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In an effort to gain more involvement with college students and campuses, FOX News Channel has launched for the first time a nationwide “FOX News Channel College Challenge” competition for junior and senior undergraduate students majoring in broadcast journalism. “In securing FOX News Channel on college campuses, we noticed a strong following for the channel among university students,” said John Malkin, vice president of affiliate sales and marketing for FNC. “The passion that we saw from those students led us to want us to be further involved on college campuses.” Only 102 schools accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications are invited to compete — Cal State Fullerton is one of them. Others include Arizona State University, Howard University, Kansas State University, Syracuse University and New York University. “The competitionʼs mission is to recognize, encourage and support excellence in broadcast journalism in Americaʼs colleges and universities,” Malkin said. The response from the number of entrees so far has been going “pretty well,” said Lauren Kinelski, FNC press contact. Malkin also anticipates having “our hands full.” Competitors in teams of two to four will research, write, produce and submit a three to three and a FOX 3
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Fans gather around at the Off Campus Pub for Monday Night Football to see the Dallas Cowboys play against the Washington Redskins. The Cowboys won 21-18.
Arboretum hosts wine tasting Rotary Club sponsors annual harvest event to benefit local groups By CRYSTAL LAFATA Daily Titan Staff
Itʼs harvest time again, and the Arboretum is holding its annual food and wine tasting benefit called “Crush Time.” The event will be held at the Arboretum on Oct. 1 at 5:30 p.m. and will feature food, wine, beer, ciders and live country music. The Fullerton South Rotary Club will sponsor the event, with proceeds benefiting the Boys and Girls Club of Fullerton and the Friends of the Arboretum. “Last year we bought the Arboretum a backhoe with the money from the ticket sales,” said Brian Fairley, rotary member. The date of the harvest-themed
event has been moved for more favorable weather and will feature some new attractions. The Paso Robles winery, River Star, has donated grapes and a large barrel for the event. The barrel will be located near the entrance of the Arboretum and will feature girls from local restaurants stomping grapes to make wine. “I donʼt really know what I got myself into, I might get stained,” said La Vie En Rose Banquet Manager Korrine Esner. In addition to winemaking, there will be a contest to see who can guess the amount of liquid the girls will stomp out of the grapes. Other door and raffle prizes will be given away including wine products, vacation trips and cash. Local restaurants will be donating over 50 varieties of wine, 12 beers and 2 kinds of cider as well as delectable menu selections for tasting. The
food will range from appetizers to desserts and the wines will be in all colors and flavors from Riesling to Shiraz. “We might do our Crème Brulee or Pumpkin Brulee. Just something nice to surprise everyone,” said Stadium Tavern Manager Tom Dow. Last yearʼs event brought in 800 patrons, and Fairley said this yearʼs attendance is expected to be the same. “The key to enjoying wine is just to relax, and I hope to provide that kind of atmosphere,” he said. There is no minimum age for those who attend, but Fairly said the event is intended for an adult audience. “The $35 is well worth it to try all the different foods they have there,” Dow said. Tickets are tax deductible and can be purchased at the Arboretum or at participating local restaurants. Parking for the event is free.
