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              for 2 billion or 3 billion to be paid immediately but kuwait balked he said iraq claim ed justifiably that kuwait and the united arab emirates had been exceeding their quotas of oil production allow ed by the organization of petroleum exporting countr ies opec in order to please the west for every dollar the price of oil fell iraq lost one billion dollars a year he explained as a result of the over produc tion iraq lost several billion dollars another area of dispute centered around the south rumayla oil field which is on the border between iraq and iraq owes france and tne soviet union more than 15 billion for military hardware purchased during the iran iraq war during the eight-year war saudi arabia and kuwait gave iraq more than 10 bil lion to help the country susta in its war effort against iran they supported iraq because they were afraid of the ayatollah and iran forcing islamic fundamentalism down the throats of the gulf states he explained after the the war ended the money stopped flowing to iraq disputes with kuwait smolansky said a few weeks before the iraqi inva sion iraq sent kuwait a bill ful block in the middle east and that hussein views him self as the logical leader saddam was making a bid for dominance of the arab world he said saddam always claimed that he was fighting iran for all of the arabs oles smolansky professor of international relations said iraq's motives for invad ing kuwait have economic roots he said iraq's war with iran confronted hussein with the problem of providing guns and butter saddam could not provide people with anyth ing less than he had in peacet ime because he would risk losing his people's support smolansky said ir professors analyze gulf crisis iraqi invasion will alter mid east political balance by joshua feldman brown and white asst news editor iraq's aug 2 invasion of kuwait has left iraqi leader saddam hussein and presi dent george bush in a show down which will dramatically change the balance of power in the middle east interna tional relati ons assistant pro fessor henri barkey said in an interview earlier this week anythi ng short of iraq with drawing from kuwait would be a defeat for the united states he explained it would mean the end of u.s influence in the region and many regimes in the middle east would be toppled barkey said he thinks hus sein invaded kuwait in an effort to create a more power vol 98 no 1 the brown and white friday september 7 1990 lehigh university rauch center adds prestige to college by robyn suriano brown and white managing editor the rauch business center represents lehigh's com mitment to the expansion and improvement of the business college according to richard bareness dean of the college of business and economics professor of economics j richard aronson said the business center is an indication that the university is serious about its business education he said the new building presents a challenge to the business college whose facilities now far exceed the college's program ming although it had outgrown its former surroundings in drown hall barsness agreed the business college must now expand to match its new environment now with the appropriate quality and quantity of space barsness said the college has a great capacity for growth in the future despite the five-story center's impressive size and see business page 5 alan pense promoted to provost photo by jim luchsinger the rauch business center emanates a strengthened and growing lehigh business program by heather pauly brown and white news writer alan w pense former dean of the college of engineering has been nam ed the new provost and academic vice president of lehigh pense began his new job july 1 replacing david sanchez who joined the national sci ence foundation as assistant director for mathematical and physical sci ences i am looking forward to assuming the duties of provost and meeting the challenges that face lehigh he said according to pense some of these challenges include improving the small enough to be personal and large enough to be powerful this summer pense attended a three day skytop retreat with approx imately 100 faculty members stu dents trustees administration and friends at the retreat the group set goals transmitted ideas and attemp ted to unify the colleges the results of the retreat are going to be discussed at a meeting today for department chairs center directors faculty and a list of students pense has been a member of leh igh's faculty since 1960 he has served see provost page 10 undergraduate curriculum increas ing the availability of financial aid and placing more emphasis on people and programs than bricks and mortar pense feels that with the recent completion of the rauch busi ness school it is now time to shift emphasis to the people at lehigh another challenge pense says leh igh faces is the need to identify what role lehigh will take as a learning institution we want the university to provide students with the ability to go as far as they can pense said president lik ins sums it up this way we want to be omr photo alan pense see iraq page 7 inside news student sues lehigh for injuries sustained on the hill page 2 arts & leisure saxophonist branford marsalis swings into lehigh for jazz concert tomorrow night page 15 sports lehigh's new state-of the-art fitness center attracts hundreds on opening days page 26