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Officials say Libyan facilities are yielding weapons and gas
Libya builds chemical plant
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Libya is building a new plant to produce chemical weapons and also has been making large amounts of poison gas at another facility once thought to have been destroyed by fire, U.S. officials say.
The new facility is near the existing poison gas factory at Rabta, a town about 60 miles southwest of the Libyan capital of Tripoli, one official said. Heavy production of poison gas has been reported in Rabta since last summer, he added.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to say how far the Libyans have come with the second plant.
"There is convincing evidence that Libya is continuing its chemical weapon program and may have
begun construction of a second chemical warfare agent production plant in addition to the one operating at Rabta," said Rear Adm. Thomas A. Brooks, director of naval intelligence.
Brooks, whose comments appear in testimony prepared for a closed hearing earlier this month of the Senate's Services Committee, did not elaborate.
Libya keeps insisting the plant at Rabta produces medicines. Western reporters were invited to tour the plant in January 1990 but were not allowed in after being taken to the complex. They reported seeing surface-to-air missile batteries, tanks and soldiers around the complex.
Libya announced last March that arsonists had set fire to the plant at Rabta, and accused Israeli, U.S. or
German agents of setting the blaze
German companies were the main
responsible for the operation.
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The White House initially said it had concluded that the plant had been rendered inoperable by the fire. But intelligence officials subsequently revealed that the fire was a result of a firewall breach by Moammar Ghadhafi to preclude any possibility of a U.S. bombing attack to destroy the facility.
setback with a production accident in 1988. It then resumed small-scale production, stopped again for a while, and as of last summer, it was making large amounts of poison gas, the official said.
The United States bombed Libya in 1986 to retaliate for what it said was a Libyan-backed attack on a German night club, in which a U.S. soldier killed. U.S. officials say Libya sponsors Palestinian terrorist groups.
Ghadiaha announced earlier this month that the Rabta plant would reopen within three months to produce medicine.
Libya said earlier this year that it was seeking European help to repair and operate the Rabta facility.
But the U.S. official said the plant never had stopped operating completely. It began making small amounts of poison gas but suffered a
Germany, in particular, has put in place strict export control laws to prevent German companies from selling equipment and substances to countries such as Iraq and Libya.
But U.S. officials predicted Libya would have trouble getting help in light of heightened sensitivity generated by revelations that European companies had with regard to its chemical, nuclear and biological weapons capability.
U. S. officials said Libya also possessed Soviet-made short-range missiles, which it eventually might use to deliver chemical weapons.
Mandela defense attempts to discredit police's words
Defense lawyer Hendrik Kruger, while questioning police Col. Chris Osthuizen, charged that police fabricated a confession by the driver, John Morgan. He claimed that Morgan was assaulted by police after being arrested and threatened what if he did not sign the confession.
The Associated Press
Two of the officers allegedly involved were pointed to court by the defence.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The defense in Winnie Mandela's trial on kidnapping and assault charges claimed yesterday that police hit her driver to try to force him to incriminate Mandela.
Oosthuizen denied that Morgan the police fabricated his skitgen
"I know of no assault on the
accused," he said.
Mandela, wife of African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, and three co-defendants are charged with kidnapping and assaulting four young men in December 1988. Her chief bodyguard was convicted last year of killing one of the four, Stompie Seipei.
He said that he drove the bus that picked up the four young men but that they were not abducted and that he knew nothing about any assaults.
Mandela says that she is not guilty and was not at her home when the alleged incident took place. Morgan is one of the co-defendants.
men were taken to her house and beaten.
It said the four victims were picked up and dropped on the floor. Two of the victims have testified that they were dropped on the floor after being beaten and kicked.
it said she questioned Seipel about charges that he was sleeping with a white church minister.
The statement, parts of which were read aloud by Oosthuizen, said Mandela was present when the four young
Kruger also charged that police offered not to prosecute Morgan and promised him money, housing and a wife. Mr. Oshuizhen said that was not true.
Under questioning from the state prosecution, Oosthuizen said Morgan's statement did not say Mandela used a whip on the four young men. State witnesses have testified that she shipped the four.
Ambassador says Saddam lied
Iraqi denied plan to invade Kuwait
The Associated Press
Breaking an eight-month public language, the U.S. envoy told the
WASHINGTON — Ambassador April Glaspie said yesterday that Saddam Hussein had lied to her in July by denying he would invade Iraq. But that was not realizing that Saddam would go through with the attack anyway.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee that she repeatedly had warned the Baghdad government that its grievances against Kuwait would have to be addressed.
And in a meeting July 25, Saddam sounded conciliatory and asked Glasple to deliver to President Bush the message that Iraq had no intention of invading its oil-rich neighbor, she said. A week later, Iraqi troops stormed into Kuwait.
"It was deliberate deception on a major scale," Glaspie told a packed hearing of the Senate committee.
She added that Saddam had made an extraordinary miscalculation.
Glaspipe has been criticized by many analysts and Democratic politicians for statements to Saddam that they say could have been seen as a green light to invade Kuwait. In particular, they have cited an Iraqi transcript in which she was quoted as saying the United States had no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts.
How to solve banking crisis a controversy
But Glaspie disputed the accuracy of the transcript, saying it was selectively edited.
The Associated Press
The 317-page bill, issued six weeks after the Treasury Department's equally voluminous study of the financial system, would reduce government guarantees to the wealthiest depositors, break down traditional walls between banks and other businesses and provide for earlier intervention by regulators in ailing banks.
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration yesterday sent Congress a telephone book-sized bill overhauling the nation's banking system, but braced for a tough fight over key elements of the proposal.
The Financial Institutions Safety and Consumer Choice Act of 1991 also would lift remaining restrictions on interstate banking, consolidate the regulatory bureaucracy and bolster the dwindling government deposit insurance fund with a $25 billion line of credit for the Federal Reserve.
Even before the bill was written, however, top Democrats in Congress objected to key parts. The chairpersons of the House and Senate banking committees, Rep Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas and Sen Donald W. Riegle Jr of Michigan, have proposed striped-down legislation that would replenish the FDIC, curb deposit insurance and tougher regulatory oversight of banks.
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