STF NA MÍDIA

days together, and President
Dwight D. Eisenhower approved
a resolution for Constitution
Week to begin on
Sept 17.
But it was Senator Robert C.
Byrd of West Virginia, a
Democrat, who championed
the law, passed in 2004, requiring
schools that receive
federal funds to teach the
Constitution on Constitution
Day (or the week adjacent).
Mr. Byrd, who died in 2010,
was the longest-serving
member of Congress, and
well-known for his love of
the Constitution; he carried
a copy in his pocket and
brandished it in his speeches
from the Senate floor, and
invoked its provisions about
checks and balances to protect
the prerogative of the
legislative branch.
Tea Party supporters and
Constitutional originalists
might agree with his concern
about the abuse of executive
power. But Mr. Byrd was
also known for bringing the
largess of the federal government
to his state, which
made him, in Tea Party
terms, a tax-and-spend, big
government liberal. KATE
ZERNIKE
JUSTIÇA NO EXTERIOR •
THE NEW YORK TIMES (US) • NATIONAL • 17/9/2011
Montana: Settlement Approved for Asbestos Victims
A $43 million settlement has
been approved for more than
a thousand asbestos victims
who said state officials knew
that dust from a mine was
killing people but failed to
intervene. An estimated 400
people have been killed and
1,750 sickened by asbestos
released from a W.R. Grace
& Company mine outside the
town of Libby, about 40 miles
south of the Canadian
border. Lethal dust from the
mine, which closed more
than two decades ago, once
blanketed the town. Judge
Jeffrey Sherlock of District
Court in Helena approved the
deal to end a lawsuit against
the state. Judge Sherlock had
dismissed the victims’ claims
in 2002, a decision the State
Supreme Court overturned.
The settlement stems from
multiple lawsuits brought
against Montana agencies for
failing to protect victims in
Libby. The state originally
claimed in its defense that it
had no legal obligation to
provide warning of the mine’s
dangers. The majority of
the claimants in the settlement
are now 65 years or
older. Court documents filed
as part of the settlement
show that more than 1,173
victims will receive payments
ranging from $500 to
more than $50,000 for those
afflicted with lung cancer or
mesothelioma.
JUSTIÇA NO EXTERIOR •
THE NEW YORK TIMES (US) • THE FRONT PAGE • 17/9/2011
Tumult of Arab Spring Prompts Worries in Washington
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
WASHINGTON — While
the popular uprisings of the
Arab Spring created new
opportunities for American
diplomacy, the tumult has
also presented the United
States with challenges — and
worst-case scenarios — that
would have once been almost
unimaginable.
What if the Palestinians’
quest for recognition of a
state at the United Nations,
despite American pleas o-
therwise, lands Israel in the
International Criminal
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