NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 17, 1984
Page 10
Iran and Iraq trade claims about battles
By United Press International
LONDON — Iran said yesterday that its Islamic troops crossed Iraq minefields to capture key territory in ground battles involving tanks, artillery and helicopter gunships. More than 1,000 Iraqis were killed or wounded.
Iraq said "the criminal Iranian regime" lost "the bulk of the invading force" when Iraq counterattacked to capture their flare-up in the 41-month-old war.
"The fighting is continuing as our troops press hard to destroy the retreating enemy forces," an Iraqi war communique received in London said.
IRNA, THE OFFICIAL Iranian news agency, said, "over 1,000 Baathist militants were killed or wounded in large group of them by the Islamic combatants since the
launching of the victorious" offensive Wednesday.
It said that six iraqi counterattacks had failed, but Iraq's communiqué said Iraqi helicopter gunshots "direct and intensive hits" in beating back Iranian troop concentrations on the plains 200 miles southeast of Baghdad.
Iraq also said that hundreds of casualties were inflicted on the Iranians in fighting that was often hand-to-hand.
No independent confirmation of the war claims was available.
"The Islamic forces, crossing vast minefields and barbed wire barricades, ripped through the enemy forces in the region of Changluhe" between the Iranian border cities of Mehran and Dehoran, IRNA said.
THE PUSH 'COMPLETELY
smashed Iraq's 4th border brigade
(whose) commander was also killed," it said.
INA, the Iraqi news agency, said it dealt Iran another blow at the high seas, sinking seven naval targets in a war near the port of Bandar Chokmin.
Five of the vessels immediately caught fire but two that tried to fuse hit them.
The Iraqi report also denied a Tehran military report that Iran had shot down an Iraqi warplane.
The Iranian report said Iranian soldiers captured the hills overlooking a strategic north-south road and overran the border post at Shahabi in the Misan region west of the Iranian border cities of Dehloran and Mehran.
Despite the Iranian claims, the Iraqi news agency, INA, said that in Baghdad the fighting still raged late
yesterday and 'after destroying the larger part of the attacking enemy force, our units continue their pressure on remnants of the retreating forces.
**IRNA REPORTED** fighting in two iraqi provinces / Kut, to the northwest, and Al Amarah in the southeast. The fighting was only 20 miles from Kut.
Iran said that at midday, more than 8,000 additional volunteers were rushed to the front from Tehran by President Sayed Al Khamenei. But the Iranian government said all of soldiers involved in the attack, code-named "Val Fajr (Dawn) 5."
The Gulf War has raged since September 1980. Iran has rejected Iraqi peace overtures, saying the fighting will not end until Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's government is overthrown.
Canadian criticizes U.S. pollution effort
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Canada's ambassador to the United States, Allan Gottlieb, said yesterday that his country was worried about the Reagan administration's attitude toward cross-border pollution.
Goblieb told a meeting of the Oversea Writers, a Washington journalists' group. "We are not at all happy about the U.S. attitude" on such issues as the creation of sulfur emissions that cause acid rain.
"In the short run," he said, "we are very worried."
Gotlieb is expected to deliver a written complaint to the State
Department reflecting his government's anger at the administration's decision not to seek an increase in funding and pollution in the fiscal 1985 budget
CANADIAN STUDIES, according to Gothieb, show that at least one half of Canadian pollution originates in the United States.
Studies have shown, he said, that even if the "whole country were to close down" in Canada, U.S. industrial pollution would continue to send enough sulfur emissions into the prevailing winds to be above the acceptable level of 18 pounds per acre per year.
Committee to examine FTC law enforcement
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The chairman of a congressional panel said yesterday that he would hold a hearing next week on the issue of whether the federal Trade Commission
Rep. James Florio, D-N.J., told those at the opening of a three-day consumer conference that his subcommittee on commerce and transportation would specifically examine the FTCS handlers to ensure maintenance and false advertising.
"Since 1911 the Supreme Court has held it illegal for suppliers to coerce buyers in the sale of real estate."
suppliers. Florida said in a speech to the Commission, *Oration of America's Rights*.
"BUT THE ENFORCEMENT agencies refuse to enforce the law, saying they will only bring cases that fit their economic theories," he said. "Enforcement agencies are going about returning the law by administrative fut."
"The same is true in the FTC's enforcement of rules against false advertising."
He said the commission, under Chairman James Miller, "proposed a legislative amendment to weaken the law."
"Next week I will chair oversight
hearings on the breakdown of law
and enforcement of the Federal Trade
Commission." Florida said.
A member of his subcommittee said the proceedings were scheduled for Wednesday. He said among those invited to testify were Miller, the four FTC commissioners, consumer groups, and the National Association of Attorneys General.
He also announced that a recent FTC
BEFORE FLORIO'S ADDRESS, Miller, who was appointed by President Reagan, told the same group the commission had made vast gains the three years in the enforcement of fraud, deception and discrimination laws.
informational campaign raised the percent of real estate advertisement in compliance with federal law from less than 80 percent to 80 percent in 42 cities nationwide.
FTC COMMISSIONER Michael Pertschuk, who headed the agency during the Carter administration, accused the commission of lax enforcement of consumer protection and antitrust laws.
"One thing would be clear from the first moment of the Mondale presidency," he said. "Official lawlessness — that is an administration's deliberate desire to create clear rules of law governing business conduct — would be brought to an end."
Move for pro-Solidarity priest is a promotion, cardinal says
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — Cardinal Josef Glemp confirmed yesterday he ordered a well-known priest who supported the Solidarity underground to leave his parish in the capital.
Glemp refused to discuss the subject in detail
The cardinal said that the priest he ordered out of Warsaw, the Rev. Miczyslaw Nowak, actually was being promoted, since he was being raised to the rank of pastor in his new assignment at a small village church.
Glemp spoke to reporters just before boarding a flight to Rome
GLEMCP CONFIRMED it was his decision to transfer Nowak, a young priest popular among the workers of the Ursus tractor factory in Warsaw
The cardinal also said he recently met with the Rev. Jerzy Poppeluszkow, another pro-Solidarity priest, but did not ask Poppeluszkow to leave his parish.
He has been interrogated several times for his alleged interest in the hotel.
Popeliusko, one of the best known activist presets in Poland, was arrested
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