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2A I Wednesday, August 16, 2006 | The Red & Black
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UGA TODAY
>■ Open Studio: Life
Drawing. 5:30 p.m. Ed and
Phoebe Forio Studio
Classroom. Sponsor: Georgia
Museum of Art. Cost: $3.
Contact: (706) 542-4662.
Web site:
www.uga.edu/gamuseum
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THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
London police arrest man in jetliner plot
>- Film from India “Pather
Panchali” (India, 1955). 7p.m.
Georgia Museum of Art.
Contact: (706) 542-4662.
Web site:
www.uga.edu/gamuseum.
>• LGBT Resource Center
Open House. 4 p.m. 124
Memorial Hall. Contact:
lgbt@uga.edu, 706-542-4077
Thursday
► Annual Kickoff for the
Demosthenian Literary
Society. 6 p.m.
Demosthenian Hall. Contact:
jdweiss@uga.edu
>■ Carlos Mencia.
8 p.m. Legion Field. Sponsor:
University Union. Cost: Free
for students with a valid
UGACard, but tickets are
required; $15 for non-stu
dents. Contact:
mlamotte@uga.edu, 706-542-
6396
Friday
>■ International Coffee
Hour. 11:30 a.m. Memorial
Hall Ballroom. Sponsor:
International Student Life.
Contact 706-542-5867
>• Dawgs After Dark:
Snow Day. 8 p.m. movie,
9:30 p.m. activities. Tate
Student Center. Sponsor:
University Union. Cost: Free
for students with valid
UGACard, $5 for non-stu
dents. Contact: 706-542-
6396, jillt@uga.edu
Saturday
>• Gigantic Flea Market. 8
a.m. 2450 S. Milledge Ave.
Contact: beverly@uga.edu,
706-542-6138
>• Football Fans Picture
Day. Uga VI available from 1
- 3 p.m., players and coaches
from 3 - 5 p.m. Sanford
Stadium concourse. Contact:
706-542-1621
► American Quilts
Exhibition. Through Nov. 19.
Georgia Museum of Art.
Sponsor: Friends of the
Georgia Museum of Art and
the W. Newton Morris
Charitable Foundation.
Contact: (706) 542-4662.
Web site:
www.uga.edu.gamuseum
Sunday
>- Bound in Clay. Through
Oct. 8. Washington Historical
Museum. 308 E. Robert
Toombs Ave., Washington,
Ga. Contact: Stephanie
Macchia, historical@washing-
tonwilkes.org, (706) 678-
2105
Monday
>• Swing Lessons. 7 p.m.
Memorial Hall Ballroom. Cost:
$1 donation. Web site:
www.uga.edu/ugaswingclub
>• CURO Information
Session. 9:05 p.m. 203
Moore College. Sponsor:
CURO Office. Contact: rch-
eney@uga.edu, (706) 542-
4053
Tuesday
>■ Fitness Sneak Preview.
4 p.m. Ramsey Center, stu
dios A and B, the martial arts
studio and the cycle studio.
Sponsor: UGA Recreational
Sports. Contact:
ees@uga.edu, (706) 542-
5060
>- Power to the People!
Film Series. “The
Southerner” (1945). 7 p.m.
Clarke County Public Library
Auditorium, 2025 Baxter
Street. Contact: RennaTuten,
rtuten@uga.edu, (706) 542-
5788
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MATT DUNHAM | Associated Press
A Armed British police officers, at left and center, patrol Terminal 4 of London’s Heathrow Airport Monday. The British
government downgraded its terror threat level from critical to severe on Monday. While the government said passen
gers would now be permitted to carry a single bag onto planes, authorities at London Heathrow and other major air
ports said the ban on carry-on luggage would continue for another day.
LONDON — Police
detained a new suspect
Tuesday in the alleged plot to
blow up jetliners over the
Atlantic, the first arrest since
authorities detained two
dozen people last week and
threw Britain’s airports into
turmoil by imposing tougher
security.
The announcement came
after police said they raided
two Internet cafes near the
homes of some suspects and
a news report said officers
may have found a rifle and a
pistol in a search of wood
lands in the same area.
London’s Metropolitan
police said the latest suspect
was detained around noon in
the Thames Valley area just
west of London. They offered
no more details, including the
person’s gender or identity.
