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Iraqi pilots escape to Iran
Captured U.S. pilots possibly injured in air attacks on Iraq
The Associated Press
DHAIHAN, Saudi Arabia — More than 60 fighter bombers from Iraq's hide and seek air force have slipped back the door to refuge next door in Iran, the U.S. military said yesterday. The U.S.战略突击队 are "delighted."
The Iraqis, meanwhile, reported that captured pilots had been injured in an attacks staged by their Desert Shield units, the expanded and civilian targets in Iraq.
The terse Baghdad radio report, which gave no further details, was an omnious follow up to Iraq's earlier campaign of prisoners of war into human shields.
The Iraqis, who say they hold more than 20 U.S. and allied prisoners, announced Jan 21 they were sending their potential targets to deter an attack.
The Baghdad government says more than 220 civilians have been killed in Desert Storm air raids — a figure used in a letter to U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuelar. Retuques fleeing Iraq said warplanes of the anti Iraq coalition had bombed civilian convoys on the desert highway west from Baghdad to Jordan.
The U.S. military said more and more Iran oilots were flying to Iran.
Iraq's 700 plane air force has mostly joined low during the war, but also fought with other Iraqi airbases during the incestant U.S. and allied air strikes
Over the weekend, the Iranian news media reported Iraq fighters and other aircraft had begun landing at airfields in neutral Iran. By yesterday, the Pentagon said, more than 60 fighter bombers and more than 20 transports, both military and civil, had sought refuge in Iran.
The aircraft leaving Iraq included some of its most advanced fighters, Soviet built MiG 298, the reports said.
The Iraqi pilots' motives — simply to detect, or to shield their planes from enemy fire — are a complex issue.
- could not be immediately deter mined.
"We . . . don't know if this is a spontaneous act on the part of Iraqi pilots just trying to get out of the war or it's something the Iraqi regime is supporting." Pentagon operations. Thomas Kelly said in Washington.
But whatever the motive, U.S. command representative Brig. Gen. Pat Stevens IV told reporters in Saudi Arabia, "We are delighted to see (it) because every one of those aircraft that leaves Iraq is one less that we will have to engage in combat."
In Washington, White House representative Marlin Fitzwater said Iran had repeatedly assured the United States that it would impound the Iraqi planes until the end of hostilities.
Stevens said war planners nonetheless would keep a close eye on the aircraft in Iran, since they could pose a threat to the gulf and other Desert Storm units.
Out in the gulf's blackened waters, the mammoth crude oil slick that began pouring from Iraqi-held Kuwait early last week now totals some 460 million gallons. Saudi officials reported That is almost three times more oil than there was previous spill, from a Mexican well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in 1929
The U.S. command said the spill began when the Iraqs opened valves and pumped crude directly into the sewer system to offshore loading terminal, Sea Island
Late Saturday, U.S. Air Force F-111 bombs unleashed "smart bombs" on key onshore pipeline systems in the Gulf of Mexico, miting the oil flow out to the terminal
See GULF. Page 12
See related stories Pages 6,9,12
U.S. aircraft in the Persian Gulf
Air-superior fighter.
Armed for air-to-air combat and tactical bombing raids.
F-117A Stealth
Designed to be nearly invisible to radar for surprise attack on enemy positions.
F-16 Fighting Falcon
Highly maneuverable fighter-
bomber. Useful in close combat in
dogfights with enemy fighters.
F. 14 Tomcat
Navy's top carrier based fighter,
used to protect aircraft carriers
and A.8 Litturters and A.7 Corsairs
FA-18 Hornet
Navy's fighter-bomber launched from carriers. Amed with up to 17,000 ibs of bombs and missiles.
A-6 Intruder
Navy's carrier-based all weather medium attack plane. Carries up to 18,000 lbs of bombs and missiles.
Radar jamming aircraft used to support tactical bombing raids and to escort fighters.
F-4G Wild Weasel
Long-range fighter, equipped to detect, identify and locate hostile targets for strike force.
Navy's carrier attack aircraft.
Carries 15,000 lbs. of rockets and missiles.
A-10 Thunderbolt
SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer, Jane's All the World's Aircraft
The "Warthog," designed to destroy tanks with rockets and nose-mounted cannon.
EA-6B Prowler
Advanced tactical jamming air support plane. Jams hostile electronic signals.
Early-warning aircraft Detects enemy targets and jams enemy electronic signals
Early-warning, jam-resistant radar station, serves as airborne command and control center.
B-52 Stratofortress
Air Force heavy bomber. Can drop up to 60,000 lbs. of bombs from altitudes up to 46,000 feet.
