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Iraq recognizes Kuwait's independence
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Yesterday Iraq abandoned the territorial claims to Kuwait that provoked the Persian Gulf War three years ago, hoping the move would bring an end to trade sanctions that have strangled its economy.
The Associated Press
The White House welcomed the announcement as a promising first step but said it wasn't enough to earn Washington's support for lifting sanctions, imposed by the United Nations to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait.
Iraq's National Assembly voted to recognize "the sovereignty of the state of Kuwait, its territorial integrity and independence," the official Iraqi News Agency reported.
Saddam Hussein's ruling Revolutionary Command Council later endorsed the legislation, according to a dispatch by the agency, monitored in Cyprus.
There was no official reaction from Kuwait, but some Kuwaitis were wary. Distrust of Iraq, deep since the August 1990 invasion, intensified last month when Baghdad sent thousands of soldiers to the emirate's
"We don't trust the Iraq regime whatever it tries to pull, and its recognition is good for nothing," said Nouria al-Saddani, a publisher in Kuwait.
The emirate was part of Iraq under the Ottoman Empire, which collapsed at the end of World War I. The British, who took over that region, gave Kuwait independence in 1961, and the border had been in dispute since.
The Revolutionary Command Council said Iraq's move was designed "to stress its resolve to
border.
The statement, signed by Saddam, said the decision was effective immediately, the news agency reported.
comply with all relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions, prove its peaceful intentions and dedication to regional stability and security."
If Kuwaiti recognition is "true in practice as well as in words, that's positive," White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said. "But there are a number of other elements to the U.N. resolutions that Iraq must adhere to before we can even discuss lifting the sanctions."
Serbs, Muslims battle behind wall
War in apartment parallels conflict
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Some days they sing together, Serbs on one side, Muslims on the other, their voices easily penetrating the thin concrete wall separating them. As night falls, they try to kill each other.
Only the wall separates Serb and Muslim fighters at the bombed-out building at 9a Beogradska street in Grbavica, a Sarajevo neighborhood mostly held by Serbs. It's the war's thinnest front line.
Locals call it "The Red Madhouse" — red because of its brick facade. Madhouse because of the bizarre situation both sides face: No one dares to blast out the enemy since he would destroy himself.
"The Muslims sneaked on us in January and managed to move into the adjacent apartment," said Serb fighter Nebosja Dodik. "Now we're both stuck.
"This may be the quintessence of the Bosnian war. We're so close, but yet so far."
That was before ethnic hatreds erupted 31 months ago, stoked by radical leaders of all three groups.
Like others in Sarajevo and most of Bosnia, the sprawling apartment house used to be home to Serbs, Croats and Muslims, who shared a language and common Bosnian roots that went back centuries. Many intermarried, melding their identities even more closely.
The closeness remains for those who seek it, but the mirid of wrongs committed since also make it easy to deny. More than 200,000 people are presumed dead or missing in the war.
The three Serb fighters manning the apartment front line, or "the joint" as they call it, wear long beards, drink brandy, listen to Serb nationalist songs and read books when they are bored.
A caricature showing Bosnian Muslim President Alia Jezbegovic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjiman carving up Bosnia adorned a blackened wall of the Serb-built apartment. The fighters sat in antique armchairs, their muddy foots covered on stylized tables.
Sounds of a Muslim tune wafted over from the other side of the wall yesterday.
Both the Muslims and Serbs have mounted big bathroom mirrors on the balconies of the two apartments in attempts to catch glimpses of each other.
Adding to the bizarre scene, a soldier noodled on the keys of the grand piano dominating the main room — a poignant reminder of a more peaceful past.
"We often talk to our next-door neighbors," said Milan Kneevic, a huge bearded figure. "Mostly we curse each other, but sometimes we talk politics. We never agree, of course."
As if to underline his comments, one of the Serbs shouted, "Hey you dirty Muslims, how are things?" The reply came instantly: "Cool, you bloody Serbs."
Serb leader wants increased power
Knezevic laughed. "When we get
PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic demanded greatly expanded powers yesterday to wage war against government forces and their Croat allies.
The Associated Press
But Bosnian Serb politicians appeared fearful of granting too much authority to Karadzic.
Meanwhile, the U.N. command accused the Muslim-led government of firing on its own territory Tuesday in the Bosniian capital of Sarajevo, apparently to provoke a NATO air strike against the Bosnian Serbs. One person was wounded by one of two shells. There was no immediate government comment.
The Bosnian Serb assembly reconvened yesterday morning at their stronghold of Pale to debate declaring a formal state of war against the Muslim-led government forces and allied Bosnian Croats.
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drunk, we sing common tunes," he said. "In harmony, I guess."
But at night, the real war starts.
The Serbs said the Muslims have tried to flush them out with hand grenades, but because no one dares to lean out of the windows or balconies, they generally explode in a yard in front of the four-story building.
