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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.
Police said they did not knoo
who started the fighting.
Two bombs roc ked the offict
late Sunday of Beeld, a leading
pro-government Afrikaans news
paper. A car was damaged and
windows shattered, but then
were net injuries.
Police said no group claimed
responsibility for the attack, but
the bombs were made from com
mercial dynamite. Pro-apartheid
right-wing whites have used dv-
namite in a recent series of bomb
ings to protest government at
tempts to end white minorin
rule.
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