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U.S. and Britain delay vote on Iraq
UNITED NATIONS — Facing almost certain defeat, the
United States and Britain signaled Tuesday they would
extend for a short period a deadline for Saddam Hussein to
disarm or face war.
France said it was “open to dialogue” but will not budge on
the fundamentals it has championed since the start of the cri
sis.
While open to extending the deadline for Iraq to prove it
has disarmed, Washington and London discounted a 45-day
delay sought by six swing nations on the Security Council.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer insisted Tuesday
that the resolution would be put to a vote this week but said
a proposal being floated to push back the March 17 deadline
by a month was “a non-starter.”
“There is room for diplomacy here,” Fleischer said. “Not
much room and not much time.”
With France and Russia threatening to veto any new reso
lution, Britain also signaled flexibility.
“I hope we won’t talk about vetoes in any set of circum
stances or in all sets of circumstances, but rather we will try
to find the common ground that allows us a way through
here,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair said.
Air Force plans
large bomb test
WASHINGTON — The Air
Force on Tuesday tested for
the first time the biggest con
ventional bomb in the U.S.
military’s arsenal, a 21,000-
pound munition that could
play a dramatic role in an
attack on Iraq.
Cheryl Irwin, a Pentagon
spokeswoman, said the test
was completed at Eglin Air
Force Base, Fla., but she did
not know whether it was con
sidered successful.
The bomb, known as the
Massive Ordnance Air Blast,
or MOAB, is guided to its tar
get by satellite signals. It was
dropped out the rear of a C-
130 transport plane, officials
said.
The bomb is so powerful
that its detonation was
expected to create a mush
room cloud visible for miles.
Asked about the test at a
Pentagon news conference,
Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld would not say
whether it would be used in
an Iraq war and he declined
to discuss its capabilities.
“This is not small,” he
said.
Separately, the No. 2
official in the Pentagon said
in a speech to the Veterans of
Foreign Wars that if Bush
decides to invade Iraq, it will
be a “war of liberation” as
well as an effort to rid Iraq
of weapons banned by the
United Nations.
Debt, spending up
for school districts
WASHINGTON — School
districts have fallen further
into debt, while spending
continues to rise, the Census
Bureau reported Tuesday.
School district debt
reached nearly $202 billion in
the 2000-2001 school year, up
13 percent from the previous
year, according to the most
recent data. During the same
period, spending rose about 7
percent nationwide to an
average of $7,284 per pupil.
The report covers a period
during which the economy
slipped into a recession.
Dozens of districts are strug
gling to find money to
renovate crumbling build
ings, build new schools or
get updated textbooks and
computers.
There is a teacher
shortage, particularly in high
demand areas like special
education, while urban and
rural districts continue to
search for better ways to edu
cate the influx of young
Hispanic immigrants without
a good grasp of English.
Texas had the highest
debt at over $25.5 billion in
2001, up from $21.6 billion the
previous year. Texas’ elemen
tary and secondary school
enrollment of over 4 million
trails only California, which
has over 6 million students.
Rep. apologizes
for Jewish remark
WASHINGTON — The
White House on Tuesday
joined those criticizing a
Virginia congressman who
said Jewish influence was tilt
ing the nation toward war
with Iraq.
Some Jewish leaders have
called for Rep. James
Moran’s resignation.
The Virginia Democrat
issued an apology Monday
for “insensitive remarks” he
made at a March 3 forum at a
local Episcopal church.
White House press
secretary Ari Fleischer said,
“These remarks are shock
ing. They are wrong and they
should not have been said.”
He did not call for Moran’s
resignation.
Talking about the likeli
hood of war with Iraq, Moran
told about 120 people at the
church forum: “If it were not
for the strong support of the
Jewish community for this
war with Iraq, we would not
be doing this.”
Moran went on to say that
“the leaders of the Jewish
community are influential
enough that they could
change the direction of where
this is going and I think they
should.”
Farmer: Voodoo
hex caused murder
ALBANY — A Haitian
immigrant farm worker told a
judge he killed one man and
injured two others because
they had placed a voodoo hex
on him.
Reynold Calixte, 43, plead
ed guilty but mentally ill last
week to felony murder and
two counts of aggravated
assault. Dougherty Superior
Court Judge Stephen Goss
sentenced him to life in
prison.
“This is the most bizarre
thing I’ve seen in my years
of prosecution,” said Chief
Assistant District Attorney
Gregory Edwards, who
dropped a malice murder
charge and weapons charges
in exchange for the plea.
Calixte killed Stephen
Dameus by shooting him in
the stomach, cutting his
throat and stabbing him in
the chest in an Albany hotel
June 22, 2001, Edwards said.
Calixte believed Dameus
put a fatal hex on him by
sprinkling black powder on
his bus seat, shoes and
pillow, Edwards said.
Defense attorney Willie
Weaver said Calixte thought
the only way to save his life
was to kill Dameus because
he didn’t have the money to
return to Haiti have a witch
doctor reverse the hex.
Calixte, who cut his own
throat during the attack, was
found lying across Dameus.
He asked officers to kill him
when they arrived.
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Center for New Music at the
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the Georgia Museum of Art, will
feature Athens artist Cheryl
Goldsledger leading a discus
sion about drawing. The talk
will begin today at 5:30 p.m. in
the Georgia Museum of Art.
Information: 542-4662.
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performance, sponsored by
the School of Music, will be held
tonight at 8 in Hodgson Concert
Hall at the School of Music.
