Squeeze Bunt Send Reds Over Tigers, 6-5 In 10

CINCINNATI -- Wilson Valdez's squeeze bunt with one out in the 10th inning scored Miguel Cairo and sent the Cincinnati Reds to a 6-5 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Friday night.

Cairo started the rally against left-hander Phil Coke (1-2) with his first triple of the season, the ball skittering out of the right-field corner and eluding Matt Young.

One out later, Valdez pinch hit and bunted toward first baseman Prince Fielder, who threw home barehanded. Cairo slid his left hand over the plate before the tag.

Sam LeCure (2-1) pitched two innings, striking out three of the six batters he faced.

Joey Votto had three hits for Cincinnati, including a three-run homer off Rick Porcello. Votto extended his hitting streak to 14 games, matching the longest of his career.

Brennan Boesch and Delmon Young homered for the Tigers, who had never played at Great American Ball Park, which opened in 2003. Detroit's first series in town since 2001 ? and a postgame fireworks show to Motor City music ? drew the Reds' fourth sellout crowd of the season.

Cincinnati's Chris Heisey made two diving catches in center field, the second robbing Fielder of a hit. Fielder went 0 for 4 with a walk, ending his 14-game hitting streak.

Some of the Tigers took early batting practice, working on their swings while getting an idea of how the ball carries at the unfamiliar ballpark. Answer: It really flies.

Votto's homer in the third inning made it 54 straight games with at least one homer at Great American, the longest ongoing streak in the majors. There hasn't been a homerless game in the ballpark since July 29.

During his 14-game streak, Votto has gone 28 of 51 (.549) with three homers and eight doubles.

Boesch came into the game in a 4-for-42 slump. He connected on a solo homer off Mat Latos, the 12th homer the right-hander has allowed in a dozen starts. It was Boesch's first homer since May 17.

Boesch had three hits overall, including an RBI single in the seventh off Jose Arredondo. Young's homer off Arredondo put the Tigers up 5-4 in the eighth, but Todd Frazier tied it in the bottom of the inning with a pinch-hit double.

Frazier was a late scratch at third base because of back spasms.

NOTES: The Tigers are 2-2 in interleague play this season, the Reds 3-1. ... Bronson Arroyo makes his sixth career start against the Tigers on Saturday. He's 2-1 with a 4.65 ERA against Detroit. Justin Verlander starts for the Tigers. ... C Gerald Laird was back in the Tigers lineup after injuring his right hamstring June 1. ... Tigers manager Jim Leyland said OF Austin Jackson could join the team from a rehab stint with Triple-A Toledo. He's been on the DL since May 17 with a strained abdomen. ... Latos singled in the fourth inning, breaking his 0-for-29 slump since Aug. 29.

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No case for putting a casino downtown Sudbury - Guest column by ...

By PATRICK H. MACISAAC

Updated 15 hours ago

This article is written in response to The Sudbury Star article The big gamble, published on June 2.

The big gamble was an appropriate and insightful headline for a story that attempted to deal with some of the issues related to the proposed location of a casino in downtown Sudbury.

I will offer the following comments:

DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION

Any revitalization of Thunder Bay's downtown north core that has occurred cannot be directly attributed to the opening of the casino in that general area in 2000. To indicate in the article that this development "all started with a casino" creates the impression that a casino in downtown Sudbury would similarly lead to major revitalization in our downtown.

This is simply an erroneous conclusion that is not supported by the facts. An examination of the impact of new downtown casinos on the communities of Sault Ste. Marie, Brantford and, indeed, Thunder Bay, will demonstrate that minimal, if any, redevelopment can be linked to the construction and opening of the casino. These are all communities in which the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. opened and continues to operate, full-fledged casinos, complete with slot machines and gaming tables, comparable to the size contemplated for Sudbury by the recent provincial modernization of gaming initiative.

Feedback from current and former residents of Thunder Bay attest to the fact that the area around the casino continues to be depressed, with little revitalization created by the operation of the casino.

