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4The Daily Tar HeelFriday, February 15, 1991 Iraqis mourn dead cMMauis, vow reveinge against ILSo From Associated Press reports BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraqi mourners marched alongside flag -covered coffins Thursday, firing automatic rifles into the air and crying out for revenge for the U.S. air strike that Iraq said killed "hundreds in a shelter. ' "By God we swear, we will make them pay their blood for this crime!" members of the crowd of 5,000 yelled. i'The death of our women and children iwill not go unavenged!" Scores more bodies were pulled from the building 'that was blasted apart early Wednesday by U.S. warplanes, and a Cabinet min ister depicted President Bush as a war criminal comparable to Hitler a comparison Bush himself has used when 'speaking of Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi military reported nearly 400 allied air raids late Wednesday and early Thursday, including 135 against "residential targets" across the country and 251 sorties against military targets in the southern war zone. It said one allied plane was shot down, but gave no details. Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said the southern Iraqi port city of Basra underwent intensive attacks, aimed primarily at an oil refinery and petrochemical complex. The agency also reported numerous other raids, one of them targeting the southeastern town of al-Qurna, the re puted location of the biblical Garden of Mexico, Ecuador, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Brazil Work Share Live Learn You can have a summer full of adventure and personal growth whole improving ' health for the people of Latin - America. Write or call: Amigos de las Americas 5618 Star Lane Houston, Texas 77057 800231-7796 713782-5290 : rly- COPIES Application dcaline: March 1, 1991. . Guara&teed. cVU J -Ttti- t1iLSjSftSt Rd 1 Open 7 days a week Until 10 pm weekdays H . IncSitivei available for early commitment fmS?"1 , SundWrurjiPpB 967-7P64 w I 203 12 E. Franklin Street above Sadlacks i I I O - ' ; a Eden. The manager of Baghdad's al-Rashid hotel, meanwhile, denied U.S. claims that his establishment housed a military communications center, and allowed foreign reporters to search the 14-story building. The death toll from Wednesday's raid remained uncertain, in part because rescuers had not yet reached all areas of the shattered above-and-below-ground shelter. The Information Ministry said at least 400 people had been killed. Civil defense officials estimated the toll at more than 500, mostly women and children. In either case, it was the bloodiest attack yet reported in the month-old Persian Gulf War. Information Minister Latif Jassim angrily rejected U.S. assertions that the building was a military command bun ker, rather than a civilian air raid shel ter. "We are told that Hitler burned the Jews," Jassim told reporters. "Now Bush is burning Iraqi children." Jassim also denounced U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar as "a filthy and criminal conspirator." "By maintaining silence toward the crimes of the Americans and their allies, he has in fact provided cover for the United States," Jassim said. "From both the moral and legal standpoints, he is no longer suitable for the position he holds." At the United Nations, Perez de Cuellar replied: "I don't pay attention at all to their insults I don't understand how during this terrible situation they have the time to attack the secretary general." Among those visiting the site Thursday was Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Vcref S va S 3 X I -One day service mt t I $ IL Ml icklS I -Kept on file for two years 1 t candVnCk-Vt Vlli W,dcWClV I -Rushes possible J I who was in Baghdad to confer with Saddam. "If President Bush thinks that by killing civilians daily, he will break the morale of the Iraqi people, he's com pletely wrong," Arafat said. "Let's stop the war. Let's confer." Arafat declined to give details about his talks with Saddam, but told report ers he saw "viable" aspects to peace proposals being formulated by non aligned countries whose foreign min isters met in Yugoslavia this week. At least 20 people killed in the raid were buried Thursday, and many more bodies were retrieved from the wreck age in Baghdad's al-Amerieh district by rescue teams supported by bulldoz ers and cranes. Officials fear many corpses will never be identified, mainly because they were so badly mutilated or because entire families died. A military communique issued during the afternoon said 64 bodies had been identified. Reporters escorted to the site by In formation Ministry officials counted at least 40 corpses, many decapitated or missing limbs. CNN reporter Peter Amett quoted a mortuary director as saying that 288 bodies had been removed from the shelter, including 91 children. A few hundred yards away, mourn ers marched to the neighborhood cem etery to bury the dead. Other private funerals were held elsewhere in the capital. Officials said most of the bodies re trieved Wednesday were still in hospi tal morgues. Rescue operations had stopped after sundown Wednesday when allied air raids on Baghdad resumed. Officials said these raids, considerably less in GVTeatrood.pv-cot-Fun. . r tense than those of the previous night, targeted mainly the downtown tele communications center, inflicting damage to nearby houses and business centers. In its communique, the military said: "The coward, Bush, and his cowardly allies carried out an air raid on our Student boycott spreads to other cities From Associated Press reports VIENNA, Austria A university boycott by students challenging Albania's rul ing Communists has spread from Tirana to several other cities, Al