Governor signs ban on smoking in prisons State correctional facilities to be smokefree in July of 2005 The Associated Press
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Monday that will ban tobacco use by both inmates and staff at the stateʼs adult and youth correctional facilities, starting July 1, 2005, except in staff housing when prisoners are not present and at Indian religious ceremonies. The ban covers smoking, snuff and chewing tobacco. The Department of Corrections already bars tobacco use by inmates in 13 of its 32 adult prison facilities. The California Youth Authority has banned tobacco use by its wards since the late 1980s, but both systems have smoking areas for staff. The billʼs author, Assemblyman Tim Leslie, R-Tahoe City, predicted it would “drastically reduce” prison health care costs. “The governor has put us on the road to saving taxpayer dollars and prisonersʼ lives.” But Jim Lindburg, legislative director for the Friends Committee on Legislation, a Quaker group, predicted the ban would merely drive tobacco use underground and that a more effective approach would be
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to encourage prisoners to stop smoking by providing them with nicotine patches and gum. “There is a lot of evidence that suggests that in prisons that have already done this that tobacco is becoming the No. 1 contraband item,” he said. “The reason for that is it can be purchased very cheaply on the outside and can be sold over and over on the inside. Itʼs a big money maker.” Margot Bach, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections, said tobacco and tobacco-related products are probably the “top seller” at prison canteens now and would definitely become “a hot contraband item” when the ban kicks in. “Anything thatʼs banned is highly prized,” she said. But she said prisoners already face smoking bans at most county jails and in the stateʼs 11 prison reception centers and two prison medical facilities. “We would hope that when they move on to their mainline institutions they will kick the habit.” A Leslie aide, Kevin OʼNeill, said seven other states already have full smoking bans in their prisons and five others have partial bans. The ban on staff smoking was added at the insistence of the Senate Public Safety Committee and Leslie thought it was fair, OʼNeill said. Schwarzenegger also signed
Below-average writing skills among one-third of the nationʼs workforce have many top U.S. companies voicing concern, according to a recent survey conducted by the College Board National Commission in Writing. The study released earlier this month emphasizes the high importance of writing skills in a companyʼs decision to hire, promote and retain its hourly and salaried employees. The majority of the companies that participated expressed frustration over this diminishing fundamental job skill. The study attributes this decline in part to a higher demand for writing in the workplace, less time spent teaching writing basics in K-12 education and reluctance for companies to provide adequate training in written skills. While the scope of the study is nationwide — focusing on hourly and salary-based employees in six major sectors of business — college students and graduates are not immune from the issue, according to Cal State Fullerton professors, officials and recruiters. “I often hear [and have heard] complaints [from employers] in the past about several of our graduatesʼ level of writing skills,” said Dana Loewy, CSUF business writing professor. “There is a general sense that somehow writing skills are deteriorating.” Loewy said she doubts that writing skills have decreased over time, but instead suggests that companies have higher demands for their employees to write in todayʼs fast-paced, technology-driven workplace. “It used to be the boss would have a secretary and would often rely on that person for proper writing,” Loewy said. “But nowadays pretty much everyone, even the people in lower level positions, are writing their own documents and e-mails.” Lowey said companies will need to lower their standards for writing skills in entry-level employees if they keep hiring people who canʼt write well. “You have to make due with what you get,” Loewy said. “So if compa-
nies are getting employees that are not as well trained in writing skills, the companies will have to train them themselves.” According to the study, the private sector cost for the 64 Business Roundtable companies surveyed to provide writing training to their combined eight million employees would total $3.1 billion, nearly $950 for each employee. The Boeing Company, a top recruiter of CSUF students, is a company making that investment. “We get some [hires] out of college that arenʼt very good at writing,” said Boeing Senior Engineer Stephen Danko. “But because we are focused on getting them to communicate effectively we work on them trying to get them to a more professional level.” Danko also said the company provides both technical writing classes and peer reviews from senior staff members to improve and critique employeesʼ writing skills. Boeing was one of more than 100 companies that attended the CSUF Internship and Job Fair last Wednesday. Jim Case, director of the Career Center that put on the event, said he believes diminishing writing skills might be a result of increasing language barriers in education, which affects graduates in the workplace. “Over the last 20 years a lot more people have come into higher education that in the past might not have been able to,” Case said. “A huge percentage of the students have a native language that isnʼt English and they have some additional challenges learning to communicate on the level that employers expect.” Statistics from the June 2003 English Writing Proficiency test, a mandatory writing assessment for all CSUF students to graduate, back Caseʼs theory. According to statistics provided by the CSUF Testing Services Center, approximately 46 percent of the 466 students who took the test and identified themselves as non-native speakers, passed. In comparison, about 91 percent of the 751 native-English speaking students passed. Twenty-six students did not specify their native language. The overall pass rate for the 1,243 students who took the test was 74 percent. “If you donʼt have that level of communication ability, it can be hard to get hired, advance in a job or even stay with an employer,” Case said.