Anyone who has visited Sault Ste. Marie recently will note the absence of any ancillary development in the area around the casino. Similarly, a visual inspection of the area around the Brantford casino reveals the presence of derelict, old buildings that continue to blight the

area. All these casinos were built by the OLG, which continues to operate them, and have been open for at least 10 years, which is ample time for any envisioned redevelopment and revitalization to have occurred.

It appears that in the case of these three government-built and operated casinos, the vision of grandiose revitalization remains unfulfilled.

Should Sudbury reasonably expect a different result from a casino in our downtown core?

The Star article includes extensive, positive comments from Jim Comuzzi, a small restaurant operator whose business is located within a five-minute walk from the casino in Thunder Bay. It appears Comuzzi's establishment benefits from its proximity to the casino and its employees and patrons. While the casino may indeed be a source of business for this one restaurant, this can hardly be characterized as revitalization of the downtown core.

How many other new businesses have been established in the area because of the casino? Have any businesses in the area closed since the arrival of the casino?

ECONOMIC IMPACT

The Star article references a 2006 report prepared for the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre to support the idea that "visitor patrons" at the Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay casinos "overwhelmingly" contribute to the local economy, beyond their spending at the casino. We are very familiar with this 2006 report, which was prepared by Robert Hann and Associates. What The Star article fails to mention is that "visitor patrons" -- defined as "persons not residing in the host community" -- comprised only 13% of the patrons visiting the Sault Ste. Marie casino, and only 10% of the patrons visiting the Thunder Bay casino. Further, the study states that only one fifth of the 13% from outside Sault Ste. Marie, and one tenth of the 10% from outside Thunder Bay, were attracted to visit those communities because of the casino. The result is that for every 100 patrons at these casinos, only 2.5 patrons in Sault Ste. Marie and one patron in Thunder Bay came to town because of the casino.

In view of these numbers, it is difficult to understand how a similar sized casino in Sudbury could possibly be considered as a tourist attraction that will bring substantial new tourist revenue to our community, or lead to the establishment of new development to service these tourists.

The Hann Report goes on to state:

"The extent to which the casino's revenues derive from outside visitors rather than local patrons will directly affect the extent to which the site represents a net gain in revenues for the community. Conversely, the higher the amounts wagered by local residents, the greater the potential diversion of disposal income to the gaming venue, rather than to local businesses and charities."

It is clear from the results of the Hann Report that the casinos in Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie rely almost exclusively on local patrons, potentially at the cost of other local businesses. It would be reasonable to expect the same result for a casino in downtown Sudbury with the overwhelming majority of patrons being Sudbury residents and a very minimal number of tourists attracted to our city by the casino. Sudbury's net revenue gain from these "visitor patrons" would be minimal at best.

CASINO REVENUE TO THE HOST CITY

The Star article states:

"The OLG paid $26.1 million from slot revenues, as well as $9.5 million in non-tax revenue, to the City of Thunder Bay. In comparison, for the 2009-10 fiscal year, Greater Sudbury received about $2.5 million in Slots at Racetracks revenue."

That is quite a comparison as it seems to indicate that Thunder Bay received more than 10 times the revenue from its casino than the city of Sudbury received from the slots at Sudbury Downs. This is absolutely inaccurate. The data from the OLG's published financial reports provides the following information regarding the gaming revenue received by the cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay and Sudbury from their respective gaming facilities:

Clearly, the gaming revenue flowing to the City of Sudbury from the slots at Sudbury Downs is essentially equivalent to the amount going to Thunder Bay from their casino. Visions of a 10-fold increase in gaming revenue for Sudbury from a downtown casino are simply nonsensical and indeed illusionary.

DOWNTOWN LOCATION

Bearing in mind that a casino operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, is the current infrastructure in downtown Sudbury adequate for around the clock visitors to a downtown casino without negatively affecting the current businesses located there?

