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STATE
Sanford says he’ll go
to Iraq if deployed
COLUMBIA (AP) — After draw
ing sharp criticism about whether
he would honor his military com
mitment, Gov. Mark Sanford said
Tuesday he will ship out with his
Air Force Reserve unit if it is de
ployed.
“The bottom line for me is that
I made a commitment and I am go
ing to keep it,” Sanford said in a
letter to Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer.
“Therefore, as to any orders I re
ceive, I will do just as anyone else
1 in my unit and follow them. ”
Sanford’s unit has not been no
tified it will be called up, said Col.
Chris King, an Air Force Reserve
spokesman in Charleston.
Sanford formally announced
his candidacy for governor in
March 2001. He gained his com
mission as a first lieutenant in the
315th Aeromedical Evacuation
Squadron on Jan. 30, 2002, and
critics accused him of using mili
tary service for political gain.
“In the event my unit is acti
vated, I have full confidence in
your abilities along with those of
(House) Speaker (David) Wilkins
and Senator (Glenn) McConnell,”
Sanford wrote to Bauer.
“Should that happen, I will
work closely with each of you to
ensure that the agenda I laid out
for our state last week is fulfilled,”
Sanford wrote, alluding to his
State of the State speech last
Wednesday.
Charleston to test
detection system
CHARLESTON (AP) - A new
system that will allow police to
pinpoint gunshots is ready to be
tested in North Charleston and a
similar system will be in opera
tion in Charleston this spring,
U.S. Attorney Strom Thurmond
Jr. said Tuesday.
The detection system, called
! ShotSpotter, is manufactured by
a company of the same name and
uses elevated acoustic sensors in
neighborhoods where there often
is gunfire.
The six to 10 sensors per
square mile are connected by
phone lines to a computer in a
911 dispatch center. Using the
information from the sensors,
the computer can triangulate
the location of the gunfire and
display the location, accurate
to within about 40 feet, on a
computer map.
While the sensors pick up
the loud crack of gunfire, they
do not record quieter noise
such as speech, according to
the company’s Web site.
Thurmond announced last
year the systems would be put
in place as part of Project
Cease Fire, a local-state-feder
al government effort to crack
down on those who commit
crimes with guns.
NATION
House to hire
more minorities
WASHINGTON (AP)-With
almost two dozen resumes
from black Republicans in
hand, House Majority Leader
Tom DeLay said his party’s
members will focus on hiring
more minorities for their
staffs.
“One of our problems was,
in the hiring of African
Americans, we can’t find good
conservative African
Americans to work for us,”
DeLay, R-Texas, said after
meeting Tuesday with con
servative black leaders. "But
I’ve got 20 resumes now of
young conservatives.”
The closed two-hour session in
House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s
office was the second time this
month Republican leaders have
solicited advice from prominent
black conservatives from poli
tics, business and churches.
At the request of party leaders
in the House, the black conser
vatives brought resumes from
blacks from around the country
ready to work in Republican of
fices in Washington.
Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott’s
racially insensitive remarks last
month highlighted the GOP’s dif
ficulties winning over black vot
ers. There are no black
Republicans in either the House
or Senate.
WORLD
Iraq criticizes U.N.
report as biased
BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AP) -
Arms inspectors exaggerated
problems over progress in
their pivotal'reports to the
U.N. Security Council, a se
nior Iraqi complained
Tuesday. He said Baghdad
would work on the problems,
including scientists’ rejection
of private U.N. interviews.
In Iraq’s first detailed re
sponse to Monday’s reports by
chief inspectors Hans Blix
and Mohamed ElBaradei, Lt.
Gen. Amir Rashid, a presi
dential adviser, said his gov
ernment was cooperating
with inspectors “with all our
capacity” to show that Iraq has
- no weapons of mass destruction.
He said it would do more as re
quired.
The Blix-ElBaradei assess
ment set the stage for renewed de
bate among world governments
about what to do in Iraq—allow
U.N. inspections to go on, or
short-circuit what Blix calls “the
peaceful route” and opt for war
against Iraq, as threatened by
Washington and London.
In his report Monday, Blix
said the Iraqis were cooperating
by granting full access for in
spectors, but said they’d failed to
offer evidence to allay suspicions
they retain chemical, biological
or nuclear weapons programs.
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