European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Related stories on pages 2, 3, 8 and 28the a a Fries authorized unofficial publication Fob the . Armed forces vol. 49, no. 132 Friday August 24, 1990 a is. Do a s�w.,d 8693 authorizes Call up of nearly 50,000 reservists Washington it apr defense Secretary Dick Cheney approved plans thursday to Calt As Many As 49,703 military reservists to Active duty to bolster the american buildup in saudi Arabia a Pentagon spokesman announced. Some members of the army Navy air Force and coast guard Reserve forces could get the Call As Early As Friday said Cheney a assistant Pete Williams. A we will Call up Only what we need and Only when we need it a Williams said. Cheney approved the Reserve Call up plans presented at a Pentagon meeting with the service chiefs. President Bush on wednesday authorized the first activation of . Reserve forces since the Vietnam War. Williams said most reserves put on Active duty will be sent to the persian Gulf area. Others would be placed in Domestic posts vacated by troops sent to saudi Arabia while some could go to Europe to replace . Forces in nato countries sent to the Middle East. Williams said that by aug. 31, the army could Call see reservists on Back Page Saddam appears on tape with westerners v broke Friis iraqi president Saddam Hussein pats a Young Western hostage on the head in a broadcast thursday on iraqi television. A Soldier stands behind the pair. By the associated press As thousands of foreigners fled Iraq on thursday Baghdad broadcast footage of a smiling president Saddam Hussein meeting with Western hostages and contending they were being held Quot to prevent the British foreign Secretary called the broadcast Quot sickening and said it illustrated How Saddam was a a unscrupulous in the Pursuit of his goals. Meanwhile the Bush administration pulled Marine guards and most diplomats out of the threatened . Embassy in Kuwait on thursday but left the ambassador and a Skeleton staff behind in Defiance of Saddam a eviction order. Quot a few Marine guards Arentt going to fight off the entire iraqi army a a senior White House official said. A we done to want to put american lives at unnecessary with iraqis deadline of noon Friday looming for foreign embassies to dose their doors in Kuwait City the White House said publicly it had evacuated non essential personnel from the embassy. Administration officials said privately that All but about a dozen of the 120-Membcr diplomatic staff had left for Baghdad where . Officials expected to Fly them out of Iraq. White House spokesman Marlin Fitz water indicated the embassy a Marine Security guards would probably stay a was Long As the ambassador s there a but the senior White House official speaking Only on condition of anonymity later revealed the marines too had left. The United nations meanwhile took Steps to authorize Western forces massing in the Gulf Region to use military might to enforce an economic embargo imposed against Iraq for its aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait. The five permanent members of the . Security Council reached a tentative agreement on a . Proposal authorizing the use of a minimum Force to halt All maritime Commerce with Iraq . Ambassador Thomas re bickering said. T the exodus of foreigners from Iraq continued thursday through a jordanian Border Post despite a government order to close the checkpoint to people escaping from Iraq and occupied Kuwait trucks Laden with supplies also drove from Jordan into Iraq a Clear sign that Jordan still has not implemented the .-ordered economic embargo. But another Arab country Yemen apparently is adhering to the embargo. Its government instructed port authorities not to unload an iraqi Oil Tanker anchored near the Aden Oil terminal a port official said thursday the iraqi to broadcast appeared to Seo Saddam on Back Page it a official East West Germany to merge oct. 3 Berlin apr East Germany a chaotic Young democracy agreed thursday to abolish the nation on oct. 3 and turn the territory Over to its Rich Western neighbor. Lawmakers from both sides will hold their first joint parliamentary meeting shortly after unification. The decision on the unification Date following a lengthy debate was praised by leading West German politicians in Bonn Volker Rishe general Secretary of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohls Christian democratic Union called the decision a a historic event for Germany after More than four decades of division. A the decision most importantly gives the people of the Cdr East Germany grounds for Confidence a Rishe said. West German finance minister Theo Taigel called the decision a Quot reasonable Taigel said the chosen Date also takes into consideration the International political aspects of unification and leaves sufficient time for both Ger Many to prepare for the final step of Unity. Otto lambs Oft the head of West Germany s centrist free democrats the Junior coalition partner in Kohls government said a the decision on the Date of Unity gives the people in the Cdr Kohl was to address a special session of the West German parliament later sea merge on Back Page . Willing to close 14 bases Hessen official says by Mary Neth and Dave Walczak staff writers Wiesbaden West Germany a the uni led states has offered to close 13 army installations and one air i orce site in the West German state of Hessen Between 1991 and 1993, state president Walter Wallmann revealed thursday. Wallmann said the proposed closures Are the Pentagon a response to a list of installations he presented to president Bush and defense Secretary Dick Cheney during a visit to the United states in May. The Sites on Wall Nanny a list Are Drake Barracks Michael Barracks and Edwards Barracks in Frankfurt the Rose army Airfield in the Frankfurt suburb of Bonames Gros nauheim Cavern Francois Cavern forage depot and Hessen Homburg Cavern in Hanau Schloss Cavern in but Bach Lindsey air Sia Tion in Wiesbaden Camp King in Ober Ursa Rivers Barracks in Giessen Coleman Barracks in go Nihau sen and Ernst Ludwig Cavern in Darmstadt. A Wallmann spokeswoman said thursday that West Germany and the United states had agreed not Seo bases on Back Page