Are the current road network and parking facilities capable of efficiently handling the in-and-out traffic from casino patrons?

It may be possible to improve existing services or build new access roads, parking areas and public spaces, but who will pay for these developments? Given the small size of the proposed downtown casino and its limited revenue generating potential, it is doubtful that the private operator would be in a position to fund major infrastructure improvements.

When the Slots At Racetracks program was introduced by a previous provincial government in 1998, one of the major advantages of locating the new slot machine gaming initiative at racetracks was that racetracks, generally, are located in rural areas. Visitors would be required to make a decision to "go out to the track" to gamble. This was seen as a socially responsible control mechanism that would lessen the opportunity for impulse gambling and the social ills that could result from enticing gambling facilities that are too convenient and intrusive.

Locating a casino in downtown Sudbury may be more convenient for the casino patrons, but the extent of negative social consequences for these patrons and our community is unknown.

The vision -- some people would call it more of an illusion -- of a casino in downtown Sudbury making it possible to have new hotels, a convention centre, a performing arts centre, an entertainment centre, etc., all built in downtown Sudbury is most appealing.

Who would be opposed to such transformative development in our downtown core? Is this a realistic possibility or simply the thoughtless application of an idea that might have some merit in a major city like Toronto, to a much smaller community like Sudbury?

Even OLG spokesman Tony Bitonti cautions in The Star article that Sudbury should not expect a major casino operator to establish a large casino in our community. He further explains that Sudbury's proposed casino may not even have table games and would only be eligible for a maximum of 600 slot machines -- only 50% more than are currently operating at Sudbury Downs.

I am not aware of any community that has been able to realize the type of grandiose revitalization being promoted for downtown Sudbury because a small, local patron-based casino was built in its downtown core.

IS A DOWNTOWN CASINO A "GOOD BET" FOR SUDBURY?

You may be inclined to dismiss my comments, believing that, as the owner of Sudbury Downs, my perspective is biased and totally directed towards promoting our own self interests. There is no doubt that Sudbury Downs is an important part of our business undertakings in Greater Sudbury. We are proud of the contributions Sudbury Downs has made to our community over the last 38 years and we wish to see it continue in business. But that does not change the facts. And the realities of a downtown casino in a Northern Ontario community the size of Sudbury can readily be seen in the communities of Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay.

There is no need to reinvent the wheel. The casinos in these two northern communities have had little impact with respect to revitalization and redevelopment activities, they do not attract tourists to their communities to any meaningful degree, they cater overwhelmingly to the local population thereby diverting spending from other local activities, and they contribute no more gaming revenue to their host communities than is currently produced for the City of Greater Sudbury by the slots located at Sudbury Downs.

The question of potential negative impacts stemming from the lack of adequate downtown infrastructure and increased social ills created by impulsive gambling in our downtown core remains unanswered.

Finally, there is no doubt that a casino in downtown Sudbury would mean the closure of Sudbury Downs. The issue becomes whether the community of Sudbury would be better served by the continuation of the operation of Sudbury Downs, with its proven track record of creating and sustaining hundreds of local jobs, fostering the development and expansion of the local agricultural industry by providing racing opportunities for hundreds of horses and their owners, trainers and drivers, providing a unique gaming and entertainment venue for the residents of the Sudbury area in a socially responsible manner, and generating gaming revenue for the City of Greater Sudbury at a level equivalent to what is produced for Thunder Bay by its full service casino.

It is incumbent on our local municipal and provincial government officials, before they blindly follow a made-for-Toronto model, to fully examine the issue of a downtown casino for Sudbury and to develop a reasoned and realistic analysis of the pros and cons for such a development before our community is forced to take "The Big Gamble".

