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il rights leader
un for president
er Illinois Sen.
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lack female
or, plans to
a bid for the
Democratic
Jential nomination.
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Chicago, Aug. 16,1947
ation: B.A. political science,
rsity of Illinois, ’69
niversity of Chicago Law
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ir: Illinois House of
sentatives, 78-'88; Cook
y Recorder of Deeds, '88- 92;
ienator from Illinois, '92-'98;
imbassador to New Zealand
nton administration
issues: Civil rights, womens
health care, education, gun
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i the Senate, losing her
re-election in 1998. Early
term in the Senate, she
itional attention after tak-
Jesse Helms, R-N.C,
he sought to renew a
patent for the United
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erate flag.
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that should have gone to
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Thursday, February 20, 2003
Plane carrying 302 Iranian soldiers
crashes in Iran, killing all aboard
By Ali Akbar Dareini
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEHRAN, Iran —A military
plane carrying 302 members of
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards
crashed in the mountains of
southeastern Iran on Wednesday,
killing all on board in the coun
try’s worst plane crash ever, state-
run media reported.
The plane was en route from
Zahedan, on the Pakistan border,
to Kerman, about 500 miles
southeast of Tehran, state-run
Tehran television reported. It
crashed about 20 miles from its
destination.
The Russian-made Antonov
airliner operated by the Iranian
military lost contact with the con-
irol tower at 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, according to the
reports.
The official Islamic Republic
News Agency said rescuers at the
crash site had confirmed all 302
people on board were killed.
It was also the latest in a string
of plane accidents the Iranian
government has blamed on U.S.
sanctions, arguing that they have
prevented the country from
repairing and replacing its
aging fleet.
Trade between Iran and the
United States has been frozen
under sanctions Washington
imposed after the 1979 takeover
of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
The news agency said the
plane’s passengers and crew were
all members of the Revolutionary
Guards, an elite group under the
direct control of supreme leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The
guards protect Iran’s borders and
defend ruling hard-liners in this
ultra-conservative society.
State television and radio did
not offer reasons for the crash and
did not address the possibility of
terrorism. There was heavy snow
fall in many parts of Iran on
Wednesday, including in
Zahedan, which hadn’t seen snow
in three years.
Associated Press efforts to
reach provincial officials were
unsuccessful early Thursday.
Tehran television quoted an
Plane crash in Iran
A plane on a domestic route from
Zahedan to Kerman crashed
near Shahdad on Wednesday.
Plane crashed
killing 302 elite
Iranian soldiers
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anonymous official as saying the
forces had visited the impover
ished Sistan-Baluchestan
province, of which Zahedan is the
capital, for an “important
mission.”
The government issued a
statement offering condolences to
the families of the victims, televi
sion and radio reports said.
Iranians were preparing for an
Islamic holiday on Thursday, the
feast of Velayat, when Shiites
believe Islam’s prophet
Mohammad appointed his son-
in-law, Ali, as his successor.
Wednesday’s crash was the
deadliest in Iranian history
with the toll surpassing the 290
killed on July 3, 1988, when an
Iran Air A300 Airbus was shot
down over the Persian Gulf by
the USS Vincennes. The U.S.
military said it misidentified
the plane as an Iranian fighter,
an account disputed by Iran.
In December, Transportation
Minister Ahmad Khorram
acknowledged that Iran’s air
industry was suffering from
U.S. sanctions on purchase of
American-made planes and
warned of air disasters if the
trade ban wasn’t lifted.
The minister, speaking days
after the Dec. 23 crash of a
Ukrainian An-140 plane that
killed 46 scientists, said several
of Iran’s aging Boeing and
Airbus planes have been
grounded because of technical
problems and lack of
spare parts.
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give regents more flexibility in
spending state funds.
The senate also defeated a
resolution to rebuke Student
Body President Zac Coventry
for lobbying state legislators in
support of tuition deregulation.
Coventry and other student lead
ers spoke in support of deregula
tion during meetings with legis
lators at the state capitol on Feb.
11. Coventry denied advocating
deregulation, and said he was
only discussing the issue with
policy makers.
. Coventry accused the spon
sors of the resolution as taking a
My, aim. fire approach” and
Med them for not resolving
te matter privately.
“The (media) coverage on
this has bordered on personal
attacks on my character,” he said.
Coventry said he supported
the senate’s resolution opposing
deregulation.
Student Senator Jeff Graham,
one of the sponsors of the reso
lution rebuking Coventry, said
felt that he had accomplished the
goals of the resolution.
“We wanted to bring this mat
ter to the attention of the senate
i and to bring about a real debate
on tuition deregulation, and I
think we’ve done that,” he said.
Shortly after Graham intro-
i duced the resolution last week.
Senate Speaker Brooks Landgraf
requested that senators get stu
dents’ opinions on deregulation,
j Then, this week, Capps drafted
his resolution on tuition deregu-
; lation. However, Landgraf said
I the senate’s deregulation debate
| was not prompted by Graham’s
resolution.
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Supreme Court in decades.
Hundreds of groups and indi
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use of race in college admis
sions policies before the
Wednesday midnight deadline.
By the time the friend-of-the-
court briefs are processed, the
court will have mounds of
paperwork to review in addition
to the fat file in the long-running
University of Michigan case.
The list is a who's who in
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bination of doctors, politicians,
social workers, and makers of
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scription drugs, shampoo, soft
drinks and other products. One
brief alone was signed by nearly
14,000 law students.
Whether the briefs will have
much influence on the nine jus
tices is up for debate, but the
drafters hope they will at least
prompt questions during the
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