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ATLANTA (AP): Iraq used food loans for hardware. Iraq
diverted millions of dollars from U.S. Department of Agriculture-
backed loans — meant to help Iraq buy surplus food from U.S.
farmers — to obtain trucks, other naraware and possibly weapons
used in the invasion of Kuwait, Cable News Network reported
Monday. The weapons may have been bought with kickbacks paid by
American companies, the network said.Investigators also believe Iraq
used the U.S.-backed loans to buy weapons by overpaying American
companies for food and then demanding that they transfer cash
kickbacks to various bank accounts in Europe, CNN said. Iraq still
owes $2 billion on the $5 billion it has borrowed under the USDA
program started by President Reagan in 1983 — when Iraq was at
war with Iran — to guarantee Iraqi food purchases from U.S. farmers
with surplus commodities to sell.Iraq stopped paying back the loans
when it invaded Kuwait this summer.
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DALLAS (AP): $2 billion offered for Lockheed. Dallas
billionaire Harold Simmons offered about $2 billion in cash
for Lockheed Corp., the maker of spy planes and the stealth fighter,
is Simmons’ largest offer for the Calabasas, Calif.-based defense
manufacturer, which has rebuffed his previous attempts to increase
his 20 percent stake. NL Industries Inc., controlled by Simmons,
offered to pay $40 a share for the remaining 80 percent of outstanding
Lockheed stock. Simmons was traveling and could not immediately
be reached for comment. But J. Landis Martin, president and chief
executive officer of NL Industries, said the $40 per share offer is “a
number we think would be overwhelmingly supported by
shareholders."Lockheed said it will “give full consideration to NL’s
indication of interest when further details are provided."
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (AP): Titan rocket blasts off. A
Titan 4 rocket, the nation’s most powerful unmanned launcher,
blasted into space with a secret military cargo Monday at 7:37 EST
after a delay of nearly two months. The Air Force tried in September
to launch the unmanned Titan, but had to delay the flight because of
undisclosed technical problems. Air Force officials refused to discuss
or even acknowledge the launch prior to liftoff from Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station. The Air Force would not divulge the nature of the
payload, but civilian experts said they believed the rocket w-.
carrying a $180 million advanced missile warning satellite .A
spacecraft of this type, called a Defense Support Program sateu.ve,
could be used to instantly detect the launch of Iraqi missiles against
sites in the Middle East, said John Pike, director or the Federation of
American Scientists’ space policy project.
PETALUMA, Calif. (AP): Woman in trunk rescued. A
woman locked in the trunk of a moving car threw emergency flares
through a taillight hole and waved what appeared to be a white sock
to attract attention, officials said. The man driving the car, who
refused to give his name, was arrested Monday for investigation of
kidnapping, a Sonoma County Sheriff's Department spokesman
said.The victim’s name was being withheld, officials said. Motorists
called authorities Monday after seeing the flares and hearing the
woman’s muffled screams, Lt. Ron Dreyer said in a news release.
Deputies followed the car off a highway in Petaluma, north of San
Franciso, and gave chase. They caught the driver after he tried to flee
on foot after crashing the car into an embankment, authorities said.
The woman and the man arrested complained of back pains and were
taken to a hospital. The woman was treated and released, officials
said.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Young Democrats of
UGA/Clarke County will meet
today at 8:30 p.m. in Room 141 of
the Tate Stuaent Center. The
guest speaker will be Mollie
Freeman Glitsis, who ran for
public service commissioner this
year, the public is invited.
• The Student Alumni Council
will meet today at 4:30 p.m. at
Gus Garcia’s.
• The Association of Collegiate
Entrepreneurs will meet today at
7 p.m. in Room 137 of the Tate
Center.
Now Showing
• The UGA Young
Choreographers Series will be
Nov. 14 through 16 at 8 p.m. in
Room 272 of the P.E. Building. A
variety of dance works by
student choreographers will be
performed. Tickets are $3 and
are available at the Department
of Dance in the P.E. Building.
For more information, call 542-
4415.
Announcements
• A Prelaw Orientation will be
held today at 3:30 p.m. for
juniors and seniors, and 4:30
p.m. for freshmen and
sophomores in Room C of the
Law School. All students
interested in attending law
school are invited. Students
must attend an orientation
before they can make an
appointment with Ms. Judith
Lewis, the Prelaw advisor.
• Volunteer Connection is a local
organization interested in
matching people who would like
to volunteer time to worthy
causes that need volunteers. If
you would like to be a volunteer,
call Volunteer Connection at
543-1313.
• The Speech Communication
Association is sponsoring a
resume-writing workshop today
at 6:30 p.m. in Room 145 of the
Tate Center. Everyone is
welcome.
• There will be a POW/MIA
parade today at 5 p.m. at the
Tate Center. At 5:45 p.m., a
former POW will speak at the
Pharmacy Auditorium.
Afterwards, there will be a
candlelight vigil at Mary Khars
Warnell Memorial Garden. The
final dedication is tomorrow at
noon.
• Phi Alpha Delta elections for
president and treasurer will be
neld today at 7 p.m. in Room 143
of the Tate Center.
ding i
birthday celebration today from
11-2 p.m. in the Tate Center
Plaza. Free gifts will be given
away, and WUOG’s trivia show
Head to Head will be plaved with
contestants from the audience;
passes to the Sonic Youth concert
in Atlanta will be awarded.
• The 1990-91 edition of the
PANDORA is now on sale for $22
at the cashier’s window in the
Tate Center. Class portraits for
the PANDORA will be taken the
week of Nov.12-16 from 9 a.m. to
6 p.m. This is the last chanse to
have your picture taken for the
yearbook. Sign up for
appointments at the Tate Center
Information Desk. Walk-ins are
accepted.
