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My hero

Comic book
coflege

Recently I received an e
mail from a fan of
"Left of Center”
suggesting that I do
an article about the
superpowers of
college students. At
first l thought, “Who
is this person telling
me how to do my
job? Why would l
even give this
nobody the time of
day?" Well, after I

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Man assaulted near Donovan

took action. She called 911 and

want to do something about it."

A colleague of Badagu. Mo-
hammed Shareef. said he ques-
tions the safety of his routine.
which includes walking from
Cooperstown Apartments on
Woodland Avenue to the Biologi'
cal Science building.

"I don‘t feel safe working late
and walking in the evenings
now.” Shareef said.

Badagu said he believes hate
or racism could have instigated
the attack. “I don't know if this is
profiling, but it looks like a hate
crime.“Badagu said.

Anyone with information
should call UK Police at 257-1616.

ject was headed toward his chest.

He brought his arm up to pro put a bandage on Badagu‘s
tect his chest from the knife. wound.
which pierced his hand instead. An ambulance arrived and

Badagu attempted to grab his took Badagu to UK Medical Cen-
attacker. but the assailant was ter where he received six stitch-
too fast and got away. es.

Blood gushed from the
wound as Badagu made his way
across Rose Street to Donovan
Hall shouting "please call the po‘
lice. someone just scratched me
on my hand."

A group of students gathered
outside the residence hall took
him inside to the front desk.

Resident adviser on duty
Amanda White. an integrated
strategic communications senior.

Another attack: Research scholar stabbed
in his hand on his way home from lab

took my daily
medication and
calmed down a bit, I
realized that Chris
Brinkman was just
trying to be helpful.
The following is a list
of college
superheroes and
villains that you
might see on an
average campus.

After finishing his work in
the lab at 9 pm. Badagu smoked
a cigarette as he walked to his
car. He said he was startled
when approached by a strange
man.

The man asked him for a cig-
arette.

Badagu agreed and handed
him the smoke. The stranger then
hit Badagu's hand and the box
fell to the ground.

Badagu stood motionless until
he realized a shiny knife-like ob-

By Patrick Avery
5cm EDITOR -

By Kelley Sears
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

When 31-year-old Ramakrish-
na Badagu offered someone his
last cigarette he didn‘t get a
thank you. Instead. he was
attacked.

A Sunday night attack left In-
dian-born Badagu. a research
scholar in the UK biology depart-
ment. questioning campus safety.

Badagu said the even left him
feeling violated.

“I felt cheated." Badagu said.
“He smiled at me and then he did
this to me. It was more like a
cheating activity."

White agreed the situation
was unsettling.

"When you hear about crimes
on campus. you don’t think too
much of it," White said. "But
when you actually see it. you

Procrastination Boy -
Nobody can put off
doing homework like
this superhero, not
even a freshman. Be
thankful he is around;

otherwise there
would be no reason
to have the library 0
Tolly Ho open all
night.

Captain Binge - By
consuming all the
alcohol he can, he
keeps it out of the
hands of underage
students and
pregnant women. I
salute you, you
double-vision-havinq
lush.

Miss Marathon - You can

easily spot this hero
jogging her way to
justice all over
campus. She doesn't
really serve much
purpose but at least
she already has the
skin-tight costume.

Goth-Man - This all

black leather-wearing

evildoer mostly
resides in his hideou
on North Campus.
He's actually a nice
guy if you get to
know him, but he
makes that difficult
with his anti-
establishment aura.

Telescopal - Under
normal
circumstances, this
crime-fighter would
be considered a
pervert. However,
he's actually just
keeping a close
watch on the female

r

t

dorms with his trusty

IOX telescope. I've
never seen him stop
a crime though.
Hmmmmm.

The Dockers Squad -
This villainous team
of thugs use their

powers of conformity

to turn average
students into beer
drinking "pledges,"
as they like to call
them.

