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Show Inside Today: The third time was a charm: Cougars trounce Aztecs, 62-3- 4 Paqe Soviet leaders clashing again 7v C F1 Sunday, September 23, 1990 The bride wore Japanese seek white, had gun U.S. property A7 Page Central Utah's Newspaper for 116 Years audis expel diplomats peace and security of the kingdom." Yemeni diplomats said the Saudis were expelling all but four of the 50 staff members at Yemen's g Jordanian embassy. officials in Amman said Saudi Arabia ordered the expulsion of 20 of High-rankin- Jordan's embassy personnel. It wasn't immediately known how many Iraqis were sent home. Meanwhile, a flight described as the last U.S. airlift out of Iraq left Baghdad Saturday. Finance officials of the world's seven richest nations said in Washington on Saturday that spiraling oil prices threaten the global economy with higher inflation and slow it er growth. Monetary Fund and International World Bank, came as the Persian Gulf crisis began its eighth week. Iraq's Saddam Hussein expressed new determination to hang onto his war trophy, Kuwait, and King Hussein of Jordan called for an early withdrawal of U.S. forces from the gulf region to prevent "disastrous repercussions." Neither Jordan nor Yemen has openly sided with Saddam, but both are considered weak links in the embargo against Iraq, and there is widespread popular support for Saddam in both countries. 1.00 Issue No. 54, Provo, Utah 11 nan 5 HSMses siiiCjjci error King Hussein, whose appearance from Amman on Cable News Network was billed as an appeal to the American people, complained that the United States appears "unwilling to even consider a negotiated settlement between Iraq and Kuwait and unwilling to accept a compromise short of an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait." That position, he said, imperiled hopes for a diplomatic settlement. "We must avert an explosion in this highly inflammable area straddling the world's richest oil reserves that would cause untold death, destruction and misery with disastrous repercussions far be The talks, held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Page El Page A6 nmatMiii By The Associated Press Saudi Arabia expelled most of the Yemeni and Jordanian envoys in Riyadh on Saturday, and Saudi .sources said the diplomats were suspected of planning terrorist acts with Iraqi diplomats, who also were sent home. "The Iraqis are engaged in espionage, looking for places for terrorism and the Saudi secret police has concluded the Jordanians and Yemenis were trying to assist them," said one of the sources. "We have decided it is time to burn bridges." The Saudi Foreign Ministry confirmed the expulsions. It said the diplomats were engaged in unspecified "activities jeopardizing the Accent Nation WorSd this vital region and this period of human life," said the Jordanian monarch. Unlike Jordan, Egypt has supported the multinational military effort. Three ships carrying the first few thousand members of a g Egyptian infantry division landed Saturday at the western Saudi port of Yanbu on the Red Sea. About 2,000 Egyptian troops are already in northern Saudi Arabia. President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia said he planned to send 200 men to join the multinational force. Americans stranded in Kuwait and Iraq by the invasion had a yond 15,000-stron- final chance to get out of Baghdad aboard a flight that left Saturday. The State Department said it was the last such charter planned. The Iraqi Airways Boeing 707 carrying 140 people landed in London Saturday night. It was scheduled to return to Baghdad with some of the eight Iraqi diplomats and 23 civilians expelled from Britain earlier this week. The 55 Americans who arrived in London were to continue on to the United States Sunday aboard another plane. About 2,500 Americans have left Kuwait and Iraq since the Persian Gulf crisis erupted on Aug. 2. (See GULF, Page A2) U.S.-charter- Oil Soldier's prices pose ianqer to world diary tells of heading growth across sea WASHINGTON (AP) Finance officials of the world's seven richest nations said Saturday that spiraling oil prices pose a twin threat to the global economy: higher inflation and slower growth. The Group of Seven, in their first meeting since Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait, discussed coordinated economic policies to keep the global economy from falling victim to Mideast turmoil. After a full day of talks, the officials issued a communique noting "that the rise in the price of oil associated with the gulf crisis poses two risks: a risk of inflation and a risk of lower economic growth." They said d "stability-oriente- monetary policies and sound fiscal policies consti e the correct policy response." The finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the United States, Japan, West Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy and Canada met at the Blair House, the presidential guest residence across the street from the White House. Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady, who with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan served as host, said the communique equally emphasizes the danger of slower growth and greater inflation. "There was no intention to say that one risk was greater than the other," Brady told reporters. "Government's job now ... is to navigate between those two risks." However, West German Finance Minister Theo Waigel, in remarks to reporters, emphasized the message in the statement. Leading up to the meeting, private analysts had been pointing to a split between the U.S. administration, which is trying to keep growth going into this fall's congressional elections, and the other major economic powers. (See ECONOMY, Page A2) anti-inflati- Group sets price ta for ianored social 0 billion needs. - WASHINGTON (AP) An advocacy group added up the cost estimates in 61 private and governmental studies and concluded Saturday that the nation would have to spend $130 billion a year to satisfy unmet health care, poverty, education, housing and public works needs. "We must stop ignoring our problems," said Pablo Eisenberg, president of the Center for Community nonprofit orChange, a ganization which assists groups. "We cannot compete successfully in a global economy if a quarter of our children are being raised in poverty, if millions are functionally illiterate, if our transportation system continues to detelow-inco- riorate." The center called the $130 billion Herald Staff Writer The transition from schoolroom to the Saudi Aabian desert hapfor Springville