Chile prepares for attempt to rescue 33 miners
An attempt to rescue 33 miners trapped underground in Chile will begin at midnight on Tuesday (0300 GMT), Mining Minister Laurence Golborne has said.
The BBC 12 October 2010
A test of the steel rescue capsule was earlier carried out successfully, descending almost the whole way down a 622m (2,040ft) shaft, engineers said.The men were trapped in the San Jose mine by a tunnel collapse on 5 August.
Correspondents say there is a sense of excitement on the surface, with the miners’ families counting the hours.
Journalists have flocked to the mine from all over the world to see the freed men emerge from their two-month ordeal.
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Oct 12 2010
Docudharma Times Tuesday October 12
Oct 11 2010
Docudharma Times Monday October 11
How big government should be stirs debate
By Susan Page, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – Americans are having a crisis of confidence in their government.
A majority in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll disapprove of the jobs President Obama and Congress are doing and have unfavorable views of both major political parties. Only half express even a fair amount of trust and confidence in the people who hold or are running for public office. Just one in four are satisfied with the way the nation is being governed.Meanwhile, six in 10 Americans say the government has too much power, and nearly half agree with this alarming statement: “The federal government poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedom of ordinary citizens.”
Oct 10 2010
Docudharma Times Sunday October 10
Breakthrough! Now for 33 very careful rescues
As they say all over Chile: ‘Fuerza mineros!’ – strength to the miners. Guy Adams reports from Camp Hope at San José mine
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Punching the air, as bells and car horns rang out over the San José mine, and grinning from ear to ear, Roxanna Gomez rose from the chair where she’d spent yet another nervous night waiting by the campfire and hugged her family in celebration of a moment they scarcely dared to believe had actually arrived.Shortly after dawn, 66 days after a rockfall trapped her father, Mario, and 32 of his colleagues half a mile beneath the surface of a remote Chilean mine, a team of rescue workers rushed into the tent city they’ve been calling Camp Hope to announce that a drill had finally broken through to the cavern where the men are trapped.ped.
Serb anti-gay protesters attack political party offices
Serbian police have clashed with protesters trying to disrupt a Gay Pride parade in the capital, Belgrade.
The BBC 10 October 2010
Police used tear gas against the rioters, who threw petrol bombs and stones at armed officers and tried to break through a security cordon.A garage attached to the headquarters of the ruling Democratic Party was briefly set on fire, and at least one shot was fired at the building.
Around 40 people were injured, including at least two police officers.
A number of people were arrested.
Oct 09 2010
Docudharma Times Saturday October 9
Gunmen in Pakistan torch nearly 30 NATO fuel tankers
Attacks continue as Khyber Pass border crossing remains closed
By Gul Yusufzai
msnbc.com news services
QUETTA, Pakistan – Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan set fire to nearly 30 tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan on Saturday, an official said.
The attack came two days after the United States apologized to Pakistan for an air raid that killed two Pakistani soldiers and which led Pakistan to close the famous Khyber Pass border crossing.