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ATTACK IN LIBYA
WAS MAJOR BLOW
TO C.I.A. EFFORTS
STUDY RESHAPING
WAYS OF TREATING
BREAST CANCER
OPERATIVES PULLED OUT
FOUR TYPES IDENTIFIED
After Benghazi Strike,
Monitoring Ability Is
Compromised
Genetic Analysis Finds
Drugs Already in Use
May Be Helpful
This article is by
Eric Schmitt
,
Helene Cooper
By GINA KOLATA
In findings that are fundamen-
tally reshaping the scientific un-
derstanding of breast cancer, re-
searchers have identified four ge-
netically distinct types of the can-
cer. And within those types, they
found hallmark genetic changes
that are driving many cancers.
These discoveries, published
online on Sunday in the journal
Nature, are expected to lead to
new treatments with drugs al-
ready approved for cancers in
other parts of the body and new
ideas for more precise treat-
ments aimed at genetic aberra-
tions that now have no known
treatment.
The study is the first compre-
hensive genetic analysis of
breast cancer, which kills more
than 35,000 women a year in the
United States. The new paper,
and several smaller recent stud-
ies, are electrifying the field.
“This is the road map for how
we might cure breast cancer in
the future,” said Dr. Matthew El-
lis of Washington University, a
researcher for the study.
Researchers and patient advo-
cates caution that it will still take
years to translate the new in-
sights into transformative new
treatments. Even within the four
major types of breast cancer, in-
dividual tumors appear to be
driven by their own sets of genet-
ic changes. A wide variety of
drugs will most likely need to be
developed to tailor medicines to
individual tumors.
“There are a lot of steps that
turn basic science into clinically
meaningful results,” said Karuna
Jaggar, executive director of
Breast Cancer Action, an advoca-
cy group. “It is the ‘stay tuned’
story.”
The study is part of a large fed-
eral project, the Cancer Genome
Atlas, to build maps of genetic
changes in common cancers. Re-
ports on similar studies of lung
and colon cancer have been pub-
lished recently. The breast can-
cer study was based on an analy-
sis of tumors from 825 patients.
“There has never been a
breast cancer genomics project
on this scale,” said the atlas’s pro-
gram director, Brad Ozenberger
of the National Institutes of
Health.
The investigators identified at
least 40 genetic alterations that
might be attacked by drugs.
Many of them are already being
developed for other types of can-
cer that have the same muta-
tions. “We now have a good view
of what goes wrong in breast can-
cer,” said Joe Gray, a genetic ex-
pert at Oregon Health & Science
University, who was not involved
and
Michael S.
Schmidt.
WASHINGTON — The attack
in Benghazi, Libya, that killed
Ambassador J. Christopher Ste-
vens and three other Americans
has dealt the Central Intelligence
Agency a major setback in its in-
telligence-gathering efforts at a
time of increasing instability in
the North African nation.
Among the more than two doz-
en American personnel evacuat-
ed from the city after the assault
on the American mission and a
nearby annex were about a dozen
C.I.A. operatives and contractors,
who played a crucial role in con-
ducting surveillance and collect-
ing information on an array of
armed militant groups in and
around the city.
“It’s a catastrophic intelligence
loss,” said one American official
who has served in Libya and who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity because the F.B.I. is still
investigating the attack. “We got
our eyes poked out.”
The C.I.A.’s surveillance tar-
gets in Benghazi and eastern Lib-
ya include Ansar al-Sharia, a mi-
litia that some have blamed for
the attack, as well as suspected
members of Al Qaeda’s affiliate
in North Africa, known as Al Qae-
da in the Islamic Maghreb.
Eastern Libya is also being
buffeted by strong crosscurrents
that intelligence operatives are
trying to monitor closely. The
killing of Mr. Stevens has ignited
public anger against the militias,
underscored on Friday when
thousands of Libyans took to the
streets of Benghazi to demand
that the groups be disarmed. The
makeup of militias varies widely;
ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Greenland Weighs Peril and Potential of Climate Change
In one Greenland town, climate change is threatening a fishing culture but also hinting at new opportunities in mining. Page A4.
Running as Outsiders, With a Catch: They’re In
Liking It or Not,
States Prepare
For Health Law
tor jobs. Where incumbents are
being challenged by former
members, the sitting members of
Congress are painting their oppo-
nents as consummate insiders.
“With record low job approval,
it’s not surprising that incum-
bents aren’t anxious to highlight
their ties to Washington,” said
Nathan L. Gonzales, deputy edi-
tor of The Rothenberg Political
Report, a nonpartisan political
publication.
Mr. Heck, in an ad that refers
to him as “Dr. Joe Heck,” speaks
about his father’s heart attack
and points out that “as a doctor
I’ve cared for thousands of sen-
iors.” For good measure, he adds
at the end, “I’m Dr. Joe Heck, and
I approved this message.”
