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Gorbachev wins Peace Prize for improving East-West relations

OSLO, Norway (AP) President Mikhail S. Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize today for his decisive role in the dramatic rapprochement between East and West leadership that helped end the Cold War, free the East bloc and slow the arms race. In awarding the 59-year-old Soviet leader the $700,000 prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee also cited him for allowing greater openness in his homeland. GORBACHEV SAID today the prize the first to a superpower chief executive since President Woodrow Wilson won in 1919 recognized the success of perestroika his government’s reform policies. “Words fail one at such moments. I am moved,” the official Soviet news agency Tass quoted Gorbachev as saying. “When we were starting our perestroika,” Gorbachev said, “we knew that it would have vast significance to all countries.” He said he will personally accept the award in Oslo. IN ITS CITIATION, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said it decided to give Gorbachev the prize “for his leading role in the peace process.” The committee noted “dramatic changes” have occurred over the past few years in the relationship between East and West, saying: “Confrontation has been replaced by negotiations. Old European nation states have regained freedom. The arms race is slowing down and we see a definite and active process in the direction of arms control and disarmament” The committee said several factors played a role in the historic changes, but this year it was singling out Gorbachev “for his many and decisive contributions. ” “THIS PEACE PROCES,” the citation said, “...opens up new possibilities for the world community to solve its pressing problems across ideological, religious, his-

Saddam reportedly may compromise on Kuwait

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PRESIDENT MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Freed the Eastern Bloc, slowed the arms race

torical and cultural dividing lines.” Gidske Anderson, leader of the Nobel Committee, refused to say il the prize was meant to help Gorbachev stay in power, as the same domestic policies that have democratized political life also have led to instability. “If you will read the text you will see we are talking mainly about international policy,” Ms. Anderson said. ‘THE BIG THING THAT is happening in the world is the reconciliation of the superpowers. We are very happy to come with a laureate who has such great significance.” Gorbachev is the second Soviet •to win the Peace Prize. The first 'was nuclear scientist and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov, who won in 1975. Sakharov, who

of hostility, and a Soviet news agency says Saddam Hussein has indicated a willingness to withdraw from Kuwait if he is allowed to keep some territory. The renewed ties with Iran could help Iraq circumvent the U.N.-or-dered embargo on trade with Baghdad, prolonging the desert stalemate and dampening the resolve of members of the international alliance arrayed against it ALSO ON SUNDAY, A special flight arrived in Baghdad to take home more than 100 Soviet military advisers and oil workers, diplomats said from the Iraqi capital. Prior to its invasion of Kuwait, Baghdad relied on Moscow for the bulk of its advanced weaponry. Soviet diplomats said the 180 advisers who remain in Iraq could leave when their contracts expire unless they opt to depart sooner. Iraq threatened last week to restrict the travel of Soviet military

died in December, could not accept the award for 14 years until Gorbachev freed him from internal exile and allowed him to travel. Sakharov’s widow Yelena Bonner, criticized Gorbachev last week in a Norwegian newspaper, comparing him to Napoleon, who conquered Europe and made himself an emperor. Today she had no comment on Gorbachev’s win. HOWEVER, IN Washington today, President Bush praised Gorbachev, saying the United States “continues to work with the Soviet Union to promote regional and international peace.” “President Mikhail Gorbachev has been a courageous force for peaceful change in the world,” Bush said. “East-West relations hold greater promise for peace and world stability today than at any

advisers if their government disclosed any of its military secrets to the United States. In other developments: • IN LONDON, THE Independent on Sunday reported that Libya was negotiating for Iraq to purchase a highly explosive bomb from a Chilean arms manufacturer. A company official confirmed the report The “fuel air explosives” weapon has been described as “the poor man’s nuclear bomb.” • Kuwaiti opposition figures meeting in Jiddah, Saudia Arabia, with their govemment-in-exile and said they wanted guarantees of democratic reform in a future liberated Kuwait. Kuwaiti activists were demanding a Western-style parliament when Iraq invaded. • NEWSPAPERS IN Cairo reported that police had arrested dozens of Arabs and Egyptian Moslem extremists in their investigation of the assassination of Parliament Speaker Rifaat el-Mahgoub on

