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Monday, August 30, 2004
ush, protesters prepare for
OP convention in New York
By Ron Fournier
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Abortion-
;hts protesters and the first
Plpublican delegates descended
o President Bush’s heavily for-
t ied convention city Saturday
a campaign officials said their
liss would use the nomination
spotlight to defend his hawkish
■ reign polices and offer a sec-
I id-term agenda for health care,
education and job training.
“He believes it’s important for
■candidate to talk about what
he s done and, most important,
where he wants to lead,” said
adviser Karen Hughes, aboard
Bush’s campaign bus in Ohio,
“fhe speech is very forward-
1 oking. It talks about what an
other four years of a Bush presi
dency would look like.”
■ Democratic rival Sen. John
lerry said most voters won’t
1 ok kindly on another term for
the Republican. “For the last
f iur years, we’ve had a dark
^^loud over Washington,” Kerry
t| ld supporters on an overcast
y in Washington state. “We’re
ing to get rid of it on Nov. 2.”
With his decorated combat
cord in question, Kerry said,
m in a fighting mood,” and a
mpaign ally chided Bush for
rving stateside in the Texas
ir National Guard while others
ught in Vietnam.
In an interview. Bush told
hBC’s “Today” that Kerry “go-
ii gto Vietnam was more heroic
y flying fighter jets. He
|as in harm’s way and I wasn’t.
n the other hand, I served my
Juntry. Had my unit been called
would have gone.”
Pre-convention polls showed
; race evenly split, though
2004 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
Behind the podium in New York
A long list of Republican leaders will address the delegates at
Madison Square Garden along with First Lady Laura Bush and New
York’s mayors, past and present.
Highlights of speakers, Aug. 30 through Sept. 2
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Mayor Michael
Bloomberg
Rod
Paige
Zell
Miller
Lynn
Swann
Sen. John Gov. Arnold
McCain Schwarzenegger
Lynne
Cheney
Gov. George
Pataki
Former Mayor
Rudy
Giuliani
Laura
Bush
Vice
President
Dick Cheney
President
George W.
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■e challenger has lost ground
s nee his convention in Boston a
nonth ago. The four-day Republ
ican convention opens Monday.
I Bush campaigned delib-
^■'ately through battleground
sptesen route to an overwhelm-
gly Democratic convention
city: fertile ground for protests
SOURCE: Republican National Committee
against his foreign and domestic
policies. Thousands of abortion-
rights activists marched across
the Brooklyn Bridge, 10 abreast
in a protest a half-mile long. The
night before, 264 people were
arrested for disorderly conduct
in a bicycle protest past Madison
Square Garden. New York po
lice said 25 people were arrested
Saturday for various conven
tion-related incidents, bringing
the three-day total to 311.
The convention site is less
than five miles from Ground
Zero, where two hijacked planes
destroyed the Twin Towers, kill
ing 2,749 people and catapult
ing the nation into war. Bush’s
approval ratings soared as he
led the nation in mourning, then
ordered troops into Afghanistan
to overthrow the Taliban regime
and begin the search for Osama
bin Laden.
Three years later, the terror-
AP
ist leader is still at large, and the
U.S. military is fighting an un
popular war in Iraq. As the death
toll of U.S. troops nears 1,000,
Bush hopes to persuade vot
ers that the invasion of Iraq has
made the nation safer.
“The power of liberty can
not be stopped,” the president
told supporters in Lima, Ohio,
borrowing a line from his work-
in-progress acceptance address.
“Freedom is peace. Free societ
ies are not going to harbor al-
Qaida.”
But even free societies must
be diligent. Security precautions
at the site of the convention
showed it.
Police were out in force
guarding New York roadways,
bridges, tunnels and ports, while
vehicle restrictions on an 18-
square-block area around the
Garden snarled traffic in a city
already congested.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — Tropical Storm
aston sloshed ashore in South Carolina Sunday
ith near hurricane-force winds, spinning sheets
rain that flooded roads as power was out for
thousands of people.
Gaston made landfall near McClellanville, a
all fishing village that was brushed by Hurricane
barley earlier this month when it came ashore for
second time after devastating southwest Florida.
Gov. Mark Sanford declared a state of emer-
[ency Sunday and encouraged residents to stay in
peir homes so damage-assessment crews and util-
|y and cleanup workers could do their work.
As much as 10 inches of rain fell in Charles-
n County, and a flash flood watch was in effect
ong some parts of the coast. Hundreds of resi-
lents were urged to evacuate points in the direct
lath of the storm.
Hours after the eye of Gaston came ashore,
fiteady sheets of rain drenched Mount Pleasant,
ree limbs littered flooded roadways, some of
hich were impassable. Palmettos were pushed to
e pavement, and road signs were twisted in the
igh wind.
Across the harbor in Charleston, Gaston flooded
reets and toppled power poles. At least 125,000
eople were without power during the storm.
The rain tapered off along the coast by midday,
jut blustery wind still raked the coastline near
harleston, and intersections throughout the area
had no traffic lights.
“The important thing is that we don’t have any
false sense of safety that it’s all over,” said Charles
ton Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. “We have downed
trees, and often times there are power lines under
those downed trees.”
By evening, Gaston was moving north about
8 mph across inland South Carolina, weakening
along the way but still packing wind gusts as high
as 82 mph.
Charleston County officials said there was only
one initial report of a serious injury — a resident
injured when a tree fell on a home.
“It just goes to show that the residents took the
proper precautions that they needed to take and
shows they were prepared,” said Roland Wind
ham, the Charleston County administrator.
Residents in low-lying areas in Charleston and
Georgetown counties were urged to move to higher
ground before the storm hit. Authorities also asked
people living in mobile homes to evacuate.
“We hope we don’t experience any more inju
ries during the cleanup,” Windham said. “That’s
typically when you see a lot of injuries occur.”
John Legare of the state Emergency Manage
ment agency said about 30 people had sought ref
uge in five shelters in coastal counties as Gaston
approached. Shelters were opened in at least one
inland county.
Gaston had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph
when it hit land but was down to 45 mph by early
afternoon. Forecasters said the weakened stonn
could reach North Carolina by Sunday night.
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arshal is continuing to investi-
jate the cause of the fire.
Bhatnagar said that although
did not feel that the University
lad a widespread problem of bad
aintenance, he did feel that the
Diversity was being more reac-
ve than proactive in regards to
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other matter at these apartments,”
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that the University Apartment
Residence Life and management
is (now) doing every bit to ensure
the safety of the residents.”
Gates said the University was
examining maintenance and
safety procedures not only at the
University apartments, but cam
pus-wide.
Lufthansa Kanta, Ejaz’s wife,
was released from a Galveston
hospital on Monday, and her un
born child is doing fine, Gates
said. Kanta is expected to make
daily visits to the hospital’s burn
unit as she continues her recov
ery from burns that covered ap
proximately half of her body.
The Association of Former
Students has established a relief
fund to assist the Ejaz family.
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