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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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