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CAROLINA # BRIEF
USC law school dean
to return to teaching
Burnele V. Powell, dean of
USC’s school of law, told
faculty, staff and students Friday
he is stepping down from his
post, effective Jan. 1, 2006.
Powell, a nationally
recognized expert on legal ethics,
will remain on the law faculty as
a full, tenured professor.
“As this chapter concludes, I
look forward to a resumption of
my teaching and scholarly
responsibilities while
simultaneously feeling enormous
pride about what we have
accomplished," Powell said.
USC '' President Andrew
Sorensen thanked Powell for his
service and said he was pleased
Powell has decided to remain
on the faculty.
Powell became dean of
USC’s law school in January
2004 after serving as professor
and former dean of the
University of Missouri-Kansas
City School of Law. He also has
taught at the law schools of the
University of Oregon,
Washington University and the
University of North Carolina.
USC Provost Mark Becker
expects to announce an interim
dean later this semester and
plans to appoint a committee to
conduct a national search for a
new dean.
THIS WEEK O USC
TODAY
USC remembers 9/11:4 p.m.
Davis Field.
WEDNESDAY
USC Jazz Trio performance:
7:30 p.m. School of Music 206.
North Campus Katrina
Donation Drive: 4-7 p.m. all
north campus buildings.
SUNDAY
Cornelia Freeman
September ' Concert Series,
Program No. 3 —
Slavic!Russian: 3 p.m. School
of Music 206.
Ryan Lewis doctoral
percussion recital: 7:30 p.m.
School of Music 206.
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POLICE REPORT
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 8
Larceny of textbooks (recovered);
obtaining goods under false pretense;
assaulting police while resistingr; escape,
2:20 p.m.
Thomas Cooper Library, 1322
Greene St.
The library manager said Marlon
Crawford, 25, removed from the library
three books, a calculator, a USB save drive
and a bookbag (estimated total value:
$220). Crawford was recorded on camera
leaving the library with the bookbag.
Reporting officer K. Adams arrived at the
scene, and a library employee said
someone matching Crawfords
description had returned books to
Addam’s Bookstore. Upon arriving at the
bookstore, Adams observed Crawford
hiding behind a support beam at the
Holiday Inn on Assembly Street. Adams
made contact with him and said he was to
be taken into investigative detention, not
arrest. Crawford struck Adams’ arm when
the officer tried to handcuff him and then
tried to flee the scene.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 9
Trafficking cocaine; trafficking
cocaine within proximity of a
school; possession of a controlled
substance; simple possession of
marijuana, 12:45 p.m.
Jillians, 800 Gervais St.
While conducting alcohol
enforcement at Jillians, reporting
officer R. Baker saw two men, ages
25 and 26, sitting in a vehicle
behind the restaurant. The two
gave consent to a search, and on
the first man Baker found a bag
with a white, powdery substance „ , .. ,
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and two green pills. The second po|jce Department
man was found to have a bag
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substance believed to be marijuana. The
white substance tested positive for
cocaine.
Disorderly conduct; altered driver’s
license, 2:40a.m.
Petigru Lot, corner of Bull and
Greene streets
Patrick Smith was walking west on
Greene Street, yelling loudly and kicking
anything on the sidewalk. He kicked and
dented some waist-level signs in the lot.
Reporting officer B. Timbers smelled
alcohol on Smith, and found on his
person a drivers license belonging to
someone else, the age of whom was over
21. Smith was arrested and transported
to Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
Iraqi, U.S. troops open offensive to retake northern town
The Associated Press
TAL AFAR, IRAQ — U.S. and i
Iraqi troops swept into the :
insurgent stronghold ofTal Afar i
early Saturday, conducting <
house-to-house searches and i
battering down walls with ;
armored vehicles in a second !
bid to clean the city of militant
fighters. 1
Some 30 miles south of <
Baghdad, meanwhile, police i
found the bodies of 18 men
who had been handcuffed and (
shot to death in Iskandariya, a 1
town where dozens of killings 1
have been reported in escalating <
vengeance killings by Shiite s
Muslim and Sunni Aram “death
squads.” J
In the capital, Baghdad s
International Airport reopened i
early Saturday after a day’s i
closure in a payment dispute s
between the government and a t
British security company, t
Global Strategies Group said it ]
agreed to resume security work <
after the government promised
to pay half of what the 1
company said it is owed. ;
Iraq police said two mortar t
shells were fired into the Green J
Zone that houses the U.S. {
Embassy, the Iraqi parliament I
and government offices. There 1
was no word on casualties or j
damage.
In the Tal Afar offensive,
vhich had been expected for
veeks, coalition forces faced
everal hundred lighdy armed
nsurgents in the largely
leserted city, 260 miles
lorthwest of Baghdad and
bout 60 miles east of the
iyrian border.
There was heavy gunfire in
he Sarai district, the oldest part
if the city and the major
nsurgent stronghold.
“I can see why the terrorists
hose this place for a fight, it’s
ike a big funnel of death,” Sgt.
William Haslett of Rocklin,
Zalifi, said of the twisting
treets and alleys in the old city.
