Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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STATE Lottery commission moves for Powerball COLUMBIA (AP)-The South Carolina lottery commission vot ed Tuesday to begin applying to join the multimillion-dollar Powerball game. The commission’s application is pending approval of the General Assembly. The House has OK’d multistate games, but the Senate still must give its ap proval, which is expected soon. Officials say if the Legislature approves multistate games by June, Powerball fcould start in the state as soon as September. Officials say the game could pro vide more than $20 million a year to South Carolina coffers. Hodges vows to stop plutonium shipments COLUMBIA (AP) - South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges put the onus on the federal govern ment Tuesday as he rebuffed Colorado Gov. Bill Owens’ re quest to accept that state’s plu tonium shipments. On Monday, many state offi cers took part in a training ex ercise ordered by Hodges, who’s been locked in a dispute with the U.S. Department of Energy about shipments of weapons grade plutonium from Colorado to Savannah River Site. Owens sent Hodges a letter Tuesday, saying “further delay on this issue has implications that go well beyond ene state.” CIGNA SUED: The South Carolina Medical Association sued CIGNA Health Corp. on Tuesday, alleging the HMO uses "unfair and deceptive acts and practices” to delay, deny or re duce reimbursements to its members. I NATION Government arrests D.C. airport workers ALEXANDRIA, VA. (AP) - Authorities arrested close to 100 workers Tuesday at airports serving the nation’s capital on charges they lied to obtain secu rity badges that gave them broad access to sensitive areas. Those arrested included con struction workers, janitors, food workers and at least two bag gage screeners. The arrests were part of a con tinuing crackdown to increase security at airports across the nation following the Sept. 11 at tacks. U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty described raids as an ' “anti-terrorism initiative” but said authorities have “no evi dence at this point of any con nection of these individuals to any terrorist organizations.” Federal officials said that by day’s end, or perhaps Wednesday, they expected to have arrested at least 138 employees in a sweep called “Fly Trap” at Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. HUGHES RESIGNS: Karen Hughes, the fierce protector of President Bush’s image and per haps the most powerful woman ever to serve as White House ad viser, resigned Tuesday to go home to Texas with her family. WORLD U.N. refuses to delay Jenin investigation UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan re fused Israel’s demand Tuesday to delay and change a U.N. fact-find ing mission to the Jenin refugee camp, telling members to arrive in the Mideast by Saturday. The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting af ter Israel sought a delay, saying it wanted more military and counter-terrorism experts added to the team and also wanted the group to investigate Palestinian terrorist activities in the camp. The council issued a statement after the meeting, saying it ex pects “fast implementation” of a resolution welcoming the fact finding mission — and Israel’s “full cooperation” with the sec retary-general and the team. While the council was holding consultations, Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Yehuda Lancry met Annan in his office at U.N. head quarters to ask for changes in the team’s composition and its scope of action, which Israel wants lim ited only to Jenin itself. An Israeli official in Jerusalem said the team was cho sen by Annan without consult ing Israel, as had been agreed, and the members were political, not from a military background as Israel had requested. 2 dead, hundreds hurt in Calif, train collision BY LEON DROUIN KEITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PLACENTIA, CALIF. - A freight train plowed head-on into a Southern California commuter train during the morning rush hour Tuesday, hurling people out of their seats. Two people were killed and at least 260 injured, many of them left dazed and bloodied. Witnesses said the Metrolink commuter train came to a halt just before the crash. A passen ger identified as Jim Fleming told KCAL-TV that the engineer came running through the car. “There was a silence and he was yelling, ‘Everybody get down, get down!’ I thought maybe there was a bomb on board.... Then all of a sudden we hit,” Fleming said. Authorities were investigat ing how the trains ended up on the same track. The accident happened just after 8 a.m., 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The south bound Metrolink train was traveling from Riverside to San Juan Capistrano with more than 300 people when it collid ed with a mile-long Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight en route from Los Angeles to Clovis, N.M., with 67 loaded containers. Commuters were thrown from their seats by the ihipact, and pas sengers, many of them bleeding, scrambled to help others out of the double-deck Metrolink cars. Robert Kube, 59, of Moreno Valley died at the scene. Another passenger, a 48-year-old man, died at a hospital. His name was not immediately released. Officials said 162 people were taken to hospitals; 19 were re ported to have serious injuries. Witnesses said the collision knocked the Metrolink train back at least 100 feet and pushed the first two cars off the track. Mark Brown, running from his auto mobile, saw passengers clamber ing out the windows of the buck led cars. He forced his way into one of the cars and froze. “It was utter chaos inside,” he said. “When you walked in and “It was utter chaos inside. When you walked in and saw that carnage, you had to stop and catch your breath.” MARK BROWN ACCIDENT WITNESS saw that carnage, you had to stop and catch your breath.” Brian Scharr, pastor at Yorba Linda Friends Church, watched the crash from his car as he wait ed for the trains to pass. He said he helped a pregnant woman from the train, then knelt with her and prayed. The National Transportation Safety Board sent investigators from Washington. It was the worst accident in the nine-year history of Metrolink, which carries 32,000 passengers on 128 trains daily. Uncertain? Emergency Contraception P Planned Parenthood 803-256-4908 Lose 10, 20, 40 lbs Doctor Recommended 1-800-441-6314 100% Guaranteed -1 . LIKE THE PARENTS WOULD EVER SEND YOU A CARE PACKAGE THIS COOL. 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