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The Battalion
Friday, November 6,1992
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Hard-liners protest arms treaty
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MOSCOW — Russia's
legislature on Wednesday ratified
the Strategic Arms Reduction
Treaty with the United States
despite protests by hard-liners
that approval represented an
unwarranted gift to President
elect Bill Clinton.
Lawmakers voted 157-1, with
26 abstentions, to ratify the START
treaty, which would cut by about
one-third the U.S. and former
Soviet arsenals of long-range
missiles and bombers over the
Opposition calls Russia, U.S. agreement
present "on a silver platter" for Clinton
next seven years.
The U.S. Senate ratified the
treaty in October.
It had been signed in July 1991
by President Bush and former
Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Gorbachev. Ukraine, Belarus and
Kazakhstan still have strategic
nuclear weapons from the Soviet
arsenal, and they must also ratify
the treaty before it can come into
effect. Kazakhstan has ratified the
treaty.
"It is the first treaty which will
imply real cuts and it has a great
importance not only for Russia
and the U.S.A., but for the whole
world," said Deputy Russian
Defense Minister Boris Gromov.
Richard A. Boucher, the State
Department spokesman, said "we
see this as a very important
positive development towards
bringing the treaty into force."
He said the U.S. was urging
Ukraine and Belarus to complete
their own ratification of START.
"The governments of both
countries have assured us that
they strongly support
ratification," he said.
The Supreme Soviet lawmakers
debated the issue heatedly for
more than an hour.
"Some people want to present
it on a silver platter to the U.S.
president-elect," said Vitaly
Sevastyanov, a former cosmonaut
and a member of the hard-liners'
faction in the legislature.
He said Russia did not have
enough money to solve the many
technical problems connected to
the dismantling of the missiles.
Legislator Nikolai Pavlov, a
leader of the opposition National
Salvation Front that was
disbanded by President Boris
Yeltsin last week, said the treaty is
based on a system of counting
warheads that is unfavorable for
Russia.
"As a result, the U.S.A.
succeeded in getting privileges in
counting their warheads. We will
have to eliminate our best
missiles, while the U.S.A. will be
able to keep their best weapons,"
Pavlov said.
Reformers stressed Russia's
image as a reliable partner would
be damaged if the legislature
failed to ratify the treaty.
Iraq hiding Scuds, boosters, reports say
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMMAN, Jordan — Saddam Hussein is
moving scores of Scud missiles around Iraq on
camouflaged trucks so U.N. weapons inspec
tors can't find them and has buried an un
known number of rocket boosters. Western of
ficials and other sources
say.
One intelligence opera
tive described it as a "real
game" of hide-and-seek.
U.N. weapons inspection
teams over the past 18
months have tracked down
and dismantled much of
Iraq's nuclear, chemical and
biological weapons pro
grams as well as its surface-
to-surface missiles with a
range of 90 miles or more
under terms of the 1991 Gulf War cease-fire
agreement.
American and U.N. officials suspect that
Saddam has stashed away some of the 819
Scud-B missiles he acquired from the former
Soviet Union during the 1980-88 war with Iran,
or longer-range al-Hussein and al-Abbas vari-
Hussein
ants Iraq developed.
Tim Trevan, spokesman for the U.N. Special
Commission charged with dismantling Iraq's
weapons of mass destruction, said 151 ballistic
missiles have been destroyed by the inspectors
or the Iraqis, or are awaiting destruction.
U.N. officials believe Saddam still has
around 100 missiles hidden away. The CIA be
lieves the figure is closer to 200.
In March 1991, Iraq admitted it had 52 bal
listic missiles. Under intense diplomatic pres
sure, Baghdad later confessed it had another
92. U.N. inspectors believe at least 487 of the
Soviet Scuds were fired during the Iran-Iraq
war or in tests.
It's not known how many Scuds were pro
vided by Syria, Libya or North Korea, or how
many were cannibalized to produce the al-
Hussein and al-Abbas variants.
Ninety-three missiles were fired at Israel
and Saudi Arabia during last year's Gulf War.
The Pentagon concedes that no missiles were
destroyed in allied air strikes.
The Western operatives, based in Amman to
monitor Iraq, said Saddam can't bury his mis
siles because they would deteriorate and be
come useless.
One source said Saddam has to constantly
keep the missiles on the move on disguised
trucks so inspectors who get tipped off to a
particular location can't find them.
Travelers from Iraq, including an aerody
namics specialist who said he worked on Sad
dam's weapons program before the Gulf War,
said the Iraqis have buried large numbers of
rocket boosters. An unknown number are un
der the Habaniyah airbase in the desert west of
Baghdad, as well as in the basements of
mosques, hospitals and other buildings the
Iraqis don't believe the U.N. inspectors will in
vestigate, the specialist said.
Like most Iraqis and diplomats traveling to
Jordan from Iraq, the sources declined to be
identified to avoid reprisals when they return.
The Western-educated engineer provided
The Associated Press with details of his work
and the locations of installations where he
worked, but asked that these not be published
to protect him and his family.
Trevan, spokesman for the U.N. commis
sion, said he could not comment on the claim.
"Our assessment on the basis of information
available to us is that there may be further
Scuds out there. Iraq rrtost recently has given
us a very full acount of all 819 missiles sup
plied to it by the former Soviet Union."
Chess legend defeats
old rival in 27 moves
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Chess legend Bobby Fischer, lured
from seclusion by a $5 million purse, defeated his old rival Boris
Spassky on Thursday in one of history's most bizarre chess matches.
The controversial former world champion showed tantalizing
flashes of brilliance, pocketed the $3.35 million first prize and
claimed he is still world champion.
Playing publicly for the first time since beating Spassky for the
world title in 1972, Fischer took just over nine weeks to defeat
Spassky, wrapping up a 10-5 victory in the 30th game on Thursday.
The 55-year-old Spassky earned $1.65 million.
"It was a very good match and Boris was a great opponent," said
Fischer. He was presented with a wreath proclaiming him "world
chess champion," but the match was not recognized by the Interna
tional Chess Federation.
"I am happy to be back playing chess, and maybe Boris and me
will play again," Fischer said.
The 96th~ranked Spassky said, "It's still a miracle for me, this
match. Very surrealistic, even now.
"As for my chess career, I think that my future's in the past. But
as for chess, this is tremendous."
In the final game Thursday, Spassky played white. He got into
trouble on the 18th move and quickly lost his two knights. He was
forced to resign after only 27 moves, giving Fischer his 10th and de
cisive victory.
The match began on Sept. 2 in Sveti Stefan, a luxurious resort on
the Montenegrin coast barely 40 miles from the ferocious fighting
and shelling of Yugoslavia's civil war.
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