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Friday, January 23, 1998
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Spring 1998 Rush Events ^
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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
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Saturday, Jan 24
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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
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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;
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quently has been shippec g*
freighters the current
would be only the third? -
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uct of reprocessing anc^,
such shipment through! •***
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MSC Film Society
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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
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(847-8478).
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(5l 845-1515 within 3 days of the showing.
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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