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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.
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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
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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.
Press Trust quoted local police as
saying the truck driver was arrested.
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