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STATE
Infant deaths prompt
awareness campaign
GREENVILLE — State health
officials say an increasing number
of infants die while sharing beds
with their parents and plan to
discourage the practice in a new
public awareness campaign
beginning this summer.
South Carolina health officials
reported seeing 156 deaths that
were associated to unsafe sleeping
conditions between 1999 and 2002.
Jasper County wants
port-building rights
BEAUFORT — Jasper County
has asked the South Carolina
Supreme Court to refuse claims by
the State Ports Authority that it
has the sole right to develop a port
on the Savannah River.
The county on Friday filed a
response against claims by the ports
authority seeking to prevent the
county from turning 1,863 acres on
the river into a $450 million deep
water shipping terminal.
NATION
Clothing industries
call for import limits
WASHINGTON — Clothes
made abroad have arrived in the
United States by the boatload
since Jan. 1, when more than three
decades of quotas ended.
Consumers are rejoicing over the
lower prices. But the domestic
textile and apparel industry is
complaining about the loss of
thousands of jobs from what it
contends is unfair competition. It
wants the Bush administration to
move quickly to limit the soaring
number of shipments from China.
Bush assigns group
to make base closings
WASHINGTON — President
Bush, brushing aside a stall tactic
by Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss.,
appointed the nine-member
commission that will determine
military base closings without
waiting for Senate confirmation.
Bush made the appointments
while the Senate was in recess, the
White House announced Friday
night. The recess appointments
prevent delays as the commission
prepares to make the first round of
base closings in a decade.
WORLD
Iraqi prison attack
injures 20 U.S. forces
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Insurgents
attacked the Abu Ghraib prison
west of Baghdad, injuring 20 U.S.
forces and 12 prisoners on
Saturday while six people were
killed elsewhere in Iraq following a
period of declining attacks that
had raised hopes the insurgency
might be weakening.
Officials have said that overall
attacks have been declining in Iraq,
but they also have noted that
insurgents seem to be focusing
their efforts on bigger, better
organized operations.
It wasn’t immediately known if
any of the insurgents carrying out
the attack were arrested or suffered
casualties.
Kyrgyz leader resigns
after fleeing country
MOSCOW — Kyrgyz President
Askar Akayev said he will formally
step down Monday, a move that
would help pave the way for
elections and solidify order in his
impoverished Central Asian
country less than two weeks after
he was forced to flee to Russia
amid mass protests.
Akayev announced his plans to
resign after a three-hour meeting
Sunday. in Moscow with
representatives of Kyrgyzstan’s
interim leadership.
BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fight ends
rapper’s
autograph
signing
FRESNO, Calif. — Grammy
winning rapper Kanye West
was shuffled out the backdoor
of a new urban boutique after a
fight cut short the entertainer’s
autograph-signing session,
police said.
Owners of the FTK store
abruptly canceled the grand
opening event and locked the
doors after the fight broke out
Saturday between a patron and
a security guard. The brawl
erupted about 40 minutes after
West began signing autographs.
Authorities spent nearly a
half-hour clearing about 1,000
fans from the store’s parking lot
as a police helicopter hovered
above.
“Once security couldn’t
CHRIS PIZZELLO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rapper Kanye West
addresses the crowd after
winning the Outstanding
New Artist award at the
36th NAACP Image Awards
at Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion in Los Angeles, in
March.
control it, we had to shut it
down,” store employee Aron
Hekimian said.
An after-party at a nearby
club with the producer-turned
rapper went on as planned, said
Sam Hensen, the store’s co
owner.
“Everybody’s chance to meet
Kanye West was ruined,” said
Anna Reyna, 19, who waited in
line for the rapper’s autograph
but never got to see him.
Opera star leaves
‘Margaret Gamer’
DETROIT — Concerns about
rehearsal scheduling caused
opera star Jessye Norman to
drop out of next month’s
performances of the slave
drama “Margaret Garner.”
Norman, a 59-year-old
soprano, had been scheduled to
play the role of Cilia—a
sympathetic mother-in-law to
Margaret Garner—during the
May 7-22 performances at the
Detroit Opera House,
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STEPHANIE DAY
SECOND-YEAR JOURNALISM STUDENT ON
ATTENDING THE CAROLINA CUP
according to a statement
released Saturday.
