European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes thursday August 16,1990heath, Brown to vie for Colo. Senate seat Denver apr ionic Halh won the democratic . Senate nomination in Colorado a primary election tuesday and Dunyer area voters approved a sales tax increase to pay for a major league baseball stadium. With 2,117 of 2,835 precincts counted Halh had 83,654 votes or 60 percent to 55,543, or 40 percent for Carlos Lucero. Heath will face gop nominee Hank Brown who had no opposition tuesday in november a general election for the scat now held by Republican Bill Armstrong who is not seeking reelection. Most polls show that Brown could easily beat the democratic primary Winner. On the stadium financing Issue there were 106,730 votes or 54 percent in favor of the proposed tax to 91,819, or 46 percent against with 981 of 1,499 precincts counted in six Denver area counties. Recent polls had shown voters split on the 12-year 0.1 percent sales tax a 1 cent on each $10 Purchase a that would raise s i 39 million for a new stadium. The proposed baseball stadium tax would not be imposed unless Denver is awarded a National league expansion franchise. In the 4ih congressional District state sen. Wayne Allard of Loveland had a 56 percent to 44 percent Lead Over state sen. Jim Brandon of Akron in a Runoff for the Republican nomination. With 343 of 492 precincts reporting Allard had 12,154 votes to 9,631 for Brandon. Gale Norton easily Defeated Richard a a Mac Mcmanus in the Republican primary for attorney general. Norton had 61,901 votes of 60 percent to 41,473, or 40 percent for Mcmanus with 1,954 of 2,835 precincts counted. Norton will face democratic incumbent Duane Woodard who ran unopposed tuesday. A 1 an 82nd Ai Hornc div Soldier drinks from a bottle of water at his units position in the saudi arabian desert on tuesday. Ambush from Page 1. In Baghdad As saying american s in Iraq Are a  who will remain there until the crisis is Over the official said the americans Are being Well treated and in no danger. He said there Are 3,000 americans id the country. Washington estimates 2,500 americans Are in Kuwait and 500 to 600 Are in Iraq after the Conquest Iraq announced the a annexation Quot of Kuwait and referred to Kuwait City As a Quot Southern iraqi  voice of America radio cautioned trapped americans not to try to fee across the Kuwait Border into saudi Arabia a due to the danger involved.�?�. A the desert is full of people trying to find their Way a said a dutch journalist who escaped from Kuwait into saudi Arabia on tuesday. A under All the pressure Iraq sounded unyielding. The stale newspaper Al Jum Huriya said Iraq knows How to a a foil . Mea sures. If it is attacked the paper said Iraq can a move the Battlefield to where the United slates docs not want nor expect it to be a a Iraq said it moved into Kuwait because of disputes Over Oil and Money ii said Kuwait deliberately Cut iraqi Oil revenues by overproducing its own Oil and driving Down prices and unfairly messed for repayment of about $ 15 bilion in kuwaiti Loans. The iraqis also cited old claims on kuwaiti territory. The iraqi ambassador to Venezuela said in Caracas on tuesday that Iraq would retaliate against Venezuela Ana other member nations of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries if they increase their Oil output to replace blocked  takeover of Kuwait gave Iraq control of 20 percent of the worlds Oil reserves and the crisis has driven up world Oil prices sharply. At . Urging the . Security Council on aug. 6 ordered a worldwide punitive embargo on Trade with Iraq. Bush sent . Troops and warplanes to saudi Arabia. Twelve of the 20 Arab league nations voted last week to Send troops to stand beside the saudis. The latest Arab contingent from Syria began arriving in saudi Arabia Early tuesday sources in the saudi capital of Riyadh said. Most of an estimated 5,000 egyptian troops promised for the saudi defense were already there and moroccan troops Are expected soon. Egypt postponed with no explanation a scheduled departure wednesday of a Batch of elite combat troops. At least 50,000 . Troops Are expected to be committed within weeks including marines army air assault forces paratroopers and infantry. Facing them Are an estimated 200,000 iraqi troops in Kuwait. Some were clearly disgruntled. Mideast diplomatic sources said about 15 iraqi tanks with defecting soldiers aboard crossed into saudi