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Iraqi execution threats denounced
By LAURA KING
Associated Press Writer
Western governments reacted with
outrage yesterday to Iraq's threat to
execute diplomats who shelter foreign
ers, but Baghdad sought to portray it as
a misunderstanding, saying the warn
ing was aimed at its own citizens.
Eight weeks to the day after Iraq
overran Kuwait, its exiled emir
addressed the United Nations General
Assembly, decrying the "rape, destruc
tion and terror" inflicted by Saddam
Hussein's armies and appealing for a
withdrawal of Iraqi troops.
But Iraq tightened its grip on the con
quered emirate, ordering Kuwaiti
nationals to apply for Iraqi citizenship.
Oil prices rose again yesterday, brief
ly breaking the $4O-a-barrel mark, a day
after President Bush ordered the sale
of a fraction of the oil from the
U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to try
to dampen soaring prices. High oil
prices helped drive down stocks again,
with the Dow Jones industrial average
closing off 32.17 points at 2,427.48.
International finance officials, mean
while, expressed new concerns about
long-term financial consequences of the
Persian Gulf crisis. The head of the
World Bank said he might be forced to
call on wealthy nations to boost their
support for the lending institution by
early next year.
Britain, in a surprise move,
announced the restoration of diplomatic
ties with Iran, which were severedafter
the Ayatollah Khomeini's death decree
against author Salman Rushdie for his
book The Satanic Verses.
Neither side publicly linked the move
to the current gulf crisis, but Iran's rela
tions with the West have been improv
ing, and it has said it is cooperating with
the U.N.'s economic boycott against
Iraq. Iran has a 700-mile-long border
with Iraq, and its cooperation with the
U.N.sanctions is seen as crucial.
Enforcement of the embargo led to a
flareup of tensions yesterday in the Red
Sea, where the Pentagon said a U.S. f
rigate fired warning shots at an Iraqi
tanker after it ignored an order to halt.
A team from the USS Elmer Montgom
ery boarded the tanker Tadmur and
inspected it, but it was empty, and was
allowed to proceed.
The incident marked the fourth time
a U.S. warship fired shots to enforce the
U.N. trade sanctions.
At the United Nations, the deposed
emir of Kuwait, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad
al-Jaber al-Sabah, spoke emotionally of
his homeland, which he described as the
victim of "naked, brutal aggression."
The Iraqi delegation stalked out when
al :Sabah began speaking, but he won a
standing ovation from the General
Assembly.
University feels effects of
By REBECCA FISHKIN
Collegian Staff Writer
As tensions rise in the Middle East, so does the chance
students will become militarily involved.
Although there is no draft, the University is begin
ning to notice the effects of the Gulf crisis. Already,
seven students have been called up for duty and the
Bellefonte Reserve Unit was assigned to duty two
weeks ago, said Brian Clark, coordinator of Veteran
Programs.
Helping students understand the draft is important,
said Bob Godlove, an attorney in the Center for Con
flict Management who is researching the current sit
uation.
ISC president quits soon
after vice president leaves
By CAROL ANN MICHALIK
Collegian Staff Writer
Citing a need to move on, Interna
tional Student Council President
M. Bilal Kahn resigned from office
yesterday following the resignation
of Vice President Frederik Wenzel
earlier this week.
Kahn resigned yesterday stating
that he is sorry to leave but he
believes his decision is in the council's
best interest. He would not comment
further.
Wenzel resigned earlier this week
citing officer incompetence, dis
agreements with the advising system
and a split between Muslim and non-
Muslim members as reasons for the
action.
"It was a building up of things,"
An Iraqi youth holds a poster blaming President Bush for the suffering of Iraqi children due to the embargo of Iraq. The youth
participated in a demonstration outside the U.S. embassy in Baghdad yesterday.
Underscoring the U.S. view that the
emir is still the legitimate ruler of
Kuwait, Bush has invited him to Wash
ington, D.C. for a visit today.
Also due to visit is Japanese Prime
Minister Toshiki Kaifu, who was to trav
el to the United States today. Yesterday,
Kaifu unveiled a plan to dispatch Japa
nese military personnel to the gulf
If Congress enacts a draft, registered males 20 years
old would be required to serve first when issued
orders, Godlove said.
Many students said they think U.S. involvement in
the Gulf is necessary and do not seem overly con
cerned about a draft.
