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* Fed documents discuss letter Lewis sought re Merrill * Kucinich says Lewis was seeking cover from shareholders * Lewis disputes nature of letter sought from regulators (Adds details from documents, byline) By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - A lawmaker is questioning Trainer Max 94the consistency of testimony by Bank of America (BAC.N) Chief Executive Ken Lewis, saying he may have perjured himself at a congressional hearing Thursday over whether he asked for explicit government backing for the takeover of Merrill Lynch. "He certainly put himself in legal jeopardy," Democrat Dennis Kucinich told reporters after the hearing into the deal by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. At issue is whether Lewis asked for a letter ordering Bank of America to go forward with the deal, whether he recalls the request, or whether, as Lewis testified on Thursday, it was a request for something in writing to confirm government assistance for the deal would be forthcoming. The hearing was called to examine when Bank of America bank Shox Bella ILknew Merrill was on its way to a $15.84 billion loss, the government's role in the Jan. 1 acquisition, and $20 billion in taxpayer bailout funds the bank got later in January. Kucinich, who heads the committee's domestic policy subcommittee, cited email exchanges between several Federal Reserve officials including chairman Ben Bernanke and general counsel Scott Alvarez, discussing a bid by Lewis for a letter backing the Merrill deal. "I don't think it's necessary or appropriate to give Lewis a letter along the lines he asked," Fed general counsel Scott Alvarez wrote in a Dec. 23, 2008 email to Bernanke. "First, we didn't order him to go forward - we simply explained our views on what the market reaction would be and left the decision to him." An email from Bernanke to Alvarez says Lewis feared shareholderAir Jordan shoes 6 lawsuits if he did not pull out of the deal, with new information about Merrill's mounting losses. "He still asked whether he could use as a defense that the govt (government) ordered him to proceed for systemic reasons. I said no." In a Bank of America email dated Dec. 22, released by Republican staff on the oversight committee, Lewis wrote about a recent conversation with then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson: "I just talked with Hank Paulson. He said there was no way the Federal Reserve and the Treasury could send us a letter of any substance without public disclosure, which, of course, we do not want. Ken" WHAT LETTER...? Early in Thursday's hearing, Kucinich asked Lewis whether he recalled asking for a letter "saying that the government ordered you to close the deal." Lewis replied that was "not what I asked for." "Our board was concerned that we had verbal assurances but had nothing in writing about getting some assistance. And so, I called Chairman Bernanke and asked him..." Lewis said, unablemonogram motard to complete the sentence before Kucinich cut him off. Reminded he was under oath, Lewis said: "I do not recall a letter." Later in the hearing, asked about the letter again, Lewis said he recalled "calling Chairman Bernanke and asking him if he could give us something in writing along the lines of -- of what the solution would be." To that Kucinich replied: "We're now updating Mr. Lewis' previous testimony." Kucinich contends the request for material in writing from the government shows the uneasiness Lewis had about the deal. If he had such concerns, he should have told investors earlier about concerns over Merrill's losses. "This is central because he was looking for a letter to hold himself harmless from having concealed from shareholders material information," Kucinich said later in an interview. Kucinich said the committee will need to interview Federal Reservejordan shoes 6 officials first to get the full story. Edolphus Towns, the Democrat who chairs the full committee, said he intends to summon Bernanke and former Treasury secretary Henry Paulson to a future hearing. "First we get the testimony from the Fed and then we make a decision about perjury," Kucinich said. A Bank of America spokesman, asked to respond to Kucinich's later comments, said Lewis' testimony spoke for itself. (Reporting by Kim Dixon; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

