European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 a a the stars and stripes tuesday August 28,1990 news Brief Lufthansa bans smoking on flights within German by the stars and stripes Lufthansa will ban smoking on German Domestic flights beginning today tuesday spokeswoman for the airline said monday. A we done to cancel flights and we wont allow smoking so our motto should be a no ifs and Butts with Lufthansa a a the spokeswoman joked. More than 90 percent of the 3,600 passengers questioned in a Survey endorsed a smoking ban on Domestic flights she said. A even the majority of the smokers surveyed voted for non smoking Domestic flights a she said. The decision follows a six month smoking ban on the Niernberg Cologne and Diss Oldorf Stuttgart from Page 1 pledge of free passage for the dependents. The 52 who got through to Turkey were taken to in Ciurlik a to await a flight Home tuesday. Base spokeswoman Marty Davis said they were swimming relaxing and having a pizza and ice Cream their ordeal a coupled with other iraqi actions against diplomats a angered american officials. Hours after their arrival in Turkey state depart ment spokeswoman Margaret Tut Weilor said the iraqi embassy staff was being reduced from 55 to 19, and that those expelled were seven diplomats and 29 members of the non diplomatic staff. The state department lined the remaining iraqi diplomats to a 25-mile radius of Washington. The restrictions were far less Sharp than those faced by foreign missions in Kuwait. Many a including the . Embassy a have had electricity and water Cut off and arc ringed by iraqi troops. Still the iraqi pressure was having results. Hungary and Nigeria said monday they were temporarily suspending embassy operations in Kuwait. Other nations including India the Philippines and Lebanon had agreed earlier to close. Lebanon said monday it had reestablished Contact with its ambassador to Kuwait who earlier was reported missing in route to Beirut. One reason the . And other governments insisted on keeping Kuwait embassies open was to look after their citizens trapped by the aug 2 invasion. In All about 21,000 westerners arc stranded in Iraq and Kuwait including 3,000 americans. Iraq says some have been distributed among iraqi strategic Sites for use As human Shields to deter a . Attack. Presidential press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said monday a your Best estimated is that 63 americans Are missing or Are being held by Iraq including seven picked up Over the weekend. Britain and France also reported More detentions Over the weekend. Soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev urged Arab countries to unite against iraqi aggression. In a meeting at the Kremlin with the egyptian foreign minister he stressed Quot the necessity of bringing the Arab Factor to Bear More strongly Quot on Iraq the soviet news Agency Tass said. European military chiefs met monday in Paris to coordinate their actions after the . Security Council s weekend endorsement of the use of Force to Back up the . Economic sanctions against Iraq. Perez de Cuellar who w ill meet thursday with iraqi foreign minister Tariq a i in Jordan expressed Hopes for the Success of his mediation bid the first such formal Effort by the United nations. Quot it is tire for diplomacy to make an Effort a said the . Chief who held private meetings monday with members of the Security Council to Brief them on his Mission. But Washington while welcoming the initiative said that without an iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait there was really nothing to discuss. Quot he knows his latitude a fit water said of Perez de Cuellar. Washington has insisted on an iraqi withdrawal iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein says Kuwait is irrevocably part of Iraq. In other developments a Palestine l liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat on monday proposed that an Arab peacekeeping Force he deployed in Kuwait for six months to replace iraqi troops while elections Are he d. A Iraq told the Arab l eague it will Boycott an egyptian arranged Arab Loreign ministers conference this week Egypt s state run Middle East news Agency said. The dispatch from Funis quoted unidentified Arab diplomats As say my i i members of the i Cague agreed to attend the emergency conference m Cano on thursday. Senators reaffirm Home support for troops saudi Arabia apr eight . Senators paid a visit monday to american troops in saudi Arabia and said support for their deployment remains Strong Back Home. A a you re not Here alone. This is an International Effort a Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn told a handful of marines. A this is the world against Saddam later Nunn told reporters that a briefing the senators received from american and saudi military commanders had convinced him that a sufficient Force was in place to deter an iraqi attack on saudi Arabia. A an iraqi attack on saudi Arabia would be National suicide a said Nunn a a. Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole asked if he came away from the briefings convinced a sufficient military Force was in place to defeat iraqi troops to the North said a i think so. If not its getting real Nunn said the senators would discuss the need for a bigger multinational Force in saudi Arabia with arabs on the front lines but did not answer directly when asked whether he thought Egypt should Send More troops. Of an bigger Arab role on the front line Nunn said a i think that a important militarily but also More importantly politically and several of the senators when asked by reporters acknowledged that the presence of american hostages in Iraq complicated efforts to resolve the nearly month old Middle East standoff. But they said the hostage situation alone could not be the Force behind . Policy. A you can to run foreign policy on hostages a said sen. Jake Gam a Utah. A if you did no american would be Safe anywhere in the the senators visited troops at an air base in Northeast saudi Arabia shaking hands and asking about the desert conditions while being trailed by a horde of . And foreign Media. A a what a you biggest problem Over Here a Nunn asked several members of a Marine Light helicopter division and the army a 82nd airborne div a no mail sir a was the most common answer. Others in the group said they were impressed with troop morale in the harsh desert conditions. A the morale Here is just unbelievable a sen. John Warner of Virginia the ranking Republican on armed services said after an paratrooper recounted an exercise in 140-degree heat. A the people Back Home Are with you a Warner said. In a Brief Tarmac interview Warner said he was confident the american Public could support the deployment even if it dragged on. A the weak link in this dilemma Isnit the people Back Home a Warner said. Asked if he expected other nations to eventually loosen their enforcement of sanctions against Iraq Warner said a i done to think so. I certainly Hope other senators making the trip All republicans were Don Nickles of Oklahoma Steve Symms of Idaho Alfonso do Amato of new York and Connie Mack of from Page 1 Mott said. The american forces information service will pay stripes 23 cents a copy a the newspapers bulk discount rate a through sept. 30. Beginning oct. 1, the army family and Community support Center has agreed to pay for the newspapers the . European come said in a news release. Mcdermott said 15,715 copies of stripes will go to ground troops every Day and 2,300 newspapers will go to sailors aboard ships. The number of copies will be increased As requested by the . Central come which is in charge of operation desert shield. Copies of stripes Are being sent to saudi Arabia via commercial flights out of Frankfurt. Depending on airline schedules in effect on a particular Day most of the newspapers Are either shipped to Riyadh on a direct flight or to Dhahran via London or Amman Jordan. Mcdermott said stripes has asked the military Airlift come to allow copies of the newspaper to be sent to the Middle East via its planes but so tar permission for daily shipments has not been granted. A we have been told there is no guarantee at All that the papers can be put on the planes a Mcdermott said. He added that stripes is continuing to consult with the military Airlift come on the matter. Beginning with today a edition troops in saudi Arabia arc receiving a slightly altered version of the two Star edition of the newspaper which is sold to . Service members in West Germany. News specifically relating to people serving in Europe is being replaced by stateside and International news in the desert shield edition. Last nerve agent Convoy Rolls saturday Vic Cdcil Ait cd a f of o a. _ Kaiserslautern West Germany a amps a the army expects to move the last of 100,000 artillery shells filled with deadly nerve agents out of the Clausen army depot on saturday a spokeswoman said monday. The saturday transport the first one scheduled on a weekend will be the 28th truck Convoy moving the shells from the Clausen depot to the Railhead at Mie Sau about 30 Miles away. The shells will be moved by train from Miessau to the seaport at no Denham on the North sea. There the munitions will be loaded Onlo two Navy ships and taken to Johnston atoll in the Pacific where they will be destroyed. Army officials estimate that it will take seven nights to transport the chemicals by train to no Denham. The Date of the first train shipment has not been released. Accompanying the rail shipments will be . Soldiers and fire medical and Security forces from the West German army police and Border patrol. The first phase of the operation began july 26 amid wide news Media interest. The convoys quickly became commonplace to Media As Well As the residents of the towns of Clausen and do sieders through which the convoys from Pago 1 open air concert facility at the Alpine Valley ski resort said Omni spokesman Phil Huth. A Clapton was on another helicopter that landed safely in Chicago. Clapton Vaughan and another grammy winning guitarist Robert Cray All appeared sunday evening at the Alpine Valley theater. In addition to the helicopter Pilot and Vaughan 35 the others killed were Bobby Brooks Clapton a agent at realize artists Agency Nigel Browne a Clapton bodyguard and Colin smythe one of Clapton a tour managers Clapton a statement said. Clapton was staying monday morning at the four seasons hotel in Chicago. His tour manager Peter Jackson who sounded distraught and strained when reached by phone in his hotel room said Clapton Learned of the Accident when a one of our planes never arrived at the he declined to identify the victims. A spokeswoman for the Walworth county sheriffs department said the helicopter was reported missing a Rev an the wreckage was found at about 7 . The Alpine Valley resort is about six Miles Southwest of this Southeastern Wisconsin town. The sheriffs spokeswoman Pat Salinas said the copter was one of four at Alpine Valley that were scheduled to Fly during the night to Midway Airport in Chicago. 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