Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 60, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 November 1990 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC November 12,1990

Saddam sets terms for attending peace talks

By the Associated Press Iraq says it might attend a proposed Arab summit aimed at avoiding war in the Persian Gulf, but only if the meeting also deals with the Arab-Israeli dispute. King Hassan of Morocco proposed the emergency summit on Sunday as a “last chance” for peace. IRAQ’S RULING Revolutionary Command Council led by Saddam Hussein went into emergency session to discuss Hassan’s call, Iraqi state television said. The council said Iraq would be willing to attend the summit under three conditions: that Baghdad be consulted in advance on the agenda, that the timing and location be chosen so Saddam could attend, and that the agenda include not just the gulf crisis but all Middle East issues including the Palestinian question. The council also suggested it would not allow certain topics to be

Akihito is enthroned, leftists protest

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discussed. It did not specify which ones. “THE PROPOSED summit should not be part of efforts to prepare the political theater as a cover for American aggression against Iraq and the Arab nation,” the statement said. In Tunis, the Palestine Liberation Organization issued a statement saying it agreed with King Hassan’s initiative. Saddam has long demanded that a solution to the crisis be linked to the Palestinian issue. He made the offer shortly after the invasion of Kuwait. IN A TELEVISION interview taped a day before Hassan’s call for the summit, the Iraqi president repeated his call for dialogue on the gulf crisis. “If all parties concerned ... sat around one table we are confident that these parties will reach serious and deep solutions to all the issues, in the forefront of which will be the Palestinian issue,” Saddam told

the institution of emperor an unconstitutional relic of Japan’s militarist past, attacked military bases, train stations and Shinto shrines in protest. POLICE COUNTED at least 34 guerrilla attacks timed to coincide with the coronation of the late Emperor Hirohito’s 56-year-old son. None appeared to cause any injuries.

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British television. King Hassan suggested that the summit be held in Rabat, the Morrocan capital, in a week. But he said he would attend a summit wherever it might be held. IN PROPOSING the emergency Arab summit, King Hassan said conflict in the region would “penetrate every household from the gulf to the Atlantic.” “Let us gather together and see what decisions we can make ... to give to all what they deserve so that Kuwait returns to what it used to be and that Iraq is a satisfied and satisfying member at the heart of our Arab family,” the king said on Moroccan state radio and TV. Morocco, outspoken among Arab nations in condemning the Iraqi invasion, has committed more than 1,200 soldiers to the U.S.-led multinational force based in Saudi Ar3t)ia IN HIS TELEVISION interview, Saddam also said he does not believe the world is united against

A record 37,000 police had been mobilized to guard the ceremonies as well as the attending dignitaries from 158 countries, including Vice President Dan Quayle and Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana. For his coronation, Akihito wore a red-brown silk kimono and hat of ancient design and sat on an elaborate lacquered throne in front of an Imperial Palace courtyard

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him. The major powers and “a number of countries” are lined up against Baghdad, Saddam acknowledged. “But to say that the world is unified against Iraq is indeed not a correct thing to say. “In the statements of the U.S. and Britain, they themselves are voicing their concern that the unity so-called unity against Iraq is perhaps ... suffering from a split,” Saddam said. SECRETARY OF State James A. Baker 111 received assurances from key allies last week that they will accept nothing short of an unconditional Iraqi pullout. However, officials said China, France and the Soviet Union expressed concern that Washington might attack Iraqi forces without giving the U.N.-or-dered trade embargo enough of a chance. In another sign of a possible crack in the alliance, Egypt’s Presittent Hosni Mubarak was quoted today as saying that Egyptian

filled with attendants carrying bows and swords. HE VOWED TO “discharge my duties as symbol of the state and of the unity of the people” under Japan’s postwar constitution, which fundamentally restructured the monarchy. Hirohito had renounced his divine status after the war, but Akihito becomes the first of Japan’s 125 emperors, including those listed only in legend, to take the throne as a mere mortal and not a priest-king. He said he would perform his role in the same spirit as his father, who “shared joys and sorrows with the people at all times” during a 62-year reign that encompassed both the devastation of World War II and Japan’s dramatic recovery. EMPRESS MICHIKO, dressed in a multicolored gown, her face painted white, sat motionless on her own throne at Akihito’s side throughout the 30-m inute ceremony. The ritual ended with Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu standing stiffly before Akihito in a morning suit and leading the Japanese guests in three cries of “Banzai” he traditional wish for long life. He led the cheers from a point level with the base of the throne, to underscore the constitution’s stress on popular sovereignty. A 21-gun salute blasted from an adjacent park. THE ANCEINT, mystical enthronement rites are said to date back to 660 B.C. Akihito and Empress Michiko later left the palace grounds in an

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soldiers will not enter Iraq even if U.S. and other troops should attack, but that they could enter Kuwait as a peacekeeping force. WHEN BAKER VISITED Cairo last week, a senior U.S. official said the United States is confident that Egypt would fight alongside U.S. forces if war broke out Asked by his party’s newspaper, Mayo, whether Egypt would send troops to Iraq following a U.S.-led attack, Mubarak said: “No, we have nothing to do with Iraq.” But if the anti-Iraq allies invaded Kuwait, he said, “We do not mind at all entering Kuwait as peacekeeping forces ... although I do not hope for this day at all.” In other developments Sunday: • Foreign Minister Qian Qichen of China arrived in Baghdad. A Chinese diplomat said Qian would inform Saddam that China would not veto a U.N. resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq.

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open Rolls Royce, ringed by dozens of police motorcycles and waving and smiling to cheering crowds. They had changed to formal Western clothes. Many of the estimated 110,000

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SUCH A MEASURE has been drafted by the United States but has not yet been circulated in the U.N. Security Council, where the Soviet Union, China, Britain, France and the United States have veto power as permanent members. Iraq reportedly had hoped for a Chinese veto. • The Baghdad government denounced food hoarders and said the price of rice would increase. It did not specify by how much. Before it overran Kuwait on Aug. 2 and was hit by the global embargo, Iraq imported about 70 percent of its food. In September, it began rationing essential foodstuffs including rice, wheat, milk, sugar and cooking oil. • A few more foreign hostages were freed. Eight Italian men arrived in Amman, Jordan; hundreds of other foreigners remain captive in Iraq.

people along the three-mile parade route to Akasaka Palace, the couple’s home, yelled “Banzai” and waved national flags as the 44car parade passed. Nearly 10,000 police lined the route.