University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 16, 1992
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U.N. weapons inspectors prepare for Iraqi mission
The Associated Press
MANAMAH, Bahrain — A British ballistics expert said yesterday that his U.N. inspection team was ready to go to Baghdad while the Iraqis and Security Council worked out plans to destroy missile production equipment.
Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy premier, has been in New York trying to persuade the United Nations to allow the Iraqi government to convert missile-producing equipment to peaceful uses rather than destroy it. The Security Council has so far refused his appeals.
The ballistics expert, Derek Booth, said there was neither negotiation nor compromise involved. The council and his 35-member team were simply waiting to hear from Iraq on the
method of the destruction, he said.
No date is set for the team's departure for Baghdad.
"This mission may as well initiate the destruction process of ballistic missile production and repair facilities. This is tied up with the proposals the Iraqi themselves are to submit to New York," Boothby said. "We will await instructions from New York on this matter."
Another U.N. team left Iraq in February after the Iraqis prevented it from destroying the equipment.
The Security Council has warned Iraq of serious consequences if it does not comply. The United States and Iran have threatened new military strikes.
news agency Petra, Aziz arrived in Jordan last night on the way to Baghdad. Part of his delegation remained in New York as a conduit between Baghdad and the United Nations on the demands of the U.N. Special Commission.
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS
The commission is charged under gulf war cease-fire terms with eliminating Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Like nearly 35 U.N. teams of weapons inspectors that have gone to Iraq since the commission started in May, Boothby's team must also search for weapons the Iraqis may be hiding. Other teams hunt down chemical weapons and production sites and investigate biological and nuclear weapons research programs.
Tensions mount over weapons sales
Jerusalem
Officials said yesterday that leaks in Washington alleging improper Israeli sales of advanced U.S. weapon technology were part of a campaign to harm Israel's image and its relations with the United States.
Foreign Minister David Levy sought to soothe tensions with Israel's most important ally. But other officials warned of a profound change developing in the United States' attitude toward Israel, and Israeli radio said the Jewish state would look elsewhere, primarily to France, for weapons components.
Although strenuouseny denying allegations that Israel sold key weapons technology to China and other nations, most Israeli officials were careful not to cast blame for the leaks behind last week's news stories.
But Health Minister Ehud Olmert said he was sure such things were not raised without the will of a senior figure in the Bush administration.
Tensions have been rising between the two nations over the U.S. demand that Shamar's government stop building Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Israel has refused to halt settlements as a condition for getting $10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to help settle Russian immigrants.
Nairobi, Kenya
Two killed yesterday in ethnic clashes
Ethnic clashes in western Kenya erupted for the second day in a row yesterday. Two people were killed, at least 132 others were injured and hundreds were forced to flee their homes, the Daily Nation newspaper reported.
Saturday, hundreds of members of the Kalenjin ethnic group attacked ethnic Luo workers and students at two plantations and a Catholic school in the town of Kericho, the newspaper reported.
The attacks continued yesterday, with the Kalenjin burning homes, spearing and clubbing the Luo and ordering them to leave the district.
It was not clear what set off the attack. Members of President Daniel arap Moi's ruling Kenya African National Union have threatened to evict opposition supporters from the area.
Omi is a member of the Kalenji group, and Ogina healing head is against the opposition party Forum for the Bishkek or Dawa of Devas.
Clashes between the two ethnic groups broke out in the region March 5. Eleven people have been killed since then, according to the Daily Nation.
Kericho is about 124 miles west of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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