The Battalion
Battalion Classifieds WORLD & NATION 4
Friday, August 10,1990
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Patients needed with history
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Patients needed with patellar ten
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evaluate a new topical (rub on)
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Previous diagnoses welcome.
Eligible volunteeers will be com
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846-5933
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Earn $400 to $800 per month as a
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Battalion
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845-0569
PERSIAN GULF CRISIS CONTINUES
Pentagon foresees
of imminent Iraqi
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thou
sands of American combat troops
took up defensive positions Thurs
day in the heart of Saudi Arabia’s vi
tal oil-producing province. The Pen
tagon said it saw no sign of an
imminent Iraqi invasion.
The Bush administration kept its
official silence on details of the U.S.
troop deployment, code-named “De
sert Shield.” President Bush ordered
the operation Monday, saying he
hoped to deter Iraqi President Sad
dam Hussein from sending his mil
lion-man army into the kingdom,
the world’s largest oil exporter.
At least 2,300 American ground
troops landed in Saudi Arabia on the
first day of the deployments
Wednesday, and Pete Williams, the
chief Pentagon spokesman, said
“there’s much more to come” over
the next several days and possibly
weeks.
“This is an operation that is going
to continue for several days — one
might say many days,” Williams told
reporters.
The spokesman said U.S. intelli
gence reports from the Middle East
indicated that Saddam was sending
additional troops into Kuwait, the
tiny but oil-rich country his forces
seized a week ago, prompting inter
national sanctions and the U.S. mili
tary response.
Williams added, however, that
there were no signs of offensive op
erations by the Iraqis, who now num
ber about 120,000 in Kuwait.
“They seem tp be in a defensive
posture,” he said. “They’re holding
on to what they’ve acquired.” Wil
liams also said he could not confirm
reports that Iraq had readied chemi
cal weapons in the border area.
The U.S. forces, though greatly
outnumbered by a battle-hardened
Iraqi army, have sophisticated air
and naval weaponry designed to
no sign
invasion
shatter advancing armored columns
that would have to cross desert wast
elands to reach Saudi oil fields.
Diplomatic sources in the Middle
East said elements of the U.S. 82nd
Airborne Division, after arriving
Wednesday at the Saudi air base at
Dhahran along the Persian Gulf
coastline, headed for a remote mili
tary installation near the Iraqi bor
der.
Williams said American troops
were spending Thursday unloading
their equipment, preparing their de
fensive positions and planning un
specified joint maneuvers with Saudi
soldiers.
Williams said the three warships
accompanying the Eisenhower in
cluded one that was added on
Thursday. He also said the USS Sa
ratoga aircraft carrier battle group,
including nine vessels, was headed
for the Mediterranean Sea.
Iraqis prepare for food shortage
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Iraqis
rushed to stock up on rice, sugar,
cooking oil and other foodstuffs af
ter economic sanctions were an
nounced, fearing shortages in a
country that imports $2 billion
worth of food a year.
After Iraq invaded Kuwait, atten
tion was focused on the world em
bargo on Iraq’s oil exports. The food
cutoff could impose even greater
suffering on Iraq.
Because the world embargo ap
plies to Kuwait, too, the residents of
the Iraqi-annexed emirate are likely
to feel the food pinch just as much.
Kuwait imports effectively all of its
food.
Foreigners who fled Kuwait after
the invasion reported immediate
shortages as residents rushed to su
permarkets and prepared for siege-
tike conditions.
London’s Financial Times on
Thursday quoted a source inside Ku
wait, whom it did not identify, as say
ing in notes shipped to the newspa
per: “Tuesday morning some
residents queuing at banks and food
shops, but no sign of them opening.”
Iraq imports about 70 percent of
its food, according to Omar Kader, a
Middle East expert and board mem
ber of the Arab-American Affairs
Council. Food accounts for a quarter
of all Iraqi imports, and one-third of
the food brought in comes from the
United States. It consists mainly of
wheat, corn, rice, barley, sugar,
poultry and eggs at subsidized
prices.
Washington has also provided ag
ricultural credits to the Arab coun
try.
