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All-Beethoven Program
Takács Quartet
October 12 - 2:00 p.m.
(1:00 p.m.-Pre-Concert Lecture)
Program-Bethoven String Quartets:
Opus 18, 74 and 130
"An extraordinary tour de force of collaborative virtuosity."
—The Times, London
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24 Seuss on the Loose
7-9 PM, Hawks Nest, Level 1,
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School of Rock
9:00 PM, Woodruff Auditorium.
Level 5, Kansas Union
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NBC Premier Party
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NBC Premier Party
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The Pianist
7 & 10:00 PM, Woodruff Auditorium
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Taliban rebounds in Afghanistan
The Associated Press
GHAZNI, Afghanistan Intercepted phone calls show Taliban commanders have been orchestrating deadly attacks in parts of Afghanistan from a safe haven across the border in Pakistan, a senior Afghan intelligence official told The Associated Press.
Kabul, has been on the front lines of the recent violence, and many residents say the local government and security officials have been unable or unwilling to end the insurgency.
The resurgent Taliban forces — who were chased from Afghanistan two years ago by the U.S.-led war — are getting protection from Islamic hardline politicians and rogue elements of Pakistani security. Afghan and Western officials charge.
Ghazni province, southwest of
Former Taliban walk the streets of this hardscrabble town, hiding only behind a change of clothes. They boldly tried to assassinate the police chief last week and have turned the back roads into a gauntlet of fear for aid workers.
It was here in Ghazni province that four workers for a Danish charity were executed by Taliban rebels on Sept. 8; where three Red Crescent workers met a similar fate in August. In Zabul province, 135 miles to the southwest, rebels battled for weeks through the deep gorges and craggy mountain peaks against an onslaught of American air power and more than 1.000 Afghan soldiers.
A Sept. 8 order for Taliban fighters in Zabul to retreat during U.S. bombing came in a satellite phone call from a commander in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, the senior Afghan official privy to sensitive intelligence told AP on condition of anonymity.
A similar phone call was placed to Quetta in March by Tali-
iban fighters who had stopped a Red Cross vehicle on a dusty road in Afghanistan's Helmand province. The voice on the other end of the phone was a senior Taliban fugitive commander, Mullah Dadulah, who gave the order to execute an El Salvadoran national, a survivor of the attack, the intelligence official said in a weekend interview.
The brother of Baluchistan's health minister was arrested this month for alleged Taliban ties and accused of plotting to kill a relative of the governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, which borders Baluchistan.
3 Iraqi villagers die in raid
The Associated Press
AL-SAJR, Iraq — U.S. soldiers backed by helicopters firing rockets attacked a farmhouse Monday, killing three Iraqis and wounding three others, villagers said. The U.S. military said soldiers followed suspected guerrillas into this village after a patrol was ambushed.
Afterward, five craters ranging up to 10 feet wide and 3 feet deep could be seen in the courtyard of the farmhouse. A sixth rocklet had crashed through the roof. The yard was strewn with broken glass and a wall on one side of the building was pocked with bullet holes.
The fighting in Al-Sajr, a small village west of Baghdad, highlighted the difficulties of combating guerrillas in populated areas and was likely to deepen resentment of the U.S. occupation in an already volatile region.
"There never was any trouble in our village and the Americans have never been inside it," one of the wounded, retired army Sgt. Abed Rasheed, told The Associated Press at Fallujah General Hospital.
"This is not about overthrowing a government or regime change."
The U.S. military confirmed a combined air-ground assault took place here but said it knew of only one death — that of a guerrilla fighter. A military spokeswoman, Spc. Nicole Thompson, said that after fire on an American patrol, the attackers ran into a building. She said the soldiers then called in air support.
Villagers insisted one no one fired on the Americans. They did say that U.S. soldiers detained three young men during a security sweep Sunday.
Residents said the Americans appeared in the village about 1.30 a.m. Monday and began firing with light weapons. Villagers later heard aircraft approaching.
Soon afterward, six missiles struck the home of Ali Khalaf Mohammed, killing the 45-year-old farmer. Two of Mohammed's sons, aged 11 and 9 years, were wounded.
Villagers said two other men — Saadi Fayad and Salem Ismail — were killed after they rushed to
Mohammed's house to offer assistance.
Mohammed's 48-year-old brother, whose first name is also Mohammed, said a U.S. officer came to the house about 9 a.m. yesterday to inspect the damage. He said the officer, speaking through an interpreter, apologized and said "We are here to protect you."
"I replied. If this is your protection we don't need it," the brother said. "The Americans think we are protecting Saddam's people, but in our village we never even liked Saddam." He did not recall the name of the officer.
Al-Sajj, nine miles north of Fallujah, is part of the "Sunni Triangle," an area north and west of Baghdad where support for Saddam Hussein runs deepest and where American troops have met their stiffest resistance since the regime's collapse.
During funerals for the three Monday afternoon, villagers and relatives wept and cursed the Americans
President advocates teamwork
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — President Bush rejected calls from France and Germany for a swift transfer of power in Iraq yesterday, urging allies to put aside divisions over the U.S.-led war and lead a massive reconstruction effort.
French President Jacques Chirac challenged Bush by demanding "realistic timetable" for granting sovereignty.
In the first gathering of world leaders at the General Assembly since the United States toppled Saddam Hussein, Bush was unapologetic about the war and its chaotic aftermath and unyielding on U.S. terms for creating a democratic government.
"This process must unfold according to the needs of Iraqis—neither hurried nor delayed by the wishes of other parties," Bush said.