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-Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, September 22, 1988 Former Iranian hostage offers solution to stop terrorist states - By Denise Thompson Reporter State sponsored terrorism will continue unless the U.S. makes it ex pensive, ineffective and high risk. Colonel Chuck Scott said at the first MSC Political Forum last night. Scott, a former Iranian hostage and military intellegence expert, told a group of about 100 attending the forum, “Terrorism and the Per sian Gulf,” that accomplishing these three things will make terrorism a thing of the past. “While the Iran arms sale was going on, three of the people who were held hostage in Lebanon were released,” Scott said. “But while they were being released, eight additional Americans were grabbed as hos tages. “Why? Because if you can get 2,000 missiles for three hostages, a lot of other military equipment needed to prosecute the war against Iraq can be obtained if you keep your insurance policy. “The Americans who remain be ing held as hostages in Lebanon are being held because, as a result of the Iranian arms sale, it is once again a viable foreign policy option.” Effective foreign policy, Scott said, depends upon direct retaliation against the states that sponsor ter rorist acts. Photo by Mike C. Mulvey Colonel Charles Scott “We need to repeat militarily the type of operation conducted against Libya in April of 1985,” he said. “Not against individual terrorists be cause they don’t really matter — they’re just soldiers. But against the state that sponsors them and uses that form of terrorism as part of their foreign policy.” Scott said the U.S. handles terror ism ineffectively because the govern ment has misinterpreted the impor tance of human life. “If we become so concerned over the lives of three or four Americans who are held hostage that we forgo bona fide United States interest, it will compromise the position of the 240 million Americans that have not yet been held hostage, and we are wrong,” he said. This theory, Scott said, is the di rect effect of being a hostage in Iran for 14 months. “During the last couple of weeks of my captivity, when I was hearing rumours that negotiations were in progress, I prayed every night that Uncle Sam would not give in to the Iranian demands just to get us ho me,” he said. “We didn’t want to come home under a cloud.” Oil serves as the main reason for conflict in the Persian Gulf, Scott said. Because Iran shares a border with the Soviet Union and with the Per sian Gulf, Scott said, future conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union will be in the Middle East. “The Soviet Union — the world’s largest producer of oil — has had a diminishing production of oil by about six percent a year,” he said. “By 1992, the Soviet Union will be a net importer for oil. “If there is to be a direct con frontation resulting in military ac tion between the United States and the Soviet Union, it will probably not be in Europe or in the Pacific, but in the Middle East — the Persian Gulf.” Scott concluded the forum by dis cussing principles learned during his captivity. He said Americans should remember them when in the face of fear, frustration and anger. “I’m not embarrassed to say that I was afraid when they stormed the embassy,” he said. “Courage is not the ability to not fear things, but the ability to control fear. “I was scared because I knew what my captors were capable of doing when they were in that mad, par anoid state that they were in, and so I was afraid. “But there was something I didn’t understand. . .1 didn’t know how to surrender. I didn’t know how to give up. I’ve learned since I’ve been home that there’s not a single educa tional institution that teaches a course called Surrender 101. “It’s alien to everything you and I and our parents and grandparents stand for.” Bankers begin program to raise revenue for Texas banks DALLAS (AP) — Investment bankers will be gin marketing certificates of deposit for NCNB Corp. in a plan that could raise as much as $ 1 bil lion for its Texas banks. The program, never before used by the Char lotte, N.C.