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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, February 7, 1992                   TAG: 9202070165
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

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RIGHTS GROUP REJECTS BABY-KILLING REPORTS

A 16-month investigation by a human-rights group of reports that Iraqi soldiers killed Kuwaiti infants during the occupation of Kuwait has concluded there is "no basis" to the allegation.

In a report released Thursday, Middle East Watch said it had interviewed Kuwaitis who once claimed to be witnesses to the deaths, but who actually had received only secondhand accounts. It said examination of cemetery and hospital records showed there were no mass burials and that most incubators alleged to have been stolen were accounted for.

- The Washington Post

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