Patrick H. MacIsaac is President of Sudbury Downs

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Municipal revenue share

Fiscal year 2011

Sault Ste. Marie $1.5 million Thunder Bay $2.4 million Sudbury $2.5 million Fiscal year 2010

Sault Ste. Marie $1.5 million Thunder Bay $2.4 million Sudbury $2.4 million Fiscal year 2009

Sault Ste. Marie $1.5 million Thunder Bay $2.4 million Sudbury $2.1 million

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Mayor Bloomberg's war on soda

The basic case against New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest crusade ? to outlaw the sale of extra-large sugared soft drinks ? is Libertarianism 101: In a free country, people should have the right to do what they want, even if it's bad for them.

The major exceptions and complications to this basic principle don't seem to apply. Unlike secondhand smoke, my consumption of a Pepsi does no direct harm to anyone else. Unlike marijuana, sugary drinks have a perfectly adequate and legal substitute: sugar-free drinks. (Even if you can tell the difference between Coke and Diet Coke, you can't claim that the difference is very large.) And unlike a regulated pharmaceutical drug, a single dose of Coca-Cola won't kill you.

Furthermore, there are less-intrusive alternatives to an outright ban: You could require more prominent labeling of all soft drinks with their calorie counts and let people decide for themselves. Or you could apply the rule only to children.

The basic case in favor of Bloomberg's proposal is in some ways even more compelling: Bloomberg is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News' parent, Bloomberg LP, and therefore my boss. In all likelihood, therefore, he is right about soft drinks and sugar, just as he is right about almost everything. (And even that "almost" is only there as a sop to my dignity.)

As if that weren't enough ? which, of course, it is ? there are other important factors arguing in favor of Bloomberg. We have a serious obesity epidemic, especially among children, and desperate times call for desperate measures, not for philosophical niceties.

Another consideration: The law, as currently proposed, would be comically easy to evade. It wouldn't apply to sugary drinks bought in supermarkets rather than restaurants and entertainment venues; or to sugary drinks made with at least 51% milk, such as a milkshake; or to large amounts of soda purchased in separate containers.

A law with so many easy ways to get around it almost surely won't be effective. I'm not sure whether this goes into the "good" column or the "bad" one. You can argue it both ways.

With so many loopholes, a law like this is no real threat to our liberty to guzzle flavored sugar water. Nevertheless, it sends a powerful message of social disapproval. So that's good. On the other hand, it's not a very persuasive argument to defend a restriction of liberty on the grounds that it won't really work. So that's bad.

One final consideration: It's not quite true that your bad habit of guzzling sugary soft drinks has no effect on me. Under the national healthcare reform law, insurance companies must accept all comers. They cannot discriminate against you simply because you have terrible dietary habits and are almost sure to develop complications such as diabetes as you guzzle your way through life. Thanks to worthless bums like you, my insurance rates will be higher. So this is one in favor of the mayor.

A few months ago I went to dinner at a steakhouse in New York specializing in huge hunks of aged beef that violate every precept of healthy eating. Let's not even discuss the fries or the desserts. Because the restaurant is part of a chain, it is required, under one of Bloomberg's other mandates, to indicate the calorie count for each dish on the menu.

It was a revelation. The restaurant's hamburger turned out to have 1,800 calories! I've been off beef pretty much ever since.

So nannying does work. It has worked as well in the case of banning cigarette smoking in public spaces. I was initially opposed to this, on libertarian grounds. The secondhand-smoke argument seemed far-fetched in an outdoor open space like a public plaza, and the intention seemed clearly just to stigmatize smoking in general, in order to get people to quit (or not to start) for their own sake.

But the results have been so dramatic that my libertarian instincts have been overwhelmed. During the 1990s, about 70% of high school students said they had tried smoking a cigarette. By 2009 the percentage was down to less than half. Regular users peaked at 36% in 1997 and were below 20% by 2009. Frequent users went from 12% in 1991 to 7% in 2009. Many lives have been saved.

