NM tuition increases 30 percent in 4 years
(AP) - Tuition rates at most of New Mexico's colleges have risen at least 30 percent since 2001, but they are still lower than the national average.
"If we don't raise tuition, we've got a problem," said Jamie Koch, University of New Mexico regents president. "We really are in a position that costs have gone up."
Tuition and fees for full-time, in-state undergraduates have risen 35.8 percent at UNM, 30 percent at New Mexico State University, 33.7 percent at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 33 percent at Eastern New Mexico University and 31 percent at Western New Mexico University.
Bush's chief of staff tells Dems to cooperate
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's chief of staff appealed on Sunday for congressional Democrats to work with the administration and Republicans rather than complain and stall action on Capitol Hill.
Andrew Card, appearing on three talk shows, reaffirmed the president's support for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, the Texas Republican whose ties to lobbyists have raised ethics questions, and John R. Bolton, the embattled nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Thousands march in NY protest of nuclear arms
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NEW YORK (AP) - Thousands of activists marched past the United Nations on Sunday, hoping to remind diplomats reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of the horrors of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki five decades ago.
Chanting "No War, No Nukes" and carrying signs that said "No More Hiroshima, No more Nagasaki," the marchers headed to Central Park, where they formed a human peace symbol. Organizers put the number of protesters at 40,000.
The mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba, told the crowd that the survivors of the bombs were "the only people who have had the experience of nuclear war."
DA looks into whether runaway bride broke law
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) - On what was to be her wedding day, Jennifer Wilbanks wore not a white veil but an orange towel over her head to prevent the media from taking her picture. Instead of being led down the aisle by her father, she was led by police to an airplane that flew the runaway bride home. Now officials say the 32-year-old woman's cold feet may have gotten her in hot water. On Sunday, Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter vowed to look into whether she violated the law by reporting a crime that didn't exist.
Pope blesses thousands from apartment window
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI, embracing a cherished habit of his predecessor, appeared at his apartment window above St. Peter's Square on Sunday for the first time in his papacy to bless tens of thousands of faithful and curious. Looking vigorous and confident, Benedict contrasted with John Paul's last time at the studio window on March 30, when the ailing pontiff appeared in silent suffering three days before his death.
Delegates to urge action on Iran and N. Korea
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- In a world of growing nuclear fears and mistrust, U.S. negotiators come to New York today to urge a global nonproliferation conference to take action on Iran and North Korea.
But the Americans and other nuclear powers will face demands themselves. Non-nuclear states last week complained the big powers were moving too slowly toward nuclear disarmament, described as "not an option, but a legal obligation" under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Because of this clash of priorities, treaty members on Sunday still hadn't completed an agenda for the monthlong conference opening Monday to review the NPT, whose workings are reassessed every five years.
