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6A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 2001
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Rescuers frustrated as search continues
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — With each passing, fruitless hour, the men and women who combed the wreckage of the World Trade Center grew more frustrated yesterday, their hopes of finding survivors dashed at every turn.
Ed Kester, a firefighter from Engine Co. 313 in Queens, said that when searchers found personal items among the rubble, their hearts quickened with the possibility that a living person might be nearby.
"It gives a hint — like eyeglasses, pocketbooks, Palm Pilots," Kester said, as he peeled off his suit a few blocks from the site at the end of an eight-hour shift. "If we find stuff, we bring dogs in to sniff around. It was a letdown. The
The city released a partial list of victims Saturday, and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said 180 people had been confirmed dead, 115 of whom had been identified. Eighteen city firefighters were among the confirmed dead, including two top officials. The total number of missing was raised to 5,097.
dogs didn't pick up on anyone."
The mayor said reports of tapping from the wreckage were unfounded, that no signs of life had been detected.
Jim Kasey, 35, a credit card fraud investigator from Yardley, Pa., had picked through debris by hand, filling buckets that were passed along a line of as many as 100 volunteers.
"It was very somber," he said.
Kasey, who used to be a volunteer emergency medical technician, said he had longed to hug his two children when he first laid eyes on the pile of Trade Center carriage.
"I came because it's the right thing to do, 'cause if your family was in here, you'd want me, and people like me, here too," he said.
Mayor Giuliani said the griefladen city was pushing ahead plans to reopen much of downtown Manhattan on Monday with a new service, a ferry carrying passengers between Brooklyn and Manhattan.
"This could be the most jarring event in American history," he said. "There's every reason to understand why people are going to be very traumatized or
very upset by it but the best way to deal with it is to try to get back to normal."
It was easy to see why rescuers were numb. Among the grisly finds at the site were a pair of hands, bound together, found on a rooftop.
Another was the torso of a Port Authority police officer, identified by the radio still hanging from his belt.
Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik said the tally of the missing had increased because more reports had been received, both from outside the city — 1,200 reports were filed with police departments in the region and by family members reporting to a Manhattan crisis center.
Among the missing were two
"It was a letdown. The dogs didn't pick up on anyone."
Ed Kester
Engine Co. 313 firefighter
federal agents, one with the FBI the other with the Secret Service.
The Fire Department, in the worst tragedy since its first engine companies were formed in 1865, lost about 300 members in the Trade Center carriage.
Laid to rest Saturday were Chief of Department Peter Ganci, and William Feehan, the department's first deputy commissioner.
Special forces may be needed
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. Fighting the shadowy network of terrorists that President Bush has vowed to eradicate will require relying more on unconventional methods than bombers, tanks and warships, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday.
It might also require adding to the ranks of the military's commando forces, known in the military as "special operations" forces, Rumsfeld said.
"The terrorists who are attacking our way of life do not have armies, navies or air forces. They do not have capitals. They do not have high-value targets that the typical weapons of war can go in and attack," he said. "They're in apartments, and they're using laptops, and they're using cell phones and they are functioning in the shadows, not out in front."
Rumsfeld praised the capabilities of the military's special operations forces.
They rarely are in the limelight because much of what they do is secret — difficult and dangerous missions behind enemy lines.
"They're unconventional, and we're dealing in an unconventional time, and we may very well need more of them," he said.
They are trained in a wide array of missions, including psychological warfare, sabotage, kidnapping, small-scale offensive strikes at discrete targets, fighting terrorists and training and equipping indigenous forces in foreign lands.
The military has 29,000 special operations troops on active duty and an additional 14,000 in the reserves.
Rumsfeld said that while the terrorists lacked the kind of military forces and bases that could
be attacked by conventional means, nations that supported or harbored the terrorists did.
He did not mention any countries. Afghanistan, however, is known to be harboring Osama bin Laden, whom Bush named as the prime suspect behind the airborne attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Rumsfeld has pointed at Iraq as a long standing supporter of international terrorism.
The Air Force also is flying radar planes to help monitor air traffic. Pentagon officials said.
But Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell said the United States had no evidence linking Iraq to the attacks.
Fighter jets maintained continuous air patrols over Washington, D.C., and New York yesterday, and Rumsfeld said fighters were on 15-minute alert at 26 bases elsewhere.
Market to reopen
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Even as the collapsed twin towers of the World Trade Center still smolder, Tony Sewell takes comfort that, just a few blocks away, the nation's devastated financial district is preparing to reopen.
"You've got to move onward and show that they didn't succeed," said Sewell, referring to the terrorists who hijacked and crashed two planes into the symbol of the nation's capitalist system, within walking distance of his home. "I don't think people are going to sell. People are going to come together and say 'We need to sit through this and make it through this together.'"
His sentiment was shared by Americans across the country yesterday, a day before the scheduled resumption of stock trading in U.S. financial markets after a four-session closure. Bonds and some commodities resumed trading Thursday. But it is the stock market's longest
"I don't think people are going to sell."
Tony Sewell New York resident
closure since World War I, although the NYSE did close early for five straight sessions during 1929 in the aftermath of the market crash that year.
In other business news, American consumers broke away from their television sets and headed back to stores over the weekend, but their respite from blanket media coverage of the terrorist attacks brought little relief to the nation's cash registers.
Not wanting to indulge themselves with the nation in mourning, shoppers spent mainly on basics and patriotic items and refrained from discretionary items like apparel and DVD players.
LIBRARY BOOKSALE
The University Libraries will hold a two-day booksale on Thursday and Friday, September 20 and 21, 2001. Please note that for the first part of each day's sale, access will be limited to those with a valid KUID. See the details below:
Thursday, September 20, 8am-4pm (KUID: 8-10):
Watson Library 2nd floor:
Anthropology; Business; Chemistry; Computer Science;
Economics; Education; Engineering; Geology; Mathematics;
Physics; Psychology; Sociology; Social Welfare;
Reference books, including dictionaries; and Women's Studies.
Thursday, September 20, 5-7pm (KUID: 5-5:30)
Spencer Museum of Art (Central Court)
Art, Architecture, Design. The Spencer Museum Shop
will also participate in the sale.
Watson Library 2nd floor:
English and American language and literature; Film; History;
Philosophy; Political Science; Reference books,
including dictionaries; and Religion.
Smaller amounts of material in Classics, French literature,
German literature, Journalism, Linguistics, Slavic literature,
and Spanish literature
Friday, September 21, 8am-4pm (KUID: 8-10)
Watson Library Booksale Prices:
Paperback: $.50; Hardcover--$1.00 (Unless otherwise marked)
Half Price sale: 1 pm-3 pm each day
$1.00 per bag: 3 pm-4 pm each day
Art & Architecture Library Booksale Prices:
All books individually priced.
Magazines: $.25
Ephemera: $.25
Also for sale in Watson on Thursday & Friday: "Retired" card catalog cases
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