The Michigan Opera
Theatre announced Friday that
Norman would be replaced by
Angela M. Brown, who created
a sensation last year with her
performance in Verdi’s “Aida”
at the Metropolitan Opera.
“Margaret Garner,” a
collaboration of Pulitzer Prize
winning _ novelist Toni
Morrison and composer
Richard Danielpour, is based
on Garner’s escape from
Kentucky to the free state of
Ohio in 1856. The story
inspired Morrison’s 1987 novel
“Beloved.”
When slave-hunters tracked
down Garner, her husband and
children, she slit her baby
daughter’s throat in a thwarted
attempt to kill the family and
avoid returning to slavery.
She was found guilty of
“destroying property” and
returned to slavery.
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CLEVELAND — The home
where the classic holiday movie
“A Christmas Story” was
filmed has been purchased on
eBay by a California man for
$150,000.
Brian Jones could not resist
when his wife told him eBay
was offering the Cleveland
home where the film family
lived in the 1940s and the main
character, a boy named
Ralphie, daydreamed of
shooting bad guys with a BB
gun he hoped to get for
Christmas.
The starting bid for the
four-bedroom house was
$99,999.
Jones, 29, of San Diego,
plans to restore the home’s
exterior to the deep yellow with
green-trimmed windows it had
in the movie and revamp the
interior to resemble its movie
appearance.
ne aiso wanes to create a
museum in the home and open
a gift store selling items linked
to the. movie, including
Ovaltine, Little Orphan Annie
decoder rings and “leg lamps”
like the one Ralphie’s father
proudly displayed in the front
window of his family’s house.
Two years ago, Jones started
a Web site and began selling
45-inch-tall lamps of a
woman’s leg in a fishnet
stocking and high-heel shoe.
“A Christmas Story,” is
based on the writing of Jean
Shepherd, who died in 1999.
The movie was filmed in
1983. It is Warner Bros.
Entertainment Inc. property,
and the National
Entertainment Collectibles
Association, in Clark, N.J.,
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holds a license for marketing
products from the film,
including the lamps.
Warner Bros, had no
comment on Jones’ museum
proposal or any property rights
involved, a studio spokesman
said last week. NECA did not
respond to a message last week.
Steinbeck ‘read-in’
might aid libraries
SALINAS, Calif. — More
than, a hundred supporters
turned out Sunday for the end
of a 24-hour “read-in” to help
save the libraries in John
Steinbeck’s hometown.
People gathered to hear
writers, actors, musicians and
activists read passages from
their favorites works outside
Cesar Chavez library, one of
the Salinas libraries facing
closure.
Facing record deficits, the
City Council voted in
December to shut all three
libraries in the city
memorialized in Steinbeck’s
1952 novel “East of Eden.”
If they close, the blue-collar
town of 150,000 could become
the most populous U.S. city
without a public library.
Salinas is the 1902
birthplace of the Nobel Prize
winning author of “Cannery
Row” and “Of Mice and
Men.”
The read-in began Saturday
and concluded Sunday with a
march and music festival.
Actor Hector Elizondo, of
the TV hospital drama
“Chicago Hope,” attended the
event. “The last thing we need
is to have libraries closed,” he
said.
Mary Mecartney, a
spokeswoman for the UFW,
said thousands of people signed
petitions asking state legislators
to reconsider the budget cuts.
Lawmaker asks ror
Giuliani speech fee
A South Carolina lawmaker
has asked Rudy Giuliani to pay
back all of a $100,000 fee he
was given by a hospital group
for a speech at a tsunami relief
fund-raiser two months ago.
Giuliani donated $20,000 of
the fee and kept the rest after
the Feb. 9 event in Columbia.
The sponsor of the event,
the South Carolina Hospital
Association, said Giuliani gave
back twice what they asked for
and the group has no problem
with him keeping the other
$80,000.
But Rep. Tracy Edge, R
North Myrtle Beach, said he is
upset because the speech was
widely publicized as a charity
event.
“Nowhere was it disclosed
that Mayor Giuliani was being
paid for his appearance,” said
Edge, who wants the former
New York mayor to repay the
entire amount.