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The measure could create "green" jobs in the U.S. while reducing harmful pollution that might be causing global climate change, executives in the group said. They included General Electric Co. Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt, who sat next to the president. Mr. Obama said he's "excited about the opportunity" to develop such a system and that "we've seen some great progress this week" in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill has been put forward by U.S. Reps. Henry A. Waxman,Air Jordan shoes 1 (D., Calif.) and Edward J. Markey (D., Mass.). It's prospects look good in the House, but it could face a tougher time in the Senate. Still, the bill is the most viable yet to tackle climate change. If adopted, it would confront big sectors of the economy with potentially costly challenges. The bill requires that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases linked to climate change be cut by 83% from their 2005 levels by 2050, long after most current members of Congress will have left office. The planned reduction is all the more ambitious considering that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions grew by 17% between 1990 and 2007. To drive businesses and power generators to use less oil and coal and slash emissions of other gases, the Waxman-Markey bill would make businesses acquire pollution permits, which they could jordan shoes 1use to cover their emissions and sell any spares. The current draft of the bill would give away up to 85% of those permits over the next 20 years. Still, instituting a cap and trade system would start the process of putting a price on emitting carbon dioxide. The bill's supporters say that is enough to start driving the technological innovation and investment needed to move away from fossil fuels. 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At a time when President Obama is trying to convince opponents in the abortion battle that they can find middle ground -- in rhetoric, if not reality -- a new Gallup Poll shows that more Americans describe themselves as "pro-life" than "pro-choice." For the first time since it began asking the question in 1995, Gallup reported Friday, a majority of adults questioned for its annual survey on values and beliefs -- 51% -- said that Wholesale cigaretteswhen it comes to abortion, they consider themselves "pro-life"; 42% consider themselves "pro-choice." (The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.) This represents a significant shift, Gallup noted. As recently as last year, 50% of respondents called themselves "pro- choice" and 44% identified themselves as "pro-life." Moderate and conservative Republicans accounted for the change; Democrats' attitudes toward abortion remained constant. "It is possible," Gallup said in its analysis, that the president "has pushed the public's understanding of what it means to be 'pro-choice' slightly to the left, politically." Regarding abortion restrictions, the largest proportion of Americans supports legal abortion only in certain circumstances -- as has been true since 1975 -- according to Gallup. This yearcheap cigarettes the figure is 53%. At the ends of the spectrum, the number of people who think abortion should be illegal in all circumstances has risen, to 22%, and the number who think it should be legal in any circumstances has fallen, to 23% -- a virtual tie. In the previous few years, people who opposed all restrictions outnumbered advocates of a total ban by a wider margin. Still, said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America: "I am pretty confident that Americans really don't want Roe v. Wade overturned." The larger number of Americans calling themselves "pro-life," she said, "doesn't square with what has happened in the last several elections." Keenan cited the rejectionWholesale cigarettes of abortion bans by voters in politically conservative South Dakota in 2006 and 2008, and the failure of five other antiabortion ballot measures in California, Oregon and Colorado since 2005. But antiabortion activists think they have more than the new poll on their side. "This isn't new," said Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life. "It tracks pretty much with what we've always known: People generally are pro-life depending on how you ask the question." The poll comes at a delicate moment for Obama, who campaigned saying abortion should be "safe, legal and rare." During his first three months in office, he took a number of steps that infuriated abortion foes. For example, he lifted abortion restrictions on foreign family-planning groups that receive U.S. funding, and he ended President George W. Bush's ban on embryonic stem cell research. But Obama has tried at times to appease opponents of abortion rights. Last month, he backpedaled on a campaign vow to enact the Freedom of Choice Act, which would guarantee the right to legal abortion even if Roe vs. Wade were overturned. He now says the cheap cigaretteslegislation is not a priority. But Yoest said abortion foes were not placated. "There has been such an avalanche of pro-abortion activity that it's jaw- dropping. It's not just that his rhetoric doesn't square with reality; the gap is Grand Canyon-size. I think this administration has fundamentally miscalculated how out of step they are with the American people."

