PERSIAN GULF WAR
U.S. bombing cuts off Iraqi city
The following gulf war developments
worn reported by The AssociatesI Truss
Allied jets stepped up the air war Monday
with hundreds more (combing runs against Ira
qi targets. The city of Basra, nerve center of
Iraq's defense, was believed all but cut off
Iraq fired two Scuds at Israel and
launched a missile at Saudi Arabia, causing
injuries and damage in troth countries.
• • •
The Pentagon confirmed that Iraq appar
ently moved two captured IJ.S. soldiers to Bas
ra, including the only female American POYV,
Army Spec. Melissa Rathbun-Nealy. 20, of
Grand Rapids. Mich An Iraqi prisoner of war
described having taken the pair to Basra, a
Pentagon official said.
Diplomats stepped up efforts for a c ease
fire in the Persian Gulf war on Monday despite
Iraq's insistence it would not withdraw from
Kuwait.
In Tunis, Tunisia. Iraqi Deputy Premier
Saadoun Hammadi repeated that his country
was ready to negotiate an end to the gulf cri
sis, but said that the United States must not
take part in any talks.
A top Soviet envoy went to Baghdad to
meet with Saddam Hussein, and China sent a
deputy foreign minister to the Middle East to
discuss ways of ending the war.
• • •
The Headline News service of Cable News
Network briefly went black Monday because
editorial employees and about 1.500 other peo
ple were evacuated in a bomb threat at the
CNN office complex
• • •
One of the world's largest.herds of sea
cows lies directly in the path of an oil slick
creeping down the Persian Gulf const, authori
ties said Monday
Fakhro said an estimated 000 sea cows,
known as dugongs. live in the Bav of Salwa
between the island nation of Bahrain and the
Qatar peninsula
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printed in Esperanto in the
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ropean languages
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brarv of Oriental Art is also an
extensive part of i oiler lion
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of the collection is the set of
(iregon manusr ripts
Fox said the library was espe
ciallv interested in collecting
the manuscripts ot notable Ore
gun authors such as kesev, Da
mon knight I'rsula l.e C'.uin,
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helm
"Even though these maim
si ripts .ire not particularly
valuable now. they will be in
the future." Fox said
Although public ac i ess to the
rare books and manusc ripts is
important, that access < an leave
the collection vulnerable to
thefts
In December 1987, a staff
member (list overed several
boxes of manuscripts were
missing The boxes (ontained
tin* letters of Oliver Applegate,
a inombtir of an important Ore
gon pioneer family
l ibrary offir nils lielieve the
items, worth approximately
$t>f>().000. yvere stolen tielyveen
l )i toiler anil December 19117
\ person yxas looking .it the
Applegate letters in October
1987." (locks said "The same
person came bai k in late Do
i emlier of 19117 anil wanted to
look at the Applegate papers
again When the librarian xsent
bai k in the stai ks to retrieve
them, he discovered the whole
box was missing Obviously
people were very yvorried be
1 ause as they looked through
the staiks. they discovered
more items missing." (locks
said
The person whom librarians
believe stole the manuscripts.
9 1 year-old Stephen ( arrie
WumlxTg, was found guilty in
Iowa on Ian 11 ol stealing
2 1.000 rare books from libraries
across the United States and
(.ana da
The University lias recovered
approximately 9ft peri ent of the
stolen items
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