Colloquium
• The Lunch and Learn Series
today will be on "Stress
Management: Tips and
Techniques” at 12:10 p.m. in
Room 144 of the Tate Center. No
preregistration is necessary.
* Pi Sigma Epsilon, a
professional marketing
fraternity, invites students and
faculty to Advertising Panel
Night today at 7:30 p.m.,
featuring representatives from
Adsmith; Salmon and Associates
Advertising; Poliak, Levitt, and
Chaief Advertising; The Red and
Black Advertising; and J. Walter
Thompson Advertising, with
Professor Lane from the
Journalism College moderating.
Anyone interested is welcome.
Exhibits
orgio
showing “Altered States: Ten
Georgia Photographers” through
Nov. 18.
• An exhibition of paintings by
local artist Nancy Revnes will be
on display through Nov. 30 in the
Ecology Gallery, at the Institute
of Ecology .
• The Crealde Arts School
Student Sculpture Exhibition
will be on display in the Main
Gallery of the Visual Arts
Building through Nov. 30.
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dayt before the date to be printed
University Press: Not in it for money
lesser
Jniversity
By KEVIN ATWILL
Contributing Writer
Underneath North Campus lies
one of the University’s
known aspects, the Unri
Press.
Housed in the basement of Ter
rell Hall, the Press is the depart
ment of the University that deals
with academic publishing. In its
52-year history, the Press has pub
lished well over 1,000 books, 600 of
which are still available. It aver
ages about 80 titles per year now.
The purpose of the Press is two
fold, according to Director Malcolm
Call.
“We exist to publish books by
scholars, largely for other scholars
and, as a state university, we feel
obliged to publish books that
service the region,” Call said.
Making money isn’t one of the
Press’ purposes.
“We are a non-profit organiza
tion, so we’re not here to make
money,” Call said. “Our goal is to
bring books into print that deserve
a wide audience, but that would
not normally be published.”
Subject matter includes such re
gional topics as the Civil War,
Southern history and culture, and
Afro-American history.
The Press has a budget of about
$2.25 million a year, most of which
is generated through sales. This
year, the Press received a $25,000
grant from the National Endow
ment for the Arts.
In addition, the University
covers about 23 percent of its
budget and pays the salaries of half
the 26-member staff.
“Basically, we operate like a
publishing house,” Call said. “We
advertise our books, get reviews,
and exhibit at academic meetings."
Anywhere from 750 to 5,000
copies of a book are printed, and
the Press has contracts with a
number of companies for the
printing, he said.
One of the Press’ upcoming pro
jects will be the reissuing of “An
Education in Georgia” by noted au
thor and journalist Calvin Trillin.
First published in 1964, the book
deals with the integration of the
University and its first black stu
dents, Hamilton Holmes and Char-
layne Hunter-Gault. The reissuing
is slated to coincide with the 30th
anniversary of this event in 1991.
In addition to publishing, the
Press also sponsors two literary
awards: The Flannery O’Connor
Award for short fiction and a Con
temporary Poetry Series.
The biannual Flannery
O’Connor Award was established
10 years ago by Charles East, then
editor of the Press, and Paul
Zimmer, former director.
‘"Most (manuscripts) are written
by scholars,” said As si tan t Mar
keting Manager David DeaJar-
dines.
The entries are sent to a series
editor who evaluates them with
readers, noted critics and writers,
DesJardines said.
Winners receive a cash award
and a contract to have their books
published.
The Contemporary Poetry Series
is Bimiliar to the short story compe
tition and is awarded to four people
each year. It was also founded by
Paul Zimmer.
Habit changes can help alter genetic obesity
By CLINT BARRENTINE
Campus Correspondent
Genetics can affect a person’s fit
ness, including obesity, said a
health specialist who visited the
University.
Claude Bouchard, a physical fit
ness professor at Laval University
in Quebec, said Monday that some
research has shown that 25 per
cent of body fat is related to he
redity, while the remainder can be
linked to culture and lifestyle.
“But genetic limitations can be
overcome to a small extent by
changing eating habits and exer
cising,” Bouchard told about 60
University students and faculty in
>logy
Research should allow for hered
itary differences, like whether a
person responds well to exercise or
whether he is naturally fit,among
the subjects of fitness studies, he
said.
Bouchard, president-elect of the
North American Association for
the Study of Obesity, has helped
conduct a lengthy experiment tnat
isolates and monitors participants’
food intake, weight, and fat and in
sulin levels.
The 100-day experiment,which
required people to exercise for six
days a week and eat a strictly regu
lated diet, demonstrated that al
tering lifestyle can help people lose
fat without losing desirable tissues
like muscle, he said.
“When people are active they im
prove their fitness level, and when
fitness increases, then health is fa
vored," he said.
Fitness, however, isn’t just
weight lifting and running, he said.
It includes less-obvious factors like
blood pressure and body fat levels,
which often are influenced by life
style and sometimes downplayed
by researchers.
“We should add physiological fit
ness to the conventional definition
of fitness,” Bouchard said.
These physiological factors are
at least as important as, if not
more than, physical fitness compo
nents like strength and flexibility,
he said.
“Fitness appears to be more sig
nificant than physical activity,”
Bouchard said. “Overall, it appears
to be desirable to be fit.”
Harry DuVal, a director of the
UGA Fitness Center who attended
the lecture, said fitness is part of
health and that aspects such as
blood pressure levels and fat are
important in the relationship be
tween the two.
“Just because you have better
hand-eye coordination or strength
doesn’t mean you are going to be
more healthy,” said DuVal, an as
sociate professor of physical educa
tion.
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