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military threats to shrines in
Iraq. An Najaf is the burial place
of Imam AM, son-in-law of the
Prophet Mohammed.
Details of the situation inside
the southern city of Basra, Iraq’s
second-largest, also were
sketchy. British journalists
reported that residents were
staging an uprising against pro-
Saddam forces and that Iraqi
troops were firing mortars at
them.
British forces staged a raid
on a suburb of the city, captured
a senior leader of the ruling
Baath party and killed 20 of his
bodyguards.
“He’s sitting there in his lit
tle room thinking he’s having a
good morning and whap, we’re
in, whap, we’re out,” boasted
Col. Chris Vernon, a British
Anny spokesman.
The Iraqis denied all of it.
“The situation is stable,”
Information Minister
Mohammed al-Sahhaf said in an
interview with Al-Jazeera, an
Arab satellite television net
work.
United Nations Secretary-
General Kofi Annan and others
have warned of a possible
humanitarian crisis in Basra.
The International Red Cross
said during the day that it had
begun repairs at a war-damaged
water-pumping station serving
the city.
Annan told Bush's national
security adviser, Condoleezza
Rice, the United States is legally
responsible for providing
humanitarian aid to Iraqis in
areas controlled by coalition
forces. The United Nations can
not provide humanitarian assis
tance until security conditions
allow the safe return of U.N.
staff, Annan told Rice. White
House spokesman Ari Fleischer
blamed Saddam for slowing the
flow of goods by placing mines
near Umm Qasr.
Thus far in Operation Iraqi
Freedom, Americans said they
had taken nearly 4,()()0 Iraqi
prisoners. There was no accurate
death toll among Iraqi troops or
civilians.
American losses ran to 20
dead and 14 captured or miss
ing. The remains of the first two
to die were flown overnight to
Dover Air Force Base in
Delaware.
Twenty British troops had
also died, including two killed
Monday by friendly fire.
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which oversees the war.
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Iraqi military hospital used
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when the enemy has is
defeated, to make a more
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miles from Baghdad am
Republican Guard unitsdefes
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night artillery barrage.
Tolerance
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about promotion and tenure involving homosexuals deserve
“heightened scrutiny.”
In an interview, Conoley, one of two finalists for provost and
executive vice president — the second highest position at the
University — said she found Crouse’s letter “rather pompous
and arrogant” and instituted the new tolerance policy because
homosexuals are a vulnerable minority.
“Sacred texts should be used to guide our personal lives and
not used in judgement of others,” Conoley said.
Conoley’s memo sparked accusations that her comments
were intolerant toward certain religious views and that she
had disregarded faculty input by instituting the new toler
ance policy.
“Some of the language in your e-mail is unnecessarily
demeaning to those who hold a viewpoint somewhat different
from yours,” wrote education professor David Erlandson in an
e-mail to Conoley.
In an interview, Erlandson said he could not abide by
Conoley’s policy of celebrating and cherishing the homosexual
lifestyle.
“I can’t promote that lifestyle because of my faith, and if I’m
not in compliance, I’ll accept the consequences,” Erlandson
said.
Carl Gabbard, a kinesiology professor and a signatory of the
letter, said Conoley’s new policy statement had little faculty
input and sabotaged the faculty committee’s debate on the final
wording of the tolerance statement.
“The dean’s policy is an attempt to close the door on our dis
cussion,” Gabbard said in an interview Tuesday. “There was no
compromise in this case, and that was very disappointing.”
The college’s faculty advisory committee is still work
ing on a general tolerance statement, said Gerald Kulm, the
group’s chairman. The words “celebrate and promote” are
gone from the revised version that the committee will vote
on today, Kulm said.
Consumer confidence falters
in face of war, economy worn?
By Annie D'Innocenzio
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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NEW YORK — Consumer con
fidence dropped for the fourth con
secutive month in March to its low
est level in nearly a decade, driven
lower by worries about the economy
and the war in Iraq, a private
research group said Tuesday.
The Consumer Confidence Index
fell to 62.5 from a revised 64.8 in
February, the Conference Board
said. The reading was the lowest
since October 1993, when the confi
dence index registered 60.5 as the
country was slowly recovering from
the 1991 recession.
Still, the March decline was
slightly better than expected and not
nearly as drastic as the 14-point drop
in February. Analysts had expected a
reading of 62.0 in March.
The Conference Board’s index is
derived from responses received
through March 18 — before the start
of war in Iraq — to a survey mailed
to 5,000 households. The results
released Tuesday are from a partial
sample and are subject to revision.
Lynn Franco, director of the
Conference Board’s Consul
Research Center, said a quick
come in the war will ease uncenif
ties, but consumer confidence »i
only rise if economic fundameifi
improve.
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percent, at 8,280.23. The bi
market was also higher,
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Wachovia Securities in
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sumer confidence will improve®;
“we see that the war is comingt®
end and that businesses are
again looking to hire workers®
invest in capital.”
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