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STATE
Businesses worry
about bike boycott
MYRTLE BEACH (AP) - Some
Grand Strand businesses are
worried about a possible biker
boycott of the annual Harley
Davidson rally in May.
“There is some concern out
there,” said Ashby Ward, Myrtle
Beach Area Chamber of
Commerce president.
Bikers were angry because
charges were not filed against a
police officer whose car collided
with a motorcycle and killed two
riders during last May’s Harley
Davidson Dealers Association
Myrtle Beach Rally.
Prosecutor Greg Hembree
said in September that Lance
Cpl. James Costello would not
be charged with reckless homi
cide because there was not
enough evidence to warrant the
charge. The Highway Patrol also
decided not to cite Costello.
Port funded for role
in anti-terrorism
CHARLESTON (AP) - New fed
eral funding will help pay for the
Port of Charleston’s role as a
staging ground for anti-terror
ism measures and devices.
The $13 million in federal
money was announced Friday.
About $9 million will be used
to renovate and equip a com
mand center for “Project
Seahawk.” An additional $4 mil
lion will be used to test existing
port equipment that screens car
go for radioactive materials and
chemical and biological
weapons.
“Project Seahawk” is a joint
effort of federal, state and local
investigators to pool security re
sources and share information.
“We’re a major seaport on the
East Coast, and anything we do
do that puts us ahead in safety
and security people should fa
vor,” State Ports Authority
board Chairman Whitemarsh
Smith III said.
' “If we’re going to live with
terrorism in the future, we need
to monitor our ports.”
NATION
Police make arrests
in anti-war display
NEW YORK (AP) - More than
250 people were arrested during
a massive demonstration
against possible war in Iraq as
tens of thousands of protesters
packed a 20-block area north of
United Nations headquarters,
New York police said Sunday.
Most of the 257 arrests were
for disorderly conduct and oth
er minor violations that mostly
resulted in tickets to appear in
court, police said. Five people
were arrested on felony charges
and 53 on misdemeanors.
The New York protest was
just one of scores that brought
out millions of people across the
nation and around the world
Saturday. Rome claimed the
biggest turnout — 1 million ac
cording to police — and London
reported more than 750,000 in
what police called the city’s
largest protest ever.
Police in New York said the
crowd that chanted and listened
to speakers in the city’s bitter
cold was about 100,000-strong,
while organizers estimated it at
three to five times that size.
Ridge expects risk
level to be lowered
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Homeland Security Secretary
Tom Ridge said Sunday he
thought the current terrorism
threat level would likely be low
ered from the high-risk orange
level, but wouldn’t say when.
“When it is lowered, and I’m
confident it will be, then there
will be an appropriate explana
tion at the time,” he said.
Ridge defended the Bush ad
ministration’s decision last
week to increase the level to the
second from the top on a color
coded scale of five, even though
the government later deter
mined that some of the informa
tion which led to the upgrading
was likely fabricated.
“The decision to raise it to or
ange was not based on one or
two sources,” he said on ABC’s
“This Week.”
WORLD
Alleged bin Laden
tape insults Bush
CAIRO, EGYPT (AP) - An au
diotape purportedly from Osama
bin Laden calls President Bush
“stupid” and claims American
war^plans against Iraq are part
of a plot to attack Muslim na
tions in the Middle East and
North Africa.
The tape was the same 53
minute recording from which a
few excerpts were released
Thursday by the British-based
Islamic Al-Ansaar news agency.
It began appearing in full
Sunday on Islamic-oriented Web
sites.
Imran Khan, who runs Al
Ansaar, told The Associated
Press that the tape circulating
Sunday “was the same one we
released and I helped translate
last week.”
In the full tape recording, a
voice said to belong to bin Laden
says the U.S. goal in waging war
against Iraq is to change the re
gional map to benefit Israel.
