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Monday, October 10, 1994
NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Kuwait fears another Iraqi attack
Baghdad discounts troops' border threat
The Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Kuwait moved the bulk of its 18,000-member army to its northern border yesterday while Baghdad proclaimed the right to defend itself, at any measure, against a foreign plot to crush it.
Iraq's foreign minister said later that Baghdad preferred a diplomatic solution to its "crisis with the United Nations, but would insist on guarantees of a speedy end to the Gulf War sanctions."
U. S. troops, aircraft and warships headed for the Persian Gulf yesterday to counter Iraq's unexpected military buildup near Kuwait's border.
The United States has also sent a massive contingent of Air Force and Navy attack aircraft into the Persian Gulf, said William Perry, defense secretary, yesterday.
"All in all, this is a formidable military force." Perry said.
U. S. officials reported that the movement of 20,000 Republican
The closest Iraqi troops were 12 miles from Kuwait. Pentagon officials said yesterday that Iraqi troops were continuing to gather near the border, but did not provide numbers.
Guards toward the Kuwaiti border had raised the number of Iraqi troops in the area to 64,000. Some 700 tanks were also deployed or heading south.
Besselin Kostov, representative for the U.N. Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission established after the 1991 Gulf War, said that U.N. forces in the demilitarized zone, which extends six miles into Iraq and three miles into Kuwait, had not observed any new military movements yesterday afternoon.
Baghdad insists the troop movements do not threaten Kuwait. But while within Iraq's rights, the deployment of troops near the Kuwaiti border has elicited a quick response from countries chastened by Saddam Hussein's surprise invasion of the emirate four years ago.
Perry himself refused to join speculation that Hussein's actions are just a bluff intended to win a relaxation of bruising U.N. sanctions punishing Baghdad for occupying its tiny neighbor.
Kuwait, which signed defense pacts with the United States, Britain, Russia and France after the 1990 invasion, began moving tanks and 15,000 of its 18,000 troops to the desert border, a highly placed Kuwaii official said Saturday.
A British frigate, HMS Cornwall,
arrived off Kuwait City yesterday
morning. Britain also has six Tornado
fighters based in the region.
Thousands of people, meanwhile, were camped near the Iraqi side of the frontier, apparently herded there by Baghdad and directed to stage demonstrations to heat up the pressure on the border. U.N. officials said.
Iraq said those people were some of the tens of thousands of stateless Arabs displaced after the Gulf War. But Kuwait maintained they were Iraqi soldiers dressed in civilian clothes.
Kostov said the Arabs did not appear to be armed. He said Iraq had notified the United Nations that as many as 20,000 of them were expected to stage an anti-Kuwait protest.
Baghdad Radio sharply heightened rhetoric yesterday, accusing the West of plotting to crush the Iraqi people.
Haiti anticipates exiled leader's return home
At least two Arabs ran down a cafe-lined sidewalk in downtown Jerusalem late yesterday, shooting and throwing hand grenades. Five Israelis were wounded, Israel radio reported.
One of the Arabs was shot and killed, and a second was caught, said Jerusalem police representative Avi Zelba. A possible third suspect was thought to be hiding in the busy area.
Sidewalk cafe attacked; 5 Israelis hurt by Arabs
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedrus will step down today as Haiti's military leader, clearing the way for exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's homecoming. But violence against Aristide supporters continued yesterday when a bus plowed into a pro-democracy march, killing 14 people.
Also set to leave is Brig. Gen.
Philippe Biamby, the army chief of staff and a leader of the September 1991 coup that ousted Aristide. The resignations would pave the way for Aristide's expected return on Saturday.
Gabriel said the ceremony would be held today. He declined to elaborate.
The area was closed off, and police barricaded the streets outside the King David Hotel where Warren Christopher, secretary of state, was staying. The attack occurred less than a mile from the hotel.
Cedras met for 45 minutes yesterday with Lt. Gen. Hugh Shelton, the U.S. military commander in Haiti. He also met with provisional President Emile Jonaissant. Details of the discussions were not disclosed.
Cedras will transfer power to the army's No. 2 commander, Maj. Gen. Jean-Claude Duperval, under a plan approved Saturday in Washington by Haitian officers and representatives of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, said Col. Jean-Robert Gabriel, a representative for the Haitian high command.
and Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had met with Cedras on Saturday in Portau-Prince, but U.S. officials had no immediate comment on Cedras' resignation date.
Zelba said the area was rigged with explosives and grenades and cautioned against trying to enter the area. Army radio reported the attack. The assailants were armed with Soviet-made rifles, grenades and explosives.
THE NEWS in brief
JERUSALEM
Perry and Shalikashvili did not discuss whether Cedras would leave the country, although U.S. officials have said they expect he would do so.
A Clinton administration official said Cedras indicated he would resign in the next few days. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said, "Nothing is clear until he does it."
Outside the capital in the southern town of Djimenzen, a bus plowed into pro-Aristide marchers yesterday, killing 14 people. U.S. Special Forces officers said the bus driver deliberately ran down the marchers.
William Perry, defense secretary.
Long bursts of automatic gunfire were heard about 100 yards away. Small explosions — apparently grenades — were heard periodically.
Warren Christopher, secretary of state, said the transition would pick up this week, although he couldn't confirm when Cedras and Biamby would leave.
Police and special forces crowded the area, and Israel radio said Israelis and tourists began fleeing.
Congress approves last bills
Large portions of the California desert will be preserved and Persian Gulf veterans with undefinable illnesses will be paid under legislation approved in some of the final acts of the 103rd Congress.
The Senate also approved a string of last-minute bills, all sent to President Clinton for his signature, on which unanimous agreement had been reached before adjourning Saturday. Congress plans to return for a special post-election session devoted to ratification of a world trade pact.
The House completed its regular business shortly after midnight Friday.
The desert bill will create the largest wilderness area outside of Alaska, putting 6.6 million acres under increased federal protection. Two new national parks would be created as well as a 1.5 million-acre national preserve in the desert area of southeastern California.
More than 10,000 Persian Gulf veterans are expected to benefit from the bill granting compensation for undiagnosed or undefinable illnesses reported after the war.
MOSCOW Alcoholism linked to Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin's untimely nap at Ireland's Shannon airport and his comic attempt at leading a band in Germany have reawakened stories that the Russian president has a drinking problem.
When Yelisin returned from his summit with President Clinton on Sept. 30, he failed to get off his airplane for a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds, who was left standing awkwardly on the tarmac.
Yeltsin said later he over slept. His chief of staff, Sergei Filatov, said, "It's very hard to fit this president into any protocol. Yeltsin is Yeltsin."
PHILADELPHIA
Cities condemn public urination
American cities, already awash in crime, drugs, taxes and crumbling infrastructure, are now trying to deal with a sure sign that common decency has gone down the toilet.
The nasty nuisance of people who urinate in public is turning alleys, outside stairways, cul-de-sacs and even private doorways into odorous open lavatories.
"It's gotten to be a horrendous problem," said Joan Specter, a Philadelphia city counsel member. "Who would have thought you would have to have a law on public urination?
"The scary thing is it's become acceptable behavior. There's a sense that anything goes.I think people just have to say no."
Add Philadelphia to the list of such cities as Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta and New York determined to lower the boom on those who lower their zippers in the open.
Proposals in Philadelphia would streamline rules to allow police to cite violators on the spot and judges to sentence offenders to scrub befoiled sidewalks. Currently, people caught in the act go through a cumbersome process covered by disorderly conduct laws.
A companion proposal would build more public toilets, a staple in European cities but in the United States the subject of years of debate and little progress.
Compiled from The Associated Press
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