European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 9, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 is l. Emmett Lewis  Oranjian hugs her stuffed toy and balloons. A ii. Fun r. Is l. Emmett Lewis or. Spec. Mekhtikhanya left gets a laugh from Lilit Center and her aunt after mistaking the youngster for a boy. For Lilit and others Hurt in quake . Holds Hope to t a  to a rat a. To _ _ by Janet d Agostino medical writer Lan Stuhl West Germany six year old Lili Terpanjian Lay for a Day and a half under the rubble of her Home destroyed by the devastating earthquake that hit Armenia in december. The nerves in her left  were severely damaged by the Concrete that held her prisoner until she was found unconscious by rescuers digging through the ruins. However Complex Micro vascular surgery might Cor rect some of the damage to the nerves in her limb. Lilit is one of 37 armenian children All victims of the earthquake who were to Fly to the United states thursday for medical treatment. During a Brief news conference wednesday at Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center Lilit squirmed in her chair with a Burger King Crown on her head and hot dog shaped Blue yellow and Orange balloons around her neck. Through the translator spec. Vanes Mekhtikhanya from Btry a 2nd in 82nd Field arty in Friedberg Lilit s aunt Berchuhi Sarkasian explained some of what the child had been through since the dec. 7 Earth quake. Lilit had been at Home when the quake hit. Her aunt says Lilit remembers her grandmother cooking and then the ceiling falling Down. Lilit s Mother tried to cover the girl s siblings with a Rug. Of her four siblings one brother the youngest in the family died in the earthquake. Lilit s father was killed trying to Rescue other people from the ruins and her Mother is hospitalized in Armenia Sarkasian said. Both Lilit and her aunt come from a City about two hours from the armenian capital of Yerevan. Sarkasian was going to the Bank when the Earth quake hit. The ground she said Shook like the Waves of an Ocean and Concrete started raining Down. Sarka Sian luckily escaped injury As she ran Back to the 16 Story apartment building where she lived to see if he family was injured. Lilit and 14 other children Are staying at Lan Stuhl where they had a Chance to rest before starting the second leg of their journey to the states. The children did not require any acute medical care said or. Maj Ted Cieslak a staff paediatrician. Three other children Are at Frankfurt army regional medical Center and 19 More Are at Wiesbaden air Force regional medical Center. Each child is accompanied by an adult Guardi an. The three children in Frankfurt and their guardians had been scheduled to go to Lan Stuhl when they arrived at Rhein main a tuesday evening. But while being flown to Sembach a they were diverted to Frankfurt when one of the children required emergency surgery because of an infection a Hospital spokes Man said. The 12-year-old girl was reported in fair condition. The children flew from the soviet Union on an air Force c-141 flight arranged by project Hope a Pri vate International health foundation that assists coun tries in medical education and training. After the flight thursday to Andrews fab near Washington the children Are to be taken to nine Hospi tals in Massachusetts Ohio Illinois new York Penn Sylvania Florida and Virginia. Many of the children suffered crushing injuries that damaged Bones tissue Muscles and nerves said or. Susan Briggs a trauma specialist from the Massachusetts general Hospital in Boston who works for project Hope. Many also had arms amputated and will need to be fitted for prosthetic devices. Project Hope chose children with the severest injuries who could Benefit from specialized medical care in the United states a spokesman said. The organization was invited by the armenian and soviet governments to help the children injured in the earthquake. Project Hope developed a five year project with Armenia and the soviet Union that includes bringing children to the states and establishing a rehabilitation Center in arme Nia. The organization asked the department of defense to assist the project by providing transportation for the children. Guerrilla rocket attack kills 7, hurts 21 in Kabul Kabul Afghanistan a moslem guerrillas fired a rocket into a crowded Kabul neighbourhood wednesday that killed seven people and wounded 21, state television reported. The television said it landed near a line of people waiting for a bus near the Mik Corazon District where senior government officials live. The victims included people waiting at a distribution Center for scarce flour and cooking Oil witnesses said. Guerrillas have surrounded Kabul and attacked Supply convoys creating severe food and fuel shortages but have fired few rockets into the City As the feb. 15 deadline nears for withdrawal of All soviet military forces. This was the first re ported in several Days. Soviet military transports Fly in hundreds of tons of flour daily to help feed the poor in a City packed with 2 million residents and refugees but a soviet offi cer said the flights would end with the withdrawal. A . Airlift of food and Medicine from Pakistan to Kabul had been expected to Start tuesday but has been delayed at least until thursday. Col. Pavel Vinokurov said 35 soviet air Force planes most of them giant ilyus Shin-76 transports have brought 600 tons of flour to the capital every Day. Vinokurov who has spent 2 /2 years in Afghanistan commands the red army soldiers who guard the Airport and protect the aircraft. He said the Airlift would contine until monday two Days before the deadline when he and his men will leave the de sense of the Airport to afghan forces an return to the soviet Union. Vinokurov would not reveal How Many men he commanded but said we have enough to fulfil the task to Dothe Job and then  soviet diplomats said privately fewer than 500 soviet soldiers remained i Kabul. In Moscow the official news Agency Tass quoted col. Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev military chief of staff As saying wednesday that the last soviet Soldier would leave Afghanistan on feb. 14. The newspaper Komsomol Skaya pravda said Gen. . Gomoy the red army commander in Afghanistan would be the last to leave at precisely 10 . Feb. 15, the deadline. It said he would March across the Bor Der Bridge at termed and make a silent speech to himself for precisely 1 minute and 7 seconds. It did not say whether those were Gromov s plans or its own speculation. The Kremlin sent military forces to Afghanistan in december 1979 to help combat moslem guerrillas who began fighting after a communist coup in april 1978. An estimated 115,000 red army soldiers were in the country when the pullout began May 15 under a .-me-diated agreement. In Islamabad Pakistan . Official said the Crew of a chartered Egypt air transport had refused to make the first flight of the . Airlift to Kabul with 32 tons of supplies and ethiopian airlines had agreed to do it. Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan who directs the $1.1 billion . Relief and re construction program for Afghanistan said the United nations does not share the apprehension of the airline about the safety of Kabul s Airport and is con Vinced 9f the urgent needs to be met on the basis of a humanitarian consensus among All those  in Cairo the official Middle East news Agency quoted Hassan Afifi operations director of Egypt air As saying flights to Kabul have been postponed not cancelled until Security conditions there  there was no elaboration. Rene Albeck spokesman for the Relief program said the chartered ethiopian plane would Fly from Quetta in arid Baluchistan province about 65 Miles Froni the afghan Border in southwestern Paki Stan. He said Large . Storage depots were located there and at Peshawar in Northwestern Pakistan and the  would be the hubs for Aid delivery. An estimated 350,000 people living in Kabul shantytowns Are Short of food and heating fuel in one of the harshest win ters of recent years. Long lines form daily for bread. The City needs 650 tons of flour a Day and officials estimate the Reserve is enough for Only one to three months. The soviet Union airlifted 3,100 tons of flour to the City last month and has said another 12,000 tons would be brought in by feb. 15. Vinokurov said the Halfway Point was reached wednesday