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Mideast
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Sharon has announced a pullout
from all but Ramallah and
Bethlehem within a week.
In any event, Israeli officials said
the withdrawal would not preclude
efforts to arrest Fuad Shobaki,
whom they accused of overseeing
attacks on Israel and the abortive
shipment of 50 tons of Iranian
weapons to the Palestinians.
Andj the officials said on condi
tion of anonymity, they remain de
termined to arrest the plotters of
the assassination last October of
Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi.
Powell will have a second and
final session with Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat on
Wednesday at his rocket-battered
Ramallah headquarters, where
he’s been confined by Israeli
troops for nearly three weeks.
In his meeting with Arafat, and
in a one-hour session Tuesday
with Sharon at the prime minis
ter’s home in midtown Jerusalem,
Powell also was taking up the in
ternational peace conference that
is quickly taking shape.
He would like to wind up the
trip with fresh assurances from
Arafat to reduce violence. But
Powell is falling short of the for
mal cease-fire he left Washington
in search of 10 days ago.
In Washington, Bush signed a
routine document Tuesday that
gave Arafat’s Palestine Liberation
Organization permission to have
an official presence in the capital.
This time, however, permission
Was tied to conditions including a
cease-fire in the Middle East, re
sumption of security cooperation
with Israel against terror and an
immediate order to crack down on
terrorist networks. The conditions
were to be met immediately.
If held, a peace conference
would implement Powgll’s de
clared search for an accelerated
political process that the
Palestinians want.
Sharon said the peace confer
ence probably would be held in
June in the United States. A site
has not been selected. A potential
problem is that Sharon wants to
screen out Arafat but attend him
self, even though the tentative
plan is to hold it at the foreign
ministers level.
Sharon’s spokesman, Raanan
Gissin, said a peace conference
was not a certainty. “The
Americans think this is very im
portant,” he said.
“I think we are making
progress and are
looking forward to
making more progress
in the next 24 hours.”
COLIN POWELL
U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE
Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi
Arabia and perhaps Morocco
were possible participants,
Sharon told Israel TV. An alter
native is to have the Arab League
represent the Arabs and possibly
invite the European Union and
Russia. The United States would
be represented as well.
Lebanon has previously reject
ed the possibility of a peace con
ference. But Prime Minister Rafik
Hariri, who meets Wednesday
with Bush in Washington, said
Tuesday his country would wel
come a conference if its goal was a
comprehensive resolution of the
Arab-Israeli conflict.
“If (we) really want to see the
peace taking place in the region,
we have to include Lebanon,
Syria and the Palestinians as
well,” he said Tuesday on PBS’s
“NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”
While Powell has steered clear
of a formal cease-fire that would
be considered broken with every
hostile incident, he said he was
working on something like it with- |
out a “specific term.” In his last
Mideast mission nearly a year ago,
Powell called for seven days of qui
et before getting back to the nego
tiating table—a requirement that
proved impossible.
The focus of the last stage of
Powell’s trip is how to stop the fight
ing and how to pin down Israeli
Palestinian security arrangements
to maintain calm in the West Bank, |
Israeli officials said.
U.S. and Palestinian officials J
were holding “good conversa- [
tions,” Powell said. However, J
they failed to agree on a statement j
condemning suicide bombings as
well as calling for an Israeli with
drawal from West Bank areas,
said a senior Palestinian official.
The United States objected to
a Palestinian addition “calling for
an end to Israel’s occupation, for
the establishment of the state of
Palestine in the June 4,1967, bor
ders, with east Jerusalem as its
capital, and a just solution for the
refugee problem, with the need
ed mechanism to guarantee the
implementation within an agreed
timeline.” That plan also would
have asked additional action by
the U.N. Security Council.
Activity
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Dr. Barbara Ainsworth, USC’s
Prevention Research Center di
rector, said that maintaining a
moderate amount of exercise is
not very hard.
“Physical activity doesn’t have
to mean joining a gym, although
that’s great for those who want
that type of program,” said
Ainsworth, who has done research
on minority women and the im
pact of physical activity and dis
ease. “Moderate physical activity
includes walking, gardening, bi
cycling for pleasure, or dancing.
Fifteen minutes of walking in
the morning, followed by 15 min
utes in the afternoon, for example,
can make an important difference
in a person’s health, no matter
how young or old they are.
Walking was found to be the ex
ercise of choice; forty-one percent
of those surveyed said they had
walked for exercise that month.
“It is very hard for individuals to
exercise here,” said Chris Surfield,
a USC graduate student. “This city
is not pedestrian-friendly. However,
I do think that South Carolina is try
ing and getting better at this. There
are many obstacles that are faced if
a person wants to go walking.
Nature and walking trails need to
be created. I find that most areas
around here you must drive, it is al
most impossible to walk, which is a
shame because walking is one of the
best forms of exercise.”
Although some South
Carolinians might be getting more
physical activity, DHEC
Commissioner Earl Hunter said
there still remains work to be done.
“About 47 percent of those in
the Palmetto State say that they
are not regularly active, and about
28 percent say they are inactive,”
Hunter said. “This still gives
health care professionals cause for
concern. Clearly, public health
messages touting the benefits of
physical activity are being heard,
but we need to reach more of our
men, women and young people.”
Lauren Welch, a third-year
business student, said, “I think
that during the spring semester,
people usually tend to exercise
more than they had during the fall
semester. This is because they
have to get ready for the summer.”
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“Those Stats have been pretty
current for several years,” he said.
“The good thing about it is, now it
is in the forefront and now people
want to talk about it.”
The USC Alcohol and Drug
Programs Office has been running
a prominent advertisement in stu
dent media this year that says stu
dents don’t drink as much as peo
ple think. The survey, based on
data collected from a random sam
pie of USC students during the fall
2001 semester, says 77 percent of
all USC students have between
zero and five drinks per week.
“I think the whole point of it is
to try to get people to see what re
ality is,” Gantt said. “Students
grossly misperceive student alco
hol consumption. The perception
is that students drink and students
drink a lot. The point is to provide
factual information to students re
garding their perception of peers
drinking. There is a lot of research
out there that has shown it is an ex
tremely helpful intervention tool.”
Michele Nichols, who works at
USC’s statistical consulting lab, said
the figures have some problems.
“I don’t think it is helping
them,” she said. “Including all stu
dents from zero to five drinks per
week really isn’t very informative.
If you don’t know how many of
these students are drinking five
drinks a week and how many are
drinking zero, then I think that is
more important to know.”
A recent study by the Harvard
School of Public Health defined
binge drinking as four or more
drinks in a row for women, or five
or more for men.
Despite the numbers increasing
nationally, Gantt said, for the most
part, USC has remained unscathed.
“I’m not saying there are not
problems, but I’m saying the ma
jority of. students are making
healthy choices,” he said.
“Our numbers on this campus
don’t show some of the drastic in
crease a lot of these reports are
talking about. Student alcohol use
(at USC) has dropped over the past
couple of years.”
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