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U.S. plans helicopter attacks � The United States is also deploying special forces to the region, including to Uzbekistan, to hunt down terrorists.

� Redrawing the state district lines according to the 2000 census data has turned into a politi-

By STEVEN MYERS

New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON The Pentagon is preparing to launch risky raids into Afghanistan using low-flying Army helicopter gunships to find and attack

forces allied with Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network and the Taliban government, two senior Pentagon officials said Tuesday. The helicopters, operated by special operations forces from bases near—but not in—Afghanistan, would be able to strike pockets of forces after the American air and missile strikes have made more progress at wearing down the Taliban’s air defenses and other major military targets. At the same time, the administration is deploying a growing number of special forces to the region who would be in a position to hunt down terrorists, including troops in Uzbekistan, to the north ofAfghanistan. These forces, however, do not constitute a potential invasion force for Afghanistan, a prospect that Pentagon officials have for now ruled out. It is not clear how soon the close-in helicopter operations will begin. The

N.C. House to decide on redistricting cal battle. By MEG LAWSON The Chronicle

Following the 2000 census, the North Carolina General Assembly has begun to redraw the districts for both of its chambers, and the House Legislative Redistricting Committee is scheduled to vote on its plans today.

A local perspective SAID MOHAMMAD AZAM/AFP

AFGHANS LOOK AT DEBRIS from the Afghan Technical Consultants offices in Kabul after they were hit by American cruise missiles Oct. 7, killing four members of the group and injuring four others. chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers of the Air Force, said Tuesday that American fighters and bombers were rapidly establishing air superiority over Afghanistan after three days ofstrikes carried out from relatively high altitudes. The risks involved in such strikes were illustrated by the deaths of four UN. employees at a demi-

ning operation near Kabul, the capital. “I think essentially we have air supremacy over Afghanistan,” he said. But he acknowledged that “there will always be the anti-aircraft fire.” “There’s always the possibility of these manned portable surface-to-air missiles,” the general added. See ATTACKS on page 10 P*

Local representatives discuss how redistricting will affect the Triangle. See page 9

In the closely divided state House of Representatives, each party has a chair on the redistricting committee, and each chair presented a plan for new districts. In the less evenly divided Senate, only the majority party—the Democrats—has submitted a plan, which has already passed both readings in the Senate. Rep. Ronnie Sutton, D-Pembroke, See

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Unsurprising primary advances Tennyson, Bell for mayor � In a primary in which few residents voted, five incumbents and three challengers made it through the first round of City Council elections. By MATT ATWOOD The Chronicle

Mayor Nick Tennyson and former county commissioner Bill Bell advanced into the general mayoral election Tuesday night, handily winning a primary marked by low voter turnout. Meanwhile, in the two Durham City Council races, incumbents Thomas Stith, Dan Hill and Lewis Cheek and former Durham city employee Cora Cole-McFadden finished as the top vote-getters. Only 15,212 people turned out to vote, according to unofficial results released Tuesday night by the Board of Elections. The results do not include transfer and provisional ballots, which have not yet been counted. In the last municipal election two years ago, 20,400 people voted in the primary; that number increased to 28,093 in the general election. “It’s obvious with the relatively low turnout that anything could happen four weeks from today,” Hill said. Tennyson garnered 52.2 percent of

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AT-LARGE CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES Thomas Stith (left) and Dan Hill (middle) shake hands as candidate Lewis Cheek (right) looks on. All three will advance to the Nov. 6 general election. the votes for mayor and Bell picked up 44.4 percent, while City Council mem-

ber Brenda Burnette and activists Ralph McKinney and Stephen Hopkins won less than 2 percent each. “I think that it’s good to be above 50 percent. I hope that’s the way it fin-

Kenneth David Kaunda, former president of Zambia, spoke about the continuing AIDS crisis in his country

Tuesday afternoon. See page 5

ishes,” Tennyson said. “We’ve got to face the fact that it’s going to be a whole lot more people voting [in the Nov. 6 general election].” Bell also said he was pleased with the

results,

explaining that See ELECTION

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At a forum Tuesday evening religion scholars discussed the morality of the U.S. strikes on Afghanistan from both Christian and Islamic perspectives. See page 7

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Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of David Patrick Malone, who is accused of entering President Nan Keohane’s office with a gun. See page 7

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Arafat suppresses anti-U.S. protestors

Embarrassed by anti-U.S. protests, Yasser Arafat closed two universities Tuesday to silence Islamic militants and impeded coverage of the rallies by barring foreign correspondents from entering the Gaza Strip. •

Oil production continues in Mideast

Immediately after the attacks by the United States, the world’s major petroleum exporting countries, led by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, vowed that oil would flow uninterrupted. •

Iris rips through Belize, killing 15

Flattening buildings and flinging boats ashore, Hurricane Iris tore through Belize and capsized a yacht carrying U.S. divers, killing 15 people and leaving five others missing and feared dead. •

American physicists win Nobel Prize

Three U.S.-based researchers won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for creating a new state of matter—a super-cold gas that may help scientists build tinier electronics, faster computers and ultra-precise clocks and measuring instruments. •

Bush denounces intelligence leaks The president limited congressional access to a bipartisan eight-person group By TODD PURDUM and ALISON MITCHELL

New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON—President

George W. Bush and leading members of Congress from both parties clashed Tuesday over Bush’s order limiting classified military and investigative briefings to just eight senior lawmakers. After Bush imposed the new limits in what aides said was anger over media reports based on secret intelligence provided in congressional briefings, lawmakers insisted they needed such information to do their jobs. The president denounced congressional leaks as “unacceptable” when U.S. forces are at risk overseas.

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Microsoft Corporation lost a longshot appeal to the Supreme Court Tuesday, and all sides said they will focus on settling the government’s long-running antitrust case against the software company. News briefs compiled from wire reports.

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As word of Bush’s directive swept the Capitol, members of both parties dismissed it as overly broad and unworkable, even as they, too, condemned any unauthorized disclosure of sensitive intelligence information that could jeopardize military or covert operations. “We have to find away to stop this from happening,” said Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., the majority leader. “We can’t have the trust of the administration, we can’t have the powers that are inherent in this body constitutionally without that trust. I think unless we can restore that trust, we can’t do our jobs.” Bush signed a memo Friday to the secretaries of state, defense and the

CAIRO, Egypt Osama bin Laden’s spokesperson issued a strident, televised appeal Tuesday, for Muslims around the world to rise in a global holy war against the United States and its interests everywhere. Al-Qaida spokesperson Sulaiman Abu Ghaith praised the

hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon for their “good deed,” saying they had “moved the battle into the heart ofAmerica.”

“The Americans must know that the storm of airplanes will not stop, God willing, and there are thousands of young people who are as keen about death as Americans are about life,” Abu Ghaith said. The fierce warning and appeal for help from fellow Muslims came on the third day of strikes on al-Qaida posts in Afghanistan, and upon installations of the Taliban regime.

Defiant in the face of the attacks, the statement nevertheless made clear the pressure bin Laden’s network felt itself under—taking the unusual step at one point of specifically urging Muslim women, as well as men, to join

in fighting the United States. “I direct this message to the entire Islamic nation, and I say to them that all sides today have come together against the nation of Islam and the Muslims,” Abu Ghaith said. “This is the crusade that President George W. Bush has promised us, coming toward Afghanistan against the Islamic nation and the Afghan people. We are living under this bombardment from the crusade, which is also targeting all Islamic peoples.” “America has opened a door that, God willing, will not

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Student Amphetamines may have side effects reports rape off campus By JENNIFER SONG The Chronicle

From staff reports The Durham Police Department is currently investigating an alleged rape of an undergraduate student in her off-campus apartment during the late evening hours of Oct. 3, said police spokesperson Lt. Ed Sarvis. The victim and suspect had returned to the victim’s residence in the Belmont apartment complex on McQueen Street after going out. At the apartment, they continued consuming alcohol. The drinking took place on the balcony of her apartment. At about 4 a.m. the next morning, the victim awoke nude on the floor of her bedroom. A sexual assault examination was conducted at the Duke University

Medical Center, and evidence indicated that a sexual act had recently occurred. The victim stated that she was not aware of having had sex nor did she consent to it. Sarvis said the victim and suspect had known each other beforehand and that the incident is under investigation.

University officials declined to comment on the specifics of the case and said students who are sexually assaulted can seek help from campus police, Durham police, the Women’s Center, the Hospital and Counseling and Psychological Services, among other resources. “With those types of situations, we just want to work with the victim and see what options are available and how they want to proceed,” Associate Dean for Judial Affairs Kacie Wallace said.

CLARIFICATION The photo on page 7 of the Oct. 8 edition of The Chronicle was taken at the Ronald McDonald House of Durham at Duke.