Asked about the ad’s message,
Mr. Heck said, “I think there is a
Members of Congress
Would Prefer Not to
Advertise It
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
WASHINGTON — In one of his
campaign advertisements, Joe
Heck emphasizes his long career
as a physician taking care of eld-
erly patients. Dan Benishek, in
an ad, refers with a tinge of sad-
ness to the “career politician”
who is competing with him for a
House seat. Ann Kirkpatrick in-
forms viewers that she is ex-
tremely fond of driving.
What the two men do not say is
that they are members of Con-
gress — Heck a Republican from
Nevada and Benishek a Repub-
lican from Michigan — and Ms.
Kirkpatrick does not say that she
is a former Democratic congress-
woman from Arizona looking to
get her job back.
Bragging about one’s voting
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
PHOENIX — Like many Re-
publican governors, Jan Brewer
of Arizona is a stinging critic of
President Obama’s health care
law. When the Supreme Court up-
held it in June, she called the rul-
ing “an overreaching and un-
affordable assault on states’
rights and individual liberty.”
Yet the Brewer administration
is quietly designing an insurance
exchange — one of the most es-
sential and controversial require-
ments of the law. Officials in a
handful of other Republican-led
states say they are also working
to have a framework ready by
Nov. 16, the deadline for states to
commit to running an exchange
or leave it to the federal govern-
ment to run it for them. That is
just 10 days after Election Day,
which is likely to decide the fu-
ture of the law.
Given that the health care
overhaul remains a lightning rod
— just last week, Oklahoma re-
vised a lawsuit against it — even
the most tentative discussions
about carrying it out in Repub-
lican states tend to take place be-
hind closed doors or “under-
ground,” as the leader of a health
care advocacy group in the South
put it.
In Mississippi, Mike Chaney,
the insurance commissioner, who
is laying the groundwork for a
state-based exchange there, re-
cently learned the difficulties of
moving forward in anything but
the utmost secrecy. At a luncheon
record used to be a staple of polit-
ical advertising, and a career in
Congress was worn as a badge of
honor. But this year, many House
candidates are deciding not to
mention their service here, a
blunt acknowledgment of the dim
view that a vast majority of vot-
ers have of Congress.
In acts of great creativity, or
profound chutzpah, some mem-
bers, former and current, are
shrouding their jobs with fuzzy
images of cute children back
home or tales of their private sec-
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A Manager of Overseas Crises,
As Much as the World Permits
By PETER BAKER
WASHINGTON — When Pres-
ident Obama flies to New York on
Monday afternoon for the United
Nations General Assembly, he
will dispense with the usual bat-
tery of one-on-one meetings with
world leaders so he can tape an
appearance on “The View” and
return by midweek to the bat-
tleground state of Ohio. Left to
help smooth over any ruffled
feathers will be Tom Donilon.
Gray-suited, meticulous and
little known to the public, Mr.
Donilon is the president’s nation-
al security adviser and central
figure in American foreign policy,
“the most important person in
the mix,” according to Vice Presi-
dent Joseph R. Biden Jr. In this
critical campaign season, he has
also become the president’s geo-
political bodyguard, charged with
keeping the world at bay for an-
other 43 days.
Mr. Donilon is the one who
wakes the president when an am-
bassador is killed in Libya, the
one who tries to keep Israel from
rupturing relations and Egypt
from heading off track. Solutions
to intractable problems like
Iran’s nuclear program are for
another day. For now, it is Mr.
Donilon’s mission to manage
problems and keep them from
blowing up, so Mr. Obama can fo-
cus on Mitt Romney rather than
Benjamin Netanyahu.
But the world has not been co-
operative with the American po-
litical calendar, as the tumult in
Muslim countries attests. Afghan
troops keep killing American
troops. Syria keeps massacring
its people. China and Japan keep
rattling sabers. Iran keeps defy-
ing the West. And the bill will
come due in November when Mr.
Obama will confront a daunting
list of challenges that the final
weeks of the presidential cam-
paign have
LUCY NICHOLSON/REUTERS
‘Homeland’ Beats ‘Mad Men’ at Emmys
The writers, from left, Gideon Raff, Howard Gordon and Alex
Gansa won for “Homeland,” which took best drama. Page C1.
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Data Barns in a Farm Town, Gobbling Power and Flexing Muscle
petite for electricity would be fed
by hydroelectric generators that
work off the flow of the nearby
Columbia River, and Microsoft of-
ficials pledged to operate their
new enterprise with a focus on
energy efficiency and environ-
mental sensitivity.
