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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 18. 1992
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Moscow
Saddam Hussein's youngest son is taking an increasingly important role in Iraq as his father tightens his protective shield, said Khalid and knowledgeable travelers from Iraq.
Ousal Hussein, 26, never has held an official position in the Baghdad hierarchy or authority.
An attempt by Hasidic Jews to reclaim 12,000 sacred books from Russia's largest library erupted into a brawl inside the building. One police officer was treated for a bloody nose.
Brawl erupts in Russian library
Now Qusai heads the Special Security Apparatus, the nerve center of Saddam's pervasive internal security network, said the sources, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity.
What happened to MIAs?
From The Associated Press
About 55 members of Moscow's Jewish community arrived at the Russian State Library, formerly the Lenin Library, with an order from the Russian government for the books' release. But the Hasidim were unaware the order was no longer valid.
Saddam tightens inner circle
Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cumin of Los Angeles, who has been in Russia for 16 months trying to reclaim the books, said fighting broke out when a library official ordered the Jews to leave and called on police to force them out.
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Some U.S. deserters, POWs may have gone to USSR
Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs said they were surprised by the openness of Russian officials.
"The level of cooperation and seriousness on pose with which every agency has received us and addressed this issue is very impressive," Kerry said.
Russian officials had never before acknowledged the possibility that American POWs or MIAs from Vietnam were brought to the Soviet Union.
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Two U.S. senators said yesterday that the Russian government had acknowledged that U.S. deserters and possibly prisoners of war were brought to the Soviet Union after the Vietnam War, but there is no evidence that any are still in Russia.
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Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Robert Smith, R.N.H., also said Russian officials agreed to open archives and share information on the fate of some of the 2,273 Americans missing in action in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
In a news conference at the conclusion of a four-day visit to Moscow, the leaders of the Senate's
"We were specifically told, for instance, that a number of deserters from Vietnam were contacted in Japan and came through the Soviet Union, spent time here, but ultimately departed," Kerry said.
"In fact, we were told that they tried to turn them and make them into agents. They were unsuccessful," Kerry said.
A senior U.S. official said Baker had made clear to Yeltsin the importance of Russia repaying the loans that the United States guaranteed for the grain sales. He said Russia had kept up its payments in accordance with the provisions of U.S. law.
and facilities to help Russia store and destroy its nuclear weapons.
Yeltsin asks for additional $600 million
The guarantees request caught Baker by surprise, U.S. officials said, but he promised to take it to Washington for consideration.
The United States already has provided $3.75 billion in grain credits, of which $3.1 billion have been used, U.S. officials said. The remaining $675 million will be used by April 1, Yeltsin said. The additional guarantee will be used in the second quarter of 1992, he added.
Yeltsin also said he hoped to be able to announce at a July summit in Washington an agreement on further reductions in both sides' long-range nuclear arsenals. It was the first time July has been mentioned as the summit date, and U.S. officials insisted that a date has yet to be set.
The Associated Press
Yeltsin's appeal came as Baker promised $25 million from the United States for a center to help former Soviet nuclear scientists. Baker also said the United States would provide an array of equipment
MOSCOW — Russian President Boris Yeltsin yesterday asked Secretary of State James Baker for an additional $600 million in credit guarantees so his country can buy U.S. grain to feed its people.
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