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Show Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Wednesday, November Bfi 28, 1990 Nations skeptical about ft .. ..,- - Put U.S.S.R. needs emergency food j ti- - STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Many relief workers and government officials hestitate to join the food effort because of reports that some parts of the Soviet Union refuse to share food with others. And in many cases, Soviets are malnourished or undernourished, not starving. Officials at the Japanese Foreign Ministry, for instance, maintain help is more urgently needed by starving people in Asia and Africa. Japanese officials are considering sending medicine to the Soviets. Germany, the biggest proponent of sending food to the Soviet Union, is worried about whether the goods will reach the hungriest people. The German Red Cross says it has $2 billion to spend on shipping -S- ome Western nations are gathering food, medicine, coal and heating oil for the Soviet Union, but others are skeptical about Moscow's need for emergency aid. They wonder if the Soviet Union, the world's largest grain producer, really needs food. They also worry about the Soviets' ability to distribute supplies. Signals from the Soviet Union have been confusing, with some Soviets saying they have plenty of k food. it . AP Laserpboto Soviet woman stares Tuesday at rows of empty refrigerator cases that usually store milk in a Moscow store. Instead, the empty cases are being used to display plastic shopping bags. A Navy forms largest force in one reaion since WWII THE USS MIDWAY United States hasn't The fAP) had as many ships in one region in the last 45 years. But to face Iraq and Saddam Hussein, the aircraft carriers America, Roosevelt and Ranger and their estimated 240 aircraft are set to join the Kennedy, the Saratoga and the Midway ringing the Arabian peninsula. And the battleship Missouri is to join the USS Wisconsin already in the gulf. The United States is busy bringing together "the most naval forces that we've had in any one location since World War II," according to Rear Adm. Daniel P. March, commander of the Seventh Fleets Battle Force. But March, 51, does not anticipate serious problems coordinating all the various vessels in the Persian Gulf region, including those from many other allied nations. "From a command and control standpoint ... a lot of forces do make things a Utile bit more complex but we're used to joint operations," he said. ABOARD Bush said America if necessary. However, UJS. officials say there is no evidence of widespread hunthat there is food in the ger cities and the agricultural regions of the Soviet Union. President would pointed out that three carrier groups and two battleship groups exercised in the Pacific last year in what then was the largest naval deployment since the 1940s. The admiral spoke to reporters from his base aboard the Midway, the Navy's oldest and smallest March try to help MM WM E carrier. Boatswain John Smith called it a 'Volkswagen' in comparison to the the Cadillac' it just relieved USS Independence. Because the Midway is shorter and lighter, March acknowledged the ship can't carry as many bombs, missiles, shells, fuel or supplies. But he and other officers said the United States' only foreign-base- d carrier fosters a special esprit de corps. 'Midway attracts a kind of a unique breed," noted Lt. Dave Myer, 37, of Orlando, Fla. "We never go home. We don't go back to the States. So we're out here operating all the time. And I like n I private donations, including hundreds of thousands of tons of sugar, milk, grain, heating oil coal and toothpaste. However, hundreds of trains carrying the Soviet Union's normal food purchases are halted at its borders because Soviet tracks are a different size and the foreign rajl cars cannot enter the country. There are not enough people to unload the goods, so German food already shipped has not reached the interior. "We know there are problems in the Soviet Union of things getting lost," said Mats Karlsson, who oversees Swedish aid to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. He said many private organizations are reluctant to get M H NY I r m that" Pentagon reiterates Iraq may have nuke next year - WASHINGTON (AP? Pentagon Elaborating on comments that estimates that Iraq could produce Cheney made over the weekend a '"very crude" nuclear device about nuclear weapons, Williams within a year have prompted consaid the defense chief is "aware cern that it could be used against that they (Iraq could have some U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, a kind of crude device in less than a spokesman said Tuesday. year." Pete Williams, Defense Secretary Such a device might not be delivDick Cheney's spokesman, repeatered from an airplane or "weapon-ize- d ed Cheney's statement that Iraq is in the traditional sense of a on the verge of obtaining a nuclear nuclear weapon, but it would be device, an assertion that has been capable of doing some damage, of challenged by some outside experts .producing some kind of yield," be and Sen. Edward Kennedy, said. Williams said officials have '"relWilliams also said the Pentagon's atively new" intelligence estimates latest estimates indicate Iraq has on Iraq's alleged nuclear program. 4&9,O90 troops in the Kuwaiti thea"They range from a worst-cas-e ter of operatians, an increase of assumption to other assumptions, 2MKK over last week. from a mutter of years or less to "Iraq continues to more forces having some kind of crude device, around within Iraq and within the to one of five to 10 years in terms Kuwaiti theater of operatjons," be of having a deliverable system," said at a regular briefing. Half the be said. Asked if the Pentagon believes troops are in Kuwait proper. Debate about Iraq's nuclear cap- the 230.000 VS. troops in the Perabilities swirled in advance of the sian Gulf, mainly Saudi Arabia, UJS. Securilj CounriTs debate this are under any threat of nuclear week on a resolution allowing the attack, Williams said: "It would be accurate to say we're concerned use of farce against Iraq if necesabout it" sary. MEW How's you news IQ? state and local more than officials from taking gifts over f00 from lobbyists was: a proposed in Oregon; (bi rejected overwhelmingly in Nevada: it) passed unanimously by House and Senate in Florida. 6. A curfew that threatened to JZghL ou rale an "A" Ncwsieaturt jail parents of youngsters caught By AP on the street after hours w ent into 1. At Europe's first post-Coin the city with the nation's War summit: effect was there a ta) common declaration of solidarity highest crime rate: is Boston: (fci on the Persian Gulf crisis: b) Atlanta: ici Dallas. 7. In Britain. Prime Minister guidelines were laid down for a broad political arid security organiMargaret Thatcher's leadership of zation trial would draw in all U the Conservative Party was chalnations at the summit: j c leaders lenged by Michael Heseitoe in a a Heseltine won of 2 NATO and Warsaw Part vote in which bi nations signed a treaty making by a comfortable margin: Thatcher won by a large majority; arms. sweeping cuts in 2. According to a study of the t) Thatcher failed to gel a large quality of urban life, involving an enough majority to avoid a runoff. . America's No. 3 video chain is analysis of trie 2(10 largest metrotrie world swiJiowrrig up No. 3 in a MO bj politan areas in the EDITOR'S SOTE: How much do remember about the stories that hare been in the news receiu-jyJ- ? II you scare fewer than fire corral answers, you have been sitendmg too much time vr. the crossword. If 'you get eight cr more you fVvX k ol a arid trie best place to live is Melbourne. Australia: ib) Lagos. 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