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Diplomats descend on Baghdad
in push to end standoff peacefully
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Would-
be peacemakers from around the
world pressed Iraq on Wednesday to
end a standoff over weapons inspec
tions with diplomacy before Wash
ington does it with air strikes.
Word emerged of possible
progress, includ
ing an Iraqi offer
at compromise.
Russia insisted
there were signs of
optimism, but
President Boris
Yeltsin, using lan
guage reminiscent
of the Cold War,
said a U.S. attack Saddam
could lead to “world war.”
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein,
meeting with an envoy from
France, said he was striving for “a
balanced political solution,” the of
ficial Iraqi News Agency said.
Iraq has refused to allow U.N. in
spectors into Saddam’s palaces and
other key sites, calling it a matter of
national sovereignty.
CNN reported the Iraqis were
offering to open some — but not
all — of the suspected weapons
sites to inspectors,.
The United States increasingly is
threatening to resort to military
force to end the Iraqi defiance.
Congress worked Wednesday on
a resolution authorizing President
Clinton to launch air attacks, and
U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson
traveled the world seeking support
from fellow U.N. Security Council
member-nations.
Hoping to avert attack, the Arab
League’s secretary-general and
Turkey’s foreign minister arrived in
Baghdad, joining envoys from Rus
sia and France in pressing Iraqi
leaders for a peaceful solution.
Quoting unidentified sources,
CNN said that Iraq was offering to al
low U.N. inspectors access to eight
disputed sites for about a month.
CNN said the Iraqi proposal
called for each of the 15 members
of the Security Council to appoint
five inspectors.
The 21 countries represented on
the U.N. Special Commission,
which oversees inspections, would
then each appoint two more.
“The best way to stop Saddam
from building nuclear, biolog
ical or chemical weapons is
simply to get the international
inspectors back to work with
no restraints.”
Bill Clinton
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It said that these 117 experts
would make “visits” to the palaces
and would report their findings di
rectly to the Security Council.
Asked about the reported Iraqi
offer, Egyptian Foreign Minister
Amr Moussa in Cairo said: “We have
been informed by the Iraqis of this.”
He refused to elaborate. •
The Americans rejected the
earlier plan, saying it appeared to
be an attempt by Baghdad to by
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Jet violated air regulations in gondola accident
CAVALESE, Italy (AP) — The U.S. Marine jet
that severed a ski lift cable, plunging 20 people
to their deaths, violated Italian air safety regula
tions with its “earth-shaving flight” across a
snowy hillside, the prime minister of this angry
nation said Wednesday.
The defense minister said the American pilot
should be prosecuted, several influential law
makers said U.S. bases in Italy should be closed,
and Italian and American investigators started
looking into the accident near Trento, about 90
miles east of Milan.
“This is not about a low-level flight, but a ter
rible act, a nearly earth-shaving flight, beyond
any limit allowed by the rules and laws,” Premier
Romano Prodi told reporters.
Witnesses said the Marine EA-6B Prowler
swooped through the valley just above the tree-
tops on Tuesday. Its tail severed two, fist-sized,
steel cables, sending a gondola full of European
skiers and the operator to their deaths.
Startled by an unusually loud boom, 66-year-
old Carla Naia looked up and saw the jet “com
ing at me at an incredible speed.”
“I’ve seen lots of planes and I’ve often cursed
them,” the Cavalese resident said. “But this one >
$eemed completely out of control, far lower and
faster than the others.”
Residents of this valley have long complained
about low-flying jets out of Aviano Air Base at the
foot of the Italian Alps.
“We are fed up,” Mauro Gilmozi, the mayor of
this picturesque town of 3,600, said. “This ’Top
Gun’ stuff has got to stop.”
An EA-6B pilot who flew missions in the area
last year said it is standard procedure for pilots
based at Aviano to fly low-level training routes in
the Dolomite Mountains, but for safety reasons
they are not supposed to be at altitudes below
1,000 feet.
The pilot, who spoke Wednesday on condition
he not be identified, said potential hazards such as
ski resort cables are plotted on a flight map.
The EA-6B pilots do low-level training be
cause in times of war they must sometimes fly as
low as 100 feet to avoid detection by enemy
radar. The plane’s central mission is to identify
the type and location of enemy radars — gener
ally surface-to-air missile radars — and to either
jam their signal or attack them with high-speed
anti-radiation missiles.
The Defense Ministry said militaiy flights must
maintain a minimum altitude of 500 feet. The ca
ble was severed about 300 feet above the ground.
Undersecretary Massimo Brutti told state
television that the plane’s flight plan called for it
to be flying at 3,600 feet. Aviano spokeswoman
Capt. Tracy O’Grady said the pilot "was on an ap
proved low-level training mission,” but did not
say what altitude was authorized.
O’Grady also said U.S. military investigators
were looking into why the plane was flying so
low. A Marine accident investigation team from
the United States was scheduled to fly to Aviano,
60 miles east of Cavalese.
The EA-6B prowler, a surveillance plane, was
on temporary assignment to Aviano: its home
base is at Cherry Point, N.C. The identity of the
pilot has not been released.
Anger continued to build in Italy, an important
U.S. ally and home to seven major U.S. military in
stallations. U.S. flights over Italy have increased
dramatically since the international intervention
in Bosnia, one ofAviano’s most important jobs. The
U.S. planes provide support for the international
peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.
Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini deplored the
accident but said that it would not "distort our al
liances and our collective security structures.” De
fense Minister Beniamino Andreatta took a harsh
er line, demanding that the pilot be prosecuted.
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