Jeff Rose ( senior-psychology ) said he thinks
U.S. action is needed to check aggression and troops
should stay for as long as necessary.
- A draft doesn't really worry me at this time," Rose
said. "I'd go if I was called up. -
Mike Galcik ( junior-biochemistry) agreed.
"We have to support Kuwait because we have to
support our needs over there. I'd definitely go," he
said.
Wenzel said. "But the last incident
just pushed me over the edge."
Last week, Kahn, Wenzel and two
other officers held a closed ISC meet
ing to remove treasurer Uzma Aslam
from office, charging that she was not
committed to her job. The vote was
brought before the general assembly
but did not receive the two-thirds
majority necessary for removal.
According to ISC policy, the trea
surer is the next to succeed the pres
ident and the vice president, said Jim
Lynch, ISC adviser and associate
director of international students.
Aslam will become the new ISC
president and is responsible for
appointing the vice president and
treasurer, Lynch said.
feel this is clearly a vote of no
confidence in the officers," Wenzel
the
daily
region, in what would be the first such
overseas deployment of Japanese
forces since World War 11. But Kaifu
said they would be unarmed and kept
away from combat.
Japan has been criticized in the Unit
ed States for supplying little more than
money to the multinational force
deployed in the Persian Gulf.
said about the meeting to remove
Aslam. "I am no longer in a position
to represent the people who don't
trust my judgement," he said.
Kahn and Wenzel still maintain that
Aslam did not perform her job satis
factorily. They cited examples of
missed office hours and an incom
plete budget.
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Gulf crisis
However, if a draft was enacted, student status
would not be protection.
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Muhammad Khan
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Iraq was the target of a blistering new
round of international criticism yester
day.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry refused to
elaborate on the message, but Iraqi offi
cials speaking on condition of anonym
ity said it was referring to Iraqis
harboring Westerners, not to diplomats
giving refuge to their own nationals.
However, the impending situation does worry some
students.
"I'm not panicking, but it doesn't thrill me that I
might have to go to war," said Mike Skonieczny
( freshman-liberal arts) "What we're doing is right,
but I hope that the situation is resolved peacefully."
Godlove said he does not think an immediate draft
is likely because it caused so many problems in the
19605.
"I haven't heard any mention that we're close to a
draft," Clark said.
Exemptions from the draft include mental or phys-
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Project addresses residents' AIDS concerns
By STEPHANIE GALLI
Collegian Staff Writer
Can you get AIDS from mosquitoes?
Diana Shepley, director of The AIDS
Project, answers these kinds of ques
tions every day.
The AIDS Project, an operation spon
sored by the Gay/Lesbian Switchboard
of State College Inc., provides services
to those who, in Shepley's words, are
"infected and affected" by AIDS in the
Centre County area.
The Project's primary goal is educat
ing the people of Centre County about
preventing, testing and treating AIDS.
"We will talk about AIDS to anyone,"
Shepley said. "We get the word out any
way we can."
The project sponsors several educa
tion programs for the public including
"AIDS in the Workplace", "Talking to
your child about AIDS" and Safer Sex
workshops. In addition, project workers
operate a hotline 9 a.m.to 9 p.m. to
answer questions about the HIV virus.
Thomas' view
upsets, angers
LGSA director
By CARLA J. MORMAN
Collegian Staff Writer
The Lesbian and Gay Student Alli
ance's political co-director said he
is angry with University President
Joab L. Thomas' treatment of his
organization at a meeting of the
Forum for Underrepresented
Groups Wednesday night.
Speaking at the University Student
Advisory Board last night, Mike
LaFlam said members of his organi
zation were cut off and not given
straight answers to questions they
directed at Thomas.
"He didn't treat us with the same
respect and interest as other groups
at the meeting," LaFlam said after
the USAB meeting. "I don't know if
(Thomas) has been advised by other
people to treat us that way or not."
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Thomas said at the forum that all
University students are protected
against discrimination, so it is not
necessary to single out specific
minority groups for protection under
the University's nondiscrimination
policy.
"I don't understand how the pres
ident, who has a record on civil
rights; could make statements like
that to our organization," LaFlam
said. "I don't know where to go from
here."
LGSA has been working in con
junction with many members of
USAB and other student organiza
tions to secure a sexual orientation
clause in the University's nondiscri
mination policy.
