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WORLD & NATION
Thursday, August 9,1990
Bush to public: ‘We’re not in a war’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush said Wednesday he dis
patched U.S. troops on a dangerous
mission to the Persian Gulf to pro
tect Saudi Arabian oilfields and
ward off a threat to the U.S.’s “eco
nomic independence.” He warned
Iraq’s Saddam Hussein: “A line has
been drawn in the sand.”
Bush said, “We’re not in a war.”
And he called the U.S. effort “wholly
defensive.” He offered no guess as
to when the operation might end.
He demanded Iraq’s “immediate,
complete and unconditional” with
drawal from Kuwait, the little oil
state Saddam’s armies overran last
week.
Laying out reasons for the U.S.
military action, the largest deploy
ment outside this hemisphere since
the Vietnam war. Bush said U.S.im
ports half its oil from abroad and
“could face a major threat to its eco
nomic independence” if Saddam,
“an aggressive dictator,” manages to
take over the oilfields of the Persian
Gulf.
Bush’s appeals to other nations to
commit their armies to a multinatio
nal defense of the Saudis met a tepid
public response. Only Britain joined
in wholeheartedly.
As a tense president spoke to the
nation, government sources said at
least 5,000 paratroopers from the
82nd Airborne and other units were
en route or already taking positions
on Saudi soil — backed by an ar
mada of air and seapower, armed to
the hilt.
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
and Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, peeled
away some of the secrecy from the
operation — while keeping quiet
about the size of the U.S. commit
ment.
Powell told reporters ground
forces had “taken up position” on
Saudi soil. And he said the aircraft
carrier USS Independence and its
support ships were stationed just
outside the Persian Gulf, in position
to choke off Iraqi trade lines.
The U.S. contingent included 140
jet fighters and bombers as well as
battleships that carried 32 Toma
hawk Cruise missiles programmed
to destroy specific targets in Iraq,
military sources said.
“You can be sure that for the mis
sion we have been given we will put
in adequate forces,” Powell said. The
battle-tested Iraqis, he said, “are not
invincible. They are not ten feet
tall.”
Bush went on television at 8 a.m.
CDT for a 10-minute speech.
“No one commits America’s
armed forces to a dangerous mission
lightly,” he said. The U.S.forces “will
not initiate hostilities but they will
defend themselves,” he said.
Instead of trying to evict Iraqi
forces from Kuwait by military ac
tion, Bush expressed hope that a
U.N.-directed worldwide trade em
bargo of Iraqi oil could force Sad
dam into submission. He hinted that
a blockade of Iraqi ports — usually
considered an act of war — might he
forthcoming if the embargo proves
ineffective.
Iraqi troops round up Americans in Kuwait
LONDON (AP) — Iraqi troops in Kuwait
rounded up American and British visitors from
hotels Monday, apparently for transport to Iraq.
Britain’s Foreign Office said they appeared in no
danger.
The governments of Spain and West Germany
also reported that some of their nationals in Ku
wait had been picked up by Iraqi troops from
other hotels over the weekend.
A Foreign Office spokesman, speaking on con
dition of anonymity, said the government be
lieved 366 foreign nationals had been taken,
many of them passengers from British Airways
Flight 149 that was stranded in Kuwait since it
was invaded by Iraqi troops August 2. The flight
was bound for Kuala Lumpur via Madras, India.
“We are trying to establish the precise details
now,” the spokesman said. “There is no evidence
that they are in any way in trouble."
In Washington, the State Department said 28
Americans were among the foreigners rounded
up and placed aboard buses heading for an un
known destination.
U.S. officials said they did not rule out that the
foreigners would show up in Baghdad un
harmed. Nonetheless, they issued a warning.
“We hold Iraq responsible for their safety,”
State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tut-
wiler said.
“It’s premature to call them hostages,” she
said. “We don’t know their destination.”
But Kuwait’s ambassador in London, Ghaza
Al-Rayes, told reporters at a news conference
that he feared any foreigner taken to the Iraqi
capital might become a pawn in international ne
gotiations.
“They want to take them as hostages and bar
gain,” he said.
Turkey agrees
to shut off
Iraqi oil flow
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -
stopped pumping oil Monday toont
of two pipelines running througl
Turkey and reduced crude runninj
through the other as a world cm
bargo shrank the Iraqi market.
The United Nations voted n
clamp an embargo on Iraqi and Ku
waiti oil as part of broad sanctionstc
punish Iraq for its invasion of Ku
wait. President Turgut Ozal, in at
interview with ABC News, had indi
cated earlier that T urkey would stop
transporting Iranian oil if the Secu
rity Council adopted the sanctions.
