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TW T • g By The ^ 01A7C I If ■ Associated Press I N e W 5> t Edi.ed by Jana Pedersen Ambassador to Kuwait among last to evacuate A final evacuation flight landed in Germany Thursday carrying the | U.S. ambassador to Kuwait and his staff, who survived a 110-day Iraqi siege of their embassy by living on tuna fish and swimming pool water. The five U.S. diplomats from Kuwait were among 32 Americans on | the Iraqi Airways flight from Baghdad to Germany, the State Depart ment said. Ambassador Nathaniel Howell, looking thinner from the ordeal and with his g~ay hair longer, told reporters on arrival in Frankfurt that his staff leu the embassy “with the flag flying.” “We’ re very happy to be here. We’re delighted that Americans who wanted to leave did,” he said. Asked if the embassy staff had endured, as reported, a diet of tuna . sandwiches, Howell deadpanned: “No, the bread ran out.” The 50-year-old diplomat declined to speak at length, explaining that “we haven’t had electricity and water, hot water, at night for 110 days. So, we’re going to lake advantage of that.” The passengers were booked into a luxury hotel near the airport. {§ State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tulwiler said they would fly to Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington this afternoon. The Americans included 23 private U.S. citizens, the five-member Kuwaiti mission staff and four U.S. officials who joined the flight in Baghdad, Tutwiler said in Washington. They were among 96 foreigners aboard, she said. Iraq accused Washington of lying about a schedule for U.S.-Iraq talks. It denied U.S. reports that Washington had offered 15 possible P dates for Secretary of State James A. Baker Ill’s trip to Baghdad, all of f which had been rejected. C o n s i d e* r College ♦ Independent ^ Study College Independent Study credit is UNL credit. Credit that can keep you on your academic timetable. Credit that can be the difference between graduating and not graduating. " ♦ / Choose from more than 81 credit and 10 noncredit courses Ss Set your own study and exam schedules Complete a course in five weeks or take up to a year Learn from UNL faculty ' UNL Independent Study Division of Continuing Studies Nebraska Center, Room 269 East Campus, 33rd & Holdrege Call 472-1926 for Details Lincoln. NE 68583-090C Register Now KGB says foreign donations stuck in ports, train stations MOSCOW - The KGB said Thurs day that thousands of tons of govern ment-purchased food are stuck at ports and railway stations, and officials said the Red Army has been drafted to help unload foreign food aid. Deputy Prime Minister Lev Vo ronin, who heads a government com mission overseeing the aid distribu tion, vowed that the “harshest meas ures” would be used against anyone caught diverting donated food to the black market. KGB officials said more than 1.6 million metric tons of imported goods await unloading or shipment from Soviet ports, and about 7,000 railway cars need to be emptied at border stations, “Thousands of railway containers laden with important goods, commodi ties and machinery are standing idle and unloaded_This includes freight coming from abroad,” KGB Chair man Vladimir Kryuchkov told the Communist Party newspaper Pravda on Thursday. “In certain areas, whole trains are being simply abandoned on sidetracks. In the Irkutsk area (of Siberia), the number of such abandoned trams now stands at 52,” he said. Voronin said the army had been enlisted to unload cargo planes, and 1,000 soldiers were ordered to Brest on the Polish border to help clear the rail backlog. He said 1,000 trucks were found to help distribute aid arriving at Moscow railway stations after Pravda quoted the Railways Ministry as saying the situation was “catastrophicVoronin predicted it would be under control by Dec. 20. Voronin and KGB Maj. Gen. Al exander N. Karbainov stressed at separate news briefings that the ma jority of foreign humanitarian aid is reaching its destination. Both admitted, however, that some has fallen into the hands of profiteers who can sell it to speculators taking advantage of widespread shortages in state-run stores. “There are some disorders,” Vo ronin said. “The harshest measures have been taken to eliminate all such phenomena.” He did not elaborate. Karbainov sought to temper tele vised assertions by KGB chief Kryuchkov earlier this week that unidentified foreign powers are giv ing moral and material support to Soviet radicals, who were in turn exacerbating and taking advantage of food shortages for their own political ends. Asked whether any evidence of this existed, Karbainov replied, “As to the economic aspects, there are no A -M % 4 4 such facts.” But, he said, “there are regions in the country where destructive forces are at work ... and these people make the maximum use of shortages for political ends.” The KGB, acting under President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s orders, has set up a special unit to combat eco nomic sabotage, including taking control of distributing the foreign food aid and preventing its theft. Voronin said that as of Wednes day night, the Soviet Union had re ceived 1,700 metric tons of food aid and 800 tons of medicines, cribs and construction materials. He said the single largest donor country was Germany, which gave 1,900 tons, followed by Italy at 117 tons, the United Slates at 93 tons, Austria at 75 tons, and Switzerland and the Netherlands at 45 tons each. Firstpriority for receiving aid goes to schools and orphanages followed by ecologically damaged areas like Chernobyl and the Aral Sea, Voronin said. Soil around Chernobyl remains contaminated following the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion and the Aral Sea is heavily polluted. Pensioners, the disabled and low income families are the next priority, Voronin said. 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Ne braska Union 34. 1400 R St., Lincoln NE, j Monday through Friday during the academic year; weekly during summer sessions Readers ate encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a m and 5 p m Monday through Friday The public also has access to the Publications Board For information, contact Bill Vobejda. 436-9993. Subscription price is $45 for one year Postmaster. Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan Nebraska Union 34.1400 R St Lincoln, NE 68588 0448 Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1990 DAILY NEBRASKAN Albanian soldiers ordered in to stop rioting by ‘hooligans’ VIENNA, Austria - Communist Albania on Thursday ordered its sol diers to quell an attack on officials and buildings by “hooligans” armed with stones and iron bars, official media reported. The attack in the northern city of Shkodra came one day after a peace ful rally by tens of thousands of people in the capital, Tirana, celebrating the founding of the country’s first non Communist party, the Democratic Party of Albania. Journalists said Tirana remained calm Thursday. Official Albanian Radio, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corp. in London, said gangs were “throwing stones at the district party and gov ernment buildings, and committing acts of vandalism inside the local radio station.” It said the district police chief, a policeman and one other person were hurt by people wielding iron bars. “In order to reimpose order and calm in the city and to defend govern ment and social institutions, the forces of public order and the army came into action,” it said. A journalist of the official ATA m news agency, contacted by telephone in Tirana, said the report was read on both the official radio and television. The journalist spoke on condition of anonymity. Such quick reporting is new for Albania. Information, especially about protests against the government and parly authorities, has been lightly controlled for decades. Thursday’s reported attack took place in Shkodra, about 80 miles north of Tirana. It was not clear whether the army was forced to use weapons or how many attackers there were. There was no immediate indication whether the situation was under control late Thurs day. The official report said that de spite President Ramiz Alia’s appeal for calm Wednesday, there were “certain dark forces which seek to destabilize the situation in the coun try.” In Tirana, meanwhile, organizers of the country’s first non-Communist party were working on a program calling for human rights and privati zation of the suffering economy in Europe’s last Stalinist state. 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