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Albright meets with Russians about Iraq GENEVA (AP) — Secretary of State Madeleine Albright rushed to Geneva Wednesday for a middle-of the-night review of a Russian pro posal for ending the standoff with Iraq. President Clinton insisted any arrangement must include the return of weapons inspectors. In Washington, Clinton said the United States wants a peaceful solu tion to the three-week crisis, but that Iraq could set no conditions on the inspectors. “That’s our top line, that’s our bottom line,” he said. Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov invited Albright and the foreign ministers of France and Britain to this traditionally neutral city to detail a plan he worked out with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz for resolving the latest crisis in the Persian Gulf. “A certain program has been worked out that allows us, we think, to avoid ... a confrontation, to avoid the use of force and achieve a settle ment,” he said, refusing to elaborate. Even as Clinton strengthened American military power in the Gulf, U.S. officials encouraged Russia and France to use their influ ence with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. State Department spokesman James P. Rubin said Albright had not been informed in advance about the Russian proposal. As she arrived in Cairo from New Delhi for a refueling stop, she told reporters, “Iraq must let the weapons inspectors get back to their vital work of preventing Iraq from building nuclear, chemical or bio logical weapons and it must permit those inspections to proceed with out interference or conditions.” Albright cut short a trip to India -she already had canceled a stop in Bangladesh - to attend the Geneva meeting. By all accounts, the Iraqi over tures that attracted Moscow involve reducing the percentage of American inspectors in the U.N. weapons groups, committing the Security Council to declaring that the searches are unbiased and reaf firming that Iraqi cooperation would lead to a lifting of economic sanctions that have severely dam aged the country’s economy. Earlier this week, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger reit erated that Iraq is permitted by the United Nations to sell some of its oil abroad with the proceeds used to import food and medicine, thereby easing the impact of the sanctions. Saddam expelled Americans serving on U.N. teams of inspectors seeking to ensure that Iraq was not producing or stockpiling weapons of mass destructions. The United Nations responded by withdrawing all weapons inspectors from the country, leaving only a skeletal staff in place. Iraq has charged that the American inspectors were spies. It also has threatened to shoot down U.S. planes on surveillance flights, but two flights have been made without incident since the crisis began. Albright, Primakov, British Foreign Minister Robin Cook and French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine were meeting at the United Nations’ European headquarters, the Palais des Nations, built in the 1930s as the world headquarters of the organization’s predecessor, the League of Nations. Primakov has conferred by tele phone with Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen, and Qian sent a Geneva-based ambassador to represent China, the fifth permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, at the meeting. Russia all along has sought to avert a military strike on Iraq, much as Primakov tried unsuccessfully to stop the Bush administration in 1991 from attacking Iraq after the occupation of Kuwait. The British have sided with the Clinton administration, which has reserved all its options, including military ones. Clinton ordered a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf and strengthened the U.S. air power there. The State Department, without mentioning Iraq, warned Americans in all parts of the world Wednesday “to exercise greater than usual cau tion” because of a growing threat of anti-U.S. violence. White House spokesman Mike McCurry said in Washington, “There’s no wiggle room in our view that Saddam Hussein must allow the inspections necessary to determine what degree of activity there is relat ed to weapons of mass destruction.” He said any change in the com position of the U.N. inspection team was up to the United Nations. I -800-LUNG-USA ± f£SgICAN Because.. When you can’t breathe, | ASSOCIATION® nothing else matters.® www.lungusa.org Here's your chance to be heard The Daily Nebraskan is now hiring columnists for the spring semester. Columnists do not have to he Journalism majors. Pick up an application and Job description at the Daily Nebraskan, 34 Nebraska Union. 