Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 286, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 August 1990 — Page 2
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THE BANNERGRAPHIC August 9,1990
Quayle concludes Latin trip today
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA (AP) Vice President Dan Quayle concludes his Latin American journey today, insisting that the United States has “zero” intention of involving its military forces in operations against the cocaine trade. “Let no one say ... that there are military operations by the United States of America in this effort,” Quayle told a news conference Wednesday night. “The United States has no intention of (undertaking) military operations. Zero.” LATIN AMERICAN sensitivity on that point drew the question of military involvement repeatedly as Quayle visited
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Bogota, Colombia; Lima, Peru, then La Paz. He got a public welcome there, his first after the rigorous security that surrounded him in the other two Andean capitals, both plagued by violence. Crowds lined the La Paz streets to see him, and applauded him as he stepped from his limousine for conferences with President Jaime Paz Zamora and other Bolivian officials. Quayle was flying on to Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s second city, for a refueling stop and a conference with Gen. Hugo Banzer, a former military dictator who now shares power with Paz Zamora, himself a former Marxist.
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U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia mushroom as anxiety mounts over Arab support
WASHINGTON (AP) The American military presence in and near Saudi Arabia mushroomed today, even as anxiety grew over the lack of clear support from other Arab nations for the effort to force Iraqi troops from Kuwait. “If it appears that it’s the United States and Saudi Arabia versus the rest of the Arab world, then that is not going to be in our long-term interest or Saudi Arabia’s interest,” Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman San Nunn said today. “SO THIS IS A a crucial period right now and I’m hoping the Arab summit will decide that they have a responsibility to defend their own region,” the Georgia Democrat told NBC. While expressing support for President Bush’s deployment of the American forces, Nunn cautioned that “a long-term, protracted presence of 50,000 to 100,000 people is in my view not desirable either militarily or certainly psychologically or politically in that part of the world.” But as Arab leaders met in Egypt to mull a response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and the burgeoning force of U.S. combat troops took up defensive positions in the
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Saudi desert one of Nunn’s colleagues expressed skepticism the Arab leaders would join the U.S. effort. “I’M NOT OPTOMISTIC about an Arab summit,” said Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine, noting the presence of Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi at the gathering. The effort to win regional support for its campaign against Iraq’s Saddam Hussein has the United States sounding out unlikely partners including Iran, Syria and the Soviet Union. Also, Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 was in Turkey today for consultations with its leaders. Sources said Turkey was seeking compensation for revenues lost in its decision to shut down two pipelines that carry Iraqi oil. As the diplomatic efforts unfolded, President Bush expressed optimism that new pressure would
Rebels ransack Nigerian embassy
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) Rebels who oppose intervention by West African forces in Liberia’s civil war ransacked Nigeria’s Embassy, pushing out hundreds of refugees, a relief organization said today. Meanwhile, on the border of this chaotic, war-ravaged nation, West African peacekeeping troops gathered and prepared to move in to impose a cease-fire. The attack Wednesday on Nigeria’s Embassy raises tensions in the region two days after leaders of the West African Economic Community decided to send troops to end the 7-month-old civil war. REBELS FIGHTING for Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front, which opposes the foreign intervention, forced hundreds of Nigerians taking refuge in the embassy compound into the streets of Monrovia, said the Belgian relief group Doctors Without Borders. Dr. Johan Heffinck, who is running the only operating hospital in Monrovia, reported the ransacking in a patchy radio communication to his headquarters in Brussels, according to Beatrice Logie, a spokeswoman for the group. She spoke in a telephone interview from Brussels. “They plundered the embassy and forced the refugees out,” she said. It was not clear whether anyone was injured, but she said
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force Saddam to abandon his conquest of Kuwait and his threatening military position on the Saudi border. “THERE ARE SOME indications that he’s already beginning to feel the pinch,” Bush said at a news conference Wednesday. “Nobody can stand up forever to total economic deprivation.” The stakes are high. Saudi Arabia provided 7 percent of U.S. oil last year, and Bush is counting on increased Saudi production to make up the loss of Iraqi and Kuwaiti supplies. “A line has been drawn in the sand,” Bush declared as U.S. warplanes and ground forces arrived in Saudi Arabia. However, he said, “We’re not in a war.” TOP U.S. MILITARY officials refused to reveal the size of the president’s commitment to Saudi defense, but some diplomatic
she thought not. ON WEDNESDAY the rival rebel forces of Taylor and Prince Johnson waged bruising street battles in Monrovia with each other and with forces loyal to President Samuel K. Doe, who remains holed up in his mansion in Monrovia. Johnson on Wednesday freed the last of dozens of foreign hostages, including one American, he had seized earlier in the week. Johnson’s threat on Saturday to begin rounding up Americans and other foreigners prompted hundreds of U.S. Marines to enter Liberia from Navy ships offshore to rescue Americans. Taylor had threatened to attack any international force that might intervene, saying it would be trying to prop up Doe’s government. But this week his envoys told an African summit in Gambia that he might accept the force. DIPLOMATS, SPEAKING on condition of anonymity, said Wednesday that 2,000 West African troops were being sent to Monrovia by sea from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. Military sources in Freetown said Wednesday that soldiers of the international force were on standby at the Sierra Leone coastal village of Sulina, 10 miles from the Liberian border. Reports from the Nigerian capital, Lagos, said troops also
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based in Norfolk, Va., is scheduled to go to the Persian Gulf region, Pentagon officials said. (AP photo)
sources put the troop level at about 30,000 and several other estimates ranged up to 50,000. On the first day of deployment, at least 5,000 ground troops were being dispatched, officials said, backed by an armada of air and seapower. Another 4,000 Marines were moved close to the Saudi-Kuwait border, diplomatic sources said. No one was guessing how long they would be away from home. “The situation’s uncertain. We don’t know how long it will last. We don’t know when it will end,” Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said. Secretary of State Baker told reporters the Soviet Union sent naval forces to the Persian Gulf for use in any international blockade to enforce a United Nations trade embargo following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait last week.
might be airlided into Monrovia, Liberia’s capital. THE DIPLOMATS said most of the troops would come from Nigeria, the region’s most powerful nation. Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida said Wednesday the troops would try to impose a truce and would use force if need be. The five-nation force was to be led by Lt. Gen. Arnold Quainoo of Ghana, a Cabinet minister who used to command the army, according to Ghana’s government. Other nations sending soldiers are Guinea, Sierra Leone and Togo. The decision to form the force was announced Tuesday at the end of an emergency summit in Gambia of the West African Economic Community. Babangida suggested the West African leaders also hoped for some form of U.S. intervention. THE 16-NATION West African Economic Community, of which Liberia is a member, has asked the international community to help pay costs of the peacekeepers and proposed general and presidential elections in Liberia, estimated at SSO million. The 7-month war began when Taylor led an insurgent force across the border from the Ivory Coast, accusing Doe of corruption and mismanagement The war has since turned into a largely tribal conflict, with both sides accused of killing hundreds of civilians from opposing tribes. In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the foreigners freed by Johnson on Wednesday were back at a hotel. He said they include one American, whom he identified only as Chris Mendez.
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