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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes monday july 8, 1991 iraqi compliance report to be issued Baghdad Iraq a a . Nuclear inspection team plans to Issue a report at weeks end that could determine the Allied response to charges of iraqi cheating on nuclear site disclosure. Dimitri Perrico an official with the International atomic Energy Agency said his 37-person Crewsaw two previously inspected Sites sunday but he refused to comment on whether it had seen or asked to see an elusive Convoy of what the United nations alleges is nuclear weapons making equipment. A there will be no other comment for the time being Untiet the team finishes its Job a Perrico told reporters at his Baghdad hotel. In addition to searching for the missing equipment during the next two weeks he said his team is also assessing How to safely remove enriched bomb Grade uranium that had been inspected by another . Team in May. On sunday the team toured the to Waitha research site 19 Miles Southwest of Baghdad and the Al Quail site near the syrian Border in Northwest Iraq. This weeks inspection Tours could resolve questions about iraqi president Saddam Hussein a latest pledge of cooperation which was delivered in a letter Friday to . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar. In Washington the White House has emphasized president Bush a belief that he has the authority to launch a military strike if Iraq continues to Block inspection of suspected nuclear weapons facilities. Under the . Cease fire Resolution ending the persian Gulf War Saddam promised to cooperate with the United nations in identifying and destroying All nuclear chemical or biological weapons Materiel and some Long Range ballistic missiles. A week ago however iraqi soldiers denied . Nuclear inspectors Access to trucks loaded with equipment believed to be a crude device for enriching uranium to weapons Grade Quality. The soldiers fired shots into the air when the . Inspectors tried to photograph the trucks up close As  along a Highway outside an army  Denver officer held in Denver apr during 25 years with the Denver police department James King was known As a quiet professional who got the Job done. At Home the retired sergeant was a gentle father who built Model trains and uttered in his Garden. A the Wasny to a rambo Type individual. He was just steady easy doing his Job a said detective Byrl Freeman who attended the police Academy with King. But the Placid life King and his family knew disintegrated wednesday when he was arrested in. King connection with the slayings of four unarmed Security guards during a fathers Day Bank robbery. King 54, is being held without Bond for investigation of four counts of first degree murder and one count of aggravated robbery. Prosecutors plan to file charges tuesday. On june 16, a Silver haired gunman with a moustache mane Vered his Way through the United Bank of Denver a Complex electronic Security equipment to a counting room where employees were tallying an estimated $1 million in weekend receipts police said. After ordering the employees into another room the gunman took an undisclosed amount of Cash and stripped the vide cameras of tapes that might identify him. The bodies of three guards were found in a Security control room. The fourth guard who investigators speculate was forced to help the gunman enter the secured area was discovered hours later in a basement. All were unarmed and were shot to death. During a manhunt by the Fri and Denver police authorities interviewed More than 50 people including King who worked for about a year As a weekend Security guard at the Bank until he resigned last fall. Denver police detective Dave Neil would not comment on what led to Kings arrest. A we want to make top demo asks hostage probe Washington apr Congress should icon duct an inquiry into allegations that the 1980 Reagan presidential Campaign tried to delay the release of american hostages in Iran a senior Democrat on he House foreign affairs committee said sunday rep. Lee Hamilton d-ind., said on lbs tvs face the nation the allegations a Are exceedingly serious a a fundamental abuse of our constitutional processes How you make foreign policy in this  Quot i think the Congress should go Forward with some kind of an inquiry a Hamilton said. Edwin Meese who served As attorney general under former president Reagan said on the same program that a a there a a real question whether Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the allegations. Hamilton and Meese were interviewed along with Gary sick a former National Security Council official in the Carter administration who recently raised the allegations. Sick said he believed a con Gressional investigation would be helpful. Sick has said there is evidence Reagan a Campaign strategists feared Carter might pull off an a october surprised by winning the hostages release and that Reagan a staff worked with iranian contacts to ensure that would not happen. Both Reagan and president Bush who was his vice presidential running mate in the 1980 Campaign have denied the allegations As Meese did sunday. Reagan recently asked officials of the Reagan presidential Library operated by the National archives to search Campaign files to see if they shed any Light on the question. Bush has said he would Welcome a congressional investigation but