Prometheus 6   

With Hussein's Heirs Gone, Hopes Rise for End to Attacks
By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER
The deaths of Saddam Hussein's two eldest sons could be an important step in the campaign to control and end the guerrilla-style insurgency.

Republicans Are Adding Weight to Reversal of F.C.C. Media Rule
By STEPHEN LABATON
Congress moved toward final passage of a measure that would reverse the recent decision by federal regulators to loosen ownership rules.

…The House measure would reverse one of the most significant new rules. The commission had ruled that a network could own television stations that reach up to 45 percent of the nation's viewers, an increase from 35 percent. The House measure would restore the old 35 percent limit by prohibiting the commission from spending any money to permit the transfer of a broadcast license to any company above that limit.

Today, the House rejected an amendment by two Democrats, Maurice D. Hinchey of New York and David E. Price of North Carolina, that would have reversed two other new media ownership rules. Those rules would make it easier for a company to own a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same city and allow a company to own more TV stations in the same market.

Butting Heads With the Pentagon
By LESLIE WAYNE

…So there is considerable dismay, and some outright consternation, over sweeping "buy America" provisions that Mr. Hunter inserted into the House version of legislation authorizing the coming year's Pentagon budget. Countries that failed to help the United States in the Iraq war, he argues, should not enjoy the spoils of American military contracts or put the Pentagon in a position of depending on them for critical components.

That view has set Mr. Hunter on a collision course with his many friends at the Pentagon and among American military contractors that buy everything from microprocessors to jet engines and airplane wings overseas. Mr. Hunter's proposal would cut back sharply on the foreign content allowed in American military goods as well as provide a laundry list of items — from fuses to machine tools to airplane tires — that only American companies could supply.