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POLICE REPORT Each numbered symbol on the map represents a single crime that corresponds with the numbered descriptions in the list below it DAY CRIMES $ □ Violent crimes ■ ^ NIGHT CRIMES (6a.m.-6p.m.) \ $£: ~ ... ._ ^ r (6p.m.-6a.m.) | O Nonviolent cnmes # } r □ O CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS H.. ■v. Tuesday, Oct. 16 O LARCENY OF CREDIT CARDS, 500 SUMTER ST. The victim said someone removed four credit cards from her unlocked South Quad dorm room. Missing were two Bank of America Visa cards, a Washington Mutual Visa card and a National Bank credit card. The victim notified creditors and had the cards ' canceled. Approximate value: $1. Reporting officer: J.A. Plfirkp Q AUTO BREAK-IN, 915 GREGG ST. The victim said someone took a Pioneer CD player and 2 CDs. out of his truck. The truck was locked, but the driver’s side window was broken. A pair of pliers was found on the ground near the passenger-side door. Total estimated value: $180. Reporting officer: L. Forte. ® LARCENY OF CHECKS, 918 BARNWELL ST. The victim said Joe Estrich Jr. and Standley A. Truesdale took three Wacho via checks from his secured room in Columbia Hall. Total value: $1. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin and N.U. Beza. Wedensday, Oct. 17 O MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 1700 BLOSSOM ST. The victim said someone broke the passenger-side vent window of his black Jeep Cherokee. Nothing was missing. Total estimated value: $100. Reporting officer: J.A. Clarke. Thursday, Oct. 18 ® SHOPLIFTING, LARCENY OF BOOKS, 1400 GREENE ST. Complainants observed the suspect attempting to leave the Russell House Bookstore with a book he didn’t pay for. When the suspect was approached, he ran out of the store. The complainants returned and were notified that the second suspect was still inside the store. The complainants saw the second suspect trying to leave with a book without paying for it. The suspect ran out of store and jumped into a green Mazda with the first suspect. Reporting officer: L. Forte. ® HARASSING PHONE CALL, 1400 BLOSSOM ST. The victim said Patrick Corrin phoned him while at East Quad and made threats toward him in reference to a past business transaction. Corrin said he knew where the victim was and would act on his threat tonight if payment was not made. Reporting officer: J.A. Henry. Friday, Oct. 19 Q MALICIOUS MISCHIEF, 1405 WHALEY ST. The victim said someone squeezed a tube of fake blood under the door of her Bates West room. The victim said she heard a sound in the living room and found a red streak about 15-feet long across the floor. The security officer on duty at the front desk said she had not noticed anything strange during the evening. Reporting officer: J.A. Henry, o ILLEGAL USE OF TELEPHONE, 1520 DEVINE ST. The victim said someone called her Patterson dorm room and made unwelcome remarks. The victim said she believed the same person had called her two weeks earlier. The victim was given a phone log to keep track of the calls. Reporting officer: J.A. Henry. Anthrax victim ‘doing great’ BY AMANDA RIDDLE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOCA RATON, FLA. - A su permarket tabloid mailroom worker infected with inhaled anthrax is “doing great,” and his stepdaughter said Saturday she’s anxious for his release from the hospital. Ernesto Blanco, 73, was re sponding to antibiotics at Cedars Medical Center in Miami, and doctors say the an thrax toxins in his body were slowly being diminished, Maria Orth said. He has been hospitalized 19 days. The hos pital has declined comment on Blanco’s case, citing patient confidentiality. “He’s doing great,” Orth said. “He’s kind of depressed to be there because it’s been so long.” Doctors haven’t said when Blanco could be released, Orth said. Family members visit him daily in a private room, where he was moved Thursday. (~ Earlier this month, photo ed itor Robert Stevens of The Sun, an American Media Inc. tabloid, died of inhaled an thrax. Blanco is also infected with the usually lethal form of the disease; another co-worker has tested positive for expo sure. Postal officials said Friday that an anthrax-tainted letter that infected the employees may have been mailed to an old address before being rerouted to the company’s headquarters. Trace amounts of anthrax were found at a postal facility in Lake Worth that once processed mail for The National Enquirer and Weekly World News, which both now have offices in the American Media building Postal officials said a letter mailed to the tabloids’ old ad dress could have been processed at the Lake Worth fa cility, then rerouted to anoth er facility in Boca Raton where anthrax spores were found ear lier this week. The Boca Raton office was handling American Media’s mail at the time the tainted letter was delivered. “It’s plausible that one let ter could account for all three locations testing positive,” U.S. Postal Service spokesman Joseph Breckenridge said ^ Friday. He said no employees > were considered to be at risk. Fort Jackson team trains for war Teams prepare for biological and chemical attack threats COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The