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MiamiHerald.com HOTEL COPIES: A copy of The Miami Herald will be delivered to your room. A credit of US$0.25 will be posted to your account if delivery is declined. INTERNATIONAL EDITION MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011 108TH YEAR I ©2011 THE MIAMI HERALD Two Ala. immigration law provisions blocked U.S. ventures into bloody Africa conflict In Israel, prisoner exchange touches old wounds Rallies across the globe protest economic policies INDEX THE AMERICAS ...........4A U.S. NEWS.....................5A OPINION........................7A COMICS & PUZZLES ...6B MEDVEDEV STANDS BY RUSSIA’S LEADERSHIP PLAN, 3A ISRAEL PLANS TO BUILD MORE HOUSING IN EAST JERUSALEM, 6A EUROPE REJECTS U.S. APPROACH TO DEBT CRISIS, BUSINESS FRONT ALL BLACKS ENTER RUGBY WORLDS FINAL, SPORTS FRONT BY ETHAN BRONNER New York Times Service JERUSALEM — Arnold Roth had just returned from synagogue on Friday morning when the phone rang. It was Israel’s Justice Minis- try, telling him that two of the peo- ple who murdered his 15-year-old daughter Malka at a Jerusalem piz- zeria a decade ago would be freed next week as part of an exchange of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held by Hamas. It was not an unexpected call but it was, for Roth, a horrifying one. “This deal is a disaster,” he said of the exchange for the Israeli sol- dier, Staff Sgt. Gilad Schalit, as he sat with his wife, Frimet, on the bal- cony of their Jerusalem apartment. “Some of these people will go back to murdering. They pose an exis- tential threat to all of us.” Blocks away, Esther and Yehuda Wachsman were absorbing similar news — that a man who took part in murdering their son, Nachshon, in 1994 was to be freed for Schalit. By cruel coincidence, it was the an- niversary of the killing — Oct. 14. But Esther Wachsman had a differ- ent response. “I’m willing to pay the price for another woman’s son to come home and end the agony,” Wachs- man said, sitting near a corner of her living room devoted to Nach- shon’s memory. “Our hurt will nev- er go away, but I just hope and pray with all my heart that Gilad comes home healthy in body and soul.” The contrasting responses from two couples who have known and comforted one another were part of the highly charged emotional and political atmosphere in Israel since the announcement on Tuesday about the exchange aimed at ending more than five years of captivity for Schalit, 25. Early on Friday, a man who lost both his parents and three siblings in the pizzeria attack that killed Malka Roth defaced the Tel Aviv memorial to Yitzhak Rabin, the slain prime minister. The man, Shvuel Schijvesschuuder, 27, said he was protesting the freeing of his family’s killers. As the details of the exchange become public, the near universal joy that greeted the original an- nouncement is being tempered with concern. Israel Radio report- ed that Schalit would be handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza on Tuesday, taken from there to Egypt and then flown to a military base in central Israel, where he will be TURN TO EXCHANGE, 2A • BY CARA BUCKLEY AND RACHEL DONADIO New York Times Service Buoyed by the longevity of the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York City, a wave of pro- tests has swept across Asia, the Americas and Europe, with hun- dreds and in some cases thou- sands of people expressing dis- content with the economic tides in marches, tallies and occasional clashes with police. In Rome, a rally thick with ten- sion spread Saturday over several miles. Small groups of restive young people turned a largely peaceful protest into a riot, setting fire to at least one building and a police van and clashing with po- lice officers, who responded with water cannons and tear gas. The police estimated that dozens of protesters had been injured, along with 26 law enforcement officials; 12 people were arrested. At least 88 people were ar- rested in New York, including 24 accused of trespassing in a Green- wich Village branch of Citibank and 45 during a raucous rally of thousands of people in and around Times Square. More than 1,000 people filled Washington Square Park at night, but almost all of them left after dozens of police officers with batons and helmets streamed in and warned that they would be enforcing a midnight curfew. Fourteen were arrested for remaining in the park. Other than Rome’s, the dem- onstrations across Europe were largely peaceful, with thousands of people marching past ancient monuments and gathering in TURN TO PROTESTS, 2A • BY CAMPBELL ROBERTSON New York Times Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A fed- eral appeals court in Atlanta has temporarily blocked two provi- sions of Alabama’s far-reaching im- migration enforcement law, but left much of it in effect as the state and the U.S. Justice Department con- tinued to fight over the law in the courts. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit issued a preliminary injunction Friday against a section of the law that requires schools to determine the immigration status of children who are enrolling, as well as the status of their parents. It also blocked a section making it a state crime for illegal immi- grants not to carry registration documents. The law, considered the toughest state immigration law in the nation, was signed by Gov. Robert Bentley in June, but it was challenged short- ly thereafter in lawsuits by the Jus- tice Department, a coalition of civil rights groups and others. On Sept 28, a federal dis- trict judge in Alabama issued an TURN TO IMMIGRATION, 2A • BY MARK S. SMITH AND BRADLEY KLAPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States is venturing into one of Af- rica’s bloodiest conflicts, sending about 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to support a years-long fight against a guerrilla group ac- cused of horrific atrocities. The Obama administration said the troops will advise, not engage in combat, unless forced to defend themselves. In a letter to Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama said Fri- day that the troops will assist lo- cal forces in a long-running battle against the Lord’s Resistance Army, considered one of Africa’s most ruthless rebel groups, and help to hunt down its notorious leader, Joseph Kony. The first of the troops arrived in Uganda on Wednesday, the White House said, and others will be sent to South Sudan, the Central Afri- can Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While the size of the U.S. footprint is small, Obama’s an- nouncement represents a high- ly unusual intervention for the United States. Although some U.S. troops are based in Djibouti and small groups of soldiers have been deployed to Somalia, the United States traditionally has been reluctant to commit forces to help African nations put down insurgencies. It demonstrates the Obama ad- ministration’s escalating attention to and fears about security risks in Africa, including terror networks, piracy and unstable nations. The move was intended to show some engagement to lessen the impact of one of the worst protracted wars in Africa. Obama declared his decision to send troops as in keeping with the national security interests of the United States. The White House announced it in a low-key fashion, releasing the notification and jus- tification of the troop deployment that the president sent to congres- sional leaders. Pentagon officials said the bulk of the deployment will be of spe- cial operations troops, who will TURN TO AFRICA, 2A • RICH ADDICKS/NEW YORK TIMES SERVICE Aleza Ortuno, a second grade student in Pelham, Ala. An injunction has directed Alabama schools to stop trying to ascertain the country of birth during a student’s enrollment. STANDING PROUD Where King once marched, now a dedication from Obama MIKE THEILER/GETTY IMAGES U.S. President Barack Obama arrives with family members at the Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial in Washington. BY HELENE COOPER AND SABRINA TAVERNISE New York Times Service WASHINGTON — Promis- ing that “change can come if you don’t give up,” U.S. Presi- dent Obama, the man who is perhaps the biggest beneficiary of the civil rights movement, on Sunday called on U.S. citi- zens to use the memory of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to help push for progress in today’s economically tough times. Speaking at the dedication of the monument to King on the National Mall, Obama, at times adopting the cadence of King, said U.S. citizens must celebrate all that the civil rights move- ment accomplished even as they understand that the work is not done. Standing under the new monument, the first on the mall to honor an African-American, Obama struck tones that veered from the church pulpit to the floors of the nearby Capitol. “I know there are better days ahead,” Obama said, his voice rising. “I know this because of the man towering above me.” At times, the words Obama used to describe King’s struggles might also apply to himself. “For every victory, there were setbacks,” Obama said. “Even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, King was vilified by many.” He continued, “He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast and by those who felt he was going too slow.” Obama’s speech culminated a morning — beautifully sunny and bright on the Washington Mall — during which a lion’s gallery TURN TO DEDICATION, 2A •
