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two German scientists say
LONDON - Two German scientists who visited Iraq say President
Saddam Hussein has acquired enough Western technology to produce
a nuclear bomb in 1991 or 1992, the Sunday Times reported.
The newspaper quoted scientists Bruno Stemmier and Walter Busse
as saying Iraqi scientists had built a factory northwest of Baghdad for
producing nuclear centrifuges, which are essential for making weap
ons-grade uranium.
The scientists said the Iraqis also had built a uranium-enrichment
! laboratory in the soulhem outskirts of the capital.
Stemmier visited Iraq in the fall of 1987 and he and Busse went there
i together in the summer of 1988, the report said. Both were then
employed by MAN Technologic of the former West Germany and were
I in Iraq to advise on its nuclear program.
Based on the information, the newspaper said Iraq could have nu
clear capability next year or the year after, at least three years sooner
than Western intelligence agencies had previously thought.
\ The Sunday Times said technology for the two plants was provided
\ “by at least a dozen Western companies” which filled orders from Iraqi
Firms that were cover operations for securing nuclear weapons know
how.
The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency failed to
discover the existence of the laboratory when its representatives visited
Iraq last month, the report said. Iraq has
Admiral: Saddam preparing
ABOARD THE USS JOHN F.
KENNEDY - Rear Adm. Riley D.
Mixson, commander of the U.S .Navy
task force in the Red Sea, says Sad
dam Hussein is acting as if he’s pre
paring for war. So Mixson is doing
likewise.
The admiral, a decorated Vietnam
War combat pilot, said the Iraqi presi
dent should think “long and hard”
before confronting the U.S.-led multi
national force in the gulf region.
“All we see from (Saddam’s) side
is that he’s sending more troops to
Kuwait. He’s showing no signs of
withdrawal,” Mixson said at a week
end briefing aboard the aircraft car
rier USS John F. Kennedy in the north
ern Red Sea.
“He’s dispersing his forces and
acting as if he’s preparing for war.”
But, he said, “I have never known
of an adversary to be in such a disad
vantageous position as he is right
now.”
Mixson said he hoped for peace,
but was braced for war.
“Those of us in the military hope
more, probably than anyone else in
the world, for a peaceful resolution,”
he said. “But I would say ... it's no
better than a 50-50 chance for peace,
and maybe a little worse than that.”
The biggest U.S. naval fleet since
World War II is assembling in the
gulf region. By Jan. 15 - the U.N.
deadline for Iraq to pull outof Kuwait
or face possible use of force - the
United States will have three carriers
in the Red Sea and three in the Persian
Gulf, said Cmdr. Jack Ahart, the
Kennedy’s operations officer.
In mid-January , the United Stales
and its allies will have more than
600,000 troops in the gulf, facing the
million-member Iraqi army, includ
ing 480,000 troops in the Kuwaiti
theater.
If war comes, he said, two carriers
would deploy round-the-clock com
bat flights while the third would remain
on siandby.
Mixson said he believed dial in the
event of all-out conflict, air power
would be “very, very decisive.” But
he said it wouldn’t singlchandedly
win a war.
‘‘There are those who say that we ’ 11
bring them to iheir knees in two weeks.
There are others who think it might
go ori a little longer,” he said.
“They (Iraq) certainly arc a war
experienced nation. 1 think if we do
get into a ground war, that could get
very, very bloody and I hope that fle
can avoid that with an all-out... as
sault,” said Mixson.
Mixson said Iraqi air tactics have
become more sophisticated since the
1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
“They’re practicing more at night,"
he said. “They understand the threat
that he’s up against. He (Saddam)
understands that business as usual, or
business as before, won’t hack it against
the forces that we have over here."
“He has a fairly sophisticated elec
tronic capability, although not as well
maintained and without the expertise
of using that capability that we have.
So 1 think he’ll have problems there,”
the admiral said.
Lt. Gen. Khalid Bin Sultan, the
Saudi commander of Arab forces, said
Saturday Iraq has moved 50,000
additional troops into the Kuwaiti
theater in the past two weeks.
Mixson said the task force’s mis
sion “is to keep our pilots, our ships,
on edge so we are ready at a mo
ment’s notice to conduct strikes against
Iraq.”
Sexuality journal
addresses issues
in scholarly terms
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON,
N.Y. - There is sex galore in this
magazine.
