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Newspaper of < ieorgia Southern I IUUTSUY www.stp.gasou.edu GEORGE NSSSS NEWS: SGA's year in review as election day approaches Page 5 Volume 75, No."to y\U ■» I ema, Second week of war in Iraq begins with more U.S. airstrikes, Najaf battle Drive to The number of dead, missing and captured Baghdad slowed since the beginning of the Iraqi conflict According to the Associated Press as of March 24,2003 by sandstorm, American soldiers killed: 20 f resistance British soldiers killed: 17 More than 200, ac- Iraqi civilian casualties: Associated Press cording to Iraqi officials 3,000, according to NEAR KARB ALA, Iraq-Aiming Iraqi prisoners of war: for Saddam Hussein's seat of power, the Pentagon U.S.-led warplanes and helicopters 7, according to Iraqi American prisoners of war: -1. attacked Republican Guard units de- officials fending Baghdad while ground troops 14, according to the American soldiers missing: advanced to within 80 kilometers (50 Pentagon miles) of the Iraqi capital. President 2, according to the George W. Bush put a $75 billion price British soldiers missing: British military tag on a down payment for the war. J — -1 The helicopter assault marked Neither American nor Iraqi officials have released a total number of the first known engagement between Iraqi soldiers killed. forces in central Iraq, and many of the American craft were hit by Iraqi KRT Campus i ■ * groundfire. One went down behind enemy lines - the cause was unknown U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Brian Flaherty of New York, Delta Company of the Second Tank Battalion, - and the Pentagon said the two-per- disconnects a fuel bladder from a tank as a dust storm rages in preparation for an advance to the north Senate votes to slice Bush tax cut son crew had been taken prisoner. of Iraq on March 25. The move north has been one of the most aggressive tank road marches in Marine KRT Campus Five days into Operation Iraqi history. Each bladder contains 55 gallons of fuel and will allow a tank to travel about 30 miles. Only last Friday the Senate had Freedom, resistance prevented WASHINGTON - The U.S. rejected, 62-38, a similar push to cut American and British forces from Senate on Tuesday sliced President Bush's tax cut in half. But since then securing the southern cities of Basra Throughout history, Baghdad has been difficult to defend, rule Bush's proposed tax cut in half, a stun- Bush has asked Congress for almost and An Nasiriy ah and thwarted efforts ning reversal that undermined a key $75 billion for the initial costs of the to extinguish burning oil wells. KRT Campus that hugs the banks of the serpentine to rule. element of his economic policy. The war with Iraq. In addition, the smaller tax cut "These things are never easy," KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - Mon- Tigris River. "You can conquer it. Baghdad is surprising vote-reflected lawmakers' endorsed Tuesday would devote the conceded British Prime Minister gols sacked it, the Ottomans controlled From its heyday as a cultural an open town," said Behnam Abu Al- anxiety over the growing cost of the money saved from Bush's proposal Tony Blair, on the day his country it and the British shaped it. center in the 8th and 9th centuries, Soof, an archeologist and Iraqi par- Iraq war, fear of record deficits, and to reform of Social Security. suffered its first combat casualty of But none of them could hold it. to its sad fate in the early 21st cen- liamentarian. "You can enter from all doubts about the economic benefits The Senate vote set a limit for any the war. "There will be some difficult Now, after a sprint of tanks and tury, Baghdad remains an eternal sides. But it is hard to run. The people of tax cuts now. tax cut as part of a budget blueprint times ahead but [the war] is going to other heavy armor through a bleached, place, outlasting those who came to never tolerate foreign occupation or The Senate voted 51-48 to slash shaping legislation later this year. plan despite the tragedies." bleak desert, U.S. troops are bearing conquer and rule. foreign rule." Bush's tax cut to $350 billion over Saddam sought to rally his own down on Baghdad. Sprawling on a plain, Baghdad's Hussein has signaled that Baghdad 10 years instead of the $726 billion country in a televised appearance. Tasked as liberators instead of fate is wrapped in its geography, a is likely to be the climactic scene of he sought. See Cut, Page 11 "Be patient, brothers, because God's conquerors in their bid to topple city lying at the crossroads of an his 12-year conflict with the United victory will be ours soon," he said, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and old trading route, in the heart of old States. He reportedly has moved in his appearing in full military garb and his regime, the Americans are follow- Mesopotamia. ing a well-worn path to an ancient city It is difficult to defend, difficult See History, Page 9 See Drive, Page 9 ON THE Opinions Sports Lifestyles INSIDE: • Amanda Permenter scorns • GSU Baseball wins three of • 'Chicago' shines on Oscars television media for sloppy seven games over spring break. night. war coverage. • GSU Softball falls in two of • Soul Embraced's album 'Im- • A GSU student discusses why three games against the Furman mune' is Christian heavy metal he was against the war a week Paladins. with a slightly pop feel. KRT Campus ago, but supports it now. • GSU Golf finishes 11th in President Bush is applauded at the Pentagon where he spoke Schenkel Invitational. to military officials during a visit on Tuesday, March 25. At left are Covering the campus Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Secretary of Defense A*~ like a swarm of gnats Page 4 Page 6 Page 8 Donald Rumsfeld. T Page 2 - Wednesday, March 26,2003 Free On-Campus Campus Calendar Police Beat Tutoring 03-11-2003 03-16-2003 Academic Success Center March 27 April 2 • Jason Edward Burke, 18, of John- 681-0321 Williams Center room 2023 son Hall, was charged with minor in • A broken window was reported possession/consumption of alcohol at the Henderson Library. www2.gasou.edu/tutorial P.O. Box 8001 • Officers assisted two motorists. Senior Composition Honors Day and public indecency. 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