“You’re talking about one of
the largest corporations,” said
Tim Culbertson, who was the
general manager of the local util-
ity at the time. “You’re talking
Microsoft and Bill Gates. Wow!”
But for some in Quincy, the
gee-whiz factor of such a promi-
nent high-tech neighbor wore off
quickly. First, a citizens group
mating its power use, Microsoft
proceeded to simply waste mil-
lions of watts of electricity,
records show. Then it threatened
to continue burning power in
what it acknowledged was an
“unnecessarily wasteful” way
until the fine was substantially
cut, according to documents ob-
tained by The New York Times.
“For a company of that size
and that nature, and with all the
‘green’ things they advertised to
me, that was an insult,” said Ran-
dall Allred, a utility commission-
er and local farmer.
A Microsoft spokeswoman said
THE CLOUD FACTORIES
When Web Giants Are Neighbors
By JAMES GLANZ
QUINCY, Wash. — Set in the
dry hills and irrigated farmland
of Central Washington, Grant
County is known for its robust
harvest of apples, potatoes, cher-
ries and beans. But for Microsoft,
a prime lure was the region’s oth-
er valuable resource: cheap elec-
trical power.
The technology giant created a
stir here in 2006 when it bought
about 75 acres of bean fields to
build a giant data center, a digital
warehouse to support various In-
ternet services. Its voracious ap-
initiated a legal challenge over
pollution from some of nearly 40
giant diesel generators that
Microsoft’s facility — near an ele-
mentary school — is allowed to
use for backup power.
Then came a showdown late
last year between the utility and
Microsoft, whose hardball tactics
shocked some local officials.
In an attempt to erase a
$210,000 penalty the utility said
the company owed for underesti-
seemingly put on
hold.
If anyone can manage it, col-
leagues say, it is Mr. Donilon.
“Tom can keep 10 important
things in his head at once while
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Tom Donilon helps monitor
the world for the president.
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ELECTION 2012 A12-13
A Push to ‘Let Ryan Be Ryan’
NEW YORK A18-21
Field Trips for Cuomo’s Team
INTERNATIONAL A4-10
China Convicts Aide in Scandal
SPORTSMONDAY D1-7
A Loss Within a Victory
ARTS C1-10
Living to Tell His Tale
Some conservatives are second-guess-
ing how Paul D. Ryan is being put to use
in the presidential campaign. And an-
other line here.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, his cabinet and
top aides took to the Adirondacks, one of
the many excursions around New York
that the administration uses to help pro-
mote his agenda.
Wang Lijun, a police chief who fled to an
American Consulate with allegations
that the wife of a senior official, Bo Xilai,
had murdered a British businessman,
was sentenced to 15 years.
Nick Folk’s 33-yard field goal in over-
time helped the Jets defeat the Dol-
phins. But on the negative side, the
team lost the star cornerback Darrelle
Revis to a knee injury.
Damien Echols, who is free from death
row in an Arkansas prison thanks in
part to a celebrity-fueled campaign for
his release, is making a new name for
himself, as an author of a well-reviewed
memoir. On Friday, he and Johnny Depp
made a joint appearance at Barnes &
Noble in Union Square.
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NATIONAL A14-17
New Classroom Fights
BUSINESS DAY B1-6
Apple’s Feud With Google
PAGE C1
Labor strife involving teachers may be
over in Chicago, but battles over tenure
and other issues are heating up in Idaho
and other parts of the country.
PAGE A14
The new iPhone 5 has become the focus
of the latest business hostilities between
the two technology giants.
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
Bill Keller
PAGE B1
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TV’s Fall Season Endures
National Zoo’s Panda Cub Dies
The fall season of TV premieres has sur-
vived changing viewer habits and the
flow of new cable shows.
A week-old giant panda cub at the Na-
tional Zoo has died, a blow to a decades-
long breeding program.
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Inside The Times
INTERNATIONAL
NATIONAL
BUSINESS
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
Sinai Group Claims Role
In Attack on Israel
An obscure militant group in
Egypt’s North Sinai claimed respon-
sibility for an attack that killed an Is-
raeli soldier, calling fresh attention
to the struggle of the newly formed
Egyptian government to control the
restive Sinai region.
PAGE A4
Assad Foes in Damascus
In a rare instance of officially toler-
ated dissent, opponents of President
Bashar al-Assad gathered in a Da-
mascus hotel tightly guarded by
government security agents to call
for his removal from power.
PAGE A6
Order to Disband Militias
In response to an upwelling of public
anger, Libya’s interim government
ordered the breakup of all militias
that do not fall under its authority,
and demanded that those militias
pull out of military compounds and
public property within 48 hours.
PAGE A8
Deadly Avalanche in Nepal
Nepalese officials said an avalanche
hit climbers on the slopes of a Hima-
layan peak, leaving at least nine
dead, six others missing and ten sur-
vivors.