Rows of skinny Red Bull cans sit innocently on a shelf in the Bryan Center’s Lobby Shop. Red Bull’s label advertises it as an “energy drink” that claims to, among other things, improve performance during stress, increase concentration and improve reaction speed. According to Sue Hemingway, an employee in the store, the carbonated drink is purchased primarily by students who want to stay up late. “We sold 15 packs in two days, and that’s a pretty typical rate. I’m restocking it now because it is selling so fast, she said. 'Ja# Healthy Most stimulants~ available %' Learning 9 over the counter primarily contain caffeine or closely-related compounds. Caffeine works by blocking receptors for a neurotransmitter called adenosine. This chemical is highly involved in regulating sleep activity, so when blocked, the natural mechanism for

falling asleep is diverted. This also causes a non-specific increase in brain activity. Taken in high doses, caffeine can cause mild toxicity, which is manifested by tremors and an upset stomach. Although it is possible to become psychologically dependent on caffeine, the substance is not addictive. “Caffeine has been used for the purpose of staying up for decades,” said Dr. Cynthia Kuhn, professor of pharmacology. “There’s nothing dangerous about it unless you really take a lot. With college students, there’s really nothing to worry about.” Researchers are more concerned, however, with the rising use of more addictive stimulants to stay awake. Kuhn believes amphetamines such as Ritalin may most commonly be abused because they are easy to obtain. Amphetamines work specifically on norepinephrine and dopamine neuro-

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The percentage of mothers who breast-fed their newborns jumped at a Boston hospital when it introduced a 10-step plan that had been widely used overseas to encourage breast-feeding and cut down on formula use. An article in the journal Pediatrics described efforts of the Boston Medical Center to adopt the guidelines set by the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, a campaign begun in 1991 by the World Health Organization and the U.N. Children's Fund. More than 31,000 sites worldwide have qualified for the “Baby Friendly" designation by successfully adopting 10 rules that focus on the training of staff, pregnant women and new mothers; encouraging breast-feeding through steps like keeping babies in their mothers’ rooms; and discouraging bottle feeding and the use of pacifiers.

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Germans find apparent hepatitis C cure

German researchers announced last week that they had cured hepatitis C in 42 of 44 patients who were treated in the earliest stages of the disease. The finding was considered so important that an article about it was made public ahead of schedule by The New England Journal of Medicine. The study was received with enthusiasm by specialists in hepatitis C, a viral disease that infects about 30,000 Americans a year. It has become the leading cause of liver transplants in the United States. •

Study: new bypass technique not safer

A Dutch study found that bypass patients whose hearts are allowed to keep beating while they are on the operating table run the same risk of cardiac complications over one month as do patients put on a heart-lung machine during surgery. The study of 281 patients looked at what are known as “beating-heart," or off-pump, bypass operations. In traditional bypass surgery, the heart is stopped and the patient is hooked to a machine that keeps blood circulating through the body. One month after the surgery, 93 percent of the beating-heart patients and 94.2 percent of the heart-lung machine patients had survived without suffering a heart attack or stroke or needing another procedure. Researchers said the difference was statistically insignificant. •

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The government is taking a number of steps to prevent a potential terrorist-provoked outbreak of the smallpox virus. It has embarked on new studies to see if existing stocks of smallpox vaccine—an estimated 7 to 15 million doses—can be diluted to stretch the stockpile. It also just announced plans to speed up production of a new vaccine, to make 40 million doses available next year. The ultimate goal is to have enough vaccine for all Americans. Meanwhile, researchers are looking into new anti-viral drugs to fight the disease in unvaccinated people. Smallpox has killed more people than any other infectious disease. •

European Union calls biotech crops safe

Contradicting the prevailing sentiment in Europe against biotech crops, a report from the European Union's head office suggested they may even be safer than regular foods. The biosafety report summarizes 81 research projects financed by the EU over the last 15 years on genetically modified crops and products made from them. The research has not found “any new risks to human health or the environment, beyond the usual uncertainties of conventional plant breeding,” said the European Commission, the EU's executive branch. News briefs compiled from staffand wire reports

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Biomedical engineers combat STDs By JENNIFER WLACH The Chronicle

An over-the-counter vaginal cream to prevent the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases may become a reality thanks to the researchers at the University. Led by David Katz, Nello L. Teer Jr. professor of biomedical engineering, the study recently received a boost with a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Katz concentrates on the molecular properties of topical vaginal medications like spermicides and yeast infections to lower their characteristically high failure rates. “As much as 40 percent of topical medicines fail due to insufficient delivery,” Katz said. “Much of this is an engineering problem because the formulation of current products may not allow for proper coverage of the entire

tissue area.” Katz, who began his research on this subject in the late 19905, bases his work on several questions: What properties should the products possess to enable them to coat all of the tissues? What are the important properties of the environment to which the topical medications are applied? And how do these properties vary with factors such as age and other behavioral and physiological factors? The research project—now in its second phase of testing—is divided into two experimental components aimed to answer these questions. The engineering factor focuses on in-utero studies to examine how microbicides—compounds that prevent STDs—spread and stick in the complex anatomical environment of the vagina. The human research consists of invivo studies to analyze the spread of commercially available contraceptive gels in human subjects. The latter

component will be used to predict how the microbicides will spread in tissues. “We are systematically mapping the

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DAVID KATZ, Nello L. leer Jr. professor of biomedical engineering, researches medications used to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. Katz recently received $2.3 million from the National Institutes of Health and $90,000 from the American Foundation for AIDS Research to continue his work. distribution of gels... and have found that there is not 100 percent coverage,” said Marcus Henderson, an assistant research professor of biomedical engineering who helped develop the equipment used for the project. He added that researchers are now investigating which gel concentrations will provide the best coverage. The combination of engineering and human testing models sets this project apart from most. “Applying engineering science as an approach to

microbicide research has not been done before,” said Derek Owen, an assistant research professor of biomedical engineering and a member of the in-utero research team. Blocking STDs and HIV transmission is not the only goal of the microbicide gels. Owen said they might also block sperm, serving as a contraceptive. The new NIH grant combined with a $90,000 award given by the American Foundation for AIDS Research gives the team five years to work on the project.

Cell cycle res catchers earn Nobel Prize Three scientists investigating how cells grow and divide share the award for physiology or medicine By LAWRENCE ALTMAN

New York Times News Service

An American and two Britons won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering vital molecules that regulate how cells multiply in living things, from yeasts to plants to humans. The winners, who will share the $943,000 award, were Leland Hartwell, 61, director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and professor of medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle; Timothy Hunt, 58, of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Hertfordshire, England; and Paul Nurse, 52, director general of the fund in London. Findings from their research are about to be applied to the development of tests for cancer and may lead to new cancer therapies, according to the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, which selected the winners. The three used different approaches to pinpoint the mechanisms by which the billions of cells in each individual con-

stantly divide and precisely duplicate their chromosomes into daughter cells, a process known as the cell cycle. The two British scientists built on Hartwell’s pioneering research on the cycle to provide clues for explaining how cancerous cells can reproduce wildly. “All cancer cells have something wrong with the cycle, and these discoveries have laid the foundation for understanding how the cell cycle affects cancer,” said Klas Wiman, a member of the awards committee. Hartwell was cited for discovering a specific class of genes that controls the cell cycle. Hartwell thought that baker’s yeast might be a suitable tool for research on the genetics of cell division because yeast cells were simpler and easier to use than human cells. But it was “a risky assumption,” he said in an interview, because no one knew how close

the two types of cells were. A turning point in Hartwell’s research was Nurse’s discovery of a geneknown as cdc2 in a different type of yeast. The gene

was essential in controlling a phase of cell division, and it turned out to be the same gene that Hartwell had already

identified in baker’s yeast.

The Nobel committee cited Hartwell for discovering more than 100 genes that coordinate the fourstage process by which one cell grows, duplicates its chromosomes, verifies this duplication and then divides, leaving two daughter cells to begin the

cycle again. Each step in the complex sequence

must be perfectly timed to ensure that the next phase proceeds to produce exact, healthy replicas of the parent cell. Hartwell was cited by the Nobel committee for discovering a gene that he called “start” because it begins the cell cycle, and for developing a theory he called the checkpoint concept. The checkpoint concept holds that the cycle stops to repair any damage to the cell’s DNA before the cell progresses to the next phase of the cycle, preventing flaws from being passed on to daughter cells.

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Former Zambia president talks on Africa’s AIDS crisis By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

During the hour and a half that former Zambia president Kenneth David Kaunda spoke at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy Tuesday, almost 19 people in his native country died of AIDS, according to statistics Kaunda presented. In the most recent installment of the biannual Karl von der Heyden Distinguished Visiting International Lecture series, the harsh reality of this statistic resonated throughout Kaunda’s earnest yet hopeful words. Kaunda, founder of The Kenneth Kaunda Children of Africa Foundation, presented his lecture, “The Challenges Facing African Development in the 21st Century: The Crisis of AIDS and AIDSAffected Children” to over 150 people in Sanford’s Fleishman Commons. The address was followed by a brief question and answer period. “AIDS is the biggest crisis of the 21st century—one that greatly threatens African development,” said Kaunda, who was elected as the first president of the Republic of Zambia in 1964. He remained in office for five terms, during which time he played a major role in opposing whitesupremacist governments in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), South Africa and South-West Africa (now Namibia). Kaunda’s foundation, formed in 1990, seeks to educate Zambians and other Africans about the causes, risks and dangers of what he calls the continent’s “silent plague.” Fifteen million Africans have died of AIDS since the early 1980s, and another five million are currently infected—one million of which are children. “But the people affected are not simple

statistics and numbers” Kaunda said.