banian journalists said Thursday. The journalists said in telephone calls from the Albanian capital that students at several post-secondary institutions outside the capital had joined those striking at Enver Hoxha University since last week. Students, who first staged their walkout nine days ago, have won gov ernment consent to upgrade primitive dormitory conditions and to make other improvements of campus life. But the ruling Party of Labor has refused to agree to political demands that include the resignation of several government ministers and the removal War ther fled north into Iraq or surrendered to the multinational forces strung out across the border. Allied officers say that defectors traditionally overstate numbers of de serters to rationalize their own decision to flee. However, front-line allied officers have reported a sharp rise in desertions this week. The nearby U.S. 2nd Marine Division has taken 25 prisoners of war since the air war began Jan. 1 7. Lt. Col. Jan Huly, a division spokesman, said the latest Laserset Resumes $15.00page beloved capital, Baghdad, during the night of the 11th- 12th." It said the attack was a "premeditated plan to target civilians." U.S. officials insisted the building was a legitimate military target, saying it served as a command and control center. They said they did not know of Hoxha's name from the university. Hoxha, the strong-willed founder of communist Albania, led the country through decades of repressive Stalinist isolation. He died in 1985. President Ramiz Alia, Hoxha's successor, began cautious liberalization last year. But popular discontent with both the moribund economy and repression bubbled over into occasional street violence and forced Alia to speed economic and po litical reforms. Popular pro-democracy pressure in December led to the legalization of opposition political parties for the first time in 46 years of Communist rule. Albania's first free elections are scheduled for March 3 1 . A journalist at Democratic Revival, the newspaper of the opposition six, captured Wednesday night, included two lieutenants and four enlisted men. He said they were hungry, tired and afraid of the constant U.S. bombing. Ahmed Abed Ali, an Egyptian mili tary doctor who has been examining deserters, said all had been malnour ished to some degree. The soldiers said their food rations had been cut to two spoons of rice and some bread once every two days. Allied aircraft have been hitting supply lines, and other deserters have reported shortages of food, fuel and parts. It is not clear how many other prison ers showed up at the other troop posi tions along the front on Thursday. Re ports from the U.S. 1st Marine Division in northeast Saudi Arabia said more than 50 Iraqi enlisted men had surren dered in small groups to that unit in the past week. Allied officers say the Egyptian en campments often draw the most pris oners because of their proximity to an abandoned city at the front that is vis ible from Iraqi positions. The Army officer and Egyptian of ficers said the 22 who showed up were the largest group to surrender to any front-line unit. U.S. military officials said last week that 1 ,000 Iraqis had either been captured or had surrendered since the war began, but military officers at individual units along ;the front said the numbers of deserters had risen sharply in the past few days. None of the 12 deserters questioned was a ranking officer or a member of Iraq's 150,000-member Republican Guard, considered the most committed and skilled component of Saddam's 1- ALL GAMES TELEVISED LIVE. SATURDAY. 21691 NCAA 4:00 Duke vs. Wake Forest 4:00 N.C. State vs. UConn SUNDAY. 21791 12:00 Daytona500 2:00 Ohio State vs. Indiana 2:00 LSU vs. Alabama 504 W. FRANKLIN ST. 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That journalist and one with the state media, who spoke separately, said the strike had spread to students and teachers at the Higher Pedagogical Institute of Shkodra, 55 miles north of Tirana. Some classes also were being boy cotted at the High Institute of Agricul ture in Kamez, outside of the capital, and at anotherpost-secondary institution in Gjirokaster, about 85 miles south of Tirana, they said. Tirana radio, monitored by the Brit ish Broadcasting Corp. in London, earlier reported that student teachers in Elbasan and agriculture students in Korce also were on strike. from page 1 million-man army. However, 1 1 of the 1 2 said they were veterans of the 1980-88 war with Iran, and some said they were tired of war. Some said it was not the intense allied bombing during the night that prompted them to leave, but the mo mentary absence of sentries. The Egyptian officers did not allow enough time for reporters toquestion all the Iraqis individually. A translator asked most questions to the group as a whole during the brief interview session, and it was unclear what prompted each individual to desert. Six said they had left families behind in Iraq. One 35-year-old soldier said he left his wife and five daughters at home. "It's very difficult for these guys," the Army officer said. "The single ones are relieved to be away from the fighting, but the ones with wives and children are pretty de pressed." They said they fled south, to Saudi Arabia, rather than north into Iraq be cause of the so-called "execution squads" that Saddam has posted behind his troops to kill deserters. However, other deserters have said the number of Iraqis heading north is many times greater than those going south. The soldiers all said they were from the first tier of Iraqi defenses and that the bombing has been concentrated on the larger second line of troops and tanks. Previous groups have said the same thing. 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