A� The Daily Reflector, Saturday, December 3, 2011

detroit

Carjacking leaves girl, 2, missingDetroit police are searching for a 2-

year-old girl who has been missing since her father was carjacked and the thief drove away with her strapped into a seat.

Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee said police are working with FBI agents to find Bianca Jones. Her father reported being carjacked at gunpoint about 9:45 a.m. Friday in the New Center area of Detroit. The vehicle was recovered near-by with child seat still inside, but the girl was missing.

Godbee said police have been speaking with Bianca’s “very distraught” parents.

She last was seen wearing a purple coat, pink tights and pink shoes.

The carjacking suspect is described as a light-skinned African-American man who is not clean-shaven.

washington

Obama mends tribal relationshipPresident Barack Obama said his ad-

ministration offers a turning point in the tangled relationship between Washington and Native American tribes.

Obama told tribal leaders that as presi-dent, he’s “got your back.”

Obama spoke Friday to the nation’s 565 tribal leaders.

The president said he has honored his promise to Native Americans to make his administration more responsive to their needs.

Obama used the annual Tribal Nations Conference to announce a new educa-tion initiative for American Indians and Alaska natives.

It aims to expand educational oppor-tunities for Native Americans, including learning their native languages, cultures and histories.

rock hill, s.c.

Cain to make announcementHis campaign all but over, Herman

Cain said Friday he would make an an-nouncement today in Atlanta about the future of his White House bid.

Cain, in a speech to supporters in South Carolina, didn’t disclose whether he would drop out of the race for the GOP nomina-tion after this week’s allegation that he had a 13-year-long extramarital affair. He told supporters simply to stay tuned.

“Nobody’s going to make me make that prematurely,” Cain said. “That’s all there is to it.”

His poll numbers have dropped dra-matically, backers are fleeing and even the candidate himself has acknowledged that fundraising has suffered since Gin-ger White publicly contended the two had had a long-running affair.

From Associated Press reports

the associated press

republican presidential candidate herman cain will make an announcement today in atlanta concerning the future of his White house bid.

NatioN

White House renews threat on defense billby donna cassatathe associated press

WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday ac-cused the Democratic-con-trolled Senate of “political micromanagement” at the expense of national secu-rity after it approved leg-islation requiring military custody of suspected ter-rorists, even those captured within the United States, and indefinite detention of some without trial.

In a statement, National

Security Council spokes-man Tommy Vietor re-newed the White House threat of a presidential veto of the sweeping $662 billion defense bill that includes the far-reaching policy changes on how to handle suspected terrorists. The Senate voted 93-7 Thursday night for the legislation.

Vietor pointed out that counterterrorism experts from Republican and Dem-ocratic administrations had said the provisions would restrict the president’s au-

thority in the fight against al-Qaida and jeopardize national security.

“By ignoring these non-partisan recommenda-tions, including the recom-mendations of the secretary of defense, the director of the FBI, the director of na-tional intelligence and the attorney general, the Senate has engaged in political mi-cromanagement at the ex-pense of sensible national security policy,” he said.

The Senate bill must be reconciled with a House-

passed version in the clos-ing days of the session. The administration opposes provisions in the House bill that would require mili-tary commissions for sus-pected terrorists and limit the president’s authority to transfer terrorist suspects from the U.S. naval facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to installations in the Unit-ed States, even for trial. It also would make it difficult for the administration to move detainees to foreign countries.

Overall, the Senate bill would authorize money for military personnel, weap-ons systems, national secu-rity programs in the Energy Department, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. Reflecting a period of austerity and a winding down of decade-old con-flicts, the bill is $27 billion less than President Barack Obama requested and $43 billion less than Congress gave the Pentagon this year.

In a resounding vote, the Senate unanimously backed an amendment to impose harsh sanctions on Iran as fears about Tehran developing a nuclear weap-on outweighed concerns about driving up oil prices that would hit economi-cally strapped Americans at the gas pump.

“Iran’s actions are unac-ceptable and pose a danger to the United States and the entire world,” Senate Ma-jority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev, said.