Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 70, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 November 1990 — Page 3
Momentum grows for resolution for Gulf force
By the Associated Press President Bush returned home today with chances looking better for a U.N. resolution allowing force to liberate Kuwait, and Saddam Hussein called on his war-hardened reserves to help defend the conquered emirate. Britain’s foreign secretary, Douglas Hurd, said Friday that the U.N. Security Council probably will meet next week to discuss the use of force to drive Iraq from Kuwait That was the first indication that enough support for the measure had been gathered to call a meeting before the end of the month. AND THE SOVIET UNION’S U.N. envoy said Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze would attend a Security Council meeting next week to discuss Iraqi aggression and to issue a “strong, serious and precise warning” to Baghdad. Bush and Secretary of State James A. Baker HI have been lobbying world leaders on behalf of the use-of-force measure. The president said Friday he was confident he would get approval from the 15member U.N. Security Council. There had been reports of disagreement between Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev when they met earlier this week in Paris. But Gorbachev denied that at a news conference Friday. “I CAhPTELL YOU THAT meeting I had with President 3ush only reinforced our cooperation,” he said. He repeated Ms call for the Security Council to meet in the near future. In Amman, Jordan, more than 1,000 demonstators took to the streets Friday to protest President Bush’s visit to the region. The protesters waved Jordanian, Iraqi and Palestinian flags and carried banners saying: “No to Bush’s rude visit to our region.” Several peaceful but noisy anti-U.S. demonstrations were also staged in other cities and towns protesting Bush’s visit to Egypt and Saudi PRO-IRAQI SENTIMENTS run high in Jordan, which has a majority of Palestinians. They view Saddam Hussein as leading the struggle to liberate their homeland from Israeli occupation. . Iraq overran Kuwait Aug. 2in a dispute over land,
Poll shows Conservatives will win without Thatcher
LONDON (AP) Even as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s; supporters claim she was undeimined by her own party, a poll indicates any of the three main candidates for her job will .bring an election victory for the troubled Conservatives. The Harris poll of 1,107 voters around the country is the latest survey to predict a sharp upturn in Conservative Party fortunes under a new prime minister.
‘Willy Wonka’ creator dead at 74
OXFORD, England (AP) Roald Dahl, a writer whose works for children appeared on film as “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and “Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang,” has died. He was 74. Dahl died Friday at John Radcliffe Hospital, where he was admitted on Nov. 12 with an undisclosed infection, his agent Murray Pollinger said. DAHL WROTE NINE books of short stories, including “Kiss, Kiss,” three novels, 19 children’s books, and numerous screenplays sand scripts for television. Last year, 4|is total paperback sales in Britain popped 2.3 million copies. • His 1964 “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” was adapted for film as “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” Dahl also wrote the screenplays for lan Fleming’s “Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang” and Fleming’s James Bond thriller, “You Only Live Twice.” Dahl married American actress Patricia Neal in 1953 and helped her recover from a series of strokes in the mid-1960s that threatened her ability to speak. They were divorced in 1983, and he married Felicity Ann Crosland. “ROALD DAHL’S contribution •to the children’s book world is immeasurable,” said a spokesman for publishers Puffin and Penguin, speaking on condition of anonymity. “He and his books are held in the deepest affection by families all over the world.” Dahl said his secret in his children’s tales was that he entered a conspiracy with children against adults. “It’s the path to their affections,”
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money and oil. That led to the deployment of the U.S.-dominated multinational force in the gulf. About 230,000 American troops are in the gulf region now; 200,000 more are to arrive in coming weeks to place the force on an offensive footing. The latest Iraqi call-up, announced in a Defense Ministry communique broadcast on Baghdad radio, involves reservists in their 30s, including battle-tested veterans of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
UNDER MRS. THATCHER the Conservatives trailed Labor, the main opposition party in the House of Commons, for the past 16 months in opinion polls. The Harris poll, conducted for Independent Television News, gave former (defense secretary Michael Heseltine the edge to succeed Thatcher and indicated 49 percent of respondents would vote for Conservatives with Heseltine as prime minister.
