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August 9, 1990 Cloudy, chance of rain, PARTHENON highs in upper 70s ·I.___ vo_l_. 90_, N_o_._1_1 s_ ___, Bush deploys U.S. forces to Middle East By The Associated Press and the restoration of the Kuwaiti govern­ tary leadership was settling in for what ment to power. could be a lengthy operation. \ U.S. forces at a glance President Bush announcedWednesday The president conceded that the Saudi "This whole thing isn't easy. You don't that U.S. troops were taking up "defensive defense mission "may take time and be deploy forces and they suddenly show up in The Pentagon reports the follow­ positions" in oil-rich Saudi Arabia to guard costly" and said he would consider tapping another part of the world. There are a hell Ing U.S. Navy forces have been de­ against a possible attack by Iraq. the nation's stra~c petroleum reserves of a lot of logistical problems that go into ployed to the · Mediterranean and "They will not initiate hostilities but they to assure a ready supply ofoil . He called on moving people around the world,' particu­ Mlddle East regions: will defend themselves," he said. · oil companies not to engage in unneces­ larly in the extreme conditions ofthe Middle •Persian Gulf: Nine ships, Including sary price hikes to take advantage of the East," he said. the-. command ship LaSalle, two See related stories, Page 5 international uncertainty and urged that The President provided no estimate of cruisers, a destroyer and -five frig­ other oil producing nations boost produc­ the number of troops involved in the Saudi ates. At least 5,000 ground troops were in­ _tion . deploymen - deliberately so, according to •Mediterranean: 11 combat ships volved. along with 140 sophisticated fight­ Bush described the make-shift Saudi Pentagon sources who said Bush did not and six auxiliary ships. ers and bombers, according to government defense force as a "multi-national" one, but want to tip off Iraq. •Red Sea: The aircraft carrier Eisen­ sources who spoke on the condition of ano­ he did not identify the participants and U.S. sources have said Egypt and Mo­ hower has completed transit of the nymity. Cruise missiles programmed to hit there was considerable confusion about its rocco would participate in the multi-na­ Suez Canal, and w.111 be accompa­ specific Iraqi sites were said to be aboard a makeup. Egypt and Morocco denied they tional force, but only Britian announced it nied by five ship en route to the battleship that set out on a week's journey were involved. · would take part. • Arabian Sea. _· to the Middle East. The reaction from Iraq was defiant. State The U.S.S. Wisconsin departed Tuesday :•Atlantic: ·10 ships of the aircraft · In a televised address, Bush sharply television declared that "historyhas proved night on a week-long voyage to the Mediter­ carrier Saratoga ba.ttle group. condemned Iraqi aggression in invading that Kuwait is a part oflraq." ranean Sea, armed with 32 Tomohawk . •h)dlanJ)cean: Aircraft carrier Inda­ Kuwait last week. He. demanded "immedi­ One Pentagon official, who spoke on con­ • .per:,dericeand.sbtshlps. ate, unconditional andcomplete"withdrawl dition of anonymity, said the nation's mili- See FORCES, Page 6 'Complete presid~nti needed to oversee Marshall's affairs By Vaughn Rhudy we're looking for," Ruffin said. Senior Correspondent-------- He added that Marshall's next president will have to be someone wbo is a good When Marshall University's presidential educator and politically astute. Because search committee meets Aug. 30, it is ex- thecommitteeiamadeupofrepreaentative pected to decide what type of president it from different constituencies - . faculty, wants for the university. staff, students, community members, rep- Some committee members believe that resentatives of the Board of Trustees, etc. the next president likely will have qualities -each member will have certain qualities like those ofoutgoing president Dr. Dale F. in his own mind, according to Ruffin. Nitzschke. "As a board member one of the things I'll "We're looking for a complete president consider istheperson's abilitytocommuni­ .for Marshall University," said C.T. Mitch- cate with the Legislature," he said. "The ell, director of University Relations and a president has to be the spokesperson for member of the committee. "We need some- the community as well as the university. body who has the ability to do the external We feel that person has to be someone like job. We have to have someone to be able to Dale Nitzschke." relate Marshall to people out there." David Todd, another search committee Mttchell said the next president also will member by virtue of being on the Julie Stacey, Gannett News Service. have to be able to oversee the internal university's Institution.al Board of Advi­ operationofan institution that has a yearly sors, said the committee isn't trying to budget of approximately $77 million. •duplicate" Nitzschke. "We're going to be looking for someone "It's not useful to duplicate the person Companies looking at university who can handle both phases of a the job in who's being replaced." · T~d -said. "The anoutstandingmanner:Mitchell said. "To question is: What qualities are we looking some extent, someone like Dale Nitzschke, for in the next president of Marshall Uni­ as site of computer.training school particularly in dealing with the external versity? Once those qualities are identi­ constituency ." fied, it might be that Dale Nitzschke had By Dan Adkins and university, Dr. William Deel, director A subcommittee·currently is preparing a most ifnot all ofthose qualities, but it won't EditOf"-------------- of campus technology, said. working draft of the vacancy notice that be an effort - at least for me ...,... to find "(Thecompany)wouldbeusingtheequip- will be advertised nationwide. The full another Dale Nitzschke." In the midst of negotiations· with com- ment'at most four to nine weeks a year and committee will review that draft and final- Todd would not identify specific qualities puter manufacturers comridering Marshall the rest of the time (the university) would ize wording of the notice at its Aug. 30 he thinks the next president of Marshall as a training school site, President Dale F. be allowed to work with it," Deel said. meeting, according to Mitchell. should have because he wants to organize Nitzschke said he anticipates a positive Negotiations with the company appar- Nathaniel Ruffin, a member ofMarshall's his thoughts on the matter for the next response within three to four weeks from entlyhavebeengoingonforaeveralmonths, Institutional Board of Advisors and thus a meeting. one unnamed company. said Student Support Services ·Director member of the search committee, said no "Most ofall I want to hear what others are Nitzschke said he doesn't want to name Joe Dragovich. final decision has been reached on the type saying: he said. the company becauae of competing inter- Dragovich said he ia concerned that sup- of president the committee is looking for Eugene Crawford, assistant director of ests from other computer manufacturers port aervicea, whoee offices are being con- · but added that the person likely will be public safety/security at Marshall and a also consi~ring _the_project.. sidered for the location ofthe training site, someone like Nitzschke. representative ofthe CluaifiedStaffon the If~ training mt: 1s 8!tablished on cam- may be moved from its offices in Prichard ""The consensus was that we weren't going Institutional Board of Advisors, said he ~~!1:.:e~:!n°! .~ -1. • , , •• •• -....•--....- ..D'a~ · •• ••!Jthn~ ~-~,•~1..~ ~~--~i~l~~~• .. ) .-,.·... .., . .... .. 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An open letter to Lee Moon: pastyear Marshall finished a pathetic sixth Arthur Battista To the Editor: out of eight in-men's sports, and fifth out of Huntington Thanks, Moon, for the fine job you have sixth in women's sports. We are twenty Almost everyday I read a story about done in dropping our Athletic Program to years away from any kind ofchampionship · someone destroying Old Glory. Perhaps the lowest point it has ever been, including in any sport (and that's in the Southern Burden of taxes placed Confe.-ence, the weakest conference in the the ultimate punishment for such criminal the 1969 football recruiting scandal. You have destroyed a top-shelf basketball pro­ NCAA). We couldn't beat Vinson High on the backs of those behavior would be to send them to a history gram.