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Thursday, September 6, 2007 | The Red a Black
UGA TODAY
► Bulldog Breakfast Club.
Sponsored by the Alumni
Association. Alumni Association
members may attend a Bulldog
Breakfast Club with guest host
Rev. Claude Mcßride, ’55. $lO
Association members, $5
Student members. RSVP online
at www.alumni.uga.edu/alumni/
calendar. The Bulldog Breakfast
Club offers alumni and students
a relaxed way to exchange ideas
and network. Seating will be lim
ited to 10 alumni per session and
guests are encouraged to bring
business cards. 8:30 a.m. The
Wray-Nichlolson House. Contact:
706-542-8199,
wdarden@uga.edu
► UGA Wesley Foundation
Blood Drive. Sponsored by the
American Red Cross. Noon - 5
p.m. Lumpkin Street, Across from
the Georgia Center for
Continuing Education. Contact:
678-2274650
Healthcare Provider ‘Save a Life'
CPR Training: Sponsored by
University Health Center. CPR
training for students, faculty and
staff desiring healthcare provider
certification. This advanced
course for CPR on adults, chil
dren and infants is SSO. Certified
by the American Heart
Association. Class size limited;
register in advance at
706-542-8695.1 - 4:30 p.m.
University Health Center
► Thursday Night Heights.
Sponsored by Recreational
Sports. Climb the Indoor
Challenge Course in Gym East,
Ramsey Student Center, $5 sin
gle, or $4 each with a friend.
Must be a member or guest of
the Ramsey Student Center. 5 -
8 p.m. Gym East, Ramsey
Student Center. Contact:
jcrouch@uga.edu
>- GLOBES Annual Fall
Reception. Sponsored by
GLOBES. Welcoming new and
returning members of the LGBT
community and allies. All are
invited. Catered by Last Resort
Grill. 5 - 8 p.m. Founders House
and Garden. Contact:
ahatton@uga.edu
>- Information Seminar on
Anatomy in Clay. The Human
Body or Canine/Equine.
Sponsored by the Georgia
Center for Continuing Education.
Learn about these new career
courses, Anatomy in Clay: The
Human Body and Anatomy in
Clay: Equine/Canine. Pre
registration is required. 6 - 7 p.m.
The Georgia Center for
Continuing Education. Contact:
706-542-3537,
www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/ppd
► Soccer vs. Charlotte. 7 p.m.
Turner Soccer Complex
> Walking the Walk.
Sponsored by The Office for
Violerfce Prevention. This inter
active sexual violence awareness
simulation is designed to allow
participants to experience the
issues and emotions survivors of
sexual violence face each day.
Participants become the survivor,
and learn about the different
responses survivors receive from
family, friends, and community
members as they weave their
way through the character’s
story. 7 p.m. Tate Center
Reception Hall. Contact:
706-542-7233, lagrsvp@uga.edu
>- Exhibition: Cowboy Magic.
Sponsored by the Lamar Dodd
School of Art. These new paint
ings by Richard Roth are diminu
tive in stature and of a minimal -
but colorful - vocabulary. The
works are almost illusory or
deceptive in their simplicity. The
artist is, as he says, “now making
objects for my own ideal collec
tion.” Opening Reception Sept. 6,
6 - 8 p.m. Through Friday, Oct. 5,
2007. Lamar Dodd School of Art
Main Gallery. Contact:
706-542-0069, www.art.uga.edu
► Meeting. Arch Foundation
Executive Committee. 10 a.m.
UGA Atlanta Alumni Center,
3333 Peachtree Rd NE, Suite
210. Contact: 706-542-8385
> Bulldog Book Club.
Sponsored by the English
Department and the Library.
Today's book: Joseph Heller’s
Catch-22. All welcome. Blue card
event. 12:30 p.m. Jittery Joe's in
Student Learning Center.
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Officers punished for Iraqi deaths
CAMP PENDLETON,
Calif. A major general
and two senior officers
have been disciplined for
their roles in investigating
the deaths of 24 Iraqi civil
ians in the town of Haditha
in 2005, the Marine Corps
said Wednesday.
Maj. Gen. Richard A.
Huck, former commanding
general of the 2nd Marine
Division, has received a let
ter of censure from the sec
retary of the Navy for the
“actions he took and failed
to take” in response to the
killings.
