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(CNN) -- Griffin Bell, who served as attorney general in the Carter administration, has died, according to the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He was 90.

Griffin Bell is sworn in as attorney general in January 1977.

Former President Jimmy Carter issued a statement saying that he and former first lady Rosalynn Carter were deeply saddened by Bell's death.

"A trusted and enduring public figure, Griffin's integrity, professionalism, and charm were greatly valued across party lines and presidential administrations," Carter said.

"As a World War II veteran, federal appeals court judge, civil rights advocate, and U.S. attorney general in my administration, Griffin made many lasting contributions to his native Georgia and country. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family."

The son of a south Georgia cotton farmer, Bell passed the Georgia bar exam while still a student in law school, according to the New Georgia Encyclopedia. He went on to help build the prominent Atlanta law firm King and Spalding, and then to serve as the nation's top legal officer.

He was a chairman of John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign, and Kennedy appointed him to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1961. As a federal judge, Bell was involved in desegregation rulings in the 1960s, and he became known as a moderate legal voice in the South.

Fellow Georgian Jimmy Carter nominated Bell as attorney general in 1976. He was confirmed shortly after Carter's inauguration but only after sometimes difficult Senate hearings.

Bell's memberships in private segregated clubs and some of his decisions as a federal judge became issues. He was confirmed in January 1977 by a Senate vote of 75 to 21.

Bell's tenure as attorney general followed the Watergate era, and he was credited with helping restore public confidence in the Justice Department during the late 1970s.

Bell resigned as attorney general in 1979 to return to private law practice in Atlanta with King and Spalding.

He resurfaced in the public eye periodically, including in 2004 when he was listed among Georgia Democrats who endorsed President George W. Bush for re-election.

Also in 2004, he co-authored an independent study ordered by FBI Director Robert Mueller of the FBI's internal disciplinary procedures.

The report sharply criticized the FBI and called its methods for determining punishments for its agents "seriously flawed."

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Asheville, North Carolina (CNN) -- President Obama prayed Sunday with the Rev. Billy Graham at Graham's mountaintop home before leaving North Carolina to attend the memorial service for 29 West Virginia coal miners killed in a recent explosion.

Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Graham at his family home, according to Graham spokesman Larry Ross. He is the 12th president, dating back to Harry Truman, to meet with the so-called "pastor to the presidents."

"I am pleased to have had President Obama in my home this afternoon," Graham said in a statement, adding that Obama sought the meeting while on vacation in Asheville for the weekend. "My son Franklin and I enjoyed a brief visit with the president, followed by a time of prayer together."

During the meeting, Ross said, Obama shared some insights about his faith and the challenges of being commander-in-chief.

"Like others before him, President Obama shared how lonely, demanding and humbling the office of president can be, and how much he appreciated the counsel of people like Mr. Graham and the prayers of so many citizens," Ross said.

The two men also discussed their love of golf and the city of Chicago, where Graham attended school and held several of his religious crusades, Ross said.

At the end, Graham presented Obama with two Bibles -- one for him and the other for first lady Michelle Obama, Ross said. The two men then prayed together, with Obama first praying for Graham and then Graham "concluded with a prayer for the president, his family and his administration," according to Ross.

Obama was "extremely gratified" that Graham made time for the meeting and private prayer, White House spokesman Bill Burton said.

The visit was a follow-up to Obama's telephone call to Graham on the evangelist's 91st birthday in November, Burton said. At that time, the two agreed to meet as soon as possible, according to Burton.

Ross told CNN the visit came together hastily after the White House officially inquired on Friday, after Obama arrived in North Carolina.

Obama and his family vacationed in Asheville over the weekend, and the first couple played tennis Sunday morning before their departure, Burton said.

The meeting with Graham came three days after the Army rescinded an invitation for Franklin Graham to speak at the Pentagon on the upcoming National Day of Prayer. The Army decision was because of controversial comments about Islam by the younger Graham.

Billy Graham's statement referred to the upcoming event without mentioning the controversy involving his son.

