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“Broadway” a big

Even waiting for the show to
begin was an experience at this
year’s skating extravaganza, the
Castlegar Skating Club presenta-
tion “Broadway”. A New York
City skyline decorated one end of
the rink, colored lights lit the ice, a
classic 50's Chevie gleamed in the
comer and Broadway Show music
filled the arena.

The Peter Pan number was

ighlighted by a very beli
Tinkerbell, Jennifer Datchkoff,
with a bright smile and a clean,
snappy program, showered stardust
throughout the arena.

In the Cats number, the Jellicle
Ball Cats set the mood for the spir-
ited and graceful Grizabella,
Chelsea Van Vliet.

The Hair, featured parents
remembering perhaps the time of
their youth, the 60's.

Cabaret, with the Senior girts in
high-stepping style, ‘fe d
Megan Van Vliet as Money — a
bundle of energy in a gold cos-
ume, a bright smile that accentuat-
ed her neat, clean jumps and daz-
ziing spins.

Bails of hay introduced the litle
show-stoppers — the farmers and
the cowmen of Oklahoma,

Of the local talent, certainly,
Heather Shappard as Maria from
west Side Story,showed tremen-
dous potential. Her presentation
was not only expressive, but it also
contained solid jumps landed sofily
and smoothly. She glided into and
out of her final double jump with

» the case ofa polished performer.

A hit with the audience and the
skaters was the participation of the
three Midget hockey players; Nino
Da Costa, Jeff Evdokimoff, and
John Suilaeff. They strutted their

-Stuff in A Chonus Line and Grease,

They proved that hockey players
can not only skate and can keep
time to music but are great sports,
As cne of the audience was over-
heard saying, “In hockey you get
to be a part of a team; in figure
skating you get to be a star!”
Definitely, the star of the show
was Jeanette Settle, the guest
skater from Trail. Her interpretive
number Storm won her the Senior
Ladies Antstic award at the 1991

BC Winter. Games. She had the
audience captivated’as she stormed
across the ice in her flowing, flut-
tering white, grey, and black’cos-
tume. The movement of her arms

and body aswell as her eyes por-. |

trayed the terror of the storm. In
her second appearance, Jeanette
dazzled and entertained with her
speed, double jumps, and a variety
of spins, It was obvious to those
watching that she is one of the
finest skaters that has come from
the West Kootenays. 5.)

The skating coach, Bev, Vatkin,
who is native of Grand Forks, will
be leaving the club to continue her
university education. Bev id a
sparkling, if. short, number to
Grease. She has not,lost any of the
zest that took her to Westem Divi-
sionals before she tumed profes-

sional. Her trade mark — above the *

boards split jumps done in 9 series
— evoked an audible gasp from the
crowd. She will be missed for her
teaching soe Chereoemapble abilities
as well as her bright personality,
Both Bev and Blyan Steinneman
put together a fine show with this
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Young arti:

BC's best known showcase for
young artists officially opens April

“* 7, 1991 at the Nelson Museum.

BCYA '89, the sixth biennial
BC Young Artists Exhibition, coor-
dinated by Emily Carr College of
Art and Design Out reach Program,
features 73 works by BC artists 18
years of age and under. :

Paintings, drawings, .pho-

art

The stars of the Castlegar Skating Clu

sams works

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BCYA ‘89 is a celebration of
the the benefits of the visual arts in
and beyond the purely formal edu-
cational settings in our province,

BCYA ‘89 is sponsored by BC
Arts in Education Council, BC Art
Teachers Assn., BC Assn. of Pyin-
cipals and Vice-principals, Assn.
of BC School Superi: ts, Be

hs, prints, and ip
are included in the exhibition,
which was chosen from 2,400 sub-
missions by two. committees of
experienced art educators from_
throughout BC, led by DR. Laurie
Rae Baxter of the University of
Victoria Department of Art and
Music Education, and Wyn Davies,
Art Teacher at Hi: e ry

Centre Loft Assn., Early Child-
hood Educators of BC, BC School
Trustees Assn., Federal of Inde-
pendent School Assn., Ministry of
Education, Correspondence Educa-
tion Branch, and the BC-Teachers’
Federation, and is financially
assisted by Cassiar Mining, the

‘bri Family Ball Society,

School, Comox.

