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Iraqi official may seek help from Iran
The Associated Press
Iraq’s foreign minister Sunday
sought to break his country’s U.N.
imposed isolation by visiting Iran,
but the United States and Soviet Union
renewed their commitment to the
embargo on Iraq.
Also Sunday, more Americans flew
to freedom after being held in Iraq
and Kuwait. Hundreds are still held
as human shields against U.S. and
other forces building up in the Persian
Gulf region since the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait five weeks ago.
In Kuwait, where Iraqi forces are
trying to starve diplomats out of the
U.S. and other embassies, Denmark’s
ambassador left his compound Sun
day.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz
began talks with Iranian officials in
Tehran, Iran’s capital, in the first
official Iraqi visit since the two coun
tries went to war in 1980. The fight
ing ended in a cease-fire in August
1988.
The trip by Aziz visit paves the
way for a meeting between Iraqi Presi
dent Saddam Hussein and Iranian
President Hashemi Rafsanjani to sign
a peace treaty officially ending hos
tilities.
Since the 1988 cease-fire, nego
tiations toward a formal settlement
bogged down until Saddam List month
sought ways around his international
isolation resulting from his Aug. 2
seizure of Kuwait. Saddam began
pulling troops out of Iranian territory
and exchanging prisoners.
The move apparently freed up
hundreds of thousands of Iraqi troops
along the two countries’ 750-mile
border for possible deployment in the
Persian Gulf crisis.
Sources in Tehran, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said Aziz
likely would be asking for food and
medicine shipments through Iran.
But while Iraq sought better ties,
Iran’s First vice president, Hasan
Habibi, called for an Iraqi withdrawal
from Kuwait.
“The internationally recognized
borders should on principle remain
valid, and we will not accept any
change in the geographical status of
the region,’’ said Habibi on a visit to
the southern provincial capital of
Bushehr, according to Iran’s official
Islamic Republic News Agency
monitored in Cyprus.
The flow of refugees from Iraq and
Kuwait also continued. Thousands
more Asians and Arabs crossed into
Turkey and Jordan and more Ameri
can women and children were sched
uled to fly out of Iraq.
A U.S.-chartered flight carrying
about 300 Americans landed in Frank
furt, West Germany, early Sunday
from Amman, Jordan. After refuel
ing, the flight took off for Charleston,
S.C.
Bush, Gorbachev sign joint condemnation
HELSINKI, Finland - President
Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Gorbachev joined Sunday in an
extraordinary joint condemnation
of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, and
said they agreed in seven hours of
summit talks that “aggression
cannot and will not pay.”
Gorbachev emphasized the need
for a “political” solution, insist
ing that his former ally, Saddam
- Hussein, is headed “into a dead
end” by struggling to hold Kuwait
against stiff international sanctions.
Bush held out the possibility of
using force if the embargo is not
effective, but Gorbachev pointedly
refrained from saying the Soviet
Union would support a military
move against Iraq.
Yet die Soviet president said L
hoped to make it “quite clear to
Saddam Hussein that if Iraq were
to provoke military action, then
the result would be a tragedy first
and foremost for the Iraqi people
themselves, for the whole of the
region and for the whole oT the
world.”
The leaders spoke with report
ers following the release of their
joint summit declaration that said:
“We are united in the belief that
Iraq’s aggression must not be tol
erated. No peaceful international
order is possible if larger states can
devour their smaller neighbors....
“Our preference is to resolve
the (Persian Gulf) crisis peacefully,
and we will be united against Iraq’s
aggression as long as the crisis
exists,” they declared.
The statement stood in unprece
dented contrast to Cold War bick
ering that accompanied crises dur
ing the past four decades.
The statement also said that once
Iraq withdraws from Kuwait, the
two countries will work with na
tions in the region to develop re
gional security structures and
measures to promote peace and
stability.
An Iraqi Airways jumbo jet carry
ing 426 evacuees -- including 170
Americans -- left Baghdad bound for
London, said officials at Gatwick
airport near London.
As of Sunday, Iraq said it would
not allow more chartered flights to
Amman, claiming Jordanian officials
complained of refugees crowding the
airport. Airport authorities in Am
man have denied it.
More than 110,000 mostly penni
less men, women and children from
Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Philip
pines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other
Third World nations have been stuck
in Jordan since fleeing Kuwait and
Iraq.
Another airlift, by the International
Migration Organization, started Thurs
day and continued over the weekend.
The plan was to fly 19,OCX) Sri Lan
klans home over the next 11 days at
the rate of about 1,400 a day.
But a senior Jordanian official said
the number of repatriations “hardly
keeps up with the continuing influx of
new arrivals.”
Pakistan, concerned about 100,000
of its nationals still in Iraq and Ku
wait, planned to send 30 tons of food
to Jordan this week for transfer to
Iraq, a Pakistani spokesman said.
Britain announced Saturday that it
will allow the export of medicine to
Iraq and Kuwait. The U.N. embargo
resolution ‘‘makes clear that the export
of medical supplies to Iraq and Ku
wait is permissible,” a department
spokesman said.
Restored Ellis Island reopens
NEW YORK - The “Isle of Tears”
cracked a smile Sunday as immi
grants old and new celebrated the
reopening of Ellis Island, gateway to
the New World for the ancestors of
two out of five Americans.
“There are thousands of different
names, thousands of different stories,
but you stitch all of them together and
you have one huge saga, and it’s our
saga,” said Chrysler Chairman Lee
Iacocca, who spearheaded the cam
paign that raised SI56 million to re
store the 90-year-old immigration
station.
Before snipping a white ribbon,
Vice President Dan Quayle linked the
nation’s immigrant history to the cri
sis in the Persian Gulf. There, he said,
“children of Mexicans or Kenyans
stand shoulder to shoulder with the
grandchildren of Japanese or French,
next to the great-grandchildren of Poles
or Dutch - now Americans all.”
