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To: FaultLine who wrote (12100)	10/13/2003 3:57:34 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793677

Exile Opposition: Iran Hiding Another Nuke Site Mon October 13, 2003 11:49 AM ET reuters.com By Louis Charbonneau VIENNA (Reuters) - An Iranian opposition group that has provided accurate information about undeclared nuclear facilities in Iran in the past said on Monday that Tehran has been hiding another nuclear facility from U.N. inspectors. "We have information about another secret nuclear facility in Iran," an official from the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an exiled opposition group, told Reuters. The official gave no details about the site, but said the NCRI would provide full details on Tuesday. In an emailed statement, the NCRI also said it would provide information on Iran's use of foreign technology in its atomic program, as well as details about the Kalaye Electric Co., where U.N. inspectors found traces of weapons-grade uranium. The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declined to comment on the NCRI allegation, though it said it would closely study any information the exiles released about Iran's nuclear plans. "We have no official comment on this report, although we analyze all sources of information very carefully," IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky said. In August 2002, the NCRI broke the news of two undeclared nuclear sites in Iran -- a massive uranium-enrichment complex at Natanz and a heavy-water production facility at Arak. Tehran later declared these facilities to the IAEA, which has placed surveillance cameras at Natanz to ensure that no undeclared nuclear activities take place there. In addition to the uranium found at Kalaye, the IAEA found traces of weapons-grade enriched uranium at Natanz, fueling fears that Iran has been secretly purifying uranium for use in an atomic bomb. Tehran denies it secretly enriched uranium and blamed the traces on contaminated machinery purchased abroad in the 1980s. The NCRI is a coalition of exiled opposition groups and sees itself as a potential replacement for Islamic rule in Iran. But the State Department lists the NCRI and its armed wing, the People's Mujahideen, as a terrorist organization. In August, the U.S. government shut down the NCRI's Washington offices after determining it was not distinct from the Mujahideen which was backed by former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Last month the governing board of the IAEA gave Iran until October 31 to prove it is not diverting nuclear resources to a secret weapons program, as the United States alleges, or face sanctions by the U.N. Security Council. IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei has been invited to Tehran on Thursday, though an agency spokeswoman said he had not decided yet whether he would accept.

To: FaultLine who wrote (12100)	10/13/2003 4:27:03 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793677

I’ll get a check cashed... Do we go out on this joke? Well, Arnold "had the Indians for lunch!" lindybill@thatsenough.com

To: FaultLine who wrote (12100)	10/13/2003 7:20:16 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793677

As long as Arnold is Front page news on the East Coast, I will keep posting the Sacramento doings. From the Blog of the guy who knows what is going on. ________________________________________ California Insider A Weblog by Sacramento Bee Columnist Daniel Weintraub October 13, 2003 Arnold eyes financier for chief of staff Russell Gould, managing director of MetWest Financial and a former official in the Pete Wilson Administration, is a leading candidate to serve as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s chief of staff, my sources tell me. Another way of putting that: the Schwarzenegger braintrust would love to have Gould, but it's not clear at all that he would like the job. Gould long ago left the government grind behind for the rarified air of corporate finance, also serving for a time as senior vice president at the J. Paul Getty Trust. But if Gould could be coaxed out of his high-paying Los Angeles job for a return gig in Sacramento, he would be an interesting choice. He was Wilson’s first Health and Welfare Secretary, and in that post oversaw the difficult budget cuts of the early 1990s recession as well as the first pass at welfare reform in California, long before it emerged as a big national issue. At the same time he helped Wilson fashion a “preventive agenda” aimed at getting kids off to a good start in life with prenatal care, early childhood health care and other school-based programs. In short, he helped Wilson shape a compassionate conservative agenda for California before George W. Bush ever heard of the term. Both the compassion and the conservatism would probably appeal to California’s new governor, who must find a way to make serious cuts in programs while also living up to his promise to make children’s issues the top social priority of his administration. Gould, who was also finance director for Wilson, was never known as a terribly political animal, though, judging by his rise from state bureaucrat to high-flying financier in less than a decade, he obviously knows a thing or two about dealing with people. Los Angeles-based MetWest reportedly has more than $50 billion in assets under its management, and its clients include Boeing, Microsoft and the California Public Employees Retirement System. Other names being floated for the top job also have Wilson connections. They include Gary Hunt, a longtime Wilson associate and former vice president of the Irvine Co., and Bill Hauck, a former Wilson special assistant who is currently president of the California Business Roundtable -- a group that opposed the recall. The only non-Wilson name I have heard, former Assembly Speaker Curt Pringle, currently the mayor of Anaheim, seems like a longshot at this point. Posted by dweintraub at 03:25 PM Gray vetoes illegal immigrant tuition bill In one of his final decisions on legislation as governor, Gray Davis late last night vetoed SB 328, which would have allowed low-income illegal immigrants to have their fees waived at California Community Colleges.Here is a PDF file of the governor's veto message. More on this and other last-minute vetoes and signings as the dust settles on about 200 bills Davis acted on over the weekend. sacbee.com

