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THE GLOBAL EDITION OF THE NEW YORK TIMES
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3-4, 2012
GLOBAL.NYTIMES.COM
In last push,
candidates
battle for
swing states
WASHINGTON
Romney and Obama
spar over the message
in latest jobs numbers
BY MICHAEL D. SHEAR
AND CATHERINE RAMPELL
Heading into the homestretch of what
polls suggest is one of the tightest Amer-
ican presidential races in recent history,
President Barack Obama andMitt Rom-
ney renewed their focus on the closest—
and most critical — states after a lull in
the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The
release on Friday of the latest jobs re-
port did little to change the dynamic of
the campaign or the debate surrounding
its key issue, the U.S. economy.
In its final report before the vote Tues-
day, the Labor Department announced
that U.S. employers added 171,000 posi-
tions in October, and more jobs than ini-
tially estimated in both August and
September. The unemployment rate
ticked up slightly to 7.9 percent in Octo-
ber, from 7.8 percent in September.
The report showed persistent but
modest improvement in the American
economy, broad-based gains in just
about every industry except the govern-
ment, and that the economy had finally
added a net number of new jobs during
Mr. Obama’s presidency. But the data
did not provide the kind of unambiguous
boost for the president that he received
last month, when the unemployment
rate dropped unexpectedly from 8.1 per-
cent to 7.8 percent.
The jobs report had the potential to in-
ject an unpredictable, last-minute jolt
into the race. Political strategists inBos-
ton and Chicago — where the two cam-
paigns have their headquarters —
nervously anticipated the impact of the
report, which some viewed as a poten-
tial bombshell that might help sway un-
decided voters.
Instead, the numbers quickly became
fodder for what has become a monthly
ritual around their release — with
Democrats using them to argue that the
economic glass was half-full and Repub-
licans that it was half-empty.
The White House said the jobs report
showed the ‘‘biggest monthly gain in
eight months.’’ In a statement, Alan B.
Krueger, the chairman of the presi-
dent’s Council of Economic Advisers,
said it provided ‘‘further evidence that
the U.S. economy is continuing to heal
from the wounds inflicted by the worst
downturn since the Great Depression.’’
EMMANUEL DUNAND/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
CHEERED INWISCONSIN
Mitt Romney campaigned at a rally in West Allis, Wisconsin, on Friday. He argued that the new
jobs report showing a slight increase in the unemployment rate showed that ‘‘the economy is at a virtual standstill.’’
DOUGMILLS/ THE NEWYORK TIMES
EMBRACED IN OHIO
President Barack Obama met supporters at the Springfield High School gymnasium in Spring-
field, Ohio, on Friday. He used the employment report, with 171,000 new jobs, to argue that his policies were working.
Anger flares as shortages bite
For Iran’s sick, sanctions
turn lethal as
drugs vanish
continued to stagger from the devasta-
tion left by Hurricane Sandy.
Asmore than onemillionNewYorkers
continued to cope with power failures,
even the planned New York City Mara-
thon on Sunday became a source of bitter
derisionwhen news emerged that gener-
ators being used by organizers could
have served hundreds of residences on
Staten Island, the borough that bore the
brunt of the city’s casualties.
The losses to the city and region piled
up heading into the weekend. The death
toll inNewYork City has risen to at least
41. The financial toll will approach $50
billion, according to an early estimate
from economists at Moody’s Analytics
— about $30 billion in property damage,
the rest in lost economic activity like
meals and canceled flights.
Government officials asked for pa-
tience. City departments tried to stave
off the anger by opening help lines,
handing out free meals, updating cit-
izens with progress in restoring ser-
vices and monitoring Twitter feeds,
where they answered residents directly
about their individual commutes. Fees
were waived for bus and subway travel.
And amid the continuing hardships,
there were some positive signs: Some
parts of Lower Manhattan might have
power by the end of Friday, New Jersey
Transit started running partial rail ser-
vice, more of the Metro-North Railroad
system was back and the Staten Island
Ferry started up again. And the Obama
administration took steps to rapidly in-
crease the supply of gasoline and diesel
fuel in the New York area, including lift-
ing rules that prevent certain foreign-
flagged ships from moving gasoline
along the East Coast.
But five days after the storm ravaged
the area, people who were coping with a
variety of problems were becoming ex-
NEW YORK
BY KATE ZERNIKE
AND CHRISTINE HAUSER
Patience was wearing thin on Friday
amid widespread fuel shortages, chilly
homes without electricity and snaking
lines as far as the eye could see for ev-
erything frombuses to food handouts as
many parts of the New York City region
troubles. If you do find some please call
me.’’
Herceptin, like many other Western
made medicines, has become increas-
ingly hard to obtain in Iran following the
American-led sanctions effort meant to
force Iran to stop enriching uranium, a
critical element inwhat theUnited States
says is a nuclear weapons program.
Iranian doctors, patients and officials
say the ban on financial transactions is
so effective that even medicines and
other critical supplies that are exemp-
ted from the sanctions for humanitarian
reasons are no longer exported to the Is-
lamic Republic.
The trade measures have led to wide-
spread shortfalls of imported goods and
a plunge in the value of the national cur-
rency, the rial.
On Friday, as Iranians celebrated the
annual ‘‘Day of Fighting the Global Ar-
rogance,’’ aka theUnited States, student
demonstrators in Tehran carrying an ef-
figy of President Barack Obama handed
out flyers denouncing the sanctions.
Officials here estimate that around
six million patients, the bulk of them
suffering from cancer, are affected by
the shortages.
For Iran’s sick, it amounts to life on
what feels like the front lines of a battle
between governments.
TEHRAN
Medicines are exempt,
but financial restrictions
put halt to many imports
BY THOMAS ERDBRINK
Sitting on one of the many crowded
benches in the waiting room of the In-
ternational Red Crescent’s pharmacy in
central Tehran, Ali, 26, was working his
phone. After nearly six weeks of chas-
ing down batches of Herceptin, an
American-made cancer medicine, the
green-eyed engineer was wearing out
his welcome with friends and relatives
in other Iranian cities, who had done all
they could to rustle up the increasingly
elusive drug.
At home waited his mother, bald and
frail following chemotherapy for her
breast cancer, but Herceptin had disap-
peared from pharmacies and hospitals
in the capital.
‘‘So you are telling me that a phar-
macy in Qazvin has 20 batches left?,’’
Ali asked, talking about a city two
hours’ drive east of Tehran. ‘‘Please buy
whatever you can get your hands on.’’
But five minutes later came the bad
news: ‘‘Gone? O.K., thank you for your
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Expanded coverage of the final days of
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Tawana Perry looking out into a hallway lit only by candles from her apartment in Brook-
lyn. More than one million New Yorkers were still coping with power failures on Friday.
IRAN, PAGE 5
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BUSINESS
U.S. fine likely for U.K. bank
Royal Bank of Scotland reported a net
loss for the third quarter on Friday and
said it would probably face financial
penalties over a broad investigation into
a rate-rigging scandal. The bank,
controlled by the British government,
was the latest financial firm to face fresh
legal troubles this past week.
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Ireland jails former tycoon
A high court sent the former billionaire
Sean Quinn to jail on Friday for failing
to disclose assets held abroad. Mr.
Quinn, who lost his fortune to a bad
banking bet, is the first high-profile
individual to be jailed in connection
with Ireland’s economic crisis.
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Study on tax rates withdrawn
The Congressional Research Service
has withdrawn an economic report that
found no correlation between top tax
rates and economic growth, a central
tenet of conservative economic theory,
after Senate Republicans raised
concerns about its findings.
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WORLDNEWS
West African drug haven
Amilitary coup has turned Guinea-
Bissau into a country where drug
trafficking is approved at the top.
PAGE 8
VIEWS
Paul Krugman
There’s something wrong with the
argument that it is better to vote for
Mitt Romney because he can better
navigate Washington’s ‘‘partisan
gridlock.’’
PAGE 7
Learning from the superstorm
Many of the preparations that New
York took in the face of Hurricane
Sandy could be applied to Asian cities
increasingly threatened with floods,
Judith Rodin writes.
