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Iraq vows not to surrender despite U.S. buildup

By the Associated Press Iraq says it will never pull out of Kuwait, despite the U.S. order to ship more than 150,000 additional troops to the Persian Gulf and Moscow’s qualified consent to the use of force in the region. In Moscow, a senior U.S. official said today that Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other Arab forces would fight alongside U.S. troops to free Kuwait. But the official said the extent of France’s support is not known. SECRETARY OF State James A. Baker 111 flew from Moscow to London today on his mission to strengthen allied resolve against Iraq’s 3-month-old occupation of Kuwait. Baker will meet Saturday with French leaders in Paris. Iraq’s government-run newspaper said today that Iraq and France conducted secret talks that led to the release of more than 300 Frenchmen from Iraq. The paper, Al-Jumhouriya, said the talk between Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and farmer French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson were endorsed by the French government. France has denied any deals were struck in exchange for Release of the hostages. WESTERN OFFICIALS have criticized efforts by former leaders ' — including Edward Heath of Britain, Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan, and Willy Brandt of Germany to tree hostages, claiming :they help divide the anti-Iraq alliance. ; Brandt was scheduled to leave Baghdad tonight with 170 Wester-

Germans mark Kristall

; BERLIN (AP) Germany : today marked a year since the opening of the Berlin Wall, a joyful anniversary interlocked with a bitter one: the night in 1938 when breaking glass heralded the Holocaust, war and German partition. Officials of newly united Germany also readied a hero’s welcome for President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. His visit today is highly symbolic since it was the Soviet president’s reforms that helped collapse the Iron Curtain and open the Berlin Wall. GORBACHEV WAS to sign a j 20-year German-Soviet non-ag-gression treaty and was expected to receive financial aid for his nation’s hobbling economy. Commemorations of the wall’s opening were to include the unveiling of a monument at one of the former crossing points between East and West Berlin, and a ceremony to honor the more than 200 people killed trying to escape East Germany. The Berlin Jewish community planned seven memorials to recall Nov. 9, 1938, when synagogues, Jewish homes and businesses were attacked in what became known as Kristallnacht Crystal Night because of all the glass shattered by Nazi thugs. BY THE TIME World War II ended seven years later, with Germany’s division, 6 million Jews had been killed, many rounded up in full view of fellow Germans and transported to death camps. Heinz Galinski, a Jewish leader in Germany, said many Germans “have never accepted Nov. 9 as a day of commemoration” though it led to the Holocaust. The mayors of West Berlin and East Berlin, Walter Momper and Tino Schwierzina, said in a joint statement Thursday that the two Nov. 9 anniversaries should remind Germans of the need to fight against oppression of minorities. THEY CALLED FOR the public to participate in national affairs as “the best protection against against misuse of state power.” The Bundesrat, the upper house

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ners, including 120 Germans. Diplomats said five Americans were on the list. In a more personal attempt to influence Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, 11 British women were headed to Baghdad today to seek the release of their captive husbands and relatives against the advice of their government PRESIDENT BUSH on Thursday ordered the new troops to the gulf, saying he wanted an “adequate offensive military option” should global sanctions fail to persuade Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait. But despite the talk of offensive capability, Bush told a televised news conference that he still hoped Saddam would “come to his senses” and avoid combat by pulling out. Bush did not give numbers, but Pentagon officials said in private conversations that full deployment of the units involved would total more than 150,000 troops. THAT WILL NEARLY double the current U.S. strength. There are currently 230,000 U.S. military personnel in the region. Allies from 26 countries have sent about 100,000 soldiers to the multinational force assembled in the area. Iraq’s ambassador to Washington, Mohamed Al-Mashat, called the new U.S. deployment plan “an unfortunate development.” “There is no reason for this force, or the previous force,” he said Thursday on CBS’ America Tonight. “We haven’t done anything to the United States.”

of Parliament, was to mark the wall anniversary by holding its first meeting in Berlin in 31 years, moving from Bonn, the federal capital. The two Germanys united Oct. 3 into a country of nearly 80 million people, by far the biggest in Europe. Their leaders pledged repeatedly that the new Germany will not seek to dominate the continent, nor would it forget the Nazi part of its history. TELEVISION news programs Thursday ran long recapitulations of the celebrations that erupted at the Brandenburg Gate last Nov. 9 when it became known that East Germans were free to navel to the West. One year ago, massive prodemocracy demonstrations and the flight of refugees to the West prompted East Germany’s Communist leaders to begin opening the Berlin Wall. Hundreds of people spontaneously climbed the llVifoot wall that symbolized the divisions of Germany and Europe. Shedding tears of happiness, some began using hammers and

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“Believe you me, we will never surrender or capitulate,” he said. IRAQ HAS DEPLOYED an estimated 430,000 soldiers in Kuwait and southern Iraq since invading its southern oil-rich neighbor Aug. 2 in a dispute over land, oil and money. The invasion increased Iraq’s share of world oil reserves to 20 percent and sent crude prices skyrocketing. The buildup of Iraqi troops near the border of Saudi Arabia prompted the Saudi government to allow the massive multinational deployment in its northern desert. In Moscow, meanwhile, Baker accomplished his goal of gaining Soviet consent for the use of force should peaceful measures fail. SOVIET FOREIGN Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze said military might should not be ruled out, but cautioned it should be used only under U.N. auspices. “A situation may emerge which effectively would require such a move,” Shevardnadze told reporters after meeting with Baker. Before the crisis, Moscow was Baghdad’s principal ally and principal weapons supplier. Bush, at his news conference, said “we’re on the same wavelength” with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in terms of his policy goals in the Middle East. He said he felt there were no “mixed signals” from Moscow. THE BUSH administration, impatient that months of U.N. economic sanctions have failed to dislodge Saddam’s troops from Kuwait, intends to ask the U.N.

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chisels on the concrete barrier; soon a thriving business was started selling chips of the wall as souvenirs. BULLDOZERS HAVE finished removing 81 percent of the wall from downtown Berlin, and have about two miles to go, officials say. Elections in East Germany early this year booted the Communists

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Security Council to authorize force if the Baghdad government doesn’t agree to a pullout. The 11 British women arrived in Amman, Jordan, on their way to Baghdad, where they hope to ask Saddam to release their husbands and relatives on humanitarian grounds.

Wall’s fall

from four decades oi power, leading to last month’s unification. The first unified German parliamentary elections are Dec. 2. The sweeping change, however, has been painful for many former East Germans as the switch to capitalism has caused inefficient businesses to shut down, causing rising unemployment.

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President Bush ordered called up Thursday. It is a deployment that does not impress Iraqi president Saddam Hussien, who promises never to surrender Kuwait. (AP photo)

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called the trip “risky,” but they ignored the advice.

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