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Blair says Taliban could be toppled BY JILL LAWLESS ASSOCIATED PRESS BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a ringing call Tuesday for action against terror, saying Afghanistan’s Taliban regime must “surrender the terrorists or surrender power.” “This is a battle with only one outcome. Our victory, not theirs,” Blair told his Labour Party. In one of the toughest warnings yet to the Taliban from a Western leader, Blair said there could be no compromise with terrorism and warned that if the Taliban did not met meet Western de mands they would face removal. “We stated the Blair ultimatum; they haven’t responded,” Blair said in an emotional speech. The Taliban rejected Blair’s call for the surrender of Osama bin Laden, demanding proof the Saudi exile was involved in the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States as the West claims. Blair said the main target of military action would be Osama bin Laden. But unless the Taliban cooperates, he said, action would also aim to “eliminate their mili tary hardware, cut off their fi nances, disrupt their supplies, tar get their troops, not civilians.” “I say to the Taliban: Surren der the terrorists or surrender power. It’s your choice,” he said. Blair’s speech came as President Bush’s coordinator for counterter rorism briefed NATO officials in Brussels on the United States’ evi dence of bin Laden’s involvement in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson said the evidence pre sented by U.S. Ambassador at Large Francis X. Taylor was “clear and compelling” and that in response NATO had invoked Article 5 of its charter, which says an attack on one member is an at tack on all 19 members. The hard-line Islamic Taliban militia, who rule almost all Afghanistan, have refused to sur render bin Laden, who has lived in the country since 1996, leading his al-Qaida organization, which U.S. officials call an international network of terrorists. The Taliban’s ambassador to Pakistan said the ruling militia would not hand over bin Laden without evidence and repeated the Taliban offer for negotiations. “We don’t want to surrender (him) without any proof, any evidence,” ♦ ATTACKS, SEE PAGE 3 “This is a battle with only one outcome. Our victory, not theirs.” TONY BLAIR BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS WEEK Quincy Busby has his hands traced by Neshonda Cobbs Monday on Greene Street, as part of the “These Hands Don’t Hurt” campaign. Banners will continue to be painted through Friday, photo by aaron hark A SHOW OF HANDS Students form colorful display against violence in relationships BY ADAM BEAM TIIK GAMECOCK If you ask first-year student Andy Evans what he thinks about domestic violence, the answer may not be what you expect. “My hand is yellow,” he says. That’s because Evans, along with many other students, are painting or tracing their hands on a banner as a commitment to stop domestic violence. The program, aptly named “These Hands Don’t Hurt,” be gan on Greene Street in front of the Russell House on Mon day, and will continue until Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The banner will be on dis play as an interactive art ex hibit scheduled for Oct. 22 at the Hunter-Gatherer and will also be displayed throughout the year at other events spon sored by Relationship Violence Services. “The emphasis behind the campaign is for students to come up and to paint or trace their hands as a pledge or com mitment that they won’t par ticipate in interpersonal vio lence on any level,” said Shan non Hunnicutt, program di ♦ HANDS, SEE PAGE 4 Strom Thurmond faints in Senate Senior legislator recuperating in hospital after ‘woozy’ spell BY JESSE J. HOLLAND ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. ' Strom Thurmond of South Caroli na, 98 and ailing, fainted in the Senate chamber Tuesday and was taken to a hospital. While Thurmond has been to the hospital several times — in cluding a February stay for fatigue — this was the first time health problems affected him while in the Senate chamber. Thurmond reported feeling weak to colleagues and then slumped over at his desk shortly after 10:30 a.m., said Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., who was presid ing over the Senate at the time. After an aide called for help, the senior Republican was moved to the floor in the aisle between the Senate desks, where Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a heart surgeon, and several medical personnel worked on him for several min utes. “Dr. Frist checked his re sponse, and the best way to de scribe his condition was that he was woozy,” said Sen. Wayne Al lard, R-Col(5. After Thurmond’s legs were raised, “he started getting less woozy,” Allard said. “Senator Thurmond was conscious the en tire time.” ♦ THURMOND, SEE PAGE 4 Thurmond faints Sen. Strom Thurmond has had a unique career in the Senate. Some highlights: Thurmond holds the record for the longest Senate filibuster. He filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours and 18 minutes. Thurmond carried four states - South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana - and earned 39 electoral votes when he ran for president in 1948 on a ^states’ rights’1 platform. Strom became the oldest senator In American history in 1996 at age 93. Elected to the Senate in 1954,Thurmond switched from the Democratic Party to the GOP in 1964. Sources: AP. Time, SCIway.net BRANDON LARRABEE/THE GAMECOCK Members of USC community call for restraint after attacks BY MICHAEL STUTZ the uameuock USC students and Columbia res idents stressed the importance of keeping calm heads and seeking a peaceful resolution to recent ter rorist attacks during Sunday evening’s “Rally for Restraint and Justice” at Finlay Park. “An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind,” a quote by Ma hatma Ghandi, was the theme of the event. The rally was organized to express the need for the govern ment to approach the problems cre ated on Sept. 11 from a different per spective. Michael Berg, a USC graduate stu dent in economics who helped orga nize the rally, began working on the event with the Progressive Network’s Brett Bursey last Tuesday. Originally planned for next Sunday, the rally was pushed up a week. “I was pleased that we were able to get the turnout so quickly,” Berg said. “It had to be done so quickly be cause of the urgency of the situation ... we had to get the message out there before the U.S. took military action.” Berg, like many others involved in the rally, disagrees with Presi dent George W. Bush’s declaration of war against terrorism. “There should have been no dec laration of war,” he said, “The idea of a war on terrorism is an oxymoron. Terrorist cells are not nation states. You cannot go to war against them.” Nirav Mehta, a fourth-year eco nomics and international studies major and a member of a campus human-rights organization, helped advertise for the rally last Friday outside the Russell House. “Hopefully, the rally is going to show the public that there is an al ternative,” Mehta said. “A lot of peo ple really want to go to war. This is a public showing that there are peo ple who do not want to go to war.” Mehta thinks Americans’ desire for revenge was emotionally driven. "Any response the U.S. takes ♦ RALLY, SEE PAGE 3 GETTING READY TO ROLL A worker puts the finishing touches on the Doppel Looping roller coaster Tuesday morning at the state fair. See Page 7 for more details, photo by aaron hark uses PAST October 11,1972 About 300 students staged a sit-in on Greene Street to publicize efforts to close the thoroughfare to vehicular traffic. wummmmmmmmmm XI Today Tomorrow Sunny, Sunny, 87/55 86/55 , a m m INSIDE TODAY’S ISSUE j Worthen scoring goals again for USC Senior is back at the position he loves. ♦ PAGE 10 .. < Jump, Little Children has Vertigo Band playing at the Elbow Room in support of new CD ♦ PAGE 7 k ONLINE POLL Budget Cuts How concerned are you about possible budget cuts? Vote at www.dailygamecock.com. Results are published on Fridays.