PAGE A8
Richard III in Battle Again
King Richard III has long been the
mo
st widely reviled of English mon-
archs, but an archaeological find in
the English Midlands could lead to a
reassessment of his brief but violent
reign. PAGE A9
Belarus Holds Elections
Belarus held parliamentary elec-
tions, though the outcome was hard-
ly in doubt: supporters of President
Aleksandr G. Lukashenko have tra-
ditionally won, and now hold, all 110
seats in the chamber. PAGE A10
Vice President Gets Closer
Than Most to Voters
Few politicians relish pressing flesh
as heartily as Vice President Joseph
R. Biden Jr., whose old-fashioned
style turns out to be well-suited to
an age in which a photograph of a
spontaneous encounter with a voter
can spread through social media.
PAGE A12
A Preview of the Debates
In separate interviews for the CBS
News program “60 Minutes,” Mitt
Romney and President Obama criti-
cized each other over foreign and
domestic policies.
PAGE A13
Risks of Uranium Disposal
The United States has stockpiles of a
nuclear fuel called uranium 233 that
is no longer needed, and some ex-
perts worry that a plan for its dis-
posal will pose a security risk.
PAGE A17
Apple’s Value Could Reach
A Record: $1 Trillion
Something remarkable may happen
on April 9, 2015, at around 11 a.m.
That is when, according to some es-
timates, Apple could become the
first company ever to be valued at $1
trillion. Nick Bilton, Disruptions.
PAGE B1
The French Vanity Fair
Condé Nast’s decision to start a
French edition of Vanity Fair has
some media executives questioning
why the publisher insisted on an-
nouncing the news now, amid a
stubborn economic crisis.
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‘‘
This is the road map
for how we might cure
breast cancer in the
future.
’’
DR. MATTHEW ELLIS
of Washington University, a re-
searcher for a new study that
has identified four genetically
distinct types of the cancer.
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ARTS
In This Performance,
Audience Is Peeping Tom
“Habit,” an art-theater project from
David Levine, takes place in a struc-
ture within the Essex Street Mar-
ket; audiences look through its win-
dows or walk in. Ben Brantley, Thea-
ter Review. PAGE C1
Stars Out There in the Dark
In “Gods Like Us,” Ty Burr chroni-
cles the genesis of movie stars and
the metamorphosis of movie star-
dom. Carrie Rickey, Books of the
Times. PAGE C4
SPORTS
Yanks Lose Close One
But Aren’t Complaining
The Yankees had yet another oppor-
tunity to pull out a late-inning vic-
tory, but the Athletics held on to end
their seven-game winning streak.
PAGE D1
A Poignant Remembrance
Liverpool’s chance to remember the
victims of the 1989 Hillsborough sta-
dium disaster after a report exoner-
ated its supporters unfolded beauti-
fully and without incident. PAGE D5
NEW YORK
Rape Near Hudson River
Is Latest of Jarring Crimes
The last month has brought New
York City a succession of high-pro-
file violent crimes: a murder near
the Empire State Building, a rape in
Central Park, and now a rape in the
Hudson River Park.
PAGE A18
Subway Flaw Is Put to Rest
As the first travelers make their way
between a B train and an uptown
No. 6 at Bleecker Street, a daily frus-
tration will give way to a whimsical
remembrance: Here stood New
York City’s fussiest subway transfer
point. PAGE A18
Ex-Commissioner to Testify
Former New York police commis-
sioner Bernard B. Kerik, imprisoned
on federal charges of tax fraud and
other crimes, is set to take the stand
in a perjury case. PAGE A20
OP-ED
Paul Krugman
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OBITUARIES
ONLINE
Jennifer Jaff, 55
Ms. Jaff was a lawyer whose nearly
four-decade struggle with Crohn’s
disease led her to become a leading
advocate for people with chronic ill-
nesses. PAGE D8
Marv Kessler, 80
Mr. Kessler spent more than half a
century in basketball as a player, a
coach, a scout and a camp instructor
who molded young athletes like Pat-
rick Ewing and Stephon Marbury.
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Maps show possible
new independent nations.
