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—IIIIW Willi Will I A group of United Front soldiers, also known as the Northern Alliance, look up at a jet. PHOTO BYDAVIDP. GILKEY/KRT CAMPUS Afghanistan Italy offers U.S. armor regiment * CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 In other developments: ♦ Britain will send troops and equipment to join the U.S. led military effort against Afghanistan, though just how much has not been decided. ♦ Italy offered the United States an armor regiment, at tack helicopters, fighter jets and specialists in nuclear, chemical and bacteriological warfare for the coalition against terrorism. British Secretary of Defense Geoff Hoon said Tuesday that the military strikes on I Afghanistan have destroyed ^ nine of bin Laden’s terrorist training camps and severely damaged nine airfields and 24 military garrisons. In recent days, U.S. forces in creasingly have shifted the brunt of their attacks to Taliban positions on front lines outside Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif, hop ing to break Taliban defenses around the key cities. On Tuesday, U.S. jets streaked in high over the front line at Kabul, then swooped in to drop their bombs as villagers gawked and pointed. “There it is,” residents of the opposition-held community cried each time a white speck appeared in the sky. Nine blasts sounded, one after the other. Witnesses said at least five of those strikes hit the Taliban front line. “God willing, these bombs will let us move into Kabul,” de clared one opposition fighter, Saeed Rafik. Some of the bombs struck the village of Uzbashi, an al-Qaida encampment near Bagram, op position spokesman Waisuddin Salik said. Arab fighters of bin Laden’s network are believed to make up the core of Taliban forces at the front north of the capital. The bombing, however, seemed only to make the Taliban forces more aggressive. As U.S. jets thundered over head, Taliban gunners opened up with mortars, rockets and ar tillery on alliance lines. One Taliban rocket slammed into the public market at Charikar, 30 miles north of Kabul, killing two people — in cluding a 60-year-old vegetable vendor — and injuring 14 oth ers. “We want the war to be fin ished, and an end to the rockets of the Taliban,” said Mohammad Nabi, whose son was lightly injured. “Let America bomb them.” Opposition commanders said the Taliban had reinforced their positions and moved them clos er to alliance lines in hopes of making it more difficult for U.S. pilots to tell which are the right targets. On Monday, one bomb fell behind alliance lines, but there were no reports of casual ties. STATE BRIEFS Controversial novel stays in school library SUMMERVILLE-For the second time in a decade, the Dorchester District 2 school board has decided that The Catcher in the Rye will remain in its high school libraries. Board members Howard ' Bagwell and Joan McKissick were the only members to vote against the controversial novel Monday. Bagwell also tried to have the book removed from the shelves in 1993, losing then by a 6-1 vote. Bagwell renewed his effort to get the 1951 J.D. Salinger book off the shelves in September when he checked three copies out of the Summerville and Fort Dorchester high school libraries in protest. He said the coming-of-age story is unsuitable for teens and wanted it banned for its profanity, mockery of the elderly and women and its “general filth.” Bagwell reimbursed the schools for the books, which he said he did not intend to return.” S.C. prisoner to testify in murder trial BENTONVILLE, ARK. - A man now in prison in South Carolina has been ordered to Arkansas to testify at the capital murder trial of James Baughman, charged with killing two people at Pea Ridge. Prosecutors wanted Larry Lorenzen to testify, and Circuit Judge David Clinger signed an order bringing him to court. Jury selection starts Friday. Lorenzen is a material witness, prosecutor Bob Balfe said, refusing to say exactly what Lorenzen knew about the case. The inmate will be picked up Oct. 30 and returned to South Carolina on Nov. 8. Baughman and Rose Ellen Cushman were charged with the 1999 killings. Cushman has since pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. NAr [ON BR 3FS Union wants testing for postal workers BOCA RATON, FLA. -Union officials urged widespread testing of Boca Raton postal employees for anthrax Tuesday, reacting to the deaths of two Washington, D.C., postal workers who contracted the inhalation form of the disease. The union said it wants all 160 employees to be tested for anthrax beyond the 31 employees whose nasal swabs came back negative last week. Those workers sorted mail received by American Media Inc., the tabloid publishing company where the deadly disease was discovered this month. Union officials said they might sue the U.S. Postal Service and health officials to . allow their employees to be tested. Republicans block appropriations bill WASHINGTON - Republicans have again blocked a major appropriations bill, looking for Democratic assurances that more of President Bush’s judicial nominees will be confirmed before the end of the year. Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle, D-S.D., tried to force GOP senators to move forward with the foreign aid appropriation'bill Tuesday but could not find the 60 votes. Democrats hold a 50-49-1 edge. Republicans say Democrats are deliberately holding up Bush’s nominees this year, a charge Democrats made against the GOP-controlled Senate last year under former President Clinton. The Senate has approved eight judges this year, with more than 50 nominees still pending. There are 110 vacancies in the federal judiciary system, including 39 positions that have been open so long the courts have classified them as “judicial emergencies.” WORLD BRIEFS Hundreds die, boat sinks in Indian Ocean BOGOR, INDONESIA - Dreams of a new life in Australia ended in death for hundreds of refugees after a worn-out pump draining water from their leaky •» Indonesian boat broke down in the Indian Ocean. As the wooden vessel filled with water, dozens of men bailed frantically, some with their bare hands. Terrified women and children were trapped in the overcrowded hold. The boat sank in 10 minutes as heavy rain fell on the otherwise placid sea. Of the 418 people aboard — mostly refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries — only 44 survived the disaster. Friday. Refugees pay smugglers for the dangerous trip, which defies a new entry ban by Australia that presumes many are not fleeing persecution in their troubled homelands, but simply seeking prosperity elsewhere. India close to making cryogenic engine MADRAS, INDIA-India is on the verge of developing an engine that would enable it to launch high-altitude communications satellites, a top space research official said. The technology could be used to build inter continental ballistic missiles. The cryogenic engine, which uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, would let India launch high-altitude satellites into a geosynchronous orbit that keeps them stationary relative to a fixed point on Earth. Sych satellites are used mainly for broadcasting and cpmmunications, and the engine would boost India’s bid to become a major player in their commercial launch. Currently, only the United States, Russia, France-, Japan and China can build cryogenic engines. The engine could give India the capability to build ICBMs by modifying the launch vehicle and replacing the satellite with a bomb. India conducted nuclear tests in May 1998. 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