The statement from the
Marine Corps does
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▲ An unidentified man in handcuffs, believed to be a terror suspect, is led away at the German
Federal Court in Karlsruhe, Germany Wednesday. Authorities said Wednesday they had arrested
three suspected Islamic terrorists from a group with “profound hatred of U.S. citizens” for plot
ting imminent, massive bomb attacks 6n U.S. facilities in Germany.
Possible terrorists arrested in Berlin
BERLIN Three suspected
Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida
influenced group nursing “profound
hatred of U.S. citizens” were arrest
ed on suspicions of plotting immi
nent, massive bomb attacks on U.S.
facilities in Germany, prosecutors
said Wednesday.
A senior State Department offi
cial said German investigators had
determined the Frankfurt
International Airport and the near
by U.S. Ramstein Air Base were the
primary targets of the plot, but that
those arrested may have also been
considering strikes on other sites,
particularly facilities associated with
the United States.
It was the second time in as many
days European officials said they
had thwarted a major attack, follow
ing the arrest by Danish authorities
on Tuesday of eight alleged Islamic
militants with links to senior al-Qai
da terrorists. It also comes less than
a week before the sixth anniversary
of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United
States.
German Federal Prosecutor
Monika Harms said the three sus
pects, two of whom were German
converts to Islam, had trained at
camps in Pakistan run by the Islamic
Jihad Union, a group based in
Central Asia. They had obtained
some 1,500 pounds of hydrogen per-
Senator reconsiders his resignation
BOISE, Idaho One of Sen.
Larry Craig’s lawyers said
Wednesday the Senate has no
business looking into the con
duct of one of its own following
Craig’s guilty plea in connec
tion with an airport men’s
room sex sting.
An unbroken line of prece
dents dating back 220 years
makes clear the Senate does
not consider misdemeanor pri
vate conduct to be a fit subject
of inquiry, Washington attorney
Stan Brand asserted after
aides to Craig said the senator
is reconsidering his decision to
resign.
“We ought to seek to have
the committee dismiss this
outright,” Brand said of a
Senate ethics panel’s investi
gation. “The Republican lead
ership called for an ethics
investigation that had nothing
to do with his office.” Brand
said on NBC’s “Today” show.
Craig says he may still fight
for his Senate seat, a spokes
man says if the lawmaker
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not elaborate.
Col. Stephen W. Davis
and Col. Robert G.
Sokoloski also received let
ters of censure.
Davis was cited for fail
ure to take action when
informed about the slay
ings. Sokoloski was cited
for unsatisfactory perfor
mance of his duties.
In all, 24 civilians were
killed by a Marine squad in
the aftermath of a bomb
blast that killed one Marine
on Nov. 19, 2005.
Among the dead were
women and fchildren who
were killed in their homes
as Marines went on a
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oxide for making explosives.
“We were able to succeed in rec
ognizing and preventing the most
serious and massive bombings,”
Harms told reporters. She declined
to name specific targets, but said
the suspects had an eye on institu
tions and establishments frequented
by Americans in Germany, including
discos, pubs and airports.
Israel grants citizenship
to Darfurian refugees
JERUSALEM lsrael will grant
citizenship to some of the estimated
300 refugees from Sudan’s violence
ridden Darfur region who have
already arrived here, Interior
Minister Meir Sheetrit said
Wednesday.
Sheetrit said he would work with
the United Nations to set a quota of
refugees who would be naturalized.
While he estimates the number of
Darfur refugees at 300, other gov
ernment officials and refugee advo
cates have put the number at
between 400 and 500.
The arrival in Israel of these dis
NATION
can clear his name with the
Senate ethics panel and a
Minnesota court.
The Republican lawmaker,
who has represented Idaho for
27 years, announced Saturday
he intended to resign.
“It’s not such a foregone
conclusion anymore that the
only thing he could do was
resign,” Sidney Smith, Craig’s
spokesman in Idaho’s capital,
told The Associated Press on
Tuesday.
“We’re still preparing as if
Senator Craig will resign Sept.
30, but the outcome of the legal
case in Minnesota and the eth
ics investigation will have an
impact on whether we’re able
to stay in the fight —and stay
in the Senate,” Smith said.
Draig fi2, plssdsd oriiilty
Aug. 1 to a reduced charge of
misdemeanor disorderly con
duct following his June 11
arrest at the Minneapolis-St.
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house-to-house sweep.
The disciplinary action
came as a preliminary hear
ing continued in the
Haditha case for Staff. Sgt.
Frank Wuterich, 27, of
Meriden, Conn., who is
accused of unpremeditated
murders in the slayings of
17 of the Iraqis.
