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> Terry Third Thursday.
7 a.m. - 9 a.m. Terry College
Executive Education Center,
One Live Oak Center, 3475
Lenox Road. Sponsored by
the Terry College of Business.
Topic: It’s All About
Downtown. Cost: $30, includ
ing breakfast, $15 students.
Contact: 583-0873, reserva
tions© terry, uga.edu
> Campus Blood Drive.
10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Science
Library, 2nd floor microfilm
area. Sponsored by the
American Red Cross.
Contact: 678-227-4650.
Saturday, June 17
> Baseball: NCAA College
World Series.
2 p.m. versus the Rice Owls.
Through Monday, June 26,
2006. Rosenblatt Stadium,
Omaha, NE.
Sunday, June 18
>- Alumni Tour: Chianti.
Sponsored by the UGA
Alumni Association. Through
Monday, June 26, 2006.
Contact: 1 -800-606-8786.
Web site:
www.alumni.uga.edu/alumni
Monday, June 19
>- Junior Explorers Camp.
9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Botanical
Garden Visitor Center,
Children’s Classroom.
Sponsored by the State
Botanical Garden. Through
June 23, 2006. Cost:
Members $95, non-members
$100. Contact: 583-0894,
dbmitchl@uga.edu
Tuesday, June 20
>- Swing Dancing. 10 p.m.
The Ritz, downtown Athens.
Sponsored by the UGA Swing
Club. Web site:
www.uga.edu/ugaswingclub
Wednesday, June 21
Midterm and midpoint
withdrawal deadline for
summer short session I.
> Campus Blood Drive.
11 a.m. - 5 p.m. College of
Veterinary Medicine, Student
Lounge. Sponsored by the
American Red Cross.
Contact: 678-227-4650.
>- Braves vs. Blue Jays
Bus Trip. 5:30 p.m. Tate
Plaza to Turner Field.
Sponsored by University
Union. Cost: $6 for students
with valid UGACard, $11 for
non-students. Contact: 706-
542-6396.
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Bush confident in Iraqis’ future
for peace and national security
PABLO MARTINEZ | Associated Press
A President Bush, right, waves to members of the military and those working at the U.S.
Embassy in Baghdad after speaking Tuesday in Baghdad, Iraq. Bush made a surprise visit
to the Iraqi capital to boost the government of new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
WASHINGTON — Presi
dent Bush, back from a visit
to Iraq, said Wednesday vio
lence there will never be elim
inated but a security crack
down and new intelligence on
terrorism are contributing to
“steady progress.”
In a Rose Garden news
conference barely more than
six hours after his return
from Baghdad, Bush insisted
that U.S. troops would
remain there until Iraqi
forces can do the job on their
own.
And while he said he rec
ognized that calls for bring
ing home many of the 130,000
U.S. troops now in Iraq would
only increase as the
November elections draw
nearer, pulling out too soon
would “make the world a
more dangerous place. It's
bad policy.”
Bush said he assured wor
ried Iraqi leaders during his 5
1/2 hour visit Tuesday that he
would not bow to political
pressure and bring troops
home prematurely.
“If we stand down too
soon, it won't enable us to
achieve our objectives,” the
president said. He said those
goals include an Iraq that can
govern, sustain and defend
itself.
The President said that
any expectation of “zero vio
lence” in Iraq was unreason
able.
“That’s not going to hap
pen,” Bush said.
But he also said that Iraqi
and coalition forces were
stepping up their activities
against insurgents, in part by
using new intelligence gath
ered in raids following the
killing of top Iraqi terrorist
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi last
week.
“We got new intelligence
from those raids which will
enable us to keep the pres
sure on the foreigners and
the local Iraqis who are
killing innocent lives,” he
said.
The president also said
that a crackdown in Baghdad
ordered by Iraqi Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki,
which commenced Wed
nesday, offered the promise of
reducing the violence that
has plagued the city.
That crackdown sent tens
of thousands of Iraqi police
and soldiers patrolling Iraqi
streets, searching cars and
securing roads.
With al-Maliki’s new unity
government in place, “The
progress will be steady
toward a goal that has clearly
been defined,” Bush said.
He said the withdrawal of
U.S. and coalition forces
would depend on how well
the Iraqi people accept al-
Maliki’s new unity govern
ment.
Enough American forces
would remain in Iraq “for the
government to succeed,” he
said.
On another subject, Bush
was asked about three sui
cides last week among terror
suspects being held at the
U.S. prison camp at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“I’d like to close
Guantanamo. I also recog
nize that we're holding some
people that are darn danger
ous,” he said. “Eventually,
these people will have trials
and they will have counsel.”
Human rights organiza
tions and many foreign lead
ers have urged the United
States to shut down the
prison.
— Associated Press
Former mayor Campbell receives prison time
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Spider
mailed
to office
LONDON — Mahlon
Hector pleaded guilty in
Leicester Magistrates’
Court to delivering a rare
Mexican red-kneed taran
tula in a box addressed to
a colleague at a branch of
the Marks & Spencer
store in Leicester. At the
same time, he handed
store bosses his resigna
tion.
The intended recipi
ent, Susan Griffin, was
not hurt.
Hector, 22, is to be sen
tenced later on the
charge of sending a letter
or other article conveying
a threat. He did not
reveal his motive in court.
When workers at the
store discovered the
tarantula, they alerted
the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, which took it
away.
“It was a daft idea.
They are not the most
dangerous spider, but it
could be fatal if it is given
to someone who has an
allergic reaction to it,” a
spokesman for the society
said. “The woman who
received it must have
been terrified.”
