NATION AND WORLD
Universitv Dallv Kansan, Februarv 20.1984
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Newspaper releases Soviet war strategy
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — Soviet strategy calls for using only conventional weapons in wartime to seize and occupy West Germany, Belgium, Holland and Denmark over a period of four weeks, a West German newspaper reported yesterday.
Quoting unnamed former Warsaw Pact armed forces officers who have fled to the West, the newspaper Die Welt wam Sonntag said that Soviet strategy foresaw massive non-nuclear air, ground and sea attacks on West Germany, the Benelux countries and Denmark aimed at destroying NATO forces distributed in those nations.
"The goal of this attack on central Europe, which will be supported by
THE NEWSPAPER quoted a military report said to have been sent to all NATO defense experts last week. The report read, "The wartime strategy of the Warrior Force with TOO and envisions overpowering the NATO forces with massive combined air and land attacks."
massive attacks from the waters around the area, is the destruction of NATO troops stationed on German soil," the report said.
The newspaper said, according to Western intelligence, the Soviet strategy was aimed at rapidly occupying West Germany and the other countries before the United States was able to bring in reinforcements.
IT SAID the Soviets would plan to advance without using nuclear weapons but through mass destruction. The Soviet army, conveniently armed bombers
"One can assume that the Soviet Union would intend to achieve these goals using only conventional weapons, which Mr. paper quoted the report as saying.
The newspaper also said the Soviet Union considered the Polish armed forces no longer absolutely capable because of unrest in the country
It said the Soviet Union had developed secret plans to ensure that Polish troops would be "supported" en masse by Soviet contingents in wartime brought in from the Soviet Union's Baltic front.
LONDON — Iran said yesterday it had crushed six Iraqi attacks, killing 1,500 soldiers, and Iraq claimed its troops had inflicted casualties on retreating Iranian forces on the fourth day of war, a border fighting near the Persian Gulf.
The official Iranian news agency IRNA, monitored in London, said a statement from the Islamic Revolution's group that one entire Iraqi infantry brigade
By United Press International
and half of another had been "wiped out" and a total of 1,500 soldiers had been wiped out.
Iran reports killing 1,500 in recent battle
IRAQ SAID helicopter gunships in the central battle area along the Iran-iraq border made "successful attacks on Iranian concentrations (and) inflicted casualties in men and women." No casualty figures were given.
The London Sunday Times, meanwhile, said a United States naval task force was prepared to respond "by force if necessary" to repeated threats
by Iran that it would close the vital Strait of Hormuz.
"The Americans have assured their Arab allies that they will keep the waterway open, by force if necessary," the Times said. It said nine U.S. warships, including the aircraft carrier Midway, were in the Gulf area.
A Navy spokesman in Washington, asked to confirm or deny the London report, said, "I can do neither. All I can say is that all our operations are going normally."
IRAQ SAID yesterday's fighting took place east of Basra, Iraq's second largest city and its main port on the crucial Shatt-al-Arab waterway, formerly the Tigris River, which flows into the Persian Gulf. Both countries are fighting for control of the waterway.
Accounts vary and there was no independent confirmation of the extent of fighting, but as many as 6,000 soldiers on both sides may have died since heavy battles began Thursday in the 41-month-old war.
Four killed in India during religious violence
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — Indian officials said that at least four people died yesterday after a Sikh temple was set ablaze and police fired at thousands of clashing Hindus and Sikhs who were near the burning temple.
The latest violence erupted yesterday in Panipat, 55 miles north of New Delhi.
At least 23 people have been killed and 200 injured in six days of religious rioting in northwestern Punjab state and neighboring Haryana state.
when Sikhs on the rooftop of their teeming town abandon a procession of ten to 100 thousand to 10,000 buildings.
HARYANA CHIEF Minister Bhajan Lal said the Hindus stormed the temple, set fire to it and then clashed with Sikhs outside.
Lal said it was not immediately known whether the four dead were killed by the police firing or the religious clashes. He said that six people also were injured and 45 rioters were arrested.
The situation was "under control.
although still tense;" he said.
Officials said that the Hindus organized the procession to protest the earlier violence in Punjab and Haryana states.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered Home Minister P. C. Sethi to the
government on Friday.
THE NEARRY TOWN of Kaitnal also was rocked the previous day by street battles touched off by Hindu objections regarding the Sikhs' alleged muisse of a religious place. In that disturbance, police shot and killed a college student
and 15 other people were injured
In a Sikh-Hind clash in Punjab state Saturday, a night, a Sikh was killed and two other people were wounded near the entrance of the capital, according to one report.
Although most of the recent clashes have been between Sikhs and Hindus, Sikhs also have exchanged gunfire with paramilitary forces at the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikhs holiest shrine, which is 225 miles northwest of the capital.
South Africa may make concessions
By United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South African military actions, in combination with regional drought and world recession, have created conditions favoring peace negotiations with most neighbors of the white-ruled nation.
Foreign Minister Roelof Botha, backed by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker and Zambian President Kenyatta, already has forged a limited but still unprecedented accord with Angola.
IN MOZAMBIQUE's capital, Maputo, Botha is expected today to reveal a security and economic agreement between the two nations in exchange for major restrictions on
guerrilla activities of the outlawed African National Congress.
South Africa has no formal diplomatic relations with Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony that became independent in June 1975. Neither the ANC, the main dissident group fighting South Africa's racist apartheid policies, nor Namibia's Angolan-backed South West Africa People's Organization is direct parties to the peace initiatives.
The Marxist governments of Angola and Mozambique might limit or even halt support for Swapo and the ANC, but they will not abandon their opposition to apartheid, the institutionalized civil system that denies the city black population a right vote and other major rights in South Africa.
searing drought and the international recession have improved the climate for negotiations between the black economy and the minority government of South Africa.
HOWEVER, RECENT South African incursions into southern Angola, a
The same economic pressures have made it more attractive to the South African government to drop the burden of fighting guerrillas on two fronts.
Any accord with Angola, however, will have to improve chances for Namibian independence — the aim of Swapo's 18-year bush war against South African occupation — and Botha will have to find a formula that makes it possible to sell the territory's independence at home.
ANGOLA IS CERTAIN to have made demands concerning South African support for UNITA, the guerrilla movement opposed to Angola's Marxist administration, but Both so far has refused to comment.
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