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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Crisis in die Gulf related stories pages 2 and 3 authorized Uko Mucial put cation for the . Aam8d Potick Good morning Sam Wiwi vol. 49, no. 239 sunday december 9, 1990 ss4 a stay and sunday d 8693 hostages heading Home Baghdad Iraq a seventeen american hostages left Iraq on saturday with former . Treasury Secretary John Connally in a prelude to an exodus of for Eigners expected to begin in Earnest sunday. Forty one japanese also flew to Freedom. / arrangements for the release of both groups apparently were made before the Blanket release promised by Iraq on Friday. A i a the head of iraqi airways said saturday his airline was ready to Fly out All foreign hostages within three Days provided their travel documents were read but he said no foreign carriers Cou transport them. Meanwhile Iraq rejected the dates the United states has suggested for a trip by Secretary of state James Baker to Baghdad for talks with iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein the official iraqi  said  proposed Jan. 12 As the Date for the Baker trip the  said. The state department had suggested he visit on dec. 20, dec. 21, dec. 22 or Jan. 3. A Jan. 12 Date would come Only three Days before the deadline set Down in a . Resolution demanding an iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait. The Security Council measure authorizes use of a fall necessary Means to dislodge Iraq after that. The state department has not disclosed any proposed dates for the trip to Washington by iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz. The iraqi  said Baghdad had proposed dec. 17 As the Date for the Aziz trip. In another development a knowledgeable Arab Diplomat said iraqis former military chief of staff has been executed with other officers for allegedly plotting a coup against Saddam. The dismissal of it. Gen. Nizar Al Khazravi a hero of the 1980-88 Iran Iraq War and chief of staff since 1985, was reported without explanation by the iraqi army daily Al had Ishiyah on nov.8. There was no confirmation of the re ports from Iraq and no Independent if cation. The Arab Diplomat confirmed previous official syrian press reports. He said Friday he believed they were based on syrian intelligence reports. Westerners formerly held As a human Shields at various locations throughout Iraq arrived in Baghdad hoping to leave the country As soon As possible. A a we re glad we re Here and we re Happy its Over a said Dennis e. Howard 43, of port Sulphur la., who with another american was held for four months at an Industrial site near Mosul about 250 Miles North of the capital. Saddam said on thursday that the hos see hostages on Back Page libyan pos out of Chad Ndjamena Chad a the . Embassy said saturday it was evacuating libyan prisoners of War from Chad As part of an a International Effort a but Libya called the move piracy and asked for an emergency . Security Council meeting. _ the embassy refused to comment on reports that the United states had trained the pos for commando operations against Libya the libyans were captured by Chad in fighting Between 1983 and 1987 by soldiers of former president his Sene Habre who was toppled one week ago. Habre went into exile in Cameroon and rebel Leader Idriss Deby was named interim president Deby whose movement received much of its weaponry from Libya is freeing the libyan pos. The evacuation Effort apparently started Friday when a plane carrying 200 libyan pos left for Nigeria according to news reports. . Embassy spokesman Mark Krischik said the evacuations were a a Parton an International Effort a but he declined to say whether it involved the government of Deby or French soldiers based there. A i can confirm that we Are continuing our humanitarian gesture to provide transportation out of Chad for those unwilling to return to Libya a he said. Agency France Fresse the French , reported that 500 More libyan pos were to be evacuated saturday to Nigeria then to a third country it cited an unidentified american source for its information. Barbara Shell a spokeswoman at the . Embassy in Chad refused to comment on an Asp report that the United states had trained about 700 of the 2,000 the libyan foreign ministry in a communique charge that the United states on Friday seized 200 libyan pos in Chad and took them away a against their will aboard a c-141 air Force plane it called the move a International piracy equivalent to a state sponsored  official Jana  charged that 17 libyans were executed for refusing the . Evacuation Jana citing diplomatic and Media sources in Chad alleged that pos refusing a to obey americans orders Are being massacred daily at a rate of three prisoners every hour before the very eyes of French troops and the . Military personnel present in  the libyan communique carried by Jana and monitored in Home accused the United states of a m   fish in True _ a the . Has launched an aggression against great Ai a Mairiya Libya representing a dangerous precedent unsurpassed in history a the statement said the King family of Berlin a Alan 9 in Windo Andrew a Aaron 12 master sgt. Gregor and his wife Ruth Board the duty train for the final time at the Frankfort Germany train  bid Wiede Sehen to Berlin bound duty train a a by Joseph Owen staff writer Frankfurt Germany a Friday 6 45 . The . Military duty train has As Singer Arlo Guthrie put it a the disappearing Railroad blues a some tired shoppers fidgety children and Macho teen agers arriving at the . Rail transportation office in Frankfurt simply want to go to Berlin where the train goes. Others come to be the 45-year-old postwar Rel final customers. The army has replaced the overnight trains with buses which already run in both directions twice daily. A a we re really going to miss it a Ruth a. King says As she Waits to Complete her 15th round trip. She Calls the train a just As much a Symbol of the cold War As the Berlin Wall was because we be insisted on our right of Access for so  her husband army master sgt Gregory r. King commandant of the Berlin brigade school of standards says they picked the last train deliberately. Army officials once had to spend an hour and a half scrutinizing identification cards and individual Flag orders to avoid complications with the soviets at order Crossings. Now the soviets and the Borders re gone. 4it�?Ts almost like once you get on the train its a regular train ride a King says. Their children like sleeping in the cramped compartment bunks. Andrew upraised the snacks. A Coffee. Tea. Marble cake a he moans in a slow deep baritone mimicking the Porter. 7 27 . A sgt. 1st class Lloyd Green train com continued on Page 9  
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