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South Carolina Senate votes
to take down Confederate flag
By JEFFREY COLLINS
Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The
South Carolina Senate voted Mon-
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off the Capitol grounds, clearing
the way for a historic measure that
could remove the banner more
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test integration.
A second vote will be needed
Tuesday to send the proposal to
the House, where it faces a less
certain future. But Monday’s 37-3
vote was well over the two-thirds
majority needed to advance the
bill.
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could be removed as soon as Gov.
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South Carolina senators John Scott and Joel Lourie hug after
the South Carolina senate passed the second reading of a bill
to remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds,
Monday in Columbia, S.C.
stored.
The vote came at the end of a
day of debate in which several
white senators said they had come
to understand why their black
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represented the valor of Southern
soldiers but the racism that led the
South to separate from the United
States more than 150 years ago.
As the senators spoke, the desk
of their slain colleague, Clementa
Pinckney, was still draped in black
cloth. Pinckney and eight oth-
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not want to comment, her lawyer
said.
“This evidence shows a pattern
in which defendant ‘mentored’ na-
ive young women and introduced
drugs into the relationship, with
and without the woman’s knowl-
edge, in order for him to achieve
sexual satisfaction,” Constand’s
lawyer, Dolores M. Troiani, argued
in court papers.
Cosby, 77, has been accused by
Cosby
more than two dozen women of
sexual misconduct in episodes dat-
portion of the deposition.
“The stark contrast between ing back more than four decades.
Bill Cosby, the public moralist and Cosby has never been charged with
Bill Cosby, the subject of serious a crime, and the statute of limita-
allegations concerning improper tions on most of the accusations
(and perhaps criminal) conduct is a has expired.
“If today’s report is true, Mr.
matter as to which the AP — and
by extension the public — has a Cosby admitted under oath 10
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ual purposes,” said Lisa Bloom,
Judge Eduardo Robreno wrote.
Cosby, who starred as Dr. Cliff attorney for model Janice Dickin-
Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” son, who says she was drugged and
from 1984 to 1992, settled Con- raped. “Given that, how dare he
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terms in 2006. His lawyers in the accuse her of lying when she tells a
Philadelphia case did not immedi- very similar story?”
Celebrity attorney Gloria
ately return telephone calls seeking
comment on Monday. Constand Allred, who is representing several
women, said she hopes to use the
admission in court cases against
the comedian.
Cosby, giving sworn testimo-
ny in the lawsuit accusing him of
sexual assaulting Constand at his
home in Pennsylvania in 2004, said
he obtained seven quaalude pre-
scriptions in the 1970s. Constand’s
lawyer asked if he had kept the sed-
atives through the 1990s, after they
were banned, but was frustrated by
objections from Cosby’s attorney.
“When you got the quaaludes,
was it in your mind that you were
going to use these quaaludes for
young women that you wanted to
have sex with?” Troiani asked.
“Yes,” Cosby answered.
“Did you ever give any of these
young women the quaaludes with-
out their knowledge?” Troiani
asked.
Cosby’s lawyer again objected,
leading Troiani to petition the fed-
eral judge to force Cosby to coop-
erate.
Cosby later said he gave Con-
stand three half-pills of Benadryl,
although Troiani in the documents
voices doubt that was the drug in-
volved.
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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP)
— A Marine was bitten by a shark
off the North Carolina coast last
weekend, the eighth such attack
in the past three weeks, medical
personnel from Camp Lejeune said
Monday.
Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital
spokesman Raymond Applewhite
told WITN-TV in Washington the
32-year-old Marine was bitten
offshore at Surf City on July 4.
Base spokesman Nat Fahy said
Monday that the Marine suffered
lacerations to his right hand and
forearm.
Fahy said the patient was taken
to the Camp Lejeune hospital by a
friend late Saturday night. He was
released early Sunday.
Prior to the latest attack, North
Carolina had already set a record
for the most shark bites off the
state’s coast in the 80 years in
which records have been kept.
