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Merrimack holds Fordham to 31 yards offense in 19-3 winIrish civil servants compiled a list of “major leaks” they claimed originated from the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) and Special Branch officers in the region, records show. The confidential briefing note is part of the tranche of documents made public in the annual release of State papers from the Irish National Archives. An Irish Department of Foreign Affairs official focusing on justice and security created the list in October 2002. The document starts by referencing a 1999 interview given by George Mitchell, the chairman of the Good Friday Agreement negotiations, in which he claimed the British and Irish governments, as well as Northern Ireland’s political parties, had leaked information to manipulate public opinion. However, he further accused the NIO of attempting to sabotage the process by leaking information on British Government policy to the media. Mr Mitchell, a former US senator, is said to have expressed alarm and anger over the frequency of leaks from the NIO – saying they were uniquely “designed to undermine the policy of the British Government of which they were a part”. The Irish civil servant notes Mr Mitchell himself was subjected to an attempted “smear” when he first arrived in Northern Ireland, as newspaper articles falsely claimed his chief of staff Martha Pope had had a liaison with Sinn Fein representative Gerry Kelly with ulterior motives. The Irish civil servant goes on to list several “leaks”, starting with the publication of a proposed deal in a newspaper while “intense negotiations” for the Downing Street Declaration were under way. Next, the Department lists two “high-profile and damaging leaks issued from the NIO”. A so-called “gameplan” document was leaked in February 1998, showing papers had been prepared weeks before the Drumcree march on July 6, 1997. In the preceding years, there had been standoffs and clashes as nationalists opposed the procession of an Orange parade down Garvaghy Road in Portadown. The gameplan document showed then secretary of state for Northern Ireland Mo Mowlam, who was publicly expressing a desire for a negotiated solution to the 1997 parade, advocated “finding the lowest common denominator for getting some Orange feet on the Garvaghy Road”. In 1997, a large number of security forces were deployed to the area to allow the march to proceed. The incident sparked heightened tension and a wave of rioting. The document further describes the release of a document submitted by the NIO’s director of communications to the secretary of state as a “second major leak”. It claims a publicity strategy was released to the DUP in the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement and showed how the UK Government would support a yes vote in a referendum following any talks agreement. In addition, it is claimed unionists used leaked sections of the Patten report on policing to invalidate its findings ahead of its publication in 1999. The report recommended the replacement of the Royal Ulster Constabulary with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the changing of symbols, and a 50-50 recruitment policy for Catholics and Protestants. At the time, UUP leader David Trimble said the recommendations would lead to a corruption of policing in Northern Ireland. Chris Patten, chairman of the independent commission on policing, said some of the assertions were a “total fabrication” and designed to “muddy the waters” to create a difficult political atmosphere. Elsewhere, the author notes it was leaked to the media there was serious disagreement between the governments of the UK and Ireland on the composition of that commission – with not a single name submitted by the Irish side being accepted by the other. The author notes this incident, still under the heading “NIO leaks”, was believed by British officials to have emanated from the Irish side. The report turns to leaks of other origin, claiming “disgruntled Special Branch officers in Northern Ireland” were blamed by the British Government for a series of releases about the IRA which were designed to damage Sinn Fein in the 2001 general election in Northern Ireland. One senior Whitehall source was quoted in the Guardian as complaining that Special Branch was “leaking like a sieve” after details of an IRA intelligence database containing the names of leading Tories – described at the time as a “hit list” – was passed to the BBC in April 2002. The briefing note adds: “This was followed days later by a leak to The Sunday Telegraph which alleged that senior IRA commanders bought Russian special forces rifles in Moscow last year. “The newspaper said it was passed details by military intelligence in London.” The briefing note adds that other Special Branch leaks were associated with the Castlereagh break-in. The final incident in the document notes the Police Ombudsman’s Report on the Omagh bombing was also leaked to the press in December 2001. Then Northern Ireland secretary John Reid said at the time: “Leaks are never helpful and usually malicious – I will not be commenting on this report until I have seen the final version.” The reason for creating the list of leaks, which the Irish National Archives holds in a folder alongside briefing notes for ministers ahead of meetings with officials from the UK Government and NIO, is not outlined in the document itself. – This document is based on material in 2024/130/6.