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SAM CARLETON/Kernel Contributor

Donna Born (left) wears an Israel gas mask while Rhonda
Smith shows off a U.S. version at a military surplus store.

Gas mask sales
rise in Lexington

By DALE GREER
Associate Editor

Fearing that chemical warfare
may strike close to home, Cen-
tral Kentuckians are buying gas
masks almost as fast as they can
be stocked. the owner of a Lex-
ington army surplus store said
last week.

Wolfgang Born, owner of
Stuff Genuine Military Surplus,
said he has received more than

500 phone calls about the masks '

since the Persian Gulf war erupt»
ed Jan. 16.

Born said he doesn‘t know
how many masks he has sold
since Allied forces bombed Iraq,
but he said. “there‘s been quite
an increase in sales.“

A new shipment of 100 masks
was delivered to the Loudon Av-
enue store last week to replace
Bom‘s dwindling supply, and he
said he expected to sell the new
masks quickly.

The store sells an Israeli gas
mask for 524.95 and a U.S. gas
mask for 550.

Born said he thought many of
his customers were buying the
masks to prepare for a possible
terrorist bombing of the Lexing-
ton Blue Grass Army depot in
Richmond. Nerve and mustard
gas agents are stored at the de-
pot, which is 22 miles from Lex-
ington.

Nancy Guy, a spokeswoman
for the depot, declined to specu-
late on the possibility of a terror-
ist strike at the facility but added

that “we are prepared for any—
thing that might happen."

John Stempel, associate direc-
tor of UK‘s Patterson School of
Diplomacy, said Friday that the
depot would be a potential target
for Iraqi terrorists.

But Stempel, a specialist on
Iraq, said the facility was less
likely to be hit than Fort Knox,
an Army base in Hardin County.

Rep. Larry Hopkins, D—
Lexrngton, has been notified of
terrorist threats at US. military
installations around the country,
but a spokeswoman for Hopkins
declined to say if any of those
threats involved the depot.

Spokeswoman Stephanie Col-
lins said security had been tight-
ened at the facility, making it
unlikely that an Iraqi terrorist
could bomb the site.

Even if terrorists succeeded
with a bombing, Collins said the
chemical agents at the depot
would pose no danger to area
residents.

“The agents aren‘t stored in a
gaseous form,“ Collins said.
“They‘re stored as a liquid. If
you drank it, it would kill you. If
you touched it. it would harm

See CHEMICAL, Page 3

Chemical warfare
an option for Iraq

By FRED BAYLES
Assomated Press

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia ‘
Saddam Hussein raised the spec-
ter of cherriical-biological war-
fare __- and even nuclear weap-
ons »— in Iraq's fateful
confrontation with the U.S. su-
perpower yesterday. Meanwhile,
scores more of his air force pi-
lots were slipping out the back
door to Iran.

CNN‘s Peter Amett, who in-
terviewed the Iraqi president.
said Saddam claimed the mis-
siles his military has fired at
Saudi Arabia and Israel have
chemical, biological and nuclear
capability.

The dozens of Scuds launched
thus far have canted only con-
ventional warheads. The Iraqis
have chemical and biological
weapons, but Western analysts
question whether Iraq is techni-
cally capable of equipping mis-
siles with such warheads.

As for nuclear warheads,
some analysts believed before
the Persian Gulf war broke out
that Iraq was a year or two from
developing a primitive atomic
weapon.

But the U.S. military said its
recent air attacks eliminated the
Iraqi nuclear network.

As recounted by Amett, Sad-
dam skirted the question of
whether the Iraqis would use un-
conventional weapons.

“lraq will use weapons that
equate the weapons used against
us." Amett quoted Saddam as
saying. “All the air superiority
that has come upon us has
failed. We have maintained our
balance, using only conventional
weapons."

But, Amett said. the Iraqi
leader then suggested Baghdad
may be “forced" to take drastic
action.

“We pray that not a lot of

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Search list narrows for 2 spots

By DALE GREER
Associate Editor

and TOM SPALDING
Editor in Chief

Two key vacancies for University
positions moved closer to being
filled yesterday.

UK has narrowed to five the num-
ber of candidates for the position of
dean of the College of Arts and Sci-
ences. And the school has trimmed
its search for a vice chancellor for

Minority Affairs down to six final-

-Mary Burg, an assistant to the
chancellor for the Lexington Cam-
pus, said she was given the list of fi-
nalists yesterday for the A & S JOh
and is in the process of notifying
them.

Burg and Jim Wells, chairman of
the search committee, both declined
to identify the candidates.

The finalists now must visit UK
for interviews with faculty, students

Chancellor

and administrators. Burg said she
ists. expects the visits to take place in
late February and early March.

the Lexington
Campus Robert llemenway will
make a final selection following the
interviews, Burg said. She said He-
menway would like to name a new
dean by July 1.

Wells said the search committee
received more than 100 applications
for the position. Bradley Canon, a
UK political scrence professor, has

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UK students Darren Billberry and Bob Levy, both academic aides. waited outside a
classroom yesterday to ensure that UK athletes attended class,

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UK’s McKinney top debater
in Dartmouth to‘rnament

By SUSAN COREY
Contributing Writer

T.A. McKinney, a UK senior de-
bate team member, was named
“Top Debater” at a three-day debate
tournament at Dartmouth College in
Hanover, New Hampshire last
week.

This is the second time this sea-
son that McKinney, a political sci-
ence senior, has received the “Top
Speaker“ award. He also earned the
honor at the Wake Forest University
Invitational in November.

“To get both of those it takes a lot
of luck because it is really close,"
he said. “It depends on if you get
the breaks.“

McKinney estimated there were
about 80 debaters who participated
at Dartmouth.

McKinney, 21. a Nashville,
Tenn., native, teamed With David
Walsh, a political science senior
from Irving, Texas, to emerge from
the eight preliminary rounds as the
top seeded team. but they lost their
quarterfinal round to the University the
of Texas on a 2~l decision

“The tournaments have two corn
pilations, (and) the person who gets
the most points during eight prelim-
inary rounds wrns," said J W Pat-
terson, UK Director of Intercolle-
giate Debate. McKinney finished
three points ahead of his closest
competitor.

Dartmouth

National
Toumament, in April.

The competitors debate on the
same topic for an entire season. The
national topic for this year‘s debate
is Resolved: “That the United States
should substantially change its trade
policy toward one or more of the
followrng: China, llong Kong. la-
pan. South Korea, Taiwan."

INSIDE: 1990 — A GOOD YEAR FOR STRANGE MUSIC

been serving as acting dean since
July. He declined to saj. it he was
one of the live finalists.

Canon was named to till the 'le-
cancy created when Mithael Baer
resigned in the spring to accept an
administrative position at .\I irtheast-
erri College in Boston, Well: \Llld.

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for a replzicerricnt last fall in. .idter-
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See A & S Page 3

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next foe on
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Senior Staf‘ Writer

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