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* EXTENDED FORECAST ♦ TODAY A*► High 62 Low 34 ♦ SATURDAY High 51 Low 29 ♦ SUNDAY High 53 Low 28 ! ♦MONDAY High 52 Low 25 ♦ TUESDAY High 49 Low .25 Look for The Gamecock online starting Tuesday. STATE Congress overrides three Sanford vetoes Three bills are heading to the law books after the House and Senate overrode Gov. Mark Sanford’s vetoes. First, property owners will be able to designate their land as a fireworks-free zone. The second bill mandates that franchise automobile dealers, mostly used car dealers, will have to complete at least eight hours of education courses before they get sales licenses. The third bill creates new acupuncture advisory committee. The bill setting that up also sets billing practices for anatomic pathology services and registration requirements for cardiovascular invasive specialists. Seat belt bill revived in Senate committee A bill calling for more stringent enforcement of the state’s seat belt law passed a Senate Transportation subcommittee Thursday and could come up for debate on the floor later this month. 0 It’s the same type of legislation that stalled in the Senate for weeks last year and was killed when supporters wouldn’t break a filibuster. The bill gives police authority to stop adult drivers for not wearing seat belts. Under current law, adult drivers not wearing seat belts can be cited only if they are stopped for another offense or if children in the car are not properly restrained. NATION Defense rests in case of undercover agent LUBBOCK, Texas — Attorneys for a former undercover agent who sent dozens of blacks to prison on phony drug charges rested their case Thursday in the agent’s trial on perjury charges. Prosecutors were scheduled to present a brief rebuttal Friday before both sides made closing arguments. Tom Coleman is accused of two counts of perjury for allegedly lying about his 1998 arrest for allegedly using a government-issued gasoline card to fill his personal vehicle while he was working as a Cochran County deputy. Group says military dismissed gay linguists SAN FRANCISCO — The number of Arabic linguists discharged from the military for violating its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy is higher than previously reported, according to records obtained by a research group. The group contends the records show that the military — at a time when it and U.S. intelligence agencies don’t have enough Arabic speakers — is putting its anti-gay stance ahead of national security. ' Between 1998 and 2004, the military discharged 20 Arabic and six Farsi speakers, according to Department of Defense data. WORLD Turkish businessman kidnapped from hotel BAGHDAD, Iraq — Ten assailants sprayed gunfire at a minibus at a Baghdad hotel Thursday, killing six Iraqis and kidnapping the Turk, who reportedly ran a construction company working with Americans. The gunmen swarmed the bus as it pulled up to the Bakhan Hotel at dawn to pick up the man, identified by police as Abdulkadir Tanrikulu. The gunmen opened fire, killing the bus driver and five of Tanrikulu’s employees, police said. The attackers then sped off with their captive. Mad cow disease could strengthen ban TORONTO — The announcement by Canadian authorities of another case of mad cow disease could strengthen the case of a group of U.S. cattlemen who want a ban against cross-border cattle trading to remain in place. Authorities on Tuesday confirmed . the case of the deadly brain-wasting disease in the western province of Alberta, the second animal found to have mad cow since U.S. officials announced last month they would resume the cattle trade with Canada in March. BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Queen Latifah to reign at awards SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Oscar-nominated actress Queen Latifah is presiding over the music industry’s biggest annual event, the 47th annual Grammy Awards. She also will perform during CBS’ Feb. 13 broadcast from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences said. “Queen Latifah is an extraordinary renaissance artist with unparalleled style and substance, and her passion, talent and personality make her an excellent choice as host for our show,” NARAS President Neil Portnow said in a statement Thursday. Latifah debuted in 1989 with her album, “All Hail the Queen.” Her latest release, “The Dana Owens Album,” is nominated for a Grammy this year in the best jazz vocal album category. She earned a supporting-actress Oscar nomination for her role in the 2002 film “Chicago.” Campbell wardrobe malfunctions in Rio RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Wardrobe malfunction or fashion statement? That’s what Brazilians were left wondering Thursday, a day after Naomi Campbell paraded with her breasts bared at Fashion Rio, a ! THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Naomi