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Bush plans to wage war
despite captured pilots
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush, upset by bleak pic
tures of allied prisoners of war,
denounced Iraq’s “brutal treat
ment” Monday and pledged their
capture would not aeter the war
against Saddam Hussein. “Amer
ica is angry,” Bush declared.
Asked if the Iraqi leader would
be held accountable for any mis
treatment of prisoners, a grim
faced president said, “You can
count on it.”
Defense Secretary Dick Che
ney called the treatment of the
prisoners “a war crime.” Iraq’s se
nior diplomat in Washington,
Khalid Shewayish, was called to
the State Department and given a
message strongly protesting
Baghdad’s actions.
Five days into the fighting, the
administration cautioned that
Iraq still had a potent military ma
chine despite the pounding of
about 8,100 air missions by the al
lies.
Cheney said Iraq still had an
arsenal of hundreds of Scud mis
siles, which Saddam has used to
attack Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The Pentagon said Iraq also was
using decoys to foil allied attacks
on its mobile missile launchers.
But military leaders said they
remained satisfied with the
course of the war. “Our casualties
have been significantly lower
than I think most people antic
ipated based on historical experi
ence,” Cheney said.
The American Red Cross said
it had scaled back its weekly blood
shipments to gulf hospitals from
1,000 pints to 400 pints. “They’ve
collected almost too much be
cause there haven’t been as many
casualties as they had expected,”
said Red Cross spokeswoman
Elizabeth Hall.
“You’ve got to remember that
we’re in a war,” Lt. Cen. Thomas
Kelly told a Pentagon briefing.
The Pentagon refused to give
specific damage estimates in the
war, citing intelligence secrets or
weather problems in the Persian
Gulf.
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Iraqis use allied POWs
as ‘shields’ in target areas
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia
(AP) — The Baghdad govern
ment, bombed into bunkers by
the high-tech hammer of U.S. air-
power, turned people into weap
ons Monday, sending American
and other POWs out to target
areas as “human shields.”
Allied leaders condemned
Iraq’s treatment of captured pi
lots as a “war crime” violating the
Geneva Convention. Asked
whether Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein would later be held ac
countable, President Bush re
plied: “You can count on it.”
The International Red Cross
expressed concern both about
Iraq’s handling of prisoners and
about U.S. bombardment of nu
clear installations in Iraq.
On the fifth day of Operation
Desert Storm, the U.S.-led mili
tary campaign to oust Iraq from
occupied Kuwait, allied pilots
kept up day-and-night assaults,
and a U.S. commander said the
air war would last at least another
two weeks. Iraq reported 14 raids
late Sunday and early Monday.
“It was awesome and it was
frightening,” British television re
porter Brent Sadler said after
emerging from Iraq and reaching
Amman, Jordan.
Without water and electricity,
life in Baghdad was becoming
primitive.
Baghdadis who have not tied
their ancient riverside city are un
derground in air raid shelters,
Sadler said. People emerge dur
ing the day to haul water from
the Tigris River, said Peter Ar
nett of CNN, apparently the last
Western correspondent in Bagh
dad.
An anti-Saddam Kurdish resis
tance group with an established
network in Iraq said the military
suffered almost 4,000 casualties
in the war’s first three days. He
did not distinguish between dead
and wounded. An anti-Saddam
Iraqi religious leader even spoke
of 70,000 military and 30,000 ci
vilian casualties. Neither offered
evidence.
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A &M remembers MLK’s dream
By ELIZABETH TISCH
Of The Battalion Staff
Students and faculty kept the
dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
alive through performances and lec
tures Monday afternoon during a
birthday celebration called “Keep
the Dream Alive”.
A group of more than 200 gath
ered in the south area Commons
Monday to join in the commemora
tion of King’s birthday.
King, assassinated April 4, 1968,
in Memphis, actually was born Jan.
15, but the nation celebrates his
birthday on the third Monday in
January.
