March 21,2003
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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
into
Troops push By
PATRICK TYLER
New York Times News
Arabian
Service
Indian
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait
Supported tillery and
relentless
by
barrages,
armed
British
ar-
forces
Iraqi
desert
cruise
missiles
Thursday
the
banks
the
on
of
serted
Tigris
of the
first
British
results
casualties
killed
surrender and avert
and were
Kuwait
return from
on
sion in southern
ther details
George sion of
The American
and
advance into southern
stealth with
raid
a
British
an
missiles
ment
by
whether
night
Thursday
video
Iraqi leaders had been
U.S.
Central at
was
any
hit
with
conference
Tommy Franks,
an
air
base
in
this first strike of the war. The
ers
Pentagon suggested that
the region.
some
who
were
scattered
of
sea
unsea-
rain,
many
an
to
speak
unjust
what
for
war.
people
in
that
don’t
they
said
a
support
Jonathan
graduate student of
ronment and Earth Sciences. “If
there then
a
enough
are
here
people
something good will
come
out of it.”
Gen.
Numerous
faculty
who
were
members
of
the
also present in the
crowd, looking
Saudi
at the current
on
face of protest at Duke.
Arabia, and other command-
by
a
the Nicholas School of the Envi-
head of the
Command,
class,
congregate
against
important
Remuscal,
the meet-
in
and
a
and
staff
under
military action,”
said
spoke
cold
in
noon
Braving the
saw as
show
to the official’s
Bush
to
an-
slowly
to express their own moral
“It’s
senior
a
official
un-
the U.S. and around the world to
room
morning,
House
daily life
vehemently
they
was
White
in the
situation
account,
govern-
determine
to
meeting
at Duke
conscience, and others
has
President
by
officially
war
Chapel
sonable came
W. Bush at the conclua
the
out
Thursday night. At
officials
intelligence
trying
were
what
Baghdad.
students,
umbrellas.
Ameri-
Thursday
ing, according
Saddam.
killing
American
attack
White
attack
at
was
in
war
who walked out of
work and
army to
an
of
faculty
force and scope
beyond
Wednesday
by
intended
to destabilize the Iraqi
stream
de-
on
reverberations of
materialized around
before.”
House
Iraq fol-
Baghdad
on
fighters and
cruise
seen
a
authorized
immediate-
ly available.
lowed
scale
been
The
No fur-
Iraq.
were
and
mis-
a
attack “of
can
in
helicopter crashed
Iraqi
the
against
the
tiwar response
of the
of
al-
as
folded half a world away, the
the
the
Rumsfeld,
and
While the
fight
a
defection
still time for the
when their CH-53 Sea
Stallion
without
the
morning
protesters gathered
the bombs in
might
fense secretary, said there
re-
commandos
British
ousted
sliced
Chapel Quadrangle, raising
their voices
surren-
shouts
gentle drumming
Thursday
Iraq
that the Pen-
that Saddam
Donald
said
four American Marines
the
by the
exploring
the
most 400
all-out
of
wave
through
elite units closest to him.
and
were
the
quick
a
still
was
through
war,
American
ported. Military officials 12
be
expressed
the
early stages of the
the
tagon
possibility with
A
in
the most effective
as
der. It appeared
sky above a de-
As the Pentagon
of
to force
means
city.
satisfaction
The Chronicle
rain
short
Pentagon
River, sending plumes of black smoke into the
fell
war
CHARLES LIN
By
to
positions,
bombardment promised
an area
the
skies
The attacks, while substan-
buildings
government
warplanes
including radar
artillery
tial,
The missiles struck
Iraqi
British
walk out of class to protest
Students, faculty
southern Iraq.
heart of Baghdad.
of
the air-
strikes continue
as
Ameri-
sea,
through moonlit
and
as
pounded
at
strike targets,
from Kuwait into the
pushed
and
can
flew
and
and from
carriers
craft
American
Peninsula
Ocean
Iraq
Bruce
across
veteran
Lawrence,
and
military
professor
of reli-
ALEX GARINGER/THE CHRONICLE
senior
officials
Iraqi
have been killed
The
might
president
asked
the
across
See IRAQ
on
war
page 9
Duke squeezes By
reservations
with
came
PROTESTERS GATHER in front of the Chapel during Thursday’s walkout to protest
wounded.
or
From land bases
gion,
each
in
Iraq,
as
counter-Protesters hold
signs
and
flags.
See WALKOUT
Dean
State
by Colorado
page 10
picks
chair of
new
NICK CHRISTIE
on
The Chronicle
SALT LAKE CITY The stage a
iy
out,
as
had
had
ies
v
set
was
medicine
for
major upset. already
fouled
Casey Sanders. Duke found
itself without its leading
scorer
By
fensive presence. A hostile crowd in the Huntsman Center stood
Duke’s
its feet and
on
new
filled the air with chants of“CSU, CSU.”
Leading just 58-57, the Blue their
collective
State
failed
three-point
breath
to
convert
shot and
may
larly
have
a
been,
freshman
though
Duke—and Shelden
With
it
tributes to lead Medicine.
particu-
Williams—-
to
the
play,
put back
a
6-foot-9
ter and of
Chris Duhon THE BLUE DEVIL BENCH watches its teammates tiptoe
See CSU
Insjrlp
on
page 16
Numerous classes professors
walkout—then
past Colorado State
in the
waning
a
were
a || owec
cancelled
joined
a
He
or
ended early
j their students to
Thursday
participate
it themselves. See page 4
in the
offi-
of the necessary at-
great Department
is
an
person and
and
on
the
University’s
the Medical Center’s APT process.
See page 5
policy
excellent
com-
of strong characsuccessful
a
complex
leader
enterprise,”
minutes of the
Provost Peter
retirement
of
accomplished
an
See MED CHAIR
The Academic Council heard reports from
Lange Thursday
a
values,
large
first round of the NCAA Tournament last night.
iiioiuc
as
currently
division at the
of Medicine,
physician-scientist, municator,
1:24 left
a
cials announced Thursday.
two
didn’t panic.
power forward
Goldschmidt,
“Pascal has all
first-round exit
has
Medical Center, has been named chair
straight free throws.
Ripe for
Pascal
of the Department
open
then missed
department
chief of the cardiology
Colorado wide
largest
leader.
Dr.
Devils held
as
a
KEVIN LEES
The Chronicle
and de-
and
Life not
is
continuing
as
anticipate seeing
on
page 7
usual for ROTC students, who any action
in
Iraq,
efforts there nonetheless. See page 6
do
but support the