“We will obey the U.N. embargo,
Ozal said to ABC news.
One Turkish government official
speaking on condition of anonymity
said Iraq’s decision to curtail oil ou
its own came as “a great relief." The
United States had been pressuring
Turkey to cut off the pipeline flow
The White House announced that
U.S. Secretary of State James A
Baker III will travel to Turkey, a
member of NATO, this week foi
consultations on the crisis set offbv
Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait August2.
Vural Oktay, director of the state-
run Turkish pipeline company
BOTAS, said pumping stopped ai
one pipeline at 6 p.m. Iraq reduced
How in the second, larger pipelines
70 percent of capacity, he told re
porters.
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Swiss hostage freed
after 10-month stay
Liberian strife continues
Rebels free U.S.hostages
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A
Swiss Red Cross worker who had
been held hostage in Lebanon for 10
months was freed Wednesday and
handed over to Swiss authorities, of
ficials and witnesses said.
It was the first release of a West
ern hostage in more than three
months.
Reliable eyewitnesses said they
saw Emanuel Christen being handed
to Swiss authorities shortly after
midnight in front of the Syrian For
eign Ministry. Syria had said the
handover would not occur until later
Thursday.
Christen, 33, was kidnapped Oct.
6 along with fellow Red Cross
worker Elio Erriquez, 24.
A group calling itself the Palestin
ian Revolutionary Squads said in a
statement released Wednesday he
had been freed. The Syrian Foreign
Ministry and Red Cross in Geneva
confirmed the release.
The witnesses, who spoke on con
dition of anonymity, said Christen
was handed to Swiss Charge d’Af-
faires Fritz Kuehni. They said
Kuehni and Christen were then
driven to the Swiss Embassy. The
eyewitnesses said they were too far
away to tell whether Christen ap
peared to be in good health.
The statement from the Palestin
ian Revolutionary Squads did not ex
plain why only one of the Swiss men
was released. It had said in a
statement Tuesday night they both
would be freed within 24 hours.
That was the first time since the
abductions a group had claimed to
hold Christen and Erriquez.
“After we have promised yester
day night to release the two dele
gates of the International Red Cross
in Lebanon within 24 hours, one of
them, Emanuel Christen, has been
set free and handed over to a rep
resentative of Brig. Cen. Ghazi Ke-
naan at 6 p.m. this evening,” the text
said in full. It was handwritten in Ar
abic.
The statement was delivered to
the Beirut office of a Western news
agency at 11:30 p.m.
Kenaan is the chief of Syrian
Army intelligence in Lebanon.
The statement was accompanied
by an instant photograph of Chris
ten. It showed him from the waist
up, wearing a dark T-shirt.
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Rebel leader Prince
i ohnson freed foreign hostages Wednesday, and Li-
eria’s West African neighbors prepared to send in
peacekeeping troops to try to bring a halt to the
bloodshed.
Savage street battles raged in the Liberian capital
of Monrovia, where rebel armies loyal to Johnson
and his rival, Charles Taylor, were fighting each
other and soldiers of the beleaguered President
Samuel K. Doe.
The hostages had been seized Monday and Tues
day by Johnson a bid to provoke foreign interven
tion in Liberia’s bloody 7-month-old civil war. The
British Foreign Office said Johnson released all the
hostages he took Monday and Tuesday, but said it
had no total number.
Earlier in the week, Johnson presented 22 hos
tages from eight countries to reporters at a news
conference.
Diplomats speaking on condition of anonymity
said Wednesday that 2,000 West African troops were
being sent to Monrovia by sea from Freetown, the
capital of neighboring Sierra Leone.
They said most of the troops would come from
Nigeria, the most powerful West African nation. Ni
gerian President Ibrahim Babangida said Wednes
day the troops would try to impose a truce, and he
hoped they would meet no resistance.
He did not say when the force was being dis
patched but said it would be “very soon.”
The hostages included an American, an Argenti
nian, four Britons, a Dutchman and two West Ger
mans, Britain’s Foreign Office said. In Beirut, an of
ficial said 10 Lebanese were among those
kidnapped.
The five-nation African force was to be led by Lt.
Cen. Arnold Quainoo of Ghana, a Cabinet minister
who used to command the army, according to a For
eign Ministry official of Sierra Leone who requested
anonymity.
Other nations sending soldiers are Guinea, Sierra
Leone and Togo.
Babangida, arriving in Lagos from a two-day
emergency summit of the West African Economic
Community in Gambia, suggested the West African
leaders hope for some form of U.S. intervention.