"As we approach the National Day of Prayer on May 6, I want to encourage Christians everywhere to pray for our president, and for all those in positions of authority, and especially for the men and women serving in our military," Graham said in the statement.

In December, Franklin Graham told CNN's Campbell Brown that "true Islam" could not be practiced in America because "you can't beat your wife, you cannot murder your children if you think they've committed adultery or something like that, which they do practice in these other countries."

Franklin Graham later tried to temper his remarks by saying that he had Muslim friends.

Last week, he said he regretted the Army's decision but stood by his comments.

"I don't like the way they treat women, the way they treat minorities. I just find it horrific. But I love the people of Islam," he said, adding some of his work has been in Muslim nations.

The Army, which oversees the National Day of Prayer ceremonies at the Pentagon, feared that if Graham spoke at the Pentagon on May 6, Islamic militants would publicize his comments, potentially fueling tensions in Muslim nations such as Iraq and Afghanistan, where U.S. troops are deployed.

Graham's invitation was not the only controversy swirling about the National Day of Prayer this year.

Last week, a federal judge struck down as unconstitutional the 1952 law that established the day, saying it violated the ban on government-backed religion.

On Thursday, the Justice Department informed a federal appeals court that the Obama administration will appeal that decision.

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MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- Ethiopian troops have not yet begun to withdraw from key positions in the capital of Somalia two days after they were supposed to do so under a peace agreement designed to end years of conflict.

Ethiopian troops are yet to leave the Somlai capital despite a peace agreement.

The Ethiopians had agreed to withdraw from some bases by Friday under an agreement signed last month by the Somali transitional government and a rebel faction known as the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia.

Ethiopia invaded Somalia two years ago to expel Islamic forces who had conquered Mogadishu. Under the deal signed October 26, a cease-fire between the transitional government and the ARS went into effect November 5. The Ethiopians were to withdraw from from key positions in the capital on November 21, and leave the country entirely early in 2009.

Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein has said that Ethiopian troops will withdraw as agreed.

Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a moderate leader of the rebel ARS, told the local radio station Shabelle Saturday that the Ethiopian troops would pull out on schedule.

Insurgents clashed with Somali government forces and their Ethiopian allies Friday, witnesses said, leaving at least 11 fighters dead.

The fighting started when armed insurgent fighters attacked the house of a local commissioner in Mogadishu's Wadajir district, sparking heavy fighting between the government troops guarding the house and the insurgents.

"I saw 11 men wearing red turbans on the heads dead on the ground," local resident Mohamed Haji Ali told CNN by phone from a house near where the clashes took place. Other residents provided a similar death toll.

The commissioner whose house was attacked, Ahmed Da'd, said that his soldiers killed 17 insurgents. He displayed what he said were some of the dead insurgents for the media.

It is not clear what will happen if the Ethiopian troops remain in Mogadishu despite the October 26 peace deal. Under that agreement, government and opposition members will form a 10,000-member joint police force to keep order, along with the African Union peacekeeping mission now in place and a U.N. force to be deployed later. Both sides will work toward establishing a unity government in Somalia, which has been riven by 17 years of strife since the collapse of its last fully functional government.

Ethiopia invaded Somalia in December 2006 to install the transitional government in Mogadishu after a decade and a half of near-anarchy. The invasion had the blessing of the United States, which accused the Islamic Courts Union -- which captured Mogadishu earlier that year -- of harboring fugitives from al Qaeda. The Islamists responded with a guerrilla campaign against government and Ethiopian troops.

Efforts to replace the Ethiopians with an African Union-led peacekeeping mission faltered as the violence worsened, and heavy fighting in Mogadishu and other cities drove hundreds of thousands from their homes. The lawlessness also spilled on to the seas off the Horn of Africa, where international vessels are routinely hijacked by suspected Somali pirates who demand large ransoms.

Journalist Abdinasir Mohamed Guled and CNN's Mohammed Amiin and Amir Ahmed contributed to this report.

