Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 173, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 March 1991 — Page 2
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THE BANNERGRAPHIC March 27,1991
Schwarzkopf: ‘I think they suckered me’
WASHINGTON (AP) Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf says the Iraqis “suckered” him into letting them use the helicopters that now are part of the bloody suppression of the rebellion against Saddam Hussein. “I think they suckered me,” the Operation Desert Storm commander said in an interview with David Frost, airing tonight on public television. DISCUSSING HIS cease-fire talks three weeks ago with Iraqi generals, Schwarzkopf said the Iraqis asked to use helicopters because the allies had destroyed their nation’s bridges and roads, making travel difficult “They looked me straight in the eye and said ... ‘We would like to fly our helicopters. And the purpose of flying those helicopters will be for transportation of government officials,’” the four-star general said. Schwarzkopf said the request seemed reasonable since the Iraqis agreed not to fly over any allied forces. “I THINK I WAS suckered because I think they intended, right then, when they asked that question, to use those helicopters against the insurrections that were going on. I think that absolutely was their intention again, a personal opinion but ... as I said, they suckered me,” Schwarzkopf said, according to a transcript of the interview. The Bush administration also said Tuesday that Iraq’s use of attack helicopters against Shiite and Kurdish rebels violated an oral understanding between Schwarzkopf and Iraqi military officers. White House spokesman Marlin
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Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, shown here with an unidentified Iraqi commander wearing a beret, admits he thinks the Iraqis “suckered me” on the use of helicopters after the 100-hour ground war. The Fitzwater was vague about how the allies would deal with helicopters, although U.S. fighter planes have shot down two Iraqi fighters since the ground war ended. “THE FACT IS ... we want to be murky on this,” Fitzwater said. “We aren’t going to tell you exact rules for how we’re going to deal
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Iraqis said the helicopters would be used to transport government officials, but they are being used to supress antiSaddam rebellions in the north and in the south. (AP photo) with these helicopters. We aren’t going to tell you why, and we aren’t going to tell Saddam why. Let him guess. Let him wonder about every helicopter that goes up.” Schwarzkopf, calling the Iraqi president “an evil man,” said he has “lied at every turn,” and said
Lebanese newspaper reports that some hostages are to be released by Easter
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) A respected Lebanese newspaper reported today that some of the foreign hostages held in Lebanon will be released for Easter. “Diplomatic sources expect the release of some foreign hostages on the occasion of Easter,” the AnNahar paper said in a 12-word news brief on page two. It did not disclose further details. SUCH BRIEFS, run daily, are among the most widely read items in the newspaper. The newspaper did not specify whether it referred to the Western Easter this Sunday or the Orthodox Easter on April 7. But Lebanese often celebrate the whole week in between.
Arrival of armored personnel carriers in Moscow heighten fears of violence at rally
MOSCOW (AP) Fears that force will be used against a proreform demonstrators planned for central Moscow on Thursday soared today after the appearance of armored personnel carriers at a nearby military base. Anxiety over the prospect of a major confrontation was already high over the Kremlin’s announcement Monday that it was banning all rallies until mid-April and President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s transfer of the city police force to the national Interior Ministry on Tuesday. THE ANTI-Communist
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the allies should not trust him. “We are going to continue to keep our guard up until such a time as there is in fact a cease-fire ... and we are very, very sure that no one, absolutely no one out there in the battlefield is going to take offensive action against us,” he said. SADDAM IS A “war criminal by any definition you choose to apply,” Schwarzkopf said, adding that he doubted that the Iraqi president would ever face a war crimes trial. “Practically, what normally happens to people like Saddam Hussein is ... at some point, they’re taken care of by their own folks,” he said. The Desert Storm commander also revealed that he recommended continuing the ground war beyond the time when President Bush ordered an end to the fighting. “FRANKLY, MY recommendation had been ... continue the march. I mean, we had them in a rout and we could have continued to ... reap great destruction on them. We could have completely closed the door and made it in fact a battle of annihilation,” the general said. But Bush “made the decision ... we should stop at a given time, at a given place, that did leave some escape routes open for them to get back out, and I think that was a very humane decision and a very courageous decision on his part, also,” Schwarzkopf said. The general said the Iraqi troops that would have been annihilated would not have been the Republican Guards, but “the poor fellows that had been all the way down on the front lines and had managed to get all the way back there.”
It was the respected daily’s first report on the 13 Westerners missing in Lebanon since a visit to Syria by Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 increased optimism in the United States that a hostage release might be imminent. AFTER BAKER’S talks in Damascus, Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa promised that his country would exert “maximum effort” to help win the hostages’ release. “We have the feeling that the hostage issue has to be resolved,” al-Sharaa said without further elaboration. Syria, which has 40,000 troops in Lebanon, has been instrumental in previous hostage releases.
Democratic Russia coalition said it expects 500,000 people to turn out for Thursday’s demonstration to protest attempts to oust Gorbachev rival Boris N. Yeltsin from the chairmanship of the Russian republic’s parliament. Moscow’s reform-minded city leaders, who have given permission for the rally, appealed to the nation’s Constitutional Oversight Committee to rule the Kremlin ban on demonstrations unconstitutional. The newspaper Kuranty raised alarms about the arrival of at least 23 armored personnel carriers at the military base just three miles
Quebec’s sovereignty vote coming next year?