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To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain. worse
for the heart. The world
is a holy vision. had w
clarity to see it - a clarity
that men depend on men
to make.

- WENDELL BERRY, from "The Mad
farmer Manifesto The First
Amendment" file Country of mm

PHOTO FURNISHED BY JAMES BAKER HALL

A photo of a young Wendell Berry from James Baker Hall's new book A Spring-fed
Pond. The photos will be on display at the UN Art Museum beginning Thursday.

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A picture of a
young Bobbie Ann
Mason, author
and UN's first
university writer
in residence,
from James
Baker Hall's book
A Spring-fed
Pond. Mason
studied at UK in
the late l950s
and has written
several novels,
short stories and
a Pulitzer Prize

finalist memoir.
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JAMES BAKER NALL

It began at UK: Five Kentucky writers, all friends
since the 508, will do a reading Thursday night

By Tracy Nershaw
M—mcmo [more

In all. they've published
more than 60 novels. books of
short stories. poems. essays and
autobiographies.

They've become professors.
and earned titles and awards.

But for Wendell Berry. Bob-
bie Ann Mason. Gurney Nor-
man. James Baker Hall and Ed
McClanahan. perhaps the most
amazing accomplishment is
their 40-year friendship.

The five writers. who met
at UK as students in the 19505.
have been in a continuous con-
versation over the past four
decades; their connection has
withstood distance and other
inevitabilities that cause most
friends to fall out of touch.

“I think that it is a remark-
able thing." said Norman. "In
this day and time that we have
begun to call the ‘throwaway
society.‘ it is special when a

group of friends can remain to-
gether in this way."

This Thursday. these five
writers will read from their
work at the Singletary Center.
It‘s the first time they have all
appeared on the same program.

The event is part of the
English Department's celebra-
tion of 50 years of excellence in
the creative writing program.

“It promises to be a really
amazing occasion for those of
us who are performing in it."
McClanahan said. “The very
fact that we have survived for
50 years and that our friend
ships have survived is equally
astonishing.”

They've sent more than
5.000 letters to one another in
those 40 years. said Norman.
who is an English professor and
director of the creative writing
program.

“It is a sign of cultural
health in a confusing and frac-
tured era." Norman said.

 

ASSOCIATED PRESS

KABUL. Afghanistan
Huge explosions shook the
Afghan capital throughout the
the day Monday with two
more jets reported attacking
the northern part of the city
early Tuesday.

The Monday air strikes
sent terrified residents scurry-
ing for shelter. as US. jets
pounded suspected weapons
storage sites in Kabul and
across the country.

Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld. speaking at the
Pentagon. suggested U.S.
airstrikes could start targeting
Taliban front-line positions
facing Afghan opposition fight-
ers in the northeast of the
country.

The
claimed

opposition alliance
Monday it had ad-

vanced close to Mazar-e-Sharif.
the largest city in the north.
and that some 4.000 Taliban
troops defected over the week-
end. The Taliban denied the
defection claim.

The attacks Monday
against Kabul started just be-
fore sunrise and continued
through the day into the night.
Taliban gunners fired in vain
at the attacking planes. some
so high they could not be
heard from the ground.

The attacks in Kabul ap-
peared to be directed at
weapons and ammunition stor—
age sites in the hills north of
the city of 1 million people and
around the airport.

In one nighttime raid. ll)
huge explosions in the direc»
tion of the airport shook build-
ings miles away.

The Student Newspaper

One bomb exploded near
a UN World Food Program
warehouse on the northern
edge of Kabul. slightly injur-
ing one Afghan employee.
UN. spokesman Khaled
Mansour said in Pakistan.

In the Jalalabad area of
eastern Afghanistan. US.
jets struck the regional mili-
tary headquarters near the
airport and ToraBora. a sus
pected terrorist training
camp of Osama bin Laden.