Saddam promises Iraq will win war
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was quoted as saying yesterday that the missiles Iraq has been firing at Israel and Saudi Arabia could be harnessed to nuclear, chemical or biological
Saddam, in an interview with CNN's correspondent in Baghdad, Peter Arnett, also said the round-the-clock allied an assault on
Iraq had failed, and he predicted "that lots of blood will be shed on every side" of the gulf war.
He expressed bitterness at having released foreign hostages before the beginning of the war against the surrendered surrenderer Kuwait, Arnett said.
had nuclear, chemical and biological capability." Arnett said, "But he did comment, that 'all the air superiority that you see now that has come upon us has failed.' He said. We have maintained our balance using only conventional weapons."
"He said missiles fired at Israel and Saudi Arabia, which he proudly called at Hussien missiles
Arnett quoted Saddam as adding, "We pray that not a lot of blood will be shed from any nation, we pray that we shall be not be forced in taking a forced measure."
White House deputy press secretary Roman Popadiu said the Bush administration had no reaction to Arnett's report.
Arnett, one of the few Western correspondents left in Baghdad, spoke by telephone with UNN in the United States after the interview, which he said took place in a U.S. hospital. He was last interviewed by a U.S. network correspondent Nov. 15. Arnett's reports are screened by
Iraqi censors.
"I asked, 'Would you use chemical weapons in a land war in Kuwait?' He responded, 'We will use the weapons that will be used against us to the weapons used against us by our enemies.'" Arnett said.
Did that mean Saddam would refrain from using chemical weapons if the United States and its allies refrained from doing so?
"I don't mean that," Arnett quoted Saddam as saying, "Iraq will use weapons that equate the weapons against us."
The Iraqis are known to have chemical and biological warfare capabilities, but Western analysts have questioned whether they could equip their Scud missiles with such weapons.
As for nuclear weapons, some in the West thought before the war that Iraq was just a year or two from developing atomic warfare and similarlyary says its recent bombing has obliterated Iran's nuclear network.
Saddam refused to comment specifically on whether Iraq had dumped millions of barrels of oil into the gulf, as others have reported. But he said oil could be used as a weapon.
"If Iraq uses oil in self-defense,
including in the sea, they would be justified in taking such action."
Arnett quoted him as saving.
Saddam attacked "hypocritical Western politicians" who he said convinced him last fall that if he let foreigners go there would be peace. Arnett said, Iraq allowed insurgents to leave by December.
Arnett quoted Saddam as saying, "If we had kept these 5,000 hostages here, would Bush have bombed bagdad?"
Arnett said he was summoned unexpectedly to a meeting with a high official and then was taken to a small bungalow in suburban Seattle. The tour took an hour for Saddam to arrive. The interview lasted about 90 minutes.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev today postponed the Feb. 11-13 summit in Moscow by mutual agreement, citing the need for more joint arms deals with a nuclear arms treaty.
Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertykh announced the summit delay after the Soviet minister emerged from an Oval meeting with President Bush.
They said the summit would be rescheduled in Moscow at a later date in the first half of this year.
Asked if the Soviet crackdown on the Baltics figured in the postponement, Baker said, "I think the statement speaks for itself." The joint statement did not mention the Baltics.
"The gulf war makes it inappropriate for President Bush to be away from Washington. In addition, work on the START will require some additional time," they said in a statement that Bessmertynk read in Russian and Baker repeated in English.
Pressed for an answer, Baker said, "The question of the Baltics was discussed at quite some
length." both in Baker's talks with Bessmertnyk and in Bush's meeting with the foreign minister.
The delay had been expected. Even before the outbreak of the war against Iraq, the White House had said the Moscow summit was up in the air.
oush had come under increasing pressure from Congress not to go to Moscow in the wake of the Kremlin's crackdown in the Bali insurgency, people have died in clashes with the Red Army in the past two weeks.
"We have made our substantial concerns known to the Soviet Union in a substantial way This speaks for itself." Baker said.
Asked if the Soviet Union was disappointed, Bessmertykh said. "It was a mutual decision, so there is no disappointment."
Watkins' chief of staff activated for duty
The centerpiece of the planned summit is a proposed strategic arms reduction or START treaty to reduce the two superpowers' long-range nuclear weapons by about 30 percent.
Standing at Baker's side on the White House driveway, Bessmerntykh said. "We have decided, the two of us, to postpone it."
Charles Yockey, Watkins Memorial Health Center chief of staff, continues his daily affairs while preparing for active duty in the U.S. Air Force Reserves.
