Du Pont Linked to Iraqi Weapons Production
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The IAEA inspection leading to the According to the IAEA, the Iraqis were government. chemical giant was a Du Pont, the Wilmington-based chemical report was the eighth carried out by the intending to produce nuclear weapons with However, Du Pont spokesman Clint giant, is the only wholly American owned United Nations under Security Council the centrifuge machines. Archer said the company did sell the oil company known to have supplied such Resolution 687, which states Iraq must The New York Times reponed this week directly to Iraq, but when the United States supplier of a lubricant products to Iraq, according to the report eliminate its nuclear weapons capability. atomic energy inspectors found a secret was on friendly terms with the country. prepared by the International Atomic The IAEA charged the Iraqis were using plant near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad He said Du Pont sold $30,000 wonh of used in the manufacture Energy Agency (IAEA). Krytox as a lubricant for centrifuge capable of producing 1,000 centrifuge the specialized lubricant to the State Although much of the information production to manufacture nuclear weapons. machines a year. Company for Oil Projects in Baghdad in regarding Iraq's nuclear capabilities was Charles P. Swann, a university physics The IAEA report does not accuse Du May 1989. of nuclear warheads destroyed by the Iraqi government after the professor, said a centrifuge is used to Pont or any of the other companies on the see DU PONT page 4 Train hits Freshman arrested graduate in fake-ID operation behind Student also charged with possession of fire works . By Dara Rheinhardt ensure that no evidence could be and Joni Schettino destroyed if Bekoff returned while Staff Reporters the warrant was being processed. Main St. A university student was Dean of Students Timothy F. arrested Sunday morning in his Brooks said, "(Bekoff) is being ·• Gilben B dorm and charged with charged with the violation of ~ormer university the production of fake ID's and university code of conduct." possession of fireworks. Cases like this are generally :itudent injured Matthew Bekoff (PE FR) is being handled pretty severely. The srudent charged with possession of forgery could possibly face a suspension ~hi/e crossing .tracks devices, five counts of forgery and from the university, he said. The one count of possession of minimum penalty for this type · of •: A 22-year-old university fireworks. violation is being removed from graduate was hit by a train on the Cpt. Jim Flatley of university housing, Brooks added. tracks behind New London Road police said they were called in"to Brooks said that the university and West Main Street early investigate another incident in which and university police would be :Thursday morning, Newark Police Bekoff was thought to be involved. handling this case. said. The police were sent to Bekoff will be sent through the The victim, who asked not to be PamelaWray investigate the apparent theft of a university judicial s.ystem in identified, was headed west on Reggae OJ Jamie Mclaren will spin his last tunes for WXDR before heading west to catch a wave. necklace that was never found, he accordance with the university Main Street with two males when said. policy. tbey walked through the flashing When police arrived at Bekoff's The police confiscated his warning lights and or1to the tracks, Making a jammin' exodus room he was not there, Aatley said. equipment along with the five North police said. An officer was posted outside of Carolina drivers licenses he had The two males made it safely Bekoff's room while a warrant was made. across the tracks, but the victim was 'Reggae Sound Splash' host leaves to pursue a California dream being prepared. During this time Bekoff is considered to be an struck by the eastbound train which Bekoff showed up and granted the 'average resident'. He is friendly was traveling about 40 mph, police By Alyson Fischer that McLaren has a special personality on the air. officers permission to search his with the other students on his floor said. Staff Reporter "He cared about what he was doing. He got room, Flatley said. who have never had any problems "I thought I could make it across A familiar voice will say good-bye to WXDR everyone in the audience involved," Messing said, Flatley said it was policy to with him, said an unidentified before the train came," she said. reggae fans on Thursday. "He will be missed greatly." station an officer at the room to resident. : The victim, who said she was Radio personality Jamie McLaren of the "Reggae General Manager Cassandra Lane said McLaren's iittoxicated at the time of the Sound Splash" show, has decided to leave Newark show is energetic and exciting. "He always sounds llccident, was taken to Christiana behind and go West. like he's having a great time when he's on the air,'!;he Hospital by her friends where she "I'm cenainly not leaving because Delaware hasn't said. Student gas station was treated for broken bones and been good to me, or even the Eas.t Coast for that The reggae show's appeal originates from ieleased after six days. matter," he said. McLaren's unique philosophy about the many : She reported her injurie~ as a "It's time now to sample an entirely new way of different styles of Reggae music. broken left arm and a broken right life and test myself all over again," McLaren said. "Different audiences prefer distinctly different employee robbed leg with knee damage. A vacation in Southern California and Mexico last styles," he said. The hospital would not corrunent February prompted his investigation of professional He has provided a forum for a specialty music that By Donna Murphy After he gave a fnll report to on her specific injuries. opportunities out west in behavioral psychology and would not have otherwise received popular air play. Assistant News Editor Newark Police at the Main Street "It is the most horrible thing that education, Mc.Laren said. "ln addition to satisfying the appetites of hard-core Like many other university station, Williams said he returned has ever happened to me," the Scott Messing, program director for WXDR, said see REGGAE page 4 students, Bruce Williams (EG SO) to work for about an hour. victim said. was trying to get in some studying "It was ever so quick - he was -- Rebecca Tollen for finals at his job Monday night. here a half a minute," Williams Sitting alone in the glass booth said, adding, "He was probably just at the Getty gas station on Elkton as scared as I was." Road, his nose buried in his Williams, who sat in the booth flarassment case against YAF dropped physics book, he thought it was as he related his tale Wednesday going to be another slow night. night, said he wasn't afraid of By Matthew Gray Official Student Handbook. harassing. Then at about 7 p.m. he saw the being injured. AClU Staff Reporter The university's harassment policy Heath Buzin (AS JR), president of gun. "J didn't think he was going to The Dean of Students office includes speech which insults or YAF, said the group is still being Suddenly, the 21-year-old shoot me, for less than $60 it criticizes announced Tuesday there would be no stigmatizes an individual or group of charged with misuse of property. student said he then heard a gruff wouldn't be worth it." harassment charges brought against the individuals on the basis of race, creed, Buzin called this charge the voice mumble, "Give me the Looking back, he said, "I was group responsible for altering a flier or color. The insult must be addressed university's attempt to "punish us for money." just shocked by the whole thing. I university's advertising the speech of a visiting directly to the individual or group and what we said without [their] using the Williams said he handed the thought getting robbed would be a Cub:m economist. ~e use of "fighting words." charge of harassment." man a $20 bill from the cash lot worse than it was." Nancy Geist, assistant dean of The code defines fighting words as The American Civil Liberties Union drawer but the robber apparently Even so, he said, "I'm going to harassment students, said comments added to the those which inflict injury or tend to (ACLU) criticized the university's was not satisfied and asked for be a little bit more cautious in the flier by the Young Americans for incite an irrunediate breach of peace. harassment policy in September, calling more.