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News Digest Edited by Jennifer O'Cilka Iraqis accept allied demands tor peace SAFWAN, Iraq - Allied and Iraqi military commanders cleared the way Sunday for a permanent truce in the Persian Gulf war, reaching agreement on the release of prisoners and taking steps to avoid further skirmishes. “I am very happy to tell you that we agreed on all matters,” the Desert Storm commander, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, said after a two-hour meeting in a heavily guarded tent at Safwan air base in southern Iraq. Schwarzkopf said Iraqi military officers “came to discuss and cooper ate with a positive attitude.” If such dealings continue, the commander told reporters, “We are well on our way to a lasting peace.” The Iraqi commanders also turned over information on the location of hundreds of thousands of mines Iraq planted in Kuwait and Persian Gulf waters. For their part, the allies promised to withdraw their forces from the Iraqi territory they hold once a formal cease fire is signed. Schwarzkopf refused to predict when that may happen, and he said a second meeting with the Iraqi com manders was possible. The general did not mention other demands the allies have made — demands that could conceivably de lay a permanent cease-fire and the long-awaited day when the United States begins withdrawing its 530,000 soldiers. The United Nations spelled out those requirements Saturday night. Before a formal cease-fire can be adopted, the world body’s Security Council said in a new resolution, Iraq must also rescind its annexation of Kuwait and accept liability for war damages in the emirate. In addition, the Security Council reaffirmed earlier anti-Baghdad measures, including one that imposed worldwide trade sanctions on Iraq. The latest resolution backs Presi dent Bush’s position that allied troops remain in Iraq until the cease-fire he declared Thursday becomes perma nent. As the complicated endgame to the war continued, there were new reports of civil unrest in Iraq. Washington repeatedly has urged Iraqis to overthrow Saddam Hussein, but U.S. officers say they don’t know whether anti-government protests in Iraq have become widespread or are turning into a popular revolt. Saddam, meanwhile, began the long process of rebuilding his war-tom nation and restoring his image as a regional leader to be reckoned with. Baghdad Radio reported Sunday that he led a meeting on restoration of Iraqi communications, the first report of his activities since Tuesday. Returning to the offensive, on radio at least, Iraq repeated its call for Saudis to overthrow King Fahd, claiming his government was responsible for the deaths of innocent Iraqis because it hosted the U.S.-led multinational force. In Washington, Secretary of States James Baker said Sunday that the United States seeks to maintain an "enhanced naval presence” in the Persian Gulf but wants Arab coun tries to dominate postwar security arrangements. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, a key player in the anti-Iraq coalition led by the United States, went even further. He ruled out Western involvement in any postwar security arrangement in the gulf. “Arab security will only be Arab, and it will have all the pro tection needed for this part of the world,” he said in a speech in Cairo. On the battlefield, the allies con tinued to capture Iraqi tanks, artillery pieces, warplanes and prisoners, the U.S. command said Sunday. 10 foreign POWs released; 6 are Americans, Iraq says UNITED NATIONS - Iraqi Am bassador Abdul Amir al-Anban said Sunday that 10 foreign prisoners of war have been released, including six Americans. He said one of those released was a young woman. Al-Anbari made the comment to reporters who questioned him as he entered a Security Council meeting that was to consider relax - ing the embargo on food and hu manitarian aid to Iraq. He said Iraq had, “already, I be lieve, released 10 PpW’s as a ges ture of goodwill. Six of them are In one engagement, Marine Brig. Gen. Richard Neal said, navy heli copters flew over Faylakah Island off Kuwait on Sunday morning calling through loudspeakers for Iraqi sol diers to surrender and assemble. Naval forces then went in and took 1,405 POWs, including a brigadier general and 89 other officers, Neal told reporters in Riyadh, Saudi Ara bia. American citizens, including one of them the young lady that was captured a few days ago.” Al-Anbari gave no further de tails. Iraq is known to hold 13 prison ers of war, including nine Ameri cans. The only known woman POW is Army Spc. Melissa Rathbun Nealy, 20, of Grand Rapids, Mich. She apparently was captured Jan. 30 after Iraq troops made an incur sion into Saudi Arabia at the town of Khafji. No new allied casualties or signifi cant clashes were reported anywhere in Kuwait or occupied Iraqi during the past 24 hours, he said. Little has been done, meanwhile, to pul out the fires Iraq apparently set at 600 Kuwaiti oilfields. Greasy, black smoke continues to hang over por tions of Kuwait and southern Iraq, including the site of the Safwan air base meeting. Manufacturer recalls Sudafed when linked to deaths, illness SEATTLE - Officials say two deathsandan illness may be linked to cyanide-ladcned Sudafed de congestant capsules, leading the maker of the product on Sunday to issue a nationwide recall. “Consumers should avoid tak ing Sudafed 12-Hour Capsules, and return all Sudafed 12-Hour Cap sules to the store from which they purchased the product,” said manu facturer Burroughs Wellcome Co. of Research Triangle Park, N.C. Washington state and federal officials ordered a recall of the capsules from two counties in western Washington late Saturday night. They also urged store own ers and consumers throughout the state to check Sudafed boxes and foil packs that contain the pills for specific code numbers. No deaths or illness related to Sudafed have been reported in other parts of the country. No arrests have been made. Last month, a 40-year-old Ta coma woman died of cyanide poi soning and a woman from Tumwa ter, an Olympia suburb, was treated after becoming seriously ill, re portedly al ter taking Sudafed cap sules laced with cyanide, said Susan Hutchcroftof the federal Food and Drug Administration. Burroughs Wellcome said the federal agency had notified it of two deaths within the