Campbell walks down the runway in Rio di Janeiro. weeklong event of fall/winter collections, which ends Friday. Campbell kicked off the fashion show for the TNG label in a simple white flower print dress, topped with a white mink stole. Less than hallway down the runway, the sleeveless deep V-neck dress proved more revealing than perhaps designer Tito Bessa had intended. It wasn’t clear if a strap or button had come undone or whether it simply fit Campbell loosely. Following the fashion show, neither Campbell nor Bessa were talking. “The people (in Brazil) are happy, I have great friends and the clothes make me look younger, too,” was all the 34-year-old Campbell had to say. Thatcher pleads guilty in coup plot Friday, January 14, 2005 “It was the wrong time for it to be down, because I didn’t even know my schedule.” RYAN WILSON FIRST-YEAR CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENT. ON CAMPUS INTERNET’S FAILURE ON THE FIRST DAY OF CLASSES. -2---, A BREAK FROM VIDEO GAMES JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK Michael Kerr, a third-year psychology student, shops for books at the South Carolina Bookstore. Kerr shops there because he says it offers better prices than the University Bookstore in the Russell House, but admits “the Russell House is more convenient.” CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pleaded guilty Thursday to unwittingly helping bankroll a botched coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, and in exchange he received a fine, a suspended jail sentence and the right to rejoin his family in the United States. Within hours of agreeing to the $506,000 fine, Sir Mark Thatcher checked in for a flight out of South Africa. ‘There is no price too high tor me pay to be reunited with my family, and I am sure all of you who are husbands and fathers will understand that,” Thatcher told journalists outside court. Across the street, a poster reading “Save me mummy” hung from a window. The bizarre coup plot drew mercenaries from elite British schools into an attempt to take over Africa’s third-largest oil producer, which is led by a dictator with reported cannibalistic tendencies. Mark Thatcher admitted in the Cape High Court that he paid $275,000 in two installments last year to charter an Alouctte III helicopter to be used in the takeover attempt. But he said in court documents that he was told it would -be used for commercial purposes. Lady Thatcher expressed relief Thursday that the case against her son was concluded. *This has been a difficult time for all of the family,” she told Britain’s Press Association. “Obviously I am delighted that it has been brought to an end.” Airline officials said her son would be flying to London, but his ultimate destination was believed to be the United States. Thatcher’s wife, Diane, the daughter of a wealthy Texas auto dealer, flew to Dallas with their two children shortly after his August arrest. Mark Thatcher, who has lived in South Africa since 1995, was Thatcher’s friend, Simon Mann, a former British special forces commander accused of masterminding the plot, approached Thatcher in November 2003 to join what he described as a transport venture in West Africa, according to court documents. Mann was arrested and convicted with 67 alleged accomplices in Zimbabwe on weapons and other minor charges. A Zimbabwe judge agreed Thursday to reduce Mann’s seven-year prison sentence by three years. “It should be noted that Sir Mark was not charged with any involvement in the attempted coup d’etat in Equatorial Guinea,” Thatcher’s lawyer, George van Niekerk, said in a statement. “The plea bargain was entered into solely as a result of his financing of the charter of a helicopter in circumstances where he should have exercised more caution.” King files lawsuit for ESPN portrayal NEW YORK — Boxing promoter Don King filed a defamation lawsuit claiming he was portrayed in a false light in an ESPN “SportsCentury” segment that aired last May, and his lawyer said King is entitled to damages of more than $2.5 billion. The lawsuit says the program accused King of being “3 snake oil salesman, a shameless huckster and worse,” claimed the flamboyant promoter underpaid Muhammad Ali by $1.2 million and claimed King “killed not once, but twice.” Most of the material in the program had been printed or broadcast earlier about King, who has spent much of his career in court, but he said he had just had enough. Prince Harry takes fire for Nazi outfit LONDON — Jewish groups and lawmakers criticized Prince Harry on Thursday for wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party, with one group urging him to visit the Auschwitz death camp, despite an apology from the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II. The 20-year-old prince apologized Wednesday in a statement after a British newspaper printed a picture of him clutching a cigarette and