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PAKISTAN: Obama’s drone speech addressed Islamabad’s main concerns over program. | 4B

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama left plenty of ambi-guity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself signifi cant power over how and when the

weapons can be deployed.National security observers say

it’s imperative to leave some room in the guidelines, given the evolv-ing fi ght against terrorism. But civil rights advocates argue too little has been revealed about the program to ensure its legality, even as the president takes steps to re-

move some of the secrecy.“Obama said that there would

be more limits on targeted killings, a step in the right direction,” said Kenneth Roth, executive direc-tor at Human Rights Watch. “But a mere promise that the US will work within established guidelines that remain secret provides little

confi dence that the U.S. is comply-ing with international law.”

An unclassifi ed version of the newly established drone guide-lines was made public Thursday in conjunction with Obama’s wide-ranging address on U.S. coun-terterrorism policies. Congress’ Intelligence committees and the

Capitol Hill leadership have been briefed on the more detailed, clas-sifi ed policies, but because those documents are secret, there’s no way to know how much more clar-ity they provide.

The president has already been

Obama’s drone sanctions provide limits, ambiguityBY JULIE PACEAssociated Press

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VIENNA — The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nu-clear bomb depends on the Unit-ed States and its allies for most of its intelligence, complicating the agency’s efforts to produce fi nd-ings that can be widely accepted by the international community.

Much of the world looks at U.S. intelligence on weapons develop-ment with a suspicious eye, given American claims a decade ago that Iraq had developed weap-ons of mass destruction. The U.S. used those claims to justify a war; Iraq, it turned out, had no such weapons.

The International Atomic En-

ergy Agency insists that it is objective in evaluating Iran’s nuclear program and that its in-formation comes from a wide range of sources and is carefully vetted. But about 80 percent of the intelligence comes from the United States and its allies, The Associated Press has been told.

Two IAEA offi cials, who gave the 80 percent fi gure, told The AP that the agency has been forced to rely more and more on informa-tion from Iran’s harshest critics — the U.S., Israel, Britain, France and Germany — because Tehran refuses to cooperate with interna-tional inspectors.

Their evaluation appeared to be the fi rst in percentage terms. The offi cials demanded anonymity

because they are not authorized to release classifi ed information.

All fi ve nations accuse Iran of having worked on nuclear arms, with Israel and the U.S. not ruling out force as a last resort if diplo-macy fails to curb programs that Tehran could use for such weap-ons.

France and Germany refrained from joining the Iraq invasion, insisting U.S. intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s purported weapons program was inconclu-sive.

Intelligence services of other nations, such as Pakistan, China or Russia, also collect informa-tion on Iran. But they are compro-

UN agency’s Iran probe driven by US-led intelBY GEORGE JAHN

Associated Press

Associated Press

Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, attends an IAEA board of governors meeting March 6 at the International Center in Vienna. The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its intel-ligence information, complicating the agency’s efforts to produce findings that can be widely accepted by the international commu-nity.

WASHINGTON — Reading, writing, arithmetic — and PE?

The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that PE become a core subject.

The report, released Thursday, says only about half of the na-tion’s youngsters are getting at least an hour of vigorous or mod-erate-intensity physical activity every day.

Another concern, the report says, is that 44 percent of school administrators report slashing big chunks of time from physical education, arts and recess since the passage of the No Child Left Behind law in 2001 in order to boost classroom time for reading and math.

With childhood obesity on the rise — about 17 percent of chil-dren ages 2 through 19 are obese — and kids spending much of the day in the classroom, the chair-man of the committee that wrote the report said schools are the best place to help shape up the nation’s children.

“Schools for years have been re-sponsible for various health pro-grams such as nutrition, break-fast and lunch, immunizations, screenings,” Harold W. Kohl III, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Texas School of Public Health, said in an inter-view with The Associated Press.

“Physical activity should be placed alongside those programs to make it a priority for us as a so-ciety,” he said.

The report calls on the Educa-tion Department to recommend that PE be adopted as a core sub-ject.

It says physical education in school is the “only sure opportu-

Report: Nation’s kids needactivity

BY JENNIFER C. KERRAssociated Press

The solemn ritual plays out doz-ens of times every day with a neat-ly folded fl ag, a crisp salute and one more goodbye to a fast-fading generation of soldiers, sailors and Marines.

These were the men who made history in places such as Nor-mandy and Anzio, Iwo Jima and Peleliu, vets who came home and helped build highways and hous-es, toiled in factories and offi ces, even launched their own compa-nies. They were the ones lucky enough to see their hair turn sil-ver, to dance at their children’s weddings, to cuddle their grand-children.

But the ranks of World War II vets are shrinking. The youngest are now in their mid-80s. About 650 die each day. Beyond these numbers, there are individual sto-ries of ordinary lives shaped by an extraordinary chapter.

The fi rst seven days in May offer a small glimpse. Among the many who died in that one week were fi ve veterans who took vastly dif-ferent journeys in life. They were men who had business savvy, ar-tistic gifts and heroic careers — and in some cases, men who fi nal-ly came to terms with the world they left behind long ago.

Here are their stories

Morton Tuller devoted his life to celebrating others, creating tro-phies and awards honoring a job well done at school, at work or on

Ranks of WWIIvets shrinking

BY SHARON COHENAssociated Press

Heroes fading, not forgotten

Associated Press

Richard Lang, whose right leg was amputated, is escorted up the flight stairs by Marine First Sgt. Wade Jensen in May 2008 at Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Neb. during an Honor Flight to Washington for World War II veterans. Bill Williams, whose company sponsored the event, advised him there was a steep set of plane stairs. “I made my big mistake,” Williams recalls. “I said, ‘We will carry you.’ ... He said, ‘Listen pal, I haven’t been carried since Guam.’” Lang said he’d sit on his bottom and lift him-self step by step. Williams didn’t want it to seem that no one wanted to help him. A compromise was reached. Lang gripped the railing as a Marine in dress blues escorted him.

NEW YORK — This summer, high rollers are fl ying to lavish hot spots for their vacations. The rest of us are driving to less luxu-rious places like nearby camp-grounds.

The good news: At some U.S. campgrounds these days you get live bands, air guitar contests and chocolate pudding slip ’n slides.

Americans’ plans for summer travel mirror the current state of the economy. Rising home prices and a soaring stock market are encouraging those at the top of

the income ladder to take more extravagant trips. But large seg-ments of the population are stay-ing close to home because wages are stagnant, rents are high and the end of the payroll tax holiday has shrunk their take-home pay.

For a travel industry still sting-ing from the Great Recession,

that likely means another sum-mer of steady, but slow, recovery.

AAA, one of the nation’s larg-est leisure travel agencies, isn’t expecting a resounding start to vacation season this Memorial Day. Citing the “up and down

Summer travel forecast: Improved but no blowoutBY JONATHAN FAHEY

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James Capps gives his grand-son, Billy, his first salute in 2010 when he was commis-sioned as a second lieutenant at the North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega, Ga. For James Capps, World War II was the start of a dis-tinguished military career: two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. Please see HEROES | 5B

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SEATTLE — Thousands of bridges around the U.S. may be one freak accident or mistake away from col-lapse, even if the spans are deemed structurally sound.

The crossings are kept standing by engineering design, not supported with brute strength or redun-dant protections like their more modern counterparts. Bridge regulators call the more risky spans “fracture critical,” meaning that if a single, vital component of the bridge is compromised, it can crumple.

Those vulnerable cross-ing carry millions of drivers every day. In Boston, a six-lane highway 1A near Logan airport includes a “fracture critical” bridge over Ben-nington Street. In northern Chicago, an I-90 pass that goes over Ashland Avenue is in the same category. An

I-880 bridge over 5th Av-enue in Oakland, Calif., is also on the list.

Also in that category is the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River north of Se-attle, which collapsed into the water days ago after offi -cials say an oversized truck load clipped the steel truss.

Public offi cials have fo-cused in recent years on the desperate need for money to repair thousands of bridges deemed structur-ally defi cient, which typi-cally means a major por-tion of the bridge is in poor condition or worse. But the bridge that collapsed Thursday is not in that de-fi cient category, highlight-ing another major problem with the nation’s infrastruc-ture: Although it’s rare, some bridges deemed to be fi ne structurally can still be crippled if they are struck hard enough in the wrong spot.

“It probably is a bit of a

fl uke in that sense,” said Charles Roeder, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Univer-sity of Washington.

While the I-5 truck’s cargo suffered only mini-mal damage, it left chaos in its wake, with two vehicles catapulting off the edge of the broken bridge into the river below. Three people involved escaped with non-life threatening injuries.

