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Iraq CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “a message to the United States that the people of Iraq are united behind their leadership” and said the resolution included “major allegations ufhich are baseless.” Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov as calling on Baghdad “to exercise self-con trol and pragmatism” by accept ing the resolution. In the clearest such statement from France, Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said on France-Inter radio that force would be used if Saddam doesn’t cooperate with U.N. inspectors. France had opposed making the recourse to force automatic. If Iraq rejects the inspections resolution, or accepts it but fails to follow its tough provisions, the United States and Britain have said they will attack Iraq. It demands unrestricted ac cess to any suspected weapons site and the right to interview Iraqi scientists outside the coun try and without Iraqi officials present. Iraq, which says it doesn’t have weapons of mass destruction, has insisted on re spect for sovereignty. Saddam’s son, Odai, who ap pealed for approval of the U.N. resolution in a letter Tuesday to lawmakers, said weapons in spector's should include experts . from Arab countries. Arab League foreign ministers have made similar demands. Jacques Baute, the chief U.N. nuclear inspector, suggested that Arabs would be included in as a matter of common sense. U.N. chief inspector Hans Blix’s office said six Jordanians, one Moroccan and five Turks were among the inspectors from 49 countries. In the letter, Odai Saddam Hussein said acceptance wouldn’t necessarily ward off war. “We have to ask the Arab countries to immediately cut oil supplies to those countries that launch a military strike or aggression on Iraq and to any country that al lows foreign war planes to use their airports or offer logistic support for them for refueling. ” Arab oil producers have ig nored similar calls from Iraq in the past, saying stopping sales was not in their interest. While Iraq’s Arab neighbors publicly oppose any military strike on Iraq, they distrust Saddam and are likely to try to protect their relationship with Washington by quietly cooper ating in any war on Baghdad. Newsplex CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 needs to be an environment where the information cascading in can be managed. It’s not some genius technology, necessarily — it’s-information management,” he said. Still, the technology is impres sive. Some of the flashiest hard ware will shoot the day’s news onto a huge video wall. “It will create a topographic map of the day’s news,” Covington said. Reporters can use the map to see where work needs to be done. The system will digitally tag objects so that reporters can find them. “I can’t count the amount of time I’ve seen wasted in news rooms simply looking for the 3:40 CNN feed or the file we needed,” Covington said. The furniture at Newsplex is modular and can be moved, so re porters can work alone or in groups. Similarly, all the tech nology will be wireless. Newsplex is the brainchild of Ifra, a major worldwide publish ing association based in Duhlstadt, Germany. It has 2,200 members in 70 countries. “Ifra has had a long-standing desire to build a prototype demonstration newsroom of the future,” Covington said. Ifra chose Columbia as the site for Newsplex because the head of its center for advanced news op erations lives in Camden, S.C., and is a 1976 Carolina Scholar. The facility should bump up the national ranking for the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies by more than a few notches. “We are being invited to con ferences now that we probably wouldn’t have been invited to five years ago, and it’s simply be cause of Newsplex,” Covington said. “This puts us at the cutting edge of new media research. What works, what doesn’t?” he said. “If you’re a reporter and your editor says he wants you to take pictures, get audio and get in-depth quotes,” published research from Newsplex will show the appropri ate workload, he said. The first research session will be Saturday with a newspaper from Britain, the Manchester Guardian. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Help Save A Life - Donate Plasma Today. It’s The Right Thing To Do! And Each Month You Can Earn Up To $180 BIOLIFE PLASMA SERVICES 803.254.6683 1916 Taylor Street* Columbia, SC 29201 ■'■■'■.■. •. l.i 11 ' ' rirz:feffi©0iBO< HiHiMiErana OB lief! 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