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The Battalion GRAN FIESTA LATINA Friday, January 23, 1998 10:00 pm - ? ? ? ? RAMADA INN paid for by Gerardo Garcia Spring 1998 Rush Events ^ ALPHA KAPPA PSI National Professional Business Fraternity • Brotherhood • Professionalism • Service • AH Business & Economics Majors Welcome! Monday, Jan. 26 Informational Meeting 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Rudder, Room 601 Casual Attire Wednesday. .Tan. 28 Casual Rush 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Rudder, Room 601 Professional/Casual Attire Thursday. .Ian. 29 Professional Rush 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Rudder, Room 292 Professional Attire Friday. Jan. 30 Social Rush Time & Place TBA **by invitation only Questions? Please call our Rush Directors, Holly Long, Administration 695-1582 Scott Aldrich, Publicity 164-1216 \^^Christina Byas^Professiona^Programs 693-2669 ^ improvisational comedy The perfect way to break your New Year’s resolutions Saturday, Jan 24 9 p.m. Rudder Theatre Tickets are $4 in advance (MSC BoxOffice) http://http.tamu. edu:8000/~fslip To nail the MCAT, knowing the sciences isn’t enough. You’ve got to know the test. At Kaplan we’ll teach you both. Our expert teachers have helped more students get into medical school than all other MCAT prep courses combined. So, go with the leader. Call today to enroll. 1-800-KAP-TEST www.kaplan.com *MCAT is a registered trademark of the Association of American Medical Colleges KAPLAN There is no second opinion. The pain reliever doctors recommend most, Kaplan. Thursday • January22 Iraq wants freeze on inspecting; U.N. to go ahe^ BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Ending three days of unsuccessful talks, Iraq called Wednesday for in spections of presidential sites to be delayed, while the chief U.N. weapons monitor insisted they would go ahead as needed. Iraq’s deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, said he asked the chief inspector, Richard Butler, to postpone discussion of the matter until April, after tech nical experts review the in spectors’ findings. In Bahrain, where he traveled after the meetings, Butler said his mandate from the U.N. Security Council was to obtain "full access.” As for delaying visits to presiden tial sites, he said he told Aziz “the council would de- Saddam cide on that matter, and not me.” If inspectors feel it is necessary to search a sensitive site and “it makes sense, then I will au thorize it,” Butler said. “If it transpires that Iraq says that is a building within a presidential site, I assume that they will block us,” Butler said. “This is what is complete ly unsatisfactory.” The U.N. Special Commission, which Butler heads, must certify that Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction before punishing economic sanctions can be lifted. The two sides have sparred for weeks over ac cess by U.N. weapons teams to so-called “sensi tive sites,” including dozens of Iraqi leader Sad dam Hussein’s palaces. Iraq says such inspections violate its sovereignty. The U.N. Security Council imposed the sanc tions, which ban the sale of oil and other trade deals, after Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, which sparked the 1991 Gulf War. Iraq insists it has fulfilled the requirements, but U.N. inspectors maintain Saddam’s government is continuing to hide weapons and the means to manufacture more. Baghdad wants to put off discussion of the sensitive sites until after a series of U.N. meet ings that it believes will go in its favor. Technical committees are to meet starting Feb. 1 to review what the inspectors have found so far on biological and chemical weapons and missile warheads. Butler and Aziz are to confer again in March, before Butler submits his next majorref United Nations. Aziz, attempting to discredit the ins charged that most were diplomatsorfon itary officers who were not qualified toe tions about biological and chemicalwt. missile technology. And he repeated allegations that me:’ the teams — especially the Americ: Britons — were spying, and calledfonki to be broadened. Given that A/i/ s;mi Iraq wouldpd new information” to the technical com Butler said, "1 will have to doubt than] cal evaluation meeting on any subjtcl close the file.” In Washington, State Department spcif James P Rubin said the initial reponsq ler’s mission were not encouraging. “It appears that Iraq has ignoredtheq of tiie Security Council and, instead,' pose new and unacceptable condition U.N.'s operations there," he said. The U.S. ambassador to the United\d Richardson, said in New York that the{ Council would wait for Butler’s reportF:j uidc-cl (In ■ n h inis quitedistuibia j Employees steal fossils from Moscow museum MOSCOW (AP) — Employees have stolen $1 million worth of rare dinosaur bones and other fossils from Moscow’s