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‘No Evidence’ Of NYC Subway Threat

An official at the Department of Homeland Security tells CBS News correspondent Bob Orr that “no evidence has surfaced through intelligence to substantiate the threat” last week against the New York City subway system.

“All intelligence agencies agree there is no evidence to support the original information,” the official said.

No Need to Feed Parking Meters on Sundays

New York Times

Stash away those quarters. Switch off the alarm clock.

A New York City tradition of free metered parking on Sundays – revoked in many neighborhoods to help ease the city’s fiscal crisis three years ago – will be revived under a law that the City Council approved yesterday over a mayoral veto.

Beginning on Nov. 13, about 32,100 parking spaces at the curb and 4,500 in municipal lots will be available to drivers without charge every Sunday. Worshipers had complained that they had had to dash out of services to feed parking meters.

Pakistan Welcomes Aid From U.S. Jews

New York Times

On Monday, the chairman of the American Jewish Congress appealed to Jews to help Pakistani earthquake victims.

Yesterday, the chairman, Jack Rosen, said, he received a telephone call from President Pervez Musharraf.

Mr. Musharraf called Mr. Rosen in New York to say that Pakistan welcomed aid from American Jewish charities for earthquake victims and that he would be open to publicizing this help to Pakistanis, who are overwhelmimgly Muslim.