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Palestinians attack four Jews as unrest continues in Israel
A West Bank Palestinian knifed two unarmed women soldiers, and another Arab bludgeoned two Israeli with a hammer yesterday in part of a wave of attacks on Jews in Israel, police said.
The knife-wielding王 was chased and captured by soldiers and civilians, police said. There were reports he was beaten, and hospital records showed he was in critical condition with head injuries.
Prime Minister Yilzak Shamir said that the attacks on Israels, which began Sunday with three stabbing deaths in Jerusalem, resulted in a catastrophic historical incitement of Arabs under Israeli rule.
Tension has risen since Oct. 8, when police fired on stone-throwing Palestinians at Jerusalem's hallowed Temple Mount, killing at least 19 Arabs.
Pakistani government works to keep leader from returning
The army-backed caretaker government in Pakistan made a last-ditch attempt yesterday to stem the sympathy wave that many feel puts the country in a dangerous distance of returning to power in the country.
As the ballot boxes were being readed for today's election, the caretaker government filed a seventh corruption charge against the 37-year-old former prime minister.
President Ghalam Ishaq Khan used his constitutional powers on Aug. 6 to oust Bhutto and install a hand-picked caretaker government comprised of her most outspoken critics.
The latest charge alleges Bhutto abused her power by making illegal appointments in about 10,000 government jobs. A hearing was set for Nov. 5.
Killings higher in El Salvador, Amnesty International reports
Amnesty International today reported a significant upsurge in the number of killings by army-supported death squads this year in El Salvador.
The London-based human rights group reported more people were killed in the first seven months of 1990 than in all of last year. Between January and early August, 45 people had reportedly been killed by death squads. The group reportedly killed by death squads in 1989, it said.
Amnesty gave its information on the death squillants came from former members of the military.
From The Associated Press
Saddam allows exodus; 14 U.S. citizens depart
The Associated Press
Saddam Hussein allowed a trickle of foreigners, including 14 U.S. citizens, to leave Iraq yesterday, and Iraq authorities all all 930 French and American soldiers and occupied Kuwait likely would soon be released.
Many have been held as part of the "human shield" strategy employed by Saddam to protect against attack from multinational forces massed in the Persian Gulf since Iraq overran Kuwait on
President Bush said, "I'm always pleased when Americans might be released, or if anybody is released. But it just reminds me of the brutality of the policy. The total brutality of holding people against their will and perceiving them out as though to look generous. It is brutal, and it is unacceptable."
More than 1,000 U.S. citizens and thousands of other foreigners still are denied permission to travel to the country.
The 14 U.S. citizens arrived last night in Amman, Jordan, on a regularly scheduled Iraqi Airways flight from Baghdad. The group included two men and three women who occupied Kuwait and two sons of diplomats who
The 14 were escorted by embassy officials to an Amman hotel, where they were to spend the night before flying this morning to Frankfurt, Germany, en route to the United States.
A U.S. Embassy spokesperson said the group included "officials who worked with U.S. government offices in Iraq and Kuwait."
are stranded there.
The 'spokesman, Jonathan Owens, refused to elaborate on their roles. When asked if the officials were diplomats from the embassy in Kuwait, he said, "No, they're not."
A member of the American-Iraqi Foundation, which assisted in the release, told reporters that the released persons included "two U.S. embassy staffers and a Turkish intelligence officer, Kuwait, but were released because they are sick."
Hussain Arabo, the foundation member, refused to elaborate on their aliment or disclose their diet.
Arabo also said Iraq would free all Western hostages in return for international assurances that Iraq would not be attacked by the U.S.-led forces assembled in Saudi Arabia.
Pentagon might increase forces in the Middle East
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is considering a new wave of troop deployments to the Persian Gulf, officials said yesterday. Such a move would require a bullday behind the 240,000-troop force now planned.
The decision is important because the deployment to Saudi Arabia of more U.S. ground units could transform Operation Desert Shield from a force capable only of defending against a possible Iraqi attack to one tailored to launching an offensive.
Officials also said evidence was emerging that U.N. economic sanctions imposed against Iraq for its Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait were beginning to hamper Iraqi military operations.
Williams said Gen. Colin L. Powell, chairperson
Pete Williams, a spokesperson for Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, said that more than 210,000 U.S. forces now were in and around Saudi Arabia as part of Operation Destroy Shield to defend the kingdom against a possible Iraqi attack. The U.S. last official count issued by Cheney on Oct. 13.
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was in Saudi Arabia this week to consult with U.S. and Saudi officials on the possible need to expand Desert Shield deployments, which President Bush ordered Aug. 7.
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 24, 1990
Powell will report his recommendations to Cheney after returning to Washington tomorrow.
"Then those decisions will be made on whether additional forces need to be sent or not," Williams said. "So I don't want to . . . signal that the deployment is nearly complete. That's a decision that will be made in part this week by Gen. Powell's visit."
In comments to reporters in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, Powell said yesterday that he and Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the commander of all U.S. forces in the gulf area, had explored all options for Desert Shield. Powell declined to comment specifically on additional troop deployments.
Williams said that it had been planned all along that U.S. troop requirements in the gulf would be reassessed once the initial round of deployments was nearing completion.
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