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2 I Friday, April 28, 2006 | The Red & Black
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UGA TODAY
>■ Benefit Concert. 9 p.m.
Last Call. Sponsor: The ONE
campaign and Habitat for
Humanity. Band: Raspberry
Beret, a Prince and Michael
Jackson Tribute Band. Cost:
$5. Contact:
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THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
Senate GOP proposes $100 gas refunds
> UGA’s Relay For Life.
6 p.m. through 8 a.m.
Saturday. Spec Towns Track.
Bands: Legend Has It, Ruse,
Beyond Tomorrow, With
Someone Else's Money, UGA
Break-Dance Club, etc. Web
site: www.uga.edu/relay
>- Caribbean Night 2006!
6:30 p.m. Georgia Hall Tate
Center. Cost: $5 with UGA ID,
$7 for non-students. Sponsor:
Caribbean Student
Association
>- Spring 2006
Undergraduate Geography
Conference. 9:20 a.m.
Room 147, Geography
Building. Sponsor: Geography
Graduate Student
Association
Saturday
WASHINGTON — Senate
Republicans advocate send
ing $100 rebate checks to mil
lions of taxpayers, and a
Democrat is leading the cam
paign for a 60-day gasoline
tax holiday.
Either way, it seems no one
in Congress wants to be with
out a plan, however symbolic,
to attack the election-year
spike in gasoline prices.
A vote is possible as early
as this week on the Senate
GOP approach, which calls
for $100 rebate checks for
taxpayers to cushion the
impact of higher gasoline
prices.
The measure seems unlike
ly to prevail, at least initially,
since it includes a highly con
troversial proposal to open a
portion of Alaska’s Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge to oil
drilling.
Weeklong roundup
nets 9,037 fugitives
WASHINGTON — More
than 1,100 people wanted in
connection with violent sex
crimes were among 9,037 fugi
tives arrested in a weeklong
roundup, top law enforce
ment officials said Thursday.
The arrests were made as
part of “Operation Falcon II,”
a 27-state dragnet led by the
U.S. Marshals Service and
timed to coincide with
National Victims Rights Week.
Hispanic teenager
beaten, sodomized
SPRING, Texas — Two
white teenagers severely beat
and sodomized a 16-year-old
Hispanic boy who they
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believed had tried to kiss a 12-
year-old white girl at a party,
authorities said.
The attackers forced the
boy out of the Saturday night
house party, beat him and
sodomized him with a metal
pipe, shouting anti-Hispanic
epithets, said sheriff’s Lt.
John Martin.
Harris County prosecutor
Mike Trent said the attackers
also cut the victim with a knife.
They poured bleach over the
boy, apparently to destroy
DNA evidence, and left him for
dead, authorities said.
Keith Robert Turner, 17,
and David Henry Tuck, 18,
were charged with aggravated
sexual assault.
— Associated Press
PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS The Red & Black
A General Motors engineer Mike Miller drives a hydrogen
powered vehicle with House Speaker Dennis Hastert in the
passenger seat after a news conference Thursday at a gas
station in Washington.
>- The Twilight 5K.
8:30 a.m. Washington Street
at College Avenue. Register:
registration@gobike1 .com.
Cost: $20. Sponsor: Safe
Campuses Now. Contact:
naodom@uga.edu. Web site:
www.athenstwilight.com
> “Biyahe Tayo: A
Journey Through the
Philippines.” 7 p.m. Georgia
Hall, Tate Center. Sponsor:
Filipino American Student.
Contact: jmango87@uga.edu.
Web site:
www.uga.edu/fasa
>- Star Wars Miniatures
Tournament. Noon - 4 p.m.
Tyche’s Games, Lumpkin
Street. Sponsor: Gamers
Association of UGA/Tyche's
Games. Contact:
tyche@tychesgames.com.
Web site:
www.tychesgames.com
Monday
>- Swing Lessons. 7 p.m.
Memorial Hall Ballroom.
Sponsor: UGA Swing Club.
Web site:
www.uga.edu/ugaswingclub
>- Seminar — Rural
Communities: Housing
Challenges and
Opportunities. 12:20 p.m.
202 Dawson Hall. Sponsor:
Department of Housing and
Consumer Economics.
Speaker: Dr. Pamela R.
Turner, Assistant Professor
Housing and Environment
Extension Specialist. Contact:
ymimura@fcs.uga.edu
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SERGEI GRITS | The Red & Black
A Belarusian opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich
smiles from the window of a courthouse in Minsk on
Thursday. A court sentenced Milinkevich to 15 days in jail
for taking part in an unsanctioned protest march.