In the end, whether you support Bloomberg's crusade or oppose it depends on how you weigh the various factors. Libertarian absolutists will have no problem rejecting all of the above considerations ? most of which are pretty trivial ? and concluding that freedom is freedom. At the other extreme, health policy types (many of them authoritarian in habits of thought) will have no problem saying that sugary drinks are bad for you and therefore you shouldn't be allowed to guzzle them in excess, especially if you are a child or young person.

Finally, there are those primarily concerned with keeping their jobs with a wonderful employer like Mike Bloomberg. These people think that even if he happens to be wrong in this particular case, he is so overwhelmingly right about everything else that he deserves a pass on this one.

Michael Kinsley, a former editorial page editor of The Times, is a Bloomberg View columnist.

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Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system ?dysfunctional?

A U.S. judge yesterday threw aside a much-anticipated trial between Apple and Google-owned Motorola Mobility over smartphone patents. The decision and a blog comment by the same judge could prove to be a watershed moment for a U.S. patent system that has?spiraled?out of control.

In his remarkable ruling, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner stated that there was no point in holding a trial because it was apparent that neither side could show they had been harmed by the other?s patent infringement. He said he was inclined to dismiss the case with prejudice ? meaning the parties can?t come back to fight over the same patents ? and that he would enter a more formal opinion confirming this next week.

The order is extraordinary not only for what it said but for who wrote it. For the unfamiliar, Richard Posner is a legend in legal and academic circles and possesses a resume that makes the typical Supreme Court Justice look like a slouch. He teaches at the University of Chicago and ordinarily sits on the influential 7th Circuit Court of Appeals but, in an unusual development, was assigned to a lower court last December to hear the Google-Apple patent case.

The case is just one of many patent disputes tying the legal system in knots as large companies tangle not only in court but at the International Trade Commission in an effort to ban each others? products from the market. Critics say the patent system, which awards 20-year monopolies, has run amok thanks to a flood of questionable patents for software, business methods, emoticons and even one for ?swinging on a swing.?

In a series of earlier rulings in the Apple case, Posner didn?t mince words as he used plain language to beat up the over-reaching arguments of both sides:

[re a slide-to-unlock patent] Apple?s .. argument is that ?a tap is a zero-length swipe.? That?s silly. ?It?s like saying that a point is a zero-length line.

Motorola?s contention that the term has a ?plain and ordinary meaning? is ridiculous; Motorola seems to have forgotten that this is a jury trial.

In his ruling to dismiss, Posner noted that a trial would ?impose costs disproportionate to the harm ? and would be contrary to the public interest.? Posner?s cost-benefit assessment is likely rooted in a worldview anchored in law and economics ? a Chicago-school of thought that equates court decisions with maximizing efficient economic outcomes.

This week, Posner also lashed at the patent system in a blog he shares with economist Gary Becker. In a post about the declining strength of American institutions, he concluded:

The institutional structure of the United States is under stress. We might be in dangerous economic straits if the dollar were not the principal international reserve currency and the eurozone in deep fiscal trouble. We have a huge public debt, dangerously neglected infrastructure, a greatly overextended system of criminal punishment, a seeming inability to come to grips with grave environmental problems such as global warming, a very costly but inadequate educational system, unsound immigration policies, an embarrassing obesity epidemic, an excessively costly health care system, a possible rise in structural unemployment, fiscal crises in state and local governments, a screwed-up tax system, a dysfunctional patent system, and growing economic inequality that may soon create serious social tensions. Our capitalist system needs a lot of work to achieve proper capitalist goals.

Posner?s decision to descend from the 7th Circuit to oversee the Google-Apple trial suggests he wished to step in and do something directly about the patent system. (Ordinarily, Posner would never hear a patent case as all patent appeals are sent to the DC-based Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; that court has maintained an ideological bias in favor of patent owners despite repeated rebuffs by the Supreme Court).

The backlash against the misuse of patents is coming not just from Posner and the Supreme Court but other federal judges as well. Judge James Robart blasted Motorola and Microsoft in Seattle last week, noting that??The court is well aware that it is being played as a pawn in a global industry-wide business negotiation.?

