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2A I Friday, September i, 2006 | The Red & Black
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UGA TODAY
>■ Ecology Seminar.
“Invasive Plant Impacts on
Wildlife: A Search for
Generalities.” Noon. Warnell
School of Forestry and
Natural Resources Ecology
Auditorium. Sponsor: Institute
of Ecology. Contact:
anisaj@uga.edu
► “First Friday Pep
Rally”. Stegeman Coliseum.
5:30 - 7 p.m. Doors open at
5 p.m. Sponsor: UGA Alumni
Association. Cost: free. The
first 1,000 fans receive a com
memorative t-shirt.
Saturday
>- Fall Bird Rambles.
8-11 a.m. Orange Trail Kiosk
near the upper parking lot of
the State Botanical Garden.
Contact sbgeduc@uga.edu,
(706) 542-6156.
>- Nuci’s Space Benefit
Cookout with live music by
local musicians. 11 a.m. -
2 p.m. Earth Fare. Cost: $5
grilled lunch plate to support
Nugi’s Space.
> Grafica Mexicana
Exhibition. Through Sunday,
Oct. 29. Georgia Museum of
Art. Sponsor: Friends of the
Georgia Museum of Art and
the W. Newton Morris
Charitable Foundation. Prints
from mid-1940s Mexico.
Contact (706) 542-4662,
www.uga.edu/gamuseum
Sunday
>- Taped rebroadcast:
Congressional Field
Hearing on Agroterrorism.
4 and 8 p.m. On University
Cablevision, Channel 15.
“Agroterrorism's Perfect
Storm: Where Human and
Animal Diseases Collide.”
Monday
>- Labor Day. No school
Tuesday
> Tsunami Photo
Exhibition. “Rebuilding
Homes, Renewing Spirits.”
Through Sept. 14. Sponsor:
UGA Habitat for Humanity.
Tate Student Center, rm. 309.
Contact:
ugahabitat@hotmail.com
>- Art Lecture. 6:30 - 8 p.m.
Main Gallery, 116 Visual Arts
Bldg. Sponsor: Lamar Dodd
School of Art and the Franklin
College of Arts and Sciences.
“Sheets in the Wind,” an
installation by Nell Ruby.
Contact (706) 542-1511, artin-
fo@uga.edu
► Power to the People!
Film Series. 7:00 p.m.
Athens-Clarke County Public
Library Auditorium. Sponsor:
Richard B. Russell Library,
Walter J. Brown Media
Archives. “National Recovery
Administration Promotion.”
Contact: (706) 542-5788,
rtuten@uga.edu
>- Comedian: Godfrey.
8 p.m. Georgia Hall. Sponsor:
University Union. Cost: $5
Pre-show, $7 Day of Show for
UGA Students; $12 Pre-show,
$14 Day of show for non-stu
dents. Contact: 706-542-
6396, mlamotte@uga.edu
Wednesday
>- The UGA Volunteer
Fair. 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Tate
Plaza. Sponsor: Volunteer
UGA and the Center for
Leadership and Service.
Contact: 706-583-0830,
acbeale@uga.edu
>- CURO Information
Session. 11 a.m. 203 Moore
College. Sponsor: CURO
Office. Contact:
rcheney@uga.edu, (706) 542-
4053
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TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
Israel turns over Lebanese border area
Q
ANDERS WIKLUND | Associated Press
A Lebanon’s Prime Minister Fund Siniora, right, and Sweden’s Minister of International
Development Carin Jamtin, left, at a press conference at Grand Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden.
JERUSALEM — The Israeli
army has turned over a small
border area in southern
Lebanon to Lebanese and
international troops, military
officials said Thursday, a sym
bolic move meant to pave the
way for a heavily armed U.N.
peacekeeping force to move
into the volatile area.
The pullback came as an
international donors confer
ence in Sweden pledged near
ly $1 billion to help Lebanon
rebuild, after the country’s
prime minister told the gath
ering that Israel’s war with
Hezbollah wiped out “15
years of postwar develop
ment.”
Israel sent up to 30,000 sol
diers into Lebanon during the
34-day war, and when
the fighting ended they occu
pied a zone extending about
10 miles north from the bor
der.
Since the U.N.-brokered
cease-fire took effect Aug. 14,
Israel has been slowly trans
ferring control of the area to
Lebanese troops, who will be
bolstered by U.N. troops
equipped with tanks, how
itzers and other heavy
weapons not usually seen
with a peacekeeping force.