pened lickety-spl- it "summer soldier" Steve Willingh-aand his fellow Utah Army National Guardsmen of the 12Cth Quartermaster Detachment. Iast Sunday, teacher Willingh-aand other members of the m m guard water purification team from American Fork walked down the rear ramp of a U.S. Air Force Starlifter into the stifling ovenlike air of Saudi Arabia. Most of them had been called to report for active duty only 20 days earlier. Willingham describes the past 20 days in a diary he wrote for his wife. The call to active duty came as a surprise to Willingham and the e civilians and part-tim- e other soldiers. like so many other National Guard members, he thought it wouldn't happen. He said so in correspondence his wife Nada received Thursday. "In the beginning was the call-uphe wrote. "No one ever expected one. Most people joined the Guard to be called up for a natural disaster not war. "It fact, it was a good way to stay out of one. Just ask our full-tim- ," figure "America's third deficit" and said it outranks the budget and trade deficits in importance if "problems that are undermining us economically and politically" are to be addressed. The center proposed tax changes to raise the $130 billion. Most would hit the rich. The center said the rich can afford to pay because the taxes paid by the wealthiest 10 percent of the nation's taxpayers are $93.1 billion less than they 8 would have been under the tax system. Also, the country's total taxes as a percentage of output are lower than those of 20 of 22 major industrialized nations. The $130 billion "third deficit" compares with the federal budget (See PRICE, Page A2) pre-197- present vice-preside- Dan nt Quayle who is vacationing while others are going to an Operation called Desert Shield." Most members of the 120th learned on Aug. 24 and before from the press that they might be called up. The next day, the Army told them to report on Monday for an important meeting at the American Fork National Guard Armo-r- v. at 6:30 a.m. "Captain Fransen shut out the (news) cameras and hurried us upstairs to tell us we were on active duty," he wrote. "Then he told us we would have a reduction in rank. There were (See DIARY, Page A3) They reported warrinq armies aqree to Liberian Ivory Coast (AP) -The crackle of gunfire died away about noon Saturday in the Liberian capital of Monrovia as four warring armies appeared to honor called by rebel leader a cease-fir- e Charles Taylor. Fighters of rival rebel Prince Johnson skirmished with remnants of slain President Samuel Doe's army Saturday morning, but the fighting stopped in the afternoon, according to residents of the city quoted by the British Broadcasting Corp. A battle between Taylor's fighters and the multinational West African army also subsided, the ABIDJAN, French news agency Agence France-Press- p The cease-fir- e reported. brought an inkling hope that food, including 5,000 tons of rice from the U.S. government, could be delivered to the of devastated capital. Starving have been reduced to eating dogs. Taylor, announcing the cease-fir- e at a news conference in the bush Friday, said he wanted peace talks but would never settle for an agreement that did not leave him as president. He has offered Cabinet posts to his rivals. West African leaders, who sent a 3,000-ma- n task force to Monrovia last month to stop the fighting, have not commented on Taylor's announcement. cease-fir- e The executive secretary of the Economic Community of West African States advised cau Mon-rovia- To enjoy in If Xu A&l By PATRICK CHRISTIAN tion. "Let's wait ... and not pre-em- pt anything." Abass Bundu said urday in in Freetown, Sat- Sierra Leone. Taylor has declared himself president of Liberia, but so have three rival rebel Prince other people Johnson; Brig. Gen. David Nimley. a former aide to Doe; and Amos Sawyer, an opposition figure who was chosen at an Aug. 30 conference of Liberian exiles. Taylor's claim to the presidency rests on the fact that his army is the biggest and because he started the Liberian war by invading from Ivory Coast on Dec. 24, attacking President Doe as corrupt. West African military sources speculated that Taylor was trying ii miniiiji- - immmmmXrx"V''"mkMlm irtliTT n'l" - "'' - Herald PhotoTamara Sneddon Nada Willingham reads a letter from her husband, a Utah Guardsman stationed in Saudi Arabia, to her children, clockwise from bottom left, Robert, 7, Taylor, 8, and Rachel, 11. uard wives beqinmn to receiv tters from abro nd Bv PATRICK CHRISTIAN Herald Staff Writer In the letter from Saudi Arabia that her soldier husband sent her, Sheila Hunter and one of her childen found the drawing George Hunter had done of his , youngest children. "We both cried." she said. Her husband is one of 14 men of the Utah Army Nationfil Guard water purification specif ists who lanaed m baud! Ara3: last Sundav as Dart of UpentMi Desert Shield. They are members of the 12:.h Quartermaster Detachment baed at the National Guard Armory in American Fork. The first letters came last week, and the Herald talked to tc See related story on Page A3 three of the wives. "He said he missed us and missed cooking Sunday dinner," Mrs. HLinter said. The Hunters, of Cedar Hills, have four children between four and 12. Mrs. Hunter said she and her husband would always prepare Sunday dinner together. Tonight, she will be doing it alone. For a wife, the hardest part is not knowing if her husband will be in the Middle East for three months or six months, she said. "If we knew, we could plan on something," she said. "We don't even know if they will be home for Christmas." Mrs. Hunter said her husband is an art teacher at Forbes Elementary School in American Fork. He was almost finished with Guard service. "He would have had 20 years in on May 13 of next year. And he was planning to retire," Mrs. Hunter said. Before the call up, she asked her husband if he thought he would be called to duty. He said he didn't know. "The Guard has been very good (See LETTERS, Page A3) cease-fir- e or to buy time with the cease-fire- , that he realized he cannot outgun s the West Africans, who sent to bomb his artillery batteries last weekend. Leaders of the West African task force settled their dispute Saturday over the command of the force, which includes troops from Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Nigeria had announced Friday it was sending a general to take command of the force. But Gambia and Ghana protested, saying only the Economic Community of West African States as a whole could decide who was in command. 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