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text: Alliance

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text: Somalia

text: Ethiopia

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text: years

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text: deal

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text: cease

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text: transitional

text: government

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text: effect

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text: The

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text: positions

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text: leave

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text: country

text: entirely

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text: Nur

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text: Hussein

text: has

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text: Ethiopian

text: troops

text: will

text: withdraw

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text: agreed

text: Sheikh

text: Sharif

text: Sheikh

text: Ahmed

text: a

text: moderate

text: leader

text: of

text: the

text: rebel

text: ARS

text: told

text: the

text: local

text: radio

text: station

text: Shabelle

text: Saturday

text: that

text: the

text: Ethiopian

text: troops

text: would

text: pull

text: out

text: on

text: schedule

text: Insurgents

text: clashed

text: with

text: Somali

text: government

text: forces

text: and

text: their

text: Ethiopian

text: allies

text: Friday

text: witnesses

text: said

text: leaving

text: at

text: least

text: fighters

text: dead

text: The

text: fighting

text: started

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text: armed

text: insurgent

text: fighters

text: attacked

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text: house

text: of

text: a

text: local

text: commissioner

text: in

text: Mogadishu

text: 's

text: Wadajir

text: district

text: sparking

text: heavy

text: fighting

text: between

text: the

text: government

text: troops

text: guarding

text: the

text: house

text: and

text: the

text: insurgents

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text: saw

text: men

text: wearing

text: red

text: turbans

text: on

text: the

text: heads

text: dead

text: on

text: the

text: ground

text: local

text: resident

text: Mohamed

text: Haji

text: Ali

text: told

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text: by

text: phone

text: from

text: a

text: house

text: near

text: where

text: the

text: clashes

text: took

text: place

text: Other

text: residents

text: provided

text: a

text: similar

text: death

text: toll

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text: commissioner

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text: house

text: was

text: attacked

text: Ahmed

text: Da'd

text: said

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text: his

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text: said

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text: dead

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text: agreement

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text: and

text: opposition

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text: form

text: a

text: joint

text: police

text: force

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text: order

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text: African

text: Union

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text: mission

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text: in

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text: a

text: U.N.

text: force

text: to

text: be

text: deployed

text: later

text: Both

text: sides

text: will

text: work

text: toward

text: establishing

text: a

text: unity

text: government

text: in

text: Somalia

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text: collapse

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text: functional

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text: install

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text: transitional

text: government

text: in

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text: a

text: half

text: of

text: near

text: anarchy

text: The

text: invasion

text: had

text: the

text: blessing

text: of

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: which

text: accused

text: the

text: Islamic

text: Courts

text: Union

text: which

text: captured

text: Mogadishu

text: earlier

text: that

text: year

text: of

text: harboring

text: fugitives

text: from

text: al

text: Qaeda

text: The

text: Islamists

text: responded

text: with

text: a

text: guerrilla

text: campaign

text: against

text: government

text: and

text: Ethiopian

text: troops

text: Efforts

text: to

text: replace

text: the

text: Ethiopians

text: with

text: an

text: African

text: Union

text: led

text: peacekeeping

text: mission

text: faltered

text: as

text: the

text: violence

text: worsened

text: and

text: heavy

text: fighting

text: in

text: Mogadishu

text: and

text: other

text: cities

text: drove

text: hundreds

text: of

text: thousands

text: from

text: their

text: homes

text: The

text: lawlessness

text: also

text: spilled

text: on

text: to

text: the

text: seas

text: off

text: the

text: Horn

text: of

text: Africa

text: where

text: international

text: vessels

text: are

text: routinely

text: hijacked

text: by

text: suspected

text: Somali

text: pirates

text: who

text: demand

text: large

text: ransoms

text: Journalist

text: Abdinasir

text: Mohamed

text: Guled

text: and

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Mohammed

text: Amiin

text: and

text: Amir

text: Ahmed

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What was designed to end conflict?

answer: a peace agreement

text: a peace agreement

question: What day did they agree to withdraw by?

answer: November 21,

text: November 21,

question: Which country were Ethiopian troops occupying?

