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2 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2003 U.S. seeks answers in helicopter strike THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. troops hunted for anti-aircraft missiles along Iraq's trucking routes, dig ging through heaps of manure, mounds of hay or piles of pome granates Monday. The U.S. Army retrieved the wreckage of a downed transport helicopter and searched for clues about who knocked it from the sky. Attacks continued Monday —a blast near a Shiite Muslim shrine in the southern city of Karbala that witnesses said killed at least one person and a barrage of three mor tar rounds in Baghdad that caused no reported casualties. The explosion in Karbala. 65 miles south of Baghdad, apparent ly was caused by a bomb planted in a parked car on a busy street less than 100 yards from the gold domed Imam Hussein shrine, said Mohammed Abu Jaftar al-Assadi, a Shiite cleric. Other witnesses said it might have been concealed in a bag left outside a hotel. In addition to at least one dead, it was believed that 12 people were wounded. al-Assadi said. It was not immediately possible to get confir mation of the report from Iraqi CORRECTION A photo caption in Sports Monday should have said men’s basketball guard Jackie Manuel scored 13 points in Sunday's Blue-White game. To report corrections, contact Managing Editor Daniel Thigpen at dthigpen@email.unc.edu. The Student's Choice for... IBR from $399 /2 BR from $499 ■■*■■■■■■■ AVAtfdtljfe- >\ow! Ask about our great special offers!* Take a closer look! Maybe you'll find answers where others only see problems How does society manage change? How can we solve urban and community problems? Check out Urban Studies and Planning, an undergraduate minor offered by the Department of City and Regional Planning. • Open to students in any department or curriculum • Minor consists of five courses • It's not too late to register for PLAN 047 (Solving Urban Problems) for the spring semester! (Reguired for the minor; T/TH, 2-3:15) Visit our web site for complete program details: www.planning.unc.edu police or the U.S.-led coalition. Here in the capital, U.S. occupa tion authorities said three mortar rounds were lobbed from a firing position somewhere in southwest ern Baghdad late Monday. Two landed in unspecified locations in central Baghdad, and the third struck a camp of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. They said no injuries were immediately reported. One clue in Sunday’s helicopter shootdown might lie in Ramadi, west of the crash site, where an anti-U.S. leaflet warned two days before the shootdown that Iraq’s insurgents would strike the Americans with modern and advanced methods. The downing of the CH-47 Chinook, one of two carrying dozens of soldiers on their way to Baghdad Airport and home leave, killed 16 Americans and wounded 20 others. It was the heaviest U.S. death toll in any single action since the invasion of Iraq last March 20. Hundreds of portable, shoul der-fired missiles are unaccounted for in Iraq, potential threats to a U.S. occupation army that relies heavily on the slow , low-flying CH -47 Chinook craft for troop trans port. The U.S. command has offered Iraqis SSOO apiece for each portable missile turned in but has refused to say how many have been surrendered. In one search operation Monday, U.S. military police stretched out razor wire and set up checkpoints along the main artery running north from Baghdad, now dubbed Highway 1, to look for weapons. News Health fees to boost CAPS BY MEGAN SEROW STAFF WRITER When Dan Herman began cam paigning for the position of Graduate and Professional Student Federation president, he was sur prised that students responded most to the issue of waiting time at Counseling and Psychological Services. With three student suicides last semester, concerns about CAPS are timely, although John Edgerly, director of CAPS, said interest in improving service was present before last spring. Officials expect that these issues will be resolved by a proposed sl6 student fee increase to provide added funding for CAPS. The increase will go into effect next year if approved by the UNC-sys tem Board of Governors. Edgerly said the increase in the student health fee will accommo Economic surge may not aid Bush BY BERNARD HOLLOWAY STAFF WRITER All might not be well for President Bush on the economic front, experts say, even in the wake of a 7 percent growth spurt in the economy during the third quarter of 2003* Despite celebrations by a myri ad of Bush administration officials, pundits say there is still a perilous road ahead that could jeopardize the president’s chances for re-elec tion in 2004. But supporters such as Reed Dickens, press secretary for Bush’s re-election campaign, remain upbeat. Dickens reiterated the president’s call that supply-side economic policies do work if one gives them time. “The president has continually AHS The Department of Allied Health Sciences at UNC will celebrate National Awed Health Professions Week - November 2-8,2003 - Come join the students for a special awareness day on Wednesday, November Sth from II:30-1:30 at the Health Affairs Brick Beach or Student Commons Area (between Brinkhous-Bullitt Building and Berryhill Hall) V 3L “Walking Tacos”, drinks & cookies T will be sold to benefit future allied * health student activities. A tttev UNC Pina Headquarters Hl2 E. Main Street, Carrboro Sides: Coke: Fresh Express Salad $3.99 20-oz. bottle SI.OB Domino's Buffalo Chicken Kickers $5.99 AVAILABLE NOW! Get a Large 1-Topping Pizza or Get a Small 1-Topping Pizza & an Order of Breadsticks jl p_ Get a Medium Pizza with up to 4 Toppings or ■ W Get 2 Small Cheese Pizzas JLa Get a Large Pizza with up to 4 Toppings or Get 2 Medium Cheese Pizzas CIA AA Get 2 Medium 1-Topping Pizzas A m +% Roommate Special Get 3 Medium 1-Topping Pizzas date the 40 percent of the CAPS budget now paid for by state funds. Those funds now will be used to enhance CAPS services by short ening waiting time, improving connections with the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and