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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
U.S. shifts attention from
Schedule
Baghdad
task force
MICHAEL GORDON
By
New York Times News
CAMP
Service
Kuwait
DOHA,
Allied
forces have shifted the focus of their land in
campaign
the
feating
to concentrate
the
beginning
Tuesday night.
had
strategy
been
� A
bypass
to
are
Iraq’s southern cities and drive toward the
to take
capital
lican
Guards
Saddam’s
Saddam’s Repub-
on
and
ultimately
the groups to
been
al-
The
Iraqi
while
forces
fight
in and around
from
British
and
American
to
dispel
any
would be
that
suggestion
long, suggesting that it would is,”
military official
outskirts
of
forces
Basra,
to the
moving
were
from
fierce battle
and
near
be
to
regular
a
in
About
the
caches
to
weapons,
protect
against
a more
on
“We to the
weapons
chemical
ing REUTERS
said.
fighting
in
an
planning
area near
Basra in southern
for
specifics
on
how
the United States and Britain intend to rebuild Iraq. the Bush administration has
say
ulated clearly how the
tion,
new
has
however,
preparing
to
run
Nations. “We’re the
people
how Iraq will
enough
government
of
said
will work.
that the
post-war Iraq
going
Iraq,
a
ment,” US. Secretary
to
put
in
be
rebuilt
nor
The administra-
United
without
place
a
States
better life for
of State Colin Powell
told The
and
with that
a
student who
current
international peace an
a
Duke alumna
recently traveled expressed
groups,
to
cessful in “I have
Iraq
concern
American-built government would not be
second round
Coliseum
participated
politically.
I think
the U.S. has interests they want to protect there, and
IneMo C
on
Students and others
vigil tonight those
at 8 p.m.
“I
knew
she
in
be able to
serving
in
Iraq.
on
the
See page 3
page 10
run
prior
against
a
a
No.
sprained
to
status 8
seed
ankle.
team shootaround ear-
was
there
ever
to
go,” head coach Gail
didn’t know how well she’d
[just]
one
had her
points
block and answer.
a
As
on
10-of-12 shooting,
65-54
No. 5
on
a
pair
of
victory later, Goestenko-
usual, Beard catalyzed
Devils—who will take
the Blue
seed Georgia in
the
Sweet 16—on both sides of the floor, particularly with 13:29
remaining
in the contest.
Utah (24-7), led by freshman scoring machine Kim to 40-36
on
all scored while Beard rested
the strength of a 6-0 on
the bench. To
the storm, No. 1 Duke (33-1) called
See NCAAS
U.S. troops will hold
Chapel Quadrangle
on
play.”
Twenty-seven steals,
going
was
Goestenkors said. “I
page 7
supporting
the and
Tuesday during
a
run,
temper
30-second timeout DUKE
See POST-WAR PLANS
the week
throughout
doubt the two-time All-American would play?
any
Smith, had closed
little hope for [lraq] very
matchup
her ankle for 20 minutes every hour. But
suc-
Iraq.
recommendation
Word circulated quickly
Reynolds
because of
questionable
was
really
rs
Yarger and Joy Johnson,
a
lier in the day, and had been up much of the night icing
form of govern-
representative
Duke’s
Utah
is
the United
New York Times. Lenore
in
Beard had not
not artic-
the
The Chronicle
tipoff yesterday: Alana Beard’s
asking
at
that he consider examin-
See SCHEDULES
through
While the military campaign in Iraq continues, lead-
Critics
wounded
was
occur
MIKE COREY
By
The Chronicle
are
soldier who
will
system
possibility of standardizing
class times
Iraq.
RALEIGH
around the world
a
would
and
new
day.
making
are
provost
the
suggesting
week, a
Close win sweetens women’s
By JEFF FINCH
ers
and the
time every
same
Iraq intensifies
for
day
recommend
where class blocks
page 8
Post-war
the
across
MEMBERS OF A BRITISH MEDICAL REGIMENT carry See IRAQ STRATEGY
Tuesday
balanced distribution of classes
probably
Iraqis
Marines
U.S. military officials
the
reverse
courses
The committee has been
was
hospital that they had turned
a
and
and Thursday around midday.
a
paramilitary fight-
outpost, and confiscated
a
to alleviate in-
designed
stresses
trend toward bunching
Fedayeen
450
Nasiriyah,
170
captured about
into
mixture of
troops.
killed. In An
were
ers
Najaf with what
time this semester.
some
is
frastructural
Army’s 7th Cavalry Regiment fought
reported
report
Each option
day night. While the British
reform
committee files
provost when the
its final
a
Tues-
said
in its effort
models to
possible
ture, will recommend an array of models to the
“We will go to where the enemy
reaction
Edna Andrews, chair of the task force
be measured in days, not weeks.
senior U.S.
faculty and students
suggest
Course
on
mixed
met
and chair of Slavic languages and litera-
delay
the
has
the academic schedule.
Iraq’s south-
cities. Allied commanders sought to
ern
provost’s Task Force
Scheduling
Guard will be
the Republican
on
evening
ANDREW COLLINS
By
threat has to be addressed first. The at-
delayed
more
classes.
com-
manders have concluded that this
tack
its
The Chronicle
stiff that
so
release
part suggesting and
morning
soon
the militia
of the advancing
rear
has
in
report,
when classes
studying
group
scheduled will
topple
government.
But the resistance from
lied forces
plan
nears
south
the battle for Baghdad,
senior officers said
The
de-
on
and other militia
Hussein in
Saddam
serving before
Iraq
Fedayeen
a
to honor
Flat
growth in
Health
is
forcing
on
funding
from
the
National
Institutes
of
Medical Center researchers to compete
harder for grants. See page 4
HEAD COACH GAIL
Beard toward the end of
page 14
Author and
a
with
lecturer Michael Parent! criticized
administration’s in
GOESTENKORS jokes
Alana
Tuesday’s victory.
policies
on
speech Tuesday night.
Iraq and
on
See page 5
the Bush
the domestic front
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