Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 171, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 March 1991 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC March 25,1991

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Schwarzkopf says U.S. is close to establishing permanent Arab base

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf says the United States is closer than ever to establishing a permanent land base on Arab soil a goal governments in the region blocked for many years. The U.S. commander in the Persian Gulf War told reporters Sunday that the base would not include American ground forces. HE ALSO SAID that the American troops who remain in the gulf will go home after a permanent cease-fire is signed with Iraq. Iraq’s government newspaper, Al-Jumouriya, on Sunday denounced the cease-fire terms set by the allies as aimed “at usurping Iraq’s sovereignty, mortgaging its will and holding its wealth hostage.” The U.S.-led coalition, which halted hostilities last month after driving Iraq from Kuwait, says it will not sign a permanent cease-fire

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accord unless Baghdad destroys its chemical, biological and nuclear arsenals and agrees never to resume production of the weapons, among other conditions. Prisoner releases, however, continued. A RED CROSS official in Riyadh said 1,000 Iraqi prisoners of war traveled to the Saudi border post of Arar on Sunday and were handed over to Iraqi officials. He spoke on condition of anonymity. Also Sunday, hundreds of Kuwaiti soldiers who spent months in Iraqi prisons returned home to their war-wrecked nation, where they were greeted by weeping relatives and celebratory bursts of machine-gun fire. Banks in the emirate opened Sunday for the first time since Iraqi troops shut them down in December. THOUSANDS OF cash-poor Kuwaitis lined up to get new Kuwaiti currency, and then they went on shopping sprees at newly reopened stores. Since Kuwait was liberated on Feb. 27, some U.S. forces have begun helping the Kuwaitis rebuild their nation. Other American soldiers are occupying part of southern Iraq, where they are keeping an eye on Saddam Hussein’s troops. Schwarzkopf said the soldiers are not expected to remain in Iraq after a permanent cease-fire. But a permanent truce has been complicated by the rebellions by Kurds in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the country’s south.

China to combine free market with state planning

BEIJING (AP) Premier Li Peng told legislators today that the

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GEN. SCHWARZKOPF No U.S. ground forces

SCHWARZKOPF said U.S. logistics troops could be in the gulf as long as eight to 10 months to help load up equipment, but that the vast majority of soldiers will be home before then. Nearly 100,000 of the 540,000 American troops sent to the gulf in Operation Desert Shield have departed, the Central Command says. The command, now based in Riyadh, plans to return soon to its headquarters in Tampa, Fla. But Schwarzkopf said Sunday: “There’s a possibility we will be moving a forward headquarters element of Central Command not the entirety ... someplace over here on the gulf.” “BUT THERE’S AN awful lot

role of the free market will be expanded in China over the next decade, but stressed that state ownership and planning will remain dominant. “A planned economy and market regulation must and can be combined,” Li said. “The question now is not whether we should or are able to combine them, but how well we can combine them.” THE ECONOMY was the central theme of Li’s nearly threehour speech, which opened the annual session of China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress. The congress chiefly approves decisions already made by the ruling Communist Party’s leadership. Applause from the more than 2,660 delegates gathered in the Great Hall of the People was typically brief and perfunctory. Li, not a charismatic speaker, read with his head bowed over the text.

Traditionalist who broke with Vatican dies at age 85

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of negotiations that have to go on, the locations have to be accepted and all the arrangements have to be made ... we’re certainly much closer to that now than we’ve ever been before.” The New York Times, quoting U.S. and Bahraini officials, today reported that the United States was close to signing an agreement with Bahrain to base part of the command there. The newspaper also said that hundreds of Iraqi tanks and armored vehicles that had been arrayed against the allies are now combatting the Iraqi insurgencies. The report quoted American officials as saying 700 of Iraq’s estimated 4,550 tanks in the south escaped believed. SEVERAL SHIITE Muslim rebel groups as well as refugees quoted over Iranian state television and Tehran radio, said there were large weekend demonstrations in the Iraqi capital, which they said was ringed with loyalist troops. The dissidents claim troops killed anti-Saddam Hussein demonstrators in Baghdad and used napalm, phosphorous and poison gas. The claims could not be verified. Several Shiite groups claimed that fighting had broken out in southern cities recently controlled by the government, including the Shiite shrine city of Karbala, 55 miles south of Baghdad.

The main task of the congress’ 16-day session is to approve drafts of five- and ten-year plans which set basic economic policies and priorities. SUCH PLANS ARE a staple of socialist economies, but central and regional officials have been wrangling for nearly a year over possible reforms, the speed of economic growth and revenue sharing. The latest drafts were not released, but Li’s speech was a summation of them. Il stressed caution but contained more specific reform proposals than did a key Communist Party document on the economy issued in December, reflecting a resurgence in proreform forces. Li said most prices and wages should be freed from state control and market forces should be allowed to determine distribution of all but a “few major products.”

