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2 I Monday, December 4, 2006 | The Red & Black
NEWS
UGA TODAY
>■ Swing Lessons.
7 - 8 p.m. Memorial Hall
Ballroom. Sponsor: UGA
Swing Club. Cost: $1
Donation. Web site:
www.uga.edu/ugaswingclub.
TUESDAY
TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
Hundreds killed, hurt in Phillippine typhoon
>- Greenery Wreaths.
9-11 a.m. State Botanical
Visitor Center, Classroom A.
Sponsor: State Botanical
Garden. Wreath workshop.
Cost: Members $25, non
members $28. Contact:
dbmitchl@uga.edu.
>- UGA Idol Auditions.
3 - 9 p.m. 141 Tate Student
Center. UGA Idol winner
receives $500 and top three
advance to Campus
SuperStar at Atlanta’s Center
Stage to compete for $5,000.
Cost: $5 requested donation
to benefit Prevent Child
Abuse America. Contact:
adam@ugahillel.org.
WEDNESDAY
Open Studio Life Drawing.
Sponsor: Georgia Museum of
Art. No instruction is offered
— participants must provide
their own supplies. Cost: $3
for cost of model. 5:30 p.m. -
8:30 p.m. Ed and Phoebe
Forio Studio Classroom.
Contact: 706-542-4662,
www.uga.edu/gamuseum.
>• Sneak Preview:
“Pursuit of Happyness.”
8 p.m. Tate Theater. Sponsor:
University Union. Passes
available at the Tate Cashier's
window day of event. Contact:
jillt@uga.edu, 706-542-6396.
>- Taste of Home. Bolton,
Snelling, Oglethorpe and The
Summit. Sponsor: UGA Food
Services. University dining
commons will feature numer
ous items prepared from
recipes from parents. Contact:
lisacl @uga.edu. Web site:
www.uga.edu/foodservice.
>- An Elizabethan
Christmas: A Christmas
Madrigal Choral
Performance.
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Tate
Student Center Reception
Hall. Sponsor: Christian
Faculty Forum. The Just
Theater, an ensemble of UGA
and Athens area performers,
will sing Christmas Carols
from the Elizabethan era,
dressed in authentic period
costumes. Contact:
bhager@clm.org,
jhager@clm.org.
THURSDAY
>- University Council
Meeting. 3:30 p.m. 171
Student Learning Center.
Web site:
http://regapp.reg.uga.edu/web
/committees/index. php?page=
menu.
FRIDAY
>- Behind the Scenes:
High Tech at the Garden.
9:30 a.m. Callaway Building,
State Botanical Garden.
Speaker: James Gilstrap will
explain the new wireless
cloud and what it means to
garden visitors. Contact:
sgbevent@uga.edu.
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DARAGA, Philippines —
The top Red Cross official in
the Philippines said Sunday
that he thinks 1,000 people or
more have been killed by
Typhoon Durian.
“We’re estimating the
casualties could reach 1,000,
perhaps more,” said Richard
Gordon, who heads the local
Red Cross.
Currently, Gordon said his
group has recorded a death
toll of at least 406, with 398
others missing, based on fig
ures provided by mayors of
devastated towns in the east
ern Philippines, where Durian
hit with 139 mph winds and
torrential rains on Thursday.
President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo declared a
state of national calamity
Sunday, allowing the govern
ment to more rapidly release
funds needed to bolster
search and rescue efforts.
“We need food, tents,
water, body bags,” Philippine
National Red Cross official
Andrew Nocon told DZMM
radio.
In Padang, a few miles
from Guinobatan, houses
were buried under mud and
debris, with only roofs pro
truding.
Typhoon Durian’s winds
and drenching rain on
Thursday raked it all down on
the deluged villages.
Mudslides tore through
Mayon’s gullies for nearly
three hours late Thursday
afternoon, flattening houses
and engulfing people.
— Associated Press
BULLIT MARQUEZ | Associated Press
A A resident crosses a river with potable water as a house remains tilted by the riverbank Sunday, at Legazpi city,
Albay province near the slopes of Mayon volcano, south of Manila, Philippines, where a typhoon hit.
ADAM HADEI | Associated Press
A Detained suspected militants are guarded at an Iraqi Army base in Baqouba, 35 miles
northeast of Baghdad, Iraq Sunday. Hundreds of suspected militants have been arrested
in the area during joing U.S. Iraqi military raids.
U.S. raids leave nine dead
BAGHDAD, Iraq —
American soldiers destroyed
two buildings being used by
insurgents in a town in Anbar
province, killing six militants,
two women and a child, the
military said Sunday.
