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Page 10 The Battalion Thursday, February 7, VALENTINE'S DAY BALLOONS! FOR SALE IN THE| MSC. BLOCKER. AND THE COMMONS 11 BALLOONS IN EACH BOUQUET $6 EACH (Delivery $4 EXTRA) ALL WEEK 11:00 — 3:00 DELIVERED ON FEB.14 SPONSORED BY OFF CAMPUS AGGIES 845-0688 WICKEDLY CLEVER PARODIES. SPOOFS, SPIN-OFFS & SEND-UPS of your favorite BOOKS & MOVIES Army classifies 40 as AWOL SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — About 40 Louisiana National Guard soldiers were classified Wednesday night as absent without leave, an of fense punishable by imprisonment, several hours after they complained of mistreatment at Fort Hood, Texas. The troops said earlier they planned to go AWOL because, in ad dition to alleged mistreatment, they were overworked and the Army took back half of a two-day leave they had been promised. In addition to the 40 accused of being AWOL, 90 others were on a 24-hour pass and some may have gone home to Shreveport “to discuss problems they have encountered during training,” said Dan Nance, spokesman for the Army’s 5th In fantry Division (Mech.). “We understand some of these soldiers have had a difficult time making the adjustment from civilian Soldiers claim mistreatment, shortened two-day leave passes if the other 90 or so guardsmt might be classified as AWOL I*! cause they were due back at intti mittent times. to military life,” said Nance in a news release. “But we would be remiss if we didn’t provide these soldiers with the training necessary to survive, fight and win.” One of the soldiers said the guardsmen were “desperate.” “This isn’t a rebellious thing,” said Sgt. Thomas Baker, 24, of Pine Bluff, Ark. “We just wanted some time off. We’ll be back Saturday.” “We understand the country is at war,” said another soldier, who wouldn’t give his name. “We just think we need some time off.” Baker said about one and one-half busloads of soldiers dressed in jeans and T-shirts took the bus to Shreve port, and others found other ways home. All were from the 1st Battal ion, 156th Armor, 256th Infantry Brigade, a National Guard unit which was made part of the U.S. Army in December and moved to Fort Hood, in central Texas, on Jan. 21. and Baker, Sgt. Victor Giglio other soldiers who wouldn’t give their names said 70 to 150 soldiers left Fort Hood about midnight Tuesday. Most were scheduled for one day of leave this week but planned to stay home for three, according to Baker and Giglio. The Army said there was little of ficial information about it, although Nance said he didn’t know when or Late Wednesday, a spokeswomt for Rep. Jim McCrery, R-La., a the Army had acknowledged "thep are troops that have left without; E ass, there are troops that also hat; ■ft with a pass.” “They are not using the ter: AWOL,” said McCrery’s press sent tary, Leslie Corkern. Peel jects ar as sche dates: • TI ahead < • A Offsho oratory Labor a pleted. • Th approv Easterv • Bi< In Washington, a spokeswonii: for Rep. Jim McCrery, R-La.,saidt was “encouraging any troops witlu without a pass to return to For Hood before their deadline. And. are keeping our Shreveport off® open until 11 p.m. to field questiot from any soldiers or family met bers, (or if they want) to voice cot plaints about Fort Hood.” reconst Throck structic Bizzell Contini Report projects fewer nuclear weapons Arab Continued from page DIURETICS: THE #\ #1 BESTSELLER THE LIGHTER SIDE OF SYLVIA PIATH MachiaveUVs THE PRINCESS SLAUGHTERHOUSE FWE-0 EX1STEND0 VIDEOGAMES George Orwell’s VEGETABLE FARM ARISTOTLE’S AEROBICS plus hundreds of other cutest Stories Kvo-RetoWi \ remakes, updates, i --—J comics, video games, movie posters, etc. ° M ^ H O U S i WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department is ... .... . - ^ considering a major shift toward much smaller nuclear weapons production that would end output at several plants, government sources said Wednesday. The department is scheduled to announced its pro posed long-term blueprint for reorganizing weapons production on Thursday in a report to Congress. The report is expected to represent the clearest indi cation yet of the department’s shift away from aggres sive production to the monumental task of environ mental cleanup at 13 labs and factories in a dozen states. The cost of the cleanup has been estimated at more than $100 billion. According to government sources familiar with it, the report assumes that by the year 2015 the United States will need a much smaller stockpile of nuclear weapons — perhaps only as much as 15 percent of cur rent stockpiles. The United States now has an estimated 25,000 nu clear warheads, bombs and other weapons. As a result, the report envisions no need to produce new plutonium, relying instead on plutonium recov ered from retired warheads, and smaller production of tritium. The department’s