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IN BRIEF
Johnny Carson, king of
late-night TV, dies at 79
LOS ANGELES — Johnny Carson, i
the quick-witted “Tonight Show” i
host who became a national institu- (
tion putting his viewers to bed for 30
years with a smooth nightcap of ,
celebrity banter and heartland ,
charm, died Sunday. He was 79. j
Carson died early Sunday morn
ing, according to his nephew, Jeff
Sotzing. “He was surrounded by his |
family, whose loss will be immeasur- .
able,” Sotzing said.
He did not provide further details, i
but NBC said Carson died of emphy
sema — a respiratory disease that ,
can be attributed to smoking — at his
Malibu home. (
The boyish-looking Nebraska na
tive with the disarming grin, who |
survived every attempt to topple him
from his late-night talk show throne,
was a star who managed never to i
distance himself from his audience.
“Heeeeere’s Johnny!” was the
booming announcement from side
kick Ed McMahon that ushered Car- ,
son out to the stage. Then the formu
la: the topical monologue, the guests,
the broadly played skits such as
“Carnac the Magnificent.”
Blizzard pounds the
Northeast, clogs transport
BOSTON — A howling blizzard
slammed the Northeast on Sunday i
with more than 2 feet of snow and
hurricane-strength wind gusts, halt
ing air travel for thousands of people, i
keeping others off slippery highways
and burying parked cars under
deep drifts. i
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ]
and Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri
both declared states of emergency.
Up to 29 inches of snow fell north
of Boston, parts of New Hampshire
;ot 2 feet, New York’s Catskills col
ected at least 20 inches and 18 inch
es fell on parts of Connecticut, New
ersey, Rhode Island and the eastern
ip of New York’s Long Island. The
veather system had earlier piled a
oot of snow across parts of Wiscon
»in, Michigan, Indiana and
torthem Ohio.
At least six deaths were linked to
he weather, three in Ohio, two in
Wisconsin and one in Pennsylvania.
Nixon-era terrorism task
force prepared for threats
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly
hree decades before the Sept. 11 at
acks, a high-level government panel
ieveloped plans to protect the nation
igainst terrorist acts ranging from ra
iiological “dirty bombs” to airline
nissile attacks, according to declassi
ied documents obtained by The
Associated Press.
“Unless governments take basic
srecautions, we will continue to
;tand at the edge of an awful abyss,”
Robert Kupperman, chief scientist for
he Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency, wrote in a 1977 report that
summarized nearly five years of
vork by the Cabinet Committee to
"ombat Terrorism.
The group was formed in Septem
ser 1972 by President Nixon after
3alestinian commandos slaughtered
LI Israeli athletes at the Munich
Dlympic Games. The committee in
/olved people as diverse as
denry Kissinger to a young
dudolph Giuliani, the once-secret
locuments show.
U.S. ambassador to Iraq
discusses election issues
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The U.S. ambas
sador to Iraq acknowledged serious
sroblems ahead of next weekend’s
election but gave assurance Sunday
hat “great efforts” were being made so
?very Iraqi can vote. In an audiotape
sosted on the Web, a speaker claiming
o be Iraq’s most feared terrorist de
rlared “fierce war” on democracy, rais
ng the stakes in the vote.
Rebels who have vowed to disrupt
he balloting blew up a designated
soiling station near Hillah south of
3aghdad and stormed a police station
n Ramadi west of the capital,
luthorities said.
— The Associated Press
Oregon
Humanities
Center
presents a public lecture
Dr. Karl A. Kumpfmuller
independent scholar and
peace activist
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
4:00 p.m.
Knight Library Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
University of Oregon
The lecture is free and open to the public.
For information, call 346-3934.
Dr. Kumpfmuller will contrast the concept of
pax, a peace system based upon contracts
and military power, with the idea of Concordia,
the philosophy of creating and maintaining
peace by means of seeking harmony, justice,
and balance. He argues that with the obvious
failure and limitations of the pax concept, we
should focus more on intercultural and inter
religious concordia to establish a new world
order of lasting peace.
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