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TUESDAY
December 4, 2001
Vol. 109, No. 73 | Athens, Georgia
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Now His Guitar Gently Weeps
LEAH GIVENS | The Red . Bdace
A Julie Mountain, a junior from Watkinsville, writes a letter to George Harrison as she sits on
the steps of the Arch, where an impromptu memorial was created in honor of the late Beatle.
Dead man’s body discovered
A dead man was found Friday
afternoon northwest of downtown
off of West Broad Street.
The Athens-Clarke County
Police Department is asking for
the University community’s help in
identifying the body.
At about 3 p.m. Friday, A-C
police officers found the 25- to 30-
year-old white male lying dead at
the intersection of Talmadge Drive
and Sylvan Circle.
The man is 5-feet, 8-inches to
5-feet, 10-inches tall and weighs
150 to 165 pounds.
He was wearing black sweat
pants with a red stripe and gray
and black athletic shoes.
A-C police spokeswoman Hilda
Sorrow said a composite sketch of
the man should be released later
this week.
Anyone with information is
asked to contact Lt. Mark Durham
at 316-3337.
— Melanie Horton
Gameday
break-ins
preventable
By MELANIE HORTON
mhorton@randb.com
A record number of car break-ins
during Saturday’s football game
could have been prevented if more
police officers were available to
patrol, according to the University
police chief.
Six students and visitors report
ed their cars had been entered on
Saturday, a gameday number that
University Police Chief Chuck
Horton said was the highest he
could remember in recent years.
Four cars were entered forcefully
in the East Campus Parking Deck
on Saturday, all between 11:30 a.m.
and 5 p.m., according to police
reports.
Two other car break-ins were
reported at the North Campus
Parking Deck and one was reported
the Creswell Hall parking lot.
The stolen property, including
four CD players, was valued at
$1,880.
Horton said parking decks are a
challenge for law enforcement.
“There could be 1,200 cars in
some of the decks at once,” Horton
said. “Our officers can only have
sight of a few cars at a time.”
Public Safety Director Asa
Boynton said one thing University
police could do to cut down on park
ing deck crime is to “do a better job
of patrolling.”
He said the huge influx of cars
that arrive on campus for football
games makes officers’ jobs difficult.
A solution to the criminal activi
ty, discussed in the past, is mount
ing cameras in the parking decks.
“The expense of the cameras as it
relates to the number of crimes in
the parking decks has not made it
worth the while,” he said.
Boynton also said in order for the
cameras to be effective, the depart
ment would need more manpower.
But Horton said the department
already is short on manpower dur
ing football games.
“I use a lot less officers than
Tennessee or Florida. (Tennessee)
has about two or three times the
number of officers stationed around
their stadium (during games) than
we do,” he said, noting that they
have access to a large police force in
the Knoxville area.
Horton said Athens’ location
doesn’t provide for a large pool of
resources.
“Athens-Clarke County is
strapped for (officers),” Horton said.
“There just aren’t enough people to
go around, but I do the best I can
with what I’ve got.”
He said the Athletics Association
pays for the extra officers and over
time pay of those employed on foot
ball Saturdays.
“If I could find more people (to
patrol during games), they would
probably pay for it,” Horton said.
Athletics Association officials
could not be reached Monday.
Horton said the University brings
in officers from the Medical College
of Georgia, Georgia State University
and A-C police departments during
games when there is potential for
more than 100,000 people to be on
campus.
A-C East Precinct Cmdr. Charles
Newson said it provides about 63
officers on football gamedays.
“We’re stretched on game days,”
he said. “Most of the people we uti
lize are off-duty officers. We use
everyone we can.”
Horton said he takes pride in
keeping the level of crime low during
football games, especially given the
number of officers at his disposal.
“We’ve really done a pretty good
job of keeping the activity under
control,” he said. “There will be no
re-evaluation (of our gameday
patrolling activities).”
Differing ideologies puts economy-boosting bill in limbo
By AMBER BILLINGS
abillings@randb.com
A Congressional bill to boost the
economy has remained in limbo
due to differing political agendas
between Democrats and
Republicans.
Senate Democrats have pushed
for more unemployment and health
care benefits, which halted
progress on the bill.
Meanwhile, Senate Republicans
continue to support tax cuts for
businesses.
Jeff Humphreys, director of the
Selig Center for Economic Growth,
said the focus of the bill is to pro
vide an immediate economic
reaction.
