News
in a few
Obituary • Former
Long Beach State Head men’s tennis
Coach Larry Easley died Sept. 13 in Las
Vegas following a long illness. He was
57. Easley coached at LBSU during the
1984-85 season and produced four All-American
athletes. He was named conference coach
of the year in 1986. Easley is survived
by his wife, their two daughters, his
mother and a sister.
Legislation • Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed a ballot
measure requiring public employee unions
to get written permission before using
member dues money for political purposes.
The measure, dubbed “Paycheck Protection,” will
appear on the ballot as Proposition 75.
Construction • New
Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin defended his
plan to return up to 180,000 people to
the city within a week and a half despite
concerns about the short supply of drinking
water and heavily polluted floodwaters. “We
must offer the people of New Orleans
every chance for a sense of closure and
the opportunity for a new beginning,” he
said.
Report • The
leaders of the House Intelligence Committee
want CIA Director Porter Goss to provide
a public version of his agency’s
hard-hitting report on the failures
leading up to 9/11. “We believe
the public has a right to know if people
should be held accountable for those
failures as a result of gross negligence
or misconduct,” Chairman Peter
Hoekstra and Rep. Jane Harman wrote
on Sept. 6. “More importantly,
the public also should know what steps
should be taken in the future for the
CIA to address the findings of the
report.”
Assault • A man in Fargo, N.D., thought he might
get a protection order lifted by secretly videotaping himself having sex
with a woman he was told to leave alone. He was wrong, police said. “He
provides us the videotape and doesn’t realize that there’s
all this evidence on there that ends up putting him in jail on all these
felony charges,” Lt. Tod Dahle said. “So basically he arrested
himself.”
Exhibit • Visitors
to Zagreb’s zoo in Croatia can
find out what it is really like to be
in a cage. The zoo has set aside two
partially furnished cages for humans
labeled “Homo sapiens.” Visitors
will be able to enter and leave at will. |
