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STATE BRIEFS Condon pushes immigration laws COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - State Attorney General Charlie Condon wants local and state law enforcement officers to gain authority to enforce immigration laws. Condon wants to use a provision in 1996 federal law that allows local and state law officers to enforce immigra tion laifs. To gain the authority, a local law enforcement agency must first receive approval from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Officers must then be trained in immigration law and procedures, a process that could take several months, said Bill Strassburger, a spokesman for the INS. That 1996 provision is prohibited by some states’ laws, so Condon said he will seek clarification when the Leg islature reconvenes in January. While the law exists, no local or state agency in the nation uses it, Strassburger said. March start looking unlikely for lottery COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The state wanted its new lottery to offer number picking games beginning in March, but that may be too ambitious, a possible bidder said Monday. Five companies asked more than 100 questions Monday at a bidders’ conference on one of the state lottery’s key contracts. The winner of the so-called online games contract would be responsible for setting up and running a computer system that links retailers with the state lottery. The commission moved back the start date for the first lottery sales until January, two months later than the Legislature wanted when it approved lottery legislation earlier this year. I ‘ NATION BRIEFS Federal Reserve cuts interest rate WASHINGTON (AP)-The Federal Reserve, faced with an economy that went from bad to worse after the terrorist attacks, cut a key -interest rate Tuesday by a half-point, driving it down to a level not seen since 1962. • The rate cut, the ninth this year, is aimed at getting consumers and businesses — whose confidence has been badly shaken by the Sept. 11 attacks — to spend and jnvest to keep the economy from becoming even weaker. After a closed-door meeting, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues announced they were cutting the target for the federal funds rates, the interest banks charge each other on overnight loans, to 2.5 percent, the lowest level since May 1962. Commercial banks were expected to reduce their prime lending rates by a half point to 5.5 percent, the lowest since Oct. 3,1972, when the prime rate matched that level. Katherine Harris running for Senate TAMPA, FLA. (AP) - Florida Secretary of S^ate Katherine Harris, who hit the national spotlight during last fall’s presidential election recount, announced Tuesday she is running for Congress. Harris, 44, wants to replace Republican Dan Miller, who represents the 13th congressional district that encompasses her hometown of Sarasota. Miller said he plans to retire when his fifth term ends next year. ‘ ’ Harris’ only announced opponent is Republican Chester Flake, a 27-year-old computer consultant making his first try for political office. WORLD BRIEFS U.S., British aircraft make strike in Iraq RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA (AP) - U.S. and British aircraft fired on an anti-aircraft artillery site in Iraq’s southern “no-fly” zone Tuesday, a U.S. military official said. An Iraqi military spokesman confirmed the attack, accusing the allied aircraft of bombing “civilian and service installations.” All U.S. and British aircraft returned safely to base after the strike at Al-Hallah, 260 miles southeast of Baghdad, said Chief Petty Officer David Nagle, a spokesman for the U.S.-British Joint Task Force Southwest Asia, which is responsible for patrolling the southern “no-fly” zone. Nagle said the strikes were provoked by Iraqi threats but did not specify their nature. Iraqi sites have fired on or otherwise threatened U.S. British aircraft at least 400 times this year, according to the United States and Britain. India leader warns U.S. about Pakistan SRINAGAR, INDIA (AP) - India’s leader wrote to President Bush on Tuesday blaming Pakistanis for a car bombing outside a state legislature in Kashmir that killed 40, the worst terrorist attack in the disputed region in two years. Prime Minister Atal Bihari ■ Vajpayee suggested Pakistan — which has allied itself with the United States in the campaign against accused terrorist Osama bin Laden is lying when it says there are no terrorist groups operating from its territory. “There is a limit to the patience of the people of India,” Vajpayee wrote. Shortly after the bombing Monday outside the legislature in India’s Jammu-Kashmir state, a Pakistan-based militant group fighting for the independence of Indian-held Kashmir claimed responsibility. The group named a Pakistani citizen as the driver of the car bomb, which also wounded 60 people. Hands USC students paint against violence CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 rector for Relationship Violence Services. According to Hunnicutt, about one-third of women aged 18 to 25 experience violence in a rela tionship. She said a Department of Justice survey just released shows that about 350 sexual as saults or attempted rapes occur for every 10,000 students. “The focus is for everybody,” said Hunnicutt. “I don’t think that the University of South Car olina is any more or less violent than other college campuses, but it is a big problem.” While most students try to run through the Greene Street area in front of the Russell House without being roped into serious financial commitments, first year graduate student Melody Slashinski expects there to be lit tie indifference to the campaign. “This is paint,” she said. “Somebody can hand you some thing, but this is kind of nostal gic about being in kindergarten.” “We don’t yell at them,” added Hunnicutt. “Sure, we have stick ers and pledge cards that we give out, but we don’t force anybody to come over, and generally when people see paint they just want to play in it, and that’s what draws them over.” While the paint is fun, Slashinski does understand the seriousness of the issue of vio lence. “On campus, I think it is a very scary thing because you are in a small environment,” she said. “There are boundaries here, and for things to exist in these boundaries that are violent is a pretty scary thing.” First-year pharmacy student Shelley McAlister acknowledges the program’s ability to raise awareness but doesn’t think it can make a drastic change. “Awareness, yes, but I don’t know if this will help prevent,” she said about domestic violence on campus. Hunnicutt said, statistically speaking, men are more prone to perpetrating acts of violence than women, but that doesn’t concern third-year sociology student Jes sica Zamora. “The reason I’m coming here is because a lot of girls do it but it’s not looked at as violence,” she said. “I think it is a step to publi cize or confess your beliefs that I’m not even going to hit a guy if he gets me angry in a relation ship.” With the recent terrorist at tacks on the United States, first year music education student John Hind sees domestic vio lence as pointless. “We can’t af ford to fight (the war on terror ism) while we are still fighting amongst ourselves here,” he said. While walking around with a yellow hand all day won’t change the world, it is, according to Evans, “a little part of something you can do.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. Thurmond 98-year-old senator remains conscious CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Thurmond was later taken from the Senate in a wheel chair. He waved before being taken away in an ambulance to Walter Reed Army Medical Cen ter. “Are they really making all this fuss for me?” Thurmond said, according to Frist spokes woman Margaret Camp. How long Thurmond will re main in the hospital was not im mediately known, said his spokeswoman, Genevieve Emy. The Senate recessed for 20 minutes after Thurmond fainted, and Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., ordered the chamber cleared. Capitol Police also clamped an extraordinary ring of security around the cham ber, the corridors surrounding it and even the parking lot outside the Capitol, refusing to allow peo ple near. Born in December 1902, Thur mond was first elected to the Sen ate in 1954 as a Democrat. He switched to the Republican Par ty in 1964. In 19%, at the age of 93, he became the oldest person ever to serve in Congress. Thurmond has gradually scaled back his duties in recent years as his health declined. Un . til June, when Democrats re gained majority status in the Senate, he was third in the line of succession to the presidency, behind Vice President Dick Ch eney and House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Thurmond has had bouts of dizziness before and has been to the hospital several times, the most recent in February, when he spent a weekend in Walter Reed suffering from fa tigue. Aides also say a degenerative hip condition keeps Thurmond from traveling extensively. 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