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The U.N. resolution was Security Council, which Soviet Union它 called for "rate with the specific necessary" to end commerce Kuwait Aug. 2 and annexed
In a joint statement,
urged Iraq to "show realism"
and address the issue
expressed in the resolute
Council on the gulf crisis.1
Speaking at a news conference with French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas that was dominated by the Persian Gulf crisis, Shewardnade also denied reports that 193 Soviet military advisers still in Iraq were taking part "in preparing details of military operations."
Soviets will not use force for blockade
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
But Shevardnadze said the Soviet Union would not object if the United States and other nations with military vessels in the guilt force "within the framework of that resolution."
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union will not use force in the Persian Gulf even though it voted for the U.N. resolution allowing military enforcement of an embargo against Iraq, Foreign Minister Eduard
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Def held out for a second d embassies surrounded by electricity, water and telep
He said the advisers had brought home soon after their contracts expired and that Soviet women were living there.
In a joint statement,
The Soviet Union has two of Oman, and Shevardnadz to send any more to the reg
Diplomats stay vow to ignore I
But there were no report ordered all embassies close force against the diplomats. According to reports rea Europe and elsewhere, the and other utilities Saturday uled the U.S. Embassy, after shut down.
Iraq says Kuwait is now p no embassies.
Reports yesterday said Hungarian and Danish emmurred by Iraq troops. The United States, the states and many of their allies, responded to Kuwait, violates international law.
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They say going along with it could be construed as recog Britain's Foreign Office, n that Iraqi troops rounded to Kuwait City. It said the eight were being held at a civilian City, bringing to 147 the num since the invasion.
VIENNA. Austria — OPE
day to calling an emergent
increase in oil production
be crisis.
For students thronging to Hall to drop a class within a few months, there will be a paperwork wait in completed
The Associated Press
OPEC members approve produc
Dave Shulenbur, assoc chancellor for academic affair that beginning today, studie wanted to drop a course mplete a questionnaire that e why they were dropping.
A vote of seven nation emergency meeting, and the Celestino Armas, said six measure.
Arms, in Vienna for it OPEC nations, said the oil "an important disruption, thing about that."
By Yvonne Guzman Kansan staff writer
"What we're attempting to
Since Iraq invaded Kuwu N. oil embank on both risen from about $20 a threatening the global ecore
Ministers from 11 of the 1
Organization of Petroleum
(OPEC) were in Vienna, si-
ters, for the talks.
Those supporting an eme Arabia, Venezuela, Kuwait United Arab Emirates, Arj
Student
Americans leave Iraqi capital
55 dependents of U.S. diplomats leave Baghdad, head for Turkey
The Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey — About 55 dependents of U.S. diplomats who were stranded for several days in Baghdad after fleeing Kuwait, left the Iraqi capital yesterday for Turkey, the U.S. Embassy here said.
Embassy spokesperson Carole Lee Heileman said the Americans left Baghdad early morning in a taxi.
Heleman said the group was expected to arrive at Turkey's Habar border post sometime in the afternoon or evening.
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Turkey sometime today, she said.
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From there, they were to be taken by bus to the southern Turkish city of Diyarbakir and flown out of
She said the 55 were all dependents of U.S. personnel who had been stationed in the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait. "An additional 54 or 55 personnel, mostly men, who had been stationed there for several years and we have not secured their release," Heileman said.
Earlier this week, Iraq gave a Friday deadline for nations to close their embassies in Kuwait, claiming its oil-rich neighbor as part of Iraqi territory. Iraq annexed Kuwait six days after its Aug. 2 invasion of the emirate
But the United States, most European nations and many other countries have refused to close their embassies in Kuwait City, instead reducing personnel there to a minimum.
The U.S. Embassy sent about 100 diplomats and their dependents to Baghdad, where they were stranded when
[iraq] President Saddam Hussein reversed an earlier promise and refused to let them leave.
But Saturday, Iraq's U.S. ambassador said in Washington that the wives and children of the American president had been held hostage.
"The dependents are going to be released," said Mohamed al-Mashat, summoned to the State Department.
"Some of them will be leaving soon." However, he said the diplomats would be treated "just like anybody else," meaning they will be detained. He said that although Iraq and the United States "are on the brink of a catastrophe," Baghdad was not going to use force against the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait
In all, about 21,000 foreigners have been caught in Iraq and Kuwait, including
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