Information: 542-3737.
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RR.I.D.E. hopes to deter accidents
By LAURA NEWSOME
lnewsome@randb.com
In an effort to curb teen car
crash deaths in Georgia,
University officials have start
ed a program to educate teens
and their parents about safe
driving.
Motor vehicle crashes are
the No. 1 killer of teens in the
nation, and in the state of
Georgia, said Frankie Jones, a
teen driving specialist at the
University’s Georgia Traffic
Injury Prevention Institute
(GTIPI).
The parent-teen program,
Georgia Teens Ride with
PR.I.D.E. (Parents Reducing
Incidents of Driving Error), is a
two-hour course that will
begin March 18.
“This course addresses driv
ing attitudes and behaviors of
parents and their novice driv
ers. The intent is to reduce the
number of crashes involving
teen drivers,” Jones said.
The two-hour course is not
a mechanical “how-to” course,
but a program where parents
become more aware of their
own driving behaviors so they
can become good role models
for their teenagers, she said.
The program comes in the
wake of graduated licensing
laws passed by the Georgia
legislature in 2002.
One of the stipulations of
the new law requires new teens
to get at least 40 hours of driv
ing experience, with their par
ents acting as instructors.
“Research has shown that
the vast majority of teenagers
learn how to drive by watching
their parents drive, or by
listening to their parents’
instructions,” said Don Bower,
the project director of GTIPI.
In addition to making par
ents aware of their own driving
behaviors, the program also
will teach parents how to
coach their teens during super
vised driving practices, and
how to help alter the high-risk
attitudes and driving behav
iors of teen drivers.
The PR.I.D.E. pilot program
will begin this month in
Rockdale County.
The Rockdale location was
chosen for the pilot program
because the GTIPI state office
recently moved to Conyers,
and because the suburban
area offers many challenges for
young drivers.
The PR.I.D.E. program is a
result of a $1 million grant
given to the the University’s
GTIPI by the Governor’s
Office of Highway Safety.
If the RR.I.D.E. pilot
program is successful in
Rockdale, it will be
implemented state-wide by fall
2003, Bower said.
“Since inexperience con
tributes significantly to the
high teen crash rate, we are
really hoping that this
program will enhance their
knowledge and safe driving
skills,” Jones said.
Wal-Mart executive comes to University
By AMY LEIGH WOMACK
awomack@randb.com
Networking will pay off for one
University student today as a Fortune 500
corporate leader earns him five extra cred
it points on his final class average.
All students are invited to participate
in a conference call with Bob Connolly,
executive vice president of marketing for
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. at 5 p.m. in Room
145 of Brooks Hall.
David Cauley, a junior from Macon,
arranged the conference call in exchange
for five extra credit points in Tom
McPeak’s Principles of Marketing Class.
McPeak offers students the extra cred
it points to encourage their networking.
He said the students do all the ground
work — using parents and friends to make
contacts and arrange
the conference calls.
“My mom is a
regional manager for
Wal-Mart and my dad is
a district manager,”
Cauley said. “While at
an annual meeting, my
mom asked (Connolly)
if he’d do it. I called him
from there and he was
cool with it.”
McPeak said the
conference calls are
designed to give students the opportunity
to interact with successful businessmen,
but also to show them that integrity can
be a building block to success.
“We want to expose them to the stars of
the business world and to endorse the phi
losophy of the business world of integrity
and truth,” he said.
Wal-Mart has been named as the
largest company in the world and tops the
list of Fortune 500 companies, according
to a feature on the company in the March
3 issue of Fortune magazine.
The article said in one day last fall, Wal-
Mart’s sales of $1.42 billion were larger
than the gross domestic product of 36
countries.
McPeak said other conference calls
have been scheduled for the semester
including corporate leaders affiliated with
3M, Southern Company, Georgia-Pacific
and several others that are still in the
planning stages.
Past participants in conference calls
have included corporate leaders with
Boeing and General Motors.
McPEAK
Tifton campus offers 4-year degree
By BRAD HARRISON
bharrison@randb.com
The scope of the University
is expanding south.
The Agriscience and
Environmental Sciences major
will become available next fall
at the Tifton campus — offer
ing students a four-year degree
program without having to
come to the main campus of
the University in Athens.
“It gives the University a
fantastic opportunity to serve
south Georgia. It’s a long way
from Tifton to Athens,” said
Gale Buchanan, Dean of the
College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences.
“It’s a great opportunity to
provide the University of
Georgia with a large student
pool that will be able to get a
University education without
going to north Georgia,” he
said.
Students graduating with
the major will be prepared for
careers in the areas of agricul
tural production and food
systems management, in addi
tion to environmental
systems.
“We’re taking advantage of
the Department of Agriculture
and the College of Agriculture
and Environmental Sciences
having over 100 faculty on that
campus,” said David Knauft,
associate dean for Academic
Affairs in the College
of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences.
“We’re responding to the
needs of the agricultural com
munity and through this we
are being able to address
them,” he said.
In the newly added major,
students will not only be able
to learn through classroom
instruction, but hands-on field
experiences as well.
“We will able to have people
from the areas of research and
agribusiness come in and
give hands-on experience,”
Knauft said.
Knauft said the program
will only help University’s
impact on south Georgia.
“A fair number of students
in south Georgia choose not to
go to Athens,” he said.
“There’s the possibility that
once we get this program run
ning we could have something
similar to the Gwinnett
campus.”
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