Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC February 1991 Daily Egyptian 1991 2-1-1991 The aiD ly Egyptian, February 01, 1991 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_February1991 Volume 76, Issue 91 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, February 01, 1991." (Feb 1991). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1991 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in February 1991 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Daily Egyptian Southern Illi nois Uni versit y a t Carbondale Friday, Februarv I, 1991 , Vol. 76, No. 9 1, 20 Pages AI Khafji retaken; 160 Iraqis captured Un~ed Press ln1ernationaJ West Bank. There were I!O reports and Qatari f=.s were supported units back into occupied Kuwait lost 22 (tanks)." The U.S. military of damage 0:- casualties. by U.S. Marine Cobra helicopters the previous day, noting that 22 said later thai three allied vehicles Allied troOpS cleaned out the last Most of the 'IK Ira i force that but no U_S. ground forces were enr.my tanks ;,ad been destroyed had been destroyed. pockets of Iraqi resistance in AI charged into Saudi Arabia from involved. while only three Marine light Stev",ts said two U.S. soldiers, a Khafji ncar the Sa1!di-Kuwaiti Kuwait all ,~ ng the border about Stevens told a news btiefmg that armored vehicles had been taken n ~~ and a woman from a transport border Thursday after two days of midnight T .... y """ rem driven ",jtiaJ re."-,,ru; indicated about 160 ()O,L baoaIion, were missing. the heaviest ground fighting of the back in the I1ghlir.g in which 11 Iraqi prisoners were taken and " It was a devastating fight for The Central Command Persian Gulf war and took about U.S . Marines were killed . But enern easualties were reponed to the ~ nemy," said Lt_ Col. Jerry spokesman said all that was known 160prison= fighting persisted for a day in AI ha ve been heavy_ Allied losses Humble, operations officer for the was that the two were 00( members Two U.S. soldi'!tS, a man and a Khalji, a IOwn on the c-. i gulf were cal!al i ;~hL 1st Marine Division. He said some of a combat unit They were last woman, were repoocd missing, and coast that was a~l the The <:mira! u lII1mand "1lOkes· Marine and Iraqi ground forces seen in Eastero Saudi Arabia about Iraq said it had captnrcd some U.S. war began Jan. 17. man !aiu fi ghting continued were firing at each Olhl!f from 75 miles south of AI Kbafji, far roldiers during the ground fighting, Saudi and Qat:. troopS fi nally 'fhur.;(by uigh north of AI Kbafji ranges of a half-mile or Jess. from the fighting. inc ludin~ women. Meanwhile, Iraq retook the town Thursday, Brig. bur he =Id giv~ 00 details. "(U.S . forces) fought a Iraq said it captured an launched its eighth missile attack Gen. Pal Stevens IV of the U.S. To the west of AI Khafji, U.S. magnificent fight," Humble said. unspecified number of U.S. on Israel , and the conventional Central Comman1 said in Ri)'lldh. Marines were jub.!an, Thursday at ..Just look at the seoreboard: We soldiers, ""m men and women, warhead landed in the occupied the Saudi capital. He said the Saltdi their success in dn vi.'~ other Iraqi lost two (annorcd vehicles), they during the g"Ound fighting_ carbon misuse Bomber from '50s may cause fraud for state retailers hits hard in guH war By JackIe Spinner Staff Writer known, said Air FOfCC spokesman GUNS CapLGcorgeSilJia. '''he University uses legal "It's being used to bomb the carbon slips for credit card OF Iraqi Republican Guards and in transactions. but improper other bombing missions," Sillia handling of the credit slips by said. some employees may be contrary WAR Standing more than 40 feet tall to the purpose of a Jew lIIinois L~i:\2;S;;;~a:lE:L __--l with a 185-foot wingspan the 8-52 l aw that protects consumers resembles a 747 in size, ROOdes By John Patterson against fraud. Staff Writer said. The law as of Jan. I prohibits The plane can be used for a retailers in lIIinois from using number of purposes, inci~!ling The 36-year-old 8-52 Strato­ credit card slips with carbons tha! laying mines, launching cruise fonress bomber is proving itself indentify the card ho ld or by missiles. hunting ships and useful arnong ~f- thc-line Jasa-­ complete name or account bombing, he said. guided bombs and. other state of number. In the Persian Gulf war, the B­ the a rt technology used in the Carbonless cre~ it forms, S2, has mainly been usa! fir carpet Persian Gulf carbonized back ~ d forms and war. bombing, which involves dropping The B-52 is scheduled to be perforated or split carbons, half of a large number of lY.