Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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STATE Teacher slaps child, surrenders license SUMTER (AP) — A teacher ac cused of slapping a wheelchair bound girl has voluntarily turned in his teaching license. Carlton Snow had been sus pended without pay from his special education instructor job at Wilder Elementary School in Sumter since February. A police report says Snow struck a 12-year-old girl who suf fers from cerebral palsy in the face with his hand on Feb. 11. The girl cannot speak, but a staff ™ member reported the incident. Lieberman says U.S. must prevent jihad CHARLESTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candi date Joe Lieberman said Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida terrorist network are trying to incite a global reli gious war, and said Iraq is the testing ground for the United States to prevent it. In South.Carolina for a meet ing Sunday with Charleston area Democrats, the Connecticut senator said President Bush was right to visit troops in Iraq on Thanksgiving. Court records to be posted on Internet GREENVILLE (AP) - Records from one of the state’s busiest court systems will soon be on the Internet. Starting next year, the Greenville County Clerk of Court’s office will put criminal and civil court records online, joining a handful of South Carolina counties that have their court records on the Internet. State Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal said the ulti mate goal is for all counties to go online and link to one another. Greenville County Clerk of ^ Court Paul Wickensimer said so Pl cial security numbers will be blocked and, for now, the docu ments won’t be available online. NATION Disney chairman resigns from board LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disney vice chairman Roy E. Disney has resigned from the media giant’s board of directors, sources close to the company said Sunday. He reportedly called on chairman Michael Eisner to resign as well. Disney’s resignation may be a pre-emptive move to avoid be ing forced off the board of The Walt Disney Co. The board’s governance and nominating committee has decided not to recommend Disney for another term because he is over the man dated retirement age of 72, said the sources, who spoke on con dition of anonymity. Microphones found at sheriff’s office SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. (AP) — Sheriffs officials said several wireless microphones discovered outside their headquarters could be the latest of several attempts by journalists to surreptitiously get information on the Michael Jackson molestation case. The devices were found in a brushy area where Sheriffs Department employees fre quently take breaks and where reporters are not normally al lowed. Officials did not say when they discovered the micro phones. McCain criticizes Congress spending WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress is throwing away as tonishing amounts, “spending money like a drunken sailor,” and President Bush shares the blame because he is not using his veto power, Republican Sen. John McCain said Sunday. McCain, an avid critic of spending for lawmakers’ pet projects in their districts and states, said the president’s re luctance to veto legislation makes it harder for congres sional negotiators to kill such spending. WORLD U.S. to transfer 100 inmates from Cuba SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) — More than 100 men and boys will be transferred in the next two months from the U.S. jail for terrorism suspects in Cuba, in cluding a teenager who allegedly killed an American special op erations soldier, a U.S. military official said. The first of two new transfers is scheduled for the end of December, and the other in January, the official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The detainees would be released from U.S. custody, but it was unclear if any would face further detention or prose cution in their home countries. Syria hands over 22 bombing suspects ISTANBUL, TURKEY (AP) Syria handed over 22 suspects to Turkey on Sunday in connection with four deadly suicide bomb ings in Istanbul, the semiofficial Anatolia news agency reported. The suspects, all Turks, re portedly fled the country after the attacks, which targeted two syn agogues in near-simultaneous bombings Nov. 15 and the British consulate and a British bank in twin attacks five days later. A to tal of 61 people were killed. Vigils, seminars on tap for AIDS Day ROME (AP) — Candlelight vig ils, educational seminars and torchlight parades were planned around the globe Monday to mark World AIDS Day, while a U.S. delegation headed to hard hit Africa to urge its leaders to increase awareness about the deadly virus. 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SB 1*1 shhz; Iraq CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 killed in Afghanistan in November also were in an air craft crash — an Air Force MH 53 special operations helicopter that went down near Bagram on Nov. 23. That crash is under in vestigation and may not,have been caused by hostile fire. U.S. officials in Iraq said last week that the number of attacks against Americans have de clined in late November, al though fatal attacks against Iraqis seen to be working with U.S. occupation authorities have become more frequent. U.S. mil itary officials attributed the de cline in attacks on their troops to improved intelligence and their stepped-up offensive against insurgents. Lt. Gen. Richardo Sanchez, the top U.S. military comman der in Iraq, told reporters Saturday in Baghdad that guer rilla attacks on U.S.-led forces have dropped by 30 percent in the past two weeks, from a daily average of 35 to 22. Earlier this month, the total reached as high as 50 attacks per day, Sanchez said. Since the war in Iraq began March 20,438 service members have died, according to an Associated Press tally based on Pentagon and Central Command announcements of each incident. Of the total, 299 are attributed to hostile action; the others are from illness, suicide or other nonhostile causes. By comparison, 97 U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan since that war began in October 2001. There are about 10,000 troops there, compared with about 130,000 in Iraq. The United States’ allies in Iraq also have suffered losses. The British military has reported 52 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain 10, in eluding seven killed Saturday south of Baghdad; Denmark, Uksaine and Poland have re ported one each. The American death toll, par ticularly in Iraq, where it ap peared the worst was over when Baghdad fell in early April, is a politically sensitive subject for the Bush administration. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld frequency offers pub lic statements of appreciation for the sacrifices. Last week, he made an unusual allusion to the horrific death toll in 20th century wars. “If one thinks back to the ca sualties of wars past — some 292,000 were killed in World War II, 34,000 in Korea, 47,000 in Vietnam — we can give thanks that our forces in this war have not faced casualties of such enor mous magnitude,” he said. SURFYOURSELF Casualty counts for Iraq can be found at: www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2003/d20031126 cas.pdf Come to one of our hypnotic seminars, and do better immediately! For only $100, you can enjoy a review of how to perform at your peak (easily!) and enjoy a hypnosis session (1 hour total) that will improve your test performance. Dates available: Dec 2 @ 7:00 / Dec 3 @ 6:00 / Dec 4 @ 7:00 & # Dec 6 @ 1:00 / Groups of 8-10 - half off & schedule your own time! Positive Changes Hypnosis Center 136 Stonemark Lane, Columbia, SC 29210 (Off l-26/Fernandina Rd. near Piney Grove) 750 2000 PositiveChanges* Yes. 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