he said in an interview earlier this year with The Independent newspaper. “It may be simplistic, but it is the way. Parents and schoolteachers are the enemy. “THE ADULT IS the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that when it is bom is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.” Dahl was also known for his unnerving short stories. One critic with the Times Literary Supplement said Dahl “knows how to steer an unwavering course along the hairline where the gruesome and the comic meet and mingle.” “He thinks of a story as a staircase up which the reader is to be lured and finally coaxed into taking that confident last step which, breathtakingly and deliciously, isn’t there,” the critic wrote. REVIEWS OF “Kiss, Kiss” in 1960 saw in his “caricature of human weakness” signs of a “social satirist and moralist at work.” “I never knew him, but I was a great admirer of his,” said Theodoi Geisel, better known as “Dr. Seuss,” in a telephone interview from his California home. “He wrote excellent children’s books,
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That’s compared with 39 percent for the Labor Party and 9 percent for the Liberal Democrats, according to the poll, broadcast Friday. UNDER CABINET treasury chief John Major, the poll indicated Conservatives were favored by 47 percent of respondents, Labor at 40 percent, and Liberal Democrats at 10 percent support. A government led by Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd who the poll placed as least likely among
and I was very interested in his short stories for adults.” Dahl provoked controversy in February 1989 when he wrote a letter to The Times of London describing Salman Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses,” as a “dangerous opportunist.” TWO WEEKS earlier, Rushdie had gone into hiding under police protection because Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had said Rushdie deserved to die for blasphemy. “Clearly, he (Rushdie) has a profound knowledge of the Moslem religion and its people, and he must have been totally aware of the deep and violent feelings his book would stir up among devout Moslems,” Dahl wrote. “This kind of sensationalism does indeed get an indifferent book on the top of the bestseller list ... but to my mind it is a cheap way of doing iL” DAHL WORKED FOR a number of children’s charities and recently donated the manuscript and copyright of his story “The Vicar of Nibbleswicke” to the British Dyslexia Institute. Dahl was bom Sept. 13, 1916, in Wales, the son of Norwegian parents.
THEY APPARENTLY WILL be among 150,000 reservists and draftees that Iraq said earlier this week would be sent to Kuwait, along with about 100,000 other regular army troops. They will join an estimated 430,000 Iraqi troops currently in Kuwait and southern Iraq. Iraq’s official news agency reported Friday that an overnight curfew in Kuwait was being canceled be-
the three to succeed Mrs. Thatcher would have support of 45 percent, with Labor getting 41 percent, and 10 percent for Liberal Democrats, according to the poll. The poll was conducted on Thursday after Mrs. Thatcher announced she would resign. ITN did not say how the survey was conducted nor give a margin of error. The 372 Conservative members of the House of Commons will vote on the party leadership on Tuesday.
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cause the emirate is calmer now. The news agency, monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus, said the move was meant to “confirm the return of normal life” to Kuwait, wMch Iraq has declared its 19th province. BRITAIN’S HURD TOLD reporters in London that “Soon, probably next week, the Security Council will consider a draft resolution authorizing member states to use force to bring about the reversal of the Iraqi aggression.” The Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuliy M. Vorontsov, also said the Security Council would meet next week to discuss Iraqi aggression, but did not specify whether the resolution authorizing force would be discussed. He said Shevardnadze would attend. The urgency is in part because Yemen, wMch has tilted toward Iraq in the past, takes over the rotating chairmanship of the Security Council from the United States in December. BAKER WAS IN THE small Red Sea nation on Thursday seeking support for the resolution, but failed to get it. Yemen is the only Arab state on the Security Council. Continuing his lobbying effort, Baker meets today with senior officials in Colombia and then is to meet in Los Angeles with officials from Malaysia. Both Colombia and Malaysia are Security Council members. Bush conferred Friday in Cairo with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, a chief Arab ally in the anti-Iraq coalition. Afterward, Bush said: “I am confident that we will be successful in the Security Council.” LATER, BUSH FLEW TO Geneva for talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Some congressional leaders expressed concern over the meeting because Syria is on a State Department list of countries that sponsor terrorism. Bush defended his dealings with Assad, saying the Syrian president is “lined up with us for a commitment to force.” Assad declined to tell reporters whether Syria would participate in any military offensive against Iraq.
HIGH INFLATION,, rising interest rates, an unpopular new tax and her lone opposition among European Community leaders to financial and political integration were among factors that undermined her support. Her opponents in the party feared that under her continuing ■leadership the Conservatives would lose to Labor at the next general election, which must be called by mid-1992.
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