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s new governing council
dispatches delegates to U.N.
By Bassem Mroue
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq’s new governing
council voted Monday to send a delegation to the
U.N. Security Council and assert its right to repre
sent Baghdad on the world stage. An explosion
wrecked a car near the council’s meeting site and
yet another U.S. soldier was killed in an ambush.
As the U.S.-backed 25-member council met
Monday, governments in Europe and Asia — even
those critical of the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam
Hussein — welcomed the body as a first step in
returning political power to the Iraqis.
Both supporters and opponents of the conflict
believe formation of an Iraqi administration could
make it easier for them to contribute to the recon
struction of the shattered country — a crucial way
of improving their ties with Washington.
“I welcome the setting up of the governing coun
cil in Iraq ... as a first important step toward a gen-
,yajine and representative Iraqi administration,” the
European Union’s foreign policy chief, Javier
5Blaii3; said in a statement.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the council
“is seen as the first major step toward the transfer of
official power in the country from the coalition
forces and into the hands of Iraqis” and a “model”
for addressing the problems of security and recon
struction.
The council, announced Sunday, will have real
political muscle with the power to name ministers
and approve the 2004 budget. But final control of
Iraq rests with L. Paul Bremer — the U.S. adminis
trator of Iraq and a major architect of the council.
That, and the fact the council was selected rather
than elected, led to criticism at an Arab League
meeting in Cairo, where Secretary-General Amr
Moussa showed little eagerness to embrace the new
Iraqi political body.
If the new council had been elected, Moussa said
in a statement released Sunday night, “it would have
gained much power and credibility.” Most Arab
leaders, like Saddam, gained power by brutal force
or right of birth, not through elections.
In a statement Monday, President George W.
Bush called the establishment of the council “an
important step forward in the ongoing transition
from ruthless dictatorship to a free and democratic
Iraq with Iraqis determining their own future.”
Amid the intense scrutiny of the world and the
daily bloodshed across Iraq, the council was taking
the first confident steps toward what is hoped to be
a transition to democracy.
The body — comprised of prominent Iraqis from
all walks of political and religious life — announced
the delegation it was sending to the United Nations
would “assert and emphasize the role of the govern
ing council as a legitimate Iraqi body during this
transitional period.”
Ever since Saddam’s U.N. Ambassador,
Mohammed Al-Douri, left New York on April 11,
Iraqi diplomats have kept a very low profile at the
United Nations. Al-Douri did not resign and Iraq’s
U.N. Mission remains open, with the former third-
ranking diplomat, Said Shihab Ahmad, in charge.
On Monday, the Iraqi governing council also
formed three committees to outline an order of busi
ness for the coming weeks and work out organiza
tional issues, said Hoshyar Zebari, a spokesman for
the council. The council had planned to select a
A step toward new government
The Iraq Governing Council held its inaugural meeting July 13.
The makeup of the council is an attempt to reflect the country's
diverse demographics.
Breakdown of the council
Shiite: 13 Sunni: 5 Kui
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likely target as recently as Sunday, was
under any watches or warnings Monday.
By early Monday evening, Claudette’s center
was located about 230 miles east of Corpus
Christi and about 135 miles southeast of
Galveston, with maximum sustained winds
blowing at 65 mph, still 9 mph shy of hurricane
strength. The National Hurricane Center said the
crew of an offshore oil rig reported wind gusts
reaching 85 mph, and oil and natural gas compa
nies evacuated hundreds of workers from
drilling and production rigs in the Gulf of
Mexico.
Only about half the usual number of crabbers
at Seadriff, on Guadalupe Bay near the center of
the warning area, were at work Monday despite
pleasant conditions, said Josephine London, 50.
“On Tuesday, I don’t think they’re going to
go out,” said London, whose wharfside barbecue
joint is mere footsteps away from the water.
T.J. Blevins, 18, who works at Seasonal
Seafood, which purchases the daily catch from
the crabbers for shipment around the country,
had practical reasons to worry about how the
Main Street harbor will fare in this town
of 1,300.
“This is our jobs, you know,” Blevins said. “I
hope we have jobs to come back to.”
On the bright side, Blevins said crabbers
believe a storm will push crabs toward them,
making for a bumper harvest in the next few
days, assuming the means to catch and process
the tasty crustaceans isn’t wiped out.
Weather service forecaster Jim Campbell said
swells that measured as high as 10 feet 200 miles
offshore could lead to beach flooding and ero
sion and create dangerous rip currents for surfers
and swimmers.
The U.S. Coast Guard said
it was called in Brownsville.
Sunday to search for 10 to 12 people who
out into the high seas at South Padre
got caught in strong currents. All wereai
ed for, including an 8-year-old girl on a
board who was carried down the beach lii®
than a mile, said Petty Officer Third Cl
Andrew Kendrick.
