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WORLD & NATION
8
Tuesday, April 3,1990
Iraq holds nerve gas weapons
President threatens retaliatory use of binary weapons on Israel
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi President Sad
dam Hussein said for the first time Monday that
his country has deadly binary nerve gas weapons,
and he threatened to use them on Israel if the
Jewish state attacks Iraq.
Binary weapons, usually artillery shells or mis
sile warheads, contain two relatively safe com
pounds that combine to produce toxic nerve
gases. They are outlawed under a 1925 treaty.
Iraq is already seen as a front-runner in a Mid
dle East drive to develop arsenals of long-range
and surface-to-surface missiles. Its development
of chemical weapons, and possibly nuclear arms,
has raised fears of an arms race in the volatile re
gion.
In Israel, government officials warned Mon
day that Israel would retaliate if Hussein used
chemical weapons against it.
The U.S. State Department denounced Hus
sein’s chemical weapons threat as “inflammatory,
irresponsible and outrageous.”
Hussein, in a speech broadcast by Baghdad
Radio, denied Iraq has nuclear weapons. Con
cerns about this were raised last week by the in
terception in London of 40 Iraqi-bound trigger
devices that officials said were designed for nu
clear bombs.
“I categorically deny that we have any atomic
bombs,” the president said at a ceremony in
Baghdad, where he awarded medals to senior
military officers.
Hussein claimed that during the 1980-88 war
with Iran, “Iraq was offered enriched uranium
and even a complete atomic bomb by people who
were either American, British or Zionist agents.
But Iraq turned down these offers.”
He did not elaborate. Such an offer would not
be in accord with Western efforts to block nu
clear military technology to developing nations.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry also said Monday
that Iraq was not seeking to develop nuclear
weapons.
“I say that if Israel dares to hit even one piece
of steel on any industrial site, we will make the
fire eat half of Israel,” Hussein declared.
In a clear reference to Israel, Hussein said:
“Those who are threatening us with
bombs: we warn them that we will hit them J
this binary chemical weapon.”
Avi Pazner, a spokesman for Israeli I
Minister Yitzhak Shamir, said, “WehavemJ
gressive intention against anyone,
Iraq.”
Asked about the possibility of a pre-enijl
strike, Pazner said: “We don’t evenwantt
about that kind of thing.”
Only the United States and Soviet Unionkj
officially admitted having binary weapons,)
though some other countries were believer:I
possess them.
In an interview with The Associated Press.'
zar Hamdoon, undersecretary of the Iraqi [I
eign Ministry, said Iraq developed thetoJ
before the end of the 8-year I ran-Iraq wan
did not use them in that conflict.
Hussein said Britain and the United Sis
should recognize “the rights of nations:
pies to def end themselves.”
Ex-Soviet prisoner teaches
Jewish traditions to arrivals
JERUSALEM (AP) — Yosef Mendelevitch held up a
piece of matzo symbolizing Jewish freedom from slav
ery in ancient Egypt and recited a blessing in Hebrew.
About 100 new Soviet immigrants in the room
watched, some with bewildered looks. Then they too
broke off and ate, for the first time in their lives, a piece
of Passover matzo.
Mendelevitch was teaching the Passover traditions to
the new arrivals in Russian, telling them about the un
leavened matzo. It commemorates the haste with which
the Israelites fled from the pharaoh’s army, with no
time to wait for their bread to rise.
“They did not even recognize the story of Moses in
the bulrushes, a story even non-Jews know,” said Men
delevitch, who spent 11 years in a Soviet prison for try
ing to get to Israel.
Passover begins this year at sundown April 9. The
very presence of the Soviet Jews is viewed by Israelis as
a fulfillment of the prayer at the end of the Passover
story, to meet “Next year in Jerusalem.”
But there is also an element of controversy, because
the Soviet Jews are living in Gilo, a Jerusalem suburb
built on land captured from Jordan in the 1967 Middle
East war.
President Bush recently criticized the settling of So
viet immigrants on war-won land, including east Jerusa
lem, saying it was an obstacle to making peace with the
Arabs.
Leon Shansviteh, who arrived two months ago from
Baku, in Soviet Azerbaijan, said, “We have the right to
live in Gilo. I don’t understand President Bush. This
area was empty until Jews built here. Jerusalem is a Jew
ish city.”
Reading from the Haggada, which recounts the Exo
dus from Egypt, Mendelevitch said there are similari
ties between the flight from the pharaoh’s oppression
and today’s flight of tens of thousands of Jews from the
Soviet Union.