An Afghan refugee arriv-
ing in the Pakistani border
town of (‘haman said a sus-
pected ammunition depot in
Kandahar. the southern city
where the Taliban leader-
ship is based. was ablaze af-
ter a hit Monday by US. mis-
siles.

The United States launched

the air campaign on Oct. 7 to
root out bin Laden - the top
suspect in Sept. 11 terror at-
tacks in the United States
and to punish Afghanistan‘s
rulers. the Taliban hard-line
Islamic militia. who harbor
him.

Rumsfeld said warplanes
had dropped leaflets over
Afghanistan for the first time
Monday.

In neighboring Pakistan.
pro‘Taliban Islamic militants
closed thousands of shops
throughout the country and
clashed with police to demand
an end to the bombing cam-
paign.

But compliance with the
strike was limited. and some
shops were open even in bor~
der cities where sympathy
with Taliban is high,

at the University of Kentucky, Lexin tn

Each studied at UK under
creative writing professor
Robert Hazel. and published
their work in the UK literary
magazine Stylus. After graduat-
ing from UK. Berry. Hall. Nor-
man and McClanahan attended
Stanford University on Stenger
Fellowships for Creative Writ-
ing. Hall and Berry went first.
then Norman. By the time Mc~
Clanahan went in 1962. Hall
and Berry had left and Norman
had joined the army. He was
stationed him at Fort Ordd. just
south of Palo Alto.

“Every weekend he would
come to Palo Alto and hang out
with me and our other friends."
McClanahan said. “We kept
turning up in the same places
together."

Berry. Hall. Norman and
McClanahan have taught cre-
ative writing at UK for many
years. and this year began Ma-

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President Bush thanks the government's Senior
Executive Service workers during a ceremony at
Constitution ital in Washington on Monday.

 

 

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The Low-down

"What
can you
say about
a society
that says
that God
is dead
and Elvis
is alive?"

- lrv Kupcinet

Terrorism forum tonight

[K is hosting a symposium and forum for
public discussion on America. terrorism and the
Middle East. Four distinguished experts from re-
gional universities will present political and his
torical perstwctives There will be time for ques
tions. The forum is 7 pm. tonight in the Wor-
sham ’l‘lieater

State's literacy training rate increases

FRANKFOR’I‘ More than 62.000 Kentucky
adults took part in literacy training or pursued a
high school equivalency diploma in the last fiscal
year. a 2:; percent increase that surpassed expec-
tations. the Workforce Development Cabinet re-
ported Monday. A literacy and adult education
initiative launched iii 2000 has a goal of 300.000
adult learners by 2010. The first—year goal was
00.000 Actual enrollment was 62.734. up from
31.177. the report Silltl. A 1995 literacy survey
found that nearly 1 million of the 2.4 million Keri-
tuckians of working age read poorly or not at all.
Figures released Monday were for the fiscal year
that ended .lune 30 At the same time. 13.939 peo~
ple completed high school with General Educa-
tional Development certificates. That was an iii-
crease from 1.1-1 H GED graduates in fiscal year
2000

McConnell not shocked by anthrax

FRANKFURT. Ky. Anthrax-contaniinated
mail sent to the office of Senate Majority Leader
Tom [)aschle was predictable US. Sen. Mitch
McConnell said Monday. “We knew the Capitol
would be a target. It was a target of one of the
planes on Sept. 11. and it‘s not surprising we‘d be
getting this kind of mail." McConnell. R-Ky.. told
WI)RR-T\' of Louisville. McConnell was refer-
ring to hijacked airliners that crashed into the
World Trade Center. the Pentagon and rural
Pennsylvania on Sept, 11, It has been speculated
that the ITS. Capitol and the White House were
lit'ISsllllt‘ targets A letter opened in Daschle‘s 0f-
the Monday tested positive for the potentially
deadly anthrax bacterium. People who were ex-
posed were treated with an antibiotic. McConnell
said Congress has a good plan in place to deal
with it " He declined to elaborate. "It's important
we not get the whole country in a panic here."
.\lc(fonnell said. Terrorists win "by having all of
us cowering at home."

