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EXTENDED FORECAST . * .. ON THE WEB www.daiiygamecock.com ga. /m- ^ Look for these stories in Tuesday’s online edition: . ^ ^ NEWS A glimpse at the Mr. USC pageant, J SPORTS A recap of Monday’s men’s and High 80 High 72 High 70 High 58 High 63 a competition for Carolina’s student women’s tennis action versus Mississippi Low 55 Low 55 Low 50 Low 44 Low 46 bodybuilders. State. - — * ■ ' STATE Group asks Sanford to bar fuel shipments An environmental group says radioactive fuel headed to a South Carolina nuclear power plant is dangerous and wants Gov. Mark Sanford to block the shipments. The MOX fuel, which is made partially from weapons-grade plutonium, was shipped from France and should be arriving in Charleston soon. The fuel is to be tested at Duke Power’s Catawba Nuclear Station on Lake Wylie, which is about 200 miles from Charleston. Developer to pay fine in deforestation case A South Carolina company has pleaded guilty to violating federal environmental laws and agreed to pay a $1.1 million fine. In 2003, Crossings Development LLC had clear-cut a forest for development at a 429 acre site along Interstate 77. About half the fine will go to a fund used to purchase land for the Congaree National Park south the capital city of Columbia. NATION Congressman says DeLay should resign WASHINGTON — Rep. Christopher Shays said Sunday that fellow Republican Rep. Tom DeLay should step down as House majority leader because his continuing ethics problems are hurting the GOP. DeLay, R-Texas, has been dogged in recent months by reports of possible ethics violations. There have been questions about his overseas travel, campaign payments to family members and his connections to lobbyists who are under investigation. Bush draws criticism for stance on Liberia WASHINGTON — At a time that President Bush says he is taking a strong stand against tyranny, some members of Congress say he is doing little to bring one of the world’s most notorious dictators to justice. Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is under indictment by a war crimes tribunal, accused of crimes against humanity. WORLD Family begs release of captured Pakistani BAGHDAD, Iraq — The family of a Pakistani embassy employee kidnapped in Baghdad appealed Sunday for his captors to release him, and al-Qaida’s ally in Iraq claimed to have kidnapped and killed a senior police official. The kidnappings came as Iraq’s most feared terrorist organization issued an Internet statement rejecting any efforts by the new government to make peace. Malik Mohammed Javed, a consular and community affairs employee at Pakistan’s embassy, went missing in Baghdad on Saturday after leaving home to pray at a mosque, officials said. T 1 • 1 1 uiuuucMau icmuiur spurs panicked flight JAKARTA, Indonesia — An undersea earthquake that hit Sunday near the Indonesian island of Sumatra sent people fleeing from their homes in panic, but the temblor was not strong enough to generate a tsunami, seismologists and meteorologists said. The 6.8 magnitude tremor’s epicenter was centered about 70 miles southwest of Padang, a city in western Sumatra, at a depth of nearly 19 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said. BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Dole talks war injury, recovery in memoir TOPEKA, Kan. — He lay in the dirt for hours on Hill 913, drifting in and out of consciousness, unable to move or feel anything below his neck. Bob Dole’s spinal cord was damaged, his right arm immobilized by the mortar, shell or machine gun blast “whatever it was, I’ll never know” in the mountains of northern Italy less than a month before World War II ended in Europe. In his new book, “One Soldier’s Story,” the man who went on to serve 35 years in Congress and run for president returns to his war experiences and long recovery. “The book is about me, but ALEX WONG/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, R-Ks., speaks during a taping of ‘Meet the Press’ at the NBC studios Sunday in Washington. On the show, Dole talked about his new book, “One Soldier’s Story." it’s really about our generation,” the 81-year-old Dole said in an interview. “What happened to me happened to thousands of others and it’s, of course, happened since.” Dole’s book, published by HarperCollins, goes on sale Tuesday. Dole plans a 14-city promotion tour in April and May. Dole said he wanted to avoid writing about politics, a “who said what” tome detailing political battles or past campaigns, partly because he thinks readers tire of such memoirs. “1 don’t want any enemies at this stage in my life,” he added. “I just need all the friends I can gather up.” In the book, Dole recounts a serious fall in his Washington apartment this past January that sent him to a hospital with internal bleeding, apparently linked to blood thinner he was "T% A "WT “It sounds bad, because of course you don’t want people doing drugs. But he had a really good Monday, April 11, 2005 E'mosley THIRD-YEAR ENGLISH MAJOR ON HEARING -- JOHN STOSSEL SPEAK WEDNESDAY I -——-: I SHOW AND TELL I ^_-_’’"'IQMNgggPF_ ^ NICK ESARES/THE GAMECOCK Tom Behline, right, a second-year mechanical engineering student, explains an energy efficient boat exhibit to Donnell Garrett, a fourth-year computer science student at the USC Showcase Saturday afternoon on the Horseshoe. taking after hip replacement surgery. He said he spent 40 days at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and lost some of the use of his left arm and hand, describing the experience of being temporarily without both arms as humiliating and saying it reminded him of his days after the war. Dole decided to recount his war experiences after learning that a sister, Gloria Nelson, living in their hometown of Russell, had kept 400 personal letters, many of which he’d written to his parents as a young man. Near the end of his book, Dole writes: “Why did this happen to me? Why just a few days before the war ended? It’s taken me 60 years to come to grips with the toughest questions of life, and in some small way, this book is my answer.” 