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THE BANNERGRAPHIC March 28,1991

Police break up small pro-Yeltsin rally; bigger protest still planned

MOSCOW (AP) Police moved quickly today against prodemocracy activists backing Boris N. Yeltsin in a key political battle, dispersing several dozen just hours before a planned rally in defiance of a central government ban. About a dozen police rushed the crowd of 75 demonstrators and pushed them down the street, away from the Kremlin. At least six were detained. THE SCUFFLE occurred shortly before the Russian republic’s parliament convened at the Kremlin for a special session at which Yeltsin, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s chief rival, was expected to face a no-confidence vote. His followers planned to defy a three-week ban on street demonstrations imposed by Gorbachev’s Cabinet on Monday and demonstrate overwhelming public support for him later in the day with a huge rally in adjacent Manezh Square. However, authorities said thousands of police and Interior Ministry troops, armed with rubber truncheons, would block the marchers’ path. FEARS OF A bloody confrontation gripped Moscow on Wednesday, especially after two dozen armored vehicles were sighted at a military base three miles from the

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city center. Before they were dispersed today, the demonstrators chanted “Yeltsin, Yeltsin,” and held aloft the white, blue and red flag of independent Russia as well as signs that read, “Yeltsin is the hope of the Russian people” and “Communists, stop ruining the people’s lives.” On Wednesday night, an organizer of today’s main demonstration went on national television to appeal for peace.

Iraqi rebels fear starvations; want to fly jets

ZAKHO, Iraq (AP) Kurdish rebel leaders in northern Iraq are pleading for the U.S.-led allies to send food, saying they are more worried about starvation than the

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“1F...Y0U COME across barriers or forceful prevention of the movement of marchers, we ask you to show restraint and composure, not to give in to possible provocations, and to refrain from any use of force,” Arkady N. Murashov advised Yeltsin supporters. Police signaled their determination to enforce the ban by sealing off Red Square on Wednesday night and breaking up a small proYeltsin demonstration outside City Council headquarters earlier in the day, hauling away several. That and today’s scene near the Kremlin were reminiscent of how dissidents were treated in pre-Gor-bachev years. YELTSIN, WHO chairs Russia’s parliament, is under attack from a hard-line faction of Communist lawmakers in the largest and most populous of the 15 Soviet republics. The hard-liners bent on ousting him succeeded last month in calling the special session after Yeltsin accused Gorbachev of rolling back democratic reforms, demanding that the Soviet president resign. If Yeltsin loses the no-confidence vote, he still could run for the new post of directly elected president of the Russian republic. YELTSIN MADE no comment

government’s offensive against them. In an indication that offensive could be meeting with some success, Iraq’s official news agency

Wednesday on the rally or no-con-fidence campaign. Gorbachev was also silent on both issues Tuesday, when he called for changes in the Russian republic’s leadership but did not mention Yeltsin by name. To ensure enforcement of the ban on demonstrations, Gorbachev’s Cabinet has put Moscow police under the control of the Interior Ministry. The democratically elected city council had given permission for the rally. “Our officers will act in compliance with the law, and marchers will be stopped,” Deputy Police Chief Lev Belyanovsky told a news conference Wednesday. POLICE AND soldiers cordoned off Red Square with metal barricades and shooed all pedestrians away from Manezh Square, site of the Czar’s equestrian school before the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Throughout the day, helicopters circled the city, which is usually closed to air traffic. Twenty-four armored personnel carriers were at a military base in Moscow’s Dobrininskaya region, about three miles south of the Kremlin. POLICE ALSO stationed dump trucks, buses and large construction vehicles around the Historical Museum at the north end of Red Square.

claimed today that government forces have recaptured Dohuk, a city 25 miles southeast of this rebelheld town. “LIKE HAS returned to normal there after the symbols of agentry, crime and treachery tried to rape it,” said the agency, monitored in Cyprus. The report could not be confirmed. Rebels earlier said they had pushed beyond Dohuk and were near northern Iraq’s largest city, Mosul, 30 miles farther south. The Kurdish rebels said Wednesday that the Iraqi army was massing forces to retake another city in their possession, the oil center of Kirkuk, 150 miles north of Baghdad. The insurgents also said they have asked the allies to allow them to use captured warplanes against the Saddam Hussein’s forces. The allies have ordered Iraqi warplanes to stay out of the air and shot down two of them last week. SADDAM LOYALISTS are widely reported to have retaken southern Iraq’s major cities from Shiite Muslim rebels and are said to be moving reinforcements northward to confront Kurdish fighters. Helicopter gunships have been credited with spurring their successes in the south and Kurdish rebel leaders say the gunships are a prime concern. The rebels in Zakho said Wednesday that Saddam’s government is refusing to deliver U.N. food supplies to them and that Turkey and Iran were blocking shipments over their borders. They said the Iraqis were shelling remaining supply routes from Syria.