a drink and wearing a swastika armband. “I think a lot of people will be disappointed to see that photograph and it will cause a lot of offense,” said Michael Howard, leader of Britain’s main opposition Conservative Party. “I think it might be appropriate for him to tell us himself just how contrite he now is,” added Howard, who is Jewish. The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles expressed outrage and urged Prince Harry to travel to Poland later this month to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Ausehwitz death camp. “There he will see the results of the hated symbol he so foolishly and brazenly chose to wear, said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the center. POLICE REPORT Reports taken from the USC Police Department. * • * tacn number on the map stands for a crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6a.m.-6 p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6 p.m.-6 a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS (3 Violent ® Nonviolent WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5 ©Burglary and Grand Larceny, 1714 College Street, USE Financial Aid Office Unknown intruders broke in through a rear window of the basement. They carried off a Dell flatscreen monitor and computer valued at $1,230 from the reception desk on the main floor. Reporting officers: Adam and Baker. FRIDAY, JAN. 7. 0 Larceny of tires, 1000 George Rogers Boulevard (Not on map) A man reported to officer D. Davis that he had noticed the tires and rims missing from his vehicle. Salvage value for tires and rims was estimated at $ 130 dollars. SATURDAY, JAN. 8 ©Vehicle Fire, 305 Greene Street The Columbia Fire Department extinguished a burning Bobcat bulldozer behind Woodrow. The operator said he was driving and the back engine caught fire. DHEC cleared the scene. Reporting officer: D. Davis. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12 ^Assistance rendered, 1600 Hampton Street A seemingly intoxicated male student explained to officers T Widdifield and C. Monport that he had fallen down and injured himself while walking back from a Five Points restaurant. Officers noted lacerations on his upper lip and lower chin, and a smell of alcohol. THURSDAY, JAN. 13 ©Indecent exposure, 615 Sumter Street In the early morning hours, a female student called in a jomplaint that a man in gray sweat pants and a arrested at his suburban Cape Town home on Aug. 25 and charged with violating this country’s anti mercenary laws. He also faces charges in Equatorial Guinea, where 19 other defendants are on trial in connection with an alleged plot in March 2004 to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has ruled for the past 25 years. Officials there have said they will seek Thatcher’s extradition. The South African court ordered Thatcher to answer questions submitted by Equatorial Guinea under oath in November, but that appearance was postponed until Eeb. 18 to give his lawyers time to appeal. COMING UP@USE TODAY DEANNA CASH MOORE DOCTORAL PIANO RECITAL: School of Music 206, 6 p.m. LAST DAY TO CHANGE COURSES WITHOUT A “W” SATURDAY MEN'S BASKETBALL vs. TENNESSEE: Colonial Center, 7 p.m. SUNDAY WOMEN'S BASKETBALL vs. FLORIDA: Colonial Center, 2 p.m. MONDAY MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. SERVICE DAY: NO CUSS TUESDAY CHARLES FUGO FACULTY PIANO RECITAL: School of Music 206,7:30 p.m. GARNET & BUCK INTEREST MEETING: Russell House 322/326, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS INFORMATION MEETING: Russell House THURSDAY JULIE MAE LICATA PERCUSSION RECITAL: School of Music 206,6 p.m. USC BRIEFS Grad student wins sociology award USC doctoral student Pamela Emanuelson has received an award for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Rationality and Society from the American Sociological Association. She is the first USC student to receive the award. Emanuelson, who grew up in Charleston and earned her bachelor’s degree in biology and sociology from Converse College, has worked primarily on Network Exchange Theory. “Pamela is a brilliant theoretician and one of the most promising young sociologists in the country,” Dr. David Wilier, a USC sociology professor, said. “The award is highly selective, as there are thousands of sociology students in the country and many who submit papers, but there is only one chosen as the best graduate student paper for the Rationality and Society section of the ASA.” The Gamecock needs writers Any student who was unable to attend The Gamecock interest meeting but is interested in writing for the News or The Mix is invited to contact Jon Turner at gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu or Jennifer Freeman at gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu dark shirt had exposed himself and fled in the direction of Main Street. Reporting officer: D. Davis. Write for us. gamecockeditor@gwm.sc.edu