The Department of Student Af
fairs Committee on Cultural Aware
ness sponsored the activities and re
ception.
The celebration was not only to
celebrate King’s birthday, but to
inspire students to carry King’s mes
sage around campus, said Ron Sasse,
director of Department of Student
Affairs.
“This kind of program helps the
understanding of racial discrimina
tion,” Sasse said. “Let this inspire
you to make a difference on A&M’s
campus.”
Guest speaker Dr. Norma Guerra,
assistant vice president for student
development at the University of
Texas at San Antonio, said she was
privileged to participate in honoring
King.
“In remembering him, we are re
membering a man who emerged un
afraid, proclaiming non-violence
and the black rights movement,”
Guerra said.
Guerra said despite the short life
of King, he presents a model of how
to live.
“He always pressed us to be close
to our adversaries,” she said. “King
said, They are not bad people, they
just don’t understand.’ ”
Two A&M seniors proclaimed a
similar message, but in a different
JAY JANNEB/The Battalion (
Voices of Praise singers Michelle Kneeland and
Gloria Allen perform during a celebration honor
way.
In a skit called “Visions of Black
ness,” Clinton Sam and Thomas
Miles acted out feelings of African-
Americans throughout their strug
gles in the civil rights movement.
“We are trying to give different
ing slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
in the Commons on Monday.
Several students said the United
States should remember the life of
King more than once a year, includ
ing management major Henry
Campbell.
“Without him, I wouldn’t be able
to be here at A&M,” Campbell said.
experiences the black man felt,” Sam
said.
Miles said the skit portrayed Afri
can-Americans in the past, present
and future.
“The skit was like a time machi
ne,” Miles said. “Where blacks have
been, where they are and where they
will be.”
The Rev. Delvin Atchison, pastor
of the Progressive Baptist Church in
Cameron, ended the ceremony by
reciting King’s famous “I Have A
Dream” speech.
A&M students win
recognition, $4,250
By MACK HARRISON
Of The Battalion Staff
Student members of Texas
A&M’s 12th Man Foundation
won $4,250 and national recogni
tion in a National Collegiate Ath
letic Association promotional
contest.
Steve McBride, student mem
bership president, says the
NCAA notified the foundation
last week it won first place. A&M
beat 62 Division I schools, includ
ing Michigan, UCLA and Syra
cuse.
The annual contest awards
prize money to the school that
distributes NCAA welcome packs
— which include snacks, toiletries
and coupons — in the most crea
tive manner.
Packs were given to students
Aug. 26 at Kyle Field during
“Fish Fiesta” the night before fall
classes started.
More than 3,500 freshmen,
along with Texas Aggie Band
members and yell leaders, spelled
“NCAA” on the field.
“The yell practice was a huge
success,” McBride says. "Winning
the whole thing was kind of a bo
nus.”
A videotape of the event will he
shown at the NCAA convention,
iving A&M national attention,
e says.
Leanne Parma, foundation
vice president; Lee Wolff, foun
dation treasurer; and Dave
South, assistant athletic director
for sports promotions, also
played a large role in organizing
the event.
The 12rh Man Foundation
sponsored the event to increase
awareness, give freshmen a posi
tive attitude toward the athletic
department and push MSC Open
House.
The foundation supports other
sports besides football, including
track, basketball, swimming and
tennis.
Student membership in the
12th Man Foundation has in
creased to 766, making the orga
nization the second largest in the
country second only to Olein-
son.
A more-aware campus
Health Center program allows peer educators
to teach nutrition, sexuality to student groups
By TWILA WADDY
Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M students will be bet
ter informed about their health with
the development of student peer ed
ucators, a new A.P. Beutel Health
Center program.
Student volunteers in the pro
gram will present health education
speeches on nutrition and sexual
health to residence halls and student
organizations.
Applications for volunteers, due
Feb. 1, are available at the health
center.
