Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 42, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 October 1990 — Page 3
Iraqi ship fired on; British hostages to be released
By the Associated Press American and Australian warships today halted and boarded an Iraqi freighter that had sailed out of the Persian Gulf after ignoring warning shots and defying orders to return to Iraq, a U.S. military spokesman said. The 5,200-ton vessel was stopped as it sailed through the Gulf of Oman toward the Arabian Sea. It had been shadowed during the night by U.S. and Italian warships, said Cmdr. J.D. Van Sickle, a Navy spokesman. THE OPERATION WENT fluidly with “no shots fired, no resistance met, 1 ’ Van Sickle said. He said the boarding was “still in progress” and “the crew of the Iraqi ship is cooperating with the boarding party.” The boarding team included 15 men from the Australian missile frigate HMAS Adelaide and 11 from the American frigate USS Reasoner, Van Sickle said. The ship had been sailing southward toward the port of Aden in Yemen, where there are strong sympathies for President Saddam Hussein and his struggle with the
300 anti-war protestors march at Ft. Ben
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Blood is more precious than oil, argue Hoosier protesters of the U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf. More than 300 demonstrators marched Sunday to Fort Benjamin Harrison, where they took up positions opposite military policemen before being asked to disperse. ‘THE BEST WAY TO support our troops in Saudi Arabia was to get them home alive, not in body bags,” said Tim Quigley, president of the board of the Indianapolis Peace Center, which organized the march. Organizers had agreed with military officials not to trespass at the fort, but the crowd inadvertently marched about 150 yards inside the reservation on East 56th Street and chanted slogans such as “No blood for oil!”
TB is making a ‘shameful’ comeback
ATLANTA (AP) Tuberculosis, dreaded by earlier generations as much as AIDS is feared now, is headed for its biggest increase on record in the United States. And the comeback is blamed in part on AIDS. Reported cases of TB in 1990 are up 9 percent compared to a year ago, when the disease reversed a decade of decline, the Centers for Disease Control reported. TUBERCULOSIS, AN often lethal disease, affected millions before drugs to combat it were developed about three decades ago. “It was forgotten, but not gone,” Donald Kopanoff, associate director of the CDC’s Division of Tuberculosis, said last week. “It ought not to be turning around and going up. That is a terrible shame.” TB germs’ ability to prey on people weakened by HIV, the AIDS virus, is contributing to the dramatic comeback, he said. “The fact of the matter is, until we get a better handle on the HIV problem, the incidence of TB is probably going to increase before it starts decreasing,” Kopanoff said. “It’s going to get worse before it gets better.” AIDS, WHICH CRIPPLES victims’ immune system, makes people especially susceptible to TB, along with a host of other ailments. Through the first 41 weeks of 1990, the CDC has received preliminary reports of 18,142 TB cases, a 9 percent rise over the same point in 1989. At that rate, the nation could have more than 25,400 tuberculosis cases this year, the most since 1982.
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West over Iraq’s annexation of Kuwait. ALSO TODAY, OIL prices in London fell nearly three dollars a barrel to below the S3O a barrel mark. North Sea Brent Blend for December delivery fell to $29.10 early this afternoon from $32.40 late Friday. Since the Persian Gulf crisis began, oil prices have fluctuated wildly on world markets, reaching above S4O a barrel at times, compared with pre-crisis levels of $22 a barrel. In another development, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak traveled to Saudi Arabia on his first overseas trip since Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2. MUBARAK, WHOSE country is the leading Arab contributor to the U.S.-led multinational forces confronting Iraq, was expected to visit with his troops and King Fahd, then travel to other allied capitals in the region. On Sunday, former British Prime Minister Edward Heath said Saddam had promised to release sick and elderly British hostages, and Iraq’s ruling party acknowledged that the U.N. trade embargo is
Two dozen military policemen blocked the street, preventing the marchers from proceeding farther onto the military reservation. The marchers withdrew when Lt. Col. William Carey, the provost marshal and supervisor of the military police, told them they were trespassing on a military reservation. ALL BUT TWO of the demonstrators withdrew immeditely. Quigley eventually persuaded Indiana University students Jason Harmon and Michael Mennonno to move also. Harmon, who was holding a large American flag on a pole, said, “We decided it would detract from the significance of 500 people being here if two people were arrested.” No arrests were made. The Indianapolis protest came on a weekend when activists across
In 1989, reported cases of IB rose 5 percent, “the single largest annual increase since we started counting cases in 1953,” Kopanoff said. ABOUT 5 PERCENT OF Americans with AIDS have active tuberculosis, and in some of the poorest AIDS-infected populations, that figure can approach 40 percent, Kopanoff said. Characterized by debilitating fever and weakness, tuberculosis is an infection usually centered in the lungs. It is caused by bacteria that are present in an estimated 10 million to 15 million Americans. Ninety percent or more of those who are carry the germs will never become ill with tuberculosis. Untreated, the disease kills half its victims within two years. TUBERCULOSIS CAN be transmitted from person to person, often by coughing or sneezing, but sustained, close contact is necessary to spread the disease, CDC doctors say. “Let’s face it,” Kopanoff said. “Persons who are going to get TB
Teen hanged on hayride
LAKEWOOD, NJ. (AP) A teen-ager posing as a hanging victim along the route of a Halloween hayride was found hanged for real, authorities said. Brian Jewell, 17, of Toms River was found dead Saturday night by the driver of the hayride. Police spokesman Ll Howard Patterson said the death appeared to be accidental. The rope was a prop only and
