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LEE ENTERPRISES • Vol. 173, No. 258
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INSIDE TODAY’S STAR
Comics/puzzles B8-9
Lottery B6
Obituaries A13
Sports B1-6
TV B9
Weather B10
Arizonasophomorewidereceiver Jonesjustgettingstarted
Beststilltocome
UABASKETBALL
Wildcatsstayhoton
recruitingtrailwith
pickupofComanche
IN SPORTS
By Stephanie Innes
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
The odds were against
44-year-old Red Rock res-
ident Lauren Clifton last
month when she became
overwhelmed by a sharp
headache while getting her
son ready for school.
Unbeknownst to Lauren,
a six millimeter aneurysm
had ruptured in the left side
of her brain, causing a sub-
arachnoid hemorrhage that
gave her a 50 percent chance
of survival.
An aneurysm is similar to a
blister that occurs in a weak-
ened spot in a blood vessel.
In many cases it’s fine to live
with an aneurysm, and mil-
lions of Americans do.
Yet when the blood vessels
become too weak,sometimes
because of the large size of
theaneurysm,itrupturesand
can be fatal.
Even when people do
survive a burst aneurysm,
the majority have residual
neurological deficits such
as difficulty with memory,
walking and talking,her neu-
rosurgeon Dr. Emun Abdu
said Friday as she checked
on Lauren in her room at the
Carondelet Neurological In-
stitute,whichispartofCaro-
ndelet St. Joseph’s Hospital,
350 N.Wilmot Road.
About 30,000 people in
the United States suffer a
ruptured brain aneurysm ev-
ery year, which works out to
about 100 in the Tucson area
annually.
The Carondelet Neuro-
logical Institute has an an-
eurysm support group that
meets every Tuesday, but
Lauren will have little rea-
son to attend. That she both
survived and has no adverse
effects was a combination of
timing,medical response and
luck. She even still has most
of her hair.
Lauren,whoworksasaca-
shier at Sprouts in Oro Valley,
has no risk factors for an an-
eurysm—shedoesn’tsmoke,
she’s not elderly and she has
no family history.
Not surprisingly, neither
Lauren nor her family knew
what was happening when
she became unexpectedly ill
the morning of Aug.27.
RedRockwomansurvivessurgery
afterbrainvesselsuddenlybursts
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BRIANA SANCHEZ / ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Lauren Clifton, mother of two, had to have a portion of her skull temporarily removed after a brain vessel ruptured while she was
getting her son ready for school. Neurosurgeon Dr. Emun Abdu (right) at St. Joseph’s Hospital performed the surgery.
MOTHER BEATS ODDS FOLLOWING RUPTURED ANEURYSM
AZjustices
toreview
political
attackads
By Howard Fischer
CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES
PHOENIX—Thestate’shighcourtisbeingasked
to decide when groups attacking politicians up for
election have to disclose who is financing the effort.
Attorney Tom Irvine wants the Supreme Court
to rule only groups which run commercials specif-
ically asking viewers to vote for or against someone
must spell out the source of the cash.
He argues any spots without certain “magic
words” like “vote for,” “elect,”
“support” or “oppose” are ex-
empt from laws saying who is
paying for it,no matter how nas-
ty the attack and no matter how
close to election day it runs.
What the justices ultimately
decide will govern what voters
do and do not know about who is
behindtheattackadstheywillseeforyearstocome.
Irvine is representing the Committee for Justice
and Fairness.
In October 2010, as Tom Horne was running for
attorney general,the group ran a commercial which
said when he was a legislator he “voted against
tougher penalties for statutory rape.” And it said
more recently, as state schools chief and a member
of the Arizona Board of Education, he voted to al-
lowateacherwhohadbeencaught“lookingatchild
pornography on a school computer” back into the
classroom.
The ad urged viewers to “tell Superintendent
Horne to protect children, not people who harm
them.” It displayed a photo of Horne and his phone
number at the Department of Education.
It was later learned the cash behind the $1.5 mil-
lion effort came from the coffers of the Democratic
Attorneys General Association. And it came as
State Supreme Court could decide
when financier must be disclosed
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See ADS, A4
ByW.J.Hennigan
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON — Mem-
bers of Congress and the
White House anticipated
a peace dividend by wind-
ing down America’s foreign
wars, closing bases and
shedding tens of thousands
of troops.
But President Obama’s
new, open-ended strategy
to confront Islamic State
fighters in Iraq and Syria is
likely to eat into some of the
nearly $500 billion in Pen-
tagon spending cuts that
were planned over the next
decade.
The first five weeks of
U.S. airstrikes in northern
Iraq cost $262.5 million,
according to the Pentagon,
and Obama lobbied key
members of Congress in
recent days to appropriate
$500 million to help train
and arm Syrian rebels at
camps in Saudi Arabia.
While that’s still a pit-
tance compared with the
total $496 billion Pentagon
budget, or the $1.2 trillion
spent for the ground wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan,
the costs of intervention are
certaintoincreaseunderthe
plan to step up airstrikes,
intensify surveillance and
conduct counter-terrorism
operations against the Sun-
ni extremist force and its
leaders.
There are already calls in
Congress to eliminate the
$45 billion in sequestration
spending cuts that are set
to hit next fiscal year, which
starts Oct. 1, and to increase
BattleagainstIslamicState
threatensfuturedefensecuts
By Lori Hinnant
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS — Newly out-
raged by the beheading of
a third Western hostage,
diplomats from around the
world are in Paris press-
ing for a coherent global
strategy to combat extrem-
ists from the Islamic State
group — minus two of the
main players and without
any ground troops — in a
conflict that threatens to
spill beyond the Mideast.
U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry has been pres-
suring allies ahead of a
conference today to show
a united front, especial-
ly from majority-Muslim
nations, saying nearly 40
countries agreed to con-
tribute to a worldwide fight
to defeat the militants be-
fore they gain more territo-
ry in Iraq and Syria.
The White House said
Sunday it would find al-
lies willing to send combat
forces — something the
United States has ruled out
Latestbeheadingaddsurgency
totalksonIraq/Syriastrategy
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brit Alan Henning, seen in
this undated photo, is being
held by the Islamic State.See STRATEGY, A4
See DEFENSE, A4