-based holding company, was impor tant to demonstrate to people in Texas that they intend to bring money to Texas and not just use its money elsewhere, NCNB Corp. Chairman Hugh McColl said Tuesday. Brokers under the plan would raise the money from customers nationwide and funnel it to NCNB Texas National Bank. Potential brokers include Merrill Lynch & Co. and Shearson Leh man Brothers Inc. Timothy Hartman, vice chairman of NCNB Texas, said the program also should indicate NCNB’s strength. “When Texans see that people elsewhere are sending their deposits to NCNB Texas, we hope they’ll appreciate the strength of our bank,” Hartman said. The FDIC merged the former 40 banks of First Republic into one institution and consumers will lose the ability to spread deposits among sev eral banks to increase the agency’s coverage be yond its normal limit of $100,000. Artist ends searc for place to hous stained-glass art MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — It’s a stained-glass mural by Mexico’s greatest living artist, a work of cosmic dimensions with a heavenly theme. And its creator searched six years for an appro priate structure in which to house it. Rufino Tamayo’s “The Uni verse,” a 600-square-foot, 3.8-ton window, is the lone work of art in a specially designed museum in this northern industrial city. The recently dedicated Uni verse Pavilion at Monterrey’s Alfa Cultural Center is itself an ar- chitectual masterpiece, a glim mering aluminum cylinder that narrows at the far end to focus at tention on the giant window. However, Tamayo’s genius, his interpretation of outer space, is poetry in glass. Tamayo’s colorful “Universe” is filled with shooting stars and soaring comets, a black hole, con stellations and planets, all against the blue background of eternal night. “This is a window to Tamayo’s personal cosmos,” said Alfonso Martinez Serna, director of the cultural center. Tamayo, renowned for the use of color in his paintings, incorpo rated 50 shades of blues, purples, reds, greens, violets, siennas, yel lows and pinks to portray a uni verse that glows. To achieve the stunning di mensions of the mural and elimi nate the lead unions common to stained-glass, he sent for Dutch technicians who had developed a special process of melting and layering glass. Prisms of colored glass up to 5 inches thick, some created in ov ens as hot as 1,652 degrees Fahr enheit (900 degrees Celsius) were layered using clear chemitif ins, then chipped withbandj to split the light. The combined resultofik ( ist’s design and the refracted; is a cosmos in motion. For nearly eight montbi mayo and the crew world Mexico City to piece togetbe window’s 30 panels usings) resins instead of lead. "The result is a mono! crystal,” Martinez said. “Itl like one piece of glass." Tamayo, obviously pie with the finished product said it is unique in the world "I don’t have any probleit saying that there is no other ral in the world like this,re; in dimension nor in artistic; ity,” the artist said while the 1 was on temporary displavir ico City’s Museum of Moder in 1984. The Monterrey conglomc Alfa commissioned Tamavot a stained-glass rnuralinlSj; though the theme was leftt the artist. Tamayo, whose fit lion with outer space ofttt been revealed in his par; and sculptures, chose tht verse. The mural originally m tended for Alfa’s corporate; quarters in this city of 2.8k people, a center for Mexic; vale enterprise. But 1981 was the year the company fell intosevet nomic crisis along with the Mexico. By the time the was finished in 1982, AlfavJ financial trouble. However, Alfa, whichlas renegotiated its massive ft debt by, in part, tradingi company stock, is once making money. flRTS & CRAFTS Basket Weaving - Appalachian Style: Thurs, Oct 13, 20, 27 Nov 3 6:30-9pm $ 16/student Calligraphy: Wed, Sept 28 Oct 5. 