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Inspectors find empty warheads
U.N. says Iraq
failed to report
the 11 weapons
BY HAMZA HENDAWI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - An inspec
tion team searching bunkers in
southern Iraq on Thursday found
11 empty chemical warheads that •
Iraqi officials had not declared to
the United Nations, a U.N.
spokesman said. Iraq insisted it
had reported the rockets, which it
said were old and never used for
chemical weapons.
Also Thursday, inspectors
searched the homes of two Iraqi
scientists in Baghdad for the first
time. One of the them, a physicist,
left with inspectors, but it was un
clear if there was any connection
between the home search and the
discovery of the munitions.
Debate immediately began
about whether the warheads con
stituted a material breach under
U.N. Resolution 1441.
The Bush administration said
the inspections should not go on
indefinitely, charging Iraq has re
fused to provide full weapons dis
closure.
“There’s no point in continu
ing forever, going on, if Iraq is not
cooperating,” said State
Department spokesman Richard
Boucher.
U.S. officials, speaking on the
condition of anonymity, said the
discovery may not amount to a
“smoking gun” unless some sort
of chemical agent is also detected.
Key questions about the find are
whether any chemical weapons
were ever loaded into the ord
nance, and, if so, when, officials
said. Serial numbers on the rock
ets should tell inspectors where
and when they were made.
The 122 mm warheads were
found in bunkers built in the late
1990s at the Ukhaider
Ammunition Storage Area, 75
miles south of Baghdad, Hiro
Ueki, the inspectors’ spokesman
in Baghdad, said in a statement.
The team examined one of the
warheads with X-ray equipment
and took away samples for chemi
cal testing, the statement added.
♦ IRAQ, SEE PAGE 3
“There’s no point in continuing forever, going on, if
Iraq is not cooperating.”
RICHARD BOUCHER
STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN
Sanford tackles big issues, barbecue
Inauguration
speech addresses
state funding for
higher education
BY ADAM BEAM
THE OAMECOCK
Just one day after taking the oath
of office to become South Carolina’s
115th governor, Mark Sanford
vowed to change the way the state’s
colleges and universities receive
state funding.
“To be blunt, there’s something
wrong with a system that forces col
leges and universities to hire lob
byists to compete for state funding,”
Sanford said Wednesday in his in
augural address from the south
steps of the State House.
Sanford, speaking to reporters in
the governor’s office Thursday, said
he would push for changing that
system- One specific change Sanford
said he will be pushing for is to re
duce the duplication of programs in
the state’s colleges and universities.
“There can be and is consistent
duplication among many number of
different academic settings in South
Carolina, and if there is duplication,
you have additional cost,” he said.
“If you have that additional cost, you
cannot put those resources in places
where they really are needed.”
Sanford said that moving to a
board of reagents system is one way
of addressing duplication problems.
There are two ways a board of
reagents operates. One, where the
governor appoints a board of
reagents for each college and uni
versity; or two, where one board of
reagents presides over all of the
states higher education, replacing
the boards of trustees.
“You’ll never eliminate all poli
tics involved and all duplication out
of any politically driven system,”
Sanford said. “But you can take
some of it out. That is what the
board of reagents system has done
in a number of other states.”
The comments come a month af
ter the State Budget and Control
Board cut all state agencies by 5 per
cent, reducing USC’s budget by $7
million. Altogether, USC is now fac
ing a $33 million budget shortfall.
“I think you have to look at the
situation,” USC Provost Jerry
Odom said. “I think there are ques
tions you can ask with respect to du
plication, but I think you need to be
able to ask the right questions and
look at the situation.”
♦SANFORD, SEE PAGE3
TOP PHOTO BY JOHNNY HAYNES/THE GAMECOCK, BOTTOM PHOTO BY ERIC SOONG/THE GAMECOCK
Top: Gov. Mark Sanford is sworn Into office at the State House Wednesday. Above:
Sparkle Scott and J.D. Sumter pick at the remains of the barbecue at the governor’s
inaugural party. FOR MORE PHOTOS, SEE WWW.DAILYGAMECOCK.COM.
Governor bucks
tradition with
post-inaugural
barbecue
BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA
THE GAMECOCK
Gov. Mark Sanford broke from
the tradition of ballroom dancing
and black-tie celebrations
Wednesday when he held a post-in
augural barbecue in the Watermelon
Shed of the State Farmers Market.
South Carolina Inaugural
Committee Chairman John Rainey
said he was pleased with the gather
ing.
“This is a very democratic event,
and Mark is about relating to people
and bringing government as close to
the people as he can,” Rainey said.
