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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, October 13, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 13, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9 top iraqi official predicts future War with ., allies Nicosia Cyprus a iraqi vice president Taha Yasin Ramadan said Friday his country would again fight the United states and its regional allies especially saudi Arabia. He also accused other Arab and islamic countries of unjustly supporting the economic blockade of Iraq since its August 1990 invasion of Kuwait. A the Mother of All Battles is not the last of Arab fights against the United states and its allies slaves and agents in the Region a the senior Leader said in a speech to a Congress of Arab supporters the official iraqi news Agency reported. Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein had threatened that any attack on his country would result in a the Mother of All  the ground War in late february after a six week air Campaign lasted 100 hours. Ramadan said the United states would not have been Able to attack with such ferocity a had not the traitor rulers of saudi Arabia made the donations and put the sacred lands of the arabs at americans disposal to strike at Iraq from land sea and  the  coalition forces were headquartered in saudi Arabia which donated $13.5 billion to the cause and paid infrastructure and support costs for an estimated total of $70 billion. Ramadan claimed that saudi Arabia paid the United states $160 billion a for hitting  Ramadan said it was the arabs and not the United states who were behind the economic blockade. He said the states in the Region should vote to withdraw . Security Resolution 687, which established the Boycott because Iraq was no longer occupying Kuwait. He said the last had not been heard from Iraq and its friends. A America and its allies in the Region will be surprised by the uprisings that will be staged by the Arab masses against All the traitors and agents who betrayed Arab Honor a he said. British prime minister John major with his wife Norma at his Side Waves to the conservative party faithful. Major applauds British Economy vows to keep health care system. At a m a a a n _ i a  4 Rorm it lot of i a Fly hip London up a prime minister John major battling to contain a series of opposition attacks on his conservative party insisted Friday he would never abolish Britain a free National health care system and declared the nations Economy on the Way to recovery. Closing the annual conference of the conservative party for the first time As prime minister major the country a youngest Leader in More than a Century also renewed his Call for a classless society in a bid to show his party As More compassionate toward Britain a less privileged. A we must break Down the false and futile divisions based on class and envy. They Are wholly artificial. Our task is to break them for Good a said major the son of a circus performer. Speaking in the Seaside resort of Blackpool major pointed to the announcement Friday of a fall in the British inflation rate to 4.1 percent As a first step to economic recovery widely regarded As essential if majors party is win a fourth consecutive term. A for the first time in a generation we have brought our inflation rate Down to the German level and they said we could not do it. We did it and in just one year a major said. Brushing aside charges he has mismanaged the Economy and caused massive unemployment he said a we can now see the Way ahead to recovery out of the recession that will bring investment the investment that will bring jobs the jobs that will bring  major emphatically denied labor charges that the conservative party is privatizing the National health service which provides free health care to All citizens. A there will be no charges for Hospital treatment no charges for visits to the doctor no privatization of health care neither piecemeal nor in part not tomorrow not after the next election not Ever while i am prime minister a major said. On the thorny Issue of greater political and economic Unity in Europe a the leading Factor behind the ouster in november of prime minister Margaret Thatcher a major pleased delegates with the Assurance that a single european currency would not be forced on Britain. Frankfurt bound Jet makes emergency Landing in Iceland Kef Lavik Iceland a a Lufthansa jumbo Jet with 298 people aboard made an emergency Landing saturday after a cockpit Monitor indicated a fire in a cargo hold a  Navy spokesman said. There were no injuries and no fire was discovered. The Boeing 747 landed at Nas Kef Lavik and . Military Crews helped passengers and Crew evacuate the aircraft said Navy it. Joe Quimby. The Airfield about 30 Miles South of the capital of Reykjavik also is used for International civilian flights. The plane was in route from Toronto to Frankfurt Germany said Quimby. There was no immediate word on when the flight would resume he said. World9 killed when lightning strikes free food line from wire reports Dhaka Bangladesh a lightning struck a line of about 300 flood affect cd villagers waiting for free food killing at least nine news reports said Friday. Nineteen other people in the line were injured by bolts of lightning during a heavy downpour in the Northern Village of Pati Kora on thursday the it Tefas newspaper said. Eight women and a Man were killed instantly the newspaper said. The injured were treated in Hospital Tor Shock. The villagers were waiting for wheat and Rice being distributed by the government in regions hit by massive floods last  threatened new Delhi India a a sikh militant group released a photograph saturday of a kidnapped romanian Diplomat and threatened to Cut him a to pieces if three jailed militants Are not freed a news Agency reported. The Polaroid snapshot showed charge do affaires Liviu Radu romanians highest ranking Diplomat in India sitting on a carpeted floor flanked by two militants armed with ak-47 rifles United news of India said. A two Page letter accompanying the picture said Radu 53, was in poor health and that he had stopped eating Ana drinking. It said that if Radu collapses a in our custody the responsibility for his death will lie squarely with the Indian  Radu was abducted wednesday by four armed men while he was driving from his Home to his  ships located Jakarta Indonesia a a Salvage company has discovered Century old ships on the sea Bottom off Sumatra and the ships still Are Laden with porcelain glassware and other cargo officials said saturday. The wrecked 19th-Century French and British cargo ships were discovered in the Clasa Straits Between Bangka and Beli Tung islands off East Sumatra a in indonesian Waters the official news Agency Ankara said. Some 13,161 items including porcelain cups and plates glassware bottles of wine and tobacco pipes were buried in hardened Sand 98 feet deep an official said. The three Mast single deck Marie Therese weighing 503 tons and constructed in 1865, Sank in the Gelaska Straits Cooper reefs on feb. 29, 1872, while sailing from from Bordeaux France to  suspected London a a painting by Picasso and another by the French Painter Camille Pissarro were destroyed last week by a fire in an Antiques warehouse police believe was deliberately set Scotland Yard said Friday. A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said detectives were treating monday nights fire in the warehouse near London a Heathrow Airport As arson. British news reports on the fire said valuable paintings Bronze sculptures antique furniture porcelain and other treasures Worth Between $85 million to $171 million were destroyed in the  told to improve Beijing a China a vice Premier is ordering the governments airlines to Start taking off on time and Cut Down on cancellations or face penalties. Vice Premier Zhu Rongji a demanded a major breakthrough be made before the end of the year with strict disciplinary measures meted out in Case of failure a the official Xinhua news Agency reported thursday. The carriers Long have been renowned for lengthy unexplained delays repeated flight cancellations ticket mix  and rude staff. Travellers have told of being assigned to seats that did no to exist of passengers having to sit in the aisles and of stewardesses who became hysterical during bumpy flights  
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