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Phillips, P.l.
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from mall
DALLAS (AP) — Two gunmen
stole $300,000 worth of diamond
rings from a Valley View Mall jew
elry store, according to police re
ports.
Witnesses said two males in their
late 20s entered Linz Jewelers Tues
day afternoon and asked to see the
diamond solitaire rings. When em
ployee Mark Feinman showed one
of the men a ring, he told Feinman
to put everything in a bag.
The other suspect pointed a .22-
caliber revolver at other people in
the store. During the robbery, the
gun-wielding suspect threatened to
kill another store employee when he
started to walk toward the suspect.
Both men (led the store after tell
ing everyone to lie on the door.
A maintenance employee for the
mall, James Larson, tackled one of
the men before he went through the
mall entrance.
The other suspect held the gun to
Larson’s head, cocked it and told
him to let him go.
U.S. grounds
flights in Gulf
WASHINGTON <AP) — The
Air Force grounded all training
flights in the Persian Gulf area
for a 24-hour period ending to
day in order to discuss with pilots
the recent rash of U.S. aircraft ac
cidents in Saudi Arabia, the Pen
tagon announced.
The “flying standdown” was
declared Wednesday at noon
Saudi time (4 a.m. CDT) and
lifted at noon today, said Pete
Williams, the chief Pentagon
spokesman.
The halt applied to all training
flights but not to reconnaissance
missions and other “operational
patrols,” another spokesman.
Col. Miguel Monteverde, said.
“So there was no degradation
of our ability to defend our
selves,” Monteverde said.
There are an estimated 700 Air
Force combat and support air
craft in the gulf area as part of
Operation Desert Shield.
“The Air Force declared a fly
ing standdown for one day to
conduct safety awareness meet
ings with Air Force pilots,” Wil
liams said. “To get together with
everybody and just sort of review
what they need to do to fly more
safely.”
The official death toll for Op
eration Desert Shield rose to 24
on Wednesday when an Air Force
F-l 11 fighter-bomber crashed on
a training mission in Saudi Ara
bia, killing both crew members.
Two pilots were killed Monday
in the crash of an Air Force F-4
Phantom reconnaissance jet in
Saudi Arabia, and just hours ear
lier two Marine Corps UH-1
Huey helicopters, each carrying
four crew members, crashed over
the Arabian Sea, killing all eight
men.
Williams said the Air Force was
the only service that has taken
special measures to review safety
in the gulf since this week’s acci
dents.
“They’re concerned about the
accidents, they’re concerned
about the number of accidents
that happened so quickly over a
short period of time,” he told re
porters.
Williams said, however, that
the military’s safety record in Op
eration Desert Shield remained
good.
“Given the amount of flying
that has to be done, ... I think our
service people are doing very
well, but any accident is cause for
concern,” he said.
Exiled rulers hold conference
orces seek reforms in gulf states
■1
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The
ersian Gulf crisis has unleashed
orces seeking political reforms in
be feudal gulf states, including an
xtraordinary effort to discuss the
mure of Kuwait if it is freed from
raqi occupation.
Kuwait’s exiled rulers have invited
50 prominent citizens to a confer-
ncein Saudi Arabia this weekend to
onsider the future shape of a free
luwait.
The government is eagerly — and
mcharacteristically — soliciting the
ttendance of the Western press at
be event.
Crown Prince Sheik Saad al Ab-
$ lullah made it clear that the agenda
rill range from future defense ar-
(ingements to the rights of Kuwaiti
itizensand foreign workers.
“The basic topic is liberation,” Ku-
taiti Information Ministry spokes-
nan Feisal Mutawaa said in a tele-
itione interview from the
inference site in Jiddah.
But all issues that members want
"No government,
anywhere in the
world, would fail to
take heed of changing
situations by
beginning to adjust,
whatever the
prevailing situation.”
— Sulaiman Mutawaa,
minister for planning
in the government-in-exile
to discuss will be discussed,” he said.
Sheik Saad has called for a new so
cial covenant between the rulers and
Kuwaiti citizens. It follows wide
spread criticism by Kuwaiti exiles of
the domination of the al-Sabahs, Ku
wait’s deposed ruling family, over
their nation’s important financial
and political institutions.
The
about the mandate of other gulf rul
ers, benevolent despots who have so
far rejected political parties and
democratic institutions.
“No government, anywhere in the
world, would fail to take heed of
changing situations by beginning to
adjust, whatever the prevailing situa
tion,” Sulaiman Mutawaa, minister
for planning in the government-in
exile and Feisal’s cousin, said in Lon
don this week.
After his Aug. 2 invasion of Ku
wait, Iraqi President Saddam Hus
sein struck a responsive chord
among the Middle East’s masses by
claiming that Kuwait was run by a
selfish reactionary regime whose
family had hoarded vast wealth for
its own benefit.
To pre-empt such propaganda at
tacks, the issue of power-snaring is
likely to take center stage in the
other gulf states of Saudi Arabia,
Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and the
United Arab Emirates, Mideast ex-
The debate is raising questions perts say.
Few observers predict any imme
diate transformation to Western-
style democracy in a region without
such traditions. The gulf states are a
political anachronism, where oil
wealth and the accompanying sup
port and banking industries have re
inforced a tribal-based feudalism
unique in modern times.
The hereditary Bedouin rulers’
C ower is rooted not only in tradition,
ut also in their position as the sym
bolic source of the oil-fueled largesse
that has created some of the world’s
highest per capita living standards.
“The native populations are all
beneficiaries of the welfare system,
except that isn’t all they want,” Shah-
ram Chubin, a Middle East specialist
who teaches at the Graduate Insti
tute of International Affairs in Ge
neva, said.
“The more educated ones want
some say in the running of the coun
try,” he added. “It’s not that they’re
excluded from the benefits. They’re
excluded from any power-sharing.”
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