofmusic and parties for allparti cipants and spectators.

After three successful edi-tions, the organization of theAruba Rembrandt Regatta hasdecided to step up to a nextlevel. With the support ofBudget Marine, an overall cuphas been installed for the win-ner in the most competitiveclass. Line honors of theAround Aruba race will behonored with a barrel of Rum.For the youngest sailors therewill be optimist races, for themore athletically inspiredswimming and running com-petitions will be organized.For those who do not sail,Aruba Beach Tennis will setup 14 beach tennis courts for

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at the University of Maastrichtguided Mr. Chun’s thesis andserved as member of the exa -mination committee.

Other members of the ex-aminations committee wereDr. V.V. R van Bogaert andC.L. Milliard. Dean of the fa -culty of law of the Universityof Aruba, C. Bollen, who ledthe graduation ceremony, re-ported that Chun’s final gradefor his thesis was a 91/2 (A).

Upon hearing his finalgrade, the audience of friendsand family of Chun erupted inloud applause.

Chun was handed his de-gree by C. Bollen in the pres-ence of other faculty members,family members and friends.

Young studentZngo Chun has be-come the first CumLaude graduate ofthe University ofAruba. Chun beganhis studies inAruban Law in thefaculty of justice in2008 and threeyears later in 2011he obtained hisbachelor’s degreecum laude.

Chun then enrolled in theMaster’s program. Chun’s the-sis for the masters degree wascaptioned “Het Nederland-schap na Rottman. Over degevolgen van Janko Rottman v.Freistaat Bayeron voor de ver-liesbepalingen van de Rijkswetop het Nederlandschap.”

(Free translation: TheDutch nationality afterRottman. Concerning the con-sequences for Janko Rottmanv. Freistaat Bayeron and theloss provisions of the DutchAct on the Dutch Nationality.)

Professor G.R. Groot, pro-fessor of “Privaatrecht” at theUniversity of Aruba and pro-fessor of Comparative Lawand Private International Law

First student to graduateCum Laude fromUniversity of Aruba

Preparing for the fourth international

Aruba Rembrandt Regatta

in the Centro di Barrio PlayaPabao.

All proceeds from the pro-gram will be given to “Funda-cion Sonrisa” for our specialchildren.

For more information andto register, please contact Mr.Gino Goeloe at the White Yel-low Cross at Tel.582-4444 orcall Benny Richardson of Vi-tality Health Studio at Cel.593-7714.

The idea for his 10days program came asa result of his concernfor the wrong infor-mation that bothyoung people andadults have aboutphysical movement.Accor ding to Benny,movement must con-tain favorable condi-tions for youth andadults which consistof condition andstrength, and an ac-ceptable mindset forthe required disciplineto consider the train-ing something serious.

During this pro-gram, Aruba will havethe opportunity to re-ceive valuable infor-mation regardinghealth and wellness. The pro-gram will include doctors andathletes who participated in in-ternational Pan-American,Central-American andOlympic games.

Several local experts willtalk about our local medicinalplants. The program is sche -duled to begin August 1st andwill last ten days to August10th. Each session will be held

In connection with the 75thbirthday celebration of CoachBenny Richardson, he hasplanned a 10 days program forthe Aruban community. Bennyis well known for his fitnessprograms, he is a 7 Dan Phys-ical Educator. He gives physi-cal preparation for swimming,basketball, bodybuilding, etc.

Benny is especially wellknown for his years of basket-ball training at Aruba Ju niors,the YMCA Dakota and for thelast 12 years he has been thetrainer for the Estrella Basket-ball team. In 1999 and in 2005Benny was the trainer of theDutch Kingdom Games Bas-ketball team. And, in 2002 hewas trainer for the CentralAmerican Caribbean Gamesheld in Sint Thomas.

For the past 20 years BennyRichardson has been trainingthe Aruban public in aerobics.Both young people and olderfolks have been getting train-ing from him at the Centro diBarrio Playa Pabao. Just re-cently, on April 27, 2012,Benny Richardson was deco-rated by the Dutch Queen as“lid van Oranje Nassau” for hisvoluntary work for the com-munity.


Benny Richardson presents healthyliving 10-day program

month of April 2012 has alsoseen an increase with threemore ships calling. In April2011, 30 cruise ships calledin Aruba’s ports while inApril 2012, 33 cruise linerscalled here.

Aruba can be proud of theefforts of everyone involvedin the tourism industry whoare working diligently tokeep our tourism flourishingas it is

ORANJESTAD -- Aruba’sCentral Bank has recently re-leased their report for April2012 in which they show thatthe amount of visitors arriv-ing by cruise ships to the is-land have grown by 25.8% inthe month of April comparedto April of 2011. The amountof visitors arriving by cruiseships for 2012 thus far is awhopping 69.852.

The number of cruiseships to call on Aruba in the

Significant CruiseTourism increase

in April 2012

"most disturbing manifesta-tion" of this was a failed plotusing contacts with a Mexi-can drug cartel to assassinatethe Saudi ambassador to theUS.

The report called out thegovernment of VenezuelanPresident Hugo Chavez formaintaining "its economic, fi-nancial, and diplomatic coop-eration with Iran as well aslimited military related agree-ments."

Growing antagonism be-tween Washington and Cara-cas in 2010 led both countriesto withdraw their ambassa-dors.

But the report commendedMexico for remaining "vigi-lant against domestic and in-ternational terrorist threats,"including by cooperating onthe sting operation that foiledthe Saudi ambassador assas-sination plot.

eral, Eric Holder."The ATF wasted time,

money and resources on wire-taps and put agents in harm'sway trying to learn about thelinks that other agencies hadalready made," said Republi-can Senator Chuck Grassley, amember of the committee.