Kohl, Christian Democrats stronger than ever in first German elections

BERLIN (AP) Chancellor Helmut Kohl has secured his party’s power in eastern Germany 12 days after unity, with the Christian Democrats sweeping elections in four of five new states, projections showed today. As a result of Sunday’s conserva-

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time in the last 45 years.” Yigor Ligachev, No. 2 in the Soviet government from 1985-88 and one of Gorbachev’s main rivals, told Norwegian television in Moscow the Nobel Committee’s decision was welcomed. “IT MEANS WE ARE finally met with confidence in the world,” he said. President Vaclev Havel of Czechoslovakia, who had been considered a leading candidate for the prize, said: “Mikhail Gorbachev contributed significantly to the acceleration of the inevitable changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and certainly deserves the prize. If this prize contributes to the peaceful and quiet transition of the Soviet Union to a society of equal nations and citizens, we welcome it warmly.” IN ITS CITATION, the Nobel Committee said the “greater openness” Gorbachev “has brought about in Soviet society has also helped promote international trust.” However, the changes Gorbachev has encouraged at home have been accompanied by bloody ethnic conflicts in Armenia, Azerbaijan and other areas. And his economic reforms the transformation to a market-based system is still far off have led to shortages of consumer goods. The prize was endowed by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, and has been awarded since 1901. He established four other prizes, in medicine, literature, physics and chemistry, which are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. THE NOBEL MEMORIAL Prize in Economic Science, established by the Central Bank of Sweden in 1968, will be awarded Tuesday. The Nobel physics and chemistry prizes will be awarded Wednesday.

Friday. They said they included at least 25 Palestinians and Iraqis. Egypt has been a key Arab participant in the multinational military force standing up to Saddam in the Persian Gulf, but Iraq denied any involvement in the killing of el-Mahgoub, his driver and four security men. IRAN AND IRAQ HAVE reopened embassies in each other’s capitals, resuming diplomatic relations after a decade of hostility, Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Sunday. The Iraqi charge d’affaires took up his post Sunday and his Iranian counterpart was to leave for Baghdad shortly, the agency said. The exchange comes two years after a U.N.-brokered cease-fire halted hostilities in the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, which by conservative estimates resulted in more than a million casualties. TEHRAN HAS OFFICIALLY condemned Saddam’s Aug. 2 inva-

five win, the opposition Social Democrats appeared likely to lose their thin majority in the upper house of Parliament and with it the chance to influence national policy. KOHL’S PARTY LEADS a coalition that already controls the more powerful lower house of Par-

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Singapore’s leader blames the press for Tiananmen massacre

HONG KONG (AP) Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore lashed out at the media today, blaming television for the bloody crackdown on China’s pro-democracy movement and the Western press for the fluctuations in Hong Kong’s stock exchange. Lee also defended his country’s rigid restrictions on foreign media, accusing newspapers such as the Asian Wall Street Journal, of interfering in Singapore’s domestic politics. IN A RELATED development, Dow Jones & Co., the majority owners of Asian Wall Street Journal, announced that it was halting circulation of the newspaper in Singapore because of new restrictions on the foreign press. He said China’s students, who took to the streets by the hundreds of thousands in the spring of 1989, were seduced by television into believing they could change China. “I BELIEVE IT IS this contextless television experience that led to the tragedy of Tiananmen on June 4,” he said. On that day, soldiers marched on Beijing and crushed the movement by driving thousands of students from Tiananmen Square. Hundreds of unarmed civilians were killed. Lee said students in China for years had watched Chinese news reports on demonstrations in the Philippines and student protests in South Korea. “China’s students forgot that China was a very different country from either the Philippines or South Korea, two countries with close links to the United States where the media and Congress wield immense influence,” he said. LEE ALSO CRITICIZED the students for not compromis-

sion of Kuwait and called for his withdrawal. But it has also condemned the buildup of Western forces in Saudi Arabia since the invasion. Saddam is believed to be seeking Iranian help in circumventing the U.N. embargo imposed to force him out of Kuwait. Food shipments are reported to have reached Iraq from Iran across the countries’ 730mile border. Some sources say Iran has agreed to trade refined oil for food. A Soviet news agency reported Sunday that Saddam indicated to a visiting Soviet official last week that he might be willing to remove his troops from Kuwait if he is allowed to keep certain real estate. THE AGENCY NAMED the lands as the Kuwaiti section of the Rumaillah oilfield, which straddles the Kuwaiti-Iraq border, and Warba and Bubiyan islands, near the Iraqi border and just off the Kuwaiti coast in the gulf.

