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HRAN. Saudi Arabia (AP) Sad-
Musscin his armies reeling from a
imentnl allied air and land assault
fclay he had begutt withdrawing his
from Kuwait. But President Bush
ed Saddam of "trying to claim victo-
: midst of a rout and pledged the
yould not stop.
Kuwaiti Information Ministry
Kuwait City was free and CBS
cd that allied troops had entered
pttal to a welcome Of honking horns
iviiie flags.
'the U.S. military said while many
'.were fleeing others still were there
fcring "stiff resistance and tanks
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day we will complete the withdraW-
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Ryan dinner raises more than $43000 for baseball fund
By Brian Bt
Sports Etf
Tho ACU uaseball program got a big lift
Friday from Nolan Ryan's 5308 strike
outs.
Ryan Texas Rangers' pitcher and all-
lime majpr league strikeout leader who
played with ACU baseball conch Bill
Gilbrclh on the California Angels was
honored at a benefit dinner Friday night in
Scruggs Gymnasium.
About $35000 was raised from ticket
sales to the $5Q-a-plntc dinner. Also more
than $8850 Was raised from a silent auc-
tion pf autographed bats baseballs jerseys
and gloves front players such as Hank
Aaron Willie Mays Stan Musial and Bo
Jackson.
The baseball program also received mes-
sages of congratulations for resuming
baseball from baseball commissioner Fay
Vincent Rangers' owner George W. Bush
and Hall of Fame members Rod Carew
Brooks Robinson Harmon Killebrew and
Yogi Berra.
Friday's proceeds bring the total to more
than $291000 Ryan has helped raise for
the Wildcats' first-year program. In April a
told his war-Wrecked nation in an address
on Baghdad radio. J
Hussein said the emirate he claimed to
have annexed in August was no longer-
part of Iraq.
But Bush reading a statement in the
White House Rose Garden said Saddam's
statement was "an outrage" that Sas-
sam had not agreed to U.N. resolutions on "
Kuwait had expressed no remorse and
had accepted no responsibility for "the
awful consequences" of his nation's
aggression.
"Saddam is not interested in peace but
only to regroup and fight anotlwr day" he
said.
Bush called on all Iraqi soldiers to lay
down their arms and said they Would .not
be fired upon if they did.
The British War Cabinet agreed with
Bush's assessment.
But the Soviets urged nn immediate
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benefit dinner in Arlington brought in
about $258000.
Also Uks Nolan and RUtbRyart Museum
of Baseball on the ACU campus was
established. ACU athletic director Cecil
Eager said the museum will hold personal
items of he Ryans and will tell the story of
the association'of Ryan with the ACU
baseball team.
If ACU wanted to pick someone to be
linked with its baseball program not many
players could give the school more posi-
tive recognition than Ryan
Still throwing his fastball more than 90
miles per hour thp 44-year-old Ryan has
set 17 strikeout records and holds the all
time record of six no-hitters. t
At a press conference Friday before the
dinner Ryan said he did not know if this
season would murk his last as a player.
Ryan made his first visit to the majors in
1966. 1
"I prepare each season as if it is my
last" he sajd.
Part of the decision to retire or not to
retire might hinge on how his back holds
up froqi another six month 162-gam sea-
son. '
"Jt hasn't been a problem so fur" Ryan
cease-fire.
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev sug-
gested that superpower relations could suf-
fer unless "a great sense of responsibili-
ty" guided U.S. efforts to end the war.
Even as Saddam spoke allied troops in
the third day of a huge ground offensive
were surging north into Iraq.
U.S military officials in the Saudi capi-
tal Riyadh said Iraqi forces in Kuwait
were fleeing under fire.
"There arc signs of Iraqi retreat as a
result of pressure from coalition attacks"
said a senior military official speaking on
condition of anonymity. "This is to pre-
vent annihilation."
A .senior Pentagon official said coalition
forces had engaged key units of the
Republican Guard and were blocking
their attempt to retreat toward Baghdad.
