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TX/T rj n\T November 5,2001 ♦ Vol. 95, No. 35 IVlUl IvlCl V University of South Carolina ♦ www.dailygamecock.com B NEXT WEEK, WE’RE REACHING FOR THE SEC TITLE I'- . :_l___L__ M li i Ryan Brewer watches as a pass falls just out of his reach early in the third quarter Saturday. No penalty was called on the play. Carolina scored on the next down en route to a 38-14 victory over Wofford, photo by aaron hark Hodges pushes S.C. tourism BY DARRYL GREEN THE GAMECOCK Worried about the condition of South Carolina’s tourism in dustry, Gov. Jim Hodges has pro claimed November as South Carolina Travel and Tourism Month. Like in most other states, the events of Sept. 11 and the down turn in the economy have deeply impacted the state's tourism in dustry. -A_ “Every town or city we visit and every dollar we spend helps our state’s economy,” Hodges said. Bringing in about $14 million a year, tourism has become the state's largest industry. Tourism comprises the bulk of the service industry, which has overtaken the manufacturing industry in size and revenue. The tourism in dustry also employs more than 200,000 South Carolinians. The decline of tourism in South Carolina is largely because of the lack of travel nationwide, said Thomas L. Sponseller, s Hospitality Association of South e Carolina president and CEO. 1 “Travel is tourism,” Sponsell- i er said. “During the two to three i weeks after the attacks, people would not move.” Sponseller said i he thinks the travel business is 1 suffering because many busi nesspeople aren't traveling. 1 “They are making telephone j calls now, rather than actually traveling.” « Sponseller said he couldn't pecify the exact amount of rev nue and taxes lost because of the errorist attacks, but said it has aost likely resulted in the loss of lillions of dollars. He also said the attacks caused aany in the tourism industry to 3se their jobs. “I don't know the exact num ier, but layoffs are up as a re ult of the attacks. That is due TOURISM, SEE PAGE 2 Taliban’s authority shrinking Rumsfeld says group is losing ability to govern, plan militarily BY GREG MYRE ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Four weeks of U.S. bombing has greatly weakened the Taliban's ability to operate as a government in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld claimed Sunday. “The Taliban (are) not really functioning as a government,” Rumsfeld said after arriving in Pakistan, the latest stop on a trip that has taken him to Russia and a pair of Central Asian states bor dering Afghanistan. Militarily, the Taliban are “using their power in enclaves throughout the country to impose their will on the Afghan people,” Rumsfeld said. But he added, “they are not making major military moves. They are pretty much in static positions.” Rumsfeld said the Taliban were trying to prevent U.S. strikes on their military targets by using mosques as military command centers and for storing ammuni tion and placing tanks near hos pitals and schools. The Taliban are “actively lying about civilian casualties,” he added. Rumsfeld, who arrived from Uzbekistan, spoke after talks with Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who has called for a break in the bombing during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which begins around Nov. 17. President Bush already has said the bombing is likely to con tinue through Ramadan. Rumsfeld gave no indication that stand had changed. “The reality is that the threat of additional terrorist acts is there,” he said. The United States will be sensitive to the views in the region, he added, but he wouldn't outline military plans. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar, who appeared with Rumsfeld at a news conference, said his country wanted the mili tary campaign to be as brief as possible — but it also needed to achieve its objectives. _ At his earlier stop in Uzbekistan, Rumsfeld told reporters the anti terrorist campaign was “proceed * ing at a pace that is showing mea surable progress.” Rumsfeld's stopovers in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — two nations on Afghanistan's north ern border — came at a time when Washington is looking to send more troops into Afghanistan to scout out targets and train oppo sition fighters. Many experts have ♦ TALIBAN, SEE PAGE 2 *T Hurricane Michelle’s eye blasts Cuba; Florida Keys evacuated BY CORALIE CARLSON ASSOCIATED PRESS KEY WEST, FLA. — The Florida Keys were ordered evacuated Sunday as meteorologists warned that the chain of islands likely would be brushed by Hurricane Michelle. Rain spread into the state as the eye of the hurricane blasted down on the south coast of Cuba. