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THE BANNERGRAPHIC March 15,1991

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Bush says Iraqi helicopter use could delay cease-fire efforts

HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) President Bush says Iraq’s use of helicopters against rebel forces could delay a formal cease-fire in the Persian Gulf War. But he promises that U.S. forces in southern Iraq will not be dragged into a longterm, Korea-type peacekeeping role. Bush was spending today relaxing on this resort island where he will complete his first round of postwar consultations with key allies on Saturday by meeting with British Prime Minister John Major. RAINY WEATHER forced Bush to put off plans for a morning round of golf. Some 250 U.S. sailors, airmen and their families from the Bermuda Naval Air Station stood in a downpour for more than an hour to greet the president on Thursday night before Air Force One arrived from Martinique. Bush and French President Francois Mitterrand spent five hours together on that. French Caribbean island reviewing the prospects for building a lasting peace in the Middle East in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War with Iraq. Bush began his five-day trip in Ottawa on Wednesday conferring with Canadian Prime Minister

Kurds claim jets and helicopter gunships used against civilians

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Kurdish rebels said today that Saddam Hussein’s loyalists used warplanes and helicopter gunships to attack civilians in an effort to crush a spreading rebellion. Shiite Muslim leaders accused the Iraqi president’s elite Republican Guard of damaging some of Islam’s holiest shrines during clashes in southern Iraq on Thursday. SINCE THE allied offensive two weeks ago that crushed Saddam’s army in Kuwait and seized a large portion of southern Iraq, Baghdad has been struggling to maintain control over numerous insurrections. Jalal Talabani, head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, said Iraqi troops rounded up residents from government-held parts of Kirkuk and then strafed them with helicopters. He claimed hundreds of people were killed or wounded. The rebels claims have been impossible to confirm, because no Western reporters have been able to reach the fighting in recent days. TALABANI, WHO spoke in Damascus, Syria, also claimed the government used warplanes to attack protesters in other parts of Kurdistan. He said Iraqi forces set four oil wells ablaze before being forced out of eastern Kirkuk, a major oil center. He said Dohuk province border-

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PRESIDENT BUSH No Palestinian state

Brian Mulroney. BUSH SAID “a Palestinian state is not the answer” to Arab-Israeli differences and he took another slap at Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. “He simply bet on the wrong horse” with his ardent support of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the president said. Mitterrand said it was dangerous

ing Turkey “has been liberated” by the rebel forces fighting for autonomy from the central government. On Thursday, Bush said U.S.-led allied troops, who control 20 percent of Iraq’s territory following the Persian Gulf War, “arc not going to be all of them out of there until there’s a cease-fire, a formalized cease-fire.” ELEMENTS OF the 101st Airborne and the Ist Cavalry Army divisions were reoccupying their most advanced positions in the Euphrates River valley, the Los Angeles Times reported today. Troops are pushing as much as 30 miles northward from the southern Iraqi region seized during the four-day ground war that drove Iraq from Kuwait, the newspaper reported. Although fighting has stopped, Iraq has yet to meet all the United Nations requirements under which a permanent cease-fire would take effect. IN OTHER developments: • The Red Cross handed over 499 prisoners of war to Iraqi officials today after a four-day delay because of the chaos in Iraq. Twelve Red Cross-chartered buses drove into Iraq after the prisoners were handed over near the Saudi desert town of Arar. • Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh, who met Thursday with visiting Secretary of State James A. Baker 111, said the two sides found “a lot of common ground.” Baker said 90 percent of the lime was spent discussing the Middle East and problems in the Persian Gulf. Baker was meeting

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to deny a people “any form of identity,” and reiterated his support for some form of statehood for the Palestinians. But he and Bush both took pains to emphasize their points of agreement, not their differences, on the Middle East. MITTERRAND said the job of the 12,000 French troops in the Persian Gulf is done now that Iraq has been driven out of Kuwait. “We have not been asked to re-es-tablish law and order within” Iraq, he said. Bush said Iraq’s use of combat helicopters to quash rebels violates the understanding allied and Iraqi generals reached in setting a temporary cease-fire. That makes even harder the task of getting a permanent cease-fire, he said, and the U.S. troops won’t pull out of southern Iraq until that can be arranged. “I DO NOT WANT to play into the hands o F Iran and other countries that had suggested what we want is a permanent stationing of U.S. troops in the area. I want to bring them home,” the president said. But, he added, “security arrangements” must first be in place. Bush said he saw no chance of

with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev today. • Iraq has not responded to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s request it account for enriched uranium that was at a nuclear center bombed during the Gulf War, a spokesman for the agency said Thursday in Vienna. Iraq has an estimated 48 pounds of enriched uranium, enough to make a primitive nuclear bomb, according to U.S. officials. IRANIAN RADIO reported that rebels killed an official of Iraq’s ruling Baath Party and 18 other government officials during fighting in the northeastern Kurdish province of Suleimaniyah. Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said Iraqi rebels told it that Republican Guard artillery had damaged the golden domes over the shrines of Shiite imams Hussein and Abbas in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad. IRNA also reported heavy fighting in Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city and the flashpoint for the antiSaddam rioting that has erupted. OFFICIAL IRANIAN television reported continued fighting in Najaf, site of another major Shiite shrine south of Karbala. Iranian TV

A lingering question: What did envoy tell Saddam?

