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　　US stocks pared losses but investors are still worried about the future of the Euro zone. At last glance the Dow was down 62 points at 14,415; NASDAQ off ten at 3,235 and S%P 500 down five at 1,552. So far is a last minute deal to save Cyprus from a financial meltdown. International lenders agree to give the Mediterranean island nation the equivalent of a 13-billion-dollar bailout exchange for privatizing state assest, cutting its budget and streamlining its banking system. Cypriot president NicosAnastasiades says, through an interpreter, everyone compromise.

 

　　Despite the disappointment, that we all fail or the attitude that some of our partners will do not believe, that an exit from the European family would be a response to the crisis.

 

　　Teri Schultz has more in the leaders appearing in Brussels today.

 

　　Cypriot citizens probably are feeling much relief yet from the rescue worked out in Brussels. The most of their banks won't go under now, neither have they opened amid fears clients would empty the accounts. So financial institutions remain close for a tenth day and ATM withdrawals are being limited to 100 Euros about 130 dollars per day. Howeven, stopping the free flow of money is actually illegal inside the EU, reminds internal market commissioner, Michelle Barniaxx, speaking here through an interpreter.

 

　　Measures to restrict or limit that freedom of movement may only be enacted exceptionally through few days.

 

　　Experts in Nicosia are examining possible scenarios for cash outflows before reopening bank and letting money move again. For NPR News, I'm Teri Schultz in Brussels.

 

　　Christian leaders are arousing the public to take a stand against gun violence. More than 20 episcopal bishops were across the US to stand on the nation's capital today and hope a spring legislated action by lawmakers. That's the start of holy week especially solemn time for Christians. NPR's Craig Windham reports the bishops led a march from the White House to the Capitol, stopping several times for prayer, using the former, the ancient Christian service, knowns as the stations of the cross.

 

　　The red   , Ian Douglas, the episcopal bishop of Connecticut, and one of the organizers of the event, says the march was purposely set for the week that Christians called the crucifixion of Jesus.

 

　　We thought it was most appropriate to Christians to walk the way of the cross in this holy week and show that while death is real and surrounds us in the end, life or trial.

 

　　Douglas says the memory of the deadly school shooting in his state remains real and painful. He acknowledges there are deep disagreements overhaul to reduce gun violence but he says,

 

　　even if we have a variety of theological perspectives, we can all agree that this violence in our society must stop.

 

　　Craig Windham NPR News, Washington.

 

　　Before the closing bell, Dow was down 64, at 14,448. This is NPR.

 

　　Secretary of state John Kerry spent this day in Afghanistan. At the time when US officials have been expressing concerned about Afghan president Hamid Karzai's recent anti-America rhetoric. Today Kerry and Karzai appealed united, shortly after the US military handed control of a major detention center to Afghan authorities. However Kerry's previously unannounced visit is also seen as an attempt to defuse tension. Karzai angered US officials when he accused the Obama administration of working with Taliban insurgents to keep Afghanistan weak.

 

　　Two-time Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Anthony Lewis has died at the age of 85 of renal and heart failure. NPR's David Folkenflik reports Lewis's writing help to find the voice of the New York Times, on major social issues for nearly a half century.

 

　　As a young reporter of the Washington Daily News in 1955, Lewis won a Pulitzer for exonerating a navy emeployee, who had wrongly been accused of being a security leak. At the Times, Lewis invented coverage of the supreme court through his lucid and compiling writing, translating cases in rulings for the non-legal reader. In his book, Gideon's Trumpet, Lewis documented the case of a poor Floridan man who's convicted a breaking into poor hole without the benefit of a lawyer. The court ruled all defendants required representation even those without money. After a stentor as London Bureau chief, Lewis wrote columns in which he championed civil liberties and civil rights. He's survived by his wife, Margaret Marshall, the former chief justice of Massachusetts and by his three children and seven groundchildren. David Folkenflik NPR News.

 

　　US stocks trading lower with the Dow off 64 points at last check. This is NPR News.