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for the region," Clinton said asshe welcomed the agreement."In the days ahead, the UnitedStates will work with partnersin the region to consolidate thisprogress."

Israel would be required tostart procedures to open Gaza'sborder crossings and allow themovement of people andgoods, according to the text.

"This is a critical moment

CAIRO (AFP) - Israel andHamas agreed on a truce thatwould take effect yesterdayevening in a bid to end a weekof bloodshed in and aroundGaza that has killed more than150 people, Egypt and theUnited States said.

Egyptian Foreign MinisterMohammed Kamel Amr,speaking at a joint news con-ference in Cairo with US Sec-retary of State Hillary Clinton,said the cessation of hostilitieswould begin at 1900 GMT.

The accord, a copy ofwhich was obtained by AFP,calls on Israel to "stop all hos-tilities... in the land, sea and airincluding incursions and tar-geting of individuals" and thePalestinian factions urged toend "rocket attacks and all at-tacks along the border".

If it holds, within 24 hours,

area of work is quite large asit involves the entire Renais-sance including the hotel, theconvention center and themall.

As an anecdote he sharesthat in his work there havebeen times when he had to actas a counselor. Sometimescouples come for vacation butfor some reason may end uphaving an argument and hehas to go out and look for thepartner who walked away andbring them back to each other.And, it is great to see themback together because of yourintervention efforts says Cara-ballo.

Jhoanel Caraballosays...“Aruba has a lovely in-

frastructure, luxurious hotels,and it is important to providesecurity to our visitors, even inthe smallest detail, so that theyfeel happy and safe.”

Jhoanel is committed toAruba, to provide the best pos-sible service, and being atten-tive to any and all situationsthat could arise.

good relationship of mutual re-spect.

In Caraballo’s work he hasto deal with different situationsevery day, and every day pre -sents new challenges. He isalso charged with planning thework schedules. He reportsthat a day’s work for him con-sists of three shifts, morning,afternoon and evening. His

ORANJESTAD -- ArubaTourism Authority continuestheir awareness campaign andhas the focus today onJhoanel Caraballo. Caraballo,accor ding to ATA is anotherone of our local associateswho is committed to Arubaand to the work he does in thetourism industry. Caraballo isa winner of the prestigiousShoco Award as Supervisorof the Year 2011.

Jhoanel Caraballo hasbeen employed at the Renais-sance Hotel for almost 8years. He began working atthe early age of 17, and im-mediately upon his 18thbirthday he was asked to jointhe hotel. The first two yearshe worked as a security agentand gradually climbed the lad-der to his current position asSecurity Supervisor. At theyoung age of 20, that was areal challenge for him. He hasbeen in this position now forthe past 5 years and, he says,enjoy working with his col-leagues with whom he has a

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Jhoanel Caraballo is committedto Aruba

Truce agreed to end week of Gazabloodshed

idents.In the midst of all this, hu-

manitarian aid to Gaza has notstopped and is deliveredthrough the Erez crossing, nei-ther has the delivery of gas andelectricity. Hospitals in Israelreceive patients from Gaza andtreat them as they would Is-raelis.

Peace can only comethrough direct negotiations be-tween the parts but, if one ex-tremist party is committed todestroying the other and usesterror and violence as theirstrategic weapon the light ofhope continues to be very fee-ble.

Martha E. Lichtenstein

only targets its terrorists andtheir military infrastructure.The army goes to great lengthsto avoid collateral damagewith surgical strikes and haswarned the civilians with50000 phone calls and fliers ofan impending attack. In con-trast, Hamas tries to cause asmany civilian deaths as it can.Its charter promotes the de-struction of Israel as its mainideological aim in a Holy War(Jihad) and it has avowed tonever recognize the JewishState. It also uses its own citi-zens as human shields andplaces missile launchers infamily homes to make it hardfor Israel to destroy them with-out wounding or killing its res-

In September 2005 Israel leftthe Gaza strip. The Israeliswho lived there and had deve -loped a flourishing agricultureand peaceful community livingleft their homes and resettledsomewhere else in Israel.

This action was supposed togive the Palestinians land todevelop a peaceful state, sideby side with Israel. No soonerhad the Israeli citizens left thatterrorists burned all the agri-cultural developments and thesynagogues, where they in-stalled rocket launcher plat-forms from which they couldfire their missiles against Is-raeli civilians.

In a bloody coup in 2007Hamas expelled the Palestin-ian Authority and killed manyof its members.

The situation has beengoing on for seven years now.It has deteriorated with the lat-est developments in Egypt andthe Sinai, from which thou-sands of Iranian rockets oflonger reach have been smug-gled to Gaza via tunnels.

Israel, like any sovereignnation, has the right to defenditself and the obligation to pro-tect its citizens. When rocketsare purposely fired at kinder-gartens and schools at the timeschool starts, when a jeep fromthe Israel Defense Forces is thetarget of an unprovoked mortarattack that seriously woundedits occupants, when the popu-lation cannot go about its nor-mal activities without havingto run for shelter when the RedCode alarm sounds (it onlygives you 15 seconds to reacha shelter), it’s time to take ac-tion.

Since November 10 Hamasfired more than 120 missiles atcivilians and since lastWednesday Hamas has firedmore than 800 missiles at Is-rael, including the big popu-lated centers like Jerusalemand Tel Aviv, putting its popu-lation under fire.

Israel is not at war with thecivil population of Gaza, it

On the situation in Israel and Gaza

living in Oranjestad, the Li-brary is open 3 nights a weekuntil 8:00 pm. You can alsorenew your membership. Chil-dren’s membership costAfls.1.00 and Afls.5 for themembership for adults. Bothare for one year.

The staff and personnel ofthe National Public Librarywelcome the community backto visit the Library and take ad-vantage of their excellent serv-ices in their nicely renovatednew building and great new fa-cilities. For more informationcall 582-1580.

ORANJESTAD -- Now thatthe National Public Libraryhas moved back into theircompletely renovated build-ing in the GeorgeMadurostraat, they are readyto continue business as usualwhich includes the book lend-ing services.

A large number of librarymembers have not visited thelibrary for a very long timeprimarily because it wasclosed for renovations. Somemembers were visiting thedepen dence in San Nicolas orthe Arubiana Department inthe Bachstraat. But, theyhave on record that a largenumber of books have notbeen returned to the Library.In an effort to stimulate thereturn of these books, the Li-brary has announced that theywill not charge the usual re-turn fee for late returns. So,members can return bookswithout the fear of having topay a fine. This free fine periodwill continue until the end ofthe year. It doesn’t matter if thebook(s) is one week, onemonth or however late, therewill be no fine.