On Monday, beaches on South Padre Isl
were crowded as the popular resort islandi
taken off any hurricane watch or warning.
“It’s been sunny all day long,” saidFn
Mendoza, communications officer for the Soil
Padre Island Police Department.
In the Corpus Christi area, city officials^
concerned with the potential for coastal a]
inland flooding. An extra highway Ian
being opened on a causeway from Padre
to Corpus Christi to speed up voluntary eva»
tions from the island.
Several state parks on the Texas Coit
including Goose Island in Rockport,
Island between Corpus Christi and PortAraiE
Matagorda Island near Port O’Connor
Galveston Island, evacuated visitors on Mo
and were likely to remain closed throughailes
Thursday.
Officials at the South Texas Project nils
plant, located about 80 miles southwesti
Houston, near Bay City, secured records ai
equipment in preparation for Claudette, 1
coming storm was not affecting the pi*
power output and staffing remained at noil
levels late Monday.
Claudette is the third tropical storm of
Atlantic hurricane season. It developedTue
in the Caribbean, brushing Jamaica, the Cay
Islands and Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula bet
entering the Gulf, where it has slowed dowm
gradually intensified.
The last hurricane to strike Texas was
1999, when Bret slammed into a largely unpfj
ulated stretch between Corpus Christi
NEWS IN BRIEF
Research
Liberia
Turkoman: 1
Christian: 1
Ahmad
Chaiabi
Founder of
Iraqi National
Abdel-Aziz
al-Hakim
Leader of the
Supreme Council
Ibrahim al-
Jaafari
Member of
Islamic
lyad Allawi Ahmed
Leaderofthe Shya’a
Iraqi National al-Barak
Accord
Human
Congress
for the Islamic Dawa Party
rights
Revolution
activist
Aqulla
Raja Habib
Hamid
Mohammed
Mouwafak
al-Hashimi
al-Khuzaai
Majid
Bahr
al-Rabli
Female
Female
Moussa
al-Uloum
Longtime
foreign
maternity
Member of
Cleric from
Iraqi
affairs
hospital
Communist
Najaf
resistance
expert
director
Party
leader
Turkoman
Christian
Wael Abdel-Karim
Abdel-Zahraa
Sondul
Younadem
Abdul Mahmoud al-
Oth man
Chapouk
Kana
Latlf Mohammedawi
Mohammed
Female
Assyrian
Basra Iraqi political
Member of
Turkoman
Christian
governor party Hezbollah
Dawa Party
Sunni
Naseer
Adnan
Ghazi
Mohsen
Samir Shakir
Kamel al-
Pachachi
Mashal
Abdel
Mahmoud
Chaderchi
Former
Ajil al-
Hamid
Writer,
Member of
foreign
Yawer
Member of
prominent
National
minister
Northern
Iraqi Islamic
Saddam
Democratic
tribal chief
Party
opposition
Kurds
figure
Jalal
Massoud
Mahmoud
Salaheddine Dara
Talabani
Barzani
Othman
Muhammad Noor
Member of
Member of
Longtime
Bahaaeddine Alzin
Patriotic
Kurdistan
leader of the Kurdistan
Judge
Union of
Democratic
Kurdish
Islamic Union on the
Kurdistan,
Party, Sunni
National
Court of
Sunni Kurd
Kurd
Struggle.
Appeal
SOURCE: Associated Press
leader, but Zebari said that would be done later.
After the meeting had broken up, an explosion
about a quarter-mile from the compound turned a
black four-wheel drive vehicle owned by the
Tunisian Embassy into a bumed-out metal hulk.
The site of the blast was a parking lot where jour
nalists leave cars ahead of news conferences.
“I think it was a bomb,” said Iraqi policeman
Qasim Mohammed. “The explosion was very loud,
and had it been a grenade, it wouldn’t have been that
powerful.”
Mohammed said he believed the explosive
device was thrown under the car shortly before it
exploded.
The target of the blast was not clear.
Mouwafak al-Rabii, a Shiite member of the gov
erning council and a human rights activist, con
demned the explosion.
“These are being carried out by the Taliban of
Iraq,” he said at the bomb site. It is “a backward ide
ology. A very regressive ideology, it depicts Islam in
a very unacceptable way.”
Speaking about the American-British occupa
tion, al-Rabii said “nobody wants the Americans to
stay one day longer than what they have to stay.” He
added that when Iraq has a government, an elected
parliament and the security is under control, then
“the American and British troops should leave
immediately.”
In west Baghdad, one American soldier was
killed and six wounded in an early morning attack
by insurgents who fired several rocket-propelled
grenades at the military convoy, said Spc. Giovanni
Llorente, a military spokesman.