Warlord power threatens October Afghan election Human Rights Watch says armed factions corrupting process The Associated Press
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, pictured greeting supporters in Huntington Beach in August 2003, signed a bill Monday to ban tobacco use by inmates at corrrectional facilities. another prison-related bill by Assemblywoman Judy Chu, DMonterey Park. It will require courts, except in unusual cases, to order a hate crime defendant placed on probation to stay away from the victim or the victimʼs family. The parole board will have to
impose the same requirement when inmates convicted of certain haterelated crimes are paroled. It also will allow a court or parole board to order a person convicted of certain hate crimes to receive counseling or attend a class on racial sensitivity.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Elections heralded as the dawn of democracy in war-ravaged Afghanistan will be hijacked by warlords able to intimidate voters and candidates to entrench their own power, a leading rights group warned Tuesday. The U.S. ambassador acknowledged problems ahead of the countryʼs first-ever direct presidential vote on Oct. 9, but insisted recent demotions for faction leaders and a belated disarmament drive are “breaking the back of warlordism.” In a report titled “Rule of the Gun,” Human Rights Watch said armed factions — some allied with the
United States — were using force, threats and corruption to dominate the election process. Independent political organizers were receiving death threats, while others were too scared even to get involved, it said. “Political repression by local strongmen is the principal problem,” the New York-based rights group said. “Most signs suggest that warlordism and factional dominance will only increase.” Millions of Afghans have registered for the Oct. 9 vote, despite threats and attacks by followers of the Taliban regime ousted by a U.S. bombing campaign in late 2001. American-backed interim President Hamid Karzai is widely expected to defeat 17 challengers for a five-year term as the countryʼs first popularly elected leader. ELECTION 3
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Palestinians killed; CNN producer held JERUSALEM – Israelis killed seven Palestinians in attacks Monday, including a Gaza airstrike that killed one militant and wounded a militia commander, who vowed revenge from his hospital bed. Meanwhile, at nightfall, Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a producer for the TV network CNN at gunpoint, the networkʼs correspondent, Ben Wedeman said. In a CNN broadcast from Gaza, Wedeman said the gunmen stopped a CNN van and extracted Riad Ali.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – Two car bombs killed seven Iraqi national guardsmen and a rocket barrage hit a police academy Monday as insurgents kept up their offensive to subdue Iraqʼs beleaguered security forces. U.S. jets pounded suspected militant positions in a Baghdad slum. Two U.S. soldiers with the 1st Infantry Division were killed in separate incidents Monday near Balad, north of the capital. The first died in a car crash and the second was killed when a patrol came under fire as it returned from the crash, the military said. More than 1,040 U.S. military members have died since the start of U.S. operations in Iraq in March 2003. SIERRA F. WEBB/Daily Titan
Nation Touchscreen voting lawsuit reinstated TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Just five weeks before Election Day, a federal appeals court Monday revived a lawsuit demanding that all Florida voters who use touchscreen machines receive a paper receipt, in case a recount becomes necessary. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals told a federal judge in Fort Lauderdale to reopen the case, which could affect 15 Florida counties whose electronic voting terminals do not issue paper records. It was not immediately clear if the case could be decided before the Nov. 2 presidential election.
DA wonʼt prosecute accused rapist SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Just hours after an indictment against former Springfield Bishop Thomas Dupre was unsealed Monday accusing him of raping two boys in the 1970s, the county prosecutor refused to pursue the case because the statute of limitations has expired. The decision by Hampden District Attorney William Bennett means that, though Dupre is the first Roman Catholic bishop to face criminal charges in the sex abuse scandal still plaguing the U.S. church, he wonʼt go to trial for them.
