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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.
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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
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
Investigator Branham arrived at
the'scene, and there was nothing
found missing pending inventory.
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