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Protesters in various Libyan cities condemned what they called the unjust and Draconian sanctions the U.N. Security Council im posed Tuesday on Libyan air traffic and arms trade, the official Libyan news agency JANA said. "In Tripoli, the enraged masses flowed into the streets of the city holding up Gadhafi green banners, pictures of the leader of the rev olution and placards which express their rejec tion of this outrageous resolution," JANA said. A pro-government newspaper Bahrain asked: "What new world order are we talking about? And what is the world going to do un der this new world order?" The paper, Akhbar Al-Khaleej, told readers in the Persian Gulf state that the meaning of the resolution "is crystal clear, that the big ones can impose what they want on the world, flout ing limits of logic or justice, flouting respect for international law and the real will of the inter national society." The Arab League said the dispute could be resolved by April 15, the date the sanctions take effect, unless Libya turns over six suspects in the terrorist bombings of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 and a French airliner in 1989. In all, 441 people from 32 countries died in the airliner bombings. The resolution ^is not appropriate," said Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa of Syria. He told reporters in Lebanon the matter should be resolved by the World Court in The Hague, which has heard the case but has not issued its non-binding decision. "The Security Council has nothing to do with such a dispute because the Security Coun cil is concerned only with any threat to peace and security in the world," al-Sharaa said. Lebanon's foreign minister. Fares Bweiz, said U.N. resolutions should apply to all guilty parties. "But such attempts to enforce international decisions are somehow biased because they ig nore Israel's violation of human rights." Tunisia said it regretted the U.N. action, and that its sea and land links with Libya would re main open. Israeli troops fire on refuge camp market JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli^ opened fire in a refugee camp marl; Wednesday after being attacked byfij bombs, U.N. officials and Arab porters said. Four Palestinians we killed and more than 50 wounded. The violence at Rafah in the G, Strip came as Palestinians weresU Vol. 91 ping for the feast marking the end Ramadan, the holiest time on the Mu lim calendar. It was the bloodiest sii| confrontation between Palestinians!: troops in the occupied lands in years. The Israeli troops were chasii Palestinian men who had thrown fin bombs at them, said Rolf van Uye, spokesman for the U.N. Relief ai Works Agency. "Troops started opening fire, and the time the market was extremely bit because of the end of Ramadan,"vi Uye said. The army said a grenade was thro* at an army observation post in’ town. I til': Yeltsin plans sharp reduction in Russian armed forces WASHINGTON (AP) — Rus sian President Boris Yeltsin's mil itary adviser has told U.S. offi cials that Russia plans a sharply reduced independent armed force of 1.2 million to 1.3 million and will adopt a defensive mili tary doctrine, a senior adminis tration official said Wednesday. Such a force would be less threatening than the former Sovi et Union's military, estimated to range in size from 2.5 million to 3 million troops and characterized by its offensive capability, said the official, who spoke on condi tion of anonymity. Word of Russia's revised mili tary strategy came the same day President Bush pledged to help finance $24 billion in internation al aid for the former Soviet Union's transition to democracy. U.S. officials learned of the 6 Ians during Defense Secretary ►ick Cheney's meeting Tuesday in Brussels with Col. Gen. Pavel Grachev. The general, Yeltsin's top military adviser, met private ly with Cheney prior to NATCYs first-ever conference among de fense ministers of the East and West. The general said the reformed military will have "a heavy civil ian contingent" and a "total size . . . between 1.2 and 1.3 million personnel. That's smaller than what we've heard previously," said the official. Grachev emphasized that the rebuilt Russian force "will not have the kind of strike capability . . . the old Soviet military had," said the official. Grachev said the force will be "evenly distributed" around the republic. It also will restructure attack units by trimming heavy tanks from certain divisions and shift the position of quick-strike aircraft squadrons to reduce the ability "to go on the offensive on short notice," the official said. The Russians also plan to use "a defensive doctrine, as op posed to the kind of offensive ca pability that's been a hallmark of Soviet strategic thinking in the past," the official added. The announcement was sect as particularly significant, theof ficial said, because it marks! turning point in military th ing for the Russians. Theyhaii emphasized putting their armec forces under the umbrella of tk Commonwealth of Indepenck States, the loose federation of I! of the 15 former Soviet republic that was formed in the wakeo: the dissolution of the Soviei Union. "They're clearly embarkec now on a course of action estab lishing their own defense min istry," the official said. Also