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. VOL. XXIII NO. 90 MONDAY , FEBRUARY 11, 1991 I . THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S : Bombing raids continue; GULF WAR ROUNDUP sunday, Feb. 10 Cheney, Powell visit While flying back to Washington, Diplomatic front U.S. ponders ground war Defense Secretary Dick Cheney told •Iraq rejected I>IIAIIHAN. Saudi Arabia (AP) planes flew 2,800 missions reporters the air campaign had reduced the two new peace - As allied pilots bombed Iraqi Sunday, concentrating on He fighting power of some Iraqi divisions by plans by Iran and the troops and their supply lines publican Guard troops on the as much as non-alingned movement. Sunday, a senior American lraqi-Kuwaiti border and the 40 percent.....•. ·····.···r.. u·R·K-E .. Y···· ·-•. : ...• __ ,....._,_. •A Soviet envoy traveled to military official said the U.S. bridges, highways and railways . Y Baghdad for talks with led forees could use another used to supply them. ~:--~;;i;--··r:" ..... ~ ... ~addam Huss_e_in_.-___,,--.......,J thrne to four weeks to prepare ~~·/:.S .. , {~ for a ground offensive. The fierce action in the air, LEBANON ,/lf~_./···r 0 Defense Secretary Dick Ch and sporadic exchanges of ar ISRAEL __,.1 · .. · ·- Baghdad eney, meanwhile, said the next tillery along the Saudi border, .. -h. f"'-1 \ IRAQ phase of the Persian Gulf War came as Cheney headed back to _.-; , ·· -·.JORDAN would probably combine air OPERATION Washington to brief President power with both ground and DESERT STORM Bush on the progress of the 25- I ,, amphibious combat. But he day-old war. would not say how soon it He told reporters flying home I ~ Allied air war might begin. • Saddam on radio I page 8 with him that the air campaign • · • U.S. and British pilots bombed Iraqi troops and their • NDSEA's stand I page 8 had reduced the fighting power supply lines Sunday. ~ In Iraq, President Saddam of some Iraqi divisions by as 1I • The U.S. lost their first warplane Hussein made his first nation • Cheney on future I page 9 much as 40 percent. I in more than a week. A Marine Corp ·- . wide broadcast to his people • Kuwait's relief plan I page 9 Although Cheney did not say \ Av-8 Harrier was downed over soulhern · since thme days after the war:. when a ground and amphibious ' Kuwait on Saturday. The pilot is missing. began. said in Washington. "Of course, assault might begin, a senior Iraqi Prisoners Speaking on Baghdad radio, that's what the whole world is American military official said RBI/ • 75 more Iraqi soldiers he congratulated them for. wanting to hear." some U.S. forces just arrived in S1a crossed into Saudi Arabia and 0 Riyadh withstanding the attacks by the In the air campaign, the Saudi Arabia and they need \\ surrendered to the Allied forces. SAUDI ARABIA allied "warplanes of shame." Americans lost their first war three or four more weeks to lie told them their valor was plane in combat in more than a prepare. inspiring the hundreds of thou week. A Marine Corps AV-8 As of 3 p.m EST AP sands of Iraqi soldiers at the Harrier was downed over "The guys just off the boat, front. southern Kuwait on Saturday, they could use some more recently arrived from Europe. Iraq said it would welcome a "I heard what Saddam Hus and the pilot was missing, the time," the official told The As Such forces have the ground assault by the allies, sein said and I didn't hear him U.S. command said. sociated Press in Riyadh on specialized M-1 tanks designed say anything about him getting Taking advantage of improv condition of anonymity. He was to take on Iraq's Soviet-made T- see IRAQ I page 5 out of Kuwait," President Bush ing weather, American war- referring to the ground units 72 tanks. Violence Israel welcomes Lebanese erupts in army, warn it to stop P·LO South Africa MARJAYOUN, Lebanon {AP) week, and were surprised at its - Israel on Sunday warned it trouble-free deployment. .IOIIANNESBUHG, South will continue to hammer Pales "As to the future, we have to Africa (AI') - Hival black ac tinian guerrillas in south Le wait and see. For the time be tivists fought with spears. banon if the newly deployed Le ing. everything is fine," said knives an& guns in a township banese Army fails to curb at Lahad, speaking to reporters at whme anti-apartheid leaders tacks against Israel or its Le a joint command headquarters rallied for peace last week, po banese allies. along with Peled. lien said Sunday. Lahad said he had no direct At least one man supporting "We cannot allow the Lebanese contact with the Lebanese tlw lnkatha Frendom Party was Army to be an umbrella for Army, but "there are under-the killed in clashes