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Nation Woman says she was forced to rob bank
DENVER — A woman told police she was forced to rob the bank where she worked after a man kidnapped her on her lunch break yesterday and made her carry a package he said contained a bomb.
The woman was released unharmed after the man fled with the stolen money. She was interviewed and released by police.
"There's absolutely no reason to believe she's anything else but a victim in this case," said Susan Medina, a spokeswoman for police in suburban Arvada, where the robbery occurred.
The 49-year-old woman,
whose name was not released, told police the man kidnapped her from a restaurant and threatened to blow up the package if she didn't rob a Compass Bank branch.
The purported bomb was left inside the bank. A bomb squad determined it was not an explosive.
The robbery was similar to bank jobs in March and August in Longmont, about 20 miles north of Arvada.
In both cases, a man threatened to detonate a bomb, later found to be a fake, while having someone else rob a bank. No arrests have been made so far.
In August, a man in Erie, Pa., told police he had been forced to rob a bank by a man who locked a bomb around his neck. The bomb exploded later, killing him.
Medina wouldn't say how much money was taken in yesterday's robbery, and bank officials declined to comment.
The robber fled in the woman's car, which was recovered nearby. Because he never entered the bank, officers have no surveillance video of him.
-The Associated Press
Pope remains in power despite speech difficulty
VATICAN CITY — Although speech is becoming harder for him, Pope John Paul II still can carry out his mission and shows no sign of resigning, several cardinals said yesterday.
might come when the Vatican has to reevaluate how to cope with a pontifex whose skill as a communicator, a hallmark of his 25-year papacy, is clearly declining.
Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls hinted a time
When asked whether the Vatican would have to deal with the problem later if it became necessary, he said: "I suppose so."
John Paul has had trouble speaking for several years as a result of Parkinson's disease, which causes him to slur his words.
Recently, however, he has occasionally been unable to deliver his full speeches, often only saying a line or two before turning the text over to an aide to finish.
The change was most evident during his recent September visit to Slovakia, where for the first time in more than 100
foreign visits, the pope was unable to complete his arrival speech.
Cardinals who are gathering in Rome for celebrations surrounding John Paul's 25th anniversary as pope tomorrow said that even though the pope has had difficulty in things such as speaking, he shows no sign of stepping down or turning over leadership of the Roman Catholic Church any time soon.
When asked whether the pope might step aside if he can no longer speak, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said he couldn't answer because he couldn't put himself in the mind of the pope.
"I do believe that this Holy Father is so much in the hands of God, he's going to let God tell him."
The Associated Press
Hispanic population continues to increase
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The population surge that has made Hispanics America's largest minority shows no sign of slowing in the next 20 years, according to a study released yesterday by a Latino research group.
The Pew Hispanic Center found that much of the growth will be from children born to parents who arrived during the immigration wave that began in the 1980s. Native-born, many of
those youngsters will have an easier time than their parents, freedom of language barriers that made it harder to find work and fully assimilate into American society.
"There's much less adaptation for them," said Roberto Suro, director of the Pew Hispanic Center. Many native-born children will also be better educated than their immigrant parents, he said. That opens the door to better job opportunities, home ownership and other economic benefits.
The Hispanic population is expected to grow from 35.3 million in 2000, about 13 percent of all U.S. residents, to about 60.4 million in 2020, 18 percent, according to the Pew analysis. That means the Latino population would grow at a rate of about 1.2 million a year through 2020, about the same growth rate as during the 1990s.
1990s. Almost half the Latino growth during the next two decades is expected to come from second-generation Hispanics, those born in the United States of at least one foreign-born parent, and 25 percent will be immigrants. Between
1970 and 2000, immigrants accounted for nearly half the growth.
The aging of the second generation is expected to help boost the number of Latinos in the labor market by 12.6 million between 2000 and 2020,1 million more than growth forecast for the rest of the labor force.
The increased presence in the workforce could boost Hispanics as a voting bloc, as more of their population becomes taxpaying, voting-age citizens, said Larry Gonzalez, director of the Washington office of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials Educational Fund.
Political clout could also rise if educational and income levels increase among second generation Hispanics. For instance, earning more money could help more Latinos own homes, and generally homeowners, in turn, tend to be more active politically, Gonzalez said.
The projections for Pew were done by Jeffrey Passel, a demographer with the Urban Institute, a liberal-leaning think tank.
Campus Board of Regents meet discuss University funds
Members of the Board of Regents said the Regents had failed the University of Kansas, in a meeting with the Senate Executive Committee yesterday.
Executive Committee The Regents said they had not done a good enough job convincing the Legislature to adequately fund the University.
"The Chancellor's goal of getting into the top 25 is a great one," said Richard Bond, vicechair of the Board of Regents.
But Bond said the University would never reach that goal if it received only 82 percent of what other universities received.
Bill Docking, another Board of Regents member, criticized the Legislature for failing to provide the funds it had promised the University.
"If the Legislature had honored its commitment — if we had gotten four years of new money instead of two — then we would be in a lot better position than we are now," he said.
Docking said the Regents were attempting to get more money for public higher education, but it was a work in progress. Docking called for the University to rally all of its allies, such as alumni and the people of Kansas.
Janice DeBauge, chairwoman of the Board of Regents, said the Regents would work to become the best advocates they could be even though it was sometimes tough to know how.
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