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A lawyer for Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi tells VOA's Burmese Service that the military government is putting the Nobel Peace laureate on trial Thursday. Lawyer Kyi Win says Aung San Suu Kyi and her two maids were to be taken to Rangoon's Insein Prison for the trial. He was not told the specific charges they would face, but said the caseSpecial Offer cigarettes was apparently in connection with a secret visit by a U.S. citizen at her residence in Rangoon. U.S. national John Yettaw was detained by police last week for gaining access to Aung San Suu Kyi's home and staying there for two days. On Wednesday, the Burmese authorities granted U.S. consular access to Yettaw for the first time since his arrest. The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that Yettaw has not been charged, nor have the Burmese authorities provide information on the next steps in his case. The European Union expressed concern about Aung San Suu Kyi's health after the detention of her personal physician, and called on Burma's military government to immediately provide her with proper medical attention. An EU statement urged Burma to halt systematic torture and Wholesale cigarettesdenial of health care to prisoners. The EU also called for the release of all political prisoners. The 63-year-old Nobel Peace laureate has been under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years. Her current term is due to expire at the end of this month, but Burma's military government has rejected an appeal to free her. Human-rights group "The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners" warned this week that Aung San Suu Kyi and 18 other political prisoners are in urgent need of medical care. The group said many of the more than 350 political activists imprisoned in Burma since last October have been sent to remote prisons that lack medical facilities

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WASHINGTON -- The world's astronomers are about to get a trio of powerful new eyes on the sky that can see better and farther than existing space telescopes. As a result, Europe will hold a scientific and technological lead over the United States in some key areas of cosmology, at least for a while. On Monday, NASA will send a crew of astronauts to install greatly improved instruments on the 18-year-old Hubble Space Telescope. Just three days later, the European Space Agency will Nike Men Air Force 1 Highlaunch two even more advanced telescopes, named Planck and Herschel. The American and European launchings will be ''right on top of each other,'' said Jon Morse, the director of NASA's Astrophysics Division. If all three instruments work as planned, scientists will be able to look back almost to the birth of the universe 13.7 billion years ago. They could detect the first stars and galaxies, and prove -- or disprove -- theories about what happened in the first seconds after the ''big bang,'' when cosmologists think that everything began. DIFFERENT VIEWING Each of the three telescopes ''sees'' things in a different wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum. It's like looking through different windows on the cosmos. Hubble sees mostly in optical light, the narrow band between infrared cheap cigarettesand ultraviolet that's visible to human eyes. Herschel will collect photons -- particles of light -- in a much wider infrared wavelength. Planck detects even longer microwaves, which carry photons left over from the big bang. The three telescopes will study ''different pieces of the universe,'' said Ray Villard, Hubble's news director. ``They're complementary.'' Herschel will have the largest mirror ever put in space, 11.5 feet across, half again as big as Hubble's mirror. Planck will have the sharpest vision, detecting differences as small as two parts in a million. Hubble, meanwhile, is better able to study galaxies, stars and planets beyond our solar system. To save money, ESA will launch Planck and Herschel atop a single Ariane 5 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana, on the coast of South America. They'll travel separately to a point 900,000 miles away, where they'll enter a yearlong orbit around the sun. THREE-YEAR PERIOD Herschel, named for British astronomer William Herschel, the discoverer of Uranus, will sweep the entire sky every six months over a three-year period. It will build the most accurate map everNike Men Air Force 1 Low made of the cosmos. Because light from very old and distant objects is stretched out toward the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum, Herschel's infrared vision will let it see stars and galaxies as they were forming billions of years ago. The best American infrared telescope, NASA's 5-year-old Spitzer Space Telescope, has a much smaller mirror -- 2.8 feet -- and a narrower viewing range than Herschel's. ''Herschel is big brother to Spitzer,'' Villard said. ``Herschel does everything Spitzer does, but does it better.'' The Planck satellite is named for Max Planck, a famed German physicist of the last century. Because it detects microwaves, Planck will study tiny ripples in the cosmic microwave background, a curtain of hot plasma shrouding what happened before the universe was 380,000 years old. Astronomers think that these irregularities formed the seeds of future galaxies. ''Planck will provide the deepest, clearest, sharpest and leastNike Women Air Force 1 Low Mid High obstructed view of the beginning of the universe ever seen,'' said Benjamin Wandelt, a Planck scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It will be ``a quantum leap in our ability to address fundamental questions about how the universe began.'' Planck is 10 times more sensitive and has three times the resolution of the best American microwave telescope, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, which was launched in 2001. Planck can detect temperature differences as small as one 10-millionth of a degree.

