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STATE DeMint upset over late death notice SPARTANBURG (AP) - U S. Rep. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has complained to the Marine Corps after the family of a slain private learned he was killed in a friendly fire incident in Iraq from a source outside the Corps. On Saturday, Larry and Carolyn Hutchings learned their son, Pvt. Nolen Ryan Hutchings, was killed in a friendly fire incident on March 23 as he traveled with an ar mored vehicle unit. Hutchings was given the information in a telephone conversation with a Navy officer at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary. The Marine Corps did not send representatives to notify the family until Sunday. “We were really upset,” Larry Hutchings said. “It was 20 days before we found out. I just wanted to know some thing.” DeMint wrote Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Michael Hagee a letter requesting that the Marines revise their poli cy to prevent a similar incident from happening in the future. Alumi worry about future of law school (AP) Some of the top alum ni of USC’s Law School worry it is lagging behind other top schools in the South. The state’s only law school is ranked 83rd nationally, ac cording to the latest survey by U.S. News & World Report. The major public or private law schools in other Southern states, such as Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and Florida, all ranked in the top 50. I NATION Bodies could take weeks to identify MODESTO, CALIF. (AP) - Investigators said Tuesday that it will take days or even weeks to determine whether the body of a woman that washed up on a Northern California shore line is that of Laci Peterson, the expectant mother who disap peared on Christmas Eve. The body and that of an in fant boy were found a few miles from the Berkeley mari na where Peterson’s husband told police he had gone fishing on Christmas Eve. The Modesto woman was due to give birth to a boy in February. Modesto police said they could not reveal any informa tion while authorities in Contra Costa County, where the body was found, perform DNA tests. It could be weeks be fore the corpses are identified. Contra Costa County sher- I iffs’ spokesman Jimmy Lee said there was “no obvious cause of death,” and authorities do not yet know whether there is any relationship between the wom an and the baby, whose bodies were found about a mile apart. Peterson was 27 when she was last seen. Her husband, Scott, said he went fishing at Berkeley Marina after she left their home that morning to walk the dog. WORLD Apartheid victims to receive reparations CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA (AP) — Thousands of victims of apartheid in South Africa who testified before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission will receive one-time reparations of about $4,000, President Thabo Mbeki said Tuesday. - That amount is about one fourth of what the. commission called for in its final report o crimes during the apartheid er; The report was issued in Marcl Mbeki also said at a parli; mentary debate about the repoi that the government would nc support lawsuits or special taxe aimed at corporations suspec ed of supporting the aparthei regime. “The South African goveri ment is not and will not be part to such litigation,” Mheki said f-—---- -T — " I I |_ 1 Small 1 Topping 20 oz Coke !$7t i Delivery or carry-out with valid J Student I.D. Expires VISKB. J Not vafcJwitt any other otter Vfafcfoniyar J pottetpafing locations. Customer pays al j appfcabte sales tax. 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