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Tuesday, September 11, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Persian Gulf Crisis
161 hostages arrive in U.S.; state officials welcome them
A group of former Middle East hostages reached the United States yesterday, and one woman among the 161 on the freedom flight stopped to kiss the ground as she got off the jetliner that brought her home.
The returnees, most of them women and children, went to customs on their way to a red-white and blue welcome set up by state officials in a hangar at Baltimore Washington International Airport.
State officials wore yellow ribbons and decorated tables in red, white
and blue to create a festive atmosphere.
The 161 were part of a group of 438 former hostages who arrived at London late Sunday after a flight from Baghdad.
Other evacuated or escaped from Iraq and Kuwait reached their destinations around the nation, telling tales of evading iraqi soldiers. A fire alarmed and or a week in a ceiling air conditioning duct before escaping in disguise.
Baker to meet with Syrian president
Secretary of State James A. Baker III said yesterday he would go to Syria to coordinate anti-Iraq efforts with President Hafez Assad, despite major differences that include U.S. forces and sponsor of international terrorism.
"We share the same goals," Baker said, referring to the U.S. drive to isolate Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with a strict economic boycott and to confront him with an international ground and sea force.
However, the United States considers Assad one of the more radical Arab leaders in the Middle East, and Baker acknowledged, "We continue to have some differences with Syria and expect to discuss those differences."
Syria, in a makeshift alliance with the United States, has sent troops to Saudi Arabia and to the United Arab Emirates in an airfield forces against an Iraqi attack.
Anheuser-Busch to help thirsty troops
A U.S. brewer has found a way around Saudi Arabia's prohibition: It's sending non-alcoholic beer to thirsty U.S. troops in the Mideast.
Arabia and the Persian Gulf
The shipment will give each serviceman or woman on duty an average of a six pack.
Anheuser-Busch Inc. announced yesterday it will donate 22,000 cases of O'Doul's non-alcoholic beer to U.S. military personnel in Saudi Arabia.
Real beer could not be shipped because of religious and governmental restrictions forbidding alcohol consumption in Saudi Arabia.
Some allies less willing to fund effort
The oil-rich Middle Eastern countries are coming forward quickly with multibillion-dollar pledges of support for the campaign against Saddam Hussein, but the United States is having a tougher time with its European and Asian allies, a fact that hasn't gone unnoticed in Con-
Secretary of State James A. Baker III announced yesterday that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the exiled government of Kuwait had pledged $12 billion to help pay for the U.S. defense of the Persian Gulf
and to assist poor nations hurt by their adherence to the trade embargo against Iraq.
But Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, who headup a second high-level fund raising mission, had far less success in obtaining additional support from France, Britain, South Korea and Japan.
The European Community did vote Friday to supply $2 billion in economic assistance to Egypt, Turkey and Jordan — the three frontline states which have been hardest hit by the crisis.
From The Associated Press
Reconciliation
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Iran's leaders have said they will honor the embargo, although they object to the U.S. military buildup in Saudi Arabia.
The Syrian government said yesterday it was sending more troops to Saudi Arabia at the request of the desert kingdom.
Diplomatic sources estimate that Syria has already sent 4-500 elite combat troops to the kingdom, and are planning to almost double in the near future.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III said yesterday he would visit Syria to coordinate the U.S. drive against Iraq with President Hafez Assad Syria and the United States to disarm alliance during the Persian Gulf crisis despite differences over human rights and terrorism.
The official Iraqi News Agency (INA) questioned President Bush's motives in meeting Sunday with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Helsinki, Finland. After seven hours of talks, the two leaders stood firm in demanding an immediate and urgent withdrawal from Kuwait, and did not rule out the use of force if a peaceful solution is not found.
INA said the summit showed Bush's 'evil tendencies and his spite for the Arab nation and its central issues, primarily the tragedy of the Iraq war, and the suffering under the Zionist occupation enforced by U.S. support.'
Kuwait Radio, run by the emirate's government-in-exile, reported Sunday that three member of Saddam Hussein's forces were executed for plotting to kill him.
The radio gave no details and did not say when they men were allegedly shot Western diplomats in Saudi Arabia said they had heard similar reports, but were not able to confirm them. Two Egyptian state diplomatics and five Western diplomats, and five officers had not ordered executed.
In another development, Syria's official news agency reported that 40 explosions were heard Sunday in the Iraqi town of Al-Qaim near the border between the two countries, with reports of two dead and several casualties. ABC News identified the site of the blasts as a chemical plant. INA denied the reports.
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