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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-7-1991 The BG News February 7, 1991 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News February 7, 1991" (1991). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5175. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5175 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. February 7, 1991 Thursday Vol. 73 Itiue 76 Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News BRIEFLY U.S. air strikes continue Mail hike Inside affecting by Mark Fritz ton, Secretary of State James to lower Iraqi morale, "not to try Associated Press wriler Baker tried to steel Congress for and wipe out the Republican Coats stolen: a long and bloody fight. Guard. University There has been a recent DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia - In outbreak of coat thefts in "The military actions now "We're dropping a lot of ord- by Greg Watson the area. Students have another day of nonstop aerial bal- under way necessarily involve nance on the Republican Guard, >taff writer been reporting their coats listics, the United States shot many casualties, great hardships not just to lower their morale, but stolen from bars and cars down at least two fleeing Iraqi and growing fears for the fu- also to destroy their tanks, their parked in lots. jets Wednesday and Iraq blasted ture, Baker said in testimony to artillery, their logistical sus- With the increased postage the sky with intense anti-aircraft the House Foreign Affairs Com- tainment capability, their built- rates came more mailing ex- Police Chief Galen Ash at- fire, allied military officials said. mittee. "Tough times lie ahead." up areas. We're out there to des- penses for some University or- Iraq claimed 150 civilians had Allied bombers continued to un- SXORIVI troy the Republican Guard," ganizations, along with changes tributes the increase to IN THE in other organizations' mailing warm weather. He offers been killed in a single air raid, in- load tons of explosives on Iraq's Neal said. cluding 35 children. Baghdad Republican Guards highly forti- practices. tips on how students can Pat Koehler, director of devel- protect their coats. radio complained the United fied positions. WEEK -4 Ten more Iraqi planes flew to States and its allies were bomb- "He gets little sleep both day Iran, according to Neal, bringing ► See page 4. ing hospitals, mosques and opment at Channel 27, said the and night," Marine Brig. Gen. the total there to about 120. But station will have to spend about houses. Richard Neal said of the Iraqi general's remarks. He said, for the first time, the allies re- soldiers. $5,000 more per year because of Falcons sweep Bobcats: owever, that the United States ported shooting down some of the thepostage increases. Both the men's and wom- "They want to expel Iraq from Gen. Michel Roqueieoffre, "has not attached a 30, a 10 or a 15 fleeing planes. Trie station sends more than en's baketball teams were the 20th century," the radio said. commander of the French forces percent" to the unit's rated effec- 132,000 schedules and 100,000 victorious Wednesday night Iraq announced it was severing in Operation Desert Storm, said tiveness. A Saudi Arabian military membership and acquisition let- against the Ohio University diplomatic ties with the United allied air strikes had reduced the spokesperson said American F- ters [letters asking people if they Bobcats. States, Britain, France, Italy, Republican Guards' effective- Neal seemed to contradict re- 15s shot down four of seven Iraqi want to become members of the Egypt and Saudi Arabia. ness by about 30 percent. marks by a British military jets as they tried to make the station j each year, she said. The women won 86-77, Jordan's King Hussein ap- Neal, who conducted the U.S. spokesperson, Royal Air Force dash across the border. Neal said Larry Weiss, associate vice- while the men downed the pealed for a cease-fire in the Per- military's daily briefing in Group Capt. Niall Irving. The only two planes were confirmed president for alumni affairs, said Bobcats 60-55. sian Gulf War, which he said was Riyadh, the Saudi capital, de- RAF officer insisted that the kills, while two MiG-21s were ►•See pages 9 and 10. destroying Iraq. But in Washing- clined to comment on the French main purpose of the bombing was listed as possibly shot down. See Pottage, page 5: Campus Gorbachev Distinguished insights: Distinguished Research confronts Professor Philip O'Connor is presenting his lecture ti- tled "Fate, Fiction and separatism False Gods: A Memoir" 3:30 p.m. today in the by Thomas Ginsberg Community