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Social Security issue
-• gives senators clout
Expected debate on Social Security
in the Senate next year should give
South Carolina’s senators more
exposure than newcomers usually
warrant.
Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen.
eiect Jim DeMint, both Republicans,
have worked on the issue for years and
could have leading roles in the
discussions about Social Security that
President Bush made one of his second
term priorities last week.
The presidential push is a bit of
relief for South Carolinians, some
. of whom fretted the state would
T. lose clout in Washington as the
t‘ Senate delegation went from being
2 one of the nation’s grayest to its
* greenest.
Judge denies trooper
of plea in ticket scam
CONWAY — A judge has rejected a
guilty plea by a former state trooper
charged with running a ticket-fixing
' scheme.
Circuit Judge Roger Young on
a. Wednesday refused to accept the plea by
Redding C. Smith, after Smith said he
did not profit from his actions.
Smith tried to plead guilty to
misconduct in office and obstructing
» justice.
Authorities learned about the alleged
scheme after a person complained he
paid $1,800 and his drunken driving
charges were not dismissed, Hembree
' has said.
NATION
Inmates produce
cell block cookbook
SPOKANE, Wash. — Talk about
. your Iron Chefs.
Proving that the steel bars of the
, Washington State Penitentiary are no
barrier to fine dining, inmates at the
Walla Walla prison have just
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which includes recipes that can
actually be made inside a cell without
a stove.
Po’ Mans Burritos, Cell Block
Fudge or Jail Mix, anyone? How
about Dope Fiend Sandwich or
Prizzon Po Carcass Casserole?
Those are just a few of the tasty
dishes featured in the 163-page book.
' There’s a helpful glossary of prison
' slang in the back, too.
* The cookbook grew out of a
• community college class on how to
. make the transition to the outside.
i The soon-to-be-released classmates
discovered they had such talents as
cooking, writing and cartooning.
WORLD
Israeli police arrest
nuclear watchdog
JERUSALEM — Heavily armed
police commandos stormed a Jerusalem
church compound and arrested nuclear
whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu on
Thursday.
“This is a disgrace to Israeli
democracy?” Vanunu shouted to
' journalists as he was led into court.
“They want to punish me again.
They cannot punish me twice. 1 suffered
18 years in prison. I have the right to be
free.”
Analysts said the arrest of Vanunu
might be an Israeli attempt to
suppress discussion of its nuclear
program at a time of increasing
international efforts to block Iran
from going nuclear.
U.N. nuclear agency
reports on S. Korea
VIENNA, Austria — South
Korean nuclear experiments revealed
earlier this year produced minute
amounts of plutonium and near
weapons grade uranium but there
was no evidence linking them to an
attempt to make nuclear arms, the
U.N. atomic watchdog agency said
‘ Thursday.
The report, drawn up by the
International Atomic Energy Agency
and made available to The Associated
Press, followed up on revelations that
South Korea sporadically dabbled in
uranium enrichment and plutonium
reprocessing from the early 1980s to
2000.
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Long-time
Palestinian
leader dead
at age 7 5
RAMALLAH, West Bank —
Palestinians at home and abroad
wept, waved flags and burned^tires
Thursday in an eruption of grief at
the death of Yasser Arafat, the man
they consider the father of their
nation. The quick appointment of
successors did little to dispel the
huge question marks now hanging
over Mideast peace efforts.
Although Arafat’s death at 75 led
some world leaders to talk about the
possibility of a new era, the outlook
was also shadowed by fears of a
chaotic transition and a
strengthening of Islamic militants.
The burial arrangements in
themselves showed how disrupted
the region is. The international
funeral was to be held in Egypt,
because few Arab leaders would
travel to Israeli-controlled
Palestinian land; Arafat was to be
buried in the West Bank town of
Ramallah because Israel refused to
BARBARA DAVIDSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mourners kiss a poster of
Yasser Arafat on Thursday,
following the announcement
of his death.
approve interment in Jerusalem; and
most mourners from the Gaza Strip
would be barred from traveling
across Israeli territory to Ramallah, a
security official said.
Workers in Cairo scrambled to
lay new carpet and mow the lawn at
a small mosque near the airport
where dozens of foreign dignitaries
will honor the Palestinian leader in a
modest ceremony Friday morning,
before Arafat’s body is flown to
Ramallah for a burial service.
In France, where Arafat died
before dawn Thursday after 13
nights in a Paris military hospital,
eight pallbearers carried his flag
draped coffin past an honor guard
Thursday evening as a military band
played the French and Palestinian
national anthems and a Chopin
funeral march.
Arafat’swidow,Suha,stifledsobsas
the coffin was transferred from a
French military helicopter to the
official French airplanfe heading to
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several days as he fell into a coma,
Arafat’s death stunned Palestinians
and left them wondering who could
possibly replace their leader of the
last four decades.
