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By NICK COMER
Staff Writer

UK student journalists yesterday
got the chance to be part of Cable
News Network's coverage of the
gulf war, asking questions to CNN
correspondents in Saudi Arabia and
the Pentagon about war coverage.

In a live broadcast from UK‘s
Grehan Journalism Building, stu-
dents in a Journalism 204 class ——
plus a dozen or so who gathered to
watch —— spoke out as pan of the
network's coverage of public reac-
tion to the war.

The segment aired live on CNN
at 12:15 pm.

CNN correspondent Jeff Flock di-
rected students' questions to corre-
spondents Carl Rochelle in Dhah-
ran, Saudi Arabia, Charles
Bierbauer at the White House and
John Holliman at the Pentagon.

Students expressed concerns
about topics like troop morale, US.
plans for a ground war, Soviet cn'ti-
cism of US. air raids and the reces-
sion.

The questions especially were
geared toward the journalistic as-
pects of CNN’s war coverage.

Holliman, who broadcast the
sights and sounds of the first US.
attack on Baghdad from his hotel
room on Jan. 16 along with fellow
CNN reporters Bernard Shaw and

Pam Mitchell, a communications sophomore, is interviewed by
CNN's Jeff Flock (top). Students watched the live broadcast, which
began at 12:15 pm, from a Grehan Journalism Building classroom.

Peter Amett, responded to a ques—
tion about the danger to journalists
covering the war.

“I think it is important for us, as
reporters, to be as close to the ac—
tion as we can be and still do our
job," he said. “That was one of the
fantastic things to me — to be
where the action was and to still be
able to report it.”

John Tilley, a journalism senior,
asked about CNN ‘5 role as the only
network that still has a correspon-
dentin Baghdad.

Holliman attributed CNN’s
unique access to “very good, very
active, very efficient people" who
worked harder and “came out ahead
on the story.”

For Stephanie Goff. 3 Patterson
School graduate student, the ques-
tion-and-answer session provided a
rare opportunity to get information

from a source close to high-level
government officials about the safe-
ty of her family members in Saudi
Arabia.

Goff said that her father. an em-
ployee of McDonnell-Douglas
Corp, is living in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia, and that his wife is a Saudi
citizen.

Rochelle told her he had heard
that the US. government had made
“adjustments" for dependents of
US. citizens and arrangements to
use its military planes to airlift
American citizens from Saudi Ara-
bia. if necessary.

The CNN crew that filmed the
segment is based in Chicago.

But producer David Sleek said the
crew has been on the road since the
war began, doing the same type of

See CNN, Page 3

Iraq welcomes Soviet bid to end war

By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia —— In
a foretaste of all-out war, Marine
and naval gunners combined their
fire with US. air strikes yesterday
to pound Iraqi tanks and artillery
massed in southern Kuwait.

Saddam Hussein, meanwhile,
welcomed a Soviet bid to try to end
the Persian Gulf War short of a
bloody fight to the finish in the
desert. But the Iraqi president
showed no sign of backing off from
Kuwait.

The US command said the thun-
derous land-sea-and-air barrage that
shook southern Kuwait could be de-
scribed as part of “our training pro-
gram" — training for the major of-
fensive that may lie over the
horizon.

Fresh signs emerged of just how
tough that fight may be.

Iraq‘s Parliament speaker said the
Iraqi military has saved its “lethal
developed weapons" — an apparent
reference to chemical and biological
arms — from the non-stop air raids.
And the Iraqis were reported taking
new steps to fortify Kuwait City
against eventual attack.

In Baghdad, Washington and
elsewhere. statesmen and emissaries
conferred on the prospects for peace
and the outlook for intensified war.

In the Iraqi capital, where two
government ministry buildings were
devastated by direct bomb hits yes-
terday, Soviet envoy Yevgeny Prim-
akov presented Saddam with a ver-
bal message from Mikhail S.