Suite of the Associated Press writer Union. O'Connor, who was nominated for a Pulitzer MOSCOW - Mikhail Gorba- Prize for fiction, is the di- chev made a surprise television rector of the creative writ- appearance Wednesday night to ing program. express his determination to hold the country together and urge full participation in the Kremlin's re- ferendum on the union. "All my convictions are based Local on preservation of the union," the Soviet president said, sitting at a Investigation begins: desk to deliver a 15-minute ad- The state fire marshal is dress at the beginning of the still investigating the cause evening newscast. of a house fire in which "The Soviet Union is a super- 34-year-old Carol Rolewski power," he said. "Huge efforts died earlier this week. were made to make it so powerful and we could lose it very Some 63 firefighters and quickly." the Wood County Arson It was Gorbachev's clearest Task Force were called to declaration to date that he will the fire Tuesday, at 12961 not let any of the 15 republics se- Amos Road, southwest of cede. While acknowledging that Bowling Green. areas were brought into the union by force, he said the fate of all now depends on remaining in a Here comes the bride: common economic system. The Woodland Mall has Where's Box 1103? ■O M*wi/Gieg Horvath "Everybody should understand something "For Your Eyes has worked at the off-campus mallroom located In Moseley Hall that we are deciding the destiny Only" — it's the Bridal Junior business major Charlotte Phillips of Wapakonela. O. places since her freshman year, sorting mail and figuring bills, to earn of our state," he said. "The Event scheduled for Satur- mall In student mailboxes every Monday through Friday. Phillips spending money. U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet [ legisla- day and Sunday, Feb. 9-10. U See Gorbachev, page 4. Prepare for the newest spring fashions at the Trousseau and Resortwear Show Saturday at 2 p.m. in New AIDS hotline Cafe Court or join shoppers Group explores solutions, Sunday for a formal Bridal Show featuring House of Hilton Bridal and Russet's offers latest drug, Tuxedos. effects of bias, stereotypes Exhibits to assist the planning of every aspect of we are doing it." with them," he said. a wedding will fill the mall treatment updates by Marvin C. Brown both days. "Stereotypes affect success Rose suggested education as Also... register Feb. 7-13 staff writer and opportunity," Rose said, ex- one possible solution, saying "at at the Mall customer ser- byTrish Thiel plaining it becomes dangerous an early age, we must be careful- vice booth to win dinner for writer The elderly. Women. Asians, when an employer has a preju- ly taught the difference between two at Kaufman's Restau- African-Americans, Hispanics. dice against a potential em- stereotypes and reality." rant. The drawing will be AIDS patients or others concerned about the virus looking for up-to- The handicapped. Homosexuals. ployee. It puts one group against He called for role models as an- held on Valentine's Day. date information on testing clinics and experimental drugs can turn to Southerners. Obese people. another." other solution. a toll free hotline. Everyone. Even positive stereotypes — all "This is where I think the The AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service has information on Stereotypes touch all people in blacks are atheletic, all Asians media is so important," he said. specific experimental treatments and drugs that are being tested someway. Nation across the country. Karen Irvin, senior reference specialist at ACTIS, "In Search of Tolerance," a "Once stereotypes are rooted in our minds, said the service gives AIDS patients and HIV positive people very Wednesday night roundtable in specific trials in an area of the country. Prout Hall, explored the effects of we begin to relate to people in terms of our Thomas dies: Clinical trials are the testing of new experimental drugs in the perceptional biases and possible subconscious biases... and are not even Danny Thomas, 79, was search for a cure for AIDS. These new drugs are not approved by the solutions. 6 renounced dead early Food and Drug Administration, Irvin said. Researchers make every "The goal is to provoke thought aware we are doing it." Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai effort to make sure the drug is safe, she said. to ways we as students and ad- Medical Center in Los An- ACTIS is funded by the FDA, the National Institute for Health and ministrators can build a more --Marshall Rose, Affirmative Action Oirector geles, about a half hour the Center for Disease Control, Irvin said.