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PAGE2__FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13,1996
Clinton ignores GOP threats
Republicans attack
Clinton’s Iraq policy
while defending
themselves against
disloyalty charges.
By John Diamond
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — As U.S. war
planes flew to the Persian Gulf, Repub
lican criticism of President Clinton’s
Iraq policy tore away the appearance
of national unity customarily adopted
in periods of international tension.
Clinton, ignoring the GOP re
proaches, saved his tough words Thurs
day for Iraq’s president.
“We cannot allow anybody any
where to believe they are not bound
by the rules of civilized behavior,”
Clinton said in Rancho Cucamonga,
Calif., where he was campaigning.
“I don’t want to get in a word-war
with Saddam Hussein, but we’re go
ing to do whatever it takes to keep him
from threatening his neighbors, threat
ening our pilots,” Clinton said.
But James A. Baker HI, secretary
of state during the 1991 war against
Iraq that left Saddam in power, bitterly
attacked Clinton’s actions so far. Baker
told a congressional committee the
United States allowed its anti-Iraq coa
lition to break up and should have hit
Saddam harder.
In the House, Republican leaders,
insisting the administration has left
them uninformed, continued to block
a Senate-passed resolution supporting
U.S. troops in the Gulf.
Curt Weldon, R-Pa., said the cor
rect vote facing die House was not on
the Senate resolution but on “whether
we support this president on what he’s
- doing with our troops right now.”
The harsh words came as the
Clinton administration girded for what
appeared to be strong action against
Iraq. Eight radar-evading F-117A
stealth fighter-bombers were being
readied Thursday at Holloman Air
Force Base, N.M., for deployment to
the Persian Gulf. Four B-52 bombers,
most likely armed with cruise missiles,
were headed to the Indian Ocean is
land of Diego Garcia, a jumping-off
point for a possible raid on Iraq.
The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise
was ordered from waters off Bosnia to
join the carrier USS Carl Vinson in the
Persian Gulf. The Army said it was
sending two Patriot missile units and
about 150 soldiers from Fort Bliss,
Iraqi and U.S. forces in the Gulf
Armed
forces
Armor and
ARTLLERVj
Ships
AND SEA
DEFENSE,:
4
Aircraft \
AND AIM
DEFENSE
rjm
(Iraq United States
Active duty forces 382,000 18,600
Reserves 650,000
Main battle tanks 2,700*
■ Armored fighting vehicles 900
I Armored personnel carriers 2,000*
L Towed artillery 1,500*
I Self-propelled artillery 230
*. Multiple rocket launchers 100
If Frigates 1 29 combat
F Coastal patrol craft 7 and support
I Mine counter measure 4 ships
■ Armed helicopters 120 Over 200
I Air defense guns 5,500 Coalition*
L Bombers 6 aircraft
I ' Fighter ground attack 130
1 Fighter 180
* estimate M
SAS Gecko J5
missile
■ T-54, T-55 Soviet tank
■ Mi-24 helicopter
SA-8 surface-to
air missHes
■ Mig-21
•Mig-25
■Mig-29
■ Mig-23BN
■ Tu-22 bombers
Mig-23
attack
aircraft
i
■ US. Airforce:
F-15C, F-16, F-16CJ, '
A-10, OA-IO, E-3A,
EF-111, C-130,
HC-130, C-21, U-2R,
EC-135, KC-10,
KC-135, HH-60
* United States, Franc
• U.S.Navy;
F-14, F-18; EA-6B, E2-A,
S-3, ES-3; C-2, SH-60F,
HH-60H. SH-608, H-46
9 and Great Britain
C~130 Hercules mff A-10
"Transport ^jj Warthog
■ United Kingdom:
GR1 Tornado, VC-10
■France:
M-2000 Mirage, C-135K
Source: International Institute for Strategic Studies, U.S. Central Command AP/Wm. J. Castelo, Trade Tso
Texas, to the Persian Gulf region, ap
parently to join Patriot batteries already
in Saudi Arabia.
