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Thursday, December 5, 2002 THE BATHliJ HE Thurmond celebrates... Powell for crackcki i, 1903 Wright Brothers make first flight; Henry Ford founds Ford Motor Co. 1920 Women win the right to vote. March on Washington 1929 Stock market crash, known as Black Tuesday, sets off Great Depression. 1963 KiREGATfcD RULES //V PUBLIC SCHOOLS or: o vWostLf Rtvtcnwa 1914 World War I begins. I \ SHOdLO tHE SlFCCe^SM H lonoRt^ 4er 5^^ 1941 America enters World War II. 1963 President Konnody assassinated. Martin Luther King Jr. leads the March on Washington. 1969 First human sets foot on the moon. century OF . ' service STROM THURMOND TURNS 100 1989 Berlin Wall demolished; Tiananmen Square protest 2001 Terrorist attacks on the United States. 1902 Born Edgefield, S.C. ri 1923 Receives bachelor’s degree from Clemson. Works as a teacher and a coach. 1933 Elected to state Senate. At 6 months old In 1903 In ROTC training camp in P" a S0 1922 1946 Elected South Carolina governor. 1948 Runs for president as -States' Rights Democrat." C&rries four Southern states. 1954 Wins U.S. Senate seat with write-in campaign. 1957 Stages 24-hour, 18- minute filibuster against 1957 Civil Rights Act. which he denounces as ‘race mixing ’ 1964 Foreshadows OOP's ‘Southern strategy" by switching from Democrat to Republican to support Barry Goldwater. SOURCE: Associated Press 1997 Becomes the longest serving member of the U.S. Senate; honored as a ‘living legend” by good, the South Carolina Historical Foundation Society. With Richard Ntxon at hla swearing In, Jan. 5, 1955 2002 Leaves Senate chamber for the last time; prepares to return to South Carolina for WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush on Wednesday praised retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond for his “patriotism, courage and lifetime dedication" — and for turning 100. “Celebrating his 100th birthday as a sit ting U.S. senator is unique in our history as was his 1954 election to the Senate as a write-in candidate.” Bush said in a state ment issued by the White House. Thurmond’s birthday is Thursday. Bush invited the South Carolina Republican to a White House celebration Friday. “His patriotism, courage and lifetime dedication to South Carolina and his nation will always be remembered,” Bush said. “I am proud to join the people of South Carolina in praising him, his values and his good works.” Born in the first term of Theodore Roosevelt. Thurmond is a highly decorated World War II veteran who ran for president in 1948 as a Dixiecrat. He also holds the record for the longest filibuster in Senate history, talking against a civil rights bill on the Senate floor for more than 24 hours. Thurmond changed with the times, moderating his public stance on race over the years. Bush’s statement did not men tion the issue. on crime, human ri abuse in Columbia ir JE Ihelio BOGOTA. Colombia (AP) — Secretary of State Colin Powell met with President Alvaro Uribe Wednesday in a show of solidarity with the Colombian leader’s efforts to crack down on the country’s rampant lawlessness. Sitting around a long, oval table in the Cabinet room of the elegant Narino house, the presidential palace, the two leaders discussed Colombia’s long-simmering civil war and Uribe’s efforts to stem the tide of drugs pouring out of this South American country, according to Uribe’s spokesman, Ricardo Galan. Neither leader spoke to the press after the 1 1/2 hour meet ing but Powell was also expected to signal a no toler ance policy for human rights abuses by Colombia’s security forces. Uribe asked that Powell support his efforts to obtain international financing for alternative development proj ects to help peasants switch from drug crops to legal pro duce. Uribe also asked that the LJnited States resume its CIA- run program of drug interdic tion flights, suspended last year after a Peruvian warplane mistakenly shot down an American missionary flight over the Amazon, killing a missionary and her infant daughter. U.S. officials have said the flights will be resumed soon and Powell indicated they would probably start again early next year, Galan said. Powell told reporters Tuesday he is looking for ways to provide additional help to Colombia as it confronts “nar cotraffickers and narcoterror- ist£. 