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CAROLINA 0 BRIEF
Study finds Hispanics
spending more
money
Hispanic buying power is
growing steadily and having a
significant impact on the states
economy, a USC economist
said Friday.
Doug Woodward, who has
conducted a six-month
economic-impact study of the
states Latino population,
discussed preliminary results of
his study, which gives a
snapshot of the states fastest
growing population. He will
present his findings at a
conference oh South Carolina
Latino issues today. Woodward
said the total economic impact
of Latinos on the state is $2.35
billion.
Woodward surveyed 240
Mexican immigrants in
Lexington in March and Hilton
Head Island in June at sites at
the Mexican mobile consulate,
where immigrants can get a
matricula,1 or a Mexican ID
card, allowing them to get a
drivers license. Of . 240
surveyed — 100 from
Lexington and 140 from
Hilton Head — 75 percent
were male, with an average age
of 32.3. The majority of the
respondents were from the
Mexican states of Veracruz and
Oaxaca.
The survey results from
Lexington and Hilton Head
Island are part of a larger study
and will be combined with
results from surveys Woodward
plans to conduct at similar
matricula consulars in South
Carolina this fall, including one
in Greenville.
According to the U.S.
Census, as of 2002, South
Carolina has emerged as the
state with the fourth-fastest rate
of increase in Latino
population after Georgia,
Nevada and North Carolina.
South Carolina’s Latino
population grew 258 percent
from 1990 to 2002. Mexicans
represent the largest segment of
the state’s Latino population,
with other significant
populations coming from
Puerto Rico, Cuba, the
Dominican Republic, and
other central and South
American countries.
Study Abroad Fair
to kick off next
month
USC’s Study Abroad Fair will
be held Friday, Sept. 23, in the
Russell House from 10 a.m.
until 3 p.m. The exhibition will
feature programs for 35
countries on six continents.
Two new USC programs, the
Capstone Scholars Abroad
Maymester program in the
British Isles and the
anthropology department’s
summer 2006 program in the
Dominican Republic, will
participate.
Last year, 410 students
studied abroad, a 40 percent
increase from the year before.
THIS WEEK © USC
TODAY
Andrew Loeffler Trumpet
Recital 7:30 p.rn. School of
Music 206.
THURSDAY
“Nuclear Impressionism”
Colloquium: 3:45 p.m. Jones
Physical Science Cenrer 409.
SUNDAY
Cornelia Freeman
September Concert Series,
Program No. 1 — European:
3 j.m. School of Music 206.
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POLICE REPORT
THURSDAY, AUG. 25
Petit larceny of purse, 9:22 a. m.
Jones Physical Science Center,
700 Main St.
Kim Leera said someone removed her
pink-and-white purse from inside the
building. A cell phone, wallet, cash and
other objects were reported stolen.
Estimated value of stolen objects: $335.
Reporting officer: D. Adams.
Suspicious activity, 12:20 p.m.
Blatt P.E. Center, 1328 Wheat St.
The victim said a black male in his
early 20s entered the gym claiming to
be a former student. When the victim
told the man that the gym’s policy was
for former students to pay a fee to use
the facility, the man became agitated
and cursed at the victim.
The man said he “would come back and
get him,” then left when the victim
called the police.
Reporting officer: T. Widdifield.
Grand larceny of laptop, 1 p.m.
Carolina Coliseum, 701
Assembly St.
Someone removed a Sony
laptop belonging to the
Columbia Inferno hockey team
from a secure location. Estimated
value: $1,000.
Reporting officer: T. Widdifield.
Harassment, 5p.m.
Wade Hampton, 1528 Greene
St.
The victim said someone has
been leaving unspecified
messages on her dry-erase board.
Reporting officer: M. A.
Winnington.
Grand larceny of laptop, 6p.m.
Columbia Hall, 918 Barnwell St.
Brandon Lever said a silver-and-black
HP Pavilion laptop was taken from an
unlocked room. Estimated value:
$1,700.
Reporting officer: C. Taylor.
LUireeny uj rnuney unu wuuei, 11 m.
Close/Hipp Building,
1705 College St.
Christa Campbell said someone
removed her wallet from her purse.
Reporting officer J. M. Harrelson found
the wallet in a nearby trash can with $80
in cash reportedly removed.
These reports are taken directly from the USC
Police Department.
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Iraq finishes new constitution without Sunni approval
Robert H. Reid
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, IRAQ — After weeks of
haggling and four missed deadlines, it
was finally over. Unable to win Sunni
Arab approval, negotiators forwarded
Iraq’s new constitution to voters who
will decide whether it is the foundation
for a democratic future or a political
disaster.
