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Graduate Sufe Council president. There is a better flow of con. mumcation between organm tions and groups are star% appreciate other groups moij Pierson said. "There seems tobemoreoli 1 united attitude for making A® a better place for everyone; Pierson said. The Graduate Studem Council is working towards increasing diversity inaposie way, Pierson said. The councils helping students embrace diver- sity and look at it as a goo: thing, but Pierson said work issues have helped inthatarea "Sept. 11 proved that li Aggie community can pul together instinctively and m care about the color of skin' Pierson said. wi Missile defense needs more anti chief says U.S. -missile rockets WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is working to solve problems with its most advanced anti-missile rockets and increase production so the newest Patriots will succeed where their predecessors didn’t in destroying Iraqi Scuds, the Missile Defense Agency chief said Thursday. Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish said the United States has only about 40 of its most advanced Patriot missiles to defend against short- range ballistic and cruise mis siles. Experts suspect Iraq alone has several times that many Scud and other short-range missiles, which could he topped with chemical or biological warheads. Earlier versions of the Patriot missile failed to stop deadly Iraqi Scud attacks against Israel and U.S. positions in Saudi Arabia during the 1991 Gulf War. The latest Patriot is meant to overcome those shortcom ings, but a round of operational tests this year ended with many of the rockets failing to fire or missing their targets. Kadish said the problems have been fixed and the Pentagon needs many more of the advanced Patriots to counter threats from North Korea, Iran and Libya as well as Iraq. The main contractors on the latest Patriot, known as Patriot Advanced Capability 3, can make two of the rockets per month. Kadish said. The Pentagon hopes to speed up that process, but doing so will take time, he said. "My recommendation is to buy PAC-3s as fast as we are able to buy them," Kadish told reporters. Outside experts esti mate each rocket costs about $2.7 million, although that cost drops as the production increases. Congress has already approved increasing PAC-3 pro duction, adding $50 million to the $622 million the Pentagon originally requested for the pro gram for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. Pentagon officials have told Congress they plan to shift another $120 million from other missile defense programs to the PAC-3. Kadish called this year’s PAC-3 test problems “extreme ly annoying” and said they included improper soldering of electronic components. “I am very confident we have those problems fixed,” Kadish said. The PAC-3 missiles already manufactured have been retrofitted to fix the problems, he said. The PAC-3 missile is designed to shoot down cruise missiles and ballistic missiles with a range of 620 miles or less. Those include the Scud mis siles that Iraq used a decade ago during the Gulf War. The United States believes Saddam Hussein still up to two dozen of them. Iraq also has an unknown num ber of missiles with ranges of 95 miles or less. Iraq was allowed to continue making them under U.N. sanctions imposed after the Gulf War. Iraq’s shortest-range missiles can easily hit Kuwait, where thousands of U.S. troops are massing in preparation for a possible invasion. The United States has batter ies of Patriot II missiles in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region, but some Pentagon planners worry there aren’t enough Patriots sta tioned there to shoot down all the missiles Iraq has. Increasing defense against Iraqi missiles The main defenses against Iraqi missiles are advanced version: of the Patriot anti-missile system (PAC-III) and the joint Israeli- U.S Arrow system. With the prospect of war looming, the Pentagon wants to increase production of its Pac-IH systems to meet the threat from Iraq and t | other hostile countries. Iraq’s offensive ballistic missiles Jill Missile Al Samoud Scud B Al Hussein name Ababil-1 00 Length (ft.) 19 8 37 41 Payload (lbs.) n/a 2.167 1.100 Range*(mi ) 93 to 112 186 391 Accuracy*(mi.) n/a 1/4 1/2 to 2 Al Abbas Al Hussein Al Abbas i T.tilRKEY 45 495 558 2 ’ApproxivS Al Samoud, Ababil-IOt Scud B Erin Wk football, bu things to dc “A lot ol isn't a foott to do,” said fisheries sc College Sta On weel has an aw a five ways t school. 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I7ft - 2,860 lbs. 686 ^ s : 56 miles 9.3 mil® 8 llOTt more than 49,000f« Length- Weight** Max. range** Max. altitude "Missile only SOURCES: Associated Press; Jane's Information Group; Federation of American Scientists NEWS IN BRIEF Man shot to death after attacking ex-wife's parents, boyfriend with hatchet LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A man who posted bail, then broke into his ex-wife's home and attacked her family with a hatch et was shot to death early Thursday by her boyfriend, authorities said. The man, who was not identified, had been in custody for violating a restraining order by breaking into the home Sunday and assaulting the woman and their 10- year-old daughter. Orange County Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said. He was freed after posting $25,000 bail. Authorities said the man broke into the house again at about 1 a.m. Thursday and tried to make the girl drink some sort of caustic liquid. Martha Stewart's company reports 42 percent decline NEW YORK (AP) — Martha Stewart's mul timedia empire reported a sharp drop in quarterly earnings Thursday and its name sake chief executive acknowledged her legal woes are affecting the company. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., which produces magazines, TV shows, and merchandise under Stewarts n ' warned Thursday that fourth-qua will fall well short of Wall Stree Thrcompany faces skittish adv^ muted merchandising sales an 8 porate expenses related to ^ probe of Stewart's sale of stoc ^ Systems Inc. last year. The comprt acknowledged Martha Stewar re jV zine renewal rates and its sig show's ratings are weakening. .^1- In a conference call, ^ teW ^ j t0 ''con 1 ' edged that the company has a .» sU [. bat a great deal of negative pubi^y rounding her legal woes. 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