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THE BANNERGRAPHIC December 1,1990

Iraq welcomes offer for talks

By the Associated Press The Iraqi government today welcomed talks to resolve the Persian Gulf crisis, urging “the arrogant” President Bush to accept a “serious and deep dialogue,” the official Iraqi News Agency reported. The 10-man Revolutionary Command Council chaired by President Saddam Hussein issued a statement accepting the idea of talks, the news agency said. EARLIER IN THE day, thousands of Iraqis chanting “Death to Bush!” marched in regime-orchestrated protests in Baghdad and other cities. Iraq’s policy “is be as it has always been, conducting a serious and deep dialogue and not holding informal meetings as America’s president has wanted,” said the statement carried by the official Iraqi News Agency. It said the proposal was being accepted even though “the arrogant President of the United States, George Bush, has always rejected dialogue, voicing his contempt of the Arabs and Moslems and all those who believe in God and human values.” INFORMED SOURCES, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. Embassy officials met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz, apparently to deliver an official invitation to open a dialogue. Bush offered Friday to send Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 to Baghdad and to have Aziz visit Washington for talks to forestall war in the Middle East. Bush had been under increasing pressure to seek a peaceful resolution, especially since the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution Thursday authorizing the use of force if Saddam’s troops do not leave Kuwait before Jan. 15. THE PROSPECT of talks in

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the nearly 4-month-old gulf crisis sent oil prices tumbling more than $4 a barrel Friday, to $28.85 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali postponed a planned departure from Baghdad with 15 U.S. hostages today. Aides said Ali was hoping to use the goodwill generated by Bush’s offer to seek the release of three more Americans. The Baghdad protests, which independent observers said involved tens of thousands of Iraqis, came after state-run television Friday night broadcast a call to Iraqis to take to the streets. THE PROTESTS coincided with Iraq’s Martyr’s Day, commemorating the estimated 100,000 Iraqis killed in the 1980-88 war against Iran. About 50 foreigners joined in the protests, including six American Indians who arrived Friday with a delegation of Japanese Buddhist monks and were camped out on an island in the Tigris River they call the “Gulf Peace Camp.” While Bush held out the olive branch, he vowed to wage war “with enough power to get the job done” if the negotiations fail to get Iraq out of Kuwait. “THERE WILL NOT be any murky ending,” he declared. But he saw a “positive sign” in Iraqi soldiers’ delivery Thursday of fruit, vegetables and a case of cigarettes to the beseiged U.S. Embassy in Kuwait. The Iraqi soldiers promised to return with soft drinks and other goods today and said the diplomats should provide a list of medicines they need, Bush said. Eight U.S. diplomats and 19 private citizens have been surviving on canned tuna, rice and the fresh dates that grow in the seaside compound. “THIS COULD BE a positive sign,” Bush said. “But it’s so far short of compliance with international law that I can’t be rejoicing. But it is a very interesting

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development” In the past Bush has said Saddam was trying to “starve them out.” The embassy is surrounded by Iraqi troops and no one is permitted to enter or leave. The diplomats’ assignment is to keep in contact with about 600 Americans still in Kuwait. SOME AMERICANS have been rounded up and added to the ranks of the “human shield” Saddam has assembled to protect strategic installations from attack since the Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait. Saddam seized Kuwait in a dispute over oil, land and money, and he has deployed an estimated 450,000 troops in southern Iraq and Kuwait. After claiming to annex Kuwait, the Baghdad government announced Aug. 24 that all embassies in Kuwait City should close. With electricity and water cut off, all but the U.S. and British compounds have since evacuated. BUSH’s OFFER seemed to take some of the wind out of congressional hearings demanded by Democrats who fear the Bush administration is rushing to war instead of giving the embargo more time to hurt Saddam, whose army and economy are heavily dependent on imports. Democratic congressional leaders who met Friday with Bush said they were satisfied there would be no U.S. attack before the Jan. 15 deadline, making unnecessary an emergency session of Congress before year’s end. Bush last month said about 200,000 more troops would join the 240,000 American soldiers already stationed in the gulf, putting the force on an offensive footing. About 100,000 soldiers of other countries are also facing the Iraqis. IN OTHER developments: seven Iraqis in Kuwait for burglary and dealing in stolen jewelery, Baghdad’s state-run al-Jomhuriya daily reported today. 12 wounded in drive-by shooting INDUSTRY, Calif. (AP) Gunfire sprayed from a passing car wounded 12 people, including six children, on the street outside a family gathering, authorities said today. An 18-month-old boy was shot in the face in the Friday night attack and may lose an eye and a 26-year-old woman was in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the stomach, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Roger Hom said. THE VICTIMS were at an outdoor family gathering in unincorporated Valinda when the vehicle pulled up in front of the house Friday night, Hom said. Two of three people in the vehicle opened fire with handguns and shotguns before the car sped away, said Deputy Mary Landreth. No arrests were made by early today. Hom said the shooting appeared to be gang-related, although it was not known whether any victims were gang members, he said. THE NAMES OF the victims were not released. They included boys ages 18 months, 21 months, 2 years, 4, 13 and 15, all of whom were hospitalized in good condition. A 26-year-old woman was in critical condition with a stomach wound at Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina. The other adults men ages 29, 17, 30 and 32 and a 63-year-old woman were hospitalized in good condition, officials said.