last 24 hours, including that of a man in Lacey, another Olympia suburb, said company spokeswoman Sharon Haggerty. Latvians and Estonians vote on independence from Soviets RIGA, U.S.S.R. - Latvians and Estonians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union Sunday, officials said, after counting more than three-quarters of the bal lots. In Latvia, nearly complete vote totals showed 77 percent voted in favor of separation and 21 percent against, officials said. In Estonia, 90 percent of rural residents and 77.8 percent of city voters opted for independence, offi cials said. They could not give an overall figure immediately. The balloting came less than a month after residents of the third Baltic republic, Lithuania, overwhelmingly voted in favor of independence, and two weeks before President Mikhail Gorbachev’s nationwide referendum on holding the Soviet Union and its 15 republics together. “We have dreamed all our lives about independence. Our fathers lived in a free Latvia,” said Zinaigur Rad jabova,49. The three Baltic republics were free for 20 years before being forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Radjabova said she voted “yes” on the ballot that asked the question: “Do you support the democratic and independent statehood of the repub lic of Latvia?” Latvian President Anatolijs Gor bunovs, casting his ballot in a candy factory, predicted 70 percent of the turnout would vote for independence lor the republic. While Gorbunovs described Sun day an historic day for Latvian inde pendence, the vote is little more than a public opinion poll, carrying no legal weight. It docs, however, represent a strong challenge to Gorbachev, who has branded illegal last year’s independ ence declarations by the Baltic re publics. The Latvian parliament de clared independence May 4. It also serves to pre-empt Gor bachev’s March 17 referendum, which is designed to test the national will in preserving the entire Soviet Union. The Baltics as well as Armenia, Georgia and Moldavia have said they won’t participate. No survivors reported in Colorado jet crash COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A United Airlines jetliner with 25 people on board crashed in flames as it approached the Colorado Springs airport Sunday morning, and there were apparently no survivors, authori ties said. United Flight 585 en route from Denver crashed at 9:55 a.m. four to five miles south of the airport, the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington said. There were 20 pas sengers on board and a crew of five. The FAA and the airline both said all aboard apparently were killed. The plane narrowly missed houses and apartment buildings; at least one per son on the ground was injured. “There does not appear to be” any survivors, said Dick Meyer, of the FAA’s public information office in Seattle. Chicago-based United said in a statement that “at this time there are no reports of survivors” aboard the Boeing 737-200. “All obviously are presumed dead,” said Sgt. Dean Kelsey, of the El Paso County Sheriffs office. However, he said he would not confirm that until search efforts had been exhausted. Meyer said there was no commu nication from the pilot to the airport control tower indicating any problem before the crash. A witness, Army Command Sgt. Maj. Leo Martinez, said that the plane banked sharply, veered and then crashed virtually nose first. “I watched and it went vertically into the ground,” he said. “There was a huge fireball, black smoke and or ange flame.” He said there was “nothing—just debris, very small debris. You can see tires burning. 1 don’t think there’s a part larger than a suitcase. You can’t see any wings ... or anything.” Sheriffs Lt. Bill Mistrclla said the plane crashed in an unincorporated residential area called Widcficld The plane crashed in a park surrounded by houses and apartment buildings. “It’s a long and narrow park,’ Martinez said. “If he (the pilot) die this on purpose, no one in Iraq ant Saudi Arabia could have done a bet ter job of flying. It is the only place h< could have taken it in.” Another witness, Bill Ferguson likened the plane’s descent to “a dive bombing mission.” Ed Arangio, administrator a Memorial Hosplial, said a 12-year old girl who was in the doorway o her house suffered a head injury whei she was blown backward by the fora of the crash. She was in good condi tion, he said. The weather was clear but ther were high, gusty winds in the area a the time of the crash, Mistretta said A United Boeing 737 jet crashed south of the Colorado Springs Colorado Municipal Springs Airport 10 m WYO. NEB. COLORADO i • Denver > I I Length: 100 ft. 2 in. Wingspan: 93 ft. 0 in. l Engines: Two turbofans mounted under wings I Range: About 2,500 miles 1 Passengers: 120-130 ‘ Built by: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group Introduced: 1988 * Sauna: Jana's At Iha World's Ararat! AP 3 killed Navy plane crashes OLfcN vltw, ill. - A Navy plane crashed in a residential neighborhood a half-mile south of the Glenview Naval Air Station in this Chicago suburb on Sunday, killing its three person crew, officials said. Eyewitnesses said the pilot appeared to take heroic actions in order to miss houses and apparently went down with the craft, which crashed in an open area at 11:45 a.m. Three people died in the crash, none of them on the ground, said WBBM-AM and WGN-AM radio stations in Chicago, citing informa tion supplied by the Navy. Bob Jensen, a spokesman at the naval station,declined toconfirm that number. He said the crash is being investigated. The plane landed on its head in an --— open area, said one witness wno iden tified himself only as Russ to WBBM. “It rolled over a house and then went straight down,” he said. Glenview Fire Department spokes man Pete Loeblieh said he had no further information, but units from the nearby naval station and local firefighters were on the scene. Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lundquisl, a Defense Department spokesman in Washington, said the plane wasa T39 Sabreliner. He said it’s like a jet that s “used for VIP travel” and it’s pow ered by two turbojet engines. He said there were no passengers aboard the plane when it crashed. The crew consisted of a pilot and co-pilot, both naval officers, and an enlisted crew chief. 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