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-^Si, The Battalion WORLD & NATION Thursday, September 6,1990 Page 15 re Bush tells ambassador, staff to hang tough □Baker emphasizes proposal -S for regional security structure oups and era/ ortino >ne about Brown lacksoii ’ colleagu f 'port l. howed 4 veyed sat waitit; idgun, 10 Texai ■ assault ii WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush telephoned the besieged U.S. Embassy in Kuwait on Wednesday to encourage the ambassador and his skeleton staff to hang on under “most difficult circumstances.” Sepa rately, Bush told lawmakers he would consider further moves if economic pressure fails to push Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Meanwhile, the White House brushed off Iraqi Presi dent Saddam Hussein’s statement that “the children of I Iraq are dying” because of the U.N.-supported eco nomic embargo. Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said there was no evidence to support the statement and dismissed it as simply “another rhetorical diatribe.” Bush, who met privately with more than 30 senators and House members, will address a public joint session of Congress next Tuesday night after returning from his weekend summit meeting with Soviet President Mikhail S Gorbachev, Fitzwater said. At the Capitol on Wednesday, Secretary of State James A. Baker III wound up a second day of congres sional questioning — repeating his proposal for plan ning of a new “regional security structure” for the Mid dle East — and was leaving Wednesday night for Saudi Arabia. He said anew that Americans should not expect any quick resolution of the standoff which has brought tens of thousands of U.S. troops to the Saudi desert, across the Kuwaiti border from an even larger force of Iraqis. Current U.S. efforts, aimed at weakening Saddam’s resolve through the economic embargo, “are going to take some time, and that is what we ask most of the American people: Stand firm, be patient and remain united so that together we can show that aggression does not pay,” Baker told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. However the current situation plays out, he said, “this is not the last crisis of this nature we are likely to face in this region. ... It is worthwhile to begin consid ering regional security structures ... that would guar antee an equilibrium in this region that will produce peace” and “create a more durable order.” He gave no details and said such planning was in a very early stage. Austin ve dirat ^ssociatiot. sportsme :r Brown,' ISIS ise, s break- vie said lost im- ongde- •llowing lations. But in e world place," on ’90 ; Hotel, of Ku- of U.S. T 1 dense take a isis, fie and es- George ied the ision," I ress to: SlOO-a- | ternary f ne pos- ; ade of talked Y Representative proposes way to save money WASHINGTON (AP) — The government could save $27 billion i next year simply by turning off i lights and cutting back on trips and | phone calls, a Texas congressman said Wednesday. ' Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Anto- | nio, said those steps would save 10 percent of the $270 billion projected I overhead budget next year. And it passes three crucial tests: no tax in crease, no program cuts and no lay offs or pay cuts, Smith said. Over five years, with an estimated inflation rate of 5 percent, $141 bil lion could be saved, he said. “I firmly believe this is a proposal that is what people want,” he said. He called it a “radical change in the way to look at government spend ing.” i “Everybody locuses on what pro- | grams we spend the money on and who gets the money,” Smith said. “We do not focus on hdw the money ! is spent.” I Administration budget officials ’ and Congressional leaders are to meet later this week to forge a com promise on the president’s 1991 $1.23 billion budget proposal. President Bush put the so-called budget summit together in May amid warnings that the federal defi cit may be $100 billion over next year’s $64 billion target. Failure to meet the target would trigger automatic across-the-board reductions under the Gramm-Rud- man budget balancing law. There is some talk on Capitol Hill of changing the deficit reduction target because of the costs of the U.S. involvement in the Persian Gulf. Smith said he's heard the gov ernment may only try to cut the defi cit by $30 billkm, which he feels is reasonable. American citizen shot; injuries not yet known WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Wednes day night it had received a report that an American citizen was shot by an Iraqi soldier in Kuwait while trying to avoid capture. “We have no information on how serious his injuries might be,” the department said in a statement. Diplomats at the blockaded U.S. Embassy in Kuwait city spoke with officials at the hospital where they were told the Ameri can had been taken, but “hospital officials said they had no knowl edge of the incident,” the statement said. “The U.S. Embassy in Bagh dad has been instructed to con tact the Ministry of Foreign Af fairs to demand consular access to this citizen,” said the statement read by Tom Dougherty, a spokesman. Dougherty said the family of the man believed to have been shot had been told of the report Truck crushes, victims mostly but he was not at liberty to iden tify him. “Attempts by our embassy in Kuwait to obtain more informa tion from Iraqi officials in Kuwait have been in vain,” Dougherty said. “We will continue to press this case.” Though the statement spoke only of “a report” of a shooting, Dougherty said the department believed it was a well-founded re port. Iraqi soldiers have been round ing up westerners in Kuwait ever since their Aug. 2 takeover of the country. Embassies have been or dered closed and diplomats trans ferred to Baghdad. The United States and several other countries have refused to recognize the closure order. Iraq has cut off access to the embas sies, stopped water and power service, and has told diplomats there they have lost their diplo matic immunity. kills 12 in India; schoolchildren NEW DELHI, India (AP) — A speeding truck crushed to death 10 schoolchildren who were waiting at a bus stop to go home Wednesday, a news agency reported. Two other people at the bus stop also were killed, it said. Press Trust of India said at least 19 children were injured in the acci dent in Tamil Nadu state’s Tiruchi- rapalU district, 1,200 miles south of New Delhi. It said the injured were in serious condition. The news agency did not give de tails about the children but said they were in elementary school, indicat ing they were between five and 10 years of age. A woman and an unidentified person also were killed. 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