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SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY: A rollback would push back launch date to October. Peace with Iraq is worse than poison for Khomeini

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said today that accepting a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war was “worse than drinking poison,” but that Iran’s political leaders recommended it be done. It was the first statement from the 87-year-old leader since Iran announced Monday it was accepting the resolution passed by the Security Council on July 20,1987. Iraq called the announcement a trick to buy time. : ALSO TODAY, AN Iraqi [military spokesman said two [lranian jet fighters tried to bomb [the Dokan Dam near the northern [city of Kirkuk but were chased off [by anti-aircraft fire. [ The jets dropped their bombs but [missed the target, according to Iraqi press reports monitored in Cyprus. The spokesman was not identified. Iran and Iraq have been at war jsince September 1980. [ Khomeini said he could not detail the reasons why the country’s political leaders asked him to end the war but said he decided to accept their recommendation. He did

U.S. intrigued by Cuban offer of Angolan peace

WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. officials say they are intrigued by a sudden interest shown by Cuban authorities in reaching an agreement on the withdrawal of the almost 50,000 Cuban troops from Angola. [ This was one of several signs [ that emerged from a meeting last week which have given the administration fresh hope that an agreement leading to the withdrawal of all foreign forces from southwestern Africa may be nnwihlp AT A MEETING in New York, officials from South Africa, Cuba and Angola signed a tentative agreement on a statement of principles that would govern future negotiations for comprehensive troop withdrawals. Barring an unexpected snag, the three governments were expected to announce final approval of the statement today and make it public. THE CUBANS have added up to 15,000 troops to their military

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not refer to any leaders by name. Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of Iran’s parliament and commander-in-chief of Iran’s armed forces, said Monday that Khomeini made the decision to accept the resolution. KHOMEINI HAD previously rejected all attempts to end the war, saying Iran would continue fighting until Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was overthrown. Resolution 598 calls for a ceasefire in the war, a return to the international borders of 1980, an exchange of prisoners and an investigation to determine who started the conflict Khomeini, in a statement carried by Iranian media and monitored in Nicosia, said accepting the resolution does not mean the war is over. “The approval of the U.N. resolution does not mean that the problem of the war has been solved,” his statement said. Khomeini said many of his country’s problems could be traced to American opposition to the 1979 Islamic revolution. HE SAID IRAN will continue to battle American influence in the region and said that foreign navies

presence in Angola since last fall but at the same time have shown a much greater willingness to work out an agreement on a total withdrawal, said the officials, insisting on anonymity. Among South Africa’s many foreign critics, few have been more outspoken than Cuba but the tone of last week’s meeting indicated a strong desire for a settlement, the officials said. “The Cubans are saying to South Africans, ‘it’s not a question of victory and defeat, it’s a question of building peace,’ and South Africa is saying, ‘we agree with you,”’ one senior official said. “The Angolans agreed with them both.” CUBAN TROOPS initially were sent to Angola in 1975 to protect the fledgling Marxist government there against South African military incursions. South African troops are continuing to support an American-backed rebel group in Angola and years of U.S. effort foundered until last week.

should leave the gulf. “I hearby warn the American and European military forces to leave the Persian Gulf before it is too late,” he said. In the gulf, shipping sources confirmed that Iraq bombed an unfinished nuclear plant at the Iranian port of Bushehr and an unfinished petrochemical plant at Bandar Khomeini in the northern gulf. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the petrochemical complex was still burning late Tuesday. THE RANKING Republican on the House Armed Services Committee said the United States could begin pulling its warships out of the gulf as soon as a cease-fire takes effect Rep. William Dickinson of Alabama spoke during a visit to the gulf Tuesday. Until a year ago, the United States had had a small naval force in the gulf since 1948.

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Tiny gas leak could delay Discovery for two months

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Engineers are trying to fix a tiny gas leak in the space shuttle, but there’s a 50-50 chance Discovery will have to be rolled back from the launch pad to a hangar for repairs, says Kennedy Space Center’s director. Taking Discovery off the pad would delay the first launch since the Challenger disaster, now scheduled for early September, by up to two months, Forrest S. McCartney told reporters Tuesday. “WE WISH WE had found it (the leak) earlier,” McCartney said. “If we had found it when it was accessible, there would have been no problem. But it’s in an inaccessible place, and we don’t know what we’re going to do about it. “We’ve got people looking at the prudent and safe thing to do. Whatever course we take there will be no compromise in flight safety. “The odds are 50-50 on a rollback,” McCartney said. He said no decision was likely until after Discovery’s three main engines have been test-fired on the pad in a critical test set for July 28. The main engines are separate from the steering engine system, where

CIA denies Bush was their operative

WASHINGTON (AP) The CIA departed from its usual practice of staying mum on who it employs to dispute a report that Vice President George Bush was a CIA operative in the early 19605. CIA spokeswoman Sharron Basso said Tuesday that a George William Bush, who worked the night shift at CIA headquarters during that period, apparently was the “Mr. George Bush” referred to in a recently discovered FBI memorandum. THE NATION magazine, in its July 16 issue, had suggested that the vice president, who was appointed CIA director in 1975 by President Ford, may have been the person referred to in the 1963 memo by then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. In that memo to the State Department, Hoover voiced the

the leak is. THE TINY NITROGEN tetroxide gas leak was detected Friday in an engine compartment, and was traced to a fitting on a line leading to an oxidizer tank. Nitrogen tetroxide normally combines with fuel to power the steering engines. Shuttle managers were combing through documents to determine whether workers might have missed a similar leak as early as last January. Launch Director Bob Sieck said paperwork showed that a pressure check was made on the oxidizer tank manifold in an engine compartment before Christmas, and that a second reading taken two weeks later showed a pressure drop. The pressure drop occurred in the same area as the one detected in January. “WE ARE REVIEWING all procedures and documentation and equipment associated with that event,” Sieck said. The earlier readings may have been within specifications, he said. “And I wouldn’t preclude the fact that we have other data that says the integrity of the joint was con-

FBl’s concerns that anti-Castro groups in Miami might use the assassination of President Kennedy as the rationale for undertaking an unauthorized raid against Cuba. “The substance of the foregoing information was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency,” the Hoover memo stated. THE MAGAZINE article speculated that the vice president used his Texas oil business as a cover for clandestine CIA activities in the early 19605. The vice president denied the report Ms. Basso said that while the agency usually does not confirm or deny employment or association with the CIA, in this case “(we) believe the record should be clarified.” Previously, the CIA would not comment on the article or on the

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firmed. “Until a final review is in it is pure speculation that a requirement was violated and not reported,” Sieck said. The problem with fixing the leak on the pad is that the 22-foot-tall engine compartment probably would have to be removed, a difficult task never done there before. ANOTHER OPTION would be to take Discovery to a hangar and replace the compartment as soon as possible with one being prepared for a November flight by Atlantis. Such a move would eliminate the need to wait for a leak repair, and could cut the launch delay to about a month. Hying with the leak is a possibility, “but we would have to assure ourselves that it would be absolutely safe,” Sieck said. Discovery is being grooomed to make the first shuttle mission since Challenger exploded Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members. Five veteran shuttle astronauts are to make the four-day flight.

possibility that Bush may have worked for the agency more than a decade before he became its director. Ms. Basso said the other George Bush not the George Herbert Walker Bush who is vice president worked on the night watch at CIA headquarters. “(THIS) WOULD have been the appropriate place to have received such an FBI report This was apparently the George Bush referred to in (the “Nation”) article,” she said. George William Bush left the CIA m 1964 to work for the Defense Intelligence Agency, which he has since left. His current whereabouts are unknown, the CIA official said.

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