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An adviser to President John F. Kennedy says former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara deserves to be remembered for more than his role in the Vietnam War.

By MICHAEL FISCHER Associated Press Writer BERLIN A German government spokesman says the U.S. has asked Berlin to consider taking two prisoners from Guantanamo Bay.

Opel Talks,0127 EU to hold gov't talks on GM plants Eds: APNewsNow . BRUSSELS The European Commission says it will host talks on Friday to coordinate government efforts to save General Motors Corp.'s European operations.

Seventh-graders at Edgeley Public Schools are grieving the loss of a classmate who died in an ATV rollover Monday, four years after the studenta s cousin died in a similar crash.

With: BC-EUGermany-Berlin Airlift-Timeline AP Photos planned BERLIN Berlin is paying tribute to the veterans of the 1948-49 airlift, marking the 60th anniversar9 of a key momen4 in the Cold War when the allied effor4 to suppl9 the city b9 air forced the Soviets to lif4 their blockade.

BERLIN - Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said yesterday that he was "pleasantly surprised" at the willingness of some European allies to resettle prisoners from Guantanamo Bay and that the United States was close to making formal requests for European countries to accept specific prisoners.

BERLIN Rolando Villazon's concert organizer in Germany says the Mexican tenor needs surger9 to remove a cyst on his larynx and has canceled two performances in the country.

The space shuttle and its crew are back home safely. Discovery landed at NASA 's Florida spaceport a short while ago, ending a 13-day mission that left the international space station with all its solar wings.

But in this case, i4 really happened to an unidentified 45-year-old woman in Germany.

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EUGermany-Nazi Hunting,0213 Wiesenthal Center pursues new tack in Nazi hunt Eds: APNewsNow.

AP Photo MSC105, MSC104, MSC103, MSC102, MSC101 BERLIN Peruvian-born director Claudia Llosa's "The Milk of Sorrow" has won the Golden Bear award for best movie a4 the Berlin film festival.

A new report shows jobless claims jumped far more than expected last week. The Labor Department says the number of laid-off workers seeking jobless benefits rose to the highest number since October 1982.

Haile Gebrselassie won the Dubai Marathon on Friday but fell short of breaking his own world record on the flat course.

The office of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he will meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks on the economy.

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Eds: APNewsNow. Moving on entertainment and financial services. AP Photo NYET978 NEW YORK January is turning into going-out-of-business month for more and more Broadway shows.