The exhibition reflects all ages
and stages of growth in visual
expression. “The works selected
for exhibition illustrate the personal
creative reflections of our young

aitist,” said Dr: Baxter, “from the
early, spontaneous, direct visual

communication of the young to the

more deliberate and often skillfully

manipulated works of the older
icip the highly p

and interpersonal interpretation of

the world as seen through the eyes

is a recurrent aspect of this year's

Endeavor Auction, Friends of

b presentation “Broadway”.

on dis

Photo subritied

per Foundation, the Leon and Thea
Koemer Foundation and Opus
Framing, and many individual
donors, ae

In Nelson, the exhibition is
made possible by the grant from
the Nelson and District Arts Coun-
cil, and through the ongoing sup-
post of the City of Nelson and the
Cultural Services Branch of the
Ministry of Municipal Affairs,
Recreation and Culture.) )

BCYA ‘89 will be open 1-4
pm daily except Sundays until
April 28, after which it will contin-
ue its 26-month tour of 25 commu-
nities from Fort Nelson to Seattle.
A small admission fee is charged
to those who are not member of the
Museum.

ECCAD Society, the G
of BC through ECCAD, the Ham-

‘Ayspecial-program for children
5 to 15 is planned by Grace Pres-
byterian Church, 2605 Columbia,
during Spring Break, April 1 to 5,
from 9:30 to 12:00 each moming.

Boys and girls will take an
imaginary voyage on Joyship Ener-
gize, and through stories, games,

by Shawn Lamb
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SUQ (ASH-SHUYUKH, ‘Iraq
(SNS) - Iraqi President Saddam

Hussein's shocked Republican

Guard has carved a trail of death
through rebellious ‘central and
southern Iraq, shellin;

g families on

i the streets, gunning them down in

farm fields and summarily execut-
ing young Shiite Moslem males,
according to haggard, grief-stricken
refugees reaching this U.S.-held
area Monday, i
1° Packed into dilapidated buses
and sputtering cars and jammed
onto cattle trucks, several thousand
Tragqi civilians and deserting sol-
diers fleeing from the holy Shiite
city of Najaf and dozens of other
towns that had mounted an uprising
against Saddam told told tales of
horror,
“Saddam bas destroyed Iraq," a
young man from Najaf who would
not give his name screamed. "He is
killing the cream of Iraqi men by
the thousands."

Tbrahim Mehdi Ibrahim, 32, said
be had deserted as an officer from

into a massacre in which Republi-
can Guards lured families out of
their homes and fields to fire
artillery at them, :

“There are hidden crimes that
will make your hair go white,"

Guard, he said, was bitacking the
People, trying "to harvest them, the
wheat with the chaff, with heli-
copter gunships, while they hid in
the ficlds,"

Several men standing around .

him said Iraqi tanks rolling into
their towns had a motto inscribed
on them: "No Shiites After Today,"

Another refugee, Alaa Hashem
Qazem, cried, his face contorted
with grief and the fatigue of a five-
day trek on foot. He had lost three
children, be said,

“We went to fight with the resis-
tance in Abu Skbeir" - a village out-
side Najaf, he said. "Our families
stayed at home. When I went to get
them, I found my house on the

ground. It was shelled. I found my .

son Raad, 3, with his head severed."
“T could not stand to look at the
place," be said, ch g on his

had been set up, to Zubayr’ and
Safwan, near the Kuwaiti border.
Spec. Daryle Osby, 22, ‘from
Meridien, Miss,, said be had treated
Pcople “beaten with pipes, with

» bums and a lot of kids beaten ‘with

barbed wire. A.lot had families
killed off. A couple of girls 12 and
13 were beaten on the face with
fists or blunt objects,". Others, he
said, had bullet wounds or serious
injuries from ‘munitions :and

The American soldiers, moved

and water,
American soldiers began tuming

back throngs of youths 120 miles ©

northwest of the Kuwaiti border
who were attempting to surrender
as prisoners of war with the hope of
escaping to any other country,