liament, or Bundestag. Representation in the legislation-reviewing upper house, or Bundesrat, is based on parties’ electoral performance in statewide elections. Sunday’s vote was seen as a prelude to nationwide parliamentary elections on Dec. 2 the first united German vote in 60 years and the fourth this year in what was still East Germany just weeks ago. Projections by the ZDF television network showed the Social Democrats defeating the Christian Democrats only in Brandenburg state, where Kohl’s strength could not carry the unpopular conservative candidate. THE CHRISTIAN Democrats seemed poised to win an absolute majority in Saxony and the most votes in Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Lower Pomerania. Elections were also held Sunday in the former West German state of Bavaria, where the Christian Socialists, sister party in Kohl’s coalition, retained their absolute majority. Kohl, the politician most credited with uniting Germany, is favored in the December elections. BUT SIX WEEKS before the

ing with China’s hard-line leaders. “If they had been patient and circumspect, they could have contributed over 10 years to the gradual opening up of the system, which had already started,” he said. Lee was to travel to Beijing on Tuesday, his fifth visit since 1976. China and Singapore normalized relations in August. In his speech, Lee also blasted the foreign press in Hong Kong for trying “to foist Western values” on the British colony. HE BLAMED THE foreign press for causing large drops on Hong Kong’s stock market, which was rocked by the Tiananmen killings. “Much of the gyrations ... could have been lessened if the Western press based in Hong Kong had not crusaded for their vision of democracy in Hong Kong,” he said. Hong Kong reverts to Chinese rule in 1997 and many in the territory fear that Beijing will not keep its promise to maintain the colony’s freewheeling political and economic system for 50 years following the takeover. LEE DID NOT DEFINE what he meant by foreign press, but it appeared he was referring to Dow Jones’ Asian Wall Street Journal and its Far Eastern Economic Review. The two English-language publications have been the sharpest critics in the territory of both China and Britain in the run-up to 1997. The 67-year-old prime minister has had a running battle with both publications and has often accused them of interfering in Singapore’s internal affairs. Lee said the Journal's move to stop circulating Asian Wall Street Journal in Singapore was of little consequence. Singapore already restricts the Journal’s circulation to 400 copies a day.

An editor at the official Iraqi News Agency denied Sunday that Iraq had made any such offer. The Soviet government-run Novosti Press Agency, in a dispatch published Sunday by the labor newspaper Rabochaya Tribuna, said Saddam made the comments in talks with Yevgeny Primakov, a top Kremlin aide. SADDAM CLAIMED when he invaded Kuwait that the emirate was stealing oil that belonged to Baghdad through vigorous exploitation of the Rumaillah field and that Kuwait’s monarchy was illegitimate. He was also known before the invasion to have his sights on Warba and Bubiyan, which would provide Iraq with key sea links. Saddam has also linked a gulf settlement to Israeli withdrawal from territories claimed by the Palestinians.

balloting and with the economic situation in eastern Germany deteriorating, Kohl was careful not to appear triumphant. “T he Dec. 2 elections have not been won. The results will come on Dec. 2,” Kohl said on television. “But we are in a good starting position.” Oskar Lafontaine, the Social Democratic challenger, conceded that the situation looked “favorable” for the Kohl government. The Social Democrats have criticized the Christian Democrats for the speed and cost of unification. Their own program calls primarily for better environmental protection. KOHL HAD CAMPAIGNED extensively on behalf of conservative candidates in Sunday’s elections, which gave eastern Germans state legislatures and ended decades of centralized Communist control. Concerns among eastern Germans about their economic security as their homeland converts to capitalism from a planned system dominated the brief election campaign.