"The ATF clearly needs toclean up its act, and the De-partment of Justice needs tomake certain this kind of pro-gram is never allowed to hap-pen again. It's a classic case ofgovernment agencies' failureto connect the dots."

The committee's 2,359 pagereport, titled "Fast and Furious:The Anatomy of a Failed Oper-ation, Part I of III," also lam-basted government officialswho failed but were not firedand have since refused to testify.

"The two men most closelyidentified with the failed strat-egy of the case and who bearthe brunt of responsibility forsupervising the operation on aday-to-day basis ... have bothkept their jobs at ATF," the re-port said.

Attorney General Holder re-fused to hand over records re-lating to Fast and Furious toCongress and last week law-makers took the unprecedenteddecision to hold him in con-tempt, but the Justice Depart-ment declined to prosecute him.

bacco, Firearms and Explosives(ATF), which led the disastrous"Operation Fast and Furious,"must be reined in, RepublicanCongressman Darrell Issa said.

"ATF and the Arizona USAttorney's Office failed to con-sider and protect the safety ofAmericans, Mexicans and fel-low personnel," said Issa,chairman of the House Over-sight and Government ReformCommittee.

"Though they are amongthe most vocal objectors tooversight by Congress, this in-vestigation has also shown thatboth agencies are among thosemost in need of additionalscrutiny and attention fromCongress," he added.

The "Fast and Furious" pro-gram allowed people linked todrug gangs to buy automaticweapons in US in a bid to tractthem back and identify traf-ficking routes, but the stingbackfired and officials losttrack of many of the guns.

The operation ran betweenNovember 2009 and the end of2010 and it saw some 2,000weapons pass into Mexico.

The scheme caused uproarin Mexico, where drug-relatedviolence has left 50,000 dead inthe past six years, and prompteda Republican onslaught againstDemocratic President BarackObama and his attorney gen-

WASHINGTON (AFP) - USlawmakers called for moreoversight of the Justice Depart-ment and federal agencies yes-terday, in a scathing report thatslammed officials involved ina botched program to trackguns into Mexico.

The Justice Department andthe Bureau of Alcohol, To-

day to gather information andas a result, the NTSB said ithad decided to conduct an in-vestigation.

Shares in Dow memberBoeing were down almost 1.0percent in afternoon trade inNew York.

The incident was the latesttrouble for the US aerospacegiant's much-delayed 787, anew fuel-efficient plane mademainly of composite materials.

tions.There were no passengers

aboard the aircraft nor werethere any fatalities or injuries,the NTSB said.

According to the agency, itwas notified by Boeing andGE on Saturday that that aBoeing 787 experienced an en-gine failure during a pre-deli -very taxi test.

An NTSB aviation investi-gator arrived on the scene Sun-

WASHINGTON (AFP) - USsafety regulators announcedyesterday an investigation intoan engine failure on a Boeing787 Dreamliner during testinglast weekend in South Car-olina.

Boeing revealed Sundaythere had been an "engineissue" in runway testing, andsaid it was "working closely"with the National Transporta-tion Safety Board on the mat-ter.

The NTSB, in a statementyesterday, said it was "investi-gating an engine failure thatoccurred on a Boeing 787Dreamliner during a taxi test inCharleston."

NTSB said it would sendaircraft powerplants expert anda metallurgist to a GE facilityin Cincinnati, Ohio, to disman-tle the engine.

The Federal Aviation Ad-ministration, Boeing and Gen-eral Electric, the engine manu -facturer, are participating inthe investigation, it said.

The debris-spewing enginereportedly caused a brush fireat the Charleston InternationalAirport that disrupted opera-

US regulator probes Boeing 787engine failure

Additionally, the USfound "deficiencies" inCuba's efforts to uphold inter-national standards for com-bating money laundering andthe financing of terroristgroups.

However, there was no ev-idence Cuba gave weapons orparamilitary training to mili-tants, and press reports indi-cated the Castro regime wastrying to distance itself fromthe Basque separatists livingthere, the department said.

Havana has routinely dis-missed the accusations invol -ving the FARC and ETAmembers lobbed by theWashington in its yearly re-port.

North Korea was removedfrom the US list in 2008.

The US also noted Iran"sought to expand its activi-ties in the Western Hemi-sphere," adding that the

WASHINGTON (AFP) - TheUnited States kept Cuba on ablack list of alleged statesponsors of terrorism for the30th year running, the StateDepartment said yesterday inan annual report.

The Americas' only one-party communist regime isone of four countries perenni-ally on the black list -- alongwith Iran, Sudan and Syria --a distinction that comes withstiff trade sanctions, includ-ing blocks from receiving fi-nancial assistance from theUS.

The report accused Cubaof harboring members of ille-gal armed groups, includingBasque separatist group ETAand Colombian leftist mili-tants FARC, as well as fugi-tives wanted in US courts.The US designates bothFARC and ETA as terroristgroups.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

This World War II era US Air Force photo shows a Con-solidated PBY-5A Catalina seaplane in flight. The re-mains and personal belongings of five American airmenhave been recovered from the wreck of a US Air Forceplane, almost 70 years after it sank in Canadian waters,a diplomat said yesterday. The amphibious plane wasaccidentally discovered by underwater archeologists inthe Gulf of Saint Lawrence in 2009 and a 50-person USmilitary team was sent earlier this month to search forthe remains of the crash victims. They found the aircraftresting upside down in pitch black, frigid waters, about40 meters (131 feet) down, two kilometers (1.2 miles) offthe coast of Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, Quebec, said USConsul General Peter O'Donohue. The plane was basedat Presque Isle, Maine, in the United States, and it serv-iced an airfield in Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, about 1,000kilometers (620 miles) northeast of Montreal. Nine peo-ple were on board when the aircraft went down but fourcrew members escaped the flooding plane and were res-cued by local fishermen rowing out from shore in openboats in rough seas. The five others perished, trappedinside. (AFP PHOTO)

US keeps Cuba on its terror black list

US agents rapped over botched

Mexico gun op

against any attack launchedwithout US consent, he said:"In a democracy, only the po-litical leaders decide, and themilitary executes."