The Library kindly requestsall members to please returnthe book(s) you borrowed sothey can continue providingthe service of lending books tothe community.

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won Choue cited the fact thatArgentinean Sebastian Ed-uardo Crismanich won themen's welterweight gold medalduring the Olympics in Lon-don this past summer.

Mr. Ayer cited the impor-tance of the Para-Tae KwonDo event as the WTF is nowworking to have Tae Kwon Dobecome an event in the 2020Para-Olympics.

Continued on page 4

Jean-Marie Ayer. The gentlemen welcomed

island and international mediato a press conference at theHoliday Inn, which is hostingthe nearly 300 participants,coaches and referees from 16different countries. Organizersexpressed how please theywere to be conducting theseevents on Aruba, and the in-creasing popularity the Koreanmartial art discipline is havingthrough the region. Dr. Chung-

The third WTF World Para-Tae Kwon Do Championshipsand the WTF World Cup TaeKwon Do Team Cham -pionships begin today at 9:00AM in the Gilberto Francois,“Betico” Croes Sport Hall inSanta Cruz. On Tuesdayevening, Aruba’s Minister ofPublic Health and Sport, Dr.Richard Visser welcomed toAruba the World TaekwondoFederation, Dr. ChungwonChoue and Secretary General

Thursday, November 22, 2012 3

WTF World Para-Tae Kwon Do Championships begin today atBetico Croes Sport Hall

L.-r. Jean-Marie Ayer, Dr. Chungwon Choue, Minister Visser and Chaco Cornelia of ArubaTae Kwon Do

is very exciting for specta-tors. Matches are con-ducted with an enjoymentfactor for the audiencevery much in mind. TheWTF has also brought toAruba an exhibition team,which will perform at theopening ceremonies tak-ing place tonight at thesport hall at 6:00 PM. Allare welcome.

Tickets are available atthe door and cost $10 perday for entrance. Awardsfor the World Para-TaeKwon Do Championshipswill also be presentedtonight. Competitors havearrived from Iran, Korea,

Mongolia, Nepal, Azerbaijan,Croa - tia, Finland, France,Greece, Russia, Spain, UnitedKingdom, Australia, Brazil,Cana da, Costa Rica,Guatemala, USA, Brazil,China, Colombia, Egypt, Chi-nese Taipei, Uzbekistan,Venezuela, and the DominicanRepublic.

Tomorrow morning the pre-liminary matches for the WTFWorld Cup 2012 will com-mence; quarter, semi- and finalmatches will take place onSunday, the 25th.

Rosalie Klein

Minister Visser expressed hishope that islanders will cometo enjoy the matches and ap-preciate the example the para-athletes set for us all. “TaeKwon Do is a sport that alsoteaches great respect, and issomething we would hope tosee our youth enjoy and learn.The ancient art has great les-sons for a new generation, les-sons they should learn, as wellas helping them to keep fit andbalanced.”

The WTF President pointedout that the first ever WTFWorld Cup Tae Kwon DoTeam Championships are afive on five team effort, which

WTF World Para-TaeKwon Do...Continued from page 3

In consideration of its clients, round-the-clock conven-ience, effectiveness and accessibility, Aruba Bank has an-nounced that it will be opening a very innovative andflexible Aruba Bank Service Center at the new SuperfoodPlaza, shortly.

The Aruba Bank Service Center will provide a varietyof services to its clients. Additionally, Aruba Bank has an-other flexible and very important feature to offer: A newATM and Night Depository located at Superfood Plaza,which is already up and running and servicing all of thebank’s clients.

Aruba Bank’s automated tellers, located around the is-land, are simply indispensable, available to clients wish-ing to use the services of the ATMs and depository atnight, in fact, 24 hours a day. Most clients love being ableto use the ATM services at any time, even outside bankinghours, because their lives and work schedules requireservices around the clock.

Aruba Bank would like to inform all of its clients totake into account that the ATM located in the building ofthe old Super Food will now operate from the SuperfoodPlaza, Superfood’s new, spacious building on Sasakiweg.Aruba Bank believes that its clients will make good useof these new services and is excited to be able to providea positive contribution to its clients’ lives.

With its clients in mind

Aruba Bank opens an ATM and a night

depository at the new Superfood Plaza


It is planned at the end ofthe month to begin jet serviceto San Maarten with the“Arawak” and Ft. Lauderdale,Florida will soon be added totheir schedule. For full flightinformation and booking, visitthe Tiara Air Aruba website:http://www.tiara-air.com/.

Aruba’s native-owned airline,Tiara Air, increased their jetservice schedule on the newBoeing 737, “Arawak,” with aninaugural flight to the keyVenezuelan destination ofMara caibo on Tuesday eve -

ning, November 20.A delegation for

the first flight con-sisted of Tiara AirAruba CEO Alejan-dro Muyale andCOO Camillo Mu -yale, with executiveemployee KellyBroche, DeputyCEO and MarketingManager MalindaHas sel along withher assistant Drechi -lien Vrolijk, amongothers.

Several islandmedia accompanied

the first flight, along withVenezuelan Consuls to Aruba,Orcando Luzardo and Ama DelLugo. Representing the Minis-ter of Tourism, Transport &Labor, was his Chief TourismAdvisor, Myrna Jansen and

for Aruban travelers, as well asservicing the many tourists fromthat area who find Aruba andideal destination. It is the secondlargest city in Venezuela afterCaracas, on the northwesterncoast of Lake Maracaibo. It isalso nicknamed “The BelovedLand of the Sun.”

Aruba Tourism Authority Man-ager of Strategy, Research andPlanning, Melanie Kelly.

Adding a touch of glamourto the event was Aruba’s newlyelected Miss Aruba Universe,Larissa Leeuwe, and Mr. WorldSergio Winterdaal. The inaugu-ral flight also included severalcommercial passengers enjoy-ing the executive service, withsnack and beverage includedon the short flight.

The plane was met in Mara-caibo, Venezuela, by AirportDirector General, MarcusAmaya and Tiara Air Aruba’sWestern Regional Manager,Armando Añez. Father JesusColina officially blessed theplane upon landing, and the air-port staged a lively welcomereception on their mezzaninelevel for the Aruban delegation.

