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By Susanne M. Schafer
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The United
States is not out to force a showdown
with Iraq, President Clinton said Mon
day, as administration officials cooled
their rhetoric over a potential clash with
Saddam Hussein.
Meanwhile, 3,000 U.S. soldiers at
Fort Hood, Texas, waited to see
whether they would be ordered to Ku
wait for a-new round of desert exer
cises.
“We have sought no confrontation
with Saddam Hussein. We never did
and we don’t now,” the president said.
“My concern is that we limit
Saddam Hussein’s ability to threaten
his neighbors, that we do it with the
no-fly zone and, in so doing, we keep
our pilots safe,” Ginton said.
On Friday, Saddam said he would
no longer shoot at coalition planes pa
trolling the two no-fly zones over Iraqi
soil, which are designed to cripple
Saddam’s ability to mount threats
against his neighbors.
Army officials said Friday that
5,000 members of the 1st Cavalry Di
vision at Fort Hood, Texas, had been
ordered to deploy to Kuwait to take
part in an ongoing exercise. By Mon
day, officials said they expected no!
more than 3,000 would be going—but
insisted no final order had been issued.
“We have not gotten an execution
order, and when it comes—if it comes
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We have sought no confrontation with
Saddam Hussein. We never did and we
don’t now.”
President Clinton
— it might even be something less”
than the 3,000, said III Corps spokes
man, Army Lt. Col. Randy Schoel.
Schoel said soldiers at Fort Hood
were continuing with their normal rou
tine, including practicing putting ar
mored vehicles chi a ship at Beaumont,
Texas.
“It is just an exercise,” Schoel in
sisted.
A senior military official, asked
about the delay, said, “We’re in a
watch-and-wait mode. We’re watching
to see if Saddam’s words match his
deeds.”
The delay also came as Defense
Secretary William Perry was due to
return early today from a spurt of con
sultations in the Persian Gulf and with
European allies.
To the embarrassment of Pentagon
and administration officials, Kuwait
balked over the weekend at accepting
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tb its announcement late FHday.
White House spokesman Mike
McCurry said Kuwait decided to ac
cept more U.S. troops, but he declined
to say exactly how many.
Gen. John Shalikashvili, queried at
a Pentagon press conference about the
situation with Iraq, insisted that the
United States was not dropping its
guard.
“We’re not standing down,” the
four-star Army general said.
The situation cm the ground contin
ues to be “mixed,” he said, with some
forces returning to their garrisons and
others acting as if they were attempt
ing to evade detection.
The administration’s attempt to gar
ner support from its allies also ap
peared to be mixed.
Perry left Turkey Monday after
winning only limited backing for the
American military buildup against Iraq.
Turkish Foreign Minister Tansu Ciller
said Perry had not asked to use the
southern Incirlik air base to strike at
Iraqi targets.
But “even if there had been (a re
quest), it would not have been possible
for us to mee^this request,” she told
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our own interests.”
State Department spokesman
Nicholas Bums, meanwhile, chal
lenged press reports that many of the
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air base in Indrtikforthe launching of air
strikes against Iraq.
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1,200-strong contingent.
[3] Bahrain will allow U.S. F-16s to be based
on its territory to help enforce Iraq’s
southern "no-fly" zone.
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Americans to launch air strikes against
Iraq from their territory.
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allies were opposed to U.S. military
action against Iraq and that some were
denying the United States use of their
facilities.
On Sunday, Perry claimed one suc
cess during his visit to Bahrain. The
small island-nation agreed to join Ku
wait as a base for U.S. warplanes in
the Persian Gulf.
Already home to a U.S. Navy base,
Balsam will allow atlea^ 23 Mds to
be based on its territory t6 enforce the
newly expanded no-fly zone over
southern Iraq. F-117A stealth bomb
ers had been ordered to Kuwait, while
two aircraft Carriers were sent into the
Persian Gulf.
Too early
to predict
Bosnia vote
SARAJEVO, Bosnia
Herzegovina (AP)—Early election
returns Monday showed die leader
of the Bosnian Muslims and a Serb
nationalist vying to head a three
member presidency that aims to
hold Bosnia together.
The candidate who gets the most
votes overall and leads the presi
dency could determine whether
Bosnia splits apart into separate eth
nic republics or hangs on as one
nation.
It was far too early to predict the
winner—only a fraction of the 109
electoral districts were reporting
partial results for the presidency by
Monday evening.
Robert Frowick, the American
diplomat overseeing the elections,
said final results for the presidency
would not come before Tuesday.
Voters in Saturday’s first post
war national elections could choose
only one of the 16 candidates for
the presidency. The top Muslim,
Croat and Serb candidates will con
prise the presidency; the top choice
overall will be chairman for two
years.
Preliminary results released
Monday show Bosnia’s President
Alija Izetbegovic as the top choice
of Muslims, who dominate Bosnia’s
Croat-Muslim federation. Ahead in
the Serb half of Bosnia was nation
alist Momcilo Krajisnik.
