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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a the stars and stripes wednesday december 5,1090 Iraq to by the associated press Iraq backed away from its confrontation with the so Viet Union in tuesday saying it would allow almost 3,300 stranded soviets to leave but it demanded that the Kremlin pay compensation for cancelling their work contracts. Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze had warned that Moscow which has not sent troops to join the  multinational Force in the persian Gulf would use military Force if its citizens were harmed meanwhile former world boxing Champion Muhammad All and six americans who had been detained in Iraq arrived in new York Early tuesday morning. As Iraq apparently tries to Chip away at the world Alliance arrayed against it by releasing hostages on a piecemeal basis Senate democrats for a fifth Day expressed reservations Over the Bush administrations Gulf policy Sam Nunn d-ga., chairman of the Senate armed services committee said monday that the . Trade sanctions against Iraq should be Given More time to work before Washington considers War to liberate Kuwait. A a a a. A a. But defense Secretary Dick Cheney told Congress that military action was the Only sure Way to drive Iraq from the Oil Rich emirate. The official iraqi news Agency said tuesday that the soviets mainly Oil Industry experts will be allowed to leave beginning wednesday. It said however that mos shortages of Medicine and food. Cow would have to pay compensation for broken contracts Moscow last week adopted a harder line against Iraq accusing it of breaking a Promise to allow soviets to leave. The Kremlin was iraqis main arms supplier and chief ally before the Gulf crisis began on aug. 2. In Moscow presidential spokesman Vitaly Ignatenko said 3,232 soviets remain in Iraq. Thousands More left in the two months after the invasion. Iraq is holding hundreds of westerners Many at strategic Sites to prevent an attack by the 340,000-Strong multinational Force in the Gulf. Soviets Are not believed among those used As Quot human . In another developments about 30 British and Irish nationals who returned Home monday said foreigners being held in Baghdad Are depressed and bored but Are finding enough food and managing to get by. Six of the britons were among the 15 iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein freed in response to a request from former boxing great Ali. A ? despite iraqis refusal to allow most westerners to leave Senate democrats insisted monday that sanctions be Given More time. However Iraq insisted the sanctions Are working. Health minister Abdul Salam Mohammed Saeed said 1,400 children under the age of 5 have died because of Toa amps Rosemary Sawyer meet the confusing array of captains in the Cleaver clan from left Karen Tracy Jill John and Larry Cleaver from Page 1 Hospital in Heidelberg. Quot got it. Now mix Mem up. Everybody else does. One Day while Tracy of Aschaffenbur was visiting Larry in bad Kissinger Larry a wife Diana took a phone message for a capt.  one of capt cleavers soldiers had to be bailed out of jail and he was to Call his company thinking the message was for him Larry called his unit Only to learn nothing had happened. Play with the soldiers a a a a husband wife team Jill and John Cleaver have had their share of mix ups As Well. Especially confusing has been the fact that fill now holds a Job John had before. Quot people Call up and say to capt. Cleaver there a Quot Jill explained. Quot ill say  this is usually followed by a few seconds of silence in which Jill says she can almost hear their confusion. Finally they say Quot i thought this was a  _. Quot it was a male a Jill said she replies the latest capt. Cleaver ended up joining their ranks a week earlier than expected because of operation de Sert shield. Karen and Tracy As Well As Larry will be deploying to saudi Arabia so they pushed up the Church wedding Date by a week. A Britain to pay Bill a for now London apr Iraq has sent Britain a 150,000-Pound $289,000 hotel Blit for 27 British construction workers at two five Star Baghdad hotels Britain a foreign office said tuesday. The British embassy in Baghdad will pick up the Tab a foreign office spokesman said but Wilt claim it Back from Iraq As compensation when the current persian Gulf crisis has ended the spokesman who requested anonymity said that 19 of the workers remained at the baby Ion hotel or at the Novosel hotel. The other eight have been allowed to return to Britain the foreign office said. A foreign office spokesman said Iraq had threatened to move the men to strategic Sites if the hotel Bill was not paid. The menus employer interiors International had not paid the Bill the foreign office spokesman said adding that