Iran-Iraq truce begins with report of slaying

BAGHDAD, Iraq A United Nations-brokered cease-fire in theeight-year Persian Gulf war began Saturday with Iraq charging that anIranian sniper killed one of its soldiers and each country testingthe truce by sending ships into previously off-limits areas.

Although UN observers patrolling the 750-mile frontier betweenIran and Iraq had no immediate reports of truce violations, state-runBagdhad Radio said an Iraqi soldier was killed along the centralsection of the war front three hours after the cease-fire began.

The radio, quoting senior Iraqi sources, said Pvt. KhalilIbrahim was killed by an Iranian sniper at Seif Saad.

Iraqi troops did not return fire, and …