answer: Somalia

text: Somalia

question: Ethiopian troops have yet to withdraw from where?

answer: capital of Somalia

text: capital of Somalia

question: Where are the Ethiopian troops withdrawing from?

answer: capital of Somalia

text: capital of Somalia

question: When will bases withdraw?

answer: by Friday under

text: by Friday under

question: What did troops do?

answer: have not yet begun to withdraw

text: have not yet begun to withdraw

question: What was the peace agreement designed to end?

answer: years of conflict.

text: years of conflict.

question: When did these troops agree to move by?

answer: Friday

text: Friday

question: When were the troops supposed to withdraw?

answer: November 21,

text: November 21,

question: What nation were the Ethiopian troops fighting in?

answer: Somalia.

text: Somalia.


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Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- South Sudan's government has gained control of a remote town that had been under attack by fighters from a rival tribe, the nation's information minister said Monday.

Some of the thousands who fled into the bush have begun to return to Pibor, said Barnaba Benjamin, South Sudan's minister of information and broadcasting.

Earlier Monday, a military official said that roughly 4,000 army and police reinforcements were on the way to Pibor after weekend attacks.

The United Nations also said it sent a battalion of peacekeepers to Pibor last week amid reports that members of the Lou Nuer tribe were marching toward the town, home to the Murle tribe, after attacking the village of Lukangol.

Ethnic tensions in the South Sudan state of Jonglei have flared as tribes fight over grazing lands and water rights, disagreements that have dissolved into cattle raids and abduction of women and children.

Fighters first struck Pibor on Saturday, attacking a portion that was out of the reach of U.N. peacekeepers, said Col. Philip Auger of the South Sudan army.

Benjamin said there were no casualties and no direct confrontation between the two tribes there, because most of the Murle had fled when they heard the Lou Nuer were approaching.

The nonprofit group Medecins sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, was still trying Monday to reach 117 of its 130 aid workers who fled into the bush along with the populations of Pibor and Lukangol before the attack, said Sarathy Rajendran, head of the group's South Sudan mission.

Rajendran said the organization was afraid for its workers' safety and "very concerned" for the people of Pibor and Lukangol.

"We believe tens of thousands are currently displaced without access to water, food and health care," he said. "The situation is tense. We don't know what is happening on the ground, so we are monitoring the situation."

The nonprofit's clinic in Lukangol was "burned and looted," spokeswoman Emily Linendoll said, adding that its Pibor clinic "has been targeted."

The attack on Pibor follows reports last week that Lou Nuer fighters raided Lukangol, burning it to the ground and forcing thousands to flee toward Pibor.

At least 50,000 people have fled the violence in the state that began last year, said Quade Hermann, chief of radio at Radio Miraya, a U.N.-backed radio station in South Sudan.

She similarly said that the town of Pibor is secure now, though the situation there remains fluid. The people who fled remain scattered, and the United Nations is working on a plan for how to distribute humanitarian aid, Hermann said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week urged the groups to work with the government of South Sudan to find solutions.

South Sudan's vice president, Riek Machar, is leading an initiative to bridge the differences between the Lou Nuer and Murle tribes, including encouraging the armed groups to disband and go home, the United Nations has said.

The violence in Jonglei state is the latest to rock South Sudan, which officially gained its statehood in July after separating from the north.

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text: government

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answer: roughly 4,000

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question: Who were the attackers?

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question: Who attacked the town?

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question: How many people fled from Jonglei?

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London, England (CNN) -- Kraft's fresh bid for suffered a double blow Tuesday as the improved offer was dismissed by the British candy company and criticized by billionaire investor Warren Buffett who controls an influential stake in the U.S. food giant.

Buffett said he had voted against Kraft's plan to issue new shares as part of a cash and stock offer worth approximately $16 billion, warning it would hurt shareholders, Fortune reported.

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway company owns 138 million Kraft shares, making it the largest shareholder in the foodmaker with a 9.4 percent stake. But in a statement, he warned Kraft's move for Cadbury risked undervaluing Kraft stock.

