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Iraq warns trapped Westerners
Iraq lightened the screws on trapped
Westerners on Thursday, warning that
anyone trying to leave without per
mission could face life in prison. The
Soviet Union for the first time called
for sending a U.N. military force to
the Persian Gulf.
Washington and Moscow, mean
while, scrambled to prepare for the
weekend superpower summit they hope
will bring a break in the 5-week-old
crisis.
At the United Nations, diplomats
said U.N. Secretary-General Javier
Perez de Cuellar planned to send an
envoy to occupied Kuwait to meet
with diplomats whose embassies are
surrounded by Iraqi troops, and with
trapped foreigners. Baghdad would
have to give its consent for the visit.
The State Department again blasted
Iraq for its treatment of foreign na
tionals, including the shooting of an
American in Kuwait who was trying
to avoid capture. Department spokes
man Mark Dillcn called Iraq’s behav
ior “outrageous.”
As the United States redoubled its
efforts to win financial support for the
huge military effort, British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher pledged
more forces to bolster the U.S. con
tingent in the gulf. She did not elabo
rate on the deployment plans.
Egypt, too, said it was beefing up
its small gulf contingent.
President Bush said the United
Slates was determined to force Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein to with
draw from Kuwait, which Iraqi troops
overran Aug. 2 in a dispute over land,
money and oil
“We will not stand by while one
country devours another unthreaten
ing country whole,” Bush said at a
Kansas fundraiser. “Our cause may
not be easy, but it will always be
right.”
In a a surprise move, Bush he
would make a statement for broad
cast to the Iraqi people, saying he saw
“a real opportunity” to explain the
U.S. view. Baghdad had offered to
broadcast an interview with Bush, but
the White House said the president
would tape a statement instead.
Statements by the Iraqi president
-- which White House wags call
“Saddamathons” — have received
ample air time in the United States,
and the Bush administration was re
portedly irritated about this.
Word that Moscow favors a U.N.
military force in the Persian Gulf came
from Soviet Foreign Ministry spokes
man Gennady Gerasimov. He indi
cated Mikhail S. Gorbachev may
discuss the idea with Bush at their
summit Sunday in Helsinki, Finland.
Previously, the Soviets had said
only that they might participate if the
United Nations decided to deploy a
military force.
“We have to go back to the U.N.
charier and revive certain clauses of
this charter . . . which may have
armed forces — international armed
forces - at its disposal so as to keep
international peace and security,”
Gerasimov told reporters.
The change in the Soviet stance
came a day after Iraq’s foreign minis
ter, Tariq Aziz, met with Gorbachev
and displayed no softening in Iraq’s
refusal to leave Kuwait. Moscow and
Baghdad were longtime allies, but
Gorbachev has condemned the Ku
wait invasion as “treachery.”
Expenses are mounting daily for
the U.S. military deployment, and
Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady
arrived Thursday in Seoul, South
Korea, the latest stop on a tour to
press allies for funds. Secretary of
State James A. Baker III was making
the same pitch in Saudi Arabia, where
the bulk of the U.S. force is deployed.
In Iraq, the outlook grew grimmer
for trapped foreigners. Baghdad said
those caught trying to leave without
permission could face life in prison.
Justice Minister Akram Abdul
Kader said authorities were reviving
a 1987 law that “a foreigner violating
the entry and exit procedures... will
be sentenced to life or temporary
imprisonment, and all cash in his
possession will be confiscated.”
The State Department said Iraqi
authorities had informed U.S. offi
cials that an American shot by Iraqi
police in Kuwait was expected to be
discharged from a hospital shortly
but will remain in Iraqi custody. The
department spokesman, Dillen, said
the American was wounded while
attempting to evade capture at his
apartment in Kuwait City.
“We hold the Iraqi government
responsible for the health and welfare
of all American citizens held against
their will in Kuwaitand Iraq,” Dillen
said.
Student holds six
middle schoolers
hostage in school
CUMMING, Ga. - A high school
sophomore held a half-dozen class
mates at gunpoint for several hours
Thursday, demanding such things as
soft drinks, candy and a school bus
before Finally surrendering to police.
Forsyth County Sheriff Wesley
Walraven said the youth surrendered
shortly before 2 p.m., about 5 1/2
hours after the incident began.
There were no injuries reported.
The hostages were middle school
pupils attending the combined South
Forsyth middle school-high school,
said Joyce Shadbum, a spokeswoman
for the county’s school superinten
dent. The boy who look the other
hostage attended the high school, she
said.
Shadbum said the boy, whose name
was not immediately released, fired
one shot in the classroom shortly after
classes began for the day.