WASHINGTON (AP) She was the first woman to rise through the ranks to become an ambassador to an Arab nation. She enjoyed the esteem of her colleagues and could point to a long list of achievements. Her entire world changed last Aug. 2 when, during a stopover in London, she turned on the television in her hotel room. The news was grim: Iraq had invaded Kuwait. APRIL GLASPIE, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, was crestfallen. At a time of momentous change in the Persian Gulf, she was away from her post, having left a day earlier for a visit to Washington via London, unaware what Saddam Hussein had in mind for Kuwait. She has not been back to Iraq since. Now, eight months later and the Gulf War over, there is growing interest on Capitol Hill as to just what happened in that crucial period leading up to the conquest of Kuwait, including the still-secret activities of the American ambassador.

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U.S. troops being drawn into a permanent peacekeeping role, as they have been for almost four decades in South Korea. “We are not going to permit this to drag on ... a la Korea,” he said. Mitterrand, asked if he still viewed Arafat as the leader of the Palestinians, replied “It’s for the Palestinians to answer that. Mr. Yasser Arafat remains to my knowledge the leader of the PLO and the PLO still appears as the representative organization.” BUT HE SAID “other forces” are coming forward to speak for the Palestinians, including those whom Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 met with in Israel earlier this week. Bush said “we’ll pursue that track for a while.” He said he was “not discouraged” at all with Baker’s reports back from his Middle East mission. “Peace has avoided us for far too long out there,” he said. The president said Baker also raised the plight of six Americans held hostage in Lebanon. “It is clearly in the interest of those countries that have some control ... or influence over the hostages to let them go,” he said.

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said Baath Party offices there had been attacked and many people killed or captured. “In Basra, Tanumeh. Al-Hariseh, Al-Amarah, Al-Ghuma and Al-

What instructions had she received from Washington? Why wasn’t the State Department better informed about Saddam’s intentions? DEMOCRATS, under fire from Republicans for opposing President Bush’s request in January for authority to go to war, are striking back by raising questions as to whether the crisis could have been averted in the first place. Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East, says the administration won’t provide information. “We have scores, if not hundreds, of questions to ask,” Hamilton says. DID GLASPIE leave Saddam with the impression that he could swallow up Kuwait without objections from Washington? Now, after maintaining eight months of silence, officials said Glaspie is expected to give her version soon of her extraordinary July

U.S. troops reportedly returning to advanced positions inside Iraq

LOS ANGELES (AP) U.S. troops are retaking positions they abandoned deep within Iraq, apparently to pressure Saddam Hussein into signing a permanent cease-fire in the Persian Gulf War, a newspaper reported today. Elements of the 101st Airborne and the Ist Cavalry Army divisions are reoccupying their most advanced positions in the Euphrates River valley, said Marine Brig. Gen. Richard I. Neal, deputy director of operations for the U.S. Central Command. “THE PURPOSE IS to maintain a presence until the cease-fire is agreed to,” Neal told the Los Angeles Times in an interview in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The newspaper published his comments today. He said troops pushed as much as 30 miles northward from the southern Iraqi region seized during last month’s fourday ground war that forced Iraq to leave conquered Kuwait. The order came from Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the U.S. forces, who made it clear that “he wanted them on

While some U.S. troops have come home, others have retaken positions inside Iraq, near where rebellion forces continue to clash with units loyal to Saddam Hussein. (AP photo)

Uzayr, many tanks have been taken by the people, and numerous soldiers have defected to the rebels,” the TV reported. Ayatollah Taqi al-Mudaressi,

25 encounter with the Iraqi president believed to be his last meeting with an American. Several U.S. officials said the Iraqi account of the meeting was “selective and incomplete.” As the Iraqis described it, Glaspie told Saddam that the United States “had no opinion on inter-Arab disputes, such as your border disagreement with Kuwait.” SEIZING ON that comment, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has said that Glaspie, on instructions from the State Department, “virtually gave a green light to Saddam Hussein” to invade. Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 calls any such interpretation “ludicrous.” There were other comments to Saddam, according to the Iraqi transcript, that have raised questions about Glaspie’s judgment. An example: “I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country.” The United States sought to cultivate Saddam during much of the previous decade, seeing him as the principal obstacle to expansion of Iranian influence in the gulf.

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that ground,” Neal said. ALTHOUGH fighting has stopped, Iraq has yet to meet all the United Nations requirements under which a permanent ceasefire would take effect. “I think it makes common sense that we are not going to walk away from a situation having accomplished what we have accomplished and let it be reversed,” said Bob Hall, a Pentagon spokesman. The reoccupation also may be a warning to Iraq’s leader on his attempts to quell revolts flaring in his country. PRESIDENT BUSH has indicated that U.S. air attacks may resume if Iraq uses chemical weapons against the rebels. Reports have said fighting in Basra and other Iraqi cities has been bloody. “This behavior is clearly inconsistent with the type of behavior the international community would like to see Iraq exhibiting,” Hall said. “Iraq has to convince the world that its designs, both against the international community and its own population, are not military and aggressive.”

leader of the opposition Shiite Islamic Labor Organization, claimed rebels in the south shot down one helicopter gunship and seized an underground arms depot •

GIVEN U.S. eagerness to build a relationship with him, some argue that Saddam may have felt an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait might have been a minor irritant at worst to his ties with Washington. Indeed, Glaspie personified the policy of promoting cooperation with Baghdad. It is not clear what forum Glaspie will choose to give her version of events. But officials here say she will assert that she left no doubt in Saddam’s mind on the central issue at hand: that the United States would vigorously oppose any use of force by Iraq against Kuwait, an assertion that never made its way into the Iraqi transcript. Since August, Glaspie, 48, has maintained the lowest of profiles, refusing interview requests even though she has been subjected to public ridicule because of her purported comments. OFFICIALS SAY her goodsoldier attitude should serve her well when she comes up for consideration for a new assignment.