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NOVEMBER 22
Special Advance Screening!
Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Time: 8:00p.m.
Location: Rudder Theatre
Students may pick up complimentary
passes at the MSC Box Office.
Please arrive early!
Seating is limited and on a first come, first serve basis.
International Education Week
November
International Education Week was created to emphasize the
importance of increasing awareness of the world’s cultures.
Please join in promoting international education at Texas A&M
by attending International Education Week events such as:
• Aggie International Ambassadors Information Table
MSC, Monday - Friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
• Open Forum — The International Living Room
MSC Flag Room, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 6 p.m.- 8 p.m.
• International Engineering Education Study Abroad Slide Show
Room 342 Zachry, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 3 p.m.- 4 p.m.
• International Studies Reception with a panel discussing the Middle East
MSC Forsyth Gallery, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 6 p.m.- 8 p.m.
• International Film “No Man’s Land” 2002 Oscar’s Best Foreign Film
Rudder Theatre, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 7 p.m.
• Texas Higher Education Diversity Conference
Rudder, Thursday and Friday, Nov. 21 & 22, 8:45 a.m.- 4 p.m.
• Aggie International Ambassadors Mexican Feast
Sbisa, Thursday, Nov. 21,5 p.m.
• How to Survive in an International Workplace
Room 504 Rudder, Thursday, Nov. 21, 6:30 p.m.
• International Music Festival
Zone Plaza and MSC, Friday, Nov. 22, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
• International Opportunities Brown-Bag Luncheon and Panel Discussion
Student Governance Room Koldus Building, Nov. 22, 12:15 p.m.-l:30 p.m.
• Empirical Research on Democracy and Democratization Seminar
Room 2115 Allen Building, Friday & Saturday, Nov. 21 & 22
For more information on these and other activities go to
http://international.tamu.edu/ and
click on International Education Week
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U.S. protective gear may not war
off some Iraqi chemical weapon
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Iraqi scientists know how to
make chemical weapons that can
penetrate military protective
clothing, and Iraq imported up to
25 metric tons last month of a
powder that is a crucial ingredi
ent to such “dusty” weapons.
Iraq told the United Nations
the powder was destined for a
pharmaceutical company that a
former weapons inspector says
was ordered by President
Saddam Hussein before the 1991
Persian Gulf War to work on
chemical and biological weapons.
The powder, sold under the
brand name Aerosil, has parti
cles so small that, when coated
with deadly poisons, they can
pass through the tiniest gaps in
protective suits.
Experts inside and outside
the U.S. government say they
are not certain Iraq has dusty
chemical weapons. Declassified
U.S. intelligence documents say
Iraq produced a dusty fonn of
the blister agent mustard in the
1980s and used it during its
eight-year war with Iran.
If Iraq made and used a pow
dered form of its deadliest nerve
agent, VX. it could kill U.S.
troops dressed in full protective
gear, according to a 1990 Defense
Intelligence Agency assessment.
Although the military’s protective
suits have been improved since
then, experts say dusty weapons
could penetrate the new suits.
Pentagon officials refused to
discuss the permeability of the
new suits or whether Iraq has
weapons that could pass through
them. Such information is clas
sified, they said.
The 1990 DIA document said
soldiers could protect them
selves by throwing rain ponchos
over their chemical suits, which
would reduce the fatality risk to
near zero. One expert wrote
later: “One gets the sense that
this was recommended in the
face of few other options.”
The researcher, Eric Croddy
of the private Center for
Nonproliferation Studies, said
dusty VX would be a serious dan
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that, in its liquid form, a drop on
the skin can kill waihin minutes.
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formed by mixing a liquid chemi
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coat the powder’s tiny particles
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Aggies back into the game. Ironically, all three
touchdowns came on the ground, as the Aggies only
mustered 36 yards rushing on 31 carries in the game
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touchdown in just 1:26. A 55-yard pass from Long
to Johnson to the Missouri three-yard line set up
senior Joe Weber who pounded it in from one-yard
out two plays later to bring the Aggies within seven.
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