Dead body probably there for weeks
FRANKLIN. Ky. ~ . Kentucky State Police
say they believe a person whose body was found
along Interstate 65 last week had been dead some
three to five weeks. Police say the body has been
determined to be that of a woman. but they do
not yet have an identification. The body was
found Oct. 9 along the shoulder of the interstate.

HULKAMANIA:
Little-known
Australian actor
Eric Bana will
play the coveted
title role in Ang
Lee's big-budget
adaptation of
“The Incredible
Hulk", which is on
track for a March
start. Many young
actors in Holly-
wood chased the
Marvel Comics
role after Lee
decided to make
the Universal
Pictures project
his follow-up to
"Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon".
Bana's
emergence as the
front-runner was
a surprise. given
the relative
brevity of his film
career: he
started out as a
comedian and
television host.
While burly, he
was not the
stature for macho
roles until killer
Mark "Chopper"
Reid personally
endorsed Bana to
play him in a
feature film

that was being
shot in Australia.
Bana auditioned
and got the role;
the film became a
critical sensation
Down Under.
Marvel is also
eyeing a 2002
production start
for the Artisan-
based "Iron
Fist". directed by
Kirk Wong and
starring martial
artist Ray Park.

about 12 miles north of the Tennessee border.

Man accused of killing girlfriend's dad

ASHLAND -~ Authorities have issued war-
rants charging an Ashland man with setting a
fire that killed his girlfriend‘s father and injured
her mother and two brothers Sunday morning.
Investigators believe Matthew FraZier. 21, of
Ashland, intentionally set the fire that killed
John Trout, 37. of Fort Gay. W.Va.. a small town
on the West Virginia-Kentucky border. Wayne
County. W.Va.. Sheriff David Pennington said
Frazier is the boyfriend of Trout’s 15‘year-old
daughter. Pennington said Trout was attempting
to keep his daughter from seeing Frazier.
Deputies had interviewed witnesses who told
them Frazier had threatened to kill Trout and to
burn the family's mobile home. Authorities don‘t
know the whereabouts of Trout‘s daughter. but
they believe she may be with Frazier. Norma
Trout was listed in stable condition Monday at
Three Rivers Medical Center in Louisa. The 12—
year-old twin sons were flown to C abell Hunting-
ton Hospital in Huntington. W.Va.. where
Jonethan Trout was in critical condition and Jef-
frey Trout in serious condition.

College prepayment plan in the works

FRANKFORT- Political rivals shared a
stage Monday to launch a college tuition prepay-
ment program. Money is invested in the program
on a schedule reflecting current tuition rates at
public and private colleges and universities.
Earnings are exempt from state and federal tax-
es. When the time comes. benefits can be used at
any institution of higher education in the coun-
try. But payment of full tuition and fees is guar-
anteed at any public college or university in Ken-
tucky. The program is titled Kentucky‘s Afford-
able Prepaid Tuition. or KAPT. pronounced
“capped." to emphasize guaranteed payment.
“Kentucky parents have a powerful new tool,"
said US Sen. Mitch McConnell. a Republican.
who appeared at the kickoff with Gov. Paul Pat-
ton and state Treasurer Jonathan Miller. both
Democrats. Prepaid tuition was Miller‘s initia-
tive. and his office will administer the program.
The General Assembly enacted it in 2000 with a
state tax exemption. But McConnell supplied its
crucial component - legislation to make invest—
ments exempt from federal taxes as well.

