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Thursday, February 21, 1991 The Battalion Page 5 M student i a-l King » raise [ d funds s in the Services. three le irstof College ' “ says. “J|y commujir, - for other -> showtha; c h tosocii ialthy ds to re- ays in :or the d. ■olutions fiportant 'SSSSS’S ****’’ • ■ '• Illlll i!|||||| ... • . i •• x-x ’■<y.:yy.yy cr-m ••••••' • UNITED ^ ^ % .xg;., .x'i-i-S' STATES .-•***•. ..... -^“IRAQ " v ^ KUWAIT % SAUDf : - ':L V .; .y i : ' : mRABIA'-'> % j||||| ’ • •'i •' xi World hopes for peace, war looms his ■sophy and » A&M, >ordinatio[ snce first ?sday. ow upnes it to this he says igs change onservati- icM e ■nee, Mose ity such as :t ofAggit 'lolent vs violence ion, non- eferred ise non- ervention oblems, he e its for more e says. DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A waiting world watched Bagh dad and the bleak Arabian desert Wednesday — Baghdad for word on peace, the desert for news of all-out war. American helicopters carted off hundreds of Iraqi prisoners after one action and Iraqi gunners zeroed in on a U.S. unit in another, killing one American and wounding seven. A key French lawmaker said the Desert Storm allies would give Iraq until late Thursday to respond to a Soviet peace proposal, or face a final offensive to drive its forces from Ku wait. “Now, more than ever,” said French Foreign Minister Roland Du mas, “the ultimate decision rests with Saddam Hussein.” Late Wednesday, Baghdad radio said Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz would travel to Moscow “soon” with Senate defeats ‘gulf orphans’ protection plan the reply of President Saddam and the rest of the Iraqi leadership to the Soviet plan, believed to call for an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait, coupled with vague assur ances that Saddam could stay in power and the Palestinian question eventually would be addressed. The U.N. secretary general, Jav ier Perez de Cuellar, described the initiative as a “historic opportunity,” and U.S. ally Italy also endorsed it. House Speaker Thomas S. Foley said that if the withdrawal is uncon ditional, “I don’t know how (Presi dent Bush) could fail to accept it.” Bush kept a public silence on the issue Wednesday, a day after de scribing the plan as “well short” of U.S. requirements. Although Bush did not elaborate on his objections. Republican House leader Robert H. Michel said, “We want to see condi tions change.” Dismissing the alliance’s strategy for an assault on Kuwait, Baghdad radio declared: “Their paper plans will be nothing when the ground battle starts.” Desert Storm commander Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf said the Iraqi army, under aerial bombard ment for a month, was “on the verge of collapse.” Other senior U.S. offi cers added that they still expected a bloody fight. “There’s still a formidable force out there,” one said. British military sources said Iraqi troops were dispersing multi-rocket launchers and other artillery at the front in apparent readiness to take on the allies with chemical weapons. Early Wednesday afternoon, a U.S. task force clashed with Iraqi forces south of the Saudi border, and the Iraqis called in artillery fire that killed one American and wounded seven others, the U.S. command reported. It said the Iraqi fire hit an American anti-aircraft gun and two Bradley personnel car riers, and U.S. forces destroyed five Iraqi tanks and 20 artillery pieces, and captured seven prisoners. A short time later, the command said, U.S. Army strike helicopters at tacked a complex of Iraqi desert for tifications just north of the border, destroying 15 to 30 bunkers and leading 400 to 500 stunned Iraqi in fantrymen to surrender. As darkness fell. Army Ch-47 Chinook helicopters were complet ing the task of ferrying the prisoners to a holding camp in northern Saudi Arabia, said command spokesman Brig. Gen. Richard Neal. It was the largest roundup of pris oners yet by U.S. forces. Allies criticize Soviet peace proposal WASHINGTON (AP) — The e g| ! Senate Wednesday night defeated I the so-called “gulf orphans” mea- 1 • sure that would have asked the De- hlCS f ense Department to reassign single | parents and military couples with 1 • , children who have been deployed to DVlSl! the Persian Gulf. “It is a grave danger to the well- being of our military families and their children to allow the children of American serviemen and women to become ophaned,” argued the sponsor. Rep. John Heinz, R-Pa., be- jjfore the senate rejected the measure ’54-38. V Senates, an ethics: icr things.' se their fee: Fairs Subcos id Ethics l| : measure i a 5-0 vote UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Britain have insisted in their responses to a Soviet peace plan that specific Iraqi concessions must accompany an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait, U.N. diplomats said Wednesday. They said Washington and London separately con sidered what they called shortcomings in the plan and independently informed Soviet diplomats of their