European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 12,1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 3 if Wawa Swaw a it oooo ooh a of who it crisis in the Gulf buildup Sparks patriotism protest some americans stand firm others stand opposed by the associated press americans Are finding Down Home ways to rally around the Flag. But uneasiness Over the Prospect of a persian Gulf Oil War is generating rumblings of protest. A former Marine in Virginia is mailing gift packs to troops in the persian Gulf. A North Carolina Farmer mowed a giant a us a into his bean Field. An Indiana woman with three sons in the 82nd airborne div founded Mash a or mothers against Saddam Hussein the iraqi Leader. On the other hand 700 marchers in Seattle this weekend chanted a hell no we wont go we wont fight for  a there is a National consensus for now but i think its thin a said Robert Karl Madoff director of the Center for War peace and the news Media at new York University. A a there a a sense of foreboding. Bush stuck a stick into a hornets  when it comes to backing . Soldiers in the merciless arabian desert David heard of Manassas va., said he so True  he and his wife Jean have started operation something from Home with donations from around the country. Packages to soldiers include gum Candy lip Balm liquid soap playing cards dominoes letters from schoolchildren kleenex and toilet paper. A a they la perform a lot better knowing the country is behind them and that no Rotten vegetables will be thrown at them when they return Home a said heard 55, a Veteran of Korea and Vietnam who has two sons serving in the persian Gulf and a daughter and son in Law on Active duty in Europe. Anna Goodwin of new Castle ind., has three sons in the 82nd airborne. She founded Mash As a support group for families who have sons and daughters in the Middle East. Tom herring 51, sowed his patriotism with a Flag bedecked tractor. He carved a us a in a 75-by-300-foot bean Patch to Salute pilots flying from Pope fab near Fayetteville . A a in a like to take every Inch of that dirt and shove it Down Saddam a Throat a herring said. How Long the National mood remains steadfast is another matter As americans attention is diverted to baseball stretch drives the opening of football season and the return to school. Blitzkrieg has turned to sit Krieg while a . Embargo tries to make Saddam Back Down in Kuwait. It could take months to wreck iraqis War hardened Economy. That a time for the . Economy to sputter for Gas and heating Oil prices to Rise and for the Price tag on operation desert shield to mount while the country presses it allies to pay some of the costs. The administrations line in the first Post cold War crisis came from Secretary of state James Baker a stand firm be patient and remain United so that together we can show that aggression does not  but some on the Republican right urged caution. When president Bush said a your Way of life was threatened some saw it As a reference not to democracy but to big cars and air conditioning. I i .1. I. Is spy i a a beefing up desert shield two Cooks Barbecue burgers and sausages for the to american naval vessels stationed in the persian Crew loading the White Plains a combat stores ship Gulf Region. The Cooks Are Ollie Feaster left of that carries Between 3,000 and 4,000 tons of supplies Chester s.c., and Craig Wyatt of Chatham la. A there Are lots of things Worth fighting for but an extra 10 cents for a gallon of Gas Isnit one of them a conservative columnist Patrick Buchanan wrote. He said a War with Iraq a has quagmire written All Over  another conservative Tom Bethell of the american Spectator wrote a it is hard to understand Why americans Are supposed to become outraged a and pay More at the pump a because Kuwait soil is now controlled by a tyrant in a military uniform rather than oligarchs in traditional  the nation Magazine a bellwether of Liberal thought called the . Deployment a naked Imperial intervention and likened the policy to a Many of Hollywood a disappointed summer blockbusters that started out big but shrivelled after a few  elsewhere the pulse of patriotism is Strong. Students at Daniel Webster elementary school in Logan ind., sent 4,000 messages to soldiers. One said a everyone loves you. We Hope you wont have to Light. In  Joann Mcgrath has made 3,000 red White and Blue bows for folks living near fort Leonard Wood to. Karst pm in Albuquerque n.m., adorned its billboards with a giant yellow ribbon for . Hostages in the Mideast. There were different signs that the standoff May be a Long one. The Uso will have comic Jay Leno entertaining troops at thanksgiving. A a we re All seeing that the enemy the troops Are fighting right now is boredom and loneliness a said Kevin Mccarthy executive producer for the Uso. Meanwhile a peace Vigil has entered its third week at a Seattle Park. Participants have replaced each other in shifts since aug. 26, and organizers say the Vigil will go on until a peaceful solution is  paint grim picture of life in Kuwait Dhahran saudi Arabia apr dead bodies stored in an ice rink mental patients roaming the streets and people dying because of a Lack of Hospital care. That is the grim medical picture painted by a group of kuwaiti exiles gathering reports about life in their iraqi occupied country. A there Are no medical services except for scattered kuwaiti doctors running clinics from their Homes a says or. Faw Zia Al Sayegh a paediatrician who used to split her time Between London and Kuwait. A if you have an emergency you die a she said adding that iraqi troops control the hospitals and have denied Access to kuwaitis. Information received by the exiles comes from people fleeing Kuwait and from shortwave or satellite radio transmissions from the country. The information could not be independently verified because All regular Telephone and mail communication has been Cut off by the estimated 170,000 iraqi troops who have occupied the country in the Wake of the aug. 2 invasion. Up to 1 million people Are estimated trapped in Kuwait. The exiles some of them members of Kuwait a ruling Al Sabah clan relayed chilling tales of food shortages killings and Hospital patients dying after being deprived of life sustaining equipment. Some of the stories Deal with medical care the Pride of Kuwait until a month ago. Free care used to be Given to citizens at hospitals boasting some of the most advanced equipment in the world. Among the claims made by the kuwaitis gathered from numerous interviews As Well As from statements by Mohammed Abulhasan Kuwait a . Ambassador a Twenty two premature babies died shortly after the iraqi invasion when troops took away their oxygen supplies. Abulhasan mentioned this in a letter to the . Security Council. The deaths were said to have occurred six Days after the invasion. A bodies of dead kuwaitis Are being stored in what used to be an ice skating rink according to Sheika Merian Al Sabah daughter of Kuwait a Crown Prince. A four cases of cholera an often fatal disease that Breeds in unsanitary conditions have been reported Al Sayegh said. Cholera is transmitted through contaminated food and water. A iraqi troops have pillaged five regular hospitals stealing equipment and transferring plasma deposits from blood Banks to Baghdad Iraq. The hospitals were emptied of regular patients some of whom died exiles said. A they want to prepare the hospitals for iraqi War injuries a Al Sayegh said. A two kuwaiti and one egyptian woman were left to care for 130 handicapped and mentally disturbed children after the invasion. Many of the former caregivers a mostly expatriate asians a fled the country after the invasion Al Sayegh said. A mental patients were let out of the psychiatric Hospital to roam the streets without medication or care. A they done to know what is happening. They Are  a the paediatrician said. It was her understanding that most of the patients have been taken in to private Homes. A ambulances no longer function because iraqi troops shot out the tires of Many vehicles Al Sayegh said