U.N. inspector disputes Bush claims
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WASHINGTON
(AIM — The for
mer hood of Unit
ed Notions nude
ur inspections in Iraq, on Tues
day disputed President Bush's
statement that no U S. technol
ogy was used in that country’;
atomic development program.
David A Kuy ltd Ihreo nu
clear inspections in Iraq after
the Persian Gulf War, Ho wus
quoted by the Center for Secu
rity Policy, a conservative re
search group, saying that
"U.S.*manufactured equip
ment und nuclear technology
wen; found as components of
Iraq’s nuclear program."
As an example. Kay cited
electron-beam welding ma
chines made in the United
Smuts, which tho U.N. inspec
tor* discovered at lra<|i nuclear
development hi. (ho re
search group said In a news re
lease.
hush madn tho statement in
Monday night's presidential
debate. in response to charges
by Bill Clinton and Knss I’onit
that his administration had
coddled Saddam Hussain lie
fbro Iho Gulf War
"The nuclour capnhillly has
boon searched by tho United
Nations, and tlurru hasn't boon
one single scintilla of evldoncs
that Ihuro's any U S technol
ogy involved in It," the presi
dent said.
"And what you're seeing on
all this 'Iniq-gnto' is a bunch of
pnoplo who wore wrong on the
‘U. S. -manufactured
equipment and
technology were
found as
components of
Iraq’s nuclear
program.’
— David Kay,
former fiead U N nuclear
inspector
war trying to cover their nock*
and Iry to do a little revision
ism And I cannot lot that
stand, because it isn't true."
Democrats in Congress have
blasted the administration for
months for what they say was
a dangerous policy of support
for Saddam before the Gulf
War
US aid to Iraq Included
sales of advanccsl technology
Under Presidents Reagan and
Bush, the Commerce Depart
ment guvu U S. companies per
mission to sell Iraq some SI 5
billion in technology with po
tential military uses from 1WH5
until Iraq invaded Kuwait in
August 1990.
After the Gulf War. U.N. in
spectors in Iraq discovered an
elect non-boom welder that they
wore curtain had Ix'en used in
Saddam's nuclear weapons
program
Perot’s Iraq charges refuted by State Department
WASHINGTON (AP) • The Slam Doporl
mnni waded into tins political debate over
Iraq on Tuesday with u polnt-by-potnl rtjjuc
lion of assertions t>v Ross I’orot uImhiI Bush
administration dealings with Saddam Hus
soin shortly bnforu his trtxips invaded Ku
wait
Spokesman Richard Boucher said the
United States had "never and 1 repeat nev
er" told or suggested to Saddam that lit!
could take the northern portion of Kuwait
with impunity as Perot charged
Acting Set relary of State Lawrence S lac
gleburger also releastsl a letter to I tie New
York Tunes in which he defended the ad
ministration's actions and saiil the newspa
per's editorial board and columnists were
distorting fat ts utmul U S polit y prior to the
Persian Gulf War
“There was nothing set ret or t overt about
ll.S policy toward Iraq." Lagleburger wrote
"Our goal, simply stated, was lo sock to
moderate Iraqi behavior with a mix of limit
ed incentives and strong dlsini entlvos
Traditionally. the State Department keeps
its distance during political campaigns Bou
cher said haglehurger had acted on his own
in tackling the assertions Perot made Mon
day night during the dehate with President
Bush and Gov Bill Clinton, though laiglo
hurger had telephoned Brent Scowcroft, the
president s national security adviser, "to tell
him what we intended to sav
"We want to have the record sir.light,"
Boucher said
Scowcroft disputed Perot's assertions as
well He called them "a shot (rum the Inp,
obviously
Telephone rails seeking comment from
Peru! were referred lo spokeswoman Sharon
Holman, who did not immediately respond
Perot, in a wide-ranging attar k on US
polity low .ml Iraq, charge*! in the debate
thsil April ('. (’.laspio. than the U S umbussa
dor In Baghdad, hat) told Saddam "in effect”
that Iraq could "lake the northern pari of Ku
wait
Perot said ho believed Ms Uluspiu re
oeived Instructions from Washington lo
make such a stalenienl and that the text of
the message had Ihvii withheld from Senate
committees and the public
Boucher said Ms Cl,aspic's meeting July
25. with Saddam, a week before Ole
invasion of Kuwait, was held on short notice
and no mstrui lions had been provided lo
her for the talk Scowcrofl said the same.
"The United States has never, and I repeat
never, told or in any way indicated to Sail
dam Hussein that Iraq could lake the north
ern part ol Kuwait Nowhere in any docu
ment is there tile statement or even the sug
gestion," the spokesman salt!
Nuke plant
shut down
a mystery
SLNLX'.A. SC. (Al’J — A reac
tor at the Oconee Nuclear Sta
tion shut down automatically
when it lost some backup pow
er Utility officials didn’t know
the cause Tuesday.
"There was no danger to the
public. No release of radiation
or injuries to personnel oc
curred," said Jim Hampton,
Oconee site vice president.
A six-member team from the
Nuclear Regulatory Commis
sion was at the power plant
Tuesday for a special inspec
tion.
The plant, owned by Duke
Power Co., declared an unusual
event, the lowest of four classi
fications under NKC rules, late
Monday and ended it five
hours later when power was re
stored
Thu plant’s Unit 2 reactor
shut down when an unknown
problem in the plant’s electric
switchyard tripped circuit
breakers and cut off the reac
tor’s outside power, the utility
said Such outside? power gen
erates the reactor when it
doesn’t generate enough to run
itself
Other backup power was
available, the NKC said, and
Hampton said plant safety sys
tems functioned normally.
Duke Power spokeswoman
Susie Adams said the power
outage that caused Unit 2 to
shut down lasted about 30 sec
onds.
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