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U.S. force expansion depends on troop fortification by Iraq

WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon is sending additional troops to Saudi Arabia partly to counter a recent hardening of Iraq’s defenses in occupied Kuwait, officials say. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said Thursday that more American Gls possibly as many as 100,000 will be shipped to the Saudi desert to join the 220,000 U.S. forces already in the Persian Gulf area following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2. HE SAID NO FINAL decision has been made on which additional units will be sent. Cheney and other officials said the troop addition does not signal a switch in U.S. policy from defending against a possible Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia to laying the groundwork for an offensive against Iraq. Cheney said the extra troops, som? of which may come from U.S. bases in Germany that are scheduled to close, will give U.S. military authorities more leverage in dealing with Iraq’s huge army, which includes an estimated 3,500 tanks in Kuwait. “OUR DECISION TO add forces results from Iraq’s almost doubling of forces in Kuwait and southern Iraq from approximately 265,000 in early September to about 430,000 today,” the Pentagon said in a statement released after Cheney disclosed the decision in television interviews. Iraqi President “Saddam Hussein continues to fortify his positions in

Miners vote to form first Soviet union

DONETSK, U.S.S.R. (AP) A nationwide congress of coal miners put aside divisions today and adopted a plan by radical miners to form the Soviet Union’s first independent trade union. The new Independent Trade Union of Miners has a potential

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membership of 2 million miners and could evolve into a powerful new political and economic force with power over energy supplies. THE MINERS HAVE comprised the most unified labor group in organizing protests and strikes. Their walkout in 1989 threatened to leave much of the country without fuel. The 900 delegates meeting in this industrial Ukrainian city vowed today to push ahead with demands for workers’ rights and better living conditions. Delegates said they were prepared to strike again to enforce their demands, but not until after the legislature of the Russian republic, now in session in Moscow, has had time to act on their complaints. “THE MAJORITY is for creating a new union, but there is a minority that believes in the survival of the old (official) union,” said Konstantin Fesenko, a miner from Donetsk, the heart of a major coal region 600 miles southwest of Moscow. The government-sponsored National Congress of Trade Unions

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“It’s the wrong size force,” the Wisconsin Democrat said. “It’s too big to stay there and too small to attack.” Echoing Cheney’s remarks, CIA Director William Webster said Thursday that Saddam was greatly improving the quality of his defenses in Kuwait, making any U.S. offensive operation more problematic and costly. PENTAGON SPOKESMAN Pete Williams told reporters the Iraqi occupation forces were fortifying their positions by digging anti-tank ditches, laying mines and building berms, or earthen walls, to

voted on Wednesday in Moscow to disband and form a voluntary association of unions, but the miners said they weren’t interested in joining. “The old and new at some point may negotiate to come together, but the current apparatchiks in the old union must go first,” Fesenko said. DELEGATES TODAY voted 525-11 with 40 abstentions to accept a detailed plan for a new confederation of independent mine unions. The plan was drawn up by radical miners based in Siberia’s rich coal fields who started the nationwide strike in 1989. A group of 130 radical miners, fed up with five days of debate, held a separate meeting Thursday night to create a new union with or without their colleagues’ support. “I was happy last night. Now I’m not so sure,” said Vyacheslav Golikov, leader of the Kuzbass Council of Workers’ Committees, which called the meeting. HE SAID HE WAS afraid the congress would water down thenprinciples for the new union, but added “I hope it will still be a success.”

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protect and hide their armor. He said they also were building roads to allow for quick reinforcements. “While the Iraqis have dug in, that is an indication to our analysts not that they have lost the capability to go on the offensive but rather that they don’t show any sign of letting go of Kuwait,” Williams said. Cheney stressed that Bush has not ordered him to prepare for an offensive action against Iraq, but he noted that the president has not ruled out the use of force.

Golikov has been dubbed the Lech Walesa of the Soviet Union for his effort to create a workers’ opposition movement In addition to higher wages, the principles would guarantee job security, give rights to workers to choose their own union leaders and define who could belong to the union. THE PLAN CALLS for regular miners’ congresses and the creation of a representative council and an executive body to coordinate the new union’s actions. The new union would be a confederation, allowing scores of smaller unions to maintain their independence within an umbrella organization. When news of the radical miners’ decision reached the congress this morning, many delegates angrily denounced congress organizers and demanded to join the new union. AFTER A HEATED debate, the congress sent negotiators to talk with the new union. They agreed to create a temporary organizing committee to prepare the first congress of the independent union. No date was set The 1989 miners’ strikes began with demands for better working and living conditions but quickly escalated to include demands for regional economic autonomy for the main mining regions. The government persuaded the miners to return to work by promising to meet most of their demands.

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How to put Saddam i ‘back in his box’ is the charge to ClA’s Webster

WASHINGTON (AP) The Middle East won’t be safe until Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is contained, says CIA Director William Webster. The Bush administration is reluctant to see Saddam remain in power regardless of what happens in Kuwait, Webster suggested Thursday. “Can you put him back in his box?” he asked. OFFICIALS HAVE “no real confidence that the area will ever be secure again as long as he (Saddam) is still there” unless he is “disassociated” from his weapons, Webster said. A regional peacekeeping force would be the best way to east tensions in the long term, he said. Saddam has amassed one of the largest military machines in the world. He also possesses chemical weapons and reportedly is developing nuclear weapons. U.S. officials estimate he has 400,000 troops in or around Kuwait, which he invaded Aug. 2. Because of Saddam’s tight security operation, any successful effort to oust him likely would have to come from his small inner circle, CIA officials have said. SADDAM HAS ruthlessly squashed dissidents, killing them or frightening them into exile in London and other world capitals. Webster said, however, there have been some “encouraging reports” of some dissatisfaction with Saddam inside Iraq. Economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations are beginning to take their toll, he said. Iraq’s rigid dictatorship and extensive internal security apparatus make the country a difficult place for U.S. intelligence agents to work, according to Webster and other officials. IF THE CIA WERE to pursue any covert action in Iraq, President Bush would have to sign a “finding” allowing such action. There have been unconfirmed reports that Bush has signed a finding, but neither CIA officials nor congressional sources would comment on such a secret document. The term “finding” dates from 1973 legislation that says no money can be channeled to covert action unless “the president finds that such an operation is important to the national security of the United States.” FINDINGS MUST be presented to key members of

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