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TODAY is Friday, Nov. 12, the
316th day of 2021. There are 49
days left in the year.
TODAY ’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On Nov. 12, 1942, the World
War II naval Battle of Guadal-
canal began. (The Allies ended
up winning a major victory
over Japanese forces.)
ON THIS DATE:
In 1920, baseball got its first
“czar ” as Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Landis was elected
commissioner of the American
and National Leagues.
In 1927, Josef Stalin became
the undisputed ruler of the So-
viet Union as Leon Trotsky
was expelled from the Com-
munist Party.
In 1936, the San Francisco-
Oakland Bay Bridge opened as
President Franklin D. Roo-
sevelt pressed a telegraph key
in Washington, D.C., giving the
green light to traffic.
In 1948, former Japanese
premier Hideki Tojo and sev-
eral other World War II
Japanese leaders were sen-
tenced to death by a war
crimes tribunal.
In 1969, news of the My Lai
Massacre carried out by U.S.
forces in South Vietnam in
March 1968 was broken by in-
vestigative reporter Seymour
Hersh.
In 1975, Supreme Court
Justice William O. Douglas re-
tired because of failing health,
ending a record 36-year term.
In 1982, Yuri V. Andropov
was elected to succeed the late
Leonid I. Brezhnev as general
secretary of the Soviet Com-
munist Party’s Central Com-
mittee.
In 1987, the American Medi-
cal Association issued a policy
statement saying it was uneth-
ical for a doctor to refuse to
treat someone solely because
that person had AIDS or was
H I V- p o s i t i v e .
In 1996, a Saudi Boeing 747
jetliner collided shortly after
takeoff from New Delhi, India,
with a Kazak Ilyushin-76 cargo
plane, killing 349 people.
In 2001, American Airlines
Flight 587, an Airbus A300
headed to the Dominican Re-
public, crashed after takeoff
from New York’s John F.
Kennedy International Air-
port, killing all 260 people on
board and five people on the
ground.
In 2009, Army psychiatrist
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was
charged with 13 counts of pre-
meditated murder in the Fort
Hood, Texas, shooting ram-
page.(Hasan was later con-
victed and sentenced to death;
no execution date has been
set.)
In 2019, Venice saw its worst
flooding in more than 50 years,
with the water reaching 6.14
feet above average sea level;
damage was estimated in the
hundreds of millions of dollars.
FIVE YEARS AGO: Tens of thou-
sands of people marched in
streets across the United
States, staging the fourth day
of protests against Donald
Tr ump’s surprise victory as
president. Hundreds of thou-
sands of people flooded the
streets of Seoul, South Korea,
demanding the resignation of
President Park Geun-hye
amid an explosive political
scandal.
TODAY ’S BIRTHDAYS:Singer
Brian Hyland is 78. Actor-play-
wright Wallace Shawn is 78.
Rock musician Booker T.
Jones (Booker T. & the MGs) is
77. Sportscaster Al Michaels is
77. Singer-songwriter Neil
Young is 76. Rock musician
Donald “Buck Dharma”
Roeser (Blue Oyster Cult) is
74. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., is
72. Country/gospel singer Bar-
bara Fairchild is 71. Actor
Megan Mullally is 63. Olympic
gold medal gymnast Nadia Co-
maneci is 60. Retired MLB All-
Star Sammy Sosa is 53. Figure
skater Tonya Harding is 51. Ac-
tor Radha Mitchell is 48. Actor
Ryan Gosling is 41. Actor Anne
Hathaway is 39. NBA All-Star
Russell Westbrook is 33.
TODAY IN HISTORY
By COLLEEN LONG
and ALEXANDRA JAFFE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — P resi-
dent Joe Biden saluted the na-
t i o n’s military veterans as “the
spine of America” on Thursday
as he marked his first Veterans
Day as president in a wreath-
laying ceremony at Arlington
National Cemetery.
“There’s nothing low risk or
low cost about war for the
women and men who fight it,”
said Biden,whose administra-
tion earlier in the day an-
nounced a federal effort to bet-
ter understand, identify and
treat medical conditions suf-
fered by troops deployed to
toxic environments.
That expanded effort cen-
ters on lung problems suffered
by troops who breathe in toxins
and the potential connection
between rare cancers and time
spent overseas breathing poor
air, according to the White
House. Federal officials plan to
start by examining lung and
breathing problems but say
they will expand the effort as
science identifies potential new
connections.
B i d e n’s son Beau served in
Iraq, and the president has
suggested a potential link be-
tween Beau’s death from an
aggressive brain cancer and
his exposure to toxins in the air,
particularly around massive
pits where the military dis-
poses of waste by burning.
There’s no scientific evidence
to establish that link.
This year’s Veterans Day
commemoration comes just
two months after Biden or-
dered the withdrawal of U.S.
troops from Afghanistan. It was
a chaotic ending to America’s
longest war, which killed 2,461
American service members
over the nearly 20-year con-
flict.
In his remarks at Arlington,
Biden praised generations who
have served, declaring they’ve
“endured and survived chal-
lenges most Americans will
never know.”
He also paused to remem-
ber three high-profile veterans
who recently died: Colin Pow-
ell, the former chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff and secre-
tary of state; Gen. Ray Odierno,
an Army chief of staff and top
general in Iraq; and Sen. Max
Cleland, a Georgia Democrat
who lost three limbs while
serving in Vietnam.