PAGE 6
C.I.A. team reacted in Libya
Officers played a pivotal role in
combating the attackers of the U.S.
diplomatic mission in Benghazi.
PAGE 5
ONLINE
Embracing a Japan in crisis
Last year, as many foreign residents
and even Japanese left Japan for fear of
radiation from the Fukushima nuclear
accident, Donald Keene, a 90-year-old
NewYork native and retired professor of
literature, purposefully went the
opposite direction. He announced that he
would apply for Japanese citizenship to
show his support. The gesture won him
folk-hero status.
global.nytimes.com/asia
FENG LI/GETTY IMAGES-AFP
Party gathers, and Beijing clamps down
Ahead of a big Communist
Party meeting, the city bans a host of items including balloons some toys.
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Huddling
together in a
social storm
out a system. It followed the same logic
as ourfoodpreparation: Stock up on
perishables and nonperishables, and
usethe perishables first. We down-
loadedmovies to our laptops, dispers-
ing them across machinessothatwe
could drain one laptop’sbattery,then
another’s. But whileelectricityre-
mained,these nonperishables, likeour
cans,wereoff-limits. Instead,we
watchedsomething streamed over the
Internet, while it still existed.
We livedinthe huddled way that
people have throughout history but
that has grown unfashionable in mod-
ern life. We cooked and cleaned togeth-
er. Secured the roof together.Played
poker together, gambling with pasta.
We musedabout theweddings of the
kids we have yet to have. As the hours
passed,weall had the feeling that
something had beenlost in the journey
to amodernity that decimates this kind
ofcommunal living,exceptwhere
people have no choice.
When the storm came, itwas as un-
duly kind to usasitwas cruel to others.
Its winds lashedatthe house’s exterior
and tore down treesnearby. But our
preparations were mostly fornaught.
The next day, friends fromaround
the neighborhoodcheckedinon one
anotherbytext message. We invited
several overforlunch.Weturned our
glut ofnonperishablesinto asoup ofra-
mennoodles, peanut butter, canned
corn and beans.
Afterward,wewanted to know what
had befallen ourfellow citizens on the
other sideof the East Riverinsouthern
Manhattan. It looked grim on televi-
sion.Wewalkedfor miles —tothe
Manhattan Bridge, overit and into a
chaotic,eerily quiet, functioning an-
archy.
At apretzel ofanintersectionatthe
foot of the bridge, cars were negotiat-
ing without traffic lights. TheArgen-
tinespronounced themselves amazed
atAmerican decency. But this was be-
fore aluxurious car nearly ran overa
man a few blocks north and he cursed
epically, and before astumbling drunk
yelledatourgroup various epithetsin-
volving female dogs and homosexuals.
We passedpeople depending, as they
hadn’t in years,onpayphones.We
passed Chinesevendors hawking fish
by candlelight. We stoppedforatime in
oneof the bars thatwas open,where
candles madethe place more beautiful
than it mighteverbe again.
The nightendedinajoint called Bad
Burger on Avenue A. Theowners — an
American man and a Frenchwoman —
had many requestsforfoodfrom elec-
tricity-starvedneighbors. Sothey
began grilling:People, they explained,
needed to eat.
The Frenchwoman feltthat herres-
taurant had finally becomethe restau-
rantofherdreams: Diners were look-
ing ateach other, not their phones;
they weretossing conversation one
tabletoanother; boundaries were fall-
ing.
They had gas in their kitchen,wax in
their candles and a dwindling supply of
meat. They had thewhole family there,
kids and all, serving. Theyknew they
were among thevery lucky onesfor
whom the storm was not a disaster, but
astrange kind of miracle.
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The superstorm was ap-
proaching. The air was tense. The gro-
cer’s linewas long — but not so long
that people didn’t wanttotaste the
salami before committing to afifth ofa
pound. Itwas, afterall, $29 a pound.
Welcometodisastershopping in the
Park Slope neighborhood ofBrooklyn,
where ahurricane may be near but
there is always timetodecidewhether
you wantthat swathedincheese paper
or in plastic wrap.
At a hardware store not far from the
delicatessen,the linewas considerably
shorter. The populationpouring into
this effervescent areaisdominatedby
creatives and freelancers who rent—
and thusconfront disasters withcured
meatsmorethan plywood.
A few hours earlier last Sunday, my
wife and I had beenat brunch with two
othercouples.As the meal ended,one
of the couplessaw an e-mail saying
their neighborhood was being evacu-
atedinpreparationforHurricane
Sandy. These friends areArgentine
and possess a withering skepticism of
official dictates, shapedbytheir coun-
try’sdecades ofpolitical turmoil. They
wanted to know whether theyshould
actually listen.
Theyneeded to listen.
And so for the next 51 hours,
Mariquel and Gastonmovedin.Webe-
came, foratime, partofagrowing
American demographic:the huddle
household,with three ormore adults
pooling their resources and warding off
fate in theoldestof ways:together.
Unknowable numbers ofpeople did
the same across the region, and their
doing sowas only partof what made
this truly a social storm. Social because
whatworkedbest in the storm was
weatherproofhuman bonds; and so-
cial, in the new sense, because in crisis
the ad hoc,uncoordinatedfree-for-all of
social media once again proveditself
the fullestversion of history’s first
draft.
Back at home, ourfoursome geared
upfor Sandy. Because, forgood orill,
we live on ourdevices,our digital plan-
ning became as vital as food planning.
Chargers emergedfrom the closets,
and every devicewas tethered to a
wall.Wehad to be at 100 percentwhen
the powerleft. Itwas like having a land
line, which noneof usdo, foryou had to
stand near thewall to use yourphone.
Itwould be nicetowatch moviesif
we ended up trapped. Soweworked
SWNS.COM
The bird’s remains and the coded message were found in England in 1982, when British intelligence was focused on the Falklands War. A decryption effort is now under way.
Crackin
g a winged agent’s code
But the story of40TW194, and itscom-
panion, 37DK76, also seems to be astory
ofjust how forgottenawar’sforgotten
heroes can be.
The bird’sskeleton was discoveredin
1982 atthe 17th-century Surreyhomeof
DavidMartin as he soughttorenovate a
chimney.Amid a cascadeof pigeon
bones, ‘‘downcamethe leg with the red
capsuleon,’ ’ he said in oneof many in-
terviewshe has giveninrecent days.
Insidethe capsule, he discovereda
codedmessagewithcrucial cluesasto
the provenanceof the bird. The mes-
sage, for instance, was markedasadu-
plicate to amessage carriedby37DK76.
(The first two numerals indicated the pi-
geon’syear of birth.) Itwas addressed
to ‘‘xo2,’ ’ now thoughttobe code for
BomberCommand.
The factthat two birds had been dis-
patched with the same message, and
thatthemessagewas in code, seemed to
suggestthat it might have been carry-
ing word ofsome majordevelopment.
The location of Mr.Martin’shome in
Bletchingley might also be akey to the
long-secret message. It is between the
site of theAllied landing atthe Nor-
mandy beaches in 1944 and a famous
code-breaking centernorth ofLondon
at Bletchley Park. It is also, Mr.Martin
said, near the site ofaheadquarters es-
tablishedbyF eld Marshal Bernard
LawMontgomery of Britain at Reigate
beforethe D-Day landings.
‘‘The bird may well have been flying
back to Monty’sHQorBletchley Park
fromNazi-occupiedNormandy during
the invasion,’ ’ said Colin Hill,the curator
of a pigeon exhibit at Bletchley Park, re-
ferring toMontgomery by his nickname.
The pigeons, he said, routinely accom-
paniedbothground forces and Royal Air
Forcebombercrewswhoweretold to use
the birds to report back their positions if
they crash-landedinhostileterrain.
But at first, said Mr.Martin, now 74
andaretiredprobation officer, noone
seemedinterestedinwhatmightwell be
a gripping yarn offeathered valor.At
thetimeof his discovery,the Falklands
War was under way. The code-breakers
were too busy to worry about pigeon
bones. ‘‘Itwasn’t astory then,’ ’ he said.