The deployments are being ordered
after several threats by Saddam
Hussein of disregarding the no-fly
zone. Iraq claimed to fire missies at
U.S. aircraft in the no-fly zone Thurs
day, although no reports have been
confirmed.
The United States will take all “nec
essary and appropriate actions” to de
fend its forces in the Middle East from
any challenge posed by Saddam, De
fense Secretary William Perry warned.
Queried about the GOP criticism,
Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon
contended that last week’s move to in
crease the size of the “no-fly” zone in
southern Iraq had bolstered America’s
strategic position in the region.
“We responded ... in an effort to
diminish Saddam Hussein’s military
mobility and flexibility. I think we’ve
succeeded in that,” Bacon said.
Not so, said Jack Kemp, the Repub
beans’ vice presidential candidate. In
a statement released by the GOP cam
paign committee, Kemp outlined five
ways in which he said Saddam has suc
ceeded or is succeeding in strengthen
ing his rule or weakening U.S. posi
tions.
“Saddam Hussein’s goals are
clear,” Kemp said. “Bill Clinton must
tell us what our goals are and how we
can achieve them.”
(hi Capitol Hill, while attacking
Clinton’s policy Republicans defended
themselves against charges of disloy
alty for criticizing the president dur
ing a foreign crisis.
“It used to be that foreign and se
curity policy stopped at the water’s
edge. Unfortunately that’s not the
case,” Baker said, paraphrasing the
famous dictum uttered in 1948 by Sen.
Arthur Vandenberg that politics should
stop at the water’s edge.
“The idea that somehow Republi
cans should not feel free to speak their
minds is a canard that just won’t wash,”
he said.
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Clinton, Dole teams
voice debate opinions
WASHINGTON (AP)—Nego
tiators for Bob Dole and President
Clinton opened debate talks Thurs
day with the Dole campaign propos
ing four one-on-one hour-long
presidential face-offs and two vice
presidential exchanges.
The Clinton team did not re
spond directly to the Dole proposal
although a senior campaign official,
speaking on the condition of ano
nymity, later called it “a clever pro
posal but not serious.”
The negotiators broke off talks
after about two hours to await a rec
ommendation by the Commission
on Presidential Debates on whether
Ross Perot should be part of the
debates.
Commission co-chairman Frank
Fahrenkopf promised a recommen
dation on Perot by noon Tuesday.
The privately financed, nonpartisan
commission has sponsored presi
dential debates since 1988.
Perot’s national coordinator
Russell Vemey was excluded from
Thursday’s session, but marched
into the meeting room uninvited. By
that time, the meeting was already
breaking up.
The Dole campaign does not
want Perot to share the debate stage;
the Clinton campaign does.
The commission has proposed
90-minute presidential debates for
Sept. 25 in St. Louis, Oct. 9 in St.
Petersburg, Fla., and Oct. 16 in San
Diego, Calif. It proposed a vice
presidential debate for Oct. 2 in
Hartford, Conn. The candidates are
not bound by the recommendations.
The Clinton campaign told the
Dole team that the president did not
want the first debate to be on or
around Sept. 25 because he is
speaking at the United Nations that
week, according to participants.
Otherwise, the Clinton cam
paign favors the three 90-minute
presidential debates and one vice
presidential face-off recommended
by the commission.
Former South Carolina Gov.
Carroll Campbell, Dole's chief de
bate negotiator, proposed an addi
tional presidential and an additional
vice presidential debate. All six de
bates would occur between Sept 25
and Oct. 25.
“We believe the debates should
be (me hour in length and have a
single moderator” Campbell said.
“President Clinton is a world-class
debater; someone who can charm
the birds out of trees. We will be
hard-pressed to understand why the
president would not want to debate
Bob Dole, one-on-one, four times.”
