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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, August 7, 1991

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    European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sanctions unlikely to end soon . Says United nations a in the face of iraqis grudging piecemeal disclosure of its Clandestine nuclear arid biological weapons programs Security Council members say they see no justification for lifting economic sanctions., officials said monday that Iraq has now admitted to secretly conducting germ warfare research for years a and produced a Small amount of plutonium albeit just a fraction of the amount needed to make a nuclear bomb. Tote disclosures were the latest in a series concerning iraqis initially unreported biological weapons and nuclear programs. Iraq also has admitted to having four times As Many chemical weapons As it first declared or 46,000 instead of Between 11,000 and 12,000 originally noted. Security Council members said monday that the new disclosures Are unlikely to soften their resolve to maintain the Trade embargo they imposed on Iraq when it invaded Kuwait a year ago. Under the . Cease fire Resolution that ended the persian Gulf War Iraq agreed to cooperate in the disclosure and destruction of its Longe Range ballistic missiles As Well As its chemical biological and nuclear weapons capabilities. A these Are disclosures in a Long Long series of see Iraq ii on Page 2 this photo of hostage Terry Anderson a accompanied a statement released by his captors the islamic  . Beirut Lebanon a kidnappers holding american hostages Turiy Anderson and Thomas Sutherland said tuesday that they would Send an envoy with a an extremely important message Quot to the . Secretary general within the next 48 hours. The Secretary general Javier p6rez de Cuellar said he would meet with any representative of the hostage taking islamic jihad group. The islamic jihad s announcement came the same Day an iranian newspaper close to president Hashemi a Sfanjani of Iran reported that an american and a British hostage in Lebanon May be Recd by weeks end. The envoy was not named by islamic jihad and its message did not say How he would travel or further describe his plans. It also did not say whether the envoy would be an islamic jihad member a third party or even a  sister Peggy say said tuesday that the state department had notified families of the . Captives monday of a possible hostage release. Say said the United states had reports through diplomatic channels of a forthcoming release of an Ameri see captors on Page 2serbian activist gunned Down in Belgrade yugoslav troops take cover behind a tank after being attacked monday by croatian snipers in Dalj a Village Northwest of Belgrade. Belgrade Yugoslavia a a serbian opposition activist has been assassinated by masked men in Belgrade an attack that the Leader of the Republic s anti communist opposition accuses the governing socialists of being behind. Branislav malic Beli an activist of the serbian renewal movement the main opposition party in troubled Yugoslavia a largest Republic was gunned Down by two men in front of his House in downtown Belgrade on sunday night. The two masked men fired at least 40 rounds into Beli from machine guns while he was Locking his car a police report said. The movements president Vuk Draskovic accused Serbia a governing socialist party of complicity in the attack. A there Are indications that Serbia a leadership organized this political murder a Draskovic told a news conference monday. �?o1 his could be done Only by those who had the state behind  Beli who owned several junkyards in Belgrade was the main financier of Draskovics newly formed serbian guard a paramilitary armed unit that intends to protect serbian interests in Yugoslavia. The formation of the unit has been sharply criticized by the socialist leadership and its close ally in the republics parliament Vojislav Seselja. Seselja the Leader of chetnik extremist serbian nationalists involved in fighting with croat militiamen in the secessionist Republic of Croatia last week see serbian on Page 2esert Battlefield  
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