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Iraqi Crisis

  *US fighters fired six air-to-air missiles at Iraqi aircraft Tuesday at about 2:30 EST over the northern no-fly zone in Iraq, US defense officials said.

  One of the officials said one of Iraqi planes was believed to have crashed, apparently not by US missiles, but running out of fuel.

  *Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Wednesday called on the Arabian people to expel the foreign troops out of the Gulf Region.

  In a nationally televised speech on the occasion of the National Army Day, Saddam slammed those Arab governments that "cooperate with US and British forces in the Gulf Region."

  *The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday rejected Iraq's request that the United Nations should replace American and British relief staff working in the country.

  The UN Secretariat had made formal response to Iraq's request that day by stressing that it is for the United Nations that decides who works for its program and underlines Iraq's responsibility for safeguarding the security of all UN personnel.

  *French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin on Wednesday slammed the United States for always acting in a unilateral way, as it did in Iraq in the "Desert Fox" operation last month.

  "The United States often behaves in a unilateral manner and it is having difficulty in assuming the role as the organizer of the international community, which it pretends to be," said Jospin in an interview with Le Monde published on Wednesday.

  

Educationcul 1999-01-07 Page6

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