Kentucky gets grant for AF exams

FRANKFURT Kentucky has received a fed-
eral grant of $619,500 for use in raising participa-
tion in Advanced Placement - AP - courses
through the Web-based Kentucky Virtual High
School. The three-year grant is to fund AP work»
shops for teachers and scholarships for students.
especially minorities and those in high'poverty
areas. the state Department of Education an‘
nounced. The AP program. administered by the
College Board. enables students to take college-
level courses while still in high school. The Col-
lege Board recognizes 35 AP courses. in which
students take examinations to qualify for ad-
vanced placement upon entering college. The vir-

ALL ACCESS:
Bob Dylan wanted
tighter security
for his current
tour, but he didn't
expect to be held
up at the door
before his own
show because he
didn't have a
backstage pass.
Dylan, traveling in
support of his
new album "Love
and Theft," was
set to play the
last Oregon stop
on his tour Tue-
sday night when
he had trouble
getting through a
checkpoint at the
Jackson County
Exposition Center.
It wasn‘t clear
whether the three
security guards.
all in their 305.
recognized Dylan.
"If it was George
Strait, they prob-
ably would have
recognized him,"
said venue man-
ager Chris
Borovansky.

But even if they
knew who Dylan
was, the guards
had strict orders
from Dylan's
security director
that no one - no
one - was to get
backstage without
an official cred-
ential. So when a
slight, wild-haired
man tried to walk
through the
checkpoint, the
guards stopped
him. Dylan was
surprised, and a
brief scene
ensued. But then
later told the
guards they did
"a great job."

 

tual high school is using a second grant and
working with an advocacy group, the Prichard
Committee for Academic Excellence. to develop
AP promotional materials for parents of school
children The virtual high school opened in Jan.
uary 2000 with 47 students Current enrollment
is about 500 of whom 125 are enrolled in AP
courses. Registration for AP courses beginning
in January will open in late October.

Kashmir dispute worsens

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Secretary of State
Colin Powell‘s South Asia visit got off to a rocky
start Monday as Indian troops opened fire on
Pakistani positions in the Kashmir region just
hours after Powell appealed for restraint. In
Washington. President Bush urged India and
Pakistan to try to avoid military conflict over
Kashmir. because fighting there “could create is-
sues“ for the anti~terrorism campaign. A senior
Indian army official said Indian forces shelled
Pakistani military posts across the cease-fire
line Monday in Kashmir. destroying 11 posts.
The Pakistan army was returning fire as mid-
night approached Monday. a Pakistani army
spokeswoman said. Bush said Powell‘s mission
was "to talk to both sides about making sure
that if there are tensions - and obviously there
are - that they be reduced.“ Monday‘s action in
Kashmir followed a terrorist bombing there Oct.
1 that killed about 40 people. It left US. officials
worried that India and Pakistan would turn
their attention on each other instead of cooper-
ating in the global counterterrorism effort.

Nation's No. 3 steelmaker bankrupt

PHILADELPHIA a Bethlehem Steel Corp,
which launched more than 1.000 ships during
World War II and made girders for the Golden
Gate Bridge and Empire State Building. filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday. The nation's
third~largest steel company was reeling from
five straight quarters of losses blamed on compe-
tition from low-cost foreign steel and high labor
and retiree-benefit costs. The company, head-
quartered in Bethlehem. 50 miles from Philadel-
phia. was once a symbol of American industrial
and military might. But it is now a shell of what
it once was. with about 13.000 employees and
74.000 pensioners. Chapter 11 enables a company
to hold off its creditors and continue operating
while it tries to work out its problems. Robert S.
Miller Jr.. chief executive. said the company
hopes to reduce debt. work with its unions to ad-
dress money owed to retirees. and find buyers or
merger partners. Bethlehem has lined up $450
million in financing in the meantime. “I believe
that consolidation of the American steel indus-
try is absolutely required. There are far too
many players. and they are all small and weak
compared to their global competition." Miller
said.

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Detecting caves
tough in Afghanistan

ASSOCIAIED PRESS

President Bush is vowing
to smoke Osama bin Laden and
his lieutenants out of caves, but
detecting subterranean lairs is
no small feat.

Under ideal conditions.
high-tech tools can reveal the
location and structure of under-
ground cavities by measuring
subtle changes in the force of
gravity. seismic waves and elec-
trical resistance.