budget, sent to Congress earlier this week, includes $500 million for planning and de signing a new nuclear reactor plant to produce tritium. Originally department planners had wanted to build two plants. Tritium, the explosive material in so-called “thermo nuclear” weapons and a booster in ordinary nuclear weapons, decays slowly, with 5.5 percent being lost ev ery year. New supplies must be provided existing war heads from time to time. Among the plants where production is to end, according to sources familiar with the blueprint, is Rocky Flats near Denver. Production there has been shut down since Novem ber 1989 because of equipment and training problems. The Bush administration earlier this week asked Con gress for an additional $283 million so that some pro duction might resume at the plant in the short term. Sources said the Amarillo, Texas-based Pantex, the country’s only final assembly plant for nuclear bombs and missile warheads, could take over some of Rocky Flats’ duties. Other locations where production would end include the Fernald and Mound Plant plants in Ohio, the Han ford facility in Washington, and the Oak Ridge Y-12 complex in Tennessee. 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St world ai wat says Muslims cannot be Muslii Commui without believing in Jesus as it’s makii prophet. • Muslims do not believe in til Trinity nor believe God had a so: They believe Jesus was an honorah prophet, born miraculously to a v:: gin mother. • Muslims do not believe in ore nal sin. They believe Adam and! both were tempted by Satan and• pented to God. Islam is a comprehensive relieic and encompasses all aspects of li: It governs family life, communl life, the political system and et | nornic dealings. Muslims pray five times a dayat do not need agents or priests It j Wc was tryi just wa damage gious ar He n dam th; biologic most set Bakei the Uni such cir be both cause they have a direct relations^ with God, he says. “Jihad” is another commonly k understood word in the West. 1: Western translation to “holy war' totally alien to Moslems, Safwatsan “When you say ‘holy war,' 4 Western mind thinks of the Cr. | sades and the Spanish Inquisitio: he says. In Islam, jihad means anexertii of effort and struggle for excellea on three levels, Safwat says. The first level is the struggle" evil within oneself. The second;.-: struggle against evil in society! the third is the struggle against® sion, oppression and tyranny is tl o said, hi then try power. The ahead tc calling j wounds “the re: tyranny M political or armed means as a last sort. “If they want to know abouti culture, they should read the to they subscribe to, like the Kora Safwat says. "Somehow when the formation does get out, it’s pro-1 rael, as if there is some sort EyeMasters Get a better look. trol by Israel. You can see this ini events of the war. “When Scud missiles attack Isra the media will spend hours and dn showing the terror,” Safwat coni: ues. “But, very little is said about thousands of civilians who are right now in Iraq and Kuwait long as the media is biased and i information received by the Ante can public is wrong, the misundt standing will continue. “It is important for the Amerit people to put pressure on the It government to be more balanced its foreign policy, particularly in 1 Middle East,” Safwat says. “If realized how peaceful the peop the area are, and how hospital they are to visitors from all over lt| world, they would apply this pre sure to change U.S. foreign pole which is strongly pro-Israel ail against the interests of the restoftlj people in the region.” Safwat reminds the Amend public that Israel forced Palestine: from Palestine in 1948 when th United Nations created Israel. “They are constantly oppresst by the Israelis,” he says. An international conference« the Palestinians after the conflict only a remote possibility, he says. “Israel and the U.S. governrne have not made a commitment I have an international conference,: in that sense, there isn’t any rtf hope for a conference, even if tl; whole world would say it was ntf ded,” Safwat says. “As long as ti' United States and Israel insist thef sues are not linked, then they areh a sense, making sure Hussein W continue to do what he is doing. “Regardless of politics, I belie' this incident is linked to the Palestit ian conflict,” Safwat says. “There is strong link.” This link is the latest in a chain events going back to the creation Israel, Safwat says. The tension t increased and the Palestinian prc lem has festered since then. Because Israel feels uncomfotf able with this tension, Israel is prtf suring the United States to targe more than Iraqi military targets, Sal wat says. Safwat says peace was not given an ample chance because the Bush ad ministration was not interested in reconciling differences betwee: Hussein and the Kuwaiti royal fan i!y. n l: