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U.S. Navy responds to Chinese operations HOME OF THE MEGA DEAL 1 *56 6. 13h* 343-3030 mw HOPPING PIZZA ^»SVODN°™e# ““•“tiSsCto- ■** TOPICS • Navigating Your Way to a Healthy Relationship • SaferSex What's Practical. What's Not • Personal Stories from People With AIDS * Grief and Loss Conference fee $50 00 • Saturday Mich provided ■» mmmmmm mmmm mm mm mm mmmmmmmmmm m mmmmmm Sparmamt Oy tscrvma r&m-'frtona at .South Hmtm * Omgan amt u at O Stuttmt Mmxmsmvtcm for your BOOKS! Well pay you 60% of the new, student price for books we need for spring term 96! Wain Store March If - 23 Regular Store Hours * Emu Lobby March 18 - 77 8:30a-S:30p Fri 8:30a-4;30p FREE JOLLY RANCHER CANDY! You can win $20 Cash (Donated by Mitvcuft Book*) If you’re selling books where the alarm clock rings. Calculator Buyback* ^ ftous Instkumlmts Models TI-81.TI-82, 8TI-85 ONLY! UNIVERSITY or onto on Computerized Scanning! XzlcvUa Buyfcock <s Uptun wtk t>* Book Bwjfbock CAMP UQ8UNE. N.C CAP) - ' lima * nomple* military itumm v*r* ant essentially a dry run for an operation to gain control of th# air and seas around Taiwan, th* lop U S military offir er said Tuesday. (km John Shaltkashvili alto said a possibility mists that mi* calculation by either side could load to actual conflict But Shalikashvtli. chairman of th* Knot Chief* of Staff, told Th# Associated Pr*** th# Chin#*# operation, which began last week with missile t**t firing*, wa* "most probably designed to he |u»t an ««nn# ” Hour* tat«r. a U S guided mi* sil# cruiser. ih* t?SS Bunker Hill, steaming south of Taiwan, mon tinted another Chinese missile test into a landing zone south* *«i of Taiwan The Bring of the unarmed M o medium range mis sile broke a four-day hiatus of mtssil* launchings Last Friday, the Chinese military launched throe M M in test Bring* Those missile* also carried no war heads At the White House, spokesmen femes Fettig celled the latest missile test ' reckless" ami "provocative " He Mid Chi na's government ha* told the Untied States it intends to fire several additional missiles dur tog the course of the exercise. "We expert them to continue through the Taiwanese elec.lions cm March 21. Fettig said He* xaid President Clinton had been informed of the new lest while ale card Aif Force One en route to the Middle Fast for a summit meeting cm terrorism Dressed in camouflage battle fatigues .HhaUkathviii reviewed military exercises by Marines at Camp l.ejeune on Tuesday as China's military launched war games off Taiwan's coast, and the island's government threatened to destroy any attac kers Shaltkashvili said the Chinese are demonstrating the versatility of their military by combining air. *m and amphibious movements Tt's a* uanpiex or ime* complex than any they had done before," be Mid He Mid they set demnastral in* how they would "go through the ti«|M of gaining air super* ority and control of the seas .** As the Chines* eswrlse* p»< it up steam, the Pentagon is mount ing an unmistakable show of tort* hr adding a second ain rah carrier last I* group to one aJrnariv deployed off the coast cd Taiwan Those are very important sig nal* to the (Chinese that we hope the situation will return bark to normal very scam,” Khaltkashviit said The Chinese have told U S official* that the United State* tow nothing to fear from the mew rises A State Department spokesman (ragged to differ "You know we re concerned, on one level — call it the macro level — about the fact that these evert lies are meant tor political purpnsea. to intimidate Taiwan." the State Department's Glyn Davie* said "Ton know, I mean, ordnance tan go astray There's shipping in that area, very important com martial shipping. There are 21 million people on the island of Taiwan We're very concerned, obviously, that there be no acci dents,” {levies said U.S. officials were trying to set up a meeting soon between Secretary of State War ren Christopher and China's for eign minister. Qian Qkhen At the Pentagon, Navy Cap I Michael Douliieday described what be called a "carefully orchestrated" shifting of Navy •hips in order to strengthen the U S military presence near Tat wan. The nuclear powered carrier USS Nimitx and Us accompany mg battle group will cross the Indian Ocean and join the carri m USS Independent »> and its bat tle group off Taiwan by nest week Nimil* has btiwn on patrol in the Persian Gulf It* move toward Taiwan will begin only after another carrier, the USS George Washington, move* from the Mediterranean See through the Sue* Canal and into the U S. Central (command's area of operation*, the Persian Gulf region. TONIGHT jDials wntj Andrew Bees OOOdtMttt, tNowniiii FBI , MAR 15 tum LYDIA PENCE A COLD BLOOD With Tb, Rrv*Uto« IMGMV * M MU SAT., MAR 16 UHM BODY & SOIL * a m -