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Final section of tunnel cut for first ever trip through

SANGAI lE, France (AP) French and British workers today knocked down the final barrier in a tunnel under the English Channel and shook hands, a milestone in the 3-year-old, sl6-billion project envisioned for more than two centuries. Graham Fagg, 42, of Dover, and Philippe Cozette, 37, of Calais clasped at 12:13 p.m. French time (6:13 a.m. EST) after a giant boring machine crashed through the last layer of chalk separating the French and British sides. THE PASSAGE, 6 feet tall, lies 130 feet under the seabed midway between France and Britain. The handshake in the service tunnel, the smallest of three tunnels being drilled in the project, comes a month after the halves were joined by a two-inch probe hole. The probe effectively ended Britain’s island separation from continental Europe. The tunnelers have spent the last month aligning the final drill through the last 100 yards of chalk. FRENCH TRANSPORT Minister Michel Delebarre was expected today to be the first person to travel the full length of the tunnel. He planned accompany British Transport Minister Malcolm Rifkind to England before taking a helicopter back to France.

Dozens of nuclear plants report getting suspect parts

WASHINGTON (AP) Nuclear plants are increasingly receiving suspect parts, and federal regulators are not doing enough to remedy the problem, congressional investigators say. Nearly two-thirds of the nation’s licensed nuclear plants have installed or are suspected of receiving bolts, pumps, circuit breakers and other parts that fail to meet safety standards, the General Accounting Office said. THE ISSUE DEMANDS attention, but the parts are not now a safety threat, Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Joseph Fouchard said Friday. The most common suspect part was a “fastener” a generic industry term used to describe a nut, bolt or screw, according to the report from the GAO, an investiga-

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The rendezvous comes a month after the first linkup, on Oct. 30, when workmen bored a hole about the diameter of a garden hose through the last 100 yards of chalk in the service tunnel. The purpose was to help align the French and English sections. THE SERVICE tunnel, to be used by maintenance crews, is the smallest of three 31-mile tunnels being bored between Calais, France, and Folkstone, England. The other two will accommodate trains equipped to carry passengers and motor vehicles. More than 80 percent of the drilling has been completed. The cost, in both human lives and money, has been high. Nine workers have been killed since construction began in 1987. IT IS THE biggest engineering project in European history, and the pricetag has climbed from an initial estimate of $9.4 billion to $16.7 billion. It is scheduled to open in June 1993, but officials do not expect to turn a profit until 1997 at best. British authorities said police, customs and immigration officers were to be empowered as of today to make random checks on workers and visitors emerging from the tunnel. The tunnel’s exit becomes a border post, subject to various laws aimed at deterring terrorism and

tive arm of Congress. Utilities reported finding noncomplying fasteners in 58 percent of the plants, the GAO said. Some were installed in systems needed to shut down the reactor in an accident. THE GAO SAID the NRC was“deferring its regulatory responsibility” by not acting aggressively enough to oversee the use of parts. Fouchard said, however, that the agency has “applied enormous management attention to the issue.” “We have issued any number of advisories to the utilities,” he said. “At this point we haven’t found anything that we would consider a serious safety problem.” THE NRC AND the nuclear industry do believe the problem is

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drug smuggling. “It must be recognized that in 1989, almost half the drugs seized in the United Kingdom arrived from Europe,” a British customs official said. “The tunnel is therefore seen as a potential route for drug-smuggling.” FARES FOR THE undersea crossing have not been set. But experts say the charges may be at least double the 1986 projections of $46 per person in a motor vehicle and sl9 per person riding in the train. The trip through the tunnel is expected to take 35 minutes, compared to 90 minutes by ferry. One ferry company plans to replace its fleet with giant, high-speed catamarans capable of carrying 450 passengers and 80 vehicles over the channel in 40 minutes. The tunnel milestone has a bittersweet side for some of the promoters because of Margaret Thatcher’s resignation earlier this month as British prime minister. ANDRE BERNARD, president of the private Anglo-French Eurotunnel consortium that has run the project, praised Mrs. Thatcher in an interview published Friday in Liberation, a Paris daily.

getting worse, the GAO said. Investigators said the problem is partly due to companies that “cut corners” in manufacturing. A reduction in the number of new nuclear plants has caused many suppliers to shut down or reduce product lines. “As a result, the NRC believes that some utilities purchase from vendors that may not be familiar with, or appreciate the need for, strict conformance with nuclear quality requirements,” the GAO said. The report said substandard parts were also a problem for the Defense Department, NASA, the Department of Energy and other agencies. IN 1989, THE DOE found counterfeit circuit breakers at Rocky Flats, Colo.