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Thursday, August 30, 2007 | The Red & Black
UGA TODAY
► Groundbreaking Ceremony.
Griffin Campus Student Learning
Center. Other Griffin campus
buildings open for tours before
and after the groundbreaking cer
emony. Reception immediately
follows. 10 a.m. UGA Griffin
Campus, 1109 Experiment
Street, Griffin
>- President Michael F.
Adams speaks to the Griffin
Rotary Club. Noon. The Griffin
Elks Club building
>- Bulldog Book Club.
Sponsored by the English
Department and the Library.
Today's book: Joseph Heller’s
“Catch-22.” All welcome. Blue
card event. 3:35 p.m. Main
Library student lounge. Contact:
fteague@uga.edu
► Concrete Leaf-Casting.
Sponsored by the State Botanical
Garden. Make a big statement in
your garden using elephant ear
leaves to cast concrete forms
which can be used as birdbaths,
in water features, or as garden
accents. Members $22; non
members $25.6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Botanical Garden Visitor Center,
classroom A. Contact:
706-542-6156,
dbmitchl@uga.edu
► Volleyball at Jacksonville. 7
p.m. Jacksonville, FL.
► National Bio and Agro-
Defense Facility Information
Session. Sponsored by the
Office of the Vice President for
Research and the Athens Grow
Green Coalition. A meeting dedi
cated to environmental issues
related to the proposed NBAF
facility. Georgia is one of five
finalists selected by the U.S.
Department of Homeland
Security for the NBAF, anew
national facility that would
address the federal government's
need for research and develop
ment space to meet threats from
infectious diseases of animals
and livestock that can also trans
mit to humans. Researchers at
the NBAF will focus on develop
ing tests to detect diseases and
countermeasures such as vac
cines to prevent diseases. The
Athens site under consideration
is University of Georgia-owned
property on South Milledge
Avenue near Whitehall Road.
The University of Georgia is the
lead of the Georgia Consortium
for Health and Agro Security, the
statewide collaboration working
to bring NBAF to Georgia. 7 -
8:30 p.m. Rooms K and L,
Georgia Center for Continuing
Education. Contact:
706-542-5941
► Whitewater Kayak Clinic.
Sponsored by Georgia Outdoor
Recreation. S6O students, $65
non-students 5 p.m. Through
Saturday, Sept. 1. Multiple.
Contact: choppie2@uga.edu
► Project Riverway 2007.
Sponsored by the School of
Environmental Design and the
Fanning Institute. Faculty & stu
dents showcase their work from
the service-learning landscape
architecture course. During the
summer they developed projects
designed to address the needs of
communities along the
Chattahoochee River from Fort
Gaines, Georgia to
Chattahoochee, Florida.
Reception and gallery opening
Aug. 30,5 - 7 p.m., 8 a.m. - 6
p.m. Through Wednesday, Sept.
12. Gl4 Caldwell Hall: the Circle
Gallery. Contact: 706-542-8292,
rds@uga.edu or 706-542-0856,
bivins@fanning.uga.edu
>■ LSAT Test Prep Course.
Sponsored by the Georgia
Center for Continuing Education.
Get a score on the LSAT that
gets you into the law school of
your choice. Book and tests
included in $799 course fee. Pay
before Aug. 23 for a SSO early
registration discount. Improved
LSAT score guaranteed or your
next course for free. Tuesdays
and Thursdays 6 - 9 p.m.
Through Tuesday, Sept. 25. The
Georgia Center for Continuing
Education. Contact: Professional
& Personal Development,
706-542-3537 or
www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/ppd
► Alpha Kappa Psi Coed
Professional Business
Fraternity. Fall Rush. All majors
accepted.s4s South Milledge
Ave. Contact:
www.terry.uga.edu/akpsi
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CORRECTIONS
In Wednesday’s edi
tion, a photo caption
accompanying the
story “Pom star and
pastor go head-to
head” was incorrect.
The pastor’s name is
Craig Gross.
Editor-in-Chief:
Juanita Cousins
(706) 433-3027
jcousins@randb.com
Managing Editor:
Matthew Grayson
(706) 433-3026
mgrayson@randb.com
Officials request Sen. resignation
WASHINGTON ldaho
Sen. Larry Craig’s political
support eroded significantly
Wednesday as three fellow
Republicans in Congress
called for his resignation and
party leaders pushed him
from senior committee posts.
The White House expressed
its disappointment, too, and
nary a word of support for the
62-year-old lawmaker, who
pleaded guilty earlier this
month to a charge stemming
from an undercover police
operation in an airport men’s
room.
Craig “represents the
Republican party,” said Rep.
Pete Hoekstra of Michigan,
the first fellow GOP member
of Congress to urge a resigna
tion.
Craig said Tuesday he had
committed no wrongdoing
and shouldn’t have pleaded
guilty. He said he has only
recently retained a lawyer to
advise him in the case that
Former security guard dead
No foul play,
said coroner
ATLANTA Richard
Jewell, the former security
guard who was erroneously
linked to the 1996 Olympic
bombing, died Wednesday,
the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation said.
