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Arab League criticizes
sanctions against Libya
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Syria, Tunisia,
Lebanon and the Arab League criticized the
new U.N. sanctions against Libya on Wednes
day, and Moarrunar Gadhafi reportedly threat
ened to withhold oil exports
to Europe in retaliation.
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.
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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.
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Grachev's openness, the offidai
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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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