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STATE SRS could get waste from Aiken COLUMBIA (AP) — The U.S. Energy Department’s inspec tor general has recommended burying millions of gallons of - radioactive waste at the Savannah River Site instead processing and storing it in Nevada. Inspector General Gregory Friedman said burying the waste left over from decades of producing plutonium for nu clear weapons in underground vaults at SRS in Aiken will save $500 million. Friedman, in a report to Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, said officials at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control told him they would consider approving his recom mendation. “The governor has said all along tljat South .Carolina should not become the nation’s nuclear dumping ground,” spokesman Morton Brilliant said. “Gov. Hodges has worked very hard, and with some suc cess, to take nuclear waste out of South Carolina. And it would be a terrible thing for the entire state if we slide back down that hill.” Wind tunnel would be first in nation GREENVILLE (AP)-Initial plans for a Clemson University automotive research park show that a proposed $40 mil lion wind tunnel could be the first of its kind in the nation. . The wind tunnel would have a “rolling road,” a mov ing track to account for the ef fect of the ground on aerody namics, and moving walls that simulate atmospheric pres sure. A business plan commis sioned by Clemson and NASCAR officials say the wind tunnel would be unique. Neill Cameron Jr., Clemson’s vice president for advancement, said Friday that Clemson has not secured fund ing for all of the facilities envi sioned by the plan conducted by the Greenville accounting firm Elliott Davis LLP. “At this time, there is no private-sector commitment for anything oth er than the wind tunnel,” Cameron said. Greenville County’s appli cation for state funding said, the facility would include a graduate school for automotive engineering, company re search facilities and a campus setting to attract other re search facilities. Pilots in joyride case out on bail MONCKS CORNER(AP) - Authorities say two men ac cused of taking a private plane for a joyride have been re leased on bail. Donald Allen Lewis and his passenger, Robert Paul Boros were arrested about 4 a.m. Saturday at the Berkeley County Airport after a hap hazard landing on the rural runway, police said. The pair could have been mistaken for terrorists be cause they, were flying at night without lights and didn’t re spond to air traffic controllers, Berkley County Chief Deputy C.W. “Butch” Henerey said. “I don’t think either one of them realize how serious it could’ve been,” he said. Investigators think Lewis, who they say took the Cessna 152 from the airport where he is taking flying lessons, may have duplicated the owner’s key. Controllers notified the U.S. Air Force and law enforcement officials when the pilot did not respond to the tower, said Dwight Walsh, air traffic man ager at the Charleston International Airport. NATION Cell phone carriers could face lawsuit BALTIMORE (AP) - A recent study that found a possible link between older cell phones and brain tumors could bolster an $800 million lawsuit against Motorola and major cell phone carriers. 'Although many studies have found no cancer risk from cell phone use, the re search published in the latest European Journal of Cancer Prevention said long-term users of analog phones are at least 30 percent more likely than nonusers to develop brain tumors. Newer digital phones emit less radiation than older ana log models of the sort studied. The lawsuit against cell phone manufacturer Motorola was brought by Christopher Newman, a Maryland doctor stricken with brain cancer. A federal judge is expected to de cide by month’s end whether case should go to trial and if so, whether the study can be used as evidence. “From our perspective, and from a public health perspec tive, the court should just be aware of what’s out there,” said Newman’s lawyer, John Angelos, whose firm has made millions suing asbestos and to bacco companies. investigation or Stewart is sought WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to be gin a criminal investigation into whether Martha Stewart lied to a House committee try ing to determine if she re ceived inside information be fore selling her ImClone stock. “As members of Congress we believe it is our obligation to forward specific and credi ble information in our posses sion that could suggest a fed eral crime has been committed,” the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to Attorney General John Ashcroft. Shares of Stewart’s company, Martha Stewart Omnimedia, jumped almost 10 percent on a surge in volume immediately af ter the lawmakers’ announce ment Tuesday afternoon. The shares closed Tuesday at $9.05, up $1.30, or. 16.8 percent, from a day earlier in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Stewart’s attorneys said they welcomed the committee’s action because the Justice Department is the appropriate authority to ad dress questions related to her stock sale. Bush: No nation is immune to terrorism WASHINGTON (AP) — In this week of remembrance, Americans are “reliving a horri ble reminder” that the nation is not safe from terrorism, President Bush said Tuesday. As heightened security sur rounding the Sept. 11 commemo rations once again sent Vice President Dick Cheney to safe, se cret locations, the President said, “Today and tomorrow we’ll be re living a horrible reminder of what is possible in the 21st century — that is, no country is immune from attack.” Security concerns ran high — and emotions, deep — on the eve of the first anniversary of the ter rorist attacks that killed more than 3,000 people in New York City, Washington and Pennsylvania. The President and First Lady Laura Bush opened the emotional week of observances on Monday night, with a taping of “Concert for America 2002” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Bush, his hand over his heart, appeared to squeeze back tears as the national anthem played. WORLD Some say taped voice is bin Laden’s CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — The Arab satellite station Al Jazeera broadcast more ex cerpts of a videotape on Tuesday in which a male voice attributed to Osama bin Laden can be heard naming all 19 Sept. 11 hijackers. On Monday, the station broadcast a portion of the tape in which the same voice, speaking in Arabic, named the [ four leaders of the Sept, ll at tacks — Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Ziad Jarrah and Hani Hanjour. In Tuesday’s broadcast, the voice named all 19 of the hi jackers and their places of birth were cited. The men were lavishly praised for their piety. “Those men (the hijackers) have realized that the only course to achieve justice and defeat injustice is through ji had (Muslim holy struggle) for the cause of God,” the voice bn the tape said in Tuesday’s clip. There was no way to verify whether the person speaking on the tape was bin Laden, or when the recording was made. Switzerland is newest UN member UNITED NATIONS (AP) - After nearly two centuries of neutrality, Switzerland be came the 190th member of the United Nations on Tuesday with the unanimous support of the General Assembly. The admission of Switzerland was one of the first orders of business at the open ing of the new session of the General Assembly. Delegates burst into applause when the new assembly president, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kavan, declared Switzerland the 190th member. French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, on be half of Switzerland’s five neigh bors, recommended its appli cation for membership. “The role of Switzerland is now crucial on issues of devel opment, international law and human rights,” he said. “The entry of Switzerland will strengthen the United Nations.” De Villepin noted that Switzerland was the only na tion to decide to join the United Nations after a popular refer endum, which would strength en “the democratic premise of our organization.” Iraq urges Arabs to confront U.S. BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AP) - In Iraq’s most belligerent remarks in the current standoff with Washington, Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan urged all Arabs on Tuesday to con front the United States, its peo ple and its property. The comments stopped short of explicitly calling on Arabs to attack Americans but underlined Iraq’s drive to sway world opinion behind it against U.S. threats of a possi ble strike to oust Saddam Hussein. His comments came as Saudi Arabia joined European countries on Tuesday in saying Washington should work through the United Nations to contain any possible Iraqi threat. While Saudi Arabia ex pressed worries that an attack could lead to Iraq’s breakup, it was a shift from the Arab world’s consensus of opposing military action against Iraq. Speaking from Amman, the Jordanian capital, the Iraqi vice president said “we cate gorically believe that the ag gression on Iraq is an aggres sion on all the Arab nation. It is the right of all the Arab peo ple... to fight against the ag gression through their repre sentatives and on their soil... by all means,” Ramadan said. Security tightened at U.S. embassies; 9 are closed BY CHRIS BRUMMITT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JAKARTA, INDONESIA (AP) Nine U.S. embassies in Ash Africa and the Middle East wer closed, and U.S. military base and embassies in Europe enforce tightened security Tuesday, th eye of the anniversary of the Sep 11 terror attacks. In Washington, Bush admini: tration officials cited the threat against U.S. embassies i Southeast Asia in raising the n; tion’s terror alert to "code oi ange,” its second-highest level. German authorities raided trading company Tuesday that German official said once eir ployed a suspected al-Qaida r< cruiter accused of drafting men bers of the terror cell that di: patched the Sept. 11 suicide h jackers, and Turkey was on alei for the possibility that militant linked to al-Qaida might be plai ning poison gas attacks. But the most direct threats were in Southeast Asia, where dozens of Islamic hard-liners al legedly linked to the al-Qaida ter e ror network have been arrested s over the last year in Singapore 1 and Malaysia. e In Indonesia, the world’s most ;. populous Muslim nation and home to several hard-line Islamic ;- groups, the U.S. Embassy an s nounced it was closed until fur a ther notice because of a "credible i- and specific” terrorist threat. "We know that the al-Qaida net work is still far from defeated,” a Ambassador Ralph Boyce said. He a implied the warning was received through intelligence sources, say i- ing it was "more than an anony i- mouse-mail or a phoned in threat.” U.S. officials in neighboring Malaysia, a mostly Muslim coun t try of 23 million people, said the em s bassy there would close until fur i- ther notice due to a specific threat. The American diplomatic mis sion in Cambodia will shut down for at least three days as a security precaution, said charge d’affaires Alex Arvizu. He gave no details. U.S. embassies were also closed in Vietnam, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Malawi. In Europe, extra security was ordered at airports, government offices and embassies. Italy assigned 4,000 soldiers to protect "sensitive sites,” while Belgium ordered "strict vigilance” for its security authorities. German police said they were step ping up security at Frankfurt air port, continental Europe’s biggest. "Now, we always have to con sider the unthinkable,” Belgian Interior Minister Antoine Duquesne said. The U.S. State Department is sued a worldwide caution this week urging Americans to remain espe cially vigilant, saying there was a "continuing threat of terrorist ac tions, which may target civilians and include suicide operations.” About 10 unarmed London po lice officers, backed by armed sol diers, were on duty at the U.S. Embassy on Grosvenor Square, where security has been stepped up for the anniversary. U.S. diplo mats said security also remained high at the embassy in Berlin, sealed off for a block on all sides by armed police. The U.S. military’s European Command, based in Stuttgart, Germany and responsible for American forces in Europe and parts of Africa, said security mea sures were being kept at levels of recent months but that base com manders could order extra mea sures as warranted. Last week, German police act ing on an FBI tip arrested a 24 year-old Turkish man and his fi ancee, a U.S.-German citizen, on suspicion of planning to bomb U.S. military installations in Heidelberg. Investigators believe they were acting alone. At the Spangdahlem U.S. air force base in western Germany, 12 buildings were evacuated for several hours Monday after an explosives-sniffing dog alerted au thorities to a gravel truck enter ing the base. No bomb was found. At London area airports, offi cials said airlines canceled 18 Trans-Atlantic flights from Heathrow and at least two from Gatwick. In France, Transport Minister Gilles de Robien warned that avi ation "has become a weapon” as he toured Charles de Gaulle air port outside Paris to demonstrate extra security measures put in place since Sept. 11. "At any instant, anywhere in France or in the world, terrorism can strike, and therefore, we are not free in the face of terrorism, we are on watch,” Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said in an in terview with Radio France Internationale. "Monstrosity is al ways lying in wait, it’s out there, and it is always possible.” With the al-Qaida network dis rupted by the U.S.-led war on ter rorism, European officials were warning of the threat of attacks by individual Islamic extremists who might act without outside di rection. The prosecutor who led the probe into Osama bin Laden’s op erations in Italy said the new threat to Europe in the aftermath of Sept. 11 comes from ’’free lance” terrorists without direct connections to al-Qaida. “’At the moment, we are not threatened by the same network as before Sept, li,” Stefano Dambruoso told The Associated Press in an interview Monday night. "Al-Qaida as we knew it has been largely dismembered.” \\ If you are ready for a REAL Tailgate Party, then come on by! U / —jj the 2nd Great Gamecock 4 «l [PARTY *2002^. <^> September 14 (USC VS. GEORGIA) 12:30-3:00pm fl 1 N\ featuring live music by: "FANTASY BAND" j/\ \ {