Only the community ofpeoplewho
love pigeons—including somewho race
the birds and are schooledintheir war-
time history — tookaninterest and
began a campaign over many years to
get officials to pay attention.
Two years ago, Mr.Martin and his
wife, Ann, finally found a takerfora
copy of the message: Bletchley Park,
which is now amuseum.
Over time, curators there became
convinced of the message’s uniqueness
ing thewar, Codebreakers worked there
round the clock in topsecret.’’ The state-
ment added, ‘‘Itwas also hometoa clas-
sified MI6 pigeonloft, mannedbytrain-
er CharlesSkevington.’ ’
Although the code is likely to be
broken,the circumstances ofhow the
bird that carriedit died will probably re-
main a mystery.
Onetheory,Mr. Hill said,was that it
becameexhausted or overcome by
fumesasit perched on the chimney and
simply fell in.Anotheristhat itwas
woundedbyoneof the German snipers
stationed on the English Channelcoast
with orders: shoot the pigeons.
The companion bird doesnot appear to
have made it homeeither.Adding to the
mystery,Mr. Hill said, is that neither
bird’scodenumber is includedinanyhis-
torical archive. ‘‘They’re not in the books
anywhere,’’ he said. They were, he said,
‘‘special pigeons,’ ’ inmuch the sameway
as JamesBond wasaspecial agent.
For the moment, thetale has captiv-
ated the attention of many who had long
since forgottenabout the birds (unlike
this reporter,whoonceused carrierpi-
geons in Zimbabwe atthetimeof inde-
pendence in 1980tosend dispatches
fromaremote encampment).
The latest saga has revived talk ofpi-
geons in history.Among the little-dis-
cussed facts: some 100,000 pigeons flew
their missions in World War I, and
250,000 inWorldWar II.
And then there is this: In 1945,the
head ofaPigeon Policy Committee in
theAir Ministry PigeonSection,Wing
Cmdr. LeaRayner, proposed using the
birds to fly with a minicargoof explo-
sives —an idea thatwas neveradopted.
‘‘Athousand pigeons,eachwithatwo-
ounceexplosive capsule, landedat in-
tervals onaspecific target,’’ Wing Com-
manderRayner wrote, ‘‘might be aseri-
ously inconvenient surprise.’’ Not least,
ofcourse, to the pigeons.
Carrier pigeon’s remains,
found in a chimney,
inspire a WWII mystery
BYALANCOWELL
It kept itssecret fordecades. It perished
in the process. It died,expertssay, a vali-
ant death, most likely onahush-hush
mission over wartime France, and was
then, like so many others, forgotten.
But now, decadesafter the final flight
of military carrier pigeon40TW194,the
bird’ssecret message has become a
matter ofstate and the gristofheadlines.
Afteraconcerted campaign by pigeon
fanciers,theencryptedmessage, which
had beenfoldedinto a scarlet capsuleon
the pigeon’sleg, has now beensentto
Britain’s top-secret GCHQ listening post
and decoding department outside
Gloucester, northwestofLondon.
There, 40TW194’s WorldWar II secret
might finally be revealed.Ormaybe not.
‘‘We cannot commentuntil the code is
broken,’ ’ said a spokesman for GCHQ,
which stands forGovernment Communi-
cations Headquarters. ‘‘And t
hen we can
determinewhetherit’ssecret ornot.’’
Thetaleof40TW194 speaks to many
themes — among them, animal hero-
ism. The DickinMedal, Britain’s highest
decorationfor animal valor, has been
awarded to 64 feathered, furry orfour-
leggedcreatures, including 32 pigeons,
since 1943, making birds the bravestof
the brave. They include an American pi-
geonca edG. I. Joe, or Pigeon
USA43SC6390, which, according to its
citation, ‘‘brought amessagewhich ar-
rivedjust in timetosave the lives ofat
least 100 Alliedsoldiers frombeing
bombedbytheir own planes.’ ’
Amemorial to animals atwar was un-
veiled onLondon’s Park Lane in 2004
and it, too, commemorates pigeons.
‘‘The bird may well have been
flying back to Monty’s HQ
or Bletchley Park from
Nazi-occupied Normandy
during the invasion.’’
—other pigeonfiles usedlittleorno
code. And sotheoriginal, a tiny mes-
sage scribbled onastandard military
form,was senton to GCHQ foralook.
By Thursday,the bird’sdestiny was
the subjectofabona fide newsmedia
happening.As Mr.Martin spokeon the
telephonetoone reporter, aphotograph-
erfromanothernewsmedia outlet was
transmitting imagesfrom his yard.At
Bletchley Park,Mr. Hill could not come
to the phone immediately because he
was giving a televisioninterview.
Once knownforits wartime secrecy,
BletchleyParkwent public onThursday
withanewsrelease. ‘‘World War II ex-
pertssuspectthe bird discoveredbyMr.
Martin was destinedfor thetop-secret
Bletchley Park —which is just 80 miles
from Mr.Martin’shome,’’ it said. ‘‘Dur-
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Matt Romney, ason of the Republican
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whomhe hoped to persuadetoinvest in
his company, ExcelTrust, which owns
shopping centers across theUnited
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BRUSSELS
A final desperate attemptto
secure peace in the Far East by medi-
ation will betheopening move of the
fourteennations attending the Nine-
PowerConferencewhich opens here in
thePalaceof theAcademy at 11 o’clock
tomorrowmorning [Nov. 3]. Theurgent
needforsecuring a Pacific solution of
the Sino-Japanese conflictwill be
stressedbyAmbassadorNorman H.
Davis, head of theAmerican delegation.
It is understoodheretonightthatthe
first actof the conferencewill betoissue
anew and solemn invitation to Japan to
attend the Brussels meeting. It is gener-
ally feltthat not much can be accom-
plishedintheway ofmediation when
oneof the two parties of the conflict is
absent.
1962 Yemen to Invade Saudi Arabia
DAMASCUS
Yemen announced tonight
[Nov. 2]that its armedforces were
massing along itsnorthern frontier
‘‘ready to invade Saudi Arabia.’ ’ The an-
nouncementwas made in a statement
by Yemeni Republican Vice-President
and ForeignMinister Abdel Rahman
Beidani in a Sanaa radio broadcast. Mr.
Beidani said Yemen’srepublican regime
was ‘‘compelled to takethis drastic ac-
tioninself-defense’’ following an alleged
attempttoinvade northern Yemenby
‘‘5,000 Saudi and Jordanian regular
troops.’ ’ ‘‘We have ordered ourstriking
armedforces to march north and also
ordered ournaval units to move north-
ward and stand prepared to enterSaudi
Arabian territory when ordered,’ ’ Mr.
Beidani said.
said itwas unawareof thetrip. ‘‘We
haven’t got any informationabout Mr.
Romney and his visittoMoscow,’’ said
Yevgeny Khorishko, an embassy
spokesman. ‘‘He didn’t inform usabout
his visit.’’
But while in Moscow, Mr. Romney
told aRussian known to be abletodeliv-
ermessages to Mr. Putin that despite
the campaign oratory, his father wants
goodrelations if he becomespresident,
according to aperson informedabout
the conversation.
Matt Romney traveled to Moscow
with Gary B. Sabin,the chairman and
chief executive of ExcelTrust, which is
based in San Diego. GregDavis,the
firm’s vice presidentof capital markets
and communications, said thetrip was
unrelated to the campaign.
‘‘It is a harmless trip,’ ’ Mr. Davis said.
‘‘Itwas a trip that has been plannedfor
sometime. Any travel they’ve doneon
behalf of Excelisstrictly on the private
side. Itwould have nothing to dowith
anything governmental.’ ’
Mr. Romney’sfather has made Russia
acenterpieceof his indictmentof Mr.
Obama,whose ‘‘reset’’ policy stabilized
relations with Moscow afterarocky
stretch only to see tiessour again with
the return ofMr.Putin to the presidency.
In recent months, Russia has blocked
stronger efforts to stop the killing in Syr-
ia, jailed opponents ofMr. Putin at home,
kicked out theU.S.Agency forInterna-
tional Development and threatened to
endalongstanding Russian-American
nuclear cooperationprogram.
