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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.
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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.”
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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.
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Red Cross Bloodmobile
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Clean Carolina
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2nd Annual Serve-a-thon
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Carolina Unity Banner Contest
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USC Baseball vs. The Citadel
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