Iraqi Issue ����*Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Sunday called on Asian and African countries to set up a new group to balance the existing Western alliance led by the United States. ����In a nationally televised address on the 8th anniversary of the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam called for an institutional gathering of "willing member-states" of the world "to establish a serious cooperation in economic, political and military fields to maintain balance, realize peace beginning in Asia." ����*The eight-year economic sanctions against Iraq have caused 1.8 million Iraqi people died due to medicine insufficiency and malnutrition, including 430,000 children under the age of five, according to the Iraqi Health Ministry. ���� ���� ���� WorldNews 1999-01-18 Page6 Full Story in Chinese