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Bush’s letter refused
RIYADH. Saudi Arabia (AP) - it sat on the conference
table — a letter from the president of the United States to the
president of Iraq.
Its exact contents are still a secret. But not die overall
message: Withdrew your 500.000 troops from Kuwait by next
Tuesday or risk the probability of war.
Secretary of State fames A. Baker in bad (nought the let
ter to Geneva to turn over to Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq
Aziz.
As recounted by sources familiar with the meeting, the
letter remained sealed in an 8-by-10 maiilla envelope with
the ’ ‘White House" logo in black on the cover.
Three times during the 6 hours and 27 minutes of talks
the two delegations left the room.
The letter did not. It remained on the table, watched
over by one of Baker's security guards — with an open Invi
tation to Aziz to pick it up.
But Aziz left it there, fust before they parted. Baker
asked him to take the letter with him to Baghdad.
Aziz refused, and the letter is now miking the rounde of
the Persian Gulf end the Middle Best with Baker.
If anything symbolizes the stalemate It is the letter end
Aziz’s reaction.
Baker had handed over e copy In English to the foreign
minister during their talks.
His hands tiembliag. and reading slowly. Aziz digested
the contents — end denounced thani taler el a news confer
ence as threatening and undtjphMnatic.
As Tuesday’s deadtim approaches. UJN. Secretary-Gen
eral Javier Pwtez de Cuellar is working on a formula for the
withdrawal of the half-miHicm irMi trooos from Kuwait
Aziz's refaction of Buah’s letter is graphic evidence that
the U S. message — quit Kuweit or face war — fust may not
be getting through.
Troops disappointed by
failure of peace talks
EASTERN SAUDI ARABIA
(AP) — The people who would
fight listened anxiously to
Armed Forces Radio in the de
sert or watched television in
the cities as U S. and Iraqi dele
gations met in Geneva.
Then Wednesday's talks end
ed and Secretary of State (antes
A Baker 111 announced that he
saw no signs of an Iraqi with
drawal front Kuwait.
A few groans broke the si
lence among viewers at the
U S military's Joint Informa
tion Bureau.
"I think we're going to war."
said Sgt 1st Class Earl Godette.
from Ellesheim, Germany,
where his 11th Aviation Bri
gade is based.
"1 think the guys in the mili
tary want peace the most since
they’re the guys who are going
lo get shot at. Hut I'm not sur
prised it came to this point."
he said after the failed talks be
tween Baker and Iraqi Foreign
Minister Tariq Aziz.
At a commercial port where
the first shipment of MlAl
tanks for the Marines was being
unloaded. Sgt. Bernard Castro
was resigned.
"OK, so we’ll go in and do
our job then. At least we’ve got
something to go on," said Cas
tro, 24. whose Marine Reserve
unit operates amphibious as
sault vehicles.
An army tank unit from Ger
many that had stopped at a ho
tel near an air base in eastern
Saudi Arabia to make phone
calls, seemed stunned by the
news as its members in green
camouflage milled in the lobby,
their rifles slung casually on
couches.
"1 hope it won’t come to a
whole lot of casualties.” said a
staff sergeant, who spoke on
condition he not be identified
Spec. Justin Van Schaik, 20,
questioned the entire rationale
of war.
"It's more or less a world
gone mad.” he said. "Great,
there are justifications, ration
ales but 1 don’t think it goes far
enough. Where do you find the
reason for men killing men?
OK, maybe I should have de
clared conscientious objector
years ago.
"Now I'm stuck hern. I can
live with it but I am a little dis
appointed ” he added
Pfc. Douglas McGahey, 19,
an Army operating room tech
nician. said "it would be sui
cide for the Iraqis not to move
out.
"The stubbornness of Sad
dam Hussein is just mind-bog
gling." he said. "I hope that be
comes to his senses. It's obvi
ous he's a very intelligent man
... but regardless of what his
motives are. to me that's not
worth the amount of lives that
would be the result of his stub
bornness."
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Shevardnadze favors troops in Baltic
MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet
Foreign Minister F.duard A.
Shevardnad/.e said in an inter
view that deployment of Soviet
troops to seven secessionist re
publics is not an excessive use
of force.
He also said in an interview
with The Christian Science
Monitor Television in Moscow,
released Thursday, that his suc
cessor probably will take part
in the scheduled Feb. 11-13
summit between presidents
Hush and Mikhail S. Corba
chev.
Shevardnadze cited fears of a
dictatorship in a speech last
month in which he resigned as
foreign minister, a position he
has held since 1985.
Gorbachev on Monday or
dered Soviet paratroopers to
help track down draft resisters
in seven republics. Baltic lead
ers charged the move was in
tended to suppress their inde
pendence drives and was con
firmation of Shevardnadze's
warning of impending dictator
ship.
However, when asked on
Wednesday whether the de
ployments were further evi
dence of dictatorship. Shevard
nadze said no.
"I can't say this is the dis
play of some kind of dictator
ship." he said. "This is a sim
ple desire to introduce order,
because it's impossible to live
under conditions of chaos and
anarchy. It's chaos and anarchy
that can lead to a dictatorship.
That's my answer."
Shevardnadze, a native Geor
gian. acknowledged that
"there's very serious concern
in the Baltics and in
Transcaucasia in general, in
cluding Georgiu. We have to
combine our efforts to instill or
der so that people stop being
afraid for their lives, for their
children, and this is a real, real
danger."
lie said after his resignation
that he had considered resign
ing last year after Soviet para
troopers killed til demonstra
tors in a nationalist rally.
His comment about whether
he would stay on the job until
the Hush-Uorbachev meeting
was his first since he resigned.
Asked whether he would
take part in the summit confer
ence. Shevardnadze replied. "I
don't think so. I don't think so.
I am sure that in the coming
days the Supreme Soviet (legis
lature) will decide."
(iorbachev has said Shevard
nadze will remain foreign min
ister until a successor is cho
sen. but has given no date.
Shevardnadze has been in
strumental in helping thaw re
lations with the United States
through direct meetings und
summits.
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