The World - News from Sept. 13, 1988

The United States and several of its allies have asked U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar to send an investigative team to Iraq to determine if the Iraqi military used poison gas against Kurdish guerrillas, diplomats told the New York Times. The request, made by the United States, Britain, West Germany and Japan, asks the U.N. team to seek evidence of chemical warfare in the mountainous Kurdish region and in Turkey, where thousands of Kurdish refugees have fled. The United States has accused Iraq of using poison gas against the Kurds, but some Turkish doctors have expressed doubts, the newspaper said.