Edwards To Speak Near Ground Zero

Less than a week before the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, Senator Edwards will be blocks from ground zero outlining a plan to "make America safer."

The Democratic presidential contender is scheduled to deliver what he is billing as a major policy address tomorrow at Pace University in Lower Manhattan.

The appearance comes just days before two of his main rivals — Senator Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, and Mayor Giuliani, the GOP front-runner — will be at the anniversary commemoration of the attacks.

Earlier this summer, Mr. Edwards outlined a national security plan that called for the creation of a 10,000-person "Marshall Corps" to combat extremism by pumping resources into causes such as economic development.

At the time, he criticized Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Giuliani for saying President Bush had made the country safer.

He also mocked Mr. Giuliani, saying the former New York mayor could never win on a platform aligning himself with Mr. Bush.