“They are real people... who are in the prime of their lives and are the backbone of their families and of their nation.” Kaunda’s own son died of the disease in 1986. The Zambia president was one of the first African leaders to speak openly about the growing epidemic. Over 50 percent of HIV-infected children die by the age of two—evidence that

KENNETH DAVID KAUNDA, former president of Zambia, spoke at the Sanford Institute Tuesday. Africans are denied access to proper nutrition and health care. Kaunda said, however, that although advancements in AIDS research and medicine at universities like Duke are promising, procuring drugs for AIDS patients in Zambia is an impossibility. “The cost of treating an AIDS patient is $l,OOO a month,” he said. “But the average income in Zambia is $2OO a year. We want [medicine], we need [medicine], but we can’t afford [medicine].”

Instead, Kaunda’s Foundation stress-

es the importance of preventing the

spread of the epidemic. Kaunda said his group provides support to AIDS orphans, teaches those most at risk about the dangers of sexual misconduct, provides job training to help snap the AIDS-poverty cycle and tries to eliminate the negativity currently associated with AIDS victims. “There is a terrible stigma surrounding this disease,” Kaunda said. “We must act now, lest it become too difficult to halt this downward spiral.”

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Religious groups may be able to use Nelson Music Room By ELLEN ZANDER The Chronicle

After several Christian groups left East Campus lacking adequate meeting space, some ofthem are close to obtaining space in a long-sought after location: the Nelson Music Room. The change would help the groups make meetings more convenient for their freshmen members. Richard Hove, director of Campus Crusade for Christ, had tried unsuccessfully since his 1998 arrival to book space in the Nelson Music Room. He moved the meetings of his group from the Carr Building on East Campus to the Divini-

ty School because he could book that space consistently. “If you run 100 people at a meeting and you want to be on East, you have no options,” Hove said. “You can’t tell a group that big, ‘This week we’re in [the Sociology-Psychology building] and next week we’re in the Div School.’” Father Joe Vetter, director of the Newman Catholic Student Center, has also looked for space on East Campus for 150 people to attend Sunday morning Mass. Vetter and Hove previously dealt with Percell Kelley, coordinator offacilities and events for the music department, who manages scheduling for the Nelson Music Room. Kelley had said the room was for University musical events only. But Cathy Callemyn, facilities specialist for Arts and Sciences, has given Campus Crusade the OK to use the room for its weekly meeting, although she has not yet assigned the group definite dates. “Hopefully, Campus Crusade will be

holding some meetings in October and more often as the performance schedule will allow” Callemyn wrote in an e-mail. The room will not be available to religious groups on a consistent basis because the music department has first priority in scheduling events there. Officials must also take into account classes meeting next door that could be disturbed by noise. Vetter said variability in location would not work. “We could have [the Nelson Music Room] some of the time. Some of the time doesn’t really work,” he said. Other than the Nelson Music Room, two other facilities on East Campus seat more than 200 people: Baldwin Auditorium and the White Lecture Hall. But Hove said those buildings were not conducive environments for midsized worship groups. “If you have 90 people in [the White Lecture Hall], you get swallowed by the 40-foot ceilings,” he said. Still, Vetter said he would be amenable to holding Mass in the lecture hall or in any available space on East Campus. “If we could get the GA Down Under, with storage, every week, that would be even more preferable,” he said. Not all groups that have left East Campus have been large. Cambridge Christian Ministry, which has about 40 members, changed its meeting location last year. “Two years ago, we had the Marketplace, but we had to wait until after the dinner hour was over, and then we had to set up,” said Mike Peters, the fellowship’s director. “It was not the most convenient time.”

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Defending an individual, or an entire nation of individuals, against attack is not simply a practical necessity, but a moral imperative. To defend against threats to a citizen’s life and freedom is to defend his individual rights. America however, has failed miserably in this obligation. Mr. Schwartz, chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute, argues that America is ineffectual in defending itself because its government influenced by mainstream intellectuals is overwhelmed with self-doubt. In response to the terrorist assault, launched in the name of a primitive mysticism, our government remains uncertain about the validity of our basic moral value of reason, science, individualism, capitalism, freedom. -

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Court begins selection of jurors in Malone trial Lawyers for the defense and prosecution also presented a list of potential witnesses Tuesday By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle Jury selection began Tuesday in the David Patrick Malone trial and will continue today before opening arguments begin. Officials in the Offices of the Public Defender and the District Attorney said they expected the trial to last through this week and likely into next week as well. By 5 p.m. Tuesday, an original pool of 30 prospective jurors dwindled to 12 jurors with only two other potential jurors. After one day ofexhaustive examination by both Malone’s attorney, Shannon Tucker, and prosecutor Mitchell Garrell, the court dismissed 16 jurors. Most jurors—even those that remained on the panel—had already heard details of the case through

Williams, all with the Duke University Police Department, were on the state’s list of 15 witnesses. That list also included a number ofassistants in the Office of the President, including administrative manager Deborah Copeland and the three victims held hostage: Lisa Jordan, Jamie Dupre and Joni Harris. Both legal teams listed Keohane, although both Garrell and Tucker insisted Monday that Keohane’s testi-

either news media or word of mouth. Five potential jurors said they had formed opinions about the case because of that knowledge, and two were dismissed because oftheir strong anti-gun views. Malone was arrested last September after allegedly entering President NanKeohane’s office on the second floor of the Allen Building and holding three people hostage. He faces three counts of first-degree kidnapping and one count of having a weapon on school property; he has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Lawyers for both Malone and the state also presented a list of witnesses. Both sides noted that not all the witnesses were likely to be called to the stand.

mony was unnecessary.

Tucker’s list included a number of witnesses who may speak about Malone’s character and his alleged mental decline over the decade preceding the Sept. 6, 2000, incident. The prosecution also listed James Gross, a psychology professor at Stanford University and an expert on emotion and emotion regulation.

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Religion scholars consider attacks By ELIZABETH FULK In the last of five University-wide forums following the Sept. 11 attacks, several religion scholars examined the morality of war from both the Islamic and Christian viewpoints Tuesday. Gregory Jones, dean of the Divinity School, moderated the event as three religion professors offered spiritual and intellectual perspectives and highlighted issues creating division in the United States and other nations. The event drew less than 100 participants, fewer than a similar forum two weeks ago on Christianity, patriotism and war. Ebrahim Moosa, associate professor of Islamic law and ethics, offered his own personal reflections. Moosa discussed being forced out of his South African home by fundamentalist bombers. He noted that “America’s educated ignorance” ended Sept. 11. “Every morality has a context, and every context has a morality, and the difficult part is determining which one deserves priority,” said Moosa, who is Muslim. Moosa explained that the problems of the Muslim world have existed since the 1920s and are largely based upon a lack of conversation between modernizing elite and traditional religious classes. Moosa said some fundamentalist terrorists view their tactics as necessary methods for replacing existing regimes and achieving their political objectives. “[My students are] calling the series of stages [the United States has] had since the 11th of September, ‘91-1, a wake-up call to America,’” said Bruce Lawrence, chair ofthe Department of Religion. Lawrence, an expert on Islam, read the transcript of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden’s recently televised speech to the audience. He tried to explain bin Laden’s mentality as one of desperation, betrayal and revenge. He urged Americans to take bin Laden’s criticism of the United States seriously and acknowledged a growing economic and political split between the United States and the Arab world. “This world remains scarred by inequity” he said. Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe professor of Christian ethics, echoed statements made at a prior forum on Christianity and war, outlining three Christian reactions to war: crusade, pacifism and the just war tradition. Hauerwas focused upon the tradition of just war, a concept supporting use of the least violent means possible to achieve justice. He said war should be used as a defensive tactic, and argued that pacifists are immoral because they reject means that might bring justice. In a question-and-answer session after the speakers’

remarks, one audience member questioned the distinction between terrorism and war. “War can only be conducted by a principled enemy with a nation-state flag,” Moosa said. “Terror operates outside the state system and, therefore, is outside the category of war.” Moosa cautioned that Americans should not consider the terrorists crazy or mad. “Do not pathologize the enemy because then, you let them off the hook,” he said. “There must be an unequivocal condemnation of violence and terrorism. We cannot let history be both the judge and the prosecutor.”

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Capps alleges Democrats gerrymandered districts � REDISTRICTING from page 1 publicly announced his party’s plan for the House Sept. 25. Democrats praised the plan for keeping local districts together and ensuring fair representation across the state, but Rep. Russell Capps, R-Raleigh, said the plan was drawn by members of the Democratic National Committee instead of state leaders. “That means that people in Washington, who don’t care about the people in North Carolina, did the map just to protect Democratic districts,” Capps said. Rep. Paul Luebke, D-Durham, who sits on the redistricting committee, challenged Capps’ assertion. “I believe this was completely done by the Democrats in

Proposed redistricting plans for Orange, Durham and Wake counties

North Carolina,” he said.