team ready to respond to chemi cal, biological and radiological at tacks should be up and running next year, officials say. The 22-member South Carolina National Guard’s 43rd Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team has been training inten sively since June 2000 at Fort Jackson. Training has been ac celerated since the Sept. 11 ter rorist attacks. The idea for a civil support team began in 1996 after legisla tion addressing potential bioter rorist threats was pushed through Congress. “They did a study about how prepared we are, and of course the results of the study came back and said, ‘We’re not prepared,”’ said Lt. Col. Randy Clayton, the team’s commander. The team will have the ability to run lab tests in the field for biolog ical weapons, said Terry Sullivan, spokesman for the state Emer gency Preparedness Division. A handful of counties and the state Department of Health and n Environmental Control have haz ardous materials response teams to handle chemical weapons at tacks, but have to send their tests out to labs, which could often take days. “In a critical situation, two or three days can be an awfully long time,” Clayton said. And while results from the field may not immediately identify the biological agent being used, Clayton said, “I might be able to tell you what it’s not.” In addition to the portable lab oratory, the team will have a gas chromatograph and mass spec trometer that can detect 17 chem ical warfare agents, 700 toxic in dustrial compounds and 130,000 organic compounds. They will also carry equipment to measure radiation levels. The team also will have a com puter capable of designing mod els to determine the direction of dangerous airborne materials so that a commander can order which streets to block off. Capt. William Graham, who runs the State Law Enforcement Division’s bomb squad, said the 43rd will add a new dimension to the state’s ability to respond to ter rorist threats. “These guys have some of the best equipment I’ve seen around,” he said. “They’re seven days a week, 365 days a year. “They did a study about how prepared we are, and of course the results of the study came back and said, ‘We’re not prepared.’” LT. COL. RANDY CLAYTON TEAM COMMANDER We’re going to rely heavily on them to supply us with intelli gence information and recon naissance.” Because the work is special ized, all the team’s employees are full-time rather than reservists and will be on 24-hour call. For now, the team isn’t autho rized to help in a real emergency because training hasn’t been com pleted and the unit hasn’t passed its test. Once that’s done, the unit will then be certified by the U.S. Defense Secretary. Other efforts to extend the state’s ability to cope with a chem ical or biological threat are under way. The state Emergency Preparedness Division is using a Justice Department grant to im prove its ability to respond throughout the state, and SLED has its own team in training for biological weapons. -- Asian leaders poised to condemn attacks BY RON FOURNIER ASSOCIATED PRESS SHANGHAI, CHINA - Asian leaders were poised Sunday to endorse a statement condemn ing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as “murderous deeds” without mentioning the U.S.-led; retal iatory strikes on Afghanistan or prime suspect Osama bin Laden. President Bush’s advisers said they were satisfied with the Asia Pacific summit statement, though it fell short of endorsing his military campaign. A day earlier, the president urged lead ers to help “save the civilized world” by joining his war on ter rorism and warned them not to be complacent. “Those who embrace death... cannot be ignored, cannot be ap peased,” Bush told internation al business leaders. In a sign of unease, Russia sided with China and other nations seeking a quick end to U.S. attacks on Afghanistan. Bush was to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday morning after the conclusion of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting that brought 20 leaders to this port city. The leaders were ex pected to announce the dates of their mid-November meetings in Washington and at Bush’s Texas ranch. No deal was ex BjM pected on Bush's plans to build an anti-missile sys tem, which is op Bush posed by Putin. Bush hopes to build a “great coalition against terror” with nations sharing in telligence, cutting off financing to terrorists and supporting U.S. military action - even if their troops do not fight alongside Americans. “Every nation must oppose this enemy or be, in turn, its tar get,” Bush said. “There is no iso lation from evil.” The traditional goal of the two day summit, strengthening the world economy, gave way to talks about the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Tying the two themes together, Bush warned that terrorism threatens Asia’s hard-won eco nomic vitality. Chinese President Jiang Zemin, the summit’s host, told the leaders Sunday that the at tacks on Washington and New York had undermined the glob al economy. “The stock markets, oil mar ♦ BUSH, SEE PAGE 3 ARE YOU... Planning to enroll in a Ph.D. program in the humanities to BEGIN IN THE FALL OF 2002? 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