He recalled that then primeminister Menachem Begin hadgiven the green light in 1981for an air strike against a nu-clear plant in Iraq "despite theopposition at the time of thechiefs of the Mossad and mili-tary intelligence."

"Political leaders have amore global vision and it isthey who bear supreme re-sponsibility," Netanyahu saidin another interview with pri-vate television Channel 10.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - IsraeliPrime Minister Benjamin Ne-tanyahu said yesterday that hehad not yet made any decisionabout a possible attack againstIran but reaffirmed his coun-try's right to defend itself.

But the prime minister reaf-firmed "the right of Israel todefend against any threat to itssecurity and existence."

"Israel's fate depends solelyon us and no other country,however friendly," he said, inreference to the United States.

Asked about reports that thearmy, the Mossad intelligenceagency, and the Shin Bet inter-nal security service were

testifying in my favour," hesaid. "I am not afraid to die butif you execute me after such atrial you should just call itmurder."

His international lawyerMelinda Taylor and four ICCstaff members were freed ear-lier this month after being heldin Libya four almost fourweeks while visiting Seif onbehalf of the court.

Taylor said after her releasethat she believed it would be"impossible" for Seif to betried in an independent and im-partial manner in Libyancourts.

Zintan since his November inthe wake of the uprising thattoppled Kadhafi after morethan 40 years in power.

The ICC and the Libyangovernment are locked in adispute over where Seif shouldbe tried.

"I would have liked to havebeen tried in Libya by Libyanjudges under Libyan law infront of the Libyan people,"Seif was quoted as saying inthe document, issued after ICClawyers visited him last month.

"There will also be no truthif witnesses are faced with pos-sible life sentences for simply

THE HAGUE (AFP) - SlainLibyan dictator Moamer Kad-hafi's second son Seif al-IslamMuammar al-Gaddafi believeshe should be tried before theInternational Criminal Court ifjustice is to be served, hislawyers said yesterday.

"The only way for Libyaand the Libyan people to havejustice is for the ICC to try thiscase in a fair, impartial and in-dependent manner," he wasquoted as saying in a defencedocument submitted to thecourt.

The Hague-based ICC hasissued warrants against bothSeif and his late father's spy-master, Abdullah Senussi, forcrimes against humanity com-mitted while trying to putdown last year's bloody revolt.

Seif has been in custody inthe southern Libyan town of


INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Netanyahu says no decision

yet on Iran attack

AFP photo shows medical charity Medecins Sans Fron-tieres treating a suspected Ebola patient. Uganda’s pres-ident yesterfay banned all physical contact after a victimof a deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus was reported inthe capital Kampala for the first time.

Passengers sit on a platform for their train to arrive as they wait for electricity to be re-stored at a railway station in New Delhi July 31, 2012. Grid failure hit India for a secondday yesterday, cutting power to hundreds of millions of people in the populous north-ern and eastern states including the capital Delhi and major cities such as Kolkata.Stretching from Assam, near China, to the Himalayas and the northwestern deserts ofRajasthan, the outage was the worst to hit India in more than a decade and embar-rassed the government, which has failed to build up enough power capacity to meetsoaring demand.

Kadhafi son pleads for ICC trial

With more than 48,000 panels and 94,000 names, theAIDS quilt is a constantly growing testament to thedeadly toll the disease has taken on the world. At roughly1.3 million square feet, it is so large that it can’t be dis-played in its entirety in one place. Parts of it are currentlyon display at the National Mall, with volunteers con-stantly switching sections in and out. According to theAIDS Memorial Quilt Website, “The quilt was conceivedin November of 1985 by long-time San Francisco gayrights activist Cleve Jones.” While planning a march tohonor assassinated San Francisco Supervisor HarveyMilk and Mayor George Moscone, Jones learned thatover 1,000 San Franciscans had died of AIDS. He askedmarchers to write the names of loved ones who had losttheir lives to the disease on placards and paste them onthe wall of the San Francisco Federal Building. The re-sulting wall ended up looking like a quilt, giving rise tothe idea. ”A little over a year later, he created the firstpanel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt in memory of his friendMarvin Feldman.”

only in the strictest contain-ment conditions.

People have contracted thevirus after handling infectedchimpanzees, gorillas, mon-keys, forest antelope and por-cupines, dead or alive, in theIvory Coast, Congo andGabon.

Named after a small river inDR Congo, the virus killed 37people in western Uganda in2007 and at least 170 in thenorth of the country in 2000.

The only approach for themoment is to isolate patientsand promptly bury the dead,said the WHO.

Hospital staff should usegloves, masks and goggles,and disinfect religiously.

The virus's natural reservoiranimal, possibly the bat, is be-lieved to reside in rain forestsin Africa and areas of theWestern Pacific.

is containable because it killsits victims faster than it canspread to new ones.

The incubation period be-tween exposure and the firstsymptoms varies from two to21 days.

There are five species of thevirus, of which three are par-ticularly dangerous with fatal-ity rates from 25 to 90 percent,according to the WHO.

It is transmitted throughcontact with the blood, bodyfluids, secretions or organs ofan infected person.

The virus has been knownto spread at burials wheremourners touch the body, butdoctors and nurses have alsofallen ill after failing to takeadequate precautions.

