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Thursday, January 17, 2008 | The Red a Black
UGA TODAY
>- SMIS Orientation. SMIS will
be hosting its first meeting ot the
year, and representatives Irom
IBM Global Business Services
will be presenting Free food and
drinks will be provided. 6:30 p.m.
to 8 p m. SLC 213. Contact:
clayhro4@uga.edu.
> Safe Space Training.
Sponsored by the LGBT
Resource Center. An initiative for
inclusion, acceptance, and sup
port of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender (LGBT) people
in the University community. The
r ientation intends to raise
awareness and knowledge of
LGBT issues, including being an
LGBT ally. Register at www.uga.
edu/safespace. 8:30 a m. to noon
Contact: 706-542-4077,
sale@ugaedu
> Guided Tour Redefining
the Modem Landscape in
Europe and America, ca.
1920-1940. Sponsored by the
Georgia Museum of Art. 2 p.m.
Georgia Museum of Art. Contact:
collardj@uga.edu.
>- State of the University
Address. Annua! address by
President Michael F. Adams. The
Town and Gown community is
invited 2 p.m. The Chapel
> Wealth Creation: Does Sett-
Esteem Matter? Sponsored by
the Department of Housing and
Consumer Economics. The
speaker is assistant professor Dr
Swarn Chatteriee. whose
research and teaching area is
family financial planning. 3.30
p.m. 202 Dawson Hall. Contact:
ymimura@fcs.uga.edu.
> Annual Legislative
Reception. Sponsored by the
office of the Vice President for
Government Relations Annual
reception highlighting Univ. for
members of the Georgia General
Assembly and other key state
government officials. 5 p.m. to 7
p.m The Georgia Depot at
Underground Atlanta.
> Bulldog Author Julie L
Cannon ‘BS Book Signing.
Sponsored by UGA Alumni
Association Julie L. Cannon ’BS,
author of The Romance Readers'
Book Club, a coming-of-age with
Southern style about a girl who
receives a cache of old paper
back romances. Cannon will
present a program and sign
books. SlO Association mem
bers, Sls all others. 6:30 p.m.
Atlanta Alumni Center. Contact:
404-266-2622.
cchoate@uga.edu.
► Botanically-inspired Silk
Scarf Creations. Sponsored by
the State Botanical Garden
inspired by the nch colors and
patterns of nature, learn to dye
your own silk scarves. Members
$22, non-members 525. 6:30 to
8:30 p m. State Botanical Garden
Visitor Center classroom A
Contact 706-542-6156.
ckeber@uga.edu
► Women's Basketball at
Vanderbilt. 8:00 p.m Nashville.
Tenn.
► Annual Jan Fest Band
Festival. Sponsored by the
Hugh Hodgson School of Music,
Students work with guest con
ductors m the Honor Band or one
of the Festival Bands in this con
ducting symposium for directors.
Throughout the three-day event,
guest concerts are presented by
selected high school and com
munity ensembles. Through
Sunday, January 20. 2008. Hugh
Hodgson Concert Hall and
Ramsey Concert Hall. Contact:
lpowell@uga edu.
http ji bands music. uga edu
► Terry Third Thursday.
Sponsored by the Terry College
of Business. James B Langford,
Project Executive. Linger Longer
Communities, discusses The
Revitalization of Jekyll Island.
S3O. includes breakfast and park
ing. 7 a m. Terry College
Executive Education Center, One
Live Oak Building. 3475 Lenox
Road. Atlanta
Contact: 706-583-0397.
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Former Congressman funds terror
WASHINGTON - A former con
gressman and delegate to the
United Nations was indicted
Wednesday as part of a terrorist
fundraising ring that allegedly sent
more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida
and Taliban supporter, who has
threatened U Sand international
troops in Afghanistan.
The former Republican con
gressman from Michigan, Mark
Deli Sfijander, was charged with
money laundering, conspiracy and
obstructing justice for allegedly
lying about lobbying senators on
behalf of an Islamic charity that
authorities said was secretly send
ing funds to terrorists.
A 42-count indictment, unsealed
in U.S. District Court in Kansas
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▲ In this photo released by the Cuban government, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro, right,
speaks to Brazil’s President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday during a meeting in
Havana. Castro met with Brazil’s president and the Cuban leader looked frail but alert in a
series of official photographs from the meeting, the first images released of him in months.
