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EXTENDED FORECAST ♦ TODAY ♦SATURDAY ♦SUNDAY ♦MONDAY ♦TUESDAY 0*- ONTHEWEB www.dailygamecock.com Look for these stories in Saturday jt online edition: High 86 High 87 High 80 High 82 High 77 SPORTS Don’t forget to read The Gamecock’s complete online LOW 69 LOW 63 Low 62 Low 59 Low 57 football game story one hour after Saturday’s game against Alabama. i_ . _._y_ _____ STATE School cuts hot topics from student debate FORT MILL — School administrators decided to remove the topics of gay marriage and stem cell research from a Fort Mill High School debate out of concern that they might clash with a state education law. The topics originally were on a list approved by Principal David Damm earlier this month for use in a student run debate scheduled for Oct. 19. The debate is intended to mirror the presidential debates between President Bush and Democratic nominee John Kerry. Abortion had been on a list of possible topics proposed by students but was never approved by the principal. Damm and Superintendent Thomas “TEC” Dowling said the restriction referred to the state’s comprehensive health education act, which prohibits health class discussion on abortion and homosexual sex. JNA11UJN Feds seek H-bomb off Savannah coast LITTLE TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. —With boats dragging sensors and divers scooping underwater soil samples, federal experts searched Thursday for radioactive clues that might pinpoint a nuclear bomb lost off the Georgia coast for 46 years. It’s the first time the military has sought signs of the 7,600-pound Id bomb in the murky waters of Wassaw Sound since 1958, when a crippled B-47 bomber dumped the Mark-15 nuke into the sea near Savannah. A team of experts in nuclear weapons, gamma spectroscopy and underwater salvage confined their search to an area roughly the size of a football field, marked by buoys floating on the surface. Release agreement refused for detainee WASHINGTON — Yaser Esam Hamdi, a detainee suspected of terrorism, was scheduled to be released on Tuesday to be sent to Saudi Arabia, but the agreement reached with U.S. authorities may be unworkable. Hamdi, a U.S. citizen, grew up in Saudi Arabia- and has remained in detention at a U.S. Navy brig in South Carolina since shortly after his capture in Afghanistan. Hamdi’s case led to a Supreme Court decision limiting President Bush’s powers to indefinitely hold so-called wartime combatants. Under terms of an agreement with federal officials made .public on Monday, Hamdi would not be charged with any crime. WORLD U.S., France combine efforts against terror SCHEVENINGEN, Netherlands — The United States and France agreed Thursday to cooperate more closely on terrorist cases and combatting organized crime, signing new deals both sides said signaled better relations. French Justice Minister Dominique Perben said he also received fresh assurances from U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft over the fate of three French citizens being held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Perben and Ashcroft signed two accords updating a U.S.-French extradition treaty and facilitating the transfer of terror suspects. Ashcroft said the agreements were a sign of stronger ties between the two countries following disagreements on how to fight terrorism. 35 Iraqi children die in series of bombings BAGHDAD, Iraq — A string of bombs killed 35 children and wounded scores of others as U.S. troops handed out candy Thursday at a government sponsored celebration to inaugurate a sewage plant. It was the largest death toll of children in any insurgent attack since the start of the Iraq conflict. The bombings in Baghdad’s western al-Amel neighborhood, at least two of which were in cars, came amid a series of savage attacks that killed at least 51 people and wounded 230 nationwide. At least one U.S. soldier was among the dead and 13 were wounded. BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS V Shuttle repeats journey to space MOJAVE, Calif. — The pilot and designer of a private rocket plane say they are confident it could return to the sky next week in a quest to claim a multimillion-dollar prize, despite a harrowing flight in which the spacecraft rolled dramatically while hurtling toward the edge of the atmosphere. As spectators and controllers nervously watched from the ground, SpaceShipOne corkscrewed dozens of times Wednesday at nearly three times the speed of sound. Test pilot Michael Melvill ignored a warning to abort Wednesday’s flight to complete the first stage of a quest to win a $10 million prize. The problem was. being analyzed by the spacecraft’s builders, who must decide whether to proceed with another flight Monday, well ahead of the two-week deadline to qualify for the Ansari X Prize. Melvill and spacecraft designer Burt Rutan said Wednesday that were confident the Monday flight would go on. Rutan said rolling occurred during flight simulations, and it was not a complete surprise when it happened. “We don’t know exactly what went wrong. It’s likely that it was CHRISTOF STACHE/THE