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Thursday, April 4, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Kuwaitis demand reforms
The Associated Press
KUWAIT CITY — A group of Muslim fundamentalists supporting women's suffrage, a free press, modernization and Western influence has emerged as the leader of Kuwait's opposition.
The group is led by several men who at one time described themselves as anti-Western. Now they are called Westerners and act as the only future for Kipwail,
Gone from their speeches are the fire-and-brimstone fulminations against the decadent quality of Western life. They meet daily with U.S. and British diplomats and speak openly of the need for pressure from Washington and London to force Kuwait to reform.
Still, some Kuwaitis are encouraged at the emergence of a group that holds to religious principles but is willing to compromise.
The group now calls itself the Islamic Constitutionalist Movement, a name change that occurred Saturday. Before that it was known as the Society for Social Reform, a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood that has branches throughout the Arab world and was banned in Kuwait.
Led by a ledoy old writer, Sheik
Jasem al-Moahbel, the movement
emerged from the Iraq occupation
of Kuwait. Kowai's several opposition groups.
During Iraq's occupation, al-Mohailhel's movement built a grassroots organization that fed, clobed, and trained Kuwaitis in medical care to thousands of Kuwaitis
Diplomats and other observers think it is too early to tell whether the group might influence Islamic fundamentalists in other countries.
U.N. Security Council peace plan
Highlights of the U.N. Security Council resolution adopted yesterday. If Iraq accepts, a cease-fire in the Persian Gulf War automatically takes effect;
Iraq must destroy chemical weapons, biological
Iraq must destroy chemical weapons, biological weapons and ballistic missiles with a range of more than 93 miles under U.N. supervision; cannot develop or acquire such arms or nuclear arms; must destroy or remove nuclear materials for weapons
■ Iraq can import food, but trade ban would remain in effect until Iraq complies with disarmament provisions
Arms embargo on Iraq would remain in effect
■ Iraq liable for damage from invasion and occupation of Kuwait, including environmental havoc. A fund from Iraq's oil revenues would pay claims by Kuwait, other nations, citizens and corporations
U. N. would provide military observers for demilitarized zone six miles into Iraq, three miles into Kuwait. U.N. deployment would allow allied troops to withdraw
Iraq must declare not to commit or support international terrorism or allow terrorist groups to operate from its territory
Iraq and Kuwait are to respect boundary agreed upon in 1963 treaty
Iraq must cooperate with the International Red Cross in repatriating Kuwaitis and others detained during the war
SYMBOL UNITED NATIONS
They called themselves the Morabuton, or "those who remained." Through a network of neighborhood-based cooperative societies, they distributed more food and money than any other group.
"While the Iraqis were here, the Morabutonon ruw Kauwat," said Abdullah al-Nebari, a leftist opposition leader and al-Mohalbeh's ideological foe. "They were the strongest by far."
Knight-Ridder Tribune News/JUDY TREIBI
The harsh conditions of the Iraqi occupation softened the group's hard-line fundamentalist stance.
"Whenever a group increases its contact with society, as we did with the cooperatives and food distribution, it changes," al-Mohahal said.
Military fails its own junk-spotting muster
WASHINGTON — The military takes too long and spends too much to figure out whether the things it has stored away are useful items or just junk, the investigative arm of Congress said yesterday.
The Associated Press
In a report prepared for Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, the General Accounting Office said the government thunked its own requirements for determining which goods were usable.
The GAO said it found that a sample inventory of items shipped out but later returned remained in limbo for an average of 229 days before any decision was made about their usefulness.
According to Defense Department
standards, a decision on the status of these items should have been made in 10 days.
For items of "unknown condition" requiring testing, such as photographic paper that has passed its expiration date, the Defense Department allows 90 days. But the GAO found the average time in warehouse limbo was 284 days for these items.
Items received from suppliers in unacceptable condition or the wrong quantity spend 538 days in limbo, the report said.
Lumping all items together, the average time to make decisions is 458 seconds.
Altogether, about $9 million a year is spent to store items of unknown use
to the government, the report estimated.
Glenn, chairperson of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, said that warehouse limbo costs were unnecessarily steep and that the problem would be high on the committee's agenda.
The report said decisions could become more urgent as equipment and spare parts return from the Persian Gulf.
The Defense Department noted some improvement since the GAO first recommended changes in military stock management in 1884. The decision time was 21 days. The latest report states it is now 15 days.
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