with backers of terror activities," said Maj. Gen. table contacts" by third parties. the African National Congress Yossi Peled, commander of Lahad and Peled said they in Bekkersdal township, outside Israel's northern forces. would not yield control over the .Johannesburg. In a meeting with foreign re self-declared Israeli security porters, Peled gave Israel's first belt adjacent to the border, On Thursday. leaders of the assessment of the Beirut where Israel has stationed ANC, Inkatha and the militant government's move to extend about 1,000 troops to support Pan Afrieanist Congress and its control to the south, a law the 2,500 men of Lahad's mili Azanian People's Organization less arena of Israeli-Palestinian tia. gatlwrnd to urge an end to the battles and Lebanese factional violm1ce in Bekkersdal. where ism. The Lebanese Army has been at least 14 pl~ople have died in South Lebanon, riven by pro mandated to move into all ar unrest in the past two weeks. and anti-Iraqi factions, briefly eas of the country to reassert Police said two people were became a sub-theater of the the Beirut goverhment's control killtld Sunday in Natal province, Gulf War, as Palestinians sup and disarm the dozens of war where the ANC and lnkatha ap porting Saddam Hussein tried ring militias and faetions. prowd a cease-fire last month. to open a "second front" But until now it has stayed Thn report gave no other de against Israel, which also was out of the cauldron of south tails. under attack from Iraqi ballistic Lebanon, a jigsaw of zones con Supportl~rs of the ANC and missiles. trolled by the PLO, the Amal Inkatha have battled in black The dispatch of the Lebanese Shiite militia, the pro-Iranian townships for years, leaving Army came partly to quell the Hezbollah militia, various thousands of people dead. trouble before it escalated out communist factions and Israel. ANC leader Nelson Mandela of control. Gunners of Yasser Arafat's and lnkatha chief Mangosuthu Fatah wing of the Palestine Buthelnzi ended decades of es "So far, the beginning seems Liberation Organization fired trangmnent on Jan. 29 and met to be okay," said Peled. "The about 60 short-ranged in an effort to persuade their test will be if it is able to pre Katyusha rockets toward Israel followt!rs to stop fighting. They vent terror activity. We have no in a show of solidarity with approved a resolution calling interest to find ourselves in a Iraq. for an immediate halt to the vi conflict with the Lebanese Israel retaliated fiercely for olfmct!. Army," he said. barrages of Katyusha rockets, Some of the violence in Peled and Gen. Antoine La with five days of air strikes and Bekkersdal has pitted the ANC had, chief of the Israeli-spon heavy artillery barrages capped against the Azanian People's AP Photo sored South Lebanon Army, last Thursday by a combined Organization, or AZAPO. The Devastation said they welcomed the 1,600 air and ground raid against a soldiers dispatched by the cen command post and training township traditionally has been Residents view the damage caused by the 11th Iraqi-launched tral Lebanese government last center in eastern Lebanon. an AZAPO stronghold. Scud missile on the Tel Aviv area Saturday. INSIDE COLUMN Administration uses Observer to police group The administration strikes again. They have involved The Observer in their ongoing quest to forget the existence of the group known as Gays and Lesbians at Notre Dame Alison Cocks and Saint Mary's. Editor-in-Chief Specifically, they object to certain aspects of the group's ad campaign: the use of copyrighted symbols such as the Dome and any language which implies they are an organized, recognized group. The group's name is also cause for consternation, as it suggests a closer tie to the University than the administration deems comfortable. Notre Dame chooses not to recognize a homosexual organization. Therefore, the Office of Student Affairs informed me, they do not want to see ads in the student newspaper which might imply to 'outsiders' that this TODAY AT AGLANCE group is affiliated with the University. They haven't forbidden the group to advertise in WORLD INDIANA The Observer, but the aforementioned aspects of their ads are now taboo. Instead of explaining this to the group, Soviets could play Gulf peacebroker however, they called me. I was told that, ef •WASHINGTON, D.C. - Hoosier prepares to climb Mt. Everest fective immediately, ads which do not con The Soviet Union, promised a - •INDIANAPOLIS - David Carter stands only 5-foot- form to their guidelines are like alcohol ads: postwar role in the Middle 6, but by May he could be the tallest person in the world. forbidden.