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DATE: Monday, April 1, 1996                  TAG: 9604010139
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: BAGHDAD, IRAQ 

GROUP FLOUTS LAW, HELPS IRAQI KIDS

Ignoring a U.S. ban on travel to Iraq, five Americans took medicine to a children's hospital Sunday and challenged the U.S. government to prosecute them.

The Americans, from the group Voices in the Wilderness, delivered four sacks and three boxes of medicine, plus candy for children at al-Qadissiya Children's Hospital.

The supplies ranged from antibiotics to aspirin to vitamins, all in short supply since comprehensive United Nations sanctions were imposed in response to Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

``We are doing this in defiance of United States law,'' said the Rev. Bob Bossie, a Catholic priest and spokesman for the group, which called for the lifting of ``the immoral sanctions against the children and families of Iraq.'' -Associated Press

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