Arabia tuesday. A senior kuwaiti official Abdul Rahman Al Ateeqi said tuesday the iraqi invasion of his country can be reversed Only by military action by the United states saudi Arabia and other nations. A i done to see any Hope unless there is military action a said Ateeqi senior adviser to the ousted Emir of  from Page 1 Craft and vehicles being sent to the Region would have Cost $1.5 million an hour to teed Tuel and maintain in the sea lanes and bases they already occupied according to calculations by the Independent Center for defense information. I he centers associate director James t. Hush a retired naval Captain said that lie based his calculations on figures for Normal military operating costs provided by the general accounting office and the department of defense. Operational conditions in the Gulf compounded by increased fuel costs shipping and aircraft movements there would raise costs by about 40 percent he said amounting to an extra $10.4 million a Day. The current sea lift and Airlift of troops which represents an entirely unbudgeted expense would Cost about $8 million a Day raising the daily Cost of the exercise to about $18.4 million in the initial phase of deployment or $76 3,666 an hour. An out break of hostilities or deployment of More . Troops obviously would Send costs soaring he said. It could not be Learned if the Bush administration intended to fund the operation by reprogramming existing defense expenditures or by requesting supplemental funds from Congress. Neither the Pentagon nor the White House was willing to discuss costs. It is Likely that saudi Arabia will Bear some of the costs particularly fuel according to White House officials. But As detente analyst Alexis Cain said tuesday such help would not cover Jet fuel. I he Only Jet Tuel refinery in the Gulf is in Kuwait now held by Iraq. Incumbent gov. Roy Rosier had no democratic primary opposition and neither did his Republican opponent John Andrews. Heath had captured the top line on the primary ballot at the democratic state Assembly in june leading Lucero by a 2-to-i margin and kept ahead of him in the polls by the same margin right up to the election. Lucero 49, an Alamosa lawyer tried to keep his nomination bid alive by mounting a relentless attack on the savings and loan scandal particularly on Denver a Silverado banking savings and  from Page 1 rotate specific units out of saudi  combat forces would Likely come from the National guard an army official said. More than 26,000 american ground troops Are now in saudi Arabia along with More than 200 warplanes according to Pentagon sources. By september More than 50,000 . Troops Are expected to be in country they said. The Pentagon has already called up air National guard units in at least 16 states to augment air Force units airlifting combat units to saudi Arabia. Some of the army units already ordered to saudi bases Are below their authorized strength suggesting an immediate need to round them out with National guard and Reserve units. For example the 24th inf div Mech based at fort Stewart ga., has a paper strength of More than 17,000 men and women and 232 my Abrams main Battle tanks. But Only 12,750 troops and 174 Abrams were available for deployment to saudi Arabia. That unit might be rounded out with the 48th brigade of the Georgia National guard an army officer explained. The special forces Reserve command at fort Bragg n.c., has also alerted Reserve officers and enlisted men. Reserve officers with special skills applicable to the Mideast arc Likely to be activated a source said. 3 crewmen die in midair crash of 2 Raf planes London apr two Royal air Force Tornado jets collided Over the North sea on tuesday killing three crewmen the ministry of defense said. A fourth crewman was listed in serious condition at Grimsby District general Hospital the defense ministry spokesman said. None of the Crew members were identified. One of the Tornado Gri fighter bombers was based at Laa Bruch West Germany and the other in Southeastern England the ministry said. It said no additional information was available. The crash brought to 19 the number of Tornado jets lost in British airspace since september 1983, the Domestic news Agency press association reported. The Tornado Gri is the rats frontline strike attack aircraft and is based in Britain and West Germany. A Royal air Force Board of inquiry will investigate the cause of the crash the ministry said