Arafat had not anointed a
successor, but within hours the
Palestine Liberation Organization
elected former Prime Minister
Mahmoud Abbas to replace him as
its new chief, virtually ensuring he
takes over as Palestinian leader, at
least for now.
The Palestinian legislature also
swore in Speaker Rauhi Fattouh as
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Friday, November 12, 2004
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“You know, most people
these days are all about
themselves. It amazes me
that they'd come just to help
someone else.”
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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
STUDENT PARTICIPATION
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JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK
Allison Shaw, a first year excercise science student, left, and Julia Anderson, a first-year
graphic design student, design their own shorts with custom text on the second floor lobby of
the Russell House on Monday.
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caretaker president of the Palestinian
Authority, the self-ruling power in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip,
though that position will likely have
far less power than when Arafat held
it. Fattouh is to serve for 60 days until
elections can be held, though the law
may be amended to allow parliament
to choose the new president.
Thousands of Palestinians
flooded die streets, many weeping
and clutching Arafat’s photo. Even
members of the Hamas and Islamic
Jihad militant groups, often critical
of Arafat, mourned his death.
Safra Hassan gave birth to twin
boys in Gaza a few hours after Arafat
died and said she was naming them
Yasser and Arafat. “I’m so proud that
the name of Yasser Arafat will be in
my house every day, just as the name
of Yasser Arafat will be in every
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Black smoke from burning tires
rose across the Gaza Strip and
gunmen fired symbolic volleys into
the air. At Arafat’s battered
Ramallah compound where he will
be buried, flags flew at half staff. The
radio played somber music, church
bells in the partly Christian city rang
out, and Quranic verses were played
for hours over mosque loudspeakers.
The Palestinian Cabinet declared
40 days of mourning, and the A1
Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Gaza, a
militant group linked to Arafat’s
Fatah movement and responsible for
many suicide bombings in Israel,
changed its name to the Martyr
Yasser Arafat Brigades.
Palestinian refugees scattered in
neighboring countries, for whom
Arafat symbolized the dreams of
returning to their homes in Israel,
marched shouting “Death to Israel”
and “We will return to Palestine.”
Some burned American and Israeli
flags.
“It feels like I lost a father and a
good friend,” said 55-year-old
Mohammed Sbeiha in Jordan.
Though Israel sealed the West
Bank and Gaza Strip and increased
security at Jewish settlements, the
mourning occasionally turned to
violence as Palestinians threw rocks
at Israeli cars and soldiers responded
with tear gas and rubber-coated
bullets, the army said.
Palestinians from across the West
Bank will be allowed to attend the
burial, but only a select official group
will be let in from Gaza, according to
a security official who asked to
remain anonymous. Palestinian
forces will be responsible for security
inside Ramallah, but Israel will ring
the city with troops.
The Palestinians originally
insisted Arafat be buried in Jerusalem
in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound,
Islam’s third holiest shrine, built on
the hill worshiped by Jews as the site of
the biblical Jewish temples.
Israel refused, fearing it would
strengthen the Palestinians’ claims to
a city they envision as a capital of a
future Palestinian state.
The Palestinians eventually
agreed to lay Arafat to rest at his
compound, the Muqata, battered
and strewn with rubble from
repeated Israeli raids. They will line
his grave with soil from Al Aqsa, said
Ahmed Ghneim, a Fatah leader, and
bury him in a bare concrete box so
he can be reinterred in Jerusalem
whenever possible.
Security was at maximum around
the airport and plainclothes officers
were stationed at apartment
buildings, mosques, and Cairo’s
main train station.
Egypt, the first Arab country to sign
a peace treaty with Israel, has been
mediating between Israel and the
Palestinians in the four years of
violence that broke out when the last
Israeli peace talks with Arafat
collapsed.
Israeli Prime Minister _ Ariel
Sharon saidAFafat’spassing“couldbe
a historic turning point for the Middle
East” and President Bush called it “a
significant moment in Palestinian
history.”
But both Sharon and Abbas, the
new Palestinian chief, face severe
pressures from their own hard-liners,
and as is often the case in the Middle
East is, the first question is who is
obligated to make the first move in
the post-Arafat era. Israel is sure to
be pressed for gestures to boost
Abbas’ credibility, while Israeli
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom
says the new Palestinian leadership
“will have to prove itselF before a
peace process can go rorwara.
Hugh Grant moves
toward retirement
LONDON — Hugh Grant says he’s
lost interest in acting and is heading
into retirement.
Grant, who plays heartthrob
Daniel Cleaver in “Bridget Jones:
The Edge of Reason,” was quoted
Thursday by the Evening Standard’s
Metro magazine as saying film
acting is a “miserable experience.”
