European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 a a the stars and stripes monday october 15,1990 pounding rain flooding spread to new England news Brief Cheney stops in London on Way to Moscow talks London apr Secretary of defense Dick Cheney arrived in London on sunday for High level talks that will be dominated by the Gulf crisis. Cheney on a Brief Stopover in route to Moscow will meet with British defense Secretary Tom King on monday and May meet with prime minister Margaret Thatcher before leaving for the soviet Union Early tuesday. In Moscow he will hold talks with his soviet counterpart Dmitri Yazoo. Cheney strip will also take him to Paris for talks on the stalemate in the 8ulf. Security was tight for Cheney a arrival at Heathrow Airport aboard a . Air Force Boeing 707.doctors say Schauble still in serious condition Bonn Germany up a German Interior minister Wolfgang Snauble remained in serious but not critical condition sunday recovering from gunshot wounds inflicted by an apparently deranged drug addict Friday night. Doctors said Schauble was taken off the life support system sunday morning after a a a satisfactory recovery from a five hour operation at the Freiburg Hospital in Southern Germany. A Hospital official described the ministers condition As a serious but not Schauble was shot in the head and Chest at close Range during a Campaign rally in Southern Germany on Friday night. A third shot wounded a Security officer who threw himself in front of Schauble to shield the minister. Police arrested the gunman and identified him As Dieter Kaufmann a drug addict with a police record who had been treated for schizophrenia. The authorities said they did not suspect an extremist attack although Schauble was believed to be at the top of a hit list drawn up by the Ultra leftist red army s party out in front in former e. Germany Berlin apr voters in former East Germany chose governments sunday for the five states their nation has become and once again backed the conservative party of Chancellor Helmut Kohl according to German television projections. Kohls conservative Christian democrats easily won the most votes in four of five states thiring in Sachsen Sachsen Anhalt and Mecklenburg Vor Pommert according to projections by the German television networks Ard and Adf. However the Christian democrats were losing the state of Brandenburg to the left leaning social democrats the main opposition. The Early projections still showed the Christian democrats to be the dominant party in Eastern Germany thus giving something of a preview of the United German elections on sunday dec. 2. By United press International torrents of rain continued to barrage new England Early sunday sending streams Over their Banks and pouring floodwaters onto roadways in parts of Connecticut Massachusetts and new Hampshire. A the roads Are a mess a said Portsmouth n.h., police sgt. Fred Rubino. A some of the roads Are just completely closed Down. A lot of washouts. You be really got to slow Down and keep aware of where you re tropical storm Lili downgraded from a Hurricane saturday continued to swing toward the Northeast in the Atlantic Ocean on sunday with maximum sustained winds of Only about 50 Mph and slightly stronger gusts. The National weather service narrowed its warning that Small Craft remain in port in the area from Ocean City md., to Eastport Maine and said there was Little remaining likelihood that the storm would affect the . Page 1 adjacent Western Wall also known As the wailing Wall. Israel has mounted its own investigation by a panel of three senior Public figures former Mossad secret service chief Zvi Zamir leading lawyer Yaacov Neeman and retired civil servant Haim Kubersky. Levy said the . Investigation would violate israelis sovereignty Over Jerusalem. The site of the shootings holy to both moslem and jews is in Arab East Jerusalem which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East War and later annexed. Levy said he hoped the Cabinet decision would not Lead to a confrontation with the United states. A your relations with the United states Are very import Libya from Page 1 Yassin Ramadan met in Tripoli with libyan Leader Moa mar Qadhafi and his no. 2 aide Abdul Salim Jalloul. It said Jalloul condemned the embargo against Iraq imposed by the United nations to Force iraqi troops from Kuwait. A any aggression against Iraq is an aggression against Libya a Jalloul was quoted As saying. Libya has run hot and cold on Iraq criticizing the invasion but remaining one of Saddam a few supporters in the Arab world. Western and Arab diplomats in the Region say Saddam Hopes to use last mondays killing of 19 palestinians by israeli forces in Jerusalem As a rallying Point for Arab support. Egypt a sem official news Agency Mena said Saddam Lili at 6 . Was entered 195 Miles South Southeast of the Massachusetts Island of Nantucket and was moving to the Northeast at 21 Mph. It was expected to weaken and lose its tropical characteristics As it passes Southeastern Newfoundland on monday evening Canadian weather forecasters said. Tropical storm Marco which caused flooding problems As it worked its Way up the Atlantic coast and killed at least nine people late last week in Florida and Georgia is no longer trackable because it has broken up into Many minor storms the weather service said. Showers and thunderstorms dumped As much As 5 inches of rain on parts of new England within