Mike TurnerKANSAN
By Amy Francis
By Amy Francis Kansan staff writer
The five months of waiting and wondering about being called to active duty are finished for the chief of staff of Watkins Memorial Health Center. How long he will be gone is still unknown.
Charles Yockey is a member of the U.S. Air Force Reserves and has been on call since Aug. 26. He was at Saturday that he had been activated.
Yockey will leave Friday to begin work as an internal and pulmonary medical specialist at Travis Air Force Base in northern California, which is a military airlift command base.
Andrews Air Force Base and a base in England are also MAC bases. Yokey possibly could be transferred to one of those bases, he said.
"My biggest concern is if they do have a chemical, gas or germ warfare. Yockey said "I'm just praying for you." The group would need pulmonary specialists."
Tomorrow will be Yockey's last day at Watkins, but he said he would return when relieved from active duty. He is not sure how long that will be.
"I could be called (for) six days or six months," he said. "The uncertainty of not knowing how long I will be gone is the anxiety."
Lawrence Magee, a physician at Watkins, will act as the chief of staff while Yockey is on active duty. Yockey worked before Yockey worked at Watkins.
"We were expecting this so we weren't really caught off guard," Magee said.
Jim Strobil, director of Student Health Services, said, "We've known for some time that this would probably happen. I asked Dr. Magege because it was an emergency situation, and he had done it before."
Jody Woods, director of nursing at Watkins, has worked for both Yockey and Magee.
"I think the transition will be easy for us while he's gone," she said. "I'm going to miss him. He is good to me, and he's good to my nurses. When he has to make a change, he's very oriented to the students.
"I'll be glad for him when he comes back, and this is all over with. I hope he gets back soon."
Yockey said he also hoped to get back soon.
"The hardest part for me is leaving my wife and kid," he said. "We've never been separated in 19 years of marriage."
He said he also never had been separated from his son.
"It's hard on a 13-year-old," he said. "Physically he's a big man, but mentally he's only 13. We're trying to tell him that life must go on."
Committee seeks compromise on Marine recruiting
Rv Lara Gold
Kansan staff writer
He found out that the University of Kansas' ant-discrimination policy conflicted with Marine Corps policy that bans students in military service in the service.
When Marine Corps Capt. Patrick Redmon went to the University Placement Center in November, he met a student who brought new officers on the KU campus.
Redmond said that a 1972 congressional law stated that colleges could not receive Department of Defense money for research grants and financial aid unless the college allowed the military to recruit on its campus.
Since then, he has found a way to get on campus.
"If we went, so did the funds," he said.
UK received $1.3 million last year from the Department of Defense and more than $100,000 this year, Redmon said.
Redmon said that because of the law KU administrators reversed their position and allowed the Marine Corps to recruit on campus.
Department of Defense's policy not just for the money.
However, Pat Warren, Student Senate Executive Committee chairperson, said that the University probably was allowing the Marine Corps to recruit on campus because it wanted to remain consistent with the
"KU has a non-discriminatory policy in regards to sexual orientation," Warren said. "While we are trying to prove, the problem, we are running into a problem."
David Ambler, vice chancellor for
"Our goal is to get the Department of Defense to change its policy."
Warren is a member of a task force appointed by Chancellor Gene A. Budig last semester to find a compromise between KU policy and government policy after student complaints about the policy that barred gay and lesbian students from participating in BOCS programs on campus
'Our discrimination policy is a very liberal one. It is a very complete policy.'
David Ambler vice chancellor for student affairs
student affairs, said, "A lot of universities don't have sexual orientation as part of their anti-discrimination policy.
"Our discrimination policy is a very liberal one. It is a very complete policy."
Other universities may not have an anti-discrimination policy as liberal as KU's, so recruiters do not face the
KU's policy will remain consistent with Department of Defense policy, but the University is trying to effect a change in the policy. Amler said.
On a national level, the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a gay and lesbian political organization based in New York, is being tried to make such a change.
same problems, he said.
The organization is the largest lesbian and gay political activist group in the United States, be said.
Gregory King, communications director for the Human Rights Campaign Fund, said, "This is prejudice, and it's wrong."
"The policy hurts America more
King said he was optimistic that a change in the Department of Defense policy would come in the near future.
"According to a recent Gallup Poll, most Americans believe gays and lesbians should be able to serve their country," he said.
King said he was disappointed that the University would make an exception for the Marine Corps.
"The train of justice is leaving the station," he said. "And the University is standing back on the platform."