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The two US presidents, in Tanzania together by 'coincidence,' will lay a wreath at the site of a 1998 Al Qaeda bombing of the US embassy.
US President Barack Obama greets Tanzanians at an official arrival ceremony in Dar Es Salaam, July 1, 2013.
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EnlargePresident Obama and predecessor George W. Bush haven?t exactly spent a lot of time together on American shores.
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Over the past three decades, Robert Marquand has reported on a wide variety of subjects for?The Christian Science Monitor, including American education reform,?the wars in the Balkans, the Supreme Court, South Asian politics, and the oft-cited "rise of China." In the past 15 years he has served as the Monitor's bureau chief in Paris, Beijing, and New Delhi.?
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But with Mr. Bush still quite popular in Africa for his robust US aid programs, and with Tanzania going slightly crazy about the visit of an American president of African heritage, the US duo is hoping to offer up a bit of American soft power on behalf of US trade and better relations on the continent.
The 44th ?and 43rd ?US presidents will jointly lay a wreath in Dar es Salaam tomorrow?in honor of those killed 15 years ago at a bombing of the American embassy, in what proved to be one of the first attacks on a US target by Osama bin Laden.
The White House described the joint wreath-laying as a coincidence, not scripted. At first, it appeared the two men would not meet despite being in the same city in the same corner of Africa.
Mr. Obama?s journey to Africa has included stopovers in Senegal and an emotional visit to South Africa, where Obama met the family of Nelson Mandela, the civil and human rights icon and former president who helped end apartheid.
The White House admits the Africa trip is an effort to improve the administration?s engagement with a continent where Chinese investment has risen from $10 billion in 2000 to some $200 billion last year, usually through state-run or state-linked companies.? In March, new Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Tanzania on his first overseas trip.
Yesterday Obama announced a?surprisingly robust $7 billion initiative to help with African electrification, and tomorrow the president visits a US-designed and run power plant in Tanzania.?
The White House is in the East African nation partly because, on a six-day Africa trip designed to promote ?trade and democracy, Obama needed to go to East Africa but could not easily visit old ally Kenya, since both the recently elected president and vice president are under indictment by the International Criminal Court for complicity in 2007 election violence.
Bush is in Dar es Salaam for a women?s conference on health that is run out of his George W. Bush institute. Contrary to many assumptions, Bush, as well as former President Bill Clinton, is widely seen as bringing far more tangible help to Africa than Obama.
Bush?s Emergency Plan of AIDS Relief is one of his administrations signal foreign policy successes, and Obama has praised it both in Senegal and then South Africa for helping to save millions of lives. At the same time, Obama has said the old US model of handing out aid willy-nilly on the continent is now giving way to a "new model" of trade and joint US-African partnerships, as Africa's economy continues to rise.?
In the Obama-Bush event, the White House evidently feels it makes sense to show togetherness in a place where Chinese investment and a wide network of expatriate business and trade communities from Great Britain, France, and Germany have often put American firms well in the back of the race on a continent that is starting to show dramatic signs of economic rise.
As Monitor correspondent Mike Pflanz noted in talking with Kenyan sources last week:
Obama is perfectly placed to ?leverage the lashings of soft power he has in Africa? to succeed in both of his trip?s main aims: opening up new trade and cautioning over corruption, says Aly-Khan Satchu, a Kenyan economic analyst.
?He?s arriving behind the curve, but now is the chance for him to inflect that curve for the next few years,? Mr. Satchu says. ?Obama has so much soft power here that he has not yet used. Put that on the table, and you watch the dialogue change immediately about his supposed semi-detached engagement in Africa."
Mr. Pflanz also pointed out the other side of the US trade equation, noting that China in recent months:
has inked deals on a raft of major infrastructure projects across Africa, the most recent being a $10 billion new port, railway, and economic zone agreed in May for Tanzania.
??The US under Barack Obama seems only now to be waking up to what others are doing in Africa, and they are having to play catch-up,? says Andrews Atta-Asamoah, senior researcher at South Africa?s Institute for Security Studies.
Announcing the electricity program in Capetown yesterday, Obama stated that:?
Access to electricity is fundamental to opportunity in this age. It's the light that children study by, the energy that allows an idea to be transformed into a real business. It's the lifeline for families to meet their most basic needs, and it's the connection that's needed to plug Africa into the grid of the global economy.
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American moved out to a 7-1 lead with help from Justin Rodriguez, who drilled two singles. ?Charlie Alvarez pitched well for American.
Southridge, led by two singles by Corey Burgos, came back with three runs in the sixth inning, but fell short.
In other tournament games involving Fontana teams at Bill Martin Park:
? Southwest lost to Rancho, 2-0, even though Jerry Baron pitched very well.? American was defeated by Rancho, 11-6.
? Southwest topped Citrus, 6-2, as Javier Pedroza turned in a fine mound effort.
? Elks Lodge was downed by Alta Loma, 7-6.
? Community dropped a 12-5 decision to Deer Canyon.
----- IN THE SENIOR DIVISION, three Fontana teams triumphed in games at the start of tournament action last Saturday.
? Community blanked Citrus, 6-0, as Josh Smith pitched quite well and Thomas Berruto smashed a double and two singles.
? American routed Rancho, 12-2, thanks to the pitching of David Martinez. ?Edgar Velasco slugged a double.
? Southridge edged Deer Canyon, 6-5, in a 10-inning thriller as Ricky Rodriguez scored three runs, including the game-winner.
