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2A I Thursday, November 16, 2006 | The Red & Black
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UGA TODAY
>- American Marketing
Association Event. 7 p.m.
153 Student Learning Center.
Contact:
christie.carden@gmail.com
> Suchita Vadlamani
Lecture. 5 p.m. UGA
Chapel. Speaker: Good Day
Atlanta co-host Suchita
Vadlamani. Sponsor: Indian
Cultural Exchange. Contact:
706-542-5773
>- Poverty Awareness
Film and Discussion. 7 -
9 p.m. 171 Student Learning
Center. Sponsor: Carl Vinson
Institute of Government and
the School of Social Work.
Speaker: Steve Jones, Athens
judge. Film: “Wage Slaves:
Not Getting By In America.”
Contact: Nicole Sanders,
nsanders@uga.edu, 542-
0348.
>- Human Rights and the
School of the Americas
Discussion. 5:30 p.m.
350 Student Learning Center.
Speaker: Aisha Brown, devel
opment and operations coor
dinator for the School of
Americas Watch. Sponsor:
UGA Amnesty International.
Contact: awatts@uga.edu
>- International
Development Internship
Info Session. 6 - 7 p.m.
116 Moore College. Sponsor:
UGA Career Center.
Information on Foundation for
Sustainable Development
internships in micro-enter
prise, environment, health,
youth and education,
women's empowerment, com
munity development, and
human rights. Contact:
jupe722670@aol.com, 706-
714-2864
>• Student Government
Candidate Seminar. 8 p.m.
401 Journalism Bldg.
Sponsor: Student
Government Association.
Final seminar for students
who want to run for any posi
tion in Student Government in
the January SGA election.
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CORRECTIONS
There was an error
in Monday’s Red &
Black column “Plastic
bags costly for envi
ronment. ” The bag 20-
cent per tax in
Scotland mentioned in
the column has since
been rejected and
withdrawn.
In Wednesday’s edi
torial “Respect the
dead,” there were two
errors. Dexter Adams,
head of the grounds
department, said he
felt “9.8 of 10 persons
would be horrified” at
the vandalism. The
vandalism was report
ed the day after
Halloween.
The breakout box
for the story
“‘Dreamgirls’ revisits
Motown era with week
end musical” in
Wednesday’s Red &
Black gave some
wrong information for
two of the four shows
this weekend. The
shows run from
Thursday thru Sunday.
Friday’s show costs $10
for everybody, not giv
ing a $5 discount with
a UGA ID.
TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
PABLO MARTINEZ | The Red & Black
A Gen. John Abizaid, the top U.S. commander in the
Middle East, testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday.
Top commander warns
against Iraq withdrawl
Democrats push
for pulling out
WASHINGTON — The top
U.S. commander in the
Middle East warned
Congress Wednesday against
setting a timetable for the
withdrawal of U.S. troops
from Iraq, putting him at
odds with resurgent
Democrats pressing
President Bush to start
pulling out of the violence-
torn country.
Gen. John Abizaid spoke
as the Senate Armed
Services Committee began
re-examining U.S. policy in
the wake of last week’s
elections, which gave
Democrats control of
Congress starting next
year and was widely seen
as a repudiation of
the administration’s war poli
cies.
Asked directly what effect
he foresaw on sectarian vio
lence if Congress legislated a
phased U.S. withdrawal start
ing in four to six months,
Abizaid replied, “I believe it
would increase.”
“It seems to me that the
prudent course ahead is to
keep the troop levels about
where they are,” Abizaid said,
while placing larger teams of
U.S. military advisers inside
Iraqi army and police units.
He said that increased
emphasis on advising Iraqi
units might be accomplished
without significantly increas
ing the total U.S. force in the
country.
Even some Republicans
on the Senate panel voiced a
measure of frustration at
the long and costly war in
Iraq.
In one of the day’s most
contentious clashes, Sen.
John McCain, R-Ariz., chal
lenged Abizaid on his analy
sis of the situation and com
plained that he was advocat
ing no major changes in U.S.
policy. McCain, a possible
2008 presidential candidate,
has called for adding thou
sands more U.S. combat
troops in Iraq to help fight
the insurgency and halt sec
tarian violence in Baghdad.
“I’m of course disappoint
ed that basically you’re advo
cating the status quo here
today, which I think the
American people in the last
election said that is not an
acceptable condition,”
McCain said.
In response, Abizaid said
he was not arguing for the
status quo. He said the
key change that is
needed now is to place more
U.S. troops inside the Iraqi
army and police units to train
and advise these forces
in planning and executing
missions.
