Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 12, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Renewal of War looms focus kurd taking up arms by John k. Cooley Beirut threatened renewal of War in the Kur dish areas of Northern Iraq is part of the larger Power struggle in the persian Gulf Ami Indian Ocean areas Mideast analysis Here believe. Gen. Mulla Mustafa bar 2 a n i kurdish guerrilla commander and president of the demo erotic party of Kurdistan is again getting iranian Neil Litany support against the iraqi army. To recently appealed for . Aid even if channelled Hirough Iran or Israel. The soviet Union intent on bolstering its ally Iraq in the Gulf appears to have abandoned its position of earlier years favouring the rights of the 10 million kurd. These live in the soviet Union Iran Turkey and Syria As Well As in Northern Iraq. While cultivating Iraq Moscow also nurtures its Alliance with India thus keeping friends on both flanks of Iran and pakis Tan both of which look increasingly to the United states. Pakistan president a Bhutto is expected to ask for More . Military Aid when he visits Washington next month. Fighting Between the kurdish forces of general Mustapha Barzani and the iraqi army near Northern Iraq s Kirkuk Oil Fields went into its third Day june 27. Reports from Tehran and Oiler information reaching general Barzani s spokes Man Here say the kurdish guerrilla Leader has threat ened a full scale kurdish attack on the iraqi forces in the Kirkuk area unless they withdraw from Kur dish populated areas. General mobilization of inc regular fighters of the push Myrga the kurdish guerrilla a r in y was said to be under Way. Eleven kurd were killed and 22 wounded in the first two Days of iraqi army shelling of kurdish Vil Lages the Tehran journal reported Frum Kermanshah near inc Iraq Iran Border. Travellers re polls said fighting continued june 27 and sonic kurdish guerrilla units took up Advance positions near the Kilkus Oil Fields of the and formerly we Stern o w n c d Iraq Petroleum company. The new fighting seemed 10 Ihre Alen a breakdown of inc March 1970, kurdish iraqi ceasefire Accord. Under this Baghdad is to Grant wide cultural and administrative autonomy to inc three million or More kurd ill Northern Iraq after a generation of Kur dish revolt. General Barzani s sup porters claim the baathist Arab socialist govern ment in Baghdad is not carrying out the agreement loyally. Kurdish sources Here say general Barzani s men attacked and Dis lodged forces commanded by Ahmed Talaban a pro government kurdish Leader at Kif i and to Khu Muntu South of Kirkuk in late april. T h c new outbreak of fighting was reported just As a soviet delegation was visiting the nearby Kirkuk 011 Fields. A Baghdad Dis Patch said the soviet dec gallon Leader promised the Best experts in the .s.r. In the Field of Oil would come to Iraq next september to work in the Oil Fields of Iraq s National Oil company. A week earlier general Barzani told Washington Post correspondent Jim Llo gland thai if . Sup port were Strong enough we could control the Kir Kuk Field and give it to an american company to operate. It is in our area and the nationalization of the Western owned Iraq Petroleum company last year was an act against he in an annual report just issued the iranian foreign ministry charged Iraq with a number of hitherto undisclosed Frontier violations in k u r d i s t a n and else where some by aircraft and Large military forces during recent months. Muhammad Shah Pahlavi has warned Iraq that his powerful military forces now being bolstered by new billion purchases of . Aircraft naval ships and other arms would Deal heavy retaliatory blows in Case of Large scale iraqi provocation. The Shah has also wan Rcd Iraq which fought briefly with Kuwait on i hair disputed Border last March that he would Rush to a mail s Aid if the iraqis attacked and Kuwait asked for help. Kuwait is also reported buying heavy arms from he United Stales for million or More. In Beirut Lebanon the newspaper Al Anwar of Arab Nalion list persuasion and unsympathetic to the kurdish cause said that a c o in in u n i s t delegation headed by Aziz Muheim 111 a d iraqi communist party first Secretary met general Barzani at his Mountain Headquarters in Hajj Amran for three Days recently Loiry to reach an understanding. Kurdish sources Here say that meeting yielded no re Sulls and was followed by inc visit of a soviet communist parly delegation which tried in vain to per Suade general Barzani not to resume hostilities against the Baghdad re Gime. Christian science Monitor Union of Arab emirates soviet-. Partnership makes Europe uneasy by Joe Alex Moskis Brussels special t p n s outside the sprawling Headquarters of the North Atlantic treaty organization Here stands a huge Bronze sculpture re presenting the four pointed Symbol of the Alliance. Birds arc nesting in it. They arc neither doves of peace nor Hawks of War. But their Busy and aimless presence is wryly noted by nato officials who Are increasingly looking at their own role As one of in consequential fluttering in a world of changing relationships. This feeling has been growing for a Long time not Only at nato but throughout Europe. It was capped by the visit of soviet Leader Leonid i. Brezhnev to the United Stales and the agreement on the prevention of nuclear War he signed with president Nixon. Despite assurances by inc United Stales to the contrary Many european leaders Are concerned that the growing .