THE FRENCH-BORN archbishop won considerable international support in his fight against what he denounced as the “satanic influence of neo-modemist and neo-Protestant tendencies” in the Catholic church. He objected specifically to the Vatican II reforms of the 1960 s that sought to make Catholic teachings more accessible to the masses. Lefebvre’s fight culminated July

Investigator says Saddam skimmed $lO billion from Iraqi oil profits since 1981

NEW YORK (AP) The head of the firm hired by the Kuwaiti government to find out the size and location of Saddam Hussein’s wealth estimates that the Iraqi president’s family has skimmed SlO billion in oil profits since 1981. Jack Kroll also says Iraqi investors on Saddam’s behalf have also purchased nearly $1 billion worth of shares in public companies, including one of the world’s largest media companies. HE SAYS THE stock purchases were made by several companies with Iraqi directors, including one led by Saddam’s half brother. Kroll, president of the New York-based Kroll Associates investigations firm, spoke in interviews published today by the Financial Times, a British newspaper, and broadcast Sunday by CBS News’ “60 Minutes.” Kroll described Saddam, who took power in 1979, as one of the world’s richest men. BOTH REPORTS quoted Kroll as saying Saddam and his family have skimmed up to 5 percent of Iraq’s S2OO billion in oil sales since 1981. Kroll also said he has found evidence that the Iraqi group has siphoned an average of 2.5 percent off many contracts with Japanese companies. The Financial Times report did not did not address whether any of the holdings could be

MARKET FORCES also should guide investors in selecting projects, he said, while the state should continue to set overall investment targets. Economist have urged such reforms, noting that China’s small free market is too constrained by the state to play its desired role of increasing economic efficiency. Li gave no timetable for change. “Before we decide to take any reform measures, we must consider whether the country, the enterprises and the people can bear them, in order to avoid a violent shock in the community,” he said. LI SET A target of 6 percent annual growth in gross national product for the decade. China’s gross national product grew an average of nearly 10 percent annually from 1980 to 1987. But government austerity measures introduced in 1988 to curb inflation have kept annual

30, 1988 with his consecration of four traditionalist bishops at Econe, a Swiss hamlet and birthplace of Lefebvre’s “St. Pius X Fraternity”, named after the pope who condemned modernism in a 1907 encyclical. THE VATICAN reacted swiftly by excommunicating Lefebvre, the four new bishops and a prelate who had assisted the archbishop in the consecration. Pope John Paul II warned that Lefebvre’s followers would also be ejected from the church unless they broke with him. The excommuncation formalized the first major split, or schism, in the church since the Old Catholics broke with Rome because they opposed the doctrine of papal infallibility, proclaimed by the 1870

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classified as ill-gotten gains under U.N. resolutions adopted after Iraq’s Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait. Those resolutions intended to force Iraq to relinquish Kuwait and recover plundered Kuwaiti assets. THE CBS REPORT, quoting Kroll, said Iraq had moved some of its money to circumvent a freeze on overseas Iraqi accounts. Kroll said Iraq transferred huge sums in early August to Jordanian banks. He also said that Kuwaiti luxury vehicles stolen by Iraq’s occupation forces were shipped to Europe on a Royal Jordanian Airlines cargo flight.

growth at 5 percent or less. Li said the austerity program would continue at least one more year. Authorities fear a resurgence of inflation, which peaked at more than 30 percent in 1988 and contributed to the discontent that produced the 1989 pro-democracy movement. On other topics, Li: • proposed increasing military spending, but gave no figures. The military budget was increased 15 percent last year, to nearly 29 billion yuan (55.5 billion) as a reward for the army’s role in putting down the pro-democracy movement. • said foreign criticism of China’s human rights record, including its rule of Tibet, is “unacceptable.” • warned that “foreign hostile forces” arc still seeking to convert China from socialism.

Vatican Council. Traditionalist Catholics venerated Lefebvre with fervor, as a representative of the “true church.” Critics viewed him as an incorrigible reactionary who admired Spain’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco and would have liked to see the monarchy restored in France. LEFEBVRE WAS bom in Tourcoing, France on Nov. 29, 1905, the son of deeply religious middle-class parents. Of his seven brothers and sisters, four others became priests or joined a religious order. Survivors include a sister, MarieChristiane, who opened a traditionalist convent for nuns in the Lake Geneva region.

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