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Wednesday, September 9, 1987/The Battalion/Page 11 World and Nation a2 lraqi air attack ends lull in war ad!Kef ore U.N. starts peace mission 'MID! ’ <'t's hau ' (l " 1 cv en: miANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Iraq 1,1 said its warplanes attacked two ships l[ t '•'•in. Tuesday night near Iran’s Kharg Is- I'h land oil terminal, ending a brief lull in the Persian Gulf tanker war be- s< - nes!s fore a U.N. peace mission to the re- gion. >i hood in B: W'he official Iraqi News Agency said two “large maritime targets,” which usually means tankers, were hit at 9 p.m. east of Kharg. It did not identify the vessels and there was no 11 l IVCtl independent confirmation of attacks near the terminal in the northern gull \YJ W'CCKi IHraq’s announcement raised to 25 / ir nr ,K the number of ships reported hit “Mice Aug. 29 by either Iran or Iraq. )Ie H'llO t ^Before the latest round, there was a six-week period after passage of a cease-fire resolution during lOl. which few raids on commercial ship ping occurred and Iran increased its oil exports by about 20 percent. In its report of the raids Tuesday, the Iraqi agency quoted a military spokesman in Baghdad as saying: “Iraq will continue its attacks against Iran until the Iranian regime accepts to live with the people of the region in peace and puts an end to the war according to U.N. Security Council Resolution 598.” The resolution was passed July 20. Diplomats said privately the brief respite was directly related to the peace initiative of U.N. Secretary- General Javier Perez de Cuellar. He made a suspension of hostilities a £ re-condition for his mission, which egins in Tehran on Thursday and will take him to Baghdad later. A dispute between Iran and Ku wait escalated, with claims by Iran that officials in Kuwait were ha rassing Iranian immigrants there and had ordered the expulsion of a sixth Iranian diplomat. In the gulf, shipping sources said there appeared to be more vessel movements than usual as companies took advantage of the pause in the SVa-year-old raids on shipping. Iraq, at war with Iran since Sep tember 1980, strikes at ships carry ing Iranian oil to hurt Iran economi cally and force it to the peace table. Iran strikes at other shipping, saying if the gulf is not safe for its vessels it will be safe for nobody’s ships. In Moscow, Soviet Foreign Min ister Eduard A. Shevardnadze and Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov urged an immediate end to the gulf war and criticized the U.S. presence there during meetings Tuesday with Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Mo hammed Larijani, Tass said. The So viet news agency quoted Shevard nadze and Ryzhkov as saying U.N. resolutions should be a starting point for an agreement to end the war. Twelve Japanese or Japanese- manned tankers and petroleum gas carriers sailed into the gulf during a two-hour period early Tuesday, ending a five-day suspension of such traffic ordered by Japan’s Shipown ers Association and Maritime Union. U.S. naval forces in the gulf re portedly were in a temporary stand- down as the diplomatic maneuver ing continued. *pn lanulacti iniilv to n/des claim to have kept Bush in dark on efforts to resupply Contra rebels itionsho:..WASHINGTON (AP) — Aides to 92fi. with Vk e President George Bush re- !la' iami ceived a stream of clues indicating •ny to: Lt. Col. Oliver L. North was “chair man of the board” of a secret effort to resupply Contra rebels in Nicara gua but they never told Bush, icnan according to depositions and docu- <‘I " ments made public Tuesday. KJincapiuB One Bush associate, Army Col. n mark Samuel J. Watson, said the vice pres ident was not told of allegations that a group of corrupt profiteers with unsavory connections was over charging the Contras for weapons and supplies because the informa tion was unproven and “not ma ture.” Krhe words “resupply of the Con tras” appear in a memo prepared for Bush by his staff to describe the pur pose of a meeting he and his aides were to have with former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez seven months be fore the Iran-Contra affair became public last year. ■ But Watson and Donald Gregg, Bush’s national security adviser, told i\ am the congressional Iran-Contra inves tigating committees, in sworn aim statements taken last May and June, ets ofl it is a mystery to them how the words im; got into the document, which was re- n.” leased Tuesday along with tran scripts of their testimony, i hau W The memo, dated April 30, 1986, identifies Rodriguez as “a counterin- d inter xpansK vith th< ii ttie e; head-io i, Mo., ut Resis about tl surgency expert who is visiting from El Salvador.” It says he would brief Bush “on the status of the war in El Salvador and resupply of the Con tras.” It raises the question whether Bush knew about the resupply effort earlier than he has acknowleged. Bush, a former director of the CIA and now the frontrunner for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination, has acknowledged knowing Rodriguez. But he denies he was aware of private efforts to arm the Nicaraguan rebels at a time Congress had banned U.S. assis tance. Steve Hart, Bush’s acting press secretary, said Watson and Gregg did not tell Bush their suspicions about the Contra resupply operation because they “felt that tne vice presi dent didn’t need to know.” Hart said that Gregg often only told the vice president what he felt he, “needed to know.” Phyllis M. Byrne, a secretary in the vice president’s office who typed the memo, said in a deposition the language was given her by Watson. Watson