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Chairwoman: (402)476-2446 Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St., Lincoln NE Professional Adviser: Don Walton, 68588-0448. Periodical postage paid at Lincoln, NE. . (402)473-7301 ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1997 Advertising Manager: Nick Paitsch, THE DAILY NEBRASKAN 1JW (402)472-2589 Assistant Ad Manager: Daniel Lam Naval research records ruined WASHINGTON (AP) — Naval Research Laboratory records that “chronicle some of the most signifi cant technical achievements in the 20th century” were inadvertently destroyed by the National Archives. They were “pulped beyond recogni tion,” the archives said Wednesday. The archives and the Navy blamed each other. Fed into the pulper sometime last summer were 4,200 scientific note books and 600 boxes of correspon dence and technical memos. “The historical record of our nation’s scientific and technological heritage has suffered a serious and irreparable loss,” Rear Adm. Paul G. Gaffney II, chief of Naval Research, wrote National Archivist John Carlin, protesting the destruction of the records. Among the lost records, Gaffney said, were the correspondence of American pioneers in high frequency radio, work of the inventors of radar “and the war records of the applica tion of these technologies in the cam paigns against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.” Also lost were records of “path breaking acoustic and oceanographic research” and materials tracing the early history of the American space program with V-2 and Viking rockets, records of Vanguard, the first U.S. satellite program “and much more,” Gaffney said. The papers, dating from the 1930s through the 1980s, were destroyed at the archives’ facilities in Suitland, Md., and the remaining pulp was sent out for recycling, the agency said. The archives said that “in accor dance with established procedure” it had sent the Office of Naval Research notice that the records would be rou tinely destroyed 90 days later unless it heard otherwise. “Though the Navy responded to other notices that came with this one, it raised no objection to carrying out the scheduled disposal of the labora tory material,” the archives said. Dick Thompson, a Navy lab spokesman, said the laboratory did not receive the notice and did not know of the records’ destruction until last July. Carlin said he ordered an immedi ate investigation and put his deputy, Lewis Bellardo, a veteran archivist, in charge. Gaffney asked for more - an independent advisory board to evaluate the archives’ “disposal poli cies and processes.” The government generates bil lions of records in the course of a year. The government permanently stores only about 2 percent, saving others for a stipulated period - 10, 20 or 50 years or such. “If the process is flawed, or the evaluation criteria (for determining what to keep) are inadequate, then obviously the situation must be fixed,” Carlin said. “I will be grateful for the Navy’s cooperation in deter mining where the problem lies so that together we can take appropriate action. And I will report publicly on the outcome of the investigation.” Gaffney made the same point, more bluntly: “It is necessary to understand how this great misfortune occurred and to devise a method of administrative control that will pre vent its reoccurrence,” he wrote. The Naval Research Laboratory, with 3,359 civilians and 188 military people on its staff, engages in basic and applied research involving the sea, the atmosphere and space. 4 boys, 3 girls bom to Iowa couple BABIES from page 1 McCaughey was in her 31st week of pregnancy, at least three weeks beyond the point doctors considered viable for fetuses. McCaughey, who left her seam stress job before giving birth to her first child nearly two years ago and was due in mid-January, had been taking the fertility drug Pergonal, which was prescribed because she and her husband, Kenny, had trouble conceiving their first child, Mikayla. The birth of septuplets is rare and serious complications are common. There are no known surviving sets in the world. The last set of septuplets bom in the United States was in May 1985 in Orange, Calif., to Samuel and Patricia Frustaci. In her 28th week of pregnancy, one was stillborn, three died within 19 days of birth and the remaining three had medical and developmental problems. Multiple births typically do not go the full term, but doctors wanted McCaughey’s pregnancy to continue for as long as possible. Jennifer Niebyl, head of the department of obstetrics and gyne cology at University Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa, said data showed that survival rates for infants bom there were 96 percent after the 28th week of pregnancy. Niebyl said fetal development after the 30th week is mostly weight gain and organ development. McCaughey has been hospital ized since Oct. 15, but news of her pregnancy was not made public until two weeks later when she reached the 28 th week. In the tiny town of Carlisle, about 10 miles southeast of Des Moines, many of the 3,200 residents knew about the pregnancy but kept the cou ple’s secret. “These aren’t just people, these are friends. That’s the way our town operates,” said LaVena Owens, a Carlisle florist who kept the secret for at least four months and dispatched flowers to McCaughey’s home and hospital room with unmarked cards and discreet delivery men. McCaughey and her husband, a car dealership billing clerk, were advised early in the pregnancy that aborting some of the fetuses, or selec tive reduction, would increase the chance of survival for the others. But Kenny McCaughey, 27, has said neither his nor his wife’s reli gious beliefs would allow any of the fetuses to be aborted. “God gave us those kids,” he said last month. “He wants us to raise them.”