Mitt Romneyseized onacomment
Mr.Obama made during a discussion of
missile defensewith Dmitri A. Medve-
dev, thenRussia’spresident, that ‘‘after
my electionIhavemore flexibility.’ ’ Mitt
Romneycountered that Russia ‘‘is with-
out question ourNo.1geopolitical foe,’’
although he distinguishedit fromanu-
clear-armedIran,which hetermed‘‘the
greatestthreatthattheworld faces.’ ’
Mr. Romney’scomment has caused
alarm in Moscow, where some analysts
have said relations would freeze if he
wereelected.
Mr.Obama has called Mr. Romney’s
stance a throwback to the Cold War.
‘‘The 1980s,they’re now calling to ask
for their foreign policy back,’ ’ he said at
their last debate.
Mr. Romneycountered: ‘‘I’mnot go-
ing to wear rose-colored glasses whenit
comes to Russia or Mr. Putin.And I’m
certainly not going to say to him, ‘I’ll
give you more flexibilityafter theelec-
tion.’ ’ ’
WINMCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES/AFP
Mitt Romney greeting his son Matt after
a presidential debate two weeks ago.
Putin’s crackdown ondomestic dissent
and opposition to strongerinternational
measures against Syria and Iran. He has
assailedMr.Obama as not doingmoreto
defend human rightsinRussia and for
signing a nuclear arms reduction treaty
with Moscow. AsCongress considers
normalizing trade relations with Mos-
cow, Mr. Romney has insisted that it also
penalize Russian officials who commit
human rights violations, a linkagethe
Obama administration has resisted.
The Romney campaign said it had no
comment.
The Russian Embassy in Washington
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europe
Germany
tackles energy plan
ness in her government’s signature
project. A nearly 50 percent jump in the
tax that consumers will be forced to pay
to fund the transformation next year
further threatens to strain what has so
far been widespread public support.
‘‘Germany’s energy transformation is
threatened to collapse due to the inability
of the government’’ to draw up a master
plan, said Hubertus Heil, a leading Social
Democrat, before the meeting on Friday.
Germans’ relationship to atomic en-
ergy is deeply emotional, rooted in the
antinuclear protest culture of the 1970s
and memories of radioactive mush-
rooms and wild game in Bavarian
forests that resulted from the 1986 melt-
down in Chernobyl, and a government
run by the Social Democrats would not
go back on the plans.
But it would be a severe blow to Ms.
Merkel if the project, passed last year
by her center-right government in the
wake of the Fukushima disaster in Ja-
pan, were to fail. On Friday, she pledged
to work with the states through a na-
tional dialogue on how best to move for-
ward.
‘‘Germans can be assured that we feel
committed to the goal of energy trans-
formation,’’ Ms. Merkel told reporters
after the meeting. She said she felt that
all parties involved shared a ‘‘spirit’’ of
willingness to see the transformation
succeed.
Torsten Albig, the governor of
Schleswig-Holstein and a Social Demo-
crat, also praised the discussions as ‘‘a
considerable step forward’’ toward the
goal of reaching amaster plan byMarch
2013.
Yet his northern, coastal state, along
with Lower Saxony, has been exposed
to criticism for expanding off-shore
wind energy at such a rapid pace that
turbines have had to be switched off on
very windy days because they produce
more energy than the grid can handle.
Ultimately, Ms. Merkel would like to
see the energy generated by wind parks
in the north transported to the power-
hungry industrial south. A plan to ex-
pand the grid to fulfill that strategy is to
go before Parliament next month. Ger-
many needs 800 kilometers, or about
500 miles, of new power lines for its ex-
isting network to be upgraded in order
to ensure that the energy produced can
be tapped where it is needed.
A government-led forum, consisting
of town-hall meetings across the coun-
try explaining the need for new power
lines and the masts that will inevitably
run through farmland and backyards,
ended on Friday.
Parliament aims to pass a nationwide
plan on expanding the network by the
end of this year.
BERLIN
Merkel promises to work
with states on moving
to renewable sources
BY MELISSA EDDY
With energy prices on the rise and the
opposition charging that her govern-
ment’s plan to increase reliance on re-
newable energy to at least 35 percent by
2020 is chaotic, Chancellor Angela
Merkel held talks with the governors of
Germany’s 16 states on Friday to move
toward a cohesive nationwide strategy.
Until now, each state has drawn up
and worked off its own plan regarding
the expansion of renewable energy on
its territory, often in conflict with other
states. On the federal side, the project of
shifting the country’s energy mix to one
dominated by renewable sources has no
single leader, but is divided between the
ministries of the environment and the
economy, with the educationminister re-
sponsible for funding research in renew-
able energy and storage technology.
Ms. Merkel and her Christian Demo-
cratic Union face a national election in
2013 and the opposition Social Demo-
cratic Party has pounced on the weak-
NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Celebrating Russia’s resolve
Soldiers rehearsing Friday for a parade on Red Square to be heldWednesday. It will mark the
71st anniversary of a celebrated parade h
eld i
n 1941 when soldiers were marched direc
tly to a front line near the capital.
BRIEFLY
Europe
Gae Aulenti,
architect of
the Musée
d’Orsay
BY DOUGLAS MARTIN
Gae Aulenti, a provocative Italian archi-
tect and designer who most notably
converted a Paris train station into the
Musée d’Orsay, has died at her home in
Milan. She was 84.
Her death on Wednesday, after a long
LONDON
Investigators in Savile case
release a 2nd suspect on bail
A second suspect arrested in the inves-
tigation of alleged child sex abuse by
the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile
and others was released on bail Friday,
the police said.
They would not confirmwidespread
British media reports that the suspect
was the comedian Freddie Starr.
Mr. Starr has denied involvement in
sexual abuse and had previously volun-
teered to speak to detectives. He has
been accused by a woman who has also
publicly claimed that she was abused
byMr. Savile, who died last year. The
police earlier arrested and questioned
former glam rock star Gary Glitter.
(AP)
DUBLIN
2 are held in deadly ambush
of prison officer in Ulster
The police in Northern Ireland arrested
two suspected Irish Republican Army
militants Friday on suspicion of killing
an off-duty prison officer, a rare case
that has received wide political con-
demnation across Britain and Ireland.
The two men, aged 44 and 31, were ar-
rested at their homes in Lurgan, a
power base for I.R.A. activists opposed
to the peace process. The police said
the elder suspect was Colin Duffy, the
most prominent Irish republican in
Lurgan, who has successfully defended
himself against a series of murder
charges dating back to 1993.
A gunman in a passing car shot a 52-
year-old prison guard, David Black, as
he drove to work Thursday on North-
ern Ireland’s main highway. No I.R.A.
splinter group has taken responsibility
for the killing.
(AP)
LONDON
Inquest could shedmore light
on Russian ex-spy’s poisoning
A British inquest into the killing of the
Russian former spy Alexander V. Litv-
inenko may make public previously un-
released details about the murder in-
vestigation, a lawyer said Friday.
Mr. Litvinenko died in November 2006
after ingesting polonium 210, a radioac-
tive isotope, that was slipped into his tea
at a London hotel. The former agent
blamed the Kremlin for his poisoning,
which took relations betweenMoscow
and London to a post-ColdWar low.
On Friday, the inquest lawyer, Hugh
Davies, said the evidence would include
surveillance footage, crime scene evi-
dence, medical notes, scientific analysis
and witness interviews. He added that
details of a related German investigation
into the circumstances of Mr. Litvinen-
ko’s killing could also be published.
(AP)
PARTSA, RUSSIA
Pussy Riot members should
be freed, Medvedev says
PrimeMinister Dmitri A. Medvedev
said Friday the women in the punk band
Pussy Riot serving two-year prison sen-
tences should be set free, while a band
member’s husband tried to visit his wife
in jail in a central Russian region known
for its Stalinist-era gulags.
Three members of the band were con-
victed on hooliganism charges in August
for performing a ‘‘punk prayer’’ at Mos-
cow’s main cathedral during which they
pleaded with the VirginMary for deliv-
erance fromPresident Vladimir V. Putin.
Mr. Medvedev said that he detested
the Pussy Riot act, but added that the
women have been in prison long
enough and should be released.