five hours late saturday and Early sunday pouring water onto flooded roadways and into bloated streams at the rate of 2 inches or More an hour in some places the weather service said. Tant but we should not accept and we should not ignore the sorrowful fact that the . Administration has made a mistake that the United states followed this coalition it formed against iraqi president Saddam Hussein. A by surrendering to this decision it has made a linkage Between what is happening in the persian Gulf and the israeli Arab conflict a Levy said. The foreign minister said a possible collision course with the United states set by his government is going to be a hard True we have not asked for this. This will not be the . Resolution did not specifically mention a . Mission to Jerusalem but referred Only to a visit to a the israeli officials first said palestinians planned the stoning of jewish worshippers in Advance hoping to prompt an incident that would divert world attention from the Gulf crisis. Met sunday with Palestine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat in Baghdad to discuss the killings. Most Arab countries condemned the killings while maintaining their opposition to Saddam. But the Issue May help Saddam a Campaign to link the Gulf crisis with the israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip. British foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd told a news conference in Egypt there is no link noting that Saddam is an obstacle to solving the palestinian problem and must pull out of Kuwait before the palestinian Issue could be tackled. He said Iraq would ultimately withdraw a whether peacefully or at the Point of a on the Abc news program a this week with David Brinkley a israeli defense minister Moshe Arens called the violence on Temple mount a a Clear Case of moslem fundamentalism running a that mob and those who incited that mob Bear the sole responsibility for the tragedy that occurred there a he from Page 1 still comes Down to a Soldier standing watch. Alert waiting and ready for anything. Seven years have passed since the tragedy in Lebanon when a suicide truck bomber slipped past guards and blew up a Marine Barracks a killing More than 270 americans. But its memory blazes in the minds of Capps and Vasquez. A a it a not that it goes through my mind constantly. But you think about it a Vasquez said. A i guess its natural after something like that the guards Are fully aware of the possibility of another attack a this one from an iraqi sponsored terrorist group. In the Middle of the night in the dead White Moonlight the threat seems closer than Ever. A at night i know my Edge comes up about 60 percent More than it was during the Day a Capps said. A when the Moons Low everything definitely takes on a different meaning a he added. A any car that goes up and Down this Road you never know if there a a terrorist Force in there or what. A about 2400, somebody keeps coming Down Here and turning circles around Here the last three or four nights. Its probably nothing his voice trailed off. Vasquez and Capps have always teamed together in their unit the 3rd in 9th Marine regt out of Camp Pendleton Calif. A a we re kind of the two senior Lance corporals in the platoon and we get stuck together a lot a Capps said. Guard duty is nothing new to either one. Capps said he has guarded some places he did no to think were too important. Now we re Over Here we got a reason to guard and a reason to stay Alert. I think this is pretty Good guard duty. We re guarding stuff for a reason a he said. They pull four hours in the night two More during the Day he said. A gets Kinda hot to be out Here for four hours during the they vary their routines As much As possible. A we switch it up so we done to get pegged off changing Over the guard a he said. For a few Days they be been rotated Over to a support battalion which has some distinct advantages. A we got Supply trucks coming in Here All Day and you get tossed All lands of stuff. Sodas and juices a Capps said. They acknowledged that they have occasional bouts of boredom. A it comes and goes. If there a a lot of traffic Here that passes the time a Capps said. A but we usually sit Here and Chew the fat with each they talk a lot about Home. Vasquez 20, comes from san Antonio Texas. Capps 22, comes from Versailles . A on yeah. Well always Drift into that conversation. We always try not to talk about the same thing but they always wind up Back at the same place a Capps said. They re Seldom alone in the desert. A i Haven to seen any camels but you see a dog now and then. Scorpions dung beetles a said Capps. A yeah its incredible. Those dung beetles Man they got a whole army of their own a Vasquez said. Another topic is the food a and the possibilities of Camel burgers. A sometimes i wonder if we Arentt actually eating those things a Vasquez grumbled. Although they re not overjoyed with the Prospect or fighting a War they re mentally prepared for whatever happens. A just got to take it a Day at a time a Vasquez said. A a there a times when you done to want to be Here but then there s times you realize you got to be Here. A cause you got a Job to do a he said. A guess that a what they socked All the Money into us for a Capps said. A everyone of us knew what we were getting into when we joined the Marine corps. Or course nobody thought we were going to be Over Here. But when it come time to go you got to