“In the Passover story, the Pharaoh kept saying the
Jews could leave, but whenever they tried he stopped
them,” Mendelevitch said. “Then God sent him 10
plagues to convince him to let the Jewish people go.
“The same thing happened with Soviet leaders in the
Kremlin,” Mendelevitch said. “Finally, after world eco
nomic and medical sanctions, they had no choice but to
let us go.”
Talks stalled
after sniper
attacked bus
T L - - • • • i
publics, about 16,000 Soviet Jews arrived in Israel in the
past year.
According to the American Jewish Committee, the
rate has reached more than 5,000 per month.
Mendelevitch was convicted and jailed in 1970 for at
tempting to hijack a plane and fly to Israel after being
it
In the Passover story, the Pharaoh
kept saying the Jews could leave, but
whenever they tried he stopped them ...
The same thing happened with Soviet
leaders in the Kremlin. Finally, after world
economic and medical sanctions, they
had no choice but to let us go.”
— Yosef Mendelevitch,
former Soviet prisoner
denied an exit permit. He was freed and came to Israel
in 1981.
A group of religious women arranged for Mendele
vitch to teach the traditions of the Seder, or Passover
dinner, in an attempt to make entry into Jewish culture
easier for the immigrants.
White tableclothes, long candlesticks and all the tra
ditional dishes were on display: hard-boiled eggs,
horseradish, lettuce, parsley, wine, salt water, and “cho-
roset,” a sweet pate of apples, nuts and wine.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP)
bus driver wounded in
attack on a bus operated on)
Greyhound route was improvir:
Monday as Greyhound andsint
ing drivers sparred over theino
dent’s effect on stalled conirac
talks.
On Monday, Edward Stn.|
union president, accused Cm
hound of using the violence as i
pretense for calling off the tails
and suggested the companycotiH
stop the attacks by negotiate
with the union.
Doctors were preparing
move David E. Bryant, 58,ofCin
cinnati, out of intensive carer
Vanderbilt University Medial
Center, spokesman Doug Wi
liams said. He remained incrilici|
but stable condition.
Bryant, who was driving
Greyhound route for anotki
company,^ was wounded in thf
left arm wfjen a pickup trad
pulled alongside his bus late Sat
urday night en route from Nasi
ville to Louisville, Ky.
None of the 46 passengers w
wounded in the shooting abom
1 1 p.m.
Greyhound drivers have
on strike for the past month. An
thorities have refused to specti
late whether the shooting «
strike-related.
Greyhound was to talk will
drivers Monday, but cancelled
the talks Friday citing the vio
lence. Talks broke down Marck
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Youth’s heroic battle with AIDS has increased public awareness
White hospitalized in intensive care unit
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ryan White, whose
battle with AIDS brought him scorn in his home
town but support from across the world, was hos
pitalized with internal bleeding Monday and was
not expected to live, authorities said.
Doctors said Monday afternoon that White,
18, probably would not survive the stay, said Car
rie Van Dyke, director of health promotion for
the State Board of Health.
It was later disclosed, however, that White was
on a life-support system, a ventilator, that could
prolong his life.
White’s chief physician, Dr. Martin B. Klei-
man, declined to speculate on White’s prognosis.
White put a youthful face on the AIDS plight.
He has increased public awareness of the deadly
disease and helped reinforce the message that
AIDS cannot be spread through casual contact.
His struggle has been the subject of numerous
accounts, including a People magazine cover
story and a televison movie.
“He is presently in the intensive care unit and
he is in critical condition,” Kleiman told an af
ternoon news conference. “He is heavily sedated
vented doctors from o
She said she was
his mother at lunchtime.
rom operating, V
told about White’:
Van Dyke sat
lition I
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I"his is it. He’s not expected to
come out of it. He’s not responding.”
— Carrie Van Dyke,
State Board of Health
and we feel that he is experiencing no discom
fort.”
Van Dyke said his mother, Jeanne, and his sis
ter, Andrea, were among the relatives at his bed
side at Riley Hospital for Children.
White’s hemophilia, the disorder that initially
exposed him to the deadly AIDS virus, pre-
“This is it. He’s not expected to come out of it.'
Van Dyke said. “He’s not responding.”
Van Dyke voiced a small hope White wouldre
cover, saying, “He’s surprised us before.”
White became a national spokesman for chil
dren with AIDS after winning a court battletoat-
tend school near his hometown of Kokomo
However, he and his family felt ostracized there,
and moved to a new home about 20 miles away
Cicero, where they were welcomed by the lot
community and school system.
tory was told in a television movie last year
White was diagnosed as having AIDS in I
when he was 13. He contracted the disease
through blood products he received to treat
hemophilia.
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