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President
calls for
more U.N.
support
in Iraq
BY DEB RIECHMANN
THE .ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - President
Bush said Sunday he's not sure
the United States will have to
yield a significantly larger role
to the United Nations to make
way for a new resolution on
Iraq.
And he continued to insist
on an orderly transfer of au
thority to the Iraqis rather
than the quick action demand
ed by France.
In an exclusive interview
with Fox News' Brit Hume,
Bush said he will declare in his
speech Tuesday at the U.N.
General Assembly that he
“made the i ight decision and
the others that joined us made
the right decision” to invade
Iraq.
But the president said he
will ask other nations to do
more to help stabilize Iraq.
“We would like a larger role
for member states of the
United Nations to participate
in Iraq,” Bush said in the in
terview to be aired Monday
night. “I mean, after all, we’ve
got member states now, Great
Britain and Poland, leading
multinational divisions to help
make the country more se
cure."
Asked if he was willing for
the United Nations to play a
larger role in the political de
velopments in Iraq to get a new
resolution, Bush responded,
“I'm not so sure we have to, for
starters.”
But he said he did think it
would be helpful to get U.N.
help in writing a constitution
for Iraq.
“I mean, they’re good at
that,” he said. “Or, perhaps
when an election starts, they'll
oversee the election. That
would be deemed a larger
role.”
STATE
Citadel to focus on
ethics, leadership
- COLUMBIA (AP)-The Citadel
will use a gift from a 1963 gradu
ate to pay for a $2 million ethics
and leadership program.
Retired Gen. John Grinalds,
president of South Carolina's mil
itary college, announced the pro
gram at a recent budget presenta
tion to state officials. , -
The program will help combat
the moral decay of American so
ciety, that he said rewards and ad
mires cheaters.
Students "arrive here less
grounded than students in the
past and we have to do a much
better job preparing them to lead
the life of an honorable cadet,"
Grinalds said.
The Krause Initiative in
Leadership is being funded with
1 a gift from Citadel graduate
William Krause.
Although the number honor
code infractions at The Citadel
hasn't increased in recent years
and the college hasn't had to deal
with any cheating scandals,
Grinalds says he worries the
pledge students take not to "lie,
cheat or steal, nor tolerate those
who do" might not be enough.
Officer shoots, kills
man on way to jail
LEXINGTON (AP) - State Law
Enforcement Division officials are
investigating how a South
Congaree police officer shot and
killed a Lexington man who tried
to grab the officer's handgun.
Officer Jason Pruitt, 31, of
South Congaree, was shot in the
hand as he struggled with Leavy
Costell Rish, who was being
transported to the Lexington
County jail Saturday, officials
said.
Rish, 44, of Lexington, leapt
through a window between the
front and back seats of the patrol
car and tried to grab Pruitt's gun
on the right side of his hip, said
Jake Moore, town attorney for
South Congaree.
Rish was shot multiple times
by the police officer, Moore said.
He did not know whether the
officer shot Rish using the hand
gun the two struggled over or
whether Pruitt used a second
weapon.
NATION
Ex-Citigroup CEO
named to lead NYSE
NEW YORK (AP) - The New
York Stock Exchange chose for
mer Citigroup chairman and CEO
John S. Reed as its interim lead
er Sunday for a salary of $1 less
I than a week after its previous
chairman was forced to step down
amid outrage about his compen
sation.
- Reed, 64, who left Citi in 2000 af
ter losing a power struggle with
then co-chairman Sanford I. Weill,
will temporarily replace Dick
Grasso, exchange officials an
nounced at a hastily called news
conference.
In a phone conference from
France, where he was vacation
ing, Reed said there had been
some failures in corporate gover
nance at the exchange and he
would make the issue a priority.
He declined to comment on
Grasso or the circumstances of
Grasso's departure but said he re
alized the gravity of the situation.
Grasso's pay package of $187.5 mil
lion was considered excessive by
many on and off Wall Street.
Police nab suspect
in sexual assaults
MIAMI (AP) — A 32-year-old
Honduran man was ordered held
without bond Sunday after he was
charged with sexually assaulting
several women and girls, one just
11 years old.
For months, police had charac
terized the assaults as the crimes
of a single serial rapist, and their
inability to catch him had worried
women and the parents of young
girls in the Little Havana area,
where seven girls and women
have been raped over the past
year.
Reynaldo Elias Rapalo, 32, was
charged Saturday with five felony
counts of sexual battery, includ
ing one on a victim age 11 or
younger.
He also was charged with one
count each of battery with assault
and aggravated stalking, as well
as several misdemeanor charges
related to the attacks. If convict
ed, he could face up to life in
prison.
Miami Police Chief John
Timoney said that DNA evidence
had linked Rapalo to all seven at
tacks.
WORLD
Three U.S. soldiers
die in Iraq attacks
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Three
American soldiers died in a mor
tar attack and a roadside bombing
west of the capital, and coalition
authorities appealed to Iraqis on
Sunday for information to help in
vestigators track down those who
tried to kill a prominent woman
member of Iraq’s Governing
Council.