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Corrections
FRONT PAGE
A subheading on Tuesday
about Michael B. Oren, the Israeli
diplomat in Washington who was
born and raised in New Jersey,
misstated his title. He is ambas-
sador, not consul.
conclusion by the American
Academy of Pediatrics that the
health benefits of circumcising
infant boys outweigh the risks re-
ferred incompletely to complica-
tions that arise from the opera-
tion. An estimate given in the ar-
ticle, that about 117 boys a year
die as a result of neonatal circum-
cision — put forth by Dan Bollin-
ger, a prominent opponent of cir-
cumcision, based on his review of
infant mortality statistics — is
cited often by critics of routine
circumcision but widely disputed
by medical professionals. A
spokeswoman for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
said the agency does not track
deaths from infant circumcision
because they are exceedingly
rare. In the agency’s last mortal-
ity report, which looked at all
deaths in the country in 2010, no
circumcision-related deaths were
found. (An article on Aug. 23,
2011, about decisions by parents
on whether to circumcise their
sons also referred incompletely
to the complications from the op-
eration, citing the same mortality
estimate.)
erroneous reference to a Jules
Verne character in explaining the
Demotic Egyptian influence on
the name Phineas, meaning “a
man from Nubia.” The character,
from “Around the World in 80
Days,” is Phileas Fogg, not Phin-
eas. And a chart showing sam-
ples of Greek, Middle Egyptian
and Demotic script from the Ro-
setta stone gave an incorrect
transliteration of the Greek word
for ebony. It is ebenos, not hebe-
nos.
INTERNATIONAL
Because of an editing error, an
article on Friday about a new
study that found government re-
strictions on religion around the
world were highest in the Middle
East and North Africa, partic-
ularly in the period before the
Arab Spring uprisings, misidenti-
fied the year in which the upris-
ing in Tunisia began. It was 2010,
not 2011.
SCIENCE TIMES
An article on Tuesday about
the completion of a dictionary of
the ancient language known as
Demotic Egyptian included an
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Liking It or Not, States Prepare for the Health Law
“If we have to have one,” said
Donald Hughes, Ms. Brewer’s
health care policy adviser, “then
it would be better for Arizona to
do it ourselves rather than defer
to the federal government.” He
said, however, that Ms. Brewer
would not make a final decision
on a state-run exchange until af-
ter the election.
Only 13 states and the District
of Columbia have formally com-
mitted to running their own ex-
changes. All of them but Rhode
Island, whose governor, Lincoln
Chafee, is an independent, are led
by Democrats. The Republican
governors in six states — Alaska,
Florida, Louisiana, Maine, South
Carolina and Texas — have said
they will not create a state-run
exchange, according to the Kai-
ser Family Foundation. So has
New Hampshire, where Gov.
John Lynch, a Democrat, faced
opposition from the Republican-
controlled legislature.
Most of the remaining states,
22 of them run by Republicans,
are exploring their options. Along
with Arizona, at least three of
them — Mississippi, Nevada and
New Mexico — have done
enough planning to meet the No-
vember deadline should they de-
cide to run their own exchanges,
according to officials. Nevada has
already created its exchange, ap-
pointed its board and hired its ex-
ecutive director. Most Republi-
can governors, including Ms.
Brewer, are waiting for the out-
come of the presidential race be-
fore making a final decision; Mitt
Romney has pledged to repeal
the law if elected.
But states like Arizona say
they want to be prepared in case
the law survives. (Even if Mr.
Romney wins, repealing the law
will require Congressional ap-
proval, which will be difficult if
Democrats retain control of the
Senate.)
Peter Lee, the executive di-
rector of the insurance exchange
in California, said he had attend-
ed meetings with officials from
red states who were eager to
keep their presence under the ra-
dar.
“It’s sort of like A.A.: ‘My
name’s Bob, and I can’t tell you
the state I’m from,’” Mr. Lee said.
Republicans who support
state-run exchanges say they are
embracing a fundamental con-
servative belief: that states
should make their own decisions
rather than cede control to the
federal government. But groups
that oppose the law have sent
emissaries around the country to
argue that deferring to the fed-
eral government is a shrewder
move.
Michael Cannon, a health pol-
icy expert at the Cato Institute, a
libertarian group, has visited
more than a dozen Republican-
led states, pressing them not to
set up their own exchanges. Mr.
Cannon, the opponent who con-
fronted Mr. Chaney in Mississip-
pi, said he tells states that ex-
changes will in fact be “an en-
tirely federally controlled enter-
prise.”
Mr. Cannon says that Repub-
lican governors who are moving
toward state-run exchanges are
bowing to the wishes of insur-
ance companies and health care
providers. “They happen to be
the interest groups that stand to
get billions of dollars in federal
subsidies,” he said.
Many Republicans in state
legislatures, including in Arizona,
do not need convincing: they are
against state-run exchanges.
That could make the challenge of
creating them tough even if the
framework is in place by Novem-
ber, because most states need
legislative approval to establish
them. Another option is a “part-
nership” exchange, one that is
created by the federal govern-
ment but that the state would
have a role in operating.
Mr. Hughes said that if Ms.
Brewer decided to move ahead
with a state-based exchange af-
ter the election, she would ask
the Legislature to sign off on cre-
ating one early next year. “Opin-
ions can change,” he said.
