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Eastern Illinois University The Keep October 1990 10-30-1990 Daily Eastern News: October 30, 1990 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1990_oct Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: October 30, 1990" (1990). October. 21. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1990_oct/21 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1990 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in October by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ~N. official French land lls Hussein home after 90-day ordeal ' By The Associated Press Hundreds of French citizens qi leader Saddam Hussein is a arrived in Paris late Monday after ified madman" according to leaving Baghdad on a flight to . United Nations Ambassador freedom following a three-month James Wilkinson, who spoke to ordeal in which they had been held pacity crowd Monday night in hostage in Iraq and occupied zard Building Auditorium. Kuwait on the orders of Saddam 'ilkinson, who is also a deputy Hussein. ambassador for the U.N. President Bush and Secretary of urity Council, said current State James Baker III warned the ited Nations sanctions have been United States would be qu ick to ective against Iraq, but the attack Iraq if provoked. sian Gulf crisis is still unpre Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak ble. Shamir said Iraq would pay a "ter It's a very, very difficult situa , t rible price" if it "lay a finger on to (predict),'' Wilkinson said. Israel." There was no indication ut) we have a very strong inter whether the unusually hawkish 'onal coalition against Saddam remarks, in separate speeches sein. Monday, were made in coordina ''Certainly I consider him tion or meant to respond to any dam) a madman," he added. specific threat from Iraq. Wilkinson outlined the recent The U.N. Security Council ges in the United Nations, to voted to hold Iraq liable for dam 'ch he attributed the current - ages caused by its takeover of tiveness of the organization. -Kuwait. Later, officers from the "Over the last few years the five permanent council members 'ted Nations has been changing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, James Wilkinson, addresses a standing-room-only crowd on Middle met to discuss the sanctions in one ically," Wilkinson said. "The East issues Monday night in Buzzard Auditorium. of the highest-level military meet ings at the United Nations but the -found ability of the United · dialogue (on the U.N. Security the sale of oil. (Since) you can't put Model United Nations members session ended without a statement. ·ans to work together has posi Council)," Wilkinson said. "That oil in your pocket, you have to and was guest speaker at an In Paris, throngs of family mem ed us very well to be able to gives us a lot of confidence." move it, (so the sanctions did) grab International Tea. He also attended bers and journalists cheered as the with the Persian Gulf crisis. Wilkinson, whose visit was spon Saddam Hussein where it hurts in a press conference with local chartered Iraqi Airways Boeing Much of the history of the sored by the political science tenns of oil exports. media. 747 carrying 263 French citizens 'ted Nations has been marked by department, said the United Nations "(But) as long as Saddam "Predicting a future in the and 19 other Westerners touched isions .. upon ideological and its security council were better Hussein thumbs his nose at these Middle East is always a tricky busi down at Paris' Charles de Gaulle nds," he continued. "(But with) prepared for a crisis like the Persian (United Nations) resolutions, he's ness," Wilkinson said. "I think it's Roissy airport at midnight. shift in the Soviet Union" much Gulf situation than they had been in got to be aware that the way is open too early to say what kind of (mili Among the Frenchmen were the this disagreement is gone, he the past. (for further action)," Wilkinson tary) presence (the United States last seven diplomats who endured d. "We had (before the crisis) in added. may have) over what period of an arduous siege of their embassy Wilkinson said the changing place a kind of new way of doing The most recent U.N. resolution, time. At the moment it's pretty in Kuwait. rid has changed the United business," he said. "(Now) we have passed Monday morning, states that hypothetical." The Iraqi jetliner picked up tions and allowed more unity a good start, I think, in dealing with "restitution or compensation will Wilkinson, who has been in more than 50 French evacuees in in the organization. the Persian Gulf crisis." have to be paid" and that "Iraq is United States foreign service since Kuwait City in the afternoon "There is a sense of solidarity The United Nations' economic