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3 Rivers CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Captain Easy, Edgewise, Betty Ford Experience and Red Hitt are some of the bands who will play early sets each night of the weekend. 3 Rivers will also receive a visit from “Beatle Bob,” a famous concert goer described as a “one-man dance marathon.” He is a concert enthusi ast with a mop-top haircut and vin tage clothes who travels all over the nation to see bands perform. The festival will also feature a special area for children. They can play on oversized musical instru ments, create “musical” hats to wear in the “Sensational Sound Parade” and watch a man juggle as he walks on stilts. However, even though the artists are good to go, a great deal of work still remains to be done before Friday evening. “We’ve got a lot to do before this weekend,” White said. Thursday morning, police began closing streets around the Vista in Street closings The following streets will be closed this weekend as of 9 a.m. today. They will reopen by 6 a.m. Monday. ♦ Gadsden Street between Hampton and Taylor Streets ♦ Park Street between Hampton and Gervais ♦ Lincoln Street between ■ Hampton and Lady ♦ Lady Street between Lincoln and Assembly ♦Washington Street between Wayne and Assembly ♦Wayne Street between Washington and Taylor SOURCE: COLUMBIA POLICE DEPT. preparation. Workers began con struction on the stages at 9 a.m. Tickets are still available at the gates for $20 per day. Children 10 and under are admitted free with a ticket-holding adult. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockmixeditor@hotmail.com Mideast CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 But Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said Bush’s harsh cr iti cismof Arafatwas “unjustified - and unacceptable.” The cabinet statement also said Arafat and his leadership accept cease-fire proposals put together last year by CIA direc tor George Tenet and a wider planforrestartingpeace talks. Powell called Arafat early Friday, said Arafat aide Nabil Abu Rdeneh. He said they dis cussed the Bush speech, and Arafat accepted Bush’s pro posals. The Israeli foreign ministry said it would cooperate with the new Bush initiative. “We heard positively the words of Bush about the need to stop the terror. We welcome Powell’s mission to the region andwewilldoeverythingsothat his mission will be successful,” the statement said on behalf of Foreign Minister ShimonPeres. A statement from the office of Defense Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer suggested Israel had no plans foranimmediatewithdrawal. It said the military chief “em phasizes that Israel will cooperate in U.S. efforts to cease terror and fire. In the absence of a true will ingness to do the same on the Palestinian side, Israel will con tinue in its actions to stop terror.” In New York, the U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a res olution endorsing Powell’s mission and demanding an Israeli with drawal “ without delay. ” ThefallofNablusonThursdayput sixmajorWestBankcitiesandtowns under Israeli control, with only two left unoccupied:Hebronand Jericho. Butlsraeli tanks,helicoptergunships and soldiers struggled to wipe out pockets of resistance and flush out hundredsofmilitantsholedupinone of Christianity’s most sacred sites, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Five Palestinians were killed Thursday, including three gunmen and a man who worked as the church’s caretaker and bell ringer: Samir Ibrahim Salman, a Palestinian Christian. The 45-year old man was shot in the chest while walking to the church, said hospital director Peter Koumry. Palestinians also accused the Israelisofblowingopenametalback door leading to a courtyard in the an cient basilica, breaking a pledge not to damage the church, built over the traditionalbirthplaceofJesus. They said the troops fired inside, wound ingthree people. The Israeli military denied the accusation but prevented reporters from reaching the church to assess theclaims. Reporters havebeenor dered to leave all six West Bank towns seized by Israel. Amid growing world concern that the tensions could spark a re gional conflict, a European Union mission arrived and asked to meet with Arafat — a request Israel swiftly denied. After Bush spoke, European Commission President Romano Prodi, who on Wednesday urged Washington to step aside to make roomforabroadermediationeffort, offered the EU’s “full cooperation” to the United States and