At every U.S,-manned roadblock
from Safwan, at the Kuwaiti border,
to Sug ash-Shuyukh, angry, desper-
ate men, some weeping openly,
recounted the massacre of their

families and townspeople. 3

by the suffering of the g'

streaming toward them, are provid-
ing food, water, and compassion in
addition to medical care. Many are
clearly awed by the switch in their
own role from combat soldiers to

words, his face wet with perspira-
tion and tears.."I abandoned the
house, I just couldn’t look any-
more,” :

Jawad Mohammed, 32, who said
he bad deserted as an Iraqi officer,
told of seeing a woman, running
with her child in ber arms, hit by a
shoulder-fired rocket that cut ber in
two. "Then we started running
away," be said,

Several U.S. Amy paramedics
who were interviewed told of treat-
ing refugees for wounds caused by
weapons and beatings. The

dics were di along

“I don’t understand this damn

war, I really don’t. First.we fight °

‘em, then we're helping ‘em,"
exclaimed Sgt. Ist Class Kevin
Pfister, 31, from Gulliver, Mich,
“Now we're like a referee caught in
someone else’s civil war."

At a small bridge about five
miles east of Suq ash-St the

d, who said be desert-
ed his unit on Feb. 28, described a
cold-blooded massacre of women,
old men and children between
Najaf and Abu Skheir, He said bis
wife, Ablam, and his three children
‘were among the victims, and more
than 50 other men from the holy
city of Najaf told of losing: wives
children. ‘

“This was the ugliest of execu-
tions, Families that wanted to leave,
they were surrounded and mowed
down on the street. We saw with
our eyes how they brought ‘the’

last in a string of townships overrun

Northern Ireland to hold

LONDON (SNS) - Rival Protes-
tant and Catholic facti io

out of b and
them along with the doctors treating

to announce the talks in the House
of Ce 01

said, "When

that a Mustim, a

the Iraqi army entered one week
ago, the families that had fled the
fighting retumed with their chil-
dren, They lined them up against
walls and executed them."

"Go to Najaf and see for your-
self," he urged. “We went to find
our families and children dead, our
houses collapsed over their heads.
My wife and children are no more,"
he said, as dozens of others
ored behind him, each with his own

Gurads three months ago, said that
in Qadissiyah and Hillah, south of
Najaf, “artillery and phosphorous
bombs were being used against the
opposition, women and children
included." é
“Iraqis forsaken, deserted, three-
fourths of its people are fleeing,”
iss said.

Sai

“At the beginning, we shelled
families inside Qadissiyah, then
they brought over helicopters to’
finish the job,” i id. "I told
myself I don’t want to do this. I laid
down my weapons five days ago
and joined the resistance. It is

talks on po

with the and

said. The Republi

‘ploy

Arafat resumes peace offensive
saying Israel will get concessions

:, TUNIS, Tunisia (SNS) - Palestini-

an leader Yasser Arafat, after
months in the wildemess because of
his support for Iraq, has resumed his
1988-89 peace offensive, adding
what his office’ calls a.substantial
territorial concession to Israel.

In an interview with the Toronto

. Star, Arafat said the Palestine Lib-

eration Organization would accept
a United Nations buffer zone on the
Palestine side of the border
between Israel and a future Pales-
tinian state. we

.

+! ‘The offer was part of a new PL

¢ The issue of a corridor
between Gaza and the West Bank
is negotiable

¢ Arafat wants Jewish members
in his cabinet and would accept
Jews who wish to leave Israel and
become Palestinian citizens :

+ There must be i

» power after two major

Northern Ireland d set to
talk formally for the first time in
more than 15 years about sharing

n Wed y and

that the sessions may begin some-

time after Easter. All of the major

Parties in Northern Ireland are
‘i erie

parties Monday announced their

iP CO except for
Sinn Fein, the nationalist faction
that effecti

p of a British
for negotiations,

The announcement was seen °

here as a breakthrough for North-
em Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke,
who has been conducting **talks
about talks’’ for nearly 15 months
in a painstaking effort to bring the
Parties to the table as a first step

for Palestinian property in Israel

+ East Jerusalem should belong
to Palestine, according to U.N. res-
olutions

* Once a state is established,
Palestinians and Jordanians would

. Vote freely on the issue,of confeder-

ation vay ‘
* Jewish settlers in the occupied

designed to restore the organiza-
tion’s credibility in the United
States and other Westem counties.