NATO reaffirms
alliance solidarity
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (AP) -
NATO, in the midst of its biggest
rift since the Cold War, broke a
monthlong stalemate Sunday
over defensive actions in case of
war in Iraq, reaffirming alliance
solidarity while supporting U.N.
efforts for a peaceful solution.
“Alliance solidarity has pre
vailed,” NATO Secretary
General Lord Robertson said.
”We have been able collectively
to overcome the impasse.”
After France was shut out of
the room, Germany and
Belgium dropped their objec
tions to starting the planning for
Turkey’s defense immediately,
NATO officials said.
Belgium insisted at the last
minute on linking any eventual
NATO deployment to develop
ments at the U.N. Security
Council.
But the final statement says:
“We continue to support efforts
in the United Nations to find a
peaceful solution to the crisis.”
V
Snow storm closes airports,
churches; five deaths so far
BY ROGER PETTERSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
One of the East’s worst storms
of the season blew heavy snow
along the Ohio Valley and into
the mid-Atlantic states Sunday,
shutting down two major airports
and canceling church services.
More than 3 feet of snow was pos
sible in the mountains and other
areas had floods and mudslides.
At least five deaths had been
blamed on the weather since
snow burst across the Plains on
Friday and Saturday.
“This is looking like the
largest storm this year and it
may be one of the top five in our
recorded history,” Lora
Rakowski of Maryland’s
Highway Administration said.
“You name a place, they’ve got
snow—and a lot of it.”
The snow was part of a huge
storm system that also produced
thunderstorms in the South, in
cluding an early morning torna
do that damaged a house in
northern Florida.
In Tennessee, where more
than 7 inches of rain fell earlier, a
mudslide early Sunday destroyed
an apartment building outside
Knoxville, chasing out several
dozen tenants. One man was hos
pitalized in serious condition, the
Knox County sheriffs office said.
West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise
declared a state of emergency as
his state had 20 inches of snow in
the north, floods that blocked
roads in the south and ice else
where. Some 27,000 customers
were without power. Williamson
closed its flood wall as the Tug
Fork River rose toward a crest of
up to 3 feet above flood stage.
Radar showed snow falling
Sunday from Missouri to New
Jersey, and flakes fell at a rate of
up to 4 inches an hour in parts of
Maryland. Forecasts ranged from
a foot of snow by late Monday in
Rhode Island and Massachusetts
to 20 inches in New Jersey and 2
feet in Maryland and northern
Virginia.
The National Weather Service
forecast up to 3 feet of snow in
West Virginia’s most mountain
ous counties.
Greg Hannigan of
Hagerstown, Md., trekked
through the snow to church
Sunday andTound he was the
only one there. “When Catholics
don’t show up for church, you
know it’s a bad storm,” he said.
The Washington area’s
Baltimore-Washington
International and Reagan National
airports closed until further no
tice. Dulles International Airport
had just one runway open during
the afternoon. About three-quar
ters of flights at Philadelphia
International Airport were can
celed, spokesman Mark Pesce said.
Amtrak suspended service be
tween Washington and Richmond, -
Va., said spokesman Dan Stessel.
Monuments and museums in
Washington were closed, and
President Bush’s usual heli
copter ride to the White House
from Camp David was replaced
by a two and a half hour drive on
snow-covered roads.
New Jersey Gov. James
McGreevey declared a state of
emergency, giving state police au
thority to close highways, but
spokesman Micah Rasmussen said
there were no immediate closures.
Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann
Minner also declared a state of
emergency and mobilized
National Guard troops to help
clear roads. Nonessential travel
was prohibited.
Hospitals in northern Virginia
and Maryland asked for volun
teers with four-wheel-drive ve
hicles to help employees get to
and from work.
“I’m already getting calls from
employees about tomorrow,”
Patty Burch, clinical coordinator
at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital in
Fairfax, Va„ said.