"Kraft stock, at its current price of $27, is a very expensive 'currency' to be used in an acquisition," Buffett said. "In 2007, in fact, Kraft spent $3.6 billion to repurchase shares at about $33 per share, presumably because the directors and management thought the shares to be worth more."

Earlier, Illinois-based Kraft said it would use the proceeds from the sale of its U.S. pizza business to Nestle to increase the cash element of its Cadbury offer. Under Kraft's offer of a partial cash alternative, Cadbury shareholders could receive cash as well as Kraft shares if they accept Kraft's deal.

"Kraft Foods is doing this because of the desire expressed by some Cadbury security holders to have a greater proportion of the offer in cash," Kraft said in a statement.

The maker of Jell-O, Cool Whip, Oreo cookies and Kraft Macaroni & Cheese also extended the Cadbury offer to February 2. The original bid had expired Tuesday.

Cadbury, which rejected Kraft's previous two deals, rejected the new offer Tuesday.

"Kraft has once again missed the point," a Cadbury spokesman told CNN. "Despite this tinkering, the Kraft offer remains unchanged and derisory, with less than half the consideration in cash."

There had been rumors that Swiss firm Nestle, which already has a chocolate and confectionery unit, would step in and make its own offer for Cadbury. But Nestle put an end to those rumors Tuesday by issuing a statement saying it had no intention to make an offer for the British company.

Instead, Nestle said it had bought Kraft's frozen pizza business in the United States and Canada for $3.7 billion. The unit includes brands like DiGiorno, Tombstone, and California Pizza Kitchen.

"The acquisition brings leadership in the frozen pizza category, where Nestle only had a minor presence until now, and builds on Nestle's existing pizza know-how and operations in Europe," Nestle said in a statement Tuesday.

"It is a natural fit with Nestle's focus on delivering convenient, premium, wholesome and nutritious frozen food for consumers around the world."

Nestle already had a presence in American frozen food aisles with ready-meal brands like Stouffer's, Lean Cuisine, and Hot Pockets.

The proceeds from the sale allow Kraft to offer more cash to Cadbury shareholders -- an additional 60 pence (96 cents) per share, Kraft said. Kraft originally offered Cadbury shareholders 300 pence ($4.81) and 0.26 Kraft shares for each share of Cadbury they own.

Kraft said it will announce more detailed terms by January 19.

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New York (CNN) -- "Unauthorized and unprofessional" is how an internal memo describes the conduct of an air traffic controller, who allegedly allowed his two young children to speak with pilots on an air traffic control frequency, and his supervisor, who allegedly allowed it to happen.

The memo, dated February 25, was written after the facilities manager for the air traffic control tower at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport learned about the incident, a source who has seen the memo told CNN.

"The display of professionalism in the past by the control personnel at this facility has been exemplary," the memo said. "However, a lapse in judgment for what may seem a minor transgression diminishes our credibility and slights the high standards of professionalism."

It was not immediately clear what prompted the manager to write the memo or how he found out about the incident, the source said.

The incidents occurred on succeeding days last month at JFK, the Federal Aviation Administration said this week, and the controller and the supervisor have been placed on paid administrative leave.

"We have an incredible team of professionals who safely control our nation's skies every single day. This kind of behavior does not reflect the true caliber of our workforce," FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said in the statement Wednesday.

Babbitt was referring to the February 16 incident involving the controller's young son, who is heard in a recording -- posted on liveatc.net -- clearing a JetBlue flight for takeoff and later speaking to an apparent Aeromexico flight.

Later, an FAA official, who asked not to be identified because of the ongoing investigation, said the controller brought his daughter into the same tower the following day, and the child was allowed to talk with pilots of two planes.

A separate source said the supervisor "should be making sure that things like this don't happen."

Yet another source familiar with the investigation said the two children are twins.

The controller who brought the children to work later reported that he had done so, the source said. The controller and supervisor involved are veteran employees, the official said.