The armament is meant to
deter all parties from resum
ing the conflict and particu
larly is seen as a warning to
the Shiite militants of
Hezbollah, who effectively
ran southern Lebanon for
two decades and used it as a
base to launch sporadic
attacks on Israel.
$940M pledged to
rebuild Lebanon
STOCKHOLM, Sweden —
World donors on Thursday
pledged more than $940 mil
lion for early reconstruction
efforts in Lebanon and many
called on Israel to lift a block
ade of the country.
The amount was nearly
double the $500 million that
organizers of the donors’ con
ference had requested to help
Lebanon recover from weeks
of fighting between Israel and
Hezbollah guerillas.
Adding previous pledges
and commitments for longer-
term reconstruction projects,
organizers said a total of $1.2
billion had been promised to
help Lebanon back on its
feet.
Lebanese Prime Minister
Fuad Saniora thanked the 60
governments and aid organi
zations attending the confer
ence for their contributions.
Major pledges included
$175 million from the United
States and $54 million from
the European Union. The
U.S. figure was part of the
$230 million offered by
President Bush last week,
organizers said.
The prime minister reject
ed suggestions that the aid
money would trickle down to
Hezbollah and strengthen its
position in southern
Lebanon.
— Associated Press
Iran refuses U.N. uranium enrichment deadline
STIAN LYSBERG SOLUM | Associated Press
▲ Gro Bala, chair of the Munch Museum board, left, and
colleague Jorunn Chrisoffersen in Oslo, Norway, after police
announced the recovery of ‘The Scream’ and ‘Madonna’.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s
president defiantly refused to
compromise as a U.N. dead
line for his country to stop
enriching uranium arrived
Thursday, saying Tehran
won’t be bullied into giving
up its right to nuclear tech
nology.
President Bush said “there
must be consequences” for
Tehran, adding that “the
world now faces a grave
threat from the radical
regime in Iran.”
The U.N. nuclear watch
dog, the International Atomic
Energy Agency, said Iran
showed no signs of freezing
enrichment, adding that
Tehran started work on a new
batch Aug. 24.
U.S. Ambassador John
Bolton said the U.N. Security
Council must be ready to
impose sanctions. He added,
however, that it will wait to
take action until the
European Union’s foreign pol
icy chief, Javier Solana, meets
with Iran’s top negotiator, Ali
Larijani, sometime next
week.
Iran’s refusal to cooperate
fully with the IAEA and its
WORLD
continued development of
nuclear technology leaves no
doubt that it is seeking a
nuclear bomb, Bolton told
reporters. Iran contends its
program is for peaceful pur
poses.
Police recover two
Munch paintings
OSLO, Norway — Two
years after the brazen day
light theft of national artistic
treasures from an Oslo muse
um, police announced
Thursday they recovered the
Edvard Munch masterpieces
“The Scream” and
“Madonna.”
Art lovers had feared the
priceless paintings were gone
for good. Norwegian news
media spent the months
speculating about the works’
fate — whether they had been
burned to escape the police
hunt, sold to a wealthy collec
tor for private viewing or suf
fered harm in their hiding
place.
“The Scream” is probably
the best known work in
Munch’s emotionally charged
style, which was a major
influence in the birth of the
Expressionist movement.
Stensrud, the police
inspector, said authorities
believed the paintings had
been in Norway the whole
time.
Hurricane John hits
Mexican beaches
PUERTO VALLARTA,
Mexico — Hurricane John
churned along Mexico’s
Pacific Coast on Thursday,
lashing beaches with winds
and rain but staying just far
enough offshore to prevent
major damage.
The storm was expected to
make a direct hit Friday in
the resorts of Los Cabos,
where government officials
rushed to prepare.
Fifteen shelters to house
up to 15,000 people were
being opened in Cabo San
Lucas and officials were
stocking up on water and
food, but no evacuations have
been ordered, said Red
Cross spokeswoman Teresa
Ortiz.
By midday, the Category 3
hurricane was centered about
100 miles southwest of Puerto
Vallarta, and a hurricane
warning was still in effect
for a 300-mile stretch of
coast from the port of
Manzanillo to the fishing and
shipping community of San
Bias. Puerto Vallarta was
included in the warning area.
The warning also included
Cabo San Lucas’ twin
resort town of San Jose del
Cabo.