(AP)
OBITUARIES
illness, was announced by her family in
the Italian news media.
Ms. Aulenti was one of the few Italian
women to rise to prominence in archi-
tecture and design in the postwar years.
Her work includes villas for the rich,
showrooms for Fiat, shops for Olivetti,
pens and watches for Louis Vuitton, and
a coffee table onwheels that is in the col-
lection of the Museum of Modern Art in
New York.
Ms. Aulenti was best known for her
work on interiors, particularly those of
museums. She designed museum
renovations in Venice, Barcelona, Istan-
bul and San Francisco.
In 1981 she was chosen to turn the
Gare d’Orsay, a spectacular 1900 Beaux
Arts landmark originally designed by
Victor Laloux, into theMusée d’Orsay, a
museum of mainly French art from 1848
to 1915.
As part of the redesign she created a
grand central aisle in a cavernous space
that once contained train tracks under a
dramatic barrel-vaulted glass ceiling.
Original support beams were high-
lighted, and new industrial materials
like wire mesh were used. Walls were
redone in rough stone.
The renovated building was opened in
December 1986, and critical reactionwas
mixed. Holland Cotter of The New York
Times called it ‘‘fabulously eccentric.’’
But Libération, a French newspaper
favored by the cognoscenti, said the mu-
seumhad been ‘‘likened to a funeral hall,
to a tomb, to a mausoleum, to an Egyp-
tian burial monument, to a necropolis.’’
Ms. Aulenti noted that almost immedi-
ately 20,000 people were standing in line
each day waiting to get in. ‘‘As a culture,
the French are opposed to change,’’ she
said in an interview with The Times in
1987. ‘‘They are also not very progressive
in their thinking about architecture, so
that when new buildings are designed,
they are usually opposed to them.’’
Jack Vaughn; led Peace Corps
Jack Hood Vaughn, who as an early di-
rector of the Peace Corps secured its fu-
ture by establishing bipartisan support
in Congress, has died at his home in Tuc-
son, Arizona, Dennis Hevesi reported.
He was 92.
The cause of his death, on Monday,
was cancer, his daughter Jane Con-
stantineau said.
President Lyndon B. Johnson appoin-
tedMr. Vaughn as the second director of
the Peace Corps in 1966, after the five-
year tenure of R. Sargent Shriver, the
driving force in the creation of the corps
during the administration of his broth-
er-in-law, President John F. Kennedy.
Some politicians were originally hos-
tile to the concept of the corps, espe-
cially during the Vietnam War. ‘‘The
Peace Corps is no haven for draft
dodgers,’’ Mr. Vaughn responded in
1966. Its volunteers, he said, are
‘‘second to no other Americans’’ in per-
forming service to the nation.
Under Mr. Vaughn, the number of vol-
unteers rose from approximately 12,000
to more than 15,500 — the most in the
corps’ history — serving in more than
50 countries.
Haute Joaillerie collection
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INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
world news
united states
BRIEFLY
Americas
HAVANA
Cuba accuses U.S. mission
of anti-government actions
Cuba denounced the American diplo-
matic mission on the island on Friday
for what it called subversive activities
designed to undermine the government
of Raúl Castro.
The ForeignMinistry said the Ameri-
cans illegally gave classes inside the
walls of the U.S. Interests Section,
whichWashingtonmaintains instead of
an embassy, and provided Internet ser-
vice without permission. It vowed to de-
fend Cuba’s sovereignty ‘‘by any legal
means’’ at its disposal, but gave no de-
tails. There was no immediate comment
fromAmerican diplomats on the island.
‘‘The U.S. Interests Section in Cuba
continues to serve as a general
headquarters for the subversive policies
of the North American government,’’
says the statement, which was pub-
lished in the state media on Friday.
(AP)
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA
Last space shuttle moves
to role as museum exhibit
Trailed by a solemn entourage of astro-
nauts and shuttle workers, Atlantis
began its slow journey to retirement Fri-
day. It was the last space shuttle to fly in
orbit and the last to leave NASA’s nest.
Atlantis emerged just before dawn
from the massive Vehicle Assembly
Building and, riding atop a 76-wheeled
platform, began the 10-mile, or about 16-
kilometer, ride to the Kennedy Space
Center’s main visitors’ stop. About 200
workers gathered to see the space
shuttle out in the open for the last time.
They were joined by the four astronauts
who closed out the shuttle program
aboard Atlantis more than a year ago.
‘‘My opinion is it looks better vertic-
ally,’’ said Christopher Ferguson, the
astronaut who commanded Atlantis’ fi-
nal flight in July 2011. ‘‘It’s a short trip.
It’s taking a day,’’ he added. ‘‘It traveled
a lot faster in its former life.’’
(AP)
WASHINGTON
Papers fromWatergate case
must be released, judge rules
Some documents sealed in the 1970s as
part of the court case against seven
men involved in the Watergate burg-
lary must be released, a federal judge
inWashington said Friday.
Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of U.S.
District Court said in a two-page order
that some materials being sought by a
Texas history professor should be re-
leased. He gave the National Archives
and Records Administration a month to
review and release the materials.
The professor, Luke Nichter from
Texas A&MUniversity-Central Texas
in Killeen, wrote the judge in 2009 to
ask that potentially hundreds of pages
of documents be unsealed. Mr. Nichter
said the court records could help ex-
plain the motivation behind the 1972
break-in at the Democratic National
Committee’s headquarters that ulti-
mately ledMr. Nixon to resign.
(AP)
BOGOTÁ
37 people at Halloween party
wounded by a suitcase bomb
A suitcase bomb exploded near a town
square where 5,000 children were celeb-
rating Halloween, killing the two
bombers and wounding 37 people, in-
cluding two boys who were hospitalized
in critical condition, the authorities said.
The bombers were suspected of be-
ing members of a drug-trafficking band
allied with rebels from the leftist Revo-
lutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or
FARC, said the regional police chief,
Col. Nelson Ramírez. They were carry-
ing the suitcase on a bicycle two blocks
from the central square of Pradera, in
Valle del Cauca State, where more than
5,000 children had gathered Thursday,
the Pradera police said. The bomb ap-
parently went off prematurely.
(AP)
SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS
Angelina Macdonald, 5, holding food given to her family by the National Guard in Long Beach, New York, on Friday. The death toll in New York City has risen to at least 41 and the financial toll will approach $50 billion.
U.S. storm victims struggle with shortages
STORM, FROMPAGE 1
asperated. At a housing project in the
Coney Island section of Brooklyn, resi-
dents who stayed behind expressed
mounting frustration at the absence of
electricity, services, and in some cases,
security. Some said they were so
frightened that they locked themselves
in their apartments at night and refused
to open the doors to anyone.
‘‘It’s terrible,’’ one resident, Marilyn
Smalls, 48, said. ‘‘Totally black. It’s dan-
gerous.’’
She said she would not even venture
into the halls at night. ‘‘I don’t know
who’s there,’’ she said.
On Friday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of
NewYork said the city hadmade ‘‘great
get better overnight, it is not going to be
a one or two or three day situation. A
little patience, a little compassion, a
little understanding will make it better
for everyone.’’
‘‘It has been a long week for every-
one,’’ he added. ‘‘It is not over. There are
still inconveniences but it could have
been a lot, lot worse.’’
Tiny increments of progress, includ-
ing a second day of limited subway and
bus lines, have been made in the after-
math of the hurricane, which made
landfall on Monday night and wrought
what officials now describe as the worst
storm to hit New York City. Its punish-
ing floods, rains andwind left millions of
people with overwhelming problems
they had likely never faced.
Gina Braddish, 27, had four feet, or 1.2
meters, of water flood her home in Long
Beach, on Long Island, leaving a slick of
oil, gasoline and raw sewage across her
floors.
‘‘I have oil slicked on my floors and
they tell me it’s not an emergency,’’ she
said. ‘‘When the house blows up, then
it’s an emergency. I just want someone
to come down here and help.’’
As the week drew to a close, the wide-
spread shortages disrupted some rescue
and emergency services. The effort to
secure enough gas for the region moved
to the forefront of recovery work.
