either onit: Cloudy, low around [f0 ofnorrow: Sunny, high around 0.* Low 490. C t *&ti i One hundredfive years of edftorialfreedom Tuesday September 17, 1996 ifw. P IRWI t. Kuwait g Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -Kuwait agreed yesterday to permit the United States to deploy 3,000 more troops on its soil, but the White House put that plan and possible additional U.S.. air attacks inst Iraq on hold so officials here can deter- ?e whether Baghdad is retrenching as Washington has demanded. Gen. John Shalikashvili, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that signs from Iraq yesterday were mixed but that the Iraqis still appeared to be complying with U.S. demands to stop firing at U.S. aircraft and rebuilding air defenses shattered by U.S. air attacks two weeks Ives green light for more U.S. troops ago. The developments suggest that the interlude in hostilities between the United States and Iraq will continue at least for another few days. No attacks have occurred since Baghdad announced Friday that it no longer would challenge U.S. pilots flying over Iraqi territory.. Although Shalikashvili insisted the United States is not abandoning its preparations for pos- sible new military action against Iraq, it was clear that the administration is rethinking last week's threats. "Whether airstrikes will be necessary or not will very much depend on (Iraqi president) Saddam Hussein's actions, not his words," Shalikashvili told reporters. "If there are actions there that threaten our pilots, we, in turn, will take appropriate action." Senior U.S. officials also said that the admin- istration has been reconsidering the need to send the additional ground troops, despite the green light provided by Kuwait. The Pentagon announced late Friday that the United States was sending 5,000 troops to Kuwait to provide a show of force against Iraq. But, in a gaffe, U.S. officials had not yet asked Kuwait for permission. The Kuwaitis finally agreed yesterday, after a weekend visit by Defense Secretary William Perry. But they gave permission for only 3,000 troops. The United States already has 1.200 troops in Kuwait participating in a tem- porary exercise with the Kuwaiti army. The maneuvers are designed to serve as a warning to Hussein not to attempt another attack against Kuwait. Perry flew back to Washington late yesterday after meeting with Turkish officials in Ankara yesterday morning and traveling to Britain to see top British and French defense officials. U.S. and Turkish officials insisted that Perry did not ask Turkey for any additional help, such as permission to use the Turkish air base at Incirlik to launch possible strikes against Iraq. But Turkish Foreign Minister Tansu Ciller made it clear later that. "even if there had been" such a request, it "would not be the correct move from the point of view of our own inter- ests." Turkey's new Muslim-run government has been cool to the recent round of U.S. missile attacks against Iraq, contending the United States acted without justification after Baghdad sent forces to intervene in a civil war in the Kurdish enclave there. 1 WROCis rotesting agam at ity Hall Anupama Reddy Daily Staff Reporter Refusing to pay a hefty fine and threatening a law suit, about 30 members" of the National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition lifted signs and voices at city hall last night. The Ann Arbor City Council heard accusa- ns of police harassment and racial intoler- ce from NWROC at the council's weekly meeting. NWROC members registered their com- plaints with the council after the group received a bill from the city for more than $36,000. City officials charged both the Ku Klux Klan and NWROC a total exceeding $73,000 to control a June 22 Klan rally and the consequent anti-Klan rally at city hall. Luke Massie, an elected member of NWROC's local steering committee, said his 4up will not pay the city's bill. -"I'm sure we'll be successful in not paying the $30,000 and change to be pepper-sprayed," M4ssie said last night. "The joke is, if you have to pay $30,000 to get pepper sprayed, is getting shot extra?" ,,Massie also said NWROC's focus on stop- ping further Klan rallies would rest in the hands of young protesters. "We want to rebuild a mass movement of dung people and workers against racism' assie said. "We want the complete and his- torical defeat of the KKK." City Administrator Neal Berlin said he had no further comment on the city's reason to bill t h e See NWROC, Page 7 Report says U.S. failed to protect troops in Mideast The Washington Post WASHINGTON -- A government report on the June bombing of a U.S. military housing com- plex in Saudi Arabia released yesterday faulted the Defense Department's entire command struc- ture for paying insufficient attention to terrorist threats and failing to do enough to protect U.S. forces in the Middle East. In a scathing review of the truck-bomb attack that killed 19 airmen and wounded about 500 peo- ple near the Dhahran air base, investigators said the Defense Department's senior leadership neglected to issue clear instructions for safe- guarding troops and shortchanged the issue of troop protection in setting budget priorities. The on-scene commander, Brig. Gen. Terry Schwalier, was singled out for being so focused on preventing a car bomb from penetrating the Khobar Towers housing complex that he did not guard against a giant blast just outside the perime- ter fence, which is what occurred. "The commander ... did not adequately protect his forces from a terrorist attack:' the report said. Schwalier was cited for failing to move vulnerable airmen to safer locations, install shatterproof Mylar on windows, coordinate sufficiently with the Saudis, address