1. A The Daily Reflector, Sunday, January 29, 2012
NatioN World
SANAA, YemeN ALBUQUeRQUe, N.m. WASHINGTON SAO PAULO
Yemen president heads to U.S. Man found stuck in mud for days Death toll at 17 in Rio collapse
A presidential spokesman said Yeme- A man who told authorities he was Firefighters have raised the death toll
ni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has left stuck in the mud at the Rio Grande river from the collapse of three buildings in Rio
Oman on route to the United States. in New Mexico for three days has been de Janeiro earlier this week to at least 17
Spokesman Ahmed al-Soufi said Saleh rescued after a group of high school stu- people and said hopes of finding anyone
has arrived in London and will leave later dents on a field trip heard him yelling for alive beneath the rubble are slim.
Saturday for New York for medical treat- help. A Rio de Janeiro fire department offi-
ment in the United States. He gives no An Albuquerque Fire Department cial says rescuers pulled five more bodies
futher details. spokesman said that the students and from the debris overnight and early Sat-
Saleh left Yemen to neighboring Oman their biology teacher heard the man yell- urday morning. The death toll had been
a week ago, planning to head to the Unit- ing from a marshy wetlands area Saturday 12.
ed States, under pressure from Washing- morning. The official declined to be identified
ton and others to leave his homeland to It took swift-water and technical rescue because he was not authorized to speak to
allow a more peaceful transition from his teams about two hours to pull the uniden- the press.
rule. In November, Saleh handed over his tified man to safety. Seven people remain missing.
powers to his vice president and promised His name and condition were not re- The official said the search for survi-
to step down completely. leased. the associated press vors would continue at least through to-
But opponents said he has continued The man told the students he’d spent IN HIS radio and internet address on day, but the chances of finding anyone
to interfere in the work of a unity govern- three days stuck in the mud of the old saturday, obama said many people alive are “practically nonexistent.”
ment through his allies and relatives in river bend about two miles north of Inter- he met during his five-state tour were
key posts. state 40 in Albuquerque. optimistic but remained unsure. From Associated Press reports
IMF chief insists on more cash to combat crisis
BY PAN PYLAS tribute $350 billion. How- fears remain that turmoil
the associated press “It’s for that ever, many countries, such could return.
as Britain and the United Whether the markets re-
DAVOS, Switzerland reason that I States, want Europe to do main stable could rest for
— The head of the Interna- am here, with more, notably by boosting now on if Greece, the epicen-
tional Monetary Fund ap- its own rescue fund. ter of the crisis, manages to
peared to be making head- my little bag, to Osborne said he would conclude crucial debt-reduc-
way Saturday in her drive actually collect a be willing to argue in Par- tion discussions with its pri-
to boost the institution’s liament for a new British vate creditors. It’s also seek-
financial firepower so that bit of money.” contribution, though he ing to placate demands from
it can help Europe prevent Christine Lagarde may encounter opposi- its European partners and
its crippling debt crisis tion from some members the IMF for deeper reforms.
from further damaging the iMF director from his own Conservative A failure on either front
global economy. Party. could force the country,
Christine Lagarde, Japan, sizable IMF share- Japan’s economy min- which is now in its fifth
who replaced Dominique holders that would be ex- ister, Motohisa Furukawa, year of recession, to default
Strauss-Kahn as manag- pected to contribute to any said his country would on its debt and leave the
ing director of the fund six money-raising exercise. help the eurozone via the euro, potentially triggering
months ago, is trying to the associated press
George Osborne, Brit- IMF, too, even though Ja- another wave of mayhem
ramp up the IMF’s resources ain’s finance minister, said pan’s own debt burden is in financial markets that
by $500 billion so it can help INTeRNATIONAL mONeTARY FUNd mANAGING dIRecTOR there is “a case for increas- massive. Unlike Europe’s could hit the global econo-
cHRISTINe LAGARde shows her bag as she speaks at the
if more lending is needed in ing IMF resources and ... debt-ridden economies, Ja- my hard.
