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bjbjLULU KWAME HOLMAN: Stock markets in the U.S. and Europe recouped more of their recent
losses today. They rallied on news that policymakers are working on plans to support ailing European
banks. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 131 points to close just short
of 10,940. The Nasdaq rose more than 55 points to close at 2,460. Protests raged in Greece
again in the latest outcry against deeper austerity measures. At least 16,000 civil
servants staged 24-hour -- a 24-hour strike in Athens, and denounced plans for new salary
and pension cuts. The rally was largely peaceful, but a few dozen youths threw stones at riot
police, who fired back with tear gas. In the presidential campaign, Texas Gov. Rick Perry
reported raising $17 million since he joined the Republican field seven weeks ago. Perry
was the front-runner for a time, but dropped back in more recent polls. Another Republican
candidate, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, announced he raised $8 million in the year's third quarter.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned today that America no longer can provide the
lion's share of military might for NATO in places like Afghanistan and Libya. He told
alliance ministers in Brussels that looming defense cuts will limit what U.S. forces can
do. He said that means other NATO nations must invest more in their own military capabilities.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LEON PANETTA: I am convinced that we do not have to choose between fiscal
security and national security. But achieving that goal will test the very future of leadership
throughout NATO. KWAME HOLMAN: Panetta pointed to supply shortages in Libya and lack of training
in Afghanistan as examples of the U.S. having to fill NATO gaps. In Afghanistan, security
officials reported they have broken up a plot to assassinate President Hamid Karzai. They
said six people have been arrested, including one of Karzai's bodyguards. The Afghan intelligence
service said the suspects had links to the Haqqani terror network blamed for a series
of major attacks. Separately, NATO forces said an air raid in Khost Province killed
a senior Haqqani commander on Tuesday. Efforts to modernize the U.S. air traffic control
system have run into major delays and cost overruns. The Transportation Department's
inspector general delivered that message to a House hearing today. He said software problems
are holding up the transition to a system based on satellite technology. It may not
be completed until 2014, more than three years behind schedule. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
was awarded today to Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman for a discovery that once earned
him ridicule. In 1982, Shechtman identified a new chemical structure dubbed quasicrystals,
which researchers long had believed could not exist. Shechtman, now 70, recalled today
he was kicked off his U.S. research team at the time, but, eventually, his findings were
acclaimed. DAN SHECHTMAN, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry: The main lesson that I have
learned over time is that a good scientist is a humble and listening scientist, and not
one that is sure 100 percent in what he read in the textbooks. And this is a lesson also
to students. Be open. KWAME HOLMAN: Quasicrystals now are being studied for use in making materials
that convert heat into electricity. An original leader of the civil rights movement, Reverend
Fred Shuttlesworth, died today at a hospital in Birmingham, Ala. The Baptist minister led
the struggle against segregation in Birmingham in the 1950s and early '60s. He worked closely
with Dr. Martin Luther King, survived bombings and beatings and endured repeated arrests.
Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth was 89 years old. Those are some of the day's major stories.
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