The official Said allied troops had
ranged as far north as the Euphrates River
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said. "I've been throwing every other day
and I've been real pleased with the
progrpss up to today. The real test will
come when I sjart to throw off a mound"
However If 45-year-old Jim Palmer's
comeback bid js successful Ryan will no
longer be the?o!cJcst pliyfr.'fn the major
leagues. ' '
"if Jim makes it that takes the pressure
off me" he said with a laugh.
One arena Ryan said he is considering
entering is ownership.
Humors have circulated that he is a can-
didate to buy the Houston Astros which is
presently for sale
"I'm basically always interested in the
Astros I grew up following them" he
said. "But jright now I don't have any
plans. If 1 have any interest it's part of my
long-range plans."
As for the long-range plans of the ACU
team' Ryan said lie thinks the program can
avoid the problems that led to baseball
being stopped on the Hill in 1979.
"You have to feel real good" he said
"What's proven here is that if there is
enough interest in the program and people
are willing to make the commitment it can
work."
to cut off the Guard's "fighting withdraw-
al." "They're riot fighting real well by our
standards but they are fighting" the offi-
cial said of Iraq's best troops.
"We're outflanking them we're Outma;
neuvcring them and destroying them in
place" said Marine Brig. Gen. Richard
Ncal at an early evening briefing.
"Let there be no mistake the war is not
over" said the general the chief of staff
for the U.S. Centra! Command.
The allied forces are attacking the Iraqis
in two main thrusts a task force of
100000 troops that has pushed into Iraq
outflanking the entrenched Guard; and a
second drive through Kuwait to the capi-
tal. Ncal said allied forces have destroyed or
rendered ineffective 21 Iraqi divisions
Some 200000 men.
At the war's start Iraq had an estimated
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Nolan Ryan all-star pitcher for tho Texas Rangers answers a question
at a news conference In the Vanderpool Building Thursday Ho was In
Abilene for a dinner to benefit the Nolan Ryan Fund for Baseball at ACU.
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545000 soldiers in Iraq itnd southern
Kuwait.
He said coalition forces had destroyed
more than 400 Iraqi tanks up from the
270 reported Monday
Britain's 1st Armored Division engaged
a large Iraqi force early tins' morning and
demolished 40 tanks he said
Iran's Islamic Republic Ncws Agency
reported that Irag had suffered the heaviest
bombardment of the war vith allied
overnight bombing concentrated along
Iraq's southern southeastern and eastern
regions.
Meanwhile the toll from Monday's
Scud missile attack on a makeshift bar-"
racks in Saudi Arabia climbed to 28 US
troops killed 100 injured. f j
Otherwise Ncal said the number of-
other American casualties in the third day
of the ground offensive remained at fowv
dead 21 wounded. .2
Price plan j
to limit i
tuition rise
By Curtk R. Glenn
Optimist Staff .:
A new plan designed to predict tuition
costs will become effective in the 1991-921
school ycar said Dr. William J. Tcague;
president of the university. J
The guaranteed Price Plan is designed
to keep fuiliofi Tiicresscs below percent
per year he said. Increases presently run 6
-8 percent over a four year period.
Under the plan tuition Xvill increase 7
percent between the freshman and sophor
more years he said. For the junior year
the tuition will return to the freshman
level and a student will receive a $200'
bonus for each semester he is enrolled in
that year. The senior year price will
remain at the freshman level.
Only 500 students will be allowed to'
take part in the plan and -will be accepted
only on a first-come first-served basis
Tcague said. Students who sign up must
live in dormitories and have the minimum
meal plan he said.
The plan is opened to students currently
enrolled with Unclaimed spaces going' to
new students enrolling in the fall of 1991.
The rates for current students will .be
based on 1990-91 tuition costs.
Tcague said the plan was "a response to
a legitimate ... need" of many students.
Some risk for the university is involved
in this plan he said. "If you diminish your
income from student charges by guaran-
teeing a lower cost that money has to be.
made Up somewhere else" he said.
"It is our belief that when the gift-giving
public sees what we're trying to do for the
students and sees that it Works they will
step in and ... make up for whatever losses
are incurred" Tcague said.
Bill Fowler assistant vice president for
finance may be contacted at Ext. 2390 for
more information about the plan.
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