Ailing Castro writes to the public
HAVANA Fidel Castro said
Wednesday he is not yet healthy
enough to address Cuba’s people
in person and can’t campaign for
Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
"I am not physically able to
speak directly to the citizens of
the municipality where I was nom
inated for our elections,” the ailing
81-year-old wrote in an essay pub
lished by state news media.
Hours later, government televi
sion broadcast images of a frail
but upbeat Castro meeting Brazil’s
visiting President Luiz Inacio Lula
da Silva on Tuesday.
The first video of Castro in three
months showed him sitting and
listening intently with a finger
pressed to his forehead, then later
Simpson accused of ‘ignorance, arrogance’
LAS VEGAS An angry judge
doubled O.J. Simpson’s bail to
$250,000 on Wednesday for violat
ing terms of his original bail by
attempting to contact a co-defen
dant in the armed robbery case
against him.
Simpson, clad in jail attire, gri
maced as the amount was
announced and meekly acknowl
edged that he understood.
“I don’t know Mr. Simpson
what the heck you were thinking
or maybe that’s the problem
you weren’t," District Judge
Jackie Olass told Simpson during
the hearing.
“I don’t know if it’s just arro
gance. I don't know if it’s igno
rance. But you’ve been locked up
at the Clark County Detention
Center since Friday because of
arrogance or ignorance or
both.”
Olass said the order to not con
tact other defendants was clear
and she warned if anything else
happened Simpson would be
locked up. She warned hirrt
against contacting anyone else in
the case, and barred him from
leaving the country.
Simpson’s attorney, Yale
Oalanter, said he did not know
how long it would take for
Simpson to post bail, but it could
be a few days. Tom Scotto, a
Simpson friend who owns an auto
repair shop in Florida, said he and
several other people were trying
to get him freed by the end of the
day.
The former football star was
picked up Friday in Florida by his
bail bondsman, Miguel Pereira of
You Ring We Spring, and was
brought back to Nevada for vio-
The Wire
City, Mo., accuses the Islamic
American Relief Agency of paying
Siljander $50,000 for the lobbying
money that turned out to be
stolen from the U.S. Agency for
International Development.
Siljander, who served two terms
in the U.S. House of
Representatives, was appointed
by President Reagan to serve as a
U.S. delegate to the United Nations
for one year in 1987.
He could not be reached for
comment Wednesday, and his
attorney in Kansas City, JR Hobbs,
had no immediate comment.
The charges are part of a long
running case against the charity,
which was formerly based in
Columbia, Mo., and was designat
WORLD
standing and speaking, waving a
finger for emphasis.
“I have felt very good, very
good,” Castro says after exchang
ing a warm hug with Silva the
only audible comment on the 60
seconds of footage.
Silva, a leftist admirer of the
Cuban revolution, said Castro’s
health “was a nice surprise” and
said Castro appeared healthy
enough to return to politics.
“I think Fidel is ready to take
over his historic political role in
this globalized world, in humani
ty,” Silva said. He did not suggest
what that role might be.
RICK WILKING I Amocutid Pina
A O.J. Simpson sits in a
courtroom for his bail revo
cation hearing Wednesday.
lating terms of his release.
The district attorney charged
that Simpson left an expletive -
laced phone message Nov. 16, tell
ing Pereira to tell co-defendant
Clarence “C.J.” Stewart how upset
Simpson was about testimony
during their preliminary hearing.
“I Just want, want C.J. to know
that... I’m tired of this (exple
tive),” Simpson was quoted as
saying. “Fed up with (expletives)
changing what they told me. All
right?”
NEWS
TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
ed by the Treasury Department in
2004 as a suspected fundraiser for
terrorists.
In the indictment, the govern-
ment alleges that
IARA employed a
man who had
served as a fund
raising aide to
Osama bin Laden.
The indictment
charges IARA with
sending approxi
mately $130,000 to
help Gulbuddin
Hekmatyar, whom
the United States
has designated as a global terror
ist. The money, sent to bank
accounts in Peshawar, Pakistan in
Castro has not been seen in
public since July 2006, when emer
gency intestinal surgery forced
him to cede power to a provisional
government headed by his brother
Raul, five years his junior. Despite
stepping aside, the elder Castro
has retained his position as head
of the Council of State, Cuba's
supreme governing body.
In Wednesday’s essay, he
expressed frustration that he can
no longer give the kind of hours
long speeches for which he was
noted.
