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Thousands in Baghdad demonstrate against U.S.
U.N. condemns Iraqi raids on embassies
As the United Nations weighed new sanc
tions against Baghdad, Iraqi television broad
cast a statement by President Bush on Sunday
in which he warned the Iraqi people their
leader’s brinkmanship could plunge them into
war "against the world.”
Hours later, thousands of men, women and
children marched through the streets of Baghdad,
chanting "Death to Bush, Death to America!”
An official Iraqi response to Bush’s state
ment called it full of “ lies and contradictions,”
and said the U.S. president aimed to be the
“dictator of the world.”
The U.N. Security Council, meeting in the
early morning hours, unanimously condemned
Iraq’s raids last week on the French, Belgian,
Canadian and Dutch embassy compounds in
Kuwait, and warned that further sanctions against
Baghdad were likely.
Diplomats also began drafting language for
a new resolution to close off Iraq’s air routes
and punish nations flouting the trade embargo,
U.S. officials said.
Bush’s address to the Iraqi people, with an
Arabic voice-over and captions provided by
the State Department, apparently was broad
cast in its entirety at 7 p.m. Sunday (11 a.m.
EDT).
The eight-minute speech was followed
immediately by a 25-minute response from an
Iraqi TV announcer.
A “thundering rage” is building against the
United States in the Arab world, and a show
down in the Gulf would end “in a catastrophe”
for U.S. forces, said announcer Mikdad Morad,
who usually reads statements from President
Saddam Hussein.
A group of a few hundred men later began
marching in Baghdad. As they passed through
residential neighborhoods, thousands of men,
women and children joined them.
Raising fists in the air, the demonstrators
denounced Bush and also President Hosni
Mubarak of Egypt and King Fahd of Saudi
Arabia, whom they called “traitors of the Arab
world” for backing the U.S.-led forces in the
Persian Gulf.
The U.N. resolution Sunday, along with
actions by the Italian and Soviet governments,
appeared to confirm a growing solidarity in
opposition to Saddam, whose forces overran
Kuwait Aug. 2.
French officials rounded up 26 Iraqi mili
tary trainees and three suspected secret agents
for expulsion. On Saturday, France said it was
expelling diplomats and expanding its military
presence in the gulf in response to the embassy
raids.
Italy also announced Sunday it was expel
ling all the officials at the Iraqi military atta
che’s office in Rome.
The Soviet Union appeared to take another
step away from Baghdad, a former ally, with
the visit to Moscow on Sunday of Prince Saud
Al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister. A dis
patch from the official news agency Tass said
he would sign a treaty establishing diplomatic
relations between the Soviet Union and Saudi
Arabia.
Two Tunisian newspapers reported Sunday
that Iraqi troops had entered the Tunisian
Embassy in Kuwait as well. In Bangladesh, the
Bengali-language newspaper Ittefaq said sol
diers stormed the residences of two embassy
officials Friday.
In Baghdad, meanwhile, a senior Iranian
delegation arrived for a visit in another sign of
a new alliance between the former foes. Sad
dam has sought better ties with Iran to get help
beating the U.N. sanctions.
The Iranian group was led by the deputy
foreign minister for international relations,
Manushahr Mutaqi, the official Iraqi News
Agency reported.
Sources have reported that Iran agreed to
provide food and medicine to Iraq in exchange
for 200,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Iran
has maintained it will respect the U.N. em
bargo. But in any case, it has been reaping
benefits from the crisis, making billions of
dollars from oil prices pushed up since the
embargo on oil exports from Iraq and Kuwait.
A
Interest in
Star Wars
revitalized
WASHINGTON - The pros
pect of Iraa firing ballistic mis
siles at U.S. forces in the Ara
bian desert is stirring congres
sional interest in an obscure Star
Wars spinoff effort to build de
fenses against close-range mis
sile attacks.
The United States has only a
rudimentary defense against
Iraq’s missile arsenal, which U.S.
intelligence agencies say is
rapidly growing more sophisti
cated and is capable of carrying
chemical warheads to targets
inside Saudi Arabia.