all other par ties seekingtoendthe violence. “I warmly welcome the state ment ofPresident Bush, ” Prodi said in a statement. “It is an expression of determ inationandleadership.” U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni, who met with Sharon on Thursday, was given permission to visit the Palestinian leader. Sharon had ini tially turned down such a request by Powell. Bush administration of ficials said Zinni would try to see Arafat' on Friday; Powell is to leave for the Middle East next week. For the past week, Arafat has been in what amounts to Israeli cus tody, trapped in his office com pound in the West Bank’s commer cial capital, Ramallah. Earlier Thursday, Israeli mili tary chief of staff Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz came out publicly for the ex pulsion of Arafat from the West Bank. Declaring that Arafat sup ports terrorism, Mofaz told a news conference, “it’s preferable that he would beoutside.” Ben-Eliezer promptly rebuked Mofaz. He said the military com mander has a right to his opinions but must keep them to himself, “certainly after the government has made a decision.” 9 Donation CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 too small to comprehend,” said William Harris, vice president for research at the university. One goal with the Eastman technology will be to improve the stiffness of plastic bottles to make them feel more like glass, said David Pond, vice president of technology for Eastman Chemical. Eastman, which has oper ated a plastics plant outside Columbia for more than 30 years, has developed a three layer packaging process using microscopic clay particles sandwiched between two lay ers of plastic. ^ The bottles rival glass in ™ terms of keeping oxygen out of beverage containers, but they don't break like glass and don’t weigh as much. That means they are more welcome at venues such as sports arenas and pools, and transporting them costs less. The bottles are just one ap plication for the plastics're search, Pond said. The uni versity will work to find oth ers. Eastman is not planning to use the technology. “The present strategy is not to use it internally,” Pond said. The university also will re ceive money from ongoing li censing agreements on the technology and will pay to A maintain the half dozen exist ing patents and the two or three pending patents on.the technology, Pond said. Similar gifts have been made to Clemson University in the Upstate. In 2000, Eastman donated more than 100 patents, valued at $38 mil lion. Those patents were relat ed to fiber absorbency. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudeskipjiotmail.com Garouna , IMF UNITY Week ^floril8-13.2002 v. . A Celebration of the Connections We Share as Members of the Carolina Community Monday, April 8 Red Cross Bloodmobile Sponsored by Carolina Unity Week Committee 10 am to 3pm, Greene St. Clean Carolina Sponsored by Student Government 2 pm, Greene St. 2nd Annual Serve-a-thon Sponsored by Carolina Dining Services 4-7 pm, Russell House Patio (Bring one can of food for a free buffet plate! Games and live entertainment) Carolina Unity Banner Contest Sponsored by Garnet Circle (Student organization banners will be displayed on Greene St. all week) Tuesday, April 9 Community Service One Shot Sponsored by the Community Service Leadership Team 2-5 pm (Meet in the Campus Activities Center in the West Wing of the Russell House) Big Man on Campus Pageant Sponsored by Zeta Tau Alpha 7 pm, Koger Center for the Arts (Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door) Eating Disorder Panel Sponsored by P.E.E.R.S. 7:30 pm, Nursing Building Room 231 Wednesday, April 10 Mind, Body, and Spirit Fair Sponsored by P.E.E.R.S 10 am-3 pm, Greene St. USC Baseball vs. The Citadel 7 pm, Sarge Frye Field Better Than Ezra Concert Sponsored by Carolina Productions 8 pm, Russell House Ballroom (USC Students: $10 in advance, $15 day of show, General Public: $ 15 Tickets available at R1I Information Center and ETIX.com Helping with an Eating Disorder Sponsored by P.E.E.R.S. 7:30 pm, Nursing Building Room 231 Alt Sponsored by Carolina Productions 8 pm, Russell House Theater The Hyphenated American Panel Discussion Sponsored by RHA: Time and Location TBA ► Thursday & Friday: Alt, 8 pm Russell House Theater ► Saturday, April 13: USC Showcase, Announcement of Homecoming 2002 theme Sponsored by Student Government and University Housing __For more information, please call 777-4129. 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