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National & World Headlines
Two cosmonauts heading back to Mir
MOSCOW — Two cosmonauts blasted off Tuesday for the Mir
space station on a mission to resuscitate the 14-year-old craft,
which until recently had appeared in danger of being scrapped.
The Mir has circled Earth unoccupied for eight months since
the cash-strapped Russian space agency recalled the last crew in
August, having run out of resources to continue manned missions.
The station was to be decommissioned around the end of
March and dropped from its orbit to bum up In the atmosphere,
with any remaining pieces plunging into the ocean.
That fate was averted when Amsterdam-based MirCorp agreed
to pay $10-20 million to lease commercial rights to the station.
The Mir's descent was postponed indefinitely.
The MirCorp deal came after a succession of failed but colorfiil
proposals to finance the craft's continued operation, including a
plan to film scenes on board for a movie about a renegade cosmo
naut.
Soft money alleged
in NY senate race
WASHINGTON — Special
donation accounts for Hillary
Rodham Clinton and Rudolph
Giuliani are illegal, two govern
ment watchdog groups said in
a complaint filed Tuesday with
the Federal Election
Commission.
Common Cause and
Democracy 21 asked the
Justice Department's campaign
finance task force to investi
gate.
The complaint targets
accounts set up by the
Democratic Senatorial
Campaign Committee and the
National Republican Senatorial
Committee to accept unlimited
contributions, known as "soft
money,” from unions, corpora
tions and individuals.
Critics say soft money allows
candidates to bypass campaign
donation limits.
“The campaigns of first lady
Hillary Clinton and Rudy
Giuliani are thumbing their
noses at the federal campaign
finance laws and treating the
voters of New York as if they
were fools,” Democracy 21
President Fred Wertheimer
said.
Party officials defended the
accounts. DSCC political direc
tor Jim Jordan called the com
plaint "frivolous, disingenuous,
and utterly without merit.”
Judge: Gun owner to
be tried for shooting
FLINT, Mich. - A man
accused of carelessly storing
the handgun that authorities
say a 6-year-old boy used to kill
a classmate must stand trial on
an involuntary manslaughter
charge, a judge ruled Tuesday.
The boy was living with his
22-year-old uncle and defen
dant Jamelle James, 19, when
he found James’ gun and took
it to Buell Elementary School,
prosecutors said. He used it
Feb. 29 to fatally shoot first-
grade classmate Kayla Rolland,
police said.
The boy, who has not been
charged, testified in the prelim
inary hearing Friday that he
had seen James playing with
the gun, a 32-caliber semiauto
matic pistol, and demonstrated
how James twirled it in his
hands.
The boy said he had seen
fhe gun and some quarters in a
shoebox in James' room.
He also said he remembered
Kayla being shot, but when
asked if he shot her, he shook
his head “no,” and blamed
another boy to whom he said
he had given the gun.
”1 wasn’t playing with the
gun, I wasn't,” the boy said.
Cancer research
yields breakthrough
SAN FRANCISCO — For the
first time, scientists have
reported success against can
cer using an intriguing tech
nique called antisense technol
ogy, which zeros in on a cancer
gene to halt malignancy at its
roots.
Researchers have been
experimenting with this
approach for more than a
decade, but on Tuesday they
described the first cases in
which the technique actually
seemed to slow a deadly malig
nancy.
Testing is still early, and doc
tors do not know whether the
treatment will pan out. But a
large international study is
starting to settle this. The
treatment, code-named G3139,
was developed by Genta Inc. of
Lexington, Mass., which
financed the research.
King trial transcript
posted on web site
ATLANTA — The family of
Martin Luther King Jr. marked
the 32nd anniversary of the civil
rights leader’s slaying Tuesday
by taking their case that King
was the victim of a conspiracy
to cyberspace.
The family has posted on the
Internet the full transcript of
the trial in which a Memphis,
Tenn., jury concluded last year
that government agents and
others conspired to murder
King, his widow announced.
"This April 4, we have been
blessed to achieve a sense of
closure as a result of the trial
and verdict that have revealed
the truth of the conspiracy that
took his life,” Coretta Scott
King said.
