European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Top 10 a la Letterman editor s note we thought you might get a chuckle front this Tetter Cut in by two stripes readers being avid David Letterman fans we Felt there definitely had to be a top ten list relating to desert shield. So we called the Home office in Scranton pa., to Check it out and sure enough we were told there was. So Here it is the top ten list of things being said by troops deploying to desert shield 10. I wonder if this Means ill finally get to be on an a a 9, i guess ill get to use those sunglasses i was dumb enough to bring to Bremerhaven with me. 8. If i change my name to a any service Mem Ern maybe til get some mail. 7. I Hope Santa knows where to find me. 6, now 111 never get to see the new Madonna video. 5. I done to think we re Gonna be in Kansas anymore Toto. 4. Do you think Dominos delivers there 3. I wonder How you say a two is Der Bohnhof a a in arabic 2. Now do i need to say a a hello to Achmed instead of Boris when in Mon the Telephone and the no. 1 phrase heard from the troops being deployed to desert shield is. 1. Iwonder who i can get to tape a a Gasthaus a for me a capt Gerald Harkins a Stacey Harkins a Bremerhaven Germany the Sta Sand its Tri Pes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces i % Vij 1 la it u Quot vol. 49, no. 244 Friday december 14, 1990 a 25 daily Ixl suf Dpi d 8693 a from wire reports Nicosia Cyprus a iraqi president Saddam Hus Sein said thursday his nation wants peace but that it will gladly wage War rather than permit foreign domination of Arab Oil or land the official iraqi news Agency reported. A we want peace Endeavor to achieve it and work to reach a Point where no one of us brandishes his sword against the other. But if the enemies want to push affairs to a military Duel then by god s help we w Ould win and would walk Over their corpses and tread on their Heads a 1na quoted Saddam As saying. The Agency monitored in Nicosia said Saddam told his Cabinet that iraqis enemies do not want it to remain an economic military or political Power because they believe it is a danger they should not permit in the Region. A a \ a. A the Battle against us did not Start in August the conspiracy began Long before that Date because of our  Arab stand our  Palestine and our de nand that it be returned to its people a in a quoted him assaying. A. A referring to the .-led multinational forces in saudi Arabia Saddam said a if god wanted us to have the Honor of waging this Battle then let it be so that All this rot in the Arab Homeland would be  in an Effort to Divide the anti Iraq Coaliron a which includes Egypt saudi Arabia and Syria a Saddam has repeatedly tried of link the persian Gulf crisis with the. See Duel on Back Page in Europe May be Given flights to . By Janet Howells Tierney Washington Bureau Washington the families of troops deployed from Europe to the middie East May soon by eligible for a Milt tary flight Back to  states without their  but the families would be required to  their Way Back to Europe. The proposed exception to policy is being reviewed by Pentagon officials and the decision is expected to be made Friday sources said. The change would give family members of deployed troops a one time space available priority on military aircraft a Pentagon official said. It would be similar to emergency morale leave. Units would be required to provide the paperwork to the military Airlift come to Permil the flights. In addition families would have to prove they can  for plane tickets Back to Europe. The government cannot guarantee that seats on military aircraft would be available for return flights officials stressed. Military flights from the United states usually have Only a few seats for space available fliers they said. A allowing families free flights to the states costs the government nothing one official noted because they would be filling seals that otherwise would lie empty. No additional flights arc involved. The space available Ptan is essentially the same one mentioned mentioned last week by Gen. Crosbie Saint Usa eur commander on an armed forces network radio broadcast. L in said he had re see flights on Back Page German banking official says weak Dollar not a hardship Frankfurt Germany a the no. 2 official at Germany scentral Bank said thursday he saw no problems with the current Low level of Quot the . Dollar despite complaints from German industries that they Are being Hurt by it. Meanwhile Horst Kohler the second highest official in Bonne a finance ministry said there would Likely be a meeting of the finance ministers of the worlds leading Industrial Powers in january. Financial markets have been speculating that the so called g-7 group will have to plan a coordinated initiative to Stop the Dollar from declining further. Bundesbank vice president Helmut Schlesinger said the powerful Central Bank saw a no special problems with the . Dollars current level. The Dollar edged up on the Frankfurt foreign Exchange fixing of 1.4765 Deutsch Marks thursday from 1.4750 Marks a Day earlier. The level is less than half of what it was in 1985, see conversion rates Page 20, Germany a traditional Trade surplus has been shrinking in recent months partly As a result of increased Domestic demand and partly because of the strength of the Mark which makes German exports More expensive. A a a a. Several German industries including the huge Daimler Benz conglomerate have said the Low Dollar is hurting their exports to the United states. Schlesinger a comments came at a news conference following a meeting of the policy making Central Bank  its meeting the Council left key German interest rates unchanged leaving the Lombard rate at 8.50 percent and the discount rate at 6 percent. The Lombard rate acts As the effective ceiling on overnight Domestic Money rates. The discount rate is the cheapest form of Bank refinancing. I a Bundesbank president Karl Otto Poehl told the same news conference he did no to think Germany a relatively High interest rates were hurting other european countries. A. ,. A the country a current interest rates a a rent to burdening other european nations with costs of German unification Quot he said adding that the economies of other nations were moving at different paces. He did not name the countries to which he referred. But Poehl said Bonne a planned High level of borrowing to finance German unification would have a a consequences for interest rates and he repeated Calls for restrictive spending policies by state arid Federal govern merits. The Bundesbank is worried that the governments Overall budget deficit which is expected to Widen to 150 billion Marks $100 billion next year could have a negative Impact on capital markets and inflation. Poehl said plans by state governments to increase Public sector borrowing by 6 percent in 1091 was a out of line with the realities that have emerged from  Kohler said the Federal government expected to present a detailed budget before the end of  comedian Roseanne Barr lets Loose wednesday night As she entertains marines spouses and their children at the Marine corps air ground combat Center in Twenty nine Palms Calif Barr was accompanied by her husband Tom Arnold she Sang spat and grabbed her Crotch during the performance the duo who arrived More than an hour late found that the theater had not been filled