The World - News from Sept. 14, 1988

U.N. and Red Cross representatives found no evidence that chemical weapons were used against Iraqi Kurdish refugees they saw last week in northwestern Iran, a U.N. spokeswoman said in Geneva. Officials representing the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Committee of the Red Cross visited temporary centers sheltering 7,000 to 8,000 Kurds who fled recently to Iran’s western Azerbaijan province. Kurds seeking sanctuary in Iran and Turkey in recent weeks have said the Iraqi army attacked them with chemical weapons, a charge supported by Washington, but Iraq has denied this.