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LOTTERY, INDEX PAGE 3 Volume 239 Number 13 $1.50 AVCs AFTER THE CRUD Sunday: Partly siinny Monday: Ditto Details, Page 36 SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 1991 after mkoMomsiI (flelb BMflF way www MB9 off ffdwree Sm ttfln SI I Bush says war can be avoided UN chief arrives in Baghdad -T i ri Cr By Michael K. Frisby GLOBE STAFF I it II i REUTERS lie III-. ft' I I 1 1 1 1 i i I Hill Hi slip WASHINGTON A somber, divided Congress yesterday approved resolutions authorizing President Bush to use military force to drive Iraqi troops from Kuwait. The Congressional authorization, which many said amounted to a vote for war, followed the chambers' rejection of the more cautious approach of continued economic sanctions against Iraq. The votes culminated three days of emotional and unusually intense congressional debate.

Bush quickly hailed the vote and said war could still be avoided if Iraq begins a "massive, rapid withdrawal of its troops from Kuwait" before the Jan. 15 deadline. The president, speaking at a hastily called press conference, refused to say what he might do if Iraq's president, Saddam Hussein, ignores the deadline, but he added that he would be inclined to act "sooner rather than later." Page 19. The resolution authorizing force passed 52 to 47 in the Senate and by 250 to 183 in the House. It won approval after the alternative the resolution favoring continued sanctions was defeated 46 to 53 in the Senate and 183 to 250 in the House.

It went down to defeat despite its support by the Democratic leadership. Both of Massachusetts' senators and all eleven of its representatives including Republican Silvio Conte -supported sanctions rather than the use of force. Conte was one of only three House Republicans to break with party lines and vote against Bush's request to authorize the use of force. The Senate tally within three votes of defeating 'Bush's request reflected the nation's deep divisions over the president's stated intentions in the gulf. And as some lawmakers were quick to remind, the divided vote BAGHDAD UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar flew here for last-minute talks on the Persian Gulf crisis yesterday, but a senior Iraqi official brushed aside talk of a possible compromise over Kuwait.

Baghdad Radio said Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz met with Perez de Cuellar on his arrival and "reviewed extensively the situation in the Arab region." The radio did not elaborate. UN officials indicated that the meeting was a prelude to anticipated talks between Perez de Cuellar and President Saddam Hussein today. Saddam Hussein spent part of the day meeting with several members of the ruling Revolutionary Command Council, apparently to prepare for talks with the UN chief. He also called an unusual emergency session of Iraq's Parliament for tomorrow. The announcement of the special session gave no details of the meeting's agenda.

The order was signed by Iraq's Assembly speaker. Saddam Hussein in the past has consulted his Parliament before issuing some major decisions. Prospects for a gulf war continued to be ominous. The United States evacuated its Baghdad em-bassy yesterday, and the State Department ordered Iraq's ambassador to send home 12 Iraqi diplomats in a move it said was intended to prevent GULF, Page 16 7 CONGRESS, Page 16 AP PHOTO Assessing the scenarios of war An antiwar protester Is carted away by police breaking up a demonstration yesterday In front of the White House. A day of sorrowful solemnity By Fred Kaplan GLOBE STAFF By John Aloysius Farrell GLOBE STAFF ASHINGTON-Just before they voted to authorize the war he had urged them to renounce, House Speak garrisons set off down Pennsylvania Avenue to the tune of a stirring military tattoo, flags snapping in the breeze.

It was, in short, not like some other wars. No congressmen resigned from office to enlist, and no movie stars led drives for Victory Bonds. Instead, the capital appeared to slouch and stagger toward a bloody catastrophe. There was an air of incredulity among the citizens who half-filled the House and Senate galleries, drawn there to witness a historic vote. A divided Congress gave Bush a thin margin of approval.

Partisan bonds broke down on a' haunting matter of conscience. Demo crats lost, most thoroughly, their reputation as a band of liberal pacifists. "I'm very concerned about this big mistake they're making," said 81-year-old Sally Cory, who came to watch the vote. "It's ridiculous to think by killing a thousand or more young people we'll solve any problems." She was among the many who sided quietly against war. Dr.

