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HE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ELVILLE, N.Y. (AP) —
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executive Raymond Jansen said
in la statement on the newspa
pers Web site. The two
Newsday staffers told their col
leagues they were crossing into
Iordan. The two freelancers
were with them Newsday corre-
-spondent Matthew McAllester,
33, and photographer Moises
iic but should k Saman, 29, had been out of con-
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The journalists used a satel
lite phone to call their loved
ones. McAllester called his sis
ter, Janey McAllester, in
London, where she works at an
art gallery.
■ ‘‘I just shrieked at him,
because he was alive. I couldn’t
stop crying. It was the best news
we could wish for,” the sister
said.
B“He said they had been held
in prison, but they had been
treated OK. I asked him if he
was held by people from Iraq’s
Ministry of Information and he
just said: ‘That’s a nice name
for them.’”
Teachers on
leave due to
war posters
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
(AP) — Two high school teach
ers said Tuesday they have been
placed on leave for refusing to
remove war-related student art
work posted in their classrooms.
Highland High School teach
ers Allen Cooper and Geoffrey
Barrett said they were told
Monday night that they would
be suspended if they did not
remove the posters.
Barrett, who teaches history
and current events, said the stu
dent art carried both anti-war
and pro-war messages, and was
created as part of a class
assignment.
f “I think this is mostly a vio
lation of the students’ rights to
have a voice and express their
opinions,” Barrett said. “Asking
me to take down the posters was
taking away the voice of the stu
dents and I was not going to
do that.”
Cooper said one of the signs
in question in his classroom read
“No War Mr. Cooper.” It was
written by an Afghani student
who has had family members
killed in U.S.-led bombings in
Afghanistan, he said.
| “I really agonized over this,”
said Cooper, an English teacher.
“I don’t want to be suspended. I
just want to teach my classes.”
Both teachers said the posters
in question were taken down by
school officials before classes
began Tuesday.
THE BATTALION
NEWS IN BRIEF
Air Force Academy agrees
to outside investigation
DENVER (AP) — The Air Force
Academy, which has been urged to sub
mit to an outside investigation of its sex
ual assault scandal, has agreed to turn
over files to local prosecutors.
Academy officials told the El Paso
County District Attorney’s Office it
would be givendhe sexual assault reports
it had requested last week. They, howev
er, did not say when the records would be
sent over.
The Defense Department and Air
Force are investigating how the academy
dealt with 20 cases of rape and 36 cases
of sexual assault reported since 1993.
Cadets who say they were raped say that
they were blamed and punished by their
superiors and ostracized by classmates.
The district attorney’s office began its
investigation last month at the request of
a female cadet who was not satisfied with
military’s handling of her complaint. A
number of senators have also called for
an independent investigation.
New center to guard
against bioterror attacks
ATLANTA (AP) — The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention has a
new $7.1 million emergency operations
center to guard against bioterrorist
attacks and help it track outbreaks of
emerging diseases such as West Nile virus
or severe acute respiratory syndrome.
The center allows health officials to
receive data and information from disease
detectives in the field, and officials can
quickly confer with international and
federal agencies during a health crisis.
“This is a war room for health,” said
Gov. Sonny Perdue. “Any forensic or
criminal investigator will tell you the best
thing they can have at their fingertips.”s
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