8 = The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 4, 1996 Dole supports troops, attack NATION/WORLD Sources differ on' location of TWA chemical traces 0 The Washington Post SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Presidential ambition gave way to pre- senting a united front during an over- seas. crisis yesterday as Bob Dole exe- cuted a calculated retreat from criticiz- ing President Clinton for "weak leader- ship" against Saddam Hussein. After speaking by phone yesterday morning with President Clinton about the U.S: cruise-missile attack in Iraq, the Republican presidential nominee said that in "matters like this, all of us think, not as Republicans or Democrats, but as Apericans. And If ther4 as Americans, we wish our troops clear lass success and safe- At the begin- ning of a "val- WIen ag ues' speech to an - American Legion convention here, multiplies Dole said he sup- ports "our men and women in GOP preside uni form who were sent on a difficult mission above the skies of Iraq .without hesitation or reservation." Dole, however, did not completely put-;aside his partisan needle. Wearing his American Legion service cap and speaking to a receptive crowd of about 6,000, Dole suggested that a lack of resolve by the president had triggered the flare-up of violence in Iraq. "If there is one clear lesson of our century it is this: When aggression is tolerated it multiplies. I trust this (mis- sile.attack) is the beginning of decisive action to limit the power and arrogance of Saddam Hussein. ... We must be decisive in confronting this threat and humbling this tyrant," Dole told the Legionnaires. Clinton spoke to Dole for five min- utes to brief him on the U.S. military response to the incursion of Iraqi troops against the Kurds inside a United Nations safe area. Hours before that call and in response to news accounts, Dole had released a statement saying he wanted "the American people to know that I stand four-square behind our men and women in uniform." Dole spokesperson Nelson Warfield said "the president expressed his appreciation for Senator Dole's strong support of the e Is one ion of our f'is this: session ed, it - Bob Dole ential nominee aide denied Dole troops" and Dole assured the presi- dent "he Vvould not offer remarks designed to offend the president or anyone else in America.' The White House has com- plained that Dole in recent days has violated an unwrit- ten rule by criticiz- ing the president in the middle of a for- eign-policy crisis. A senior Dole had done any such Experts confused by explosive traces dis- covered more than 100 feet apart Newsday SMITHTOWN, N.Y. - The only two traces of chemicals use in plastic explosives discovered on TWA' Flight 800 were found more than 100 feet apart and in different parts of the 747 jumbo jet, a highly placed federal law enforcement source said yesterday. The source said the traces of the explosive PETN were found on a floor- board in the center passenger cabin and traces of RDX were found on a flame- retardant curtain that separates con- tainerized and bulk cargo in the plane's rear hold. "These are the only two things," the source said. About 40 percent of the curtain, which hangs roughly under row 44 of the passenger cabin, has been recovered. But another source, who is involved in testing the wreckage for explosive residue, reiterated yesterday that the RDX was found in the area below where the PETN sample was discov- ered: near where the front of the wings meets the fuselage. The source said the the RDX was found on what he was told is a canvas- like material that lines the front cargo hold, on the bulkhead that separates the central fuel tank from the front ao hold. This is the general area where the front of the fuselage first broke off the plane. The location of the finds is important because if the two chemicals are found together, it would be more likely that they were used together in a compound such as the plastic explosive Semtex, which terrorists used to bring down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988. Safety board officials declined to comment on the discrepancy. The National Transportation Safety Board has never publicly given the location of the any of the residues found on the plane. Inside the former Grumman plant at Calverton, where portions of the plane are being reassembled, investigators prepared for new shipments of wreck- age as salvage ships returned to the crash site off the coast of Long Island after a three-day layover in a New York City port to protect them from the threat of Hurricane Edouard. By late yesterday afternoon, the Navy ships had returned to the crash site. Cmdr. Gordon Hume said Navy officials hoped to find out by this morning if the debris had been moved underwater. If the debris in a 400- square-yard debris field has shifted because of storm currents, the Navy will have to use underwater sonar to locate the wreckage before divers can go back down. Meanwhile, at John E Kennedy Airport yesterday, Rep. Peter King (R- N.Y.) called on the Federal Aviation Administration to beef up airport secu-0 rity by requiring airport security guards to have law enforcement and/or mili- tary training - and to pay for it with a $10 or $15 surcharge on all airplane tickets. In addition to the FAA, King called on the airlines to voluntarily impose tougher background and training requirements for the employees who would be responsible for all ramp, cargo, baggage and passenger security services. thing, insisting that criticism of the president's leadership was made on Sunday and Monday "in advance of the crisis." Dole had said in Salt Lake City on Monday evening - at an hour when it was widely understood that the White House was planning the missile attack but before it was launched - that the crisis in Iraq was a result of "weak lead- ershin. We nrobably shouldn't have to be doing what we're doing." Asked about that statement, the aide said Dole was not injecting partisanship into an ongoing crisis. "There is nothing that says in advance of a crisis that a member of the loyal opposition cannot discuss the AP PHOTO Presidential candidate Bob Dole speaks at an American Legion meeting yesterday in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he voiced support for American troops in Iraq. predicate that helped create the crisis. Dole has behaved completely responsi-: bly," the aide said.1 "Dole was making a larger foreign- policy commentary on the failure of the administration to deal with outlaw ; states such as Syria, Libya, Iran and,+ yes, Iraq,' he added. Dole told a National Guard audience in Washington on Sunday that "Saddam has been testing American leadership and finding it lacking. We don't need to analyze Saddam's actions. We need to condemn them." 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