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Violent demonstrations are not
necessary and are detrimental
to their cause.
- The Battalion editorial board
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Bachelor Buy
Bucky Richardson fetches
the second highest bid in
charity ‘Dream Date’
Page 2
Freshman
basketball
player
Damon
Johnson
returns from
a injury
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Vol. 91 No. 103
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Former Soviet troops riot over food in Kazakhstan; 3 killed
MOSCOW (AP) — Poor food, hazing
and beatings helped set the stage for riots
by hundreds of soldiers at the former So
viet Union's main space center, newspa
pers said Thursday.
Three people were killed in the vio
lence Monday and Tuesday at the
Baikonur Cosmodrome, where angry sol
diers reportedly looted supplies and
burned barracks.
The unrest reflects deep problems in
the former Soviet army, including falling
morale and mistreatment of recruits.
Because the space program was among
the Soviet Union's proudest achieve
ments, the riots also were a poignant
demonstration of how far the country has
fallen into disorder.
The rioting at the 37-year-old space
center in the barren steppes of central
Kazakhstan did not disrupt operations or
affect the flight of the Mir space station,
where cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and
Alexander Volkov remain in orbit. They
are scheduled to return next month.
The riots involved several hundred of
the 17,000 soldiers assigned to construc
tion jobs at the cosmodrome, about 1,560
miles southeast of Moscow. Construction
troops traditionally are the worst fed,
housed and clothed units in the army.
The soldiers stole 17 cars, looted food
supplies and warehouses, and burned
four barracks, according to the Nezavisi-
maya Gazeta (Independent Newspaper)
and Interfax news agency.
Inside one charred barracks, three bod
ies were found. Two were identified as
Kazakh conscripts, and one remained
unidentified Thursday, the reports said.
The spark that set off the rioting was
the arrest of a recruit on charges that his
fellow soldiers considered unjust, the
ITAR-Tass news agency reported. "The
reasons for what happened go much
deeper," the agency said.
Last December, construction troops be
gan running away from Baikonur because
of hazing, beatings and extortion of mon
ey by older soldiers and officers, ITAR-
Tass said, citing a report in the Yegemen-
di Kazakhstan (Independent Kazakhstan)
newspaper.
"Frequently, soldiers were deprived of
hot food and water," the newspaper
wrote. "Troops were forced to pay for
uniforms out of their own pockets. No at
tention was paid to protests."
Russian parliament members and
mothers of Soviet servicemen who died in
peacetime have alleged that hazing of re
cruits is widespread in the army, and one
of the main causes of falling morale and
rising desertion.
Serb ruler
responds
to outrage,
ends war
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP)
- President Slobodan Milosevic
of Serbia, who led his republic into
a ruinous conflict with Croatia in a
failed attempt to hold Yugoslavia
together, declared the war over
Thursday.
He appeared to be responding
to mounting opposition inside Ser
bia over the war's human and eco
nomic toll. Many Serbs have
turned against the once popular
leader and are demanding his res
ignation.
"Today we can say that most of
the agony in our country is over,
and that conditions now exist for
the peaceful and democratic solu
tion of the Yugoslav crisis," Milo
sevic told Serbia's parliament as a
U.N.-mediated truce stretched to
nearly two months.
In a rare public speech, Milose
vic also seemed to move away
from previous insistence that Serb-
dominated regions in other re
publics be united with Serbia. He
said Serbia's union with tiny Mon
tenegro in a smaller Yugoslavia
was "the best option."
Croat leaders had vowed to
fight giving up any territory. The
Serb issue also is an explosive one
in Bosnia-Hercegovina, which has
a divisive mix of Muslim Slavs,
Orthodox Serbs and Roman
Catholic Croats.
It remained to be seen whether
Serb militants would go along
with Milosevic. Most of the insur
gents are dependent on Serbia for
supplies and the federal army is
dominated by Serbia.
Milosevic acknowledged for the
first time that his republic armed
the Serb insurgents whose revolt
against Croat authority escalated
into full-scale war after Croatia de
clared independence on June 25.
Up to 10,000 people died in six
months of fighting before the truce
took effect in Croatia on Jan. 3.
HUY NGUYEN/The Battalion
Once upon a time
Kathleen McCulloug (left), age 2, Laren McCullough Evette Correa read them a story at the University Center
(center),3, and Nylah Lummer, 4, snack while listening to Thursday. Correa is Kathleen and Laren's mother.
Military leadership won war, veteran says
By Matari Jones
The Battalion
The Persian Gulf War was a success be
cause political leaders allowed military
professionals to make the decisions, a
Texas A&M professor and Desert Storm
veteran said at a rally Thursday.
"Today's army is more qualified, pro
fessional and all-volunteer," said Lt. Col.
Jimmy D. Dunham, an assistant professor
of military science. Dunham volunteered
to go to Kuwait and in September 1991
earned a bronze medal.
Dunham said he credits the success of
Operation Desert Storm to better equip
ment and well-trained troops. Dunham
said Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein misun
derstood the capabilities and the will of
the American people.
"The bottom line is Saddam picked the
wrong army to go to war with," he said.
"We had smart soldiers."
America learned three major lessons
from the Gulf War, Dunham said.