Prime Minister Ibrahim al
aafari announced the 2 a.m.
tart of the offensive in a
tatement issued early Saturday,
it a news conference later, he
aid the insurgents had been
rying “to isolate Tal Afar from
he political process as we are
ireparing for the referendum
in the draft constitution.”
Tal Afar residents were
irgely Turkomen, with ethnic
nd cultural ties to Turkey to
he north. They are mostly
iunni Muslims but had been
;overned since the ouster of
laddam Hussein by a U.S.
>acked Shiite Muslim city
;overnment and police force.
Interior Minister Bayan Jabr
Mohammed Ibrahim /The Associated Press
Iraqi soldiers greet returning U.S. troops as they man their
checkpoint on the road to Tal Afar in northwest Iraq on Sunday.
said 48 insurgents had been
captured so far, along with
mortars and communications
gear. He said Iraqi troops had
suffered two wounded and no
deaths.
Defense Minister Saadoun
al-Dulaimi said that in the past
two days, 141 “terrorists” had
been killed and 197 wounded.
Five government soldiers died
and three were injured, he said.
Al-Dulaimi said 11 Iraqi
army battalions and three
battalions of paramilitary police
were engaged in the offensive,
along with three battalions of
U.S. troops, and promised Iraqi
forces would broaden the
offensive against insurgents
north arid west of Baghdad,
right up to the Syrian border.
“We say to our people in (the
insurgent strongholds of)
Qaim, Rawa, Samarra and
Ramadi, we are coming and
terrorists and criminals will not
be able to hide there,” he said.
He complained that
neighboring nations had not
done enough to stop the flow of
foreign fighters.
“I regret to say that instead of
sending medicines to us, our
Arab brothers are sending
terrorists,” al-Dulaimi said.
U.S. forces cleared Tal Afar of
militants last year but quickly
withdrew, leaving behind a
force of only 500 that was
unable to block the militants’
return. V
In a bid to soften resistance,
the U.S. military carried out
repeated air and artillery strikes
on targets in the city, where
most of the population of
200,000 was reported to have
fled to the surrounding
countryside.
On Friday, die government
issued a statement hinting a
major attack was imminent,
and die U.S. military reported
killing 11 insurgents during
raids over the past two days.
The Iraqi military claimed it
had arrested 150 foreign
fighters who had infiltrated
from Syria.
In Baghdad, acting
Transportation Minister Esmat
Amer told I he Associated Press
that the city’s main airport —
Iraq’s only reliable and relatively
safe link to the outside world —
reopened after negotiations
overnight between the
government and the British
company.
“We have reached agreement
with the Global security firm,
and the airport is open now for
domestic and international
flights,” said Amer.
•Company spokesman Giles
Morgan told AP from London
that Global agreed to return to
work after the government
promised to pay 50 percent of
what was owed.
State
S.C. to seek teachers
during Gulf Coast trip
Teacher recruiters from
South Carolina will head to the
Gulf Coast in a few weeks to
find educators who are out of
work in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina.
State Education
Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum A
said Friday that South Carolina ^
has about 400 openings with
critical needs for math, science
and special needs teachers.
About 10,000 teachers are out of
work in Mississippi and
Louisiana, Tenenbaum said.
A message on the New
Orleans Public Schools Web
site recommends teachers “seek
alternative employment
immediately."
Teachers from Mississippi
and Louisiana can teach in
South Carolina for a year
without having to gain
certification here. ^
The state will waive its $51 ^
certification application fee,
and Tenenbaum said she has
asked local school districts to
cover the $24 fee for a required
FBI background check and
fingerprinting.
Nation
Probe: 9/11 program
‘accomplished little’
A federal probe concluded
that a government program to
monitor the health of federal m
employees at the World Trade ”
Center disaster site in New
York “accomplished little” even
though city and state programs
screened more than 30,000
people.
A report by the Government
Accountability Office found
that the health-screening
program conducted only about
400 exams, a small fraction of
the thousands of federal
employees who worked on the
hazardous debris pile in the
aftermath of the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks.
The federal worker screening A
program established by the ”
Health and Human Services
Department “has accomplished
little, completing screenings of
less than 400 of the thousands
of federal responders," the
GAO determined.
It has been known for some
time that the government cut
short the federal worker
screening program, but the
GAO report suggests that part
of the reason for that may have
been uncertainty about what to
do with the results.
World
Ukrainian president 4
sacks feuding cabinet ^
KIEV, UKRAINE When
President Viktor Yushchenko
picked his first Cabinet after
the Orange Revolution, he
looked no further than
Independence Square — those
rallying the thousands of
protesters and those writing the
checks.
The result was 51 fragile and
mismatched coalition united
only in their desire not to
follow in the footsteps of the
corruption-tainted regime of .
former Prime Minister Leonid
Kuchma.
That team crumbled this
week after months of
ideological tug-of-wars over the
economy and privatization and
amid mutual allegations of
their own corruption.
On Thursday, Yushchenko
sacked all of them.
Analysts were divided over
whether Yushchenko would
emerge from the most
tumultuous week of his
presidency strengthened or
crippled*