No sooner had officials announced
agreement between the Shiites and Kurds
on the draft charter than the Sunni Arabs
on the constitutional committee said
they had rejected it. Sunni leaders
promised to rally their community to
vote down the charter in an Oct. 15
referendum.
To the end, the Sunni Arabs were
asking for concessions. But the Shiites
and Kurds, the new political masters of
Iraq, decided they’d given away enough.
A document that American officials
hoped would bring together Iraq’s myriad
ethnic and religious groups and lay the
foundation for a new, democratic nation
instead triggered a major political battle
over the future of the country more than
two years after the ouster of Saddam
Hussein.
Sunni negotiators delivered their
rejection Sunday in a joint statement
shordy after the draft was submitted to
parliament. They branded the final
version as “illegitimate” and asked the
Arab League, the United Nations anc^
“international organizations” to intervene
against the document.
Intervention is unlikely, however, and
no further amendments to the draft are
possible under the law, said a legal expert
on the drafting committee, Hussein
Addab.
“I think if this constitution passes as it
is, it will worsen everything in the
country,” said Saleh al-Mutlaq, a Sunni
negotiator.
President Bush expressed
disappointment that the Sunnis did not
sign on but pinned his hopes on the
referendum, saying it was a chance for
Iraqis to “set the foundation for a
permanent Iraqi government.”
But the depth of disillusionment over
the charter in the Sunni establishment
extended beyond the 15 negotiators,
who were appointed to the
( constitutional committee in June ufider
U.S. pressure.
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A Baghdad resident gets a haircut on Sunday as a TV broadcasts the news on the Iraqi
constitution. Iraqi negotiators finished the country’s new constitution Sunday without
the endorsement of Sunni Arabs who helped prepare it.
State
Walterboro man killed
in cocaine argument
WALTERBORO — A
Walterboro man collapsed in
the middle of S.C. 15 after he
was shot during an argument
over the price of crack cocaine,
Colleton County deputies
said.
James A. Thompson, Jr., 27,
died from a gunshot wound to ^
his chest, Coroner Richard
Harvey said.
Deputies arrested Melvin L.
Daniels, 31, of Walterboro, and
charged him with murder,
according to Colleton County
Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Ted
Stanfield.
The shooting happened
about 2 a.m. Friday, Stanfield
said.
A woman who was with
Thompson told investigators
they were planning to buy crack
from Daniels when they got
into an argument and Daniels
started firing a 9mm, deputies
said.
Nation
New Orleans braces
as Katrina bears down
NEW ORLEANS —
Monstrous Hurricane Katrina
barreled toward the Big Easy on
Sunday with 175-mph wind
and a threat of a 28-foot storm
surge, forcing a mandatory
evacuation, a last-ditch
Superdome shelter and prayers
for those left to face the
doomsday scenario this below
sea-level city has long dreaded.
Katrina intensified into a
Category 5 giant over the warm
water of the Gulf of Mexico on
a path to come ashore early
Monday in the heart of New
Orleans.
That would make it the city’s
first direct hit in 40 years and
the most powerful storm ever to
slam the city.
Estimates have been made of
tens of thousands of deaths
from flooding that could
overrun the levees and turn
New Orleans into a 30-foot- ^|i
deep toxic lake filled with
chemicals and petroleum from
refineries, and waste from
ruined septic systems.
A hurricane warning was in
effect for the north-central Gulf
Coast from Morgan City, La.,
to the Alabama-Florida line,
the hurricane center said.
Tropical storm warnings
extended east to Indian Pass,
Fla., and west to Cameron, La.,
a spread of about 480 miles.
World
Two more arrested ^
in Holloway case
ORANJESTAD, ARUBA —
Natalee Hollaway’s mother said
Saturday she believes “we are
going to get answers” in the
nearly three-month
disappearance of her daughter
after two brothers previously
detained and released in the case
were taken back into custody.
Satish and Deepak Kalpoe
were arrested Friday on
suspicion of involvement in
premeditated murder and rape
of the 18-year-old honors mI
student, Aruba’s prosecutor’s ™
office said. The arrest was based
on new evidence, the office
said, without elaborating.
“I was pumped up at the
news," Beth Holloway Twitty
told The Associated Press by
telephone from her home in
Birmingham, Ala.
Holloway Twitty called the
arrests a vindication for the
teen’s family, which was
angered by a judge’s decision in
July to release the brothers for
lack of evidence. ^