QUEBEC (AP) For the second time in a dozen years, people in the French-speaking province of Quebec may be asked to vote on sovereignty, paving the way for a possible split-up of Canada by 1993. With nationalist feelings running high, the panel studying the future of Quebec was to submit a five-month study to the provincial legislature today calling for the vote to be held next year. IF THE ELECTION is held and the response is affirmative, sovereignty would be declared a year later by Canada’s secondlargest province. The recommendation was reached by consensus after long, hard bargaining between separatists and federalists on the 36-member panel. The report, approved by Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa, is expected to be adopted by the legislature and passed into law before summer. It would create two committees one to study any proposals from the federal government and other provinces for a renewed federalism, the second to examine the economic impact of sovereignty. BOTH THE separatist Parti Quebecois and Bourassa’s governing Liberals were pleased with the report. The difference was in the interpretation. Gil Remillard, the provincial government’s minister for intergovernmental relations, says the referendum also could be on a federalist proposal made between now and next year.
THE MISSING Westerners are six Americans, four Britons, two Germans and an Italian. American journalist Terry Anderson, 43, of Lorain, Ohio, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, is the longest-held hostage. He was kidnapped March 16, 1985. Most of the Western hostages are believed held by pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim groups. On Tuesday, another Beirut daily reported that the release of hostages had been delayed because Israel did not free a Shiite Muslim cleric as demanded by the captors of some hostages and by questions about the fate of four missing
from the Kremlin and the planned protest site. “TELEPHONES IN the editorial office were burning up with calls from upset readers,” Kuranty reported under a photograph showing the armored personnel carriers parked at the base. It quoted the base commander as saying the unit was merely passing through Moscow and would soon leave. “What a strange explanation!” it said, noting that most trucks and heavy vehicles are banned from driving through the city center. The Trud labor newspaper quoted Gen. Gennady Kashuba of the Defense Ministry press center as saying 23 armored vehicles were stationed in Moscow because their young drivers need practice driving on city streets for parades. Komsomolskaya Pravda said a man identifying himself as a KGB officer telephoned the newspaper to say his department and locally based army troops had been ordered to stand by for “mass disturbances” in die Kremlin on Thursday. In a front-page editorial, the newspaper also called the protest ban and Tuesday’s parliamentary order suspending a nationwide miners’ strike illegal. It said laws require that a state of emergency first be declared, a lengthy process that must be approved by the legislature. It is permitted only in cases of disasters, epidemics, and “mass disturbances.” THREE WEEKS ago, 500,000 people packed Manezh Square next to the Kremlin in Moscow’s largest anti-government protest since the 1917 Revolution. It passed peacefully but alarmed hard-liners.
Ever since the English sneaked up on the the French at Quebec in 1759 and stomped them on the Plains of Abraham, Quebecois have felt put upon by Anglophone Canada. Federation in 1867 made the two founding peoples equal, but the more numerous English always have held the advantage. TODAY, FRENCH Canadians feel locked in a struggle to save their language, their culture and their distinct way of life in Quebec. The failure last year of an agreement for a constitutional amendment to meet Quebec’s main concerns was viewed by many Quebecois as a rejection by English Canada. As a result, the Quebec legislature created the Commission on the Political and Constitutional Future of Quebec to consult the public and plot the next step. In the 1980 referendum, sovereignty lost by 59 percent to 41 percent. A POLL OVER the weekend showed that 63 percent of the province’s citizens want Quebec to become a sovereign country. On the other hand, 65 percent of English Canadians polled oppose negotiations for new power for Quebec. Sovereignty means different things to different people. For Parizeau and the Parti Quebecois, it clearly means independence. For others, particularly the governing Liberals, it is more vague.
Iranians. THE NEWSPAPER, Ad-Diyar , said the continued detention of Israeli soldiers missing in Lebanon also was stalling talks concerning the Western hostages. Ad-Diyar, which does not have a record of accuracy in past reports about hostages, said a week ago that the 13 Westerners would be released last weekend. On Saturday, Ad-Diyar said the negotiations had “stumbled.” Iran, which is believed to have influence with the kidnappers, has repeatedly raised the issue of the missing Iranians. They are believed to be dead and no group ever claimed to hold them captive.
The three-week ban on protests, if heeded, would also prevent street demonstrations against April 2 price hikes on nearly half of all consumer goods. Pravda today quoted Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov as saying the protest ban is justified because: “If today we allow ourselves to be drawn in risky political games...economic collapse will be inevitable.” ANOTHER newspaper, Moskovskaya Pravda , quoted Interior Ministry officer Valery Sergeev as saying “special measures” would be used only in extreme cases and would include tear gas, handcuffs, rubber truncheons and dogs. Democratic Russia said protestors would gather at two locations and march toward Manezh Square. If blocked by police, they will turn back rather than provoke a confrontation, said Igor Kharichev, a member of the group’s coordinating council. Interior Ministry official Lev Belyansky was quoted by the Russian Information Agency news service that virtually the entire Moscow police force would be deployed to prevent marchers from reaching the square. HE SAID THEY would be wearing riot gear and carrying rubber truncheons, but would use no firearms or armored vehicles. Gorbachev created Tuesday a new Interior Ministry department for Moscow and the Moscow region, to be headed by deputy Interior Minister Ivan Shilov. Gorbachev said the department was needed to “ensure public order in the capital” and would oversee all law enforcement in the city and region, comprising more than 8 million people.