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Steve Baggs Emerald Columbus Day continued from pagel Hunt compared Columbus to Hitler, saying that celebrating a holiday in his name is the same as celebrating Hitler’s birthday. Columbus “is not a great Ameri can,” he said. “In my opinion, we should celebrate indigenous people day, and to hell with Columbus Day. ” NASU member Hector Cash Bolanos said Columbus has been portrayed in a positive light be cause the history books were writ ten by white people, and the Na tive American’s viewpoint has not been represented. “People have to understand and respect the other reality,” he said. Norris said most people know Columbus wasn’t a good man, but it is still important to educate on native issues because people are naive to the native struggle. 909210 Come in and call your friends for free. anytime minutes Y / per month 1 year contract Some restrictions apply. Subject to phone ovaillability. 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Bake Sale: Oregon Hiilel is sponsoring a Jewish student community bake sale, Half of the donations will be sent to the New York Emergency Relief Fund. 10 am-3 p.m. University Bookstore, 13th Avenue and Kincaid Street Friday, Oct. 12 Oregon Archaeology Celebration 2001: Biological anthropologist and University Anthropology Professor John Lukacs presents “Reconstructing Ancient Ufeways from Bioarchaeology: Mesolithic Foragers of North India/’ 5:30 p.m. 175 Knight Law Center. Free. Fora full calendar listing, go to www.dailyemerald.com. Send event information to calendar@dailyemeraid.com.. Bombing continued from page 1 from north to south and east to west, and thanks be to God that what Amer ica is tasting now is only a copy of what we have tasted,” bin Laden said. “God has blessed a group of van guard Muslims, the forefront of Islam, to destroy America. May God bless them and allot them a supreme place in heaven,” he said. “I swear to God that America will not live in peace be fore peace reigns in Palestine. ” Bin Laden was not specifically a tar get in Sunday’s attacks, according to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He said the war on terror aims at much bigger targets than bin Laden alone: the eradication of terrorist networks. The U.S.- and British-led cam paign will be “sustained” and “con tinuous,” Rumsfeld said, “until we are convinced that those terrorist networks are destroyed. ” In addition, some 37,500 rations of food and medical supplies were air-dropped for the suffering Afghan people. Bush said the move under scored that the war is not directed against the Afghan people, but against the terrorists in their midst and the regime that shelters them. The strikes started 26 days after the most devastating attack on Amer ican soil since the Civil War. The Sept. 11 terrorist assaults killed an estimated 5,600 Americans in New York, suburban Washington and Pennsylvania, and blasted the nation out of an era of peace and confidence into a state of war and fear. In London, British Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged that the new campaign carries risks for Afghan civilians who might be killed, and it could ignite new terrorist as saults. But, Blair said, “the dangers of inaction are far, far greater — the threat of further such outrages, the threat to our economies, the threat to the stability of the world. ” Bush warned that Americans face the possibility of terrorist reprisals both at home and abroad. As a pre caution, Vice President Dick Cheney was moved to an undisclosed loca tion while Bush remained at the White House. The State Department warned Americans abroad to be alert. National Guard and police security was beefed up around the nation. “I know many Americans feel fear today,” Bush said. “And our government is taking strong precau tions. All law enforcement and in telligence agencies are working ag gressively around America, around the world and around the clock.” The president asked the American people for patience with the incon venience that comes with increased security, with the endurance of what will be a long campaign, and “all the sacrifices that may come. ” The headquarters of Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban regime in Kanda har was destroyed in the first wave of missile strikes, according to Al Jazeera television in Qatar. But the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan said the regime’s leader and bin Laden both survived. “By the grace of God, Mullah Omar and bin Laden are alive,” Taliban Ambassador Abdul Salam Zaeef told reporters in Islamabad, Pakistan. Independent verification of his claim was impossible. Rumsfeld told reporters in mid-afternoon that it was too soon to know how suc cessful the strikes were. He said he did not know of any casualties or planes being downed. The Taliban vowed to fight. “This attack by America is a ter rorist act,” Zaeef told the Afghan Is lamic Press agency. “Poor and com mon Afghans will die, for which America will be responsible. This is an attack on an independent coun try. We will fight to the last breath. ” In recognition that Muslim reac tion to the assault on Afghanistan could be extreme, the State Depart ment’s alert warned Americans abroad to beware of “strong anti American sentiment and retaliatory actions against U.S. citizens and in terests throughout the world by ter rorists and those who are sympathet ic to or otherwise support terrorism. ” It urged Americans overseas to moni tor local news, maintain contact with the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate and to limit their movements. In Rome, aides to deposed Afghan king Mohammad Zaher Shah said they were not advised in advance about Sunday’s military at tacks, and expressed concern that a political vacuum could ensue if the Taliban are quickly routed. In a statement issued by his secre tariat, the former king acknowledged the “legitimate right” of the United States to “seek justice” against per petrators of the Sept. 11 attack, but urged the United States and its allies to “respect the territorial integrity of Afghanistan and the safety and the life of our innocent people. ” The 86-year-old monarch, ousted in a coup nearly 30 years ago, was prepared to return to his country within a week’s time if needed to convene a supreme council of na tional unity to help create a transi tional government, said Dr. Zalmai Rassoul, an aide to Zaher. Bush settled on his military plan weeks ago, according to a senior ad ministration official who was in volved in decision-making. The president conducted a final run through of the plan by videoconfer ence Saturday at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland to make sure that all military, diplomat ic and security plans were in place. With his plans set, Bush called congressional leaders late Saturday to alert them. “We stand united with the presi dent and with our troops,” Repub lican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate said in a joint statement issued Sunday after the attacks were launched. One U.S. intelligence officer, speaking on condition of anonymi ty, said CIA analysts believe that bin Laden and the Taliban gravely un derestimated U.S. will. “Bin Laden certainly believes what he says about the United States — it’s weak, corrupt and im moral, and it would fall over the minute he hit it hard enough,” the U.S. intelligence official said. Sumana Chatterjee, Jackie Koszczuk, War ren P. Strobe! and Michael Zielenziger in Rome contributed to this article. © 2001, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
