European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 49, no. 146 Friday september 7, 1990 a a 25c daily and sunday d 8693 Abush to Send message to iraqis Topeka Kan. Apr president Bush will provide a taped message for broadcast to the iraqi people in response to an offer from Saddam Hussein the White House said thursday. A the president has a very distinct message that he wants to give to the people of Iraq about our purpose for being in the Gulf a press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater told reporters aboard air Force one As Bush flew Here for a political fund Raiser. Whether Bush a message will actually be seen by the iraqi people was unclear. Iraqi officials said Saddam had ordered an iraqi television Crew to be ready to go to Washington to conduct an interview with Bush so the . Leader a will have Access to iraqi Public  in his speech prepared for delivery at a fund Raiser for Kansas gov. Mike Hayden the president said the persian Gulf crisis shows the benefits of .-soviet cooperation and that he wants to strengthen the relationship at sundays Summit meeting with president Mikhail s. Gorbachev. A this past year has shown new Levels of cooperation Between our two nations a Bush said. A the persian Gulf shows what this cooperation can achieve. This meeting can further expand cooperation Between the . And soviet  Bush also said the United states remains Resolute in its goals in the Gulf Region where . Troops have been dispatched to defend saudi Arabia from threatened aggression by Saddam following his invasion of Kuwait. A we will not stand by while one country devours another a threatening country whole. Our cause May not be easy but it will always be  in occupied Kuwait iraqi authorities have informed . Officials that an american shot by iraqi police is expected to be discharged from a Hospital shortly but will remain in iraqi custody the state department said thursday. State department press officer Mark Dillen said the american was wounded while attempting to evade capture at his apartment in Kuwait City. Dillen accused the iraqis of a outrageous  he withheld the name and Hometown of the american and said an account of the incident was provided to a . Consular officer who interviewed a Friend of the victim. The Friend was taken into custody by the iraqis and moved to Baghdad Iraq see Bush on Back pages amps Vince Crawley airmen from the 76th aircraft Maint unit wait in the Back of a pickup truck at an air base in saudi Arabia. A-10 ground Crews May be new to desert a but not to the heat by Vince Crawley staff writer. In the Central arabian desert flight line temperatures reach 120 degrees but ground Crews from the 75th and 76th aircraft Maint units say their saudi outpost feels cooler than their muggy Home base at England fab in Alexandria la. They began arriving Here late last week so they re still that informational void that All new 1 in troops experience. They Haven to been Here Long enough to get mail yet and All the bugs Haven to been worked out of distributing newspapers to them. Their Job is to keep a-10 jets flying. These Are called thunderbolts or warthogs depending on whether you think they re ugly. And their Gatling gun noses Are supposed to help Stop some 5,500 iraqi tanks if fighting starts Down Here. Right now the Crews work 12-hour shifts from 1 . To 1 . A we Wake up at night and Nap All through the Day a said senior airman Robert Hutchens 21, from Cumberland Maine. For those who brought radios Hutchens said a efm 82 plays some pretty Good music top 40. They even had some country for an hour. In be never heard an announcer just  most airmen brought Only their Duffel bags and see heat on Back Page new fuel leak grounds shuttle once More Cape canaveral Fla. Up a Nasa grounded the hard Luck shuttle Columbia wednesday just eight hours before Blastoff because of yet another fuel leak. The grounding ruined the Agency a bid to resume flights after a launch less summer of setbacks and delays. Shuttle program director Robert Crippen said it was unclear when another attempt will be made to launch Columbia and its seven Man Crew. The shuttle flight is three months behind schedule because of a leak that grounded the ship in May. Wednesdays delay came As a disappointment to National aeronautics and space administration managers and engineers who had looked Forward to columbian a flight As a Means of restoring Confidence in the beleaguered space Agency. Instead dejected engineers faced additional troubleshooting to search for the source of yet another crippling fuel leak the third time in As Many months a shuttle flight has been delayed by leaking Hydrogen. A a it a not obvious to me what we can do that we Haven to done before a Crippen said about previous work to fix Columbia. A at this time we re really sort of indeterminate where we go from Here except that we be got to go find the  depending on the nature of the leak and what might be required to fix it Crippen said columbian a Long delayed astronomy Mission could be delayed until after a higher priority october flight by the shuttle discovery to carry the european built Ulysses solar probe into space. A i think its a significant setback in that they had a lot of time to fix the problem and thought they had a said John Pike a space policy analyst with the federation of american scientists in Washington. A it Calls into question their understanding of the problem. It continues the crisis in Confidence in  columbian a liftoff on the 36th shuttle Mission had been planned for 1 20 . Thursday but less than an hour after the Start of fuel loading wednesday launch director Robert Sieck cancelled the countdown when sensors detected Hydrogen Gas leaking into the ships engine room. The decision to delay the flight was a frustrating disappointment to columbian a seven member Crew a a Post challenger record a who came within hours of launch May 29 Only to be grounded by a Hydrogen leak later blamed on problems with a 17-Inch-wide fuel line a a disconnect fitting