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Iraqi troops remain in striking distance HOSTS program a succes
preceded Iraq’s August 1990
invasion of Kuwait.
With the arrival of U.S.
troops, tensions in Kuwait
eased somewhat today. Offi
cials said oil operations — the
golden goose of the emirate’s
economy — were continuing
normally. Banks had plenty of
dollars, gasoline stations were
open, and there were no signs
of hoarding.
Still, Kuwaitis did not ap
pear to trust their neighbor to
the north. The government
announced today that an addi
tional 8,000 men had volun
teered to fight.
Seeking ways to prevent
Iraq from triggering another
crisis, the United States sug
gested the U.N. Security
Council impose a wide off-lim
its zone on Saddam’s ground
forces near Kuwait’s border.
The proposal would expand
the no-fly zone in effect in
southern Iraq.
Russian President Boris
Yeltsin sent a delegation
Tuesday to Baghdad to try
and defuse the crisis. Russia
warned Iraq against escalat
ing tensions, but also cau
tioned the rest of the world
against backing Saddam into
a corner.
There has been talk that
the Iraqi troop buildup was
intended to drive the United
Nations to lift the sanctions.
It appears, instead, to have
cemented support in the Secu
rity Council for delaying any
talk of easing the sanctions.
The United States, Britain
and France increased their
presence in the region Tues
day, making clear they meant
to honor 10-year defense pacts
signed with Kuwait after the
Gulf War.
Shalikashvili placed the
number of American forces in
the Gulf at 19,000, with an
additional 44,500 in various
stages of deployment. He said
156,000 more troops have
been placed on alert.
A total of 252 American
and allied aircraft were in the
region, with 467 more Ameri
can planes in various stages of
The first wave of 80,000
Iraqis stopped just north
of the Kuwaiti border.
Officials claimed Monday
the force would move
north to Basra. But
dubious U.S. officials are
continuing to build up
troops.
IRAQ
Mentors help
children learn
reading, writing
By Constance Parten
The Battalion
deployment and an additional
196 on alert, he said.
Maj. Don Janning, an
army spokesman, said some
600 troops from the 24th
Mechanized Infantry Divi
sion from Fort Stewart, Ga.,
had been flown to Kuwait
since Monday and 3,200 more
were on their way.
The USS Tripoli and its
amphibious battle group, car
rying 2,000 Marines, arrived
off Kuwait Tuesday. The air
craft carrier USS George
Washington began patrolling
the Red Sea on Monday, and
its escorts were carrying Tom
ahawk cruise missiles able to
hit Iraq.
Also Tuesday, the French
anti-submarine frigate
Georges Leygues, armed with
Exocet anti-ship missiles, Cro-
tale anti-aircraft missiles,
cannon and torpedoes, docked
at Kuwait’s port.
Twelve British Tornado
fighter-bombers have flown
to Kuwait, and a destroyer,
HMS Cardiff, was sent to join
a Royal Navy frigate, HMS
Cornwall. The British De
fense Ministry put its deploy
ment at some 1,000 ground
and air troops.
When Judy Sweat first heard
about the HOSTS volunteer pro
gram, she was a little leery.
The program. Helping One
Student To Succeed, promised to
improve a child’s reading level
in a matter of weeks and an av
erage reading improvement of
2.5 years in only eight months.
“Several of us were interested
in the program and thought it
could really benefit the students
in Bryan,” Sweat said, “but it re
ally sounded too good to be
true.”
Three years later, Sweat is
the Bryan HOSTS area special
ist and believes in the program
wholeheartedly.
“I really and truly love it,”
Sweat said. “It’s the best thing
I’ve ever done.”
HOSTS was started in Van
couver, Wash., in 1971 by an ed
ucator who saw a need for one-
on-one instruction. The pro
gram grew slowly at first and is
now a nationwide program
found in 30 states.
HOSTS is a national program
established to improve reading,
writing, vocabulary, study skills
and high level thinking for stu
dents who test below their their
grade level. This is accom
plished through a system that
begins with preliminary testing
to indicate what areas the stu
dent is having problems in.
“Before the students begin
meeting with their mentors,
they go through a battery of
tests in five key areas,” Sweat
said. “These areas are phonetic
analysis, structural analysis, vo
cabulary, study skills and com
prehension.”
The testing is used to prepare
a specialized program for each
individual student. Sweat said
this is one of the primary rea
sons the program has been so
successful.
