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Saudi Arabia $3,339 $13,500 | $16,839 j $ 4,536 $ 1,566 !$ 6.102 i 36% $10,737
Kuwait 2.506 13.500 16.006 ! 5.500 0.010 j 5.510 j 34% j 10.496
UAE 1.000 3.000 4.000 j 1.870 0.140 I 2.010 : 50% j 1.990
Germany 1.072 5.500 6.572 j 2.432 0.531 j 2.963 j 45% | 3.609
Japan 1.740 9.C00 10.740 j 0.866 0.457 I 1.323 I 12% 9.417
Korea 0.080 0.305 0.385 j 0.050 0.021 | 0.071 | 18% I 0.314
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INITIAL PLEDGE: Shows how much the country pledged last year in the first round of pledges. SECOND PLEDGE: Shows
how much additionally was pledged in a second round this year. REC'D CASH: Shows how much has been received in cash
so far. REC’D KIND shows how much has been received in kind, such as transportation or other services.
AP
U.S. bans arms sales
until war money paid
WASHINGTON - The Senate voted
Tuesday to ban arms sales to Saudi
Arabia, Germany and other U.S. al
lies until they deliver all the money
promised to help the United States
pay for the Persian Gulf war.
The prohibition, opposed by the
Bush administration, was included in
a measure to provide S42.6 billion
toward the war effort. The bill was
approved 98-1, with no separate vote
on the arms-salc ban.
After the vote, the Senate debated
a measure to provide $5.2 billion lor
war assistance to Israel and Turkey,
stepped-up security by the Secret
Service and scores of other programs.
The Senate recessed for the evening
without taking a vote and final pas
sage of that bill could come Wednes
day.
The House passed its own versions
of both bills on March 7; the two
chambers will have to work out
compromises before sending the
measures to President Bush.
The House approved a weaker,
unspecified threat that “Congress may
consider appropriate action” if allied
aid falls short of promised levels.
Congressional frustration with
America’s allies is high because of
the huge amounts of money are at
stake. Of S54.5 billion in promised
assistance, just S25.6 billion has ar
rived, according to the Senate Appro
priations Committee.
Not one of the six countries that
pledged substantial amounts of help
has delivered its pledge in full. All six
countries plan to buy U.S. weapons
this year and would be affected by the
ban, according to information the
administration has given Congress.
In a letter distributed to congres
sional leaders, the White House Of
fice of Management and Budget said
the proposed prohibition would place
“unnecessary and inappropriate con
straints” on the sales.
State Department spokesman Rich
ard Boucher said, “We have been
very pleased by the support that we’ve
gotten from allies so far, and we don’t
think it’s necessary to legislate on
this issue.”
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Rebels: Iraqis driven from city
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Kurdish reb
els are driving the Iasi Iraqi loyalist
soldiers from oil-rich Kirkuk, and anti
government rioting spread to Iraq’s
largest northern city, rebel officials
said Tuesday.
In the south, where Shiite rebels
also battled to topple the regime of
President Saddam Hussein, both reb
els and government spokesmen
claimed their side held the Shi itc holy
cities of Najaf and Karbala.
Using the state-controlled press,
the Iraqi government urged citizens
to remain loyal and pledged to carry
out democratic reforms promised by
Saddam in a weekend speech.
“Close ranks behind the leader
ship to overcome the dilemma,” said
an editorial in the govemrnent-run
Al-Thawra newspaper.
Saadi Mehdi Saleh, speaker of the
National Assembly, was quoted in
another daily, Al-Iraq, as saying that
“before too long” a new constitution
and a multiparty political system would
be in place.
From Damascus, Jalal Talabani, a
leader of the Iraqi Kurdistan Front,
sought foreign intervention to sup
port the Kurdish revolt, claiming Iraqi
troops were using napalm and phos
phorus bombs to crush the rebellion.
“In a vile and desperate attempt to
stamp out the growing popular upris
ing against his tyranny, Saddam
Hussein persists with the ruthless
bombardment of civilians,” he said,
describing its as “a calamity being
inflicted on the Iraqi people.”
Talabani’s charges about napalm
echoed comments of several other
Kurdish and Shiite rebel leaders in
recent days, but White House press
secretary Marlin Fitzwatcr said in
Washington there was no proof na
palm was being used by Iraqi forces.
The World Health Organization
reported that more than 30,000 Iraqi
refugees have crossed into southern
Iran to escape fighting. Many wounded
and burned refugees were transferred
to the Iranian city of Ahvaz, 75 miles
northeast of Basra, said Therese
Gastaul, a spokeswoman for die agency
in Geneva.
She said many of the people who
fled Basra ended up in areas of Iran
still recovering from devastation suf
fered during the 1980-88 war with
Iraq.
President Bush last week warned
Iraq about using helicopters against j
its restive population, saying any use
wouid imperil the cease-fire.
The Iraqi Kurdistan Front said in
London that rebel forces had seized
much of Kirkuk, 150 miles north of
Baghdad. It said troops guarding sur
rounding oil fields had surrendered.
Hoshyar Zebari, a Front spokes
man, said rebels shot down two Iraqi
helicopter gunshipsover Kirkuk early
Tuesday and were pushing loyalists
out of the city.
“There arc pockets we are still
mopping up,” he said by telephone.
Iran’s official Islamic Republic
News Agency also said it monitored a
rebel Kurdish broadcast inside Iraq
saying insurgent forces seized key
points in the city.
Western reporters have been un
able to reach battle scenes in the north
of Iraq, so there has been no way to
verify Kirkuk’s capture or other rebel
claims.
The Kurdistan front’s statement
also said rioting had spread to Mosul,
with a population of 1 million resi
dents.
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Kuwaiti mother,
resistance fighter
recounts torture
KUWAIT CITY-In the high
stakes world of the Kuwaiti
resistance, a mother of four
proved tougher than many men.
For three months, she was
beaten, tortured, raped and fi
nally sentenced to death by the
Iraqis.
Now, she is working to help
rebuild her country.
The 33-ycar-old asked that
her name not be used — only
her initials, M.M. — because
she believes some Iraqis or col
laborators still in Kuwait want
to kill her.
In resistance circles, M.M.
has become something of a leg
end. Air Force Col. Ali Al-Fodan,
a resistance leader in Kuwait
City, commended her courage
and fortitude.
When the Iraqis invaded
Kuwait on Aug. 2, M.M., a
successful businesswoman, said
she felt she had to do something
to fight back. Friends introduced
her to the resistance.
After M.M. was accepted as
a member on Aug. 20, she served
as a link to five different resis
tance groups.
She passed on coded mes
sages. She hid weapons in her
house, cleaned them and
smuggled them to the various
groups. She distributed money
and false identification and
helped provide medical care for
injured resistance members.
Later M.M and a resistance
member were arrested.
“They started threatening me.
They asked, ‘Do you know who
we are?’ I said ‘I know who you
arc. You’re like the guys in ‘The
Godfather,’” she said.
The Iraqis beat her. She was
stripped nude and given electric
shocks with baltcry-likc jump
ers that were clipped to her body.
Not everyone in the resis
tance could withstand the pres
sure. Another resistance fighter,
under Iraqi torture, identified
her as a member. On evidence
of that — and the money and
identification she was caught
with — she*\vas sentenced to
death on Jan. 13.
But on Jan. 15, she said, an
Iraqi captain who had raped and
tortured her told her he had “good
feelings” for her. He said he was
going to release her.