Edward Dougherty, an emergency room physician from Virginia, said, We needed to sit in the gallery and listen" to the historic debate. He shook his head, amazed that war is once more upon the country he MOOD, Page 13 More on the Gulf crisis Leaders on the brink: High stakes for President Bush and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Page 14. Departing Baghdad: American diplomats vacated the US embassy yesterday, leaving behind a city of outward calm. Page 15.

Baker in Syria: Syrian President Hafez Assad told Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d that Syrian troops may join the multinational forces against Iraq. Page 12. Europe uneasy: As the prospect of war in the Gulf grows, US allies in Europe appear increasingly skittish. Page 18.

WASHINGTON With the UN deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait only two days away, many strategists and legislators are focusing on a quick war scenario a three-phase offensive in which air strikes destroy Iraqi command centers and chemical plants, other strikes cut off supply lines and bombard Iraqi forces in Kuwait, and US and allied troops plow through Iraq's weakened defenses, achieving victory in weeks, possibly days. Estimates of US casualties range from 3,000 to 18,000, with 500 to 4,000 killed. How realistic this scenario may be no one can say. War, if it comes, might be wrapped up quickly or it might not. Skeptics about the quick war view note the following considerations: Few of the modern US weapons arrayed in the de- WAR, Page 17 er Thomas Foley, a Democrat from Washington, prayed for his colleagues, for the president, "for all of us." "May God bless us and guide us," the speaker said, "and help us in the fateful days that lie ahead." So it was in Washington this weekend.

No bands played. No resplendent 6 gunned down at Chinatown club; 5 are dead Two slain as troops attack in Lithuania By Peter J. Howe GLOBE STAFF Violence fuels fears inarea By Paul Quinn-Judge GLOBE STAFF tanks reached the perimeter of the television tower site, groups of angry Lithuanian civilians, intent on defending it, charged the armored units. Civilians threw themselves on the lead tank, pounding it with stones and pieces of metal. People screamed "Fascists" at the oncoming armor.

Within minutes, one person had been run over and was carried away. The tanks smashed through a makeshift barrier of trucks that had barred the road. The lead tank roared over a construction truck filled with sand, mangling it in the process. The tanks spat out bursts of gunfire, though many of the shots were believed to be blanks. LITHUANIA Page 10 Five men playing cards at an after-hours Chinatown social club were shot to death and a sixth was critically wounded early yesterday in an attack police said may have been the latest, deadliest clash of crime gangs battling for dominance of the neighborhood's underworld.

The victims, described as Asian men whose ages ranged from 20 to 50, were all shot at least once in the head in the 4:10 a.m. attack inside the Tyler Street storefront club. None of the victims had been identified as of late yesterday, police said. Law enforcement authorities said the murders may have been related to a power vacuum in Chinatown's organized-crime circles that has led to violent clashes among gangs pressing for control of the criminal enterprises in the neighborhood, including gambling, drugs, extortion and prostitution. Police did not rule out a connection to the slaying last Tuesday of a 30-vear-old Chinatown man.

Dart- VILNIUS, Lithuania Cold War tactics returned to Eastern Europe early today when Soviet troops using tanks and armored vehicles attacked Lithuania's main television tower, killing at least two persons and an estimated five more. Lithuanian authorities said the armored assault on the broadcast facility also injured dozens of people, who had massed there to prevent airborne soldiers from capturing the key communications site. Soviet troops seized a number of security buildings Friday and yesterday and a printing plant as part of a growing crackdown on the independence-minded republic. In the overnight assault that echoed past communist crackdowns on dissent, up to a dozen tanks, accompanied by personnel carriers, moved through the city, pursued by a long liner-of private cars, horns blaring andiights flashing. When the By Matthew Brelis GLOBE STAFF The massacre yesterday that left five men dead has residents and civic leaders afraid that Boston's Chinatown could be transformed from an insulated community struggling to maintain its identity into a neighborhood overrun by gang-related violence.

In recent years, the 46-acre neighborhood has faced the erosion of its character by the steel and glass towers of the financial district to the north, the Combat Zone to the west, the South Station and Leather District renovations to the east and the sprawling New England Medical Center complex to the south. Ml 'J I 0 2 7 3 9 Jllliiil I v-J GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JOHN TLUMACKI Now, residents, community lead-COMMUNITY, Page 34 i CHINATOWN, Page 34 Police remove a victim of yesterday's Chinatown shootings,.