The Mexican red-
kneed tarantula is com
monly used in movies
because of its scary
appearance.
With a leg span meas
uring up to 10 inches, it
has a hairy dark brown
body and reddish-orange
leg joints. Each leg ends
with two claws, which are
used for climbing trees.
It is said to bite rarely,
but flicks its hairs at vic
tims.
ATLANTA — A federal
judge said he believed Bill
Campbell helped make
Atlanta a world-class city but
wasn’t convinced the former
mayor had accepted responsi
bility for his misdeeds.
Judge Richard Story on
Tuesday sentenced Campbell
to 2 1/2 years in prison and
fined him $6,300 for tax eva
sion.
Campbell was cleared of
charges that he lined his
pockets with payoffs as he
guided Atlanta during the
1990s, years that included the
1996 Summer Olympics. But
he was found guilty of failing
to pay taxes on what prosecu
tors said were his ill-gotten
gains.
Sentencing guidelines had
called for 2 1/2 years to 3 years
and one month in prison. The
judge also ruled that
Campbell owed $62,823 in
back taxes.
Campbell, who was
ordered to voluntarily surren
der to police at a later date,
said he was confident he
would prevail on appeal.
“What we saw today was
an attempt, unfortunately, to
undo the jury’s verdict,”
Campbell said. “This is not
justice. I never betrayed the
public trust.”
During the trial, prosecu
tors tried to prove that
Campbell had taken more
than $160,000 in illegal cam
paign contributions, cash
payments, junkets and home
improvements from city con
tractors while he was mayor
from 1994 to 2002.
Instead, he was convicted
on just three counts of federal
tax evasion, and acquitted on
racketeering and bribery.
Official comes under
fire on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON — A FEMA
official angered lawmakers
Wednesday, after she cast
doubt on a congressional
study that concluded up to
$1.4 billion of the individual
aid doled out after Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita was spent
for bogus reasons.
Donna Dannels, acting
deputy director of recovery
for the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, told a
House hearing the congres
sional conclusions “represent
a fraction of the overall assis
tance provided.”
Congress’ Government
Accountability Office used a
statistical analysis to esti
mate the fraud may have
totaled 16 percent of the indi
vidual assistance after the
two hurricanes last year.
The GAO concluded that
FEMA was hoodwinked to
pay for season football tick
ets, a tropical vacation and a
sex change procedure. Prison
inmates, a supposed victim
who used a New Orleans
cemetery for a home address
and a person who spent 70
days at a Hawaiian hotel all
were able to get taxpayer
help, according to evidence
that gives a new black eye to
the nation’s disaster relief
agency.
FEMA also could not
establish that 750 debit cards
worth $1.5 million even went
to Katrina victims, the audi
tors said.
Parliament stormed
by civil servants
RAM ALLAH, West Bank —
Dozens of Palestinian civil
servants stormed parliament
Wednesday to demand long-
overdue salaries, pelting
Hamas lawmakers with water
bottles and forcing the parlia
ment speaker to flee the
building.
The second attack on the
Parliament this week, along
with the shooting death of a
Hamas gunmen in the Gaza
Strip, cast doubt on renewed
efforts by leaders of the rival
Fatah and Hamas parties to
halt their increasingly deadly
infighting.
Rove manages to
avoid indictment
WASHINGTON — The
unimaginable did not happen,
and few breathed any easier
than President Bush.
Karl Rove escaped being
charged in the CIA leak case,
ensuring that Bush will retain
the everyday counsel of the
shrewd and trusted aide who
helped create his political
persona, steer him into the
Oval Office and mastermind
his White House tenure.
Rove has operated under a
cloud and in legal limbo since
October, when he was identi
fied as Official A in the indict
ment of I. Lewis “Scooter”
Libby, Vice President Dick
Cheney’s former chief of staff.
Libby was charged with per
jury and obstruction of justice
in connection with the 2003
leak of the identity of under
cover CIA officer Valerie
Plame.
On Wednesday, two days
after Special Prosecutor
Patrick Fitzgerald informed
Rove attorney Robert Luskin
that there would be no
charges, Bush praised the
investigator's decision: “I,
obviously along with others in
the White House, took a sigh
of relief when he made the
decision he made.”
The White House still
remains under the cloud of
the CIA leak investigation.
Cheney and Rove, along with
other administration aides,
have been identified as possi
ble witnesses when Libby
goes on trial, probably in
January. They could face
grilling by Fitzgerald on
whether Plame’s identity was
leaked to retaliate against a
political critic, Plame’s hus
band, former U.S.
Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
— Associated Press
Dog attacks
owner in chase
CEDAR CITY, Utah —
Iron County sheriff’s offi
cers approached Nicholas
T. Galanis, 47, of Salt
Lake City to talk to him
about some stolen prop
erty.
Galanis got in his car
and fled with his dog.
The chase went south
bound on Gold Springs
Road, a windy, bumpy
dirt road about five miles
northwest of Modena, at
around 5:38 p.m. Monday,
said sheriff’s detective
Jody Edwards.
“Deputies could see
the dog in the passenger
seat getting slammed into
the window,” he said.
The dog, which is part
ly pit bull, “became so
agitated that he bit his
owner in the face,”
Edwards said. “And this is
what ended the chase.”
The bite removed part
of Galanis’ nose and he
stopped.
Galanis was taken to
Valley View Medical
Center before being
booked into Iron County
Jail.
His dog was taken to
the Enoch Animal
Shelter.
Galanis was held for
theft.
— Associated Press
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