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McCLURE -- The Henry County National Guard pilot killed last week while serving in Iraq will be laid to rest Tuesday in Hockman Cemetery, McClure.

Lt. Col. Kevin H. Sonnenberg, 42, of rural McClure, died June 15, when his jet crashed five miles north of Balad Air Base, Iraq.

Dean Dawson, mayor of McClure and friend of the Sonnenberg family, described the pilot as a local hero.

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The Bush administration is battling on two different fronts in the war on terror - and it might be losing on both. It is trying everything it can think of - even mobilizing The New York Times - to prod Iraqs prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, into action before it is too late. In the meantime, it is searching in vain for a legal strategy to stop the federal courts from dismantling its effort to impose indefinite military detention on those it calls "enemy combatants."

On both fronts, time is running out. When President George W. Bush decided last January to commit about 25,000 more troops to the war in Iraq, his stated goal was to provide enough security in and around Baghdad that Malikis struggling administration could become a functioning government.

That meant, according to Bushs benchmarks, a government that would move to disarm the sectarian militias and mobilize a national army and a parliament that would amend the constitution, rehabilitate thousands of disenfranchised Sunnis, conduct promised local elections and - most of all - negotiate an equitable division of Iraqs oil revenues.

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The world's major oil companies replaced reserves at levels below 100 percent for the third straight year in 2006, even as costs to find and produce the key asset continued to rise, a new analysis shows.

Reserve replacements last year, excluding acquisitions and divestitures, were 91 percent, below the 92 percent replaced in 2005, according to a report released last week by the investment bank Bear Stearns & Co.

At the same time, the companies' finding and development costs rose to $13.63 per barrel of oil equivalent, the report said, a 28 percent rise from 2005.

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LE BOURGET, FRANCE — If Boeing Co. has been rocked by this week's stack of new plane deals announced by rival Airbus, it certainly hasn't shown it.

Airbus unveiled deals involving more than 700 planes, including more than 300 firm orders, and edged ahead of the U.S. company, which entered this week's Paris air show well in front.

"Our long-standing policy is not to store up order announcements for an air show. We used the show to confirm that the 787 Dreamliner remains on schedule for first delivery in May 2008 and we look forward with growing excitement to the 787 rollout on July 8," Boeing spokesman Charlie Miller said.

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The World Trade Organization?s Doha Round negotiations have collapsed once again after delegations from Brazil and India walked out of talks with the European Union and the United States in Potsdam, Germany.

The action by the two ?developing? countries may have put the final nails in the coffin for the Doha Round, which began in Doha, Qatar, more than six years ago. Observers had been hopeful the talks between the so-called G-4 countries could help restart the round.

U.S. officials in Potsdam said they were disappointed by the decision of Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim and Indian Commerce Minister Kamal Nath to lead their delegations out of the talks.

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