But Tom Jenney, the Arizona
director of the conservative or-
ganization Americans for Pros-
perity, said his group would pres-
sure legislators to resist. Mr. Jen-
ney recently challenged support-
ers of a state-based exchange to
debate Mr. Cannon at an event
his group sponsored in Phoenix.
When no one accepted the invi-
tation, Mr. Jenney played the role
of a supporter himself, wearing
devil horns.
“Our mission is to make it as
uncomfortable as possible for
anyone who has not committed to
opposing the exchange,” he said.
Creating an exchange takes
significant time and resources:
states must build the Web sites
and other technological infra-
structure, a call center, outreach
programs and other pieces. Mr.
Hughes said Arizona had set
standards for health plans that
would compete on its exchange
and was seeking a vendor to
build some of the technological
infrastructure and a call center.
But the state, he said, had “in-
cluded language in all of our con-
tracts with vendors and consult-
ants that would allow us to cancel
them.”
In the meantime, a coalition of
business leaders, including many
from insurance companies and
health care providers, is urging
Ms. Brewer to go with the state-
based exchange.
Mr. Chaney said that while he
faced pressure to abandon plans
for a state-run exchange in Mis-
sissippi — the Tea Party there is
an especially vocal opponent —
he would not back down. He said
that he would, however, honor a
request by Gov. Phil Bryant, a
Republican, to wait until after the
election to submit a blueprint.
“What we’re doing here is an
offensive move, and it’s a defen-
sive move,” Mr. Chaney said.
“I’m doing what I think is the
best thing to give me some al-
ternatives and what’s in the best
interest of my state.”
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this summer he found himself
facing down an opponent of the
law in a confrontation that is now
circulating on YouTube.
“I was invited to the picnic, and
I was the main course,” said Mr.
Chaney, a Republican and an
elected official.
The law requires all states to
have exchanges, which are es-
sentially online marketplaces
where small businesses and indi-
viduals can shop for private
health plans, in place by January
2014, when a requirement takes
effect for most Americans to have
health insurance or pay a pen-
alty. If states fail to submit plans
for running their own exchanges
by the deadline, the law calls for
the federal government to set up
and run one for them, with or
without their help. People with
incomes between 133 percent and
400 percent of the poverty level
can get federal tax subsidies
through exchanges to make the
price of coverage more afford-
able.
MARK HOLM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico, which plans to submit an insurance exchange proposal.
ROGELIO V. SOLIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
In Mississippi, Gov. Phil Bryant has asked that a plan not be submitted until after the election.
TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona denounced the Supreme Court ruling upholding the heath care law.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Sinai Group
Claims Role
In Attack
On Israel
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
CAIRO — An obscure mil-
itant group based in Egypt’s
North Sinai region claimed re-
sponsibility over the weekend
for a cross-border attack that
killed an Israeli soldier last
week. The claim called fresh
attention to the uphill struggle
the newly formed Egyptian
government is facing to con-
trol the restive Sinai region.
The group, which calls itself
Supporters of the Holy Places,
said in a statement posted on
militant Web sites that it
mounted the attack in re-
sponse to a crude American-
made video mocking the
Prophet Muhammad, the
same video cited in anti-Amer-
ican protests around the Mus-
lim world. The group repeated
a false claim that a number of
Jews were involved in making
the video, an apparent lie ini-
tially told by a Coptic Chris-
tian, an Egyptian expatriate,
who did play a role in the pro-
duction.
The militant group also said
it was responsible for a cross-
border attack near the Israeli
resort of Eilat last year that
killed 8 people and wounded
more than 30. The Israeli re-
sponse to that attack inadver-
tently killed five Egyptian sol-
diers, bringing the two nations
to the brink of a crisis. The mil-
itant group said that one of its
leaders, Ibrahim Aweida,
helped lead the Eilat attack
and that Israel killed him last
month in the Sinai village of
Khreiza; the attack on Friday
was partly to avenge his
death, the group said.
All three of the attackers
were killed by Israeli security
forces; their bodies were re-
turned to Egypt over the
weekend, state news media re-
ported.
None of the militant group’s
statements could be con-
firmed.
The same group claimed re-
sponsibility for bombing a nat-
ural gas pipeline to Israel this
year; the pipeline was bombed
frequently over the last 18
months, until Egypt stopped
shipping gas to Israel in a
price dispute.
President Mohamed Morsi,
a former leader of the Muslim
Brotherhood, began a military
campaign last month to clear
Sinai of what he has called
“militants” and “criminals,”
after an attack on an Egyptian
Army checkpoint killed 16 sol-
diers. There are often reports
of gun battles between Egyp-
tian soldiers and militants, and
the army has announced the
detention of dozens of sus-
pects and the closing of at
least 31 cross-border smug-
gling tunnels.