liable" for any damages it causes, 1962, said he was glad to see abun before flying to Baghdad, where und the world," he said. "The sanctions against Iraq have been Wilkinson said. dant local interest in global affairs. hundreds of hostages celebrated e has come for the United very effective so far, Wilkinson "We will all ... have to see how it 'Tm impressed by the general with beer and whiskey as the plane ions to find a way to preserve a said. goes and keep reassessing the situa interest in global (events) that I've landed. in basic stability. Unity has to "It's been a very successful oper tion," he said. encountered here at Eastern," About 60 French citizens sustained over time. ation," he said. "Ninety percent of While on campus Monday, the Wilkinson said. "I'm very happy to believed to have been in Iraq and "We find a new consistency of Iraq's foreign earnings come from ambassador met with Eastern (have been) here." Kuwait did not leave. IONS a circus to ex-official By CAM SIMPSON thinks there's a sucker born every supply. Senior reporter minute. · The nature of the acquifer's But he told about 50 Clark link to the city's water supply is recipient of the letter, wlikb County residents Monday night now being questioned by IDNS calls for a month of CAA deUb If you ever stood up for any that they didn't have to be suck scientists. eration beyond the council's thing in your life, stand up for ers. Walker's Monday speech was The Council on Academic -0riginal Nov. 18 deadline. this. End this farce. End this Walker, a fonner administrator part of an effort by the Concerned airs doesn't believe it can "Since communication from moral amnesia. End this political for the embattled Illinois Depart Citizens for Clark County - a t its deadline for approving President Rives suggested that lethargy. End this exploitation. ment of Nuclear Safety, came to group opposed to the siting of the w general education courses. the number of courses passed by End this carnival ... It is time to Casey Monday to help residents dump in Martinsville - to orga After Eastern President Stan the CAA in the Human tell this three-ring circus to take there boot his old bosses, or "the nize support for next Tuesday's ives returned courses to the Behavior, Social interaction, and its dirty elephants, load up its ring masters," as he called them, referendum, when citizens of . uncil with the suggestion that Well-Being segment was not clowns, pack its phony costumes. out of their neighborhood . Clark County will be asked perhaps had lost sight of the consistent with the integrated take its complicitous con-games, As an IDNS administrator, whether they want the dump. The • tegrated core concept, Chair core concept, it is necessary to fold its tents, and get out of Walker helped put together the referendum will be included on · y Bar.es has submitted a let- take time to reconsider that town." current "circus" he sees happen the general election ballot. r requesting four addition.al coroponent.'"Bates wrote in the ing in nearby Martinsville. There, Walker worked for the IDNS ekS for the CAA to complete letter to Kindrick - Richard Walker, former the IDNS is planning to site a until Sept. 1, 1989. That's when 'task; Bates said Mund~y -evening administrator for the Illinois low-level nuclear waste dump, he resigned as senior policy ana Vice.·President fot Academk: that he ~gan contemplating a, Department of Nuclear Safety. despite recent reports that the site lyst because, "I disagreed with .ffafrs Robert Kindrick is the • Continued oa page 2 :. is directly above an acquifer •i :.~ •• CASEY - Richard Walker tapped by the city for its water "Continued on page 2 2 Tuesday, October 30, 1990 The Dally Eastern Ne• Sentencing Baker continues Gulf war rhetoric scheduled for By the Associated Press "He must also realize that should he We will not rule out a possible use Friday to consult on future steps · use chemical or biological of force if Iraq continues to occupy the gulf. On Friday, the gulf · former coach WASHINGTON (AP) weapons, there will be the most Kuwait." Other officials said the will pass the three-month mark. A former Eastern assistant Secretary of State James Baker ill severe consequences." Baker, administration is closely monitor Baker said that while the in basketball coach guilty of four said Monday the United StateS"'is speaking to the Los Angeles World ing diplomatic probes by the Soviet tional community tries to build counts of mail fraud will appear " exhausting every diplomatic Affairs Council, reaffirmed that the Union and Jordan, among others, to the successful ending of the for his sentencing Tuesday in a avenue" to achieve peace in the United States strongly prefers a determine whether there is any War, "Saddam Hussein seems federal court.