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MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2002 50 Cents THE PANTAGRAPH CONNECTING CENTRAL ILLINOIS www.pantagraph.com rasa Southern Illinois, UIC join No. 4 seed Illinois RETHINKING MAMMOGRAMS Loccr doctors still favor screening method for detecting cancer I Focus in NCAA field Sports LJ2OO 2 ATLANTA ii monU 1 1 im.a&l 'fa A- ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Joseph Maurer, whose daughter died in the Sept. 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center, said he and his family would stay away from their television set on Monday "They're going to keep showing the buildings collapsing and we're not really all that interested in seeing that part of it," Maurer said. Monday, exactly six months since the attacks, was to be observed with prayers and reflection, the dedication of a scarred memorial and a tribute of twin beams of light. At the same time, many victims' relatives say it will be filled with awful memories.

Maurer, a retired firefighter from Brooklyn, lost his daughter, Jill Campbell, in the attack, as well as a dozen firefighter friends. He said his family was considering going to ground zero for the lighting of the beams, which are meant to evoke the destroyed towers. The city's schedule was to begin at 8:30 a.m., with police officers gathering outside precincts as the names of the 23 officers killed in the World Trade Center attack are read aloud. The day was to end after dark with the ceremonial lighting of the Tribute in Light, two towers of light ainied skyward into the night sky from a spot near ground zero. SEE MOURNING BACK PAGE President marking day with ceremony ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, D.C.

President Bush has summoned more than 100 foreign ambassadors to the White House to help mark Monday's six-month anniversary of the terrorist attacks, an event intended to engender healing and instill patience for the unfolding war against terrorism. In all, Bush invited more than 1,000 people to the South Lawn to commemorate the day his chief of staff whispered to Bush that the World Trade Center had been attacked, instantly transforming the White House into a wartime administration. Among those on the list were members of Congress, some 300 victims' family members, and top administration officials. Crews assembled an large stage Sunday on the White House lawn and placed a sea of folding chairs. Winds forced them to delay placing flags and other decorations.

Bush planned to offer a "broad outline of what's been accomplished and where we are headed, the challenges we face as the war on terrorism continues," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said. A primary focus of his speech was an acknowledgment of the importance of Bush's global coalition against terror, he said. A tribute also was planned. Elsewhere, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman and emergency-management chief Joe Allbaugh were to mark the attacks in New York City At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was hosting military leaders from the coalition fighting terrorism. Associated Press The site of the World Trade Center disaster is shown surrounded by surviving buildings Friday.

Monday marks six months from the date of the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Memorials for attack victims cropping up across country r. Vr But monuments also are planned in communities where the list of the dead does not include any of their own. In Riverside, where four huge American flags were draped on the county administrative building shortly after the attacks, two permanent flag poles will be erected in honor of the victims. The Iowa cities of Cedar Falls and Waterloo are also talking about monuments.

"I think even those of us in a small community in Iowa felt a tremendous impact from that event," said Mary Huber, a Cedar Falls official involved in the community's planned sculpture. SEE MEMORIALS BACK PAGE er's brother, Jon, an attorney who lives in the city. "This is not a statue of my brother." All across the nation communities are building or planning monuments honoring those who died in the worst terrorist attack in American history In South Bend, where residents know that long before Katie McCloskey went to work at the World Trade Center she was a pretty fair athlete at John Adams High School, a monument to the victims is planned. In Stanley, N.D., there are plans to name a wellness center after native Ann Nelson, a bond broker who also died in the trade center. ASSOCIATED PRESS NAPERVILLE The city's monument honoring victims of the Sept.

11 terrorist attacks will include at least part of an essay written by Naperville native and Navy Cmdr. Dan Shanower, who was killed when a jet slammed into the Pentagon. His essay, "Freedom Isn't Free," was written a few years back as a tribute to shipmates killed in a plane crash. "We want this to be a place that reminds everyone they can't forget this day, (that) no matter where they live they are not insulated from what happened Sept. 11," said Shanow- Associated Press A construction crew at Battery Park in Manhattan on Sunday viewed "The Sphere," which used to stand in the fountain of the World Trade Center plaza.

It was to be rededicated today. Sharon: Israel willing to discuss a cease-fire INSIDE ABBY D2 CLASSIFIED C3 COMICS D8 CROSSWORD D6 ENTERTAINMENT D6 HOROSCOPE D5 LOTTERY A2 MOVIES D7 OBITUARIES A5 OPINION A8 SCOREBOARD B6 "We're not going to allow acts of violence to stop (Anthony) Zinni from doing his work." Colin Powell U.S. secretary of state 4 Weather TODAY'S FORECAST Intervals of clouds and sun. High 47 Low 34 For complete weather information, see Today's Weather on the back page. Copyright 2002 The Pantograph A Pulitzer newspaper year-old boy, police said.

They said a suspect from the West Bank was captured. In scattered clashes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, three Palestinians and one Israeli were killed. Sharon's concession on Arafat came ahead of renewed U.S. diplomatic efforts. The United States is pressing for a cease-fire, and U.S.

Mideast envoy Anthony Zinni is to visit the region this week for his third attempt in recent months to work out a truce. "He's going to stay in the region and fight his way through this," Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation." "We're not going to allow acts of violence to stop Gen. Zinni from doing his work." Vice President Dick Cheney, meanwhile, was heading Sunday to the Middle East for a visit to nine Arab nations Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen as well as Israel, Britain and Turkey. ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Sunday he is prepared to end Yasser Arafat's confinement in the West Bank and negotiate with the Palestinians on a truce but with violence at its worst levels in 17 months of fighting, he stressed he will not call off the army offensive against militants. Sharon said Palestinian security forces had arrested the fifth and final suspect in the October slaying of Israeli Cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi, fulfilling the condition for lifting a blockade that has kept Arafat under virtual house arrest in his compound in Ramallah in the West Bank since December.

"People have been arrested. I demanded their arrest and their imprisonment," Sharon told a group of disabled war veterans. "I have said that after they are arrested we shall let him out of there." He did not say when the Palestinian leader would be allowed to move about freely. Sharon spoke hours after Is- raeli helicopters pounded Arafat's Gaza Strip office to rubble, retaliation for a Palestinian suicide attack that killed 11 others near Sharon's Jerusalem residence. The Palestinian office in Gaza City had been evacuated before the helicopter attack, and no one was hurt.

"We are in a war," Sharon told his Cabinet at its weekly meeting Sunday, before he said he was ready to lift the travel ban on Arafat. "All of us must stay united and make every effort to stand up to this wave of terror." Late Sunday, a Palestinian opened fire at a Jewish celebration in the coastal city of Ash-dod, seriously wounding a 16- 111 Associated Press A Palestinian police officer walked through the rubble of Yasser Arafat's newly built headquarters, which was destroyed Sunday by Israeli F-16 fire in the West Bank town of Nablus. 4 sections, 36 pages.