Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 2001)
I thursday Fight Hunger with a Fork 5-9pm proceeds benefit ‘Twin ( it v ‘Missions Wednesday Hunger Banquet 12:30pm Kofdus 110 proceeds benefit relief fundsforJifgftan chddren all week Jean Drive donate your old jeans at Hjtdder, Student Programs Office (2nd ffoor MSC), und News Page 8 THE BATTALION Monday, NovemberIjjjJjLday, Nov. friday ffoorMSC), an Hunger Benefit Concert residence Halts 8pm 1am @ The Grove presented by MSC Town Hall, MSC FISH and MSC Hospitality 3 canned goods or S3 donation benefits Brazos Toad ‘Aa nil' IVrsonv utfh call $45-1 ?l 5 (y ? days MlCff tn t;x- c\<*ni lu tir sjK'dat m^iiv \\t rt»t ilk itk^n li fy t h« - k 't of our ahiKtiev TfTj Bush hope to convince Putii of need for missile defense o^/ojoe P'leqjtnnci* Getite/id • * * OF BRAZOS VALLEY FREE PREGNANCY TEST ♦ Pregnancy, Adoption & Abortion Education ♦ Post Abortion Peer Counseling ♦ Adoption, Medical & Community Service Referrals ♦ All Services Free & Confidential ♦ Open M-F 9-5 and some evenings & Saturdays ♦ www.hopepregnancy.org 695-9193 846-1097 205 Brentwood College Station 3620 E. 29th St. Bryan Cameron Reynolds Attorney At Law Licensed by the Texas Supreme Court Not Board Certified Class of ‘91 Jim James Attorney At Law Board Certified Criminal Law , Class of ‘75 SPt C IAL1Z1NG IN THK DEFKNSE OK C RIMINAl. CHARGES INCLUDING: V Driving While Intoxicated All Alcohol and Drug Offenses All other Criminal Offenses J 979-846-1934 e-mail: jim@tca.net website: http://jimwjames.wld.com WASHINGTON (AP) — When Russian President Vladimir Putin makes his first visit to the White House on Tuesday, President Bush hopes he can overcome Russian objections to his missile defense plans with promises of new cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. What the two presidents can accomplish the next day at Bush’s Texas ranch — over a chuck-wagon picnic with crooning cowboys — is less tangible, but perhaps more impor tant to Bush’s war on terrorism and his broader agenda for U.S.-Russia relations. As national security adviser Condoleezza Rice put it. Bush and Putin are steadily build ing “a relationship that is very, very good, and also normal,” where issues can be addressed without the high-stakes negotia tions that were the hallmark of the Soviet era. On Bush’s wish list for his three days with Putin are several issues, both long- range and immediate, that could benefit from the personal friendship and trust that Bush hopes to cultivate in a mix of formal White House talks and down-home hospital ity at his 1,600-acre ranch in central Texas: —Unflinching Russian support in the U.S.-led war against Osama bin Laden, his al-Qaida terrorist network and its allies in Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban. Putin has called the terrorists behind the Sept. 11 attacks a common enemy and vowed to help the United States “fight this evil.” Putin said in a weekend interview that Russia has supplied the United States with air corridors and “very valuable intelli gence information,” as well as “tens of millions dollars worth of military-technical assistance” to Afghan opposition forces fighting the Taliban. Andrew Kuchins, Russia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, warned that “if the United States wanted to take the military efforts outside Afghanistan, especially Iraq or Iran, our nascent partnership with Russia is going to get pretty complicated pretty fast.” There are also signs that a U.S.-Russia squabble over the political configuration of any post- Taliban Afghanistan could be in the offing. —A deal to begin reducing warheads on each side. Bush will present to Putin the results of a nuclear strategy review by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and announce plans to send two-thirds of America’s stockpiled nuclear warheads to the scrap heap. The idea is that, if the American arsenal fell below 2,000 — to roughly match the 1,500 that would be left in Russia’s stock pile under Putin’s cost-savings plans — then the Russians might rest easy that any American missile shield is not meant as a weapon against Russia. Each side currently has about 6,000 warheads. —Further softening of Russian opposi tion to U.S. missile defense. Whether it happens this week or down the road, experts monitoring Russia talks expect Bush and Putin to si some sort of executive agreement 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty coi interpreted to permit testing of a protect the United States and its missiles launched by Iraq, North Kd other rogue states. Such anagi forestall for years the thorny question a to do w ith the treaty when itbumpsup, actual deployment of a U.S. missile Putin said in the interview thtihe. optimistic a compromise could be founi “We know the president’s viei strategic offensive weapons can andra reduced. This is a compromise in the direction,” Putin said. Bush will forge ahead with oni agreement. —Tight control over the nudes other weapons material lying aroundEa some 40.000 tons of chemical weajwsi enough plutonium and uraniumforai mated tens of thousands of nuclearba "If even a minuscule fraction of R.:i nuclear weaponry, material or exp leaked out of the country, it wnM bonanza for state or terrorist organi that might do us harm," said Inderfuth. President Clinton's assistr. rotary of State for South Asian affain UTA WINTER SESSION Give yourself the gift that counts (3 credit hours!). Dec. 17-21, Jan. 2-4, Jan. 7-10 Spending the winter break in D/FW? You can complete a 3 credit hour course, then transfer the credits to your university/college. Streamlined admission process for visiting students. Information and class schedules are available at www.uta.edu/winter.html. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON (817) 272-2726 www.uta.edu admissions@uta.edu Golden Key International Honor Society General Meeting Tuesday November 13,2001 7:00 PM. Rudder 404 AT0, OCA, & DCAMU AthCetic Dept, Sponsor the ‘Everyone Bleeds Maroon ”B[ood'Drive! November 12-16, 2001 Tickets for TAMU Volleyball or Basketball games will be available to donors! Commons-Lobby Sbisa-Bus Mon.-Fri. Mon.-Thurs.-12:00-7:00 10:45-5:45 Fri.-12:00-5:45 Bio-Bio-Lobby Rec Center-Lobby Mon.-Fri. Mon.-Thurs.-3:00-9:00 10:00-4:00 Fri.-11:00-5:00 Zachary-Lobby Duncan-Bus Mon.-Fri. Mon.-Wed. 10:00-4:00 12:30-7:30 Vet School-Lounge Wehner-Bus Mon.TTi. Thurs.&Fri. 10:00-4:00 10:00-4:00 Rudder-Bus Bush Academic Bldg. Mon.-Fri. Wed.&Thurs. 9:45-5:45 10:00-4:00 0(B£oocf (Donors ditt(Receive a Commemorative D-Sfdrtl +American Red Cross Texas A&M Bus Operations Now Hiring TO DRIVE THIS D n Oct. 2 for Ame alert.” A fieral John A gathered cr Id take pi act W few days. 1 JENNIFER LOZANO ese warnings lese warning j°nomy andt 0L ' ! y by offici | SUn ie their hi h is undersi jant to keep / rectly relate lese warning! fout miniscul ■ affects coill mm Download application on-line @ busogsjamu^edu You can come by Bus Operations or Koldus Rm. 118 to pick up an application. Deadline is November 20, 2001 For more information call 845-1971 cartg