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News Cheat Sheet for Sept. 17, 2012

TOP STORY: Ambassador Susan Rice: Libya Attack Not Premeditated
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the attack on the American consulate in Libya was a spontaneous response to protests in Cairo, Egypt in an interview with ABC News Sunday.

“Rice’s account directly contradicts that of Libyan President Mohamed Yousef El-Magariaf, who said this weekend that he had ‘no doubt’ the attack was pre-planned by individuals from outside Libya.”

Mayor says he will go to court to end Chicago teachers strike
The Chicago Tribune reports that Mayor Rahm Emanuel has called the Chicago Teachers Union’s two-day extension of the walkout “illegal” and “pledged late Sunday to seek an injunction in court to force an end to the city’s first teachers strike in a quarter century and return more than 350,000 students to the classroom.”

Jeffrey MacDonald revives push to prove his innocence
A federal court in Wilmington will review DNA evidence and statements in the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, a former Green Beret captain and Princeton-educated doctor convicted of slaughtering his family in 1979.

The News & Observer reports:
“The crime dates to the era of Nixon, draft dodgers and The Beatles, but it is being seen in the new light of crime-scene science and technology developed since. DNA testing and other analytical tools and crime-scene protocols were not available or in practice on Feb. 17, 1970, when police found MacDonald wounded near the bludgeoned and stabbed bodies of his wife, Colette, and their daughters Kristen, 2, and Kimberly, 5.”

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