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needs $8 million and has until Thursday to make that happen. If the Save the Bomber Plant campaign fails, a piece of U.S. history will be lost forever.
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South Korean president apologizes over response to ferry sinking as divers search for missing
• JINDO, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's president apologized Tuesday for the government's inept initial response to a deadly ferry sinking as divers fought strong currents in their search for nearly 100 passengers still missing nearly two weeks after the accident.
• The government also raised the death toll for what has become a point of national mourning and shame to 204. Most of the dead and missing are high school students.
• Divers are largely using their hands to feel for remaining bodies as they make their way through a maze of dark cabins, stairwells, storage rooms, lounges and restaurants in the submerged ferry, which flipped upside down as it sank April 16. But they must fight strong currents swirling around the ferry and, once inside, overturned furniture, mattresses and other debris floating in the murky, sediment-heavy waters.
• President Park Geun-hye's apology, and the earlier resignation of her prime minister, comes amid rising indignation over claims by the victims' relatives that the government did not do enough to rescue or protect their loved ones.
• Park said at a Cabinet meeting at the presidential Blue House that South Korea has "lost many precious lives because of the accident, and I am sorry to the public and am heavy-hearted." She says the government couldn't prevent the accident and "the initial response and remedy were insufficient."
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Female entrepreneur in Iran breeds crocodiles as leaders promote 'economy of resistance'
• QESHM ISLAND, Iran (AP) -- Crocodile farming isn't the most obvious business opportunity in Iran. The wide-jawed reptiles aren't native to the country, their meat can't legally be served at home and they don't have the friendliest reputation.
• That hasn't stopped one enterprising woman from sinking her teeth into a business that most Iranians would rather avoid.
• Mojgan Roostaei's first-of-its-kind crocodile farm on this southern Persian Gulf (Continued on page 27)
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