— Associated Press
Village
People
policeman
to enter
drug rehab
SAN DIEGO — Victor
Willis, the original policeman
in the ’70s disco band The
Village People, plans to enter
a treatment program follow
ing his no contest plea to
drug possession charges, his
publicist said.
Willis, 54, was arrested in
March in South San
Francisco after police
stopped his car and found
cocaine and drug parapher
nalia.
Willis, who co-wrote the
hits “Macho Man,” “YMCA”
and “In the Navy,” left The
Village People in 1980.
PAUL SAKUMA | Associated Press
A Victor Willis, the original
policeman from the Village
People, is escorted into a
San Mateo courtroom.
NAMES & FACES
handed music players to help
keep their spirits up.
When Grohl heard Webb
requested that Foo Fighters
music be downloaded onto
the player, he sent a message
of support — and offered to
buy them a cold beer.
Foo Fighters singer Identity thieves buy
to buy miners beer Streisand tickets
SYDNEY, Australia —
Dave Grohl says he plans to
make good on an offer to buy
beers for two miners who lis
tened to his band, the Foo
Fighters, while buried under
ground for two weeks.
Grohl said he will catch
up with the two men when
the band tours Australia in
October.
Brant Webb, 37, and Todd
Russell, 34, spent two weeks
trapped underground when
the mine they were working
in at Beaconsfield in
Australia’s southern
Tasmania state collapsed in
May. As rescuers dug an
escape tunnel, the pair were
LOS ANGELES —
Hundreds of stolen credit
card numbers were used to
purchase more than 1,000
Barbra Streisand concert
tickets that were offered for
sale on the Internet,
Ticketmaster officials said.
The company Tuesday
invalidated the tickets pur
chased with the stolen credit
card numbers.
Cities hosting shows with
canceled tickets include
Philadelphia; New York;
Washington; Sunrise, Fla.;
Auburn Hills, Mich.; Chicago;
Atlanta; Las Vegas; and
Atlantic City, N.J.
— Associated Press
CDC report: Youths targeted
by radio alcohol advertising
MIC SMITH | Associated Press
A Glenn Orr braves the wind and rain as he walks down
the 2nd Avenue Pier in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Thursday.
ATLANTA — About half of
the alcohol advertising on
radio is aired during youth-
oriented programs, accord
ing to a new study that sug
gests beer and liquor com
panies are not abiding by a
self-imposed ban on adver
tising to teens.
The report was released
Thursday by the Centers for
Disease Control and
Prevention.
It is the first to assess
alcohol radio advertising
since 2003, when the alcohol
industry vowed to no longer
run ads on radio programs
in which 30 percent or more
of the audience is under 21.
Industry officials criti
cized the report. They noted
the figures were collected in
the summer 2004, less than a
year after the industry’s
code was instituted, and
said some long-standing
advertising contracts had
not yet expired.
A radio program was con
sidered to be “youth-orient
ed” if the youth audience
was larger than the percent
age of youth in that market’s
population.
Some brands violated the
standard more than others.
Among beers, Colt 45 Malt
Liquor topped the list, with
87 percent of its ads on pro
grams exceeding the 30 per
cent threshold. Nearly 1,100
Colt 45 Malt Liquor spots
were run during such pro
grams.
Hurricane watch
issued for Carolinas
WILMINGTON, N.C. —
Forecasters issued a hurri
cane watch for the Carolina
coasts Thursday as Tropical
NATIONAL
Storm Ernesto neared hurri
cane strength in the
Atlantic.
The watch, stretching
from South Carolina’s
Santee River to Cape
Lookout in North Carolina,
means hurricane conditions
with sustained winds of at
least 74 mph were possible
within 12 hours.
Ernesto had been down
graded to a tropical depres
sion over Florida but gained
strength and was upgraded
as it moved over the
Atlantic.
By Thursday morning, its
outer bands reached the
South Carolina coast, and
its sustained winds were
nearing hurricane strength
at 70 mph by mid-afternoon,
according the National
Hurricane Center.
NASA reschedules
Atlantis launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
— After a week of weather
delays, NASA officials on
Thursday set a Wednesday
launch time for space shut
tle Atlantis on its mission to
resume construction of the
international space station.
The launch decision was
made after a check of
Kennedy Space Center fol
lowing Ernesto’s pass as a
tropical depression on
Wednesday found no serious
damage.
Atlantis’ six astronauts,
who flew in their training
jets back to Houston earlier
this week, planned to return
to Florida Saturday
morning. The countdown
was set to begin Sunday
morning.
— Associated Press