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Afghanistan Plans being made for conference talks CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 James F. Dobbins, the alliance’s foreign minister, Abdullah, said the meeting “will be held outside Afghanistan,” possibly as early as this week. That would represent a major concession by the alliance, which clearly wanted the conference to take place in a city under its con trol. Abdullah said some locations proposed by the United Nations “weret acceptable to us,” citing Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The United States had been putting heavy pressure on the northern alliance to drop Kabul as a venue for the talks. Powell ex pressed hopes the meeting orga nized by the top U.N. envoy for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, would take place in days. He told ABC’s This Week that the United States believes any new power structure in Afghanistan should include women. However, he said, “we’re not going to dictate what they do with their govern ment.” Refugees fleeing Kunduz say a hard core of Taliban soldiers and allied Arab, Chechen and Pakistani fighters are in control after fleeing other districts across the-north in the past week. The refugees told of terror at the hands of Taliban troops and foreign -fighters. The foreigners, fearing they will be killed if the city falls, were reportedly blocking Afghan Taliban trying to surrender. One refugee, Dar Zardad, said the Taliban killed eight boys in_ their late teens after some of the youths laughed at the militia fight ers. / - Witnesses said at least 100 Taliban soldiers were shot, ap parently by gunmen from their own side, as they approached northern alliance lines in an at tempt to surrender. Still, Taliban leaders in the city were negotiating with alliance commanders by radio. The Taliban said they would surrender if the alliance guaran teed that non-Afghans fighting alongside the Islamic militia would not be killed and if the surrender were witnessed by U.N. represen tatives, an alliance commander, Nahidullah, said in the city of Taloqan, about 40 miles to the east. There was no immediate word whether the opposition alliance has accepted the offer. Northern alliance forces had moved a multi ple-rocket launcher and two tanks up to the road that is the eastern approach to Kunduz, but there was no sign an attack was imminent. The Taliban were barring peo ple from leaving Kunduz, telling them, “If you leave the USA will bomb all the city,” said Zardad, the refugee. He said he made it out of the city only after Taliban beat him with their rifle butts. In Kandahar, meanwhile, the Taliban appeared still in control de spite a reported deal last week for their supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, to leave the city. President Committee still talking applications CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and administrators. They meet regularly to process applications and nominations, which has been advertised in South Carolina and newspapers nationwide, higher education jour nals and the New York Times. _ William Hubbard, chairman and spokesman for the search committee, said it is recruiting candidates and reviewing nomi nations and applications. Though they’re trying to narrow down the list of candidates, they’re still tak ing applications and nominations. “We certainly hope to have 10 to 15 outstanding candidates by this time... but the door is open until we announce the final four,” Hubbard said. Hubbard doesn’t think the bud get cut issues, including the hir ing freeze, tuition increase and department cuts, will prevent USC from finding the right president. “New candidates are inquiring as to what challenges the budget cuts represent to the university and how the university is re sponding to those challenges,” Hubbard said. “Some embrace the job more because of the challenge. Some want more inhumation. Some, I think have concerns about it. It’s across the board.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. What are you looking for in the next USG president? “They should be someone that can work with a lot of different kinds of people and different cultures. I think they should be a strong leader.” RINA PATEL FIRST-YEAR PHARMACY STUDENT “He or she needs to strive to diversify the faculty.” SHAUNDRA CUNNINGHAM FIRST-YEAR BUSINESS STUDENT STATE BRIEFS New evidence ends 30-year-old case New evidence in a 30-year old homicide case has helped Charleston County investigators make an arrest in one of their oldest and most troubling unsolved cases. Earl Lawrence Robinson, 53, of Mount Pleasant was arrested and charged Friday in the death of Margaret Jenkins. Robinson is accused of stabbing the 50-year-old mother of two at least a half dozen times near Remley’s Point on Feb. 18,1971. He was being held without bail. Robinson, who had been a suspect in the crime all along, was arrested initially in ' September when he refused to give a court-ordered blood sample to investigators working on the Jenkins case. “In homicides, time usually works against you, said Julius Buncum, one of the lead investigators on the case. “In this case, time \ actually worked for us.” Sheriff A1 Cannon said Robinson lived less than a mile from where Jenkins’ body was found. When Cannon reopened the case in August, he said detectives would bring new technology to the investigation, including DNA testing. IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED OLYMPIA FIRE AN ACCIDENT: The fire that damaged the historic Olympia School has been ruled an accident; though investigators don’t know what ignited the blaze, the Richland County Fire Marshal’s Office says. The fire started in an attic near an empty armory and the school gym, marshal’s spokesman George Rice said. NATION BRIEFS Congress jolted by new anthrax scare WASHINGTON - Authorities closed two Senate office buildings Saturday and awaited test results from a letter suspected of containing anthrax that was sent to a senator. The discovery jolted Congress again just as threat from the deadly bacteria had seemed to recede. “It’s kind of chilling when you see your name on something like this,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, to whom the letter was addressed. The unopened envelope sent to Leahy, D-Vt., resembled the letter mailed last month to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D. The Leahy letter was discovered in the 280 barrels of congressional mail quarantined after a Daschle employee opened a powder filled envelope Oct. 15. The Leahy letter was sealed and sent to the Army installation at Fort Detrick, Md., for tests.' “At this juncture, we do not know that it’s anthrax,” said Van Harp, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington office. The senator’s chief of staff, Luke Albee, said it was not known whether the letter reached Leahy’s office or whether any Leahy employee had touched it. IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED PRAYERS FOR PLANE CRASH VICTIMS: Mourners from New York to the Dominican Republic gathered in separate ceremonies Sunday to grieve for the passengers of American Airlines Flight 587, the Dominican Republic bound airliner that plunged into a suburban neighborhood shortly after takeoff. WORLD' BRIEFS Israelies demand week-long peace JERUSALEM — On the eve of a major U.S. policy statement, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon refused to ease demands for a week without violence as a condition for peace talks with Palestinians. Violence continued Sunday. A bomb went off near the King David hotel in Jerusalem while police were trying to defuse it. No one was hurt by the bomb, which police said apparently was planted by Palestinians. Also, two Palestinians, ages 17 f and 70, died of wounds suffered in earlier clashes with Israeli forces. Sharon noted that the United States agreed to Israel’s condition of “seven days of quiet and no less” before a June cease-fire plan negotiated by CIA director George Tenet can be enforced. The seven days must be followed by a six-week “cooling-off period” before Israel begins confidence building measures such as a freeze on Jewish settlements, Sharon said at a news conference after meeting European Union leaders. Palestinian Cabinet ^ Secretary-General Ahmed Abdel Raham said the demand for total calm was “an excuse, in effect hampering the efforts aimed at the resumptin of peace talks.” IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED TALKS FOR PEACE: A prominent representative of Chechnya’s rebels met with an envoy of President Vladimir Putin on Sunday for the first face-to-face talks about ending hostilities since renewed war broke out in the separatist region two years ago. 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