AIR FORCE PICK? Defense Secretary Robert Gates is likely to recommend to President George W. Bush that he nominate former Air Force executive Michael Donley to the service’s top civilian post, a senior defense official said Friday. Donley, who was acting secretary of the Air Force for seven months in 1993, would replace Michael Wynne, who was fired on Thursday along with Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley.
TEACHERS PROTEST: Teachers hoisting protest signs and yelling into bullhorns skipped class Friday in Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest school district, to protest a state budget they contend will cost their district $353 million and lead to cutbacks. Many of the 48,000 teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District spent the first hour of their school day on the sidewalks outside their campuses.
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‘While surgeons do not seek to pass moral judgment on the patients they treat, Americans hope at the very least that foreign criminal figures wait in line along with the rest of us.’
– Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), who sent letters Friday seeking details about four liver transplants at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center involving patients who were suspected members or associates of Japanese organized-crime groups.
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