Even testing blood speci-mens for the disease presents"an extreme biohazard risk",states the WHO, and is done

PARIS (AFP) - The Ebolavirus plaguing Uganda is oneof the deadliest known to man,claiming the lives of two-thirdsof the people it has infected sofar, according to the WorldHealth Organisation (WHO).

The tropical virus can fell itsvictims within days, causingsevere fever and muscle pain,weakness, vomiting and diar-rhoea -- in some cases shuttingdown organs and causing un-stoppable bleeding.No medicine or vaccine ex-

ists.

Of about 1,850 people diag-nosed with Ebola haemor-rhagic fever since the viruswas first identified 36 yearsago in the Democratic Repub-lic of Congo (then Zaire),1,200 have died, the UNhealth agency says.

Experts say the virus, de-spite being extremely virulent,

Ebola: profile of a prolific killer


Health & Living

Polonium is a highly toxicsubstance which is rarelyfound outside military and sci-entific circles, and was used tokill former Russian spy turnedKremlin critic AlexanderLitvinenko, who died in 2006shortly after drinking tea lacedwith the poison.

Suha Arafat has said shebacks exhuming her late hus-band's remains from his mau-soleum in the West Bank townof Ramallah.

Arafat, who led the strugglefor Palestinian statehood fornearly four decades, died in aFrench military hospital afterbeing airlifted there for treat-ment from his Ramallah head-quarters.

At the time of his death,Palestinian officials alleged hehad been poisoned by long-time foe Israel, but an incon-clusive Palestinianinvestigation in 2005 ruled outpoisoning, as well as cancerand AIDS.

PARIS (AFP) - The widowand daughter of Yasser Arafaton Tuesday launched legal ac-tion in France over claims thatthe veteran Palestinian leaderdied of radioactive poloniumpoisoning, their lawyer said.

Suha and Zawra Arafatlodged a civil suit for murderagainst persons unknown withinvestigating magistrates inthe Paris suburb of Nanterre,said lawyer Pierre-Olivier Sur.

Yasser Arafat died at a mil-itary hospital near Paris in2004.

Allegations that the NobelPeace Prize laureate was poi-soned were resurrected earlierthis month after Al-Jazeeranews channel broadcast an in-vestigation in which expertssaid they found high levels ofpolonium on his personal ef-fects.

Arafat's widow lodgeslegal suit over poisonclaim

showed indecent images ofthemselves.

Israeli news website Ynetsaid the suspects were agedfrom 20 to 57 and includedstudents, civil servants, a de-fence official and a former po-lice officer.

It said the undercover offi-cer was a young woman per-forming her mandatorynational service with the po-lice. Such service is usuallydone from age 18 to 20

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israelipolice said on Tuesday theyhad arrested more than 30 al-leged online paedophiles aftera three-month operation inwhich a young policewomanposed as a child in phone con-versations.

A police statement said thatthose arrested were suspectedof "possessing and distributingpaedophile material, attempt-ing to meet and meeting mi-nors, indecent acts andattempted statutory rape."

Speaking to Israeli armyradio, the unnamed police-woman said she had posed asa 12-year-old girl.

"In the conversations I madea point of saying that I'm veryyoung, that I'm shy," she said.

Police said the officer alsoposed as a young boy in hertalks with suspects.

She told the radio that maleofficers ran online chat ses-sions in which suspects

Israel police sting nets over30 online paedophiles

"Twitter is going to have tolearn the lesson that newspa-pers had to learn when theystarted accepting advertising:that when trust is your asset,you must run your service andyour business according toprinciples of trust," Jarviswrote on his "Buzz Machine"blog.

"Newspapers builtchurch/state walls to demon-strate that they could not bebought by sponsors' influence.Twitter needs that wall," hesaid.

Adams also said Twitterhad bowed to pressure fromthe broadcaster, claiming hehad not contravened theirrules.

NBC Sports later released astatement saying: "We filed acomplaint with Twitter be-cause a user tweeted the per-sonal information of one of ourexecutives," the London-basedIndependent said

MANILA (AFP) - Tens of thousands battled neck-deepfloods in the Philippines Tuesday as Typhoon Saola con-tinued to bring heavy rains, with the death toll from thestorm rising to eight, officials said. Heavy downpoursbattered parts of the country for the third day in a row,forcing the evacuation of more than 145,000 people, saidcivil defence chief Benito Ramos. He warned that the badweather would last for at least two more days as thefloods rose in coastal areas just outside Manila. Al-though Typhoon Saola did not directly hit the Philip-pines, its massive rain has slowed down as it movedaway, prolonging its effects over the northern portionsof the archipelago, said Ramos. Saola was headingslowly northward to Taiwan, packing maximum sus-tained winds of 120 kilometres (74 miles) an hour nearits centre, state weather bureau said. About 20 stormsslam into the Philippines from the Pacific every year,causing heavy casualties and damage. (photo shows aman collecting plastic and other recyclable materialsfrom debris in the waters of Manila Bay after tropicalstorm Saola)


SYDNEY (AFP) - A surferwas bitten by a shark in Aus-tralia on Tuesday before escap-ing to safety, police said.

South Australian police saidthe 48-year-old man was surf-ing at a beach at Streaky Bay,a town on the country's south-ern coast, in mid-afternoonwhen he was bitten on the armby a shark.

"The man has been taken toStreaky Bay hospital with non-life threatening injuries," po-lice said in a statement.

It is not known what kind ofshark was involved in the latest

attack but sharks are a commonfeature of Australian waters.

While fatal attacks are rare,experts say the average numberof attacks in Australia -- about15 a year, with at least onebeing fatal -- have increased inline with population growthand the popularity of watersports.