gov ernments’ views. Details of the Soviet plan have yet to released. The diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, indicated that the Soviet plan: • Lacked a firm timetable for Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait. • Made no mention of prisoners of war, reStbratibn of the Kuwaiti government or reparations fot daM'age to Kuwait, and • Did not insist on compliance with all 12 U.N. Secu rity Council resolutions adopted since Iraq invaded Ku wait on Aug. 2. Soviet officials have claimed their plan does assure compliance with all 12 council resolutiions. Some re ports have said the plan has a specific timetable for Iraqi withdrawal. But the diplomats indicated these and other short comings must be covered in any peace plan acceptable to the United States and Britain. They said their views were being discussed with other members of the coali tion arrayed against Iraq. Response to the Soviet plan was being handled in Washington aiid London, the diplomats said. They said there Was no single joint document or list of allied con ditions. Pilots say Iraqi army poses threat by Sen. 6: ville, won. aria; proi Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, said in opposition that such a provision would be “grossly unwise” on the ap parent event of a ground assault aimed at driving Iraqi troops out of , Kuwait. He said it could severely dis- >r legisl 218 rupt the war effort, tors from • Sen. John Warner, R-Va., who just returned from the Middle East, ‘ said “not one person” he had spoken I mandi' w ‘ t ^ ' n t * ie ^ m ili tar y had raised resent dies the issue of S ivin S some parents dveagerf I compassionate leave. its; and s«i Baker AT AN AIRBASE IN SOUTH WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA (AP) — U.S. combat pilots said Wednes day that Kuwait is already a burning, cratered battlefield, but that allied forces still face a formidable, dug-in Iraqi army with plenty of tanks. F-111 pilots have been flying round-the-clock bombing missions to prepare the battlefield in Iraq and Kuwait for a ground offensive, and report that the allies have destroyed a significant part of the Iraqi war machine. “The whole military establishment is burning,” said Capt. Bradley Sei- pel, 34, of Virginia Beach, Va. As a weapons system officer of an F-l 1 IF fighter-bomber, Seipel directed some of the bombs that started the fires. He and other airmen at this desert airbase for U.S. Air Force F-l 11 strike aircraft gave a bird’s-eye view of what the battlefield will look like to allied troops moving forward in a ground war. “It is amazing flying up there. You look at Kuwait, that whole area, it’s just fire,” Seipel said. “It’s like constant explosions, con stant fires,” said Capt. Mike Russell, 33, of Bradenton, Fla., the pilot on Seipel’s jet. “It’s just awe-inspiring night after night how we ripped them up.” The airmen with the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing (Provisional) have been concentrating on tanks, artil lery and Iraqi army reserves in their nightly missions in Kuwait and Iraq. “This is a war and we’re beating them bad,” Russell said. Continued from page 1 iso appro'’ ir a consK iting a serf hies conff in Congress, said lawmakers share the administration’s concern about Saddam remaining “a serious prob lem in the gulf for years to come.” But if Saddam agrees to an uncondi tional withdrawal, Foley said, Bush would have “a very difficult choice.” | “I don’t know how he could fail to accept it.” I He said later that the question Jnight well be academic because there has been no indication Sad dam is prepared to withdraw uncon ditionally, despite much discussion of a still-secret Soviet proposal on the subject. Lt. Gen. Thomas Kelly, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted that he and other offi cials had said a day earlier a ground war would be won “in short order.” “I should have said ‘good order,”’ he said. “I don’t think it’s going to be any kind of pushover. ... It’s not going to be a snap.” One military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said “we are in the eye of Desert Storm. There is something of a lull right at the mo ment.” He added, “It suggests the machinery is in place and we are waiting for presidential orders.” “We want to stay on course with our military tack and not be de layed,” said House Minority leader Robert Michel, the Illionis Republi- The Iraqi president was weighing a Soviet peace proposal, which was still secret but which Bush had dis missed on Tuesday as “well short of what would be required” to end the conflict. VS# We at Points Plus wish to apologize for any inconvenience regarding Aggie Bucks. We incorrectly stated you would need a $275 minimum balance and that accounts will be closed at the end of semester without refunds. The policy has been recently changed and at the time the ad was placed we were unaware of this. Again we would like to apologize for this error and any inconveniences that this has caused. 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