1. A The Daily Reflector, Sunday, October 9, 2011
World
sanaa, yemen baghdad minsk, belarus havana
President willing to leave power Iraqi military delays pullout Dissident group leader falls ill
President Ali Abdullah Saleh has made An Iraqi military spokesman said the Associates of the founder of Cuba’s
vague comments that he is willing to leave military is delaying a pullout of its forc- Ladies in White dissident group said she
power in his first major speech since re- es from the nation’s cities that had been has been hospitalized and is in serious but
turning to Yemen, but he gives no con- scheduled for the end of this year because stable condition.
crete plan for the future of the country. of security concerns. Fellow dissident Bertha Soler said Laura
It was not the first time Saleh has ex- The spokesman for the Baghdad mili- Pollan is suffering from acute respiratory
pressed a willingness to step down amid tary operations command, Qassim al- problems and is in intensive care.
eight months of mass protests demanding Moussawi, said Saturday that the military Soler said the 63-year-old Pollan was
his ouster. Still, he repeatedly has refused is worried that the police will not be able hospitalized Friday in Havana.
to resign immediately and rejected a U.S.- to handle security in all areas of the coun- She said Saturday morning that Pollan’s
backed deal for him to hand over his au- try. condition was “very, very grave.”
thority. The Iraqi army provides almost all the Pollan formed the Ladies in White with
His new declaration Saturday aired on security in the country and can be seen at other wives of dissidents jailed in a 2003
state TV, gave little clue to his intentions. checkpoints and driving around in Hum- crackdown.
While railing against the opposition, vees throughout most of Iraq’s major cit- They spent years marching to press
Saleh said he “will reject power in the ies. the associated press for the release of their loved ones. The
coming days. I will give it up. But there The plan was to hand over security to several hundred opposition last of them have been freed over the last
are men who are true to their pledges who the police by the end of this year, but Iraqi supporters gathered to protest against year.
will take power, whether military or civil- defense officials worry that the police are authoritarian president alexander
ian.” not yet up to the job. Lukashenko’s government. From Associated Press reports
Libyans claim gains in Gadhafi hometown offensive
by ChrisTOPher hold the enclave of Bani Revolutionary forces be- Tripoli with Fox and Ital-
gilleTTe and kim gamel Walid, where revolutionary gan a major attack on Sirte ian Defense Secretary Ig-
the associated press forces have been stymied on Friday after a three week nazio La Russa.
by a challenging terrain. siege from the outskirts of Abdel-Basit Haroun, a
SIRTE, Libya — Lib- But the transitional leader- the coastal city, during revolutionary field com-
yan revolutionary forces ship has said it will declare which they said they were mander, said 32 people
claimed to have captured liberation after Sirte’s cap- giving civilians time to had been killed in two
parts of a sprawling con- ture because that will mean flee. days of fighting, while
vention center that loyalists it holds all of the seaports On Saturday, fighters the military council in
of Moammar Gadhafi have and harbors in the oil-rich fired rockets into the city the nearby city of Mis-
used as their main base in Mediterranean coastal from the backs of pickup rata, which has sent many
the ousted leader’s home- country. trucks, though visibility fighters to Sirte, reported
town and were shelling the British Defense Secre- was severely limited by a 80 wounded.
city to try to rout snipers tary Liam Fox pledged to sandstorm. The council said revo-
from rooftops in their of- keep up NATO airstrikes Libya’s de facto leader, lutionary forces were at-
fensive aimed at crushing even after Sirte’s fall, saying Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the tacking houses to try to
this key bastion of the old the international military head of the governing Na- eliminate the “overwhelm-
regime. action would continue as tional Transitional Coun- ing hordes of snipers out
The inability to take long as the remnants of the cil, said the battle for Sirte there.” the associated press
Sirte, the most important regime pose a risk to the has been “ferocious,” with Sirte, 250 miles south-
libyan revOluTiOnary fighTers hide behind a trench
remaining stronghold of people of Libya. 15 revolutionary fighters east of Tripoli, is key to
during an attack against pro-Gadhafi forces in sirte, Libya,
Gadhafi supporters, more “We have a message for killed and 180 wounded on the physical unity of the on saturday. rebels have besieged sirte since september.
than six weeks after the those who are still fighting Friday. nation of some 6 million
capital fell has stalled efforts for Gadhafi that the game is “Our fighters today are people, since it lies roughly
by Libya’s new leaders to set over, you have been reject- still dealing with the snip- in the center of the coastal Mohammed al-Rajali, Ouagadougou Convention
a timeline for elections and ed by the people of Libya,” ers positioned on the high plain where most Libyans spokesman for the brigades Center, an ornate complex
move forward with a tran- he told reporters Saturday buildings and we sustained live, blocking the easiest attacking the city from in the city center that Gad-
sition to democracy. in Tripoli before flying to heavy casualties,” he said at routes between east and the east, said the fighters hafi frequently used for in-
Gadhafi supporters also Misrata. a joint news conference in west. have gained control of the ternational summits.
Family Life Conference
October 15, 2011
Immanuel Baptist Church
1101 South Elm Street
Greenville, NC 27858
252.758.1240
Free and Open to the Public
9:00 AM A) Enhancing Marital Relationships in a Busy Society with Two Career Marriage
Lisa Tyndall, Ph.D, LMFT, Director of Family Therapy Clinic, ECU
B) Legal Issues Related to Step-Families with Minor Children
Pitt County District Judge Joe Blick
C) Factors to Consider in Remarrying
Janie Taylor, MA,MS, LFMT, CareNet East Counseling Services
D) Financial Challenges of Families during Economic Downturn
Mark Weitzel, MBA, Director, Financial Wellness Institute, ECU
10:00AM A) Effective Parenting in Teenage Years
Johann Bleicher, MAT, staff member of Pitt County Schools and
PORT Human Services
B) Effective Communication in Remarriage
Lou Everett, Ed. D., RN, LMFT
C) Meeting the Challenge Being the Caregiver for Aging Parents While
Having to Raise a Family
Helen Walston, LCSW, CareNet East Counseling Services and
PCMH social worker
11:00 AM A) Embracing Religious Diversity Within Familes
Rabbi Alysa Stanton; Father Justin Kerber, St. Peter’s Catholic Church:
Rev. Bob Clyde, Methodist Minister, Roanoke Rapids
B) Strategies for Meeting People for Dating Partners/Future Spouse
Meeting Face to Face and On Line
David Knox, PhD, Professor of Sociology, LMFT, ECU, co-author of
Choices in Relationships (2012) and founder of Right Mate at
www.heartchoice.com
C) Mourning the Loss of Previous Relationship
E. Wayne Hill, PhD, LMFT, Professor, Department of Child Development
and Family Relations, ECU
D) Substance Abuse in Families
Esther Metzger, D.Min., LPC, therapist, CareNet East Counseling Services
12:00 Noon A) Building Blocks in Early Years of the Family
Frank Dawkins, Phd, LCSW, Director of CareNet East Counseling Services
B) Deployment in the Family-Military
Mel Markowski, Phd, ECU Professor Emeritus, LMFT
C) Meeting Challenges Raising a Child as a Single Parent
Tracy Carpenter-Aeby, PhD, LCSW, ECU School of Social Work