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STATE York County is first to get preventive pill ROCK HILL (AP)—York County will be the first county in the state to receive a supply of pills that can help prevent thyroid cancer in a nuclear emergency. The potassium iodide pills probably won’t be distributed until April, said Cotton Howell, director of the county’s emer gency management office. Department of Health and Environmental Control officials met Monday with local emer gency officials to discuss how to distribute the 180,000 doses of the medication York County will receive, Howell said Wednesday. “We want to make sure that we do it right,” he said. “It’s just a big project.” Potassium iodide is an over the-counter medicine used to protect the thyroid in a radia tion emergency. The pills do not protect the whole body from harmful radi ation. Corrections director asks for more money COLUMBIA (AP)-If he is ap proved to run the Corrections Department, Jon Ozmint wants to explore alternatives to tradi tional prisons such as house ar rest for violent offenders and maintain South Carolina’s repu tation for rehabilitating inmates. The Senate Corrections and Penology Committee unani mously endorsed Ozmint, a for mer prosecutor with no prisons experience, to be the new direc tor Thursday. The full Senate must approve his nomination. Ozmint is set to take over what several lawmakers have called the hardest job in the state. After an hour-and-a-half in front of the Senate committee, Ozmint moved across the Statehouse lawn to ask a House Ways and Means Committee for an extra $85 million. Ozmint wants $13 million to in crease guards’ pay . An additional $25 million would go to new beds at about a half-dozen prisons. NATION GOP begins push to pass abortion bill WASHINGTON (AP) - Making good on a November election promise, House Republicans be gan pushing a bill Thursday that ' would ban a controversial late term abortion procedure. It is the latest effort to ban the so-called partial birth abortion procedure, in which the fetus is partly delivered before its skull is punctured. Congress passed the measure in 1996 and 1997, but President Clinton vetoed it both times. The House passed the measure again last year, but the Senate, then controlled by Democrats, never took up the measure. Now that Republicans have control of both the House and Senate, GOP lawmakers are in tent on getting the bill passed. Bush presses U.N. to confront Iraq WASHINGTON (AP) - On the eve of a showdown over Iraq, President Bush said Thursday the United Nations must help him confront Saddam Hussein or “fade into history as an ineffec tive, irrelevant, debating society.” As Bush issued his call for unity, the administration said Americans should be prepared for “a fairly long-term commit ment” in Iraq in the event of war. Secretary of State Colin Powell told the House Budget Committee he had no estimate of the cost of war with Iraq. But he did say he thought Iraq should be able to adjust quickly after ward — in contrast to the slow pace of recovery in Afghanistan. “I would hope that it would be a short conflict and that it would be directed at the leadership, not the society,” he said. Iraq has an effective bureaucracy, rich oil re sources and a developed middle class, the secretary of state said. The flurry of events laid the groundwork for Friday, when U.N. weapons inspectors are to report to the Security Council on whether Iraq is complying with orders to disarm. WORLD Diplomatic crisis over Iraq spreads LONDON (AP) - Europe’s diplomatic crisis over Iraq spread Thursday as wrangling in NATO spilled into the European Union with a move to exclude pro-U.S. candidate nations from an emergency summit. Germany signaled it was looking for a solution to the rift in NATO over a U.S. request for aid in case of a war with Iraq, but France was refusing to budge on the eve of a critical U.N. Security Council session. Britain is preparing a resolu tion in the Security Council to sanction military action against Iraq if a report by U.N. weapons inspectors on Friday says Baghdad is not cooperating on disarming. In an unexpected move Thursday, 13 nations seeking to join the EU were excluded from a summit in Brussels on Monday to seek a common posi tion on Iraq. The move came from Germany and France be cause the candidates mostly back the United States on Iraq, according to British diplomatic sources. World leaders unite against Saddam SOFIA, BULGARIA (AP) - President Bush’s “coalition of the willing” is a mixed bag of na tions — some strong enough to provide military help, others limited to offering symbolic sup port —but their leaders are unit ed in standing with the U.S. threat to remove Saddam Hussein by force. Bulgaria’s foreign minister Solomon Pasi, for one, looks at Saddam, sees Adolf Hitler and remembers the indecision that kept the Allies from standing up to Nazi Germany early and per haps averting World War II. “We all remember the hesi tancy of the Allies, who weren’t sure whether to attack Hitler. They could have prevented so much,” Pasi said this week. BRIEFLY Two students win Rotary awards Two USC students have been awarded Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships, marking 43 Rotary scholar ships given to USC students since 1994. Fourth-year biology stu dent Tom Griffin III won the Ambassadorial Scholarship, and fourth-year English student Jessica Tzerman won the Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarship. Griffin Griffin was given $25,000 for nine months to study in the graduate business pro gram at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Griffin is a Carolina Scholar and member of the Kappa Alpha order. He was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Columbia in District 7770. . Tzerman was given $12,500 for three months to study lan guage in Florence, Italy. Tzeran is a member of the Garnet Circle, Golden Key Honor Society Tzerman and Kappa Delta sorority; she was spon sored by the Rotary Club of Camden in District 7770. “I am so excited to have the opportunity to study another language, experience life in an other culture and serve the people there at the same time,” Tzerman said. Applications for the 2004-05 Rotary scholarship competi tion are due to local Rotary Clubs in April. Those interest ed can attend a Rotary schol arship workshop March 4 at 4 p.m. in the Gressette Room of Harper College. For more information on the Rotary scholarship or the Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs, visit www.sc.edu/ofsp. Pickard chosen for USA Today honor USA Today has named a USC student to the third team of its All-USA College Academic Team. Fourth-year biology student Suzanne Pickard was chosen from nearly 500 nominees from four year colleges and universi ties. The na- . tional newspa- Pickard per named 20 students each for its first, sec ond and third teams. The students were an nounced in the Thursday edi tion of USA Today. Pickard has earned nation al recognition for her work with MARSci, an electronic scientific journal for under graduate marine-science stu dents. A USC Valedictorian Scholar, Pickard is also a Palmetto Fellow, Sonoco Scholarship recipient and Dean’s List honoree. She also has conducted research with John Van Zee, a USC professor of chemical engineering, on water contaminants, and she has presented scientific papers at national meetings. “This is a culmination of all of my hard work at USC and goes far beyond just good grades,” Pickard said. Pickard plans to earn a mas ter’s degree and become a biol ogy teacher at a secondary school, but also plans to pur sue a doctoral degree in biolo gy and teach at a college. Drama will portray HIV/AIDS impact The University of South Carolina and Churches United Against AIDS will sponsor the play, "To Touch God's Hands," at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21. The free public event, which focuses on the devas tating impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in minority communities, will be held at Booker T. Washington audi torium, located at 1400 Wheat St. on USC’s campus. Written by playwright Leasharn M. Hopkins of Columbia, the three-act play examines the realities of love relationships as seen through the eyes of the lead character, Deon Smith, whose past "ghosts" are catching up with his present and future. "I saw it as a tragic love sto ry between a man and wom an. It is the type of love story that can have a horrible twist if people do not adhere to ab stinence or practice safe sex," said Hopkins, the artistic di rector for New Life Productions. "However, the show does include an educa tional Component told in the context of a love story." An official event of USC’s Black History Month obser vance, the play focuses on love between a man and a woman, love within families and love between friends and looks at the facts and myths of HIV and AIDS among African Americans. 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