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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Many Dod doctors Lack credentials lao says Page 2 q Trade sanctions ordered against Brazil Page 5 d Stock Market in the doldrums Page 20 d Bush says fund shortage won t prevent win Page 28 the Sims and tripes see ots a 0r authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 47, no. 97 sunday july 24, 1988 Good morning it 2s daily and sunday q 8693 a Iraq accused by Iran of new mischief Nicosia Cyprus a Iran said iraqi forces saturday moved across huge sections of iranian Terri tory and bombed targets with chemical weapons. The fighting reported by both countries came As a . Team prepared to travel to both nations to arrange a truce. Tehran radio urged All Able bodied iranians to Rush to the front saying that troops were needed to thwart Iraq s new  in Baghdad Iraq minister of information Latif no Sayyid Jassim reacted to the iranian statement by say ing Iraq had no desire to occupy iranian territory. All we want is to liberate our occupied areas. We have no aggressive intentions against Iran Jassim was quoted As saying by the official iraqi news Agency. Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency said iraqi troops had pushed across the Border in the South Ern front and advanced to within 24 Miles of Ahwaz capital of Khuze Stan province and 54 Miles from the nearest Border. It said hand to hand fighting was continuing in the area. Iraqi troops were pushed Back in the nearby Salam Cheh Region Irna said with the bodies of hundreds of iraqi soldiers scattered on the  in the Central sector Irna said iraqi warplanes dropped chemical weapons on two villages Between Sare pol Zahab and Gilane garb to the South wounding a Large number of  the news Agency denied an iranian report that Iran had shot Down an iraqi Jet fighter Over the Southern  Friday Iran s revolutionary patriarch Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said the War with Iraq was not Over despite Iran s acceptance monday of a . Cease fire  said it regained on Friday the last remaining Terri tory the iranians had captured Iri the eight year War. Iran accused the iraqis of using chemical weapons. Both countries accepted an invitation by Javier Perez de Cuellar the . Secretary general to Send their foreign ministers to new York this week for meetings on implementing Resolution 598, which the Security Council passed unanimously july 20, 1987. Iraq wants direct negotiations with Iran and the iranians indicated Friday they May accept such talks if Perez de Cuellar requests it. The iraqis also said they would Welcome a team Perez de Cuellar is sending to arrange the details of a cease fire. The nine military officers and one civilian Are due in Tehran Iran today and expect to be in the Region about a week. A military communique read on iraqi television Fri Day said we retook whatever was left of our land from the iranians in an offensive named in god we Trust 4. It said the Victory will accelerate the achieve ment of peace through the signing of a genuine peace treaty via direct  in the past few months Iraq has regained Large areas that had been captured by Iran including the Faw Peninsula and Marshlands East of Basra the iraqi port. Another record run Florence Griffith Joyner sets an american record in the 200-meter dash at the . Olympic track and Field trials in Indianapolis on Friday. Story Page 21. Soviets Call for increase in inspection rights Washington a the soviet Union has developed a detailed plan for verifying constraints on cruise missiles that would allow . And soviet inspectors unprecedented Access to each other s bomber bases strategic naval ports and military ships the Washington Post re ported in saturday editions. In a dispatch from Moscow the newspaper said the proposal Calls for permanently stationing teams of . And soviet inspectors outside factories where cruise missiles Are produced where their warheads Are in stalled and where the weapons Are loaded onto submarines and other ships. It also Calls for periodic inspection of military bases where Long Range aircraft Are equipped with cruise missiles and Short notice inspections of unrelated Sites where cruise missiles Are strongly suspected of being illegally stored. The Post said the Kremlin plan was sketched out in interviews with Wiktor Karpov the soviet foreign ministry s disarmament chief and col. Gen. Niko Lai Hervoy senior arms control adviser on the soviet general staff. According to Karpov and Hervoy soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev still wants to sign an agreement with presi Dent Reagan sharply cutting strategic offensive nuclear arms and incorporating these inspection rights to verify each Side s compliance. But the soviet officials said the Reagan administration thus far has blocked the plan because of Navy and Ait Force Resis Tance to the proposed soviet inspections. They called on Reagan to overrule the Mili tary or see his Hopes for agreement dashed. Ai " my tit a tit to so a a. If a mat w trooping along is Dave Didio an unidentified military unit marches end of the first Day s 40-Kilometer course the Netherlands. More than 30,000 took the Eastern Netherlands. See Story other across a Highway overpass As it nears the during the blistering four Days March in part in the Nijm Egen March Over roads in photos on pages 14,15.  
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