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Natioiv Wednesday • September 111 STUDY ABROAD AT SANTA CHIARA! INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS - 358 BIZZELL HAI L, WES I' TUESDAY. SITU'EMUER 17 5:00 - 5 45 PM WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER IS 3:30 - 4 I 5 PM t’RJDAY. SEPTEMBER 20 3:30 - 4:15 PM S TUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS 161 Bizzell Hall West 845-0544 Clinton sends troops to Kuwai WASHINGTON (AP) — In moves designed to “keep Saddam Hussein in a box,” President Clin ton has dispatched 3,500 Army soldiers to Kuwait and warned the Iraqi leader of new attacks should he threaten his neighbors or U.S. forces. The warning to Saddam will remain in effect indefinitely, the State Department said. “It’s obvious that he’s always pushing the envelope,” Clinton said Tuesday. “We didn’t want to create a precedent that would lead him to believe he could take further action. We didn’t want there to be any ambiguity at all.” After congressional leaders met with Clinton at the White House, Democratic senators said Clinton had not hesitated in sending the troops to Kuwait. Al though plans to send 5,000 sol diers were announced on Friday, reports emerged Monday the de cision was being reviewed. “We’re doing it because the Kuwaiti government feels threat ened,” Defense Secretary William Perry said of the deployment. The 3,500 soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas, would join 1,200 others conducting exercises in Kuwait by the end of the week, he said. Perry flatly rejected speculation the Kuwaiti government initially was unwilling to accept additional U.S. forces, or that the U.S.-led coalition that mounted the 1991 war against Iraq had been frac tured during the past two weeks of confrontation with Saddam. “The bottom line is, the coali tion is alive and well,” said Perry, who had returned early Tuesday from two days of consultations with Gulf and European allies. Senate Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi expressed sat isfaction after attending the meeting with Clinton, although he termed it “somewhat belated.” He said he hoped “there will be no basis” for the troops to go into action, but added that would de pend on whether Saddam threat ens U.S. forces or his neighbors. Clinton said his actions were “designed to improve the strate gic position of the United States and our allies to keep Saddam Hussein in a box and limit his ability to threaten his neighbors.” Perry, asked at a Pentagon briefing what Iraqi steps actions would prompt renewed U.S. strikes, replied: “We will not toler ate any threatening actions against our air crews.” Sho be taken, he pledged, “we spond very sharply.” Interviewed later onPl NewsHour with Jim Lehm, said the Iraqis also have to their ground forces diffe from how they’re situated “They understand very what they have to do am they have to refrain from and we will be watchingve: carefully to see that they those,” he said. In the past, administrai ficials have said Iraqm rebuild air defense sili stroyed by U.S. cruise mi not move mobile missile into the no-fly zones, not nate allied aircraft and not armored units into the soot zone of Iraq. ie tobacco i hacking its v the country hst week New [the industry |r smoking rei luit is one of i /T Commission says no to Perot in debat Interested in other countries and cultures? Want to learn more about them? We can help!!’ The MSC L.T, Jordan Institute for International Awareness Come to our informational meeting to find out more. 7:00pm on Thursday, September 19 MSC 223J For more information: call 845-8770 email: jordan@msc.tamu.edu http://ltjordan.tamu.edu <k Persons with special needs please contact the MSC L.T. Jordan office at 845-8770 WASHINGTON (AP) — In a decision cheered by Republicans, a nonpartisan com mission recommended Tuesday that Ross Per ot be denied a spot in this fall’s presidential debates. An outraged Perot vowed to sue, and the Democrats continued to argue that he should share the stage. The Commission on Presidential Debates said Perot should be excluded because he had no realistic chance of winning the White House. Its non-binding recommendations are now the subject of negotiations between the Dole and Clinton campaigns, which met for three hours Tuesday without reaching agreement. The Clinton campaign suggested two two- hour presidential debates, with Perot to be in vited to one. Republican Bob Dole wants four debates — all without Perot, and the gulf be tween the two camps made it appear certain that the first debate would not occur next week as proposed by the commission. The panel said its purpose in recommending the exclusion of Perot and Reform Party run ning mate Pat Choate was to provide a forum for candidates “from whom the American peo ple actually will choose the next president. “Participation is not extended to candi dates because they might prove interesting or entertaining,” said the panel of five Democ rats and five Republicans, which has played host to the fall debates since 1987. Choate denounced the commission process as a “corrupt little game.” Dole’s campaign, pinning its come-from- behind strategy on a boost from the debates, hailed the decision. “They assume there was no realistic chance that anyone but myself or the president would be elected,” said Dole, campaigning in Arizona. “I’m prepared. We’re ready to go.” The Clinton campaign, which thinks in cluding Perot would help its cause, called the ruling regrettable and pledged to continue to push for Perot’s inclusion. “I enjoyed having him in there in 1992,” Clinton, campaigning in Michigan, said of Perot. “I’m not afraid of any debate.” The commission’s non binding recommendations in recent elections have served as the starting point for negotiations between the presidential campaigns. Negotiators for the Clinton and Dole campaigns met in private Tuesday afternoon to discuss the number, timing and format of the debates. Last week, the Dole campaign proposed four hourlong debates between Dole and Clinton and two vice presidential forums. With Clinton scheduled to address the United Nations on Sept. 24, Dole also offered to let the First proposed debate slide from the 25th to the 26th but no further. atrick Smiley Sophomore Izoology major denying accu: ularity of cigai On Tuesday, the Clinton campaign: this counteroffer, according to a senior! ton adviser: — IVvo presidential debates, each lasifftt make amen hours. The first, on Oct. 6, would included ericans, and t the other would be a town-hall stylese: irough repara with just Dole and Clinton on Oct. 13. —One two-hour debate on Oct. 9 her* Vice President A1 Core and GOPvicepj dential nominee Jack Kemp. Emerging from the meeting, Dole’sleal bate negotiator, former South Carolinai] Carroll Campbell, said the two sideswei few days away from agreeing.” Talks were to resume Wednesday mon Russell Verney, national coordinatorofl ot’s Reform Party, rejected the commiss vote as a “very subjective decisionl made by the Republicans and Democrats! protect the two-party system.” iadly, the indu> deaths of milli panics spend wrongdoing. Inaddition, tot ig to take adva .Many ads ca images of se: ngmen with A ilyfrom their lij lease in adoles< idence, it also r Impressionable ized Joe, often Perot White House aides predicted that decs I ^large-breast could anger voters and trigger a against Dole for advocating Perot’s exclusi More than 60 percent of Americans in pu opinion polls say they favor his inclusion. “Martyrdom is not what we’re seekii Choate said. “Office is what we’re seeking Verney said the Reform Party would li by Friday in U.S. District Court in Washif against the commission and its individtii 1 cers, asking them to use “objective crite® deciding participation in the debates. law experts dismissed any such suit as AA |n,asthedefinit dthatasmokin tting could evei Not to mentioi ented in such men to mere s ung hormonal iy cool just the So advertising i ENGINEERING STUDENTS Have You Considered The Dynamic World Of Management Consulting? 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