The most famous failure of a fracture critical bridge was the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis during rush hour on Aug. 1, 2007, killing 13 people and injuring more than 100 others. The National Trans-portation Safety Board con-cluded that the cause of the collapse was an error by the bridge’s designers — a gus-set plate, a key component of the bridge, was too thin. The plate was only half of the required one-inch thickness. —AP

Thousands of bridges at risk of freak collapse

BY JOAN LOWY AND MIKE BAKER

Associated Press

Associated Press

A collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge lies Friday in the Skagit River at Mount Vernon, Wash. A truck carrying an oversize load struck the four-lane bridge on the ma-jor thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below on Thursday evening.

ANNANDALE-ON-HUD-SON, N.Y. — Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords urged a group of newly minted college graduates on Saturday to change the world — starting tomorrow.

The former Arizona con-gresswoman and her hus-band, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, addressed graduates at Bard College.

Giffords was among 13 people wounded in a Janu-ary 2011 shooting outside a Tucson, Ariz., supermarket that left six others dead. The Democrat resigned from Congress a year later.

Kelly spoke fi rst, with Giffords offering a brief ad-

dress and receiving and an honorary Doctorate of Hu-mane Letters.

Giffords told the more than 600 graduates at Bard that their “future shines bright.”

“Starting tomorrow you can change the world,” Gif-fords said. “The nation’s counting on you to create, to lead, to innovate — but today we are celebrating you. Be bold, be coura-geous, be your best.”

As he introduced his wife, Kelly told the gradu-ates Giffords is still making progress in her recovery from the 2011 shooting.

“I know that someday soon, Gabby will be giving

these speeches in their en-tirety,” he said.

Kelly spoke about the couple’s new political ac-tion committee, Americans for Responsible Gun Con-trol, that seeks to limit the size of ammunition maga-zines and expand back-ground checks for gun pur-chases.

Kelly said the organiza-tion is focused on keeping communities safer while protecting the Second Amendment.

He said since the shoot-ing at Sandy Hook el-ementary last December, Giffords has been more in-volved in the movement for sensible gun control. —AP

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BOSTON — Rosy Sprak-er was only a half-mile from the fi nish line of her seventh Boston Marathon when the bombs went off. She received her medal later in the mail at her Lorton, Va., home. But she couldn’t bring herself to wear it until Saturday, when she and thousands of other athletes joined victims of the blast to run and walk the last mile of the race.

“Now I feel like I’ve earned my medal,” Sprak-er said, beaming, after she crossed the Boylston Street fi nish line, encour-aged by a cheering crowd. “I wanted to run for the victims, for freedom, to show the world that noth-ing is going to stop us.”

“Somebody that thinks that they’re going to stop a marathoner from run-ning doesn’t understand the mentality of a mara-thoner,” said her husband, Lesley, after he placed the medal around Spraker’s neck.

On April 15, explosions near the fi nish line killed three people and wound-ed more than 260.

On Saturday morn-ing, about 3,000 runners and bombing victims gathered in light rain to run the fi nal mile of the world’s oldest annual marathon, said Kathleen McGonagle, spokeswom-an for those organizing the event known as On-eRun.

OneRun honors victims and emergency workers and allows runners to re-claim the fi nal mile, McG-

onagle said.“For the runner that

didn’t get the chance to fi nish the marathon, this is the chance for them to experience the fi nal mile that was taken away from them,” McGonagle said.

For many runners, it was also a chance to heal from the events of that harrow-

ing day.“It was very emotional

to run down this street and see all the people cheer-ing,” said OneRun orga-nizer J. Alain Ferry, who was prevented from com-pleting his ninth consecu-tive Boston Marathon on April 15 and ran the fi nal mile Saturday. —AP

Thousands walk, run final mile of Boston Marathon

BY AMY CRAWFORDAssociated Press

Associated Press

Rachel (left) and Pam Vingsness of Newton, Mass., hug each other after crossing the finish line Saturday in Boston. Runners who were unable to finish the Bos-ton Marathon on April 15 because of the bombings were allowed to finish the last mile of the race.

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using some of the guide-lines to determine when to launch drone strikes, ad-ministration offi cials said. Codifying the strictest stan-dards, they argue, will ulti-mately reduce the number of approved attacks.

