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“reckless acts have consequences.”
The president said that the attack
and the extension of the “no-fly” zone
in southern Iraq have “reduced
Saddam’s ability to strike out again at
his neighbors.”
To do less, he said, would encour
age Saddam in the sort of aggression
former President Bush was forced to
curb in 1991 during the Persian Gulf
War.
As American missiles roared into
Iraq earlier in a daylight strike, U.S.
allies watched from the sidelines, some
of them voicing sharp criticism.
France, Spain and Russia objected,
as did China. Saudi Arabia refused to
allow Saudi-based U.S. planes to take
part in the assault. Britain, Germany
and Japan applauded Clinton’s action.
withdrawing. Later, however, McCurry
said, “There have been movements in
and around Irbil and in the corridor
extending to the southeast, along the
lines toward Chamchamal and
Sulaymaniyah” - two other Kurdish
areas.
“We have given him a strong mes
sage,” Defense Secretary William
Perry said. “We expect to see changes
in behavior, we will be watching very
carefully. We reserve the right to take
future military actions.”'
The White House sent a fresh warn
ing Tuesday to Iraq; it had to be faxed
because Iraqi officials refused to meet
with Americans.
Clinton gave the “go” order for the
attack at 7:11 pun. CDT Monday in a
telephone call from Air Force One as
he returned from nine days of cam
paigning.
Iskandiariyah just south of Baghdad,
and al-Rut, a southern city on the Tigris
River. The Defense Department con
firmed Iraqi reports of five Iraqi deaths
but Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Ba
con rejected claims by Iraqi officials
that a missile struck a housing complex.
Tightening pressure on Saddam,
Clinton expanded the U.N.-enforced
“no-fly” zone in southern Iraq, extend
ing it from the Kuwaiti border north to
the suburbs of Baghdad. The presi
dent also put a freeze on a U.N.
brokered oil-for-food deal, saying he
wanted assurances the food would
reach the needy and not replenish Iraqi
government resources.
The attack - the second against Iraq
during the Clinton administration - was
intended to punish Saddam for his
bloody siege of the Kurdish-controlled
city oflrbil.
“Our objectives are limited but
clear: to make Saddam pay a price for
the latest act of brutality, reducing his
ability to threaten his neighbors and
America’s interests,” the president said
in a nationally broadcast statement
from the Oval Office.
Clinton said Saddam’s army still
controlled Irbil and remained deployed
for further attacks, despite claims it was
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guided cruise missiles were fired at sur
face-to-air missile sites, radar installa
tions and command-and-control instal
lations in southern Iraq, where
Saddam’s forces could threaten Saudi
Arabia and Kuwait.
Flying from the Pacific island of
Guam, two aging B-52 bombers fired
13 missiles. From the Persian Gulf, two
Navy ships, the destroyer USS Laboon
and the cruiser USS Shiloh, launched
14 Tomahawk cruise missiles.
The weapons struck in the vicinity
of the Thllil air base in southwestern
Iraq, the nearby city of Nasiriyah on the
Euphrates River, the city of al
In a televised address, Saddam
urged his soldiers to “resist these ag
gressors” and pay no attention to
“damned imaginary no-fly zones.”
McCurry said the United States put
Saddam Hussein strongly on notice -
beginning Aug. 28 - that there would
be important consequences if he did
not withdraw troops from Irbil.
He said the first warning, approved
by Ginton while campaigning by train
on his way to the Giicago convention,
lefi “absolutely no doubt in Saddam
Hussein’s mind that there would be
serious, grave consequences” if Iraqi
forces continued to pose a hostile
threat to the Kurds.
Representatives meet
at new CBA council
By Todd Anderson
Staff Reporter
The first meeting of the College
of Business Administration’s Presi
dents Council Tuesday brought to
gether representatives and advisers
from several of the college’s vari
ous student organizations.
Heidi Thomas, the council’s cre
ator, said the council wanted to im
prove communication between the
organizations.
Thomas, vice president of the
CBA Student Advisory Board, said
that by improving communication,
each group could learn new ways
of recruiting and organizing from
the others.
Ronald Hampton and Gordon
Karels, associate deans of the Col
lege of Business Administration,
also attended the Tuesday night
meeting.
With support from the adminis
tration, Thomas said, the council
hopes to create more cohesiveness
between students and members of
the faculty.
“We want to create an atmo
sphere of openness because we want
a well-rounded voice from the stu
dent body,” Hampton said.
The two main goals of the coun
cil are to create organizations with
more ethnic diversity and to find a
way to retain all new members,
Hampton said.
The council also plans to coor
dinate the construction of a World
Wide Web page which will provide
links to the home pages of all of
CBA’s student organizations, Tho
mas said.
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