ASSOCIATED PRES! SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan and pilot Mike Melvill aftei the flight of their spaceship. something silly I did,” Melvill told NBC’s “Today” show on Thursday. “If I’d kicked a rudder pedal, for example, at that speed it would have induced that sort of a rudder roll that we saw. But we’re looking at the data and we’ll know more later.” SpaceShipOne, with Melvill at the controls, made history in June when it became the first private, manned craft to reach space. Rutan, with more than S20 million from Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, secretly developed SpaceShipOne and is well ahead of two dozen teams building X Prize contenders around the world. During its 81-minute flight, Friday, October 1, 2004 “I’m trying to give students the opportunity to know there are additional spaces for commuter students.” DERRICK HUGGINS DIRECTOR OF PARKING SERVICES ON NEW PARKING LOT 4 MAKING UP JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK Third-year theatre student Catherine Arnold shows off her new look courtesy of her basic stage-makeup class. Offered through the theatre department as a one credit course, the class teaches students makeup and special effects such as the cuts, burns, and bruises. SpaceShipOne climbed to 337,500 feet, said Gregg Maryniak, executive director of the X Prize Foundation. The craft made more than two dozen unexpected rolls as the fat fuselage and spindly white wings shot skyward. Graham to crusade I in Madison Square NEW YORK — Evangelist Billy Graham, 85 years old and recovering from surgery, is planning what is likely his final crusade in New York City, his representatives said Thursday. Graham is scheduled to preach for four days next June in Madison Square Garden, reprising his 1957 appearance in the arena, which drew more than 2 million people and was extended from six to 16 weeks. Next year’s crusade is tentatively scheduled for the weekend of June 24. Tom Phillips, a top crusade organizer with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said it “will probably be the very last crusade in the New York area” for Graham. Asked if it could be Graham’s last crusade ever, Phillips said: “It’s very possible, but we don’t know that.” “He just keeps going and going,” Phillips said. In the last few years, Graham has been treated for illnesses, including Parkinson’s disease and skin cancer. He had surgery this year for his hip and for a pelvic fracture after he fell. Cliff Barrows, the crusades’ music director who has worked with Graham for five decades, said the preacher has “been in bed almost this entire year,” however his physicians say he is recovering ahead of schedule. Ex-lineman killed in fiery collision HERKIMER, N.Y. — A former player for the Pittsburgh Steelers led troopers on a 40-mile high-speed Thursday before driving into oncoming traffic and dying in a fiery head-on collision with a tanker truck. State police identified the dead motorist as Justin Strzelczyk, 36, an offensive lineman with the Steelers for nearly a decade until the team released him in 2000. The tanker truck driver was treated for minor injuries and released, but no one else was hurt, police said. Troopers said Strzelczyk was traveling at nearly 90 mph before the rush-hour collision on the New York State Thruway in upstate New York. He was ejected from his pickup truck and both vehicles burst into flames. “It could have been so much worse. We’re fortunate that only one person died,” said Trooper Jim Simpson, a state police spokesman. “It looked like an airplane crash. The pickup was almost unrecognizable.” State police said they put out an alert for Strzelczyk’s pickup Thursday morning, after it was involved in a minor hit-and-run accident just west of Syracuse. Police spotted him about 40 minutes later, headed east on the thruway about midway between Syracuse and IT.' . Strzelczyk drove 15 miles on three tires after one of his tires was punctured by metal spikes thrown into the road by troopers, police said. A second unit tried to stop the pickup by booby-trapping the road with the “stop sticks,” but Strzelczyk just kept on going, Simpson said. The pickup was clocked at 88 mph, Simpson said. “He was going down the road, flipping off the troopers. He even threw a beer bottle at them,” Simpson said. Police said a trucker whom they were unable to identify Thursday tried to help them by pulling his rig across the road. Instead of stopping, the pickup drove across the grass median into the westbound lanes and traveled about three miles in the wrong direction before the deadly crash. On-lookers crowd jail holding Stewart ALDERSON, W.Va. — There are no gates or fences, and most days anyone can drive straight to the warden’s home at the Federal Correctional Institute here. But after Martha Stewart announced that this is where she will serve her time for lying to federal investigators, a corrections officer was stationed at the entrance to turn back reporters and the just plain curious. The famous and the felonious are nothing new to the town of Alderson. The prison’s past inhabitants include two women