But the Sinai region, dom-
inated by Bedouin clans who
consider smuggling revenue a
birthright, was relatively law-
less even under former Presi-
dent Hosni Mubarak’s police
state. Residents often refer to
Cairo, even Egypt, as a differ-
ent country or colonial power.
After Mr. Mubarak’s govern-
ment collapsed, the police
scattered and lawlessness
reached a new peak.
President Morsi told a vis-
iting business delegation that
the reassertion of Egyptian
“sovereignty” in Sinai was a
top priority, participants said,
speaking on the condition of
anonymity to discuss a private
meeting.
But security on the Egyp-
tian side of the border remains
a challenge. Last week, Egyp-
tian state news media report-
ed that a government check-
point on the road to the Rafah
border crossing had been at-
tacked by unidentified gun-
men for the 36th time since
Mr. Mubarak was ousted in
February 2011.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A camp set up by Greenland Minerals and Energy on a proposed rare earth mine near the town of Narsaq, where climate change is threatening the fishing culture.
A Melting Greenland Weighs Perils Against Potential
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
NARSAQ, Greenland — As ice-
bergs in the Kayak Harbor pop
and hiss while melting away, this
remote Arctic town and its cul-
ture are also disappearing in a
changing climate.
Narsaq’s largest employer, a
shrimp factory, closed a few
years ago after the crustaceans
fled north to cooler water. Where
once there were eight commer-
cial fishing vessels, there is now
one.
As a result, the population
here, one of southern Green-
land’s major towns, has been
halved to 1,500 in just a decade.
Suicides are up.
“Fishing is the heart of this
town,” said Hans Kaspersen, 63, a
fisherman. “Lots of people have
lost their livelihoods.”
But even as warming tempera-
tures are upending traditional
Greenlandic life, they are also of-
fering up intriguing new opportu-
nities for this state of 57,000 —
perhaps nowhere more so than
here in Narsaq.
Vast new deposits of minerals
and gems are being discovered
as Greenland’s massive ice cap
recedes, forming the basis of a
potentially lucrative mining in-
dustry.
One of the world’s largest de-
posits of rare earth metals — es-
sential for manufacturing cell-
phones, wind turbines and elec-
tric cars — sits just outside Nar-
saq.
This could be momentous for
Greenland, which has long relied
on half a billion dollars a year in
welfare payments from Den-
mark, its parent state. Mining
profits could help Greenland be-
come economically self sufficient,
and may someday even render it
the first sovereign nation created
by global warming.
“One of our goals is to obtain
independence,” said Vittus
Qujaukitsoq, a prominent labor
union leader.
But the rapid transition from a
society of individual fishermen
and hunters to an economy sup-
ported by corporate mining
raises difficult questions. How
would Greenland’s insular settle-
ments tolerate an influx of thou-
sands of Polish or Chinese con-
struction workers, as has been
proposed? Will mining despoil a
natural environment essential to
Greenland’s national identity —
the whales and seals, the silent
icy fjords, and mythic polar
bears? Can fishermen reinvent
Fishing Culture in a Key Southern Outpost
Is at Risk, but Mining May Have a Future
The population has been halved in Narsaq. More photos and a video are at nytimes.com/world.
Continued on Page A10
DIPLOMATIC MEMO
At United Nations, Renewed Focus on Syria, if Not New Ideas
General Assembly, but I don’t see
anything substantial on Syria
coming out of the meetings,” said
one veteran Western diplomat,
speaking anonymously under his
ministry’s rules.
That would be consistent with
the United Nations’ seeming re-
turn to the way it operated dur-
ing the cold war, when the divi-
sions between East and West and
rich and poor states meant it pro-
vided a venue for discussion but
few solutions.
President Obama, wrestling
with a difficult election, will prac-
tice something like drive-by di-
plomacy, hosting a reception for
world leaders on Monday night
and speaking at the official open-
ing on Tuesday.
But he is expected to eschew
even a single solo session with
any world leader, exiting quickly
from the United Nations — never
a broadly popular institution
among Americans — to appear
on “The View,” the ABC talk
show, and to speak at the Clinton
Global Initiative. Mitt Romney
will also speak at the Clinton Glo-
bal Initiative, a forum set up by
former President Bill Clinton that
now competes with the United
Nations for high-level speakers
and attention.
Instead of Mr. Obama, Secre-
tary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton will hold the meetings
with other leaders.
The Israeli prime minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu, will most
likely use his time at the United
Nations to press for consensus on
pushing Iran to dismantle its sus-
pected nuclear weapons program
or face an attack.