Authorities gave nodctails of what
kind of gun or guns was involved.
Though the boy allowed some girls
to go free in exchange for candy and
soda, he kept about six bovs in the
classroom for several hours more,
authorities said.
Shadbum said the boy’s only other
demand was for a school bus. A bus
had been taken to the scene, she said.
One of the freed girls, Shelly Dixon,
said the boy told “us to stand up and
pul our hands on our heads.”
“He started cussing at us. He said
if we said anything, he’d shoot us,”
Dixon said.
Capt. Jerry Padgett of the Forsyth
County Sheriff’s Department said the
situation generally stayed calm as
authorities negotiated with the stu
dent.
The sheriff s department was called
in by the school around 8:30 a.m.
Other students were evacuated from
the school, and streets in the area
were blocked, authorities said. fThey
have the area barricaded off. It’s not
in a residential area.”
The school is located about five
miles south of Cumming, a town of
2,100 north of Atlanta.
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County attorney suspended
Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Jim Elworth was suspended
from his job after he allegedly knocked down a private attorney during
a confrontation at the County-City Building.
Lancaster County Attorney Mike Heavican said Elworth has been
suspended until Monday, when there will be a meeting to determine his
future with the office.
“Obviously one of the actions we have to look at is termination
because we certainly can’t condone that kind of conduct,” he said.
Heavican said Elworth and private attorney Hal Anderson appar
ently got into a dispute Wednesday afternoon after a District Court
hearing concerning the forfeiture to the state of S786 involved in a drug
case.
While standing in front of the county attorney’s office, the two
exchanged words and then Elworth apparently pushed Anderson,
knocking him down, Heavican said.
Heavican said it was his understanding that no punches were thrown.
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Disorder linked 10 genes
; BOSTON - Scientists have discovered two defective genes that
cause dangerous thickening of the heart, the leading medical cause of
sudden death among young athletes.
Glitches in these genes result in an inherited disorder known as
familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Victims are prone to suffer
heart rhythm problems and heart failure or to die suddenly from cardiac
arrest.
Among the most notable victims of cardiomyopathy was basketball
star Hank Gathers of Loyola Marymount, who collapsed during a game
in March. Experts arc uncertain, however, whether he had the inherited
form of the disease.
The latest discovery by researchers at Harvard Medical School is the
first time scientists have pinpointed the precise genes responsible for an
inherited abnormality of the heart itself.
Cardiomyopathy causes thickening of the walls of the heart. While
familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is rare -- affecting about three in
1(X),(X)() people -- other forms are common side effects of a variety of
diseases, including high blood pressure.
Art gallery will stand trial
CINCINNATI - A judge ruled Thursday dial an art gallery and its
director must stand trial later this month on obscenity charges for
displaying five sexually graphic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Dennis Barrie and the Contemporary Arts Center already were
using children in material involving nudity. The obscenity case will be
heard the same day.
In his ruling Thursday, Hamilton County Municipal Judge David Al
banese rejected a defense request to dismiss the obscenity charge. De
fense lawyers had contended that the pictures were a legitimate art
exhibition and immune from Ohio’s obscenity law.
“That is contrary to the... law,” Albanese said. “The affirmative
defenses and issues of credibility are for the trier of the case to decide.”
Albanese on Thursday also granted a prosecution request to limit the
obscenity case to the five photographs described in the indictment
against Barrie and the center.
He rejected defense claims that the jury had to consider all of the
photos in the exhibition — including shots of flowers and sculpture -- be
cause the show was a survey of Mapplethorpe’s life.
“The court finds that each photograph has a separate identity.”
He said prosecutors only have to prove that one of the photographs
is obscene to win a conviction.
I Catholics condemn bigotry
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia - Roman Catholic leaders Thursday
condemned anti-Semitism and racism as they closed a Catholic-Jewish
conlcrcncc that looked at growing anti-Semitic incidents in Eastern
Europe.
A statement issued during the four-day meeting said delegates from
16 nations gave special attention to “recent manifestations of anti
Semitism’ in former Eastern Bloc nations since the fall of tightly run
Communist societies.
I he statement came at the end of the first formal meeting in five
years of the Pontifical Commission on Religious Relations with the
Jews and the International Jewish Committee on Intcrreligious Consul
tations.
The six-point plan to fight anti-Semitism includes omission of ra
cially or religiously divisive material from textbooks, establishment of
courses for priests to counter ariti-Jewish sentiment, and monitoring of
all outbreaks of so-called hate crimes against Jews.
The plan also recommended swift translation and dissemination of
recent Vatican statements of Catholic-Jewish relations. Eastern Euro
pean churches lacked either permission or resources to publish these
documents.
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