Hopes it does no to become a a billion Dollar Witch  eight of the 52 americans held hostage at the . Embassy in Tehran from 1979 until 1981 have called for a full Sale investigation of the allegations of delaying tactics. Sure that everything is done by the Lbook a Neil said. King graduated first in his class from the Denver police Academy in 1961. He was never involved in any shootings or on the Job problems said Freeman. King retired five years ago with a $20,000-a-year pension and worked Odd jobs including a stint As a private investigator. Bank officials declined to discuss King. Although acquaintances said King had no signs of financial problems he filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy in 1987, according to a Kunc to news report. Bankruptcy documents cited in the broadcast said he owed More than $90,000, including $65,000 on his House and Only had $3,844 in assets. After retirement King and his wife Carol settled into a Home with a tidy Yard in a Middle class neighbourhood. The couple have three grown sons Jim Greg and David. A neighbors said King was a quiet Man who kept to himself. He enjoyed a game of chess and putting together Model trains and cars As Well As working on his House and in his Yard said Spence Wood a neighbor.2 americans Hurt by Kuwait mine Kuwait a a . Army Soldier and an american woman working for the defense reconstruction assistance office both injured when their car hit a land mine were sent to saudi Arabia on sunday for medical treatment. The two were driving West of Kuwait City when their car struck a mine. The Man was seriously injured and the woman slightly Hurt said Ron Ruffennach a Public affairs officer for the reconstruction Effort. He said their names could not be released pending notification of relatives. Ruffennach said it was unclear whether the two were driving on a paved Road or went off the Road when the Accident occurred on Friday. Iraq planted hundreds of thousands of mines during its seven month occupation and scores of kuwaitis have been injured by mines and leftover ordnance. The kuwaiti government has hired a number of private companies to help Clear  Page 1 fatigues perched on rooftops As they shot at unidentified opponents below. White smoke wafted from the semiautomatic rifles. Several croatians were later brought to an unidentified Hospital on stretchers bandaged and bleeding. In Osisek roads leading to ten a were blocked by croatian militiamen and nearby hamlets swarmed with men in civilian clothing and uniforms toting shotguns rifles and other firearms. The army began shooting in ten a after it tried to separate battling croatian militias and armed serbs and was shot upon Tan Jug reported. The Federal forces previously had acted Only As a Buffer Between increasingly militant serbs defying croatian authority and special croatian forces determined to re establish it. More than 50 people have been reported killed in serb croat clashes in Croatia since May. Serbs who make up 11 percent of Croatia s 5 million people were massacred by the Lens of thousands by Croatia a nazi regime during world War ii. Many now say they fear renewed persecution. Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic has threatened to Annex parts of Croatia where serbs Are in the majority. On saturday he told his people to prepare for War. Tan Jug and Belgrade radio said the army became embroiled in sundays clashes in ten a after the troops tried to set up a Buffer zone. Croatian militiamen and guardsmen began firing on army armoured personnel carriers and Cannon then opened on both sides along with machine guns and mortars Tan Jug reported. But a croatian defense ministry spokesman said the Federal army fired first on the republics forces. Editors at the Osisek newspaper Glas Slavone said croatian defense forces fired artillery earlier sunday at serbian nationalists positions in ten a. The croatian defense ministry said the croats held their fire when the army moved in. But it said serbian nationalists then opened fire with mortars Over the army positions. While fighting grew and then died Down in ten a the dec foreign ministers a from Luxembourg Netherlands and Portugal a held talks with Federal and re publican officials about Slovenia Yugoslavia a other of spot. Slovenia seized its 27 Border posts after declaring Independence and the army sent out tanks and troops to take control of the Crossings into Hungary Austria and Italy. Fighting broke out and was fierce at times until a truce was declared wednesday. The red Cross in Slovenia said 62 people were killed. Control of Slovenia a Border Crossings Strong symbols of sovereignty to both sides were the main Issue in sundays talks on brioni the verdant vacation Isle of the late marshal Tito who led Yugoslavia after world War ii and kept a lid on ethnic tensions until he died in 1980. A this is one of the last chances for peace a said croatian president Franjo Tadjman who attended the meeting. Also attending were All eight members of the Federal presidency slovenian president Milan Kucan Federal Premier Ante Markovic and foreign minister Budimir Loncar. The Only major Republican Leader not present at the meeting was Milosevic. The Federal government had set a sunday noon deadline for Slovenia to turn Over its Borders but it passed uneventfully while the negotiators talked  
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