Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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STATE 500 gallons of oil spill in Cooper River CHARLESTON (AP) - The Coast Guard estimated Tuesday that as much as 500 gallons of heavy oil might have spilled in the Cooper River, most of it at the old Charleston Navy Base. Crews were back on the river Tuesday, continuing to mop up after a containment boom was put in place to capture the oil af ter the spill was discovered ear ly Monday. The Coast Guard hired a cleanup contractor that put out more booms and used an oil-skim mer to scoop up some of the oil. The condition of the oil found in the water indicates the spill oc curred sometime between Saturday night and early Monday, said Lt. Cmdr. Paul Dittman, the chief of port operations for the Coast Guard’s Marine Safety Office in Charleston. Sanford proposes new education plan MOUNT PLEASANT (AP) - Calling the present system “a bureaucratic nightmare,” Republi-can gubernatorial can didate Mark Sanford on Tuesday proposed-streamlining how South Carolina spends money on public education. He proposed a consolidated education fund taking almost $1 billion now allocated under 80 different accounts and giving the money to local school dis tricts as block grants under just six categories. The campaign of Democratic Gov. Jim Hodges issued a news release calling the proposal “an other permutation” of Sanford’s education plan. Sanford said the $1 billion represents about half the mon ey South Carolina spends on ed ucation. NATION AOL to broadcast abduction alerts WASHINGTON (AP)-Thena tion’s largest Internet service, America Online, will begin trans mitting Amber Alerts about ab ducted children onto the screens of computers, pagers and cell phones of more than 26 million subscribers in dozens of states and cities. Beginning in November, warnings issued across the patchwork of communities that use the system will go to AOL users in those areas who request to receive them. Law enforcement agencies send broadcasters descriptions of the missing children and their abductors or other information. AOL’s 26 million members can preregister by entering their ZIP code to receive alerts in any of the states, counties and cities that participate. Travelers and people near state borders can enter mul tiple ZIP codes, Graham said. Columbia man will be tried in N.C. first DOBSON, N.C. (AP) - The man charged with killing two men in Dobson and two others in South Carolina will be tried in North Carolina first, say pros ecutors who indicate they will seek the death penalty. Quincy Allen, 22, of Columbia, requested a court-ap pointed attorney during his first appearance hearing Monday in Surry County Allen has been indicted on two counts of murder, two counts of armed robbery and felony larceny.. Allen arrived in Dobson on Friday night after more than five weeks of negotiations be tween prosecutors in North Carolina and South Carolina to determine which state would try him first. WORLD Jerusalem clause angers Palestinians RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (AP) — Palestinian officials reacted Tuesday to U.S. legislation that encouraged recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Israel posted troops over looking Yasser Arafat’s head quarters, watching for militants it says are still holed up in Ramallah. Israel lifted a 10-day siege of the compound on Sunday. President Bush signed a spending bill on Monday that urges his administration to shift the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Bush said he would treat the clauses on Jerusalem as a recommendation rather than an order. Saeb Erekat, a member of the Palestinian Cabinet, said Bush’s signing of the bill “undermines all efforts being exerted to revive the peace process and put it back on track.” Shots fired at U.S. base in Afghanistan BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN (AP) — Shots were fired at a U.S. base in southeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, but soldiers did not re turn fire, a U.S. military official said. The gunshots came from about 600 yards away from the base in Shkhin and caused no in juries or damage, said Col. Roger King at Bagram Air Base, the U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan. An investigation into the shooting was under way, King said. Guns and rockets are fre quently fired at U.S. bases in the area south of Kabul, one of the most active fronts in the United States-led campaign against al Qaida and the Taliban. U.N. inspectors demand access to off-limit sites BY WILLIAM J. KOLE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VIENNA, AUSTRIA - Iraq agreed Tuesday to a plan for the return of U.N. weapons inspec tors for the first time in nearly four years, but the deal ignores U.S.. demands for access to Saddam Hussein’s palaces and other contested sites. Chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix said a team of inspectors could be in Iraq in two weeks if it gets the go-ahead from the U.N. Security Council. He also said the agreement on logistics, hammered out in two days of talks in Vienna, called for “immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access” to most sus pect sites. But, he said, eight presidential sites would remain off-limits to surprise inspections unless the U.N. Security Council bends to U.S. demands that all sites bd sub ject to unannounced visits. Under a 1998 deal between U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Baghdad, the inspec I-1 V tors are not allowed to visit the presidential sites unannounced and must be accompanied by a team of international diplomats when they do. The United States, meanwhile, moved negotiations on its tough new proposal for Iraq to the United Nations on Tuesday, meeting with permanent mem bers of the Security Council op posed to authorizing force against Saddam before testing his willingness to cooperate. At the meeting, ambassadors from the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China dis cussed the resolution’s so-called “or else” clause which warns Saddam to cooperate or face mil itary action from member states. France and Russia vehement ly oppose the U.S. position, with Paris floating its own proposal for a two-phased approach which would only authorize force if Iraq failed to cooperate with inspec tors. "But a senior U.S. official in Washington told The Associated Press that all five veto-holding members agreed that a new sys tem of inspections — after a four year absence — must be worked out to open Saddam’s palaces. The United States and Britain have drafted a new plan that would give Iraq seven days after adoption of the resolution to de clare whether it would comply, and then 23 days to list all sites where weapons are stored, said the official, speaking on condi tion of anonymity. Blix, who was to brief the Security Council on Thursday, said the talks focused on practi cal aspects of the renewed in spections, such as where the in spectors would fly and their se- • curity on the ground. The Iraqis were unable to guarantee the safety of inspector aircraft that might cross “no-fly” zones in parts of Iraq, he said. Nearly four years ago, inspec tors hunting for evidence of weapons of mass destruction withdrew from Iraq on the eve of U.S.-British airstrikes amid alle gations that Baghdad was not co operating with' the teams. 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