The QC, Vol. 77, No. 14 • January 17, 1991

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The Voice of Whittier College Since 1914
Volume LXXVII, Number 14
SPECIAL ISSUE
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January 17,1991
* UN Planes Bomb Iraq •
Bush Said 'This Will Not Be Another Vietnam'
By Rob Cioe
QC Managing Editor
Justover nineteen hours after
the U.N. deadline for Suddam
Hussein to withdraw his troops
from Kuwait American led war
planes invaded the predawn
Iraqui sky and commenced
massive attacks on key Iraqui
military installations.
It was not confirmed as of
press time as to how devastating
the attack was or how many, if
any, American lives were lost.
Early indications reveal that
there were no American
casualties while the Irqqui air
force and military posts
nationwide sustained
tremendous damage.
President George Bush,
addressing the nation just after
the strike informed the world
that "Now the 28 countries, with
forces in the gulf area, have
exhausted all reasonable efforts
to reach a peaceful resolution
have no choice but to drive
Saddam from Kuwait by force."
The President added "We will
not fail.
"This will not be another
Vietnam. They [the troops} will
not be asked to fight with one
hand tied behind their backs."
British Saudi Arabian and
Kuwaiti aircraft joined the U.S.
in waging the strike which
Secretary of Defense Richard
Cheney said "achieved a high
degree of tactical surprise."
There are no indications of an
Iraqui retaliation to U.N. forces
or towards Israel, a nation which
Iraq promised to strike if it was
attacked.
The Pentagon is very selective
on how much it will say about
the strike for security reasons,
but it was confirmed that this
was strictly an air operation and
no ground troops were
committed.
Also In This
Issue:
Student Opinions
Pages 2,3
Different
Perspectives
from Faculty
Members
Page 4
PROTESTING VIOLENCE: Just one block from campus, at the corner of Penn Street and Painter Avenue,
several Whittier citizens gather with signs to protest war in the Middle East.
Protestors Gather One Block from Campus
By Josh du Lac
QC Sports Editor
Minutes after news of the
first aerial attack on Baghdad
by the United States reached
the world, a group of local
protesters carrying anti-war
signs and chanting anti-war
messages began gathering at the
nearby intersection of Penn
Street and Painter Avenue to
express their displeasure about
the initiation of Operation
Desert Storm.
The slogans on the signs of
the approximately fifty
protesters conveyed similar
anti-war messages, including"A
Kinder, Gentler War?", Thou
shall not kill, not even for oil",
and "Support our troops, bring
them home now."
Reactions of passers-by
varied.
"It seems like about two-
thirds of the people...who
respond are supportive and
about one-third of them are
negative," Ted Snyder Jr. said
as a handful of passing vehicles
honked their horns to show their
support of the protesters.
A jogger, expressing his
support for the military action,
offered a different reaction as
he yelled "Too late...we're
kicking a—!" as he ran by the
group.
Meanwhile, a small group
of protesters standing cater-
Young Protestors
cornered to the main one began
singing "We Shall Overcome"
and chanting "What do we want-
Peace, When do we want it-
Now".
And the general consensus
among the peaceful protesters
was that the United States needs
to end the war as soon as possible
to avoid a high number of
casualties.
"I think we should stop what
we are doing," Snyder said. "I
don't think there's enough at
stake here that makes it worth
the lives of the American
soldiers."
"I 'd like to have it finished
by tomorrow and have our boys
come home," Sara Lappele, a
member of WAPC stated. "I
don't think we should have even
started it."
"I hope this is an isolated
incident...and that we're using
it to perhaps put fear in (Saddam
Hussein)," Hildred Henderson
added.
"I would've hoped that there
would be no attack and that the
sanctions...worked but that
didn't take place," Jack Sokoloff
said. "I have a few friends over
there...(I just want) the troops
back home."
Peace vigils are planned for
the remainder of the week at
the same intersection of Painter
and Penn and are scheduled to
start at 4 p.m., daily.
Moody
Discusses
Possibility
of a Draft
By Julie Amiton
QC Assistant News Editor
"If we (the United Nations
coalition) are at war, should we
expect a draft of young men to
make up the army?"- John
Moody, Whittier College
Chaplain, posed this question
to about 35 students, last night
at a discussion about the
possibility of reinstating the
military draft.
"I do not have a sense of how
long it will take before the draft
is reinstated; all I know is that
it is ready to go," Moody said.
"Personally, I don't know how
the war can continue withoutit;
we are already calling up the
reserves. The history of war is
that they are always longer than
they are expected to be."
Men will be drafted
according to their birth date in
a lottery fashion. The local
Please see DRAFT page 4.   >