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Contenders square off
in race for U.S. Senate
BY BRUCE SMITH
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLESTON, S.C. - In a de
bate that sounded at times like
their dueling television campaign
ads, U.S. Senate candidates
Lindsey Graham and Alex
Sanders argued over Social
Security, the death penalty and
flag burning.
With less than a month before
Election Day, the candidates seek
ing the Senate seat held by the re
tiring Republican U.S. Sen. Strom
Thurmond met in a hour-long de
bate broadcast Sunday in the
Lowcountry on WCSC-TV.
Both candidates said the other
was trying to frighten voters by
saying Social Security might one
day run out of benefit money.
“I’m not going to get elected
trying to scare people on Social
Security,” said Graham,
Republican congressman from
the state’s 3rd Congressional
District. He warned that, unless
something is done, the system will
be bankrupt in 2041.
Graham supports an option al
lowing younger workers to take
part of their Social Security tax
es and invest them in personal in
come accounts to get a better rate
of return.
“These ads saying I’m putting
your money in Enron stock—Alex
is a good guy, but this is a national
game being played by Democrats
that I resent,” Graham said.
“It’s not me that’s scaring
Social Security Recipients. It’s
Lindsey Graham’s failed scheme
to allow a substantial portion of
the trust fund to be put into the
stock market,” Sanders, the
Democrat, countered.
To preserve Social Security,
"we need to simply stop spending
the Social Security trust funds for
other things," Sanders said.
That would leave the program
solvent through 2041, by which
time a nonpartisan commission
could make the needed adjust
ments to the fund, Sanders said.
The two also sparred over the
death penalty. Graham said that,
while he respects Sanders’ oppo
sition to capital punishment, he
thinks giving the death penalty to
terrorists is good public policy.
Later, Sanders said a constitu
tional amendment outlawing
burning the flag is not an issue in
the campaign, although it’s been
raised in some of Graham’s cam
paign ads.
“Flag burning nauseates me.
I’m not in favor of flag burning.
At the same time, I’m not in favor
of amending that great charter of
freedom to take care of a few mis
creants who might reassert their
right to burn the flag,” Sanders
said.
Graham said the American
Legion is trying to pass an amend
ment allowing states and the fed
eral government to make laws
protecting the flag. He said all
members of South Carolina’s del
egation in the Congress support
such an amendment.
"I think it would be a shame if
the next senator from South
Carolina cast a vote the other way
against the will of the people,"
Graham said.
POLICE REPORT
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These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department
Compiled by Allyson Bird.
Each number on
the map stands
for a crime
corresponding
with numbered
descriptions in
the list below.
DAY CRIMES
(6a.m.-6 p.m.)
□ Violent
O Nonviolent
NIGHT CRIMES
(6 p.m.-6a.m.)
■ Violent
• Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
□ Violent
© Nonviolent
Thursday, Oct. 3
® LARCENY OF WALLET, 6430
GARNERS FERRY ROAD,
BUILDING 2 (OFF MAP)
Adrienne Brown said someone
took her wallet from her closed
book bag in a lab room.
Estimated value of contents:
$100. Reporting officer: D. Hare.
® COLLISION, BA BUILDING
METER LOT Seok Hun Ku hit
April Kinloch’s vehicle while
Ku was backing out of a parking
SDacp Kinlnrh was driving
through the garage when Ku
backed into her. Estimated
damage to each vehicle: $300.
Reporting officer: T. Cox.
Friday, Oct. 4
O SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, 816
BULL ST., MCKISSICK MUSEUM
Bernard Theodore Wanzer was
wanted for a parole violation
when he was stopped for
questioning. Wanzer ran, and
officers were not able to find
him. Reporting officer: D.
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first for advertising
The Gamecock advertising
staff attended the 22nd annu
al Southern University
Newspaper Conference in
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 26 to 28.
The Gamecock won first
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Students are invited
to Holtz call-in show
The Student Gamecock
Club is sponsoring a special
edition of the Lou Holtz call-in
show on Wednesday, Oct. 16,
at 6:30 p.m. in the Russell
House Ballroom. All students
are invited to attend.
Contest to offer USC
and Clemson tickets
TicketAdvantage and
Wendy’s restaurants will
launch the TicketAdvantage
and Wendy’s Ticket-to-Win, a
contest that will give college
football fans the chance to win
Clemson or South Carolina
football tickets.
The contest began Oct. 4
and will run at participating
restaurants in South Carolina
through October. The promo
tion will be supported with tele
vision, radio, in-store, and on
line advertising, which appear
on such sites as clemson
tigers.com and uscsports.com.
When Wendy’s customers
“Biggie Sizes” their orders,
they will be given a game
piece with a unique seat num
ber. Participants must visit
www.TicketAdvantage.com to
check their seat number and
see whether they have won.
Prizes include tickets to
Clemson vs. N.C. State,
Clemson vs. Maryland, South
Carolina vs. Tennessee and
South Carolina vs. Arkansas
football games, as well as the
100th matchup between
Clemson and South Carolina.
Other prizes include
BellSouth prize packs and
TicketAdvantage gift certifi
cates.