There is homosexuality and bi
sexuality and bestiality and miscege
nation and just about every other
permutation of sexual conduct known
to men and women.
But don’t contact the authorities.
The treatment these sensational top
ics receive in the gray pages of the
Journal of (he History of Sexuality is
more I ikely to send the average reader
to a thesaurus than a cold shower.
“It’s scholars talking to other schol
ars about research and important
scholarly studies using all of the
methodology and approaches that arc
used in social science research,” said
Robert Shirrell of the University of
Chicago Press, publisher of the jour
nal.
“It’s not going to be, nor would it
serve its function if it were, a publica
tion for a general audience.”
Articles in the first two issues
covered such subjects as “Holy Har
lots,” a study of prostitute saints in
medieval Europe; the homosexual
habits of actors on the 18th century
i London stage; and early writings and
research on syphilis in lith and 16th
century England.
Studies of Old Norse sexuality and
marriage rituals in modern-day Mo
rocco have been lined up for future
issues.
The quarterly journal is edited by
John Foul, 53, a professor of modern
European history at Bard College, a
small liberal arts school 100 miles
north of New York City.
He said he decided to start a new
journal that would “publish the best
and the newest and the most critical
theoretical scholarship from scholars
around the world.”
Foul said the works in his journal,
which debuted in July, represent a
ktrgely new and unconventional way
of looking at the sexual history of
mankind.
Most of the study of human sexu
ality during the past generation has
centered on “how the body works,
he said. The studies in his journal
examine instead the way sexual be
havior has been molded by the influ.
ences within society and culture, such
as religion, politics and government.
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Local guardsman had hoped to make it home
The last time Army National
Guardsman Pete Rose spoke with his
friends and family, he was hoping to
be home in Lincoln for Christmas.
But Rose, 26, a first lieutenant,
and two Missouri National Guard
members were killed when their UH
IH “Huey” helicopter crashed near
Cleveland, Texas, Friday night.
They were en route from Fort
Leonard Wood, Mo., to a Houston
port where helicopters are to be fer
ried to the Persian Gulf in support of
Operation Desert Shield, the U.S.
military response to Iraq’s Aug. 2
invasion of Kuwait.
Rose was commander of Detach
ment 1 of the 1267th Medical Com
pany when it was mobilized.
“He was hoping that he wouldn’i
end up in Iraq, but he was prepared to
go,” said Debbie Scdlacck, Rose’s
business partner and friend.
Family members said Rose thought
he would be able to come home Tor
Christmas instead of being sent to the
gulf.
His father, Larry Rose, said Satur
day his son fell he had a responsibility
to go after receiving his orders.
“He didn’t hesitate,” Rose said.
At a Nov. 2X news conference to
announce the unit’s activation, Pete
Rose told reporters he joined the Guard
while in college because of his inter
est in flying.
The possibility of war seemed
unlikely at the time, he said. Yet, he
was prepared to do whatever was
necessary to defend his country.
“My mom doesn’t like it • I mean
whose mom does?” he said. “It’s just
something that happens. For it to come
down to this level seems impossible.”
The 1982 Lincoln Southeast High
School graduate later earned a bache
lor’s degree from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, where he was ac
tive in Army ROTC. He joined the
Guard in 1986.
While Pete Rose was stationed in
Fort Sam Houston, he got a chance to
go to pilot school. He grabbed it.
Rose received his pilot’s wings in
1988, but flying was not his only
fervor.
“His loves - in order - were horses
and then flying,” said his father. “He
got his love for hor.es from his motiier.”
Peic and his mother, Felice Rose,
worked side-by-side breaking and
training horses at Lincoln’s Yankee
Hill Equestrian Center.
“He was a real outdoorsman and a
great horseman,” Larry Rose said.
In July 1989, Scdlacek and Rose
formed a partnership to build a barn
for more horses.
“He was a very honest and caring
individual with a good sense of hu
mor,” Scdlacek said.
Maj. Gen. Stanley Heng, Nebraska’s
adjutant general, Saturday said the
men and women of the Nchraska
National Guard mourn Rose’s loss.
“It is an incredible tragedy that he
lost his life while working so hard to
serve his country,” Heng said.