Dave Pascoe owner of the Web site where the recording of the air traffic communications is posted, told CNN he thinks the attention the incident has drawn is "ridiculous" and it has been "blown out of proportion."

In the recording, a child says, "JetBlue 171, cleared for takeoff."

A man then tells the plane, "Here's what you get, guys, when the kids are out of school."

The pilot chuckles and says, "Wish I could bring my kid to work." The same pilot later tells the child, "Awesome job."

During the recording, which is dated February 17, the child also speaks to an apparent Aeromexico flight. A recording from the following day, when the daughter was reportedly in the tower, also was posted on the Web site.

FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown later said the incident took place about 7:30 p.m. February 16.

Pascoe said most people "in the aviation community felt like this was (not) anything more than a noble thing, that a father would take his kid to work."

"It was one incident where a kid was up in the control tower," he said. "If you know anything about aviation, you know that the air traffic control towers are highly supervised. ... A father was taking a child to work and let the kid clear planes for takeoff and now the world thinks it's an unsafe place."

The FAA has suspended all unofficial visits to air traffic control operational areas during its investigation into the incident. Babbitt has directed a team to review air traffic control policies and procedures related to facility visitors.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association, the union representing controllers, issued a statement, saying its members "do not condone this type of behavior in any way."

CNN's Susan Candiotti contributed to this report.

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Editor's note: Raquel Cepeda is an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and former editor of Russell Simmons' Oneworld magazine. Cepeda wrote and directed the feature documentary, "Bling: A Planet Rock," about hip-hop's obsession with diamonds and its effect on the decade-long conflict in Sierra Leone. Cepeda is based in New York, where she was born to Dominican parents. Find her at http://djalirancher.com/blog/.

Raquel Cepeda says people don't fit into the neat categories outlined by the U.S. Census.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Let's all pretend to be the astrologer Walter Mercado for a moment. Say we predict that the Obama administration's master plan to engage people of Latino/Hispanic/Spanish origin proves to be effective.

Let's say that along with strategic partners Telemundo and the Census Bureau, they somehow manage to corral the millions of "Latinos" into filling out the 2010 census forms in April. Say the idea of plot-kneading the message into an already half-baked yet inexplicably popular telenovela, "Mas Sabe el Diablo," wins over the hearts and minds of "Latinos" everywhere.

But what's a Latino?

While we all may speak a version of our Spanish colonizer's language, contrary to popular belief, we're not all Mexican. Yes, the majority of Latinos in America are of Mexican descent, but we also hail from other countries around the world.

Take the ethnically ambiguous 15 percent of us who descend from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Cuba. An overwhelming majority of us aren't solely of Spanish, black or native origin: We're all of the above and then some (some of our ancestors migrated from Asian, Middle Eastern and an array of European countries).

With the 2010 census upon us, the time is now for the fastest-growing minority group in the country to define themselves for themselves and at the same time clear up the cultural confusion surrounding our identity. But how can we, given the perplexing racial categories on the census, coupled with our own complex identity issues, paint an accurate picture of who and how complex we are, not just what we are?

Take me, for example; I'm a first-generation American, the product of Dominican parents whose short-lived relationship could have rivaled that of Shakespeare's own telenovela, Romeo and Juliet. My family is made up of a rainbow coalition of racial chameleons.

Recently, I was told that my maternal grandmother's own abuela was Vietnamese; my maternal great-great-grandfather was Haitian; somewhere on my paternal side, we're supposedly Sephardic. As in many Dominican families in my New York neighborhood -- Washington Heights -- with ties to the motherland, blackness is rarely discussed.

When I traveled to Sierra Leone and Ghana, I was asked if I was Moroccan, Lebanese or Eritrean. In Paris, if I was Brazilian or Arabic. In fact, I've been singled out a couple of times when entering and leaving Brazil, and was once accused of having a fake American passport by an agent. Being mistaken for everything but a person of Dominican heritage has certainly piqued my desire to examine how I and other Latinos fit into our national and global communities.

