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THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 8,1990

British fire first shots in the Gulf; executions end Kuwaiti resistance

By the Associated Press r British, Australian and American warships fired warning shots today across the bow of an Iraqi freighter, halting then searching it in enforcing the U.N.-ordered embargo on frade with Iraq. The warning shots were fired in the Gulf of Oman outside the Persian Gulf, and marked the first time a, British warship has fired a shot in enforcing the embargo. They also evinced a new teamwork in the naval blockade’s operations. , THE IRAQIS ALLOWED more Kuwaitis to flee their captive homeland and newly arrived refugees on the border in Khafji, Saudi Arabia, told bleak tales of life in their capital. • One said Sunday that resistance to Iraqi forces virtually ended after the occupiers began executing suspected resistance members, sometimes in front of their families. In Israel, the military has started handing out gas masks to protect all 4.7 million Israelis from a feared chemical attack by Iraq. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has threatened to attack Israel if war breaks out, and he has said he would use chemical weapons. : - IN THE GULF OF OMAN today, four frigates the HMS Battleaxe, HMS London, AHMS Adelaide and USS Reasoner fired the warning shots across the bow of the Al-Wasitti when it refused to stop for an inspection, the British Ministry of Defense announced.

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Two U.S. choppers missing

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) Two U.S. Marine helicopters with eight men aboard were missing in the Gulf of Oman today, the Navy said. The two UH-1 helicopters were on a “routine night training mission” when they disappeared about dawn, said Cmdr. J.D. van Sickle, a Navy spokesman. “RADAR AND VOICE 4 - ‘Radar and voice contact was lost” at 5:13 a.m., van Sickle said. “Search and rescue efforts are currently under way.” He said the Navy had no idea what had happened to the helicopters. Each helicopter carried two pilots and two crew members. Their identities were withheld pending completion of the Navy’s search in the Gulf of

Royal Marines from the Battleaxe and London then boarded the 5,885-ton vessel, with a Coast Guard team from the Reasoner following them, the ministry said in London. “It is the first incident where we have fired shots across the bows,” and the first boarding involving Royal Navy units, said a ministry spokesman, who cannot be identified under British rules. THE 380-FOOT-LONG AlWasitti was intercepted about 60 miles northeast of Muscat, outside the Strait of Hormuz that forms the mouth of the Persian Gulf. It was allowed to continue when the search showed it to be empty. It proceeded on its way to the Strait of Hormuz and presumably north through the Persian Gulf to Iraq, the ministry said. U.S. warships had been playing a dominant role in enforcing the

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Oman, which is east of the Persian Gulf. The helicopters were operating from the carrier USS Okinawa, one of more than a dozen ships deployed in Operation Desert Shield. THE U.S. FORCES were deployed in Saudi Arabia and nearby waterways after Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2. Since then, five American military personnel have been killed in accidents. Two Air Force F-16 pilots were lulled in a crash Sept. 30, a soldier and a Marine died in vehicle accidents, and a sailor was electrocuted in an accident aboard a ship in the Persian Gulf. There have been five previous helicopter mishaps, none causing deaths or serious injuries.

U.N.-ordered naval blockade, which seeks to pressure Saddam into ending his two-month-old occupation of Kuwait. BUT IN RECENT weeks, British, Canadian, Australian and Spanish warships have joined in the interceptions in the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Red Sea. The United States has the largest number of warships in the region and American ships alone have challenged nearly 2,000 commercial ships by radio to inquire about their destination and cargo. In only a handful of cases have warning shots been fired, the first by U.S. warships inside the Persian Gulf on Aug. 18. About 130 ships have been boarded and a few have been diverted, mainly by the U.S. vessels. ISSA EL-NASRALLAH, a former Kuwaiti Health Ministry employee who crossed the border

Despite divided House, Democrats push through their budget compromise plan

WASHINGTON (AP) Congress, seeking to head off the chaotic effects of a government shutdown, met in a rare holiday session today as lawmakers weighed a Democratic compromise budget that would scale back proposed increases in Medicare fees. The House, weary and bitterly divided, passed the new budget plan well after midnight and sent it along to the Senate. To offset the Medicare savings and still achieve a SSOO billion deficit reduction, the proposal could lead to tax increases

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at Khafji on Sunday, said the Iraqis were forcing out Kuwaitis out of their homeland to “isolate the resistance.” He said acts of resistance had stopped in Kuwait City since the Iraqis began killing anyone suspected of belonging to the resistance, many in front of their families. His charges came as several hundred more Kuwaiti refugees arrived Sunday at the Khafji crossing. IN THE ISRAELI TOWN of Yoqneam, one of three where the government began handing out gas masks on Sunday, residents trickled into schools to watch military officials demonstrate use of the masks and poison antidotes. The classrooms were festooned with the handiwork of pupils, and children received colored gas masks to help ease their fears. “It’s colorful and pretty so the child should not get afraid,” said an instructor, holding up a red-and-yellow gas mask for infants. MEANWHILE, WORLD leaders kept up diplomatic efforts to achieve a peaceful solution to the crisis, precipitated by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2. Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu of Japan traveled to Oman on Sunday after a two-day visit with King Faud in Saudi Arabia. Kaifu arrived in the Mideast last week to offer financial help to front-line states Turkey, Jordan and Egypt and to seek a political solution. Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat met King Hussein in Jordan and said a peace initiative on the gulf crisis was being formulated according to the plan proposed by Saddam. On Aug. 12, Saddam said he would discuss withdrawing from Kuwait if the Israelis also withdrew from the occupied territories.

