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With a posting about anthrax testing on the door, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) talks with
his staff, who have been relocated to the Capitol, photo by chuck kennedy/krt campus
Anthrax
Capital complex
swept for anthrax
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post office “does not alter how we
are treating our patient popula
tion here.”
The environmental sweep
through the Capitol complex
continued Sunday.
House and Senate leaders
were to be briefed on findings
late in the day and planned a
news conference to announce
whether the Capitol would open
Monday, Capitol Police Lt. Dan
Nichols said.
Officials said they hoped to be
able to open the Capitol itself in
time for the House and Senate to
reconvene on Tuesday.
But one official who spoke on
condition of anonymity said
House leaders also were looking
at Fort McNair, a military in
stallation near the Capitol, as an
alternative location.
Nineteen buildings including
and surrounding the Capitol
must have environmental sur
veys. Anthrax spores were found
in four of them, Nichols said. He
didn’t indicate how much more
work needed to be done before
all 19 buildings were deemed
safe.
Bush
U.S. being careful
not to kill civilians
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kets, insurance and tourism are
hit the hardest. All this has made
an already grave economic situ
ation worse,” he said as Bush
looked on.
The APEC leaders’ decision
not to mention the Afghanistan
bombings in their statement re
flects concerns of Malaysia and
Indonesia, both Muslim-domi
nated countries who object to the
U.S.-led aerial bombardments
that began Oct. 7.
Bush tried to ease Malaysia
Prime Minister Mahathir
Mohamad’s opposition.
“He is concerned about the
death of innocent people in
Afghanistan, and I assured him
I am, too,” Bush said after their
closed-door meeting. Hours ear
lier, U.S. special forces raided
southern Afghanistan and two
soldiers were killed in Pakistan
while supporting the mission.
The president said he told
Mahathir that the United States
had been “as careful as we possi
bly could” to avoid killing civil
ians. A senior Bush administra
tion official, briefing reporters on
condition of anonymity, said
Bush told the prime minister he
was very sorry that civilians had
been hurt. The official praised
Malaysia for sharing intelligence.
“Every nation must
oppose this enemy or
be, in turn, its target.
There is no isolation
from evil.”
GEORGEW. BUSH
PRESIDENT
Mahathir was unswayed. “I
explained to (Bush) the anger
and frustration of the Muslim
world,” he said. U.S. officials be
lieve the al-Qaida group of
Osama bin Laden, the top suspect
in the Sept. 11 attacks in the
United States, has ties to
Malaysia.
STATE
BRIEFS
Spartanburg man
convicted of murder
SPARTANBURG-A 36
year-old man faces the death
penalty after a jury convicted
him of murder in the 1999
shooting death of a
convenience store clerk.
Richard Bernard Moore did
not react to Saturday night’s
verdict, following a two-day
trial. Jurors deliberated two
hours before also returning
guilty verdicts on charges of
armed robbery, assault with
intent to kill and possession of
a firearm during the
commission of a violent crime.
The penalty phase of the
trial is set to begin at 9 a.m.
Monday. Jurors wm
recommend either a sentence
of life in prison without
parole or death.
Student cleared in
pepper spray case
CHARLESTON - An
elementary school student
suspended for releasing pepper
spray into a hallway has been
cleared of wrongdoing after
school district officials
determined the third-grader
never meant any harm.
The Charleston County
School District also said
Friday it would not take any
action against the Mitchell
Elementary teacher who
handed the student her set of
keys, which held the canister
of pepper spray.
“After a very careful review
of all the events on Wednesday,
we have concluded that there
was no intent on the part of
either the student or the
teacher to create any problem
for any individual or group,”
Deputy Superintendent
Barbara Dilligard said.
IT HAPPENED
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TIES AN ISSUE: Federal
courthouse security officials
may order changes in court
attire after defendant Darryl
Tucker, 33, tried to hang him
self this week with his silk tie.
NATION
BRIEFS
Shrine dedicated
to Elian Gonzalez
MIAMI — The small home
where Elian Gonzalez lived
while at the center of an
international custody battle
opened Sunday as a shrine to
honor him.
Elian’s wooden swing set
and a picture of his mother,
Elizabeth Brotons, who died
while trying to bring him to
the United States, greeted
nearly 500 people who passed
through the front door of
Unidos en Casa Elian, or
United in Elian House.
Delfin Gonzalez, the boy’s
great-uncle and the Little
Havana home’s owner, said
some people might not agree
with opening the shrine
shortly after last month’s
terrorist attacks, or even
having a site dedicated to the
bov. But he said it filled a*
need in the community.
Crop duster sprays
boats on Mississippi
JACKSON, MISS. - Emer
gency management officials
took samples from a
Mississippi River tugboat and
pleasure craft after a low-flying
crop duster sprayed the boats
with an unknown substance.
A crop duster passed over
the tugboat near Rosedale,
Miss., around 3 p.m. Friday,
spraying the substance, said
Kent Buckley, director of the
Bolivar County Emergency
Management Agency.
Buckley said officials
suspect the substance was
sodium chlorate, used to
defoliate cotton crops. Buckley
said sodium chlorate is like salt
water and is not dangerous.
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MEMORIAL IN TROUBLE: The
foundation that runs the
National D-Day Memorial has
a $7 million debt, most of the
board has resigned, new con
struction has been curtailed,
and the FBI and state police
are Investigating.
WORLD
BRIEFS
Israelis tighten grip
on Palestinian towns
JERUSALEM — Israeli tanks
moved deeper into West Bank on
Sunday, tightening their grip on
Bethlehem and five other towns
in the widest operation against
the Palestinians in years.
Three Palestinians were killed
Sunday, and the Palestinian
Health Ministry said a teen-age
boy wounded in fighting last
month died of his wounds.
The 3-day-old assault,
retaliation for the assassination
of an Israeli Cabinet minister by
a radical PLO faction, drew
harsh international criticism
and set off disagreements within
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s
coalition government.
In New York, Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres told U.N. Secretary
General Kofi Annan on Sunday
that Israel does not intend to stay
in the areas it entered, according
to a spokesman for Israel’s U.N.
Mission.
Rioting in N. Ireland
hospitalizes one man
BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND
— Rival groups of Catholics and
Protestants pelted each other
with homemade grenades
Sunday in Belfast, and one man
was hospitalized with a gunshot
wound, police and residents said.
More than 100 Catholics and 50
Protestants had to be driven apart
by police in full riot gear during
the confrontation in the Limestone
Road area of north Belfast — a
sectarian front line plagued by
rioting in recent months.
Residents said shots were
fired throughout the area and
homemade grenades were
thrown. An army bomb disposal
team defused an unexploded
homemade grenade after the
unrest.
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BOMB AT PAKISTAN AIRPORT:
Security workers foiled an
attempted bombing in the
crowded VIP lounge of
Islamabad’s international
airport Saturday, police said.
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