Mr. Netanyahu will address
the General Debate on Wednes-
day just moments after the Pales-
tinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas,
who is expected to propose that
the United Nations make Pales-
tine a “nonmember state,” a rath-
er symbolic status far short of the
full membership he demanded in
his speech last year.
If Syria is Topic A this year, it
was Palestinian membership a
year ago.
The Palestinians are not ex-
Parliament after years of deten-
tion.
When Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi
appeared briefly on Friday, nor-
mally blasé ambassadors and
staff members stopped in their
tracks, whipping out their smart-
phones to take videos as she glid-
ed past. The new leaders of
Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen
are also likely to attract a great
deal of attention for what they
have to say about stabilizing their
combustible nations after sweep-
ing political change.
Every year there is some man-
ner of grand theme, and this year
“rule of law” will be the focus at a
one-day meeting on Monday.
“There is a growing realization
that rule of law is an important
part of living up to the three ob-
jectives of the U.N.: peace, devel-
opment and human rights,” said
Jan Eliasson, the deputy secre-
tary general.
Of course, all 193 member
states do not use the phrase with
the same intent. The West largely
sees the issue as ensuring that all
states respect basic rights at
home, like having an independ-
ent judiciary and equal access to
the courts; in much of the rest of
the world, the term refers to the
need to respect international law.
Also, Russia and China balked
at the last minute about the way
the final document referred to Se-
curity Council reform, diplomats
said, so it is still not clear wheth-
er the meeting will produce even
an anemic agreement.
It is another example of what
seasoned diplomats call a return
to form at the United Nations,
when the two giants of Commu-
nism were so distracted by their
own internal changes that they
let the world body run on a large-
ly Western agenda.
Now Moscow and Beijing are
signaling their objection to inter-
national meddling in any internal
affairs. Syria has become their
prime example, which is why so
little progress is expected.
Both have vetoed three Securi-
ty Council resolutions addressing
the Syria conflict. It does not help
matters that the Syrian govern-
ment and the armed opposition
are seemingly locked in a death
match, but many governments
are convinced that only united
Council action can break that af-
ter some 18 months of fighting.
Aside from their opposition be-
cause of diplomatic precedent,
Russia and China are also wor-
ried that the rise of Islamic ex-
tremists in Syria will inspire new
religious extremism at home.
Some Arab leaders will use the
meetings here to try to convince
the two that the risk of fueling ex-
tremism will be even greater as
the conflict rages on, one senior
Arab official said.
Failing a political solution, Mr.
Ban said the least the United Na-
tions could do was to try to ad-
dress the humanitarian crisis,
with some 2.5 million Syrians af-
fected and winter looming. The
United Nations needs $350 mil-
lion to help, he said, with only
about 40 percent of that donated
so far after months of appeals.
Instead, the United Nations
has raided its emergency funds
to take care of ordinary Syrians.
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
UNITED NATIONS — The
raging conflict in Syria will take
center stage starting Monday as
some 120 world leaders converge
on the United Nations for what is
sometimes called “diplomacy’s
annual trade fair.”
Syria will have to share the
stage at the weeklong United Na-
tions General Debate with other
intractable diplomatic problems,
of course. They include the
spread of Al Qaeda across the
Western Sahara; the snail’s pace
of negotiations over Iran’s nucle-
ar program; global riots prompt-
ed by religious intolerance; and
sharp new tensions in Asia over
competing claims to small, poten-
tially mineral-rich islands.
“The deteriorating situation in
Syria will be the foremost on our
minds,” Ban Ki-moon, the United
Nations secretary general, said
at a news conference last week
outlining the priorities of the
main session and some 50 side
meetings. “It is really troubling
that this situation is continuing
without any immediate end to
this crisis.”
Attention is one thing, howev-
er, and progress something else
entirely.
Despite at least three high-lev-
el meetings on Syria, and count-
less other talks, not to mention
day after day of speeches from
presidents, kings and other po-
tentates, no broad new initiatives
are expected.
“Everybody will think of Syria,
everybody will speak of Syria, es-
pecially in the speeches to the
As world leaders
converge, peace
remains elusive.
pected to press for a vote on non-
member status before the Nov. 6
American election. Indeed, there
will be nary a high-level meeting
this week on the moribund Arab-
Israeli peace process.
The desire to avoid contentious
issues is seen behind Mr. Oba-
ma’s decision to curb his time
here. “The Americans have a tal-
ent for finding reasons not to act
on the peace process,” said one
Western ambassador, following
diplomatic protocol in not public-
ly criticizing an ally.
One new diplomatic star here
will be Daw Aung San Suu Kyi,
the opposition leader in Myan-
mar, who will attend for the first
time as an elected member of
ABIR SULTAN/E.P.A.
An Israeli soldier consoled
the brother of Netanel
Yahalomi, who was killed in
an attack on Friday.
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