Tuesday, January 26, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Teach-in will aim to open eyes,minds about Middle East
By Chris Hopkins
Students will be able to ask questions about U.S. relations with Iraq at a "teach-in" tonight at Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
Kansan staff writer
A teach-in is a discussion in which presenters give a quick background to a problem and then take questions from the audience. The questions give students of all opinions a chance to talk and guide the course the discussion takes.
This teach-in will begin at 7:30 tonight at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave. All opinions are welcome, and the subjects covered will include background to the current situation, how it affects people at the University of Kansas and how KU students can affect it.
The event is sponsored by Oread Friends, Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, Peace Mennonite Church and ECM. It will be led by Deborah Gerner, associate professor of political science, and Philip Schrodt, professor of political science.
Gerner returned recently from field research in the Palestinian West Bank.
"I was interviewing political elites, activists, academics," Gerner said.
Gerner has made more than a dozen trips to the Middle East. She has visited Oman, Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait and Palestine. She plans to travel to Yemen this summer, she said, even though recent kidnappings there worried her.
Gerner's specialities are Middle East politics and U.S. foreign policy.
Philip Shrodt's specialities include international conflict and U.S. defense policy.
He is currently taking a semester off to continue work on a 10-yearlong project for the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. The project is intended to help the chiefs predict, identify, and manage crises in the Middle East as they occur.
Gerner and Schrodt both saw problems with current U.S. policy toward Iraq.
"The U.S. policy is not accomplishing what its ostensible goals are," Gerner said.
She pointed to Saddam Hussein's firm grip on power despite attempts to oust him.
Schrodt said that confusion seemed to be the common element in U.S.-Iraq relations.
"I get the decided sense that neither side knows what they're doing."
Both felt that the sanctions should be lifted because they were doing so much damage to the Iraqi people while barely affecting Hussein at all.
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Nofai Ahmed Alabudalauli, O'Fallon, ill., junior, who was born in Pakistan, placed the blame squarely on Hussein.
"Speaking for Muslims, I think that it's bad that so many innocent people are dying because of one crazy guy." Abdulablaali said.
Rod Stafford, pastor for the Peace Mennonite Church, said that he wanted to sponsor the event to make people look more carefully at U.S. policy.
"I saw an estimate that 1,000,000 Iraqis have died since the war ended because of the sanctions. More than half of them were children under the age of 5. I think that should raise some questions." Staffaid said.
Alabdulaali said that the teach-in format would probably help open eyes.
"It probably gives people with narrow points of view a better perspective on what's going on," he said.
U. S. military aircraft attacked five positions in Iraq yesterday after they encountered radar and anti-aircraft fire. U.S. officials said.
iraiq officials and media and some Western media members said that when the U.S. fired on two targets in Basra, a city in the southern no-fly zone, several civilian casualties occurred.
The Iraqi News Agency said that the number of deaths were in the dozens and that the dead were mostly women and children, while the Cable News Network said the number of dead was 11.
- The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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