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Iraq CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Ari Fleischer noted that the pres ident has said: “Given the fact that Saddam Hussein is not disarming, time is running out.” Blix and ElBaradei are to make their next report to the U.N. Security Council on Friday. That could be pivotal toward determin ing whether the United States should launch military action against Iraq. In his speech, given while the inspectors held a televised news conference from Iraq, Bush said, “It’s a moment of truth for the i United Nations. The United Nations gets to decide shortly whether or not it is going to be rel evant in terms of keeping the peace, whether or not its words mean anything. “But one thing is certain, for the sake of peace and for the sake of security of the United States and our friends and allies, we will disarm Saddam Hussein if he will not disarm himself.” Bush said “it is important for the country to realize that Saddam Hussein has fooled the world for 12 years, is used to fooling the world. is confident he can fool the world.” Earlier, Bush’s national secu rity adviser, Condoleezza Rice, dismissed movement toward com pliance by Iraq as another attempt at “cheat and retreat.” “We have seen this game with Iraq many times before, through out the ‘90s,” she said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Secretary of State Colin Powell said a reported French-German proposal to increase the number of weapons inspectors in Iraq in hopes of averting U.S. military ac tion is “a diversion, not a solu tion” to disarming Saddam. “The issue is not more inspec tors. The issue is compliance on the part of Saddam Hussein,” Powell said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The plan would call for the de ployment of thousands of U.N. sol diers, reconnaissance flights and a tripling of the number of weapons inspectors, according to the German magazine Der Spiegel. But the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Michigan’s Carl Levin, told “Fox News Sunday” that “it seems to me we ought to be welcoming efforts to forestall war, even if we disagree with those efforts after we read them. We should not treat the U.N. Security Council as some kind of a stumbling block.” Powell said there would be no need for such a plan if Saddam does what he is supposed to, such as revealing the whereabouts of allegedly unaccounted for anthrax and other deadly chemical and bi ological agents. That can be handled with a mere handful of inspectors, Powell said. Also Sunday, Pope John Paul II ordered a special envoy sent to Iraq to emphasize his plea for peace and encourage Iraqi au thorities to cooperate with the United Nations, the Vatican said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com I"1 PHOTO BY WENDY JEFFCOAT/THE GAMECOCK Turnipseed speaks at the NAACP meeting. Turnipseed CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 all those people knew I had worked for Gov. George Wallace, how forgiving they were of me.” Turnipseed said he was on the way home from the convention when he told his wife, “If I don’t do another thing in my life, I’m going to work for racial justice.” “It’s hard for me because I should have done something earlier,” he said. “There’s no excuse for it. There’s not an excuse for it today.” Turnipseed also expressed concern about the possible war with Iraq. “If there’s ever a time in the history of the world that we need to protest for peace, it’s now,” he said. Turnipseed said the United States has more weapons of mass destruction than “the next 15 countries combined,” and that the United States has used them more than. any other country, time and time again. • “There’s no hiding place from weapons of mass destruction,” he said. “There’s noth ing worth killing one more person over.” Jessica Murphy, a fourth-year manage ment and marketing student, said she has seen a lot of racism and was impressed with Tumipseed’s testimonial. “I thought it was very touching,” she said. “I learned a lot about him and what he’s been through. A lot of people who have not had the chance to meet him or hear him speak need to.” Jerome Bryant, president of USC’s NAACP chapter an<J a fourth-year mathe matics student, said he was skeptical at first about the change Tumipseed made in his life. “It was a heartfelt change,” Bryant said. “I hope that now people realize through personal education, you can change from being hateful and discriminatory to some one who loves all people.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Spring Treasurer’s Workshops All registered student organizations must be represented by their Treasurer at a Treasurer's Workshop to continue receiving Student Activity Fees and using a University Account at the University of South Carolina. Additionally, all Treasures of organizations that receive or plan to apply for student activity funds during the 2003-2004 school-year must attend a workshop. 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