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use BRIEFS WIS to hold telethon until 11:30 Friday WIS-TV will host a telethon Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. in response to Gov. Jim Hodges' announcement of a “South Carolina Cares” fund to raise money for the victims of Tuesday's attacks. The fund is coordinated through the Governor's Office and the American Red Cross. To assist with the phone bank, call Charlotte Foster at 540-1215. To make a donation or for more information, call 758-1020 in Columbia, or toll-free 1-866 468-9538. Donations can be mailed to South Carolina Cares, c/o American Red Cross, P.O. Box 91, Columbia, SC 29202. HIV/AIDS forum to be held Tuesday An open forum on HIV/AIDS in the African-American Community will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 6 p.m. in the Russell House Theater. The Brothers of Nubian Descent, the Association of African-American Students, the Minority Assistance Peer Program and Carolina Productions will sponsor the event. Note takers sought to help disabled The Office of Disability Services needs students to help with the note taking and reading services provided to students with physical, learning and psychological disabilities. The office hires students to take notes for more than 300 courses each semester. Note takers are paid minimum wage for each hour of class. Interested students may visit the Office of Disability Services in LeConte 106 or call 777-6142. STATE BRIEFS President, governor urge remembrance COLUMBIA, S.C. — Following President Bush’s proclamation that Friday is the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Gov. Hodges is urging all citizens to “participate in community worship and memorial services or to take a moment to reflect in silence on Friday at noon in honor of the victims of Tuesday's tragedy.” Bush asks churches and other places of worship to ring their bells at noon. Employers are also asked to give their employees time off to attend services.Gov. Hodges will attend the daylight candlelight prayer vigil at 12:30 today in front of the Russell House. Hodges has also declared Sep tember 14-16 to be South Carolina Patriotism Weekend, asking all citizens to proudly display the American flag to “serve as a con stant reminder of our unwavering commitment to freedom.” Body found six years after reported missing COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A Columbia mother of three who was reported missing more than six years ago was found Aug. 31 in a collapsed house, Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said. Sherry Dennis, who was 28 when she disappeared, was identified through dental records. She told her children she was going to do an errand Feb. 28, 1995, and took Shayla, then 1, and Shacobi, then 5, to a neighbor’s house. Her third child, Derrick, then 10, was staying with his grandparents. Watts said the death is suspicious, but investigators have no evidence that Sherry Dennis was killed. NATION BRIEFS Amtrak train crashes in western Utah WENDOVER, UTAH (AP) - An Amtrak train crashed into a freight train, derailed and caught fire Thursday in the western Utah desert, but the passengers escaped without serious injury, officials said. Six were taken to hospitals for treatment of broken bones and smoke inhalation. The train was the California Zephyr heading from Chicago to Emeryville, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area, said Amtrak spokeswoman Cheryle Jackson in Chicago. Amtrak said 263 passengers and 14 crew members were on board. Two locomotives were pulling 15 cars, including seven passenger cars. The accident occurred as Amtrak was being used by people wanting to travel across the country while airline traffic was suspended because of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Woman critically wounded in shooting COVINGTON, KY. (AP) - A woman shot and critically wounded another woman outside an elementary school as children and teachers watched, police said. The shooting happened around 3 p.m. Wednesday as classes were ending for the day at Latonia Elementary School, Covington Police Lt. Col. Jim Liles said. Marjorie M. McElfresh, 30, was charged with attempted murder. She was being held in the Kenton County jail. Police identified the wounded woman as Linda Gegner, 26, of Covington. She was shot in the neck and remained in critical condition Thursday. High-school gunman makes plea bargain EL CAJON, CALIF. (AP) — An 18-year-old student accused of wounding five people outside his high school reached a plea agreement that would put him in prison at least 27 years, the prosecutor’s office said Thursday. Jason Hoffinan was expected to plead guilty to an attempted murder charge for the March 22 shootings at Granite Hills High School, district attorney’s office spokeswoman Denise Vedder said. Hoffman was to appear before Superior Court Judge Herbert Exarhos later Thursday to enter the plea and be sentenced. Vedder said the charge would carry a sentence of 27 years in prison. She said he could receive an additional sentence for a gun charge but she had no details. IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED SUICIDE ATTEMPT IN MARYLAND COURT: Minutes after a jury in Maryland found chemist Alan Bruce Chmurny, 57, guilty of trying to poison a former co-worker, the man apparently took a cyanide pill and had to be taken from the courtroom to a hospital, authorities said. • K MART GUILTY: The family of Ryan Tait Eslinger, the 19-year old paranoid schizophrenic who killed himself five years ago with a shotgun he bought at a K-mart, won a lawsuit against the retail store when a federal jury ruled the retailer was negligent in selling him the weapon. WORLD BRIEFS NATO starts phase 2 of weapons roundup SKOPJE, MACEDONIA (AP) - Efforts to bring peace to Macedonia are shifting back to the country’s parliament after NATO