Alejandro Muyale ex-pressed his gratitude to theMaracaibo Airport ManagerAmaya, and, in particular, toArmando Añez for his unstin -ting support of the Tiara Air’sexpansion. “It is an excitingtime for us as we continue togrow with the highest safetystandards,” commented Mr.Muyale, “we remain alwaysmotivated and customer-fo-cused. We are very proud ofwhere we are today and excitedabout where we are heading.”

Maracaibo offers many busi-ness and vacation opportunities


Tiara Air Aruba inaugurates direct service to Maracaibo on

the Boeing 737 “Arawak”

Maracaibo Airport Director Marcus Amaya welcome theplane

Tiara CEO Alejandro Muyale withMelanie Kelly of ATA and Myrna Jansen

Tiara regional mgr Armando Anez and Airport CEO wel-comes delegation

A toast

the Dutch Antilles," he added.And they expected to makemore arrests.

"It was one of the biggestactions against drug gangs inrecent years," Van Kapel said.

Dutch media reported thecocaine had been smuggledthrough the airport by usingcouriers and hiding it in con-tainers.

Earlier this month, gen-darmes busted a separate gangat the airport. They had usedbaggage handlers to smuggledrugs from the Caribbean. Po-lice arrested 20 people in thatbust.

And in March, gendarmesat Schiphol confiscated 300kilos of cocaine from Southand Central America with anestimated street value of 12million euros ($16 million).

The haul was one of thelargest in recent years at theairport.

Schiphol is Europe's fourth-largest airport with between120,000 to 140,000 passengerspassing through daily.

(AFP) -- A major cocaine-smuggling gang broken up bythe Dutch authorities planned tocarry out assassinations, a po-lice spokesman said yesterday.

A joint operation Tuesdayby more than 200 royal Dutchgendarmes, customs and taxofficials led to 12 arrests intotal. Officers swooped onhomes and offices around thecountry, including in the Dutchcapital Amsterdam.

Royal gendarmes spokes -man Robert Van Kapel toldAFP agents had confiscatedquantities of cocaine andweapons and said the gang"planned to carry out assassi-nations."

But he gave no details as towho they had planned to targetor what weapons officers hadseized.

Van Kapel said the ganghad used Schiphol interna-tional airport to smuggle co-caine from the Caribbean.

"In total we have arrested12 people including from theUnited States, Cape Verde and

Dutch police bust 'very

dangerous' international

drugs gang

shortly after being taken toBenghazi medical center, aLibyan official said.

Dersi was appointed shortlyafter the September 11 attackon the US consulate in whichUS ambassador to Libya ChrisStevens and three other Amer-icans died.

for my mistakes, for they aremy mistakes and mine alone,"he wrote. "None of us is im-mune from our share of short-comings or human frailties andI pray that I will be remem-bered for what I did right."

Jackson is reported to be intalks to reach a plea deal withprosecutors, who are also re-portedly investigating his wife.

A special election will becalled to fill his seat which en-compasses part of the southside of Chicago and a neigh-boring suburb.

heavily-Democratic Illinoisdistrict on November 6 despitethe fact that he has been onmedical leave from Congresssince June while receivingtreatment for bipolar disorder.

Jackson cited his health inannouncing his resignation ina letter to House Speaker JohnBoehner but also acknow -ledged the "ongoing federal in-vestigation into my activities."

"I am doing my best to ad-dress the situation responsibly,cooperate with the investiga-tors, and accept responsibility

CHICAGO(AFP) - Jesse Jack-son Jr, the son of the notedcivil rights leader, resignedfrom the US House of Repre-sentatives yesterday amid acloud of corruption.

Jackson, 47, has been underinvestigation by federal prose-cutors for potential misuse ofcampaign funds and was im-plicated in ousted Illinois go -vernor Rod Blagojevich'sscheme to auction off Presi-dent Barack Obama's vacatedsenate seat in 2008.

He was reelected to his

Washington extends "our con-dolences" to the family of Frajal-Dersi and "we call for thoseresponsible to be brought tojustice."

Unknown persons in a caropened fire at Dersi in front ofhis home late Tuesday. He washit by three bullets and died

WASHINGTON (AFP) - TheUnited States yesterday"strongly condemned" the as-sassination of the securitychief in the east Libyan city ofBenghazi and called for a fullinvestigation into his killing.

State Department deputyspokesman Mark Toner said

US condemns killing of Benghazi security chief

would end a week of violencein and around the Gaza stripthat has left more than 150people dead.

It came after a day of shut-tle diplomacy -- led by USSecretary of State Hillary Clin-ton and UN Secretary GeneralBan Ki-moon -- that wasmarred by more deadly cross-border violence between Israeland militants in Gaza.

The conflict had threatenedto take a new turn yesterdaywhen a bomb ripped through acommuter bus in Israel's com-mercial capital, injuring 17people and sparking panic. Itprompted Israel to hit backwith deadly air raids on GazaCity and elsewhere in thePalestinian territory.

Israel launched its offensiveon November 14 with the tar-geted killing of a Hamas mili-tary chief.

WASHINGTON(AFP) - USPresident Barack Obamathanked his Egyptian counter-part Mohamed Morsi yester-day for his role is negotiating aplanned truce between Israeland Palestinian militants inGaza.

"The president thankedPresident Morsi for his effortsto achieve a sustainable cease-fire and for his personal lea -dership in negotiating aceasefire proposal," the WhiteHouse said in a statement.

Obama also reaffirmed the"close partnership" betweenWashington and Cairo, theWhite House said, adding thatthe two leaders "agreed on theimportance of working towarda more durable solution to thesituation in Gaza."

The ceasefire bid, agreed toby Israel and Hamas and slatedto take effect later yesterday,

Obama thanks Egypt'sMorsi for role in Gazatruce bid

enclosure on George Wash-ington's estate in Mount Ver-non, Virginia, the WhiteHouse said.

Both are 19 weeks old andweigh about 40 pounds (18kilos).

Their names were chosenfrom submissions by elemen-tary schools and, for the firsttime this year, the US publicwas able to pick which of thetwo would become the "2012National ThanksgivingTurkey" by casting a vote onthe White House Facebookpage.

The annual tradition datesback to former president JohnF. Kennedy.

WASHINGTON (AFP) -President Barack Obama"pardoned" two turkeys yes-terday ahead of the annualThanksgiving holiday, whenAmericans dine on millionsof the fattened fowl.

