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If you answered yes to all of the questions above then you may want to apply to work with Kids Klub. Applications are available at the College Station Conference Center on George Bush across from the golf course. Application deadline is April 26*. College Station ISD is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 6A_ Monday, April 19, 2004 the bath] /OF HE 1 Bremer: Iraqi security forces i ready to face insurgents alom :c By Lee Keath THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi security forces will not be ready to protect the country against insurgents by the June 30 han dover of power, the top U.S. administrator said Sunday — an assessment aimed at defending the continued heavy presence of U.S. troops here even after an Iraqi government takes over. The unusually blunt com ments from L. Paul Bremer came amid a weekend of new fighting that pushed the death toll for U.S. troops in April to 99, already the record for a sin gle-month in Iraq and approach ing the number killed during the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein last year. The military had always planned to remain after June 30, when the U.S. is to handover sovereignty to Iraq. In recent months coalition officials acknowledged the transfer of security will he significantly slower than hoped because Iraqi forces were not prepared. But Bremer said the fighting across the country this month exposed the depth of the prob lems inside the security forces. “Events of the past two weeks show that Iraq still faces security threats and needs out side help to deal with them. Early this month, the foes of democracy overran Iraqi police stations and seized public build ings in several parts of the coun- U.S. troop deaths climb over weekend Five U.S. Marines died in an ambush on the Syrian border on Sunday. A day before, three U.S. soldiers were killed in Diwaniyah. Another died when a roadside bomb exploded in Baghdad and a Marine was killed in separate fighting in western Iraq. TURKEY Five U.S. soldiers killed o 100 mi 0 100 km SYRIA Rusaybah I R A JORDAN IRAN Baghdad ° i Q Diwaniyah Three soldiers killed Saturday SAUDI ARABIA SOURCE: Associated Press KUWAIT — -A] AP try.” he said. “Iraqi forces were unable to stop them." “It is clear that Iraqi forces will not be able, on their own, to deal with these threats by June 30 when an Iraqi government assumes sovereignty.” Bremer said in a statement issued by the U.S. coalition. With U.S.-led forces fighting on two fronts and insurgent vio lence Baring elsewhere, at least 99 U.S. troops have been killed in combat since April I. In the latest violence, five Marines and five soldiers were killed Saturday. A total of 115 U.S. service- members were killed in combat Report: Dallas at tipping point DALLAS (AP) — Surging crime, weak schools, job loss and civic leaders who seem not to notice the compounding problems have plunged “the city that works" into a crisis that can only be reversed by bold shifts in strategy, structure and services, accord ing to a report by The Dallas Morning News published Sunday. Dallas — lulled by past successes, cushioned by North Texas’ robust growth, blinded by a lack of self-examination and hobbled by a legacy of racism and neglect — is at a tipping point, where wrong moves could precipitate decline, the News concluded, based on a far-reaching statistical comparison of Dallas and 14 other large U.S. cities by Booz Allen Hamilton. “Dallas does not see itself as a city in crisis ... But the data indicate that Dallas is a city in crisis.” the firm concluded. The Booz Allen study, commissioned by the News, used dozens of measures — from life expectancy to library visits — to produce a comprehensive picture of each city’s perfonnance. Among the 14 peer cities, only three have worse violent crime rates, only four have lower student SAT scores, and none saw less economic expansion in the 1990s. By those three measures — which are Dallas residents’ top concerns — Dallas ranks No. 12 among the 15 cities. The study showed that crime and troubled schools have driv en families to Dallas’ suburbs, leading employers to follow, caus ing the city’s tax base and budget to shrink. Some city leaders denied the study’s conclusions while others fell back on habitual remedies. STER from the start of the tJ invasion in March 20fl May 1, when Presides] declared major c Until now, the sin^ record for U.S. I was 82, in November, J 700 U.S. servicemenhij in Iraq. Over the weekend,aila Iraqis were killed, I Iraqi death toll in Aprili;J than 1,050. Also Sunday, Spain's; minister ordered thewiih of Spanish troops f soon as possible, campaign promise madel terrorist bombings that i j militants said were i Spain’s support of the Iraq’s defense minisiei-f Allawi, a Shiite appointed by U.S. i weeks ago, announced ts| top generals, a Kurd, establishing repi lives of the country’s dirt ze**9 communities in defense positions. The army’s top generJ be Gen. Babakir Zebari.[ commanded Kurdi in the north for decade! fought alongside coi troops during last ye; sion. 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Scientists and doctors n the disease caused bydieff as cutaneous leishn soldiers serving in Iraq call it, with little “Baghdad boil." The sores are not painM tagious, but left untreatedfi last up to 18 permanent, burn-like scars actually catid H mr epos* 1 he wou pnue t heir le Cab bverall dialed vas in ’olii DALL ^ere ki Shortl Heath o p a p; Office Police l pie and One r [lospita Police while th