Even some of Congress’
harshest critics of the Strategic
Defense Initiative, more com
monly called Star Wars or SDI,
say the Iraqi missile threat might
call for spending more on what
the Pentagon calls “theater
missile defense.”
“Maybe there’s some justi
. fication for increasing that par
ticular aspect of SDI,” Sen.
Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said
last week at a Senate Armed
Services Committee hearing on
the U.S. military buildup in the
Persian Gulf region.
Kennedy ’ s comment doesn ’ t
suggest a surge of support for
the overall SDI program, which
is aimed mainly at building a
space-based defense against
Soviet intercontinental ballistic
missiles.
Congress is expected to slash
at least $1 billion from Presi
dent Bush’s request for $4.6
billion in SDI funding for the
1991 budget year starting Oct.
1.
The Iraqi crisis, however, has
revived interest in SDI tech
nologies that could be applied
against short-range missiles that
are proliferating in the Middle
East.
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Hearings make Souter less ot a mystery
WASHINGTON - David H. Souter,
described by one senator early in his
Supreme Court confirmation hearings
as “the stealth nominee,” is not the
same mystery man he may have been
to many Americans just days ago.
His two days of nationally tele
vised ipstimony before the Senate
Judiciary Committee yielded signifi
cant insights into Souter the man and
Souter the judge.
Everyone was not satisfied with
his answers, especially his reluctance
to detail his views on abortion. But at
least something was learned of this
New Hampshire judge who was vir
tually unknown outside his home state
when he was lapped by President Bush
in July.
Perhaps more will be learned to
day — Souter’s 51st birthday — when
he returns for a third day of answering
senators’ questions.
Here’s some of what has been
learned so far:
• Souter says he gave the Bush
administration no assurances about
how he would vote on any case, in
cluding one involving abortion rights.
And he says he has not made up his
mind about how he might vote if the
court were asked to overturn its 1973
decision in Roe vs. Wade legalizing
abortion.
• He believes the Constitution
provides a general right of privacy
even though such a right is not spe
cifically mentioned, and that the right
extends to married women’s use of
contraceptives.
• He thinks constitutional provi
sions should not be interpreted to
mean only what their framers intended,
but what they mean in today’s world.
That separates him from those con
servatives who espouse an “original
intent” approach.
• He disagrees with Justice An
tonin Scalia, the high court’s most
conservative member, about how
judges should search out American
tradition in determining some forms
of constitutional protection.
In a recent decision, Scalia said
the father of a child bom out of wed
lock is not entitled to certain parental
rights because those rights previously
had been recognized only for married
people. Souter said he found that
reasoning too confining.
• He never heard his parents refer
to another human being in racial or
ethnic terms. “lam glad I am condi
tioned by my beginnings, and I am
glad I do not have to overcome them,”
Souter told the committee.
• He is not unflappable. Ques
tioned by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D
Mass., near the end of Friday’s ses
sion, Souter for the first time began
Demonstrators march to Kremlin
MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of
demonstrators marched to the Krem
lin on Sunday demanding that Presi
dent Mikhail S. Gorbachev and his
prime minister resign to take respon
sibility for the country’s deepening
economic crisis.
“The Economy is a Disaster,” read
banners carried by the crowd, which
gathered under heavy rain at Gorky
Park, crossed the Moscow River and
then headed for central Moscow, where
they listened to speeches just outside
Red Square.
The crowd of about 50,000 fol
lowed the same path taken by demon
strators earlier this year. Many march
ers carried white, blue and red Rus
sian flags from the pre-Bolshevik era,
and they shouted “Gorbachev Re
sign!” “Ryzhkov Resign!”
Participants in rallies in May and
July called for the removal of Prime
Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov and the
leadership in general. But the de
mand that Gorbachev step down was
new.
Ryzhkov and Gorbachev support
different economic programs. The
prime minister favors a more conser
vative approach to reform, while
Gorbachev has thrown his support
behind much of a radical blueprint for
swift and dramatic reform supported
by legislators from the Russian re
public.