"They say that life is allabout second chances,"Obama told reporters gath-ered at the White House RoseGarden for the yearly cere-mony. "This November Icould not agree more."

The symbolic reprievemeans the lucky birds -- Cob-bler and understudy Gobbler-- won't end up on the dinnertable but will instead live outtheir days in a custom-made


In annual tradition, Obama

pardons Thanksgiving

turkey

US President Barack Obama gestures during the annualThanksgiving turkey pardon with his daughters Sasha(2nd R) and Malia (R). Obama pardoned Cobbler and itsalternate Gobbler, both raised in Rockingham County,Virginia. (AFP)

Jesse Jackson Jr. resigns from USCongress amid cloud

so I agreed with President(Barack) Obama that we willwork together -- Israel and theUnited States -- against thesmuggling of weapons to terrororganisations, most of whichcomes from Iran," he said in atelevised address as a truceagreement went into effect,ending eight straight days ofbloodshed in and around Gaza.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeland the United States haveagreed to work together to pre-vent the smuggling of weaponsfrom Iran to militant groups inthe Gaza Strip, Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu said yes-terday.

"Israel cannot sit idly by asits enemies strengthen them-selves with weapons of terror,

"This is an appropriate andnecessary step as we continueto investigate the explosionand fire that resulted in thetragic loss of life and injurieslast week."

Black Elk operates 98 plat-forms in the Gulf of Mexico.

Regulators have conducted238 inspections since it beganoperations in 2010 and found315 instances in which it wasnot following the rules.

A dozen of those incidentswere serious enough for in-spectors to order the companyto shut down the facility be-cause it posed a serious risk toworkers or the environment,BSEE said.

and not to restart production atany temporarily shut downwells without approval.

The agency said further ac-tion could be taken followingthe conclusion of an investiga-tion into the explosion some 18miles (29 kilometers) south ofGrand Isle, Louisiana.

The deadly fire began whilea maintenance crew was cut-ting through a pipe on a tem-porarily shut down platformthat was not pumping oil.

"Black Elk has repeatedlyfailed to operate in a mannerthat is consistent with federalregulations," agency directorJames Watson said in a state-ment.

CHICAGO (AFP) - An oil rigoperator that saw two workerskilled and 11 hurt in a recentexplosion in the Gulf of Me -xico had a history of safety vi-olations, US regulators saidyesterday.

The Bureau of Safety andEnvironmental Enforcement(BSEE) notified Black Elk En-ergy Offshore Operations thatit could lose its license to op-erate offshore platforms if itdoes not improve its safetyperformance in the wake ofFriday's blast.

It has also ordered theHouston-based company toimmediately cease any workthat could pose an ignition risk

Monday with the FARC de-claring a unilateral two-monthceasefire, after a preliminaryround of talks last month inNorway.

President Juan Manuel San-tos has stressed that his go -vernment is not yet bound bythe ceasefire and that militaryoperations against the FARCwill continue until a deal isbrokered.

The Revolutionary ArmedForces of Colombia -- LatinAmerica's largest rebel group,founded in 1964 and believedto have some 9,000 armedfighters -- took up arms toprotest the concentration ofland ownership in Colombia.

Several top commandershave been captured or killed inrecent years as the group hassuffered a string of military de-feats and its ranks have beenseverely depleted since theFARC's peak in the 1990s.

In addition to the issue ofland ownership, both sidesmust agree on a mechanism toend hostilities, on how to incor-porate the FARC into poli ticallife, on how to curb drug traf-ficking, and on how to com-pensate victims of the conflict.

Both sides have expressedconfidence that an end to thedecades-long conflict that hasclaimed hundreds of thousandsof lives is within reach.

HAVANA (AFP) - The FARCaccused the Colombian go -vernment yesterday of harass-ing relatives of a senior rebel,highlighting lingering tensionsbut not disrupting a third day ofpeace talks in Havana, Cuba.

FARC spokeswoman Vi-viana Hernandez read out astatement alleging that Colom-bian police had threatened therelatives of western bloc unitcommander Francisco Gonza-lez as they sought informationabout his whereabouts.

"Members of the police,disguised as civilians, are pres-suring the family... to prose-cute and take custody of theiryoung children unless they re-veal information" about his lo-cation, the spokeswoman said.

Despite the unexpected de-velopment, leading FARC del-egate Ivan Marquez expressedoptimism about the outcome ofthe dialogue, which is ex-pected to run into next week,before entering the closed-doortalks.

"I'd like like to say that weare working hard for peace,"Marquez said. "We have im-mense faith in the ability of theColombian people to achievethe peace that we all so deeplyyearn for."

Negotiations aimed at end-ing Latin America's longest-running insurgency began on


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care systems of being "a legacyof the Soviet state policy that(...) vested in the state the pri-mary responsibility for raisingchildren."

Half of the 31,000 babiesunder the age of three left instate care in the region are inRussia, the experts said. Bul-garia, on the other hand, has thehighest baby abandonment ratioof 654 out of 100,000 babies.

It also urged aircraft, airportsand ports in Madeira to con-tinue disinfection procedures.

"With tourists visitingMadeira, continued import ofdengue cases from the island toother EU countries is to be ex-pected until the mosquito pop-ulation is decreased andtransmission interrupted," theECDC said.

According to the UN'sWorld Health Organisation, be-tween 50 and 100 milliondengue infections occur eachyear in more than 100 coun-tries. In 1970, the disease wasendemic in just nine countries.

haemorrhaging and death.The Aedes aegypti mosquito

which carries the disease hasbeen present on Madeira sinceat least 2005, the agency said,and the first two cases ofdengue fever were reportedamong residents on October 3.

The ECDC said the out-break was still ongoing, andrecommended residents andtravellers visiting the island totake "individual protectivemeasures", such as using mos-quito repellent, to avoid mos-quito bites. Dengue istransmitted by a daytime mos-quito.

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Eu-rope is experiencing its firstsustained transmission ofdengue fever since the 1920safter an outbreak of the mos-quito-borne disease inMadeira, Portugal that has in-fected more than 1,300 people,an EU agency said.

The Portuguese health min-istry reported 1,357 cases as ofNovember 11, 669 of whichwere laboratory confirmed and688 were probable cases, theStockholm-based EuropeanCentre for Disease Preventionand Control (ECDC) said in astatement issued late Tuesday.

Some 25 patients frommainland Portugal, Britain,Germany, France and Swedenhave been diagnosed withdengue after returning homefrom visits to the Portugueseisland, the ECDC added.