even beyond the original $134 billion proposal. THE SENATE HAS BEEN marking time ever since the House voted down the bipartisan agreement put together last week by President Bush and congressional leaders. Senators were convening this afternoon in hopes agreement could be reached before the government shutdown takes hold Tuesday, after the Columbus Day weekend. The most noticeable effect of the shutdown during the weekend was the locked doors on the Smithsonian museums in Washington and closed parks and recreational facilities across the nation. But Tuesday, a government shutdown would take wide effect, sending hundreds of thousands of federal workers home on unpaid furlough, and their services to the public stopped. IN AN ATTEMPT to avoid this, Democrats sought to develop a plan acceptable to the Senate and Bush and popular enough to gain the support of rank-and-file members who rejected the original plan. Senate leaders signalled they could accept the House plan. “I want the process to move ahead,” said Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., who called it a “very small departure” from the original bipartisan package. After bitter debate, the House plan was approved 250-164 and the House then worked until 3:45 this morning to approve, 305-105, an emergency spending bill that would end the government shutdown that began Saturday when spending authority ran out. BUSH HAD VETOED a previous emergency bill, but it wasn’t clear what course he would

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Shiites expected to release hostages from Britain soon

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) A Beirut newspaper today quoted diplomats as saying final arrangements were being made for the release of British hostages believed held by Shiite Moslem extremists in Lebanon. It was the latest in a series of reports predicting some would be freed this week. IN A RELATED development, a British newspaper quoted a Shiite leader in Lebanon as saying the future of Western hostages should no longer be linked to that of Arab prisoners. The paper, the Independent, said the statement could herald a breakthrough in efforts to secure the release of the 13 Westerners missing and believed held hostage in Lebanon by pro-Iranian Shiite fundamentalists. A series of news reports have predicted the release of foreign hostages following the restoration of British and Iranian diplomatic ties in late September after an interruption of 19 months. THE TIES WERE broken during the dispute over Iranian death threats against British novelist Salman Rushdie. President Hashemi Rafsanjani of Iran apparently has been seeking to free the hostages to help improve relations with the West following the June 1989 death of his country’s fundamentalist patriarch, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Rafsanjani has been opposed by radicals in his own government. The leftist Beirut newspaper, As-Safir, today quoted unidentified diplomats as saying the release of the British captives “awaits the proper time.” But it said arrangements for freeing them have been put “on a hot burner.” IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE to

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take today. House Republicans voted against the Democratic plan, 136-32. Democratic leaders had redrawn the original bipartisan budget to entice more liberals from their majority party, and they gave it overwhelming support and passed it despite fractured Republican opposition. “With all my heart, I believe the country is at stake. These deficits cannot go on,” said House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., culminating the debate on the revised budget. BECAUSE OF THE budget dispute, Congress and the president have failed to enact the constitu-tionally-required spending bills for fiscal 1991, which began Oct. 1. Bush began shutting down the government at 12:01 a.m. Saturday and then, saying he wanted to keep pressure on for budget action, vetoed an attempt by Congress to

verify the report. The paper is known to maintain close links with leftist and fundamentalist Shiite factions. The Beirut paper said the fate of the foreign hostages also depends on the Lebanese government extending its authority to “greater Beirut,” which includes the southern slums. Those slums, where most of the Westerners are believed held, are a stronghold for the proIranian Hezbollah, or Party of God, the umbrella group for the captors. THE SYRIAN-BACKED government of President Elias Hrawi has pledged to spread its authority over all of Beirut as a step toward ending the 15-year civil war. In another report, the conservative newspaperAd-Diyar said Sunday that an unidentified Iranian envoy had arrived in Beirut to complete preparations for freeing Anglican church envoy Terry Waite “in the next few days.” Arab sources in Syria said Sunday that Syrian officials were making strenuous efforts to free some Westerners missing in Lebanon. ONE COURSE, SPEAKING on condition of anonymity, said Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa was trying hard “to resolve the issue but was encountering unexpected obstacles.” He did not elaborate, but he noted that Sharaa was expected to meet soon with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati to discuss the issue. Ad-Diyar said Waite’s release was expected to be “the preface to releasing all British hostages in Lebanon.”

enact a temporary spending bill to keep the government open while budget talks continued. The White House sent word that Bush would accept a temporary spending bill in absence of a budget agreement if it included a pro-rata share of the savings contained in the failed bipartisan budget. But Democrats rejected that feature in a 224-186 vote. THERE WAS NO WORD early today whether Bush would find acceptable the new budget or the new stopgap bill, which would continue government operations through Oct. 20. The House planned to return to session this evening in case further action was needed to end the shutdown. The new budget was similar overall to the plan worked out by White House and congressional negotiators in more than four months of talks. It promises SSOO billion in deficit reduction, S4O billion in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, the same as in the bipartisan package that failed in the House last Friday despite strong backing from the president. BUT WHILE THE original plan called for S6O billion in Medicare fee increases and cuts in payments to hospitals and providers, the new plan would cut that by a third half of which might be made up with new taxes. That could bring the total of new taxes to $145 billion over the next five years. The original plan outlined a specific tax program including new levies on gasoline, fuel oil, cigarettes, alcohol and other items. The Democratic version leaves the specifics for later and opens the door to other possibilities including Bush’s demand for a cut in the capital gains tax and Democratic insistence on a hike in taxes on the rich. BUT IN THE HOUSE, Democrats drafted the plan themselves and Republicans chafed as they were too divided to devise an alternative. It set the stage for a bloody, partisan end to the 101st Congress as lawmakers and the White House try to translate vague budget language into bills and then law. The debate provided a preview as Republicans in the debate blasted Democrats for tailoring the plan for its party’s priorities, and Democrats responded.