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HAIR • SKIN • NAILS • COSMETICS • BATH & BODY . ACCESS©
ability to adhere to the aims of the economic,
political and monetary union.
Thirteen Eastern European countries are cur
rently seeking admission into the EU.
Simonneau said this potential enlargement is an
historic occasion because the candidate states
would bring differing economic, social and his
torical situations into the union .
Negotiations have been closed by the
Commission concerning Cyprus, the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Malta,
Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia, with
these new members expected to join the EU
before the June 2004 European Parliament elec
tions, according to the EU Web site. Negotiations
have not yet begun with Turkey, because the coun
try does not yet meet the political criteria to join
the EU.
Simonneau said he supports Turkey’s admis
sion into the EU because the country is more geo
graphically tied to Western Europe than other
countries that have applied for membership.
Opponents of Turkey’s accession into the EU
cite religious differences and the country’s non-
compliance with human rights issues essential to
the EU as reasons Turkey should not be allowed to
join the union, Simmonneau said.
Arif Oduncu, a senior electrical engineering
major from Turkey, said he was disappointed with
Simmoneau’s prediction that it will take Turkey
10 years to join the EU. Oduncu said he hoped the
wait would be five years or less.
Simonneau works at the French Consulate in
Houston. His speech was in accordance with the
first French forum sponsored by the consulate
general of France in Houston, the French Section
of the Department of Modern and Classical
Languages and the European Union Center.
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the center of Iraqi power on sev
eral other routes.
Lt. Col. Thomas Collins,
spokesman for the U.S. Army
Southern European Task Force,
confirmed that paratroopers were
on the ground in northern Iraq,
many of them elite Rangers.
“I can only tell you yes,
they’ve gone in. They’re on the
ground,” he said.
Other officials said tanks,
other vehicles and supplies would
be airlifted in behind them.
Combat planes from the USS
Theodore Roosevelt gave cover
for the deployment by pounding
Iraqi ground troops and bunkers
in northern Iraq, U.S. military
officials said.
American commanders had
hoped to move a large force
into northern Iraq from Turkey.
But the Turkish parliament
refused to allow that, an the
parachute drop was the begin
ning of an alternative plan.
U.S. and British warplanes,
as well as ground units, hit the
column leaving Basra. A
British military source, speak
ing on condition of anonymity,
said the column included as
many as 120 tanks and other
armored vehicles.
The Pentagon’s No. 2 gener
al, Marine Gen Peter Pace, said
that Iraq has executed prisoners
of war in the half week since the
war began. Pace, apparently
referring to some of the U.S.
Army troops captured Sunday
by Iraqi forces in the city of An
Nasiriyah, said Iraqis had
engaged in many atrocities in
the six days since the war began.
Iraq, in turn, accused U.S.
and British forces of “kidnap
ping civilians, shackling them,
and regarding them as POWs.”
Irregular Iraqi troops have
prevented British troops from
entering Basra, Iraq’s second-
largest city and site of a report
ed uprising by local civilians
against Saddam’s defenders.
International aid officials have
repeatedly expressed fears of
an outbreak of disease, given
the interruption of power and
water supplies.
Details were sketchy as well
about Iraqi troop movements to
the north. Some officials said a
huge convoy of perhaps 1,000
vehicles and members of
Saddam’s elite Republican
Guard were moving south, in
the direction of Marines making
their way toward the capital.
Gen. Richard Myers, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, said a “few vehicles”
were moving south toward
Karbala, site of a major land
battle on Tuesday. “They're
being engaged as we find
them,” he said.
U.S. officials blame the
Fedayeen units for much of the
resistance that has hampered the
American-led advance through
Iraq, accusing them of faking
surrender only to shoot
Americans and enforcing disci
pline among regular Iraqi army
troops who may be less willing
to fight.
One Defense Department offi
cial said commanders were sur
prised by the Fedayeen’s capabil
ity and military commanders
were changing their tactics.
“We're going into a hunting
mode right now,” said Marine
Lt. Col. B.T. McCoy in Iraq.
Iraqi officials said 30 civil
ians were injured, some badly,
when two American missiles
landed in a residential Baghdad
neighborhood.
Associated Press Television
News video showed bodies
wrapped in plastic sheeting in
the back of a pickup truck and
streets that had flooded after
water pipes ruptured. Flames
rose above burning buildings,
mixing with smoke from fires
Iraqis have lit to try to obscure
targets for American combat
pilots.
Regents, the highest
body at A&M. Onlyo
showed up to do so.
Jessica Daniel, a so
psychology major,
on computers and ur
signs in classrooms as eta
of how the University
spend money more
before raising fees.
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increased, but maybe if if
was spent more efficiently
wouldn’t be (as many)tel
problems,” Daniel said.
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Auditorium as part of
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