European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday. March 16.1988page 28 / i War of the cities resumes after Brief Lull b be ass Difed Prat Iran and Iraq shot missiles at each other s most heavily populated cities and pounded Border towns with renewed in Tensity monday after a weekend truce. Scores of civilians were reported killed or wounded. In a resumption of the War of the cities Iraq reported it fired eight sur face to surface missiles into Iran s Capi Tal of Tehran and Iran said it shot two missiles at Baghdad the iraqi capital. The iraqis declaring an All out Offen Sive on iranian cities also launched air raids on military and economic targets in Delful Kermanshah Shushtari and three other Border towns scoring what it said were destructive  Iraq also claimed its helicopter gunships downed an iranian helicopter. Iran meanwhile claimed its revolutionary guards and iranian backed kurdish guerrillas lulled or wounded 1,900 iraqis in ground assaults that began sunday in the mountains of North East Iraq. Tehran also reported that it fired nine surface to surface missiles into umm Qasir an Industrial town near Iraq s Southern Border with Kuwait and said anti aircraft gunners shot Down an iraqi fighter bomber in the northeastern Bat Les. The official iraqi news Agency monitored in Cyprus said the iraqi barrage was a reprisal for the shelling of iraqi Border towns sunday night in which at least 21 civilians were killed and 80wounded. Iran s official islamic Republic new Agency reported the iraqi missiles exploded in residential sections of the Ira Nian capital. 8 City of 6 million killing a least 26 civilians and wounding so. The news Agency quoting military communiques Taid the iranians retaliated by lobbing two missiles at Mili Tryand economic centers in Baghdad. The iraqis reported that one mii0e landed in a residential area killing a undisclosed number of civilian. Both sides in the a year old persian Gulf War vowed to keep pounding each other s cities until the other quits. Meanwhile Oil and Energy chiefs from 20 Arab countries gathered in Baghdad for a conference on resources. Officials in Baghdad said some Arab ministers had cancelled plans to attend the session apparently because of the flare up in the Carlucci says he won t Cut forces in Europe London up . Defense i. Carlucci said he believes America s Nat could and should do More in shouldering the com Mon defense Burden but he denied that the unite states will bring any . Personnel Home from Europe in order to save Money. "1 would not remove one Soldier from Europe where i have made the Point that All the cuts we j taken in the defense budget $33 billion is More than most european de Fiam Blu jews have been taken in the unit Lumley he said in remarks quoted by the Independent newspaper. The newspaper said it is rumoured that Carlucci  Likely survive in office if George Bush . Carlucci Satin Bartoes not  lulls Vear in the United s hl2smieptoo,000-Strong Mili Vestern eur pfc. Ere s a drumbeat on Burden of site the said but not in the form of threats to pull out i. The european allies decline to take More of the lies by panamanians there have been a number of bomb scares recently one official said. We Don t want to Over react but we Don t want Roget caught Flat footed either another source . Nancy Zalumas a Pentagon spokeswoman said monday there had been no change in the ale status for . Personnel in Panama and that the pm est form of Alert Alpha was still in place. We Are not sending in combat troops Shi stressed. These Are police and Security units. Inside. Classified and order Coupon