Among the newly pub-lic rules is a preference for capturing suspects instead of killing them, which gives the U.S. an opportu-nity to gather intelligence and disrupt terrorist plots. The guidelines also state that a target must pose a continuing and imminent threat to the U.S.

However, the public guidelines don’t spell out how the U.S. determines whether capture is feasi-ble, nor does it defi ne what constitutes an imminent threat.

Former State Depart-ment offi cial James An-drew Lewis said Obama must retain some fl exibil-ity, given the fl uid threats facing the U.S.

“The use of force and en-gagement of force always require a degree of discre-tion,” said Lewis, now a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Interna-tional Studies. “We don’t

want to change that.”The guidelines also

mandate that the U.S. have “near certainty” that no civilians will be killed in a strike. Civilian deaths, par-ticularly in Pakistan, have angered local populations and contributed to a rise in anti-American sentiments in the volatile region.

Shahzad Akbar, a Paki-stani lawyer who has fi led many court cases on behalf of drone victims’ families, said that while he appre-ciated Obama’s concern about civilian casualties, he wasn’t confi dent the new guidelines would change U.S. actions.

“The problem remains the same because there is no transparency and ac-countability for the CIA because it will remain in-side the system and not be visible to outsiders,” he said.

Obama, in his most ex-pansive discussion of the drone program, said in his speech Thursday to the National Defense Univer-sity that he is haunted by the unintentional deaths. But he argued that target-ed strikes result in fewer civilian deaths than indis-criminate bombing cam-paigns. —AP

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ISLAMABAD — Presi-dent Barack Obama’s de-cision to impose more re-strictive rules governing U.S. drone strikes and his prediction that they will be used less could pave the way for better relations with the new government of key ally Pakistan, offi -cials and analysts said Fri-day.

Obama fell short of Paki-stani demands to announce an end to the attacks, but his landmark speech Thursday was seen as ad-dressing some of Islam-abad’s main concerns over the covert CIA drone pro-gram targeting militants in the country’s northwest tribal region along the Af-ghan border.

The strikes are extremely unpopular in Pakistan be-cause they are widely be-lieved to regularly kill large numbers of civilians — a claim the U.S. says is exag-gerated. The Pakistani gov-ernment also criticizes the attacks as a violation of its sovereignty. Senior civilian and military offi cials are known to have supported at least some of the past strikes in secret but claim

that is no longer the case.Obama cast the drone

strikes as crucial to U.S. counterterrorism efforts and said they have deci-mated al-Qaida’s core leadership in Pakistan’s tribal region. But he ac-knowledged that they are

not a “cure-all” and would likely decline as the U.S. withdrew its combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

The president said there was a wide gap between U.S. assessments of civil-ian casualties from drone

strikes and those counts produced by non-govern-mental organizations. But he admitted that civilian deaths have occurred and said they will haunt him and those in his chain of command “as long as we live.” —AP

Obama’s drone speech opens doors BY SEBASTIAN ABBOT

Associated Press

Associated Press

President Barack Obama talks about national security Thursday at the National De-fense University at Fort McNair in Washington. The president left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself vast power over how and when the weapons can be deployed.

WASHINGTON — Presi-dent Barack Obama’s pledge to more narrowly restrict and monitor the country’s use of drones to strike targets overseas may garner some applause from allies abroad. But he was careful not to over-promise, signaling that the CIA’s covert war in Paki-stan is likely to continue at least for now.

Obama acknowledged this week that U.S. drone attacks are not a cure-all in the fi ght against terror-ists. And he put America on a course to slowly pull out of the once-renowned global war on terror and focus more intently on a military, intelligence and law enforcement cam-paign against suspected terrorists.

Some questions and an-swers about the program:

Q: What are they?A: The U.S. has an ex-

tensive fl eet of remotely piloted vehicles, known as drones, but it relies most heavily for targeted strikes on the Predators and Reapers, which are armed with Hellfi re missiles. They are controlled from as far away as the U.S., but also from bases closer to the war zones, including

Djibouti and Sicily.Q: Who conducts drone

strikes?A: The U.S. military has

routinely conducted drone strikes in war zones, in-cluding a bit more than 500 in Afghanistan last year, an increase over the 2011 number of nearly 300. Those drone strikes are largely known and are part of the military’s warf-ighting effort. The CIA, meanwhile, conducts its own, more secret drone war, mainly concentrat-ing on strikes in Pakistan’s border region, as well as some in Yemen, where the military has also conduct-ed some operations.

