Got to think the results have been unsatisfactory

Anang Noor, a Pertamina spokesman, said the company is still in the process of extinguishing the fire at a gasoline tank containing 5,000 kilolitres (31,000 barrels) "Pertamina has enough gasoline stock We hope this fire will not disturb supplies," Noor said. The state energy group has shut down the depot, but will be able to meet supply requirements for Jakarta and West Java from another depot, said Toharso, Pertamina's corporate secretary. A Reuters witness close to the scene late on Sunday night said that three or four storage tanks appeared to be on fire, with flames leaping several metres high. It started at 21.15 (1415 GMT) when (the tank) was being refueled, according to two witnesses," he added. A local resident called Paulus told Indonesia's Metro TV that he had heard at least two blasts at the depot. According to Pertamina's web-site, the Plumpang depot's capacity is 30,000 kilolitres of gasoline, 15,000 KL of kerosene, and 34,500 KL of diesel. Pertamina was publicly reprimanded by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono earlier this month following widespread complaints about fuel shortages in the capital.(Additional reporting by Karima Anjani; writing by Sara Webb; editing by John Stonestreet).

JERUSALEM, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Israel began withdrawing its armed forces from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, a military source said. "I can confirm that a gradual withdrawal of our forces is under way," the source said, refusing to elaborate on when the pullback might be completed. Israel declared a truce early on Sunday that was matched hours later by Gaza's Hamas leaders.. EconomyIncoming National Economic Council director Lawrence Summers said on CBS's "Face the Nation" that the $350 billion in financial bailout money spent so far had not produced all the results policymakers had hoped for."Anyone who looks at it has got to be disappointed when they look at what has happened to lending," Summers said."Got to think the results have been unsatisfactory. Got to think we need a more proactive approach that's got its focus on what is really the financial center of this problem, which is maintaining an adequate flow of credit," he said.Congress approved the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program in October in an effort to provide relief to financial institutions overwhelmed by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.The funds aimed to inject credit into the economy at a time when banks and other institutions were holding onto cash as the value of many of their holdings, especially mortgages, plummeted.On Thursday, the Senate voted to give Obama authority to spend the remaining half of the TARP funds amid renewed reports of banks in financial trouble.Earlier this month, the Labor Department said the unemployment rate for December surged to 7.2 percent, its highest level in nearly 16 years and a jump from 6.8 percent in November.The rise was driven by massive layoffs to all major sectors except government, education and health. In all of 2008, 2.6 million people lost their jobs, the largest slump in employment since a 2.75 million drop in 1945.Summers said he expected further job losses but Obama's economic stimulus package should help limit the rise in unemployment.

Asked if he thought the unemployment rate could top 10 percent, he said, "I don't think so.""I think while we're going to see some substantial job losses, frankly what is important about the president's program here is that it is going to contain what would otherwise be just a vicious cycle, people spend less, therefore they earn less," said Summers, who served as treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton."We're going to contain this problem," Summers said.(Reporting by Nancy Waitz, editing by David Alexander and David Wiessler) Economy. Entertainment Film PeopleIn the World War Two thriller based on a true story of the unsuccessful attempt by German soldiers to kill Hitler, Cruise plays Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg who plants a briefcase bomb under a table at Hitler's military headquarters.A heavy wooden table saves Hitler and Stauffenberg is executed with his co-conspirators."I always wanted to kill Hitler, I hated him," the Hollywood star of such major blockbusters as "Top Gun" and "Mission Impossible," told the press during a visit to Seoul to promote his latest film."As a child studying history and looking at documents, I wondered, why didn't someone stand up and try to stop it When I read the script, it was entertaining and informative to know what the challenges were and what it was like to be in the environment."Stauffenberg's legacy helped ease the burden of guilt about World War Two and the Holocaust Germans still endure. But Germans had balked at the prospect of Cruise playing Stauffenberg as they objected to the actor's ties to Scientology, the movement founded in the 1950s by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.Germany, which does not recognize Scientology as a religion and regards it as a cult, made it difficult for the crew to film in the Bendlerblock building and courtyard where Stauffenberg was shot dead."I've never heard of this story before... It turned out to be an incredible adventure, just to be there and shoot at these locations that Stauffenberg was. It was a very powerful experience and hopefully it will communicate with the audience," the actor said."It has certainly influenced my life, just knowing that there were people who tried to stop him (Hitler)."Valkyrie, directed by Bryan Singer, opened in the United States on December 25 and fared better than skeptics had predicted, reaching No. 4 in the North American box office ratings for the three-day weekend starting December 26.

It opens on January 22 in Seoul for the first time in Asia.(Editing by Bill Tarrant) Entertainment Film People. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A record 3.03 million people visited Israel in 2008, up 32 percent from 2007, the country's Tourism Ministry said on Sunday. Lifestyle RussiaThe tourism industry contributed some 40 billion shekels ($10.4 billion) and 160,000 jobs to Israel's economy, the ministry said, publishing data collated before Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip gathered pace.It is still unclear whether tourism has been hurt by a three-week conflict between Israel and Hamas militants, which was halted by a ceasfire on Sunday.Tourism numbers had risen in recent years in tandem with an easing of tensions between Israel and the Palestinians, leading to a drop in the number of suicide bombings and other attacks on Israeli targets."The tourism industry represents one of the most important growth engines in the Israeli economy," said Tourism Minister Ruhama Avraham-Balila in a statement.She noted that she plans to request more state spending on overseas tourism marketing budgets to "successfully confront tough competition arising from the global economic crisis and return confidence in Israel as a safe tourism destination, following the campaign in Gaza."The largest number of tourists last year came from the United States at 617,000, a record level Some 356,000 entered from Russia for an 84 percent jump. Special Inauguration IssueNEW YORK, Jan. AsMeacham points out, the turning point came not long after Obama himself wasborn, when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration and NaturalizationAct in 1965, a law that played a key role in creating the America that madethis week's inauguration of Obama possible.Meacham writes about Johnsonbecause "who we are now a country in which traditional barriers of race andage and gender are crumbling flows in many ways from what LBJ did then."(Photo: http:// )This issue looks at the political, social and economic state of the unionwith essays, stories and graphics that examine how Americans are changing interms of our politics, where we live, how we work, race, gender and age."Stories about demography tend to be prospective and general, and it is alltoo easy to exaggerate this turn in the statistics or that tick in theprojections," Meacham writes in the January 26 issue (on newsstands Monday,January 19). "But this much is clear and certain: the nation over which Obamawill preside is changing, rapidly, and history is likely to connect hispolitical rise to the shifting nature of a country that was largely one thingin the wake of World War II and through the Cold War and into the openingyears of the 21st century, and quite another as the Obama era began."Highlights in the issue: Bruce Katz, a vice president at the Brookings Institution, and JenniferBradley, a senior research associate there, point out that the suburb as weknow it is vanishing.Now more jobs and immigrants are located in thesuburbs, but they're also suffering from growing rates of poverty andforeclosures. "They no longer represent a retreat from the tumult of Americanlife, but the locus of it.