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Subject: WORLD NEWS SUMMARY  THE LATEST WORLD NEWS  1 MAR 91             

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Folder Title: various naval messages folder 6 march 1991                                                      

Document Number:         71

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            TO BE D@ALT WITH WILL BE THE RELEASE OF PRISONERS OF WAR.
            -- BUSH ALSO SAYS HE DOESN'T WANT TO SPEND ONE SINGLE DIME OF U-S
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            MONEY FOR THE REBUILDING OF IRAQ. HE DOES NOT, HOWEVER, RULE OUT
            HUMANITARIAN AID. AND HE SUGGESTS THAT THE POST-WAR PERIOD WOULD BE
            SMOOTHER FOR IRAQIS IF THEY HAD NEW LEADERSHIP.
            -- A SPOKESMAN IN ALBERIAS FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS A FRENCH NEWSPAPER
            REPORT ABOUT SADDAM HUSSEIN IS FABLE. THE SPOKESMAN DENIES THE
            STORY THAT SAID SADDAM IS ASKING ALGERIA TO GRANT HIM ASYLUM. THE
            NEWSPAPER LE MONDE SAYS ALGERIA HAD AGREED TO IT, UNDER CERTAIN
            CONDITIONS -- INCLUDING THAT SADDAM NOT BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES. A
            STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL SAYS THE U-S WOULD PROBABLY OPPOSE THAT
            KIND OF DEAL.
            - AT THE PENTAGON, ARMY LIEUTENANT GENERAL THOMAS KELLY SAYS THE AIR
            OPERATIONS THAT CONTINUE OVER IRAQ ARE MOSTLY DEFENSIVE ONES.
            HOWEVER, IRAQS FOREIGN MINISTER IS ACCUSING THE UNITED STATES OF
            MAKING PROVOCATIVE FLIGHTS OVER AN AREA SOUTH OF BAGHDAD. AND
            BAGHDAD RADIO SAYS TARIO AZIZ (TAH-REFPK AH-ZEEZ) IS DEMANDING THAT
            ALL FOREIGN FORCES LEAVE HIS COUNTRY.
            -- ALSO AT THE PENTAGON BRIEFING, KEH Y SAID THAT IF IRAQ ISN'T
            WIH ING TO TALK ABOUT THE RELEASE OF PRISONERS, THE ALLIED FORCES ARE
            READY TO 60 INTO ACTION AGAIN.
            -- AFTER ALL THE TALK ABOUT IRAQS CHEMICAL WARFARE CAPABILITY COMES
            A.RATHER STRANGE TURN OF EVENTS. MARINE BRIGADIER GENERAL RICHARD
         .'NEAL SAYS IT APPEARS THE IRAQIS WERE MORE AFRAID OF OUR CHEMICAL
            CAPABILITIES. NEAL SAYS THE IRAQI CHEMICAL CAPACITY MAY HAVE BEEN
 IN FACT, HE SAYS THE ELITE REPUBLICAN GUARD MAY HAVE
            HAD A WEAKER CHEMICAL ARSENAL THAN OTHER IRAQI TROOPS.
              A FIRST IN THE SOQIET UNION - THE GOVERNMENT HAS AGREED TO HOLD
            FORMAL TALKS WITH A FREELY ORGANIZED TRADE UNION. THE AGREEMENT CAME
            HOURS AFTER THE NEW INDEPENDENT MINERS UNION STAGED ITS FIRST
            NATIONWIDE.WGRK STOPPAGE. HOWEVER, THERE'S NO INDICATION THAT SOVIET
            OFFICIALS WILL AGREE TO THE DEMANDS OF THE MINERS@ WHICH INCLUDE A
            100-PERCENT PAY HIKE -- AND MIKHAIL GORBACHEVS RESIGNATION.
              THE MAN WHO INVENTED INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY IS DEAD. EDWIN LAND WAS
            THE FOUNDER OF POLAROID, AND HE INTRODUCED THE FIRST INSTANT CAMERA,
            WITH THE PICTURES THAT DEVELOPED THEMSELVES, IN 1947. HE DIED TODAY
            IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS AT THE AGE OF 81.
            -- FOR NEARLY A DECADE, FEWER AND FEWER PEOPLE HAVE BEEN APPLYING TO
            THE NATIONS MEDICAL SCHOOLS. THAT TREND SEEMS TO BE TURNING AROUND.
            APPLICATIONS FOR NEXT FALLS CLASS ARE WAY UP. ACCORDING TO THE
            ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES, THERE'S A 30 PERCENT
            INCREASE JUST IN THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS OF ASIAN ANCESTRY. AN
            OFFICIAL OF THE ASSOCIATION SAYS ONE REASON MORE PEOPLE ARE'APPLYING
            TO MEDICAL SCHOOL IS THAT THE SCHOOLS ARE STRESSING THERE'-$ ROOM FOR
            THE HUMANIST AS WELL AS THE SCIENTIST.
            -- FEDERAL REGULATORS ARE TRYING TO SPUR LENDING AND PULL'THE NATION
            OUT OF RECESSION. THEY'VE ISSUED A PACKAGE OF ACCOUNTING CHANGES
            AIMED AT DOING JUST THAT. THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION BLAMES THE CREDIT
            CRUNCH AS A PRIME CAUSE OF THE ECONOMIC SLUMP. ONE OFFICIAL SAYS THE
            CHANGES WILL GIVE A BORROWER A BETTER CHANCE OF GETTING A LOAN.
              WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT? THE DAY MANDATORY WATER RATIONING STARTS IN



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Subject = WORLD NEWS SUMMARY THE LATEST WORLD NEWS 1 MAR
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