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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-19-1994 The BG News September 19, 1994 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 September 19, 1994" (1994). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5730. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5730 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. tf The BG News "A Commitment to Excellence" Monday, September 19, 1994 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 80, Issue 19 Monday Feature Troops prepare by Jay Young for Haiti invasion as talks continue Program re-introduces galaxy by Susanne M. Schafer The Associated Press WASHINGTON - As a last- "Stargaze" reveals treasures hidden by light pollution ditch diplomatic effort contin- ued, U.S. troops were poised Dale Smith, professor of Sunday to enter Haiti with physics and astronomy, com- "overwhelming force" whether pares the planetarium to a zoo or not its military leaders step - they both house unique sub- down, Defense Secretary Wil- jects not seen by everyone. The liam Perry said. department of physics and as- "We are ready.... We will go in tronomy's "Stargaze" gives the with a substantial military public an opportunity to view a force," Perry said, as former sky extinct in today's urban President Carter extended his world. talks with Haiti's military The department of physics leadership, raising hopes a U.S. and astronomy sponsors a invasion could be averted. Stargaze after the planetarium Early in the day, President show on Friday and Sunday Clinton huddled with his top for- throughout the academic year. eign policy team. Later, at AP Photo/ The activity is open to the pub- Former President Jimmy church, Clinton bowed his head Carter lic with a suggested $1 dona- as a prayer was said for the men tion. and women of the military, and Bert rand Aristide in September From the roof of the Physical the commander in chief who 1991. Washington has been work- Sciences Building, approxi- might have to send them in ing to restore Aristide to power. mately 500 stars can be viewed harm's way. "We're ready with overwhelm- on a clear night. Using the Un- Clinton returned to the White ing force. If the president directs versity's half-meter telescope, House to receive updates on the us to apply that, we will \yr. people get a better look at the work of Carter's diplomatic ready," Perry said on ABC's distant stars and a close look at team, which included retired "This Week with David Brink- some of the planets. Purchased Gen. Colin Powell and Sen. Sam ley,'" as top administration offi- in 1985, the $180,000 telescope Nunn, D-Ga. cials blanketed television talk allows sky viewers to avoid the The trio, dispatched Saturday, shows to keep the pressure on. city lights that pollute Bowling met repeatedly with Haitian Gen. John Shalikashvili, ap- Green every night. army leader Lt. Gen. Raoul Ce- pearing on NBC's "Meet the Smith, the University's dras. They extended their stay Press," said there would be no planetarium director, said the past a scheduled midday Sunday change in the schedule for an in- light pollution makes people departure. Cedras led a coup that vasion of the Caribbean country, forget the world above them. ousted elected President Jean- but he gave no hint when such a "There are so many lights military incursion might take around that we don't look up place. anymore," Smith said."I think "We are on a very specific that is a terrible loss." U.S. Readiness timetable," the chairman of the Smith said the sky is some- Joint Chiefs of Staff said. Haiti's thing special that everyone can Against Haiti military leaders "have to leave share. The BC Ncwt/flle photo now, willingly, or they will leave "The sky is part of the envi- The ominous silver dome atop the Life Sciences Building houses the University's $180,000 half-meter jmf U.S. forces are prepared as a result of military action, but ronment. It is a part that you do telescope which allows students and the general public to view over 500 stars and countless constella- Vj to enter Haiti with a we are not changing our timeta- not have to go a long way to tions on a clear night. "substantial military ble." see, and it is with us all of the force." No matter what the outcome, cause there is a Stargaze does "[The planetarium] is better of year. Smith said the ultimate time. The constellations that gm( U.S. forces are expected the U.S. force has to be prepared you learn when you are 10 not mean there will be stars because you dont have any goal is to make people more for casualties, even in a face off that night. On the nights where clouds. In the winter you don't aware and more interested in ^» to face off against a years old will be there when ragtag Haitian militia. against the ragtag Haitian mili- you're 75 years old," Smith clouds dominate the sky, peo- freeze. You get to see all 2,000 the world above them. tia, Shalikashvili added. said. "I think the sky is a treas- ple do have a chance to view a stars," said Garner. "If you "If we can get somebody In- "We have to be prepared for ure and we want people to get short star show the precedes want to see everything without spired so they say, T want to 0n The primary mission of violence, for Haitian-on-Haitian each show in the planetarium. to go out and see the real traveling to no man's land, this learn a few constellations I can ^ an invasion is to remove violence," the general said, add- thing." Stephanie Garner works be- is the place." see from my backyard' - if we ing that troops would be allowed hind the control panel at the Star-gazers are shown the can get a few people to do that, the military-con trolled Like most elements of the government to defend themselves against environment, the sky is not planetarium. She said a cloudy most basic constellations that then we are happy," Smith controlled by humans. Just be- night is not a wasted one. cover the sky during that time said. See Haiti, page three. Rwandans plan nation's reconstruction Foreign aid needed to overcome natives' losses by Pauline Jellnek one in four who are homeless ture of hundreds of millions of The Associated Press within the country, the hundreds dollars. of thousands who grieve, many Now the new government, the KIGALI, Rwanda - There is with vengeance in their hearts, United Nations and the army of little hope of Rwanda rising from for massacred loved ones. aid workers also are taking up the ashes by itself, and pulling it Five months after ethnic Hutu the long-term job of rehabilita- out will be difficult because the extremists began the slaughter tion. pieces are still smoldering. of an estimated 500,000 Tutsi ci- The U.N. Rwanda Emergency Some things can be fixed with vilians, burning hatred and fear Office, which coordinates relief money, a commodity the world remain. The embers may cool work, says it has not recom- surely will provide. It will re- only with time and soul-rending mended that refugees and the build schools, banks and other effort. displaced return home because businesses that have been ran- there are still reprisal killings, sacked, looted or mined, and It will take "years and years bandits and death squads. But the restore the electricity, running and years," said Arturo Hein, agency is setting up aid and re- water and telephone service re- representative of the U.N. De- habilitation programs in prep- turning refugees will need. velopment Program in Rwanda aration. Other damage is far more er- "This country is on the floor." The staggering breadth of the during. -- mothers who wander Rwanda's humanitarian emer- wreckage ~ physical, social and AP/Domlnk CunnIn|h«m Reid from orphanage to orphanage in gencies are not over, but they psychological - make the job search of surviving children, the have been largely brought under enormous. A Rwandan refugee looks out of the side of a cattle truck being used to move refugees to a site 43 one in four Rwandans who are in control by the work of 85 relief miles north of Goma, where several hundred refugees have already been transported. foreign refugee camps, the other organizations and the expendi- See Rwanda, page four. Editorial The BG News page two Monday, September 19,1994 The BG News "A Commitment to Excellence" Glen Lubbert Julie Tagliaferro editor-in-chief managing editor Michael Zawacki Leah Barman news editor assistant managing editor Sherry Turco Joe Peiffer editorial editor city editor Listening is a key in keeping peace In his farewell address to the nation, President George Washington advised the future leaders of the United States to stay out of long-standing "foreign entanglements." He was warning future leaders of our young country not to become involved in conflicts between countries that have been at war for centuries. President Washington's plea fell on deaf ears. President Clinton is only one of many who have not heeded Washington's plea.