Schools close; parents fear
mosquito spray side effects
WESTERLY, RJ. (AP) — School
officials canceled classes today amid
fears that children could be harmed by
insecticide being sprayed to kill mos
quitoes carrying a potentially deadly
virus.
A few residents complained that
schoolchildren were accidentally
sprayed Wednesday. To head off a re
peat of that criticism, Superintendent
James Hoebbel called off school today,
the last day spraying was planned.
Gov. Lincoln Almond declared a
state of emergency in Westerly last
week after tests showed the virus that
causes a rare disease, Eastern equine
encephalitis, was present in one of ev
ery 100 mosquitoes.
“They say it’s a one-in-a-million
chance (to contract the virus), but that’s
one lottery I don’t want to hit,” said
Westerly resident Morris Sabin, a re
tired salesman. “You can keep that
jackpot—I don’t want it.”
He said residents have been kept
well-informed about efforts to fight the
form of encephalitis.
So far, no one has contracted the
virus, which has killed about 150
people nationwide in the last 40 years
and is fatal to about half of those who
get it.
The insecticide used to kill the
mosquitoes, resmithrin, may cause
rashes or asthma attacks in people with
allergies but has no long-term health
effects, state Department of Health
Director Patricia Nolan said.
Officials advised residents to keep
children and pets indoors, close win
dows, turn off air conditioners for four
hours after the spraying, and rinse off
outdoor lawn furniture and toys.
Hurricane Hortense may threaten U.S.
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP)—Pack
ing 140-mph winds, Hurricane
Hortense took a swipe at the links and
Caicos islands and barreled past the
Bahamas Thursday on a track that
could threaten the northeastern United
States this weekend.
In Puerto Rico, where at least 14
people died in the storm Tuesday, resi
dents and work crews continual their
arduous cleanup — from sorting
through soiled clothing to clearing
roads and bridges.
Their misery was compounded by
water and power outages—about 40
percent of the island’s 3.6 million
people still had no power Thursday—
but federal help was on the way. More
than 7,600 people were registered at
115 shelters Thursday.
At 4 pm CDT Thursday, Hortense
was centered about 730 miles south
southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., or
about 310 miles east ofNassau. It was
moving north at 12 mph, with winds
extending outward up to 70 miles from
its center.
Heavy surf from the storm could
reach southeastern U.S. shores today,
and there was a slight chance the storm
could threaten Long Island, N.Y.,
Rhode Island, or Cape Cod, Mass., on
Sunday, forecasters said.
Meanwhile, another hurricane was
menacing the lower half of Mexico’s
Baja California peninsula. Flights
were canceled and ports closed to all
vessels as Hurricane Fausto moved
closer, with sustained winds of 115
mph, up from 90 mph on Wednesday.
Thursday afternoon, Fausto was
located about 115 miles south-south
west of Cabo San Lucas, on the
peninsula’s southern tip. Its outer winds
woe already buffeting the peninsula.
The hurricane was moving northward
at 10 mph, possibly reaching the south
ern portion of the peninsula by Tliurs
day night.
Hortense was expected to continue
north and increase speed to 20 mph
today.
The. hurricane pounded the T\uks
and Caicos islands with 90-mph winds
but inflicted little serious damage, and
no injuries were reported.
In the Bahamas, residents stowed
property and boarded up windows for
the second time in two weeks—Hur
ricane Fran narrowly missed the islands
last week—only to awaken Thursday
to sunny skies.
“Everybody battened up and did
hurricane preparations and no one was
allowed to go to work yesterday, but
nothing happened,” said Marion
Cartwright, a telephone operator on
Great Inagua Island.
The death toll from Hortense
readied 16 Thursday with the discov
ery of a man’s body near the Rio
Grande river in the northeastern Puerto
Rican town of Loiza. Another body
was recovered from a beach in Patillas
in southeastern Puerto Rico late
Wednesday.
The storm, which delivered as
much as 20 indies of rain, also killed
two in the Dominican Republic. Most
of die victims drowned.