Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Friday. August 30, 1991
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Possible presidential candidate advocates killing Saddam
Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, who is weighing a run for president, said in a PBS interview that assassinating Saddam Hussein could promote long-term stability in the Middle East.
The Democrat taped the interview Monday before leaving for a two-day presidential exploratory trip to New Hampshire. The interview will be broadcast this weekend by 200 PBS stations on the foreign policy program American Interests.
When Wilder was asked how he would have handled Saddam during the Persian Gulf War, he said, "He wouldn't be around, I don't think."
Washington
"The question is, what would bring stability, "Wilder added later. "I don't know that assassinating him right now would change anything at all. But I think in the long run, if he continues to be a menace ... to the extent that he might be removed by whatever means that we could use, then that would be the case."
Soviet coup causes Congress to question military spending
When host Morton Kondracke of The New Republic magazine pointed out that U.S. law makes it illegal to kill a head of state, Wilder said. "It should be the most difficult thing in Iraq, who are so disconcerted by it that they might go in there by themselves."
Leading congressional Democrats are proposing to cut military spending after the failed Kremlin coup so money can be freed for humanitarian aid to the Soviet Union — and on programs at home.
"I think all of this is obvious. I think it should be done," said Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., the House majority leader.
Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., said,
"We've got to say how to get this
result that we want (in Moscow)
with the least possible cost, and then make additional cuts in defense spending and give that money back to U.S. taxpayers in the form of tax reductions."
The statements by Gephardt, Bradley and others indicate that when Congress returns from its summer recess there will be a battle over the budget agreement with the administration that spells out total military, defense and foreign aid spending.
U.S. plans food aid to Soviet Union
The Associated Press
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — The United States and Great Britain announced plans yesterday to extend additional food credits to the disintegrating Soviet Union and to make a hurry-up life line study of possible Soviet needs for food and medical aid this winter.
Britain to help, too; Bush re-emphasizes need for Soviet lawmakers to recognize Baltic states
"We cannot dictate the ending of what's happening in the Soviet Union, but neither are we mere spectators." British Prime Minister John Major said at a joint news conference with President Bush.
Asked about a vote by the Supreme Soviet to suspend the Communist Party, Bush had a punchy answer: "Reinice."
Bush was asked about the security of the Soviet nuclear arsenal in the wake of last week's abortive Communist coup and the ensuing triumph of reformers led by Boris Yeltsin.
He said he wanted safeguards on the Soviet warheads totally guaranteed, but emphasized that "at no time has there been any official concern about inadvertent use of nuclear weapons or something going awry."
"The last thing the world needs is some kind of nuclear scare, not to say a nuclear confrontation," he said.
Bush was peppered with questions concerning fast-moving developments in Moscow, but the president said he wasn't about to second-guess or react to every development among
"The last thing the world needs is some kind of nuclear scare, not to say a nuclear
confrontation."
the momentous changes under way
Major said he understood the sentiment for a dramatic economic initiative by the West. But, he said, "We have to consider what would be practical, what is deliverable and what would help." The British leader renewed calls for Soviet leaders to reduce military spending.
After heading back to London on Friday, Major will travel to Moscow on Sunday to see both Yellins and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. He said he also hopes to see Baltic leaders. Major will be the first Western leader to visit the Soviet capital since last week's failed coup.
Bush called again for Soviet law
makers to recognize the independence of the Baltic states and not to stand against the winds of the inevitable. He said he did not expect the Supreme Soviet to act before Monday.
"We cannot dictate the ending of what's happening in the Soviet Union, but neither are we mere spectators."
British Prime Minister John Major
British Prime Minister John Major White House press secretary Martin Fitzwater said later that if the Soviets don't grant the Baltics independence by Monday, the United States will make its own move.
Bush and Major spoke as events in the Soviet Union continued to move in the wake of last week's abortive coup by hard-liners.
The Supreme Soviet voted to suspend Communist Party activities, while the two richest and most populous Soviet Republics, Russia and the Ukraine, announced formation of a temporary military and economic alliance that referred to the "former U.S.S.R."
The disintegration of a nuclear
superpower confronted Bush and the Western alliance with a daunting set of diplomatic challenges: how to provide economic aid, how and when to extend formal diplomatic recognition to the Baltic states, and what dealings to initiate with with Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
Major outlined six points, including extending food credits, assessing the need for food aid this winter, and sending life line teams to the Soviet Union to assist in development of food production and distribution systems.
He also said the West would move to implement steps agreed to at the economic summit in London in July, including speeding up associate membership in international lending organizations and granting full membership in due course.
The two men answered questions in their shirt-sleeves on the front lawn of Bush's summer home in Maine. It was a scene that has become familiar to Americans in this revolution in Moscow; the president taking time out from his monthlong New England vacation to field questions about world events.
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