he did not know Why. The men had been working on iraqi president Saddam Hussein a presidential  Page 1 the collision. Quot a the 727 was racing Down a runway toward Takeoff when its Wing was sheared off by the dc-9, which had turned in front of it. Fuel poured from the planes and the dc-9 burst into flames killing seven men and one woman a flight attendant among the 43 people aboard. _ the victims apparently died from noxious fumes before their bodies were burned beyond recognition said or. Bader Cassin chief medical examiner for Wayne county. The pilots survived the collision authorities said. One was treated at a Hospital and released and there was no word the others were injured. Northwest spokesman Bob Gibbons identified the Pilot of the dc-9 As William Lovelace a 24-year Veteran of the airline who had been on medical leave for the past five years. A a a is a a a a Gibbons identified the dead flight attendant As 43-year-old Heidi Joost of the Detroit suburb of Dearborn. Crew members on both planes and air traffic controllers were ordered to undergo drug tests which Are routine after such an Accident. Airport officials said both planes left their Gates at 1 31 . And headed onto fog shrouded runways for Takeoff. The dc-9, bound for Pittsburgh carried 39 passengers and four Crew members. The 727 was headed for Memphis tenn., with 145 passengers and eight Crew members. The Only injuries suffered on the 727 were to people Hurt evacuating the plane. Riot a wayward Soldier so imagine his Chagrin when he asked Diana Quot what did you say that soldiers name was again a. Quot in be had to Tell my Guys when i come Down Here to Johns or when i go to to Larry a they need to ask Tor me specifically by name a Tracy said. For the most part the soldiers have Learned Larry said Quot but when we first come in the area its great. We the couple got married in a civil ceremony in october but Karen Nad not yet formally changed her name. From Page 1 at least one capt. Cleaver however tried to change her name Early. Quot John called me at work and asked for capt. Cleaver a Karen said Quot the sergeant who was working understood him enough to know it was me but i answered the phone capt Majeske a Quot he said a no in a sorry i need to talk to capt. Cleaver. I said a of til get her capt. Cleaver Here a Valre a  Page 1. Three companies for packaging. The military also bought an average of about 4 million tray rations in previous years before the Middle East crisis but now 3 million Are needed each month to feed the growing number of troops Welsh said the army a research lab in Natick mass is evaluating 14 possible menus for troops the menus would Combine a variety of commercial food. Quot Natick a objective is to evaluate the meals for acceptability nutritional value and durability a said Gerald Darsch of the labs food technology division. Already the military knows that an mree a shelf life is from three to six years depending on outside conditions but the commercial products will probably last from six to eight months he said. Some of the menus include soups and stews familiar to american grocery shelves but Are packaged for microwave oven use Natick is checking to see whether the containers can withstand being immersed in hot water a method used to heat food in the Field researchers Are looking at 375 different items provided by 60 vendors Darsch said. The packages will a 1 a a a a a a a a a a entrees. First looted and then torched his office and his warehouse _ _ the violence began after the officers were acquitted monday of beating to death Leonardo Mercado two years ago by stomping on him pummelling him and smashing him in the head with a flashlight or Nightstick. A several dozen youths their faces concealed by paper bags and shirts gathered at a Park and began pelting police and passing vehicles with rocks and bottles. As the Melee built several stores were torched and their merchandise and furniture set ablaze in the Street. About 10 cars were set on fire overturned or bad their windows smashed. Police killings have prompted violence in Miami four Speed is essential so the Natick labs have shortened their Normal evaluation process and expect More of the commercial products to be on their Way to saudi Arabia sometime this month t Ircy Cust set off three Days of rioting by Blacks earlier monday a Federal jury found six members of the police drug squad innocent of 17 of 24 counts and reported itself deadlocked on six civil rights murder counts in the 1988 slaying of Mercado a 35-year-old Small time drug dealer. A a the officers7 lawyers had argued that they were just a Cong their jobs and protecting themselves from Mercado who allegedly went into a frenzy and was thrashing about when police arrested him  
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