In the Sutton plan, which is more likely to pass due to the House’s Democratic majority, Capps said 10 Republican incumbents were very unlikely to be re-elected, and five more would have a difficult campaign to maintain their seats. “[The Democrats] certainly will have control of a sizable majority,” Capps said. “There will be no evenness or fairness at all.” Both the Sutton plan and the Republican plan preDemocratic plan sented by Rep. Larry Justus, R-Hendersonville, recommend similar numbers of districts, but allow their respective parties to have a majority of registered party jority to develop this map,” Luebke said. “If right-wing members in most districts. The Sutton plan would give Republicans are upset, then they have to also criticize Democrats a plurality or majority in 78 of 113 dis- moderate Republicans.” Capps said he liked that the Justus plan pretricts, while the Justus plan gives Republicans 79 such districts out of 115 total. served districts with incumbents and increased the However, the Justus plan contains 11 districts with number of districts in which a racial minority is likea margin of less than 2 percent, whereas the Sutton ly to be elected. Luebke said the Democrats did not pack minorities plan has only two tossup districts of this kind. Most of the Republicans in the House have signed a into districts because of recent U.S. Supreme Court pledge to vote together on all redistricting matters. rulings against using race as a primary consideration in drawing districts. Capps said he believes they have enough to be an influential minority, but Luebke said the more moderate “Chairman Sutton is constrained by the Supreme Republicans who did not sign the pledge will likely Court more than any other factor,” he said. vote for the Sutton plan. Luebke also cited recent evidence of Republicans “I think the important factor is that a number of around the country packing minorities into districts to Republicans are cooperating with the Democratic ma- make the surrounding ones more conservative.

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Republican plan “If you can pack a lot ofAfrican Americans into a district, those voters aren’t available to help white Democrats beat white Republicans,” he said. The plan to redraw the Senate districts passed its second and third readings in the Senate Sept. 19. The House has yet to vote on the Senate plan, but it is customary for each chamber to pass the other’s

plan easily.

Sen. Wib Gulley, D-Durham, said he is pleased with the plan, and added that the Senate has finished its work for this legislative session but will reconvene briefly to pass the House’s plan. “The Senate has done what it can do and is waiting for the House to act,” he said. Redistricting for the North Carolina seats in the U.S. House has not yet begun.

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Local lawmakers assess redistricting By MEG LAWSON The Chronicle

As redistricting continues in the State Legislature, local lawmakers are considering how the changes will affect their districts. Rep. Paul Luebke, D-Durham, who sits on the redistricting committee, was pleased that the Democratic plan presented by Rep. Ronnie Sutton, D-Pembroke, kept his three-member District 23, which he shares together with two other Democrats Rep. Mickey Michaux and Rep. Paul Miller. “We’re able to represent effectively the diversity of Durham by having the three of us work together,” Luebke said. “A citizen in any part of the county can feel represented by one of us.” Miller said he agrees with Luebke that the threemember district is the best choice for Durham. “I think that would be the best way to represent the majority of Durham,” he said. Rep. Russell Capps, R-Raleigh, said he is not pleased with his district in the Sutton plan, which he believes is drawn so that he will not be re-elected. “[The Democrats have] created one of the most radical gerrymandered districts I have ever seen,” he said. Capps likened his district to a “deformed turkey with a camel’s head,” Rep. Jennifer Weiss, D-Cary, whose district currently includes parts of both Durham and Wake counties, said she was not directly involved with the overall process, but she did provide input on her own district. Due to the growth of the Triangle, she said she lost her 17,500 Durham County residents. Her constituency will be limited to approximately 80,000 Wake County residents. “[Losing them] was tough because I like my whole district, and that’s a rather big chunk,” she said. “I was very, very sorry to see Durham taken out of there.” Sen. Wib Gulley, D-Durham, said he likes the way his district looks in the Senate plan. He and Sen. Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, D-Durham, will continue to share District 13. “I was happy that Durham County is all together in the district,” he said. “We no longer represent any of Person County, but we do represent [part of] Granville County.” Gulley said Cary would also comprise a section of his district.

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Before the attacks on Afghanistan began, Bush had called his war on terrorism a crusade, but a day later the White House apologized for using the loaded term which recalls the Christians’ medieval wars against Muslims in the Holy Land. The message from Abu Ghaith, delivered in Arabic, was the second statement from al-Qaida since the launch of U.S.-led airstrikes against

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� ELECTION from page 1 thought the expected increase in voter turnout would help him overcome Tennyson’s initial lead. “In my opinion, an incumbent always has an advantage,” Bell said. “Fm going to take more of the campaign to the voters.” Burnette said she was disappointed by her thirdplace finish, but added that she is “seriously contemplating” a write-in campaign. “I love politics,” she said. “Losing is one thing, but I love the whole process: the questionnaires, the forums, the whole process. Results are not the end. I just like to do it,” she said. In the competition for the Ward 1 City Council seat, Cole-McFadden, the city’s former director of equal opportunity and equity assistance, won 58.1 percent of the vote. She will face Jeffery White, a political newcomer who finished second with 17.9 percent, in the general election. McFadden said she owed part of her success to the endorsements she received from most of the city’s major political action groups. “They really paid off,” she said. “Plus, I worked very hard [to win support from] the community.” Incumbent Jacqueline Wagstaff and Duke University Medical Center employee Ray Übinger were eliminated from the race, with 14.5 percent and 9.5 percent of the vote, respectively. Hill called Wagstaff’s elimination “the biggest surprise” of the night. Übinger had said earlier that he would mount a write-in campaign if he lost. The closest race ofthe night was for the three atlarge seats on the council, where seven candidates competed to be among the six advancing to the gen-

eral election. The five incumbents in the race finished at the top of the list, all within 5.5 percentage points of each other. Stith led with 20.3 percent of the vote, followed by Hill, Cheek, Tamra Edwards and Angela Langley. The sixth candidate advancing to the general election remained in doubt Tuesday night, with only a 36-vote margin separating challengers Joe Williams and Steven Matherly, who garnered 5.8 percent and 5.7 percent respectively. The final result should be known once election officials count the transfer and provisional ballots, a task they expect to complete by Friday. Most of the candidates agreed that the small number of voters made the primary only a partially reliable indicator of the potential outcome of the general election. “I don’t know how much this really tells us because the turnout was so small,” Cheek said. “I think it was close enough with the top five so that nobody can really feel comfortable in the at-large race.”

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Although the Air Force bombers and Navy jets that have been attacking Afghanistan have flown higher than the remaining Afghan weapons can reach and the strikes have hit hard at the few air-defense installations that can fire high-altitude missiles, the helicopters would have no such safety if they swoop in low. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that the United States was “moving along well toward our goal of creating conditions necessary to conduct a sustained campaign to root out terrorists,” a reference, a senior official said, to the next phase of the operation. Rumsfeld and Myers did not elaborate on future operations in a news conference at the Pentagon. But other officials said the plans included deploying additional forces to southern and central Asia, including specially equipped Black Hawk helicopters and other helicopters designed for special operations. The helicopters, operated by Army special forces units, are equipped with night vision and target equipment, measures to protect them from ground fire and the ability to refuel in midair. They have been used in the past in some of the military’s most challenging operations, especially since the Gulf War. Although the helicopters can also ferry troops into combat, the officials who discussed the planning emphasized that the Pentagon was not intending to deploy a significant number of ground troops to the region. The preparations to use helicopters were being made as American aircraft, including 10 heavy bombers, joined by waves of fighter jets flying off carriers in the Arabian Sea, once again struck Taliban air defenses, airfields and what Rumsfeld called modest concentrations of Taliban troops and other forces on the ground. For the first time, Myers listed the targets struck—-31 on the first day followed by 13 on the second—as well as the first aerial photographs of the damage. That included the destruction of what Myers said was a terrorist training camp called Garmabak Ghar; a surface-to-air missile battery near Kandahar, a southern city and Taliban stronghold; and an airfield in Shindand, a western city. Officials said there were no longer many significant military targets left. The strikes Tuesday in-

cluded the first use of 5,000-pound bombs designed to penetrate hardened bunkers, as well as cluster bombs intended to destroy concentrations of troops or weapons. The senior Pentagon officials declined to identify the additional forces being deployed, citing the need for secrecy on deployments, bases of operations and missions. Full details may never be disclosed,'even afterward, the officials said. Even in the Pentagon command center, special forces operations are discussed only in a separate area. But the officials’ remarks indicated that the helicopter gunships were part of the Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, which has two battalions at Fort Campbell, Ky, and a third at Hunter Army Airfield, Ga. The 160th, the sole large Army unit specially trained for such a mission at night and in bad weather, has been involved in many recent military opera-

tions like the invasion of Panama in 1989, the Gulf War in 1991 and the firelight in Somalia in 1993 that left 18 American soldiers dead. The 160th is trained to deploy anywhere in the world in days or even hours. Its helicopters can be ferried inside Air Force cargo planes. The officials also declined to discuss the potential bases from which the forces would operate. The Pentagon has ordered a third carrier, the Kitty Hawk, to the region without its full component of fighter jets

and other aircraft. But even if it served as a base for special operations

troops, its location in the Arabian Sea would be hundreds of miles from Afghanistan. The Army helicopters can fly several hundred miles

after refueling. But that makes their missions even more dangerous, and targets in the north of Afghanistan would be practically inaccessible. The Pentagon has also deployed nearly 1,000 troops, including an enhanced infantry battalion from the 10th Mountain Division, to a former Soviet air base near Karshi in Uzbekistan, about 100 miles from the Afghan border. Those troops are providing security for a relatively small contingent of search-and-rescue and special-reconnaissance forces, something that President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan has agreed to permit. In public, Karimov has ruled out allowing special operations forces to strike from Uzbek territory, saying Friday, “We are not quite ready for this.” Some American officials have suggested that the

agreement might be elastic enough to allow them to mount operations in search of bin Laden from

