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' NATIONAL NEWS President Bush Vows To Lead World To Victory By DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP)~ Fighting back tears. President Bush vowed Thursday that America would “lead the world to victor> ” over terrorism in a struggle he tenned the first war of the 21 st century'. He announced plans to visit New York, site of the World Trade Center tw in towers that were destroyed by attacks earlier in the week. ‘T weep and mourn with America,” the president said at the White House as officials said the death toll from attacks in New York and on the Pentagon Tuesday would reach into the thousands. “There is a quiet anger in America," Bush said in a telephone conference call with New York Gov. George Pataki and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. "My resolve is stead\ and strong about w inning this war that has been declared on America," the president added. “It’s a new kind of war.... This government w ill adjust and this government will call other governments tojoin us.” Bush's eyes were red and wet as he ended his news conference, his head and hands trembling slightly as he made his remarks. Bush spoke as Congress hastened to vote $20 billion as a first installment on recoverv- and anti- teiTorism efforts. There was also discussion about passage of legislation authorizing a militar)' response to the attacks in New York and Washington, although administration officials made clear they believed the president alreadv' had the authority he needed. "We have just seen the first war of the 21 St century,” he said. He said he had consulted a broad range of foreign leaders, had found “universal support” for the United States and expected there would be backing for whatever retaliation he ordered. He also said pointedly the United States had been in diplomatic contact with Pakistan, and wanted to give the government there an opportunirs' to cooperate. Pakistan has close ties with the government of Afghanistan, which harbors Osama bin Laden, a suspect in Tuesday’s fearsome attacks. In later comments to reporters. Bush said fimily, “Now that war has been declared on us, we will lead the world to victory. Victoiy.” The president spoke as officials in New York said the list of those missing was roughly 4,700 from attacks that leveled the tw in towers at the World Trade Center. In addition, the Defense Department said it appeared about 190 people had died in the attack on the Pentagon, a preliminary estimate that included victims both in the building and in the hijacked airline that plowed into the structure. Search teams had recovered about 70 bodies b)' moining, said Jeny Roussillon, deputy fire and rescue chief for Fairfax County, Va. “We’re making inroads into the impact area foot by foot now,” he said. The teams were pulled back from the rubble by a bomb threat made b\' telephone near daw n, but the threat apparently came to nothing and work resumed. The reopening of the U.S. air space, planned later Thursday, w as bringing one slice of ever\ day life back to a countn' frozen in hon'or since Tuesday’s teiTorist attacks. But flying promised to be an\ thing but nomial; Attorney General .lohn Ashcroft sent U.S. marshals and other agents to airports and airliners to usher in a new era of security. Bush started work in the Oval Office at 7:10 a.m. Thursday' w ith another round of calls to w orld leaders as part of his effort to build a multinational coalition. Leaders of Japan, Italy, Saudi Arabia and NATO “ha\ e all said the\' will stand together with the United States to combat teiTorism,” White House press secretan Ari Fleischer said. The Broncos’Voice Staff Lisa Augustine Anthony C. Keene Jr. Fred Johnson Woodrow Rowell III Toshanika Moore Jason Greene Dawn Redrick Angele Capel Ebony Stonewall Aisha Brooks Crystal Broadie Dianna Peguese Kevin McCrimmon Y. Chuck Carr Lakeisha Samilton Garrett N. James Sherika Dellahousaye LaKeshia N. Denson, Editor in Chief Douglas L. Blake Jr., Copy Editor Faculty Advisor Mr. Eric Moore HOW TO REACH US The Broncos’ Voice 1200 Murchison Road Fayetteville, NC 28301 (910) 672-1357 (910) 672-1279 Students, faculty and staff may submit editorials and commentary to the Voice. Articles should not exceed 500 words and should be submitted on computer disk, IBM format. The Voice staff is located in Room 3 of the Lauretta Taylor Building. Office hours are Tuesday and Thursday from 2 to 3 p.m. I () He would not say what exactK’ Bush asked of his counterparts. The president had also talked to a half dozen leaders Wednesday. Congressional leaders spoke of a strong and sustained — if unspecified — response to teiTorism. “I believe it ma\' take a lot of time, a lot of American treasure and perhaps some American blood,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said on the morning talk shows. Similar expressions of unit)’ and conviction came from Democrats. “This