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Opinion
JOSEF ELCHANAN: When people around the world are
being decimated, America barely steps in; but when our
oil supply is threatened, we jump through hoops like
circus animals. Page 11
The A&M football team's No. 7 ranking in the
latest Associated Press poll shows the team's
ability to play with perrennial powerhouses,
players say.
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TUESDAY
October 11, 1994
Vol. 101, No. 32 (12 pages)
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DALLAS (AP) — A state coalition
bying to have Interstate 35
designated the “NAFTA
erhighway” could see its efforts
arted by squabbling within the
ilition’s own ranks.
The dispute largely pits political
ders from Tarrant and Denton
nties against their counterparts in
xar, McLennan and Guadalupe
nties.
|A superhighway designation would
ply bring hundreds of millions of
eral transportation dollars for the
ssive highway project.
"If we let the squabbling derail this
nwe ... will have lost an incredible
Iportunity,” said Fort Worth Mayor
iy Granger. “We will lose it, or it will
snatched up by someone else.”
One-third of ‘closed’
ises still open
NEW YORK (AP) — More than
e-third of the military bases that
re supposed to be shut down have
naged to stay open, The New York
es reported Monday.
Quoting a report by the Business
ecutives for National Security, the
iwspaper said the Pentagon allowed
ises to stay open by unnecessarily
insferring Defense Department and
er federal agencies’ offices, as well
reserve units to the targeted
ses.
If the bases, which have been
jrgeted for closure since 1988, stay
en another five years it could cost
egovernment as much as $15
Sillion, according to the private,
i/ashington-based organization that
eksto reduce military spending and
laste.
The group’s findings also raise
questions about the savings the
entagon had said it expects from the
basedosures.
The Defense Department
[siimated when all the bases are
losed toward the end of the decade,
savings could be $4.6 billion a year,
me Times said.
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lection campaign south of the border
londay, and Mexican President-elect
Ernesto Zedillo used the event to
otlight stability in a state where a
■recent assassination plot was
itched.
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relationship with you as I did with
Resident Salinas,” Richards told the
lan who won Mexico’s presidential
lections in August and will succeed
esident Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
Zedillo, in his first visit outside
Mexico City since the election, met
jith Richards amid tight security at a
latamoros hotel. In an earlier speech
ruling party faithful, Zedillo vowed
towage a war against drug traffickers.
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gvernment, against narcotics
ifficking and all the political bosses
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Minister Yitzhak Rabin promised
ecurity and dignity to Syria and its
eople Monday as a terrorist attack
nd Iraqi troop movements shadowed
ie start of a new round of diplomacy
y Secretary of State Warren
Kristopher.
Christopher pledged that the
Inited States would stand firmly with
irael against terrorists, who he said
'anted to kill the peace process as
(ell as innocent civilians. He said
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
Iwould not be permitted to intimidate
ie people of Kuwait or the people of
fe region.”
The terrorist attack here that left
to dead and 13 injured, including an
American diplomat, underscored
Israel’s obsession with security, and
labin in a gesture to Syria
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Iraq declares end to troop btdldup
White House officials cautious, say
withdrawal of troops is unconfirmed
KUWAIT (AP) — Hours after
U.S. soldiers landed in Kuwait
on Monday, America’s deter
mined effort to protect the emi
rate appeared to pay off: Iraq de
clared an end to its menacing
five-day buildup and said its
troops would withdraw.
The tens of thousands of
Iraqi soldiers sent to the border
had revived memories of 1990,
when Iraq swept aside Kuwait’s
army and seized the oil-rich
country. It was seven months
before a U.S.-led coalition oust
ed the occupiers.
This time, Washington was
determined to send a firm sig
nal. Washington began amass
ing a force of nearly 70,000 in
the region.
The first contingent of 300
U.S. soldiers arrived in Kuwait
City on Monday.
Hours later, Iraq’s ambas
sador to the United Nations,
Nizar Hamdoon, said Iraqi forces
would withdraw from the
Kuwaiti border and “are already
on the move.” He said they would
be sent to a site north of Basra.
In Baghdad, Foreign Minister
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf
said troops would be deployed to
“other locations in the rear” to
finish military exercises.
He told the official Iraqi news
agency the withdrawal was or
dered in response to appeals
from “friends” and “in view of the
fact that the troops’ presence
might be used as a pretext to
maintain sanctions.”
The crushing U.N. sanctions
were imposed after Iraq invaded
Kuwait in August 1990.
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
may have conceived the buildup
as a warning that he could still
cause trouble if the sanctions
were not lifted.
Washington reacted cautious
ly to word of an Iraqi withdraw
al. A senior White House official,
speaking on condition of
anonymity, said there was no
confirmation as of midday.
Vesselin Kostov, spokesman
for the 1,100-member U.N. ob
server mission on the border,
told The Associated Press he
could not confirm if Iraqi troops
were moving but said “the situa
tion within the DMZ remains
calm.” The 9-mile-wide demilita
rized zone was set up after the
1991 Gulf War.
U.S. forces continued to arrive
Monday to confront the estimat
ed 64,000 Iraqi troops. An esti
mated 700 Iraqi tanks and other
armored vehicles also were be
lieved at the border.