Corps chief seeks conservative support

WASHINGTON (AP) Goals of the Peace Corps were originally defined by political liberals and “it

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Fire breaks out in U.S. embassy in Moscow

MOSCOW (AP) Fire engulfed the upper floors of the U.S. Embassy this morning, forcing the evacuation of more than 400 diplomats and employees from the 10-story building. One Marine guard was treated for smoke inhalation but no other injuries were reported, said embassy spokesman James Bullock. FLAMES EMERGED from the building’s eighth floor and roof. A dense cloud of black and gray smoke rose above the building, which is just under a mile from the Kremlin. The blaze occurred during a tense standoff outside the Kremlin. Police deployed by the central government faced demonstrators supporting Russian republic leader Boris N. Yeltsin, who was being challenged in the Russian legislature by supporters of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Soviet firefighters leaned extension ladders on the embassy building and fed hoses through windows to fight the blaze. MOST OF THE flames appeared to come from a new elevator shaft under construction on the back side of the building, which has housed the U.S. Em-

“THE FOOD situation is very serious. We will face starvation if we don’t receive supplies within one month,” said Jalal Talabani, who heads the Popular Union of Kurdistan rebel group. Talabani said messages have been sent to the allied coalition that forced Saddam’s forces from Kuwait, pleading that they allow allow supplies to reach the northern Iraqi region that is part of the Kurd’s traditional homeland. The mountainous homeland extends into Iran, Turkey and Syria, which have in the past joined Iraq in resisting Kurdish separatist movements. NO MAJOR fighting was reported Wednesday in Kurdish-hcld Iraq, a broad swath across the northeastern mountains that drops down to Kirkuk. But a statement from the rebel Kurdistan Democratic Party said the Iraqi army was massing forces in Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit to launch an attack against Kirkuk 75 miles to the northcast. The statement, telexed to Nicosia, Cyprus, said more than 1,000 people were killed in the past week in air attacks on the northern cities of Kirkuk, Kefri, Dohuk, Kalar and Tuz Khormatu. KURDISH AND Shiite Muslim rebels have accused the government of using mustard gas and napalm in such attacks in a bid to stifle the insurrection by terrorizing the population. Ahmed Barmani, a Talabani aide, said the food and medicine situation in the rebel-held Kurdish region is especially bad because of the U.N. embargo on trade with Iraq ordered by the United Nations over Saddam’s seizure of Kuwait. “Instead of punishing Saddam,

is time for that to change,” says corps director Paul M. Coverdcll, a self-described conservative. “Conservatives should be Peace Corps’ biggest boosters. But ... we have allowed liberals to lay claim to, and define, one of the nation’s most impressive assets,” Coverdell said Wednesday in a speech at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. IT WAS ONE of numerous appearances by Covcrdell, a former Republican state senator from Georgia, marking the 30th anniversary this month of the volunteer organization launched by President Kennedy.

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bassy since 1953 and is considered fire-prone. Loud popping sounds could be heard amid the flames and a construction worker said acetylene tanks used in the construction and stored in the attic were apparently exploding. Bullock said the alarm sounded at 10:15 a.m. at the building, which was still burning four hours after it began. He said all employees appeared to have left the building safely. BULLOCK SAID the cause of the fire had not been determined, but an employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it appeared to be an electrical fire that broke out near the elevator shaft. Another witness said the fire began at the bottom of the shaft, then flared to upper floors. Soviet workers build a new embassy for the United States, but it was found to have been laced it with electronic listening devices, making it unsuitable for use. U.S. officials have been studying whether to modify or replace the new building, and it was not immediately clear if the fire would have any bearing on the decision.

the embargo is punishing the people fighting to overthrow him,” Barmani said. ALTHOUGH the U.N. Security Council last week decided to allow food supplies in, the Iraqi government is blocking any from reaching Kurdish areas, the rebels said. “If Turkey and Iran continue this policy, it means that they will take responsibility for starving our people,” he said. That leaves only neighboring Syria, a route the government troops were actively trying to block, shelling the narrow banks west of Zakho of the fast-flowing Tigris River, were supplies are ferried. TALABANI SAID the allies have also been asked to allow the rebels to use two Iraqi warplanes, a MiG-21 fighter and a Sukhoi bomber, part of the booty from the Khalid air base the rebels seized this week. Kurdish pilots who defected from the Iraqi air force would fly them. Talabani says six helicopter gunships have also been captured. The U.S. Central Command in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, said today that it had no immediate information on the request but was checking into it. Military sources speaking on condition of anonymity said it would seem unlikely that such a request would be approved. Despite shooting down two Iraqi planes that took to the skies last week and publicly advocating Saddam’s ouster, the Bush administration says it docs not wish to become involved in Iraq’s civil war. The United States, concerned with trying to foster stability in the region, fears a splintered Iraq.

Conservatives can feel comfortable with today’s Peace Corps, Coverdell said, because it has begun to bring to new democracies “the language of commerce, science and technology (and) critical entrepreneurial and business skills.” Business training, the fastestgrowing new speciality offered to Third World and former communist countries, is “individual empowerment,” a conservative watchword, and “I am determined that empowerment will (be) Peace Corps’ driving force,” the director said. EMPOWERMENT and the Peace Corps tradition of compassion for the disadvantaged are not at all contradictory, he added. “Indeed, they are complementary.” Coverdell defended the corps to critics who said its work should be sponsored by churches and other private groups instead of government. “As a conservative, I find the results to be implicitly productive and useful and enriching to the country,” he said. “I view international affairs as an important function of the government, and I think this is a very low-cost producer of a major benefit.”