COMING
UP@USC
TODAY
Trombone Night: 7:30 p.m.
School of Music 206.
Amy Tully Doctoral Lecture
Recital: 4:30 p.m. School of
Music 206.
“Spin Orbit Update”
Seminar: 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Sumwalt Nano Center/Seminar
Room
WEDNESDAY
Grant A. Jones Junior Piano
Recital: 6 p.m. School of Music
206.
John Williams Faculty
Piano Recital: 7:30 p.m.
School of Music 206.
Merrell M. Young Senior
Vocal Recital: 4:30 p.m.
School of Music 206.
John Stossel, ABC News
Correspondent lecture: 8 p.m.
Kogcr Center for the Arts.
THURSDAY
Palmetto Pans Concert:
7:30 p.m. School of Music 206.
Annual Classics Lecture: 4
5 p.m. Harper/Elliott College
Gressette Room.
use BRIEFS
J-school to hold
newspaper job fair
Journalism students in the
print and visual
communications sequences are
encouraged to sign up for
interviews during the 10 a.m.
noon and 1:30-3 p.m. Job Fair
on April 13 at the USC School
of Journalism and Mass
Communications in the
Carolina Coliseum.
Representatives from The
State, The Post and Courier,
The Greenville News, and
other South Carolina
newspapers will interview
interested students, who
should bring resumes and
work samples to the job fair.
Sign-up sheets for interviews
are posted beside Room
4004.
Law school deans
to assist applicants
Deans of admissions from
the Charleston School of Law
and the University of
Richmond School of Law will
hold a mock admissions
committee meeting at 12:30
p.m. Tuesday in Russell
House 203- The meeting will
assist prospective law school
applicants in understanding
what law schools are looking
for and how acceptance
committees make their
decisions. The event is free and
open to USC faculty, staff and
students. For more
information, visit
www.sc.edu/oppa.
POLICE REPORT
Reports taken from the USC Police Department.
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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.m.-6 a.m.)
■ Violent
# Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
H Violent
© Nonviolent
MARCH 31
OMinor in Possession of Beer
Minor in Possession of Liquor
Disorderly Conduct
Fake ID
Transferring Liquor to Minor
The Vista
Reporting officer M.L.
Gooding observed Stewart Ambler
and Sarah Weeks in possession of
beer and fake IDs. Ambler was
arrested and transported to
Richland County Detention
Center. Weeks fled but was
caught, arrested and transported to
RCDC.
Samuel Bowen, Bianca Pfeffer,
Rachelle Engel, Tracy Dougan,
Eric Engel and Megan Yorfino
were issued tickets for minor in
possession of beer. Jonathan
Caldwell, Heather Burgess, Jon
Sontag, Cheryl Gimber, Katie
Bristow and Kenneth Mishoe
were issued tickets for minor in
possession of liquor. • Andrea
Hubbard was issued a ticket for
transferring liquor to a minor.
^Disregarding Traffic
Signal/DU! first
Gervais and Pickens streets
Reporting officer M.L. Gooding
observed Auburn Bridge driving
eastbound on Gervais Street with
no visible month sticker and a
2004 expiration date. As die officer
waited for a DMV tag check,
Bridge made a U-turn, disregarding
a traffic signal. The officer stopped
Bridge, and the DMV confirmed
Bridge’s driver’s license was
suspended. Bridge was arrested and
transported to RCDC.
APRIL 1
©Malicious Injury to Real
Property
Maxcy College, 1332
Pendleton St.
The complainant told
reporting officer M.P. Weiss that
someone damaged two tables,
valued at $100, and two chairs,
valued at $200, in the basement.
The subjects also placed unknown
substances on door handles,
placed duct tape over motion
sensors and “rigged” trashcans
against elevators, causing them to
spill when opened. The subjects
also moved soda machines to
block doors, threw clothing from
the laundry room on the floor,
moved furniture, dumped
trashcans and placed condoms in J
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said the RAs were specifically I
targeted because of incidents"
happening near their rooms. A
foosball table was moved in front
of one RA’s door so she could not
leave. Ropes were tied to other
RAs’ doors so they could not open
them.
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