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Rescuers find no survivors Alex Pena walks along 6th Avenue holding a poster with pictures and a description of his brother Angel Pena, 46, who worked at the World Trade Center, photo by peter tobia/krt CAMPUS More than 4,700 remain missing in World Trade Center rubble BY LARRY MCSHANE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK —The gruesome search through the graveyard of the World Trade Center yielded no survivors as the death toll mounted Thursday, and hopes dimmed for more than 4,700 miss ing souls. President Bush promised to visit New York to “hug and cry” with its shaken cit izens. Two days after the trade cen ter was hit and destroyed by two hijacked passenger planes, swirling dust kept visibility lim ited and sanitation trucks waged a losing fight against the residue of the blast. Hundreds of family members searched for any sign of their loved ones. Tens of thousands of residents still could not return to their homes in a closed-off lower Man hattan. Nerves were frayed by bomb scares and false alarms, both in New York and in Wash ington, Even a small semblance of nor malcy was yanked away: Airline flights at the New York area’s three busy airports began for the first time since Tuesday but were abruptly halted. Police said a man was arrested at Kennedy airport after trying to slip past security with a false pilot’s iden tification. The city also brought in 30,000 body bags for pieces of human re mains. “Even scary movies do not happen like this,” said Enver Kesti, 42, a pizza chef who re turned to clean up a gourmet shop that once sat in the towers’ shadows. Bush declared Friday, the day of his New York visit, a “na tional day of prayer and re membrance.” He asked Americans to spend their lunch breaks tak ing part in services at their cho sen places of worship, White House spokesman Ari Fleisch er said. The president praised New Yorkers for showing “the com passion of America and the brav ery of America.” New York was not alone in counting its missing and dead. The Pentagon said 126 people in the building were killed in Tues day’s plane attack. Seventy bod ies had been recovered. Add the 4,763 missing report ed by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, plus the 266 passengers and crew members who died aboard the planes that hit the trade center, the Pentagon and a field south east of Pittsburgh, and the total dead in Tuesday’s carnage could be more than 5,000. That would be higher than the death toll from Pearl Harbor and the Titanic combined. A total of 2,390 Americans died at Pearl Harbor nearly 60 years ago, and the sinking of the Titanic claimed 1,500 lives. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told reporters at the Pentagon that the U.S. re sponse to the attacks that wrought these horrors would “unfold over time.” “One thing that is clear is you don’t do it with just a single mili tary strike, no matter how dra matic,” Wolfowitz said. In Congress, a bipartisan coalition worked on approving two measures: an emergency anti-terrorism package that could cost $20 billion, and support for the use of force by Bush against those responsible. Up to 50 people were Involved in the attack, the Justice Depart ♦ ATTACK, SEE PACE 3 L Col. Tom Stott woke up Tues day morning trying to decide whether he should go to work at his Pentagon office — little did he know his office wouldn't be there. Stott, father of USC graduate student Nick Stott, decided to take the day off and “do some things around the house," a choice his son attributed to divine interven tion. "I was at work when I found out what happened," Nick Stott said. “I saw that the Pentagon got hit, so I called him because it was actually his office that got hit. It took me about an hour to get through the phone lines, and when I finally got a hold of him he said, ‘I wasn’t there, but my office is completely decimated.’” Nick is one of many USC stu dents who were in some way af fected by the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Sarah Ritch, sister of third-year student Emma Ritch, was on a flight to New York out of the ♦ FAMILIES, SEE PAGE 3 CANCELED • EVENTS ♦ Saturday’s football game ♦ Parent’s Weekend mmmmKrnmmmmmmsmm Tragedy comes home to USC Father of USC student barely escapes attack on Pentagon BY ADAM BEAM Til K GAMECOCK , Blood bank information Call 540-1214 if you're interested in giving blood. Call 251-6000 for general information and appointments Contact numbers for missing people AMERICAN AIRLINES: (800) 245-0999 