No deaths have beenrecorded, it said, but stressedthat given the high number ofvisitors to Madeira, amongother things, "the outbreak islarge and constitutes a signifi-cant public health event."

Dengue is spread by one offour viruses transmitted by theAedes aegypti mosquito. Itcauses high fever, headaches,itching and joint pains. At anadvanced stage it can lead to

First big dengue fever outbreakin Europe since 1920s: EU

"Every hour approximatelytwo young children, mainlybabies, are separated fromtheir parents and sent into in-stitutional care in central andeastern Europe and centralAsia. That is more than 15,000children every year," Poiriersaid.

At present, 1.3 millionunder-18s -- or 1.3 out of every100 children -- grow up sepa-rated from their families in theregion, according to the reportpresented at a conference inSofia.

"These numbers are thehighest in the world," the reportsaid, accusing the current child-

SOFIA (AFP) - Two decadesafter the end of communism,15,000 children are abandonedevery year in the former Sovietcountries in eastern Europeand central Asia, the UnitedNations Children's Fund(UNICEF) said Wednesday.

"Most countries still relyheavily on institutionalisation... leaving lifelong physicaland cognitive scars," UNICEFregional director Marie-PierrePoirier said as she presented anew report.


Health & Living

fiber, folate, niacin, pan-tothenic acid, and thiamine.The cantaloupe extractoxykine is rich in superoxidedismutase (SOD), and studieshave concluded that can-taloupe SOD extract promotescellular antioxidant activityand protects against oxidativestress-induced cell death.

The surface of cantaloupemay harbor harmful salmo-nella bacteria, especially alongthe minor cracks and cuts.Therefore, wash the wholefruit in cold running waterthoroughly before consump-tion.

Cantaloupe that has beencut should be wrapped and re-frigerated, to prevent the eth-ylene gas that it emits fromaffecting the taste of other fruitand vegetables.

-- The health benefits of can-taloupe are legion. Cantaloupeis an excellent source of Vita-mins A, B6 and C, and themineral potassium. It’s also avery good source of dietary

Health Benefits ofCantaloupe

15,000 kids abandoned a year in ex-communiststates

-- NEW Zealand's Mount Tongariro volcano in the centralNorth Island has erupted, sending a black plume of ashup to 2km into the air and forcing hundreds of hikers tobe evacuated, including 90 schoolchildren from Napier -were on the mountain when Tongariro erupted around1.20pm local time. Police are warning sightseers to stayaway from the area in case of further volcanic activity.The volcano was used as a backdrop to "The Lord of theRings" films. New Zealand lies on the so-called "PacificRing of Fire", where the Earth's tectonic plates collide,making it a hotspot for volcanic and earthquake activity.

Scientists do not expect Cu-riosity to find aliens or livingcreatures but they hope to useit to analyze soil and rocks forsigns the building blocks oflife are present and may havesupported life in the past.

The $2.5 billion Curiosityrover -- which landed in GaleCrater on the Red Planet onAugust 6 -- also aims to studythe Martian environment toprepare for a possible humanmission there in the comingyears.

US President BarackObama has vowed to send hu-mans to the planet by 2030.


-- Supply of the iPhone 5 atApple's U.S. retail stores hasalmost completely caught upwith demand, just in time forthe bustling holiday shoppingseason.

Signs of improved supplycome as Apple this weekchanged its online store to ad-vertise two-week shipping

times for the iPhone 5.Apple's estimated ship-ping times for productsare often seen as a sign ofhow well the company isable to keep up with de-mand.

Availability of theAT&T and Verizon iPhone5 models was severelyconstrained earlier thismonth, but Apple has beengradually catching up inrecent weeks.

Earlier this month a re-port by market research firmStrategy Analytics says thatSamsung sold 18 millionGalaxy S III handsets duringthe third quarter, compared toonly 16.2 million for Apple'siPhone 4S, suggesting that theGalaxy S III had ousted theiPhone 4S as best-sellingsmartphone.

Apple finally solvesiPhone 5 supplyproblem

Sci-Tech

WASHINGTON (AFP) -NASA downplayed Wednes-day talk of a major discoveryby its Martian rover after re-marks by the mission chiefraised hopes it may have un-earthed evidence life once ex-isted on the Red Planet.

Excitement is building oversoon-to-be-released resultsfrom NASA's Curiosity rover,which is three months into atwo-year mission to determineif Mars has ever been capableof supporting microbial life.

Its Sample Analysis at Mars(SAM) instruments have beensending back information as ithunts for compounds such as

methane, as well as hydrogen,oxygen and nitrogen, thatwould mean life could oncehave existed there.

A spokesman for NASA'sJet Propulsion Laboratory,which is managing the project,appeared to pour cold waterWednesday on the hopes ofspace enthusiasts looking for-ward to an earth-shatteringdiscovery.

"The scientists want to gainconfidence in the findings be-fore taking them outside of thescience team. As for historybooks, the whole mission isfor the history books," Web-ster said.

Life on Mars? Maybe not. NASArows back on findings

NZ volcano Mt Tongariro erupts


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PARIS (AFP) - The creditratings agency Fitch down-graded yesterday debt issuedby eurozone member Cyprusby two notches, from "BB+"to "BB-" and said the outlookwas negative, which means itcould be cut further.

The rating for Cyprus,which currently holds the Eu-ropean Union's rotating pres-idency, was initially cut tospeculative, or junk, status byFitch five months ago.

ments.People with lower incomes

were more likely than well-offAmericans to say that their fi-nancial circumstances hadworsened this year comparedto last, and were correspond-ingly less likely to report plansto spend as freely.

But the poll also made whatit called the "anomalous" find-ing that Democrats -- who areless financially well-off thanRepublicans on average --were more likely to increasetheir holiday spending thisyear.

The pollsters surmised thatthis may be the case in part be-cause of the election victoryearlier this month that sawBarack Obama returned to theWhite House for a secondfour-year term, which mighthave buoyed Democrats' spi -rits and loosened their pursestrings.

Meanwhile, the percentageof people who said they wouldspend less on gifts this yearthan last was 38 percent --three percent less than thenumber of people who gavethat response in last year's poll.

"Our survey results suggestthat holiday spending this yearwill likely rise by betweenthree and four percent com-pared to last year," said BillHampel, chief economist forCUNA.

"This represents the fourthyear of gradual improvementin holiday spending plans sincea sharp decline in such plans in2008."