14a k OI-IPC rporlprc find inspiration. “Others might take some comfort in the fact that you can be down one day and up the next,” he said. On April 14, 1945, Dole’s platoon was ordered to take out a German machine gun nest in a farmhouse on a rise labeled Hill 913. During the fight, Dole attempted to rescue his wounded radio operator. “I felt a sting, as something hot, something terribly powerful, crashed into my upper back behind my right shoulder,” he writes. The blow shattered his shoulder and paralyzed him. The former high school athlete spent more than three years in hospitals, part of the time in a half-body cast, learning to stand and then walk again. Early in 1946, wracked by a high fever that nearly killed him, Dole became a test subject for the then experimental drug streptomycin. He underwent seven operations to repair his right arm, to no avail. Friends in Russell collected $1,800 to cover hospital bills; Dole later kept a cigar box used to collect the small donations in the desk of his U.S. Senate office. He also never regained full use of his left hand, where the first three fingers have been numb since 1945. Dole writes that the damage to his left hand and arm remained “one of the best kept secrets” about him. That secret wasn’t intentional, he said. Bush, Dalai Lama make Time’s A-list NEW YORK — President Bush, Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx and domestic diva Martha Stewart have all made Time Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people. The eclectic list, which hits newsstands Monday, ranges from the Dalai Lama to the inventors of the Blackberry, and from terrorist leader AbU Musab al-Zarqawi to Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela. Hailing from 31 different countries, and including rappers, designers, world leaders and a tsunami survivor, the listed newsmakers have shaped the world in some way, according to the magazine’s editors. Comedian Rivers gives royal lingerie LONDON — A royal wedding dilemma: What to give newlyweds who don’t want too much? Comedian Joan Rivers, one of about 800 guests at Prince Charles and Camilla's wedding reception Saturday, joked that she wanted to bring a trendy grill with a French fry attachment. Then she thought about giving the blushing bride — now the Duchess of Cornwall — a lingerie shower. “She thought that was hilarious, and she said ‘Well, send the things,’” Rivers told The Associated Press on Sunday. “She’s a very earthy, funny woman. You can swear in front of her.” t i I n • 1*111 in mt tun, i\m.ia duiutu uy a request for guests to forgo gifts, but said she plans to put the lingerie in the mail for the new Duchess of Cornwall. The sometimes-brash comedian met Prince Charles about two years ago on a painting trip in the south of France. Charles organizes the week for young artists every year, and since Rivers is an amateur painter, “I was invited as the buffoon.” Rivers, who did not attend the civil ceremony at Windsor, said the mood at the reception was festive and relaxed, and the bride and groom’s love for one another was apparent. Rivers said she thought Britons would quickly warm up to Camilla. COMING UP@USC MONDAY USC Percussion Ensemble: ^ 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206. Brown Bag with Society of Professional Journalists: noon, Carolina Coliseum 3009. Society of Professional Journalists presents Hank Gilman: “From Small Town Newspaper Journalist to Fame and Fortune”: 1:25 p.m. Carolina Coliseum 3009. Professor Laszlo Tikos: 2:30-3:45 Gambrell Hall 429. Public Relations and Politices - with Joe Erwin: 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Carolina Coliseum 3020A TUESDAY USC Chamber Winds I Concert: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206. Do You Need to Entertain in Order to Sell? 2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Swearingen Engineering Center Amoco Hall Promoting Hollywood with Doreen Sullivan & Sara Price Powell: 12:30 p.m. -1:45 p.m. Swearingen Engineering Center Amoco Hall Red Cross Blood Drive: 9:30. a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Starr Hall Super Bowl of Advertising: 3:30 p.m. -4:45 p.m. Swearingen Engineering Center Amoco Hall use BRIEFS 1 Del. poet laureate to read latest work Fleda Brown, poet laureate of Delaware, will read from her work at 6 p.m. Thursday in Williams-Brice Building 127. Brown’s work has appeared in such publications as Poetry magazine. Her most recent collection, “The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives,” explores the relation and intersection of critical reason and intuitive creativity in art. Musicians to give State House snow The fifth annual S.C. Beach Music Day festivities will be held at noon Wednesday on the State House steps. The celebration will include performances by The Swingin’ Medallions, The Catalinas, Maurice Williams of the Zodiacs, Bill Pinkney of The Original Drifters, Second Nature and The Tams. The S.C. General Assembly declared beach music the official popular music of South Carolina in 2001. The celebration will be in the Clarion Townhouse Hotel on Gervais Street in case of inclement weather. / 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 (6 a.m.-6 p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6 p.m.-6 a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS B Violent O Nonviolent TUESDAY, APRIL b OLarceny of handheld recorder Radiology reading room, 1409 Devine St. \ « The complainant said someone removed a handheld recorder. Estimate value: $40. Reporting officer: D. Davis. THURSDAY, APRIL 7 □Civil Disturbance Russell House, 1400 Greene St. Reporting officers Morant, M. Wheeler, Widdifield and D. Davis witnessed approximately 12 to 15 male subjects hitting one another. The officers also witnessed the subjects swinging brown paddles at one another. The subjects dispersed and were not individually picked out. (Dlnformation Suspicious Activity McMaster, 1106 Pickens St. The complainant said a suspicious phone call was made regarding the art department. Reporting officer: M. Wheeler. Q Larceny of Flag Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, 509 Lincoln St. The complainant said someone cut the cable of the flagpole and removed the American flag and Sigma Alpha Epsilon flag. Estimated value of the flags: $30. Reporting officer: D. Davis. FRIDAY, APRIL 8 ©Theft from coin-operated machine Canteen lobby, Law Center, 1112 Greene St. The complainant told reporting officer C. Taylor that someone used a brick to break the glass of the vending machine. 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