European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside striped baby born aboard a . Ship a Page 3 see Brenner makes his exit a Page 21 Qadhafi j slams Iraq 1 on hostages a Back Page i Well armed the Sima authorized unofficial publication , armed forces by the Washington Post Washington a iraqi forces in Kuwait initially deployed along an invasion route to saudi Arabia have moved into a Well armed largely defensive posture that indicates Baghdad will not lightly cede the newly annexed kuwaiti territory according to . Officials. Officials studying the possibility of a military solution to the persian Gulf crisis said that confrontation with these troops would Lead almost certainly to significant american casualties perhaps in the thousands in any ground Battle. The reason is that iraqi weaponry while not As sophisticated As that of the . And Allied forces is still numerous and powerful enough to inflict nearly As much damage As a Modem european army the officials said. Saddam ground combat with Iraq could a rival in intensity a Battle against soviet forces in East Germany because their army looks very much like a comparably sized ., soviet or British Force a due to iraqi acquisition of sophisticated soviet and Western arms Over the past decade a . Military intelligence expert said last week. More than 160,000 iraqi troops including several combat units of the elite presidential guards have poured into Kuwait since iraqi Leader Saddam Hus seines lightning seizure of the capital aug. 2. The . And Allied Force in saudi Arabia is now smaller but May swell to More than 200,000 in coming months. A i see up on the Border Between Kuwait and saudi Arabia the accumulation of enormous iraqi military Power a defense Secretary Dick Cheney said sunday on cd so so meet the press from Bahrain. He indicated that another 40,000 soldiers and hundreds of additional tanks arc deployed in Southern Iraq within a Short striking distance of saudi territory. The iraqi troops in Kuwait were initially arrayed in a column near one of the principal invasion routes to saudi Arabia a threatening posture that helped provoke the . Decision to respond with military Force. But intelligence officials say most of the invading iraqi see forces on Back Page \ 7 a i p a.  a in s a a a a a j a s i-pj.�?�. Up a a a h Ai a vof49, no. 130 wednesday August 22, 1990 a Good morning 2st do Ray nth us relay d 8693 a sent to president Bush addresses the vow convention. A by the associated press Iraq announced monday it had carried out a plan to move Western hostages to vital military installations to deter any . Attack and warned its people not to try to hide any of the thousands of foreigners trapped in the country. With the United states building up its armed forces in saudi Arabia and blocking iraqi ports with an Arma related stories on pages 3,5,7,10 and 28. A of ships the iraqi regime moved to use the westerners As human Shields. For the first time president Bush publicly referred to the 3,000 americans and the other Western captives As hostages. A whatever the a innocent people arc called they arc in fact hostages Quot he said in Baltimore. He demanded their release. Addressing the National veterans of foreign wars convention Bush said a we have been re Luciano to use the term hostage. But when Saddam Hussein specifically oilers to Trade see iraqi on Back Page a whatever these innocent people Are called they Are in fact hostages a president Bush sex Nwa pilots guilty of Drunken flying by the los Angeles times three former Northwest airlines pilots were found guilty in Federal court in Minneapolis on monday of flying while intoxicated in the first convictions under a Federal Law designed to crack Down on drinking and drug use by pilots the jury found the three guilty of Hying a Boeing 727 with 91 passengers aboard from Fargo n.d., to Minneapolis while drunk. The three Are Norman Prouse 51, of Conyers ga., the Captain co Pilot Robert Kirchner 36, of Highland ranch Colo. And bight Engineer Joseph by Lucr 35, of Antioch Tenn. The pilots who were released on bail face a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 Fine under the felony convictions. Sentencing will be decided after a pre sentence investigation. A i came into this expecting the worst a said Proust after the verdicts were announced. A in that sense i had no  his lawyer said he would Appeal the conviction. In his defense during the trial Proust did not contest evidence that he drank heavily the night before the flight. But he argued that As an alcoholic who had been drinking for 35 years he had built up a tolerance to alcohol and did not get drunk easily. The three were arrested March h after Landing at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport. A bar Patron in Moorhead minn., near Largo had called the Fargo Oil ice of the Federal aviation administration to report the drinking. A blood alcohol test taken after the see pilots on Back Page