Most of this year’s shark
attacks along the North Carolina
coast happened in shallow water.
Injuries have ranged widely, from
an 8-year-old boy who had only
minor wounds to his heel and ankle
to at least two others who had limbs
amputated.
Gov. Pat McCrory has said
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By DEREK GATOPOULOS
and ELENA BECATOROS
Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece — De-
spite triumphing in a popular
vote against austerity, Greece
on Monday faced the urgent
need to heal its ties with Eu-
ropean creditors and reach
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might prevent it from falling
out of the euro — possibly
within days.
Prime Minister Alexis
Tsipras won big in Sunday’s
referendum, in which 60 per-
cent of Greeks rejected the
economic measures creditors
had proposed in exchange for
loans the country needs to re-
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the rare backing of opposi-
tion parties to restart bailout
negotiations.
But his bolstered mandate
to push for better conces-
sions from creditors hit the
hard reality of the country’s
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the banks facing the risk of
collapse within days unless a
rescue deal is reached.
In a sign that he hopes to
reach a deal as soon as possi-
ble, Tsipras appointed a new
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ister to lead talks with bailout
creditors and replace Yanis
Varoufakis, the hard-talking
professor who clashed reg-
ularly with his European
counterparts.
Euclid Tsakalotos, a
55-year-old economist, ap-
pears more willing to reach
a compromise with creditors
and will be tested as soon as
Tuesday, when he will meet
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ministers in Brussels.
That meeting is meant to
seek the basis for a deal that
European leaders, including
Tsipras, might discuss at an
emergency summit later in
the day. Ahead of the sum-
mit, Tsipras spoke by phone
with German Chancellor An-
gela Merkel.
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by the day. It had to close the
banks last week to prevent
their collapse in the face of
a run, and imposed limits on
cash withdrawals and trans-
fers.
Greek banks remained
closed Monday, with only
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lowed into the national bank of Greece to withdraw a maximum of 120 euros ($134)
for the week, in central Athens, Friday.
a few branches opening for
pensioners to receive emer-
gency assistance. Louka Kat-
seli, head of the Greek Bank
Association, said she expect-
ed banks to remain closed for
at least two more days.
The government is ex-
pected to extend the restric-
tions on withdrawals after
the European Central Bank
makes a decision later Mon-
day on cash support for
Greek banks.
The ECB has frozen the
amount of credit it allows
Greek banks to draw on,
even though their cash re-
quirements are growing as
people rush to withdraw
what money they can.
Analysts say that if the
ECB keeps the amount of
credit on hold, Greek banks
will come under increasing
pressure and the government
could have to make the lim-
its on cash withdrawals even
tougher.
The ongoing Greek drama
hurt stocks around the world,
particularly in Europe. The
losses were not as great as
some had feared, however,
suggesting investors think
that a Greek exit from the
euro, while devastating for
the country and destabilizing
in Europe, would be manage-
able for the global economy.
“The ‘no’ vote in Greece’s
referendum on Sunday dra-
matically increases the risk
of a slide toward a disorderly
Greek exit from the eurozone,”
ratings agency Fitch said.
“An agreement between
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itors remains possible, but
time is short and the risk
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of policy missteps, or that
the two sides simply cannot
agree a deal, is high.”
With all ballots counted,
61.3 percent of voters in Sun-
day’s referendum said “no”
to the question of whether
they would accept creditors’
proposed measures.
Tsipras has agreed to im-
posing more harsh austerity
measures, following a six-
year recession, but wants
eurozone lenders to grant the
country better terms for bail-
out debt repayments.
“The prime minister is ...
committed to starting a fun-
damental debate on dealing
with the problem of sustain-
ability of the Greek national
debt,” a statement signed by
the government and three
pro-European
opposition
parties said.
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to be split on Greece’s de-
mand for easier debt repay-
ment.
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Michel Sapin, indicated that
discussing Greece’s debt is
not taboo, saying the coun-
try could not recover with
its current obligations “in the
months and years to come.”