“You are the very spine of
America,” Biden said of the na-
t i o n’s veterans.
The new federal effort on
toxic exposure is designed to
make it easier for veterans to
make claims based on their
symptoms, to collect more data
from troops who are suffering
and to give veterans more time
to make medical claims after
symptoms such as asthma and
sinus problems develop.
“We ’re discovering there is
a whole host of lung conditions
related to deployment,” said
Dr. Richard Meehan, an immu-
nologist and rheumatologist.
The retired U.S. Naval Reserve
officer, who served in the
Mideast during the 1990s and
again in 2008, is co-director of
the Denver-based National
Jewish Health Center of Excel-
lence on Deployment-Related
Lung Disease.
At Arlington, Biden hails
troops as ‘spine of America’
VETERANS DAY
By ANDREW MELDRUM
and CARA ANNA
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG — F. W.
de Klerk, who shared the No-
bel Peace Prize with Nelson
Mandela and as South Africa’s
last apartheid president over-
saw the end of the country’s
white minority rule, has died
aged 85.
Frederik Willem de Klerk
died after a battle against can-
cer at his home in the Fres-
naye area of Cape Town, a
spokesman for his foundation
confirmed Thursday.
De Klerk was a controver-
sial figure in South Africa
where many blamed him for vi-
olence against Black South
Africans and anti-apartheid ac-
tivists during his time in power,
while some white South
Africans saw his efforts to end
apartheid as a betrayal.
“De Klerk’s legacy is a big
one. It is also an uneven one,
something South Africans are
called to reckon with in this
moment,” the Mandela Foun-
dation said of his death.
Retired Anglican Arch-
bishop Desmond Tutu, another
towering anti-apartheid ac-
tivist, issued a similarly
guarded statement about de
Klerk’s death.
De Klerk “played an impor-
tant role in South Africa’s his-
tory ... he recognized the mo-
ment for change and demon-
strated the will to act on it,”
said Tutu’s foundation.
However, de Klerk tried to
avoid responsibility for the
enormity of the abuses of
apartheid, including in his tes-
timony at the Truth and Rec-
onciliation Commission, which
was chaired by Tutu. At that
time, Tutu expressed disap-
pointment that de Klerk did
not fully apologize for the evils
of apartheid, the statement
noted.
Even posthumously, de
Klerk sought to address this
criticism in a video message in
which he said he was sorry for
his role in apartheid. His foun-
dation released the video after
announcing his death.
“Let me today, in the last
message repeat: I, without
qualification, apologize for the
pain and the hurt, and the in-
dignity, and the damage, to
Black, brown and Indians in
South Africa,” said a visibly
gaunt and frail de Klerk.
He said his view of
apartheid had changed since
the early 1980s.
“It was as if I had a conver-
sion. And in my heart of hearts,
I realized that apartheid was
wrong. I realized that we have
arrived at a place which was
morally unjustifiable.”
South African President
Cyril Ramaphosa said that de
Klerk “played a vital role in our
transition to democracy in the
1990s ... He took the coura-
geous decision to unban politi-
cal parties, release political
prisoners and enter into nego-
tiations with the liberation
movement amid severe pres-
sure to the contrary from
many in his political con-
s t i t u e n c y. ”
It was de Klerk who in a
speech to South Africa’s parlia-
ment on Feb. 2, 1990, an-
nounced that Mandela would
be released from prison after
27 years. The announcement
electrified a country that for
decades had been scorned and
sanctioned by much of the
world for its brutal system of
racial discrimination known as
apartheid.
With South Africa’s isola-
tion deepening and its once-
solid economy deteriorating,
de Klerk, who had been elected
president just five months ear-
lier, also announced in the
same speech the lifting of a
ban on the African National
Congress and other anti-
apartheid political groups.
F.W. De Klerk, South Africa’s
last apartheid president, dies
AP FILE PHOTO
Former South African
president F.W. de Klerk
arrives for the swearing-in
ceremony of newly elected
President Cyril Ramaphosa
in Pretoria, South Africa,
May 25, 2019.
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TO: Owen P. Jacobsen, III, VirginiaM. Moore, Dwight C. Jacobsen,Dr. Suzanne Fletcher a/k/aSuzanna Fletcher, Eric K.Jacobsen, Heidi O. Beyer a/k/aHeidi O. Jacobsen, Dr. Inge K.Salierno a/k/a Inge K. Jacobsen,Sheila K. Pegg a/k/a Sheila K.Dietz, Individually and asProposed PersonalRepresentative of the Estate ofOwen P. Jacobsen a/k/a OwenPardee Jacobsen, Jr.
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claiming to have an interest in aMortgage covering realproperty in South Hadley,numbered 109 Hadley VillageRoad, Unit No. 109, of the HadleyVillage Condominium, given byOwen P. Jacobsen to FinancialFreedom Senior FundingCorporation, dated January 25,2006, and registered atHampshire County RegistryDistrict of the Land Court asDocument No. 15326 and notedon Certificate of Title No. C1-251,and now held by the Plaintiff byassignment, has/have filed withthis court a complaint fordetermination of Defendant's/Defendants' Servicemembersstatus.
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