Gorbachev conveying the Kremlin
leader's view of the conflict, Bagh-
dad radio said.

The radio quotcd the Iraqi presi-
dent as telling Primakov he is pre-
pared to cooperate with the Soviet
Union “in the interest of finding a
peaceful, political, equitable and
honorable solution to the region’s
central issues. including the situa-
tion in the gulf."

At the same time, however, Sad-
dam declared the Iraqi people were

determined to “beat back the ag-
gressors," the radio said.

Still another peace bid came from
the non-aligned movement.

After a meeting of foreign minis-
ters from 15 non-aligned nations in
Yugoslavia, it was announced that a
delegation would go to Baghdad to
try to head off an escalation of the
war. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar
Velayati of Iran said a message re-

See GULF. Page 5

 

By KYLE FOSTER
Staff Writer

When engineering professor
Kenji Okazaki went to the dentist,
he didn't expect to be told that he
had gingivitis and would have to
have many teeth pulled.

He also didn‘t expect to come
out of the appointment with in-
sight into a new research project.

As a patient of the Periodontics
Graduate Program. Okazaki was
told that to eat the meat that he
enjoyed so much. he would have
to have dental implants. which

 

would cost about $700 ,,- not In-
cluding the physician's fee.

Titanium implants With very
fine threads are used in the pro-
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at about 30 rcvoluuons per turn-
me. “This is very slow," ()ka/akt
said. and the drilling could take
three to four hours.

A thread on the bone then has
to be made so the implant can be
screwed in.

The entire process —- from the
extraction of teeth to the place-

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Trip to dentist sparked project

ment of dentures takes several
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UK chief stresses involvement

By CHRISTINE BOTTORFF
Contributing Writer

UK president Charles Wething-
ton said yesterday that the Univer-
sity needs to become more in-
volved with the
state‘s massive
education re-
form effort.

The state leg-
islature. heed-
ing a call from
the Kentucky
Supreme Court
to revamp the
state school
WW 3.1" WETHINGTON
proved wrde-
spread changes in the 1990 general
session. As a result of the Educa-
tion Reform Act. he said, people
around the country “are talking
about Kentucky in a different light
than they ever have before."

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“My vision is fairly simple. We want to see a
university that is nationally recognized."

Charles Wethington,
UK president

 

Wethington raised this issue yes-
terday afternoon at a speech given
in the Student Center. which was
sponsored by the Donovan Schol-
ars.

He addressed his goals for the fu-
ture. “My vision is fairly simple,"
Wethington said. “We want to see a
university that is nationally recog-
nized for its excellence and for the
quality of its teaching, its research,
its service and its graduates."

He also mentioned the need to
continue increasing faculty salaries.
improving current library facilities
and raising funds for a new library.
Other goals included providing ad-
ditional equipment and facilities for

University research.

Wethington said he wans the
University to build a common sup-
port base by forming what he
termed the “One University Con-
cept."

“I want all facets of the Universi-
ty to pull together.“ he said.

The University‘s achievements
and areas of pride also were men-
tioned. He cited gains in enroll-
ment, the acquisition of more than
$70 million in grants and contracts
during the 1989-90 year and setting
an all-time record in private fund-
raising.

In addition. Wethington dis-
cussed the bright future of UK's

in speech

athletic programs. the increase in
budget because of the 1990 General
Assembly and the University‘s new
public information campaign —
“UK Stands Out."

The service aspect of the Univer-
sity also was stressed. Hc men-
tioned UK‘s involvement in mobile
busmess training programs and dis-
cussed a mral health initiative that
calls for UK to take its medical cen-
ter programs into rural areas of the
state.

Wethington concluded by calling
himself a ”native Kentuckian. and
extremely proud of it“ and said that
being appointed as UK‘s presrdent
was a “humbling experience.“

After his speech Wethington
fielded questions from the audience.
Among their concerns were solving
traffic and pedestrian problems on
Rose Street, increasing minority en-
rollment and improving graduation
rates.

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