improving efforts in the area of preventative interven tions for critical concerns. Officials say the fee increase will have a huge impact because a con sistent level of funding will be available. Students’ most pressing com plaint about CAPS has been the long waiting time. Many patients have been told that they have to wait two to three weeks, sometimes more, to be seen, especially during peak periods. Early fall through the holidays and February through early spring have been the hardest times to get an appointment in the past. passed tax cuts to put money back in people’s pockets, and it seems like that has worked,” he said. Bush’s tax cuts might have been a significant reason for the recent economic uptick, according to a report issued by the Economic Policy Institute. Though before-tax income increased by just 1 percent from July to September, after-tax income grew by more than 7 percent, cre ating a windfall of SIOO billion for consumers to spend on cars, appli ances and other durable goods. But some say the recent eco nomic gains might not matter next November if the president is not able to back up large statistical gains with reductions to the unem ployment rate. “It’s not that the economy grew, With the extra funds from stu dent fees, CAPS is hiring more part-time staff during these peak periods to alleviate waiting time. The staff will be hired mostly from private practices. “The extra funds will give increased flexibility for peak times and a more stable, steady source of income,” Herman said. Another major concern has been whether CAPS is capable of treating students in its facilities or if it needs to refer some students to outside help. CAPS workers shoot for a max imum of eight sessions with each patient. If patients need more help, they usually are referred to a pri vate practice. “We only make refer rals for cases beyond what can be covered, but about 90 percent of students are helped in four to five sessions,” Edgerly said. Accompanying the increased it’s a matter of who felt the growth," said Justin Smith, professor of political science at American University in Washington, D.C. “If you know someone who is out of work, talk of an economic recovery will be thrown out of the window' come Election Day.” Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, echoed Smith’s sentiments in a Friday press release stating the party's official response to the pres ident’s claims of domestic success. “If you’re Halliburton, (an ener gy company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney), you’re doing great under the Bush economy, but if you’re an American in need of a job, you’re out of luck.” But in terms of the president’s chances for re-election, the timing Firefighters help contain remaining Calif, blazes THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BIG BEAR, Calif. Exhausted firefighters were sent home Monday as remaining crews doused hot spots and watched for new ones the vast wildfires that ravaged parts of Southern California all but surrounded. More than 27,000 people remained displaced from their homes, but that number was down considerably from the 80,000 at the peak of the fires, said a spokesman for the state Office of Emergency Services. All fires were expected to be sur rounded by Tuesday, if not by Monday evening, said Andrea Tuttle, director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. l e I%\ c- ill i 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6 Carroll Hall Auditorium UNC-Chapel Hill Free and open to the public Part of the Nelson Benton Lecture Series Moose will sign copies of his new book, Three Weeks in October, at 6:30 p.m. The book will also be available for sale. Visit jomc.unc.edu/execed/ for more details. School of Journalism and Mass Communication I University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ulljp laily sar number of staff, anew committee is in the works to keep improve ment to CAPS continuing through out the year. The committee probably will comprise two undergraduate stu dents, two graduate students and two faculty members to serve as advisers to Edgerly. Herman, who has helped organ ize the committee, said the group is planning a mental health aware ness day and a grand reopening of CAPS for next semester. If the committee becomes per manent, its purpose will be to re evaluate the program consistently and suggest improvements. “We’ll monitor the program and see how it’s working,” Herman said. “It will always be continually re evaluated, but it’s a very good step.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. of this good news could not have been better, said James Stimson, UNC professor of political science. “It means a lot, because in my mind he was running up against the deadline of seeing the begin ning stages of a recovery and not getting credit for it,” he said. Stimson said if public perception of a recovery does not begin to take hold by April, the president might be in trouble because economic issues could cloud his campaign. “The numbers from the fourth quarter are crucial.... If (growth is) more than 3.5 percent, then it will show that a recovery’s under way.... But if not it could mean that we’re in for an interesting election season.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. Cool, moist air smothered rem nant flames after a front moved in off the Pacific on Halloween and brought rain to some areas and snow in the mountains. The 91,000-acre Old Fire, the last of the blazes to threaten com munities, was 83 percent con tained in forests atop the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles. The number of firefighters was almost halved from a peak of more than 16,000 brought in last week to battle the flames that swept across more than 743,000 acres, caused more than 20 deaths and destroyed more than 3,570 homes. Efforts were turning rapidly to preventing mudslides and flood ing. "Three Weeks in October" with Charles Moose Former Maryland police chief and spokesman during the D.C. sniper investigation
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