“It’s very nerve-racking out.
there, because you can’t even
find the road,” Merrie Street, a
spokeswoman for the Harford
County, Md., emergency center,
said;
More than a foot of snow was
possible in New York City, which
readied 1,300 plows and 148,000
tons of salt, Kathy Dawkins, a
spokeswoman for the city’s
Department of Sanitation, said
“This is the 14th storm we’ve
had in 12 weeks,” Philadelphia
Managing Director Philip
Goldsmith said. “Our folks have
worked hard, and they’re going
to be working hard in the next
couple of days.”
To the west, snow-covered, icy
roads led to Sunday church ser
vice cancellations in Kentucky,
Indiana and Ohio.
The weather-related deaths in
cluded two in Illinois, one in
Nebraska, one in West Virginia,
and one person killed in Iowa
when an Amtrak train slammed
into a car stuck on the tracks in
drifting snow west of Danville.
Speaker
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with his reading of “Relativity”
by Albert Einstein.
After studying liberal arts,
Friedman earned master’s and
doctoral degrees in physics from
the University of Chicago and be
gan his career as a researcher at
the High Energy Physics Labor
atory at Stanford University.
In 1960, he joined the physics
faculty at MIT and began a col
laboration with physicists at
Stanford to study the makeup of
atoms. In addition to teaching,
Friedman became director of the
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
at MIT and was head of MIT’s
physics department.
For more information about
the program, which is sponsored
by USC’s Physics and Astronomy
Department, call 777-9672.
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Monday, February 17
Open Celebration
Sponsored by Carolina Unity Week Committee
12 PM to 2 PM, Greene Street
Bamboozled - Film Forum
Sponsored by Carolina Productions
7 PM, Russell House Theater
*WRHA Movie, The Color Purple, 8 PM*
Wednesday, February 19
Open Hone - Campus Style V
Sponsored by Cltplma Unity Week \
Committee
6 PM to\ PM ^ "
Meet in front of RussA House at 6 PM
Brown
nsored by Carolina Productions
8 PM, Russell House Theater
ovie, The Color Purple, 8 PM *
Friday, February 21
Mural Dedication
Sponsored by Carolina Unity Week
Committee/Speaker-Carl Wells
12:30 PM Greene Street
Dance Marathon
by Dance Marathon Executive
Committee
Russell House Ballroom
rolma Productions
House Theater
*WRHA Movie, Save The Last Dance, 5 PM,
Monsters Ball, 8 PM *
Tuesday, February 18
Unity Through Safety
Sponsored by RAD and Carolina Unity Week
Committee
7:30 PM, Golden Spur
*WRHA Movie, Finding Forrester, 8 PM *
Thursday, February 20
Black History Quiz Bowl
Sponsored by Office of Multicultural Affairs
6 PM, Russell House Theater
. Arts Festival
| Sponsored by Carolina Unity Week Committee
\^J7PM, Russell House 2nd Floor Lobby
A Choral TapestryX^.
Sponsored by USC Concert Gfcdr
7:30 PM, School of Music/Rooma06
*WRHA Movie, FindingForrestei\8 PM*
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Saturday, February 22
Dance Marathon
Sponsored by Dance Marathon Executive
Committee
Ends @ 10 PM, Russell House Ballroom
*WRHA Movie, Save The Last Dance, 5 PM,
Monster's Ball, 8 PM*
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' For more information, please call 777-1407 1
Student Business
Informational Meetings:
Monday, February 17 5:30 PM RHUU 203
Tuesday, February 18 5:30 PM RHUU 203
The Student Business Incubator Center is looking for
students who have ideas for starting their own business.
Six new companies will be added to the Center this spring.
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Capital up to $1,000
Local telephone and computer connection
Computer workstations with printer
Financial Management/Accounting software
Access to business machines
Rent-free office space at 1233 Washington Street
Legal and business advice
Applications are available online at www.sg.sc.edu
and are due Wednesday, March 5, 2003 by 12:00 pm
in Russell House, Carolina Underground.
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