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Paraguay's leftist president faces impeachment

ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguay's Senate will decide whether to oust President Fernando Lugo in a lightning-quick impeachment trial on Friday that he says is tantamount to a coup.

Lugo, a silver-haired former Catholic bishop who quit the church to run for the presidency, is accused of mishandling armed clashes over a land eviction in which 17 police and peasant farmers were killed last week.

His rivals, who firmly control both congressional houses, were confident they would get the votes needed to remove the president. Lawmakers in the lower house agreed in a sudden, near-unanimous vote on Thursday to start the impeachment.

The Senate is set to vote at 4:30 p.m. (2030 GMT) on whether to sack Lugo less than a year before his term is due to end.

"This is an 'express' coup because (lawmakers) have done it in the wee hours of the night," Lugo told television station Telesur late on Thursday.

He has refused to resign, resisting pressure from church leaders to step down to ease mounting tension, and his defense team asked the Supreme Court to intervene on the grounds that the impeachment violates the constitution.

According to the rules set out by the Senate a day earlier, Lugo's defense team will get two hours to outline their case.

"The president has been given fewer guarantees and fewer rights to defend himself than someone with a traffic fine," said one of Lugo's lawyers, Adolfo Ferreiro. "They seem to think anything can be justified in the name of politics."

Lugo's rivals said they expected to get the two-thirds support needed to remove him from office and they defended the legality of the process.

"There's nothing illegal here, there's no constitutional rupture, no coup," said center-right lawmaker Carlos Maria Soler. "There should be enough votes."

PRO-LUGO FORCES GATHER

In the downtown square facing the Congress building, several thousand people gathered, most of them peasant farmers and leftist activists carrying banners with pro-Lugo slogans and waving the red, white and blue national flag.

"We're going to defend our president because we're the ones who chose him," said Amelino Benitez, 18. "We won't allow them to steal the only power that we have - our vote."

Extra police were sent into the streets of the capital city Asuncion, where most businesses were shuttered and rush-hour traffic was unusually light.

Lugo, 61, a mild-mannered leftist who speaks the Guarani Indian language, vowed to champion the needs of poor Paraguayans when he was elected four years ago, ending six decades of rule by the Colorado party.

His election raised expectations among his supporters that he would tackle rampant corruption and gaping income inequalities in the soy-exporting nation of 6 million people.

Paraguay has been plagued by political instability and is known regionally for its marijuana crops and as a hub for smuggling and money laundering.

Lugo, however, has struggled to carry out his reform agenda, including his promise to redistribute land to peasant farmers, due to the opposition's tight grip on Congress.

A cancer scare and several paternity scandals have also clouded his presidency.

CONCERN IN REGION

If convicted on Friday on the charge of failing to fulfill his duties by allowing social conflicts to escalate, Lugo would have to leave office. Under Paraguay's constitution, an impeached leader is replaced by the vice president, who completes the term.

The next presidential election is in 2013 and Lugo's vice president, Federico Franco, who has been a fierce critic of Lugo, had been expected to run for office.

It was not clear whether Franco would be able to run next year if he assumes the presidency now because the constitution limits leaders to a single term.

Re-election has been banned since the constitution was overhauled following the 1989 fall of General Alfredo Stroessner's brutal 35-year dictatorship.

Some critics accuse Lugo of sympathizing with the peasant farmers who ambushed police officers last week when they went to enforce an eviction order on a farm in the rural northeast.

Legislators also accuse Lugo of having backed a meeting of young Socialists at a site owned by the Armed Forces and of acting meekly to fight a small, violent left-wing group called the Paraguayan People's Army, known by its Spanish initials EPP.

The impeachment trial has raised concern among South American governments, which dispatched foreign ministers to Asuncion late on Thursday.

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa warned that the UNASUR regional group could refuse to recognize the new government if the Senate removed Lugo. "We could opt to refuse recognition for the new government or even close borders," he said.

The ALBA bloc of left-wing Latin American leaders including Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez branded the impeachment trial "a maneuver by right-wing politicians," while the Organization of American States held a special meeting to discuss Paraguay.