UNITED AIRLINES: (800) 932-8555 THE PENTAGON: To check on the status of loved ones who worked at the Pentagon, please use the following numbers: ARMY: 1-800-984-8523 AIR FORCE: 1-800-253-9276 .NAVY AND MARINES: 1-877 663-6772 COMPILED BY LAURA MOSS, STEFANIE PARKER. SEAN WALLER AND KAREN YIP __ I HOW TO FIND, GIVE HELP Grief counseling THE USC COUNSELING AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER is offering grief counseling at 900 Assembly St Walk-ins are welcome, or you can call 777-5223 to set up an appointment. Although no specific counseling groups have been set up, the center intends to create one soon. INSIDE TODAY’S ISSUE King Hippo conies < Sporting events to Columbia canceled Band to play at Elbow Room Williams-Brice Stadium will be tonight ♦ PAGE 6 empty on Saturday ♦ PAGE 9 WEATHER Today Tomorrow Sunny, Sunny, 86/63 77/57 Director Brandon Ray read “Funeral Blues” by W.H. Au den, and Ford read John F. Kennedy's speech from the day Martin Luther King Jr. was as sassinated. Senators are encouraging students to donate blood. The Senate contacted the Red Cross to request a blood drive at the USC campus, but there were not enough volunteers to staff such a drive because many oth er Columbia residents have been giving blood at the Red Cross. To schedule an appoint ment to donate blood, call (800) GIVE-LIFE. “If you do one thing - donate money, donate blood -- then you have helped,” Ford said. He said USC and other colleges and universities need to show a strong front by continuing with events and normal living. Ford said students and other Amer icans should “never give an in dication to bow down.” Senators emphasized using the Carolinian Creed to deal with the aftermath of Tues day’s attacks and especially to discourage bigotry. Some who attended the Wednesday meeting read en couraging passages, including Psalm 23. Multicultural Affairs relief fund. It might also sell ribbons to make money for the fund. Senators have made a ban ner that will be displayed on Greene Street through Monday and then sent to the relief fUnd. Students are encouraged to stop by and sign the banner to show their support for the vic tims. SG Vice President Nithya Bala said she hopes kindness will win against terrorists. Ford said he hopes strangers will help strangers, enemies will become friends and Amer icans will help other Ameri cans in this time of need. BY MEGHAN MCNAIR T1IK GAMECOCK Student senators recom • mended Wednesday that USC erase class records for Tuesday and collect donations to aid vic tims after Tuesday's attack on the country. Corey Ford, student govern ment president, recommended to USC President John Palms, Provost Jerry Odom and Asso ciate Provost Don Greiner that all class attendance records for Tuesday, the day of the terror ist attacks, be wiped out. SG is collecting donations at various campus locations for a University reaches out Students sign a banner, created by members of Student Government, In support of the victims of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks In New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, photo by anqela dusenbury STUDENTS SHOW SUPPORT USG’S PAST SEPTEMBER 18,1968: History professor Thomas Terrill began teaching “The Negro in American History,” the first African-American history and culture course at the University. Parent's Weekend, originally scheduled to start today, was can celed Thursday because of Tues day's attack on the nation and the cancellation of Saturday's football game. * * The weekend's activities were planned by the Office of Student and Parent Programs. Its director, Rick Gant, along with Russell House Di rector Carmela Carr and Student Life Director Jerry Brewer, decided Thursday to cancel all the events associated with the weekend. Carr estimated Thursday that she, Gant and Brewer had about 600 families to call and inform of the change in plans. They have also posted a mes sage on USC's home page notify ing parents and students of the change and will try to e-mail as many families as possible. Carr said phones are their “main mode of notification,” and they were mainly leaving messages with parents and students. Partici pants can call 1-800-878-6752 to find out more information as well. They decided to cancel the ac tivities as soon as they learned Thursday morning the football game against Bowling Green Uni versity would be canceled. Carr ♦ WEEKEND, SEE PAGE 3 University cancels Parent’s Weekend Events called off because of attack and cancellation of football game BY MARY HARTNEY tiiehamecock