Many U.S. politicians say Arafat
forfeited the right to take part in
talks on the future of the Isracli-
occupied West Bank and Gaza
Strip because of his strong support

| for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
! in the Gulf War.

European officials, especially in

)
} France and Italy, are more cautious,

ing the Palestinian view that

‘only the Palestinians can choose

’, Arafat’s proposals are based on

‘the position the PLO adopted at a

landmark meeting of the Palestine

must leave, according to
U.N. resolutions.

Arafat's office, which distributed
extracts of the Toronto Star inter-
view, said these were negotiating
positions and not preconditions for
talks. “So let us start sitting at the
table. If there is a will, there is a
way,” Arafat told the newspaper.

Israel refuses to talk to the PLO,
saying it is a terrorist organization
secretly committed to the destruc-
tion of the Jewish state, and it rejects
the idea of a Palestinian state,

The Israeli government also
insists on holding on to East
J which it din

toward ing local govern-
ment in Northem Ireland and end-
ing 22 years of civil violence and
Political stalemate.

Two key Protestant political

ly serves as the politi-
cal wing of the outlawed Irish
Republican Amy, which is wag-

continuing violence has grown
among a new generation of politi-
cians and among some rank-and-
file members of both the unionist
and republican factions,

Brooke, a former Conservative

buman being should hit his people," °

"I don't care," he said, bushing
up comrades who were advising '
him not to give his name. "I don't *
care, my mother and baby brother|
were killed by

into the countryside and farm
fields. The heli chased them
and strafed the’ comfields,‘harvest-
ing them unsparingly," he said.

Tbrahim said any young male
above 15 years of age was
up and accused of collaborating
with the resistance against Sad-
dam's regime. "Every 20 or 30 are
being shot and buried collectively
in the Diwaniyah camp,” he said.
“Homes are being dynamited with
people in them. I saw this with my
own eyes,"'s 0. -

"Saddam is ‘a killer and a bone-
bred: shouted Mohammed Jaa-

1» 25.

u peop!
» Mo one kill Saddam for all these

ctimes?” :

wer sharing

off months of further ‘meetings
between Brooke and each of the
potential participants. Finally last
week, aides said, he set a deadline
by sending each participant a copy
of a position paper he intended to
make public this week and asked
that they endorse it or explain their

Party chai: with a low-key
style, bas sought to overcome deep

Haughey and Hume quickly

ing a violent to oust
British rule in Ulster.

Protestant leaders and the Social
D

The P, and’

Catholic minority shared power
briefly and stormily in the early
1970s, but-local rule was suspend-
ed in 1972 after Britain failed in
attempts to compel the Protestants
to continue the arrangement. Since
‘then, ministers appointed by Lon-
don have overseen police, housing,

leaders, James Mol: of the
Ulster Unionist Party and the Rev.

Tan, Paisley, of the Democratic. ):

Unionist Party, said.they.and two
smaller unionist parties had agreed
to a plan laid out by Brooke, after

and other matters that

normally are the;responsibility of

Formal, albeit-Sporadic, talks on
sharing power were last held in the
mid-1970s.

The 's relations with

provincial or-logal.governments.

he agreed to suspend a symboli
Provision of the Anglo-Irish

senior Protestant Political leaders
further deteri in 1985 with

Accords, which they ly
oppose.

Brooke also agreed that the gov-
ernment of Ireland, which has
insisted on participating in the
talks, would delay its involvement
for an unspecified time while the
other parties talked.

An aide said Brooke is expected

the Anglo-Irish Accords, which
gave the predominantly Catholic
Republic of Ireland a formal con-
sultative role in Northern Irish
affairs.

For years, these leaders insisted
that they would not discuss local
tule unless Britain abrogated the

iraqi troops feared B-52

WASHINGTON (SNS) - Two

1967, and maintains it has the right

to expand Jewish settlement in the

‘1988.
.sa!'The council accepted a solution

based on a small Palestinian state
living in peace alongside Israel.

But the proposals add new
details to reassure Israel of the
PLO’s peaceful intentions. Apart
from the buffer zone, the PLO is
offering temporary demilitarization
of a Palestinian state and possible

itorial adj to comp
sate for a corridor linking a Pales-
tinian West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Arafat's as spelled out
by his office in a statement Mon-
day, are:

+ A Palestinian state could be
demilitarized for a transitional peri-
od of six months, with U.N. troops
replacing Israeli forces

PI

Arafat said the United States

held the key to bringing Israel to

the negotiating table and would

have to, put pressure on Israel to
their pressure on Iraq.