"It's a real easy job if you
have a bunch of graduate stu-
dents and you can walk around
on the ground taking measure.
ments." said Antony Fraser-
Smith. a Stanford University
geophysicist.

Afghanistan today is hard-
ly the place for such field trips.

Meanwhile, almost all US.
reconnaissance tools - includ-
ing radar and communications
interception devices - are built
for detecting something. Caves
are all about the absence of
something.

During the Vietnam con-
flict. US. soldiers faced ene-
mies adept at tunneling. One of
the most successful detection
techniques involved carefully
observing entrances for smoke
or body odor.

In the early 1990s. a tunnel
apparently dug by North Korea
was found hundreds of feet be»
neath the Demilitarized Zone.
Seismic testing and radar con‘
firmed the location.

Smugglers also move drugs
through underground passages
from Mexico into the United
States. These have usually been
discovered through tips. rather
than technology.

In all those cases. however.
the cavedetectors were people
on the ground.

To be most effective. cav-
ern-hunting in Afghanistan
would require much the same -
while likely employing methods
originally designed by geolo-
gists to find pipes. Oil deposits
and earthquake faults.

A common technique for
mapping the underground is to
monitor seismic waves pro-
duced in earthquakes. inten-
tional explosions or simply
thumping the ground with a
large Sledgehammer.

But small explosions near a
suspected hide-out would at-
tract unwanted attention as
well as produce results far from
conclusive.

 

Larry Watt, with
PGS Onshore lnc.,
holds one of the
geophones used

In recording seismic
vibration to map
subsurface geology.
He explains how and
where the seismic
crews will place the
sensors In

their search oi nat-
ural gas on Alaska's
North Slope. Finding
the subterranean
lairs In Afghanistan
where Osama bin
Laden might be hid-
ing will be more dif-
ficult.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

 

 

"Seismic techniques are not
ideal at all for detecting a cavi<
ty in the ground because the
seismic waves don't go through
the cavity - they go around it."
Fraser-Smith said. "You tend
not to see it."

Ground-penetrating radar.
which works like underwater
sonar and has been used to find
archaeological treasures. is
most effective on flat surfaces
and has limitations.

"It can't get to the depths
that you would need." said Roy
Greenfield. a geosciences pro-
fessor at Pennsylvania State
University.

In another technique. re-
searchers measure very slight
fluctuations in the pull of gravi-
ty. which changes with varia-
tions in the planet's mass.

"It will show you oil de-
posits. It will show you lots of
structures in the ground." Fras-
erSmith said. "But they're not
so good at picking up the ab-
sence of something.”

And though possible to per
form from the air. the tech-
nique is far more conclusive
done on land.

It's also possible to detect
cavities by measuring how elec-
trical currents change as they
pass through the ground. said
Mats Lagmanson. a geophysi-
cist and president of Austin.
Texas-based Advanced Geo-
sciences Inc.

"I can‘t really say our
troops can use this iii a battle

situation." he said. "They could
use it when things have calmed
down." because of danger to
those who would administer it.

The US. military may have
other. secret technologies at its
disposal,

In the Gulf War. soldiers
faced enemies in underground
bunkers. which led to tnore re-
search into detection and de-
struction techniques.

US. Defense analysts.
meanwhile. scour high-resolu-
tion satellite images for telltale
signs of underground life. such
as smoke rising from an en-
trance and roads that seem to
lead to nowhere.

Infrared sensors also might
spot the heat of cooking fires.
electrical generators or people.

"The tough aspect is doing
it quickly." said William C.
Mattel. professor of national se—
curity affairs at the Naval War
College. "I think the consensus
probably is that if you have suf-
ficient time. you can find these
things."

Afghanistan should be well-
covered by spy satellites given
its (‘old War history. particu-
larly after the Soviet invasion
in 1979. said Tim Brown. senior
associate at GlobalSecurityorg.
a security issues think-tank.

