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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq Tuesday made good on its threat and prevented an American-led weapons inspection team from doing its work, defying the United Nations once again. Hours later, the U.N. Security Council met in New York to consid er the latest standoff with Saddam Hussein’s government. British Ambassador John Weston said Iraq’s failure to comply with U.N. resolutions “will certainly have consequences, and those conse quences will not be the early lifting of sanctions.” Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nizar Hamdoon, countered that the United States and Britain are intent on “misleading the Security Council and international opinion about the facts in Iraq.” The Security Council met for about two hours and agreed to return late this afternoon to try and draft a joint statement. Iraqi authorities said Monday they would bar access to the team led by Scott Ritter, saying it includ ed too many Americans and Britons and was prolonging the U.N. arms inspection program. Three carloads of other inspec tors left the headquarters of the U.N. Special Commission to visit sites. Afterwards, U.N. spokesman Allan Dacey told The Associated Press those inspections went smoothly. The inspectors are trying to ver ify that Iraq has destroyed its weapons of mass destruction, a con dition that must be met before the United Nations will lift trade sanc tions imposed oh Iraq after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The Iraqi action set the stage for a repeat of last October’s confronta tion, when the government prevent ed Americans from taking part in inspections, accusing the Americans - and Ritter in particular - of being spies. An Iraqi newspaper Babil, owned by Saddam’s eldest son, Odai, blasted Ritter’s team today, saying its “domination by Americans” showed a bid by the United States to “injure the dignity of Iraq and humiliate it.” Iraq says Ritter’s team includes nine Americans, five Britons, a Russian and an Australian. As in the earlier crisis, Iraq said other inspectors would be allowed to continue work. Iraq’s declaration brought immediate response from U.N. and American officials who said the inspection program would not be altered because of the Iraqi threat. President Clinton warned it would be a “clear and serious viola tion” if Iraq blocks the inspections. Defense Secretary William Cohen said in Malaysia that the United States would continue to pursue diplomatic initiatives and had no plans to send more troops. “We have a very robust presence there ” he said. Bill Richardson, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, said Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the Iraqi move would be taken up by the Security Council. “I can tell you, patience is run ning out ih a lot of Security Council capitals. The Iraqis are really push ing this to the brink.” u I can tell you, patience is running out in a lot of Security Council capitals. The Iraqis are really pushing this to the brink." Bill Richardson U.S. ambassador Pennsylvania law: no college liquor ads Daily Collegian Pennsylvania State U University Park, Pa. (U-WIRE) - ! Half-price specials may be more diffi enforced advertising restrictions could force students to look beyond the newsprint to find local drink features. Act 199, a Pennsylvania state law that went into effect Feb. 18, includes restrictions on the advertising of alco holic beverages in yearbooks, maga zines, newspapers, program books, brochures and similar publications pub lished by or for educational institutions. According to an advisory notice sent by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board on Aug. 6 to manufac turers and licensees of alcohol in the commonwealth, advertisements that indicate the availability and/or prices of alcoholic beverages may not be published in a college newspaper or football program. But if a school sub scribes to a newspaper independent of the institution, such as the Centre Daily Times, the advertisements are permissible. However, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has staled only recently to enforce the law in the area. Clay Calvert, assistant professor of communications, said he sees questions that could be raised about the law’s constitutionality. As long as the advertisements are truthful and do not mislead and promote legal activi ties, they §hpvH4 .be allowed to be 'prihtedirt college newspapers, he said.; Legislators are selecting what speech to put into newspapers instead of the news and advertising editors, he said. “The state is trying to dictate the content of magazines and newspapers, and that raises a First Amendment ques