European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse your stars and stripes Carrier will be calling soon. Please have your payment . Shemsi Fries authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 49, no. 230 Friday november 30, 1990 a a 25 daily and sunday Good Mornin d 8693 a eneral awaits . Ultimatum Resolution would up Ante Schwarzkopf says c Annn pc Timon France for a massive . Presence in Region particularly during Noly Days w important considerations. However by the los Angeles times Riyadh saudi Arabia a the com Lander of american forces in the persian Julf said in an interview that a . Resolution threatening Force against Iraq could help undermine the morale of the iraqi military and that he hoped to be prepared to launch an offensive As Early As Jan. 15. A when that Day comes and passes then every Day after that tensions in Iraq should greatly increase a Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf said. Asked whether the ultimatum would make War More Likely the eneral said it would a tend to up the a related stories pages 2,3 and 4. Late bulletin United nations a the Security Council on thursday authorized a military strike to liberate Kuwait if Iraq does not withdraw its troops and release All hostages by Jan. 15. A if i were an iraqi general up until now i could have maybe convinced myself that maybe this thing could drag on forever a the four Star army general said. A if an ultimatum comes out right now i done to think i can convince myself however he added that he wanted More troops in place before taking the offensive. Since there Are tremendous complications in accomplishing the buildup he said he could not give a a Date certain As to when he would feel confident the troops would be ready for any option War might bring. At the same time amid new pressure from some quarters that the United states refrain from military action and seek instead to wait Iraq out Schwarzkopf warned a i done to think we have an indefinite amount of he said that the weather and Arab tolerance for a massive . Presence in the. Were important considerations. However he added that these considerations have been somewhat a do we want the troops sitting out in the Sun for another Complete summer a he asked. But he then added a but done to get me wrong. If that somehow gave us some guarantee that we go to War. If the alternative to dying is sitting out in the Sun for another summer then that a not a bad he said that the entire coalition must see general on Back Page. A six mrs a my ilm f a lilli.1 t exercising the m1 a tankers from the army a 24th inf div Mech Greet a Cise on wednesday. The officials aide examines the barrel visiting saudi government official during a live fire exer of the my Abrams tank. Story on Page 3. Hostage s wife holds Saddam to Promise by Gary Pomeroy staff writer Jess Jesse is no longer a human shield in Iraq because wife took Saddam Hussein up on an offer be made on an televised interview. Jesse and another former hostage a Fred Harrington of Bellevue Wash. A were in relatively Good health at the air Force medical Center in Wiesbaden Germany on thursday. A Hospital spokesman said the two sex hostages who left Iraq on tuesday had taken advantage of a state department offer made to All former hostages for a medical checkup in the facility. Jess and Honey Jesse of Buffalo Grove hi., Are now an air plane flight away from ending an ordeal that began aug. 16 m Kuwait City when the iraqis decided to hold them As guests at what they were told was a fertilizer Plant. A we were treated As Well As they could treat us a Jesse said thursday. A i was never threatened never had a gun pointed at Jesse 56, a computer systems analyst with Kay and associates of Arlington Heights 111., said no meals were missed. But the fare Seldom varied from Chicken or Lamb with Rice. A food became scarce during a three week period and the guards would not even eat until we did a he said. A we were their guests they told Jesse a release came nearly three months after wife won her Freedom. She was among 400 people on the first flight from the Region sept. 1. Although separated from her husband she constantly see wife on Back Pagnato of the future plans fire brigades Brussels Belgium up nato will rely on european a fire brigades rather than . Reinforcements to respond to flare in Post cold War Europe a senior Alliance official said thursday. The new plan for a Winter regional troop transfers in Europe to be discussed next week by nato defense ministers is a marked departure from a 40-year strategy tied to trans Atlantic reinforcements. 1 a the risks to nato Security Are Likely to be much More multidirectional than they have been a said the senior nato official who asked not to be identified. A in the past we were focusing on a single monolithic Warsaw pact threat a he said so nato strategy was based on a in place forces in each Region supported by . Reinforcements. A in the future Well be looking to much More of a fire brigade situation where we might need to Send forces to one particular area of the Alliance to re Spond to a More localized crisis a the nato official said. A that could be done by moving forces within Europe rather than bringing forces from the United the planned change is part of a sweeping strategy review ordered at natos landmark London Summit in july. Highly Mobile multinational forces will replace stationary and layered National divisions which were designed to implement natos now obsolete policy of a Forward the a a ability to bring forces from the United states must be retained said the senior nato official. However he said if the Alliance can respond to crises a with forces already in place in Europe rather than by a major Transfer of forces from the United states that a the Way to do the defense ministers meet next thursday and Friday As natos defense planning committee but finalization of the alliances new Overall strategy is not expected until late next year