World economic Forum in davos, switzerland, on saturday.
Europe or elsewhere. The demonstrating that the pan doesn’t face sky-high One German official
IMF is the world’s tradi- world wants to help to- borrowing rates, partly even said on Saturday that
tional lender-of-last-resort IMF’s resources would help cue fund. gether to solve the world’s because there’s a very liq- Greece should temporarily
and has been involved in improve confidence in the “It’s for that reason that I problems,” provided the 17 uid domestic market that cede sovereignty over tax
the bailouts of Greece, Ire- global financial system. am here, with my little bag, countries that use the euro continues to support the and spending decisions to
land and Portugal. If enough money is in the to actually collect a bit of show the “color of their country’s bonds. a powerful eurozone bud-
Insisting that the IMF fund the markets will be money,” she said at the World money.” Europe once again domi- get commissioner to secure
is a “safe bet” and that reassured and it won’t be Economic Forum in the European countries have nated discussions on the fi- further bailouts. The offi-
no country had ever lost used, she said, using argu- Swiss Alps town of Davos. said they’re prepared to nal full day of the forum in cial spoke on condition of
money by lending to the ments similar to those that Her plea appeared to find give the IMF $150 billion, Davos. Despite some opti- anonymity because talks
IMF, Lagarde argued that France has made about in- a measure of support from meaning that the rest of mism about Europe’s latest on the idea are confiden-
increasing the size of the creasing Europe’s own res- ministers of Britain and the world will have to con- attempts to stem the crisis, tial.
Indian tribes join forces to save petroglyph site
BY PAULINe ARRILLAGA closer that you begin to un- for animals or other natu- somebody had left earlier.
the associated press derstand what Tutuveni real- ral objects. There’s no other site that
ly is: a history of the Hopi In- The Hopi made these we know of like that, that
TUBA CITY, Ariz. — In dian tribe carved into stone. engravings during ceremo- shows these repeated vis-
the far reaches of northern The site contains some nial pilgrimages from their its.
Arizona, where city sprawl 5,000 petroglyphs of Hopi land to the Grand Canyon “It’s a very important
gives way to majestic can- clan symbols, the largest to mark the passage into place.”
yons and a holy place is known collection of such adulthood for Hopi young It is also a place threat-
defined not by steeple and symbols in the American men. ened by modern-day van-
cross but rather by earth Southwest. According to “They would stop at dals who view Tutuveni not
and sky, lies a monument to researchers with the Hopi Tutuveni and camp there, as the sacred site and ar- the associated press
a people’s past and a sym- Cultural Preservation Of- and they would peck their chaeological treasure that THe SITe, whose name means “newspaper rock,” contains
bol of the promise of peace fice, the many etchings on clan symbols on those it is, but rather a canvas for some 5,000 petroglyphs of hopi clan symbols, the largest
between two long-warring the boulders of Tutuveni rocks to mark their par- their own graffiti. known collection in the american southwest.
Indian nations. date as far back as far back ticipation in that pilgrim-
The Hopi people call it as A.D. 1200. age. And they did this for
Tutuveni, meaning “news- On the dark desert var- four or five centuries at
paper rock,” and from a dis- nish of the boulders are least,” said Wes Bernar-
tance this place is just that rows of bear paws, corn dini, an archaeologist and
— a collection of sandstone stalks, spiders, coyotes, professor at the Univer-
boulders set on a deserted kachinas, clouds, cranes. sity of Redlands who has
swath of rust-stained land Some of the symbols repre- been studying Tutuveni
outside of Tuba City, some sent various aspects of Hopi for years. “When people
80 miles from the Grand cultural life, but most are from the same clan would
Canyon and a four-hour the markings of the Hopi visit the site, they would
drive north of Phoenix. clans, or family systems, put their symbols next to
It is only when you step which are usually named the previous symbol that
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