It?s unclear how Apple and Google will respond to Posner?s surprise pounding of them. Both companies have so far said nothing and may be waiting for the other shoe to drop via Posner?s formal opinion expected next week. The?judge wrote yesterday that he may change his mind but the overall tenor of the first opinion suggests this is unlikely. You can decide for yourself here:

Posner Order
(Image via University of Chicago)

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McNamee's wife's account challenged by prosecutor

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A prosecutor highlighted discrepancies on Thursday between Eileen McNamee's testimony in the Roger Clemens trial this week and what she told the FBI three years ago.

Eileen McNamee, the estranged wife of Clemens' chief accuser, Brian McNamee, had testified Wednesday that when she asked her husband about a FedEx box she discovered in their home, he told her it was for his protection and wasn't any of her concern. She also said he didn't mention Clemens or any other players.

But on cross-examination, prosecutor Courtney Saleski asked her about a 2009 FBI interview in which Eileen McNamee said her husband told her the contents of the box were from players.

"I don't recall," replied Eileen McNamee, a witness for the defense.

Brian McNamee testified last month that he used the FedEx box to store medical waste from an injection of Clemens in 2001, and his wife said this week she discovered it around that time.

She testified Wednesday that saw the box again two or three years later in her husband's bedroom closet and that it was open, and that she pulled out the contents and saw some vials and what appeared to be unused needles. Yet, Saleski said, Eileen McNamee had told the FBI that the box remained sealed in the house.

"I don't recall. I was very nervous. I had two FBI agents approach me after school," the teacher replied. She said she only remembered "bits and pieces" of that interview because she was shaken up.

Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award winner, is charged with lying when he told Congress in 2008 that he never used steroids or human growth hormone. Brian McNamee, his former strength and conditioning coach, is the only witness to claim firsthand knowledge of the pitcher using those substances.

Eileen McNamee also said she was furious with both her husband and Clemens when the former pitcher's lawyers allowed details of the McNamees' oldest son's diabetes to be revealed during a 2008 nationally televised news conference. At the news conference, Hardin played a taped phone call between the two men in which McNamee told Clemens, "My son is dying."

That wasn't true, Eileen McNamee said, although she had left her husband a message around that time about blood test results that weren't what they were supposed to be.

"Brian didn't bother to call me back. He called Roger, and told him his son was dying," she testified.

Then her 10-year-old son heard the news conference, and, "Now my son thinks he's dying."

Saleski said that Clemens could have kept the information about her son out of the news conference, but instead, "he played it for the world."

"Yes, he did," Eileen McNamee said. She acknowledged that she called her husband and told him to go after Clemens.

That morning around 3 a.m., Brian McNamee, who was not living in the house, came by to pick up the FedEx box.

"I asked him where he was going, and he said he was heading to his lawyers, and he was out the door," she recalled. Brian McNamee had testified that he decided to turn over the evidence to federal authorities against Clemens "because of what he did to my son."

On redirect questioning, Clemens lawyer Rusty Hardin asked if she knew that it was Clemens' lawyer's decision to play the tape. When the judge sustained an objection, he asked if she knew whose decision it was.

"Yes, I was told ? by you," she said.

And yet, Hardin said, she is testifying in the trial.

"Yes, because I didn't have a choice," said Eileen McNamee, who was subpoenaed to testify.

Under additional questioning from Saleski, she said that Hardin had apologized for playing the tape.

"But you're still as angry as can be at your husband?" Saleski asked. Eileen McNamee said that was true.

She also told Saleski there hadn't been any bad blood between the two men, and agreed that her husband idolized Clemens and would have done anything for him. Saleski elicited those answers to try to discredit the defense theory that Brian McNamee had a motive to fabricate evidence against Clemens.