The November 9-13 tele-phone survey of about a thou-sand subjects found that manyAmericans are willing to partwith more of their money thisholiday season despite sizablefinancial constraints, includinghigh mortgage payments, stu-dent loans and credit card pay-

WASHINGTON (AFP) -Americans are likely to spendbetween three and four percentmore on their holiday shop-ping this year than last, in anapparent sign of increased con-sumer confidence, accordingto a survey published yester-day.

The poll, conducted jointlyby the Consumer Federation ofAmerica (CFA) and the CreditUnion National Association(CUNA), found 12 percent ofconsumers said they wouldspend more on holiday pur-chases in 2012 than 2011.

That compares to just eightpercent of respondents whosaid the same thing whenpolled this time last year.

A statement accompanyingthe annual survey said that thisyear's planned increase inspending by some consumers"may well reflect perceivedimprovement in their financialsituation."

Worldwide remittances, in-cluding those to high-incomecountries, are expected to total$534 billion in 2012, and areprojected to grow to $685 bil-lion in 2015.

Despite the overall growthin remittance flows to develop-ing countries, the continuingglobal economic crisis isdampening remittance flows tosome regions, with Europe andCentral Asia and Sub-SaharanAfrica especially affected,while South Asia and the Mid-dle East and North Africa(MENA) are expected to faremuch better than previouslyestimated.

port on global migration andremittances, released yester-day.

India continued to top theremittances list in 2012 whileChina is placed a close secondwith $66 billion expected mi-grant remittances in the sameyear.

The World Bank said remit-tance flows to the developingworld are expected to exceedearlier estimates and total $406billion this year—an increaseof 6.5% from the previousyear—and is projected to growby 7.9% in 2013, 10.1% in2014 and 10.7% in 2015 toreach $534 billion in 2015.

New Delhi: Remittance in-flows into India is expected toincrease to $70 billion in 2012,according to a World Bank re-

received "positive signals"from Beijing.

"The Chinese authorities in-dicated that there was no needfor a formal agreement on theirpart to be active in the mar-ket... We are going to study themarket right away," he said.

While no formal agreementwas needed with China's cen-tral bank, Margelisch notedthat if they wanted to tradeyuan, Swiss banks would needa robust banking presence inHong Kong, the main tradinghub for China's currency.

He forecast that the yuanwould play "an increasinglyimportant role in internationaltrade over the coming years."

GENEVA (AFP) - Swiss bankswant to become importanttraders of financial productsand services based on the Chi-nese yuan, a sector associationleader said yesterday.

The banks "would like to bethe second main center (over-seas for yuan trading) afterLondon," Swiss Banking As-sociation head Claude-AlainMargelisch told reporters inGeneva.

Pointing out that Britain iscurrently home to the most ac-tive foreign trading of theyuan, Margelisch said that adelegation from his organisa-tion had recently travelled toChina to secure access to suchfinancial operations and had

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SAO PAulO -- AFP photo show Dutch Prince Willem-Alexander giving a speach during the seminar "Bioecon-omy: the Dutch innovating knowledge and system" atthe Federation of Industries of Sao Paulo State (FIESP)in Sao Paulo, yesterday. The biggest ever Dutch trademission – a 170-company delegation - on Mondayheaded off on a six-day official visit to Brazil, the sixthbiggest economy in the world. The Netherlands currentlyhas a trade deficit with Brazil and imports far more thanit exports to the South American country. The Nether-lands sends Brazil mainly oil products and chemicalsbut they account for just 0.5% of total exports. TheNetherlands imports food, meat and iron ore from Brazil.

SPAIN, Villamuriel : An employee is seen working at theVillamuriel Renault factory in northern Spain. French carmaker Renault plans to create 1,300 jobs at its factoriesin recession-hit Spain, Spanish Prime Minister MarianoRajoy said. The French giant, which employs 10,000 peo-ple at four sites in Spain, signed a deal on working con-ditions with Spanish labour unions last week but is stillnegotiating terms with workers in France as it seeks tobe more competitive. (AFP PHOTO)

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the church."Charismatic, with closely-

cropped hair and a beamingsmile, Hudson-Wilkin hadbeen widely named as one ofthe strongest contenders to be-come the Church of England'sfirst female bishop had Tues-day's vote gone differently.

But the mother-of-three,who is also the vicar of twochurches in impoverishedareas of east London, insistsshe had harboured no personalambition to take the job.

"I've never had great ambi-tions. This is not a career, it isa vocation," said the vicar,whose voice still has a gentleJamaican lilt nearly threedecades after she moved toBritain.

"I personally won't be sit-ting around waiting to bemade a bishop -- I don't thinkany woman will be doing

LONDON (AFP) - The clergy-woman who was widely ex-pected to become the Churchof England's first femalebishop has blasted its voteagainst the move, saying onWednesday it had left thechurch's reputation "in tatters".

Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the Jamaican-bornchaplain to Queen Elizabeth IIand the British parliament, saidshe was deeply disappointedby Tuesday's narrow voteagainst women bishops by thestate church's governing Gen-eral Synod.

"We have deprived thechurch of all those gifts thatwomen could bring to its leader-ship," the 51-year-old told AFP.

"The church's reputation isin tatters. We cannot have havea society where women makeup more than 50 percent of thepopulation but cannot lead in

that."She added that if she was

one day asked to take on therole, "I would need to examinewhether that is what God re-quires of me."

Born in Montego Bay, Ja-maica, Hudson-Wilkin came toBritain in 1985. She had al-ways wanted to become apriest, but had to wait until1994 for the Church of Eng-land to allow it.

She believes that she andother Anglicans who arguepassionately for the introduc-tion of women bishops willnow have to wait at least fouryears before the issue can re-turn to the agenda.

"But I am positive thatGod's church will move on,"she added. "You know, I wentto Turkey recently and you cansee the ruins of Christendomthere. The church moves onand thrives elsewhere."

In any case, she said, the re-jected proposals were far fromperfect -- they would have al-lowed parishes to reject the au-thority of a woman bishop andforce the appointment of astand-in male.

McCartney says skipthe turkey on Thanks-giving WASHINGTON (AFP) -Former Beatle Paul Mc-Cartney, a long-time vege-tarian, has joined acampaign by animal rightsgroup PETA to encourageAmericans to celebrate aturkey-free Thanksgivingthis week.

The British rock legend,sporting a gray shirt withan "eat no turkey" design,is featured on the websiteof People for the EthicalTreatment of Animals.

