Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 112, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 January 1992 — Page 3
U.N. expert claims Iraq might have been able to build four bombs a year
UNITED NATIONS (AP) Investigators think Iraq might have had the means to build four nuclear bombs a year using a large-scale, sophisticated system for enriching uranium, a U.N. nuclear expert says. David Dorn, a nuclear expert with the U.N. commission charged with destroying Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, told reporters Monday that Iraq recently admitted to a U.N. team in Baghdad that it had impaled components from Germany for a massive centrifuge production system. IRAQ HAS admitted to trying to enrich uranium by electromagnetic separation and other methods, and U.N. experts have said Iraq was clearly trying to manufacture a nuclear weapon. Previously, they said Iraq might have been able to produce a bomb within a year if allied bombing had not damaged much of its equipment during the Persian Gulf war. Centrifuge is a faster and more sophisticated way of enriching uranium than electromagnetic separation. Iraq today was to show U.N. nuclear inspectors the rubble of centrifuges, which Baghdad says it destroyed in order to comply with Security Council demands that its nuclear program be scrapped, Dorn said. THEN THEY WILL be able to determine the extent of yet another aspect of Iraq’s bombbuilding program. Dorn said the German government informed the commission about exports of centrifuge components to Iraq before the gulf war. He said there were indicatipns Iraq might have had as many as 10,000 centrifuges in what would have been the world’s largest program to enrich uranium
Primary school girls were forced into prostitution by Japanese in World War II
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) School girls were among tens of thousands of Korean women forced to serve in a corps that provided Japanese troops with sex during World War 11, a schoolmaster said today. The disclosure comes two days before a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and has enraged Koreans already angered by what they feel are inadequate apologies and compensation for wartime atrocities. AHN JUNG-BOK, principal of Yonghee Primary School in southern Seoul, said records kept at his school show that many students in their low teens were called into “Teishintai,” a corps that provided “comfort girls” for front-line Japanese troops. One record shows that five 11-year-old girls and a 12-year-old were removed from their sixthgrade class to serve the Japanese army in the closing years of World War 11, he said. Ahn said the records concerned students of the Bangsan Primary School, which was shut down and merged into Yonghee 10 years ago. HE SAID Masao Ikeda, 68, who identified herself as a Japanese teacher at the school in 1944 and 1945, visited his school recently and checked the records. Ms. Ikeda, who lives in southern Japan, was quoted in today’s Dong-A Ilbo newspaper as saying she always felt guilty about sending the children away and returned a few years ago to trace the girls. She located one, she told the paper, but provided no details. Meanwhile, about 150 family members of Koreans forced into the Japanese army during the war marched to protest Miyazawa’s visit. x “Apologize, compensate,” they shouted. KOREANS FEEL Japan has never properly repented for its brutalities during the war and its 1910-1945 colonization, when tens of thousands of Koreans were forced into prostitution and labor camps. The Japanese government maintains the issues were resolved when relations with South Korea were established in 1965. Koreans never accepted that. The issue of the “comfort girls” only recently became a public topic
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SADDAM HUSSEIN More releases coming? by centrifuge. The program would have been larger either than that attempted by the United States or the Soviet Union in the 19505, he said. IF CLUSTERS, or “cascades,” of centrifuges had been set up and running, Dom said, Iraq would have been able to enrich enough uranium to make about four bombs a year. He said he doubted that Iraq, which repeatedly has lied about its intentions and nuclear program, has destroyed all its centrifuges. Dom noted that they could be clustered in widely separated areas and, because they don’t use or generate much energy, could be virtually undetectable by satellites. Diplomats say Iraq might be disclosing yet more information about its nuclear program in order to put pressure on the Security Council to ease or lift economic sanctions imposed before the gulf war.