Haitian elections take place without violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Amid
heavy security and under the eyes of
nearly 1,000 international observers,
Haitians voted Sunday in w hat prom
ised to be the Caribbean nation’s first
fully democratic elections.
No violent incidents were reported,
but there appeared to be some signifi
cant delays.
Five hours after polls were to open,
voting had begun in only one of 50
polling stations in the area.
“It is cither lack of preparation by
the Electoral Council, or sabotage,”
said Shiller Marcellin, president of a
large labor federation.
Election officials, however, attrib
uted the delays to logistical prob
Icms.
“We’ve had a lot of (internal ional)
help, bul not enough,’’ said Daniel
Bemier, the district election bureau
director, whose office was cluttered
with undelivered ballots and ballot
boxes.
He said he did not have enough
trucks to distribute voting materials.
The nation’s 14,500 polling sta
tions opened at 6 a.m. EST and were
to close at 6 p.m. EST. The Electoral
Council said no results were expected
before noon today because of poor
communications.
Nearly 3 million people, or 85
percent of the electorate, were regis
tered to vote. If no candidate wins
more than 50 percent of the vote, a
runoff is to be held on Jan. 20.
Police and soldiers with automatic
weapons guarded many polling sta
tions in the capital of Port-au-Prince,
seeking to avoid a repeat of an Elec
tion Day massacre three years ago in
which at least 34 people were killed.
The international airport remained
open but airlines canceled scheduled
arriving flights in case of disturbances.
Police in riot gear were deployed
in the sprawling slum of Cite Solcil
after polling stations in the area opened
several hours late.
The seaside slum is a stronghold of
support for the leftist Rev. Jean-Ber
trand Aristide, considered a frontrun
ncr, and many residents blamed his
opponents lor the delay in distribut
ing ballots and ballot boxes.
Aristide, 37, a leftist Roman Catho
lic priest with a huge following among
the majority poor, was widely re
garded as the most popular of 11
presidential candidates. Expectations
of an Aristide victory were running so
high that some feared disturbances if
he failed to win.
The new government will replace
the caretaker administration of Presi
dent Ertha Pascal-3 rouillol, a Supreme
Court justice appointed in March to
lead Haiti to democratic elections.
The election was monitored by
about 800 international observers,
including former President Jimmy
Carter.
“We wanted to come here as a
symbolic thing to show the people of
Haiti that it’s safe to vote today,” said
Carter, who was accompanied by his
wife, Rosalynn, and daughter, Amy.
Trial and conviction of rancher’s killers
draw attention to Brazil’s rain forests
XAPURI, Brazil - The trial and
conviction of the killers of Amazon
rain forest defender Chico Mendes
drew world attention to a centuries
old battle over land in Brazil that has
killed thousands of people.
A cattle rancher and his son were
convicted of first-degree murder Sat
urday for killing Mendes. The seven
member jury decided Darly Alves da
Silva planned the Dec. 22,1988, slay
ing and that his son, Darci Alves
Pereira, fired the shotgun that killed
the activist.
The defendants were each sentenced
to 19 years in prison at the end of the
four-day trial. The prosecutors said
the ranchers had “stained the forest”
with Mendes’ blood and urged the
maximum 30-year sentence.
Defense attorney Ruben Torres said
his clients would appeal.
Mendes, 44, a rubber-tapper who
led a movement to stop destruction of
the world’s largest rain forest, was
gunned down on the back porch of his
humble wooden house in this back
woods Amazon river town 2,650 miles
northwest of Rio de Janeiro.
To many in the United States and
Europe, Mendes became a martyr,
because he was killed at a time of
rising world concern for the rapidly
disappearing rain forest.
In Brazil and mostof South Amer
ica, however, Mendes was more a
symbol in a struggle for agrarian re
form that pits rich, powerful land
owners, businessmen and speculators
against native Indians and the rural
poor who seek collective
ownership and use of the rain forest.
Land reform is a deeply divisive
issue in this nation of 150 million
people, larger in area than ihc 48
continental United States. Four per
cent of the population controls 60
percent of the arable land, govern
ment surveys show.
Since 1980, more than 1,000 people
have been killed in land disputes in
Brazil, according to surveys by the
Pastoral Commission for land.
Ir. the first 11 months of this year,
60 people died - most of them poor
farm hands - and 403 were injured in
battles over land, the commission says.
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