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Published: October 12, 2008

FBI's Hoover Labeled Columnist 'A Jackal'

WASHINGTON - In caustic comments on internal agency memos, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover referred to prominent columnist Jack Anderson with undisguised contempt, calling him "a jackal" as agents combed his articles for errors and hints about possible sources.

"This fellow Anderson and his ilk have minds that are lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures," Hoover typed on a memo dated April 30, 1951. It is one of hundreds from FBI files on Anderson.

Documents turned over to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act almost three years after Anderson's death include copies of his columns with critical notes in margins; summaries of his movements while under surveillance; and memos detailing efforts to find his sources who leaked information from deep in government agencies.

To view Anderson's papers at George Washington University go to http://tinyurl.com/4mtpyk

Program To Help Women, Girls Find Employment

WASHINGTON - For years, global development experts have held that if young women received the same schooling as young men, their families would have a path out of poverty. Now, with countries across the developing world documenting rapid progress toward gender equality in education, experts are focusing on the next step: increasing economic opportunities for women and girls.

The World Bank, Nike Foundation and several European governments launched the Adolescent Girls Initiative to teach job skills to young women in post-conflict developing countries in order to improve their access to credit and help them find stable employment.

The $20 million program will begin in six countries in Africa and the Middle East.

Tadpoles Escape Parasite; Head To National Forest

NEW ORLEANS - Pick up a Mississippi gopher frog and it covers its eyes with its forefeet, like someone afraid to see what's coming next. And for at least a decade, it's had a good reason not to look.

This year, for a change, nature gave a bit of a break to one of the nation's most endangered species. Hot, dry springs have stranded tadpoles every year since 1998, when 161 froglets hopped out of Glen's Pond in coastal Harrison County, Miss.

This year, 181 tadpoles survived a deadly parasite, made it through metamorphosis and headed into the surrounding DeSoto National Forest. Scientists think less than 100 mature adults live in the wild. Five zoos - New Orleans, Memphis, Detroit, Miami and Omaha, Neb. - have 75 frogs.

A wire report

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