tion,” Calvert said. Student newspapers in the com monwealth have mixed reactions to the alcohol advertising ban. Maria E. Crespo, The Daily Collegian’s advertising editor, said alcohol advertisements comprised “quite a bit” of advertising revenue. Only recently has the law been enforced, she said. Advertisements may still include hours of operation, entertainment and special prices on nonalcoholic beverages, she said. Advertisements that mention drink specials and happy hours are prohib ited, she added. “You can’t say anything that directly or indirectly alludes to alcohol,” Crespo said. Mil_ If i Editor: Paula Lavigne Questions? Comments? Ask for the Aaodate News Editor. Ted Taylor ore-moldn#unlnfcuinUdu. Erin Gibson , , is* ** * ~ JodmGOIni Asst Ontine Editor: Amy Pemberton DavidWiboii General Manager: DanShattil AAE Editor: Jeff Randel Publications Board Melissa Mvles fJ-O-f Chairwoman: (JSgSKSti *^“*22! f^^dedm Pra&adenal Adviser: Don Walton, Deripi C»-CWe6: JanueZ^gler (402)473-7301 IbnyToth Advertising Manager: Nick Partsch. ArtDhrectar: Matt Haney (402)472-25*9 (writer Fitter* Gregg Steams Assistant Ad Manager: Fax number. (402) 472-1761 World Wide Web: www.wii.edu/DaayNeb 34J400^R&jScolnUNE685SS4? Posnaaer: Sand 1400ft St. Una* Bomb factory found in Israel NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - In a nondescript storage room in this Palestinian town, die haul was chilling: garbage cans filled with white powder, gas masks, batteries, bomb-making chemicals and small buckets deceptive ly labeled “ice cream.” It all added up to one of the biggest bmtft) factories found in dieWest Bank. The 1,540 pounds of explosives seized in Monday night’s raid by Palestinian police lent new urgency to Israeli fears that the Islamic militant group Hamas is plotting new attacks. Authorities haven’t revealed the nature of the explosives found nicked away in an unoccupied building in Nablus, except to say they were poten tially devastating-enough to cause seri ous damage within a 1,300-foot radius, according to (me Palestinian official at the scene, speaking on condition of anonymity. Palestinians believe the explosives were intended for suicide bombs. Three American officials who arrived in a car with diplomatic license plates took notes and photographs, but did not speak to reporters. The United States has been trying toimprove secu rity cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and the three sides have been holding sporadic meet ings on the issue. Israeli officials said that the Palestinians have been more helpful recently, possibly because Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat does not want a Hamas suicide bombing to disrupt the peace process at a critical junc ture. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Arafat are to meet sepa rately with President Clinton in Washington next week, and Palestinian efforts to prevent attacks against Israel will be a key item on the agenda. Netanyahu praised the raid of the bomb factory, but said that “we still have other alerts and other dangers.” Israel has been on high alert against feared attacks by Islamic militants in recent days, and troops reportedly have arrested more than 40 Hamas activists. The Israeli army said it had tipped off die Palestinians about die bomb fac tory, but Palestinian officials denied they got help from Israel Some of the explosives found had already been assembled as bombs, the officials said. The materials were the same as those used in two suicide bombings in Jerusalem last summer. ^ ----.:-71-- ''' . . t White House vandalized WASHINGTON (AP) - A woman touring the White House today sprayed rust-colored paint in the Blue Room and was taken into custody by Secret Service agents, a White House spokesman said. The woman caused more than $1,000 damage to the room’s wall coverings and defaced two “rather priceless” busts of Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci that are among the oldest sculptures in the White House, spokesman Mike McCurry said. McCurry described the woman, who was not immediately identified, as white and between the ages of 30 and 35. “I’m told she was taken into custody and was rather calm about it,” he said. Her motive was not clear. McCurry said the woman was on one of the daily public tours when, just after noon, she began spraying paint at the busts on 5 foot pedestals and was interrupt ed by a nearby uniformed Secret Service agent. Secret Service officials did not immediately return calls for comment. > The two busts will be removed for repair, but tours of the man sion would not otherwise be affected, McCurry said. Citing a fear of copycat vandals, White House officials refused to allow \ V* MattHaney/DN *3