When I learned that nearly eighty percent of Puerto Rico's 4 million colorful residents checked off the "white" racial box on the last census, I wasn't floored -- given the alternatives. Race in the Caribbean lies in the eye of the beholder. And the beholder, from centuries of colonization, has more often than not been socialized to reject their blackness despite our collective and direct relationship to slavery.

An association with a historically discriminated ethnic group like African-Americans somehow drives the idea that the American dream is out of reach. In the American media, people with darker complexions are often grossly stereotyped. And Spanish language television often depicts people with darker skin and so-called African features as shiftless, ignorant and at the bottom of the social barrel.

This sort exposure, along with other factors, will result in a Latino with dark skin to be inclined to check off "white," especially if their only other choices were "African-American" instead of, say "Black/Brown," and "Native American" rather than the more familiar "Indio/Taino."

And then there's the pesky "Hispanic/Latino/Spanish" issue.

I posed a few questions about the racial categories within the census to my Latino followers on Twitter. Off the bat, people found that lumping Spanish-speaking origins together was misleading. @TheJLV, self-described as half Dominican, wrote that there are "definitely misnomers unless you're strictly from Spain or have acknowledged Spanish ancestry."

Many used "Latino" and "Hispanic" interchangeably, unsure about the differences, but rejected Spanish altogether because not doing so would be the same as an American calling themselves "English."

Younger generations of American-born Latinos are challenging the census' categories, like 25-year-old @deevazquez, whose parents are Dominican and Puerto Rican-American: "Having Afro-Caribbean roots, I don't feel like any of those labels really represent my culture and historical background."

Others, turned off by the overgeneralizations, are opting out altogether.

If anything encouraging results in Latino census participation, aside from enhancing your state's chances of receiving a chunk of the allocated $400 billion in federal funds, it may be a growing desire within the Latino-American community to ask questions. Many responders have expressed interest in exploring their roots through genealogical DNA testing.

I've often wondered where my Dominican ancestors originally came from, as have others in my community. Said one responder, "Not only do I look at myself and feel like I look different in every picture or mirror, but I also look at my family and wonder where certain features come from," she states, "and what it all mean[s]." Many of us want to know.

Maybe in the future, the Census Bureau may want to borrow from a survey conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in 1976 and ask Latinos to classify themselves. Through self-definition, the population presented 134 terms to describe race. Though it's uncertain that Latino-Americans will come close to topping Brazil's exhaustive list of ethnic categories, the results will certainly encourage all Americans to start thinking outside the box when it comes to their perceptions of race.

One thing is certain: Christopher Columbus and his pirates of the Caribbean did their best to not only conquer the land but also, through slavery and miscegenation, to literally change the face of the New World.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Raquel Cepeda.

