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Six sailors die in boiler room accident aboard USS Iwo Jima

By the Associated Press A pipe ruptured today in the boiler room of the USS Iwo Jima in the Persian Gulf, releasing searing steam that killed six American sailors and severely injured four, the U.S. Navy said. Cmdr. Mark Neuhart of the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command said the cause of the accident aboard the amphibious assault ship was under investigation. THE IWO JIMA was sailing out of Bahrain after a routine port visit when the leak began at 8:15 ajn., the Navy said. Since Sept. 16, the Iwo Jima has been part of the Amphibious Task Force supporting Operation Desert Shield, the U.S. military operation launched in the gulf after Iraq seized Kuwait. The four injured sailors were in critical condition, Neuhart said. They were taken to the hospital ship USS Comfort, one of two such vessels deployed in the gulf. Neuhart said the names of the victims would be released after their relatives were notified. The bodies will be flown home today, he said. AFTER THE ACCIDENT, the Iwo Jima returned to Bahrain, Neuhart said. Repair work will be done there, he said. In a statement issued in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, the Navy said there >vas no fire on the ship. The Iwo Jima, which has its homeport at Norfolk, Va., has a crew of 685 Navy officers and crewmen and about 1,100 Marines. The victims were all crew members, Neuhart said. The vessel is

Labor asked to form new Norwegian government

OSLO, Norway (AP) The leader of the nation’s Labor Party, Gro Harlem Brundtland, was asked today to form her third government after the center-right coalition that forced her to resign a year ago collapsed. “I have been asked, but I still need to investigate whether there is a (political) foundation for a Labor

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602 feet long and 84 feet wide. In addition to the deaths aboard the Iwo Jima, 32 U.S. servicemen have been killed since Operation Desert Shield began Aug. 7, five days after Iraqi troops overran Kuwait. THE WORST PREVIOUS incident occurred Aug. 29 when a C--5A transport aircraft loaded with supplies for U.S. forces in the gulf crashed and burned shortly after takeoff in Germany, killing 13 crew members. The deaths on the Iwo Jima came a day after the U.N. Security Council’s five permanent members held a high-level military meeting to discuss how to further pressure Saddam Hussein into quitting Kuwait. Also Monday, the Security Council voted to hold Iraq liable for war damages. The meeting in New York of U.S., Soviet, Chinese, French and British generals came amid indications the Iraqi leader believes the United States is preparing to attack his faces. A LONDON NEWSPAPER today quoted Arab diplomats in Baghdad as saying Saddam was considering freeing all foreign hostages if the Soviets and France commit themselves publicly to resolving the gulf crisis peacefolly. Officially, neither Iraq nor Washington appeared ready to budge. Saddam reiterated in an interview with Cable News Network on Monday that he had no intention of withdrawing from Kuwait At the same time, President Bush

government,” Bnmdtland said after 8 palace meeting with Crown Prince Harald, Norway’s acting monarch. SHE DID NOT set a deadline for answering the prince’s request. Jo Benkow, president of parliament, said he had recommended to Harald that Brundtland be asked to form a minority government

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and Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 said the United States would be quick to attack Iraq if provoked. BUSH SAID HE was “not preparing anybody for anything.” But he added, “I’m as determined as I’ve ever been that this aggression will not stand.” “Let no one doubt: We will not rule out a possible use of force if Iraq continues to occupy Kuwait,” said Baker. If Saddam is not stopped now, disaster will be the result, he said. The Security Council on Monday passed its 10th anti-Iraq resolution since Saddam’s troops seized Kuwait on Aug. 2, inviting countries to list the losses they’ve suffered as a result of the Iraqi occupation and maltreatment of their citizens. THE RESOLUTION did not suggest a mechanism for repayment, but warned of unspecified further action if Iraq does not heed U.N. demands that it relinquish Kuwait. The council has been acting under Chapter 7, which provides for sanctions and even collective military action against member states that threaten international peace and security. The senior officers from the five permanent council members did not issue a statement after their meeting, the highest-level military gathering at the United Nations in many years. LT. GEN. MICHAEL Cams, staff director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, attended for the United States

Brundtland said meetings with several parties would clarify how much support she could expect for Labor’s policies. She said she was especially concerned about the environment, child care and the distribution of wealth in accordance with socialist principles. LABOR, THE country’s largest

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and Gen. Bronislav A. Omelichev, first deputy chief of the Soviet Army, represented his nation. The Soviet Union has said it only would join an international military action in the gulf under a U.N. umbrella. The United States has sent more than 200,000 troops to the gulf region. It leads an international force arrayed against Iraq that totals more than 300,000 soldiers; Iraq has massed 460,000 troops in Kuwait and southern Iraq. HUNDREDS OF Westerners remain in Iraq and Kuwait, some detained at strategic sites as part of Saddam’s “human shield” against a feared attack by the multinational force. Saddam has freed select groups of hostages, and on Monday 263 French citizens and 19 other Westerners flew into Paris where they were greeted by cheering throngs. Among the Frenchmen were the last seven diplomats who held out under siege of their embassy in Kuwait THE UNITED STATES and Britain are the only Western nations with embassies still open in Kuwait. The Financial Times, Britain’s leading business daily, said today that Iraqi officials had told it that Saddam’s government was considering releasing all the hostages because it was encouraged by statements Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev made in Paris on Monday.

party, has only 67 seats in the 165seat parliament The popular Labor Party leader, usually affectionately referred to by her first name, was asked to lead the country because a three-party coalition led by Conservative Prime Minister Jan P. Syse resigned Monday. The coalition split over what policy to pursue in negotiations between the European Economic Community and the European Free Trade Association about forming a joint 18-nation trade bloc after 1992. THE CENTER party, backed by the country’s subsidized farmers, had refused to remain in a coalition or support a Conservative singleparty government because of Syse’s support for the EEC.

