European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 b the stars and stripes sunday july 7, 1991u.n. Team sees iraqi blasted Baghdad of Iraq a a . Team witnessed the explosion of 28 warheads in the iraqi desert on saturday ending a week supervising the destruction of iraqi missiles and launchers. Twenty eight warheads of a1 Hussein and Al fahd missiles were detonated at the Al Taji launch site 27 Miles North of Baghdad said . Army col. Douglas Englund the team Leader. The Al Hussein and Al fahd Are longer Range variants of the soviet made scud missile. In contrast to . Nuclear inspectors who have encountered resistance and gunfire from iraqi authorities the ballistics team has received full cooperation Englund said. The iraqis Quot destroyed what they said they were going to destroy a said Englund. A they really did no to have any some iraqi officers muttered regrets about the demolition of hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment they had guarded with their lives team members said. The destruction of the missiles that terrorized Israel and saudi Arabia during the persian Gulf War a but had Little military effect a occurred at three bases around Baghdad. A a a on Friday iraqi president Saddam Hussein promised the United nations a Complete list of iraqis nuclear materials and said he would Grant inspectors instant Access to All nuclear Sites. He made the pledge As the White House warned that the United states could take military action if Iraq continued to violate . Resolutions by failing to allow inspection of its nuclear Sites. A new . Nuclear inspection team arrived in Baghdad on saturday. Its Leader Dimitri Perrico said his 37-person Crew would spend a week investigating reports of a secret Cache of nuclear weapons making equipment and would try to visit alleged nuclear Sites. As for the 21-Man ballistics team it spent last week watching As iraqi soldiers bulldozed their own missiles and sliced up launchers and platforms with blow torches. The destroyed iraqi Arsenal included 61 missiles 10 Mobile launchers two fixed launchers nine liquid fuel transporters and eight missile transport vehicles Englund said. All were identified by Iraq under the april 3 . Cease fire Resolution ending yugoslav peace talks stall on control of Border posts Ljubljana Yugoslavia apr truce talks broke Down saturday Over who will control Slovenia a International Border Crossings the Issue that has come to symbolize the breakaway republics struggle for Independence. The Federal government set a sunday deadline for the Republic to turn Over control of the Crossings but the head of the nations collective presidency said the military would not be ordered to enforce it. Ethnic violence flared in Croatia which declared Independence along with Slovenia on june 25.the croatian defense ministry said its forces battled serbian nationalists in the Northeast. Reports said As Many As 83 people were killed or injured in the fighting but the figure could not be confirmed. Croatia a information minister Hrvoje Hitrec warned that if Federal troops were called in to separate feuding serbs and croats the fighting would make the conflict in Slovenia a look like the cease fire in Slovenia held for a second Day on saturday. Slovenia seized control of its Borders with Austria Italy and Hungary two declaring Independence. It then battled yugoslav troops to keep control of the posts important symbols of sovereignty for both from Page 1 Quot a wife into withdrawing her divorce petition authorities said. Cooperating prosecutors dropped initial charges to help fool him. They were later refiled in a sealed indictment. Lori Mehmandoust travelled to Iran in March after her husband remained unconvinced by documents showing felony abduction charges and the divorce proceeding had been dropped. She knew iranian authorities could Block her return. A sometimes i would go up in a room by myself and scream into a Pillow a mrs. Mehmandoust 27, said wednesday. A i had to play a game with him and Tell him everything was going to be Fine. I had to be an actress for three after convincing him she came Home june 1 to await his county state s attorney Bill Haine credited the ruse and Mehrzade Mehman Doost a preference for an affluent . Lifestyle a he earned $50,000 a year As an electrical engineering consultant a for bringing him Back. Clayton county sheriffs it. Michael Maddox said thursday that Mehrzade Mehmandoust 31, had waived extradition and would be returned to Illinois. Lori Mehmandoust said she did not see her husband after his arrival and Hopes to avoid Contact with him. She refused two collect Telephone Calls wednesday morning from the Atlanta jail. A the wants to have me to control me. He thinks he owns me and he owns the children. In Iran he can do that but not in America Quot she said Lori Mehmandoust who will refile for divorce said her iranian in Laws were suspicious of her throughout her stay. Quot they warned him a done to go Back they were against me a a she said. The Federal presidency set a deadline of Foon sunday for Slovenia to give up the Crossings. Slovenian officials said new talks were planned to try to reach a Compromise on the bonders but they did not say when the two sides would meet again. The chairman of the Federal collective presidency Stipe Mesic a croat has said that the political leadership would not Call in Federal troops to enforce the sunday deadline. "1 believe reason will prevail in the army a Mesic said at a news conference in Zagreb on saturday. Meanwhile Slovenia met other Federal demands. It freed 2,316 Federal army prisoners announced it had lifted blockades at Federal army bases and began to demobilize most of its 25,000-member defense Force. A