“These are hard times in America
and it would have been inappropri
ate to hold a high-priced, glitzy
event. Mark is a phenomenon.”
Thousands of supporters ate
peanuts, drank beer and shagged the
night away at the get-together,
which featured music by The
Swingin’ Medallions and The East
Coast Party Band and served barbe
cue from 14 vendors representing ev
ery region of the state.
Forest Thomas, owner of Brushy
Creek Bar-B-Q House in
Powdersville, served at the event.
“I think this is great,” he said. “It
seems to be relaxed, and this seems
to be an atmosphere that more peo
ple are comfortable with.”
Neil Turner, owner of Kenny’s
Bar-B-Que in Hemingway, said he
was “very proud to represent the Pee
Dee region of the state,” and that the
celebration was one where “the av
erage Joe would be a little more in
clined to go.”
Eddie Floyd, owner of Eddie’s
Bar-B-Q in Turbeville, said he was
excited about the event.
“We’re really a small town any
how, but we’re supporters of Mark
Sanford,” Floyd said, “and it has
been a party. I think it’s a lot better
than the formal ball they usually
have.”
Sonya Shealy, co-owner of
Shealy’s in Batesburg-Leesville, said
the barbecue was a great experience.
She said the celebration “was more
successful because more people were
comfortable coming to it.”
Midway through the event,
Sanford came out of the crowd,
where he had been shaking hands
and posing for pictures, to address
♦BARBECUE, SEE PAGE 2
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USC receives national recognition
for first-year student experience
Award marks second major honor for program
BY ALEXIS STRATTON
THE HA.MECOCK
The Brevard College Policy
Center for the First Year of
College has selected USC as an
Institute of Excellence for its
outstanding first-year pro
grams, making this the second
time USC has been recognized
nationally for the first-year ex
perience.
The honor recognizes USC’s
first-year experience for its
broad impact, durability and
student involvement.
USC, along with 12 other
schools, was selected from 130
applicants that ranged from
community colleges to large
state schools.
“For a long time, we had felt
like we were doing a good
thing,” said Mary Stuart
Hunter, director of the National
Resource Center for the First
Year Experience and Students
in Transition. “What it means
to me is that others outside the
university recognize us as a
place that there are especially
successful, productive and pow
erful programs for first-year stu
dents.”
♦ AWARD, SEE PAGE 2
Draft bill
wouldn’t
draw from
ROTC
BY ALLYSON BIRD
THE GAMECOCK
Military officials said a bill in
troduced by U.S. Sen. Fritz
Hollings to reinstate the military
draft would have no effect on
USC’s ROTC cadets because the
programs train officers, not en
listed men.
“A draft makes enlisted men in
the Navy. We have an officer pro
* gram here,” said Cmdr. Arthur
Porcelli with the Navy ROTC.
“The only effect I could see is that
more people would want to join
the ROTC.”
On Jan. 9, Hollings (D-S.C.) in
troduced the Universal National
Service Act of 2003, a bill that pro
poses reinstating the military
draft and requiring military or
civilian service ' from all
Americans, male and female, age
18 to 26.
Those selected to perform civil
ian service would be required to
serve for at
least two
years. The
twist to the
bill is that de
ferments
would only be
allowed
through high
school, so col
lege students
would not es
cape the draft.
“It’s spark
ing an inter
esting debate,
a pretty
provocative
debate," said
Andy Davis,
Hollings’
communica
tion director.
“How does a
country pre
pare for war?
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approached in a flippant or ill-ad
vised manner.”
Davis said that from Hollings’
standpoint, the answer lies in a
shared sacrifice, even though the
Department of Defense disagrees.
On Sept. 18,2002, Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld said
that there was “not a chance” that
the draft would be reinstated.
With the United States partic
ipating in 14 peacekeeping mis
sions and fighting a multi-theater
war, military personnel are not
in surplus, Davis said.
“The Pentagon says they don’t
need the force,” but Hollings
would disagree, Davis said. “Not
that they don’t bring expertise,
but Hollings is a veteran,” he said.
Hollings’ legislation is the
Senate companion to a House bill
introduced by Reps. Charles
Rangel (D-N.Y.) and John Conyers
(D-Mich.).
David conceded that the
President would have ultimate
control over how the bill is enact
ed. College students could be giv
en special consideration, and
there could be a possibility of
civilian service for women.
♦ DRAFT, SEE PAGE 3
“It’s sparking
an
interesting
debate, a
pretty
provocative
debate. How
does a
country
prepare for
war? It’s not
to be
approached
in a flippant
or ill-advised
manner.”
ANDY DAVIS
COMMUNICATIONS
DIRECTOR FOR U. S. SEN.
FRITZ HOLLINGS