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text: maternal

text: grandmother

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text: own

text: abuela

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text: Vietnamese

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text: paternal

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text: 're

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text: Sephardic

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text: many

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text: York

text: neighborhood

text: Washington

text: Heights

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text: ties

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text: Ghana

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text: Eritrean

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text: was

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text: of

text: times

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text: and

text: leaving

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text: was

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text: accused

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text: having

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text: fake

text: American

text: passport

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text: an

text: agent

text: Being

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text: everything

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text: a

text: person

text: of

text: Dominican

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text: piqued

text: my

text: desire

text: to

text: examine

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text: and

text: other

text: Latinos

text: fit

text: into

text: our

text: national

text: and

text: global

text: communities

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text: percent

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text: Puerto

text: Rico

text: 's

text: million

text: colorful

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text: white

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text: last

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text: alternatives

text: Race

text: in

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text: Caribbean

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text: beholder

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text: beholder

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text: and

text: direct

text: relationship

text: to

text: slavery

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text: idea

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text: American

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text: reach

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text: American

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text: darker

text: complexions

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text: people

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text: skin

text: and

text: so

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text: bottom

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text: choices

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text: American

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text: Brown

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text: questions

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text: racial

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text: census

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text: Twitter

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text: bat

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text: Spanish

text: speaking

text: origins

text: together

text: was

text: misleading

text: @TheJLV

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text: described

text: as

text: half

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text: there

text: are

text: definitely

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text: unless

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text: 're

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text: from

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text: have

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text: Spanish

text: ancestry

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text: Latino

text: and

text: Hispanic

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text: the

text: differences

text: but

text: rejected

text: Spanish

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text: because

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text: so

text: would

text: be

text: the

text: same

text: as

text: an

text: American

text: calling

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text: Younger

text: generations

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text: Latinos

text: are

text: challenging

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text: Puerto

text: Rican

text: American

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text: of

text: those

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text: overgeneralizations

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text: encouraging

text: results

text: in

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text: enhancing

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text: 's

text: chances

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text: chunk

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text: allocated

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text: in

text: federal

text: funds

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text: growing

text: desire

text: within

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text: Latino

text: American

text: community

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text: responders

text: have

text: expressed

text: interest

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text: exploring

text: their

text: roots

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text: DNA

text: testing

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text: 've

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text: Dominican

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text: also

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text: family

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text: features

text: come

text: from

text: she

text: states

text: and

text: what

text: it

text: all

text: mean[s

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text: of

text: us

text: want

text: to

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text: in

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text: future

text: the

text: Census

text: Bureau

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text: to

text: borrow

text: from

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text: survey

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text: by

text: the

text: Brazilian

text: Institute

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text: Geography

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text: Statistics

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text: and

text: ask

text: Latinos

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text: Through

text: self

text: definition

text: the

text: population

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text: describe

text: race

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text: 's

text: uncertain

text: that

text: Latino

text: Americans

text: will

text: come

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text: list

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text: comes

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text: land

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text: miscegenation

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text: change

text: the

text: face

text: of

text: the

text: New

text: World

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

text: in

text: this

text: commentary

text: are

text: solely

text: those

text: of

text: Raquel

text: Cepeda

question: What does Raquel Cepeda say about the census?

answer: people don't fit into the neat categories outlined by the U.S.

text: people don't fit into the neat categories outlined by the U.S.

question: Who resist the labels?

answer: Younger generations of American-born Latinos

text: Younger generations of American-born Latinos

question: What does Raquel Cepeda say about the Latinos ?

answer: people don't fit into the neat categories outlined by the U.S. Census.

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Identifying the world's finest airports is easy. Hong Kong International Airport, Singapore's Changi and Seoul's Incheon have topped the ranks of airport awards for the last decade.

Sitting comfortably? Not at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, ranked by some as one of the worst.

These 21st-century airports boast the best shopping, classiest restaurants, as well as features such as indoor pools, orchid gardens, and free wireless Internet. See world's best airports

The world's worst airports, however, are harder to pin down. It's a crowded field to choose from and the choice depends on what you class as bad. See our pick of the world's worst airports Â»

If it's for danger, then Baghdad International Airport, in the middle of a war zone, should rank pretty high.

Lukla airstrip -- gateway to the Mount Everest region in Nepal -- is also a strong contender.

Landing involves a hair-raising plummet onto an uphill airstrip cut into the side of a mountain. On takeoff, the airstrip comes to an abrupt end at the edge of a mountain cliff.  What do you think is the world's worst airport? Sound off below

Watch CNN's Ayesha Durgahee examine what it takes to become Airport of the year in Hong Kong. Â»

In 2007, TripAdvisor asked travelers to rank airports according to how easy they are to navigate, the cleanliness of the lavatories and parking facilities.

Based on these factors, the 2,500 respondents classed London Heathrow and Chicago O'Hare as the world's most hated.

Yet neither of these major hubs appeared in Foreign Policy magazine's review of the five worst airports, published in 2007.

The list here included the likes of Mineralnye Vody airport in Russia for its feral cats and daggers on sale in the departure lounge.

Charles de Gaulle also gains little affection from those that pass through its interminable terminals. As Foreign Policy says, "visitors to Paris should expect more than the grimy terminals, rude staff, confusing layout, and overpriced food."

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