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2 I Friday, November 17, 2006 | The Red & Black
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UGA TODAY
>■ Campus Coffee Hour.
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall Ballroom.
Sponsor: Korean Traditional
Play Association. Contact:
careyk@uga.edu, 706-542-
5867.
>- Mountain Bike Clinic.
5 p.m. Ramsey Center.
Sponsor: Georgia Outdoor
Recreation. Instruction in
basic mountain biking safety
and technical skills, followed
by trail riding. Contact: chop-
pie2@uga.edu.
>• Love and Happiness
Lecture. 3:30 p.m. 265 Park
Hall. Title: “Love and
Happiness: Eros According to
Octavio Paz, John Donne and
the Reverend Al Green.
Speaker: Craig Werner,
University of Wisconsin at
Madison. Sponsor: Lanier
Series in the English
Department. Contact: 706-
542-2184, rasulaj@uga.edu.
>■ Secular State for an
Islamic Society Lecture.
12:30 p.m. 4th Floor of the
Dean Rusk Center. Speaker:
Abduh An-Na'im, Emory
School of Law. Sponsor:
Georgia Society for
International and Comparative
Law. Contact:
bnice586@uga.edu
Saturday
TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
Storm system kills 12 across the South
RIEGELWOOD, N.C. — A
tornado that shredded trees
and “exploded” mobile homes
in this tiny riverside commu
nity early Thursday killed at
least seven people, raising the
death toll from a devastating
band of thunderstorms that
swept across the South to 12.
As rescue workers using
heavy construction equip
ment continued to search for
bodies amid the wreckage,
they cautioned the death toll
could rise. Gov. Mike Easley
said authorities had yet to
account for four people, while
hospital officials said at least
five people were in critical
condition.
The storms that began
Wednesday unleashed torna
does and straight-line winds,
overturning mobile homes,
uprooting trees and knocking
down power lines across the
South.
In Louisiana, a man died
Wednesday when a tornado
struck his home. In South
Carolina, a utility worker
checking powerlines during
the storm was electrocuted in
South Carolina on Thursday.
In North Carolina, two people
died in car crashes as heavy
rain pelted the state, drop
ping as much as five inches in
some areas.
The tornado that struck
Riegelwood — located on the
Cape Fear River about 20
miles west of the coastal city
of Wilmington — hit shortly
after 6:30 a.m., Easley said. As
many as 40 mobile homes
were damaged before the tor
nado hopped N.C. 87 and lev
eled three brick homes.
“As soon as it touched
down, the first responders got
there and found some fatali
ties and tried to tend to those
situations,” Easley said.
Searchers had found seven
bodies in the wreckage by
midday, and “that number
very well may go up,” said
County Commissioner
Chairman Kip Godwin, the
designated spokesman for the
county’s emergency manage
ment office.
— Associated Press
TRAVIS SPRADLING | Associated Press
A Two of J.W. “Hooch” Carlisle’s friends, Christian Janies and Debbie Raidford, right,
embrace on the front steps of the house that Carlisle was in when a tornado struck
Wednesday in Hillsdale, La. Carlisle was killed and the house lifted from it foundation.
> Phoenix A.S.C.E.N.T.
Step Show. 7:30 p.m. Clarke
Central High School
Auditorium. Sponsor: Delta
Sigma Theta. See Chpater
Members for Tickets. Contact:
orduchin@uga.edu
Sunday
>• Horseback Trail Ride.
8 a.m. North Georgia
Mountains. Participants will
take off to visit Sunburst
Stables in the Georgia
Mountains for two hours of
western-style riding in the
scenic Chattahoochee
National Forest. Sponsor:
Georgia Outdoor Recreation
Program. Contact: chop-
pie2@uga.edu.
Monday
>- UGA Opera Ensemble.
8 p.m. Hodgson Concert Hall.
Sponsor: Hugh Hodgson
School of Music. Contact:
706-542-3737,
www.music.uga.edu.
Tuesday
>• Swing Dancing Master
Class. 7 - 9 p.m. Memorial
Hall Ballroom. Sponsor: the
UGA Swing Club. A Lindy-hop
swing class for those who
have mastered the basics.
Contact:
www.uga.edu/ugaswingclub.
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DENNIS COOK | Associated Press
▲ Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, left, and
incoming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer embrace
during a news conference on Capitol Hill Thursday.
Hoyer beats Murtha
for House No. 2 spot
WASHINGTON
Democrats picked Rep. Steny
Hoyer to be House majority
leader on Thursday, spurning
Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s hand
picked choice moments after
unanimously backing her
election as speaker when
Congress convenes in
January.
A Marylander and 25-year
veteran of Congress, Hoyer
defeated Rep. John Murtha of
Pennsylvania in a vote of 149-
86.
His election to the No. 2
job came just a short time
after the Democratic caucus
put Pelosi in line to become
the first woman to be speaker,
a position which is second in
line of succession to the pres
idency. It marked a personal
triumph for Hoyer.
In remarks after being cho
sen for speaker, the
Californian vowed that after
12 years in the minority, “we
will not be dazzled by money
and special interests.” Pelosi
also called for unity in the
party, but within moments
she put her prestige on the
line by nominating Murtha.