in Korea, where former prostitutes generally hide their past. JAPAN APOLOGIZED on Monday for the Japanese army’s role in abducting and detaining the “comfort girls” and said the apology would be repeated during Miyazawa’s visit with President Roh Tae-woo Thursday and Friday. Today, Miyazawa expressed an apology when he met with about 20 reporters of South Korean newspapers stationed in Tokyo, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said. Korean historians say from 70,000 to 200,000 teenagers and young women were forced into prostitution for front-line Japanese troops in China, Southeast Asia and Japan during the war. JAPANESE OFFICIALS contend that many young people worked at wartime munitions factories outside Korea and it’s difficult to determine how many were in prostitution. Yun Chung-ok, a retired professor who has interviewed survivors and witnesses over the past decade, formed the Council for the Recognition of the Problems of the Pleasure Corps a year ago to stir up interest in the problem. “In Korea’s patriarchal society, people still think of a defiled woman as a blight on her family and town. They believe that the best way is to remain mum,” she said. SHE SAID KOREAN girls were blown up in trenches after Japanese defeats toward the end of the war or simply abandoned in the jungles to conceal what had been done. Girls were told that they would earn lots of money for their families by cooking and washing clothes for soldiers, but then were raped by guards on their way to destinations, Yun said. She quoted witnesses as saying that the policy was to allot one girl to every 29 soldiers, but towards the end of the war it was 100 men to one girl. Yun says that many of the former “comfort girls” are living abroad and want to remain anonymous.
Yeltsin: No plans for cabinet to quit
MOSCOW (AP) President Boris Yeltsin today rejected stinging criticism from a top lawmaker who called his Cabinet unqualified and urged it to resign. “Any leader sometimes has his emotional outbursts,” Yeltsin said before leaving on a tour of Bryansk. “A government is not a pair of gloves. It is easier to pass laws than to implement them. “I WILL DEFENDT will defend the government,” the Tass news agency quoted him as saying. In other developments today: • The president of Kazakhstan decided to freeze the prices of bread and milk in response to “the mass discontent” in the former Soviet republic over the recent economic reforms. • Coal miners in Kazakhstan’s Karaganda region went on strike to protest the recent sharp increase in prices, Moscow radio reported. • Pravda predicted that prices would continue to soar unless the government intervenes. “People go to shops, like to museums, to see new prices,” it said. “But neither queues nor shortages have been eliminated.” YELTSIN FREED prices on most goods to kick-start the wheezing economy and stimulate production. But the reforms have triggered scattered unrest and anger from consumers, and have not noticeably increased the volume of goods on sale. In one sign of Yeltsin’s concern,
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Gorbachev back at work
MOSCOW (AP) Mikhail S. Gorbachev began his first workday as a private citizen today, meeting at his political think tank with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Gorbachev’s return to work as chairman of the Fund for SocioPolitical Research, which he founded last summer, marked the end of a three-week holiday after his resignation on Dec. 25 as president of the former Soviet Union. MOST OF Gorbachev’s powers and his Kremlin office now belong to Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin, who in December joined leaders of other former Soviet republics in creating the Commonwealth of Independent States. Gorbachev’s meeting with Kissinger was announced by Tass and in a front-page story in the daily newspaper Nczavisimaya Gazeta. It attrac-
his office announced that he would address the legislature Thursday on the economic and social fallout in Russia from the price liberalization, the Interfax news agency reported. On Monday, Ruslan Khasbulatov, speaker of the Russian legislature, urged Yeltsin’s government to resign, calling it “virtually incapacitated.”
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IN THE HARSHEST criticism yet of the reforms by a Russian official, Khasbulatov accused the Yeltsin government of implementing “uncontrolled, anarchic and runaway price increases, which are not allowed to happen anywhere else in the world. “It is a good time now either for the president to replace the actually
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inoperative government, or else for the Supreme Soviet to do it in compliance with the Constitution,” Khasbulatov was quoted as telling' visiting Italian parliamentarians. Khasbulatov was not calling for Yeltsin’s resignation, but rather that of his Cabinet, which is composed of free-market reformers. GOVERNMENT officials went on the offensive later, saying they would not resign and labeling Khasbulatov’s criticism “irresponsible” so soon after the economic reforms were launched Jan. 2. Khasbulatov’s deputy, Vladimir Shumeiko, told the legislative leadership Monday that Russia faces growing social tensions because of the price liberalizations, the Russian Information Agency reported. Over the weekend, several thousand supporters of hard-line Communists rallied in central Moscow to denounce Yeltsin and the price reforms that have drawn scattered incidents of unrest across vast Russia. The reforms raised prices on the most basic goods such as bread, butter and gasoline from three to five times, and other foodstuffs and consumer goods went up many times more, in order to encourage production and rapidly move the former Soviet republic to a market economy.
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