>mbs into a replaced by lhe B-1 and B-2 specified area to Jmor.k out a i3rgCl, Stcalth bombers, hut with cuts to See CARBONS, Page 7 the B-1 and B-2 programs, the IY~ sai~ . "The B -52 went after lower plane Booing Co. first made for the intensity threats," he said. " It military in 1955 is still an carries 105 SOO-pound bombs_ It's importam part of the U.S . Ai r basically a dump truck." Force, said Je ffrey Rhodes, Rhodes said the B-52 is one of acronaUlics editor for Air Force the last conventional boolbers in Magazine. the Air Force. "The only thing nearly as old is " Because funding for the B-2 the F-4 Phantom," Rhodes said. "If (Stealth bomber) has been CUI, the the 8-52 isn't the oldest, it's B-52 is lingering on longer than Gus says should dclini!ciy numb<:; two." the Air Forre wants," he said. be properly used, othelWlse The U.S. Air Forre has a total of your plastic could be 2S4 8 -52s. but the number usa! in See BOMBER, Page 7 Opera tion Desert Storm is not serlous!y abused_ King's daughter: Committee to chance Future for b - s - depends on past student conduct code By leslie CoIp By Natalie Boehme Members formed a subcom­ and Natalie Boehme SlaffWriter mittee to draft a conduct code StaJfWriters containing the agreed upon and A commin ce reviewing the proposed c hanges. When the Minorities have come a long way stude nt conduc t code dec ided arnended code is completed, tho but still have a long way to go, a Thursday that changes to the commiuce will mee, 10 discuss and civil rights activist said Thursday cheating section are needed but did \'Ole on iL night not agree on all of the changes. Upon agreement, a draft of Ihe Yolanda King, daughter of the The eight-mr rnh<', group voted the commiuee's recommendations !ate Martin Luther King Jr., told a Yolanda KIng to change two plr1!' o f the rode and will be sent to SIUC President lohn croved at Shryock Auditorium is still "",.,.idering • propo!o -A tlJrd e. Guyon for fmal approval. -Page 20 "those who forget the past are ~o a roore honest, positive future_" change. " In the ,ast the president has doomed to repeal it" A participant in numerous civil The committe ~ unanimously been receptive to agreeing with Education of the past and future and human rights demonstrdtionS, dec ided to reverse the code's similar commiuees' proposals, but &iuS were the dominant themes of King is a lifetime member of the requirement fo r a wriuen can· the decision is uj) to him ," said Perspectlvo King's message, which kickal olf National Association for the fession of the student Jean ParatorC'. associate vice -Pogos guilt from Black History Month at the Advanccmenl of Colored People. In past eases, wriueo confessions president for student a1Tairs. Comics University. Echoing the words of \960s have led to charges of deparUIlCntal The area nol voted on concerns -PagelS " The s tudy of our history ... black leader Malcolm X, King coercion, prolonging the judicial the level of involvement a Classified should not be a OI.ce a year said, "our people cannot know process and clouding the issues, department should have in -1'_12,13,14 observance," she said. 1be pursuit where they are going unless they said John Jackson, dean o f the detcrmining whether or not a of who we are should be a n know where they have been." CoUege of Liberal Arts. studer" has cheated. ""going event" St.e said the story of the civil lbe committee also rlecided to No formal hearing is conductc<l "It is absolutely imperative that rights movement needs to be kept add a clause stating that a student at the deparuTlent level under the we as black Ameriea.'1S know our alive because some see it as only acc used of cheating will be current code . but inSICJ LI thc l:<J'iC history," King said. " It is a lso history, a mirage or part of a assigned a grade of incomplete goes straight to the college's ~n . imperative that all people know our until aJ! legal processes are !:lOry. Then we can move togelhcr See KING, Page 7 fmishcd. See 90DE, Page 7 h,'brll.ln 1.llN J Sports Dail) Eg) plian .; .. .. _ I Soulh Illinois Uni'·...,.;ly al Carbonda Road woes continue for Sa.lukis By Eric eugger denied the Salukis the win.