All other Big Ten schools contain
a sexual orientation clause in their
nondiscrimination policies, LaFlam
said.
"(Thomas) never said he was
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Senate committee
OKs Judge Souter
By STEVEN KOMAROW
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Senate
Judiciary Committee approved the
nomination of New Hampshire jurist
David H. Souter to the Supreme Court
yesterday with only one dissenting vote.
The full Senate is expected to confirm
him easily, but not before the court
begins its fall term on Monday.
Democrats as well as Republicans on
the committee said they saw in Presi
dent Bush's nominee a brilliant legal
scholar and a man of good tempera
ment and integrity. Only Edward
M. Kennedy, D-Mass., voted against
him, saying he feared Souter would
"solidify a 5-4 anti-civil-rights, anti-pri
vacy majority."
Howell Heflin, a conservative Ala
bama Democrat whose opposition
helped kill the 1987 Supreme Court nom
The educational programs are
extremely worthwhile, Shepley said.
"On one hand people who are at risk
are getting tested earlier, and on the
other hand if you can prevent someone
from getting infected then you've really
made a difference," Shepley said.
A national study conducted in the past
year concluded that one out of 300 col
lege students are HIV positive, said
Richard Schulze, public health program
representative from the Pennsylvania
Department of Health.
It is a hard message to get out in this
area because most women in State Col
lege are students who don't want to
think AIDS is their problem, Shepley
said.
"It's very sad this disease is killing
young people. People who haven't even
begun to live their lives," she said.
"Young people don't want to think they
can get anything that will cause their
death."
A study done a year ago by the Amer
ican College Health Association report-
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going to look at the policy or try to
change it," he said.
"(Thomas) is no different than
Jordan," LaFlam said."He is put
ting a new twist on how to sidestep
an issue."
Ken Martin, USAB chairman, sug
gested LaFlam work with James
Stewart, vice provost for minority
affairs, to secure an appointment
with Thomas to further discuss the
situation.
"If you go through proper chan
nels and there are still
disagreements, then other avenues
may have to be investigated," Mar
tin said.
LaFlam said he has been trying to
secure the sexual orientation clause
and discuss the entire issue in a calm
manner, but he is not ruling out
more aggressive action.
"I get the impressich they are
backing us against the wall," LaF
lam said.
Thomas said at Wednesday's
forum the University cannot add
groups to the nondiscrimination
clause at will. Because of a federal
requirement, the state already has
a clause in place specifying certain
minority groups.
The University clause matches the
federal government's nondiscrimi
nation law.
LaFlam said, however, that the
University should not wait for the
federal or state governments to take
action, because discrimination is
continually occuring against gay and
lesbian students.
In other business, William Asbury,
vice-president for student services,
addressed USAB. Asbury and senior
members of his staff explained the
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ination of Robert Bork, said he liked
Souter's "clearheaded approach" and
lack of an ideological agenda.
Added Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio:
"My sense is that David Souter is a fair
and open-minded jurist who knows well
the weight of the responsibilities which
will be placed upon him,"
Full Senate confirmation of Stouter,
who could provide the swing vote on
many issues before the divided court,
seemed assured.
Bush hailed the committee action and
repeated his request that the Senate
"act as quickly as possible to confirm
this man" so he could be seated when
the court begins its new session.
But the Senate is unlikely to vote
before next week, officials and others
close to the situation indicated.
One factor is the Jewish holiday, Yom
Kippur, which will interrupt Congress'
schedule today.
ed between two and three cases of HIV
positive out of every 1,000 college stu
dents, said Elaine Jurs assistant direc
tor of the office of health and education
at Ritnour Health Center.
"We are assuming that those num
bers can apply to Penn State," Jurs
said.
One message Shepley said has hit the
public very hard is that even though
51 percent of those suffering from "full
blown AIDS" are gay men, the number
of AIDS afflicted heterosexuals has ris
en 5 percent in four years. Most of these
are heterosexual women.
" Frankly, if I were a heterosexual
sexually active woman, I'd be scared."
Shepley said.
"By the end of the century everyone
is going to know someone who is
infected with or has died of AIDS,"
Shepley said, adding that most of the
victims will be young:
Although the project employs only
three paid staff members, they are
Please see AIDS, Page 12.
—by Bob Tschantz