Castro claims Bush could spark World War III in essay HAVANA - Fidel Castro wrote Tuesday that President Bush is threatening the world with nuclear war and famine‚ an attack on Washington a day before the White House was to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism.
"The danger of a massive world famine is aggravated by Mr. Bush's recent initiative to transform foods into fuel," Castro wrote in Cuban news media, referring to U.S. support for using corn and other food crops to produce gasoline substitutes.
The brief essay titled "Bush, Hunger and Death" also alleged that Bush "threatens humanity with World War III, this time using atomic weapons."
The White House on Tuesday brushed off Castro's comments. 10 oil workers killed, more missing in oil rig accident MEXICO CITY - At least 10 oil workers were killed when a drilling platform hit an oil rig, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company said Wednesday. Some other workers were still missing.
Rescuers have pulled 58 oil workers from storm-tossed waters but have yet to control the oil leak, Mexico's oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said in a news release.
Ten workers were killed and at least 18 other employees of the state oil company were still either floating at sea in life rafts or were unaccounted for, it said. The company said it had located a raft but "weather conditions in the area have made it impossible to reach the vessel."
The Mexican navy had sent eight helicopters and four boats to help in the rescue effort, it said.
Pemex said the gas and oil leak was continuing Wednesday but that it was not immediately clear how much had spilled. It said it had dispatched repair teams and would send more when weather permits. 'Preppie Killer' arrested in NYC undercover drug sting NEW YORK - The so-called "Preppie Killer," who served 15 years in prison for strangling a woman in Central Park during what he said was rough sex, was in jail Tuesday after police said he repeatedly sold undercover officers cocaine out of his apartment.
Robert Chambers, 41, put up a fight during the raid late Monday, police said.
District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said Chambers is facing 14 counts of drug possession and sale. Widow of Daniel Pearl drops lawsuit against terrorists NEW YORK - The widow of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl has withdrawn a lawsuit seeking damages against al-Qaida, a dozen reputed terrorists and Pakistan's largest bank.
In a letter Tuesday to the federal judge presiding over the case, lawyers for Mariane Pearl noted that Habib Bank Limited and the other defendants in the case had not answered the lawsuit filed in July, but they otherwise did not explain their reason for dropping the action. Police: Would-be burglar stuck in air shaft for hours SILVER SPRINGS SHORES, Fla. - A man trying to rob a pharmacy wound up crying for help after becoming stuck in an air shaft for 10 hours, police said.
It took firefighters an hour and a half to free Jeffery Mumani, 25, from the metal air shaft at a CVS store on Tuesday.
"I was trying to chase the cat," Mumani said. He denied attempting to steal prescription drugs. "No, sir, it's a feline cat ‚ a little animal."
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