said he cannot recall doing that. It was not known whether Bush ever saw the document. Congressio nal investigators, to the surprise of many officials, have not questioned him. Watson said he was “almost posi tive” the subject of the Contras never came up at the May 1 session with Bush. Gregg said there was no inten tion to discuss that issue nor was it raised. Watson said that when the investi gation began to focus on the memo, Gregg asked him where the words “resupply of the Contras” had come from. “I said, ‘beats me,’ or words to that effect,” Gregg testified. But the resupply operation was raised at a later meeting on Aug. 8, 1986, as Rodriguez complained about the people North had re cruited for tne effort. Gregg and Watson said Rodriguez was worried that the group, led by retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord, might be “making immo ral profits” from dealings with the Contras. Watson said he came away from the meedng with the impression that North was “chairman of the board” of the resupply operation and Se cord the “chief operating officer.” Rodriguez told the vice presi dent’s men he was concerned that several of those involved had ties to Edwin Wilson, another former CIA agent, who had been jailed for sell ing explosives to Libya. He said Rodriguez mentioned Se cord and former CIA official Thomas Clines and said, “These people are running such a corrupt, shoddy, unsafe operation down there, the U.S. government should not get involved with them.” Nonetheless, Gregg said he was stunned last December when Rodri guez told him that he had been un der North’s orders to assist in the re supply operation and had been instructed to tell no one, especially not Gregg. The Iran-Contra affair recendy had been exposed and Gregg said that Rodriguez, “very emotionally upset,” called “to indicate that he was terribly sorry that this might cause some difficulty for the vice president or me.” “And at that point was the first time that he had told me in any sense — that I recognized — that he had been formally asked by Ollie to help and then asked by Ollie not to tell me about it,” Gregg said. Gregg was asked if he had under stood why North didn’t want him to be informed. “I would say it is a consistent pat tern of Ollie’s to keep things very heavily compartmented,” he said. Gregg added that he assumed North feared Gregg might raise “the question of possible illegality.” 1938. 1953 he i Congressmen unable to draw conclusions about treaty violations of Soviet radar unit adcW strong l a West pany (1 Kc D ‘~ L “"ipfvvASHINGTON (AP) — Three congressmen who visited a Soviet radar system said Tuesday they were unable to conclude if the unit violates the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty but they praised the Soviets for permitting access to the secret facility. | |“This was an extraordinary step in confidence building, an extraordinary visit for arms con trol,” said Rep. Thomas Downey, D-N.Y., in a • !\ Rcsisi statement echoed by Reps. Jim Moody, D-Wis., and Bob Carr, D-Mich. it lias n - They spent a day last week inspecting the So- the enter v j et ra( jar system at Krasnoyarsk, a facility in the put R(" central Soviet Union which has been the focus of nang movies lenn Ford to 1 une I'omantt s part of the h z says, notif '<ray and 1/ “Dallas” headi . on a plants ip her spec tol is intern! 1 materials, il* mlined to tl> change und no telling vp a,” Luiz says, ' arketingman''! 1 in recent histo 1 ' »laye ling a superpower dispute. Ml The Reagan administration contends the ra dar is designed to track incoming enemy nuclear missiles, a purpose known as battle management, and thus is banned by the 1972 treaty limiting such systems. HThe Soviets argue that the radar is for tracking of objects in deep space, which would not be a vi olation. At the State Department, spokesman Charles Redman said, “We see no evidence in the infor mation available now which would alter our con clusion that the radar under construction at Krasnoyarsk constitutes a violation of the ABM treaty.” In a report to House Speaker Jim Wright, D- Texas, the three congressmen concluded, “based on what we saw, we judge the probability of Kras noyarsk functioning as a battle-management ra dar to be extremely low.” But they also said, “We are unable to form a clear judgment on the question of early-warning vs. spacetrack.” “Whether the installation is early-warning or spacetrack, it clearly is not deployed,” the report said. “Thus, we judge it to be not a violation of the ABM treaty at this time.” The rhree legislators are critics of President Reagan’s arms control policies. In their report, they said U.S. national security would be well served by the House insisting on its arms control positions, stands which are opposed by the White House, The congressmen said westerners previously had not been permitted to visit the Krasnoyarsk facility, which includes an 11-story transmitter and an 30-story radar receiver. Anthony Battista, a member of the committee staff and an expert on Soviet military systems, said the group was permitted to take more than 1,000 pictures. The report said, “our access to Krasnoyarsk was dramatic and extensive.” “At no point were our notes, tapes or photo graphs censored or even examined by Soviet offi cials in any way,” it said. But it continued, “nevertheless, access was not absolutely unfettered . . . internal examination may have been subject to some restrictions.” die bolt struct before the dressing roo : :ond bolt tltf am players ut" clical Center implained of llowing the i ; ; were heldf» ! 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