STATE
Powerball begins with
a successful launch
ROCK HILL (AP) -
Powerball sales were brisk in
the first hour after the multi
million-dollar, multistate game
began in South Carolina, lot
tery officials say.
Scientific Games, the lot
tery’s primary vendor, report
ed Powerball sales of more
than $29,000 from 11 p.m. when
the tickets first went on sale to
midnight, South Carolina
Education Lottery spokeswom
an Tara Robertson said.
At one point, lottery play
ers purchased about 1,600 tick
ets a minute, Robertson said.
Across the state, lines
formed at some of the 3,000 lot
tery outlets where Powerball
tickets are being sold.
In Fort Mill, people began
waiting in line at 9:30 p.m.,
Robertson said. The Red
Rocket Fireworks store there
reported more than $700 in
sales in one hour, she said. By
comparison, the Smokers"
Express store in Columbia had
about $300 in sales.
Voters have 4 weeks
to decide on election
SUMTER (AP) - Chatting
with mall walkers and shop
pers here, it’s clear candidates
wanting statewide offices had
better get busy in the four
weeks leading up to the Nov. 5
election.
Voters of different ages,
races and genders say they
haven’t decided who they will
cast their ballots for in the U.S.
Senate race where U.S. Rep.
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., faces
Democrat Alex Sanders. And
voters say the governor’s race,
which puts Democratic Jim
Hodges against GOP
Congressman Mark Sanford,
is wide open.
Karen Geddings, a straight
ticket Democratic voter wait
ing outside a nearby hardware
store said she wouldn’t con
sider voting for Sanford.
“There’s just something about
him I don’t like,” she said.
“If I had to pick, I’d take
Sanford,” said Tommy
Thompson, a 25-year-old state
worker. Thompson says state
employees have gotten less at
tention from Hodges than
from Republicans.
NATION
U.S. arrests 6 more -
on terrorist charges
WASHINGTON (AP) - Six
people, including a former
U.S. reservist, were charged
with trying to travel to
Afghanistan after the Sept. 11
attacks and join forces with al
Qaida and the Taliban against
the United States.
Attorney General John
Ashcroft, announcing the ar-'
rests of four of of them at a
Justice Department news con
ference Friday, called it a
“defining day« in the fight
against terrorism. He noted
the sentencing in federal court
later Friday of John Walker
Lindh and the guilty plea in
Boston from accused shoe
bomber Richard Reid.
Ashcroft said one of the
men, Jeffrey Leon Battle,
joined the U.S. Army Reserves
to obtain training in U.S. tac
tics and weapons. Ashcroft
said Battle, who obtained an
administrative discharge in
January 2002 while in
Bangladesh, intended to use
that experience against
American soldiers in
Afghanistan.
Ashcroft said some of the
men began traveling to
Afghanistan in October 2001
to fight with Taliban troops
against U.S. forces.
Resolution allowing
war expected to pass
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Congressional leaders said
Sunday a resolution authoriz
ing war against Iraq, expected
to pass with little dissent, will
strengthen the U.S. hand at the
United Nations and increase
pressure on Saddam Hussein
to disarm.
President Bush, after a
weekend in Maine, returned
to the White House and pre
pared to address the nation
Monday night from
Cincinnati. He was making
the case against the Iraqi pres
ident on the one-year anniver
sary of the start of bombing in
Afghanistan.
Senate Majority Leader
Tom Daschle, who has coun
seled caution in unilateral
moves against Saddam, said
he will vote for the resolution
but only after trying to make
it more to his liking.
WORLD
U.S. troops destroy
420 Afghan bombs
BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN
(AP) — U.S. troops have de
stroyed the largest cache of ex
plosives yet found in
- Afghanistan — hundreds of
500-pound bombs buried in a
dry riverbed near Kandahar,
the military said Friday.
The cache of 420 air-to
ground bombs was found in
the Dori River channel last
month, but it took munitions
experts weeks to examine the
explosives and decide how to
deal With them, Air Force Maj.
Steve Clutter said.
After evacuating residents,
demolition teams used 30,000
pounds of C-4 explosive to de
stroy the bombs in a single
blast Thursday. Army photos
of the blast showed a huge
*' mushroom cloud rising over
the site.
“It was a big bang. It was
probably like the Fourth of
July down there,” Clutter said
at Bagram Air Base, the U.S.
military’s headquarters in
Afghanistan.
There were enough bombs
hidden in the riverbed to fill
six B-52 bombers, Clutter
said.
Oil tanker explodes
off coast of Yemen
SAN’A, YEMEN (AP)-An ex
plosion and fire engulfed a
French oil tanker on Sunday
off the coast of Yemen, and the
tanker owner said a small boat
struck the vessel in a “delib
erate attack.”
Yemeni officials, however,
- said there was no indication
the tanker was attacked and
that the fire was caused by an
oil leak. French officials said
it was still too early to say if
the explosion was an act of ter
rorism.
“We don’t have enough ele
ments to allow us to formulate a
... hypothesis which would
point to a terrorist attack,”
French Foreign Ministry
spokesman Francois Rivasseau
said Sunday night in Paris.
France will quickly send in
vestigators to Yemen, President
Jacques Chirac’s office said af
ter Chirac spoke by phone with
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah
Saleh.
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