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Wednesday, June 30, 1993
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U.S. plane bombs Iraqi radar
Administration says Iraq involved in plot
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration said yesterday there was no doubt Saddam Hussein personally approved an alleged Iraqi plot against former President Bush. Tensions with Iraq flared anew in a confrontation between a U.S. warplane and an Iraqi antiaircraft battery.
President Clinton said it was "very difficult to conceive" of improved relations with Baghdad in light of "the stubborn refusal of Iraq to comply with United Nations resolutions."
The U.N. measures require Saddam to dismantle his weapons of mass destruction and open his military facilities to inspection.
The president spoke at a news conference with Argentine President Carlos Menem shortly after the Pentagon disclosed that a U.S. jet fired a missile at an Iraqi anti-aircraft
artillery site. The Pentagon said the Iraqis had targeted their radar on the U.S. plane, a possible prelude to firing.
The president said standard rules of engagement authorize U.S. pilots in the region to fire at radar sites if the planes are targeted.
Clinton said there have been similar occurrences in the past. "I wouldn't read too much into it," he said.
Questions about Iraq dominated Clinton's news conference three days after U.S. warships fired cruise missiles at Saddam Hussein's intelligence headquarters in retaliation for the alleged assassination plot against Bush.
The White House heightened security precautions in light of the tensions.
"I think routinely at a moment like this there are additional procedures." National Security Adviser Anthony Lake said.
While strongly hinting that he believed Hussein to be responsible for the alleged assassination plot, Clinton refused to directly accuse the
Iraqi leader.
He said that intelligence experts "have no experience of such an operation of that magnitude being authorized other than at the highest levels." The State Department was more explicit.
"Our feeling is the Iraqi intelligence services and the Iraqi government are so centralized and so tightly controlled that it is inconceivable that any large-scale operation like an assassination attempt against a former president of the United States could be conceived without it being known and approved by Saddam Hussein," said spokesman Mike McCurry.
McCurry said that his charge was based not on direct evidence but with the understanding of how decisions are made in the close confines of the Iraq government.
Clinton said the United States decided not to hit Saddam's headquarters.
The strike at 2 a.m. Baghdad time was timed to minimize casualties but also to make a strong point, Clinton said.
Local programs needed to stop AIDS
New AIDS advisor stresses education and advice for teens
The Associated Press
President Clinton's new AIDS advisor said sexually active teen-agers should use condoms to avoid getting the disease, but local communities must decide how to distribute them and counsel youth.
Kristine Gibbie, a former health official in Oregon and Washington, said it is up to local school boards and communities to set up appropriate ways to provide health information and condoms to teen-agers.
Gebbie told Fox TV that "anybody who is sexually active should have ready access to means of protection, which includes condoms."
Gebbie also endorsed needle exchange programs as a way to stop the spread of AIDS infection among addicts who infect illegal drugs.
On Monday night Gebbie said, "Needle exchange programs need to be a part of a comprehensive community effort; they need to be tied in with other referral programs."
During an appearance on PBS's "MacNeil-Lehr NewsHour," Gebbie said needle exchange should be coupled with counseling, with referral to treatment and with an aggressive prevention program.
Both condoms for teen-agers and needle exchanges for drug users have proven to be two of the most controversial issues in the debate over how to stop the spread of AIDS.
"I would recommend that comprehensive health education and comprehensive health services need to be available for every kid in this country," she said on NBC. "AIDS education and access to services related to AIDS have to be part of that comprehensive program, or they really are not as effective as they should be."
Gebbie said that most teens are able to get condoms, so who should hand them out is not at the heart of the dialogue by local officials.
More importantly, communities should provide education, counseling and medical services for young people, she said.
"The question of adolescents who are sexually active is a very tricky one." Gebbie said. "Many adults in this country don't like to have to admit that teens are having sex — lots."
Every community has to deal with how to give young people the right information, stress the importance of abstinence and urge protection for the sexually active, she said.
Bosnian plan would make three states
The Associated Press
Under mounting pressure as battles raged in the north, Bosnia's governing council in a show of unity Tuesday made plans to carve the country into three ethnic states.
Meeting in the besieged capital, Sarajevo, the 10 members of Bosnia's collective presidency took no stand on a Serb-Croat proposal to partition the country. But they decided to put aside a dispute with President Alja Izbetebovic, who bitterly opposes the scheme, and forge a united response.
"This is the first time where everyone is present, and all of them have the same attitude," said presidency member Mile Akmadzian, a Bosnian Croat.
Izetbegovic, a Muslim, heads the presidency made up of Muslims, Croats and Serbs. Until the partition plan was proposed, his positions during the 15-month Bosnian war had gone largely unchallenged by other members of the governing council.
But with 138,000 people killed or missing and Serbs in control of 70 percent of the country, most members of the presidency have joined negotiations on a proposal likely to squeeze Muslims between Croats and Serbs in a small landlocked pocket.
Only Izetbegovic and two allies in the presidency did not attend talks in Geneva on the partition plan.
At the United Nations, meanwhile, Muslim and nonaligned nations pressed for a vote Tuesday to modify the arms embargo in Bosnia.
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