Earlier this month a 24-year-old surfer died after being bit-ten in half in a savage attacknorth of the Western Australiacapital Perth, the fifth such fa-tality in that region in less thana year.

Man injured in Australianshark attack

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(AFP) - Twitter has comeunder fire for its handling ofthe account of a British jour-nalist critical of US broad-caster NBC's Olympicscoverage, with their commer-cial ties under the spotlight.

Guy Adams, the Los Ange-les correspondent for The In-dependent newspaper, tweetedhis outrage over NBC's deci-sion to delay broadcasting Fri-day's opening ceremony inorder to catch the primetimeUS audience.

But he was suspended fromTwitter for publishing theemail account of a high-rank-ing NBC executive.

Twitter and NBC have whatthe companies say is a strate-gic, non-financial partnershipfor online content during theOlympics, but media analystssaid the fact that Twitter

alerted NBC of Adams's criti-cism had raised concerns.

"This is the inevitable re-sult of what happens when wesafeguard our free-speech pro-tections to private corpora-tions," said Dan Kennedy, aNortheastern University jour-nalism professor who writes amedia blog.

"In the new interdependentmedia environment, your rightto speak and write freely ex-tends only as far as someoneelse's business interests,"Kennedy told AFP, question-ing whether Twitter had pro-vided impartial mediacoverage.

Jeff Jarvis, a City Univer-sity of New York journalismprofessor, made the same pointabout how journalists andcompanies should operate insocial media.

Twitter sparks concern overjournalist ban

Easy Ways to GoGreener at Home1. Switch all your lightbulbsto CFLs (or at least switch afew).2.Buy an in-e x p e n s i v er e u s a b l ewater bottle,and stopbuying plas-tic dispos-able bottles.3. Turn offlights whenyou leave the room.4. Don’t turn on lights at allfor as long as you can—open your curtains andenjoy natural light.5. Drive the speed limit, andcombine all your errandsfor the week in one trip.6. Turn off your computercompletely at night.7. Fix leaky faucets.8. Line dry your laundry.9. Unplug unused chargersand appliances.10. Collect rainwater/ washwater, and use it to wateryour houseplants and gar-den.

HONG KONG (AFP) - Scores ofendangered reptiles including tur-tles and a python that were smug-gled into Hong Kong will bereturned to their native Philippineson Wednesday, officials said.

A 22-year-old man is servinga six-week prison sentence forsmuggling the 105 reptiles intothe city packed in plastic contain-ers inside his checked-in luggageon June 14, the officials said.

The 39 Philippine pond tur-tles, 46 Southeast Asian box tur-tles, 19 Mindanao water monitorlizards and one reticulatedpython required specialist carebefore they could be shippedhome.

"Many of the animals whenthey arrived were underweightand dehydrated and so they re-quired treatment," KadoorieFarm and Botanic Garden headof fauna conservation Gary Ades

said.adding most of them had re-covered.

Trade in the reptiles is re-stricted under the Convention onInternational Trade in Endan-gered Species of Wild Fauna andFlora (CITES), although it islegal to keep them as pets inHong Kong.

"By returning these reptiles totheir native range, we can sustainpopulations in the wild,"Kadoorie Farm conservation of-ficer Paul Crow said.

Hong Kong endangeredspecies protection officer AlfredWong said the reptiles mostlikely would have entered the petmarket.

Trafficking in pond turtles ispunishable by a six-year prisonterm and a million-peso ($23,000)fine in the Philippines, but author-ities say they lack resources toproperly enforce the law.

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mond company, said in No-vember that it wanted to buythe additional holding fromSouth Africa's Oppenheimerfamily.

But the mining groupneeded Botswana, which ownsa 15 percent stake in De Beers,to forego its right to buy an-other 25 percent.

LONDON(AFP) - Global min-ing group Anglo Americansaid yesterday it will raise itsstake in the diamond companyDe Beers to 85 percent afterBotswana decided not to exer-cise pre-emptive rights.

Anglo American, which al-ready owns 45 percent of DeBeers, the world's leading dia-

ing cartels.The fees apply to all cross-

border transactions in the Eu-ropean Union and otherterritories integrated into thesingle market, as well as do-mestic purchases in Belgium,Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lux-emburg, Malta, the Nether-lands and Sweden.

"Visa's MIFs harm compe-tition between acquiringbanks, inflate the cost of pay-ment card acceptance for mer-chants and ultimately increaseconsumer prices," the state-ment said.

In May, the EU won courtbacking for similar findings ina related case against Master-Card.

Visa's credit and debit cardsaccount for some two-fifths ofall payment cards issued in Eu-rope. The total value of spend-ing in 2010 on cards in Europewas 1,800 billion euros, ac-cording to EU figures.

Visa Europe offered com-mitments to cap its debit cardMIFs at 0.20 percent, whichthe Commission made bindingin December 2010.

ident Barack Obama for theWhite House.

If Congress passes the re -solution, the funding wouldbe equivalent to the $1.047trillion level agreed to in the2011 Budget Control Act,above the $1.028 trillionwhich Republicans called forin House Budget Committeechairman Paul Ryan's pro-posal earlier this year.

The deal would removeone of the key elements ofunfinished congressionalbusiness that make up the"fiscal cliff," which includesdecisions on whether to ex-tend the Bush-era tax cutsand how to avoid some $109billion in domestic and mili-tary spending cuts set to kickin early next year if Congressdoes not act.

fect the country as soon as theelection is over and move onto do good things," he added."It puts this out of the way."

Reid said it was not possi-ble to draft the document andvote on it by the time Con-gress goes on its August re-cess on Friday, "but we've gotan agreement, we'll vote on itwhen we get back in Septem-ber."