Q: How big is the CIA

program?A: While the govern-

ment does not disclose details about the classifi ed program, independent groups have collected data on the CIA drone strikes. The best estimates are that the CIA, has conduct-ed more than 350 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004 and, along with the military, has conducted fewer than 100 total in Yemen and Somalia. U.S. offi cials have only rarely referred to the agency’s secret drone program publicly, but there is now a shift to transfer author-ity for drone strikes to the military for all but those conducted in Pakistan and

Yemen. Estimates sug-gest that as many as 3,000 people have been killed by U.S. drones since 2004, the majority in Pakistan. The group New America Foundation estimates that roughly 21 percent of those killed are believed to be nonmilitants. —AP

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the athletic fi eld.His own accomplish-

ments as a young soldier in the Army Signal Corps were medal-worthy, but Tuller kept his success se-cret much of his life. As a cryptologist, he had a high-security-clearance job de-ciphering American codes sent ship-to-ship in the Eu-ropean and Pacifi c theaters. For decades, he told no one, not even his wife, about his work on Navy ships that landed in Sicily, southern France, north Africa, Oki-nawa and Iwo Jima.

Tuller kept his wartime vow of silence for more than half a century. Then a public TV show featured a machine he’d used for mes-sage encryption. He fi gured it was OK to discuss the past — and time to collect medals he’d never received. A local Arizona congress-man helped him cut red tape. And at age 79, Tuller was, for once, a recipient of honors himself. In all, he received six medals, one ribbon and 10 battle stars.

Despite his record, Tuller was remarkably modest. When he spoke of the war, “he talked about it matter-of-factly,” says his son, Howard. “He’d say, ‘This is what was asked of us. This is what we did.’ He wasn’t more or less a hero than anyone else.”

But he made it clear he’d endured a terrifying ordeal. Howard recalls his father would say, “‘You can’t pos-sibly imagine what it was like. Every gun on the ship would be going off. There’s nowhere to hide. People are trying to kill you. Kamikaze pilots are fl ying low. Ships are shooting at one another.

It was just madness.’”Tuller’s years in uniform

were just part of his eclec-tic life. A born storyteller, Tuller always had a joke or magic trick, loved marching in parades (he played bass drum in a bagpipe band) and carried a pocketful of silver dollars he’d hand out to anyone and everyone. At family gatherings, he was everyone’s favorite Uncle Morty.

Tuller’s professional ca-reer started early, and im-probably, for a shy son of struggling eastern Euro-pean immigrants. At age 15, he reluctantly auditioned in Chicago for a role in a trav-eling stage production as one of the “Dead End Kids,” a group of street-smart toughs in the 1930s.

In his nine-month tour, Tuller and the other “kids”

had tea with Eleanor Roos-evelt and as part of publicity events, were fi ngerprinted by then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and walked across the Golden Gate bridge on its opening day. He never returned to acting, but “being on the stage real-ly changed his life,” his son says. “When the spotlight was on, he was at his best.”

After the war, Tuller mar-ried and was an early TV pioneer at WBKB in Chi-cago, working as an on-air host and behind-the-scenes producer. He tried his hand in Hollywood, hoping to sell a TV detective series, but eventually settled in Tucson and later started his trophy business.

Howard Tuller says his parents were a dynamic duo.

Mort could chat up any-

one. Sylvia, a graduate of The Art Institute in Chi-cago, was the creative soul, the engraver who made orders happen. She died in 1987.

But Tuller was a keen businessman, too. During a White House tour in the 1970s, his son says, his fa-ther noticed a hard-to-read nameplate below a portrait of John F. Kennedy. He vol-unteered to send a new one to the curator and contin-ued to supply others over two decades, Howard adds.

Tuller created trophies and awards for 35 years. When he died just weeks shy of his 92nd birthday, he was buried with a spe-cial tribute to his past: his favorite blue-and-white cap embroidered with the words “WW II. 10 Battle Stars.” —AP

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Veteran Bernard Adamski stands in front of an American flag in April 2007 in Buf-falo, N.Y. Adamski, an Army Air Corps radio operator and turret gunner in World War II, was captured by the Germans in July 1944, after his B-26 bomber was shot down. The next 10 months were a constant fight for survival: First, the Stalag Luft IV prison camp in what is now Poland. Next, a forced three-month march of more than 600 miles, in the cold during which he used his Polish-speaking ability to ask for loaves of bread. Then, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where bodies were stacked high. Weeks later, another march. Finally, liberation by the British in May 1945.