who tried to kill President Ford, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme and Sara Jane Moore, and jazz singer Billie Holiday, sentenced on a drug charge. “When Squeaky Fromme ran away, the reporters just swamped the town,” resident Karen Lobban said. “At the same time, Harry Belafonte was walking down the other side of the street, and no one even noticed him.” “Martha Stewart will love it here, and we hope she will want to come back after she’s released,” Lobban said. “This is a beautiful community.” Stewart, 63, said in a statement Wednesday that she had hoped to be imprisoned closer to her family, but was pleased that the government COM G UP@USC TODAY , use WOMEN'S SOCCER vs. GEORGIA: Stone Stadium, 7 p.m. use VOLLEYBALL vs. KENTUCKY: Basketball Practice Facility, 7 p.m. SATURDAY UNITED WAY BED RACE: Near Wachovia Bank on Main Street, 4 p.m. Ql IMHAV use SOCCER vs. GARDNER WEBB: Stone Stadium, 4 p.m. use WOMEN’S SOCCER vs. TENNESSEE: Stone Stadium, 7 p.m. MONDAY SPURS & STRUTS: Davis Field, time to be announced FIRST DAY OF HOMECOMING WEEK TUESDAY HOMECOMING SHOWCASE: Koger Center, 8 p.m. PRE-MEDICAL ACADEMIC & CAREER EXPLORATION SERIES: Towers Classroom, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY HIP-HOP HUMP DAY: Greene Street, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. CAROLINA BAND JAM: Russell House Ballroom THURSDAY FLOATBUILDING PARTY: Corner of Gadsden and Greene streets, 8.pm. MIDPOINT IN THE SEMESTER had assigned her “so quickly” to “the first federal prison camp for women in the United States.” “I look forward to getting this behind me and to vigorously pursuing my appeal,” said Stewart, who must report to Alderson by Oct. 8. A source familiar with the government’s decision, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that the Prison Bureau selected Alderson because it was more remote and less accessible to the media than Stewart’s first choice, Danbury, Conn., or her second choice of Coleman, Fla. Those prisons are also more overcrowded, the source said. The Coleman prison, for example, is packed with inmates moved from other Florida prisons because of the recent hurricanes. Stewart’s new prison home is tucked into a town of about 1,000 residents that relies on inmates to clean up the riverbanks, mow grass and pick up trash. The inmate staffed fire department assists the town’s volunteer department when needed. POLICE REPORT Reports taken from the USC Police Department. " Each number on the map stands for a crime corresponding with numbered * descriptions in : the list below. DAY CRIMES s (6 a.m.-6 p.m.) □ Violent ; O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6 p.m.-6 a.m.) ■ Violent 0 Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS 0 Violent ® Nonviolent ia k_l|||ES3p|aSM ' ■ c WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29 ®Non-suspicious fire, McBryde A, 1309 Blossom St. Heavy smoke appeared on the second floor after an electrical fire ignited in the air conditioning unit. There was no damage to the area. Reporting officer: J. Meador 0Simple Possession of Marijuana, Laborde Room 709, 615 Sumter St. Reporting officer J. Meador found a dear plastic bag with 2.9 grams of marijuana inside and cigar paper with marijuana residue. The drugs belonged to James Tobias. TUESDAY, SEPT. 28 QGrand Larceny of Moped, C3 Parking Lot, 1305 Greene St. Someone took a bright yellow moped with a red-eyed skull sticker on the front. Estimated value is $ 1,365. Reporting officer: M. Wheeler ©Assault and Battery of a High and Aggravated Nature, Coker Life Science Building, 715 Sumter St. Renee Tiffany Wright took a knife from her purse and lunged at the victim, cut up her purse and threw it at the victim’s face, causing a cut on the nose. Reporting officer: S. Alexander J use BRIEFS Ceremony honors victims of violence The annual Silent Witness Domestic Violence Ceremony, an event that recognizes victims of domestic violence, will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. on the south steps of the State House. The Attorney General’s office has sponsored the event for seven years. At the ceremony, Attorney General Henry McMaster will call the names of victims of fatal domestic violence in 2003. Friends or volunteers will carry two life-sized silhouettes for each victim, representing both known and unknown fatalities. Domestic violence survivors will speak about the problem of • violence against women. -D Thirty women were killed in 2002. ' Additional information on the ceremony is available at www.scattorneygeneral.com/publ ic/women.html. State House vigil to work for peace Saturday is the second anniversary of Columbia’s Women in Black silent vigil for peace. The group, along with the Men’s Auxiliary and Carolina Peace Resource Center, gathers every Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the State House. Since the Columbia Women in Black were formed, other groups have formed around South Carolina to protest war. The Women in Black can be called at 232-2221. Additional information may be found at the Carolina Peace Resource Center Web site, www.carolinapeace.org. y - W