wrapped up the second phase of its operation to collect weapons surrendered by ethnic Albanian rebels. Formally announcing the completion of phase two, Maj. Gen. Gunnar Lange, commander of NATO’s arms-gathering mission, said Thursday he had informed President Boris Trajkovski that more than two thirds of the weapons slated for - collection had been handeck)ver by ethnic Albanian rebels. Under the deal, the rebels hand their arms over to NATO troops in three separate batches. The completion of each phase is expected to coincide with the passage of new legislation to upgrade ethnic Albanian rights, a key pillar of the effort to end the six-month conflict. Israel attacks villages in West Bank JERICHO, WEST BANK (AP) - Israeli tanks and bulldozers shelled buildings and exchanged fire with Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank towns of Jenin and Jericho early Thursday, killing three Palestinians and wounding at least 21 others. The Israeli army said the latest incursions into Palestinian territory, which lasted several hours, were intended to “root out terror.” Palestinians accused the government of Prime Minister " Ariel Sharon of exploiting the world’s preoccupation with terror attacks in the United States to escalate its military strikes. Amid the tensions, Secretary of State Colin Powell called Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat late Wednesday. Arafat agreed to a Powell request that he meet as soon as possible with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Meanwhile, Peres said there was tentative agreement on a meeting for truce talks, but details were not yet finalized. The prospect of truce talks did not calm the highly charged atmosphere. Sharon compared Arafat to accused terrorist Osama bin Laden, a leading suspect in the attacks against the United States this week. “Everyone has his own bin Laden. Arafat is our bin Laden,” Israel radio quoted Sharon as saying in his telephone conversation with Powell. * Palestinians, meanwhile, sail Sharon’s comment was intendet to give Israel an excuse to escalate military action against the Palestinians. “The Israelis are using the tragedy of the events in New York and Washington, feeling that the attention of the world is elsewhere,” said Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat, who lives in Jericho. Iraqi news agency says U.S. hit village BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AP) - An official Iraqi news agency accused U.S. and British warplanes of dropping bombs in southern Iraq on Thursday - a claim denied by the Pentagon. The official Iraqi News Agency said an attack on villages in Wasit province, 115 miles south of Baghdad, caused no casualties, but “led to the destruction of several houses and the frightening of children and citizens.” At the Pentagon, spokesman Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Davis said the United States had not attacked Iraq. British officials did not immediately comment. U.S. and British planes started enforcing a “no-fly” zone in southern and northern Iraq following the 1991 Gulf War. Iraq disputes the legitimacy of the zones and regularly contests allied patrols by firing missiles and artillery guns. IT HAPPENED: NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED MEXICO CRASH: Sixteen _ Seattle-area tourists on a Caribbean cruise died during a side trip to visit Mayan ruins when their plane crashed in the eastern Mexican state of Yucatan. Three Mexican crew members also died. HACKER SENTENCED: A 17 year-old computer hacker who jammed major Web sites, raising questions about global Internet security, was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in a detention center and fined $165. Families Some students still waiting for news CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Greenville/Spartanburg Airport this morning when the news came in. “I was horrified,” Emma Ritch said. “I was in the Coliseum this morning in my journalism class es, and I heard that it was a do mestic flight that was hijacked. I knew my sister was flying to New York that morning, so I just broke down in class in tears until I was able to get in touch with her.” Sarah Ritch’s flight was in the air when news of the attacks reached the plane at about 9 a.m. The plane turned around and landed back in Greenville. “I was so relieved that she hadn’t gone even an hour earlier, then she would’ve been right in the middle of all this,” Emma Rich said. While some are relieved that loved ones are OK, other students were still awaiting news Tuesday night from friends and family who may have been hurt in the at tacks. Capt. Jerry Brown, uncle of third-year student Dee Brown, works in the Pentagon. “I haven’t talked to any of my other family members,” Dee Brown said. “I’m kind of nervous because I don’t know what happened, but I haven’t heard of any deaths at the Pentagon yet.” First-year student Becky Sicard, whose father does inde pendent security work for the Pentagon and other businesses, Weekend Administrators try to notify families CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 didn't know when or even whether the weekend would be rescheduled. “At this time, we do not know when Parent's Weekend will be rescheduled. Notification will be sent to all participants of Paren t’s Weekend once a decision has been made,” Carr said. “We haven't had the opportu said she plans to stay by the phone and take a bus back to her home town of Damascus, MD., if her family needs her. She said her fa ther was on his way to a meeting about Pentagon security when she heard about the collision. “We were just really panicked,” Sicard said. “He’s very involved with big corporations, and we didn’t know where he was. I was really worried. We also just have friends that work there. I left my last class. They said that they wanted to keep class in session, but I can’t do