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| WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Pentagon may soon be training mili
tary officers from the very countries
it mce viewed as archenemies.
E The administration is considering
requests from members of the So-
| Bet-led Warsaw Pact — Poland,
■ungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria
Bid Romania — to participate in a
pi gram known as International
Hilitary Education and Training
(IWET), officials say.
E While the program probably
would cost just several hundred
■ousand dollars, the symbolic value
ol such a project would be much
■gher.
E “Who would have believed we
juld train officers from the very
jmntries which we viewed as our
femies just last year?” one Defense
lepartment official said.
J The possible training project is
1st one of many options under con
sideration by the Bush administra
tion to help countries that this year
discarded more than four decades of
communist rule.
“Money will be very tight and
we’re considering a range of things
for Eastern Europe,” a Bush admin
istration official said, who, like the
other official, asked not to be
“Who would have
believed we would
train officers from the
very countries which
we viewed as our
enemies just last
year?”
— Defense Department
official
named. “IMET is one of the things
that has been thought about.”
That official said the decision on
whether to include any East Euro
peans in the program would not be
made until December, when the
State Department puts together its
budget request for the fiscal year
that begins next Oct. 1.
The program is funded under the
foreign aid bill and administered
jointly with the Pentagon. The 1990
program totaled $47.2 million. The
size of the individual country .pro
grams ranges from a low of $15,000
up to $3.38 million for Turkey.
There are more than 800,000
troops in the Warsaw Pact, not
counting the Soviet Union. But the
alliance is crumbling; it lost one of
seven members this year when East
Germany merged with West Ger
many, and Hungary is preparing to
leave.
Pact members have planned a
summit later this year to discuss the
alliance’s future, with plans to trans
form it to a political rather than mili
tary grouping.
Meanwhile, its members have be
gun reducing the size of their Soviet
armed and trained military to save
money for the expensive and painful
transition from a state-run economy
to a free-market system.
The Soviet Union also is trying to
save money. Its forces have begun
pulling out of Hungary and Czecho
slovakia.
There are no Soviet troops sta
tioned in Romania and Bulgaria,
and those in Poland and the former
territory of East Germany eventually
will be withdrawn now that Moscow
has decided to bring all of its troops
home.
The way for cooperation with the
United States was paved earlier this
year when NATO leaders agreed to
set up regular diplomatic contacts
with members of the Warsaw Pact.
Since then, diplomats from East
ern Europe have received regular
briefings at NATO headquarters in
Brussels, mostly about the crisis in
the Persian Gulf and about the So
viet Union.
nale
fficial: Iraq will not negotiate on Kuwait
son
In a new outburst of belligerence, Iraq said
unday it was ready to fight a “dangerous
ivar” rather than ever give up Kuwait. One
iuropean official warned that divisions over
he hostage issue are endangering the anti-
raq alliance.
“Iraq is not going to negotiate on Kuwait,”
Iraq’s information minister, Latif Jassim, told
news conference in Baghdad. He insisted
Iraq’s annexation of Kuwait, which it overran
firee months ago, would stand.
We are going to defend our 19th province
3n any condition, even if we have to fight a
dangerous war,” he said, referring to Kuwait.
Iraq also said it was recalling an unspecified
number of retired army officers to active
duty.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III vis-
ted U.S. troops in the Saudi desert earlier
Sunday and said it was hard to say whether
hey would be called into combat. The presi
dents of Egypt and France expressed hopes
hat economic pressure rather than military
night force Iraq out of Kuwait.
Meanwhile, four American ex-hostages
were on their way home a day after being
freed, and 15 Europeans arrived in Jordan af
ter being released by the Iraqis. They were
among thousands of foreigners trapped in
Iraq and Kuwait when Saddam Hussein’s
troops took over the emirate Aug. 2.
The first POWs of the Persian Gulf crisis —
three French soldiers — had a homecoming of
their own in Paris on Sunday, but it wasn’t ex
actly a hero’s welcome. French officials have
said the soldiers, who were captured last week,
might have strayed into Iraqi territory, and
that they probably face punishment for their
carelessness.
The new Iraqi vow to keep Kuwait at all
costs came only hours after a former Japanese
prime minister, Yasuhiro Nakasone, met with
Saddam — and said the Iraqi president had
demonstrated “great earnestness and serious
ness” about seeking peace.
Nakasone’s visit, aimed at winning the re
lease of Japanese hostages, comes as Japanese
lawmakers are considering a plan to send
troops to the gulf to join the multinational
force arrayed against Saddam.
The troop-deployment proposal has drawn
strong criticism from those who say it would
violate Japan’s postwar peace constitution,
even though the troops would be confined to
non-combat roles.