Capt. Alfonso Capers
told a military court there
were no textbook rules
about shooting into crowds
of enemy combatants
mixed with civilians.
Wuterich has acknowl
edged shooting five men
who were at the scene of
the bomb blast but claims
Paul International Airport. But
he contended throughout last
week he had done nothing
wrong and said his only mis
take was pleading guilty.
Smith said a telephone call
Craig received last week from
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., urg
ing him to consider fighting
the guilty plea —and for his
seat affected Craig’s deci
sion to reconsider his resigna
tion.
Dana Perino, White House
deputy press secretary, said
Wednesday she’d heard news
reports that Craig was recon
sidering his resignation. “I
don’t think that our views have
changed,” she said, “but of
course this is the senator’s
decision, the senator’s seat.”
Craig has hired a high-pow
ered crisis management team
including Billy Martin, the law
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he did so because they
were running away
from the site of the explo
sion.
Combat rules at the
time allowed Marines to
shoot at people fleeing the
scene of an attack.
Wuterich reported to
Capers for about two years
before the killings.
Capers struggled for an
answer when Lt.. Col. Paul
Ware, the investigating offi
cer overseeing the Haditha
case, asked how Marines
are trained to confront
mixed crowds of enemies
and civilians.
“Is there a schoolbook
placed Darfurians has touched off
hot debate over whether the Jewish
state, founded after the Nazi geno
cide, has a duty to take in people
fleeing persecution.
Fighting between pro-govern
ment militias and rebels in the west
ern Sudanese region has killed more
than 200,000 people and displaced
2.5 million since 2003.
Human rights groups and high
profile figures such as Nobel laure
ate Elie Wiesel have urged the Israeli
government to give Darfurians a
home. But others say the Darfur
refugees who have arrived in Israel
are economic migrants because they
already found sanctuary from Sudan
in Egypt. They fear that accepting
some refugees will lead to a flood of
new arrivals.
Sheetrit offered a middle ground.
“Israel, with its history, must offer
assistance,” he said. “It can’t stand
by and shut its eyes. But a quota
must be set.” It wasn’t clear what
would happen to those who do not
receive citizenship.
Israel is not a common destina
tion for refugees, but the late
Prime Minister Menachem Begin
set a precedent in 1977 when
he offered asylum to nearly
400 Vietnamese boat people.
Associated Press
answer?” Ware asked.
“There’s not,” Capers
replied.
Capers, a government
witness, acknowledged
some limits on tactics in
such situations.
He told a prosecutor,
Marine Maj. Daren
Erickson, that troops did
not have license to kill
indiscriminately because
it’s “a bad stain” on the
Marines.
“Shoot first, ask ques
tions later means every
one’s expendable,” Capers
said. “You can’t do that.”
Associated Press
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Con Agra
changes
popcorn
flavoring
Buttery flavor
causes disease
OMAHA, Neb. The
nation’s largest micro
wave popcorn maker,
Con Agra Foods Inc., says
it wifi change the recipe
for its Orville
Redenbacher and Act II
brands over the next year
to remove a flavoring
chemical linked to a lung
ailment in popcorn plant
workers.
The decision comes a
day after a doctor at a
leading lung research
hospital said in a warning
letter to federal regula
tors that consumers, not
just factory workers, may
be in danger from
fumes from buttery fla
voring in microwave pop
corn.
Con Agra spokeswom
an Stephanie Childs said
the Omaha-based com
pany decided to remove
the chemical diacetyl
from its popcorn because
of the risk it presents to
workers who handle large
quantities.
Diacetyl has been
linked to cases of a rare
life-threatening disease
often called popcorn
lung.
Con Agra’s announce
ment comes a week after
another popcorn manu
facturer, Weaver Popcorn
of Indianapolis, said it
would replace the butter
flavoring ingredient
because of consumer con
cern.
Tuesday, a pulmonary
specialist at Denver’s
National Jewish Medical
and Research Center, Dr.
Cecile Rose, said he has
written to federal agen
cies to say doctors there
believe they have the first
case of a consumer who
developed lung disease
from the fumes of
microwaving popcorn
several times a day for
years.
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MATT CILLEY | Associated Peess
▲ Idaho's senior U.S. Senator Larry
Craig takes a moment before he
announces his resignation from the
Senate at the old Boise Depot train
station overlooking downtown Boise,
Idaho, Saturday morning.