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U. N. Secretary-general optimistic, cautious
The Associated Press
Freedom proved elusive Thursday
for thousands of foreign women and
children promised safe passage out of
Iraq, and diplomacy took center stage
as the U.N. secretary-general arrived
in Jordan to try to mediate the Persian
Gulf crisis.
The crisis was entering its fifth
week today, and the world seemed
wary of false hopes for a peaceful
settlement. The U.N. chief, Javier
Perez de Cuellar, expressed optimism
- but also warned that the situation in
the region was “explosive.”
The United Stales, meanwhile, was
looking for help in bearing the finan
cial burden of its SI billion-a-month
military buildup in the Persian Gulf.
President Bush said he was soliciting
funds from several countries to help
defray the cost of the deployment.
In Baghdad, more than 200 for
eign women and children gathered at
a hotel Thursday, hoping to leave the
country. Some had been held by the
Iraqis at military and other installa
tions, serving as “human shields”
against attack.
One British woman, Karen Tay
lor, said she was held with other Brit
ons at a site 300 miles from Baghdad.
“We were treated well but some
children were sick,” she said.
Iraq had said foreign women and
children would be allowed to leave
beginning Wednesday. But State
Department spokeswoman Margaret
Tutwiler said no exit perm its had been
issued to Americans as of Thursday.
Tutwiler said Iraqi authorities were
insisting on a variety of arcane paper
work, including a letter requesting
permission to go, translated into Arabic
and affixed with a stamp from au
thorities certifying that all local taxes
had been paid.
“This emotional roller coaster is
inhumane and disgraceful,” the
spokeswoman said.
The Suite Department has said about
one-third of the 3.(XX) Americans who
have been barred from leaving Iraq
and Kuwait are women or children
age 18 and under. The Americans arc
among about 21.0(H) Westerners
trapped since Iraq took over Kuwait
on Aug. 2.
Iraq's ambassador to the United
States denied reports from diplomats
in Baghdad that Iraq had demanded
that any planes arriving to pick up
hostages bring in food and medicine.
Iraq’s supplies have been all but cut
off by the global embargo imposed
since the invasion.
While the families and friends of
hostages hoped for a homecoming,
U.S. soldiers’ loved ones were saying
their good-byes. In rural Allendale,
S.C., a town of 4,500 about 80 miles
south of Columbia, lina Jean Rooker
fought tears as she prepared to see off
her son James, an Army guardsman
who turned 20 this month.
“I just wish that it didn’t have to
happen like this, that things could
have been settled through negotia
lions,” she said.
Talks were under way on several
fronts. .
Perez clc Cuellar, arriving in the
Jordanian capital of Amman for talks
today with Iraq’s foreign minister,
Tariq Aziz, told reporters: ”1 believe
that the government of Iraq is as eager
as we all arc to f inti a just and lasting
solution of the problem.”
The U.N. chief said the discus
sions would be within the framework
of a series of U.N. resolutions passed
since the invasion. Those resolutions
included demands for an Iraqi w ith
drawal from Kuwait and the imposi
tion of economic sanctions against
Baghdad.
In Cairo, the Arab League con
vened an emergency meeting 1 hurs
day. But only 13 of its 21 member
suites were represented, reflecting the
Arab world’s deep divisions over the
crisis. , ,.
At that summit, the 12 nations
condemned the invasion of Kuwait;
said they viewed the Kuwaiti royal
family as the emirate’s legitimate
rulers; and -- in their most controver
sial move -- agreed to send troops to
Saudi Arabia.
Egypt, Syria and Morocco have
since sent contingents to Saudi Ara
bia, where tens of thousands of u.S
troops are deployed.
Moscow, meanwhile, indicated it
considered Arab action the key to
resolving the crisis. Soviet Foreign
Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sent
an urgent message to his Arab counter
parts urging them to work together
“at a critical moment” to prevent
war, Tass reported Thursday.
Jordan ’s King Hussein, in Madrid,
said he believed there had been a
slight easing of tensions in the region.
“I believe that we’ve halted .. this
very dangerous rapid escalation. I hope
that is the case,” the monarch said.
But he said war was still a looming
threat.
Former hostage calls for talks
Authorities right rumor mill
over Gainesville murders
DUBLIN, Ireland - Former hos
tage Brian Keenan on Thursday
urged negotiations for the release
of remaining captives in Lebanon,
with whom he formed an “endur
ing and unbreakable bond” during
years in tiny basement cells.