“I believe the United States shares our desire to
bring peace to Liberia and halt the daily carnage
there, especially around Monrovia, urgently and we
are hoping that this operation will get the support of
America,” he said.
The 16-nation West African Community, of
which Liberia is a member, has asked the interna
tional community to help pay costs of the peacekeep
ers and proposed general and presidential elections,
estimated at $50 million.
Leaders at the summit of the Economic Commu
nity of West African States said the troops were be
ing deployed “in the interest of the African people as
a whole and for the maintenance of international
peace and security.”
Lawyers’ group revokes stance Scientists find mechanism
Bar association resumes neutrality on abortion in brain for killing pain
CHICAGO (AP) — A deeply divided American Bar
Association rescinded its 6-month-old endorsement of
abortion rights Wednesday.
The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates voted
200-188 to repeal a resolution that the nationwide law
yers’ group had adopted in February by a more than
two-to-one margin.
Repeal proponents said Wednesday’s about face re
turned the organization to a neutral position on the ex
plosive issue. But abortion rights forces said the fight
was far from over.
“Nobody here has the illusion we’re going to put our
tails between our legs and go home,” Estelle Rogers of
Washington, D.C., who opposed the repeal, said.
Anthony R. Palermo of Rochester, N.Y., who led the
repeal drive, said a continuing feud over abortion
rights could hurt the ABA’s reputation.
“It would be a grave mistake if we keep dominating
each meeting with this issue,” he said. ABA conventions
are held twice a year.
The House of Delegates, in reversing its earlier pol
icy, heeded a plea from a majority of members who
took part in a forum here Monday.
Lawyers at the ABA’s Assembly meeting then voted
885-836 in favor of repeal. Both Monday and Wednes
day, abortion opponents joined with forces who sup
ported neutrality.
By reversing its abortion rights stand, the association
appears to have headed off the possibility of a referen
dum on the issue among all 360,000 ABA members na
tionwide.
After Wednesday’s vote, the new president of the
ABA and his designated successor — adversaries on the
abortion question— stood side by side at a news confer
ence to call for healing. But both agreed the issue is un
likely to go away.
ABA President John J. Curtin Jr. of Boston, who
supported repeal, said he hoped there would be no ad
ditional resignations from the association. He added,
however, “I have no problem with people seeking to as
sert their position” by again trying to revive the issue.
During debate on the repeal resolution, Curtin said
the pro-choice stand “threatens to drive a wedge” be
tween ABA members. “I am forced to ally myself with
one set of friends against another,” he said.
Curtin had said he would refuse to sign any legal
briefs in which the ABA advocated abortion rights.
Sandy D’Alemberte of Tallahassee, Fla., who is to fol
low Curtin as ABA president, said reversing the Feb
ruary policy sends a message that the organization is
abandoning support for “the principle of liberty.”
The now-rescinded ABA policy essentially endorsed
the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that
said women have a constitutional privacy right to abor
tion.
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say
they have isolated and cloned a “but
ton” that marijuana pushes in the
brain to produce its effects, an ad
vance that may lead to new pain-kill
ers and other medications.
Marijuana’s main active ingre
dient attaches itself to the protein
structure on the surface of brain
cells, triggering alterations in mood
and thinking, researchers said.
The new work suggests that the
brain contains some natural sub
stance that resembles the marijuana
ingredient, called a cannabinoid, sci
entists said.
The work is presented in Thurs
day’s issue of the British journal Na
ture by scientists from the National
Institute of Mental Health in Be-
thesda, Md.
Their paper describes details of
the brain-cell structure as it appears
in rats, but further study showed the
human structure is virtually identi
cal, study co-author Tom Bonner
said.
Marijuana is best known for pro
ducing a calm, mildly euphoric stalt
Time seems to slow down and usee
become more sensitive to sight!
sounds and touch. Ideas may flo*
rapidly through the mind whilf
short-term memory is suppressed.
Marijuana ingredients can also re
lieve pain and ease or prevent higt
blood pressure, epileptic convw
sions, nausea, asthma and the e«
disease glaucoma, scientists say.
The new work opens the door#
developing derivatives that mi® 1
those therapeutic effects while lad
ing undesired ones, commented D(
Solomon Snyder, director of tl*
neuroscience department at Johif
Hopkins Medical School in Balti
more.
The newly cloned structure #
called a receptor. Many drugs an(
natural substances bind to particulai
receptors to exert their effects or
the body.
Previous studies suggest that can
nabinoids exert a variety of effect
because they bind to a variety of re
ceptor variants, called subtype
Snyder said.
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