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Former Vietnam POW Orson Swindle (right) gets a hug from Jim Janeway as he arrives to celebrate the 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs on Thursday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif.

YORBA LINDA, Calif. — U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Doug Burns was on a night reconnaissance mission searching for enemy trucks when he was shot down by anti-aircraft fi re and taken prisoner during the Viet-nam War.

Burns broke three verte-brae when he ejected into a fl ooded rice paddy and spent the fi rst weeks of his captiv-ity strapped to a concrete pallet and then months at a time in solitary confi nement. His wife and three children didn’t know for years if he was alive — and when he arrived home six and a half years later, Burns learned his wife was leaving him.

“It was hard to take, but that’s what it was,” said Burns, who is now 78 and remarried.

“You pay your money, you

take your chances. There’s nothing you can do about it,” said Burns, who still walks with a pronounced limp. “At least I’m alive. There are a lot of guys who aren’t.”

On Thursday, Burns and 200 other Vietnam-era POWs, almost all of them former pilots, reunited for a three-day celebration at the Richard Nixon Presiden-tial Library & Museum that coincides with the 40th an-niversary of a star-studded White House dinner hosted by President Nixon to honor their sacrifi ce.

At the time, Nixon was embroiled in Watergate, but the former prisoners — now in their 60s and 70s — credit him with their freedom after nearly 600 were released in the spring of 1973. Nixon resigned a little more than a year after the dinner as he faced near-certain impeach-ment. —AP

Library hostsPOW reunion

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mised by the fact that their governments or individuals provided the equipment or knowledge in the past that allowed Iran to develop its nuclear program.

Today, they are reluctant to pass on what they know to the agency for political reasons — they want to be viewed as above the fray. They also view the IAEA more as technical organiza-tion and less as the U.N.’s nonproliferation watchdog, a role the agency has in-creasingly assumed with its Iran probe.

That leaves the U.S. and its allies as the IAEA’s main intelligence sources.

Critics invoke the Iraq fi -asco to warn that the infor-mation on Iran provided by Tehran’s adversaries may be at best inaccurate and at worst spin, meant to pave the way for possible attack.

“Memories of the failure and tragic mistakes in Iraq are not taken suffi ciently seriously,” Hans Blix, a former IAEA chief, told re-porters in Dubai in March.

“There is no evidence right now that suggests that Iran is producing nu-clear weapons,” said Blix, who headed the team that combed Iraq in the vain search for weapons of mass destruction.

Tehran has played on the credibility gap left by Iraq as it insists it is not inter-ested in nuclear weapons, even as it pursues a pro-gram that is near the ability to make them.

Asked about the infor-mation on which the ac-cusations against Iran are based, Ali Asghar Solta-nieh, Iran’s chief delegate to the IAEA, urged the world to pay heed to “les-sons learned from Iraq” in comments to the AP.

In a November 2011 re-port that summarized its suspicions, the IAEA said that all its intelligence on Iran “has been carefully and critically examined.” But its ability to vet infor-mation has been hampered by Iran’s refusal to give ex-perts access to sites, docu-ments and people the IAEA suspects of involvement in

possible weapons research.Such access effective-

ly ended more than fi ve years ago when Tehran an-nounced it had answered all questions which it is obliged to under an agree-ment worked out with the U.N. agency. That has left the agency mostly depen-dent on outside intelli-gence — and has reduced its means of crosschecking that intelligence.

A cable from the U.S. mission to the agency citing IAEA chief Yukiya Amano telling mission offi cials that he is “solidly in the U.S. court” on Iran — pub-lished by Wikileaks in 2009 — also helps those arguing that the case against Teh-ran could be overblown.

International concerns about Iran’s nuclear inten-tions date to the fall of the Shah in 1979. Those con-cerns resurfaced shortly be-fore the 2003 Iraq invasion when U.S. spy satellites verifi ed claims by Iran’s ex-iled opposition that Tehran was assembling a uranium enrichment program at Na-tanz, in central Iran. —AP

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economy,” AAA expects 31.2 million Americans to hit the road this weekend, virtually the same number as last year.