“I do what I can: I write. For
me, this is anew experience: writ
ing is not the same as speaking,”
he wrote.
Associated Press
Darfur ceremony
cancelled for China
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -
The Cambodian government said
Wednesday it will not allow Mia
Farrow to hold a ceremony at a
former Khmer Rouge prison as
part of her efforts to draw atten
tion to the crisis in Sudan.
The 62-year-old actress, work
ing with the U.S.-based Dream for
Darfur advocacy group, had
planned to light an Olympic-style
torch Sunday at the Khmer
Rouge’s infamous Tuol Sleng tor
ture house to urge China to press
Sudan to end abuses in Darfur.
The group claims China, host
of the 2008 Olympics, has protect
ed Khartoum at the U.N. Security
Council and sold weapons to the
Sudanese government, while mak
ing Sudanese oil purchases that
have helped frind genocide there.
“We will not allow them to hold
the ceremony because they are
not doing this for humanitarian
reasons, but because they have a
political agenda against China,"
government spokesman Khieu
Kanharith said.
China is one of Cambodia's
major trading partners and was
also the biggest backer of the
Khmer Rouge's communist
regime in the 19705, which led to
the deaths of an estimated 1.7
million Cambodians.
Associated Press
SIUANDER
NAMES & FACES
2003 and 2004, was masked as
donations to an orphanage located
in buildings Hekmatyar owned.
Authorities described
Hekmatyar as an Afghan muja
hedeen leader who has participat
ed in and supported terrorist acts
by al-Qaida and the Taliban.
The charges “paints a troubling
picture of an American charity
organization that engaged in
transactions for the benefit of ter
rorists and conspired with a for
mer United States congressman
to convert stolen federal funds into
payments for his advocacy,” said
Assistant Attorney General
Kenneth Wainstein.
- Associated Press
STATE
Delusional
disease
undergoes
research
ATLANTA lt sounds like a
freakish ailment from a horror
movie: sores erupt on your skin,
mysterious threads pop out of
them, and you feel like tiny bugs
are crawling all over you.
Some experts believe it’s a
psychiatric phenomenon, yet
hundreds of people say it’s a
true physical condition. It’s
called Morgellons. and now the
government is about to begin
its first medical study of it.
The U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention is pay
ing California-based health care
giant Kaiser Permanente
$338,000 to test and interview
patients suffering from
Morgellons’ symptoms. The
one-year effort will attempt to
define the condition and better
determine how common it is.
The study will be done in
northern California, the source
of many of the reports of
Morgellons. Researchers will
begin screening for patients
immediately, CDC officials said
Wednesday. A Kaiser official
expects about 150 to 500 study
participants.
Morgellons sufferers describe
symptoms that include erupt
ing sores, fatigue, the sensation
of bugs crawling over them and—
perhaps worst of all myste
rious red, blue or black fibers
that sprout from their skin.
They’ve documented their suf
fering on Web sites.
Some doctors believe the
condition is a form of delusional
parasitosis, a psychosis in which
people believe they are infected
with parasites.
In the study, volunteers will
get blood tests and skin exams,
as well as psychological evalua
tions, said Dr. Michele Pearson,
who leads a CDC task force
overseeing the study.
Archbishop found
guilty of promiscuity
ATLANTA Court officials
say the 80-year-old leader of a
suburban Atlanta megachurch
pleaded guilty Wednesday to a
charge that he lied under oath.
Cobb County Superior Court
Judge Frank Cox said
Archbishop Earl Paulk of the
Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at
Chapel Hill Harvester Church
was sentenced to 10 years pro
bation and a SI,OOO fine for the
felony charge.
Paulk turned himself in to
authorities Tuesday night after
a warrant was issued for his
arrest the previous day. The
charges stem from a deposition
Paulk gave as part of a civil law-
suit against him,
his brother Don
and the church
by a former
church employ
ee, who says she
was coerced into
an affair.
In a 2006
deposition for
the lawsuit, the
archbishop said
under oath that
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PAULK
the only woman he had ever
had sex with outside of his mar
riage was former church worker
Mona Brewer.
But the results of a court-or
dered paternity test revealed in
October that Paulk is the bio
logical father of his brother’s
son, D.E. Paulk, who is now
head pastor at the church. As
part of Brewer’s lawsuit, eight
women have given sworn depo
sitions that they were coerced
into sexual relationships with
Earl Paulk.
Associated Press