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World & Nation
5
Monday, March 25,1991
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Soviets desire military debris
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Soviet Union, in search of an in
telligence bonanza, is eager to
sift through the debris of U.S.
weapons and equipment that
landed in Iraq, a senior U.S. in
telligence officer says.
Thousands of tons of bombs
and missiles, as well as a handful
of shattered allied aircraft,
rained down on Iraq during the
six-week conflict. The Soviets
"want those bits and pieces," the
officer said.
The Soviets want to learn as
much as they can about the
Americans' highly touted, high-
tech weaponry that won the day
— if the Iraqis give them access
to its remnants, said the officer.
U.S.S.R seeks information
about U.S. arms, equipment
who spoke on condition of anp-
nymity.
Soviets intelligence officers
usually are so eager to obtain
such weaponry debris that they
"are willing to pay for it," the of
ficial said.
The Soviets, once active spon
sors of President Saddam Hus
sein and a major arms supplier
backed the U.N.-sponsored alli
ance's effort to reverse the occu
pation of Kuwait.
Even so, the Kremlin tried to
mediate a cease-fire in the days
before the ground war, but
failed.
Since the allied victory in the
gulf, the Soviets have moved to
be part of the postwar settlement
in the region. While the White
House has welcomed the move,
it has also stopped short of offer
ing Moscow a major role.
Although warmer relations
Kuwaiti banks reopen to citizens;
offer city newly-issued currency
KUWAIT CITY (AP) —
Banks reopened Sunday for
the first time since Iraqi troops
shut them down in Decem
ber, and thousands of cash-
poor Kuwaitis snapped up the
emirate's new currency by the
bundle.
In a move aimed at putting
the world's richest per capita
economy back on its feet, the
Central Bank of Kuwait an
nounced that the newly is
sued dinar would trade at
$3.48.
That was almost exactly the
same rate as on Aug. 1, 1990,
the day b ‘fore Iraqi tanks
rolled into Kuwait and the
seven-month ocupation be
gan. The Iraqis subsequently
put the Kuwaiti dinar on a par
with the Iraqi dinar, reducing
the value of Kuwait's cur
rency by more than 90 per
cent, and then outlawed the
currency.
One of the few banks to
hold American dollars re
ported a run Sunday on
greenbacks.
Markets in several areas of
the city also opened their
doors, some for the first time
since Kuwait was liberated by
allied troops on Feb. 27.
Hot items were food and es
pecially chocolate, which
many Kuwaitis feel is worth
its weight in gold.
The giant Sultan Center su-
ermarket was doing a fast
usiness in turnips, potatoes,
grapefruits and squash. Bub
ble bath and facial mud packs,
favorites of Kuwaiti women,
also were bestsellers.
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Japanese research
'quantum chips'
WORLD/NATION
BRIEFS
From wire reports
California governor
defends L.A. chief
□ LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov.
Pete Wilson defended Police
Chief Daryl Gates, describing
calls for his ouster as an “at
tempted lynching” over the vi
deotaped police beating of a
black motorist.
Number of crime
victims increases
□ WASHINGTON (AP) — The
number of Americans victimized
by a violent crime rose to 2.3 mil
lion last year even as the total
number of personal and house
hold crimes fell by 1 million,
according to Justice Department
estimates released Sunday.
Mali soldiers
fire on marchers
□ ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP)
—Soldiers fired on thousands of
pro-democracy protesters in Mali
on Sunday, killing at least seven.
Palm Sunday
□ JERUSALEM (AP) — Chris
tian pilgrims from around the
world opened the Easter season
with a Palm Sunday procession
down the steep slope of the bibli
cal Mount of Olives.
TOKYO (AP) — In the back
corner of an aging campus build
ing, University of Tokyo re
searchers are on a quest for a
new class of semiconductors
thousands of limes faster than
chips now in use.
The researchers, using a dust-
free "clean room" and nearly $8
million worth of equipment, are
combining microscopic layers of
materials only a few atoms thick
to make it easier for electrons to
zip around.
Their new compounds are ex
perimental forms of "quantum
chips" that someday may allow
supercomputers to become as
small as laptop computers, team
leader Yasuhiko Arakawa said.
Researchers also hope to use
the chips, which may be ready
for the market in a decade, for
high-efficiency lasers, amplifiers
and high-sensitivity communica
tion equipment.
Much of the private work on
the new chips is being done in
Japan and researchers say it may
increase the dominance of large,
rich Japanese semiconductor
makers that already control
much of the world chip market.
"This kind of research will
take a long time before it results
in a commercial product, and
therefore it's probably difficult
for non-Japanese semiconductor
makers to fund it," Arakawa Said
in an interview. "There's a good
chance the technology will be
held primarily by Japanese com
panies."
According to quantum me
chanics, the study of the behav
ior of extremely small particles
that gave the new chip its name,
electrons resemble beams of
light, acting sometimes like par
ticles with mass and sometimes
like waves.
In the chips used now, elec
trons behave like particles as
they flow through hny circuits
etched onto the surface of semi
conducting materials. These
semiconductors are expected to
encounter physical limitations as
manufacturers cram more and
more components onto each
chip.
Japanese semiconductor mak
ers already have developed ex
perimental 64-megabit memory
chips the size of a thumbnail
with as many as 140 million tiny
transistors and capacitors linked
together in circuits only 0.4 mi
cron wide, about four-thou
sandths the width of a human
hair.
Fujitsu researchers have de
veloped an experimental quan
tum chip they say is capable of
up to 1 trillion computations a
second.
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the official said.
"It wasn't healthy," he said.
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directed to "just keeping track of
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blame lack
of control
for assault
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A vi
deotape of police beating a mo
torist exposed a management
breakdown that permits violence
. in a department out of touch
with the city it serves, say spe
cialists in police behavior.
It could happen anywhere,
but Los Angeles, a sprawling
battleground for the nation's war
on drugs and for thousands of
armed gang members, offers
plenty of reasons for an officer to
forget his training in self-control,
they say.
"The sense of isolation, an in
sufficient budget, insufficient re
sources, that whole idea that
they are in a hopeless situation
... if not addressed by appropri
ate management ends up in
aberrant behavior," said Ken
neth Moran, a professor at John
Jay College of Criminal Justice in
New York.
Los Angeles Police Academy
recruits are trained to seize con
trol of a developing situation
such as a pursuit that can
threaten their lives.
But they also have to seize
control of themselves, said Lt.
Gary A. Lee, an academy in
structor in tactics.
"I go over chases where the
adrenalin is flowing very heav
ily, you're keyed up and you
need to control yourself," Lee
said. "If you can't control your
self, you can't control the situa
tion."
That training appeared to
break down in Lake View Ter
race on March 3 after a high
speed pursuit of a car driven by
Rodney G. King.
Twenty-two police officers, all
but four of them from the Los
Angeles city department, were
at the scene as at least three col
leagues pummeled King with
nightsticks. No one stopped it;
King was hospitalized.
Four policemen were charged
in the attack - three who alleg
edly did the beating and the su
pervisor who is accused of fail
ing to stop it. The other 21 are
still under investigation.
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