Belarusian leader
sentenced to jail
for protest rally
MINSK, Belarus — A
Belarusian opposition leader
was arrested Thursday and
sentenced to 15 days in jail for
taking part in an unsanc
tioned protest rally.
Police detained Alexander
Milinkevich on Thursday, a
day after a large rally and
march in Minsk in opposition
to authoritarian President
Alexander Lukashenko.
The rally had received offi
cial approval, but police
declared a march to the rally
site to be unsanctioned.
“This is a political sen
tence. The leaders of political
parties are being put behind
bars,” Milinkevich said.
Frail Koirala named
Nepal prime minister
KATMANDU, Nepal — The
king formally named Girija
Prasad Koirala as Nepal’s new
prime minister Thursday,
although a spokesman said
the 84-year-old politician was
sick with a lung problem and
had been on oxygen through
out the day.
Koirala’s unspecified ill
ness kept him away from a
victory rally in Katmandu,
marring a day that began with
the communist rebels
announcing a three-month
cease-fire.
The temporary truce lifted
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a key burden on the new gov
ernment poised to take con
trol after weeks of bloody
protests in which 15 people
were killed by soldiers and
police.
Iraq vice president’s
sister shot, killed
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A sister
of Iraq’s new Sunni Arab vice
president was killed Thursday
in a drive-by shooting in
Baghdad, a day after the
politician called for the
Sunni-dominated insurgency
to be crushed by force.
In southern Iraq, a bomb
hit an Italian military convoy,
killing four soldiers — three
Italians and a Romanian —
and seriously injuring another
passenger, officials in Rome
said. Fighting also broke out
northeast of Baghdad
between Iraqi forces and
insurgents, killing several
Iraqi policemen and civilians.
The violence came as
Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice and
Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld visited Baghdad to
meet with officials in Iraq’s
new government.
— Associated Press
Cox campaign manager out
after Wikipedia alteration
ATLANTA — The cam
paign manager for Secretary
of State Cathy Cox resigned
on Wednesday amid allega
tions that he altered an
online biography of her
Democratic opponent to add
a mention of his son’s arrest
in a fatal drunk driving acci
dent.
Cox said an internal inves
tigation confirmed that the
posting about her opponent,
Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor, on
Wikipedia, a popular online
encyclopedia, came from
within her gubernatorial
campaign.
“My campaign manager
Morton Brilliant, who is
responsible for all the work
in my office, has offered me
his resignation and I have
accepted it,” Cox said in a
statement.
Atlanta vandalism
possible hate crime
ATLANTA — A national
Islamic civil rights group is
asking the FBI to investigate
vandalism at a Muslim home
in suburban Atlanta as a
hate crime.
The Douglas County fami
ly’s van was burned and the
JOHN AMIS | The Red & Black
A Secretary of State Cathy Cox raises her paperwork in
the air after filing to run for governor Thursday.
words “Killers go home”
spray-painted on the side of
their house on April 8.
Mohamed and Sonia
Kamran said someone
smashed in the window of
their minivan in the driveway
and torched it.
Douglas County Chief
Deputy Stan Copeland said
evidence from the scene has
STATE
been submitted to the state
crime lab and that police
patrols in the neighborhood
have been stepped up
as investigators seek new
leads.
— Associated Press
Snoop Dogg released on bail
after airport lounge altercation
LONDON — Snoop Dogg
was released on bail
Thursday after a fracas over
access to a first-class lounge
at Heathrow Airport, which
injured seven police officers,
his lawyers said.
London’s Metropolitan
Police said officers respond
ed late Wednesday to reports
of a disturbance involving 30
people at British Airways’
first-class lounge.
When officers told the
group they wouldn’t
be allowed to board their
flight, “a number of the
group became abusive and
pushed officers,” a police
spokeswoman said on the
force’s customary condition
NAMES & FACES
of anonymity.
The six men were arrested
on charges of “violent disor
der and affray” — or
creating a brawl or distur
bance — and spent the
night at London police sta
tions.
Lopez named most
beautiful Latina
NEW YORK — While
Angelina Jolie tops People’s
most beautiful issue,
Jennifer Lopez graces the
cover of the magazine’s
Spanish-language version.
Lopez is on the cover of
People En Espanol’s annual
“50 Most Beautiful” issue, on
newsstands Monday.
“I’ve never tried to hide
the fact that I’m Latina,” the
Bronx native told the
magazine. “I think that’s why
Hispanics are like,
‘she’s ours, she belongs to
us.’ And that’s true. With
the Latino community, I
am theirs, I do belong to
them.”
The 37-year-old actress-
singer was also named one of
People’s 100 most beautiful
people.
— Associated Press
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