The World - News from Aug. 12, 1988
A five-member U.N. truce monitoring team headed by a Canadian colonel began work in Tehran, holding talks with Iranian officials on ways to implement the cease-fire between Iran and Iraq, due to go into effect in eight days. Iran said Iraq could not be trusted to observe the truce and renewed demands that Baghdad be named the aggressor in the eight-year-old war. Iraq, in turn, accused Iran of shelling its forces on several sectors of the war front despite the truce agreement. The United Nations, meanwhile, confirmed that Maj. Gen. Slavko Jovic, 58, of the Yugoslav army has been named commander of the 350-strong U.N. force that will monitor the cease-fire along the 740-mile border.
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