“I am sort of semiretired,” he
said. “I keep thinking I’m going to
write a brilliant script.”
Grant, whose screen credits
include “Four Weddings and a
Funeral,” “Notting Hill” and the
first “Bridget Jones” movie, gained
international notoriety when he was
caught in a car with Hollywood
prostitute Divine Brown in 1995.
The 44-year-old actor, who took
his new girlfriend, heiress Jemima
Khan, to this week’s London
premiere of “Bridget Jones: The
Edge of Reason,” told the magazine
he didn’t feel pressure to settle
down.
POLICE REPORT
Reports taken from the USC Police Department.
9 *
Each number on
the map stands
for a crime
corresponding
with numbered
descriptions in
the list below.
DAY CRIMES
(6 a.m.-6 p.m.)
□ Violent
O Nonviolent
NIGHT CRIMES
(6 p.in.-6 a.m.)
■ Violent
• Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
□ Violent
© Nonviolent
TUESDAY, NOV. 9
Grand Larceny of Golf Carts,
1000 George Rogers Boulevard,
Williams-Brice Stadium
The victim said someone stole three
Club Car golf carts worth $3,200 each.
Reporting officer: R. Baker
WEDNESDAY; NOV. 10
0 Malicious Injury to Personal
Property, 1400 Wheat St.
The victim said someone slashed his
left rear tire.
Reporting officer: J. Silcox
0 Reckless Driving, Possession of
Altered Driver's License, Minor in
Possession of Liquor, Blossom
Street Garage, 1300 Blossom St.
While doing a property check,
officers Silcox and Brewster, on foot,
saw the subject improperly start his
vehicle, make an improper stop and
drive at high speed through the garage.
Reporting officer J. Simmons initiated
a traffic stop. The subject said he was
in a hurry to get home. Simmons askec
him if he had an altered driver’:
license, he said yes, and gave consent tc
search the vehicle. A search yieldec
three bottles of vodka, a bottle ol
Dewer’s, a bottle of Crown Royal, £
bottle of red wine and a bottle of Jacl<
Daniels in the back.
Q Disorderly Conduct, Intersectior
of Greene and South Main streets
While reporting officer J. Simmon:
was stopped at a red light, the subjec
approached him from the rear anc
began pulling the rear passenger sid<
door handle. Simmons turned his cai
around and got out with the subject
who smelled like alcohol, had blurrec
eyes and slurred speech and wa:
unsteady on his feet. He said, “Fir
drunk. I want you to drive me home.’
The subject began using profanity, ai
which point he was arrested.
(D Larceny of Laptop, McBryde, 61 £
Sumter St.
The victim said someone stole hi:
Dell Insperon worth $90(^ and £
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TODAY
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
SPEAKER SERIES: Swearingen
Engineering Center, 2:30-4 p.m.
SATURDAY
use FOOTBALL vs. FLORIDA:
ESPN2, 7 p.m.
AUDITIONS FOR “THE VAGINA
MONOLOGUES”: Russell House,
third floor lobby, 1 p.m.
SUNDAY
use MEN’S SOCCER vs.
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL: Stone
Stadium, 1 p.m.
MONDAY
CAROLINA vs. CLEMSON
BLOOD DRIVE: Russell House
Ballroom
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
WEEK
TUESDAY
PRE-MED ACADEMIC & CAREER
EXPLORATION SERIES: Towers
Classroom, 8 p.m.
THURSDAY
TIGER BURN
use
BRIEFS
MFA students
to present plays
USC’s Theater South
Carolina will showcase the
talents of two MFA directing
candidates with the Columbia
premieres of two plays by
nationally known playwrights.
Suzan-Lort racks drama, In
The Blood,” directed by Vincent
A. Masterpaul, runs Nov. 18-2 f,
and John G uare’s comedy-drama,
“ Landscape of the Body, ” directed
by Stephen Davis, runs Dec. 1-4.
The productions will be
performed at Longstreet
Theatre, with curtain times at 8
p.m. for each performance.
Tickets are $5 for general
seating and will be available at
the door.
Both shows contain adult
language and content. For more
information, contact USC’s
department of theatre and dance
at 777-4288.
Try-outs Saturday
for ‘Monologues’
Auditions for “The Vagina
Monologues” will be held
Saturday at 1 p.m. on the third
floor lobby of the Russell House.
There will also be an interest
meeting for those looking to get
involved to raise $6,000 for
charity.
All interested in being a part
of the production and events to
raise money to help stop violence
against women are encouraged
to attend. Women looking to
audition do not need to bring a
monologue to read.
For more information, e-mail
Gabrielle Sinclair at
pregenius42@yahoo.com.
Compaq laptop worth $1,500. The
room was unlocked.
Reporting officer: G. Kerwin