美联社新闻一分钟 2007-01-28（在线收听）

1. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a critic of the Iraq war, is leading a congressional delegation in Baghdad, holding talks with Iraqi leaders. Her visit with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is viewed by some as a declaration the White House alone will not control Iraq policy.

2. The only US military officer charged in the Abu Ghraib scandal will be court-martialed. Lieutenant Colonel Steven Lee Jordan ran the interrogation center at the Iraqi prison. He will be arraigned next week on charges including cruelty and maltreatment of prisoners.

3. A kidnapping case in Arizona is now a hunt for a convicted sex offender. A six-year-old girl has been returned to her family but police are searching for her alleged abductor, George Richard Horner. He'd been allowed to stay at the girl's home for several days.

4. How is this for special delivery? Someone sent eight yellow ducklings by priority mail to a woman in San Diego. Postal workers heard the ducklings and got permission to open the box to get the babies some food and water.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. court-martial : VERB
If a member of the armed forces is court-martialled, he or she is tried in a military court.

2. lieutenant : N-COUNT
A lieutenant is a person who holds a junior officer's rank in the army, navy, marines, or air force, or in the American police force.

3. colonel : N-COUNT
A colonel is a senior officer in an army, air force, or the marines.
lieutenant colonel 陆军中校

4. maltreatment : N-UNCOUNT
Maltreatment is cruel behaviour, especially involving hurting a person or animal.

5. duckling : N-COUNT
A duckling is a young duck. ugly duckling 丑小鸭