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Senate votes are expected today on a pair of Democratic resolutions calling for troop drawdowns from Iraq. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts supports bringing all the troops home by July 1st of next year, and he criticized the Bush administration's path. John Kerry: How many lives have been lost because of the ineptness, the ineptitude of this strategy? But another Democrat Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut said that whatever one's opinion of the war now, leaving is not an option. Joseph Lieberman: It is now a war of necessity. We must win it. Republicans have called the Democratic proposals cut and run. The resolutions are not given a serious chance of passing.
President Bush is in Budapest, wrapping up a 3-day trip to Europe. He will deliver a speech today honoring those who lost their lives in the failed Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union 50 years ago this year. NPR's Don Gonyea reports from Budapest. President Bush will speak from a hill with a panoramic view of Budapest in the Danube River. On the hill is a monument to the day the Soviet Union liberated Hungary from the Nazis in 1945. Mr. Bush's speech will recall Hungary's own struggle to get to its current democracy. He will speak of the sacrifices of Hungarian citizens who fought for independence in the October 1956's revolt against the Soviet-backed Stalinist government. Thousands were killed when Soviet troops crushed the uprising. The revolution remains a defining moment in Hungarian history. When the president delivers such a speech, his message is also about Iraq that the fight to replace tyranny with democracy is never easy that it requires great struggle and sacrifice. President Bush returns to Washington this evening. Don Gonyea, NPR News, in Budapest.
Soccer fans across Africa are looking to Ghana to take the continent to the next round of the World Cup in Germany. It's a must-win for Ghana in its game against the United States which has just started. NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton reports from the Ghanaian capital Accra. All eyes are on the city of Nuremberg as Ghana takes on the USA in today's crucial soccer match. The West African nation carries the hopes of the continent in this knock-out stage of the World Cup. Soccer supporters want Ghana's national side, the black stars, to display some African magic on the soccer field. Ghana's 2-0 win Saturday against the favored Czech Republic was a huge boost to Africa's chances of advancing to the second round of 16. But they now need to beat the US and Ghana is missing its 2 top-scorers in the competition so far. Both Asamoah Gyan and Sulley Muntari were penalized and given yellow cards on Saturday so cannot play today, but that has not dampened support. Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, NPR News, Accra.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 30 points at 11,049 in light trading this morning. The NASDAQ Composite is down 7 at 2,133 and the S&P 500 down 3 at 1,248.
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The White House said today that the US would like a response from Iran on a US-backed package of incentives by mid July when the G8 group of industrialized nations meets. The incentives are to persuade Iran to stop enriching uranium. Iran has said that it would respond by August 22nd. President Bush has accused Iran of dragging its feet.
The federal government has approved requests from 3 eastern states to let their backwoods national forest lands stay wild. NPR's Elizabeth Shogren has more. The governors of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina are the first to be given the federal government's OK on their request to keep undeveloped parts of national forests free from roads and logging. The governors say it's very important to their states to keep those areas wild for hiking, fishing and hunting. They are part of almost 16 million acres of national forest land that President Clinton tried to preserve. President Bush undid those protections, but he said governors could petition the federal government to save them. Environmentalists in Oregon and Colorado complained that the federal government is already allowing logging and gas development in some of those areas even though their governors plan to ask for forest protection. Elizabeth Shogren, NPR News, Washington.
The conference board says its index of leading economic indicators slipped by (six tenths of a percent rather) six tenths of a point last month which indicates possible weakening of the economy going forward, and the government reports the number of new claims for unemployment benefits rose by the largest amount in 5 weeks last week. The new figure suggests that a weakening economy is starting to be reflected in the overall employment market.
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