If Izetbegovic wins, he is ex
pected to press for a unified Bosnia,
while Krajisnik favors having Serb
areas of Bosnia join Serbia.
Most Bosnian Croats were vot
ing for the main Croat candidate,
Kresimir Zubak. With Croats out
numbered by Serbs and Muslims,
their candidate was sure to come in
third.
Though presidency decisions
are supposed to be mutual, the
chairman will be considered first
among equals and therefore have a
greater voice than his other two col
leagues.
The chief election monitor for
the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe, which
staged the elections, said Monday
that Bosnia’s future was on the line.
“Whether the election leads to
integration or disintegration will
only become clear as immediate
events unfold,” Eduard Van Thijn
said in a report on the elections.
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Report criticizes Pentagon in Saudi attack
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Pen
tagon and a key field commander must
share blame for placing,U.S. troops at
risk in an urban apartment complex in
Saudi Arabiathat was hit by a terrorist
attack, a study of the bombing said.
The Pentagon failed to provide
guidance or standards on protecting
U.S. faces, said a task face report on
the June 25 attack that killed 19 U.S.
airmen. The panel, headed by retired
Army Gen. Wayne Downing, said
troops such as those stationed in
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, have relied on
inadequate State Department security
guidelines; ;:; >1 1 •: ‘ i
The report said thousands of U.S.
servicemen living in the apartment
complex were vulnerable to a truck
bomb attack outside a narrow perim
eter.
President Clinton praised the report
as “unvarnished, blunt, straightfor
ward.”
“We know we’re living in a world
in which terrorism is a bigger problem,
in which Americans may be the target
of terrorists, particularly Americans in
uniform,” he said. “As we know more
about what we can do to protect them,
we intend to do everything we can.
We’re going to aggressively implement
the Downing report.”
The report also focused on lapses
by Air Force Brig. Gen. Terryl J.
(Tory) Schwalier, the commander of
the 4404th Wing in Southwest Asia. It
said he failed to heed clear warnings
of terrorist attacks on Khobar towers,
the apartment complex where some
2,000 of the 5,000 U.S. personnel sta
tioned in Saudi Arabia lived.
Dole criticizes as Clinton gains endorsement
VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — With
his rival grabbing a coveted police en
dorsement, Bob Dole proposed a new
crime-fighting package today and lev
eled a scathing personal attack.
“President Ginton has opened the
crime pipeline up again,” he said.
In a hot and crowded Villanova
University field house, Dole said of die
president’s crime record, “He talks like
Dirty Harry but acts like Barney Fife.”
The president sought to over
shadow Dole by picking up an endorse
ment fran the nation’s largest police
union — the 270,000-member Na
tional Fraternal Order of Police.
“I am profoundly honored that they
have decided to stand by me fa four
more years,” Ginton said before a
backdrop of uniformed officers in Cin
cinnati.
Before leaving fa Ohio* Clinton
handed out federal figures showing an
increase in gang prosecutions and a
drop in violence during his term.
In an Oval Office briefing with At
torney General Janet Reno, Clinton
said the report on an anti-crime initia
tive begun in 1994 was “further evi
dence that our efforts are actually
working.”
In a day of dueling photo-ops,
Clinton shared the stage with police in
dark uniforms while Dole surrounded
himself with 13 Republican governors
in dark suits.
Dole promised to cut teen drug use
in half, double federal prison spend
ing, require work from prison inmates
and try violent juveniles as adults.
He also pledged to use the White
House spotlight to teach America's
young people that drugs and crime are
wrong.
“I will use the bully pulpit of the
presidency to say to young people,
‘Drugs are deadly,'” Dole said. “Teen
agers who have been deceived into
believing that drugs are something you
experiment with will hear a different
message from Bob Dole.”
The remark was implicit criticism
of Clinton's efforts; a Dole ad that has
been taped but not yet aired reminds
voters that Clinton once joked during
Rank-and-file police officers have never
had a better friend in the White House
than Bill Clinton "
Gil Gallegos
NFOP president
an MTV interview about drug use.
“Thanks to the liberal wink-and-a
nod policies of this administration,
drug use among teen-agers has not just
started up again but is skyrocketing
upward,” Dole said. “When I’m presi
dent, I don’t intend to wink at drugs.”
It was the beginning of what the
Dole campaign promises will be an
aggressive focus on drugs and crime
to erode Clinton's double-digit lead in
national polls.
The police organization's national
president, Gil Gallegos, lauded
Clinton's record in a statement released
to The Associated Press in advance of
*
today’s announcement.
“Rank-and-file police officers have
never had a better friend in the White
House than Bill Clinton,” Gallegos
said. “Our communities, our kids and
our police officers are a lot better off
today because of the leadership of
President Clinton.”
Interviewed this morning on NBC’s
“Today” show, Gallegos dismissed
Dole’s criticism of Clinton.
“American society bears the blame”
far rising teen-age drug use, Gallegos
said. “I don’t think you can blame any
one segment of society.”