Mr. Cuomo said that as ports were re-
opened, the gas shortages should start
to ease. W. Craig Fugate, the adminis-
trator of the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency, said Friday that the
so-called Jones Act rule that normally
prohibits foreign-flagged ships from
transporting goods fromone U.S. port to
another would be suspended.
help New York City, and the donations
from all the runners in the club will be a
great help for our relief efforts.’’
But he faced opposition from top ad-
ministrators and elected officials. The
city’s public advocate, Bill deBlasio, who
had originally supported themayor’s de-
cision, e-mailed during the mayor’s
briefing to say he had changed his mind.
‘‘The needs are simply too great to di-
vert any resources from the recovery,’’
Mr. de Blasio wrote. ‘‘We need to post-
pone the marathon and keep our focus
where it belongs: on public safety and
vital relief operations.’’
And Christine C. Quinn, the City
Council speaker and potential mayoral
candidate, who had remained silent on
the issue until Friday, also decided to
weigh in against the plan. ‘‘The decision
to move forward with the marathon is
not a decision I would have made,’’ Ms.
Quinn said.
At least two hotel owners on Staten Is-
land, where the race starts, said they
would not kick out those displaced by
Hurricane Sandy to accommodate run-
ners who have reserved a room.
Thousands of people took to social
media to weigh in. Several online peti-
tions and message boards have sprung
up with thousands of signatures calling
for the marathon to be postponed or
canceled.
‘‘This will forever tarnish the mara-
thon as a brand and an event,’’ said
Stephen Robert Morse, a 27-year-old
from Brooklyn who started stopthe
marathon.tumblr.com. ‘‘There are still
thousands of people downtown and
businesses that still lack necessities and
it’s insulting to have tourists prioritized
over the people of this city.’’
The effort to secure enough
gasoline for the region
moved to the forefront
of recovery work.
BRENDANMCDERMID/REUTERS
Waiting on Friday at a Manhattan service station where tempers flared and fights broke
out, forcing the police department to send three officers to keep the peace.
progress,’’ with service restored to
about half of the two million customers
who lost electricity during the storm.
But perhaps mindful of the realities of
disaster recovery, his morning briefing
became a delivery of give-and-take,
sprinkling his encouraging updates
with expressions of caution.
Noting that progress in restoring
power to Manhattan’s downtown area in
particularwould be a ‘‘big step forward’’
for transportation serving the area, he
also hedged his remarks, noting it ‘‘did
not mean that every light’’ would work.
Speaking about the shortages, includ-
ing of gasoline, he said: ‘‘It is going to
require some patience, it is not going to
The Environmental ProtectionAgency
has also lifted air-pollution rules that nor-
mally regulate what kind of gasoline can
be sold — different mixes are used at dif-
ferent times of the year to reduce smog—
to try to rapidly increase the supply.
In New Jersey, drivers waited in lines
that ran hundreds of vehicles deep, re-
quiring state troopers and local police
officers to protect against exploding
tempers. Some ran out of gas waiting.
At service stations that were open,
nerves frayed. Fights broke out Thurs-
day at the blocklong Hess station on
10th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan,
forcing the Police Department to send
three officers to keep the peace, a police
official said. By evening, the police had
to close two lanes of the broad thorough-
fare to accommodate a line of customers
stretching eight blocks, to 37th Street.
Defending his decision to hold the
marathon on Sunday, Mayor Michael R.
Bloomberg evoked the response of his
predecessor, RudolphW. Giuliani, in the
months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror at-
tacks.
‘‘If you go back to 9/11, Rudymade the
right decision in those days to run the
marathon, and pull people together,’’Mr.
Bloomberg said. He said the marathon’s
organizers were ‘‘running this race to
Back on trail in swing states, candidates offer their take on jobs report
CAMPAIGN, FROMPAGE 1
was widely considered to be a poor per-
formance by the president. Mr. Obama
has led by an average of 2.4 points in
Ohio polls conducted during the past 10
days. In the swing states, Mr. Obama’s
polls now look very close to where they
were before the conventions and the de-
bates, though national polls put the men
in a virtual tie.
Speaking to 2,800 people in a cav-
ernous barn in Hilliard, Ohio, Mr.
Obama took aim Friday at Mr. Romney
for an advertisement his campaign has
aired, which said that Chrysler, under
new Italian owners, moved Jeep pro-
duction to China after being bailed out
by the Obama administration in 2009.
‘‘That’s not true,’’ Mr. Obama said as
the crowd chanted ‘‘liar.’’ ‘‘Everybody
knows it’s not true. The car companies
themselves have told Governor Rom-
ney to knock it off.’’
For his part, Mr. Romney made what
amounted to his campaign’s closing ar-
gument before crowds in West Allis,
Wisconsin. ‘‘President Obama prom-
ised change, but he could not deliver it,’’
Mr. Romney said. ‘‘I promise change,
and I have a record of achieving it.’’
The fact that the unemployment rate
remained below the critical 8 percent
threshold gave Mr. Romney little new
ammunition, however. It also allowed
Mr. Obama to argue that the economic
improvement of the past several
monthswas not a fluke—or the result of
cooked data, as some of his opponents
have charged — and that the country
was headed in the right direction.
For months, Mr. Romney has
hammered the president for presiding
over an economy with unemployment
over 8 percent. With Friday’s report, the
rate remains below that level for the
second month in a row.
The report was based on surveys
conducted too early in the month to cap-
ture work disruptions across the East
Coast caused by Hurricane Sandy, and
for economists, the new report is just
one piece of evidence about how the
economy is doing.
‘‘Generally, the report shows that
things are better than we’d expected
and certainly better thanwe’d thought a
few months ago,’’ said Paul Dales, se-
nior United States economist for Capital
Economics. ‘‘But we’re still not making
enough progress to bring that unem-
ployment rate down significantly and
rapidly.’’
Economists were hopeful that once
the election was over and Congress ad-
dressed the major fiscal tightening
scheduled for the end of this year, job
growth could speed further.
‘‘If we can do this kind of job growth
with all the uncertainty out there, imag-
ine if we were to clear up those tax is-
sues and hold back the majority of tax
increases that are pending at the end of
the year,’’ said John Ryding, chief econ-
omist at RDQ Economics. ‘‘We could do
much better in 2013, maybe aswell aswe
appeared to be doing earlier this year.’’
Job gains in previous months were re-
vised to showbigger gains. September’s
increase of 114,000 new jobs was revised
to 148,000, and August’s 142,000 was re-
vised to 192,000, the government said.
In October, the biggest job gains were
in professional and business services,
health care and retail trade, the Labor
Department said. Government payrolls
dipped slightly. State and local govern-
ments have been shedding jobs most
months over the last three years.
One of the lowlights of the report was
in hourly wages, which remained flat in
October after showing barely any
growth in the previous several months.
‘‘Perhaps the decline in real wages is a
factor here in being able to employmore
people,’’ Mr. Ryding said. ‘‘It’s some-
thing to keep in mind when we think
about creating jobs and whether we’re
maybe creating the wrong sort of jobs.’’
There have now been 25 straight
months of jobs gains in the United
States, but the increases have been
barely enough to absorb people enter-
i
ng the work force. A queue of about 12
their discussions of the ‘‘fiscal cliff’’
during their postelection session. So far,
though, the issue has received little at-
tention, and analysts worry that ending
extended benefits could disrupt what
modest forward momentum the econo-
my currently has.
‘‘Federal unemployment benefits are
one of the most effective stimuli we
have,’’ said Christine L. Owens, the ex-
ecutive director of theNational Employ-
ment Law Project.
‘‘The recovery is still fragile,’’ she
said, ‘‘and to pull that amount of income
and expenditure out of the economy —
particularly at a time when people
thinking about the holiday season —
will have a significant impact on not just
those individuals and their families but
the economy as a whole.’’
Friday’s jobs report is unlikely to affect
policy from the Federal Reserve, which
has pledged open-ended stimulus until
the job market improves ‘‘substantially.’’
