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LAWMAKERS WEIGH LETTING PARKS’S REMAINS LIE IN HONOR AT CAPITOL


Black civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks would become the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda under resolutions considered yesterday by lawmakers.


Parks’s refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 led to a 381-day boycott of the city’s bus system and helped spark the modern civil rights movement. She died Monday in Detroit at age 92.


The Senate approved a resolution yesterday allowing her remains to lie in honor in the Rotunda on Sunday and Monday “so that the citizens of the United States may pay their last respects to this great American.” The House was expected to consider the resolution today. In most cases, only presidents, members of Congress and military commanders have been permitted to lie in the Rotunda.


– Associated Press


MIDDLE ATLANTIC


SUICIDE MISTAKEN FOR HALLOWEEN DECORATION


FREDERICA, Del. – The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said. The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said. The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles. State police spokesman Corporal Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank.


– Associated Press


EX-ENGINEER CHARGED WITH SELLING SECRETS


HONOLULU – An engineer who calls himself the father of the technology that protects the B-2 stealth bomber from heat-seeking missiles has been arrested and accused of selling American military secrets involving the aircraft to a foreign country, the FBI said. Noshir Gowadia, 61, of Haiku was arrested Wednesday. According to the FBI, Gowadia in 2002 faxed a document detailing infrared technology classified top secret by the Air Force to a foreign official. He also provided classified information to two other countries, the FBI said.


– Associated Press

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