‘‘ What we celebrate in Ellis Island
is nothing less than the triumph of the
American spirit,” Quayle said. “We
may all know in our minds that time
and time again, it has been the immi
grant who has renewed and rekindled
the American spirit. But here in Ellis
Island, we feel it in our hearts.”
About 2,500 guests gathered out
side the huge, four-towered brick
building that reopens to the public
today as a museum and memorial
following six years of work.
Forty-nine new citizens, including
three children, were sworn in by
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,
and six people who entered the nation
through Ellis in the first quarter of the
century were singled out lo represent
the millions of immigrants who passed
through the island.
They included Johanna Flaherty,
84, who said she left her native Ire
land in 1923 because she “didn’t
want to wake up and stare a cow in the
face every morning.” Another was
Clara Larsen, who came from Russia
in 1913 because she wanted to gel an
education.
Immigrants’ contributions were
celebrated throughout the program,
down to the music; the U.S. Army
Band played selectipns by Irving
Berlin, who came through Ellis as a
child.
lacocca dedicated the American
Immigrant Wall of Honor, which bears
the names of about 2,000 immigrants
whose descendants donated $100 or
more to the renovation effort. The
names are inscribed on a long copper
strip on the island’s seawall, about
400 yards from the Statue of Liberty.
One of the names was that of
Antonio Macchiarola, 80, of Johnston,
R.I., who arrived at age 11.
In retrospect, Macchiarola said, it
all seems “like a pilgrimage.... I was
just a little bit of a kid, and I had to go
through these lines to be examined.
Everybody was afraid they wouldn’t
make it.”
Between 1892 and 1924, when Ellis
was the nation’s busiest port of entry,
an average of 5,000 people a day
passed through.
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Opponents try to shame
former Pakistani leader
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Her
opponents are determined to have
Benazir Bhutto remembered as the
disgraced leader of Pakistan’s most
corrupt and incompetent govern
ment, not as a martyr for democ
racy.
When she was dismissed last
month after 20 months in office,
they set out to destroy what some
called “the myth” - that only a
Bhutto could govern Pakistan.
In removing the prime minister
and her democratically elected
government Aug. 6, President
Ghulam Ishaq Khan cited a long
list of complaints ranging from
comiption and ineptitude to abuse
of power.
Bhutto called it “a constitutional
coup” by the Establishment, a
reference to the generals who for
merly ruled Pakistan and still have
enormous influence.
A caretaker government made
up largely of defected allies and
bitter critics of Bhutto has hurled
charge after charge to an effort to
discredit her Pakistan People’s Party,
which was founded by her father.
Some say her enemies are trying to
force her out of politics.
Three former Cabinet ministers
have been charged in special courts
set up to handle corruption cases
and to disqualify candidates from
elections called for Oct. 24, three
years ahead of schedule.
The new government has said at
least half a dozen more cases will
be filed, possibly against Bhutto.
Many Pakistanis see the tribu
nals as “kangaroo courts” evok
ing memories of the process her
father, Prime Minister Zulfikar All
Bhutto, underwent 13 years ago
after Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq
overthrew him. Bhutto was hanged
two years later.
“There are glaring similarities
with 1977, but there also are differ
ences,” Bhutto said in a recent
interview at her fortress-like home
in Karachi. “The wind of democ
racy has come across the world.
There is a new future ahead, and it
will not be easy for them to drag
Pakistan backward.”
Opponents have not presented
concrete evidence to support their
charges, and the family name still
carries much of its old magic for
many. Wherever she goes, Bhutto
draws large crowds that chant
“Benazir, Benazir is innocent!”
Since its creation as a Moslem
homeland 43 years ago, when the
Indian subcontinent became inde
pendent of Britain, Pakistan has
endured three wars, three internal
insurgencies and three military
dictators.
Two prime ministers, a presi
dent, several high-ranking gener
als and countless politicians and
religious leaders have been assas
sinated.
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Soldiers, Mohawk injured in scujfle
MONTREAL - A Mohawk war
rior and two soldiers were injured
Saturday in a scuffle on the Kahnesa
take settlement west of Montreal where
Canadian troops were locked in a
standoff with a group of armed Indi
ans.
Mohawk spokesmen said a 51 -year
old Mohawk was awakened in his
sleep and “severely beaten” by sol
diers.
The army said the Mohawk drew a
knife and attacked a soldier.
The soldier was on a reconnais
sance patrol to check out defensive
positions pul up by the Indians, the
army said in a statement. Troops have
surrounded the Indians within a small
wooded area and have put up a barbed
wire fence.
The soldier told the Mohawk that
he had no aggressive intentions, but
the Indian attacked him, the army
said.
The patrol of four soldiers sub
dued the Indian, who suffered a gash
near an eye that required stitches.
One soldier was slashed on the
face and another stabbed four times
in the abdomen, but their injuries
were not considered serious, the army
said. 7
A doctor who examined Mohawk,
identified only by his warrior code
name of Spudwrench, said he had
suffered 1 ‘multiple lacerations and a
possible depressed skull fracture.”
After lengthy negotiations, the
Mohawk was taken to a Montreal
hospital by ambulance under an army
escort in the early evening, more than
12 hours after the clash.
Joan Lamontagne, a spokesman
for Montreal General Hospital, said
the Mohawk was undergoing medical
tests and that she did not know the
extent of his injuries.
About 20 Mohawk men and 30
women and children are holed up in a
detoxification center in the wooded
area in the Kahnesatake settlement,
18 miles west of Montreal. They are
surrounded by about 400 soldiers.
They retreated to the center after
the army moved in last weekend to
dismantle barricades set up by the
Indians.