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami issued a hurricane warning for all of the Florida Keys, projecting that winds of 75 mph or more could reach the area Sunday and remain into Monday. Gusts — up to 52 mph in Sobrero Key — and heavy surf were already pounding the area's beaches. Bennie Sweeney, who owns a Key West T-shirt shop, opened his store but only to prepare for the storm. Sweeney said he was going to hang a picture of a rabbi on the window. “We went to the synagogue, we prayed. We came here just to make sure nothing happens,” Sweeney said. Monroe County officials or dered a mandatory evacuation for all the Keys early Sunday, and Miami-Dade County officials or ♦ HURRICANE, SEE PAGE 3 Affate^pS BY PAUL RECER ASSOCIATED PHESS WASHINGTON - Traces of an thrax were reported Sunday on a package sent from NBC to the New York mayor’s office and at a Veterans Affairs’ hospital in Washington. Health investigators were stymied in efforts to find the source of anthrax that killed a New York woman, but experts said they were relieved no new cases linked to her unique expo sure have surfaced. On Capitol Hill, workers pre pared to sterilize the anthrax-con taminated Hart Senate office building with chlorine dioxide gas. Officials at the Mayo Clinic were to announce Monday a new DNA test that can give a quick an swer about any possible anthrax sample. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 140 health-care workers have been vaccinated against smallpox, a precaution that will protect med ical workers who would be the first to respond to any outbreak of the highly contagious disease. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York said “there’s no reason to be concerned” about traces of anthrax found on a package con taining a videotape sent to his of fice from the office of NBC anchor Tom Brokaw. The tape contained footage of a White House briefing Sept. 18 in which a Giuliani aide was mentioned. The mayor said there was no ev idence that anyone at City Hall was infected from the package, handled by four or five people. Technicians conducted environmental tests at City Hall on Sunday. City health officials said the tape was associated with an anthrax laced letter sent to NBC on Sept. 18 * ANTHRAX, SEE PAGE 3 ‘SERVANTS OF ALL’ Two fraternities hold cookout to thank, befriend campus police BYGINNY THORNTON THE GAMECOCK Alpha Phi Alpha and Delta Upsilon fraternities held a joint cookout for the USC Police Department in McBryde Quad on Sunday afternoon. Damian Williams of Delta Upsilon said the event was in tended to thank the USCPD for its services as well as to help build a closer relationship between local law enforcement agencies and the Greek community. “We wanted to help build bet ter campus relations with the po lice, especially in the Greek com munity,” Delta Upsilon junior Adam Rauh said. About 25 USCPD representa tives drifted in and out of the cookout, playing basketball and eating with fraternity members. “The fact that we’re even here is a huge success,” said Sgt. Henry Garbade of the USCPD. “Hopefully, this will be the first of many. We’re talking about ' how we can reciprocate, maybe in the spring.” Garbade also mentioned his interest in destroying negative views about relationships be tween law enforcement and the Greek system. “Those negative perceptions exist on both sides. And no mat ter what anyone says, the Greek system leads trends on campus. So I can’t say enough about what these guys are trying to do here to build good relationships among us,” he said. Williams said: “We want to fo cus on our commonalities and foster communication so we can prevent bad things before they happen.” Williams thought of sponsor ing the event because of the friendship he had developed with Garbade several years ago while working with USC Housing. He invited Alpha Phi Alpha to join in sponsoring the event because of the chapter’s reputation for campus involve ment. “We like participating in things like this because part of our motto is ‘servants of all,’” said Derrick Cattenhead, Alpha Phi Alpha president. “For us, do ing this is not about being recog nized. We want to encourage each other and other chapters to develop a sense of tolerance.” “We’re hoping that maybe next year, more fraternities will want to join us, and we can make this a Greek-wide event,” Williams said. “Besides, you can never have too many friends on campus.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. Eddie Nance, left, and John PeHet, right, fix themselves something to eat at the USCPD picnic, photo by robert gruen USC’S PAST November 6,1909 U.S. President William Howard Taft became the first sitting president to visit the USC campus. WEATHER Today Tomorrow Sunny, Sunny, 74/38 69/37 * INSIDE TODAY’S ISSUE USC puts Terriers in the doghouse Gamecocks now poised to take on Florida. ♦ PAGE 8 tf < USC anime club celebrates subgenre Club Nashi meets every week for nonstop anime. ♦ PAGE 5 > ONLINE POLL Captain GameDay Will Lee Corso pick the Gamecocks? Vote at www.dailygamecock.com. Results are published on Fridays.