Sunday’s rally came a day after a
leading reformer, Moscow Mayor
Gavriil Popov, said on national tele
vision that Ryzhkov’s Cabinet should
step aside for a government trusted by
the people, the 15 Soviet republics
and foreign nations.
Popov said Ryzhkov had no real
plan for reforming the economy.
Ryzhkov, who appeared in a sepa
rate TV program Saturday night,
defended his plan for moderate eco
nomic reform and said, “We will
stop at nothing to implement it.’’
Ryzhkov and Popov were inter
viewed briefly on the evening news
program Vremya, with longer ver
sions played later on separate chan
nels.
Popov, who quit the Communist
Party in July and favors the plan for
radical economic reform drawn up by
economist Stanislav Shatalin, said,
“The government did not have, docs
not have and docs not want to have
any real plan for a transition to the
genuine market.”
He said Ry/khov’s government was
responsible for the deplorable state of
the Soviet economy, the lack of con
sumer goods and a growing deficit.
“We are sick and tired of empty
shops and devalued money, we want
no more crises,” Popov said.
The rally also came two days after
a constitutional committee ruled
against a decree to give the Soviet
government - rather than the Moscow
government headed by Popov - the
authority to allow or ban rallies in the
center of the Soviet capital. Gorbachev
issued the decree in April.
rioriaa lottery has six winners
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Owners
of six winning tickets will split a
record Florida Lotto jackpot of an
estimated $105 million, lottery offi
cials said Sunday.
Each of the tickets, bearing the
numbers 5-6-21-34-35-45, is worth
an estimated $17.5 million, said Lot
tery Secretary Rebecca Paul.
The numbers were drawn at 11
p.m. Saturday, ending a week of lot
tomania in which more than 100 million
$ 1 tickets were sold, sometimes at the
rate of nearly 600 a second.
The week followed four weeks in
which there had been no Lotto jack
pot winner, pushing the grand prize to
its near-record height. In the history
of stale lotteries in the United States,
only a $115 million Lotto jackpot in
Pennsylvania last year has been higher.
In that drawing, 14 winning tickets
were sold.
With no single ticket holder taking
home the $105 million this time, the
U.S. record holder for a single win
ning lottery ticket remains Sheelah
Ryan of Winter Springs. She bought
the only lucky ticket in a $55.16 mil
lion Florida lottery drawing two years
ago.
answering before his interrogator had
finished speaking.
And he gave an answer that could
have been interpreted as callous. When
asked about a quote attributed to him
that letting illiterate people vote
“dilutes the votes of those people
who can read,” he answered Ken
nedy by stating, “That’s kind of a
statement of math.”
• He doesn’t think the Supreme
Court should slick its nose into mat
ters where it has no constitutional
responsibility to act, but believes the
court sometimes “is left to act alone
when the political branches do not act
beforehand.”
• He applauds one such example,
the court’s 1954 decision outlawing
the racial segregation of America’s
public schools.
• He does not object when called
a conservaUve judge, and thinks judges
have to guard against using their
positions of power to impose purely
personal viewpoints.
Sampling man
eats way into
collector’s soul
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - A man
visiting a retirement expo spot
ted what looked like a tray of
free samples of potato chips, so
he took one and started to chew
-- and nearly broke Myrtle
Young’s heart.
Young, 66, started a collec
tion of potato chips that resemble
famous people, animals and
objects when she was a chip
inspectoratSeyfert’sFoodsInc.
She and her chips have appeared
on “Late Night with David
Letterman’’ and “The Tonight
Show.”
On Saturday, she had about
75 chips on display, including
one that looked like a perfect
sand dollar.
“There were quite a few
people standing around, and I
was telling them about my chip
collection,” she said. “This one
man reached through quickly
and took one.”
“I saw chips laying there as
samples, so I picked one up,”
recaPed Gregory Hough of Fort
Wayne.
He said the chip lasted stale;
Young estimated it was 2 years
old.
Her favorite chip resembles
a certain ski-jump-nosed come
dian.
“Boy, I was so glad he did
not grab Bob Hope,” said Young.
“1 keep him in a box. If he had
grabbed him, I’d probably be in
the hospital.”
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