He said the deal wasforged in a "spirit of compro-mise," a rare feat these dayson Capitol Hill where parti-san bickering has become thenorm among lawmakers.

The deal heads off whatcould have been an explosiveshowdown over the budget inthe run-up to the general elec-tion that will see RepublicanMitt Romney challenge Pres-

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Se -nate Majority Leader HarryReid announced a deal wasreached yesterday to keepfunding the US governmentthrough next March, avoidinga potential partisan shutdownfight ahead of November'selection.

Reid said the deal on theso-called continuing resolu-tion was reached betweenhimself, Republican Speakerof the House John Boehner,and President Barack Obama,and will allow operations tocontinue through the firstquarter of 2013.

"It will provide stabilityfor the coming months," Reidtold reporters.

"This is very good, be-cause we can resolve thesecritical issues that directly af-

Commission said it had sent a"supplementary statement ofobjections" -- opening a newchapter in a legal battle.

A statement said the Com-mission's "preliminary view"that these fees amount to a re-striction of competition be-tween banks and an infringe - ment of antitrust rules prohibit-

BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU anti-trust officials yesterdaystepped up a long-runningprobe into Visa credit-cardfees, fresh from a court victoryover debit-card fees which thecompany agreed to cap.

Visa charges retailers so-called multilateral interchangefees (MIFs), but the European


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A vendor prepares rolls of silk at her textile and fabricshop in Beijing, China. The International Monetary Fundsaid that China's economy will rebound in the secondhalf of this year to expand eight percent in 2012 as gov-ernment policies to spur growth take effect. (AFP)

GERMANY, Frankfurt am Main : An old door is marked"Still Occupied" at the Occupy Camp in front of the Eu-ropean Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt/Main, Germany,on July 31, 2012. As the mayor of Frankfurt said, thecamp of the anti-capitalism demonstrators had not beencleared yesterday, although the city had announced toremove it due to the hygienic conditions. Organisers ofthe camp, that exists since mid-October 2011, had an-nounced before that they would take legal action andoffer passive resistance to the camp's clearing.

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There are also tattoos paying

homage to non-sports ideals

and concepts doing the

rounds of the 2012 Games. A

few athletes, for example,

bear tattoos proclaiming re-

ligious beliefs - Jesus Christ

or Bible verses. Moldavian

boxer Vasilii Belous is a

good example - he has a tat-

too on his upper right arm

showing a cross, the Christ

and two angles, while

archery's recurve event com-

petitor Bradely Ellison of the

US has the tattoo of a Bible

verse on his hands.

The traditional Olympic tat-

too - the five interlocking

Olympic rings - has become

something of a craze over

the past few editions of the

Games.

If you’ve been watching

the Olympics in London,

you’ve probably noticed the

mass amounts of

Olympians, from all coun-

tries, sporting the olympian

rings as tattoos.

These tattoos has become

such an honor that parents

are willing to grant minors

permission to get it done.

The privilege of wearing

the rings has become a goal

tantamount to making the

team.

U.S.A.Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte

Canadian swimmer Brent Hayden’s


Honoring The Olympics with Tattoos of the olympics rings

American archer Khatuna Lorig of the U.S.

Brazil diver Cassius Ricardo Duran

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.Seafood main coursesrange from $14 for Catch ofthe Day Aruban Style to $18for shrimp and $20 for amixed seafood platter withshrimp, fish, squid, scallopsand mussels. Meat dishes suchas BBQ Chicken and Ribs orGrilled Tenderloin range from$12 to $16, each including achoice of 2 side dishes; allquite yummy and bargain-priced to boot!

The Queen’s is located onthe second level of PalmBeach Plaza, tucked into acozy corner at the front of themall. If you have a mind to trythe real deal in Aruban food,without a doubt, this is theway to truly eat like a local.They are open from 11:00 AMto 11:00 PM, daily, offering in-door and outdoor dining.Aside from an extensive menuthey also have daily specialsmade from whatever is in sea-son and Mama Luisa is in themood to prepare, so don’t for-get to ask about what isn’t onthe menu!

An elegant décor with abreezy terrace overlookingPalm Beach welcomes gueststo Varella Innocencia’s verypopular restaurant showcasingauthentic local cuisine: TheQueen’s.

They may have movedfrom Oranjestad to hipper newdigs in Palm Beach Plaza, butthe food and prices are strictlynative, which is what first wonthis charming eatery theirloyal clientele. Varella’s mom,Luisa, is still in the kitchen,conjuring up the deliciousdishes that have been in herfamily for generations, ac-knowledged on the menu withitems such as “Carni Stoba diMamachi”-“Grandma’s BeefStew,” and their ArawakSteak, along with local delica-cies like Keshi Yena -“FullCheese.” This is a tasty, fillingstew of chicken, with other in-gredients that are handy thatday, all incased in a thick skinof melted Gouda. It was verysatisfying and particularlymemorable paired with TheQueen’s garlic bread and veryspecial Pica, a mix of choppedonions and the famous localhot pepper, Madame Janette.Not overly spicy, it lends thatperfect bit of tang to this deli-ciously picturesque meal.

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Splitter sank a layup, Mar-quinhos Veira Sousa followedwith a 3-pointer and Nene Hi-lario of the NBA WashingtonWizards slammed in a dunk togive the South Americans asix-point cushion.

Joel Freeland got a basketon a goaltending call againstHilario but Splitter answeredwith a layup, then Deng wasfouled by Alex Garcia at-tempting a 3-point shot, send-ing Deng to the free throw linefor three crucial attempts.

Deng made only 1-of-3,trimming Brazil's lead to 65-60, but Huertas followed withtwo free throws to sealBritain's fate.

Their next chance comesThursday against reigning Eu-ropean champion Spain.

