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Officials debate Hussein assassination
WASHINGTON (AP) — The easiest way
for the United States to end the Persian Gulf
crisis might be to have Iraq’s Saddam Hussein
removed — and don’t think the idea hasn’t
occurred in Washington.
But assassinating foreign leaders is prohib
ited by a 14-year-old presidential directive
and, say some experts, is far more difficult
than it might seem. Saddam came to power
via the assassin’s route and since then has sur
vived dozens of plots against his life. He’s on
guard.
Not surprisingly, no one in the executive
branch is publicly embracing Sen. Richard
Lugar’s formula for dealing with the Iraqi
president: “It seems to me important that
Saddam Hussein must either leave or be re
moved.”
But neither does President Bush walk away
from the concept. Maybe he simply wants to
make his antagonist nervous, but Bush
doesn’t say, “No, that’s a violation of Ameri
can policy and principle.”
Three former directors of the Central In
telligence Agency — Richard Helms, William
Colby and Stansfield Turner — reject the
idea of a U.S.-sponsored assassination.
“When push comes to shove, Americans
don’t believe in having America assassinate
foreign leaders,” Helms said. “They want
somebody else to pull the trigger.”
Colby said Bush clearly hopes the eco
nomic squeeze on Iraq will become so severe
that within the country “people will get the
idea, ‘we’ve got to get rid of this guy.’ ”
Turner said assassinations offend Ameri
can morality and can backfire.
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kill Saddam Hussein and survive, so you’d
end up hiring someone else and who knows
what they might do,” Turner said. “They
might kill 5,000 people to get Hussein. It’s a
very chancy thing.”
Assassination is a much discussed topic in
Washington because diplomacy seems to have
such a scant chance of getting Iraq out of Ku
wait and because the full-blown military alter
native could result in the deaths of thousands
of Americans and Iraqis on the way to its pre
dictable outcome: the defeat of Saddam’s out
numbered, outgunned forces.
Lugar, a solid member of the Republican
establishment from Indiana, is not speaking
for himself alone when he raises the possibil
ity of Saddam’s removal.
Lugar said a week ago that Bush’s goal of
restoring Kuwait’s independence is not
enough if Iraq is left with the ability to pro
duce chemical and possibly nuclear weapons.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
makes much the same point.
“If it should be concluded that sanctions
are too uncertain and diplomacy unavailing,”
he has written, “the United States will need to
consider a surgical and progressive destruc
tion of Iraq’s military assets — especially since
an outcome that leaves Saddam Hussein in
place and his military machine unimpaired
might turn out to be only an interlude be
tween aggressions.”
Bush, asked about Lugar’s view, said on
Thursday that he had “great respect for Dick
Lugar” but added that he had not altered his
“publicly stated” objectives.
Chinese Cultural Arts
Performance
MISSION OF THEjo
Tuesday, Sept. 18,1990
7:00 p.m. Rudder Theatre.
Tickets may be purchased
at the MSC Box Office for
$3.00. For more informa
tion call the MSC Box
Office at 845-1234.
Presented by:
Chinese Student Association
VISC Jordan Institute
for International Awareness
International Student Services
At least 40 killed
in S. African riot
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
rica (AP) — Soldiers fired on
thousands of angry blacks Tues
day, and rival gangs fought with
axes, knives and spears. At least
40 people were killed in the town
ship violence.
President F.W. de Klerk and
African National Congress leader
Nelson Mandela visited black
townships near Johannesburg to
call for a halt in fighting that has
killed more than 550 people since
Aug. 12.
The government has imposed
emergency restrictions and sent
elite army units to the townships,
but fighting between Zulu follow
ers of the conservative Inkatha
movement and other blacks loyal
to the ANC raged for a fourth
week.
In Sebokeng, a pre-dawn clash
killed four people at a migrant
workers’ hostel, police said.
dents angered by the killings
gathered at the hostel, police said.
When the mob refused to dis
perse, army troops were called in
and a “shooting incident oc
curred,” police Col. Frans Mal-
“(The troops) took
up position, cockod
their guns mod All of a
sudden there was
shooting. Many of
the people ran.
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— N. Khumalo,
South African
newspaper reporter
herbe said.
South African newspaper pho
tographer N. Khumalo told the
South African Press Association
that “people came toward (the
soldiers) waving their hands, say
ing ‘peace, we are not fighting.’
Some of them even sat down.”
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Mandela demands
impartial inquiry
SOWETO, South Africa (AP)
— ANC leader Nelson Mandela
called Monday for an indepen
dent investigation of police par
tiality following a judge’s “scath
ing attack” on police actions that
left five people dead during a
March protest.
“The matter is too important to
be given to the police, the very
culprit, to investigate,” Mandela
told a news conference in Soweto.
He and other black leaders
have accused police of aiding
Zulu backers of the conservative
Inkatha movement in township
battles with Xhosas and other Af
rican National Congress support
ers.
Police found 25 bodies over the
weekend after clashes erupted
following several days of relative
quiet. The fighting in the town
ships near Johannesburg has
killed at least 540 people since
Aug. 12.
Gangs armed with spears, axes
and knives fought in Tokoza and
Tembisa townships, and a mini
bus filled with armed men shot
down residents in the townships,
police said. Security forces said
“The matter is too
important to be
given to the police,
the very culprit, to
investigate.”
— Nelson Mandela,
ANC leader
they were unable to stop the kill-
ings.
“What can you do. We’re al
ways too late,” said one police of
ficer, who declined to give his
name.
Authorities reinforced police
and soldiers patrolling the town
ships. Elite army battalions were
moved into Johannesburg late
last month to help police.
President F.W. de Klerk called
Sunday for an investigation of al
leged police bias in the recent
township violence. De Klerk said
he told Law and Order Minister
Adriaan Vlok to conduct “an ur
gent and in-depth investigation”
into charges made by black politi
cal and church leaders.
De Klerk and police have re
peatedly denied the charges of
anti-ANC bias, saying individual
police may have acted improperly
but that the force as a whole w'as
impartial.
On Saturday, a government in
quiry sharply criticized police for
firing on demonstrators in the Se
bokeng township last March. Five
blacks were killed and 156
wounded by gunfire.
Mandela said the Sebokeng re-
ort showed the government
acked control over police.
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“I think its findings are a very
scathing attack on the training of
the police,” he said. He called for
a similar judicial inquiry of police
actions in the townships during
the recent fighting.
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I would’ve bought a Macintosh even without
student discount!
Greg Gollent
Consumer Economics and Housing
Cornell University
“The first time I saw a Macintosh, I was
immediately hooked. It’s a work of art. I saw
• the student pricing and my next move
was obvious: get one.
“Some other computers are cheaper,
but they’re a pain to learn, and working
on them can be a grueling experience.
Last year, a friend bought another
kind of computer against my advice
and has used it for maybe 15 hours.
What a waste.
“Macintosh, on the other hand, is a
logical extension of the mind. It lets
you concentrate on whaf s in your
paper, not on how to get it on paper.
You can create professional-looking
documents in minutes, and you lose
the fear of learning new programs
because they all work in the same way
“Once you’ve worked with a Macintosh,
there’s no turning back!’
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