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Baker supports international
talks in Arab-Israeli disputes
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) —
Secretary of State James A. Baker
III said Sunday he's not putting
pressure on
Israel to com
promise its
stand on
peace talks
with the Ar
abs, but made
it clear there
should be "an
international
characteristic"
to any nego
tiations.
While Baker
waited to hear
from Jerusalem, he flew to Saudi
Arabia to discuss a sharply lim-
James Baker said
he would not
pressure Israel.
ited role for the oil-rich kingdom
in resolving the Arab-Israen dis
pute.
"I do not anticipate that they
would be there in the context of
the political discussions between
Israel and her Arab neighbors
and the political discussions be
tween Israel and Palestinians,"
he said at a news conference in
Cairo.
In Jiddah, Baker was to hold
talks with Saudi Arabian King
Fahd and Prince Saud, the for
eign minister. Baker met Satur
day with Jordan's King Hussein
and Sunday with Egyptian Presi
dent Hosni Mubarak.
In the meantime. Baker's strat
egy seemed geared to placing
the responsibility on Israel to
keep his peace mission from dis
integrating.
"We have heard no responses
to the suggestions that we made
in my last visit," Baker said.
He has refused to spell out the
proposals he left Friday with Is
raeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Sha
mir and Foreign Minister David
Levy.
But Baker has said the Soviets
should co-sponsor the peace
talks with the United States and
he's leaning publicly in the "di
rection of Arab and European
demands for an international
conference.
"There is an international
characteristic to any meetings
that would involve five, or six, or
even seven countries from differ
ent parts of the world," Baker
said in Cairo.
Baker said he called Shamir on
Saturday, not to get answers but
to "give him my own personal
debriefing of my visit to Jordan."
"We do not intend to press or
obviously to pressure for an ans
wer," Baker told reporters.
Baker's aides told reporters
Saturday that he would not re
turn to Jerusalem after he ends
his tour of Arab countries in
Syria on Tuesday. But Levy was
quoted in Jerusalem as saying
Baker would return Tuesday
night and hold meetings there
Wednesday.
Marines build settlement for refugees
S1LOPI, Turkey (AP) — U.S. Marines on
Sunday began building the first safe-haven
settlement for Kurdish refugees in northern
Iraq, despite more bitter denunciations from
Iraq.
As Marines moved into the area of Zakho,
Saddam Hussein's troops withdrew as
agreed, some even offering smiles and
waves to the arriving Americans.
But the Marines were surprised to find
200 Iraqi police in the city. The police pulled
out as well, but some U.S. officials objected
to the fact that they had been sent to Zakho
ataU.
"We are very concerned about this new
development, the introduction of police
forces, which we think is contrary to the
spirit of our agreement," Lt. Col. Bob
nocke, a U.S. military spokesman, said.
However, Marine Col. James Jones, head
of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit,
which arrived in northern Iraq on Saturday,
said he did not find the brief police presence
"particularly disturbing."
The United States and its allies are bring
ing in thousands of soldiers to protect the
Kurds, who fear bloody reprisals from Iraqi
government troops for their uprising
against Saddam.
Throughout Sunday, swarms of U.S. heli
copters ferried troops and supplies into
Zakho, 17 miles from the Turkish border
settlement of Silopi.
By afternoon, 32 blue-and-white tents
E rovided by the Agency for International
•evelopment had been set up in a lush
green meadow, and an American flag flew
over the town.
"We will rapidly build this small neigh
borhood into an entire community," said
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jay M. Garner, the se
nior U.S. commander on the ground in
northern Iraq. He set up headquarters in the
newly abandoned garrison of the 44th Iraqi
division.
"We are in the job of saving lives, and
we're going to save lives and do a good job
of it," Garner said.
Iraq's state-run press denounced the use
of American troops to set up and guard
camps for Kurds. More than 1,400 Marines
are in Zakho.
"This provocative behavior is blatant in
terference in Iraq's domestic affairs and a
flagrant violation of international law," the
government daily Al-Thawra said.
Activists ask Congress
for forest protection
WASHINGTON (AP) — En
vironmentalists urged Con
gress Sunday to slow logging
on national forests and called
on President Bush to live up to
his claim to be the "environ
mental president."
About 100 activists rallied in
front of the Capitql in cele
bration of the birthday of 19th
century naturalist John Muir
and in support of a Texas con
gressman's proposal to end
ecologically harmful clear cuts
of all federally owned forests.
'John Muir led a lifelong
emsade to protect rivers and
forests from misguided exploi
tation schemes," said Mark
Winstein, co-director of the co
alition Save America's Forests.
"Now is the time for all con
cerned Americans to come to
the defense of our country's
natural heritage.
"Action must correct 100
years of environmental and
economic devastation caused
by the destructive clear-cut-
ting and mismanagement of
our nation's forests," he said
during a speech in light rain.
Leaders of forest protection
groups from Texas, Illinois,
Oregon and New York
pleaded to make national for
ests off-limits to clear cuts —
the practice of harvesting all
commercial timber from an
area at approximately the
same time.
The protestors said U.S. tax
dollars should not be used to
strip away forest ecosystems
and turn Forest Service lands
into tree plantations for the
wood and paper products in
dustry.
A bill which Rep. John Bry
ant, D-Dallas, plans to intro
duce on Monday, would ban
clear cuts "and other extreme
methods of forest manage
ment" on all federal lands.
Bryant said clear cuts cause
soil erosion, nutrient loss, re
duction of habitat diversity
and impairment of hunting
and fishing.
Scud attack in Afghanistan
kills up to 300, reports say
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP)
— Searchers dug through debris
Sunday, trying to unearth bodies
after a missile strike on a
crowded bazaar in eastern Af
ghanistan. Reports said up to
300 people were killed and 700
hurt.
At least two Soviet-made Scud
missiles slammed into Asada-
bad, capital of Afghanistan's
eastern Kunar province, late Sat
urday, said Qaribur Saeed, a
spokesman for the radical Hezbi-
Islami, or party of Islam, guer
rilla group.
Radio Kabul, the voice of Af
ghanistan's Communist govern
ment, monitored in Islamabad,
was silent on the reported at
tack. It rarely acknowledges
Scud strikes on guerrilla posi
tions.
Pakistan's official news agency
said 300 were killed and 700
were wounded in the attack. An
other report from a pro-rebel
Afghan agency said 100 people
had died in the attack and seve
ral hundred were wounded.
Because of the town's inacces
sibility, the claims could not be
verified independently.
For 13 years, Pakistan has
been the staging area for the
Muslim resistance fighting to
topple successive Soviet-allied
governments in Kabul.
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