Brown and White Vol. 98 no. 18

              president bush and saddam hussein are using tough rheto ric massive troop deployment and psychological tactics against each other in the persian gulf stand international relations professor oles smolansky said sunday speaking to students par ents and faculty at the hillel society bagel brunch smolan sky discussed how both presi dent bush and saddam hussein are handling the present situ ation and the crisis effects on israel smolansky u.s and iraq in mental war bush is waging psychologi cal warfare against saddam hussein the idea being that we will convince him we will go to war if need be smolan sky said he added that hussein's pur pose for psychological warfare is to discourage the united states from going to war against iraq hussein still holds the trump card and that is the hostages he said both the united states and iraq have three options to solve the current crisis smolansky explained the united states options include a total pullout of troops without achieving anything an indefinite stay in the gulf or war if the iraqis don't pull out smolansky said he feels the third option war is the best for the long-term security of the region the removal u.s troops from the gulf is not a good option because president bush has committed himself through speech and actions to a com plete and unconditional iraqi withdrawal from kuwait smo see smolansky page 5 omr photo dr oles smolansky vol 98 no 18 the brown and white tuesday november 13 1990 lu lends 2 million to south side business lehigh university by stephen robbins brown & white news writer lehigh university has advanced 1 million for renewal efforts in the south side business district to the bethlehem economic development corporation's bedc revolving loan fund the renewal is hoped to make the le high community more attractive to retail businesses and prospective lehigh stu dents lehigh's balance sheet boasts sev eral million dollars in liquid assets and lehigh regularly engages in investments outside the university president peter likins said we are indebted to the city of bethlehem for helping us fulfill our educational mission over our 125-year history in return we have tried to serve the local community by sharing our facilities and human re sources and by promoting economic development this is just one way for us to show our appreciation to our neighbors and to be a real part of the city's future he con tinued john woltjen lehigh's vice presi dent of administration and treasurer for the past 13 years commented this loan will serve to forward lehigh's student body in both the short and long-run lehigh's students will appreciate the improved shopping facilities but the new business will also help to attract prospec tivestudents it will make the south side a better place overall he said the loan was made from funds nor mally used for short-term investments and is by no means a gift to the city the money is earning comparable returns to other investments we would have made and the contract was made this is just one way for us to be a real part of the city's future lehigh president peter likins under sound loan criteria woltjen continued we will be receiving regular interest payments from the city through out the life of the loan and the principal will be repaid initially lehigh advanced 1 million to bethlehem's loan fund forsouth side refurbishing once the fund reaches 3 million the university will match 1 for every 2 raised from other sources up to an additional 1 million lehigh loan essentially noted woltjen lehigh will contribute 2 million if the loan fund reaches a total of 6 million funds from other organizations will be packaged to finance large renewal projects on the south side with the lower interest rates offered by the fund developers will be attracted to build or renovate facilities in bethlehem's busi ness community said woltjen the renewal campaign has received much praise from university and city offi cials alike bethlehem mayor ken smith said i am pleased with the action of the bedc to create the revolving loan fund and de see loan page 5 b&w photo by jason stanford students and their parents were determined to stay through this weekend's football game despite the rain and cold wind volunteers teach 13 foreign wives english by therese russell brown and white news writer life in the small village of apartment buildings beyond the murray h goodman campus informally known as smags single married and graduate students has returned to normal now that disappointed freshmen and sorority sisters have found on-campus housing english classes for wives of foreign graduate students and professors are offered by international student and visiting scholar volunteers caroline abel and three others teach english to 13 women in the intimate community characterized by foreign graduate students and their growing families the countries that are represented are japan korea taiwan poland soviet union jordan mainland china iran and israel abel said they all have been in the united states for less than a year and some never had the opportunity to study english before to help teach the women the teachers use cassette tapes for them to bring home and they look through newspapers see volunteers page 5 by shawn reichel brown & white news writer inside news professor of geology ed evenson contests popular methods for dating of rocks page 4 arts and leisure lifestyle section explores racial relations on campus read it and learn page 8-13 opinion read the last letter written on the provda controversy page 6