To: FaultLine who wrote (12100)	10/14/2003 3:08:23 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793677

California Insider A Weblog by Sacramento Bee Columnist Daniel Weintraub October 14, 2003 Schwarzenegger and Latinos The Bee's Aurelio Rojas takes a look at Schwarzenegger's potential relationship with the Legislature's Latino caucus, including hints of a possible compromise on driver's licenses. Republican Assemblyman Abel Maldonado also suggests that Schwarzenegger can win 60 percent of the Latino vote if he runs for reelection in 2006. Posted by dweintraub at 07:39 AM October 13, 2003 Arnold eyes financier for chief of staff Russell Gould, managing director of MetWest Financial and a former official in the Pete Wilson Administration, is a leading candidate to serve as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s chief of staff, my sources tell me. Another way of putting that: the Schwarzenegger braintrust would love to have Gould, but it's not clear at all that he would like the job. Gould long ago left the government grind behind for the rarified air of corporate finance, also serving for a time as senior vice president at the J. Paul Getty Trust. But if Gould could be coaxed out of his high-paying Los Angeles job for a return gig in Sacramento, he would be an interesting choice. He was Wilson’s first Health and Welfare Secretary, and in that post oversaw the difficult budget cuts of the early 1990s recession as well as the first pass at welfare reform in California, long before it emerged as a big national issue. At the same time he helped Wilson fashion a “preventive agenda” aimed at getting kids off to a good start in life with prenatal care, early childhood health care and other school-based programs. In short, he helped Wilson shape a compassionate conservative agenda for California before George W. Bush ever heard of the term. Both the compassion and the conservatism would probably appeal to California’s new governor, who must find a way to make serious cuts in programs while also living up to his promise to make children’s issues the top social priority of his administration. Gould, who was also finance director for Wilson, was never known as a terribly political animal, though, judging by his rise from state bureaucrat to high-flying financier in less than a decade, he obviously knows a thing or two about dealing with people. Los Angeles-based MetWest reportedly has more than $50 billion in assets under its management, and its clients include Boeing, Microsoft and the California Public Employees Retirement System. Other names being floated for the top job also have Wilson connections. They include Gary Hunt, a longtime Wilson associate and former vice president of the Irvine Co., and Bill Hauck, a former Wilson special assistant who is currently president of the California Business Roundtable -- a group that opposed the recall. The only non-Wilson name I have heard, former Assembly Speaker Curt Pringle, currently the mayor of Anaheim, seems like a longshot at this point. Posted by dweintraub at 03:25 PM Gray vetoes illegal immigrant tuition bill In one of his final decisions on legislation as governor, Gray Davis late last night vetoed SB 328, which would have allowed low-income illegal immigrants to have their fees waived at California Community Colleges.Here is a PDF file of the governor's veto message. More on this and other last-minute vetoes and signings as the dust settles on about 200 bills Davis acted on over the weekend. sacbee.com