Kevin Costner weds at his Aspen ranch ASPEN, Colo. – “Dances with Wolves” star Kevin Costner has wed his girlfriend of five years, Christine Baumgartner, at his Colorado mountain ranch. Both are former students at Cal State Fullerton. The afternoon wedding, held Saturday, was attended by 300 of their family and friends. It is the second marriage for Costner, 49, and the first for Baumgartner, 30. The bride wore a white gown designed by Monique Lhuillier and a beaded lace veil. Costner wore Ralph Lauren. In addition to 1990ʼs “Dances With Wolves,” which won seven Oscars, Costnerʼs movie credits include “No Way Out,” “The Untouchables,” “Bull Durham,” “Waterworld,” “Tin Cup,” “JFK” and “Field of Dreams.” His most recent film was the Western “Open Range.” Reports compiled from The Associated Press
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Journalism professor Carolyn Johnson has a B.A. in square dancing By KEVIN METZ Daily Titan Staff
Thirty-one years ago, Carolyn Johnson taught her first Communications 101 class at Cal State Fullerton. Since then, the fulltime journalism professor has not missed a semester teaching the introductory course. A graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., Johnson believes the strong work ethic she picked up while working on her family farm in Wheaton, Minn. has kept her sharp over the years. Johnsonʼs undeniable passion for both her job and the subject she teaches may also have a lot to do with it. To see her enthusiasm, one needs only to sit for five minutes in either the Feature Article Writing or Media Ethics courses she teaches. Both are subjects Johnson has plenty of experience in with her earlier careers as a freelance writer, high school journalism teacher and newspaper adviser. Q: You teach a feature article writing class here. If someone were to write a feature story on you, what
would be in the lead? A: My lead might say something like “she is caring, fun loving, a trooper, a volunteer. Most of all, that she is a teacher.” Q: What do you find most rewarding about being a teacher? A: The students. Q: Most challenging? A: [laughs] The students. Q: What do you hope your students will take away from your classes? A: I love teaching, and I love journalism. If the teacher in front of the classroom is passionate about what they do, itʼs going to show. Maybe the students will get something from that. Itʼs great when even one student goes on with a passion for something in this field. Q: Is it possible to teach someone how to write? A: You can teach them the basics of how to put a sentence together, but writing is work and takes effort. When I write it takes more than just sitting at the computer typing to make a good story. Q: What do you enjoy doing outside the classroom? A: I have a bachelor of arts in square dancing. I have my diplomas right there on my office wall. Q: A degree in square dancing? A: Sure, you just go once a week and have fun and giggle at each other. Growing up in Minnesota we had social gatherings with square dancing, and I remember at age 10 having a lot of fun hip-hopping around. I thought someday I would want to do
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that again. So I did. Q: Would you consider yourself to be a serious person? A: I take my job seriously, but I also like to have fun with it. It relaxes the class when they know they can indeed joke with me. Just because I have this Ph.D. doesnʼt mean I am standing up on cloud nine preaching down to them. Q: If you werenʼt in this job, what would you want to be doing? A: Writing for a smaller newspaper, maybe a regional magazine. I would really love to be a travel writer. Q: What is the most interesting place you have traveled? A: New Zealand. Beautiful country, beautiful people and lots of sheep. El Salvador was also eye-opening for me because I saw a lot of poverty there. I got to see reality, and thatʼs what we are about in this journalism business.
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Women survive after plane crashes into car Mother, daughter have minor injuries after accident The Associated Press
FULLERTON, Calif. - A mother and her daughter said Monday they were thankful not to be hurt when a small plane crashed into their car shortly after taking off from an air show. The plane crashed almost immediately after taking off from the Fullerton Municipal Airport on Saturday, seriously injuring the two men inside. Jay Yoshinaga, 45, of Gardena, and Anthony Albanese, 46, of Brea were listed in critical condition at the UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, hospital spokeswoman Marcida Dodson said Monday. The 1986 Bushmaster, a replica 1920s Ford tri-motor plane, crashed seconds after takeoff, just missing the control tower and slammed onto a street, sideswiping Rebecca
Perezʼs Hyundai Elantra. The plane broke apart on impact and erupted in flames. “There was this real loud bang and air bag going off, crashing noise and ... it stopped my car,” Perez, 58, of Buena Park, told KCAL-TV. She was on the way to a doctorʼs office with her 32-year-old daughter, Valerie Perez. “We were just baffled and then immediately people came. I was just saying ʻSave us Jesus, save us Jesus.ʼ She was like, ʻMom, mom, what happened?ʼ I said ʻI donʼt know, I donʼt know.ʼ” Both women were treated for cuts and bruises and released from the hospital. “It just makes everything else, you know, problems and things, so minute,” Valerie Perez said. The crash occurred in front of hundreds of people who were at the small Orange County airport for “Airport Day.” The National Transportation and Safety Board was investigating the cause of the crash.
to appear live on FNC to recount their experience with the competifrom page 1 tion. Broadcast journalism instructor half minute video news package Beth Evans said she views the from a choice of 16 national story competition as a great opportunity topics, such as “Should the draft be for broadcast students. reinstated during this War on Terror She also said that since the topera?” “Should ics are national Americans sacstories it is going rifice some to be a chalrights to make lenge for those Be firm and our homeland students because confident in safer?” “Trials college broadcast your reporting, on TV: Can the students usually produce a clean media influence cover local stocopy of the material and the outcome?” or ries. report both sides “Sport star pay“Most awards of the story checks: too big recognize print equally. or just right?” journalism stuA panel of dents, not broadJohn Malkin FNC vice president of FNC staff memcast,” Evans affiliate sales and marketing bers, including said. “Itʼs nice FNCʼs anchor to see something Jon Scott, will like this.” judge the subThere are missions. no limits to the The judges will be looking for number of teams from each school objective presentation of the story, to enter, but only one entry is perthe appearance of no pre-deter- mitted for each team and all team mined bias, overall execution of members must be at least 18 years the idea, video, audio, editing, old. writing and use of graphics and Evans also said that she would audio effects quality and the over- encourage her students to send in all quality of the package. entries. The selected winning team will Some tips for students entering receive a $10,000 scholarship the contest are to “be firm and and an additional $10,000 will be confident in your reporting, progranted to the teamʼs school. duce a clean copy of the material “Once you put dollar signs in and report both sides of the story front of something, youʼre sure equally,” Malkin said. to get a studentʼs attention,” said Student hopefuls must enter Troy Bardy, a senior broadcast online at www.foxnews.com/coljournalism major. legechallenge/ by Oct. 15 and all FNC will also send the win- taped entries must be submitted by ning team and an administrator to Dec. 31. Winners will be contacted New York City for the weekend directly by April 15, 2005.
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Off Campus Pub owner has appeal CSUF graduate is successful at running student hot spot By CASEY RITTENHOUSE Daily Titan Staff
Brian Fairley sat in the basement of his new home and looked over his collection of wine lining the walls. The temperature was a cool 58 degrees throughout the room, indicating that this area of the house was more than a basement. It is actually a wine cellar for a man who goes to school everyday – well, at least has a good glimpse of it. Fairley is the owner of the Off Campus Pub, the bar-restaurantnight club across the street from Cal State Fullerton on Nutwood Avenue. Since he bought it in 1993, Off Campus Pub has become one of the most popular local hangouts for Fullerton and neighboring city residents. Thursday nights, known as “College Night” at the pub, were actually named by CSUF students a couple years after its opening, Fairley said. The place crawls with mainly college students on Thursdays, as they dance and drink the night away. Fairley describes the celebrated night as “loud, with upbeat music... and a real high-energy, party-type of environment.” Fairley said some people do some outrageous things to be in the front of the line at the pub. “Well, itʼs not uncommon... for women to ʻflashʼ in order to get into the front door,” Fairley said, with a grin. “I imagine sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesnʼt, depending on a few different factors.” Fairley said he trusts his loyal management staff to keep things running smoothly when he is not there. Even though he does not partake in the festivities in the wee hours each Thursday night, he said he does know what it is like to work in such a setting. “Trust me, when you mix guys, girls and alcohol, thereʼs going to be a certain amount of energy going on,” he said. Fairley was a bartender at the Off
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But the campaign has been lowkey, with some candidates saying they are too scared to venture into some parts of the country plagued by militants and unruly factions. In its 50-page report, Human Rights Watch cited dozens of political organizers, journalists and rights activists describing the dangers of campaigning openly against local power-brokers. Few were prepared to be identified. In northern Afghanistan, according to Human Rights Watch, U.N. workers, relief groups and party officials said commanders loyal to two