inadequacies in the staffing and trainwg of base guards and attend properly to other matters to improve protection. But Schwalier's superiors at the .U.S. Central Command, responsible for operations in the Middle East, also were excoriated for not pro- viding him with adequate guidance and sup- port. No senior member of the command ever inspected the security measures at Dhahran, the report observed. The report, commissioned by President Clinton, made clear that the structure of the U.S. military operation that has evolved in Saudi Arabia since the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War - involving a frequent rotation of U.S. military personnel and lack of clear command authority among military services - confounded attempts to safeguard the troops there. Although U.S. intelligence had been unable to forecast the time and place of the attack, investi- gators asserted that "a considerable body of evi- dence was available" indicating "terrorists had the capability and intention to target U.S. interests in Saudi Arabia" and "Khobar Towers was a poten- tial target." The report noted a series of security warnings as well as 10 suspicious incidents in weeks before the attack that, "while individually insignificant, indicated possible reconnaissance and surveillance of Khobar Towers." Wayne Downing, the retired four-star Army general who headed the investigation, told reporters yesterday his charter had been simply to make an assessment, not assign culpability. The Air Force is conducting a separate judicial inquiry to determine whether courts-martial or other action is warranted. Nor did the report shed any light on who may have been behind the bombing that tore the face off an eight-story building in the housing com- plex, residence of the several thousand airmen and support personnel involved in enforcing a ban on flights by Iraqi military aircraft over southern Iraq. KRISTEN SCHAEFER/jDaily First-year student Roshani Deraniyagale protests outside City Hall. She says she's outraged that Ann Arbor would allow the KKK to hold a rally in the city. .tudent's mural blends art, cience By Jeff Cox Daily Staff Reporter The creative and scientific worlds have finally collided in a hallway on the fourth floor of East Hall. Tara Lindstrom, an LSA senior, is finishing up a 30-foot painted mural in the biopsychology department in ast Hall. "The faculty in the biopsych depart- ment decided to do something to improve the halls," said psychology Prof. Kent Berridge. "Our desire was to have something beautiful, so we passed around the hat and then advertised" Though at first no one responded to the advertisement, the department eventually commissioned Lindstrom, a ne arts and general studies major. "They told me their ideas ... and I did a little research and submitted a design," Lindstrom said. "(After they talked about it) they let me go ahead and do it " The department had specific ideas about what the mural should include. EREBRAL CREATURES Waitlist 101: A class on getting in Computer gliches leave students won- dering By Carly Blatt For the Daily Ideally, University class schedules are just a phone call away. But throwing in confusing wait- lists, computer malfunctions and constant checks for open classes, stu- dents may find the process a bit daunting. Touch-tone Computer Registration "Any and all efforts to reach the prof - e-mail, notes wrapped around bricks and tossed through windows, whatever - (to) explain your special case are worthwhile," said history Prof, Tom Collier. "Flattery and groveling also help and offers to wash her car weekly are sure-fire. Although contacting the professor and using waitlists may open up spaces, Collier cautions students to "be prepared for not getting in off the wait- list. They should pick an alternative and be prepared to drop/add promptly." Adelman said every department manages its waitlists in ositives its own way. "Some go down the list,- -f as (while) oth- Involving Student CRISP, began in 1994, freeing stu- dents from long lines previously associated with registration. "The positives (of touch-tone CRISP) definitely outweighthe neg- atives," said Lynn Adelman, assis- tant University registrar. Participation, or "The p definit! KRISTEN SCHAEFER/Daly LSA senior Tara Lindstrom, a fine arts and general studies major, gazes up at the mural she recently painted on a fourth floor wall in East Hall. outweigh the negatives" - Lynn Adelman Assistant University registrar ers might open new sections," she said. "'Th waitlists are at the Lindstrom said. "Each (faculty mem- ber) was interested in having what they specialized in represented." The mural is designed to be viewed in a certain way. "It carries on from left to right," Lindstrom said. "It's a sequential design." brain with a small rodent, showing that the study of animal behavior and the study of the human mind are related. The center of the mural "captures pat- terns of time and behavior," Berridge said. Here there are shadow outlines of birds migrating that "capture annual rhythms.- he said. The sharp contrast of with a giant cross section of a human brain. "The mural finishes with actual brain activity," Lindstrom said. LSA junior Rich Lehman said, "It certainly is an amazing painting. It's just too bad it's hidden away where not a lot of people can see it" "Students have access from 7 a.m. until midnight, and they don't have to wait in line." Although many students are able to arrange an acceptable schedule during their first call to CRISP, many must instructors' discretion. While some courses use waitlists and may shut students out of class due to overcrowding, some departments open additional sections to accommo- date students as needed. "We don't close courses in statis- ,I