Word: arizona
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...good, savvy, very disciplined, smart guy with a lot of experience." Nelson is yet another recruit from the once antagonistic Bush operation, and more evidence that the party establishment is falling into place behind McCain. But Nelson is known for hardball tactics that don't exactly square with the Arizona Senator's white-knight image...
...DIED. Kenneth Taylor, 86, who, with squadron mate George Welch, became the first U.S. Army Air Force pilots to get airborne-and, under fire, shoot down at least six enemy planes-immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; in Tucson, Arizona. Taylor, then 21, was on his first assignment at Hawaii's Wheeler Field on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. Hearing machine-gun fire, he grabbed Welch and drove to their planes. "I wasn't in the least bit terrified," he later said. "I was too young and too stupid to realize that...
...episode that is only now receiving international media attention, an officer of the Tempe Police Department in Arizona pulled over two black men last August for throwing garbage out of the car window and said he would dismiss the ticket if they performed a rap for him “about the dangers of littering.” The men complied...
...Gates, 63, made it clear to the senators that he intended to make up his own mind on Iraq. While he agreed with McCain that staying the course in Iraq was unacceptable, he refused to back the Arizona senator's proposal to increase U.S. troop strength in Iraq. When Gates visited the country as part of the Iraq Study Group, he said, all the ground commanders told him they "thought they had adequate troops." Gates quickly added that if confirmed he'd be going back to Iraq to see if he would get "a more candid answer" from ground commanders...
...ARIZONA CAN'T GRADUATE The Cardinals long bore the stigma of being the only NFL team to play on a college field (Sun Devil Stadium). Now it has its own turf, sporting the ironic name of a sponsor that paid $155 million: University of Phoenix Stadium...