4 He noteu th<h the hdthinis- tration plans an increase in assistance to $500 million from $300 million. The funds will be earmarked for training and equipment and also for nonmil itary sectors, including social and economic investment. After his meeting with Uribe and another with Defense Minister Martha Lucia Ramirez, Powell visited a mili tary hangar where he reviewed police aircraft — half a dozen Black Hawk helicopters and nearly a dozen airplanes — used in the U.S.-backed drug eradication program. “I’m very impressed by what I have seen. We of course have a commitment to do everything we can for Colombia,” Powell told reporters as he walked out of the hangar. Colombia is the source of about 90 percent of the cocaine consumed in the United States. Powell said Tuesday there significant 1 eradication eft- has been sion in coca in Colombia this year bats added that the country basts reached the point whereeri cation is outstripping c® guard c 'Pl Gaza la invol plantings He said he wants to si Uribe in his efforts to "those terrorist elements in Colombian society who; U \ m e to destroy >he (ireain* tr jp the Colombian people to bn f iec j ; ■i democracy that gives tbea&^i society that is safe.” Uribe has been in office a little more than 100days.It hopes that a tougher against two leftist will insurgents open the way to seri® peace negotiations. A nsti vs ing paramilitary gm announced a unilateral ces fire in recent days. All tb groups finance their operatico with drug trafficking revei® and all are on the Stitt Department list of foreigntts rorist organizations. a We of course km a commitment to in everything we can for Columbia. — Colin Powe U.S. Secretary of Stas While fighting terrorisi Colombia must also gives highest priority to curte human rights abuses by seem- ty forces. Powell saidTuese. “There will be a big exp« tation that, as the Colomh seven In Israel memb Jihad shot tants. Th Sabah was oads Israel seven Septe: In helico ataci rity g emme Af Palest Assi “Thei siles They direct Isr ered occasi appart (unity out d against itants Midea Th are sel andhu the pr; the Isr ar compl armed forces and Colombian police are stre,1 £“ | ened to deal yvith this ’'' nhlpm there abui ed on national of can be no tolerance of human rights of fe kind that has been seen in tit; past.” he added. Powell arrived at a militatj airport in Bogota Tuesdi) night amid heavy security Wednesday, snipers were poi. rooftops around ® palace and hundred.' u . rifle-toting sokto patrolled Bogota streets. I Black Hawk helicopters- cled above. The security in Bogo»“ reminiscent ol Uribes^ inauguration. Althougli I was blanketed wtlhj# and police, leftist reW •' aged to launch ntotW downtown Bogota before Uribe l» ok * e |( ^ office, killing 21 P P ^ causing slight datnag^ ^ national P alace , ‘ eX piodii four rebel grenades exp ^ on a street ^ ar biaJ embassy and the ur attorney general s Parents have right to sue on child’s behalf Sci the en acconi] startlin yield n The ters lor comes human was de Sci side-by genorm standi n genes f Am are air reprodi pregnai and ho stantly ‘arms Det; of the j Scie ing bei researc lion mil as canc Initi genome genetic SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The federal appeals court that declared reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public class rooms to be unconstitutional ruled Wednesday that the father who sued on behalf of his daughter had a right to bring the case. The decision by a three- judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals puts down a challenge by the girl’s mother and others who said Michael Newdow could not challenge the pledge on behalf of his daughter because he did not have custody of her. The decision means the San Francisco-based appeals court is free to decide whether to uphold its June ruling barring the pledge from being recited with the words “under God in public schools in the nine Western states the court covers. Congress and President Bush condemned the June decision, and the court put the ruling on hold a day after it was issued to decide whether I to rehear the case.jj was whether legal standing t° Sl1 . ■'The main i*®* 0 , rf the court will revtstt,tsP,, decision is stt 0< tl court has no deadhn ^ The June ru W ^ judge panel of t |ie [, s aii international aden ^ that using {1L , H God” in the P 1 unconstitutional g endorsement of Mg ^ The lawsuit bn cJSi into a P are, 7 w Jn >; 1 between N | w ’ 0 id cl# and h<s ^f^ningof mother. Sandra Bann - Grove. Banning, wh ^ custody daUghter the S p leV andi opposed to God. ^ The app # tfev# Wednesday s kga \ sta# doesn’t lose theco n a father to challeng s edu c