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sra*- News Digest Tuesday, October 11,1994 Page 2 U.S. troops move toward Persian Gulf Moving quickly to counter an Iraqi buildup of troops near Kuwait, President Clinton ordered U.S. forces to move toward the Persian Gulf region. AD U.N. sanctions against Iraq In offset oinco August, 1990 * Total trade embargo, except for imports of food, medicine and humanitarian supplies. Exceptions to be approved by a U.N. sanctions committee on a case-by-case basis. No government, company or individual may trade with Iraq «h hxpuris oannea. * NavaJ blockade enforces the embargo. * Oil embargo. * Air embargo, no air traffic into or out of Iraq. m AU Iraqi government assets frozen overseas No-fly zones The United States, Britain and France have imposed "no-fly" zones in the northern area of restive Kurds and the southern region of disaffected Shiite Muslims. Note: United Nations sanctions are theoretically bind mg on all members, but the UN has no enforcement mechanism. AP Clinton sees no sign of pullback Iraq officials say soldiers leaving border KUWAIT — Iraq declared an end to its menacing five-day buiIdup Mon day and said its troops were pulling back from the Kuwait border only hours after U.S. troops landed. President Clinton said Monday night there had been no sign ofan Iraqi pullback and that he was sending more than 350 U.S. military aircraft to the Persian Gulf. “We will not allow Saddam Hussein to defy the will of the United States and the international community." Clinton said in a nationally televised address. A senior Pentagon official, speak ing on condition of anonymity, said Clinton ordered B-52 bombers and F 15E fighter jets to the Gulf. They arc lo come from various Air Force bases, including those in Germany and Italy. The tens of thousands of Iraqi sol diers sent to the border had revived memories of 1990, when Iraq swept aside Kuwait's army and seized the oil-rich country. It was seven months before a U.S.-led coalition ousted the occ iers. is time. Washington was deter mined to send a firm signal. Washing ton began amassing a force of nearly 70,000 in the region. The first contingent of 300 U.S. soldiers arrived in Kuwait City on Monday. Hours later. Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, Nizar Hamdoon, said Iraqi forces would withdraw from the Kuwaiti border and “are already on the move.” He said they would be sent to a site north of Basra. In Baghdad, Foreign Minister Mohammed Saced al-Sahhaf said troops would be deployed to “other locations in the rear" to finish military exercises. He told the official Iraqi news agency the withdrawal was ordered in response to appeals from “friends” and “in view of the fact that the troops’ presence might be used as a pretext to maintain sanctions.” The crushing U N. sanctions were Revelry marks Cedras’ exit PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Raoul Cedras kept the people cowed for three years with his ter ror campaign. On Monday. Haiti’s masses rose up and drowned him out. Cedras seemed small in the cntranceway of army headquarters as he announced he was resigning as military leader and quitting the country for its own good. Cedras was dwarfed by U.S. military commander Hugh Shelton, whose 19,500 soldiers played a large role in finally driving out the Haitian coup leader. The sound of5,000joyful people buried the tubas and trombones of Cedras' military band playing the national anthem with an impromptu version of “Auld Lang Syne.” Then Cedras' voice faded amid an underamplified sound system and the crowd’s shouts of “Hoodlum!” and “Thief!” The American troops had to pro tect Cedras, firing warning snots when a rock-thrower shattered the windshield of his departing Toyota Land Cruiser. Haitians scrambled to pick up shards of the broken windshield as souvenirs. “I have chosen to leave the coun try to protect you. so that my pres ence will not be a pretext for unjus tified acts,” Cedras told the crowd. As a result of Lt. Gen. Cedras’ resignation, the final condition has been met by the Haitian military leadership to comply with the terms of the agreement former President Carter worked out only hours be fore a U.S. invasion was to begin. Cedras is gone, so too is Brig. Gen. Philippe Biamby. who re signed Saturday. Port-au-Prince police chief Michel Francois es caped in the dark last week to the neighboring Dominican Republic. Cedras gave no time or venue for his exile, but U.S. Embassy spokesman Stanley Schragcr listed Argentina. Panama, Spain or Ven ezuela as possible refuges. Schragcr did not rule out the United States. The crowd continually shouted the name of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the man Cedras overthrew in Sep tember 1991. U S. State Department officials say Aristide. Haiti's first freely elected president, will end his own exile and return home Saturday. Cedras said he decided to “sac rifice'' himself to save Haiti. “There ’ s a lot more Hai tians who want to sacrifice him," said Spec. 4 Charles Hill. ThcU.S. military policeman said he now believed Haiti “would be safer without Cedras," who was slow to cooperate with American forces in disarming the pro-mili tary gunmen known as “attaches." “The people are on our side," said Hill. 22. of Pembroke, Mass. Hundreds of singing, branch waving Haitians streamed up the hilltoCedras' neighborhood in sub urban Pctionviile afterwards. The crowds included carnival bands, urging the general to leave now. imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein may have conceived the bui Idup as a wa ril ing that he could still cause trouble if the sanctions were not lifted Clinton said the sanctions would be maintained until Iraq complies with U.N. resolutions. “That is the answer to Iraq's sanc tions problem: Full compliance, not reckless provocation," Clinton said. U S. forces continued to arrive Monday to confront the estimated 64,000 Iraqi troops. An estimated 700 Iraqi tanks and other armored vehicles also were believed at the border. "We will not allow Saddam Hussein to defy the will of the United States and the international community. ” ■ BILL CLINTON U.S. President In Kuwait City, some 3(H) men from the 24th Infantry Division came aboard a white Lockheed 1011 jet from Fort Stewart, Ga Army Maj. Gen. John Taylor, who will command the force, shook the hand of each infantryman as the unit arrived. A veteran of the 1991 Gulf War, Taylor said the arriving troops would man M1A1 Abrams tanks and Brad ley fighting vehicles “propositioned” in the region after the Gulf War “Everybody is very confident,” he said. “We know what our mission is.” Taylor said some advance Ameri can teams were “digging in the desert right now.” implying that forces al ready had been deployed in northern Kuwait. The U.S. Embassy confirmed Mon day that American warships arrived off the Kuwait coast over the weekend with 2,000 combat Marines. The air craft carrier USS George Washington began patrolling the Red Sea on Mon day. Shuttle radar detects smoke rising in Iraq CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. — Endeavour’s astronauts saw smoke rising from the Iraq-Ku wait border on Monday as the shuttle soared 127 miles over head on a radar-mapping mis sion. The source of the smoke was not immediately known. Astronaut Thomas Jones, who used to work for the Air Force and CIA, reported smoke in southern Iraq marshes as well as what appeared to be small, black plumes of smoke rising from the Iraq-Kuwait border. Diane Evans, a project scien tist on the ground, said she did not know what might be burn ing. Smoke usually rises from Kuwait’s oil fields as waste is routinely burned off. Endeavour is carry ing an air pollution monitor and a power ful radar system for mapping the Earth's surface in detail. The astronauts on the environmental study mission arc also photo graphing the planet. Evans said the Pentagon made no requests for radar images or photographsof Iraq and Kuwait The shuttle’s survey of that area was planned long before the military action there, she said. Besides, the $366 million ra dar isn't capable of picking out details like troops and tanks. Evans said. We don’t have high enough resolution required for surveil lance," she said. Endeavour and its crew of six arc scheduled to land at 11:37 a.m. Tuesday at Kennedy Space Center, although rain and low clouds were forecast. NASA could send the shuttle to Edwards Air Force Base in California later in the day. The radar was used largely to examine volcanoes, forests, deserts, oceans and rivers. Scientists hope to learn more about global change and to cre ate extraordinarily detailed maps with all these radar images. To {produce such elaborate maps. Endeavour took the same orbital path three days in a row Americans win Nobel Prize 3iul.is.mulm, bwcdcn — Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for shedding light on how cells communicate to speed the spread of killer diseases like chol era and diabetes throughout the body. Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell will split the $930,000 prize for determining how a certain group of proteins can help transmit and modulate signals in cells, much like a biological switchboard. Their discoveries, products of two decades of work, have been “para mount” in helping scientists under stand diseases that affect tens of mil lions of people around the globe, said Professor Bertil Fredholm of the Karolinska Institute’s Nobel Assem oiy. The medicine prize was the first of this year’s six Nobel awards to be announced. Since 1901 when the first Nobel medicine prize was awarded. 72 of 157 winners have been from the United States, rcflcclingan American dominance in basic research, espe cially after World War 11. Gilman. 53, is chairman of the de partment of pharmacology at the Uni versity ofTexas Southwestern in Dal las He predicted more knowledge about the communication process in side cells “will help considerably in designing better drugs and control mal functions for treatment of specific dis eases.” Nebraskan T. .. ut , FAX NUMBER 472-1761 braska ,441080) * Polished by the UNL Publications Board. Ne L,nco,n> ^ 685880448 Monday through Friday during the anemic year, weekly during summer sessions. DhrmTnn a79*i7M^ll?9e<,A0 rt0fy >deaa end comments to the Daily Nebraskan by ar™«9.n th Jp, W be,twe*n09 rm end 5 p m. Monday through Friday. 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