"ThisThanksgiv ing,Paul McCartney is urgingyou to say 'no, thanks' toturkey and 'yes' to a deli-cious, cruelty-free holidaymeal," the group says.

More than 45 millionturkeys will make theirway onto American dinnertables on Thursday, andanother 22 million are con-sumed at Christmas, ac-cording to PETA.

Each year, US presi-dents grant a pardon toone or two turkeys -- a tra-dition that only dates backto president George Bushin 1989, even thoughThanksgiving was firstcelebrated by pilgrimswho fled religious perse-cution in England.

The pardoned birdsspend their golden yearson George Washington'sestate in Mount Vernon,Virginia.


MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Relaxdoomsayers, the Maya peopledid not really mark their calen-dar for the end of the world onDecember 21, 2012.

As tourists book hotelsrooms in Mexico's Maya Riv-iera and Guatemalan resortsahead of next month's fatefuldate, experts are busy debunk-ing the doomsday myth.

The apocalyptic prophecythat has inspired authors andfilmmakers never appears inthe tall T-shaped stone calen-dar that was carved by theMaya around the year 669 insoutheastern Mexico.

In reality, the stone recountsthe life and battles of a rulerfrom that era, experts say. Plus,the last date on the calendar isactually December 23, 2012,

not the 21st, and it merelymarks the end of a cycle.

So no need to build giantarks, because the terriblefloods, earthquakes and vol-canic eruptions depicted in theHollywood blockbuster"2012" were not prophesied bythe Mayas.

The stone, known as Monu-ment 6, was located in El Tor-tuguero, an archeological sitethat was discovered in 1915.

Broken in six pieces, thedifferent fragments are exhib-ited in US and Mexican muse-ums, including Tabasco'sCarlos Pellicer Camara An-thropology Museum and NewYork's Metropolitan Museum.

The first study on the stonewas published by a German re-searcher in 1978. Since then,various archeologists have ex-amined its significance andagree that it refers to the De-cember 23 date.

The final date represents theend of a cycle in the Mayanlong count calendar that beganin the year 3114 before Christ.It is the completion of 13 baakt'uunes, a unit of time equiva-lent to 144,000 days.

The belief that the calendarforesees the end of the worldcomes from Judeo-Christianinterpretations, the expertssaid.

The world won't end nextmonth, Maya experts insist

Church is 'in tatters', says woman tippedas first bishop

SINGAPORE (AFP) - A Singaporean taxi driver has beenheralded as a hero after he returned Sg$1.1 million($900,000) in cash to a vacationing Thai couple who leftthe money in his cab. Sia Ka Tian, 70, was shocked tofind the money in a black paper bag on the back seat onMonday after he dropped the couple off at a shoppingcentre. But when he brought the money to transportcompany ComfortDelGro's lost-and-found office, hisstunned colleagues counted Sg$1.1 million in thousand-dollar bills. The Thai couple reported the loss to thetransport company and Sia was waiting for them whenthey arrived to claim the money. The driver received anundisclosed cash reward from the grateful couple,whose names have been withheld, and the company alsoplans to give him an award for good service.

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“The present store is a workin progress,” asserts JaIme, asthey continue to renovate andenlarge what had been only themen’s store and warehouse inthe past. Normally closed for a2 hour lunch/siesta in the oldisland way, shoppers will soonfind it open daily for the entireday, from 9:30 AM to 6:30PM, as they are on Saturday’s,with a bright, charming eatery

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It is also a distinctly fa -mily operation, with the per-sonal touch and supervisionof the Hochmans, who taketheir reputation for stocking“the best quality for the bestprice” very seriously. It allstarted with Calman Hoch -man, a Jewish Polish immi-grant who opened his firstsmall shop with his Arubanwife Anna, carrying “a littlebit of everything that anyone

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SPORTS

Barca qualify as Group Gwinners on 12 points, withCeltic and Benfica fighting itout for the all-important run-ners-up spot with both teamson seven points after the Por-tuguese side's 2-1 win in Lis-bon.

In Celtic's favour howeveris the fact that in the closinggames Benfica are at the NouCamp to take on Barca whileCeltic have a potentially eas-ier assignment against alreadyeliminated Spartak.

In Group F, Valencia tookto the pitch against Bayern inthe happy knowledge thatthey were through to the nextround as a result of Lille's ear-lier 2-0 win at BATE Borisov.

A 1-1 draw in Spain earnedBayern qualification from thegroup as well.

Midfielder SofianeFeghouli had put Valenciaahead with time running out,but Bayern held their nerve asGermany midfielder Muellernetted the equaliser.

In other action a youthfulManchester United lost 1-0 atGalatasaray in a 'dead' gamewith United having alreadyassured themselves of top spotin Group H while Cluj wentsecond on the back of a 3-1win over Braga.

AMSTERDAM (AFP) : Borussia Dortmund have recordeda 4-1 win over Ajax in Wednesday's Champions LeagueGroup D fixture at the Amsterdam ArenA. Ajax remainGroup D's number three with four points from fivegames. They travel to Real Madrid on December 4 in theirlast Champions League game of the season. Dortmundsit first in their section with 11 points, and host Manches-ter City on matchday 6. Photo shows Dortmund's Polishstriker Robert Lewandowski scoring.

PARIS (AFP) - Barcelona andBayern Munich qualified forthe Champions League last 16on Tuesday but Chelsea werein danger of picking up thedubious honour of becomingthe first titleholders to crashout in the first round.

Joining Barca and Bayerninto the knockout stages wereValencia and ShakhtarDonetsk while Celtic stillhave work to do to book theirticket after defeat at Benfica.

Frustratingly for Chelseatheir fallow spell in the Pre-mier League spilled over toTurin where Roberto di Mat-teo's men were swept aside 3-0 by Juventus.

With Shakhtar seeing offDanish minnows Nordsjael-land in Copenhagen the Lon-

doners slipped to third inGroup E, with their fate nowout of their hands going intothe final roll of the groupstage dice next month.

Barcelona kept the wheelsfirmly on their pursuit of afourth European crown,bouncing back from defeat atCeltic in their last run out tosee off Spartak Moscow 3-0in the Russian capital.

Barca had lost their previ-ous away match at Celtic 2-1,despite dominating posses-sion but were unable to makethe most of their chances.

"Against Celtic we had thesame number of opportunitiesbut sometimes they go in andsometimes they don't," saidcoach Tito Vilanova.