that. I have to be there for my family.” Fourth-year student Tonya Boris has a fiancee who goes to culinary school in New York City. “I didn’t find out what hap pened until around noon when I was in the South Carolina book store and I heard it on the radio,” Boris said. “I flipped out and ran to my professor’s office so I could use the phone and try to get in contact with him.” Boris's fiancee tried to call her at her New Jersey home, but the call was disrupted. Her mother got his number by using a call-back feature on her tele phone. After an almost five-hour wait, Boris finally got through to him. “His school was about 15 blocks from where it happened,” Boris said. “They evacuated his school after the first tower collapsed.... He said that a lot of people were handling it very well, and he is re maining as calm as possible. He said that in other parts of the city things were just running as nor mal.” nity to assess what we're going to do,” she said. Second-year student Emily Keller said her parents are dis appointed the events were can celed. They will still come visit, however, from their home in Co lumbia, Md., and they just changed plans for the weekend. “I think that kind of messes up a lot of people's plans,” Keller said of the events' cancellations. “But they're doing it out of respect for the people who died. I think it's a good thing.” Attack Authorities say they have leads CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ment said, with at least four hi jackers trained at U.S. flight schools. Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden remained a top sus pect. Attorney General John Ashcroft said authorities had “thousands and thousands” of leads. He said they had deter mined that 18 hijackers were on the planes: groups of five on two planes and groups of four on the others. In New York, the difficulties of extracting bodies from the rub ble meant that while 184 deaths had been confirmed, city officials prepared to watch the total soar. The missing included nearly 400 city firefighters and police offi cers. Another 2,300 people were injured. The lone bit of bright news was the recovery of two firefight ers who slipped into an under ground pocket beneath the rub ble while searching for survivors on Thursday. The two radioed for help and were rescued by fellow firefighters several hours after they fell. At One Liberty Plaza, an office building near the trade center site, volunteers were evacuated when the top 10 stories of the complex appeared unsteady. Workers fled, sprinting down the street. At a grief center set up for fam ilies with missing relatives, Jea nine Nardone arrived to look for her brother. She had hung his photo in a Brooklyn subway sta tion, hoping someone would rec ognize Mario Nardone — a 32 year-old Staten Islander, 6-foot-l, 180 pounds, bald with blue eyes, who worked on the 83rd floor of Two World Trade Center. “He’s a strong person,” Nar done said. “He would not give up on us. And I’m not going to give up on him.” Many family members stopped by the armory-turned counseling center established by the city. Looking south from there, the seemingly endless plume of acrid, white smoke from the wreckage still corkscrewed above the Manhat tan skyline. At Bellevue Hospital, a blue wall erected around a construc tion site was covered with pic tures and descriptions of the missing, and prayers for safe re turns. New Yorkers did take some small steps toward normal life. While everything south of 14th Street remained closed, the northern part of Manhattan be came busier. Office buildings reopened, restaurants put out sidewalk ta bles and hawkers handed out fly ers. Traffic on the streets and sub ways was up sharply compared to Wednesday. The government gave the go ahead for commercial flights to resume and some did, but sched ules were expected to be in disar ray, and heavy security was the rifle. Bond trading resumed, while Wall Street officials said the stock markets were expected to open again on Monday. The shutdown on the New York Stock Exchange was already longer than the two day closure at the end of World War II; the next-longest lasted a week, after the 1929 crash. But the National Football League called off the 15 games scheduled for this weekend, and all Division I-A college football games also were postponed. Ma jor-league baseball extended its hiatus through the weekend. In Washington, the Senate was evacuated because of a bomb scare, and officials disclosed that Vice President Dick Cheney moved to Camp David in what his spokeswoman called “a pure ly precautionary measure.” “From a security standpoint, this is not business-as-usual any more,” said press secretary Juleanna Glover. New Yorkers also remained edgy. On Staten Island, parents pulled children off school buses after a report that a car possibly linked to the terrorists had dri ven into the borough. At La Guardia Airport, passengers were briefly evacuated from the just-reopened facility after a man said something about a device in a bag. Buildings around Manhat tan were evacuated as authori ties erred on the side of caution. “Right now, a lot of people are panicking,” Police Commission er Bernard Kerik said. “And they really have to be as cautious as possible.” Scoot Your Boots To And Enter The USC * GREAT GAMECOCKS “Dream Game” Giveaway! Enjoy the freshest, thickest steaks in Columbia and register to win this fabulous dream Football Package: •2 50 yard line tickets to USC/Alabama game • Stretch Limo compliments of Affordable Limofor the entire evening! • Legendary dinner at TEXAS ROADHOUSE • $100 Spending Money • UMO service after the game to your favorite hot spots THERE’S NO PURCHASE NECESSARY! Just drop by, register and enjoy the best, freshest cut steaks, ribs & chicken this side of the Rio Grande, PLUS ice cold beer and frozen margaritas! 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