First, the Commander-in-Chief, Secre
tary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff must set clear, definite ob
jectives and then let military professionals
achieve those objectives. Then, the will of
the American people must be followed. Fi
nally, the United States military must be
trained to act for the American people
See Students/Page 2
False story
fuels anxiety,
resentment
Americas clash over
strategy in drug war
MEXICO CITY (AP) - For Latin Americans,
some of the biggest news out of the six-nation
drug summit was the death of a proposal that
didn't even exist.
Newspapers in Mexico, Peru and Bolivia
headlined the rejection of a multinational drug
force, despite the
fact the United
States hadn't sug
gested it in the first
place.
But the serious
ness with which the
phantom proposal
was treated re
vealed deep anxiety
about a drug war
largely fought on
Latin American soil.
"Fujimori Said
'No!' ' to George
Bush: Anti-Drug
War Must be With
out Bullets or
Hunger," said a
headline in the Pe
ruvian daily La Republica.
Peruvian Alberto Fujimori was portrayed as
a hero at home for telling the Americans they
didn't understand the poverty and other prob
lems that lead people into the drug trade.
Fujimori has fought proposals to militarize
the drug war, fearing the 200,000 cocoa farmers
would be pushed into the arms of leftist rebels
in areas like the Upper Huallaga Valley. The
valley produces 60 percent of the world's sup
ply of cocoa, the raw material for cocaine.
From the Latin American perspective, the
heart of the problem is the voracious U.S. mar
ket for drugs and the poverty that prompts
Latin Americans to produce and ship them to
the wealthy U.S. market.
The United States was widely criticized for
not spending more to attack the roots of the
drug problem.
Alberto Fujimori, president
of Peru
Students tackle realistic U.N. issues
By Alysia Woods
The Battalion
Texas A&M students were
faced with a variety of interna
tional situations on the final day
of International Week's second
annual Model United Nations.
The primary purpose of the
Model U.N. program is to show
college students how interna
tional decisions and processes
are handled, said Brian Mc
Daniel, president of the Model
U.N.'s security council, sopho
more political science and com
puter science major.
"In the United Nations, you
have to negotiate a lot," Mc
Daniel said. "The main lesson to
learn here is why international
decisions are made the way they
are."
Approximately 115 delegates
participated in the Model U.N.,
which included a General As
sembly and Security Council.
In the Security Council meet
ing of the Model U.N., delegates
inroduced solutions and resolved
a crisis situation. The mock situ-
ORTRUN GINGRICH/he Battalion
Indian, left, and Argentinian delegates debate environment issues.
ation involved the kidnapping of
U.N. observers by military units
from, Morocco.
Another issue that was debat
ed included the possibility of ad
mitting Taiwan into the Model
U.N. Taiwan was rejected, how
ever, because China threatened
to veto.
The Security Council also
readmitted South Africa. The
country had been previously ex
pelled because of a legal techni
cality. In protest, the student
delegate from North Korea
walked out of the session.
Observers were invited, al
though McDaniel said few peo
ple showed up. He said the Mod
el U.N. functioned more smooth
ly this year.
"It was a lot more professional
this year," he said. "We had
handbooks printed up and prac
tice sessions for the delegates,
which made the whole thing
more polished."
McDaniel said international
students who served as delegates
added flavor to the Model U.N.
"They really knew their posi
tions well since they were actual
ly from the country they were
representing," he said.
Jack McKown, a freshman me
chanical engineering major who
participated in the event, said the
event was a good learning expe
rience.
"It really helps you under
stand the dynamics of politics,"
McKown said.
A national Model U.N. for
college students across the nation
will be held in New York City in
late April. McDaniel said at least
one A&M student will attend.
The event was sponsored by
the International Student Associ
ation (ISA), Student Government
and the MSC Jordan Institute.
College Station fields
seasoned police chief
By Karen Praslicka
The Battalion
The College Station's new chief
of police brings a high level of ex
pertise to the job from his 27 years
as a police officer, but a career in
law enforcement was not exactly
what he had in mind after playing
professional baseball for six years.
Maj. Edgar Feldman will offi
cially become police chief March 1,
replacing present Chief Michael
Strope, who served as police chief
since 1987.
"I was very, very happy about
being chosen and getting the op
portunity to do some things I've
wanted to do," Feldman said. "It's
a very humbling feeling once you
think about all the responsibilities
the police chief has. I'm elated
and very honored to have this po
sition."
Feldman was officially chosen
after a series of interviews with
law enforcement inside and out
side the College Station depart
ment.
There was a consensus from
personnel at all levels in the de
partment that Feldman would be
the best choice to take over the po
sition, said Tom Brymer, assistant
city manager, who has administra
tive responsibility for public safe
ty-
"We also talked with leaders of
the law enforcement community,
and they confirmed the consen
sus," he said.
Brymer said Feldman was first
considered for the position about a
year and a half ago because city of
ficials knew Strope would soon be
retiring as police chief.
"When Strope was hired, he in
dicated he would stay about five
years, so we've tried to plan for a
transition," Brymer said.
He said Feldman was given
more responsibility within the de
partment, such as being appointed
assistant police chief last Septem
ber. Also, the department was
evaluated in its direction, needs of
the future and the quality of lead
ership.
Feldman said he has no imme
diate plans to change anything in
the department.
See Chief/Page 2