Uzbekistan. Launching helicopter gunships into the battle will be a risky operation. Afghan guerrilla fighters armed with Stinger missiles repeatedly shot down Soviet helicopters when they flew below 10,000 feet in the war there during the 1980s. With the Taliban’s air defenses more or less impaired, American pilots have also turned their attention to what officials at the Pentagon are calling “emerging targets,” including small groups of forces, tanks or other equipment being moved in the aftermath of the initial strikes. Noting that some F-14s and F/A-18s have returned to the American aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea still clutching their bombs and missiles, officials said that there have so far been relatively few of these emerging targets. One American airman, a B-l weapons systems officer, said he was surprised when his superiors changed his targets after his plane was aloft. “All the planes are re-targeting at a moment’s notice,” said the airman, who was made available for a telephone interview by Pentagon officials and identified only by the call-sign Morning. In London, a seniorBritish defense official, echoing Pentagon planners, said the purpose of the attacks on Afghanistan so far was to condition the environment “so that there is less risk of damage to our own people, our own aircraft” in future deployments. Britain has already said the deployment of ground troops is an option and it has made frequent use of special forces in

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When senior outside hitter Ashley Harris hit a crosscourt spike to extend Duke’s lead in the fifth game to 13-6 against Wake Forest, a long sigh of relief emanated through Cameron Indoor Stadium. It was a mustwin game, and the Blue Devils were finally in the clear. The Demon Deacons walked into Cameron last night seeking to put an ACC regular-season championship out ofreach for the Blue Devils. Tied for second place with a 4-2 record that tied both the Demon Deacons and Georgia Tech, Duke needed last night’s victory to secure second place for itself, instead of dropping all the way to fourth. Despite Wake playing one of its best games of the season, the Blue Devils (13-2, 5-2 in the ACC) did what they have done all season—they found away to win. The Demon Deacons fell to 10-6 overall, 4-3 in the conference. “This was a really big win,” senior outside hitter Dorrette Burwell said. “We said before we got out here that 5-2 sounds a lot better than 4-3.” Duke opened up strong against a well-balanced Wake Forest team. After sustaining a two- to threepoint lead for the first half of the first game, the Blue Devils looked to pull away with the score at 12-9 in their favor. The Deacons stormed back, partly due to Blue Devil errors, with four quick points to take their first lead of the match at 13-12. Strong play by Harris helped to keep the Blue Devils within striking distance as Wake was poised to take an early 1-0 lead in the match. At 28-25 in favor of the Deacons, Duke junior Josie Weymann served for three quick points to knot the match. Burwell gave the Blue Devils the lead for good with a spike through several Wake defenders, while junior Jill Sonne closed out the match with an ace for a 34-32 victory. In the match’s second and third games, however, some of the sloppy play displayed in the first game See VOLLEYBALL on page 14 P-

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The Duke women’s basketball team took a giant step forward Tuesday in ensuring its status as a legitimate national championship contender for years to come when it received a verbal commitment from Brooke Smith, a 6foot-3 center from San Anselmo, Calif. Smith had narrowed her choices to Duke and Stanford, although she had been leaning toward Duke for several weeks. After an official visit with the Cardinal team last weekend, she decided against living in her native state for four more years. “Both Duke and Stanford obviously have great programs, both academically and athletically,” Smith said. “Everyone close to me had opinions about where I should go, but in the end it was my decision. Stanford is only about an hour away from my house, and I think that going far away from home will help me mature and grow as a person.” Smith joins point guard Lindsey Harding as an early member ofthe Class of 2006, and both highly touted recruits will fill important voids in the lineup. See RECRUIT on page 16 fa

Final round salvages men’s golf in Red River Classic By ANDREW GREENFIELD The Chronicle

The men’s golf team showed how good they can be Tuesday by firing a final-round score of278,10-under par, to move up three spots to finish 10th at the Taylor Made Red River Classic. “We got offxto a great start,” coach Rod Myers said. “Our attitude was good and we were confident. I think one of the most important things is that the guys believe in themselves, and they really did today.” After getting off to a terrible start in round one, firing a 10-over-par 298, the Blue Devils managed to improve with each successive round. However, not even its great final round could dig Duke out ofthe hole it was in after 36 holes. Texas won the tournament, played at the 6,766-yard, par-72 Dallas Athletic Club in Dallas, Tex., by 10 strokes over defending champion Southern California with a three-round total of 834, 30-under par. The Longhorns’ Jason Hartwick took home individual honors by firing a

total of 201, 15-under par. Duke started on the back nine in the final round and made the turn to the front at 10-under.Duke would get as low as 15-under par, but the final few holes played into the wind and Duke was unable to finish without giving

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Blue Devils. Olson rebounded nicely in the last two rounds, shooting 67-68 to finish at three-under par and tied for 19th place. Senior Brandon LaCroix had a very solid tournament, firing rounds of 74-70-70 to finish one stroke back of Olson and tied for 24th place. “I am very pleased with Brandon’s play,” Myers said. “He is a tough, gritty player who doesn’t let up. He had a great summer and has come into this season with a confident attitude and leadership.” Senior Matt Krauss fired rounds of 73-74-69 to finish at even par and tied for 35th place. Krauss would have Shot much lower, but an uncharacteristic first round that featured five birdies, an eagle, and a few double bogeys lifted him. Sophomore Mike Castleforte was the key to Duke’s low final-round team score. The Springboro, Ohio native fired two 75s on Day 1, but finished strong shooting a oneunder-par 71 on Day 2. “I am trying to get them to realize that it is a competition amongst themselves,” Myers said. “We want to keep getting better and eventually have everyone shoot under par.” While Myers expects his top three players (Krauss, Olson, and LaCroix) to play their best golf, he knows that it will be the fourth and fifth golfers who determine Duke’s ability to compete with the top teams in the country. The Blue Devils return to action Oct. 14-15 when they host the Duke Classic at the Duke University Golf Club.

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From wire reports PHOENIX In a P’backs 1 masterful duel in the Cards 0 desert, Curt Schilling put on a dazzling playoff performance. Schilling pitched a three-hitter in his first postseason appearance in eight years as the Arizona Diamondbacks beat Matt Morris and the St. Louis Cardinals 1-0 Tuesday night in the opener of their first-round NL playoff series. Steve Finley was 3-for-4, including a two-out, RBI single in the fifth inning after Arizona had squandered scoring threats in the first and fourth. Randy Johnson goes to the mound Wednesday in Game 2 against the Cardinals’ Woody Williams. Schilling improved to 2-1 in the postseason in five starts with two complete games and a 2.45 ERA.

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He earned his reputation as a biggame pitcher with Philadelphia as the MVP of the 1993 NL championship series. After the best regular season of his career, the 34-year-old right-hander showed he has improved with age. In a matchup of the season’s winningest pitchers, Schilling baffled batters with a fastball that hit 97 mph, a splitfinger fastball and a few slow curves. He struck out nine and walked one. Edgar Renteria got two ofthe hits, a leadoff single in the third and a one-out double in the fourth. Jim Edmonds, whose spectacular catch robbed Luis Gonzalez of at least an extra-base hit in the fifth inning, doubled with one out in the seventh. But Schilling got Mark McGwire to ground out, then struck out Renteria to end that threat. A throwing error by shortstop Tony

Womack put Fernando Vina on second with two outs in the eighth, but Reggie Sanders caught Placido Polanco’s sharp liner at his ankles in right field to end the inning. Schilling and Morris both won 22 games this year, and they lived up to

their star billing. Morris, making his first playoff appearance at age 27, allowed one run and six hits, three of them doubles, before being lifted for a pinch hitter in the eighth. He struck out six, walked two and, in what turned out to be a cru-

cial play, hit one batter. He grazed leadoff batter Damian Miller with a pitch in the fifth inning, then Schilling put down a sacrifice bunt with two strikes to move the runner to second.

Indians 5, Mariners 0 SEATTLE Oops. Somebody forgot to tell the Seattle Mariners those 116 wins don’t mean a thing anymore. Bartolo Colon blanked baseball’s best team during the regular season for eight innings Tuesday as the Cleveland Indians shut down the Mariners 5-0 in Game 1 of their AL playoff series. Colon dominated the Mariners, who led the league in batting average, runs and virtually every other offensive category. He gave up six hits, struck out 10 and allowed only one runner to reach third base—and that was on a

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The Mariners didn’t look like the same group that ran away from the rest of the league this season. Rookie sensation Ichiro Suzuki had three hits, but got nailed stealing and left two on in the fifth when his shot to the gap in left-center was caught byKenny Lofton.