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Two Haitian employees of the U.S. Embassy were shot and killed during a robbery yesterday, and a third employee was critically wounded, U.S. authorities said.
The employees were shot after picking up 110 paypackets for embassy staff from a bank in the capital, said embassy representative Stanley Schriger. An undetermined amount of money was stolen.
A Haitian witness heard the gunfire and called a nearby hospital, which sent workers to recover the victims. Military police rushed to the scene to investigate, an embassy statement said.
"All indications are that this was a criminal act, an armed robbery with no political motivation whatsoever," the statement said.
Stain were Kesnel Jean-Paul and Sandra Rigaud, both in their mid-20s. U.S. and Haitian authorities were searching for a suspect, the embassy said.
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide conveyed to U.S. Ambassador William Swing his shock and grief and also has sent his condolences to the families of the victims, said Aristide representative Yvon Neptune.
Lamarine Guerrier, an embassy driver, was to be airlifted to the United States for treatment, said Lt. Jeff Gordon, a representative for the U.S. military.
"We're in a country that's trying to get back on track. Security hasn't been completely re-established, whether in Port-au-Prince or other parts of the country," Neptune said.
Jordan's king makes premier visit to Israel
ZEMACH, Israel — Shaking hands with well-wishers and kissing a baby, Jordan's King Hussein put a warm human face on his peace treaty with Israel yesterday, becoming only the second Arab leader to publicly visit the Jewish state.
Hussein arrived in northern Israel by helicopter and spent nearly three hours talking with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He promised he would visit Jerusalem soon but gave no date.
Although the peace treaty preserved the Jordanian king's nominal control over Muslim holy sites in east Jerusalem, the Palestinians, who see east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, want that role for themselves. A visit by Hussein to Jerusalem could provoke violence.
The lking took a 10-minute stroll from the helicopter pad to the nearby Bei Gavriel cultural center on the shores of the Sea of Gallilee, where the Bible says Jesus walked on the water.
The Associated Press
He shook hands with an Israeli army officer and students in a crowd of several hundred that gathered to see him. He also stopped to kiss a baby girl.
It was Hussein's first public visit to a country he has often visited secretly. He is the only Arab leader besides the late Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, to openly visit the Jewish state. Sadat was assassinated on Oct. 6, 1981, by Islamic militants opposed to peace with Israel.
Hussein said the Israeli and Jordanian people were on the threshold of a peace, which he hopes generations to come will cherish, protect and enjoy. He called the treaty an honorable and peace.
The treaty was signed Oct. 26 in the presence of President Clinton at the Arraba crossing in southern Israel. Hussein stayed on his side of the border and did not enter Israel during that ceremony.
Speaking only a few miles from the Golan Heights that Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war, Rabin said he hoped the agreement would give momentum to talks with Syria and Lebanon.
Germany bans neo-Nazi organization
The Associated Press
BONN, Germany — In the sharpest blow against the fascist movement in months, the government outlawed a paramilitary neo-Nazi organization yesterday and police seized knives, propaganda and bank accounts in nationwide raids.
No arrests were reported.
The group, Viking Youth, is the fourth fascist organization banned by the federal government in two years.
No arrests were reported. Federal Interior Minister Manfred Kanter said yesterday that Viking
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Youth wants to restore a fascist state in which Jews would be forced to wear yellow stars, and people the extremists considered "inferior beings" would be sterilized.
Led by 30-year-old Wolfram Nahrath, called the "federal fuehrer," the Viking Youth has about 400 members, federal authorities said.
According to the Interior Ministry, group members idolize Adolf Hitler and see themselves as successors of the Hitler Youth, a Naziera youth organization.
The Associated Press
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Police arrested two Irish Republican Army suspects yesterday after gunmen killed a postman in a botched robbery, sending shock waves through Northern Ireland's fragile peace process.
The killing was the first in the British-ruled province to be linked to the IRA since it announced a ceasefire in September, but the group denied breaking its pledge.
Ireland's justice minister, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, immediately rescinded plans to release jail IRA prisoners early. The first two
inmates would have been released Friday.
"The early releases were based on the premise that we had a cease-fire from the Provisional IRA," Geoghegan-Quinn said.
In a statement to Belfast media, the IRA said its Sept. 1 cease-fire meant a complete cessation of military operations.
But the killing of Frank Kerr, a 54-year-old Catholic, confirmed to both the British and Irish governments that the IRA-Sinn Fein movement could not control all its activists.
involved in the attack at the post office in Newry, 30 miles south of Belfast near the Irish border.
Since the IRA leadership declared an end to its 24-year campaign against British rule, politicians have dreaded but expected the first clear-cut violation.
IRA units have continued to beat criminals in Catholic areas they control, while other units have kept up fund raising through a range of illegal rackets.
Before the truce, the IRA had robbed so many post offices, the distribution point for welfare payments, that some country offices were closed.
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