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The Gulf Crisis
WORLD & NATION
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Wednesday, September 26,
Wednesday, September 26,1990
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Hussein ’s warnings continue
Iraqi address cautions U.S.
of war harsher than Vietnam
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein said in a
message to Americans broadcast
Tuesday that President Bush
sending Americans to a war i
terrible than Vietnam.
In a 75-minute address taped last
week, Saddam warned that if Bush
were to launch war against Iraq, “it
would not be up to him to end it.”
Sitting at his desk with an Iraqi
flag at his side, Saddam said he was
addressing his message to the Amer
ican people to explain the truth be
hind Iraq’s Aug. 2 invasion and oc
cupation of Kuwait.
The rambling address, peppered
with references to Allah and his tea
chings, repeatedly accused Bush and
Kuwait’s rulers of plotting to impov
erish his country and steal its oil.
“Bush, ladies and gentlemen, is
sending your sons to war for no pur
pose save fatal arrogance,” Saddam
said.
Saddam spoke in Arabic. His re
marks were translated with English
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subtitles supplied by Iraqi authori
ties.
The U.S. decision to deploy
troops in Saudi Arabia and the possi
ble war that could ensue would be a
repeat of the Vietnam experience
for the United States, except “more
violent and causing bigger losses,”
Saddam said.
and other foreigners and
them “as guests in houses of a
staff” in order to prevent the Unit
States from launching a war tk
would be disastrous to all, Sadi:
said.
CNN began airing portions of the
tape at 3 p.m., while other networks
scheduled excerpts for their evening
news shows. None granted Saddam’s
request that the entire tape be
shown.
Saddam accused Bush of lacking
faith in God, and of “promoting a
form of neo-Nazism” by styling him
self as the leader of the free world.
U.S. officials say Saddam is hoi
ing 93 Americans, some of them
key military and financial install
tions, as “human shields” towardo
attack.
Iraq desires peace, but one that
based on a broad resolution of alii
region’s problems, Saddam said.1
repeated his call for a peace conft
ence that would resolve Israel's
year occupation of Arab lands,
ia’s 14-year occupation of Lebano.
and Iraq’s claims to Kuwait.
He challenged Bush, again, to an
international television debate so
that he could tell the world the facts
about Iraq’s actions and so that the
American leader could learn about
his intentions.
Iraq detained some Americans
Kuw'ait, he said, was part ofh
under the Ottoman Empire umilti
British took control of the counin
1899. He called for “the return:
Kuwait to the fold of Iraq, its moil
erland from which it was longst
ered, and usurped.”
Increased gasoline prices
predicted as oil tops $40
NEW YORK (AP) — As crude oil
approaches $40 per barrel, some
analysts say consumers should enjoy
$1.35 a gallon gasoline while they
can.
Gas prices are likely to go up, per
haps even beyond $2 per gallon, if a
shooting war breaks out in the Per
sian Gulf, experts said Tuesday.
And if oil should stay high for a sus
tained period, the fallout will be
widespread, running up the cost of
practically everything while slowing
economic growth.
“This is not good news for the
consumer,” said Peter Beutel, an oil
analyst with Pegasus Econometric
Group Inc. in Hoboken, N.J. “The
problem with energy is it permeates
the economy like a ripple in a pond.
It’s not just the price of heating oil
and the price of gasoline.”
Not all analysts believe oil will stay
as high as it is, saying too much war
hysteria may have been built into the
market. They say Iraq’s ability to
take out Saudi Arabian oil facilities
may be overestimated, and replacing
a bombed oil well is much simpler
than replacing a bombed factory.
Others, including Beutel, say $40
barrels of oil seem inevitable in the
near future. Some estimates have
put oil at $60 to $65 during a war.
Oil prices have climbed steadily
since Iraq invaded Kuwait In
month. Saddam Hussein'ssaber-ra
ding this week put them less than!
away f rom the ominous $40
Crude last reached that plateauadi
cade ago, in t he last oil crisis.
“What it means, I’m afraid
solid terms, is the consumer is pi
ably going to be lucky to find )L!
gasoline, and probably a lot more:
us are going to find $1.60 to $1,1
gasoline,” Beutel said. “Wereprok
bly going to see the average con
sumer [ray 50 percent moreforha
ing oil than he did last year.”
Stanley Feldman, a finance prt
fessor at Bentley College in Boste
does not predict sustained oil
at $40. But consumers would
hard if it happens.
“At $40-a-barrel oil, you’re pro!
bly looking at somewhere close
$1.90 for regular gasoline, mat
$2,” Feldman said.
Gasoline and heating oil are cci
monly watched when crude slat
getting more expensive. But Am
ica is so dependent on oil that ill
E rice of many other items would is
e af fected.
Air fares, for instance, have in
creased to accommodate higherjt
fuel, while drugs and foods woil
also be affected. T hey depend ont
for their production, transport®
and refrigeration.
U.N. orders halt
to Iraqi air traffic
Associated Press
The U.N. Security Council on
Tuesday voted 14-1 to impose an
air embargo against Iraq in retal
iation for its invasion and annexa
tion of Kuwait.
It was the ninth resolution
passed by the Security Council
condemning Baghdad and its
leader, Saddam Hussein, for its
blitzkrieg of Kuwait.
Resolution 670 calls on all
member states of the United Na
tions to deny landing rights to air
planes coming from Iraq or Ku
wait.
after they have been ins:
confirm they are carrying hu
manitarian cargo — food or med
ical supplies.
It also calls on all U.N. memto
nations to “detain any ships of
Iraqi registry which enter their
ports and which are being orbit
been used in violation of Resolu
tion 661,” the council’s origins!
trade embargo resolution.
Only flights authorized by the
Security Council’s sanctions com
mittee will be allowed to go to
Iraq and Kuwait, and then only
Cuba, which has said it is
against any sanctions, cast tht
lone dissenting vote in thespmi
session, which extended the port
ers of an earlier U.N. trade em
bargo.
The lightening Kuwaiti tab
over left Iraq in control of 20per
cent of the world’s oil reserves,
World prices of oil have neark
doubled since the invasion toal
most $40 a barrel.
Drug task force bill stalls
with debate over funding
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
House threw the fate of 49 drug-
fighting task forces in Texas back
into limbo Tuesday.
A dispute grew over the way the
1990 crime bill funds the task forces.
The measure calls for direct distri
bution, instead of state administra
tion, of federal money to local agen
cies.
But House members disagreed
with the rule for debating the bill
and sent it back to the Rules Com
mittee for another try.
The Rules Committee late Mu
day decided to allow debate on
amendment by Rep. Albert Bis
mante, D-San Antonio, that wot
save the interagency task forces,
There was no word late Tuesi
afternoon from the committee «l<
it would reconsider the crime bill
If the measure never reaches:
floor, funds would continue to
administered through the states
they have been for four years, si
Mark Schnabel, who monitors df
enforcement legislation for thest
of Texas.
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