Jose Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the 35-member OAS, said the impeachment proceedings "seemed a bit hasty" and said due process must be respected in the region.

(Additional reporting by Didier Cristaldo in Asuncion and Lauren French in Washington; Writing by Helen Popper; Editing by Vicki Allen)

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Pentagon review recommends combat pay changes

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A Pentagon review recommends ridding the combat pay system of inequities that have allowed officers thousands of miles from battle to get better benefits proportionally than troops on the front lines in Afghanistan.

The recommendations in a review released Thursday are likely to anger service members. But the director of the review said they're aimed at paying more to troops who are in the gravest danger and giving the best tax benefits to those who are paid the least.

Military officers who are not near the fight can sometimes get more in combat pay and tax benefits than troops who are getting shot at on the front lines, said Thomas Bush, who directed the review. He said the main goal was to make combat pay more equitable.

The report doesn't recommend any specific rates of combat pay or say that certain troops should get less. But, Bush said, "we suggest there be some meaningful distinction" between troops who are getting shot at and those who are simply deployed to one of many countries designated as combat zones.

The recommendations are very preliminary, and Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen Lainez said Friday that they will merely provide alternatives to the Defense Department to consider. Such changes often must be approved by Congress.

Under the military's current system, there are two types of combat pay. One, called "hostile fire pay," gives troops $225 a month if they are in an area where they could be exposed to enemy fire.

The second, called "imminent danger pay," gives up to $225 per month to those who are in a combat zone, and it is pro-rated at $7.50 a day, based on how long they are there.

Bush said the report recommends that hostile fire pay be more than the danger pay and that there be levels of imminent danger pay based on where service members are. Currently they can get the danger pay for being in more than two dozen places, including Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kyrgyzstan, the Philippines and Jordan ? as well as in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia.

"We want to target compensation to people who are at the greatest risk," Bush said.

In December 2009, President Barack Obama directed the department to examine four specific areas: combat pay, benefits and pay for the National Guard and Reserve, compensation for wounded service members and their survivors and pay incentives for key defense jobs, such as drone operators, special operations forces, linguists and mental health professionals.

Under the current system, service members up to the top level senior enlisted rank do not pay taxes on their pay when they are in a war zone. Higher level officers would not pay taxes on the portion of their salary equal to the top senior enlisted members' amount.

When they go to a combat zone, the taxes are no longer taken out of their pay, giving them an automatic raise for their deployment time.

The proposed change would make the combat pay a refundable tax credit that service members would file for at the end of the tax year.

But Bush said that because of the federal tax code, the benefits for higher level officers clearly outweigh the tax benefits for low-ranking troops, because much of their pay would already be at a very low tax rate.

The panel was struck by that disparity, Bush said, adding that a senior officer could get as much as a $15,000 tax benefit, while an Army private might get a $1,000 tax benefit.

And yet the private serving at a combat outpost in Kandahar or Khost in Afghanistan has a much higher chance of getting killed or injured than a senior officer serving in a headquarters unit or in Bahrain.

Congress members have been loath to do anything that appears to cut combat pay and have often tried to increase pay raises for the military. Bush acknowledged that it's not clear how open they would be to the changes recommended by the report, but he said he hoped lawmakers would be open to making the system more equal.

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Online:

Military compensation review:

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Three US troops killed in Afghan suicide blast

By Cheryll Simpson, NBC News in Kabul

KHOST, Afghanistan -- Three U.S. service members, their Afghan interpreter and 17 Afghan civilians were killed by an apparent suicide bomber on a motorbike in the?eastern Afghan city of Khost Wednesday, officials said.

The United States Embassy in Afghanistan issued a statement saying it "strongly condemns this cowardly attack," which is the?second on foreign forces in the troubled province this month.?

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A U.S. official, speaking anonymously to The Associated Press, said the foreign troops killed were Americans.

However, a?spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said the nationality of the troops would not immediately be confirmed.

A local official told NBC News that women and children were among the civilian casualties in the attack, aimed at an American-Afghan military convoy passing through the town.

