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41 A A14 FRIDAY JULY 9 1993 LOS ANGELES TIMES UN Team to Seal Off-Iraqi Missile Site Carmelites Finally Leave Auschwitz WARSAW-The last Carmelite nuna have left a convent next to the Ausch-' wits death camp ending a controversy that strained Roman Catholic-Jewish relations for almost nine years a priest said Thursday The convent opened in 1964 in a building once used to store poison gas for the death chambers at the camp where Nazis murdered more than 15 million people The vast majority of the victims were Jews but Poles Gypsies Soviet war prisoners and homosexuals were also killed there The last of the 14 nuns left the convent Tuesday said Father Marek Glownia who heads the Center fa Information Dialogue and Prayer in Auschwitz Prtts Diplomatic sources said that decision to bar installation of the surveillance cameras was meaning that it was made at the highest levels and not simply by bureaucrats or technicians Undo the cease-fire accord that followed the 1991 Persian Gulf War Iraq agreed to meet all UN demands fa dismantling its missile arsenal Baghdad has a spotty compliance record however often refusing to follow UN orders until the two sides are oh the brink of confrontation Baghdad is known to view installation of cameras as a first step toward long-term enforcement of Iraqi a restriction that it has consistently opposed as an infringement on its sovereignty At the same time the Security Council maintains that installing the cameras is the most efficient way to monitor whether the Iraqis actually are dismantling and destroying their arsenal a are seeking to evade the UN demands opNwrrr Ekeus suggested that besides heightening the pressure on Iraq to comply the step announced Thursday also might offer Baghdad a kind of to reverse its earlier refusal to obey UN orders He called the move interim designed to prevent the Iraqis from using the equipment until the dispute is resolved will make sure no testing is taking he said Ekeus provided no details on how the equipment will be sealed But officials said that inspectors have placed similar locks on other devices in recent months The equipment cannot be used again unless the seals are broken There was no immediate reaction from Iraqi officials Thursday Ekeus also announced that Iraq finally had fulfilled a demand that it destroy additional equipment fa manufacturing chemical reversing its earlier claim that the equipment was needed fa agricultural purposes MOM HBEU rJ I- I 1 1 1 A Rciitm High winds and heavy rains of Hurricane Calvin destroyed 300 homes in Llano Largo section of Acapulco before the storm moved north Death Toll 37 in Mexico I all Storm Heads Out to Sea ByARTPINE TIMES STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON-The United Nations upped the ante in its latest dispute with Iraq sending a new team of weapons experts to seal off equipment at two Iraqi missiletesting sites until Baghdad allows UN inspectors to set up monitoring cameras there The measure disclosed during a briefing for the Security Council by Rolf Ekeus the official who oversees UN weapons inspection activities in Iraq is designed to intensify pressure on Baghdad to allow installation of the surveillance cameras A previous UN team left Baghdad in protest Monday after Iraq refused to allow it to install the cameras which would be used to monitor the dismantling of the missile -testing equipment Both the Security Council and the United States have warned of if the Baghdad government does not comply soon The 15-country Security Council is not expected to take any new action this week in the wake of Ekeus' latest measure Officials said that any decision on whether to punish possibly with another military would await response to the move UN officials declined to predict what might happen if the new UN team is not allowed to bar access to the equipment or if Baghdad unduly delays entry of the group which left New Yak at Thursday and is expected to arrive in Baghdad on Saturday However Tim Trevan spokesman fa Ekeus' office warned that if Iraq does try to block the team would have to repot that to the Security He said the inspection team what the council would do then Hair Transplants Wky pgr iafcrad $20-821 psr graft priccT Compare Natural Hiiiiira Superior Rraubt Advanced Technique! 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