Even before the invasion, the Sen
ate voted July 27 to halt $1 billion in
agricultural credit guarantees, citing
in part Iraq’s recent threat to use
chemical weapons against Israel.
That measure required presi
dential approval but became moot
after the post-invasion sanctions cut
off all credit.
Arab leaders
go to Cairo
for summit
Associated Press
Arab leaders gathered in Cairo
today for a summit on Iraq’s inva
sion of Kuwait but put off formal
talks for one day. T hey did hold
preparatory talks while waiting
for more participants to arrive,
Egypt’s Middle East News Agency
reported.
Those on hand included top-
level envoys from Iraq and the
deposed emir of Kuwait. Iraq's
President Saddam Hussein, who
set the crisis in motion, was not at
tending the Cairo gathering.
The fate of thousands of for
eigners trapped by Iraq’s light
ning invasion of Kuwait one week
ago became even more uncertain
today as Iraq sealed its borders to
all foreigners except diplomats.
Britain’s Foreign Office an
nounced the move by Baghdad
and said it assumed that Iraqi
frontiers now encompassed an
nexed Kuwait.
White House spokesman Fitz-
water declined to criticize Arab
countries for failing to step for
ward, but he invited all nations to
help.
“The United States acted in the
interest of our country and of
other Western nations and those
are the guiding factors in terms
of our involvement,” he said. “We
would always like to see othen
participate, but the organization
of that is a matter for the Saudis."
Fitzwater said the Gulf Coop
eration Council countries — Ku
wait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and
the United Arab Emirates as well
as Saudi Arabia — have a 3,000-
memher force in Saudi Arabia.
NASA confirms focusing error in telescope
WASHINGTON (AP) — A NASA committee
investigating the focusing flaw that crippled the
Hubble Space Telescope said Thursday that
there was an error of about one millimeter in a
measuring device used to grind the telescope
mirrors.
In the precise world of optics, such an error is
“astonishing,” said one expert.
The Hubble Space Telescope, a $ 1.5 billion or
biting observatory, was launched in April and en
gineers discovered two months later that a mir
ror in the device had been manufactured wrong.
As a result, the telescope’s views of stars are
blurred and of severely reduced value to astro
nomers.
A one-page statement released by NASA said a
committee investigating the Hubble problem
found that a measuring device called a reflective
null corrector had been adjusted incorrectly
when the primary mirror was being ground and
polished at the Hughes Danbury Optical Systems
plant in Danbury, Conn.
Hughes Danbury had preserved the null cor
rector in the exact position that had been used to
grind and polish the mirrors in the early 1980s
and the investigation committee tested the device
on Wednesday.
Preliminary results of the test, the statement
said, “have revealed a clear discrepancy of ap
proximately one millimeter between the design
of the null corrector and the device as it exists.”
A millimeter is about one-twenty-fifth of an
inch, or about the size of the very tip of a bal
lpoint pen.
Daniel Schulte, a senior scientist at the optical
laboratory at the Lockheed Palo Alto Research
Laboratory in California, said that an error of
that magnitude was “astonishing.”
“That’s gross,” he said. “There’s no reason for
an error of that size to be tolerated.”
Schulte said that in normal optical manufac
turing, a tolerance of a 20th or a 50th of a millim
eter is considered “standard tolerance.”
He said the error was so large “it had to be a
transposition of numbers or something like that,
that was carried through. It had to be something
clerical like that.”
Schulte, an astronomer, was a member of an
independent panel named by NASA to evaluate
the Hubble focusing flaw just after it was discov
ered in June.
A null corrector is a device that can be ad
justed to create a pattern of light in the exact
shape desired in an optical lens or mirror. The
light pattern from a null corrector is interpreted
by another device to tell a computer the precise
grinding and polishing pattern that mustbefol
lowed.
However, if the null corrector is set wrong,
then the lens or mirror will be ground to an in
correct shape. In effect, the optics are then made
to the wrong prescription and cannot give theex-
pected focus.
Sarah Keegan, a NASA spokeswoman, said the
space agency’s investigation board would have no
further statements this week. But the board plans
to conduct hearings at the Hughes Danbun
plant next Wednesday and Thursday, and more
information may be released after those hear
ings, she said.