‘‘This was not a perfect report by any
means,’’ said Diane Swonk, chief econo-
mist for Mesirow Financial. ‘‘We would
like to see double these kind of gains in
jobs. Our benchmark on improvement is
still pretty low.’’
The Romney camp had a far different
interpretation. Mr. Romney argued that
the country’s modest jobs growth was
inadequate in the face of an economy
that continues to struggle. He said the
jobs numbers were evidence of the need
to change the nation’s economic
policies. ‘‘Today’s increase in the unem-
ployment rate is a sad reminder that the
economy is at a virtual standstill,’’ Mr.
Romney said a statement.
On Friday, the candidates picked up
the pace of campaigning after a week in
which Hurricane Sandy savaged the At-
lantic coast and helped blunt some of
the fiercest Republican attacks on the
president. Both men headed to hotly
contested states of the Midwest —Wis-
consin and Ohio.
By some polling analyses, Ohio in par-
ticular could be decisive in an election
that may come down to who wins a
handful of what have become known as
the ‘‘battleground’’ states.
In 9 of the 11 battleground states, Mr.
Obama’s polls have been better over the
past 10 days than they were immedi-
ately after the Denver debate, whenMr.
Romney gained momentum after what
‘‘We’re still not making
enough progress to bring that
unemployment rate down
significantly and rapidly.’’
million unemployed people remain
waiting for work, about two out of five of
whom have been out of a job for more
than six months.
That is in addition to more than eight
million people who are working part-
time but really want full-time jobs.
Labor advocates and many econo-
mists have been urging Congress to re-
new unemployment benefits as part of
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C.I.A. played role
in embass
y battle
in Tripoli, joined the reinforcements. A
military transport plane flew the
wounded Americans and Mr. Stevens’s
body out of Libya.
Despite the new details, many ques-
tions surrounding the attack remain un-
answered, including why the State De-
partment did not increase security at
the mission amid a stream of diplomatic
and intelligence reports that indicated
that the security situation in Benghazi
and around Libya had deteriorated.
By underscoring the C.I.A.’s previ-
ously unpublicized role in mobilizing
the evacuation effort, the officials
seemed to be implicitly questioning the
State Department’s security arrange-
ments in Benghazi, a focus of three con-
gressional inquiries into the attack.
The senior officials also shed new
light on the C.I.A.’s role in Libya.
Withinmonths of the start of the Liby-
an revolution in February 2011, the
agency began building ameaningful but
covert presence in Benghazi, a center of
the rebel efforts to oust the government
of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
The C.I.A. surveillance targets in-
cluded Ansar al-Shariah, a militia that
some have blamed for the attack on the
mission, aswell as suspects thought to be
part of Al Qaeda’s North African affiliate.
U.S. intelligence operatives also helped
State Department contractors and Liby-
an officials in tracking shoulder-fired
missiles taken from the former Libyan
Army arsenals, U.S. officials said.
The C.I.A.’s security officers played a
new role on Sept. 11, carrying out an in-
formal agreement with the mission to
come to its aid in an emergency.
One of the senior intelligence officials
provided an hour-by-hour chronology of
the agency’s role during the attack.
About 9:40 p.m. local time, the C.I.A.
base received the first of several calls
from the mission saying it was under at-
tack. During the 25 minutes between the
first call and when the officers rolled out
the door, half a dozen security officers
were readying their gear, while the base
chief called several Libyan militias,
seeking fighterswith heavyweaponry to
defend the mission. His appeals failed.
Over the next 25 minutes, C.I.A. of-
ficers approached the walled diplomatic
compound, tried to secure heavy
weapons, and made their way onto the
compound itself in the face of enemy
fire.
At 11:11 p.m., the Predator drone ar-
rived over the mission compound. With-
in 20 minutes, all U.S. personnel, except
for Mr. Stevens, whom the American se-
curity officers could not find in the
chaos, left the mission, coming under
fire as they did.
The Americans retreated safely to the
C.I.A. annex, where over the next 90
minutes they came under sporadic
small-arms fire and rocket-propelled
grenade attacks. The State Department
and C.I.A. officers returned fire and the
assailants melted away.
About this same time, the reinforce-
ments arrived at the Benghazi airport
from Tripoli. Learning that the attacks
at the annex had stopped, the team
turned its attention to finding Mr.
Stevens. But learning that he was at a
Benghazi hospital, almost certainly
dead, and that the security situation at
the hospital was uncertain, the rein-
forcements headed to the annex.
They arrived shortly after 5 a.m., just
before mortar rounds began to hit the
annex. That attack, 11 minutes long,
killed two men, whom the senior intelli-
gence officials identified for the first
time Thursday as C.I.A. security of-
ficers, Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Do-
herty, former members of the Navy
SEALs. Until now the men had been
publicly identified as State Department
contract security officers.
WASHINGTON
Officials describe events
in Benghazi to rebut
reports of obstruction
BY ERIC SCHMITT
Security officers fromthe C.I.A. played a
pivotal role in combating militants who
attacked the U.S. diplomatic mission in
Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, deploying a
rescue party from a secret base in the
city, sending reinforcements from
Tripoli, and organizing an armed Libyan
military convoy to escort the surviving
Americans to hastily chartered planes
that whisked themout of the country, se-
nior intelligence officials have said.
The account given Thursday by the
senior officials, who did not want to be
identified, provided the most detailed
description to date of the C.I.A.’s role in
Benghazi, a covert presence that ap-
pears to have been much more signifi-
cant than publicly disclosed.
Within 25 minutes of being alerted to
the attack against the diplomatic mis-
sion, six C.I.A. officers raced there from
their base a short drive away, enlisting
the help of a handful of Libyan militia
fighters as they went. Arriving at the
mission about 25 minutes after that, the
C.I.A. officers joined State Department
security agents in a futile search
through heavy smoke and enemy fire
for Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens
before evacuating the mission’s person-
nel to the apparent safety of their base,
whichU.S. officials have called an annex
to the mission. Mr. Stevens was one of
four Americans killed in the attack.
A four-hour lull in the fighting begin-
ning shortly after midnight seemed to
suggest that the worst was over. An un-
armed military drone that the C.I.A.
took control of to map possible escape
routes relayed reassuring images to
Tripoli and Washington. But just before
NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN/POLARIS FOR THE NEWYORK TIMES
Iranians gathered in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran to commemorate the 1979 takeover of the mission by students who also took U.S. diplomats hostage.
Sanctions against Iran take a deadly turn
In another pharmacy, Kokan
Tashakori, 72, said she had left her house
at 6:30 a.m. to be first in line for Paclit-
axel, to treat her bladder cancer. Mrs.
Tashakori, a former nurse, had come to
the same pharmacy for three days
straight, but each day the pharmacists
had told her nothing had arrived.
While waiting she chatted with Sor-
oud Qazi, 53, from the western Iranian
city of Arak, who had a relative under-
going chemotherapy in the capital.
‘‘Don’t lose your spirit, my sister,’’ Mrs.
Tashakori told Mrs. Qazi, who was sit-
ting next to her. ‘‘But I am losing all
hope,’’ she replied, saying her sick fam-
ily member became depressed when
she heard the medicine was not avail-
able. ‘‘Godwill save us,’’ Mrs. Tashakori
concluded.
Their faith in higher powers came as
they blamed both their own leaders and
the United States for the situation they
were in. ‘‘This is so wrong,’’ Mrs.
Tashakori said of the sanctions. ‘‘This is
the fault of both governments, they
should solve their problems.’’
Instead, Mr. Obama has said the Ira-
nian people should blame their own
leaders, While Iran’s supreme leader,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, this month
again called upon his nation to be stead-
fast and repeated that only resistance to
the West would lead to victory.
While the unilateral sanctions imple-
mented by the United States and the
European Union have exemptions for
medicine, medical equipment and food-
stuffs, U.S. companies interested in
selling such merchandise to Iran re-
quire a special license from the Treas-
ury Department’s Office of Foreign As-
set Control.
Last month, the office eased the bu-
reaucracy that American medical and
f
ood exporters faced in obtaining these
exemptions by granting them what it
called a ‘‘standing authorization,’’ which
meant the exemptions no longer had to
be obtained on a case-by-case basis.
