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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (50685)	9/20/2005 6:53:44 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 59480

Merkel Gets Boost as Germans Seek to Form New Government E-Mail This Printer-Friendly Reprints Save Article By RICHARD BERNSTEIN Published: September 20, 2005 BERLIN, Sept. 20 - Angela Merkel, who is trying, despite a disappointing election result, to be named the next German chancellor, received a boost from within her own ranks today when she was reaffirmed leader of her parliamentary faction by a near unanimous vote. The vote, following Mrs. Merkel's poor election results Sunday, was seen as a first concrete indication of whether or not she would retain strong support from within her party, the Christian Democratic Union. There has been criticism of the campaign Mrs. Merkel waged, and some leaders of her party clearly blame her for failing to gain what was supposed to be a strong victory for the C.D.U. Since the elections, in which neither the C.D.U. nor its main rival, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party, got a majority, both Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Schröder have claimed they won a mandate to head a new government. Mr. Schröder seems intent on weakening Mrs. Merkel politically, declaring himself the election's rightful winner and refusing to allow his party to enter into a "grand coalition" with the C.D.U. unless he remains at its head as chancellor. Mrs. Merkel could well suffer a loss of support from within her own party in the weeks ahead, especially if she proves unable to form a governing coalition. But for the moment, the informal vote of confidence that she won today - she received 222 of the 225 votes cast - suggests that the party has chosen to give her something close to unanimous support as she faces a kind of duel to the finish with Mr. Schröder, as many see it. "In a situation such as this, the party has to come together," a C.S.U. member of Parliament, Horst Seehofer, said in an interview with the Bloomberg news agency. "The parliamentary group today demonstrated what that means." Mrs. Merkel was shown on television immediately after the vote in a show of unity with Edmund Stoiber, the head of the C.D.U.'s sister party in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union, and a bitter rival of Mrs. Merkel in the past. "We bear the responsibility to form a stable government with a capability to act," Mr. Stoiber said. Mrs. Merkel said, "My party is facing a complicated challenge, but this is a solvable challenge." Though Mrs. Merkel failed to win a majority, her party, with 225 seats in the 600-member Parliament, is the biggest single bloc, and German political practice normally gives the leader of the largest parliamentary faction the authority to try to form a government. This is what Mrs. Merkel will now attempt to do, announcing today that she is beginning formal talks with other parties with the goal of creating a governing coalition. But Mr. Schröder, in insisting that he should be chancellor, despite getting fewer votes than Mrs. Merkel, has seemed to place an insurmountable obstacle in what would otherwise be the most natural way for Mrs. Merkel to form a majority - by persuading the Social-Democrats to join her in a "grand coalition." However, a senior member of Mr. Schröder's party hinted today that eventually there could be a grand coalition without Mr. Schröder as chancellor. "Under certain conditions, yes, but these conditions are not yet in place," the Social Democratic mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, said of that possibility in a radio interview. Mr. Wowereit's comments, while quickly disavowed by the Social Democratic leadership, were nonetheless taken by some analysts as pointing to a possible solution to the current impasse. In such a coalition, both Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Schröder would relinquish their claims to the chancellorship in favor of another candidate agreeable to both their parties.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (50685)	9/20/2005 11:51:22 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 59480

only in BLUE state:Ore. Girls Charged With Attempted Murder By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: September 20, 2005 Filed at 11:13 p.m. ET KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) -- Two girls were charged with attempted murder Tuesday after authorities said they put rat poison into milk cartons of two fellow students. No one was seriously hurt in the incident. Both girls were being held at a juvenile detention facility. ''The investigation reveals there was some premeditation and thought before the act,'' said Lake County District Attorney David Schutt. ''It wasn't a spur-of-the-moment event.'' He did not elaborate on any possible motive. Stephanie Quesnoy, 12, and Holley Sweeney, 13, are accused of putting the poison in the milk cartons during lunch hour Monday at Daly Middle School, authorities said. The school's principal notified police after the green, crystalline pellets of poison were found in the cartons. ''It wasn't until they finished their milk that they saw it at the bottom,'' Schutt said. ''I don't think it had time to work its way into the milk.'' The two victims and one of the suspects -- who may have accidentally gotten some of the poison in her own milk -- were evaluated at a hospital and released, Schutt said. A hearing was scheduled Monday.