Britain seized a surprise 11-4 lead after a first quarter inwhich neither side found ashooting touch, the Brazilianshitting a miserable 2-of-20shots from the field in the pe-riod while the Olympic hostswere a woeful 4-of-15.

The game was deadlocked27-27 at half-time and stayedtight in the third quarter,Britain making 5-of-6 fromthe field to open the secondhalf while Brazil missed 5-of-7 free throws to open the thirdquarter.

Dan Clark hit a 3-pointerand Reinking followed with aninside jumper and a 3-pointerto put Britain ahead 51-50with 7:18 remaining, a wildcheer erupting from a selloutcrowd.

"We just have to learn howto play down the stretch a bitbetter and get a victory," Clarksaid. "The fans were great. Itdoesn't get much better."

Britain's Pops Mensah-Bonsu had 13 points and 12rebounds while Nate Reinkingadded 13 points and LuolDeng of the NBA ChicagoBulls 12 points, eight re-bounds and seven assists.

Two free throws by Splittergave Brazil a 56-51 lead, butback-to-back 3-pointers byDeng gave Britain a 57-56edge with 3:56 remaining andput the Olympic hosts withinreach of a stunning upset.


(AFP) - Unfancied Britain bat-tled Brazil to the verge of anOlympic men's basketballshocker on Tuesday beforefalling in the final seconds 67-62 in a round-robin matchup.

Tiago Splitter of the NBASan Antonio Spurs scored 21points and Marcelinho Huertasadded 13 points to lift Brazillevel with Spain and Russiaatop Group B at 2-0. Britainjoined China and Australia at0-2.

Brazilians hold off stubborn

Britain

Aruba’s Jemal LeGrand in the Men's 100 Freestyle at theLondon 2012 Olympics competetion.

Summer Olympics:

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Marit Bouwmeester of Netherlands competes in theLaser Radial Women's Sailing on Day 3 of the London2012 Olympic Games at Weymouth Harbour on July 30,2012 in Weymouth, England.

LONDON (AFP) - The United States won the Olympic women's team gymnastics final on Tuesday to claim their firstgold medal in the event since the 'Magnificent Seven' triumphed at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Russia, runners-up tothe US at last year's World Championships, finished second, with European champions Romania pipping 2008Olympic champions China to the bronze medal. The United States had dominated in qualifying on Sunday butunlike their male counterparts, who finished a disappointing fifth in Monday's men's final, they reproduced thesame high performance level when it mattered. Their winning score of 183.596 points was even more handsomethan their qualifying tally and gave them a comfortable advantage of 5.066 points over the Russians, some of whomwere reduced to tears. Victory was particularly sweet for Jordyn Wieber, who lost out on a place in the individualall-around final to team-mate Alexandra Raisman but played a key role in Tuesday's triumph. (photos - AlexandraRaisman, Jordyn Wieber, Mc Kayla Maroney and Kyla Ross of the United States celebrate during the final rotationin the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Team final on Day 4 and Jordien Wieber during Sunday's all-around qualifier)

GB’s Luol Deng jumps to score against Brazil in the Bas-ketball Arena

LONDON (AFP) - South Africa's Chad le Clos cried tearsof joy after ending Michael Phelps' 200m butterfly reignat the Olympics Tuesday. Le Clos, third at the final turn,relentlessly tracked in Phelps and pipped him with a last-gasp surge to take the win in 1min 52.96sec. Phelps, whohad led at every turn in a quest to become the first manto win the same Olympic swimming event at three suc-cessive Games, was just five-hundredths of a secondback in 1:53.01. Phelps' silver medal took him level withSoviet gymnast Larisa Latynina as the most decoratedOlympic athlete of all-time . It was an emotional visit tothe podium for 20-year-old Le Clos, who is also the Com-monwealth Games champion in the event. Tears welledin his eyes as the South African national anthem wasplayed as he stood beside his long-time hero Phelps andJapanese bronze medallist Takeshi Matsuda. It was SouthAfrica's second gold medal in the pool after Cameron vander Burgh's win in the 100m breaststroke. "This is adream of mine, I have always said Michael Phelps was myhero," le Clos said. "I remember turning in the last 50 andjust looking at him underwater and realising this is myhero, it's crazy. "I can't describe how I felt. In the last 25metres I can't explain what came over me." Phelps hadbeen untouchable in the 200m fly at major events. Heowns the four fastest times in history and his worldrecord of 1min 51.51sec is more than one second fasterthan the second-best performer in history. Le Clos addedthat he had been receiving plenty of support from SouthAfrica.

Agnel -- whose last-lap surgepast Lochte had lifted Franceto victory in the 4x100m freerelay.

"I told those guys I wanteda big lead in the last leg andthey gave it to me," Phelpssaid. "I just wanted to hold on.I just wanted to thank them forallowing me to have this mo-ment."

Lochte, the 200m free worldchampion who failed to medalin the individual 200m finalwon by Agnel in devastatingstyle, put the US in chargewith a confident lead-off leg of1:45.15.

"People kept telling me Iwas better than that, to just putit behind me and move on,"Lochte said of the support hehad received after his fourth-placed finish in the 200m freefinal on Monday night.

I woke up and I was back tomyself this morning, I was thathappy-go-lucky guy. Thathelped me throughout the dayand that swim tonight."

Ricky Berens made surePhelps' record-breaking medalwas a gold one.

"I thanked those guys forhelping me get to this mo-ment," said Phelps, who wasstaked to a big lead by the firstthree swimmers and made itstand up against Yannick

LONDON (AFP) - MichaelPhelps added another line tohis Olympic legend on Tues-day -- with a little help fromhis friends.