“We emphasize nutrition and sex
uality,” says Dr. Jane Cohen, health
education coordinator. “We hope to
have a lot of students come and fill
out applications in the next few
weeks.”
Applications will be reviewed by a
selection committee from the health
center. Following reviews, students
will be interviewed for about 30 to
40 positions.
Full-time and part-time students
from all majors will be accepted. The
health center’s only requirement is
that students not be on academic
probation.
Assistant Health Education Coor
dinator Andrea Beshara says peer
educators are required to attend an
"IVe emphasize
nutrition and
sexuality. We hope to
have a lot of students
... fill out applications.”
— Dr. Jane Cohen,
health education
coordinator
orientation meeting and training
weekend.
During the weekend, health cen
ter staff and faculty members will in
struct students in nutrition and sex
uality, as well as public speaking,
Beshara says.
Though the positions are filled in
the spring, peer educators will re
ceive training only until presenta
tions begin in the fall. Each peer ed
ucator is responsible for six
programs, but only if there is
enough demand for them, she says.
“The interesting thing is we really
have students interested in helping
other students,” Cohen says.
Many colleges and universities
have peer educator programs, but
A&M will get into the act for the first
time this semester.
Beshara says students are more
effective in teaching other students
since they have more in common.
She says peer educators will be
trained in two areas of nutrition and
sexuality, but also will present pro
grams in all areas of health.
Peer educators will not be coun
selors or doctors, but will give out in
formation on where to go for help,
she says.
“We are hoping students from
different areas can get something
out of this program,” Beshara says.
Students visit
Soviet Union
to acquire new
program ideas
By KATHERINE COFFEY
Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M students might have
the opportunity to study at Kazan
State University in the Soviet Union
for the same price it costs in the
United States.
Kazan State is A&M’s sister uni
versity in the Soviet Union.
Three students, including Stu
dent Body President Ty Clevenger,
visited the Kazan campus during
Christmas break to obtain more in
formation about the proposed study
program.
Clevenger and sophomores Lisa
Cash and Mike Pinkus are working
to start the program through Stu
dent Government by Fall 1992.
Cash, a political science major,
says the non-currency exchange pro
gram would allow A&M and Kazan
students to pay the tuitions equal to-
theirown universities.
“Essentially, they trade places for
a semester and the only other ex
penses incurred would be traveling
“They (the Russian
students) seemed
interested in the
program and doing
research here at
A&M.” _ Ty C | evenger>
student body president
costs,” Cash says. “But there is often
other costs, such as entertainment.”
But Clevenger says the Soviet stu
dents cannot come over here yet be
cause they do not have hard cur
rency which will equal the amount
theyjpay for Kazan tuition.
“They (Soviet students) pay for a
' full course load but don’t necessarily
choose their classes until they are at
A&M,” Clevenger says. “I think its a
great idea because we have students
from 117 other countries but we
haven’t had any of them (Soviets)
represented on our campus.
“They seemed interested in the
program and doing research here at
A&M” because facilities at their uni
versity are not as good.
Tiffiny Blaschke, a Student Gov
ernment public information officer,
says students would not have to deal
directly with international universi
ties to participate.
“I think it’s such a neat opportuni
ty,” Blaschke says. “Usually, when
one goes to another country it seems
1 like such a hassle to organize. But
this seems like a better opportunity.”
Cash says another American uni
versity has a similar program with
Moscow State University, but Ameri
can students have to stay in dormito
ries.
A&M students, however, would
stay with families in Kazan arranged
by the university.
Cash says getting the program
started is a matter of finding A&M
and Kazan courses equivalent to one
other.
“I loved it there because the peo
ple are so wonderful, giving and lo
ving,” Cash says.
She says the idea was formed in
May by a group of A&M students.
Cash, Clevenger and Pinkus have
taken the lead in getting the pro
gram implemented.
“The main reason why we went to
Kazan is to establish this relationship
with our sister university,” Cash says.