Braves 7, Astros 4

HOUSTON Chipper Jones and the Atlanta Braves remembered how to win in October. And the Houston Astros still haven’t figured it out. Jones hit a three-run homer off nemesis Billy Wagner in the eighth inning and the Braves ended a seven-game postseason losing streak, beating the Houston Astros 7-4 Tuesday in the opener of their first-round NL playoff series. Jones homered on Wagner’s first pitch, right after an error by Houston shortstop Julio Lugo on a grounder that could have ended the inning with the score tied at 3. It was the seventh straight blown save in the playoffs for the Astros, who have never won a playoff series. Houston was eliminated by the Braves in 1997

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and again in 1999. Game 2 will be Wednesday afternoon, with Tom Glavine starting for Atlanta against Dave Mlicki. Jones, who was 0-for-8 with six strikeouts lifetime against Wagner, capped a four-run rally in the eighth. John Smoltz, making his postseason debut as a full-time closer, pitched two

Last weekend, the Mariners tied the 1906 Chicago Cubs’ record for the most wins in a season and came into this series as heavy favorites. And despite a lineup equal to Seattle’s at every position and veterans with postseason experience, nobody gave the Indians much of a chance. “As soon as I landed in Seattle, that’s all I heard,” Indians pitcher Chuck Finley, who will start Game 2, said earlier Tuesday. “But in a five-game series, anything can happen.” It already has. Ellis Burks homered for the Indians, who won a playoff opener for just the third time in 11 series since 1995.

innings for the save. He gave up Vinny Castilla’s leadoff homer in the ninth. Greg Maddux had six strong innings and Rudy Seanez, who threw the seventh, got his first playoff win. The Braves’ last postseason win came in Game 6 of the 1999 NLCS against the New York Mets. They were swept by the New York Yankees in the ’99 World Series and by St. Louis in the first round last year. The Astros, who won the Central for the fourth time in five years after blowing a 5 1/2-game lead with 12 left, overcame a 2-0 deficit to lead 3-2 behind a two-run homer by Brad Ausmus and an RBI groundout from Moises Alou.

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Hope can’t die as losses mount At every press conference, be it after a game or at the weekly lunch shin-dig Monday afternoons, coach Carl Franks continues to stress that his squad this season is much improved over his squad of last season. The repetition of this answer had become more common than President George W. Bush mispronouncing the word “terror.” Franks has a point. Duke is better, despite losing 17 in a row—the longest such streak in Division I football.

ranked teams in three of their first five games, playing State, Florida Northwestern and most recently, Georgia Tech. They also still have to face ranked teams in Maryland and Clemson. Furthermore, Duke has already played Virginia, which handed the Tigers their only loss, and bowl hopeful N.C. State, which keeps threatening to break into the rankings. Given the circular motion in which the ACC is currently heading—without a dominate team but every team beating up on each other—the Wolfpack also has a good possibility to knock off a powerhouse by the end of the season. review This depth has been one of the key factors masking Duke’s improvement is not to say Franks’ squad is Paul Doran goodThis enough to be a actual Division I football team. They remain 0-5 on the season, Furthermore, the former tight end is and as a matter of fact, I would not even not alone in his opinion. Virtually every bet on them if they were playing a top-25 other coach, including famous Florida high school team. But, after a top-heavy State coach Bobby Bowden, who watched schedule, wins against Wake Forest or the Blue Devils find their first endzone of Vanderbilt are feasible, and North the year a quarter before his mighty Carolina, although a stretch, is not out of Seminoles, has agreed with Franks—- the question. especially after beating Duke. Duke is on life support, but the elecOne major problem that faces the Blue trocardiogram still shows enough peaks Devils in their quest to grab a win is the to bring hope to the Blue Devil faithful increased power of the ACC. Although it that the nation’s longest losing streak does not look as strong on paper, mainly may yet be snapped by the end of the because it does not have the dominating 2001 season, provided it continues some power ofthe Seminoles oflast season, the of the positive trends and gets a little bit conference has gotten better because it of luck on its side. has added depth. For starters, Chris Douglas must conLast season, Duke played two games tinue his stellar play that he has mainagainst ranked teams when they faced tained throughout the first five games. Florida State and Clemson in back-toDouglas currently ranks fifth in the counback weeks. This season alone the Blue try in all-purpose rushing yards with 394 Devils have already gone up against from scrimmage and 465 off kick-off

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returns. I’ll now say that again and then take a pause for all people who just lost their breath in disbelief. Douglas is fifth in country in all-purpose rushing yards... (pause for breath).... Not at Duke, nor the ACC, but the country. For those of you scoring at home, that’s up from where he finished at No. 33 last season. He’s also averaging more than 67.71 yards per game and is ranked No. 56 in the country in rushing, after not being in the top 100 last season. Furthermore, he’s done all this while playing behind an offensive line that collapses easier than a house of cards. Oh yeah, by the way, he’s only a sophomore. If I were Franks I’d be trying to recruit the best O-line possible so Douglas doesn’t transfer to somewhere he can put up more NFL worthy numbers. Adding to Douglas’ work is senior Ronnie Hamilton, who (stop eating, you’re gonna choke) is the fifth-best punt returner in the nation. Hamilton is the last of only five people averaging over 20.33 yards per return, and it’s not because he’s only returned a few balls. He’s got more returns than anyone ranked above him, save one. He’s also up a whopping 57 places from his final ranking oflast year. Also, there is junior quarterback D. Bryant, whose completion percentage is down by three percent, but is on pace to increase his total yardage by more than 500 over last year. In addition, he’s only thrown four interceptions compared to three touchdowns. Last year, Bryant was at a one-to-two ratio, throwing five touchdowns and being picked 10 times. He’s also completing an average of two more passes per game and ranks 69th in the

country in passing, ahead of guys like Virginia’s Bryson Spinner and Florida State’s Chris Rix. Finally, sophomore outside linebacker Ryan Fowler was recently named ACC Co-Defensive Back of the Week after recording 11 tackles and one interception against the 15th-ranked Yellow Jackets. In that game Duke doubled its forced turnover total of the first four games of the season, which included Fowler’s interception, the pick by Hamilton and a fumble recovery. The thing is, all this is being done against a tough schedule, and the Blue Devils should not have won any of the games they played—except Rice. In most cases, Duke is out-playing ranked teams for at least a quarter, if not more. And if any type of handicap was given on the basis of talent, Duke would probably be about 4-1. This is not an excuse, but rather just a statement that Franks is getting a lot more out of his players than people give him credit for. While Douglas, Fowler, Hamilton, Bryant and many others have been improving, there have been many problems as well. Some have been related to injury, including that of Reggie Love, the supposed all-star receiver to be that would finally be the prime target of the Airborne attack. Others have been errors on the field, like punting and missed tackles. Still others are faults only

because of lack oftalent. It’s time to give Franks a bit more a chance. Have a little faith, if things continue the way they are going, there may not be a No. 18,19, 20 or 21. Paul Doran is a Trinity junior and Sports Managing Editor.

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The art of calling legendary home runs Academics lured By RICHARD SANDOMIR

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Two measures of a great home run call—especially one that describes history being made—are vocal excitement and choice of words. Two of the best recent calls occurred on the same pitch: the gimpy-legged Dodger Kirk Gibson hitting a game-winning home run against Oakland in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. On television, Vin Scully, said: “High fly ball into right field. She is gone!” After an appropriate silence, he added, “In the year of the improbable, the impossible has happened.” On radio, Jack Buck offered his version: “And a fly ball to deep right field! This is going to be a home run! Unbelievable! A home run for Gibson! And the Dodgers have won the game, 5-4! I don’t believe what I just saw! I don’t believe what I just saw!” Buck also uttered the most memorable calls on Mark McGwire’s 61st and 62nd home runs three years ago, with repetition from the Russ Hodges school of emphasis: “Swing and look at there! Look at there! Look at there! McGwire’s No. 61! McGwire’s Flight 61 headed for planet Maris!” None of the calls of Barry Bonds’ 70th and 71st home runs will be remembered for similar creativity. No one failed and no one was caught by surprise. But no call will ring in our collective ears. For No. 70 last Thursday night, Josh Lewin of the Fox Family Channel offered the smoothest lead-in, without any pause before the call: “His wife, Liz, is ready. The kids are ready. America is ready for home run No. 70. There it is! He has tied McGwire.” But after staying silent for 1 minute 25 seconds to let the celebratory images speak for themselves, Lewin let sentiment go too far. “Go ahead,” he said, “try not to love him right now!” ESPN’s Gary Thome—his voice booming, his excitement high—generated the kind of decibels he reserves for Stanley Cup-winning goals, and offered more description than Lewin. “Bonds hits it,” he said Friday night. “Deep to right field, way back. Is this the one? There’s a new record-holder. The single-season mark is 71. Barry

Bonds has the title.”