On Wednesday, Brian McNamee had portrayed her as a shrill wife whose incessant nagging prompted him to save the medical waste he stored in the FedEx box. McNamee told the jury last month that she was worried he'd be the fall guy if there were a drug investigation and yelled at him, "You're going to go down! You're going to go down! You're going to go down!" McNamee, Clemens' strength coach at the time, said he brought the needle, swab and cotton ball from the injection home and showed it to her to reassure her.

Called to testify by Clemens' lawyers on Wednesday, Eileen McNamee seemed the antithesis of the woman described by her husband. Soft-spoken and calm, she said she didn't even know back then that her husband was injecting players with steroids and human growth hormone, or HGH.

While their accounts differ in many ways, they do dovetail in one key respect: McNamee's motive. He testified that his wife "might be right" about him being the fall guy, and he told congressional investigators in 2008 that he saved the material because of a "gut feeling" stemming from not fully trusting Clemens.

Eileen McNamee was granted immunity before her testimony because her husband linked her to transactions involving prescription drugs that could, in theory, have led to charges against her.

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AP Sports Writer Joseph White contributed to this report.

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US calls for broader international sanctions on Syria

Stepped up diplomatic activity may further antagonize Russia and China, who issued a statement on Wednesday opposing any outside efforts to promote regime change in Syria.

By Howard LaFranchi,?Staff writer / June 6, 2012

This image from a citizen journalist purports to show Syrian rebels gathered on their vehicle in the northern town of Kfar Nebel, Syria, on Tuesday.

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A group of 60 countries led by the United States called for stronger sanctions against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Wednesday, on the eve of a meeting in Istanbul where the Friends of Syria group will consider means of precipitating Mr. Assad?s departure from power.

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The flurry of diplomatic activity comes in what US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner described at Wednesday?s meeting in Washington as ?the shadow of a massacre? after last month?s killings of more than 100 civilians in the city of Houla.

But the calls for a tightening squeeze on Assad also continue to hit the by-now familiar wall of resistance from Russia and China, which oppose additional measures against the Syrian regime. The two powers issued a statement Wednesday rejecting any outside efforts to promote regime change in Syria.

At the Washington meeting of the Friends of the Syrian People International Working Group on Sanctions, Secretary Geithner called on countries that have not yet imposed sanctions on Syria to do so, and he promoted stepped-up coordination of national sanctions as a means of tightening the noose on Assad.

Geithner also laid out on the table the eventual adoption by the United Nations Security Council of measures authorizing the use of international force in Syria ? as recommended, Geithner noted, by the Arab League last weekend. But that step appears quite unlikely, given that both Russia and China hold veto power over Security Council action.

The Washington meeting seems likely to have further antagonized Russia in particular, even as the Istanbul meeting is expected to explore ways to enlist Russia?s assistance in encouraging a political transition in Syria.

Arriving in Istanbul Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the countries meeting Thursday would consider ways to pressure Assad to ?allow the transition to a democratic Syria to begin.?

In a statement issued after its meeting, the sanctions group called on countries to ?harmonize national and regional sanctions regimes? by imposing an asset freeze on senior Syrian regime officials, and an asset freeze on the Central Bank of Syria and the Commercial Bank of Syria ?to ensure their isolation from the international financial system.?? The group also called for an embargo on Syrian petroleum products and a ban on insurance for shipments of Syrian petroleum products.

A senior Treasury official speaking after the meeting declined to speculate on the immediate impact it would have in terms of ratcheting up pressure on Assad, but he said that the number of countries attending suggested a growing interest in international action on Syria.

The meeting indicated an ?increasing recognition of the role well-designed sanctions can play in a conflict like this,? he said.

The group also called on all members of the international community to adopt an embargo on the supply of arms to the Syrian regime ? a measure that seemed pointed at Russia in particular.

Last week, the group Human Rights First reported the arrival in Syria of a Russian ship laden with arms, including heavy weapons. At the United Nations, the US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, called Russia?s continued arming of the Assad regime ?reprehensible.?

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