“This is the challenge ... Defi-
nitely they have the upper hand
now, specially after the Gulf War,”
he said,

The United States, strengthened
by its victory in the battle for

ait last month, bas is

now out of prod

the A-10 Thunderbolt, which the
Air Force never wanted, and the B-
52, which the Air Force has been
trying to replace for years, were
described by senior Iraqi prisoners
of war as the most devastating
allied aircraft in Operation Desert

Storm. ~
"The stars of the air war, from
the perspective of the guys on the
other side, were the A-10, for the
ion it inflicted on vehicles,
and the B-52, for demolishing
morale,” said a U.S. official famil-

destroy trucks, tanks and personnel
carriers, It won out in the eyes of
the Iraqis over newer, faster and
costlier aircraft with similar mis-
sioas, such as the Air Force's F-16
and F-15 and the Navy’s F-A-18,
‘The big, lumbering B-52 carpet- ,
bombed Iraqi troop emplacements
around the clock, notably -the
Republican Guard in southem Iraq
but also front-line troops near the
Saudi border as well. The. Aii
Force long has wanted to replace it
with the B-1B and B-2 Stealth
bombers.
~ + "These are the two lowest-tech :
ii i ” said

iar with the sub of allied

push hard for a K of the
Palestinian question but PLO offi-
cials are skeptical it has the will to
change Israeli policies, i .
Secretary of State James Baker
toured the region earlier this month
and met a Palestinian delegation
approved by the PLO. He has not
yet made any concrete proposals.

deb of Iraqi officers, among
them seven generals,

The A-10, also known as the
Warthog, is a slow but robust.
attack plane the Air Force once
offered to tum over to the Amy. It
can fire Maverick missiles and
drop gravity bombs but relies more
often on its 30mm Gatling gun to

planes in our
US. official, who retumed last week.
from the Persian Gulf. He cautioned,

. however, that the Iraqi prisoners ;

could not rate the performance of the '
F-117A Stealth bomber, which was
used against high-value targets in
heavily populated areas of Baghdad
and apparently not in the Kuwait
theater of operation.

Canada

St. Lawrence seaway opens for s

MONTREAL (SNS) - The St.
Lawrence Seaway opens for spring
‘Tuesday, the waterway’s earliest
opening date in 10 years, providing
passage for vessels laden with grain
bound for European and Mediter-

ports.
“We're
response to heavy demand from
shippers who want to move export
grain. It looks as if grain shipments
will be quite brisk,” said Gay Hem-

sley, a spokeswoman for the St.

Seaway Authority.
This abepicious start to the 1991
shipping season has heartened
Canadian shippers after last_ycar’s

thin traffic on the 1,400-mile water-
way, which flows from the Great.

opening early mainly in °

Lakes to Montreal.

About 36.7 million tons of goods
were transported on the Seaway in
the last season, which ended in late
December when the winter freeze
set in: The figure was down 1.5 per-
cent from the previous year’s level
and more than one-thini below the
1977 peak of 57 million tons,

Seaway traffic has fallen off in
Tecent years for several reasons:
competition from refurbished U.S.-

mid-Atlantic ports, ‘declining

sales to European’ Community

mations - ‘once big importers - and
rising demand from Pacific Rim
Countries for grain shipped out ‘of
‘Vancouver on the west coast. \\""”

a brake on the trend with incentive
Plans that give shippers who exceed

‘a certain tonnage big rebates on

tolls. Officials also have instituted
cost-cutting measures and trade mis-
sions aimed at developing new
trans-Atlantic business links.

Each spring, Seaway officials

_ Mark ‘the official opening at St.

Lambert's lock in Montreal, where
they are joined by shippers to honor
the first vessel to sail from the héant-
land to a port on the Auantic. -
“Hazem Ghonima, a commodities

“analyst in Ottawa who specializes in

shipping trends, estimates Seaway
traffic will rise this year by 3 per-

St iy).cent, bolstered by Canadian grain
,_ Seaway officials have tried to put

sales to the Soviet Union and a

slight rise in U.S. grain exports.

