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Show 2 Tkt IsSy RSI eatfaf.rmrMiS,H3 Onridi mm .. ( Conference addresses minority recruitment in math and science BY LARA GIFFORD Chronicle News Writer Kuwait and Iraq still feel tension over new border BORDER With a trench 10 feet across ON THE and 15 feet deep to separate themselves from their Iraqi neighbors, Kuwaitis hoped for a little peace of mind. They dug the first 110 snaking miles of their ditch into the shifting desert sands and stopped. The last 19 miles could be a killer. As demonstrated by two gunfights in the past two weeks in the disputed border area, Iraq's war with Kuwait and its Western allies is not altogether over. IRAQI-KUWAI- T "Iraqis are not predictable people," said Sulaiman Majed Kuwait's undersecretary for foreign affairs, when asked if he trouble when the begin their final drive across expects real estate long part of Iraq. "We will have to be cautious." In fact, as Kuwait prepares to plow through a shabby Iraqi neighbortomato patches dotting the hood and a collection of scrubland on its new northeast border, it has taken steps to put teeth behind its caution. Earlier this year, it persuaded the U.N. Security Council to upgrade the unarmed monitoring force that has operated in the demilitarized zone between the two countries since the end of the Persian Gulf war, when a swathe of Iraqi territory was awarded to Kuwait As a result, a mechanized Bangladeshi battalion, armed with mountin theory to preed machine guns, will soon join the observer force side. either border of the violations vent new by Observation Monitors with the existing force, the U.N. last month the rules of late that of the area a said tour Mission, during will the how Bangladeshis respond to violence engagement governing have not yet been drawn up. office said the battalion A spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general- 's will operate under the same rules as other peacekeeping forces: It will try to prevent incursions and violations, but will fire its weapons only if fired upon. and The Kuwaitis have a different and bolder view on the matter that may well be one more reason for the increasing tension recently along the border. who Kuwaiti Information Minister Sheik Saud Nasser Persian the served as his country's ambassador to Washington during Gulf war, gave this answer when asked what how the Bangladeshi batg talion would react to an Iraqi attack on the operation. "This will be a proper army.... It's going to be a fighting unit," he said. "Remember what President Reagan used to say 'Make my day.' The Iraqis should think about that." Kuwait also has another idea in mind to reinforce its sense of security, one that has implications for U.S. policy in the region. said the government wants to turn over operation of the oil wells along the new border to American oil companies, thus placing the American flag and American investment as a buffer between Kuwait and Iraq. "We are interested in creating many more economic ties with the U.S., to build on Desert Storm," said Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait confirm there have been overtures concerning oil operations on the border. They expressed delight at the prospect of U.S. energy companies gaining an operational foothold in Kuwait's vast public oil production sector. "The whole border issue is a prescription for disaster," said a worried European diplomat in Kuwait "A lot of us are dreading the next trench-digge- Iraqi-work- rs ed Iraq-Kuwa- A conference aimed at increasing the number of minorities in career areas such as engineering and other sciences identified the importance of recruitment and retention of minority students in college programs on Friday. George Campbell Jr., president of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, spoke at the Doubletree Inn to members of Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA), and state educators. Campbell said with minorities representing 40 percent of the birthrate, "we are rapidly becoming mainstream." Minorities are the majority of the public school system, yet are underrepre-sente- d in math and science classes in high school, thus under represented in college science programs, thus under represented in careers in those areas, according to Campbell. Many programs have been formed to recruit minority students into science and math fields, but problems still persist. Campbell said two- - it few months." Iraq and Kuwait have traded insults and occasional gunshots ever since the allied coalition drove Iraqi occupation troops from Kuwait in early 1991. But problems increased following a U.N. border demarcation committee's decision. The committee, basing its research on old descriptions of the historical borders, awarded Kuwait a chunk of Iraqi territory that includes 11 oil wells and about 50 farms, an inhabited suburb of the Iraqi port city, of Umm Qasr and part of what were Iraqi territorial waters. The new border cuts through an old Iraqi customs house and a closed chemical plant . Iraq has never accepted the findings. All of Kuwait, in the official Iraqi media, is still called Iraq's 19th province. The issue is now about to come to a head. Kuwait said it will give an eviction notice to Iraqis who ended up on the wrong side of the new border, probably next month, after getting a consultant's appraisal of the value of the newly acquired Iraqi farmland. As what it calls a "humanitarian gesture," Kuwait said it will reimburse the landowners. Still, they will have to leave. "We consider them illegal immigrants,'' said. "They're squatters." Just how Iraq will react to such a demand from a country it claims as its own property remains to be seen. Iraq's UN. mission has assured the Security Council it will not interfere with the trench or the implementation of the new border decision. But on the ground, tempers are short. Last week, U.N. observers reported that three Iraqi policemen crossed over into Kuwaiti territory and attempted to kidnap members of a Kuwaiti survey team. One of the Kuwaitis fired at the Iraqis, wounding two. One died of his injuries. Iraq, denying its forces provoked the incident, called it "cowardly aggression" on the part of . ah Kuwait On Wednesday, Kuwaiti officials said their police engaged in a heated gun battle with an Iraqi patrol on their side of the border. No casualties were reported. financial reasons. Low faculty expectation, lack of academic mentors, and the isolation of being the only student of color in a program, was how Campbell described an inhospitable climate. "We have to make an effort to destroy institutional barriers that impede students," he said. Destroying barriers begins with a more nurturing college environment, according to Campbell. Campbell said students in the U.S. education system are told achievement is genetic, rather than work-base"They've been told they don't have the smarts so why bother," he said. Campbell's organization is trying to get students to give engineering a try by working with Marvel, the creator of Spiderman comics, to put engineers into scenes, portraying them as wealthy, smart and ethnic. - d, Reese, director of community relations at the University of "advice for utah's "The university is a highly decentralized place," Reese said. He spoke of a recent experience from page one LECTURE G Utah. Justice" New PRESENTED BY beVier Lillian Law Professor School of the University of Virginia Moot Court Room College of Law The lecture and following discussion are free and open to the public ; $ Professor BeVier is the Doherty Professor of Law and Elizabeth D. a Richard A. Merrill Research professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she teaches constitutional law. she was also nominated to the united States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit during the Bush Administration. 0008DpQ where told "running the U. is like trying to herd cats." Reese questioned incentives for people to become leaders and asked the' audience from where good leadership arose. Reese determined good leadership as coming from commitment, and women. "I am convinced that there is a different leadership style among females," Reese said. "Males may learn more from females." please mm. L&lWOQolb, Proof that Kaplan has found a pattern behind no one knows tests GRE Pattern Identification questions a way for you to get them right nearly every time. In seconds. Even if you don't understand like Kaplan: the question. And because the method works best on harder questions, you have . more time to work on the easy ones. ' - And, with the largest staff of researchers in the industry year analyzing the tests the code" on three other ' - spending $2 million a you have to expect this sort of thing. Kaplan has "broken question-type- since 1982, contributing to the removal s of those questions from the tests. All of this means you score higher. 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