This call evoked Milo Hamilton’s narration of Hank Aaron’s 715th home run, which Fox’s Joe Buck also echoed when he described McGwire’s 62nd. In 1974, when Aaron struck the home run off A1 Downing that eclipsed Babe Ruth’s record, Hamilton said: “There’s a drive into left-center field. That ball is gonna be—outta here! It’s gone! It’s 715! There’s a new home run champion of all time! And it’s Henry Aaron!” Hamilton was present Thursday night for Bonds’ 70th home run, as the Astros’ radio announcer. It was not as memorable as the Aaron call, but nonetheless a good one:

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All-Star Girls Report recruiting service, Hunter fits the model of a true point guard, and Smith’s size gives Duke the true low-post presence that it has lacked in recent years. “Lindsey will step in and help at point guard, and I see Smith having an immediate impact on Duke’s team,” McCormick said. “She can step outside and make the long jump shot, but she is much more of a true center. She’ll allow Iciss [Tillis] to play more on the perimeter where she is more comfortable and will give support to Crystal [Whitel down low.” McCormick, who rates Smith as the No.7 high school senior in the nation this year, has been impressed with her skills and work ethic since he spotted her at his Adidas camp in the summer after her sophomore year. Even at that age, her post moves and ability to run the floor set her apart from her peers. According to McCormick,' "Smith’s only apparent weakness is her strength. “Getting stronger will take her game to the next level, no doubt,” he said. “She has great left and right post moves under the basket and the only piece that is missing is the strength.” While Smith is working to increase her strength and power, her ability to run the floor will complement the Blue Devils’ versatile, fast-paced play led by Alana Beard, Sheana Mosch and Iciss Tillis, among others. “I like to press, run the motion offense, pass and play defense,” she said. “Duke has a transition team, and I think that my style will fit in well.” MITCHELREIBEL/AI WIRE PHOTO SERVICE Aside from her obvious talent on the basketball court, Smith’s resume reads like that of many other MARK MCGWIRE eyes yet another shot on its way over the leftDuke students. She is a Dean’s List student, has done field wall. “Ready for the pitch. The count is even at a ball and a community service and is involved with various clubs strike. You can play a highlight reel of Bonds. Walk, walk, at her high school. Not surprisingly, Duke and Stanford, walk, walk. And there is a drive to right. How far is it two schools known for their academics, were at the top of going to go for No. 70? It’s in the second deck above the her short list of schools. “At some point in my life, basketball will be over,” bullpen in right-center field. He has tied Big Mac and he she said. “I need an education, too, and at Duke, I can has done it in Enron Field in downtown Houston.” the best of both.worlds on and off the court.” get Ted Robinson, who called the game on the radio for Smith’s Duke degree will likely help her when her the Giants, created nothing outstanding in his calls of home runs 70 and 71. For the 70th, his best comment basketball career is finished, but according to was: “In his final at-bat in Houston, the frustration ends. McCormick, she has the talent to be playing for a They finally pitch to him.” For the 71st, he was the only long time. has WNBA talent,” he said. announcer to note that the ball went “way back, to the <f “Brooke definitely WNBA coaches like athletes and hard workers, and flagpole,” and he also evoked Hamilton (and Leonardo is both. At this I think only Brooke point, she definitely DiCaprio) by saying, “Barry Bonds is the new king of the can stop Brooke.” home run world.”

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Win over Wake closes distance from top of conference VOLLEYBALL from page 11 win the game handily, 30-25, giving came back to haunt the Blue Devils them a 2-1 game advantage. The match’s fourth game, however, “I don’t think we were crisp out there in terms of controlling the ball when we was a bit different. With their backs had it on our side,” Duke coach Jolene against the wall, the Blue Devils took Nagel said. “But we got better at that as command of the match. And sophomore Krista Dill’s block at the net accompathe match went on I feel like.” Wake waltzed out to an early 4-1 lead nied by a Burwell spike that made the in the second, but a Burwell chip shot score of the game 24-18 emphasized tied it at 4-4. The Demon Deacons soon their control. With Duke enjoying a 27regained the lead and kept a two- to 21 lead, Wake used a timeout, but was three-point advantage for the bulk of unable to regroup as the Blue Devils the game. After the Blue Devils tied the closed out the game, 30-23. “The team really relies on me for score at 20, they took their first lead at 23-22 with a Burwell spike over the [big hits],” Burwell said. “I hadn’t been middle. However, Wake, knowing that providing them for the last couple letting this game slip away would guargames, and in this one I was just feelantee a loss, did not go quietly. The ing really good.” Demon Deacons scored eight of the next With the match knotted at two, the nine points to close out the game 30-24. Blue Devils squashed any thought of a In the third, the Blue Devils Wake upset. Capitalizing off early Demon Deacon mistakes, Duke took an appeared to be much more solid, opening up with a 10-3 advantage, but were early 3-1 lead and did not look back, ending the match with a 15-9 victory. not able to cling to a lead for long, allowthe crossA game Wake to tie at 16. Just two games behind North ing court kill by Harris gave the Blue Devils Carolina for the lead in the ACC, the the lead at 17-16, but this proved to be Blue Devils travel to Florida State their last for the game, as the Demon Saturday hoping to continue another Deacons won 14 of the next 22 points to winning streak. SPRING BREAK PARTY! Indulge in FREE Travel, Drinks, Food, and Parties with the Best DJ’s and celebrities in Cancun, Jamaica, Mazatlan, and the Bahamas. Go to Student City.com, call 1-800-2931443 or email sales@studentcity.com to find out more.

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the fourth day of attacks, Americans should maintain cautious support for the military action that has yielded few civilian casualties. Tuesday, U.N. officials unfortunately confirmed that four of their workers have already perished as a direct result of the action—highlighting the need for Americans to maintain caution. The strikes remain important because their goal is to save more lives overall by ending immediate and future terrorist threats. The public and its leaders may have set expectations too high; some civilian deaths will undoubtedly occur as a result of U.S. strikes. This acceptance should by no means minimize the loss of any civilians. Even though the U.N. workers who perished were relatively few and occupied a building located near a target, the loss of civilians in such an early stage ofthe U.S. campaign against terrorism is not encouraging. The United States must take every possible step to avoid such fatal mistakes, especially when targeting buildings so close to civilians. These unfortunate casualties also serve as a reminder to the United Nations and the American people to pay close attention to the US. strikes in order to assure that the loss ofcivilians remains minimal. The United States has erred before—most recently with the bombing ofthe Chinese embassy in Serbia—and before the strikes are finished more civilians will almost certainly die. Casualties are unavoidable in wars, but no death should be taken lightly. Even if the mission has a just purpose, civilian fatalities must be the exception, not the rule.

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national security ranks as a key goal of government officials in this time of military action. However, these leaders must ensure that restricting the flow ofinformation is not excessive. Obviously, the lives ofmilitary personnel are at risk in Afghanistan and other locations where forces are combating terrorism. The US. government has no reason to release data on matters as sensitive as troop movements. Hopefully, officials will exercise good judgment in determining which information can be released without jeopardizing the military actions ofAmerica or its allies. Unfortunately, the government has a poor track record in discerning which information is appropriate. From the Pentagon Papers to the Iran-Contra affair, information has been withheld from the public and from members of Congress. In fact, Congress is another entity that has felt the constraint on information. Angered by the leaks, President George W. Bush decided to limit briefings to eight key congressional members from both parties. Forming this small, bipartisan group of key leaders is reasonable, as long as the information presented to these members is not so great that it would sway votes on ensuing congressional action. Protecting information on the specifics of military action is acceptable, but members of Congress and their constituents deserve to have the overall picture of what their government is doing abroad and the risks that Americans at home face. Officials must release as much information as possible up to the point it begins to jeopardize national security.

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Letters to

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Letter writer forgets blights in American history Max Greene incorrectly analyzed Kevin Ogorzalek’s column in his recent letter. A battered wife has done nothing to deserve the violence perpetrated on her, just like a victim of a racial hate crime has done nothing to deserve death. The victims who died in the recent tragedies were innocent, but that innocence does not translate to our government as well. I am glad

that Greene believes the United States to be so pure and faultless. It is refreshing to see people who so blindly believe that the United States truly is a country of “democracy, prosperity and civil rights.” This being said, I am a strong

United States, but I am not so ignorant as to believe that we can do no wrong. The stains on the tapestry offreedom bleed brightly. When we proudly salute our flag, do we forget our genocidal tendencies when it comes to Native Americans? Do we also forget the civil rights we demon-

strated when we interned thousands of Japanese-

Americans into war camps for no other reason than they were Japanese? The list of travesties can continue for many pages. Is it so unthinkable then to believe that perhaps we did something other than be so dam democratic, prosperous and free? Maybe it would have to do with our multi-billion-dollar

support of a nation that uses terrorism and assassination as a means of providing justice. Israel finds that justice is better dispensed on the tip of a government missile into an apartment building than in a court system. If you were Palestinian, would you consider that terrorism? Our unilateral support of Israel, whether right or wrong, has led to those acts ofterrorism. Are we then to blame? Greene, you should still continue to be a patriot, but you should realize that the robes ofLady Liberty are not virginal white but more of a sullied gray.

Charlie Bailey of the Trinity ’O4 for referenced letter, see http:ll www.chronicle.duke.edu story.phplarticle_id=23763

supporter

Brown’s substance-free living motivated vandalism A message to the vandals who have recently targeted the Brown Dormitory bench; You have too much time on your hands. When you painted “I [heart] boobs” on our new bench, we chuckled at the reference to a classic “Celebrity Jeopardy.” We laughed even harder when we found out that you had actually misspelled “booze” as “boobs.” We painted over your silly words. The next day, when you wrote “I [heart] beer bongs,” we didn’t laugh as loud, but it was still just a joke. We painted the bench, again. When you decided to write on the bench with spray cheese, we bought some crackers and had hors d’oeuvres. We cleaned the bench when we were done. When someone urinated on the bench, we were disgusted. Later that night, when a group of you flipped the bench and broke off the top boards, we didn’t laugh. However, just minutes later, a dozen residents teamed up to right the bench and do a

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little repair work—that’s the kind of community we have in Brown. When you flipped the bench again the following night, we simply gritted our teeth. Please notice, not once did we retaliate—not once did we descend to your childish, prankish ways. We have enough respect for you, for your property and for ourselves that we do not feel compelled to express ourselves through paint, property damage or even cheese. Your own immaturity has spoken for itself. Yourreasoning behind the string of vandalism is clear something about Brown’s being substance-free. You refuse to accept that a group of your peers simply chooses to abstain from alcohol and drugs. You prefer an open can to an open mind. That ciosedmindedness and intolerance is simply intolerable. In Brown, nobody claims to be better by being substancefree. No one refuses to accept people who do not share in that choice. We invite anyone

in the Duke community who wishes to ask us questions or to see what our house is like to come on over. Ask our residents why they are substance-free. Each has a different reason. If you think substance-free housing is a bad idea, tell us why. We’ll tell you why we think it is a great idea. We would love to talk, but we refuse to have a conversation spoken in vandalism. We don’t speak that language. We heart open minds. We heart maturity. We heart acceptance. We heart community. We heart respect.

