University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 29, 1990
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Senator says Egypt an ally
The Associated Press
Conn, Bob Dole said yesterday he is convinced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is a strong U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf crisis.
Dole, the Senate's top Republican, and Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga, chairperson of the Senate Armed Services Committee, met with Mubarak yesterday. Six other Republican senators accompanied Dole and Nunn.
Dole said Egypt was a reliable ally in the U.S. confrontation with Iraq.
"You might even call it a partnership," he said. Dole and the others met with Mubarak at one of his homes in Alexandria, Egypt. Dole described Mubarak as one of the key Arab leaders in the crisis.
Dole said he came away from the meeting with the impression that Egypt would send more troops if invited by Saudi Arabia. Mubarak has said there are 2,000 Egyptian troops in Saudi Arabia.
Nunn urged Egypt's president to send more troops to Saudi Arabia to show the world it is with the United States downward with Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
Soviets warn U.S.
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The explosion of some Iraqi diplomats from Washington could raise Persian Gulf tensions, the Soviet Union warned yesterday in the latest indication of the nation's refuctions to match barb U.S. missiles.
"I don't believe that we have to add fuel to the fire in this explosive situation," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Garnasimov.
"Of course Iraq's actions to close embassies in Kuwait are illegitimate," he added. "But if you use a til-for-tat policy in this question, your risk falling down the spiral of escalation and ag aggravating the situation."
The United States has ordered 36 Iraqi Embassy personnel to leave Washington by tomorrow and the 19 envoys on the 19 envoys allowed to remain.
It has been unable to persuade its allies to expel Iraqi diplomats from other capitals.
Although the Soviet Union has joined the near universal condemnation of Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait, it has urged less confrontational measures against its longtime al-Qaeda leader and arms supplier prior to the invasion, but has since cut off weapons shipments.
Japan to aid Gulf
The Associated Press
TOKYO — Japan is nearing completion of a package to assist the multinational blockade of Iraq, and it will include financial assistance to the Middle East, government officials said yesterday.
A Foreign Ministry official said, on condition of anonymity, that the package, expected to be announced today, would include assistance for the multinational force and aid to Middle East countries suffering economic hardship because of the blockade.
While the United States has sent thousands of troops into Saudi Arabia to halt further Iraqi aggression, Tokyo has been slow to decide on measures beyond its participation in the bovcott on trade with Bahadh.
Government officials have been promising "unprecedented steps" to punish Iraq, but have been slow to respond because of debate over the legality of sending military units to the Gulf.
The Japanese constitution adopted after World War II bars the use of force in settling international disputes.
Military costs rise The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Operation Desert Shield will cost an estimated $2.5 billion through the end of September — nearly double the earlier estimate of $1.3 billion, the Pentagon said yesterday.
The sharply higher costs are attributed to the calling up of reserve and National Guard forces, increased operations for ships and aircraft and increased fuel costs, said spokesman Pete Williams.
The cost estimate includes $1.13 billion for the Army, $494 million for the Navy, $556 million for the Air Force, $20 million for defense agencies and $300 million for increased fuel prices.
Reporting on its reserve call up, the Pentagon said that by the end of the month it will have activated 14,129 people in hundreds of Army, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard units across the country. Additional expenses include the cost of calling up reservists, up to a total of 48,200.
The Pentagon said that while its operating costs are increasing dramatically because of the Desert Shield operation, it faces a 35 percent reduction in operating appropriations if Congress fails to reach a budget agreement by Oct. 1, thereby avoiding the automatic cuts required by the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction act.
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Some people think one Saddam is enough, but Iraq's news agency reports that 25 couples in Yemen have named their Saddam since Iraq Press Corp. Saddam Hussein送 his army into Kuwait
25 Saddams born The Associated Press
The state-controlled Iraqi News Agency reported yesterday, that enthusiasm for Saddam Hussein is running high in Yemen, whose government has indicated sympathy for Iraq but maintained a relatively neutral public stance since the Aug. 2 takeover.
Vemeni parents' feelings are based on support for Saddam's "national stand in facing foreign aggression in the Arab nation," the news agency said.
It did not state whether any Yemeni newborns had been named George Bush.
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