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Tuesday, October 27, 1987/The Battalion/Page 7 f McCulloi ^ OFF RE f i Qoicund > TAKE'EM ? ■ THE 5H0R World and Nation Iranian head says mobilization prepares Iran for war with U.S. Iraq, Kuwait meet to discuss coordinated defense plans 'in Thomcs ww do rwit o th/5 sodden URGE TO TUMI LETTERS..} 6T KUWAIT (AP) — An Iranian jleader Monday urged Iran to mobi- llize for an all-out war against the lUnited States, and senior officials IfTom Iraq and Kuwait met to discuss a coordinated defense against Iran. British officials meanwhile con- Ifirmed that Kuwait has registered |two of its tankers to fly the British /flag and is in the process of register- ling a third. The British move would entitle the Kuwaiti vessels to the protection of British warships. At least three British warships and four mine ■weepers are stationed in the Persian Tulf. Eleven of Kuwait’s 22 tankers have been registered under the American flag, giving them U.S. na val protection from attack by Iran, which considers Kuwait an ally of Iraq in the I ran-Iraq war that has been going on for seven years. One tanker, the Sea Isle City, was hit by an Iranian missile in Kuwaiti waters Oct. 16, wounding 18 crew men, including the American cap tain. Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Interior Min ister Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Mohta- shemi as urging “people in every Iranian city and village to be pre pared for a full-fledged war” with the United States in the gulf. “Since we are facing a savage enemy, we should mobilize all our resources and manpower to deal ef fective blows against” the United States, Mohtashemi, a leading radi cal, was quoted as telling regional governors in Tehran. Iraq’s First Deputy Prime Minister Taha Yassin Ramadan and Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz wound up seve ral hours of defense talks with Ku waiti officials. In the past 11 days, there have been three Iranian missile attacks on Kuwait. Kuwaiti newspapers also have blamed Iran for Saturday’s bombing of a ticket agency rep resenting Pan American World Air ways. State-run Kuwait Radio said the Iraqi officials discussed Tehran’s “repeated aggressions” against Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia with the Kuwaitis. It did not elaborate. The Iraqis’ visit followed a meet ing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia of for eign ministers of the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council. Member states closed ranks with partner Kuwait against Iran, which attacked Kuwait with Chinese-made missiles. Responding to the arms sales, the United States announced last week it was imposing trade restrictions on the Chinese, denying requests for some technology with military uses. In London, British Transport Ministry officials confirmed that the 27,841-ton petroleum products car rier Ras al-Jalayah, renamed Chil- ham Castle, and the 263,679-ton su pertanker al-Faihah, renamed Tonbridge, had been re-registered. A third vessel, the 28,031-ton Ras al-Barshah, was in the process of be ing reflagged, they said. Salah Khalaf, second in command in Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, the leading guerrilla faction in the Palestine Liberation Organization, said Palestinians “are fully prepared to fight along with the people of Ku wait in defense of Kuwait’s national soil and the dignity of the Arab na tion.” Dan Bala SET... KATW.IM Connie, Julie JiJ . TiffameM i - Thundenionw I > Driule Kansas City mil PH ednesday morninf | >roduce rainaW F the Sierras. The lo» lew England areas ^ ids northerly at II lortheastatStol i 75 degrees. Win First lady's mother dies at 91 WASHINGTON (AP) — Edith Luckett Davis, the mother of first lady Nancy Reagan, died of a stroke Monday at her home in Phoenix, Ariz., the White House announced. She was 91. Davis, a onetime actress who was the widow of Chicago neuro surgeon Loyal Davis, had been ailing for several years. The White House said she died at 2:15 EST of a cerebral throm bosis, a blood clot in the brain and a form of stroke. President Reagan was told first about Davis’ death at 3 p.m. by Mrs. Reagan’s press secretary, Elaine Crispen, as he concluded an interview. He immediately went to the residence to inform his wife and remained with her the rest of the afternoon. Mrs. Reagan, who underwent breast cancer surgery Oct. 17 and returned to the White House last Thursday, was described by Crispen as “very upset.” “She’s going through some old photographs of her mother. (She’s) very teary,” Crispen said. Davis had been ill for some time and had round-the-clock medical care at her condomi nium. “She died peacefully in her sleep,” Crispen said. Tom Cnauncey, a family friend who visited Davis several times a week, was at her home when she died. He informed Crispen, who said she told the president because she thought he “should be the one to be with her.” Mrs. Reagan last saw her mother Aug. 13 before joining her husband at their ranch for a summer vacation. Mrs. Reagan visited with her mother, who has