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By KEN POWTAK
Associated Press
Associated Press Sports
updated 7:49 p.m. ET June 29, 2013
BOSTON (AP) - Toronto manager John Gibbons was most impressed by the power. Jose Bautista enjoyed his throw to the plate a bit more.
Either way, Bautista helped the Blue Jays bounce back with a win over the Red Sox.
Bautista hit a pair of long homers over the Green Monster, starting with the 200th of his career and following with a tiebreaking, two-run drive off Junichi Tazawa in the eighth inning that led the Blue Jays over Boston 6-2 Saturday.
His sixth-inning throw to the plate cut down Shane Victorino on Dustin Pedroia's single to medium-deep right.
Gibbons could only pause, lean back in his chair and smile when asked what impressed him most - the two homers or throw.
"Any time you hit two home runs in close ballgames I have to give it to that," he said. "Homers win."
Bautista put Toronto ahead 2-0 with a solo homer in the sixth, a drive that cleared a billboard at the back of the Monster seats in straightaway left and had the crowd buzzing for several batters. He stood at the plate briefly, admiring the ball's flight.
"I knew I was one away, so when I was in the dugout I did enjoy it," he said, adding a Red Sox parking lot employee retrieved the ball for him.
But it was his throw that made the slugger happiest.
"It's more difficult and more rare to throw people out on the bases," he said. "Anytime I do that I enjoy it a lot more."
After Victorino's two-run single against Steve Delabar (5-1) tied the score in the seventh, Bautista followed Jose Reyes' leadoff single in the eighth with a drive off Tazawa (4-3) that went off the base of a light-tower in left-center. Bautista has 18 home runs this season and 21 career multihomer games.
The Red Sox had another runner cut down in the seventh. Jarrod Saltalamacchia was out at the plate, when pitcher Darren Oliver's throw home beat him on Jonathan Diaz's squeeze bunt.
Boston manager John Farrell knows how much Bautista can affect a game, having managed the Blue Jays the past two seasons.
"Very good player. Obviously capable of hitting balls out of the ballpark every time he steps in the box," he said. "He gets a 2-0 cutter from (Felix) Doubront for the first solo home run, and then as I mentioned on the split the other way from Tazawa. We looked to put pressure on the defense in that situation. Bautista is ranging to his right, comes up and throws about a 260-foot strike to cut down Victorino."
Victorino knew it was an accurate throw, but didn't feel like it should be the main focus.
"Plays like that change scenarios," he said. "But we were able to come back and tie the game. Let's look at that on the positive side of things."
Toronto, which lost the opening two games of the four-game series, stopped Boston's four-game winning streak. The Red Sox had 10 or more hits for the seventh time in eight games.
Reyes boosted the lead with an RBI single in the ninth against Craig Breslow and scored from first on a fielding error by Diaz at third.
Delabar struck out four in 1 2-3 innings. Blue Jays starter Esmil Rogers allowed six hits in six scoreless innings.
Boston's Felix Doubront gave up two runs, five hit and three walks in 6 1-3 innings.
Blue Jays center fielder Colby Rasmus made a run-saving diving catch of Diaz's liner in the fifth.
"Two great plays," Rogers said of Rasmus' and Bautista's gems. "I'm going to owe them something. I don't know what."
Adam Lind's RBI had put the Blue Jays ahead in the first.
NOTES: Farrell doesn't expect SS Stephen Drew, who left Friday's game after aggravating his right hamstring, to go on the DL. ... Reyes is 3 for 17 since coming off the DL. ... Diaz was promoted to the 40-man roster before the game, when RHP Clayton Mortensen was designated for assignment. Diaz batted ninth and was 0 for 3 with a run scored in his major league debut. ... There was a fairly loud contingent of Toronto fans, chanting `Let's Go Blue Jays' at various times, with many blue jerseys sprinkled behind Toronto's bullpen. ... Bautista and Rajai Davis each stole off Doubront without an attempted throw from Saltalamacchia. Davis stole twice for the second straight game. ... Toronto LHP Mark Buehrle (4-5, 4.73 ERA), who took a shutout into the eighth inning his last time pitching in Fenway, is slated to face RHP Ryan Dempster (5-8, 4.15 ERA) in the series finale on Sunday. After that, the teams don't meet at Fenway again until Boston's final three home games.
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During his trip to South Africa President Barack Obama urged the House of Representatives to send him an immigration bill before Congress takes its August recess.
A man stands next to posters stuck on the Federal Building at a 24-hour vigil calling on Congress to pass immigration reform in Los Angeles Thursday.
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Obama says he has urged both House Speaker John Boehner and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi to find a way to pass a bill. He says a sweeping?immigrationmeasure that cleared the Senate with a large bipartisan majority Thursday is a "sound framework" that has been debated for weeks.
Obama says the House has a "bunch of weeks" to get the bill done and "now's the time."
Boehner has said the House will craft its own bill and not simply take up the Senate version.
Obama spoke Saturday during a news conference in South Africa with President Jacob Zuma.
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Small businesses need customers, loans, and assistance from local governments to attract interested people, JJ Ramberg said on Friday.
?People are struggling out there. Small businesses?people who aren?t interested in enormous growth but they?re interested in providing a life for their families and for the families of their employees. It?s tough out there,? Ramberg, host of MSNBC?s?Your Business, said on?Morning Joe.
She recently traveled to towns in Alabama and Illinois to speak with small business owners. People told her they don?t think politicians speak directly to them when they promise to help small businesses.
?To a person, everyone said ?no,?? she said.
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