Football wins spark riots at Ohio, WSU
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Chicago Tribune (KRT)
MADISON, Wis. — Bundled in an
orange snowmobiling suit, the beard
ed sidewalk flutist played a lively ren
dition of “On the Sunny Side of the
Street,” the notes echoing up and
down State Street as if to declare that
life on this eclectic, student-oriented
strip has returned to normal.
Thank the carpenters and plate
glass workers who were called into
action alter the city s annual Hal
loween celebration just off the Uni
versity of Wisconsin campus turned
into a bottle-throwing, glass-break
ing, tear gas-wafting riot.
Campus disturbances are hardly
new — Wisconsin has a rich history
of protest — but college administra
tors, city officials and police across
the nation are grappling with the
complex problem of anticipating and
controlling street celebrations that of
ten draw tens of thousands of people.
The past two springs, police have
had to quell riots near the Ohio State
University campus in Columbus,
and at least a dozen small fires were
reported Saturday after the school’s
football team clinched a spot in the
national title game. Celebrations
also got out of hand after several oth
er college games, including one on
the campus of Washington State,
where players on the visiting Univer
sity of Washington team were pelted
with debris thrown on the field.
A handful of injuries resulted from
the rowdy behavior Saturday. Most
of the mayhem — though not all —
surrounded goal-post-dismantling
parties that often follow big victories.
“I don’t think they have gotten
more out of hand, but the number of
events has increased, and the poten
tial (for trouble) is greater,” said
Sheldon Steinbach, vice president
and general counsel for the Ameri
can Council on Education.
The challenge for universities
and law enforcement also is juris
dictional, complicated by the blur
ring boundaries separating campus
es from the communities that
surround them.
© 2002, Chicago Tribune. Distributed
by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information
Services.
Tentative agreement would end port dispute
v intern j. acnoaoiSKi
Chicago Tribune (KRT)
LOS ANGELES — Averting a
strike that would have been a ma
jor blow to the nation’s already
weak economy, the West Coast
longshore union and representa
tives of shipping companies
reached an agreement for a six
year labor agreement, both sides
said early Sunday.
The new contract, which needs fi
nal approval by rank and file members
of the International Longshore and
Warehouse union, was completed late
Saturday night. It et mtains most of the
pension and health benefits and job
security the union sought and the
modernization demanded by the Pa
cific Maritime Association, the ship
ping companies’ representative.
At the core of the dispute was a
demand by the shippers that mod
em technology—including comput
ers, scanning devices and closed cir
cuit television cameras —- be
introduced to West Coast ports as a
means of increasing the speed and
Under the rules of the old con
tract, all data on incoming contain
ers was first recorded manually by
union clerks.
on
sides declined to comment
new con
day, but Peter Hurtgen, the chief fed
eral mediator, hailed the new
agreement as historic and indicated
that the modernization demanded
by the Pacific Maritime Association
would be implemented.
In an earlier statement, Hurtgen
said that in addition to better wages
and benefits for the union’s 10,500
members, the agreement also provid
ed for “necessary technology and dis
pute resolution improvements to en
sure that America’s West Coast ports
continue to modernize and increase
both efficiency and productivity.”
Longshore union members are
among the highest paid blue-collar
workers in the nation. According to
the Maritime Association, annual
wages range between $80,000 and
8150,000 depending on the skill re
quired for the job.
“It is now time again for this indus
try to retool,” said James Spinosa, the
international president of the Long
shore and Warehouse Union on Sun
day. “And I think the membership will
be pleased with the results.”
A 100-member union caucus
will meet on Dec. 9 for a vote on
ratification.
© 2002, Chicago Tribune. Distributed
by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information
Services.
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Saudi princess denies charges of funding terrorists
Diego Ibarguen
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON — The wife of
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the
United States on Sunday vehement
ly denied suggestions that she
helped fund terrorists involved in
the Sept. 11,2001, attacks, but con
firmed that she gave money to a
needy woman whose husband may
have had ties to the hijackers.
“I find that accusations that I con
tributed funds to terrorists outra
geous and completely irresponsible,”
said Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of
Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sul
tan, in a statement issued late Sun
day to Knight Ridder Newspapers.
“This is the time for people to
come together to combat the
scourge of terrorism so that others
will not suffer the loss of loved ones,”
the princess said.
It is extremely rare for Saudi
women to be involved in public con
troversy or to issue press state
merits. A spokesman for the Saudi
embassy in Washington said he be
lieved Sunday’s statement issued to
Knight Ridder was the first ever is
sued by Princess Haifa.
The angry denial came in the
wake of reports that the FBI was in
vestigating a possible money trail
from the Saudi Arabian government
to two of the hijackers, Khalid al
Midhar and Nawaf al Hazmi. The re
ports said that money from the
princess went to the family of Osama
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Bassnan, a Saudi citizen, when they
were living in the United States. A
friend of Bassnan, Omar al Bayoumi,
had apparently helped al Midhar and
al Hazmi when they arrived in San
Diego’s Muslim community.
Nail al Jubeir, the Saudi Embassy
spokesman, said Sunday that
Princess Haifa had given money to a
woman named Majida Ibrahim Ah
mad, a Jordanian national, who had
gone to her for help in paying for
medical expenses.
The princess gave her monthly
checks of #2,000 for several years,
but she was not aware that Ahmad
was the wife of Bassnan, who had in
direct connections to the hijackers.
“She has been very generous in
her support of Saudis living here,” al
Jubeir said. “We’re tracing the whole
thing,” he said.
Both Ahmad and her Saudi hus
band were deported this month.
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