Jewell, 44, was found
dead in his west Georgia
home, GBI spokesman John
Bankhead said.
“There’s no suspicion
whatsoever of any type of
foul play. He had been at
home sick since the end of
February with kidney prob
lems,” said Meriwether
County Coroner Johnny
Worley.
The GBI planned to do
an autopsy Thursday,
Bankhead said.
Lin Wood, Jewell’s long
time attorney, said in an
e-mail to The Associated
Press that he was “devas
tated” by the news. He
declined to comment fur
ther, saying he was in New
York trying to get back to
Atlanta.
Jewell initially was hailed
as a hero for spotting a sus
picious backpack in a park
and moving people out of
harm’s way just before a
bomb exploded during a
concert at the Atlanta
Summer Olympics.
The blast killed one and
injured 111 others.
Three days after the
bombing, an unattributed
report in The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
described him as
“the focus” of the investiga
tion.
As recently as last year,
Jewell was working as a
sheriff’s deputy.
Guitarist slammed, demands apology
STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Rolling Stones guitarist
Keith Richards has
demanded an apology from
Swedish newspapers for
their scathing reviews of
the group’s performance in
the country earlier this
month.
Tabloids Expressen and
Aftonbladet gave thumbs
down to the Aug. 3 concert
at Ullevi stadium in
Goteborg, with Expressen
suggesting Richards was
“superdrunk” on stage.
“This is a first!” the
63-year-old rock star wrote
in a letter published by
Stockholm daily Dagens
Nyheter. “Never before have
I risen to the bait of a bad
review.
“But this time ... I have
to stand up ... for our fans
all over Sweden ... to say
that you owe them, and us,
an apology.”
Dagens Nyheter said it
received the letter from
concert organizer EMA
Telstar. Company head
Thomas Johansson told
The Associated Press that
Richards wrote the letter
and gave it to him after
reading translations of the
Swedish reviews.
“There were 56,000 peo
ple in Ullevi stadium who
bought a ticket to our con
cert —and experienced a
completely different show
than the one you
‘reviewed,’” the letter said.
The Wire
threatens to write an igno
minious end to a lifetime in
public office.
Sens. John McCain of
Arizona and Norm Coleman
of Minnesota joined Hoekstra
in urging Craig to step down.
McCain spoke out on an
interview with CNN. “My
opinion is that when you
plead guilty to a crime, you
shouldn’t serve. That’s not a
moral stand. That’s not a
holier-than-thou. It’s just a
factual situation.”
Coleman said in a written
statement, “Senator Craig
pled guilty to a crime involv
ing conduct unbecoming a
senator.”
For a second consecutive
day, GOP Senate leaders
stepped in, issuing a state
ment that said Craig had
“agreed to comply with lead
ership’s request” to step down
temporarily as the top
Republican on the Veterans
Affairs Committee as well as
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GREG GIBSON j Associated Press
▲ Photographers surround Richard Jewell prior to
his testifying before a House Judiciary Crime sub
committee hearing on the 1996 Olympic bombing
in Atlanta, July 30, 1997. Jewell, a former secu
rity guard who was erroneously linked to the
1996 Olympic bombing, died Wednesday, the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
NATION
Legless man gets
third DUI charge
ABBOTSFORD, Wis.
Police cited a legless man
and his friend with drunken
driving the third and sec
ond such arrests for the
men, respectively saying
the disabled man was at the
wheel while his friend
worked the pedals.
Harvey J. Miller, 43, was
steering the 1985 Chevrolet
truck and Edwin H.
Marzinske, 55, was operat
ing the pedals when they
were pulled over Aug. 18,
according to a police report.
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BJORN LARSSON ROSVALL | Scanpk Sweden
▲ Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards plays at
the Uiievi stadium in Goteborg, Sweden, Aug. 3.
Richards has demanded an apology from Swedish
newspapers for their scathing reviews of the
group’s performance during the concert.
NAMES & FACES
“How dare you cheapen
the experience for them
and for the hundreds of
thousands of other people
across Sweden who weren’t
at Ullevi and have only your
‘review’ to go on.
“Write the truth. It was a
good show.”
In his review,
Aftonbladet’s music writer
Markus Larsson gave the
NEWS
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THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
two appropriations panels.
“This is not a decision we
take lightly, but we believe
this is in the best interest of
the Senate until this situa
tion is resolved by the ethics
committee,” said the state
ment, issued in the name of
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky,
the party leader, and others.
Tuesday, the leaders
jumped ahead of Craig’s
appearance before television
cameras in Idaho to announce
they had asked the ethics
committee look into the case.
Associated Press
► Senator Larry Craig,
R-ldaho, left, speaks to
reporters with his wife
Suzanne Tuesday after
noon in Boise, Idaho.
Under fire from leaders
of his own party, Craig is
accused of lewd conduct
in a men’s room.