It was the latest of several
recent raids during which
women or children have been
killed or wounded as U.S.
forces attacked insurgents in
residential areas. In some of
the attacks, the U.S. com
mand accused the militants
of taking over buildings for
use as safe houses and of
using civilians as human
shields.
Elsewhere, the U.S. mili
tary said three American sol
diers were killed Saturday by
roadside bombs — two in the
insurgent stronghold of
Anbar province west of
Baghdad and one near Taji,
north of the capital.
In Washington, it was dis
closed that Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld had sub
mitted a classified memo to
the White House two days
before he resigned, calling for
major changes in the Bush
administration’s Iraq strate
gy-
“In my view it is time for a
major adjustment,” Rumsfeld
wrote in the memo. “Clearly
what U.S. forces are currently
WORLD
doing in Iraq is not working
well enough or fast enough.”
Pinochet critical
after heart attack
SANTIAGO, Chile — Gen.
Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-
year dictatorship carried out
thousands of political killings,
widespread torture and illegal
jailings, clung to life in a
Chilean hospital Sunday after
suffering a heart attack and
being administered last rites.
Eight days earlier, the 91-
year-old former strongman
took full responsibility for the
actions of his 1973-90 regime
after long insisting any abus
es were the fault of subordi
nates.
Pinochet had emergency
angioplasty and doctors said
his condition was “serious but
stable.” They planned to per
form bypass surgery later in
the day state television
reported.
The health problems
helped Pinochet escape trial
for the human rights abuses
committed during his regime
with courts ruling out pro
ceedings at least twice in
recent years.
Chavez seeks six
more years in office
CARACAS, Venezuela —
President Hugo Chavez is
predicting a crushing victory
Sunday as he seeks another
six-year term in an election
that could further entrench
Latin America’s most defiant
voice against U.S. foreign pol
icy
Chavez leads in opinion
polls over a tough talking for
mer state governor Manuel
Rosales, who has galvanized
the opposition by promising
to unseat a leader he accuses
of steering Venezuela toward
Cuba-style, one-man rule.
Chavez has won loyal sup
port from the poor by using
the country’s oil wealth to
fund multibillion-dollar pro
grams offering subsidized
food, free university educa
tion, cash benefits for single
mothers and other aid.
“Chavez is the first presi
dent who has done a lot for
the people. He’s given us
socialism, which means
equality” said Johnny Parody,
a 31-year-old police officer
waiting to vote in Maracaibo.
— Associated Press
Clinton takes steps
toward nomination
NEW YORK — Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton met
on Sunday with New York’s
Democratic governor-elect
to solicit his support for her
likely White House bid, the
latest indication she is step
ping up plans to join poten
tial contenders for 2008.
One rival, Indiana Sen.
Evan Bayh, announced
Sunday he was establishing
an exploratory committee
to raise money for a possible
presidential run. He expects
to decide over the
Christmas holidays whether
to seek his party’s nomina
tion.
A top aide to Clinton said
he did not know when the
former first lady would
decide about pursuing the
presidency or set up an
exploratory committee.
Bills still coming
to Twin Towers
NEW YORK — It’s the
kind of holiday mail that
might have been tossed
NATIONAL
aside, discarded like any
other piece of junk mail: a
special offer for a facial at a
local spa.
Only the address on the
letter no longer exists. And
the woman the letter is
addressed to died more
than five years ago in the
terrorist attack on the World
Trade Center.
Hundreds of pieces of
mail destined for the former
trade center still arrive
every day at a post office
facing ground zero — the
relics of the unfinished lives
of Sept. 11 victims.
Telephone bills, insur
ance statements, wine club
announcements, college
alumni newsletters, even
government checks popu
late the bundles of mail.
“I guess sooner or later
they’ll realize the towers
aren’t back up,” said letter
carrier Seprina Jones-Sims.
— Associated Press
To fund bingo habit,
Grandma sells drugs
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. —
A grandmother found with
a trunkful of marijuana was
convicted of drug running
in what prosecutors said
was an attempt to earn
cash for a bingo habit.
State troopers found 10
bundles of pot totaling 214
pounds hidden in Leticia
Villareal Garcia’s car trunk
last year when they stopped
her outside Bisbee, in far
southeastern Arizona.
Villareal, 61, told jurors
that her only regular
income was a $275 monthly
welfare check, but she fre
quently played bingo and
occasionally won thousands
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
of dollars.
Prosecutor Doyle
Johnstun said the game
was Villareal’s undoing.
“People who play bingo
almost every night of the
week end up losing in the
long run,” Johnstun told
jurors. “The underlying
issue is that she’s got a
bingo problem, which
explains why an otherwise
nice person might get
sucked into something like
this.”
— Associated Press
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