European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a the stars and stripes tuesday october 16,1990 news briefs special platoons to deploy to desert with Fox vehicles Heidelberg Germany a amps a 3rd army div chemical reconnaissance platoon will head to saudi Arabia this week a Usa eur spokeswoman said monday. The platoon was to deploy with its 10 Fox chemical detection vehicles sometime in the next 48 hours the spokeswoman said. The platoon is made up of soldiers from throughout the division so it bears no unit designation. Platoons from v and Vii corps were created specifically for operation desert shield. The soldiers received special training at the German atomic biological and chemical school in sont Hofen. The Fox or Fuchs vehicle is equipped to Dee protect equip text a wide Range of contaminants while ing its Crew from exposure. The possible use of chemical weapons by Iraq has been a primary concern of . Troops in saudi  at Nas Simonella protests Gulf operation Nas Simonella Sicily a amps More than 400 italians staged a sit in sunday outside the Nas Simonella main Gate to protest operation desert shield a Navy spokesman said monday. Protesters burned an american Flag and chanted a Yankee go Home a said it. Dave Koontz. No violence was reported during the two hour demonstration. About 100 italian police were on hand As speakers called for the closure of Nas Simonella an end to Italy a support for the Middle East operation and for their country a withdrawal from nato Koontz  Drivers snarl traffic to protest Gas Price hikes Madrid Spain apr Independent truckers angry Over nikes in fuel prices blocked highways around the country monday backing up traffic in major cities and along the French Border. A transport ministry official said the protesters represented a a tiny portion of the country a truckers and announced an agreement with the main truckers organization that raises hauling rates to compensate for fuel Price increases. A traffic division spokeswoman said Drivers had parked rigs across highways in nine of Spain a 17 autonomous regions. In Madrid protesters with pickets shut Down All but two lanes of the m-30 Beltway and the major Highway South. Trucks were backed up for Miles on the French Side of the Border at Irun in the Basque Region and Junquera in the northeastern province of be Rona. In Bilbao and Pamplona merchants com gained their produce was beginning to spoil sandals broke windows and slashed tires of trucks in two different towns in the Central Region of Castilla Leon. The truckers who have blocked the Irun Border crossing for a week extended their protest nationwide sunday afternoon. Bush says iraqi atrocities could Lead to War trials by the associated press president Bush said monday that iraqi atrocities in Kuwait could Lead to trials similar to those held after world War ii and his defense Secretary said . Troops will stay in saudi Arabia As Long As needed. Iraq meanwhile insisted it would fight rather than withdraw from Kuwait. A Hitler revisited a Bush said in Dallas of iraqi actions in the tiny emirate that Saddam Hussein a troops seized aug. 2. A but remember when hitlers War ended there were the Niernberg trials. Every Day now new word filters out about the ghastly atrocities perpetrated by Saddam a  earlier monday . Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said americans would stay a was Long As the saudis want us. As Long As it takes to get the Job done. No one should underestimate our staying  a time is much More Likely to be on our Side than it is on his Side a Cheney said referring to Saddam and the .-led multinational Force. Asked if there was the political will in the United states to maintain troops in saudi Arabia for years Cheney said a there certainly  the defense Secretary who spoke in London As part of a 10-Day tour that also will take him to Moscow said economic sanctions were Only just beginning to Hurt Iraq. He stressed that America Hopes to avoid War. Iraq denied it was softening its stance on the crisis. A Kuwait is the 19th province of Iraq and this fact will not be changed whatsoever even if we fight a Long War for that a information minister la if Nassa if Jassim was quoted As saying. He told reporters in Baghdad Iraq on sunday that he believes a .-led attack is imminent but that Iraq would not fire the first shot the official iraqi news Agency reported. A we expect the War at any moment and we Are ready to fight against the americans and those who come with them a he said. An editorial in Al thaw a the newspaper of the ruling Arab baath socialist party said iraqis a Are prepared to meet the american troops. If they Start the War we will make it a catastrophe for those who ignite it. The destruction will be  should fighting break out the statement said a fall the american interests and those of its allies inside and outside the Region will explode and the fires will eat them at the first hour of their aggression against  the iraqi statement appeared intended to reassure its citizens and counter reports that Saddam might be wavering in his determination to hold onto Kuwait. Palestine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat met with Saddam on sunday and said later that the iraqi president was showing a a certain flexibility regarding his claims to Kuwait. Arafat spoke in Tunis Tunisia after meeting with the French foreign minister. Diplomatic sources in Baghdad said Arafat is trying to persuade the iraqis to talk with the French who suggested iraqis withdrawal from Kuwait might be linked to an israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza strip. Saddam said aug. 12 that he would