is a national crisis,” said House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo. He said political leaders were as unified now as the\' w ere after Congress voted to commit to the Gulf War. Some of the options under consideration by Bush would go bev ond the low -risk unmanned cruise missile strikes that have been deplov ed in past anti-ten'orist operations, a senior administration official said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymit>. Among them: bombings from manned aircraft and the deployment of special troops on the ground. The official said Bush has made no decision because investigators are still tr) ing to determine with "as much certaint}' as possible” who mastenninded the attacks and v\ hat counti')', if any, harbored those individuals. Officials reaffirmed their belief that Osama bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire expatriate living in Afghanistan, is one prime suspect. The thirst for revenge w as apparent in Washington. "1 think every body is so angr)- they want to hit somebody,” Senate Majorit}' Leader Tom Daschle said Wednesdav'. In all, teiTorists commandeered fourjetliners on Tuesday, flyingtwo of them into the towering buildings in Manhattan and one into the Pentagon. The fourth — possibly aiming for the White House — crashed southeast of Pittsburgh after passengers apparently struggled with the hijackers. Ashcroft and others described an extraordinary investigation. It stretched from the Canadian border, w here officials suspect some of the hijackers entered the countn, to Florida, where some of the participants are believed to ha\ e learned how to tl\ commercial jetliners before the attacks. Locations in Massachusetts and Florida were searched for e\ idence. Internet ser\ ice pros iders said they were complying readily \\ ith search w arrants seeking infomiation about an e-mail address believed connected to the attacks. From TIMS Campus Interest In Nostradamus Resurrected After Attack By Barbara Rose Chicago Tribune The Internet’s vaunted "\ iral” ability to spread obscure infomiation rapidly helped to fuel interest last week in the writings of a 16th century figure whose writings some consider prophetic, Michel de Nostredame, known as Nostradamus. “Nostradamus” ranked high on a list of the keyv\ords typed into search engines when people flocked online for news after the terrorist attacks, according to ComScore Networks, a Chicago- based firm that monitors Internet behavior. It’s hardly surprising that surfers searched on such words as “CNN,” “World Trade Center” and “news”-the top three search terms diu'ing the three hours after the attack, according to ComScore. “Pentagon” ranked fourth. But Nostradamus? His name ranked eighth, right after Osama bin Laden, the teiTorist leader whose followers are suspected of orchestrating the attack. “Nostradamus had appeared as a search term previously, but there w ere 50 times the number of entries for his name” in search engines after the attack compared with the same period a week earlier, says ComScore CEO Gian Fulgoni. E-mail added heat to the Nostradamus frenzy. Various versions of a cryptic and apocalyptic verse were circulating widely last week, purporting to be from Nostradamus’ writings, w hich were originally in French. When the e-mails started popping up in the inbox of Eric Estabrooks, a Chicago database programi-qerj he iised .Google.com to search on “Nostradamus” only to find that most of the top sites were inaccessible, apparently because too many people were tn ing to get on them. A persistent Estabrooks contlmied that the e-mailed \erse he received was identical to a verse composed and posted on the Web in a discussion about reason versus superstition. The \\riter’s intent was to debunk Nostradamus’ prophetic powers. “Everyone, please, use a bit of common sense before you forward false e-mails,” Estabrooks chided in his own e-mail repK’ to senders. His conclusion? "People are looking for some kind of comfort and external validation in anything suggesting that the attack was part of some plan” over which they have no control, he says. ComScore's Fulgoni, meanwhile, says people turned to the Internet after the crash to amplify reports the\' were getting from other media. Nearly half ot the top 30 search keywords were variations on the names of news outlets, mainly broadcast. “If you’re watching TV and somebody mentions bin Laden and you wanted to find out more,” Fulgoni says, “what better way?” CNN.com’s site was by far the most popular nevs s site, with 11.6 million unique visitors worldwide during the day of the attack, 680 percent more than a week earlier. The second most visited site was MSNBC.com, with 9.5 million visitors, a 236 percent increase. Among content sites, FBl.gov ranked first that day, with about 280,000 visitors, up 1,306 percent from the previous week. From TMSCampus
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