Senate OKs arming

　　airline pilots

　　WASHINGTON (Sept. 6—AP): The U.S. Senate (参议院) voted overwhelmingly (以压倒多数) Thursday to allow commercial pilots (商用飞机飞行员) to carry weapons in the cockpit (驾驶舱) after the Bush administration dropped its opposition to the idea.

　　Afghan President

　　escapes bullets; 25

　　killed by car bomb

　　KABUL(Sept. 6—The New York Times): A uniformed gunman in Kandahar (坎大哈) narrowly failed in an assassination (暗杀) attempt on President Hamid Karzai hours after a car bomb in Kabul killed at least 25 people.

　　Emergency landing

　　MANILA(Sept. 5—AP): An airplane with 47 people on board, mostly South Korean tourists, made an emergency landing in Manila, skidding (滑行) along the tarmac (跑道) after the landing gear malfunctioned (失灵).

　　Top Mitsui officials

　　resign over slew of

　　scandals

　　TOKYO(Sept. 4—AP): The president of Mitsui and Co. said that he and another senior company official will resign to take responsibility (承担责任) for a bid-rigging (操纵投标) scandal (丑闻). President Shinjiro Shimizu, 64, and Chairman Shigeji Ueshima, 71, will jointly resign from their positions at Japan’s second-biggest trading company on Sept. 30

　　S.Korea typhoon

　　leaves 113 dead,

　　71 missing

　　SEOUL(Sept. 3—Reuters): The death toll (死亡人数) from South Korea’s worst typhoon (台风) in 40 years rose to 113 as soldiers led a desperate (孤注一掷的) search for 71 people still missing after the weekend devastation (毁坏).