-soviet rapport is eroding the basis of the Atlantic Alli Ance. F r e n c h foreign mini Star Michel Jobert said the danger is a con do m i n t u m of super As a senior nato official put it increased bilateral consultations cannot but add to the de coupling effect within the Alliance. Any decrease in the nuclear Clement of the de Fence Alliance logically in creases the temptation of the other Side to engage in a conventional critical decision confronts Moscow by William r. Fryk Helsinki Finland nations came to Helsinki this past week to seek an end to the cold War. Many arc leaving in the belief that More liberalized communism is a necessary first step. It is obvious that the so Viet Union and its allies Are going to resist liberalization As Long and As hard As they dare. Little by Little however the idea is begin n i n g to penetrate that there can be no meaningful re Layalion of tension be tween East and West until communism does relax its rigid grip on human beings. T i i s thesis docs not come solely from the West. On inc eve of the Confer ence a remarkable Docu ment surfaced in Czechoslovakia in which a group of czech intellectuals set it Forth with much Force. We in said that european or curly is unthinkable without he full Security of the citizens of any european country. As Long As Iacre exist in any european you nary Legal uncertainly and tyranny Here can be no real Secu Rity and order in westerners have repeatedly argued this Case to their soviet o p p o s i 1 e numbers Here and during the six months of or Para Lory negotiations which proceeded the current con Ference. They succeeded in gel Ling the soviet Union to a Cpl on paper inc idea Hal human rights and do in la arc parts of an in divisible package. They elicited Frum some russians in private acknowledgements Hal there might indeed be an authentic con Naclion. Mill All this was accomplished in the lace of great reluctance and Heel d r a g g ing. Virtually throughout the preliminary talks from november to june 1973, soviet Dele gales tried to edit into the Agenda qualifying phrases which would make human rights dependent on the will of governments and limit foreign interference in the free exercise of that will. The West held out for deletion of these qualifications and in the end had i i s Way. The russians badly wanted the Confer ence to take place and this was dearly the Price the Kremlin was going to have to pay to get it. Hut it was a death bed confession. No sooner did i h e conference Convene than inc russians began taking in All Hack. Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko rain Iro Ducco the idea of a Freer information flow Between Stales rather than and he Fol Lowed with a new draft declaration departing from the agreed Agenda in significant ways All in a direction away from liberalization. It. Was Clear he had nol been converted. Indeed some we Stern in Cilli Gynce circles say there actually was a tightening up within the soviet Union during preparations for the foreign ministers Confer ence now under Way. This could of course have been in anticipation of necessary future conces Sions a step backward in order More safely to step Forward. But the implications seem ominous. Ii could As easily have been an instinctive knee Jerk re action to pressure for liberalization. Optimists continue to in Sist the Kremlin will give Way. They say it Cven lung in will do what in has to do Given sufficient pres sure and incentive. The Lim Al from China on ilii1 Lossl is a powerful in can live for Moscow to seek Ili u Wilc with the Wisl and so far inn Wisl. And oven Many neutrals have been firm in insisting that the Price of detente is liberalization. The facts of life join in making it so. Every Lime a soviet intellectual is sent loan insane Asylum in punishment for dissidence inc reaction in Western opinion makes it More difficult for a Western government to Trade extend credits and share techno logy Wilh the men in mos cow who Are held responsible. The russians have been asking the West this past week in effect to acquiesce in More or less per manent soviet Hegemony Over Eastern Europe. The people of the West will let their governments do this Only if in is not seen As an immoral act a decision to sentence inc people of. Kastern Europe to indefinite tyranny. You can have your pm the West is saying if you will Rule it in Accord with the Universal de Al a ration of human t h i s raises a critical derivative question. Could soviet domination of East Ern Europe be maintain cd without repression even Wilh repression it has not a Cen easy As the czechs and hungarians have shown. The Kremlin s Greal Assel during the 2. Years Easl european fear of renewed German aggression has been seriously undercut in re cent years. Kasl Europe ans no longer rationalize inc presence of inc Sovil a r in y As a Protection against German Mcvan so the Choice is Clear. Only if the russians will risk inc loss of i hair Empire will they be allowed to keep it Wilh Western bless ing ii is one of Chr More fas Oinling dilemmas of Helsinki and it May be a Long Lime before in is resolved. Cony Loht 1973 will he r. Nato officials were caught by Surprise by the nuclear agreement. They were not consulted before hand As the . Was pledged to do and were Only informed of the impending agreement a Mere six hours before it was announced. This despite the fact that the so called nuclear umbrella is the Keystone of nato defence strategy. As one chief Delegate Here bitterly observed Secretary of state Wil Liam a Rogers appeals to us for nato Solidarity then the americans keep i hair negotiations with the russians secret ii makes us wonder whal else Alliey agreed upon which was not made this budding partnership of the United slates and inc soviet Usu on has led to new doubts and questioning in Western Europe. An american Here described it As a Vola Lile situation in which the european allies worry about . Intent and doubt . Credibility. L h j o Toncic Sorin the austrian general Secretary of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg w a r n e d that .-soviet co operation could Lead to a new this was a refer ence to the historic War time meeting in the Cri Mea where Roosevell Sla Lin and Churchill Sci led the Fale of postwar Europe. Nato officials Are puzzled by the . Role in two major efforts towards International detente now going on the european Security conference and the negotiations on troop reductions in Central Europe which Are scheduled to Start on oct. 30 in Vienna. In preparations for these purity conference one Dele gallon head Here said the americans played the role o f Friendly observers. They did not Lead the the same official said he . Was so anxious to get troop reduction talks s i a r t e d before Congress orders a unilateral cutback in . Forces in Europe that it was ready to give away the principle of a balanced reduction on both sides. This is sharply contested by . Diplo Mats Here who say the in tent of balance is still alive. But the word itself was dropped at soviet insistence. What the europeans fear is the reaction at Home to these signals however Cloudy of big Power Collu Sion and a decreasing Rcd i b i 1 i t y of . Security guarantees. 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