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Sunday that the U.S. government believes missing American journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared 12 years ago near the Syrian capital, is alive and that Washington is committed to bringing him home after Bashar Assad’s ouster from power in Damascus . “We think we can get him back," Biden told reporters at the White House, while acknowledging that “we have no direct evidence” of his status. "Assad should be held accountable.” Biden said officials must still identify exactly where Tice is after his disappearance in August 2012 at a checkpoint in a contested area west of Damascus. “We've remained committed to returning him to his family,” he said. Tice, who is from Houston and whose work had been published by The Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers and other outlets. A video released weeks after Tice went missing showed him blindfolded and held by armed men and saying, “Oh, Jesus.” He has not been heard from since. Syria has publicly denied that it was holding him. The United States has no new evidence that Tice is alive, but continues to operate under the assumption he is alive, according to a U.S. official. The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. will continue to work to identify where he is and to try to bring him home. His mother, Debra, said at a news conference Friday in Washington that the family had information from a “significant source,” whom she did not identify, establishing that her son was alive. “He is being cared for and he is well — we do know that,” she said. The Tice family met this past week with officials at the State Department and the White House. “To everyone in Syria that hears this, please remind people that we’re waiting for Austin,” Debra Tice said in comments that hostage advocacy groups spread on social media Sunday. “We know that when he comes out, he’s going to be fairly dazed & he’s going to need lots of care & direction. Direct him to his family please!”PHOENIX — Attorney General Kris Mayes is going to court with a largely untested legal theory to force a Saudi company to stop “excessively pumping groundwater’’ at its western Arizona alfalfa operations and require it to set aside funds to compensate neighbors it has damaged. The lawsuit filed Wednesday claims that Fondomonte LLC, the Arizona subsidiary of the company, has created a “public nuisance” by pumping so much water it has dried up nearby wells and resulted in subsidence of the land around Vicksburg in La Paz County. It also says the damage is threatening sediment buildup that reduces water quality and damages appliances, pumps and pipes. None of that pumping violates state water laws, Mayes acknowledged. Portions of the state are within “active management areas’’ where pumping of groundwater is regulated. Pumping pretty much everywhere else — including where Fondomonte operates — is ungoverned. Discussions at the state Capitol about imposing new rules on these areas have broken down. Mayes blames the problem here on “legislative failure to address a water crisis with catastrophic effects on the groundwater level in the Ranegras Basin’’ of La Paz County. She said that’s the reason Fondomonte came here to grow alfalfa to feed dairy cattle in Saudi Arabia, where such farming is banned. “Fondomonte is taking advantage of Arizona’s failure to protect its precious groundwater resources,’’ Mayes said. Mayes wants a Maricopa County judge to rule that Fondomonte’s pumping violates the “public nuisance’’ provision of the state criminal code. “Dangerous precedent,” company says Fondomonte is gearing up to fight the use of the nuisance law to curb what it says are its legal operations. “We believe the attorney general is setting a dangerous precedent attempting to penalize farming and the wider agricultural industry within the state of Arizona,’’ said company spokesman Barrett Marson. “The company complies with all state and local regulations.’’ Mayes isn’t disputing that. Her claim is that Fondomonte’s operations are harming its neighbors and, under Arizona law, creating a nuisance. “Arizona law is clear on this point: No company has the right to endanger an entire community’s health and safety for its own gain,’’ Mayes said. Marson, however, said the allegations are “totally unfounded’’ and the company will fight the litigation. Arizona’s nuisance law has two methods of enforcement. One makes it a Class 2 felony to maintain a public nuisance. In this case, since the defendant is a limited liability company, jail time is off the table. That would leave a fine of $750, which would make no difference in a case like this. The other method, though, allows the Attorney General’s Office to ask a court to enjoin the activity. That is the order Mayes seeks, as well as a requirement for Fondomonte to set up an “abatement fund’’ to reimburse others who have been affected. It will be up to a judge to decide whether the nuisance law fits what is happening here. There really is no precedent. The only known use of the law in a situation like this came earlier in Mayes’ tenure, when she used it to go after a company’s plan to mine rock and gravel on a 25-acre parcel it owned in a neighborhood in a rural area near Chino Valley. The site was within 100 feet of homes. State Mine Inspector Paul Marsh said at the time he had no choice under existing law but to approve the mining plan. So Mayes, claiming nuisance, got a court to issue a preliminary injunction. But there never was a final ruling on whether the mine was a nuisance, or whether the nuisance law applies: The lawsuit went away after the company abandoned its plan after someone else bought it. Land sinking In this case, Mayes said there is clear evidence of the effects of Fondomonte’s operations. Operating in the Ranegras Basin since 2014, the company has multiple wells, each capable of pumping up to 4,000 gallons of water per minute. She said in 2023 alone, Fondomonte used about 31,196 acre-feet of groundwater within the basin. That is considered enough to serve about 93,000 single-family homes. But the attorney general said there are more immediate and visible consequences. Mayes said a well less than a mile from Fondomonte’s properties went dry about five years ago. And in late 2017, the same happened to a well for the Friendship Baptist Church about 1.8 miles away. “The land is literally sinking in La Paz County with as much as 9.8 inches of subsidence documented in the immediate vicinity of Fondomonte’s farms,’’ she said. Mayes said she is not arguing that the growing of alfalfa itself is a nuisance, acknowledging it is grown throughout the state by others — and that much of it is shipped overseas, including to China. She said the future of growing the water-intensive crop here “is a question for the Legislature.’’ But she said there is no excuse for lawmakers. “They have been completely AWOL when it comes to addressing rural Arizona’s water needs and these situations where people are being harmed,’’ she said. The attorney general isn’t the only one. La Paz County Supervisor Holly Irwin decried the lack action by state lawmakers to place any restrictions on water use in her area. “That is why we are seeing foreign companies come over to these areas, purchase land and pump water out so that they can supplement their alfalfa and send it back home,’’ said Holly. “Attorney General Kris Mayes is the first one who has stepped up and done anything about it,’’ the Republican supervisor said of the Democratic prosecutor. “I know my constituents will be thrilled that somebody’s actually paying attention to the real problems here, which are wells that are going dry, the land subsidence that we’ve seen, and the concern that we have for the future of our basin.’’ Agricultural wins at Legislature Efforts to address the problem have been stalled at the Capitol amid a dispute over not just whether regulation is needed but who should determine any restrictions. Irwin and other rural supervisors want both monitoring and conservation of groundwater, pointing out that farms don’t even have to report how much they are pumping. But that has bumped up against agricultural interests who argue that, in many cases, they were here first and, even with the current targets being out-of-state and foreign firms, they fear any potential state interference on their own operations. So far, the agricultural interests have won out. In fact, lawmakers have carved out special protections. For example, there is a state statute that says agricultural operations that were around before surrounding residential development “are presumed to be reasonable and do not constitute a nuisance.’’ Mayes, however, said that doesn’t apply, and not only because residents were there long before Fondomonte started farming alfalfa and pumping groundwater in 2014. She also pointed out that same law does not apply if “the agricultural operation has a substantial adverse effect on public health and safety.’’ Mayes, in her lawsuit, spoke to the exception, calling the excessive pumping “injurious to health’’ and even “indecent’’ because it interferes with the ability of people to enjoy their property. Republican lawmakers, anticipating what Mayes was going to do, tried to undermine her ability to sue. Sen. Sine Kerr, R-Buckeye, added a provision to HB 2124 last year dealing with agricultural water use, to strip the attorney general of the right to bring any sort of nuisance action, regardless of the reason. That bill was vetoed by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. She said lawmakers need to address water issues “in a holistic manner’’ rather than tinkering with water laws on a piece-meal basis. If Mayes’ new lawsuit succeeds, she already has her next target in mind: Riverview Dairy’s pumping in the Willcox Basin of Cochise County. Howard Fischer is a veteran journalist who has been reporting since 1970 and covering state politics and the Legislature since 1982. Follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, Bluesky , and Threads at @azcapmedia or email azcapmedia@gmail.com . Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a guest opinion Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you connected to the community. Get Government & Politics updates in your inbox! Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter.