remarkable m Grachev's openness, the offidai said. Bill Clas with jol ed this tem des worker registra Stuc register now dc also are detailed that the; Texas A The address ing fille Smoking deaths in women to douM GENEVA (AP) — The number of women killed each year by cigarettes will double to more than one million over the next three decades, the World Health Organization predicted Wednes day. The U.N. agency said the jump is a result of the increase in wom en smokers since World War II. It also said young women are taking up smoking faster than men in the United States and some other in dustrialized countries, and female smokers likely will outnumber men in those nations soon. The report, which WHO de scribed as the first international study of women and smoking, made no forecast on the number of male deaths by 2020. Tobacco is the single biggest World Health Organization predicts habit will kill one million in 3 decades cause of premature adult death throughout the world. It is thought to kill about 3 million people a year, including about 500,000 women. Just over half the deaths are in industrialized coun tries. The report said about 20 per cent to 35 percent of women in wealthy nations smoke now, com pared to 2 percent to 10 percent in the Third World. It expressed con cern that the percentages in poor countries would rise to the level of an industrial nation. "In the United States, every day more than 1,600 American teen-age girls smoke for the first time," exposing themselves to the risk of lung cancer, heart disease and other tobacco-related illness es, the report said. The study by Dr. Claire Chol- lat-Traquet, which was being de livered at a conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, said women smokers face more health hazards than men. Smoking . during pregnancy causes premature births, sponta neous abortions and infant deaths. "Last but not least, nicotine re duces the circulation of blood and the uptake of oxygen, with ad verse effects on the skin, hair and eyes," the report said. "Contrary to the mo ted in cigarette advertising smoking causes premature writ kies, bad breath, stained teethas: fingernails, gum disease, problems, a hoarse voice ar chronic cough," it said. WHO criticized tobacco cor panics for producing "womi only" brands and accused! using advertising that implii smoking will make women sc cessful, youthful, happy and sir Once women start smokin' they often find it more difficult ouit than men, partly because tne fear of weight gain, therepc said. "Although smoking was! adopted by the more affluented: cated women, these women wc also the first to give it up," it said House rejects Bush's proposal to finance bailout Vote spurs party leaders to search for solution to keep S&L running WASHINGTON (AP) — Egged on by rebel lious Republicans, the House on Wednesday rejected legislation sought by President Bush to finance the savings and loan bailout for six more months. The 298-125 vote sent administration offi cials and leaders of both parties scrambling for a way to keep the Resolution Trust Corp., the bailout agency, running. Congress provided the agency with $25 billion in November, but the authority to spend the money expired Wednesday. The RTC still can seize insolvent institutions and keep them open under government con trol. But, it cannot proceed with takeover deals to protect depositors in the failed thrifts with out such legislation. The Senate last week voted 52-42 to finance the RTC through March 1993. That bill autho rized the agency to use $17 billion not spent from the November allocation and provided an additional $25 billion. The House bill only lifted the spending deadline, an action the RTC estimated would allow it to operate until October. Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, D-Texas and the chairman of the House Banking Committee, criticized Bush for failing to press harder for support from Republicans. Gonzalez promised "whatever steps necessary to keep . .. insured depositors protected." "It is absolutely essential that the president use his office to the fullest to explain the im portance of the legislation," he said. "The ef fort by the administration was minimal and to day's vote reflected this." In the meantime, Gonzalez said he would introduce a stopgap measure that would fi nance the RTC until May 15. Assistant Treasury Secretary Desiree Tuck- er-Sorini said, "We've done everything we can do" to muster support for the bill and warned that every day's delay in the cleanup wo: add $2.8 million to taxpayers' costs. Although President Bush and both part House leaders supported the bill, it was rep ed, 180-80 by Democrats and, II745 by Kept licans. Rep. Bernard Sanders of Vermont,an’ dependent, also opposed it. Although the Bush administration prefer the Senate bill, they said it supported); House bill as "the only option before!) House at this time that would keep the!) running. The opposition to the bill was led Bill McCollum of Florida and other Rep! cans who want to spend $2.5 billion to col pensate the owners of 53 S&Ls that lost an: counting break when Congress passed original S&L bailout bill. When those S&Ls took over sick institute in the early 1980s, regulators gave them 3(1 40 years to write off the losses. 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