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IN BRIEF
Latin American Studies
Program hosts lecture
Renowned theologian Father Gus
tavo Gutierrez will speak about Bar
tolome de las Casas — a prominent
Spanish priest and defender of the
rights of the individual people — to
day at 3:30 p.m. in the EMU Gum
wood Room. The lecture is being pre
sented by the Latin American Studies
Program and is co-sponsored by the
St. Thomas More Newman Center.
Gutierrez is a Peruvian Catholic
who founded the liberation theolo
gy movement. The movement is an
initiative to bridge the gap between
the Catholic Church and the poor
and oppressed.
Latin American Studies Director
Carlos Aguirre hailed Gutierrez as
one of the most important figures of
20th century Latin culture.
“He has denounced the oppression
and exploitation of the poor as sinful
and is calling for commitment on part
of all Catholics to change the society
and liberate the poor,” Aguirre said.
As well as lecturing today, there
will be an open forum with Gutierrez
on Friday from 4 to 5 p.m. at the
Newman Center at 1850 Emerald St.
Both events are free and open to
the public, and a reception follows.
— Amanda Bolsinger
STUDENT SENATE
The Student Senate approved finance
benchmarks for three major programs
during a tense and lengthy meeting
Wednesday night.
Senators authorized tentative funding
increases of 5.3 percent for the
Athletic Department Finance Commit
tee, 5.62 percent for the Programs
Finance Committee and 7 percent for
the EMU Board of Directors.
The Senate also granted $5,772 to
the Men’s Water Polo team to attend
nationals at University of Notre Dame.
Senators discussed drafting a
resolution condemning the Nov. 11
University basketball game against Illi
nois because the Chief llliniwek mas
cot is offensive.
See Friday’s Emerald for a more
detailed account of the meeting.
Ten killed, twelve wounded
by suidde car bomb in Beiji
U.S. troops continue
search-and-destroy
mission in Fallujah
BYTINI TRAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A suicide car
bomber blasted an American con
voy north of Baghdad and U.S.
troops battled insurgents west of the
capital Wednesday as a wave of vio
lence across Iraq’s Sunni Muslim
heartland killed at least 27 people.
American forces pursued their
search-and-destroy mission against
the remaining holdouts in the for
mer insurgent bastion of Fallujah,
and to the north, American forces
pressed an offensive to reclaim part
of the city of Mosul from militants.
November became one of Iraq’s
bloodiest months as the U.S. death
toll in the war in Iraq reached 1,214,
according to figures released by the
Defense Department.
On Wednesday, a suicide attacker
drove his bomb-laden car into a
U.S. convoy during fierce fighting in
the town of Beiji, 155 miles north of
the Baghdad, killing 10 people and
wounding 12, including three Amer
ican soldiers. Another attack on a
convoy of civilian contractors in
Beiji caused no casualties.
Elsewhere, a three-hour gunbattle
between militants and U.S. forces
after nightfall left seven people dead
and 13 hurt in Ramadi, a city west
of Fallujah.
Insurgents fired rocket-propelled
grenades, mortar and Kalashnikov
rifles at U.S. forces in the city cen
ter, Zayout district and along the
main highway in town, said Abdel
Karim al-Hiti of Ramadi General
Hospital.
Violence surging in Sunni Arab heartland
Increasing attacks and
the U.S. military’s
offensive to retake
the insurgent
stronghold of
Fallujah have made)
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Ramadi, about 70 miles west of
Baghdad, falls within the restive
Sunni Triangle area north and west
of the capital where the bulk of in
surgent attacks have erupted.
Although fighting has ebbed in
Fallujah, it has not ceased. The U.S.
military said pockets of insurgents
remain even though the city is fully
occupied by U.S. troops.
On Wednesday, heavy machine
gun fire and explosions rang out in
south-central parts of the city as
U.S. Marines hunted remaining
fighters. In the northern Jolan
neighborhood, Marines killed seven
insurgents who officers said had
sneaked back into the city by swim
ming the Euphrates River.
Bullets flew overhead and Iraqis
collecting dead bodies ran for cover
behind walls and in buildings as
Marines returned fire. After 15 min
utes of fighting, three insurgents
were dead and one Marine’s hand
was slightly injured, officers said.
The rush of warplanes streaking
through the low-lying clouds shook
the city and blasts sent smoke into
the sky. The U.S. military said
airstrikes Wednesday were concen
trated in southwestern Fallujah, de
stroying enemy positions.
Iraqi officials have acknowledged
that insurgent leaders Omar Hadid
and Sheik Abdullah al-Janabi, along
with Jordanian terror boss
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, have not
been captured and may have
slipped away.
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The UO Russian and East European Studies Center,
UO students of Russian, European studies and theater,
with support from Yamada Language Center,
present
A new bilingual Russo-English play
by J.Nemirovskaya
"0tussian for the Princess"
A young German Princess arrives at the Russian court,
charms everyone and later becomes the Russian Empress
Catherine the Great.
The play is a set of masquerades, puppet shows
and funny Russian lessons given to young Catherine.
Presentation of each letter is followed by court intrigues,
love affairs, politics, dance, music and even acrobatics.
The play will be performed just once,
Friday, November 19,
in UO Agate Hall
(Agate and 18th) at 7:30 p.m.
The show is free and open to the public.
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