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The Battalion WORLD & NATION Page 12 Tuesday, September 4,19S Iraqis balk at possiblity of freeing more hostages Associated Press Baghdad balked Monday at allowing more airlifts of foreign hostages, and Western governments expressed fears that Saddam Hussein’s government did not in tend to fulfill its promise to free remaining women and children captives. Diplomatic efforts to resolve the month-old Persian Gulf crisis appeared to have bogged down as well. U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar was meeting Monday with Jordan’s King Hussein in Paris after re turning empty-handed from talks with Iraq’s foreign minister. President Bush was returning to Washington from his vacation home in Maine, with only a few days to pre pare for his summit with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The two are to meet Sunday in Helsinki, Finland to discuss the crisis set off by Iraq’s Aug. 2 inva sion of Kuwait. In advance of the superpower summit, the foreign ministers of the European Community nations planned to meet in Rome. Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman Giovanni Castellaneta told reporters Monday the 12- member EC would be considering Bush’s request for fi nancial support for the U.S.-led deployment of forces to the gulf region. Secretary of State James A. Baker III is expected Fri day in Saudi Arabia for talks with Kuwaiti government- in-exile officials, which likely will center on the same subject — the cost of the military operation. In the occupied emirate, diplomats at 30 embassit continued to defy Iraqi orders to close their doors an get out. The diplomats have refused to do so because! could be seen as implying recognition of Iraq’s annexj tion of Kuwait. The 10-day-old standoff was taking its toll. East Get many says its envoy was grabbed by Iraqi autlioritit and taken to Baghdad when he ventured out of Insert bassy. T he missions are ringed by troops, with powei water and telephone service cut off. The envoys andtt citizens under their protection are running out of foo and water and sweltering in 120-degree temperatures, The punishing Mideast climate also increased di misery of thousands of ref ugees, mostly Arabs ait Asians, who flooded across the border into Jordan. At a refugee camp at Shaalan, 24 miles east of tfe Jordanian border post at Ruweishid, A slum city of de perate Asian refugees has sprung up. Jordanian at thorities will not process their entry until the refugee governments guarantee rapid repatriation. “It’s like a piece of sandpaper from horizon to hot zon, with scorpions and snakes,” said Jim Nuttal, cooi dinator for Save the Children who has been workin, with the refugees. “They desperately need tents, tram i portation, food, water and medical care.” During the weekend, hundreds of foreigners—son i of whom had been detained at key installations as ht | man shields against potential attack — made their w f out aboard three separate flights from Baghdad, tl Iraqi capital. Congressmen topple in budget balancing act Economist says government needs credit limit NEW YORK (AP) — Congress is a bit like a person in possession of a credit card on which the issuing bank somehow forgot to put a limit, economist William Dunkelberg said. “Credit limits on bank cards are there to protect you from bank ruptcy,” he said. “While you, per haps, are sensible enough not to spend yourself into the poorhouse, not everyone is.” Congress, he lamented, seems to be in the latter category. It talks about cutting the budget deficit, he said, but it has already raised spend ing plans 11 percent beyond the president’s proposals. Dunkelberg is an economist but said the budget deficit is almost solely a political issue. Everyone un derstands the need for government to live within its income, but then politics obliterates reason, he said. History demonstrates that Amer ica needs to put a cap on federal spending, just as certainly as those caps are needed on credit cards, he said. Congress chooses to raise taxes instead of cutting spending. Whenever taxes are raised, he continued, you may be sure that spending also will be raised. And when spending is raised, just as cer tainly you can expect taxes to be raised. But the elected-official alibi that government needs more money be cause of inflation is not so, Dunkel berg said. He explained: If the tax rate is 10 percent and you earn a dollar, the government gets 10 cents. If inflation raises your salary by 10 percent, you will get $1.10 and the government will get 11 cents, or 10 percent more. However, he said, government spending keeps growing as a percent of total income, and that requires higher tax rates — or lots of new taxes. That’s what has been happen ing, he said. Persian Gulf tops list of summit subjects KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) — President Bush is returning to Washington for a hectic few days of preparation before his third sum mit meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. As aides scrambled to work out lo gistics and prepare an agenda for the hastily called summit. Bush was concluding a three-week vacation in Maine that he took under the cloud of the Persian Gulf crisis. He returns to Washington two days after announcing that he would meet with the Soviet leader in Hel sinki next Sunday. Bush spent Sunday hosting his longtime friend, evangelist Billy Graham, at his seaside vacation home. The pair went to two churches for morning services. “These are rather trying times and right now I would suggest we get our strength from being one na tion under God,” Bush told the con gregation at the First Congregatio nal Church. Officials said Bush’s one-day sum mit with Gorbachev will likely entail about five hours of talks, focusing on the Persian Gulf crisis. They said the two men would also discuss conven tional arms reduction talks between the two nations and regional issues, including Cambodia and Afghani stan. The president said he was pleased with Soviet cooperation on a number of global issues. “I think it is important at this juncture that we discuss issues not just as they relate to Europe and try to update where we can on these arms negotiations, but also to discuss the Middle East,” the president said. On the Persian Gulf, one official said of the two superpowers: “We’re comparing notes. We would be ex plaining where we think the situa tion is, where we would go.” Side meetings between aides are not planned for this summit, the of ficial said, who spoke on condition of anonymity. South African police forces continue fight JOHANNESBURG, South At rica (AP) — Security forces were reinforced in black townships to day after new factional fightiri: left at least 25 people dead anda newspaper office bombed. Police said gangs armed wilt spears, axes and knives clashto during the weekend in Tokoa and Tembisa townships near Jo hannesburg. Armed men in i minibus shot down residents i: the townships on Sunday, thn said. Zulus, who had been attacked, abducted several people and tool them to a hostel where they tvert beaten and killed, police said. Security forces said they wen unable to stop the killings. “What can you do," one polkt officer said, who declined to It named. “We're always too late." Police officials said riot polin units and army troops were bek sent to beef up security forces it the townships. Elite army banal ions were moved into Johannes burg late last month to help po lice try to end unrest. The weekend clashes in Johan nesburg’s townships raised the death toll since Aug. 12 to at least 540, police officials said. T he ne« violence came after a week of rel ative peace. The fighting appeared to bean attempt to rekindle savage facth nal battles between Zulus, who are mostly loyal to the conserva tive Inkatha movement, and Xho- sas and other blacks linked toth African National Congress, police said. 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