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Brian Fairley bartended at the Off Campus Pub prior to becoming the owner. Fairley has owned the pub for 11 years. Campus Pub in 1980, which was then called the El Paso Cantina. After owning another bar during the ʼ80s, he leaped at the chance to secure the Off Campus Pub as his own. “[The restaurant] was then Scalzoʼs and it closed,” Fairley said. “As soon as I heard it had closed, we were there in 10 minutes.” He said he recognized the potential of the restaurantʼs location and knew that the only name that would work for it would be one that was affiliated with the university. Fairley graduated from CSUF in 1977 with a degree in business and he said he had a lot of fun in college, but feels even more connected to CSUF because he knows many of its faculty and coaches. He has even catered many events for CSUF President Milton A. Gordon, including the recent “Concert Under the Stars.” “I have a lot of ties and a lot of loyalties,” Fairley said. “In addition to that, the lovely Mrs. Fairley and I were married in the Arboretum, so thereʼs a lot of water under that bridge.” Fairley chuckled and smiled at
the profound history he has had with CSUF. He was even sporting a College World Series T-shirt, which he got from one of three visits he made to Omaha, Neb., to support the baseball team. The pub even ties in the local theme by naming pizzas after people such as Kevin Costner, with whom Fairley had a scuba diving class while they attended CSUF. “The pizzas are named after Fullerton celebrities,” he said. Fairley said Thursday nights at the pub might stand out to many CSUF students, but the Friday and Saturday night crowds are strong as well. If a club scene is not someoneʼs concept of a good time, the pub offers karaoke on Tuesdays, Monday Night Football every week and even a seasonal breakfast on Sundays for those who want to root for their favorite NFL teams. Fairley said there are a number of different crowds who visit his pub each week. “There is some overlap [of customers in different groups], but there are largely distinctive groups [that come into the pub],” he said. Fairley said he is proud of the
renovations done recently inside the pub, which consist of a more industrial look with better lighting and sound system to go with the expanded dance floor. His able staff has been with him through many years and seem just as excited to be part of the recently remodeled pub. Maite Arana has been head server at the pub for almost 11 years. She said she could not ask for a better place to work, nor a better boss to be employed by. “I love it here... Brianʼs the best boss in the world,” Arana said. “He treats you like family. He comes in almost every day to check up and to see if anyone needs anything.” Rayleen Adams, a graduate of Rio Hondo College in Whittier, was a first-time customer of the pub last Thursday night. She and a friend sat outside in the crowded patio area. “I just live down the street, so itʼs convenient,” Adams said. “I plan on coming here again.” No matter what anyoneʼs taste may be during the week, the pub is a CSUF landmark that Fairley said students and faculty are able to go to for fun after class has been dismissed.
presidential candidates — Abdul Rashid Dostum and Mohammed Mohaqeq — had “threatened local leaders to ensure that local populations vote as they command.” Independent party activists in Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul alleged they had received death threats. One said a caller announced himself as “the call of death” and warned: “You should get out of Kabul in 24 hours.” In eastern Nangarhar, letters were distributed denouncing Afghan central bank chief Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi, a Karzai ally, and telling people they would “face consequences” if they got involved with his party. Human Rights Watch said political activists were complaining of threats from local commanders in southern Kandahar and Wardak province, close to Kabul, if they didnʼt support Karzaiʼs candidacy. Several presidential candidates, including Massooda Jalal, the only
female contender, have also said they face harassment and feel unsafe on the campaign trail. The report commended Karzai for removing Ismail Khan, the autocratic former governor of the western city of Herat — a move this month that sparked a rampage by Khan supporters, who burned U.N. offices in the city. The United Nations had earlier identified the region as a black spot for political and media freedoms. With few international observers likely to be in place on polling day, Human Rights Watch warned that warlords will be able to muster blocs of votes that could help them negotiate posts in the new government. Few voters believe their ballot would be secret, the report said. “Voters in many rural areas have already been told by warlords and regional commanders how to vote and, given the general political repression and unfamiliarity with
democratic processes, are likely to obey,” it said. Asked on Monday about the report, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad acknowledged intimidation by warlords could affect the vote but pleaded for patience in the reconstruction process. A much-delayed drive to disarm militias is gathering steam. Some former warlords were changing their ways and others would eventually be phased out, he said. Khalilzad commended Dostum, who helped U.S. forces drive out the Taliban, for placing his militia under the control of the new national army so he could run in the election. He didnʼt comment directly on the continued cooperation of the U.S. military with Hazrat Ali, the police chief of Nangarhar whose men are widely suspected of political intimidation in eastern Afghanistan as well as involvement in the countryʼs booming drugs trade.