High ranking european Community Mission prepared meanwhile for its third visit to mediate the slovenian Border Issue. Mesic said talks with the dec delegation due in Yugoslavia on sunday a could provide the Only lasting peaceful solutions to the the slovenian red Cross said that since the fighting began on june 27,60 people had been killed a 39 yugoslav soldiers four members of the slovenian defense Force two policemen and 15 civilians. Croatia which has not implemented its Independence declaration As quickly As Slovenia has so far been spared army intervention. But ethnic violence flared there again on saturday when croatian police moved to oust serbian nationalists from some villages in the Northeast. Croatia a Deputy Interior minister Milan Brezak said two members of the territorial defense Force and a Large number of serbian nationalists were killed during two Days of fighting that began on Friday. Quot it was the most violent conflict. So far this year a Brezak told a news conference in Zagreb. Croatia a vecer in list newspaper said 83 people had been killed or injured but there was no Independent confirmation. About 11 percent of Croatia a 5 million people Are ethnic serbian and Many want their Region to be part of Serbia. There has been fierce ethnic fighting almost daily in Croatia and at least 43 people have been killed in clashes since Mayr. Croatian officials accused the yugoslav army of acting in collusion with the serbian nationalists giving them arms camouflage uniforms and from Page 1 Mance during the persian Gulf War. Medical operations in the persian Gulf were run by individual services and the report said that the decentralized system left americans vulnerable to iraqi attacks during the Early Days of the buildup. Initially the 18,000-member 82nd airborne div was supported by a single 50-bed air Force Hospital. Sydney t. Hickey spokesman for the National military family association said the recommendation about guaranteeing the level of medical care and Access to it is More important than the reorganization. A that is the sort of a premise upon which everything else can fall a said Hickey who has read the report. A if you done to have a defined Benefit with guaranteed Access then what kind of military medical system do you have Quot the Gulf War. The agreement obliges Iraq to identify and destroy All its missiles nuclear and chemical weapons. Toward the end of the month another . Team headed by Englund will finish the task of eliminating iraqis missile capability when it travels to Western Iraq to inspect More fixed launch Sites and eight supporting factories he said. Most of the nearly Sites were believed destroyed by Allied air attacks Englund said. He said the remainder will be slowed into the ground. Also 30 chemical warheads Are to be de stroy Edby a separate . Inspection team. Englund and other inspectors said they observed nothing to indicate Iraq was hiding missiles. Some reports have suggested Iraq secretly possessed from 100 to 700.Bush gives Gorbachev arms message Washington apr president Bush sent soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a message saturday about arms control said a senior administration official who did not detail what the message was. . Ambassador Jack f. Matlock or. Delivered an Oral message said White House spokesman roman Popadiuk adding that he had no information about what it contained. A however an administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity said a it dealt with arms Tass the soviet news Agency reported that the ambassador gave Gorbachev an Quot urgent message during a Brief meeting in Moscow. The United states and soviet Union Are continuing efforts on a treaty that would reduce nuclear weapons on both sides by about 30 percent. The so called strategic arms reduction treaty or Start has been in negotiation for nearly 10 years. Most of the major issues in the treaty have been settled. Both sides had hoped to finish the treaty by the end of july. Senior advisers have said Bush is determined to ensure the treaty is free of loopholes to Clear its path for Senate approval. Bush and Gorbachev Are scheduled to attend the group of seven economic meeting a Summit of the seven major industrialized nations on july 17. But the two also will meet separately. The failure to reach a Start treaty has delayed a Summit meeting Between the two superpowers. Bush has said he Hopes the treaty can be signed at a Moscow Summit at the end of july. If the treaty Isnit completed by the end of the month it Likely will be carried Over into the fall. One senior administration official has said the Exchange of information from missile tests is a the real difficult another sticking Point concerns a soviet proposal that some missiles be equipped with fewer warheads than that with which they were tested. Gorbachev has been eager for a Summit As a Chance to impress Bush with his determination to revamp the soviet Economy. But administration hard liners see the soviet presidents need for a Summit a to Appeal for . Economic Aid a As an Opportunity to hold out for the kind of things they want in the Start treaty the american team is especially interested in More information from soviet missile tests and on tight restrictions on the number of warheads a missile can carry. State department officials said last month that the most recent round of High level talks Between . And soviet officials in Geneva had failed to produce an agreement. A important work remains to be done a spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said about under Secretary of state Reginald Bartholomew a meeting with the soviets last month. Bush was spending the weekend at the presidential Retreat at Camp David my
