Franki Benavidez

National
Summary:
On Thursday in Compton, California, Democrat Hilary Clinton pledged to improve economic opportunities for blacks if elected president. She was talking highly about Rev. Martin Luther King and promising to assist w/ a rebirth of this troubled city. Hilary said that she would assist Mayor Eric Perrodin w/ his goal on "rebirthing" a brand new Compton. City Compton struggled w/ crime and proverty. Clinton also tells her audience that the people in Compton that has served their time in prison should be able to have a clean slate when they're taken out of prison.
Here: http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/17/hillary-clinton-heads-to-compton-calif-to-promote-racial-unity-opportunity/

Opinion: I think what Hilary is doing is a very good thing. I heard that Compton was a troubled city but i never did think the city was known for just crime and proverty. She says that when elected president, she wants to help w/ the prisoners that served their time and give them a clean slate. I guess giving them a clean slate after serving their time would be good but i think it completely depends on what you did to get in prison.

International
Summary: In Jerusalem, a 74 year old man named Moshe Bar-Yuda is one of the first to obtain Nazi documents that are now available to the public. The Nazi documents were stashed away for more than 60 years in a secret German archive. In 1942, he was 8 years old walking w/ his father and then his father was taken away from him and was shipped off to a Nazi labor camp. He never saw his father again and was left for 66 years wondering about his father's fate. Bar Yuda looked in the archives and had found his father's name along with how he died. His father was killed in a Nazi gas chamber at the Majdanek death camp in Poland on Sept. 7, 1942, less than six months after his son watched him being taken away. After he finally found out what has happened to his father, he was grateful for finding closure. Here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22689794/

Opinion: I thought it was really depressing hearing about how this man had to watch his father being taken away from him as a child. I couldn't believe in hearing that the Nazi documents were found 60 years later. I don't know why this man would still know what had happened to his father though. I guess it helped him because it gave him closure and peace within himself.