Miller, who was sitting in
the driver’s seat, told offi
cers he had too much to
drink, but argued he wasn’t
really driving since
Marzinske was on the brake
and the accelerator, police
said. Marzinske was
arrested on the same
charge.
Miller received a citation
for a third drunken driving
offense, and Marzinske his
second. Both also were cited
for driving after their licens
es had been revoked.
The two do not have list
ed phone numbers, and
police and court officials
could not immediately say
Wednesday whether they
had attorneys.
Associated Press
concert a score of two on a
five-point scale, and said
Richards appeared “a bit
confused.”
“I am not going to apolo
gize for my subjective opin
,ion,” Larsson told the
paper’s Web edition on
Wednesday. “It is Keith who
should apologize. After all it
costs around $145 to see a
rock star who can hardly
handle the (guitar) riff to
‘Brown Sugar’ any more.”
Associated Press
MIKE VOGT | Idaho Press-Tribune
Venezuelan pres,
seeks to facilitate
hostage exchange
BOGOTA, Colombia
Venezuela's Hugo
Chavez is taking on a
risky role as a mediator
in Colombia’s hostage
standoff, stepping
squarely into his neigh
bor’s civil conflict and
provoking optimism
among the families of
those long held captive
by rebels.
At the invitation of
President Alvaro Uribe,
Chavez comes to
Colombia on Friday to
discuss how he might
facilitate an exchange of
imprisoned rebels for
hostages.
“I hope we can make
it so these people return
safe and sound to their
homes and that this
humanitarian agree
ment comes through,”
the Venezuelan presi
dent said last week in
Caracas during a
meeting with the grate
ful families of the hos
tages.
But Colombia’s civil
conflict is complex, and
Chavez got a rude awak
ening when the
Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia,
rejected his first con
crete proposal, an offer
of Venezuela as the site
for the swap.
Chavez unabashedly
targets the U.S. govern
ment and his detractors
in countries from Mexico
to Spain with incendi
ary rhetoric, but has sel
dom involved himself so
directly with the inter
nal affairs of another
nation. He has long
sought to maintain cor
dial relations with the
U.S.-allied Uribe despite
their ideological differ
ences.
If he succeeds in
Colombia, he could
expand his influence
and improve his image.
Italian window
washers banned
FLORENCE, Italy
Florence, Renaissance
city of art and history, is
trying to clean up its
streets by cracking
down on squeegee men,
saying they were caus
ing “great danger” to
drivers and pedestrians
alike.
Mayor Leonardo
Domenici issued a
decree last week to force
the squeegee men
people who wash driv
ers’ windshields and
demand payment off
the streets, imposing
fines and detention of
up to three months.
The decree, which is
valid through Oct. 30
but can be renewed,
alleged the squeegee
men were hindering
traffic, inconveniencing
pedestrians and abus
ing drivers, particularly
women.
While the measure
was applauded by some,
leftist politicians
said Florence was going
after the wrong people.
“If there are attacks
against people, they
WORLD
have to be stopped,”
Social Solidarity
Minister Paolo Ferrero
told Associated Press
Television News. “But
to consider being a
squeegee in itself a
crime, it is wrong.”
Jean Leonard Touadi,
a security adviser for
Rome’s City Hall, said
the problem was real in
many big cities. “In very
recent time, these peo
ple have become very
aggressive, mainly
with women,” Touadi
said.
The Florence crack
down was reminiscent
of the one championed
by former New York City
mayor and now presi
dential hopeful Rudy
Giuliani, whose pursuit
of such minor “quality
of life” offenders won
him acclaim.
Statue honors
‘great liberator’
LONDON lt was
1962 and Nelson
Mandela was on the run.
Hunted by South
African authorities and
gearing up for armed
struggle against his
country’s apartheid gov
ernment, Mandela visit
ed London seeking
money, training and
support.
It was then that he
and Oliver Tambo, his
partner in the anti
apartheid struggle,
walked through
Parliament Square sur
veying the statuary trib
utes to the British
Empire’s great and
good. The figure of
South African states
man Jan Smuts caught
their eye.
•“When we saw the
statue of Gen. Smuts
near Westminster
Abbey, Oliver and I
joked that perhaps
someday there would be
a statue of us in its
stea'd,” Mandela wrote
in his autobiography,
“Long Walk to
Freedom.”
Forty years later,
Mandela returned to
the square Wednesday
to watch the unveiling
of his own statue across
from Smuts’ andjoin the
ranks of Britain’s most
revered heroes.
“Nelson Mandela is
one of the most coura
geous and best-loved
men of all time,” Prime
Minister Gordon Brown
said of the 89-year-old
Nobel Peace Prize win
ner, who has come to
personify his country’s
struggle to end apart
heid.
Brown said it was fit
ting that Mandela,
whom he called “the
great liberator,”
joined statues of
Abraham Lincoln and
Winston Churchill in the
square. *
Associated Press
