National Desk
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WASHINGTON
CHENEY NAMES LIBBY SUCCESSORS
Vice President Cheney yesterday named attorney David Addington as his chief of staff and John Hannah as his national security adviser. Both positions had been filled by I. Lewis Libby, who resigned Friday when he was indicted on perjury and other charges in a 22-month investigation of the unmasking of an undercover CIA officer. Mr. Addington has been Mr. Cheney’s counsel and Mr. Hannah has been his deputy national security adviser.
Mr. Cheney’s former chief of staff faces the first court appearance in his CIA leak case Thursday.
– Associated Press
PARKS HONORED AT CAPITOL
Americans paid tribute yesterday to Rosa Parks, with more than 30,000 filing silently by her casket in the Capitol Rotunda and a military honor guard saluting the woman whose defiant act on a city bus inspired the modern civil rights movement. Senate Majority Leader Frist, a Republican of Tennessee, accompanied new Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito and his family to the Rotunda, where they paused in silent remembrance. Several senators joined the procession.
– Associated Press
TAX REFORM PANEL TO PRESENT RECOMMENDATIONS
President Bush’s advisory panel on tax reform will present its official recommendations to Treasury Secretary Snow today, issuing its final report and conclusive analysis of how the American tax code ought to be streamlined and restructured. The chairman and vice chairman of the panel, a former Florida Republican senator, Connie Mack, and a former Louisiana Democratic senator, John Breaux, will discuss the group’s findings at a midday event in the Treasury Department’s diplomatic reception room.
The bipartisan, nine-member panel was created by the president in January, and tasked with making American taxation simpler and fairer. At a meeting last month, the panel indicated that it would advocate abolishing the alternative minimum tax and the federal deduction for state and local income taxes, among other recommendations.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
NORTHEAST
TRANSIT UNIONS STRIKE
PHILADELPHIA – Commuters who rely on the city’s buses, subways, and trolleys were forced to walk, hitch rides, and take taxis to work yesterday after thousands of city transit workers went on strike. In a city where one in three households lacks a car, about 920,000 trips are taken on a typical weekday along the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority lines shut down by the strike.
– Associated Press
SOUTH
OFFICIALS TELL FLA. CHILDREN TO STAY IN AFTER DARK
MIAMI – Lingering safety concerns a week after Hurricane Wilma struck meant a curtailed Halloween yesterday for most South Florida children. Government officials urged parents to not let their children trick-or-treat after dark because of power outages and fallen power lines that still affect much of the area a week after the storm struck.
– Associated Press