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News -04-13-07 Controversy Grows for Wolfowitz at the World Bank (New York Times) "Paul D. Wolfowitz’s tenure as president of the World Bank was thrown into turmoil on Thursday by the disclosure that he had helped arrange a pay raise for his companion at the time of her transfer from the bank to the State Department, where she remained on the bank payroll." "The events injected a new ugliness into what had already been a bitter rift between Mr. Wolfowitz and many of the bank’s employees, who have questioned his suitability for the job as a former deputy secretary of defense and architect of the Iraq war, and have challenged many of his policies at the bank, especially those cracking down on corruption in which he suspended aid to several countries without consulting the board." 04-07 -04-16-07 U.S. Soldier to Be Tried in Italy for Murder (BBC News) "A US soldier is due to be tried in a Rome court with the murder of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq in March 2005." "The agent, Nicola Calipari, was shot dead on his way to Baghdad airport." "He was escorting Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist who had just been freed by kidnappers." 04-07 -04-18-07 Journalists in Afghanistan Protest Raid on TV Station (ABC News) "More than 100 journalists on Wednesday protested a police raid ordered by Afghanistan's attorney general on a private TV station that has fueled concern over growing government harassment of the media." 04-07 -04-22-07 Boris Yeltsin, Former President of Russia, Dies (ABC News) "In what may have been his finest hour, Yeltsin scrambled atop a tank outside the Russian parliament building on Aug. 19, 1991, the day after Gorbachev was put under arrest by the hard-line coup plotters while vacationing in the Crimea." "The marble building on the banks of the Moscow River had become the focal point of resistance to the coup. Tens of thousands of supporters surrounded the building known as the White House for three days to stave off an attack that never came." 04-07 -Editorial: The Wolfowitz Controversy Has a Subplot (New York Times) "When President Bush appointed Paul D. Wolfowitz as the president of the World Bank two years ago, the White House had to put down an insurrection among European nations that viewed the administration’s best-known neoconservative as a symbol of American unilateralism and arrogance." 04-07

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