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ANNUAL URESS SALE Page 12/The Battalion/Friday, March 25, 1988 World and Nation Chemical warfare fires conflicts in Middle East llol 81 NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The slaughter of Kurdish civilians in Iraqi poison gas attacks and Iranian warnings of retaliation underscore the growth pi the chemical warfare arsenals of major Middle East pow ers. Despite efforts to curb such weap ons, their spread has added a dan gerous new dimension to conflicts in the Middle Fust. Their use, but not their production, is banned under a 1925 Geneva agreement. overran the Kurdish area in a ground offensive. Western correspondents in Iran have reported evidence to substan tiate Iranian claims that 5.000 Iraqi Kurds were killed and another 5,000 injured when Iraqi warplanes dropped chemical bombs on towns captured by the Iranians in north east Iraq last week. The intensity ol Tehran'sacca tions against Iraq in recent davsln heightened fears that the Iramj mav be seeking to justify ihj chemic al weapons of their own. The London-based June’s De fense Weekly noted in a recent study that the use of poison and nerve gases since 1984 in the T'/i-year-old Iran-Iraq war has “changed the rules of war in the Middle East.” Tehran charges that Iraqi war planes have dropped chemical bombs on several villages in north western Iraq after Iranian forces Nicholas Beeston of The Times of London reported f rom Halabja, one of the towns, that “hundreds and possibly thousands” of the Kurds, who have been rebelling against Baghdad for years, were killed. Hashemi Rafsanjani, speakei of Iran's Parliament and Ayatollah Ru- hollah Khomeini’s representative on the Supreme Defense Council, warned Thursday that Iran will be forced to use chemical weapons in retaliation if the Iraqi attacks con tinue. U.S. State Department Spoil man Charles Redman said Wedm da\ there was evidence Iranimd reach have fired chemical aniy shells into Iraq. He declinedloetf orate. By Studei 1984 for Iraq, a signatory to die agreement, lias been condemiiedB^ ^ using chemical ue.iyj 15 9} K ' The Iranians < l.nm die Iraqis 1 ■' V ,U launched .uoimd I(10 (hernial®^'^ ^ tac ks in that period, mainly agaii™ 11 auian t rctops. told of tl lev recc | ailiil) Sounes s.nd i her e are indicmii™ I that the Iraqis .lie also workinnH . US get m warfare’ weapons. |dget ci "The f High opposition figure comes out of exile to battle Noriega lilies til lowed by •IdM: Line dirson, t |e; Mu |e; Dai i “We a i Itweeen PANAMA CITY (AP) —A lead ing opposition figure returned from exile Thursday and rejoined an in creasingly desperate struggle to topple Gen. Manuel Antonio No riega. “We have but one objective: to get rid of Noriega and build reconcilia tion and democracy in Panama!” Ri cardo Arias Calderon, the president of the Christian Democratic Party said in an address to a chanting, cheering crowd of about 300 people who greeted his flight from Costa Rica. “I am profoundly moved to be back in my own land,” fie said. The return of Arias Calderon, considered a presidential aspirant in elections scheduled for May 1989, came on the fourth day of a nation wide general strike aimed at ousting Noriega, who is the head of the 15,000-member Defense Forces and is the power behind the civilian gov eminent. Despite almost unanimous sup port for the strike In business and industry, Noriega remained defiant, saying Wednesday night his oppo nents at home and in the United States don’t “have the capacitv" to overthrow him. That feeling appeared to be shared by some strike leaders, who said it might take a revolt In fellow officers to remove Noriega as head of the Defense Forces. “There are growing pockets within the Defense Forces that are against Noriega,” Jose Mulino, an at torney and opposition leader, said. “What we don’t know is if tliev will act,” he said. But iu his speech to a group of about 500 supporters, Noriega claimed the military was maintaining “its high moral and patriotic beliefs" despite a failed barracks coup last week. Eleven officers were lere wil .trit'sit' 1 In,” K that foiled plot lisntisilKmager more than a do/en oll'ireni al But di shifted the assignments ofotlwl®tt;t//o/i personnel. Still, the members oftheDefa Forces are ’due to lie paid Frui and opposition leaders said their I altv to Noriega could lietestedat if (hey don’t get their paydtecki. Panama is out of cash bet Washington cut off the sup|il U.S. dollars, the Panamanian tional currency, iu a hid to drive) riega into exile. The general was dieted iu the United States I month on federal cocainetrafficki charges. The government was unable fiillv meet a S33 million pavrollli 130.000 public emplbveev Lull (his month, touching.off strikes demonstrations In workers t considered loval to Noriega. Nicaraguans react with hope to cease-fire MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguans on Thursday reacted with hope tempered by memories of war to an agreement between die government and Contra rebels that may bring peace for the first time since 1981. Both sides kept their guns silent by mutual consent. A business leader in the much relieved country of Ni caragua said that the cease-fire accord signed Wednesday night was a miracle. During three days of negotiations in a