Here’s what vacationers can expect:

■ Gas prices about the same as last year. The national average price of gasoline was $3.65 a gal-lon Friday, 1 cent higher than during last year’s Memorial Day weekend. Tom Kloza, chief oil ana-lyst at GasBuddy.com, ex-pects prices to drift lower after the holiday and fall close to last summer’s low of $3.33 per gallon before hurricane season starts to drag them up again.

■ More expensive hotel rooms. The average hotel will cost $112.21, before taxes and any other add-on such as resort fees. That’s up 4.4 percent from last year’s $107.52, ac-cording to hotel research fi rm STR. Hotels are also expected to be slightly full-er, with occupancy rates

climbing from 69.3 percent last summer to 70 percent this year.

■ Packed planes, steady airfare. Airlines for Amer-ica, the industry’s lobby group, expects 208.7 mil-lion people to fl y, up 1 percent from last year. Do-mestic fl iers will pay $421 on average for a round trip ticket, down $6 from last summer. International fl i-ers will pay $1,087, up $8 according to the Airlines Reporting Corp.

■ Amtrak expects to meet or exceed the 8.3 million passengers it carried last summer. But the taxpayer-backed railroad wouldn’t disclose how fares com-pare with last summer’s average one-way ticket of $66.39.

Mike Klopp, a commer-cial insurance salesman in Irvine, Calif., is starting to feel better about the econ-omy. He and his wife plan to take their three kids on a vacation up the coast to Monterey in August — a trip they skipped last year.

But Klopp says local

trips are the limit because they’re cheaper. Like many others, he’s not yet willing to splurge on a dream va-cation.

“The kids would love to go to Hawaii, but there’s no way I’m going to do that. We’ve been hunker-ing down, money is tight right now,” he says.

“I’m not sold that things are better,” he says.

Other Americans likely agree. Although the unem-ployment rate has dropped to 7.5 percent, compared with a post-recession high of 10 percent, the Federal Reserve doesn’t see it fall-ing below 7.3 percent this year.

And economic growth still isn’t as strong as it has been after previous reces-sions. The economy grew at an annual pace of 2.5 percent from January to March. Economists expect the rate to slow to 2 per-cent from April through June, partly because of the federal budget cuts that started taking effect March 1. —AP

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nity” for youngsters to have access to activity that will help keep them healthy.

The majority of states, about 75 percent, mandate PE, according to the Amer-ican Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recre-ation, and Dance. But most do not require a specifi c amount of time for PE in school, and more than half allow exemptions or sub-stitutions, such as march-ing band, cheerleading and community sports.

Many kids also aren’t go-ing to gym class at school every single day. According to the CDC, only about 30 percent of students nation-wide attend PE classes fi ve days a week.

Specifically, the report recommends

■ All elementary school students should spend an average of 30 minutes each day in PE class.

■ Middle and high school students should spend an average of 45 minutes each day in PE class.

■ State and local offi cials should fi nd ways get chil-dren more physical activity in the school environment.

PE isn’t the sole solution, though.

The report advocates a “whole-of-school” ap-proach where recess and before-and-after-school activities including sports are made accessible to all students to help achieve the 60-minutes-a-day rec-ommendation for physi-cal activity. It could be as simple as having kids walk or bike to school, or fi nd-ing ways to add a physical component to math and science class lessons.

The report also cautions against taking away recess as a form of punishment, and it urges schools to give students frequent class-room breaks.

Schools can do this if they make it a priority, said Paul Roetert, CEO of the Ameri-can Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recre-ation, and Dance.

“We have an obligation to keep kids active,” Roetert said in an interview. “We have research to show that

physical activity helps kids perform better in school. It helps them focus better in the classroom ... and they behave better in school. So there are all kinds of side benefi ts.”

Kitty Porterfi eld, spokes-woman for The School Su-perintendents Association, said nobody is opposed to physical education.

“Everybody would love to see more of it in schools,” said Porterfi eld. “Given the testing and academic pressures for ex-cellence on schools, often physical education slides to the bottom of the bar-rel.”

The idea of putting more of an emphasis on physical education in schools has support in Congress.

Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, plans to introduce the PHYSICAL Act on Thursday. It would recog-nize health education and physical education as core subjects within elementary and secondary schools. Reps. John Lewis, D-Ga., and Jared Polis, D-Colo., will join Fudge as co-spon-sors. —AP

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