But the effects of such a move are un-
clear, since exporters still face trouble
getting paid. Virtually no American or
European bank wants to be involved in
financial transactions with Iran, nomat-
ter what products are involved.
The Treasury Department has been
handing down steep fines to Western
banks for doing business with Iran. In
September, the British banking giants
HSBC and Standard Chartered said
they were in settlement talks with the
U.S. authorities after having been ac-
cused, among other things, of dealing
officials. In addition to shortages of
medicine, she said, hospital machines
were breaking down due to a lack of
spare parts and domestic pharmaceut-
ical companies were running out of im-
ported rawmaterials.
‘‘It’s clear to me we will have a serious
problem in the coming months,’’ said
Mrs. Hashemi, who started the founda-
tion in 1996. ‘‘We must all join hands and
find creative solutions to face this crisis.’’
Increasing medicine production inside
Iran would be a first step, officials have
said. But industry insiders complained
that seven years of mass imports by
presidentMahmoudAhmadinejad’s gov-
ernment has not only made the Islamic
Republic dependent on foreign suppliers,
but has corrupted some officials, who get
kickbacks from import deals.
One Iranian producer of a vital cancer
treatment product, who requested to re-
main anonymous in order not to lose his
license, said he was ready to start pro-
duction, following three years of invest-
ments and quality checks.
‘‘But it turns out the cousin of the
health official in charge of signing off on
our product had been importing the
product in bulk from Europe before the
sanctions,’’ the producer said. Now
stock is drying up and there is a short-
age. ‘‘It’s just bewildering how selfish
some of these people are. They still will
not us give our license to produce inside
Iran because some individuals can
make more money with imports.’’
Mrs. Hashemi, being the daughter of
one of the founders of the Islamic repub-
lic, stressed that Iran would never, ever
give up its ‘‘right’’ to nuclear energy.
‘‘Yes there will be suffering,’’ she pre-
dicted. ‘‘But we have to stick to our prin-
ciples. In the end those imposing the
sanctions on us will lose, as the world’s
public opinion will turn against them.’’
IRAN,FROMPAGE1
Every day patients and their relatives
line up at special pharmacies in Tehran,
where those suffering from cancer, he-
mophilia, thalassemia, kidney problems
and other diseases are increasingly told
the foreign-made medicine they need is
no longer available.
For Ali and his family the nightmare
started eight months ago, when his
mother, a 56-year-old housewife, felt a
small, painful lump in her right breast.
Following a series of examinations her
doctor told her that she had an aggres-
sive form of breast cancer.
As the family became familiar with
long waits in hospital hallways and diffi-
cult conversations with soft-spoken
physicians, they swore to each other
that they would beat the disease. But
they never expected to have to go out
hunting for medicine.
Ali, who does not want his family
name mentioned because he said he
was punished for political activities in
college, said that trying to deal with his
mother having cancer has been hard.
His mother needed 14 more batches of
Herceptin, he said. Instead of hoping
her treatment would cure her breast
cancer, he said he was devoured bywor-
ries about obtaining the medicine she
needed.
‘‘My mom, us, other patients, we are
all caught in the middle of this political
battle,’’ he said. ‘‘We don’t have any in-
fluence on nuclear policies. We are vic-
tims.’’
In Iran’s health care system, the gov-
ernment and private employers insure
most of the population, paying up to 90
percent for drugs and medical treat-
ments. Medical standards are high com-
pared to most neighboring countries,
and many of those with special diseases
receive treatment.
C.I.A. officers fought gunmen
and helped evacuate staff.
dawn, and soon after a C.I.A.-led teamof
reinforcements, including two military
commandos, arrived from Tripoli, a
brief but deadly mortar attack sur-
prised the Americans. Two of the C.IA.
security officers who were defending
the base from a rooftop were killed.
‘‘The officers on the ground in
Benghazi responded to the situation on
the night of 11 and 12 September as
quickly and as effectively as possible,’’
one of the senior intelligence officials
said. The briefing Thursday for report-
ers was intended to refute reports, in-
cluding one by Fox News television last
Friday, that the C.I.A.’s chain of com-
mand had blocked the officers on the
ground from responding to calls for help.
‘‘There were no orders to anybody to
stand down in providing support,’’ the
official said, speaking on the condition
of anonymity because of continuing in-
vestigations by the State Department
and the F.B.I.
At a time when the circumstances
surrounding the attack on the Benghazi
compound have emerged as a major
political issue, with Republicans critici-
zing the Obama administration’s han-
dling of the events, the senior official
also sought to rebut reports that C.I.A.
requests for support from the Pentagon
that night had gone unheeded.
In fact, the official said, the military
diverted a Predator drone from a recon-
naissance mission in Darnah, 145 kilo-
meters, or 90 miles, away, in time to
oversee the mission’s evacuation. The
two commandos, based at the embassy
Officials estimate that around
six million patients, the bulk
of them suffering from cancer,
are affected by the shortages.
with Iran. HSBC has told its sharehold-
ers it made a $700 million provision to
cover a possible fine.
‘‘Banks are either afraid, or can’t be
bothered to try and do business with
Iran,’’ one Western diplomat in Tehran
said, asking to remain anonymous due
to the sensitivity of the subject.
At the Charity Foundation for Special
Diseases in north Tehran, Fatima
Hashemi, the daughter of the former
president, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsan-
jani and the foundation’s chairwoman,
said her organization had spent most of
last year stocking up on dialysis ma-
chines and special cancer drugs.
‘‘I wish the government had done the
same,’’ she said, explaining that some of
the shortages could have been avoided
if more precautions had been taken by
Hamas criticizes
Palestinian leader
for border remarks
GAZA CITY
FROMNEWS REPORTS
The Hamas prime minister, Ismail Han-
iyeh, criticized the Palestinian presi-
dent on Friday for comments he had
made to Israeli media, alleging that they
contradict longtime Palestinian territ-
orial demands.
President Mahmoud Abbas made a
rare if symbolic concession to Israel on
Thursday, saying he had no permanent
claim on the town from which he was
driven as a child during the 1948 war of
the Jewish state’s founding.
Mr. Haniyeh said that Mr. Abbas’s re-
marks, aired on Israel’s Channel 2, were
‘‘extremely dangerous.’’
Mr. Abbas was speaking about borders
of a future Palestinian state and said the
West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem
were Palestine—and the rest was Israel.
He said that while he would like to see his
birthplace — Safed, now a town in north-
ern Israel —he did not want to live there.
‘‘Palestine now for me is ’67 borders,
with East Jerusalem as its capital,’’ Mr.
Abbas said. ‘‘This is now and forever.’’
Among several disputes deadlocking
MiddleEast peace talks has been the Pal-
estinians’ demand that as many as five
million of their compatriots be granted
the right to return to lands in Israel that
they or their relatives lost.
(AP, REUTERS)
U.N. says Syr
ian video shows war crime
GENEVA
BY NICK CUMMING-BRUCE
AND RICK GLADSTONE
The United Nations said on Friday that
a video from Syria circulating on the In-
ternet and seeming to show anti-gov-
ernment fighters armedwith rifles kick-
ing and summarily executing a group of
captured soldiers or militiamen could, if
verified, represent evidence of a war
crime.
‘‘It looks very likely that this is a war
crime, another one,’’ Rupert Colville, a
spokesman for the United Nations high
commissioner for human rights, told
journalists in Geneva, where the com-
mission has its headquarters.
U.N. investigators had already col-
lected evidence of war crimes and
crimes against humanity by govern-
ment and rebel forces that could support
prosecutions of those responsible by na-
tional or international tribunals, Mr.
Colville said. The video, if verified, could
be part of that evidence, he added.
‘‘There should be no illusion that ac-
countabilitywill follow,’’Mr. Colville said.
His remarks followed similar assess-
ments Thursday, when the video began
circulating, by human rights groups who
also called it evidence of war crimes.
The video, which could not be authen-
ticated independently, appeared to have
been made in Saraqeb, a town in Idlib
Province in northern Syria that has
been the scene of particularly brutal
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In the video, 10 prisoners are shown
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The antigovernment fighters, whose
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