been confined to a wheel chair for several years, a number of “T’imes a year. The first lady “called nightly. She checked on her every day nd if her mother was asleep she Iked to the girls who cared for |her,” Crispen said. President Reagan and the first |ady will travel to Phoenix today. Teagan will return to Washington this evening while the first lady remains in Arizona. The presi dent “will return to Phoenix at the end of the week when funeral ^arrangements are complete,” the statement said. Two assailants kill president of Salvadoran commission SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Two men firing handguns with silencers killed the president of the Salvadoran Human Rights Com mission as he left home Monday to drive two of his six children to school, official sources said. As the children stood some dis tance away, the assailants shot Her bert Ernesto Anaya point-blank in a small parking lot, a police source said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. A spokesman for the human rights commission blamed the killing on rightist death squads linked to the military. A government spokesman called the murder “an irrational act” and appealed for calm. A leftist rebel group said it could endanger further talks with the government under the Central American peace plan. Anaya’s father, Rafael Lopez, told reporters his son was being watched by men the father did not identify, and had received several anonymous death threats because of his work with the commission. Anaya, 32, was the fourth mem ber of the commission, an indepen dent private organization made up of lawyers and other professionals, to be assassinated since 1980. Two other members disappeared while in police custody. For security reasons, the commis sion keeps the number of its mem bers and their identities a secret ex cept for the spokesmen, president and a few other leaders. The assailants fired on Anaya out side his home in the Zacamil district of the capital as he prepared to enter his car, said military sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. Anaya died almost instantly be tween 6:30 a.m. and 7 a.m., said the police source, also speaking on con dition he not be identified. The children, a girl and a boy, who were not identified for security reasons, were not hurt. Police said the gunmen fled in a vehicle, but witnesses’ descriptions of the vehicle were confusing. The commission, founded in 1977, has been highly critical of hu man rights violations in the govern ment’s 8-year-old civil war against leftist guerrillas. Rightists within the military have often accused the group of harbor ing leftist sympathies. Police arrested Anaya on May 26, 1986, on suspicion of secretly collab orating with the rebels. He was held without trial under a national emergency law that gives the government wide powers of search and arrest. President Jose Napoleon Duarte, a centrist Christian Democrat elected in 1984 on the promise he would do away with the rightist death squads active then, lifted the national emergency in January. The commission and other hu man rights groups, including the Roman Catholic Church, say 65,000 people have been killed since the war began in October 1979, many of them civilians slain by the death squads. But they also say the number of death squad killings has sharply di minished since Duarte came to power. Anaya was freed late last year along with 56 other political prison ers in exchange for an army colonel captured, by the guerrillas. Chinese government may allow peasants to control land rights BEIJING (AP) — The govern ment soon may allow Chinese peas ants to buy and sell their land rights, letting some leave the land for good and others farm more efficiently on a larger scale, a Communist Party of ficial said Monday. The announcement came as the party held its first national congress in five years to reaffirm top leader Deng Xiaoping’s policy of introduc ing market reforms and opening to the world. “We are now considering the transfer of (land) utilization rights,” Du Runsheng, head of the party’s Rural Policy Research Office, said at a news conference. Du stressed that only land rights would be sold and not the land itself, which still is considered public prop erty even though communes have been dismantled and families farm separate plots. The official Xinhua News Agency quoted acting party chief Zhao Zi- yang as telling one discussion group that investment should be allowed to flow freely to whatever area of the country has the lowest costs and greatest efficiency. Xinhua quoted Bo Yibo, vice chairman of the party’s advisory commission of retired officials, as saying the congress would be a mile stone in party history. The party arranged what it said would be a daily news briefing for reporters. Monday’s featured Du and an official who discussed the problem of price controls. The evening television news showed footage of some of the nearly 2,000 congress delegates holding small-group meetings to dis cuss the keynote speech delivered Sunday by Zhao. 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