Israel begins to pull
forces from Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israel
began slowly pulling out
forces from southern
Lebanon and made plans to
hand over territory Tuesday
on the first full day of a tense
cease-fire that already has
been tested by skirmishes
and rocket fire.
But Israeli and Hezbollah
forces avoided any escalation,
raising hopes that the U.N.-
imposed pact could stick, as
governments rushed to
assemble international
troops to deploy in southern
Lebanon and firm up the
peace.
Hezbollah’s two patrons,
Syria and Iran, proclaimed on
Tuesday that the guerrillas
had won the fight with Israel
and thwarted America’s plan
for a “new Middle East” — a
reflection of the two
countries’ boosted confi
dence amid Hezbollah’s
increased popularity around
the Arab and Islamic world.
Israel and its main backer,
the United States, however,
portrayed Hezbollah as the
loser and by extension,
its main backers, Iran and
Syria.
Israeli soldiers in southern
Lebanon shot five Hezbollah
fighters Tuesday in two sepa
rate incidents, but it was not
clear if they were wounded
or killed, the army said.
Orangutans use net
for dating service
THE HAGUE, Netherlands
— Single male (red hair, long
arms, interests include hang
ing in trees and grooming)
seeks female for long-dis
tance relationship and possi
bility of meeting up in future
to help save species.
Zookeepers in the
Netherlands are planning to
hook up Dutch and
Indonesian orangutans over
the Internet and believe the
link could at some stage be
used as an online dating serv
ice where apes could get to
know one another and keep
ers could work out whether
they would be compatible
mates.
First things first: A roman
tic dinner for two.
“We are going to set up an
Internet connection between
Indonesia and Apeldoorn so
that the apes can see each
other and, by means of press
ing a button, be able to give
one another food, for exam
ple,” said Anouk Ballot, a
spokeswoman for the
Apenheul ape park in the
central Dutch city of
Apeldoorn.
She said the chance of two
orangutans actually mating
as a result of the online inter
action was small due to the
problem of transporting them
between the Netherlands and
Indonesia. “But I wouldn’t
rule it out completely,” she
said.
— Associated Press
Federal agents arrest drug
dealers across the nation
EVAN VUCCI | Associated Press
A President Bush gestures during a statement after meet
ings at the National Counterterrorism Center on Tuesday in
McLean, Va.
WASHINGTON — Federal
agents arrested more than
130 alleged drug traffickers
from coast-to-coast on
Tuesday who U.S. officials
said smuggled heroin from
Mexico and offered phone-up
home delivery like a takeout
pizza shop.
Beginning before dawn,
Drug Enforcement
Administration agents con
ducted arrest raids and
searches, seeking up to 150
people, about half of them
illegal aliens, according to
senior drug enforcement offi
cials, who spoke on condition
of anonymity before the offi
cial announcement.
By early afternoon, the
investigation had produced
131 arrests in 15 cities, from
Charleston, S.C., to Los
Angeles, based on 10 federal
indictments and state
charges, the officials said.
Political ad pairs
Clinton, bin Ladin
NEW YORK — A
Republican hoping to chal
lenge Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton this fall is running a
television ad that pairs
Clinton’s face with Osama
bin Laden’s and accuses her
of opposing national security
programs that may have
helped thwart a terror plot on
U.S.-bound flights from
London.
The ad by former Yonkers
Mayor John Spencer’s cam
paign suggests Clinton is
“playing politics with nation
al security.” It shows images
of newspaper headlines
about the terror plot, fol
lowed by photos of Clinton
and bin Laden.
“Senator Hillary Clinton
opposed the Patriot Act and
the NS A program that helped
stop another 9/11. She’d leave
us vulnerable,” the narrator
says.
Clinton adviser Howard
Wolfson called the ad factual
ly inaccurate. Clinton voted
for the Patriot Act, which
expanded the federal govern
ment’s ability to track terror
suspects, in 2001. Last year,
she was part of a Democrat-
led filibuster that forced
Republicans to accept curbs
on the government’s power to
investigate suspects, but she
then voted to renew expiring
sections of the Patriot Act.
U.S. to fight terror
for ‘years to come’
WASHINGTON
President Bush said Tuesday
that the foiled plot in Britain
to blow up jetliners over the
Atlantic is evidence the U.S.
could be fighting terrorists
for years to come.