Mexico's residents
look to increase
voting democracy
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Voters
complain about the millions of
dollars the federal government
spends on Mexico's long political
campaigns, while political parties
spend months exchanging alle
gations of abuse and misconduct.
Three years after President
Vicente Fox's historic election
christened Mexico as officially
democratic, residents and politi
cians alike are wondering if the
country should do more to pro
tect and streamline its electoral
process.
Faced with an angry populace
and growing demands for a dem
ocratic government, Mexico in
the early 1990s began laying the
foundation for open elections
and a strong, multiparty system.
Former President Carlos Salinas
- widely criticized for allegedly
stealing the presidency from left
ist candidate Cuauhtemoc
Cardenas - created the Federal
Electoral Institute.
That cleared the way for
clean elections in July 2000,
and Fox was able to rise to the
presidency, ending 71 years of
rule by the Institutional
Revolutionary Party, or PRI.
Yet in the wake of Mexico's
July 6 midterm elections — the
first national balloting since
Fox's victory - residents are
wondering if there isn't room
for improvement.
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small curriculum changes in
three undergraduate
Interdisciplinary Studies Degree
Programs, two certification pro
grams in the College of
Education and a new Water
Management and Hydroscience
Program proposal that would
instate a new graduate program
at A&M.
Chipotle
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education major.
The new location will be at
Texas Avenue South and
University Drive East. Steve
Ells, the owner of Chipotle,
started what he considers a new
twist on Mexican food several
years ago.
Ells founded Chipotle in
Denver in 1993 and dubbed the
concept “fresh Mex,” Henry
said.
The restaurant will be
designed by Scott Shippey and
built by Justin Farrier, both
A&M graduates.
Henry said all of Chipotle’s
food is prepared while the cus
tomer watches.
“Chipotle is different from
other burrito restaurants
because of the quality of the
food and the ingredients we
use,” she said. “Everything is
fresh, no freezers and no
microwaves.”
The restaurant’s grand open
ing is slated to take place the
second week in September.
COLLEGE STATION POLICE BLOTTER
7/13/03 6:34 a.m. Burglary of
a building, 815 Texas. Taken:
money.
7/13/03 8:30 a.m. Public
intoxication, 3300 SH 6. One
arrest.
7/13/03 8:27 a.m. Burglary of
a habitation, 901 Holleman.
Taken: Playstation, leather bag,
clothes taken.
7/13/03 5:22 p.m. Burglary of
a habitation, 1106 Glade. Taken:
CDs.
7/13/03 6:40 p.m. Major acci
dent, 2201 Rio Grande. Scraped
knee.
7/13/03 7:52 p.m. Theft, 1500
Harvey. One arrest.
7/13/03 7:12 p.m. Theft, 1500
Harvey. One arrest.
7/13/03 9:49 p.m. Aggravated
assault, 633 West Ridge. No
injuries.
7/13/03 11:37 p.m. DWI, 900
Welsh. One arrest.
7/14/03 12:46 a.m. Warrant
arrest (assault), 1900 Texas.
7/14/03 12:54 a.m. Warrant
arrest, 1601 Harvey.
7/14/03 1:25 a.m. Public
intoxication, 329 University. One
arrest.
7/14/03 2:19 a.m. Warrant
arrest, 1501 Holleman.
7/14/03 3:20 a.m. Warrant
arrest, 1207 Texas.
said.
Bush said he wanted I
enforce a cease-fire, I:
added, “This is conditional oil
President Taylor leaving. Hf j
got to leave.”
Annan said he expectedik|
Economic Community i
African States to send opfj
2,500 troops.
“After that, from
gather, President Tayl
leave Liberia, then the I
will be strengthened,hope!
with U.S. participation!
additional troops from tk4|
African region,” Annan sail
Eventually, U.N. foito
would supplant the ini
forces, he said.
Bush and Annan alsoi
cussed postwar Iraq and ll
search for peace in the Mkkd
and efforts to battle povet]
and AIDS around the work
It was the first mee
between Bush and Annans
Dec. 20, and since a divi
U.N. debate over a resell
— ultimately withdrawnn
faced with certain defeat
backing a U.S.-led invasioofl
oust Saddam Hussein’s
government.
Annan, who is from GM
near Liberia, has joined rf|
European leaders and Liberia
themselves to plead w
United States to leadateaul
international peacekeepersil ;
the country to enforce a rel)t|
government cease-fire.
After meeting
Secretary of State Col|
Powell, Annan said he
“the decision will be coiaifl
shortly and I hope it will
positive.”
Annan also discus
Liberia with Senate leal
from both parties Monday.
He said the administr#!
had a preliminary reportfrj
the assessment team “bull
want to see the full re|
before a final judgment
be made.”
“I think whatever we cal
to help the Liberian situal
will be appreciated by millii
not just in Liberia but aroilj
the continent,” Annan sa:
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