“I think they need to do a tax
holiday. It gets money into the
u
“I think they need to do a
tax holiday. ...”
JEFF HUMPHREYS
Director of the Selig Center for Economic
Growth
hands of the people,” he said. “(Or)
give people a holiday from their
Social Security taxes in
January and February. That will
have a quick impact on the
economy.”
Tax breaks for special interest
groups would not provide an
instant response from the spiraling
economy, Humphreys said, but it
appears Congressional leaders may
implement such a break.
“It takes longer for an impact,”
he said. “It wouldn’t help much for
the current economy.”
The economy is expected to
improve next summer, Humphreys
said.
Senate Majority Leader Tom
Daschle (D-S.D.) said Sunday that
despite the disagreement between
the two parties, there will be a
stimulus bill.
► See ECONOMY. Page 3
Israel retaliates, destroys
Palestinian headquarters
Israel began retaliation Monday
against Palestinian groups they blame for
three suicide bombings Saturday and
Sunday.
An F-16 fighter jet fired 10 missiles at
civil police headquarters and Yasser
Arafat’s offices in the West Bank town of
Jenin, Israel Defense Forces said.
Palestinian sources said the headquar
ters were destroyed. No injuries were
reported.
An explosion in the historic town of
Bethlehem also was reported, but offi
cials said its origin was unknown.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,
sounding much like President Bush,
warned his nation Monday that the war
against terrorism “will not be an easy
war; this war will not be a short war, but
we shall win.”
At least 28 people were killed by the
three suicide bombs, which were detonat
ed in a busy Jerusalem pedestrian mall
and on a crowded Haifa bus this week
end.
Meanwhile in Kabul, Afghanistan, the
Northern Alliance presented four names
Monday as their preferences for
Afghanistan’s future leader.
They asked that the future interim
leader be either Sattar Sirat, Hamid
Karzai, A1 Haj Sabghtullah Mujhadidi or
Said Ahmed Gellani.
In Mazar-e-Sharif, a Taliban soldier
told U.S. officials on Sunday that he is an
American citizen.
Abdul Hamid said he was bom John
Walker in Washington’s Columbia
Women’s Hospital and that he resides
near San Francisco.
“U.S. military forces in Afghanistan
have in their control a man who calls him
self a U.S. citizen,” Army Major James
Cassella, a Pentagon spokesman, said
Monday in Washington. “He was among
the al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners held
by the Northern Alliance in Mazar-e-
Sharif.”
Newsweek reported Sunday the man
officially has been identified as John
Philip Walker Lindh, 20, of Fairfax, Calif.
His mother said he was a “sweet, shy kid”
and claimed that he “must have been
brainwashed.”
Lindh has received medical attention
from U.S. forces, according to the
Pentagon, but officials did not provide
any further details.
Outside the last Taliban stronghold of
Kandahar, U.S. fighter planes continued
to pound strategic targets around the
city. Nearby, Marine Corps soldiers wait
ed for a call to action, Pentagon sources
said.
— Compiled, by Leah Newman
Contributing: Associated Press, CNN
and Pox News reports
FILE | The Red a Black
▲ Catch 2001 SEC freshman of the year Cory
Fritzinger and the Gym Dog squad this season at
Stegeman Coliseum. Tickets go on sale today.
Gym Dogs
tix on sale
“Red Hot” tickets are now on sale for
the 2002 University of Georgia Gym
Dogs’ gymnastics season.
Student season tickets may be pur
chased at booths 3 and 4 of Stegeman
Coliseum today and Wednesday from
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., or through Friday at
the Tate Center Information Desk from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The cost for the tickets is $6 with a
valid UGACard and covers a package
that includes tickets to each of the six
Gym Dog home meets, a “Red Hot”
Gym Dogs T-shirt, a 2002 team calen
dar and a schedule magnet.
This season promises to be an excit
ing year for the Gym Dogs. Four All-
Americans return from last year’s
squad, which claimed Georgia’s 11th
Southeastern Conference team title.
The 2001 Gym Dogs took second
place at the NCAA championships,
where Georgia has recorded 13 top
three finishes in the last 15 years.
Gym Dog fans can get their first
glimpse of the 2002 team at the annual
Sneak Preview held Sunday at 2 p.m. in
the Ramsey Center.
Georgia opens its season by hosting
Nebraska Jan. 6 at 2:30 p.m. the
Comhuskers were a Super Six finalist
in last year’s national championships.
— Anne Milligan
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