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Damian McBride quit as a No 10 aide after his unfounded claims about Tory leader David Cameron and shadow chancellor George Osborne became known. Mr Cameron has demanded a public apology from the prime minister. A No 10 spokesman has said no-one else in Downing Street knew about the "juvenile and inappropriate" messages. But the Conservatives say that is not a good enoughAir Jordan 2009 sneaker explanation. They have demanded an inquiry as well as a guarantee that such material will never again be written in Downing Street. BBC political correspondent Laura Kuenssberg said there were rumblings among Labour backbenchers - some urging Mr Brown to do more to distance the party from the scandal. 'Into the gutter' The Tory leader was "absolutely furious" about the e-mails, his spokeswoman said. Cabinet Office Minister Liam Byrne says Mr Brown knew nothing of them. But Labour backbencher John McDonnell has called on Mr Brown toAir jordan 1 shoes act decisively by launching an independent inquiry into who was involved. "Smear tactics like this are not the Labour way," he said. "They drag the Labour Party into the gutter. They just add further to the undermining of the belief that Labour Party supporters have placed in our party." The e-mails were originally sent in January to former government spin doctor Derek Draper, who runs the LabourList blog and was proposing to set up Red Rag, a new gossip-led site. However, they came to the attention of Paul Staines, author of the "anti-politics" Guido Fawkes blog, who revealed their existence. Charles Clarke, a former home secretary, said the resignation was the end of the "Damian McBride issue", but did not address the wider problem of smear campaigns in politics. He added: "In the Labour Party there's the issue of the others on the e-mail ring that Damian had - Derek Draper and Charlie Whelan - and in the case of the Conservative Party, David Cameron's decision to recruit Andy Coulson - who had been the editor of the News of the World during the illegal bugging ofAir jordan 2 shoes the Royals scandal." Shadow foreign secretary William Hague demanded an apology from the prime minister, plus an investigation. He also called for an assurance that neither Damian McBride nor Derek Draper would work for the government or the Labour Party again. "This has been a deeply disturbing revelation about the corrupting culture of spin which is still at the heart of Downing Street," he told the BBC. Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling claimed the e-mails demonstrated a "structured plan" to publish "blatant lies" about opposition MPs. "It's a sign of something absolutely rotten at the heart of Gordon Brown's Downing Street," he told BBC News. "This is an exceptionally serious matter and he needs to explain immediately what happened. "The real question now is - was [Mr McBride] the only person involved in all of this?" Cabinet Office Minister Tom Watson was also alleged to have been copied in on the e-mails. However, Mr Watson said he had known nothing of the "completely inappropriate" messages and had no involvement in discussions to create the Red Rag site. 'Gossipy' "The first I was aware of the e-mail conversation that led to Damian McBride's resignation was when these were made known to Downing Street by national newspapers who had been givenAir jordan 3 shoes them by Paul Staines," he said. Mr Byrne also dismissed suggestions of an orchestrated smear campaign. "This was one private e-mail exchange between a couple of friends who were knocking backwards and forwards ideas," he said. "Mr McBride, having scribbled this stuff, decided that the right place for it was the waste basket," he added. Mr Staines has refused to reveal how the messages found their way to him, despite complaints from Mr Draper that they were private. Mr McBride described the first claim as a ''solid investigative story'', but the other three as ''mainly gossipy, and intended to destabilise the Tories". He added: ''Let's think about how to sequence these in with others'' - a suggestion that a longer-term plan to place stories was being hatched. Claims were also made against the Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries, who says she is consulting lawyers and wants a personal apology from the prime minister. Mr Draper has apologised to those mentioned in the e-mailsAir jordan 4 shoes and admitted "we should never really have considered the idea and I am sorry we did". "All I can do is absolutely promise that these stories were just daft ideas that never - and would never have - got off the drawing board," he wrote on his blog. He called on fellow bloggers to "commit to a new start" by avoiding personal attacks. Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former spin doctor, wrote in his blog that he had been struck not just by the "unpleasantness" of the e-mails, but also by their "incompetence". "McBride will be thinking that was his big mistake - writing it all down. His really big mistake was thinking it might be effective," Mr Campbell added.

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