The family said the tran
scripts were important because
the mainstream media ignored
or distorted the details of the
trial.
“Now people who want to
learn what really happened in
Memphis can easily read the
testimony firsthand and with
out any interpretation,” she
said.
— Associated Press
UGA Today
► Black Faculty and Staff
Organization, “Twellth Annual Fofum
on the Status ol Blacks al UGA.' Saturday. 9
a.m. to 4.45 p.m. Information: 542-3866.
>- Students for
Environmental Awareness,
Thursday 7 p.m., Tate Student Center Hoorn
137. Information: 549-9846.
to 5 p.m., Memorial Hall Boom 210.
Information: 542-5867,
► WUOG, live in the Lobby,'
Thursday, 8 p.m., 90.5 FM. Speaker:
Information: 542-7100.
debate. ‘Knowledge is conducive to happi
ness," Thursday, 8 p.m., Phi Kappa Hall.
Information: 316-2250.
> Straight But Not Narrow,
Day of Silence, Wednesday 10:30 am. to 5
p.m., Tale Student Center Plaza
Intonation (sbnnOhotmail.com).
Athens-Clarke County
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StOTRUrsdav. 7 p.m., Library Auditorium
InhxSSsi 613-3650.
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| RodifU^. Speaker: Patrick Ungashick.
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Senes. Wednesday, $30
Reverends win smooch with pooch!
By KATHERINE HALL
Ths Rid e Buck
The second annual fund-raiser held by the
Presbyterian Student Center to benefit local
charities involved a bit of a twist.
This year's theme was “Smooch the
Pooch,” an interdenominational benefit in
which several pastors teamed up to raise
money for some worthy charities.
Eight area ministers and campus ministry
directors raised money from their respective
churches throughout the month.
Each minister collected money from sup
porters, and the one who obtained the high
est amount had the honor of planting a kiss
on Buttons Waller, the bulldog chosen to
bestow the prize.
Participants included reverends from the
Presbyterian Student Center, the Friendship
Presbyterian Church, the First Presbyterian
Church and the Covenant Presbyterian
Church.
Other ministers involved included ones
from the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship,
the Milledge Avenue Baptist Church, the Our
Hope Metropolitan Community Church and
Rabbi Phil Schlossberg from the University’s
Hillel.
A tie brought two kisses to the pooch, giv
ing the Rev. Renee Dubose of Our Hope MCC
and the Rev. Jim Bowden of Cove
nant Presbyterian, the opportunity to get up
close and personal with the bull
dog at the awards ceremony on Sunday
evening.
When asked how she felt about winning,
Dubose smiled and said it was all for a good
cause.
“It was a neat way to support the
Presbyterian Student Center," she said. “It’s
really important that ministers are seen as
real people.”
The money raised through the event
totaled $1,110.96.
The charities receiving the proceeds from
the fund-raiser are Habitat for Humanity, the
AIDS coalition of Northeast Georgia and the
American Red Cross.
Jessica Auer, a senior from Eastman and
coordinator of the event, said she was both
surprised and excited about the success of
the fund-raiser.
"The purpose of this was not only to raise
money for what we consider such awesome
causes, but to also bring such a diverse
church community together in a fun and
exciting way,” Auer said.
SPECIAL | Tut Kid a Blair
▲ The Rev. Renee Dubose of Our
Hope Metropolitan Community Church
kisses bulldog Buttons Waller.
>• National Pan Hritonlc
Council, Appreciation Celebration,
Wednesday, noon to 2 p.m., Tate Student
Center Plaza Information: 542-4612.
> Caribsa, Patty Sale, Wednesday.
11 am. Tate Student Center Plaza
> Lunch A Learn Series, lec
ture, "Surviving Stress," Wednesday. 10:30
am to 5 p.m.. Tate Student Center
Inlormetion: (wwvr uga edu/counseting)
> Georgia Museum of Art,
lecture. "MFA Speaks." Wednesday, 6:30
p.m., M. Smith Griffith Auditorium
Information: 542-4662.
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