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WASHINGTON, July 10-President Hughes ordered US o periht of heavy losses when Are force of Infected Persons reat Ahes said in a printed statehting ave their lives to defend thele"

The attack ca the South Loop reported a force of unknown size a outside the city’s central business district

"This assault was clearly organized," said General Carson White, commander of the Central Quarantine Zone, who called this "a disturbing development"

"A new defensive perimeter has been established on Route 75, from Toledo to Cincinnati," White told reporters early Tuesday"That’s our new Rubicon"

When questioned about reports that large nu their posts, White replied that he had "heard nothing of the kind" and called such rumors "irresponsible"

"These are the bravest men and woeneral said

New outbreaks of the illness were reported in cities frostaff, AZ, as well as southern Ontario and northern Mexico Casualty estimates provided by the White House and the Centers for Disease Control now top 30 on placed the nue portions of St Louis, abandoned on Sunday, were burning tonight, as were portions of Meround reported seeing low-flying aircraft over the city’s faulfed the don area No one in the administration has confirmed rumors that the fires are part of a federal effort to disinfect the major cities of the Central Quarantine Zone

Gasoline was scarce or nonexistent virtually everywhere in the country, as transportation corridors continued to be choked by people fleeing the spread of the epidemic Food was also hard to coes to antibiotics

Many of the nation’s stranded refugees found theet there

"We’re stuck, just like everybody else," said David Callahan, outside a McDonald’s east of Pittsburgh Callahan had driven with his fa children, from Akron, OH-a journey that ordinarily would have taken just two hours but that night had taken twenty Nearly out of gas, Callahan had pulled off at a comfort station in suburban Monroeville, only to find that the puo

"We were going to my mother’s in Johnstown, but now I heard it’s there too," Callahan said, as an Ar, passed on the eo," he said "These things are everywhere"

Though the illness has yet to appear beyond the US, Canada, and Mexico, nations around the world appeared to be preparing themselves for this eventuality In Europe, Italy, France, and Spain have closed their borders, while other nations have stockpiled medical supplies or banned intercity travel The UN General Asse its New York headquarters early last week, passed a resolution of international quarantine, forbidding any shipping or aircraft fro within 200 miles of the North Aues reported record attendance, as athered in prayer In Texas, where the virus is noidespread, Houston Mayor Barry Wooten, the bestselling author and forest, declared the city "a Gateway to Heaven" and urged residents and refugees froather at Houston’s Reliant Stadium to prepare for "our ascension to the throne of the Lord, not as monsters but as men and women of God"

In California, where the infection has yet to appear, the state legislature ht and quickly passed the First California Articles of Secession, severing the state’s ties to the United States and declaring it a sovereign nation In her first action as president of the Republic of California, forovernor Cindy Shaw ordered all US military and law enforcements assets within the state placed under the command of the California National Guard

"We will defend ourselves, as any nation has the right to do," Shaw told the legislature, to thundering applause "California, and all that it stands for, will endure"

Reacting to the news frohes administration spokesman Tim Romer told reporters, "This is absurd on its face Now is obviously not the tiovernment to take the safety of the American people into its own hands Our position remains that California is part of the United States"

Romer also cautioned that any military or law enforcement personnel in California who interfered with federal relief efforts would face harsh sanctions

"Make no arded as unlawful enenized by the governments of Switzerland, Finland, the tiny South Pacific Republic of Palau, and the Vatican

The government of India, apparently in response to the departure of US military forces from South Asia, yesterday repeated its earlier threats to use nuclear weapons against rebel forces in eastern Pakistan

"Now is the time to contain the spread of Islamic extremism," Indian Pri is sleeping"

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Take care of A the keys to the Lexus in his hand, Lacey’s kiss on his cheek; Doyle running after the froht of thehtness-down upon her

The tiast would stay awake all night, watching the door with Carl’s 38 in one hand and the Springfield in the other It was a cool night, the teast had set the woodstove going when they’d returned from the store He took the paper now and folded it into quarters, into eighths, and finally sixteenths, and opened the door to the woodstove Then he placed the paper in the fire, watching with amazement at how quickly it disappeared