The official said the death toll was likely to rise, and that?32 Afghans suffered injuries.

Msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.

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Listeners spark musical evolution

In music, as in evolutionary biology, it could be the survival of the fittest.

Using loops of computer sounds as building blocks, scientists have found that by obtaining small contributions from many people, or crowdsourcing, they can create pleasant-sounding music, just the way biology produces adapted organisms.

In a paper published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bob MacCallum of Imperial College, London, and his colleagues demonstrate how evolutionary pressure from audiences can shape music.

"What interests us is not that we can do a composer's job," he said. "What interests us is that we can quantify the consumer or listener's creative role."

Music research is not MacCallum's day job. He actually is an expert on the genetics of mosquitoes. He also loves music. His paper is full of biological references, describing how music is changed by the same mechanisms that organisms and languages use to evolve.

MacCallum wrote a program called DarwinTunes and posted it on the web.

DarwinTunes began with a series of sound loops, eight seconds long, consisting of sounds produced by computer from sine waves ? not very natural-sounding. Any melodies are purely coincidental.

The researchers did set limits. MacCallum said. They designed the loops to have four beats to the bar, to continue for four bars, and used the conventional Western 12-tone scale so it would not sound alien to their Western subjects.

The sounds are entirely artificial, MacCallum said, because if he used real instruments the personal preferences of the listeners might alter their decision. There are people, for instance, who hate accordions.

Participants in the study vote on a scale of one to five on whether they like the loops or not. Every time 20 loops have been rated, the top 10 are paired with each other randomly, and the bottom 10 are dropped from the program.

"If it's good music, it survives, makes babies, and if it's bad music according to the audience, then they just die off," MacCallum said.

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The loops periodically replicate (MacCallum calls it "having sex") and produce new loops ("babies"). The second generation is not identical to the first because they are formed by the combination of two loops, and there is some random mutation, just like in life.

At any time, there are 100 loops in the program.

So far, he reported, 6,931 listeners made 85,533 ratings over the course of 2,513 generations. In all, 50,480 loops were created. A few short melodies accidentally evolved. The results sound something like the kind of minimalist music that gained attention from critics toward the end of the last century.

But, as each generation evolved, the changes diminished, which became noticeable about a third of the way in, and the result now appears to have stopped evolving.

MacCallum said this is mirrored in nature. There are some species of reptiles, for instance, which essentially haven't evolved in 100 million years, probably because they didn't need to for survival. Their environment stabilized. Also, there were a lot more of the reptiles than tones in his program ? and with large populations, you need only a small fitness advantage.

MacCallum said he and his colleagues were changing the program to take it off its plateau and resume evolution. The process also happens in life. A thousand teenage bands practice in garages, he said, and sometimes a few are so good they are encouraged to play publicly. The really good ones become popular around the country and the world. Their success breeds imitators.

Is what the program produced real music?

Seems like a stretch, says Sharon Levy, who teaches music literature at the Juilliard School in New York and the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

"Certainly, as the authors note, this kind of program can only evolve so far. That's partly due to the limited choice within the program itself, as it's about very short segments of musical material, whereas some of what's considered the most important musical contributions, at least in the West, has to do with how such materials are arranged, manipulated and transformed across a much larger unit of musical time," Levy said.

"Another issue," Levy said, "is that everyone ? brilliant musician or not ? plays an equally limited role. If the authors wanted to continue the evolutionary model, then perhaps folks like Bach or Beethoven might be seen as kinds of musical meteors who dramatically altered the evolutionary process, which, if nothing else, is a nice metaphor."

MacCallum thinks it's music within a limited definition.

"It's a fact we've made music that is more pleasing to Western people," said MacCallum. "But more pleasing is not the same as a Mahler symphony."

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Joel Shurkin is a freelance writer based in Baltimore. He is the autor of nine books on science and the history of science, and has taught science journalism at Stanford University, the University of Californbia at Santa Cruz and the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.

This report was originally published by Inside Science News Service on June 18 as "Evolution Produces Tasteful Tunes." Copyright 2012 American Institute of Physics.

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