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The Battalion Yuesctay, Ap WORLD & NATION 8 Tuesday, April 3,1990 Iraq holds nerve gas weapons President threatens retaliatory use of binary weapons on Israel Mom all stabs dai with kit( TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR SERIES Wednesday, February 1 "The Study At} A Panel Discussion Feat 206-12:30 to 2:00 pm Experience” dv Abroad Participants Thursday, March 8 - Eva “Eastern Europe’s Transit! 1 and Presentations by: Dr. Betty Unterberger, 04C - 12:30 to 2:00 pm Case of Czechoslovakia nia” Department of History Dr. Dinu Giurescu, Visiting Professor, Department of History Tuesday, March 27 - Ru “Internationalizi A Presentation By: Dr. William H. Mobley, Pre Texas A&M University r 601 - 12:00 to 1:30 pm her Education” Wednesday, April 4 - Rudder 404 - 12:30 to 2:00 pm “A Jordan Fellowship - The Experience of a Lifetime” A Panel Discussion Featuring Former Jordan Fellowship Recipients Tuesday, April 24 - Rudder 504 - 12:30 to 2:00 pm “The Senior Fulbright Award - A Door To The World” A Panel Discussion Featuring Former Senior Fulbright Awar dees Sponsored By: THE FACULTY SENATE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS SUBCOMMITTEE THE OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION PHI BETA DELTA INTERNATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi President Sad dam Hussein said for the first time Monday that his country has deadly binary nerve gas weapons, and he threatened to use them on Israel if the Jewish state attacks Iraq. Binary weapons, usually artillery shells or mis sile warheads, contain two relatively safe com pounds that combine to produce toxic nerve gases. They are outlawed under a 1925 treaty. Iraq is already seen as a front-runner in a Mid dle East drive to develop arsenals of long-range and surface-to-surface missiles. Its development of chemical weapons, and possibly nuclear arms, has raised fears of an arms race in the volatile re gion. In Israel, government officials warned Mon day that Israel would retaliate if Hussein used chemical weapons against it. The U.S. State Department denounced Hus sein’s chemical weapons threat as “inflammatory, irresponsible and outrageous.” Hussein, in a speech broadcast by Baghdad Radio, denied Iraq has nuclear weapons. Con cerns about this were raised last week by the in terception in London of 40 Iraqi-bound trigger devices that officials said were designed for nu clear bombs. “I categorically deny that we have any atomic bombs,” the president said at a ceremony in Baghdad, where he awarded medals to senior military officers. Hussein claimed that during the 1980-88 war with Iran, “Iraq was offered enriched uranium and even a complete atomic bomb by people who were either American, British or Zionist agents. But Iraq turned down these offers.” He did not elaborate. Such an offer would not be in accord with Western efforts to block nu clear military technology to developing nations. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry also said Monday that Iraq was not seeking to develop nuclear weapons. “I say that if Israel dares to hit even one piece of steel on any industrial site, we will make the fire eat half of Israel,” Hussein declared. In a clear reference to Israel, Hussein said: “Those who are threatening us with bombs: we warn them that we will hit them J this binary chemical weapon.” Avi Pazner, a spokesman for Israeli I Minister Yitzhak Shamir, said, “WehavemJ gressive intention against anyone, Iraq.” Asked about the possibility of a pre-enijl strike, Pazner said: “We don’t evenwantt about that kind of thing.” Only the United States and Soviet Unionkj officially admitted having binary weapons,) though some other countries were believer:I possess them. In an interview with The Associated Press.' zar Hamdoon, undersecretary of the Iraqi [I eign Ministry, said Iraq developed thetoJ before the end of the 8-year I ran-Iraq wan did not use them in that conflict. Hussein said Britain and the United Sis should recognize “the rights of nations: pies to def end themselves.” Ex-Soviet prisoner teaches Jewish traditions to arrivals JERUSALEM (AP) — Yosef Mendelevitch held up a piece of matzo symbolizing Jewish freedom from slav ery in ancient Egypt and recited a blessing in Hebrew. About 100 new Soviet immigrants in the room watched, some with bewildered looks. Then they too broke off and ate, for the first time in their lives, a piece of Passover matzo. Mendelevitch was teaching the Passover traditions to the new arrivals in Russian, telling them about the un leavened matzo. It commemorates the haste with which the Israelites fled from the pharaoh’s army, with no time to wait for their bread to rise. “They did not even recognize the story of Moses in the bulrushes, a story even non-Jews know,” said Men delevitch, who spent 11 years in a Soviet prison for try ing to get to Israel. Passover begins this year at sundown April 9. The very presence of the Soviet Jews is viewed by Israelis as a fulfillment of the prayer at the end of the Passover story, to meet “Next year in Jerusalem.” But there is also an element of controversy, because the Soviet Jews are living in Gilo, a Jerusalem suburb built on land captured from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. President Bush recently criticized the settling of So viet immigrants on war-won land, including east Jerusa lem, saying it was an obstacle to making peace with the Arabs. Leon Shansviteh, who arrived two months ago from Baku, in Soviet Azerbaijan, said, “We have the right to live in Gilo. I don’t understand President Bush. This area was empty until Jews built here. Jerusalem is a Jew ish city.” Reading from the Haggada, which recounts the Exo dus from Egypt, Mendelevitch said there are similari ties between the flight from the pharaoh’s oppression and today’s flight of tens of thousands of Jews from the Soviet Union. “In the Passover story, the Pharaoh kept saying the Jews could leave, but whenever they tried he stopped them,” Mendelevitch said. “Then God sent him 10 plagues to convince him to let the Jewish people go. “The same thing happened with Soviet leaders in the Kremlin,” Mendelevitch said. “Finally, after world eco nomic and medical sanctions, they had no choice but to let us go.” Talks stalled after sniper attacked bus T L - - • • • i publics, about 16,000 Soviet Jews arrived in Israel in the past year. According to the American Jewish Committee, the rate has reached more than 5,000 per month. Mendelevitch was convicted and jailed in 1970 for at tempting to hijack a plane and fly to Israel after being it In the Passover story, the Pharaoh kept saying the Jews could leave, but whenever they tried he stopped them ... The same thing happened with Soviet leaders in the Kremlin. Finally, after world economic and medical sanctions, they had no choice but to let us go.” — Yosef Mendelevitch, former Soviet prisoner denied an exit permit. He was freed and came to Israel in 1981. A group of religious women arranged for Mendele vitch to teach the traditions of the Seder, or Passover dinner, in an attempt to make entry into Jewish culture easier for the immigrants. White tableclothes, long candlesticks and all the tra ditional dishes were on display: hard-boiled eggs, horseradish, lettuce, parsley, wine, salt water, and “cho- roset,” a sweet pate of apples, nuts and wine. HOUSTON allegedly attacl daughters will Monday and i force them to tion, police saic The girls stab wounds a Ben Taub He were in stable afternoon, offi The oldest fered four sta year-old sister nine times, u earlier Monda Hospital s Widmeyer sai mother was ui Ben Taub. Sh wrist cuts tha self-inflicted, 1 Ohe’si some men We’ll eithe mental hei on her orf charges." NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) bus driver wounded in attack on a bus operated on) Greyhound route was improvir: Monday as Greyhound andsint ing drivers sparred over theino dent’s effect on stalled conirac talks. On Monday, Edward Stn.| union president, accused Cm hound of using the violence as i pretense for calling off the tails and suggested the companycotiH stop the attacks by negotiate with the union. Doctors were preparing move David E. Bryant, 58,ofCin cinnati, out of intensive carer Vanderbilt University Medial Center, spokesman Doug Wi liams said. He remained incrilici| but stable condition. Bryant, who was driving Greyhound route for anotki company,^ was wounded in thf left arm wfjen a pickup trad pulled alongside his bus late Sat urday night en route from Nasi ville to Louisville, Ky. None of the 46 passengers w wounded in the shooting abom 1 1 p.m. Greyhound drivers have on strike for the past month. An thorities have refused to specti late whether the shooting « strike-related. Greyhound was to talk will drivers Monday, but cancelled the talks Friday citing the vio lence. Talks broke down Marck 18. Police Sgt. charges had} the woman. “She’s obvi tal problems, either serve; rant on he charges.” Mosier sa might have take some ty fore they wet stomachs w< had not yet there was an systems. The oldet tire family’s t a window a nearby resic The woman the youngest Youth’s heroic battle with AIDS has increased public awareness White hospitalized in intensive care unit INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ryan White, whose battle with AIDS brought him scorn in his home town but support from across the world, was hos pitalized with internal bleeding Monday and was not expected to live, authorities said. Doctors said Monday afternoon that White, 18, probably would not survive the stay, said Car rie Van Dyke, director of health promotion for the State Board of Health. It was later disclosed, however, that White was on a life-support system, a ventilator, that could prolong his life. White’s chief physician, Dr. Martin B. Klei- man, declined to speculate on White’s prognosis. White put a youthful face on the AIDS plight. He has increased public awareness of the deadly disease and helped reinforce the message that AIDS cannot be spread through casual contact. His struggle has been the subject of numerous accounts, including a People magazine cover story and a televison movie. “He is presently in the intensive care unit and he is in critical condition,” Kleiman told an af ternoon news conference. “He is heavily sedated vented doctors from o She said she was his mother at lunchtime. rom operating, V told about White’: Van Dyke sat lition I a I"his is it. He’s not expected to come out of it. He’s not responding.” — Carrie Van Dyke, State Board of Health and we feel that he is experiencing no discom fort.” Van Dyke said his mother, Jeanne, and his sis ter, Andrea, were among the relatives at his bed side at Riley Hospital for Children. White’s hemophilia, the disorder that initially exposed him to the deadly AIDS virus, pre- “This is it. He’s not expected to come out of it.' Van Dyke said. “He’s not responding.” Van Dyke voiced a small hope White wouldre cover, saying, “He’s surprised us before.” White became a national spokesman for chil dren with AIDS after winning a court battletoat- tend school near his hometown of Kokomo However, he and his family felt ostracized there, and moved to a new home about 20 miles away Cicero, where they were welcomed by the lot community and school system. tory was told in a television movie last year White was diagnosed as having AIDS in I when he was 13. He contracted the disease through blood products he received to treat hemophilia. Going To Summer School? Why Not Live On-Campus? \X’sCO« W’s ,\ied' e G'J-®-' 3 '' ITS NEVER TOO LATE TO APPLY' 'PRIVATE ROOMS ARE AVAILABLE All room assignments are done on a first-come-first serve basis! For more information contact the housing office Room 101 YMCA Phone 845-4744 AGGIES ABROAD CLUB Presents: TRAVEL EUROPE On Your OWN! 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