Cocaine, alcohol form third drug in body

NEW YORK (AP) Drinking alcohol while using cocaine makes the body produce a third substance that may yield a greater high but may also raise the risk of death by overdose, scientists say. The research, together with a preliminary finding that drinking boosts the risk of a fatal cocaine overdose about 20-fold in people with severe coronary heart disease, may help explain the puzzling overdose deaths in people with surprisingly little of the drug in their blood at autopsy. NEW STUDIES SHOW that this third substance, manufactured in the liver from cocaine and alcohol, can mimic some actions of cocaine in the brain. Drinking is frequently combined with cocaine use, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Researchers spoke in telephone interviews about studies that were presented Monday at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in St Louis. The substance is a close chemi-

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Bush reviewing options; not hesitant to use force

WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush says he still hopes the Persian Gulf crisis will end peacefully but is consulting on options with congressional leaders and foreign policy aides as the standoff with Iraq nears the three-month mark. Bush summoned Democratic and Republican leaders to the White House today, a day after he declared that he “would have no hesitancy” to using force if provoked by Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein. THE PRESIDENT also planned to meet with foreign policy advisers today. The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, although the president is com-mander-in-chief of the armed forces. Bush has held regular consultations with Congress on the gulf crisis since Iraq’s Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait prompted him to send more than 200,000 troops to the region. BUT BEYOND THAT, Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 said recently the administration would not promise to get congressional approval if a decision was made to engage in armed conflict with Iraq. Baker was responding to calls by some lawmakers that Congress be called back into session to approve such an escalation. Bush told reporters Monday, “I know the authorities that a president has. I’m working to try to get this matter resolved peacefully. We have a lot of force there and they’re well-trained, they’re highly motivated, and that alone is sending an enormously strong signal to Saddam Hussein." HE NOTED HE was consulting with congressional leaders today, adding: “But history is replete with examples where the president has had to take action. And I’ve done this in the past and certainly somebody mentioned provocation would have no hesitancy at all.” Bush and Baker both took a harder line toward Iraq on Monday while still saying they want to see a diplomatic solution if possible. “Let no one doubt: We will not rule out a possible use of force if Iraq continues to occupy Kuwait,” Baker said in a speech in Los Angeles. HOWEVER, HE said, “We are exhausting every diplomatic avenue to achieve such a solution without further bloodshed.”

cal cousin of cocaine called cocaethylene. Further studies of it may give leads for medications to treat cocaine addiction by blocking cocaine’s effects, said study coauthor Deborah Mash, a neuropharmacologist at the University of Miami School of Medicine. SCIENTISTS FOUND that cocaethylene affects a brain-cell communication system thought to produce the euphoria that leads to cocaine addiction, she said. Prior research suggests that cocaine produces its high by intervening in this system, in which brain cells signal each other with a chemical called dopamine. After a dose of dopamine reaches its target cell, it is supposed to be brought back to its original home by molecules called transporters. But cocaine blocks this mechanism by binding to transporters, keeping the signal turned “on” and producing a sense of pleasure, scientists say. THE NEW WORK shows that cocaethylene also binds to the transporters, suggesting it may

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Baker said Saddam “must realize there is a limit to the international community’s patience. He must also realize that should he use chemical cm* biological weapons, there will be the most severe consequences.” Referring to Iraq’s cutoff of supplies and water to the U.S. and British embassies in Kuwait, Bush said: “This concept of starving embassies is unconscionable and inhumane. And the world reacts angrily against that kind of thing.” ON THAT POINT, the United Nations, in its latest antiIraq resolution, voted Monday to hold Saddam’s regime liable for human rights abuses and war damages during its occupation of Kuwait. Bush, asked by reporters during a political stop in San Francisco if he would take action to enforce that resolution, said, “I plan to see us go forward with the United Nations.” He reiterated that he sees no possibility of negotiations with Saddam with any preconditions but added: “If he gets out of Kuwait and restores the legitimate government then there’s a way to work out difficulties that may have existed.” The president said he had seen no evidence that the recent talks by Soviet envoy Yevgeny Primakov with Saddam had produced “anything positive” toward a resolution of the situation. Other officials said the administration is closely monitoring diplomatic efforts by the Soviet Union and Jordan, among others, to determine whether there is any flexibility in Iraq’s position.

boost cocaine’s effect, Mash said. In addition, she said, it appears less able than cocaine to moderate the euphoria through a second brain communication system. Another possible role of cocaethylene deals with cocaine overdose deaths in people with severe coronary artery disease. ‘ The overdose study found no elevated risk for people with moderate or mild coronary disease, said co-author Dr. James Ruttenber of the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. THE STUDY included about 240 cases of fatal cocaine overdose and a comparable number of deaths from other causes in people who had taken cocaine, Ruttenber said. • Mash said cocaethylene might play a role in the elevated risk because it can cling to brain cell sites that are supposed to attract a braincommunication substance called acetylcholine. This may interfere with the brain’s control of the heart pumpr ing rhythm, she said. If the heart is already affected by heart disease., the result could be sudden death, she suggested.

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