March 21, 2003

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March 21,2003

Friday,

The Chronicle

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No.

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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


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