He estimates Canadian grain «

sales will increase to about 27 mil-
lion tons from 24.5 million tons last
year. Just over a third of that, or
9.25 million tons, will be shipped
through the Seaway. :

ic and Labor Party, the
moderate, predominantly Catholic
Party led by John Hume.

He persuaded Hume’s party and
its ally in Dublin, Irish Prime Min-
ister Charles Haughey, that Ireland
should take a backseat in the early
Stages of talks and that London
and Dublin should suspend the
Anglo-Irish Conference, a series
of regular meetings between
Brooke and Irish Foreign Secre-
tary Gerry Collins at which inter-

nal issues in Norther Ireland are —

formally discussed.
Nonetheless, the deal appeared
to have unraveled last July, setting

‘pted the paper. Molyneaux
and Paisley did as well, after it
became clear.that they might be
blamed for derailing the prospect
of talks by refusing.

Brooke's paper envisages a ,
three-stage process, aides said.
First, there would be joint talks
between Brooke and the various
local parties on political arrange-
ments within Norther Ireland.

separate bilateral talks on whether
to make changes to the Anglo-
Trish Accords.

Hussein's billions wanted
by U.S and Kuwait officials

[SNS] - Saddam Hussein's person-
al wealth - reportedly obtained by
skimming billions of dollars from
Traq’s oil revenues - is emerging as
a new battleground between the
Iraqi dictator and the govemments
of the United States and Kuwait.
The struggle, which could affect
efforts to rebuild both Iraq and
Kuwait, is in part a contest between
two oil fortunes and their sophisti-
cated international agents, with
Kuwait trying to find and seize the

, billions that Hussein has allegedly

channeled into secret foreign bank

for Fortune 500 clients to use in
takeover battles, has found that
Hussein’s family used a far-flung
network of front companies to hide
Overseas accounts and investments,
Kroll said.

‘The investments include compa-
nies in Ohio and California and an
8.4 percent interest, worth about
$64 million, in the French media
conglomerate Hachette SA, which
publishes Elle, Car and Driver,
Road & Track and Woman's Day
Magazines, CBS said. Hachette
said it had been unaware of any

and that
range from popular American mag-
azines to companies involved in
Two important players in the
contest are the U.S. Department of
the Treasury, which is also moving
against Hussein’s U.S. assets, and a
New York private detective agen-
cy, Kroll Associates, sometimes
called the CIA of Wall Street.

‘The conflict went public on Sun-
day with a report on CBS’ "60
Minutes." The program quoted pri-
vate investigator Jules Kroll as say-
ing that his agency, while working
for Kuwait, has found evidence
that Hussein and his family over
the past decade had ski: d5

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died by a Panamanian front com-
pany with Iraqi directors, called
Montana Management.

White House spokesman Marlin

’ Fitzwater said that Hussein's reput-

ed fortune “helps explain the presi-

.dent’s adamantcy in saying there

won't be any taxpayer money
spent to rebuild Iraq, as long as
Saddam Hussein is there."

The Department of the Treasury
is pursuing Iraqi assets and on Fri-
day froze the holdings of an alleged
Hussein front man in California,
Anees Mansoor Wadi, who has a
$3 million house in Beverly Hills, a
i in Santa Moni-

percent of Iraq's oil sales for them-

, Selves - more than $10 billion,

pring traffic.

Kroll described Hussein as one

; of the world’s richest men and said
‘\ that the dictator’s half-brother,

Barzam Al-Tikriti, an Iraqi diplo-
mat based in Switzerland, has been
a key operative in managing Hus-
sein's family fortune.

Kroll’s company, which has pre-
viously investigated the late Philip-
Pine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’
hidden U.S. assets and dug up dirt

ca and at least 11 bank accounts.
Kuwait, meanwhile, bas been
using its financial clout to pressure
banks - threatening to withdra
funds unless they block clandestine
Iraqi accounts that so far have

escaped U.N. financial af
Financial

Shortly before Iraq’s Aug. 2 invasion
of Kuwait, Hussein agents moved
millions of dollars into banks in Jor-
dan, one of the few countries that
has been friendly to Iraq.

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