Paleonto logical Institute, a newspaper said Wednesday. The thefts began shortly after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, when 240-miIlion-year- old amphibian skulls disappeared from the institute, the daily Vech- ernyaya Moskva said. It quoted Interpol as saying the skulls alone were worth $500,000. Also missing is a pair of mam moth tusks weighing 220 pounds and considered to be the largest in the world, the newspaper said. Some of the pieces later were seized from a German dealer who claimed he had permission to take them out of Russia, it said. Curators at the Paleontologi cal Institute acknowledged that some exhibits were missing, but strongly denied the paper’s claims that staff were involved in the thefts. “These allegations are sheer nonsense," the institute’s deputy director, Tatyana Leonova, told The Associated Press. She said the newspaper article was inspired by a group of scien tists who were facing dismissal because the cash-strapped insti tute has to cut staff. Leonova also said the newspa per exaggerated the extent of the losses, but refused to say how many pieces were missing or what they were worth. The newspaper said most of the items were stolen when the institute sent them abroad for dis play. It said thieves replaced the exhibition items with other bones and customs officials lacked the expertise to detect the swaps. An international group of pa leontologists who investigated the thefts found no signs of any burglaries, the newspaper said. It gave no details about the group. Howdy Class of 6 01 The 2001 Class Council has new positions available for the spring semester: Treasurer Social Secretary Special & Current Events Chair Public Relations Chair There will be an application and interview process for selection. Applications will be available Friday the 23rd of January. You can pick them up at the '01 cube in the MSC and at the '01 table at Open House. Are you puzzled about Studying Abroad?? ^co D o^ Vca Italy Come Put the Pieces Together.... Attend one of the following Information Meetings on: Wed., Jan 21 3 p*m. Thur., Jan 22 10 a.m. Fri., Jan 23 11 a.m. Mon., Jan 26 2 p.m. Tues., Jan 27 11 a.m. < in 134 Bizzell Hall West Or contact the Study Abroad Office at 845-0544 HSB Ship carrying nuclear wi departs from French pi PARIS (AP) — Despite protests from Greenpeace, a ship loaded with highly radioactive nuclear waste left a French port for Japan on Wednesday, the first such voyage routed through the Caribbean and the Panama Canal. The environmental group argues the waste could spill into the sea or be seized by terrorists. “The threat posed by this ship ment of high-level waste to the en vironment and to people’s health is unacceptable,” Rousselot said. The State Department said earli er this week that the Clinton ad ministration wouldn’t intervene in the shipment. The United States has the au thority to block any shipments of weapons-grade plutonium through the canal, but cannot di rectly block shipments of nuclear waste from reprocessing. The ship is carrying 60 contain ers of waste from the reprocessing of used Japanese reactor fuel. The reprocessing, at France’s COGEMA plant, separates pluto nium from the spent waste is then encasedine put into canisters fortjl trip to Japan. France’s plans to sendti shipment through the I Canal were revealed byl “ The threat posed by tT ment of high-level wash environment and topeor-J health is unacceptable.' YANNICK ROUSSEli' SPOKESPERSON FOR GRE: peace and the NuclearG: J .' stitute, a nuclearanti-proli:. advocacy group. m; While spent reactor f lls quently has been shippec g* freighters the current would be only the third? - the more highly radioactiv tnt uct of reprocessing anc^, such shipment through! •*** ou MSC Film Society /bteaeK&L . . . The Game starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn Saturday, Jan 24 7& 9:30 p.m. [ Tickets: $3 or $2.50 in advance at the MSC Box Office On The 5th Annr in y s fit iCO! 1 to [ mtiil Mil dm [ e fill TEXAS FILM FESTIVA All films shown in Rudder Theatre Complex. Questions? Call the Aggie Cinema Hotline (847-8478). I . Persons with special needs call (5l 845-1515 within 3 days of the showing. 4rWebsite: http://rilms.tainu.eclu Feb an. ^an Alpha Tau OmegJ Spring Rush 1 998 Date Event Time Fri. Jan. 23 Rush Tables at MSC 9 - 3 pm BBQ at ATQ House Kickoff at Rodeo 2000 4 - 6 pm Sat. Jan. 24 IFC Seminar 5 - 7:30 pm! (subject to chr' Formal Smoker @ Fox & Hound 8-.30 - 10:30: Sun. Jan. 25 Super Bowl Party @ Blarney Stone 3 - 5 pm Mon. Jan. 26 Dinner with the ATQ's @ Dixie Cafe 7 - 9 pm Tue. Jan. 27 Bowling @ Triangle Bowl 7 - 9 pm Wed. Jan. 28 Hockey Night @ Houston Aeros Game * TBA Thurs. Jan. 29 What is ATQ at ATQ House 7 - 9 pm Fri. Jan. 30 Date Party*+ * Invitation Only t Coat & Tie Rush Chairman President Andrew Davis 694-0155 Rob Yur 779-9147 ATQ House: 822-4242