In Kuwait City, some 300 men
from the 24th Infantry Division
came aboard a white Lockheed
1011 jet from Fort Stewart, Ga.
Army Maj. Gen. John Taylor,
who will command the force,
shook the hand of each infantry
man as the unit arrived.
A veteran of the 1991 Gulf
War, Taylor said the arriving
troops would man M1A1 Abrams
tanks and Bradley fighting vehi
cles “prepositioned” in the region
after the Gulf War.
“Everybody is very confident,”
he said. “We know what our mis
sion is.”
Taylor said some advance
American teams were “digging in
the desert right now,” implying
that forces already had been de
ployed in northern Kuwait. He
refused to elaborate.
He declined to say how
many troops were expected.
Pentagon officials had said the
United States was assembling
nearly 70,000 ground, air and
sea forces.
Troop deployment from U.S. bases
Beale AFB,
Calif.
Camp Pendleton,
Calif.
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Ft. Stewart, Ga.
16,000
2 Patriot Batteries*
Ft. Polk, La.
Air Force .*
24A-10S, 18F-16S, 14C-130s
Pope AFB, N.C.
1,500
9F-15C
Langley AFB, Va.
250
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Beale AFB, Calif.
90
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Offutt AFB, Neb.
60
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* A Patriot battery has eight launchers of four missiles each, and includes about 88 people.
Has already deployed 300 Marines.
Source: Pentagon
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Water, water everywhere...
Junior rangeland ecology major Michael Cooper, of Spring, measures the pH of pond water for a laboratory
Monday afternoon.
Its not always a stranger
Majority of women
murder victims
knew their attacker
By Amanda Fowle
The Battalion
Don’t walk alone at night. Don’t talk to
strangers. Carry mace or pepper spray. Learn
self-defense.
Lori Ann Baker probably knew these things,
but she was
murdered in
her home by
a man she
knew.
Women
have been
taught how
to protect
themselves
from attacks
by strangers,
but what if
the attacker
is someone a
woman
knows?
About 85
percent of
women mur
dered in the
United
States are
murdered by
acquaintances, according to the U.S. Department
of Justice.
Paula Fedirchuck, president of the A&M chap-
See Victims/Page 5
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■ Source: U.S. O^it, of Justice
Haiti’s Cedras resigns
military command
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
(AP) — Raoul Cedras kept the
people cowed for three years
with his terror campaign. On
Monday,
Haiti’s mass
es rose up
and drowned
him out.
Cedras
seemed small
in the en
tranceway of
army head
quarters as he
announced he
was resigning
as military
leader and quitting the country
for its own good.
Cedras was dwarfed by U.S.
military commander Hugh
Shelton, whose 19,500 soldiers
played a large role in finally
driving out the Haitian coup
leader.
The sound of 5,000 joyful peo
ple buried the tubas and trom
bones of Cedras’ military band
playing the national anthem
with an impromptu version of
“Auld Lang Syne.”
Then Cedras’ voice faded
amid an underamplified sound
system and the crowd’s shouts of
“Hoodlum!” and “Thief!”
The American troops had to
protect Cedras, firing warning
shots when a rock-thrower shat
tered the windshield of his de
parting Toyota Land Cruiser.
Haitians scrambled to pick up
shards of the broken windshield
See Haiti/Page 5
Cedras
Student group campaigns
for disability awareness
By Lisa Messer
The Battalion
The student group Networks is pushing for in
creased awareness and support of A&M students
with disabilities.
Networks faculty adviser Rene Harris said one of
the organization’s main concerns is gaining ade
quate access to Bonfire.
“Bonfire has been a tradition for so long,” Harris
said, “and students with disabilities want to partici
pate in that tradition, too.”
Harris said accessible parking was provided
for Bonfire last year and will be provided again
this year.
Gail Walters, who is the other Networks faculty
adviser, said students with disabilities need access
to the Bonfire site.
“It usually rains around the time for Bonfire,”
Walters said. “It’s just not physically possible to get
to Bonfire with that terrain.”
Walters said representatives of the organization
have suggested having a stage on the Bonfire site so
that the event could be seen by students who are
physically disabled.
“We talked last year about building a stage,”
Walters said, “but we just considered it too late to do
anything about it. This year, everyone seems very
open to the idea.”
Walters said physical and programmatic ac
cess to events on campus are always concerns
of Networks.
The Americans with Disabilities Act, which be
came effective in 1992, requires changes in policies,
practices and procedures to ensure that people with
disabilities are able to participate in activities in an
integrated setting.
“Buildings are not always the most accessible,”
Walters said, “but that’s because the ADA is not
retroactive. For example, in G. Rollie White, the
ramps are just too steep. It’s impossible for someone
See Networks/Page 5