Officials at Hughes have declined to comment
while the investigation is underway.
Arts supporters fight
to keep federal funds
WASHINGTON (AP) — An
“art ambulance” carrying coffins
containing once-banned books
and paintings tours Boston
neighborhoods. A reproduction
of Rodin’s famous sculpture,
“The Thinker,” is covered daily
with a shroud in San Francisco.
A jazz funeral is held at the
New Orleans Museum of Art.
Curtain speeches are given at
New York Shakespeare Festival
performances in Central Park.
Brochures mailed by the Virginia
Symphony depict Michelangelo’s
statue of David with the slogan
“Banned in the U.S.A.?” pasted
over his genitals.
Across the country this sum
mer, the arts community is bela
tedly mobilizing public support
for the National Endowment for
the Arts in the escalating brou
haha over federal financing of
controversial art.
Slow to anger, arts supporters
have begun striking back at con
servative members of Congress
and religious fundamentalists
who accuse the NEA of subsidiz
ing obscene and blasphemous art
with taxpayers’ funds.
Concert audiences, the
atergoers and visitors to mu
seums and art galleries are being
recruited as foot soldiers in the
arts advocates’ battle to protect
the NEA from serious damage
this fall when Congress debates
extending the life of the $171
million federal arts agency.
Congress, prompted by pro
tests of NEA-financed projects,
amended this year’s agency bud
get to ban federal support of “de
pictions of sadomasochism, ho
moeroticism, the sexual
exploitation of children or indi
viduals engaged in sex acts.”
Supporters of restrictions say
the issue is not censorship, as
many artists contend, but taxpay
ers’ right to decide where their
money is spent.
In a recent full-page ad in ma
jor newspapers, the Rev. Pat Rob
ertson asked members of Con
gress, “Do you want to face the
voters in your district with the
charge that you are wasting their
hard-earned money to promote
sodomy, child pornography and
attacks on Jesus Christ?”
On the other side, pamphlets
labeled “Be Quiet and the Arts
Will Just Go Away” are being
handed to theater patrons in Chi
cago, courtesy of the Illinois Arts
Alliance.
Airline boss resigns
position, sells stock
NEW YORK (AP) — Airline
boss Frank Lorenzo said Thurs
day he’s quitting the flying em
pire he built in the 1980s, hurt by
a barrage of bad publicity and la
bor bitterness about his tough-
guy management style.
The 50-year-old entrepreneur,
who came to symbolize a tumultu
ous decade of airline deregu
lation, is selling most of his stake
in Continental Airlines Holdings
Inc. to Scandinavian Airlines Sys
tem. The leading foreign carrier
has held a small stake in Houston-
based Continental for two years.
Lorenzo also is resigning as
chairman and chief executive, to
be replaced by Delta Air Lines
Inc. President Hollis L. Harris.
Harris, a highly respected man
ager, was lured to Continental af
ter a discreet search that started
four months ago.
Lorenzo will receive nearly $30
million in severance, retain a
small interest in Continental’s
stock options and keep a seat on
the company’s board of directors.
But Lorenzo’s influence in
running the company virtually
will disappear and his compensa
tion reflects a fraction of the va
lue the airline operation used to
have in better times.
Houston-based Continental
Holdings, formerly known as
Texas Air Corp., once com
manded 20 percent of the do
mestic airline market through its
ownership of Continental and
Eastern airlines.
But its business has been se
verely crimped by heavy debts
and a debilitating strike at East
ern that’s now 17 months old.
Last year the parent company lost
$885.6 million, an industry re
cord.
“It’s been perfectly obvious to
me that I personally have become
a lightning rod for many of the
attacks that the company has
taken in the process of making
the changes that have been re
quired,” Lorenzo said.
“This transaction aljows me to
step aside and allows the com
pany to have a new manage
ment,” he said. Asked what he
would do now, Lorenzo said,
“Take a little time to catch my
breath. I haven’t had much time
to do that.”
He spoke to reporters at a New
York news briefing, flanked by
Hollis and SAS Chairman Jan
Carlzon.
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