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Gasoline hits $1.47 at pump
LOS ANGELES (AP) The price of a gallon of gasoline rose an additional 2!6 cents in the past two weeks, reaching a national average of $1.4709, an industry analyst says. That’s an increase of more than 40 cents since Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2, ac-
beginning to squeeze the country. To enforce the embargo, a multinational naval force has been patrolling the Persian Gulf. It has searched numerous commercial ships, and in about a dozen cases warships have fired warning shots to halt suspected transgressors. THE LATEST INCIDENT began Saturday, when U.S. Navy and Coast Guard inspectors boarded the Iraqi freighter AlBahar al-Arabi in the Persian Gulf. The ship agreed to turn back to Iraq because its cargo was prohibited under the sanctions. Navy sources said. They said the
the nation mobilized forces to demand the recall of U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia before war with Iraq breaks out. QUIGLEY SAID HIS group’s demonstration was scheduled before the National Coalition to Stop Intervention in the Middle East began its call for nationwide protests. “It shows there is far from unanimous support for (Bush’s) policy,” he said. The Indianapolis Peace Center is a coalition of 25 peace and justice groups in central Indiana, Quigley said. The demonstration drew speakers and supporters from cities including Fort Wayne, Muncie, Kokomo, Bloomington and Chicago. The demonstrators heard protest songs and speakers representing various peace and church groups before beginning the half-mile march from a park to the fort,
are not going to get it by walking down the street and happening to be passing by someone who sneezes.” The nation’s worst TB problem is in Newark, NJ., which last year reported a tuberculosis rate of 66.4 cases per 100,000 residents nearly seven times the national rate of 9.5 cases per 100,000. MIAMI RANKS SECOND among major cities, with a TB rate of 61.4 cases per 100,000 residents, followed by Atlanta at 56.6. Another city with a growing TB problem is New York, where the city’s rate of 36 cases per 100,000 residents prompted a rash of news reports recently, speculating on the average New Yorker’s risk of infection. Despite the rise and considering the large number of TB carriers, tuberculosis remains a comparatively rare disease, Kopanoff said. Even in New York, the disease strikes only one in 2,778 people. “It’s done a remarkable turnaround, but we’re not talking about the plague,” he said.
never should have gone around the boy’s neck, said Lt. Michael Murray, spokesman for the Ocean County prosecutor’s office. A group of hayriders had approached the hanging scene, but Jewell never gave them his haunting pitch, Murray said. It was then that the driver checked on the boy. The ride, featuring costumed performers, was run by Ocean Haunted Hayrides Inc.
cording to the biweekly Lundberg Survey of 13,500 gas stations. The dealers’ margin stands at about 11 cents a gallon, down 2 cents a gallon from before the Middle East crisis, analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday.
5,200-ton ship was carrying plywood and steel pipes. But the freighter continued to sail southward, despite the fact that the O’Brien early Sunday fired three separate volleys of warning shots from its deck and machine guns in an attempt to again halt the vessel, the sources said. THE O’BRIEN AND THE Italian frigate Libeccio shadowed the vessel overnight The Reasoner and the Austrialian HMAS Adelaide halted the ship today in the Gulf of Oman, and parties from both ships boarded the vessel. Heath met with Saddam for three
which is a regional staging ground for troop deployment to the Middle East in Operation Desert Shield. ONE OF THE SPEAKERS was Raj-ae Busailah, a Palestinian exile who teaches literature at Indiana University-Kokomo. Busailah said of the protest, “We hope this is the beginning of the end of this hovering on the brink of this abyss. “We call on the United States, and those powers she has dragged after her ... to withdraw their troops and to negotiate,” he said. At least one protester took issue with Busailah. “I never heard you mention the Kuwaiti dead,” the heckler shouted. The crowd included students, Vietnam veterans, 19605-era activists, children and the elderly. There were some scattered counter-demonstrators.
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hours on Sunday and said later the Iraqi leader had agreed to release an unspecified number of Britons. They were to fly out of Baghdad on Tuesday, Heath said. When he flew to Baghdad on Saturday, the 74-year-old former prime minister said he was on a private mission to win release of 53 British hostages identified as ailing or elderly. HEATH’S TRIP HAS been criticized in Britain, where the government has refused negotiations with Saddam as long as he holds Westerners hostages. Thousands of Westerners are being held in Iraq, some at strategic locations to deter possible attack by the multinational force in the region. The United Nations imposed its trade embargo shortly after Iraq overran Kuwait, and the newspaper of Iraq’s ruling Baath Party said Sunday that the sanctions are beginning to hurt. ’THERE IS NO DOUBT that this policy has direct impact on the individual and the family,” the AlThawra newspaper said. The strongest indication yet that
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Iraq was beginning to feel the effects came last week, when the government announced it would begin rationing gasoline and motor oil on Tuesday. Iraq controls an estimated 20 percent of the world’s oil reserves with its seizure of Kuwait, but Iraq had been importing chemicals used in refining. THE RATIONING indicates the fragility of Iraq’s main industry and brings into question how long it can keep its army running. In other developments: • Diplomats in Baghdad said a letter from Americans and other Westerners detained at strategic sites in Iraq reached a Western Embassy today. In the handwritten note, the captives complained of their treatment, they said. • The official U.A.E. news agency WAM said today a United Arab Emirates Air Force jet crashed during routine exercises, killing the pilot The accident, involving a British-made Hawk trainer jet occurred Sunday, WAM said.
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