Keenan, a teacher released last
week after being held 4 1/2 years,
said he often spent weeks in dark
chambers, suffered repeated beat
ings and rarely spoke above a
whisper.
“It's time to talk. It’s obviously
time to talk. There is a willingness.
Why not talk?” Keenan said dur
ing a 75-minutc news conference.
Keenan, 39, said he saw two til
the six remaining American hos
tages, Associated Press journalist
Terty Anderson and university
professor Thomas Sutherland, about
11 months ago. At the lime, both
were well, he said.
Extremist groups believed linked
to Iran still hold 13 Western hos
tages - six Americans, four Brit
ons, two West Germans and an
Italian.
Keenan, a native of Belfast,
Northern Ireland, w ho holds dual
Irish-British citizenship, was handed
over to Irish authorities in Syria on
Saturday. He was released from
Mater hospital in Dublin on Thurs
day.
He was teaching English in Beirut
at the lime of his capture on April
II* im.
Appearing pale and thin, Keenan
periodically fought back tears while
describing his captivity.
“‘Hostage’ is crucifying alone
ness. There’s a silent screaming
slide into the bowels of ultimate
despair,” Keenan said, reading from
a handwritten statement.
‘ * ‘ Hostage’ is a man hanging by
his fingernails over the edge of
chaos and feeling his fingers slow ly
straightening.”
Keenan described 42-year-old
Anderson, the AP’s chief Middle
East correspondent, as pacing the
floor in tattered socks with a
“voracious appetite lor intellec
tual conversation. '
He said Anderson sometimes
kept him awake for hours with con
versation.
“Terry and myself would sit
through those long nights and speak
with great pain and remorse and
longing for his first daughter,
Gabnclle. With many tears he would
elaborate his plans w hen he was fi
nally back in the states to help her
to shape and discover her future.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Authori
ties struggled to keep up with the
rumor mill Thursday in this college
town panicked by five murders, while
police searched for a “lust killer'
who reportedly stole body parts of
some victims.
University of Florida President John
Lombardi said the school was operat
ing normally and would not be “held
hostage to lunacy.” But flags on
campus Hew at half-staff,and the city
was being combed by an army of 600
local police, state investigators and
FBI agents.
“We're trying to pul a security
blanket over this city,” said Police
Chief Wayland Clifton.
Despite efforts by police and school
officials to provide a safe and sane
environment in the opening week of
classes, the discovery of five mur
dered students on Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday released a virus ol lear.
The fear was fed by published
reports that the killer stole flesh from
some of the mutilated victims and left
the head of a decapitated victim sit
ting on a shelf.
Police have given few details about
the mutilations. But the St. Peters
burg Times reported that pieces of
flesh from the first three victims were
missing. The Orlando Sentinel re
ported that the nipples of the first two
victims had been removed and had
not been found.
Clifton said it was the work of a
‘‘lust killer.”
Fear affected at least one school
assignment. Anne G. Jones, an Fng
lish professor, said a class chose to
put off reading' Paris Trout,’ ’ a novel
by Pete Dexter about a psychotic
murderer stalking a small town.
"They decided they didn 't want to
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JOHANNESBURG. South Africa
- Police clashed for a second day
Thursday with students protesting black
factional fighting, and the govern
ment said the conflict was forcing it
to spend money on security instead of
social services.
Witnesses in Cape Town said stu
dents hurled stones at police, who
fired birdshot in return and injured at
least two protesters. The students were
demanding an end to battles between
Xhosas. who mostly support the Afri
can National Congress, and Zulus,
w'ho back the conservative lnkatha
movement.
Officials of the Transkci home
land, where many Xhosas arc from,
complained Thursday that South
African authorities had left bodies of
victims of the fighting to rot outside
Johannesburg area mortuaries.
They said people who traveled to
the city to identity the dead were
unable to recognize their relatives
because the bodies had decomposed.
“One is bound to ask w hy are the
corpses of the people who died in
such a violent manner further dese
crated in this way,” the Transkei
statement said. “Is it because they
are black?”
lnkatha and the ANC' both oppose
apartheid but differ on the shape ol a
future South Africa, lnkatha has ac
cused the ANC of terrorizing other
black groups in a bid to consolidate
power.
Zulu and Xhosa tribal leaders met
Thursday and agreed to make a joint
plea for an end to the fighting At
least 5(H) people have died since the
factional lighting broke out on Aug.
12 in the townships around Johan
nesburg.
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