Football: Chelsea on the brink asBarca, Bayern qualify

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) : Anderlecht's Bram Nuyt-inck (L) receives a red card from referee Damir Skomina(R) during the football game between RSC Anderlechtand AC Milan, on the fifth day of the group C of Champi-ons League yesterday. AC Milan beats Anderlecht 3-1,advances in CL.

Bayeren Munich againts Valencia

that's the Vendee Globe, that'sthe power of the ocean andyou can't fight it."

Already forced to quit theevent is the race's only womenskipper, Samantha Davies aswell as Louis Burton, MarcGuillemot, Kito de Pavant andJeremie Beyou leaving 14 atsea competing for sailing's ul-timate prize.

"It's like driving at night ona road you don't know, a roadwith many turns, surroundedwith trees. Suddenly yourlights go off and you can'tslow down. How manychances do you have to sur-vive?," added Gutkowski.

On Wednesday after 11days at sea, Frenchman ArmelLe Cleac'h led the race as theysailed close to the equator fol-lowed by compatriot FrancoisGabart who is 41.5 nauticalmiles back and a third French-man Vincent Riou a further4.5 miles adrift.

PARIS (AFP) - Poland's Zbig-niew Gutkowski became thesixth skipper on Wednesday toabandon his bid to win theprestigious Vendee Globe raceafter electronic problems ru-ined his chances.

The problems hit his boatEnerga in recent days of thegruelling solo unassisted racearound the world which meanthe did not have automaticpilot.

"Today (Wednesday) I needto officially announce whatI've been thinking about fordays. Being brave is not onlyabout fighting, it is also aboutknowing where to stop."

"I know I did everything Icould, working on my elec-tronics issues for many days.

"But I can't carry on likethat. Having no autopilotmeans I can't race, and if Ican't race, I have to retire.

"That's a tough decision,one of toughest in my life. But

son 1-4 under Brown but havegone 5-1 since his departure.

The Lakers passed on theopportunity to bring back 11-time NBA champion PhilJackson after they hired D'An-toni November 12.

Even before D'Antoni tookover, the Lakers had alreadybegun to run his offence overthe last two games, including a114-102 win over Phoenix onFriday.

"He is still limping a bit butwe appreciate his effort to beout there," Lakers forward PauGasol said of D'Antoni.

Deron Williams had 22points and 10 assists forBrooklyn, who saw their five-game winning streak snapped.

The Nets have lost their lastnine games to the Lakers,going back to 2007.

They were hoping post theirlongest winning streak since asix-game run from March 12-21, 2006.


Yachting: Polish sailorGutkowski latest toabandon Globe

The 26-year-old Howardwas just seven-of-19 from thefree throw line Tuesday as theNets tried to take advantage ofhis struggles from the foulline.

Howard, who can become afree agent at season's end, isnot panicking though.

"It was cool. We got thewin," Howard said of D'An-toni's debut. "It was a toughwin. We battled it out. We gotbetter tonight as a team.

The Lakers started the sea-

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - LosAngeles made Mike D'An-toni's debut behind the Lakers'bench a successful one bybeating the Brooklyn Nets 95-90 on Tuesday night at StaplesCenter arena.

D'Antoni, limping after un-dergoing recent surgery, hadbeen unable to take over be-hind the bench until Tuesdaybecause of discomfort andtightness in his knee.

Kobe Bryant scored 25points and Dwight Howardfinished with 23 points and 15rebounds for the Lakers whoare now 5-1 since sackingMike Brown.

NBA: D'Antoni wins his Lakerdebut

Jerry Stackhouse #42 of the Brooklyn Nets goes up for ashot against Jordan Hill #27 and Chris Duhon #21 of theLos Angeles Lakers

NEW YORK (AFP) - Japan-ese right handed pitcher Hi-roki Kuroda signed aone-year contract with theNew York Yankees on Tues-day, the Major League Base-ball club announced.

Kuroda, 38, could haveselected two-year offers, orcontracts with player options,but he favored the flexibilityof going through the processagain next offseason.

The Yankees did not giveany details of the contract butthe New York Daily Newssaid it is worth $15 million.

Kuroda, of Osaka, fin-ished his first season in aYankees' uniform with a 16-11 record, 3.32 earned runaverage and 167 strikeoutswith the American LeagueEast champions.

Following a successful ca-reer in Japan, Kuroda joinedthe Los Angeles Dodgersfour years ago and went on tocompile a 41-46 record witha 3.45 ERA in 115 games.

wife's home in Florida.Camacho was accused of

hitting and stomping on hisson, police documents say.

The incident took place onMarch 22, 2011, allegedlyover money Camacho appar-ently believed was missing athis ex-wife's home, the docu-ments show.

The boxer, originally fromPuerto Rico, in recent yearshas made appearances on tworeality television programs,"Mira Quien Baila" ("LookWho's Dancing") and "EsMacho Time."


MIAMI (AFP) - Former threetime world boxing championHector "Macho" Camacho wasfighting for his life Wednesdayafter being shot in the neck inPuerto Rico, doctors said.

His heart stopped brieflyovernight and he is being keptalive with a respirator andother machines, while doctorsevaluate whether to declarehim brain dead, they said.

His mother, Maria Matias,arrived from New York earlyWednesday. The Spanish-lan-guage TV channel Univisionsaid his brother and children

were also expected, to decidewhether to disconnect an arti-ficial respirator.

"But we have to stress that

Macho Camacho is breathingwith a respirator and his bloodpressure and pulse are beingmaintained by machines,"added the doctor.

Camacho, 50, was beingdriven in a car when he was hitin the head by gunshot fromanother vehicle around 7:00pm local time, according to thelocal Primera Hora de PuertoRico newspaper.

The paper showed a pictureof the ex-boxer on a hospitalgurney, with an oxygen maskand tubes, covered by blood-soaked covers. It said he was

unconscious.Camacho was one of the

most colorful boxers of the1980s.

He has a career record of79-6-3 with 38 knockouts, andover his career he took on allcomers, including big nameslike Roberto Duran, Oscar DeLa Hoya, Julio Cesar Chavez,Sugar Ray Leonard, FelixTrinidad, Ray Mancini, andGreg Haugen.

Earlier this year, US policecharged Camacho with childabuse for allegedly slamminghis son into a floor at his ex-

'Macho' Camacho fighting for life after shooting

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Japan'sKuroda toremainwith Yankees

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