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Politics & The Nation
Are we ready for a Spartan budget?
Supreme Court to rule on funeral protests............................................A3
Conservatives point to claim by Massa..................................................A3
Bankruptcy law doesn’t restrict speech, court says..............................A3
Nation Digest
3 from Greenpeace arrested over banner ............................................A4
The World
Biden in Middle East to help revive peace efforts.................................A5
Voter turnout was 62 percent, Iraq says ................................................A5
Gates sees progress in Afghanistan war ................................................A6
Survivors: Nigerian attacks planned......................................................A6
Abusive Congolese colonel got aid .........................................................A6
Economy & Business
Greece seeks U.S. help with traders......................................................A12
Northrop halts pursuit of tanker contract...........................................A12
Toyota demo counters claim of electronic acceleration glitch...........A12
Market Summary ...................................................................................A16
Greek Prime
WASHINGTON BUSINESS
Minister
Cult favorite Video Vault hits the eject button ....................................A16 George
Papandreou
The Fed Page
came to
Washington to
Fine Print ask for help. He
In contract bid, renamed Blackwater was renamed once more.......A17 may or may not
Obama nominates outsider to lead TSA...............................................A17 have intended
his visit as a
Opinion
cautionary tale.
JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS
Editorial: Modest hopes for Israeli-Palestinian talks. .......................A18
Eugene Robinson States will hit that in about 2020, Cheney’s accusation that terrorist social-security system, our public
‘Al-Qaeda 7’ campaign smears the Constitution. A19 according to the Government sympathizers have turned the administration, our education
Marc A. Thiessen Accountability Office, assuming Department of Justice into the system, our health system and
Americans deserve to know about ‘al-Qaeda 7.’ ..................................A19 policy continues as it has. And Department of Jihad. our development model.”
last year’s U.S. budget deficit When it appeared recently that The Greek leader hasn’t asked
amounted to 9.9 percent of GDP, budget hawks had enough votes for an international bailout, but
nearly rivaling Greece’s 12.7 to pass an independent debt he is seeking help. From
CORRECTIONS
percent. commission to propose a Europeans, he’s asking for lower
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To pull Greece back from the solution, several Republican interest rates. From the United
Washington Sketch
edge, Papandreou has promised co-sponsors of the bill in the States, he’s seeking a crackdown
to cut the deficit to 3 percent of Senate switched sides and voted on the credit default swaps and
a71 A Dec. 31 A-section article bration July 4, 2009. GDP by 2012. For the U.S. it down. President Obama named other financial instruments used
about Rep. John P. Murtha’s use his own debt commission but by firms that are “making a
of earmarks for federal spending a71 An article in the March 7 issue then named as a commissioner fortune from Greece’s
projects, and the extent to which of the Magazine, about a driving L
ook into the face of George government to make an
Papandreou, America, and equivalent cut, it would have to
see your future. shut down the Pentagon and a union official Andy Stern — an misfortune.” Without such help,
the numbers of jobs promised trip by two friends along the East The Greek prime minister is in few other agencies: the automatic vote against serious he warned, the Greek crisis will
were delivered, incorrectly said Coast, incorrectly described the town this week as part of a world departments of Agriculture, cuts to entitlements. become the world’s next crisis.
that in 2005 the Pennsylvania Florida Keys as being in the Car- tour seeking help for his Commerce, Education, Health All this makes it more likely Papandreou’s message,
Democrat steered $150 million to ibbean Sea. They are bordered by beleaguered homeland. Greece is and Human Services, Energy, that one of Obama’s successors delivered in the lightly accented
Caracal Inc., a technology com- the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlan- broke, its government on the Homeland Security, Housing and will one day be delivering the English he learned growing up in
pany opening in his district. The tic Ocean. verge of default. As Papandreou Urban Development, the Interior, same message that Papandreou the United States, was well
$150 million went to the Electro- landed in Washington, there received by the Brookings
Optics Center at Penn State; the a71 A March 6 Washington Busi- were strikes in the streets of thinkers. Brookings President
university then directed a small ness article about a deal under Athens over his tax increases, his
portion of those research funds to which a private-equity invest- wage cuts for government
To match the deficit reduction
Strobe Talbott introduced
Papandreou as an example of
Caracal. The article also incor- ment firm would acquire RCN, a workers and his scaling back of
promised in Greece, the United
“everything that’s good” about
rectly described Murtha as 78 Herndon-based broadband com- retirement benefits. the international community.
years old; he was 77 when he died pany, referred to RCN chief exec- As he and Secretary of State
States would have to eliminate all
The message has been received
Feb. 8. utive Peter Aquino as Aquinas in Hillary Clinton faced the cameras
some instances. Monday, she spoke of the
15 Cabinet departments — and
less well back at home, where a
wave of strikes has been called to
a71 A Reliable Source item in the weekend’s election in Iraq.
March 8 Style section incorrectly
then some.
protest wage cuts and an
a71 A March 2 Page One article “Greece is the birthplace of increase in the retirement age.
said that Aretha Franklin’s ap- about Mohamed Ali Samantar, democracy, so anytime there’s a A questioner asked whether
pearance at the previous week- the former Somali prime min- democratic election anywhere in Greeks would be willing to take
end’s Larry King Cardiac Founda- ister who is now the subject of a the world, Greece should get a Justice, Labor, State, did to the Brookings Institution 20 or 30 percent wage cuts.
tion Gala was her first perform- Supreme Court case involving al- royalty, Prime Minister,” Clinton Transportation, the Treasury, and on Monday. Papandreou didn’t answer that
ance in the District since leged war crimes, incorrectly said said. Veterans Affairs, plus the “I stood for election last fall directly, but he invoked the
President Obama’s inauguration that he lives in Fairfax City. He “Would help our deficit, too,” Environmental Protection before a country that was wisdom of White House Chief of
in January 2009. Franklin per- lives in Fairfax County. Papandreou joked. Agency and NASA — and even demanding deep changes,” the Staff Rahm Emanuel, who
formed at the Capitol Fourth cele- “Yeah,” Clinton agreed. “It’s a then we’d come up a few dollars trim and mustachioed prime counseled against letting a
new way of plugging the hole.” short. minister said. “During the “serious crisis to go to waste.”
Remember that scene. If With such a catastrophe now preceding five years, our public “I think the fact that we are in
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