PRESS DIGEST - Washington Post - Jan. 7
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The Washington Post included the following items on its front page on Jan. 7. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. --- President Bush is putting the final touches on his new Iraq policy amid growing skepticism inside and outside the administration that the emerging package of extra troops, economic assistance and political benchmarks for the Baghdad government will make any more than a marginal difference in stabilizing the country. --- Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, who is President Bush's choice to become the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, posed a riddle during the initial march to Baghdad four years ago that now becomes his own conundrum to solve: "Tell me how this ends." --- PEGUEROS, Mexico - Even as his village emptied, Pedro Martin stayed behind. His schoolmates abandoned the scrub-covered hills of central Mexico for the land they called El Norte -- the North. They mopped floors in Fresno, poured concrete in Tempe and tended other people's children in Galveston, measuring their lives in dollars. --- MOSCOW - Ninety seven percent of the legal production of one of the world's rarest industrial products -- the intensely radioactive isotope polonium-210 -- takes place at a closely guarded nuclear reactor near the Volga River 450 miles southeast of Moscow. --- At an outdoor pool in Bethesda, dozens of people in bathing suits spend the day lounging on beach chairs. Golfers packed the Langston Legacy Golf Course in Northeast Washington in such numbers that every cart was rented. And a large room at the D.C. central library was closed due to "excessive heat." ---
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