For many, this is a time of year that involves thinking about presents to exchange for holidays, host gifts for parties and end-of-year festivities at work. Whether you're tightening your budget or don't plan to give gifts at all, here are some ideas for how to cope: Paying for presents Stick to a budget. If you're planning to make gifts or goodies, that's OK, too. "Whatever the gift is, it should fit with your ability level, what you're capable of giving and comfortable giving," said Lizzie Post, co-president of the Emily Post Institute and great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post, who authored "Etiquette" in 1922. Post makes homemade candy as gifts. She has a more affluent friend who once gave her pricey snow boots for Christmas, which Post treasured. "Her generosity was so at the heart of the gift, and she knows that my heart is at the center of my homemade gifts," she said. People are also reading... 1 in 4 people say they’ll go into debt for the holidays. Is social media to blame? Make a list, check it twice Be sensitive to traditions that your family has set or that you have set for yourself. "Is this someone expecting a gift because you've always exchanged gifts?" said Maralee McKee, the founder of the Etiquette School of America in Orlando, Fla. "If you want to change any of those gift-exchanging traditions, you need to let them know as soon as possible." Know that just because you give doesn't mean that person will reciprocate. Others might be on a tight budget or from a different faith where gift-giving this time of year isn't the norm. "It's worth recognizing that if you get something for someone," Post said, "they are not obligated to get something for you in return." As families expand and evolve, they frequently limit purchases. "Lots of families celebrating at home do a gift exchange where they give to one person rather than everybody," Post said. But if you have a visitor — for example, your brother's new girlfriend who will be with you for a Christmas morning gift exchange — then make sure you have a little something wrapped up for that person as well, McKee said. 2024 holiday mailing tips: Deadlines, packaging advice and more things to know Office offerings First things first, consult Human Resources. The company might have a policy regarding gifts. If you're the boss and choose to give, be equal and give the same gift across the staff. Alternatively, offer a shared event depending on the size of the group. The big exception is if you have an executive admin or personal assistant who keeps you organized. That role deserves a larger thank you, but you may want to give the gift privately. The standard advice is not to give a gift to a higher-up, though a staff might decide on a group present like a gift card and ask for only voluntary contributions. "We used to say, 'You never gift up the ladder because it can look like you're trying to gain favor,'" Post said. Some want to give presents to specific friends at work but not to everyone at the office. In that case, do the gift exchange outside the office, Post said. Why your favorite catalogs are smaller this holiday season Regifting: naughty or nice? Regifting has its place in the world but not if you thoughtlessly leave the original birthday wrapping on what's intended as a Christmas gift, Post said. "There are definitely times when regifting is you just getting rid of junk," she said. Post's four rules of regifting: The present should be in original packaging with all components; it shouldn't be something personalized to you; you should be 99% sure recipients wouldn't mind that it was a regift if they were to find out; and the item should be pleasing. Post recalls a friend who received an octopus-shaped ceramic planter. "There was no way she could regift that," Post said. The right book can inspire the young readers in your life, from picture books to YA novels 9 holiday gifts to hit the right note for music lovers Small, luxury foods are great as stocking stuffers or other gifts. Ideas for under $50 Game-changing holiday gifts for building fires, printing photos, watching birds and more Stay up-to-date on what's happening Receive the latest in local entertainment news in your inbox weekly!BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Claudia Winkleman says 'I'm gone' as she breaks down in tears
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