border town that resulted in an agreement Wednesday night, both sides had said it was the last chance for peace in Nicaragua. The formal cease-fire is to begin April 1. Virgilio Godoy, president of die opposition Independent Liberal Party, said Thursday: “I believe that the agreement is a hope ... It is not a question of saying now who won and who lost in the agreement, but that Nicaragua and thousands of moth ers who have sons in the war won.” Alonso Moreno, who owns a shoe store and has three nephews in the army, said: “This is the most impor tant thing that lias occurred since 1979 when the Somoza dictatorship was overthrown.” World Briefs House approves trillion dollar budget The WASHINGTON (AP) House approved with rare bipartisanship Wednesday a SI. I trillion budget that would tighten domestic and military spending but boost high-profile items in cluding AIDS research, educa tion, the space program and the war on drugs. The fiscal 1989 plan, whic h fol lows the outlines of last fall’s bud get summit between President Reagan and congressional lead ers, was approved 319 to 102. A majority of both Democrats Republicans voted in favoroftht package. The House brushed aside nil icism from Reagan’s budget di rector, who said the plan usedac- counting gimmic ks to stay wiihin the prearranged spending limiir It also rejected three alternative budget proposals. Many members conceded the; were putting off tough deficit-re duction decisions until next year, but Republicans and Democral pi aised die plan. (tl Ta Irish allow officers to attend funerals BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Police on Wednesday said they were abandoning their pol icy of staying away from IRA fu nerals, following the slayings of five people — including two Brit ish soldiers — at rites last week. In a broadcast Thursday, the re bel Radio Liberacion said, “The (Ni caraguan) Resistance has taken an initial step to end the hostilities in critic, called the pact “a miracle,” and added: “Perhaps the Sandinista Front will finally comply with its word.” Rebel leader Alfredo Cesar told journalists that, “It is not just a chance to achieve peace and har mony, but the only chance.” Leaders of the Sandinistas and the U.S.-sponsored Contras stood side- by-side on a makeshift dais Wednes day night in Sapoa, sang the national anthem together and signed the cease-fire. During the three days, both sides retreated from hard positions, espe cially the Sandinistas, who stand to gain the most from an agreement that would virtuallv end the insur gency. The Contras agreed not to accept military aid and to receive non-lethal supplies exclusively from neutral or ganizations. They also agreed to the repression demanded by the rebels, and to permit all exiles to return home. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joined grieving rela tives at Northolt air base near London as the bodies of two Brit ish soldiers arrived home and were lifted from a transport plane to the strains of Chopin’s “Funeral March.” It was the first time a |)iiint| minister attended such a lundinn since Britiau deployed troops iifj Ireland. In central Belfast, polictl mounted heavy pat iols at theCt notaph as 25,000 people tinned out for an emotional service loti the soldiers. On Saturday, the two corporals] were dragged from their un marked car, beaten, stripped and shot alter they (hove up to an Ir ish Republican Army funeral. No police had been assignedio| the f uneral. Disintegrating checks cause losses CHICAGO (AP) — Checks treated with a chemical that causes them to disintegrate into confetti shortly after being depos ited have shown up in at least two states, costing banks nearly $70,000 since the beginning of the year, police said Thursday. area ami ai one (tank in Terino- see, Capt. James Zurawski of the Chicago Police Department’s li- nancial crimes division said. Au thorities also are checking a re-_ port ol a possible dissolving check Kty Gout in Indiana, Zurawski said. » lri ger se “T he one I’ve got in 1 rout of BP^d The m ition a allengii lecision t u nt on since l O’; |ub-met< At Th A check clearinghouse said it has warned 142 banks to he on the lookout for (lie dissolving checks, which may have an un usual odor and feel oily. The checks have turned up at five or six banks in the Chicago me looks like a handful of ashes,' Zurawski said. The checks, supposedly draw on personal accounts at banksm California and Tennessee, have been reported in about 12 inci dents in recent weeks, costing banks about $70.GOO, he said. spaed Jare a rej Apart n Jon elect a single i i* H) pe [y 10 yea Jo live u Shultz says Soviets must end aid WASHINGTON (AP) — Set retary of State George P. Shultz on Wednesday night titled out any agreement to end the 7'A- year war in Afghanistan until the Soviet Union suspends military aid to die Marxist government there. Shultz said Soviet Foreign Min ister Eduard A. Shevardnadze had rejected a U.S. proposal lor a mot atot mm on m u weapon' shipments while the Soviet-with di aw theii 11 oops and foi thief months altei ward. I le said t lie Lniled Stales of lered to suspend its support lot the Afghan resistance dining tile same period. “T hey didn't feel lltey could agree to that,” Shultz said at a news conference at the windupol three days of talks. the