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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.
USC's Office of the
President and Health and
Wellness Programs are spon
soring the event with the or
ganization , which include the
Heart and Soul Ministry of
Bibleway Church of Atlas
Road; the Brookland
Foundation of Brookland
Baptist Church; the Outreach
Ministry of First Nazareth
Baptist Church; and the
Health Ministry of Trinity
Baptist Church.
For more information, call
803-794-9205 or USC's Office of
Health and Wellness
Programs at 803-777-7618
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