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Show Volume 102 Thursday, January 14, 1993 orao(D The recent controversy surrounding the Utah women's gymnastics team's billboard has prompted Chronicle Associate Editor Steve Miller to ponder the stupidity of many of the valley's inhabitants. Is this advertisement sexist or do many commuters have some deep rooted psychological problems.? Also, Associated Students of the University of Utah president Tamara Taylor advises students on howio get the mbst out af9 their would-b- e student representatives as the ASUU general elections approach! ICS The Salt Lake Arts Center is new exhibit to provide a vision of a much more peaceful world. Read all about it in today's feature holding a section. Is that holiday gut keeping you from seeing your toes in the shower? Feature writer Mathew Hendry provides a look at some of the "area's health clubs that fcan help you turn that twelve-pac- k slew belly into a k . Martin Luther King Jr. contributed to arts in addition to work in civil rights, speaker says AMY COVINGTON Chronicle Staff Writer BY Comparing civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to modern day artists, an Arizona State University English professor for his King praised , .," Chronicle sports writer Ed Woodland tells fm why athletes need to have priority registration students at the oyer other "V4-" "You, the men of our armed forces, fight against them as you would fight against the enemies of God." Saddam Hussein h V I J contributions to the artistic V JII .... i i i ' - I world. Cordelia Candelaria was the keynote speaker Wednesday for the University of Utah's Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. The of theme this year's commemoration is, "Colors in Vision and Voice: The Cultural Legacy of Americans of Color." The celebration is sponsored by I ''vim ; -- ' 1 ; - 1 various campus organizations. Many people are uninformed as to what kind of man King was, according to Candelaria. Debates in Arizona, when the state was deciding whether to see "speaker" on page three SLCC I ---- HANK LINDSLEY Chronicle Staff Writers, " The managing editor of the Salt Lake Community College newspaper Horizon resigned a controversy following letters written on regarding ' behalf of imaginary students. "In October some publicated at the progress made. "Currently there are no members of the conspiracy left on the Horizon staff. Cruff has not yet given a letter of resignation, so his reasons for resigning are not yet clear. We are having an article about the resignation in our next issue," There are only five people working on the Horizon staff Horizon, said Dean Cruff, managing editor of Horizon, resigned on Wednesday Jan. 6 after being on probation However, the community college has a high rate of adviser for I'm comin' through he said. who were there in October when the incident occurred, Slama added. BY who worked at Horizon have transferred Ao the University of Utah, according to Slama. . "Several resignations were turned in for a number of reasons that occur at a community college, " Slama said. determine how well the changes work," Curtis said. The structure - used by included Horizon only NICOSIA. Cyprus Declaring an Islamic holy war on America and its allies, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein early Thursday ordered his pilots and air defense forces on the ground to fire on allied aircraft that fly over Iraq. He also vowed to give his people "a great victory" in what he called another phase in "the mother of all battles." Appearing in full military dress in an extraordinary, live, early morning appearance on state-ruIraqi Television just hours after the U.S.-leair strike, an angry Hussein evoked the name of God more than a dozen times as he read orders for an air force that he called "the vanguard and the pride of Iraq." "You, the men of our great armed forces," he implored, "fight against them as you would fight against the enemies of God ... so that the skies n d R. Hillmon University of Utah senior Tim Riesen has taken advantage of the monstrous amounts of snow that have pummeled the Salt Lake ' Valley during the past week. south and from east to west." Hussein, calling President Bush and the allied forces "criminals ... carrying their hatred and their evil allied forces. During six weeks of allied bombing in 1991, the Iraqis preserved most of their Soviet-supplie- radar-guide- d, antiaircraft d systems, largely by leaving the with them," asserted that the equipment shut off so allied over religious fanaticism until much of the Arab world turned location. Iraq's air force itself was badly crippled in the Gulf war. Pilots seeking refuge flew more than 130 of Iraqis' most sophisticated aircraft to neighboring Iran, which impounded them as reparations purpose of the latest bombing attack was for Westerners "to impose their will of colonialism." The Iraqi leader, whose ruling Arab Baath Socialist Party had preached secularism and science against him during the Persian Gulf War, said that Wednesday night's air strike will be punished by Allah. "God Almighty, is capable to give the faithful the victory," he declared, calling on Iraqis to launch a jihad, or holy war, against the West. "May God protect the people of Iraq and the army of Iraq." Most analysts say that Iraq's "rebuilt military is largely defenseless against sophisticated ' laser and radar-guide- d attack systems arrayed against it by the a managing editor and an associate editor. The new structure for the paper will include an editor for each section which will alleviate some of the pressure on the editor. "The excessive pressure on Cruff as editor might have come from the pressure he was getting to more student get involvement," Slama said. Larry Curtis, acting managing editor said, "I was just a staff writer and now I've had to make a lot of adjustments. Yet Cruff has taught me a lot. He made the transition much easier. "From what I understand, it "Dean Cruff made a mistake was a personal decision in I be ho admitted it and he and best will Cruff's interest. from it. I don't think the learned the in the changes continuing structure of the paper and the opinions expressed in the letters new managing editor will were Cruff's," she said. of Iraq will be a wall of fire against the aggressors from the north to the MARK FINEMAN Los, Angeles Times . CHRONICLE PHOTOJudd turnover and several of those Saddam Hussein declares 'holy war' against U.S. after air strike ::n:' 1 Reinarz Cordelia Candelaria, an Arizona State University professor, spoke about Martin Luther King's contributions to American art. letters were written by members of the staff. They were printed as if students had written to the paper expressing their opinion," Slama, ....1 CHRONICLE PHOTOPoul for writing the bogus letters. Cruff was to be on probation until Jan. 28 andthen the publications council would look BY Julie - paper editor resigns following controversy jjtx-pac- stomach. Number 68 aircraft could not pinpoint their from the nine-yea- r Iran-Ira- q War. Hussein still has more than 300 combat-read- y fighter-jet- s and bombers. But Defense analysts in London said, however, that last week's encounter between a U.S. 6 fighter and a Soviet-mad- e Iraqi MiG-2- 5 "no-- in the fly zone" in southern Iraq was a F-1- U.S.-patroll- telling illustration of Iraq's air is roughly capability. The MiG-2- 5 as sophisticated a fighter as the but the U.S. plane easily, shot the Iraqi out of the sky. F-1- 6, |