12, 19, 26 Nov 2, 9 7-9pm $23/student Drawing: Mon, Sept 26 Oct 3, lO, 17, 24 6-9pm $25/student Jewelry Casting Seminar : Sat. & Sun. Oct 1 & 2 9am-12noon & l-4pm each day $38/student Jewelry Construction Seminar: Sat. & Sun. Sept 24 & 25 9am-12noon & l-4pm each day $38/student Stained Glass: Mon, Oct 24, 31 Nov 7, 14, 21 6-9pm $25/student Etched Glass: Tues, Oct 18 6-9pm $8/student Painting With Oils: Sun, Oct 16, 23, 30 Nov 6 2-6pm $27/student Potpourri : Tues, Oct 25, Nov 1 6-8pm $12/studcnt NEEDLEWORK Crochet: Wed, Oct 5, 12, 19, 26 Nov 2, 9 7-8:30pm $ 18/student Counted Cross Stitch: Tues, Sept 27 Oct 4, 11, 18 7-9pm $ 15/student Embroidery - Hardanger : Tues, Nov 15 & 17 6-9pm $10/student WOODWORKING Beginning Woodworking: Sun, Oct 23, 30 Nov 6, 13 6:30-9pm $27/student Decoy Carving: Tues, Oct 18, 25 Nov 1, 8 6:30-9:OOpm $25/student 1988 FALL SCHEDULE REGISTER NOW MSC Basement PHOTOGRAPHY Beginning Photography: Mon, Oct 24, 31 Nov 7, 14 6- 9pm $20/student The Visual Art Of Photography: Thurs, Oct 6, 13. 20. 27 7- 9pm $ 17/student Studio Photography: Sat, Nov 12. 19 9-12noon $2 5/student Beginning Black & White Darkroom: Wed, Sept 28 Oct 5, 12 6-9pm Thurs, Sept 29, Oct 6, 13 6-9pm Thurs. Nov 3, 10, 17 6-9pm $25/student Advanced Black & White Darkroom: Tues, Oct 18, 25 Nov 1 6-9pm $25/student DANCE Advanced Country & Western Wed, Sept 28 Oct 5. 12, 19, 26 7:30-8:45pm $20/student Beginning Jitterbug: Mon. Sept 26 Oct 3, 10. 17. 24 7:00-8:15pm $ 15/student Ballroom Dancing: Thurs, Sept 29, Oct 6, 13, 20, 27 7:00-8:30pm $ 15/student Hawaiian Dance: Wed, Oct 5, 12. 19, 26 Nov 2. 9 8:20-9:20pm $ 10/student Middle Eastern Bellydance: M/W Oct 3 -Nov 9 7:10-8:10pm $20/student Bellydance/Exercise: M/W. Oct 3 - Nov 9 6-7pm $20/student POTTERY Pottery - Wheel Throwing: Thurs, Oct 6, 13, 20, 27 Nov 3, 10 5-7pm $25/student Thurs, Oct 6, 13, 20, 27 Nov 3, lO 7:30-9:30pm $25/student WINE & SPIRITS Wine Appreciation: Wed, Sept 21, 28 Oct 5, 12 7-8:30pm $2 5/student Advanced Wine Appreciation: Wed, Sept 21, 28 Oct 5, 12 8:30-10pm $25/student Modem Homehrewing Practices: Thurs, Oct 6, 13, 20, 27 Nov 3, 10 6-9pm $30/student GUITAR Beginning Guitar: T/Th, Oct 18, 20, 25, 27 Nov 1, 3, 8, 10 7-8:30pm $25/student Intermediate Guitar: T/Th, Oct 18, 20, 25, 27 Nov 1, 3, 8, 10 8:30-10pm $23/student LANGUAGES Conversational French: M/W, Oct 3 - Nov 9 6:30-8:00pm $25/studcnt Conversational German: T/Th, Sept 27 - Nov 3 6:30-8:00pm $25/student Conversational Hebrew: M/W, Oct 10 - Nov 16 7:30-9:00pm $25/student Conversational Italian: M/W, Oct 3 - Nov 9 6-7:30pm $25/student Conversational Japanese I : M/W, Sept 26 - Nov 2 6-7:30pm $25/student Conversational Japanese II : T/Th, Sept 27 - Nov 3 6-7:30pm $25/student Conversational Spanish: M/W, Oct 17 - Nov 21 7:30-9pm $25/student Int Conversational Spanish: M/W, Oct 17 - Nov 21 6-7:30pm $25/student Conversational Chinese: M/W, Oct 3 - Nov 9 6-7:30pm $25/student SPECIAL INTEREST Auto Mechanics: Wed, Sept 28, Oct 5, 12, 19, 26 6- 8pm $18/studcnt Camcorder Techniques and VCR Technology: Tues, Sept 27 Oct 4, 11, 18, 25 Nov 1 7- 9pm $20/student Bike Maintenance: Tues, Oct 18, 25 Nov 1,8. 15 7-9pm $16/studcnt BUSINESS Beginning Accounting Wed. Sept 28 - Nov 16 6- 8pm $28/student Buying Your First Home: Thurs, Sept 22, 29 Oct 6,13,; 7- 9pm $ 18/studcnt Business Etiquette Thurs. Oct 6. 13, 20,27 8- 9pm $ 10/studcnt Basics of Investing: Tues, Oct 4. 11, 18. 25 Nov 11 7:30-9pm $ 15/student Creative Writing: Tues. Sept 27 Oct 4, 11,18.1 6:30-9:00pm $25/studcnt Communication Skills: Tues. Oct 4, 11. 18. 25 Novi 7-9pm $ 16/student COMPUTERS Learn the Macintosh Comp® Tues. Oct 25 Nov 1, 8, 15 8-9:45pm $ 1 5/student HEALTH CPR: T/Th. Oet 1 1 & 13 6-1 Opm M/W. Nov 14 & 16 6-1 Opm $ 10/studcnt Stop Smoking Now! Mon, Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 Nov7,i ; 7:30-8:30pm $ 1 8/student First Aid: Tues, Sept 27. 29 Oct 4, 6 6-9pm $20/student LANDSCAPING Home Landscaping: Thurs, Sept 22, 29 Oct 6,13 7-9:30pm (7-10:30 on Oct 13) $ 19/student Thurs, Oct 20, 27 Nov 3,10 7-9:30pm (7-10:30 on Nov 10) $ 19/student Non student fee isc‘ additional $2 per #