"The Afghan war was just a
practice." Brown said of the
conflict that ended with the So-
viets' 1989 withdrawal. ”There
should be a wealth of data.
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Israel takes some steps
to end violence in Bank

Progress: Israel pulls back troops,
removes checkpoints in West Bank

ASSOCIAIED PRESS

JERUSALEM —- Israel
made it a bit easier for Pales-
tinians to move around the
West Bank. pulling back
troops and removing check-
points Monday as part of an ef~
fort to patch up a frayed
Mideast truce.

But there was also vio-
lence: for the second straight
day. an Islamic militant with
the Hamas movement was
killed in the West Bank. this
time in a car explosion in
Nablus. Palestinians blamed
Israel.

But Israel. which took re-
sponsibility for a killing Sun»
day. refused to say whether it
was behind Monday's attack.

Speaking to Israel‘s parlia-
ment. Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon said the security mea
sures were being scaled back
for Palestinians who "want to
bring home a crust of bread
and bring up their children in
peace."

But he warned that Israeli
troops would be sent back if Is—
raeli civilians came under at-
tack.

“We made it very clear
that if there is firing. (the
army) will return and immedi-
ately take control."

The Palestinians. mean»
while. said the Israeli moves
fell far short of their demand
for a complete lifting of a secu-
rity cordon that prevents al-
most all Palestinians in the

West Batik and Gaza Strip
from entering lsrael. where
many had Jobs before the vio-
lence erupted a year ago.

“It's a mistake to say that
we have reached an agreement
with Israel." said .libril Ra-
joub. the Palestinian security
chief on the West Bank. “The
Israelis have proposed only
some small steps."

The Israeli moves mostly
involve removing roadblocks
that have pl‘t'Vt‘l‘iit‘tl internal
Palestinian movement inside
the West Bank anti (laza Strip.

For now. Israel will re-
main off limits for most Pales»
tinians. though limited num-
bers of husinessiiien will be
given permits to enter.

Palestinians consistently
cite restrictions on their move»
ments as one of their greatest
frustrations. Israel says the
rules are necessary to prevent.
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Anthrax scare reaches Congress

Letter sent to Daschle tests positive

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON A letter sent to Senate Majori-
ty Leader Toni Daschie tested positive for anthrax on
Monday as the bioterrorisiii scare rattling the nation
reached the halls of l‘ongress

President Bush said there might be a link w1th sus-
pected terrorist ()sama bin Laden

The discovery of anthrax in Washington followed ear-
lier instances in Florida. New York and Nevada in which
at least 12 people either have anthrax or were exposed to
spores oftlie potentially deadly bacteria.

The piece of mail. which contained a powdery sub-
stance. was dispatched to an Army medical research facil-
ity at Fort lieti'ick. Md. for further examination after a
pair of preliminary tests in Daschle's office came back
positive. said (‘apitol Police Lt. Dan Nichols.

The Fort Detrick findings could be available as early
as Tuesday. olticials said. Nichols and others warned that
the initial tests were not necessarily accurate.

Bush told reporters "there may be some possible
link" between the spate of anthrax incidents across the
country and ()saiiia bin Laden. who administration offi-
cials say was behind the Sept. ll airline hijack attacks.

"I wouldn't put it past him. but we don‘t have any
hard evidence." Bush said

Daschle was iii the Capitol and was not exposed to the
letter. which was opened in his other office a block away
in the Han Senate ()tlice Building.

Officials would not identify the person who opened
the letter. though Nichols referred to the aide as a female
Aides who may have been exposed to the letter were test-
ed with nasal swabs and being treated with the antibiotic
(‘ipro as a precaution. said Dr. John Eisold. attending
physician iii the Capitol.

“They are innocent people caught up in a matter for
which they have nothing to do." a somber-looking
Daschle. DST) . told reporters at a news conference out
side the Capitol. "I am very. very disappointed and