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Baker ready for Iraqi peace talks;
Saddam preparing for likely war
(AP) Saddam Hussein (old
Iraqis on Sunday to prepare for
a long war against the "tyranny
represented by the United
Stales." and he again ruled out
an unconditional withdrawal
from Kuwait.
In a national television ad
dress three days before the first
direct U S -Iraqi talks. Hussein
again linked any pullout to an
Israeli withdrawal from the oc
cupied territories — a stand
Washington has repeatedly re
jected
In Washington. Secretary of
State lames A Baker 111 repeat
ed that stand, saying. "We will
not agree to anything that
would constitute linkage."
Baker left Washington and
arrived in London late Sunday,
ahead of his scheduled talks
Wednesday with Iraqi Foreign
Minister Tariq Aziz in Geneva.
If that meeting fails, lie said. "I
am closing the door" to further
talks. He spoke in a TV inter
view.
While en route, Baker also re
jected a French overture to Iraq
that would link a pullout from
Kuwait to an eventual Mideast
peace conference "We find it
impossible to sign on to it."
Baker said
President Francois Mitter
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January 4, 1991
CUT Student*, Staff, and Faculty:
As In prior years, the University of Oregon will use Martin Luther King,
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the principles of social justice, freerVm. and racial equality so affectively
and eloquently chaaploned by Or. King. A special caspue task force has
planned a full week of activities starting Tuesday, January 15, culminating
with special program on Monday, January 11. I invite you to participate in
as eany of them scheduled activities as you can.
Beginning this year, an academic holiday in honor of Martin Luther Kirrj,
Jr. has bean declared. Wills Dr. King's birthday has been an official state
holiday for classified staff and managoaant service eepluyoas in recent years,
this is the first time that we have interrupted the academic schedule to
prwide opportunities for all staff, faculty and students to share in the
holiday celebration.
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holiday, we honor a great individual. Howwver, it is what we can gain fra
honoring Dr. King that led us to establish this academic holiday. Around tha
world and in this country, Cr. King's vision of social justice arc! racial
equality is far from achieved. Through special events and the recognition we
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rand of France has proposed of
fering Iraq some incentive to
withdraw With strong German
and Italian support, he has sug
gested holding a Mideast peace
conference after Iraq agrees to
pull out of Kuwait. During the
conference. Palestinian com
plaints against Israel would be
heard.
During his session with Aziz.
Baker said he will hand over a
letter from President Bush to
deliver to Hussein. "There real
ly is nothing to negotiate,"
Baker saiii. "There an? some
things to communicate."
The foreign ministers of Sau
di Arabia. Egypt and Syria
backed the U.S. stand, calling
the Baker-Aziz meeting the last
chance to peacefully resolve
the 5-month-old gulf crisis. The
ministers met Sunday in Saudi
Arabia.
In other developments Sun
day:
• Forty-two German. Belgian
and Italian air force jets flew to
Turkey to help defend its fron
tier with Iraq if war breaks out.
They made up a NATO air team
requested by Turkey, whose
border with Iraq is a possible
second front in a Persian Gulf
war.
• Iran and the European
Community made new efforts
to try to avert a gulf war Iran
urged the 46-nation Organiza
tion of the Islamic Conference
to consider a peace initiative,
and the EC repeated an invita
tion to Aziz to meet for talks.
Aziz rejected the original Euro
pean offer on Saturday.
"Things could change in the
coming days," French Foreign
Ministry spokesman Daniel
Bernard said in explaining the
new invitation. Me did not
elaborate, nor comment on
Iraq's suggestion that EC offi
cials could go to Baghdad.
• In Saudi Arabia. King
Fahd urged Hussein to avoid
"the catastrophe of war." and
pledged to support a settlement
of Iraq's territorial dispute with
Kuwait if Baghdad pulls out.
In his first meeting with
Western media in the 5-month
old gulf crisis. Fahd also said
there is no need for outside
forces on Saudi soil once the
crisis is solved, countering past
US. government statements
that a Western military pres
ence might be necessary in the
area for some time after an Iraqi
withdrawal.
• Four international airlines
suspended flights to Israel, cit
ing steeper insurance rates The
suspensions were announced
by the Scandinavian company
SAS. Polish Lot Airlines, Cy
prus Airways and South Afri
can Airlines. I.ast week Pan
Am also announced a suspen
sion of flights to Israel, while
British Airways and KLM cut
hack the number of weekly
flights.
Hussein's television address
came nine days before the ]an.
15 U.N. deadline for Iraq to
pull out of Kuwait or Lace pos
sible attack.
Martial music preceded his
speech, which marked the 70th
anniversary of the founding of
the Iraqi army.
Dressed in his customary ol
ive green military fatigues and
dark beret. Hussein opened the
25-minute address with a verse
from the Koran. Islam's holy
book, which said that war is
moral when the cause is just.
Hussein praised his soldiers
for "the return of Kuwait to its
Iraqi motherland," where it
would remain "for the present
and future times.”
"The battle against the tyran
ny represented by the United
States and the slogans of he
gemony it is raising ... is not
expected to be a short one," he
said in calm, measured tones.
The message was apparently
aimed at building morale in a
nation suffering increasingly
from a global U.N. trade embar
B°
"A battle of such scope re
quires great sacrifices both in
quantity and quality, irrespec
tive of the foreseen and unfore
seen consequences which will
no doubt please the friend and
anger the enemy."
A traditional Army Day mili
tary parade was canceled in
Baghdad. No official explana
tion was provided.
Most of Hussein's million
strong army is tied up in war
preparations. He has an esti
mated 530,000 men in occu
pied Kuwait and along the
southern Iraqi border shared
with Saudi Arabia.
They face a 580.000-strong
U.S.-led multinational force,
which has been growing since
Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Ku
wait.
In his speech. Hussein boast
ed that his army now has the
strength "to accomplish all its
goals and take on the enemy.
"It is indeed a source of great
pride to accomplish more than
one goal in a single show
down." he said, linking his
struggle to the liberation of the
Israeli-occupied West Bank and
Claza Strip.
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