Murtha, a Pennsylvanian,
is a powerful lawmaker on
defense matters, and he
gained national prominence
last year when he called an
NATION & STATE
end to U.S. military involve
ment in Iraq.
Republican Burns
concedes close race
SAVANNAH, Ga. —
Republican Max Burns con
ceded defeat Thursday to
U.S. Rep. John Barrow,
accepting his 864-vote loss
without requesting a recount.
Burns, a former congress
man who was narrowly oust
ed by Barrow two years ago,
called the Democrat to offer
his congratulations a day
after the Georgia Secretary of
State’s Office released its offi
cial results from the Nov. 7
election. The tally showed
Barrow won by less than 1
percent of the 142,438 votes
cast.
Because the margin was so
close, Burns could have
requested an automatic
recount under Georgia law.
His campaign manager, Tim
Baker, said Burns decided it
wouldn’t have made enough
difference to overturn the
race.
— Associated Press
Kidnap victims still being
held, Iraqi minister says
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq’s
higher education minister
said Thursday that as many
as 80 victims from a mass
kidnapping earlier this week
remain in captivity, and that
some of the 70 who have
been freed were tortured.
On Tuesday, gunmen dis
guised in the blue camou
flage uniforms of police com
mandos raided the Higher
Education Ministry in
Karradah, a primarily Shiite
area of downtown Baghdad,
handcuffed scores of people
and took them away in
about 20 pickup trucks.
Government officials
have given varying numbers
on how many people were
abducted, ranging from a
high of about 150 to a low of
40 to 50. They also have con
flicted on how many captives
have been freed.
Higher Education
Minister Abed Theyab said
70 of 150 hostages were
released, reaffirming a figure
given Wednesday and saying
those freed “were tortured
and suffered a lot.”
But National Security
Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie
issued a statement that con
tradicted Theyab and
claimed only 50 people total
were kidnapped, all were
released and nobody was
killed.
The assault was widely
believed to have been the
work of the Mahdi Army, the
heavily armed militia of anti-
American Shiite cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr, and it
raised questions about
Shiite Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki’s commitment to
wipe out the Shiite militias
of his prime political back
ers: the Supreme Council for
the Islamic Revolution in
Iraq and al-Sadr’s Sadrist
Movement.
The mass abduction was
seen as retaliation for the
recent kidnapping of 50
Shiites south of Baghdad.
Most, if not all of the latest
victims who were not imme
diately released were
Sunnis, the Higher
Education Ministry
spokesman said.
WORLD
Bush seeks allies
on N. Korea issues
SINGAPORE — Hurt by
election losses back home,
President Bush tried to
exert his authority on the
world stage Thursday by
warning a nuclear-armed
North Korea against ped
dling its weapons and vow
ing the United States would
not retreat into isolationism.
Bush’s declaration came
on the eve of his arrival in
Vietnam for a summit of
Asia-Pacific leaders and
meetings with a handful of
them — all curious about
whether election setbacks
had unsettled him. Striking
moments for Bush in Hanoi
will include a visit Friday to
Communist Party headquar
ters for talks with the party’s
general secretary.
Bush directly challenged
Democrats in the U.S. who
are demanding a fresh
course in Iraq and are fearful
that free-trade agreements
could cost American jobs.
“We hear voices calling for
us to retreat from the world
and close our doors to these
opportunities,” the presi
dent said in a speech at the
National University of
Singapore. “These are the
old temptations of isolation
ism and protectionism, and
America must reject them.”
— Associated Press
TomKat likely to wed on Saturday
ROME — Tom Cruise and
Katie Holmes will likely wed
Saturday in a Scientology
ceremony held at a 15th-
century Italian castle in a
lakeside town near Rome,
the town’s mayor said
Thursday. The wedding
party, along with guests, are
then expected to attend a
banquet the same day in
Rome, Bracciano Mayor
Patrizia Riccioni said.
For weeks rumors have
focused on Odescalchi
Castle in the sleepy town of
Bracciano as the likely
venue for the celebrity wed
ding. Riccioni told a news
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conference Thursday she
had met the couple the day
before somewhere outside of
her town, but she would not
say where.
She was coy about other
details, too, saying only that
she expected the couple to
arrive Saturday morning at
the castle, which overlooks
Lake Bracciano, for what
she believed would be a
Scientology wedding cere
mony, followed by a ban
quet. She said she expected
the couple to return to the
Italian capital the same day.
Cruise, 44, and Holmes,
27, have been staying at a
luxury hotel near the
Spanish Steps in Rome.
They were photographed
Thursday with their infant
daughter, Suri, as they
walked to a restaurant in
the city.
The area immediately
surrounding Nino restau
rant was cordoned off, and
private security officials
crowded the area.
While Riccioni stopped
short of confirming the
actual date of the wedding,
the town’s Web site late
Thursday had a picture of
Cruise and Holmes under
the headline, “The wedding
of the year in Bracciano,
Saturday, 18 November
2006.”
— Associated Press
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