Germany, however, re-
mains highly reluctant to dis-
cuss debt relief.
Finance Ministry spokes-
man Martin Jaeger said
Germany’s “position is well-
known ... a debt cut is not an
issue for us.”
German Vice Chancellor
Sigmar Gabriel said Europe
should be preparing to help
Greeks with humanitarian
assistance.
“The situation that is now
being created by the referen-
dum makes me sad, because
life for the Greek population
is going to get harder in the
coming days and weeks,” he
said.
“After yesterday’s cele-
brations in the streets there’s
a danger of a rude awakening
soon.”
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The politicians will try to re-start bailout talks — not
easy, after Greek voters rejected the last formal offer
from the creditors. Meanwhile, the creditors’ resistance
to softening terms remains high. There are concerns that
rewarding Greek obstinacy will mean it and other indebt-
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spending cuts and economic reforms in the future.
Greece, which overspent for years until its troubles
became clear in 2009, has already been granted 240 billion
euros in loans from the other eurozone countries. But the
spending restraint demanded as a condition for the loans
hurt economic growth, and reforms to make Greece more
business-friendly have been slower than hoped.
Chancellor Angela Merkel from Germany meets
French President Francois Hollande on Monday evening.
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ters on Tuesday, and a full summit of the leaders of the 19
euro countries that evening.
After months of talks, the basic issues are well known,
so the rejected deal, with tweaks, could serve as a basis for
some kind of agreement.
Greece’s previous bailout line of credit expired June 30
before a deal could be reached to tap the last payout. So a
new one will have to be negotiated. That could take time.
Germany’s parliament, for instance, would have to vote
to approve a new negotiating mandate just to begin. And
time is short.
Schmieding said any new offer to Greece “will be at
least as tough as the offer Greece rejected.” That offer
included painful increases in value-added tax paid at
the point of sale by consumers, and reductions in state
pensions.
James Nixon, chief European economist at Oxford
Economics, says there’s “a narrow trajectory from here
that sees an emboldened Greek parliament accepting the
need for reform in return for a debt write-down.”
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new trial, less than two weeks after
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preliminary motion for a new trial
Monday for his conviction and
death sentence. The motion did not
contain any details on what grounds
they plan to argue, saying only
that a new trial is “required in the
interests of justice.”
The 21-year-old Tsarnaev was
convicted of 30 charges in the
bombing, which killed three people
and injured more than 260. The
same jury recommended the death
penalty, and a federal judge on June
24 sentenced him to death.
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charged a gunman who posed for
pictures with the rebel banner. Po-
lice say he was driven by racial
hatred.
Several senators said the grace
shown by the families of the vic-
tims willing to forgive the gunman
also changed their minds.
“We now have the opportunity,
the obligation, to put the exclama-
tion point on an extraordinary nar-
rative of good and evil, of love and
mercy that will take its place in the
history books,” said Sen. Tom Da-
vis, a Republican.
After the vote, Sen. Vincent
Sheheen, a Democrat whose sug-
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while running for governor last
year was called a “stunt” by Haley,
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low legislator.
“I thought it would happen, but
never this fast,” Sheheen said.
Cosby said he got drugs to give to women for sex
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill
Cosby admitted in 2005 that he se-
cured quaaludes with the intent of
giving them to young women he
wanted to have sex with and that
he gave the sedative to at least one
woman and other people, accord-
ing to documents obtained Mon-
day by The Associated Press.
Cosby’s lawyers insisted that
two of the accusers knew they were
taking quaaludes from the comedi-
an, according to the unsealed doc-
uments.
Nevertheless, attorneys for
some of the numerous women su-
ing Cosby seized on the testimony
as powerful corroboration of what
they have been saying all along:
that he drugged and raped women.
The AP had gone to court to
compel the release of a deposition
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cade of lawsuits against him that
have severely damaged his good-
guy image.
Cosby’s lawyers had objected to
the release of the material, arguing
it would embarrass him. Ultimate-
ly, a judge unsealed just a small
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