— Associated Press
Last top Enron executive gets sentence
DAVID J. PHILLIP The Red & Black
A Richard Causey, Enron’s former chief accounting officer, leaves the federal court
house with his wife Elizabeth afer being sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prision.
WORLD
Abductees
released
after Iraq
office raid
BAGHDAD, Iraq — About
70 of the people abducted in a
brazen raid on the offices of
the Higher Education Ministry
have been released, officials
said Wednesday, but it was
unclear how many remained
captive.
Dozens of people were
taken Tuesday from the cen
tral Baghdad office that han
dles academic grants and
exchanges, with the men
handcuffed and loaded aboard
about 20 pickup trucks by
gunmen dressed in the uni
forms of Interior Ministry
commandos.
“Most of the hostages were
freed, but that is not enough
for us. We will chase those
who did this ugly criminal
act,” Prime Minister Nouri al-
Maliki said Wednesday, as he
met professors and students
at Baghdad University in a
show of support for the
country’s educational institu
tions.
“We regret what happened
yesterday. The government’s
reaction was strong.”
The U.S. military also
announced the combat deaths
of six troops — three soldiers
and three Marines, raising the
number of American war dead
to 2,858.
The six all died Tuesday,
four fighting in the insurgent
stronghold of Anbar Province
in western Iraq and two
whose convoy was hit by a
roadside bomb in Baghdad.
So far this month, 40
American service members
have died in Iraq.
At least 105 U.S. forces died
in October, the fourth highest
monthly toll of the war.
— Associated Press
HOUSTON — Richard
Causey, the last of the top
Enron Corp. executives to
learn his punishment, was
sentenced Wednesday to
five-and-a-half years in
prison for his role in one of
the biggest corporate scan
dals in U.S. history.
Causey, 46, the company’s
former chief accounting offi
cer, pleaded guilty in
December to securities
fraud two weeks before he
was to be tried along with
Enron founder Kenneth Lay
and former Chief Executive
Jeffrey Skilling on conspira
cy, fraud and other charges
related to the company’s
collapse.
Causey also agreed to
fork over $1.25 million to the
government and forfeited a
claim to about $250,000 in
deferred compensation.
Unlike others at Enron,
Causey didn’t skim millions
of dollars for himself from
shady deals.
In his guilty plea, Causey
admitted that he and other
senior managers made false
public findings and state
ments.
US Airways makes
offer for Delta
ATLANTA — US Airways
is still painting new logos on
many of the planes it got
when it combined with
America West last year.
It may need more paint.
On Wednesday, the com-
LOS ANGELES — In a
new TV interview and book,
O.J. Simpson discusses how
he would have committed
the slayings of his ex-wife
and her friend “if I did it.”
The two-part television
interview, titled “O.J.
Simpson: If I Did It, Here’s
How It Happened,” will air
Nov. 27 and Nov. 29 on Fox,
the TV network said
NATION & STATE
pany said it was offering $8
billion in a hostile bid to
take over rival Delta Air
Lines and create what could
be the nation’s largest carri
er.
The offer to buy Delta
once the Atlanta-based air
line emerges from bankrupt
cy protection by the middle
of 2007 would give Delta’s
NAMES & FACES
Tuesday.
“O.J. Simpson, in his own
words, tells for the first time
how he would have commit
ted the murders if he were
the one responsible for the
crimes,” the network said in
a statement. “In the two-
unsecured creditors $4 bil
lion in cash and 78.5 million
shares of US Airways stock.
If the deal is completed,
the combined airline would
operate under the Delta
name and serve more than
350 destinations across five
continents. US Airways has
not decided where the com
bined company would be
based.
Delta Chief Executive
Gerald Grinstein said the
carrier would review the pro
part event, Simpson
describes how he would
have carried out the mur
ders he has vehemently
denied committing for over
a decade.”
“This is an interview that
no one thought would ever
happen. It’s the definitive
last chapter in the Trial of
the Century,” Mike Darnell,
executive vice president of
posal, but would continue
its reorganization plan.
“Delta’s plan has always
been to emerge from bank
ruptcy in the first half of
2007 as a strong, standalone
carrier,” Grinstein said.
Parker said the combined
company would have about
85,000 employees. He said he
would anticipate flying with
10 percent fewer planes, but
“the plan is not predicated
on any job cuts.”
— Associated Press
alternative programming for
Fox, said in a statement.
The interview, conducted
with book publisher Judith
Regan, will air days before
Simpson’s new book, “If I
Did It,” goes on sale Nov. 30.
The book “hypothetically
describes how the murders
would have been commit
ted,” the network said.
— Associated Press
O.J. Simpson discusses ex-wife’s slaying on Fox
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