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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 50, no. 179 wednesday october 9,1991 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces 35� d 8693 a Holiday mail. Jugs 9 re i f  Vav Quot a 1 1089 v8 Misk the us. A feet service Tor mall leaving the United states. See Story on Page 3. To Europe space available nov. 11 parcel . 22 priority parcels cards amp letter dec. 2 to the Middle East space available nov. 4 parcel . 11 priority . 15 cards amp . 25 of y a. V. It a. A v Thomas showdown puts Senate on Edge source . Postal service Sas Susan Harris Washington apr the Senate moved toward a climactic confirmation vote tuesday on supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas. But a Republican supporter of Thomas said he might ask for a delay to review allegations of sexual harassment by Anita Hill a Law professor at the University of Oklahoma in Norman who twice served As Thomas assistant. The allegations said to have occurred in the Early 1980s, came just before the vote that was expected to Send Thomas to a lifetime seat on the nation s highest court a and plunged the Senate into tumult. On tuesday sen. Arlen Specter r-pa., who provided an important vote for Tnomas on the Senate judiciary committee suggested a delay in that evening s scheduled vote although he still believed Thomas would be confirmed. A was i have slept on the matter and think it through another 24 hours  make a lot of difference a Specter said on no cd a today show. A a in a giving More consideration to the possibility there perhaps should be a hearing. I done to believe its going to change my vote. I Felt comfortable voting for judge Thomas because i confronted him looked him in the Eye. A but now there a a question perhaps of taint of the supreme court. The Senate is really the guardian of the supreme court and if it takes another Day or two i think it might be Well to put any doubts to rest. 1 done to think it la change the  Specter said he wanted to talk to Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas and other senators about delaying the vote. Hill also appearing on today questioned the Way the judiciary committee handled her allegations. Quot i done to believe that they were necessarily taken seriously a said the professor who was Thomas aide at the department of education and later when he headed see Thomas on Page 2u.n. Reports Little known iraqi nuke Center United nations a iraqi president Saddam Hussein planned to design and produce a nuclear bomb at a research Center about 40 Miles South of Baghdad that was Only lightly bombed during the persian Gulf War . Inspectors report. Western intelligence agencies thus failed before the War to determine the significance of the a1 atheer Center. Only through documents impounded by a team of . Nuclear inspectors last month was the centers significance Learned. A confidential report from Hans Blix the head of the International atomic Energy Agency to . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar identified the research Center As the Hub of iraqis secret $10 billion nuclear program. The report said iraqis nuclear program sought to develop an implosion Type nuclear weapon which requires far More sophistication in electronics and computer programming than a Hiroshima Type atom bomb. In examining the 25,000 pages of documents the  inspectors found evidence of much greater nuclear sophistication than previously suspected. They found that Baghdad was developing a surface to surface missile a presumably the intended delivery system for their nuclear weapon a the report says. The investigators also Learned of iraqis development of a uranium enrichment program. It has not yet been determined whether Iraq had produced sufficient enriched uranium to build a bomb. The report names or. Jaffar Dhia Jaf far the no. 2 Man in the iraqi atomic Energy commission As head of the nuclear weapons program. A the team. Believes that or. Jaffar had the Lead technical and administrative responsibility for the nuclear program As a whole a despite his repeated claims that no such program existed a the report  . Weapons inspectors under the supervision of David Kay seized iraqi personnel records from iraqi atomic Energy commission offices in Baghdad on sept. 24, but armed guards and Jaffar refused to let the team leave. A five Day standoff in the commissions parking lot ended when Iraq permitted the inspectors leave on condition they provide a list of the documents it , wife beam message to Anderson in Nicosia Cyprus Terry Anderson s daughter Salome watches the kidnappers videotaped interview with her father. London up the 6-year-old daughter of american hostage Terry Anderson and his common Law wife used the airwaves of the British broadcasting corp. To reach him monday certain for the first time he was hearing their words of Hope for his release. A Terry in a amazed and proud a Madeleine Bassil Andersons common Law wife said during the bbl world service program Outlook today a Day after his captors in Lebanon released a videotape in which the longest held Western hostage said he and his fellow captives listened to the program. A there was not one Day that we did no to talk to you whether in our prayers or alone a Bassil said. A the Good thing is that i know you re listening to us and not like the thousands of times we talked to you knowing it was going to stay in our hearts. We Are Well and  Andersons daughter Salome born after the associated press Beirut Bureau chief was kidnapped in 1985, gave her father a report on the subjects she was studying in school and read him a poem she wrote for him. It was lebanese born Bassily a first interview since Anderson was kidnapped. She said she was encouraged by the 12-minute videotape released by his captors the islamic jihad which showed him in Good health and spirits. A a we be seen him on videotape before but never like this never that smiling look on his face a she said. A a he a Happy. I can see he a expecting  Anderson who will be 44 this month said in the videotaped interview that he played chess each Day with fellow captives american Thomas Sutherland and the British anglican envoy Terry Waite who Are he said a physically Well and in Good  Bassil said Andersons appearance gave her renewed Hope the hostages would soon be freed  
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