Phelps anchored the UnitedStates to victory in the themen's 4x200m freestyle relayto claim the 19th Olympicmedal of his career, eclipsingSoviet gymnast Larisa Latyn-ina's record of 18.

After Phelps had matchedLatynina with a silver medal inthe 200m butterfly earlier inthe night, team-mates RyanLochte, Conor Dwyer and


Phelps rises to

new Olympic

heights with relay gold

LONDON (AFP) - China made sure of their first table ten-nis gold at the London Olympics when world championDing Ning and Li Xiaoxia both reached the women's sin-gles final on Tuesday. Their success also guaranteedChina will maintain a 100 percent record in the event, hav-ing won every Olympic women's singles since table ten-nis first appeared in the Games at Seoul in 1988. Top seedDing ended the hopes of one of the sport's brighteststars, Ai Fukuhara of Japan, and then won a controversy-tinged semi-final against Singapore's Feng Tianwei 11-7,11-4, 9-11, 12-10, 6-11, 11-6. The Chinese won every indi-vidual table tennis medal at Beijing 2008, underlining adominance described as "devastating" by the sport's topadministrator.

peals failed and Shin waseventually persuaded to leavethe piste. Shortly afterwards,she lost the bronze-medalmatch against China's SunHujie.

Park Yong-Sung, presidentof South Korea's NationalOlympic Committee, said theFIE offered the medal after ac-knowledging a possible prob-lem with timekeeping at theevent.

But the fencing body saidShin's defeat was entirely le-gitimate.

LONDON (AFP) - The SouthKorean fencer who staged atearful, hour-long sit-in protestover Olympic judging will re-ceive a consolation medalrecognising her sportsman-ship, the sport's world bodysaid Tuesday.

The International FencingFederation (FIE) said Shin A-Lam would be given a specialmedal for her "aspiration towin and respect for the rules"out of respect for her feelings.

"Of course, we understandthe frustration and feelings ofthe athlete. That's why we de-cided to give this award," aspokeswoman told AFP.

In amazing scenes Shin,sobbing and shaking her head,refused to leave the piste formore than an hour after Mon-day's epee semi-final defeat toGermany's Britta Heidemann.

The two had been locked at5-5 inside the extra minute pe-riod. The German then scoredthe winning hit, but the Ko-rean coach claimed the assaultcame after the last second onthe clock was up.

However, South Korea's ap-

Tearful fencer gets consolationmedal

Graeffly said in a statementthat the test reports on hisclient's urine samples showeda discrepancy of 10 millilitresin volume.

"This incoherence couldallow the lifting of his sus-pension as a precaution andguarantee his participation inthe Olympics," Graeffly said.

"There will always be timelater to come back to thismatter."

The country's athleticsfederation said last week thata second test on Gezzar's Bsample later confirmed theoriginal result.

Gezzar, who is scheduledto be sanctioned at upcomingdisciplinary proceedings, wasalready suspended for twoyears in 2006 after failingdrugs tests for nandroloneand finasteride.

that he broke his personalrecord.

Heat 3 results:1. Sidni Hoxha (ALB)

51.112. Kevin Avila Soto (GUA)

51.443. Andrew Chetcuti (MLT)

51.674. Jemal Le Grand (ARU)

51.865. Andrew Rutherfurd

(BOL) 52.576. Mohammad Bidaryan

(IRI) 52.937. Christopher Duenas

(GUM) 53.378. Mikayel Koloyan (ARM)

53.82Congratulations Jemal from

Aruba and The MorningNews!

Tuesday morning Jemal LeGrand went to represent Arubain the Olympic Games at Lon-don in the swimming discipli-nary. Jemal competed in the100m freestyle, where he hada very good start. He startedoff in lane 3 in the third heattogether with eight otherswimmers.

Jemal finished with a timeof 51.86 to finish in fourthplace of the heat, but remark-ably he bettered his personalbest with 0.13 s.

Le Grand is barely 18 andhe can still compete in 2 theOlympics, 2016 and 2020, sowe can expect a lot more ofthis athlete.

Le Grand said it was a greatexperience and he is so happy


PARIS (AFP) - French3,000m steeplechase athleteNour-Eddine Gezzar hasgone to court in a last-ditchbid to compete in theOlympics after testing posi-tive for blood-booster EPO,his lawyer said Tuesday.

Gezzar has filed a casewith an administrative court

in Paris to contest the provi-sional suspension he washanded after failing a dopingtest at the French nationalchampionships on June 17.

The hearing will takeplace Thursday morning, oneday before the opening roundof the men's 3,000m steeple-chase.

Gezzar's lawyer Romain

French runner Gezzar contestsdoping expulsion

L O N D O N ( A F P ) -Trinidad's Carlos Suarez,who built up to theOlympics by trainingwith US legend Tommy"The Hitman" Hearns forsix years, blasted ama-teur boxing as a game of"tag" on Tuesday. The19-year-old American-born fighter -- who quali-fied for Trinidad throughhis mother -- lost 16-6 toTurkish battler FerhatPerlivan, but had littlegood to say after hisbrief moment in theOlympic spotlight. "Theproblem with amateurboxing is it's tag box-ing," said light flyweight Suarez. "He was throwing slap punches, getting points. Hewould have beaten me in a game of tag but not in a boxing match." Suarez, who wasTrinidad's only boxer at the Games, made fun of his opponent and said it highlightedwhat was wrong with the amateur ranks. "I thought it was bullshit. It's amazing, theseOlympic rules. I was only lightly slapping him on the side of his head and he wasfalling to the floor, and it was me who got docked a point," he said. He didn't want tofight with me or hang with me and I would have beaten him in a fight. There was noway I was going to get seven points in the final round."

Aruba’s Jemal Le Grandbetters his personalrecord at LondonOlympics Games

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