Iraq also unveiled a new plan
to open all sectors of the economy
to foreign investment — except oil
—to revive an economy shattered
by years of armed conflict, mis
management and international
sanctions. U.S. Treasury
Secretary John Snow said the
plan offered “real promise” of eco
nomic revival but cautioned that
security in a country still facing
daily violence would be a prereq
uisite for recovery.
In a sign of the country’s ongo
ing security crisis, the U.S. mili
tary reported two soldiers from
the 205th Military Intelligence
Brigade were killed when mortars
struck a U.S. base at the Abu
Ghraib prison on the western out
skirts of Baghdad about 10 p.m.
Saturday. Thirteen other soldiers
were wounded in the attack. No
prisoners were hurt.
Iraqi leader wounded
in assassination ploy
BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AP) - Aquila
al-Hashimi, a member of Iraq's
Governing Council, was shot and
critically wounded Saturday in an
assassination attempt outside her
home in western Baghdad, police
and doctors said.
Al-Hashimi was in critical
condition with abdominal
wounds, a doctor at al-Yarmouk
hospital said on condition of
anonymity. After surgery she
was moved to an unspecified lo
cation in a convoy of American
armored vehicles and military
ambulances.
Three of her bodyguards also
were injured, said Mohammed
Abdul Ghany, a security guard at
the al-Yarmouk hospital.
Al-Hashimi is one of three
women on the 25-member council.
It was the latest in a string of
attacks on figures perceived to be
collaborating with Iraq's
American occupiers. .
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next year. The cost of changing
the system and keeping record
of which students are going to
me games is
still unknown.
Sean Bishop,
president of the
Student
Gamecock
Club, said the
chanee would
be a good idea as long as it rep
resents what the student body
wants.
“If we want a new system,
then we’re going to have to prove
to the ticket office and the
Athletics Department that there
are problems with the current
system,” he said.
SG is still gathering informa
tion about how to change the lot
tery, and no legislation has been
proposed. Dreiling said she
would appreciate more student
input to ensure that SG is mak
ing tne rigm
decision.
“Athletics
may not see
that there are
problems with
the Clemson
lottery svs
tem,” Dreiling said. “But I do be
cause it’s my job to hear student
complaints and do something
about them.”
One method SG has
suggested would reward
students who attend
games most often.
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POLICE REPORT
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Tuesday, Sept. 16 from people they did not know.
Both complainants submitted
® ILLEGAL USE OF TELEPHONE reports and they are roommates.
(THREATENING), MCCLINTOCK, They were both issued a call log
720 BARNWELL ST. The and were told how to use it. The
complainant said that someone caller said that the complainants
called her dorm room and made owed him or her money. The
threats to her. She said she has calls came from an
no idea who it could be. She was interpretation operator, relaying
given a call log, and it was messages from the caller,
recommended that her number Reporting officer: G. Kerwin.
be changed. Police said the caller
was thought to sound like a Thursday, Sept. 18
black male. The complainant
said that the caller made ® TRESPASS AFTER NOTICE,
threatening remarks, saying she 538 MAIN ST. Timothy Kearns,
was going to die in seven days. was spotted on USC property.
She said she did not recall any Police said Kearns had been
possible disgruntled ex- advised to stay off of university
boyfriend or anything to that property. He was placed under
matter. Reporting officer: G. arrest for trespassing after
Kerwin notice. Reporting officers: J.A.
Clarke and M. Simmons.
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WADE HAMPTON DORM, 1528 victim walked into the police
GREENE ST. The complainants department and said someone
said they had received phone broke into her car and removed a
calls on their mobile phones hunter green bicycle, a North
Face bag, a pair of rock climbing
boots and some clothing. Total
estimated value: $580. Reporting
officer: P.I. Jones.
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PENDLETON ST. The victim
walked into the police
department and reported that
someone stole his blue and silver
bicycle. Estimated value: $80.
Reporting officer: P.I. Jones.
© GRAND LARCENY OF
TRAILERS, 714 DEVINE ST. The
complainant said someone
removed two blue trailers from
the above location. The trailers
were unsecured and sitting in an
open field when they were taken.
Estimated value: $3,500.
Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons.
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PERSONAL PROPERTY, LARCENY
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damaged the passenger’s- and
driver’s-side doors of his car.
Two hubcaps were also removed
from the victim's vehicle.
Estimated value: $100. Estimated
1 damage: $100. Reporting officer
J.A. Clarke,
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ASSEMBLY STREETS Reporting
, officer G. Kerwin saw Lee Clark
disregarding a red traffic light.
Kerwin initiated a lawful traffic
stop and found that Clark could
not produce a driver's license. A
driver’s license check by name
and date of birth revealed Clark's
license was suspended, and that
he had already been charged
once for driving under
suspension. Clark was arrested,
o MALICIOUS INJURY TO REAL
PROPERTY, SNOWDEN, 600
MAIN ST. The complainant said
someone sprayed a fire
extinguisher on the second floor
of Snowden, coating the carpet
and the stairwell. Evening
Services and Housing were
notified for cleanup. Estimated
damage: 300. Reporting officer:
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