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10 m JB The Battalion World iiesday • Febman Ft. Hood to send 3,000 ground troops to Persian Gt AL-JABER AIR BASE, Kuwait (AP) — The Pentagon is sending up to 3,000 U.S. ground troops to the Persian Gulf region “to discourage any creative thinking” by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. At the same time, Sec retary of State Madeleine Albright ruled out any massive military inva sion of Iraq. “The admin istration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq,” Albright said in a speech in Washington. Saddam The latest deployment of U.S. ground forces was disclosed by a senior military of ficial traveling in the region with Defense Secretary William Cohen. He said up to 3,000 troops from Fort Hood, Texas, will be sent to Kuwait over the next 10 days or so to help defend Iraq’s southern neighbor. “The purpose is to ensure the security of Kuwait,” the official said, speaking on con dition of anonymity. “It’s to discourage cre ative thinking on (Saddam Hussein’s) part.” Although Cohen had not formally signed the deployment order, a Pentagon official said Monday “the forces have been re quested and that request is being consid ered and processed.” Theywilljoin 1,500Army troops who have been using Ml-Al tanks, armored Bradley troop carriers and other vehicles during a scheduled exercise in the desert emirate. The armored vehicles were stored in Kuwait after the 1991 Persian Gulf War and have been used repeatedly by U.S. troops in training exercises. Cohen flew about 50 miles outside Kuwait City on Monday to visit the this desert air base, which is surrounded by the broken and bombed-out remains of con crete bunkers hit by U.S. strike aircraft in 1991 after the Iraqi invasion. “You are the best and the brightest Amer ica has to offer,” Cohen told the the crowd of mostly U.S. Air Force men and women. “You are great warriors and diplomats.” Walking through the crowd, the former senator from Maine told the young men and women, "It’s important to look at your faces “You are the best and the brightest America has to offer.” William Cohen U.S. Defense Secretary so when I sign a deployment order 1 take inn account those faces.” The defense secretar spent nearly an hour handii; medallions posing for photoi “We’re locked and loaded, Coning, a deputy commandei; ties with ilu* Ohio Nation i turned out to hear Cohen "Just. Buck Buckingham, an Fl* Denver due to return homeir his unit from the Colorado Ns said he would be disappoint action was (irdered after hem "Not that we want warn I ingham. whose jet is armedn infrared missilesdesignedtt 1 and armored vehicles. | “We’re trained to protet I States, and we want to be at we re trained to do." Aid arrives for quake victims RUSTAQ, Afghanistan (AP) — The first desperately needed aid trickled in Monday for earthquake victims in Afghanistan's mountains — on trucks where roads were passable, on donkeys where snow and ice were too deep. Survivors slowly walked out, with stories of whole families lost. Frozen bodies were strewn across devastated towns and vil lages, many still unburied after Wednesday’s 6.1-magnitude quake crumbled hillside homes of mud and brick or buried them un der landslides. Rescue workers say as many as 5,000 died in the quake and a se ries of ruinous aftershocks. One girl wept as she tried to re count how her entire family of sev en was crushed under the rubble of their home in the northeastern vil lage of Khojah Khirat. “It’s so painful, so painful,” 7- year-old Bahrish whispered, her eyes brimming with tears. “I don’t know if I have any rela tives left.” The patients lay in darkness on the building’s dirt floor — the clin ic’s power had gone out. 13 dead following El Nino fed floods TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Soldiers and rescue workers scraped away mud and debris Monday after El Nino- fed floodwaters roared through a bor der shantytown, killing 13 people and forcing hundreds to flee their homes. Three teen-age girls were killed af ter fast-flowing mud swallowed their family’s car at the foot of the eastern shantytown of Mexico Undo, or Beau tiful Mexico. Swirling floodwaters dragged an 18-year-old girl from her house to her death. Some 500 people took refuge at shelters because their neighborhoods were buried in mud, water and debris. North of the border. Californians took advantage of a break from the storms that have battered the West Coast for a week. They cleared roads, cleaned catch basins and drains and rebuilt sandbag barri cades. Sunshine bat’i California, which saw.; rain in some areas. Forecasters saidth was expected to blow;; north Monday night,r; the bad weather hitte^ Washington state. But California was; drying up. Seven-look with a six-foot-high tide: Clemente beach home; 100 feet of sand at fr: SUMMER JOB! are now being accepted for the College Station Summer Day Camp Are you looking for a fun and exciting job this summer that is both challenging and rewarding? Are you a bard working individual that has experience working with children ages 5-12? If so, the College Station Summer Day Camp is now accepting applications until February 27th. The Camp is 10 weeks long and offers a variety of games, art, and field trips. 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