“The students are given help
in the areas they need it the
most,” Sweat said, “and the
Sophomore elementary education major Jennifer Cross, of
helps third grader Patrick Garcia as part of the HOSTS progrr
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mentors give them the support
they can’t always get at home.”
Gail Macmillan, division
manager for community develop
ment for the City of Bryan, be
came a HOSTS volunteer three
years ago when the program be
gan in the Bryan school district.
Macmillan said she thinks
she gets as much out of the
HOSTS program as the kids do.
“I love working with the
kids,” Macmillan said. “Seeing
them make real progress is very
rewarding. My impression is
that a lot of them do really well
after taking part in the pro
gram.”
One of Macmillan’s most
memorable experiences in the
HOSTS program was as a men
tor for Crystal Garcia.
“Crystal was in third grade
when I was her mentor,”
Macmillan said. “She was not
very confident when we first
started, and she would get really
frustrated when she didn’t un
derstand things right away. But
by the end of the semester she
was acting out her readings,
walking around the room and
reading the characters’ lines in
different voices. She really
seemed to enjoy reading at the
end.”
Garcia said the HOSTS pro
gram really changed her life.
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too motivated. Now
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Safety
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not work on people who are drunk, on drugs,
or psychotic, he said. However, pepper spray
inflames the tissues in the body and works on
almost everyone.
Walling said consumers need to be aware of
the potential negative consequences of using a
weapon.
“Different situations dictate different re
sponses,” Walling said. “The problem is that
these devices often give a person a better
sense of security, but people may be buying
just the sense, not the actual security.”
People should also explore possible situa
tions and plan how they will react, Kemp said.
“People should play what I call the What If
game,” Kemp said. “If you have thought about
a situation, it will help you react. Think of
what you will do, who you will call.”
There are many things people can do to
make their home or apartment more secure,
Kemp said. All windows, for example, should
have two locking devices.
“Nothing makes a home 100 percent vic
tim-free,” she said. “But just slowing the crim
inal down is important. Criminals are looking
for the opportunity to break-in or steal.”
The biggest problem with apartment secu
rity is that people often do not use the locks
they have, Walling said. Residents should put
deadbolts and door viewers on their doors.
“People should also be cautious as to who
they let into their apartment,” Walling said.
“A lot of crimes happen in your own home.”
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"People should play what I call
the 'What If' game. If you have
thought about a situation, it will
help you react. Think of what
you will do, who you will call."
—Janice Kemp, crime prevention
officer for CSPD
If a person is asleep in his house during a
burglary and wakes to the robbery, the person
should probably not do anything until the rob
ber is gone, he said.
“The burglar is wide awake because they
are in the middle of their workday, and the
person just awakened is still sleepy,” Walling
said. “The person’s senses aren’t as fine-tuned.
In most cases he should stay as if he is still
asleep until the robber leaves the house or the
room.”
If a person returns home to find he has
been burglarized, he should leave the house
immediately and make as little noise as possi
ble, he said.
“It is dangerous to confront a burglar in the
house,” Walling said. “A cornered burglar will
hurt you.”
Unlike some apartments, dorms are very
secure, Kretzschmar said. If an access card to
a dorm is lost, the computer will reject the
card if someone takes it and tries to use the
card to gain access, he said.
In addition, the computer keeps track of
every time a card is used, and student affairs
will know that someone tried to use a stolen
card, he said.
Parking garages are also safe, Kretzschmar
said. Each garage has 45 cameras and every
exit has an emergency panic button, he said.
College Station Police Department and
UPD officers, along with counselors from the
Student Counseling Centers will conduct a
safety seminar tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Zachary
Engineering Center.
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Phi Alpha, and Shawn Williams,
president of the A&M chapter of
the NAACP, circulated a petition
for individuals to show their op
position to the fliers.
Washington,
Williams and lead
ers from other mi
nority organizations
will meet with Dr.
J. Malon Souther
land, vice president
for student affairs,
next week to discuss
race relations. They
will also discuss
their support for a
multicultural ism
class requirement
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Ruben Reyna, public relations
chair for Committee for Aware
ness of Mexican American Cul
tures (CAMAC), said that in
stances like this show the need
This emphasizes the
for a multiculturalism clas:
quirement,” he said, 1
should know that stuff like
would be offensive.”
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lence Uniting Culture,
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