discuss a withdrawal from Kuwait Only if talks also were held on the palestinian Issue. The official soviet no Vosti press Agency said Saddam had indicated to soviet envoy Yevgeny Primakow that he might remove his troops in Exchange for some kuwaiti territory on the Gulf. A that report is not precise a Jassim  from Page 1 meant to help Gorbachev stay in Power As the same Domestic policies that have democratized political life also have led to instability. A if you will read the text you will see we Are talking mainly about International policy a Anderson said. Great reconciliation very Happy  Gorbachev is the second soviet to win the peace prize. The first was nuclear scientist and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov who won in 1975. Sakharov who died in december could not accept the award for 14 years a until Gorbachev freed him from internal exile and allowed him to travel. Sakharov a widow Yelena Bonner criticized Gorbachev last week in a norwegian newspaper comparing him to Napoleon Bonaparte who conquered Europe and made himself an emperor. She had no comment monday on Gorbachev Sam. Initial reaction favored the Choice of Gorbachev for the prize. In Washington president Bush praised the soviet Leader saying the United states a continues to work with the soviet Union to promote regional and International  a president Mikhail Gorbachev has been a courageous Force for peaceful change in the world a Bush said. A East West relations hold greater Promise for peace and world stability today than at any time in the last 45 years. Lech Walesa the 1983 peace laureate who is campaigning to become Poland a first popularly elected president sent congratulations to Gorbachev saying he was pleased the world has recognized his a great  the Solidarity Leader wished Gorbachev a further persistence and successes on the Road to  prime minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain said the selection of Gorbachev was  and Chancellor Helmut Kohl said Germany has a special reason to thank Gorbachev for lifting soviet objections to German unification. A we germans. Have grounds to be thankful to you and Are delighted along with your countrymen Over this award a Kohl said. President Vaclev Havel of Czechoslovakia who had been considered a leading candidate for the prize said a Mikhail Gorbachev contributed significantly to the acceleration of the inevitable changes in the soviet Union and Eastern Europe and certainly deserves the prize. If this prize contributes to the peaceful and quiet transition of the soviet Union to a society of equal nations and citizens we. Welcome it  in its citation the Nobel committee said the a greater openness Gorbachev a has brought about in soviet society has also helped promote International  however the changes Gorbachev has encouraged at Home have been accompanied by bloody ethnic conflicts in Armenia Azerbaijan and other areas. And his economic reforms a the transformation to a Market based system is still far off a have led to shortages of consumer goods. The prize was endowed by Alfred Nobel the swedish inventor of dynamite and has been awarded since 1901. He established four other prizes a in Medicine literature physics and chemistry a which Are awarded in Stockholm  from Page 1 also won grammy and a Tony. A Leonard Bernstein will be remembered As the Man who began to teach americans what classical music was a said violinist Isaac Stern. His trademark was his exuberance at the podium. His jabs contortions and leaps occasionally caused him to fall. At his first rehearsal for a guest appearance with the St. Louis symphony his initial downbeat or Cue to the musicians so startled them that they just looked on in silence. Born in Lawrence mass., Bernstein a he pronounced his name the germanic Way Bern Stine a got a relatively late Start in music. He was 10 before his aunt Clara gave the family an upright piano. Shunning his fathers Beauty Supply business Bernstein studied at Harvard the Curtis Institute and the Boston symphony a summer Retreat at Tanglewood mass. Among his mentors were composers Aaron Copland and Serge Koussevitzky. Bernstein in 1943 was a wiry Young Man of 25 with dark Wavy hair when he got his big break filling in at the last minute for an ailing Bruno Walter to conduct the new York philharmonic in a concert broadcast on National radio. In 1943, he wrote the Ballet a fancy free a about three sailors 24-hour Shore leave in new York. It became the Broadway smash a on the  soon to come were his chamber opera a trouble in Tahiti a the movie score for a on the waterfront a and Broadways a wonderful town a for which Bernstein won his Only Tony. Later came Broadways a candide a and a West Side Story a the Romeo and Juliet tale set amid the fire escapes and gang warfare of new York City. It was completed in 1957 and was made into a movie in 1961. In 1958 he became the new York philharmonic a first american born director. In 1969, he gave up his Post to devote More time to composition. A Liberal Democrat and Friend of the Kennedy family he wrote a work for the Kennedy inauguration and dedicated his a a mass in 1971 to John f. Kennedy. His Star studded fund Raiser for the Black panthers in 1970 was mocked by writer Tom Wolfe As a Radical  four Days before his death Bernstein a heavy smoker retired from the concert stage citing emphysema and other lung ailments. His last conducting appearance was at Tanglewood on aug. 19. Survivors include son Alexander a teacher and two daughters Jaime Thomas a Rock musician and Nina Bernstein an actress. His wife actress Felicia Montealegre died in 1978. Funeral services will be private