“America is safer than it
has been, yet it is not yet
safe,” Bush told reporters at
the National
Counterterrorism Center just
outside Washington. “The
enemy has got an advantage
when it comes to attacking
our homeland: they got to be
right one time and we got to
be right 100 percent of the
time to protect the American
people.”
The nation’s safety looms
as a major issue in the
midterm elections Nov. 7.
Both Republicans and
Democrats are maneuvering
for the political advantage in
an election where control of
Congress is at stake.
Democrats have been
accusing the Bush adminis
tration of trying to ignite fear
among Americans and gain
political points by claiming
they alone can keep them
safe. Republicans argue that
Democrats are weak on
national security.
SCLC plans march
in South Georgia
ATLANTA — The Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference announced
Tuesday it plans to march in
south Georgia to protest the
punishment given to a black
Clinch County commissioner
who was stripped of her
office, later banished from
the county, and now is being
jailed over a voter registra
tion violation.
SCLC President Charles
Steele Jr. said the group will
march Saturday in the Clinch
County seat of Homerville to
protest Ronda Cross-Scott’s
sentence, which included
three months in jail followed
by spending every other
weekend in jail for another
nine months. She also was
given 15 years of probation.
Cross-Scott started her
three-month jail term on
Aug. 1.
“We’re not going to sit idly
by and let this woman sit
incarcerated,” Steele said.
“We’re going to shut down
the whole state of Georgia if
we don’t get any justice.”
Cross-Scott’s husband is
Lindsay Scott, a former star
football player for the
University of Georgia who is
best known for his 92-yard
game-winning touchdown
reception against Florida in
1980.
Cross-Scott pleaded no
contest in June to improperly
claiming a temporary Clinch
County address in 2004 on
her voter registration formto
maintain her seat on the
county board and vote in her
own re-election bid. However,
authorities say the house at
that address was not livable.
Her husband said Tuesday
the couple also has a home in
Lowndes County, but she had
always claimed Clinch
County as her residence.
— Associated Press
LOUIS LANZANO | Associated Press
A Boy George cleans at the sanitation depot during his
community service Monday in New York. The singer
pleaded guilty in March to falsely reporting a burglary at
his Manhattan apartment.
Stars Hudson and
Robinson to divorce
NEW YORK — Kate
Hudson and Chris
Robinson are splitting up
after nearly six years of
marriage, said her publicist,
Brad Cafarelli.
“Kate Hudson and Chris
Robinson have confirmed
that they are separated,”
Cafarelli told The
Associated Press on
Monday.
The couple married in
2000. They have a 2-year-
old son, Ryder Russell
Robinson.
Hudson, 27, is the
daughter of Goldie Hawn.
She was nominated for a
supporting actress Oscar
for her role as rock groupie
Penny Lane in 2000’s
“Almost Famous.”
Culture Club singer
cleans up New York
NEW YORK — With a
city-issued broom in his
hand, Boy George started
his court-ordered commu
nity service early Monday,
sweeping leaves and trash
off the sidewalks of New
York.
It took less than an hour
for the former Culture Club
frontman to get into a spat
with the media.
“You think you’re better
than me?” he yelled. “Go
home. Let me do my com
munity service.”
Boy George took to the
streets of Manhattan as a
Department of Sanitation
worker wearing an orange
vest, dark capri pants,
shoes without socks and
NAMES & FACES
without the wild makeup
and androgynous style that
made him so recognizable
as the ‘80s icon who sang
“Karma Chameleon” and
“Do You Really Want to
Hurt Me?”
The singer, born George
O’Dowd, was ordered to
spend five days working for
the Department of
Sanitation after pleading
guilty in March to falsely
reporting a burglary at his
Manhattan apartment. The
officers who responded
found cocaine instead.
Sheen and Richards
reach agreement
LOS ANGELES — The
acrimony is apparently over
for the once-coupled
Charlie Sheen and Denise
Richards.
There has been an ami
cable resolution in the cou
ple’s divorce case, lawyers
for Sheen and Richards
announced Monday after
meeting with a judge in
chambers.
No judgment has been
entered in the divorce.
The lawyers wouldn’t
elaborate on the issues
resolved Monday. They also
refused to say whether a
restraining order Richards
obtained against Sheen in
April remained in effect.
Richards filed for
divorce in March 2005.
— Associated Press