Iraq’s official news agency said Nakasone
had told Saddam it was unlikely lawmakers
would approve the proposal. Nakasone,
speaking to reporters, made no mention of
such assurances, but the report underscored
the way the hostages can be used as leverage.
Belgium’s foreign minister complained that
efforts by individual nations to win their citi
zens’ freedom are eroding unity against Iraq.
“Saddam is creating this royal court of all
sorts of Western pilgrims who visit him to ob
tain the release of hostages,” the Belgian offi
cial, Mark Eyskens, said in a television inter
view Sunday in Brussels.
Sometimes the visitors “let themselves be
lured into political discussions” with Saddam,
which could “jeopardize the united stand
against Saddam’s invasion and annexation of
Kuwait,” he said.
Belgium requested a special European
Community meeting on the matter on Tues
day or Wednesday in Rome.
The European Community had already
tried to discourage a hostage-freeing bid by
former West German Chancellor Willy
Brandt, who leaves for Baghdad on Monday.
Like Nakasone’s trip, Brandt’s is a private mis
sion with government backing.
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i KISHINEV, U.S.S.R. (AP) —
Moldavia’s president appealed Sun
day for an end to street demonstra
tions and urged his Parliament to re
consider laws that have stirred
ethnic unrest and violence in the re
public.
E The speech by President Mircha
Shegur marked the first time the
ethnic Moldavian leadership ac
cepted blame for separatist
movements in the Turkish-Christian
Gagauz region of southern Moldavia
ana in the predominantly Russian
and Ukrainian Dniester area in the
e?st, lawmakers said.
B It came one day after a meeting in
Moscow with President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev in which Snegur and rep
resentatives of the separatist groups
agreed to a moratorium on acts that
led to the ethnic crisis in the small re
public.
Details of the moratorium have
not been worked out. Lawmakers
said it probably would mean the Ga
gauz and Dniester regions would
suspend their recent declarations of
sovereignty and planned elections.
In return, the republic’s govern
ment would soften a language law
that made Moldavian the national
language and required people in
dozens of jobs, ranging from doctors
to hairdressers, to pass tests in Mold
avian by 1995.
The law has stirred resentment
among Russian speakers and the Ga
gauz, who speak a Turkic language
and are descendants of Christians
who fled to Moldavia from persecu
tion in Bulgaria in the 19th century.
Both the Gagauz and Dniester se
paratists claim discrimination by
Moldavians, who themselves want
independence from the Soviet
Union. Moldavia borders Romania.
“We are not giving up our na
tional rebirth, our language, alpha
bet, symbols, and so on,” Snegur told
lawmakers. “Simply, we must go
back and look for where, maybe, we
have gone too fast for our fellow citi
zens.”
j Peers, family
^remember
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pled over
the week-
^ng runs' FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) —
Ireyhound The family and friends of a slain
icduled i 1 ' high school student remember the
Een-ager’s devotion to Christian
ftek music — and how he died pro
feel we’vt tecting the truck with which his fa
ce is goinj ther made a living,
en, a Cor- “He gave his life for us to keep
the major that truck,” Kathy Cooney, mother
; 0 get thisjol' 17-year-old Jason Cooney, told
, r the fir* 1 the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in
haven' Sunday’s editions.
is a good; On the night of Sept. 24, Cooney
|ooked out a window and saw some-
s facilit)' oue stealing the pickup.
15, will I*j He ran out of the house, catching
)g track Wjup with the sputtering pickup as the
r the Har-thieves slowly pulled away. As he ran
Nov. H |§ongside, police later were told,
|t>meone in the truck slammed Ja-
it the trad son’s head with a board, ran over
1 hundred him and left him unconscious in the
- e te infield middle of the street, a half-block
rs get used from his home in west Fort Worth,
i the sound He died twelve hours later.
E Almost a month later, police ar-
the whole rested one suspect in his death and
>n said, continue to search for another.
H Now, the rusty, red and white ’73
e same res- Ford pickup sits idle in the driveway,
id the peo- Cooney’s mother said the family
y can’t wad can’t bring itself to use the hand-me-
() g traine'down truck, “and we can’t part with
eally think it. Jason was going to restore it.”
revive this The truck was used by Jason’s
lad, John Cooney, a former home
r real well builder who turned to mowing lawns
“I have s and distributing newspapers when a
iends com-building slump set in.
1 go to the The family’s ’81 Honda was stolen
p May and recovered two months
d Doroth' later. It has been repaired to serve as
0 who vis dm family’s transportation,
jsband. “j “We’re just limping along,” said
roing to b John Cooney.
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