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Charles

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And 72 others The writers include a resident adviser, the area coordinator, the house council president and residents of Brown.

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Ebrahim Moosa, associate professor ofIslamic law and ethics, at a forum Tuesday in York Chapel (see story, page seven)

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Swinging for the fences

Baseball has strayed from fundamentals and damaged the continuity of the game As we look back on the tremendous offensive season ofSan Francisco Giants left fielder Barry Bonds, many members of the media are questioning whether Bonds’ achievement was “good” for baseball. Much of their concern focuses on how Bonds has, at times in his career, been a Norm surly, arrogant player, Bradley in stark contrast to the former record holder, the loveable Mark McGwire. I think the media is on to something, but they are missing the

more general—and important—point: The home run is bad for baseball No sport is tied to its statistics more than baseball. Even a casual fan can remember that Joe DiMaggio hit in 56 straight games in 1941, that Ted Williams was the last player to hit .400 and that Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961. The problem is, baseball did something stupid: It allowed labor woes to interrupt the 1994 season. Shockingly, the public didn’t feel empathy with either the millionaires (the players) or the billionaires (the owners) and baseball had to find away to win back jaded fans. Instead of relying on the solution that had worked for the previous 100 or so seasons—the game itself—baseball allowed the competitive formula to be shifted toward power hitting. Although this short-term solution brought fans back to the gate, it attacked the essence of the sport—the timeless nature of its numbers. The presence of statistics allows us to compare players throughout the eras. However, every major development in the game since the 1960s—the designated hitter, the construction of smaller ballparks, league expansion and the

ever-shrinking strike zone—favors the hitters, particularly power hitters. Records consistent from the end of the dead-ball era are losing their relevance. Poor Sammy Sosa has hit more than 60 home runs in three consecutive seasons (a feat that had been twice in history before 1998)yet he did not lead baseball in home runs any of those years. How can Chicago White Sox shortstop Jose Valentin, who has hit 53 home runs the past two years be mentioned in the same breath as Hallof-Fame shortstop Pee Wee Reese, who never hit more than 16 in one season? How is it possible that journeyman outfielder Luis Gonzlaez hit 57 home runs, while the all-time home run king, Hank Aaron, never hit 50 in a season? On the flip side, modern pitchers have no realistic chance to reach many of their forefathers’ statistical accomplishments. Winning 300 games used to be a reasonable accomplishment for a hall-of-fame pitcher. Now, it is practically impossible except for the greatest of the great. Only three active pitchers are among the 100-best career ERA leaders (starters Pedro Martinez and Greg Maddux and reliever John Franco) This explosion of home runs has promoted one-dimensional players like Mark McGwire. These chemical-laden freaks of nature can’t play defense, get hurt at alarming rates, strike out way too much, fail to execute the fundamentals and can’t hit for average. One of the great fallacies of baseball is that you need a middle-of-the-order slugger to achieve success. Just over a decade ago, the Cincinnati Reds won the

Series. Let’s look at this year’s statistics to demonstrate this point. The Texas Rangers led Major League Baseball with 246 home runs this season, yet they finished last in their league. Seventeen teams hit more home runs than the Seattle Mariners, yet the Mariners won a record number of baseball games and led baseball in runs scored. More than any team in recent memory, the Mariners embody the traditional values of baseball—they win with pitching, defense and “small-ball” offense. The two most consistent franchises the last few years have been the Atlanta Braves and the New York Yankees —two teams built through a focus on starting pitching. Teams that splurge on hitting tend to disappoint (such as Manny Ramirez and the Red Sox, Alex Rodriguez and the Rangers

and Juan Gonzalez and the Tigers) while the teams that acquire the Greg Madduxes, Roger Clemenses and Randy Johnsons are the teams that are still playing in October. It’s clear that the home-run isn’t going away. Players will continue to pump up their bodies to hit them, fans will still pay money to watch them and owners will still pay exorbitant sums to keep them. But as Bonds goes on the free agent market this winter, hopefully some general managers will keep the Mariners’ blueprint for success in mind and invest in the players that bring

championships, not dingers. Give me Chris Sabo any day.

Norm Bradley, Pratt ’Ol, is former editori-

alpage editor of The Chronicle and Duke Student Government Head Line Monitor.

World Series with the immortal Chris Sabo leading them in home runs, with a whopping 25. In fact, it has been over 20 years since a league home run king has played on a team that has won the World

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must maintain

A month has passed since the devastating terrorist attacks on the United States, and the country now finds itself engaged in military action against the nation of Afghanistan with the possibility of expanding the conflict. With the onset of air strikes, the nation finds itself engaged in serious deliberation with regard to short- and longwMlfe term policies and their effects. This «£ HE debate has both domestic as well as Abdullah international implications. The Bush administration currently faces inter- AhArian nal disharmony of purpose, while in forming the multinational coalition against terrorism, a number of unlikely friends and foes have emerged. Only hours after the Sept. 11 attacks took place, President George W. Bush defined the ensuing response as a war—“America’s New War” or “The War on Terrorism” as the networks have called it. What exactly these mean has yet to be defined. Common sense tells us that eradicating terrorism from the face of the earth is not a realistic military goal, as much as we would like it to be. Any war without a clearly defined enemy cannot be sensibly fought or won, for that matter. Despite the problematic rhetoric, however, it is clear that a military response of some kind is necessary to bring the perpetrators to justice. Bush has ensured his own high political standing by appealing to the lowest common denominator ofAmerican society with his use of such popular phrases as “smoke them out,” “wanted dead or alive” and the since-retracted reference to an emerging “crusade.” If one looks past the president’s words though, there is a more important debate taking place within conservative circles currently dominating American policy. Namely, will this be a battle to enforce the laws of nations or simply another excuse to wage all-out war on the weak and helpless?

central purpose

On the one hand there is Colin Powell, the charismatic secretary of state, whose job is to create the broad anti-terrorism coalition of states. In this effort, Powell has subsequently opted to limit the perception of an outright war and far-reaching conflict in the hopes of securing support from Arab states. On the other side are the neo-conservatives, who recently wrote a letter to the. president signed by 41 academics, journalists, members of Congress, as well as Richard Perle, chairman of Bush’s Defense Policy Board. In the letter, the signatories call for an expanded war not only on the ruling Taliban of Afghanistan but on “militant Islam” in general. In their view, this constitutes the use of “overwhelming force” on states such as Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq and even parts of Egypt and China that may be home to Islamic movements. This hawkish approach will only reaffirm further the widespread belief that the West is at war with Islam, a perception the administration has gone to great lengths to avoid. Incidentally, another one of the signatories is former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has placed special emphasis on the non-state Palestinian organizations as a list ofpotential American targets. His appeal further leads to the conclusion that what the neo-conservatives want is not to fight America’s war, but Israel’s. Once again, however, the administration has rightly chosen to maintain its interests in creating a coalition that includes both Arab and Muslim states. This has led to recent strains in American-Israeli relations, culminating last week in Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s provocative speech. After Powell announced the administration’s support for a Palestinian state, delegitimizing Sharon’s effort to demonize the Palestinians and their leader, Yasser Arafat, Sharon compared Israel’s current situation to that of Czechoslovakia in 1938. The analogy is obvious—Arafat is Hitler, the Arabs are fascists, and the Western democracies, first among them the United

States, are appeasing them at his expense. This gross mischaracterization which angered the administration, was only made worse by Sharon’s private statements. According to an Israeli radio station, during a weekly

cabinet meeting, Sharon engaged in a shouting match with moderate Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Sharon reportedly yelled, “Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We control America and the Americans know it.” He was subsequently censured by his colleagues who entreated him not to repeat such comments publicly, fearing a certain public relations disaster. Despite such rancorous challenges, it is vital that the United States remains focused and affirms its central purpose during this truly trying time. The name of the military operation has changed from “Infinite Justice” to “Enduring Freedom.” Neither is really fitting. This should not become a war of competing ideologies, for the American ideals of freedom and democracy must not be engaged in such a heedless debate featuring those who harbor nothing but antagonism towards such concepts. This becomes especially important considering that some of the people currently fighting alongside our own troops are not much better than the Taliban, while others claiming to cherish these very precepts are only making the road more difficult. The primary objective must be achieving definite—not the abstract infinite—justice for the victims of this tragedy, while ultimately going through an introspective phase as to our relations and policies vis-a-vis friend and foe alike. What have we done to get to where we are today, in a retaliatory war against an incorrigible few; and what do we do to get to where we want to be, at peace both at home and abroad? Answers to such questions will not be simple, or pleasing for that matter, but they are necessary nonetheless; six thousand innocent lives deserve no less.

Abdullah Al-Arian is a Trinity senior.

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