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"Ozzy."
Carol Trumbo
Communications, 04
BUSH
invited Saddam to end the crisis qui
etly by accepting life in exile.
“We would help try to find a place
for him to go,” Powell said.
Few experts think Saddam would
leave power voluntarily, but the in
creased talk Of it was another signal
that Washington was moving closer
to invading.
In Baghdad, Saddam appeared on
television to express his defiance.
“We will absorb the momentum of the
attack, destroy it and defeat it,” he
said.
The White House confirmed that
Powell, in a moment of high drama
next Wednesday, will give the United
Nations evidence that Iraq continues
to conceal and develop weapons of
mass destruction. The foreign minis
ters of many U.N. Security Council
nations are expected to attend the ses
sion, in effect creating an international
war council.
Powell also is expected to present
evidence concerning Iraqi ties with
terrorists and to detail alleged Iraqi
efforts to undermine and manipulate
the U.N. inspections process.
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"Ozzy."
Dan Hepler ■
DUS, 01
Powell, who met Wednesday with
Pakistan's foreign minister at the State
Department, said he would offer “new
information” that was “not relevant to
the inspectors’ work,” but nonetheless
illuminated Iraq’s banned weapons
programs.
Additional information, Powell said,
“will be an expansion” of past U.S. pre
sentations. Others described the data
as more of a mosaic than a single
“smoking gun.”
American officials told Knight
Ridder that the Iraqis have ordered sci
entists to hide evidence of their work
on chemical and biological weapons
and have bugged U.N. inspectors’
rooms and communications systems.
They said some translators and other
Iraqis who worked for the United Na
tions were Iraqi agents.
On at least one occasion, U.S. sur
veillance photographed trucks speed
ing away from an inspection site
shortly before U.N. inspectors arrived,
suggesting that their visit had been
learned in advance, and perhaps that
contraband material was spirited away.
One official, speaking on condition
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of anonymity, said: “The inspection re
gime has been thoroughly compro
mised.”
Such information, if shared in detail
with the United Nations, could prove
influential and help the United States
obtain broader backing for an attack
on Iraq.
Russian President Vladimir Putin
said earlier this week that although his
nation had worked for a peaceful so
lution, it might change its position if
Iraq was shown to be hampering in
spectors.
Russia's ambassador to the United
Nations, Sergei Lavrov, said his nation
expected Powell to present “undeni
able proof’ that Iraq wasn’t cooperat
ing with arms inspectors.
The accelerating prewar diplomatic
campaign was scheduled to move to
the White House on Thursday and to
Camp David on Friday, where Bush
will hold crucial meetings, first with
Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi on Thursday in Washing
ton, then with British Prime Minister
Tony Blair on Friday at the presiden
tial retreat in Maryland.
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Psychology, 04
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Marketing, 04
SNOW
and getting rest to keep yourself from
getting run down. Atkins does not
have problems with cabin fever
himself since he works two jobs and,
as he says, “I love snow!”
Many students have found their
own personal cures to cabin fever.
Outdoors Club president Keenan
Hansen goes camping as often as he
can. To combat the cold Hansen says,
“I wear a lot of layers and try to make
the biggest fire I can.”
Some students find the cold
temperature in and of itself a cure to
the itch to go outside.
“Walk to class, that will make you
want to stay inside,” sophomore Erika
Kummemuss suggested.
Students do everything from
camping, skiing, and snowboarding to
movies, tanning, and going to
Starbucks to cure their cabin fever. An
anonymous group of students even
enjoys a round of naked snowball
fighting to raise their spirits.
Fortunately, one should be see
warmer temperatures soon. Atkins
says that weather patterns have shown
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Lindsay Snyder
Marketing, 04
“That means, maybe in a couple of
weeks, it will relax, cold-wise,” he said.
He does not promise anything, though.
“Weather in Erie is really tricky,” he
added.
For now, students will have to brave
the cold and take the advice of Keenan,
“As long as you have long-johns on it
isn’t that bad.”
PHOTO BY ERIN McCARTY / BEHRENO
BEACON
This Charlie Brown-sized tree peeks
out of the snow, a reminder that there
is something still alive under all that
white.
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