European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday december 27,1990talksfrom Page 1 ready for War with Iraq by Jan. 15. It. Gen Calvin . Waller Deputy . Commander in saudi Arabia made a similar assessment last week during defense Secretary Dick Cheney a visit to the King the United states dominates a multinational Force of 400,000 troops deployed to the Gulf Region following iraqis invasion of Kuwait. / meanwhile Navy warships supported by British French and of her Western naval units Are enforcing a . Trade embargo established to pressure Iraq to with draw from Kuwait. Wednesday a Navy team was involved in a fracas when it boarded an iraqi vessel known As a Quot peace  the sailors who landed on the ship by helicopter fired warning shots a smoke grenade and a noise maker Gre Nade a for crowd control a said Navy spokesman cmdr. Mar Neuhart. ,.he said members of the Crew tried to Block the boarding party from approaching the Pilot House of the freighter ibo Khaldoon and in the ensuing scuffle one member of the boarding party was knocked Down by a member of a women a peace group on Board. The master agreed to divert his ship to an unidentified port to discharge the cargo which was found to include sugar Rice and other embargoed items Neuhart said. The iraqi ships master reported that the incident had caused two passengers to suffer miscarriages and heart attacks a a a Navy Captain later boarded with a portable Electrocardiogram. He found that a swedish passenger suffered from a chronic disturbance of the heart rhythm and an iraqi woman had bronchitis he provided them with med Ichie also examined an iraqi woman who claimed she had been kicked but he found no evidence that she was Hurt. The boarding Crew included australian and . Navy and coast guard members. Contributing to Thler porn do do Arrington doku in Saud Arabia Orru Manfrom Page 1. A like a vegetable a a state judge ruled such evidence existed and he gave permission dec. 14 to remove the tube. 1 a a a. Anti euthanasia activists had gone to court seven i imps to try to Force the state to resume feeding Cruzan but w Ere turned Back for Lack of Legal standing. Cruzan who once cared for severely handicapped children in Joplin was driving Home from her Job at a Carthage cheese Plant on Jan ii 1983, when her Auto Mobile ran off the Road and overturned. She was found. Face Down in a ditch. V. Paramedics restarted her heart but she had stopped breathing for about 15 minutes and suffered severe brain damage. She was Given a feeding tube but was t put on a life support ventilator. A a Cruzan lingered in a vegetative state her body rigid her feet and hands constricted and Bent  sometimes open and moving erratically. Her care at the state run Hospital Cost Missouri taxpayers $112,000 a year. The High court s june 25 ruling allowing states to require a Clear and convincing evidence of a patients wishes before authorizing withdrawal of life sustaining treatment prompted state and Federal right to die  Worth thousands stolen from Darmstadt pm by Ron Mckinney staff writer Darmstadt Germany at least $20,000 in jewelry has been stolen from the remodeler Post Exchange in Darmstadt an cafes spokesman said wednesday. The burglar or burglars broke through the Glass door at the main Entrance late Christmas night or Early wednesday said Darmstadt Provost marshal capt. Richard . Glass counters were broken to gain Access to designer watches Gold chains rings and diamonds. Women s clothing also was  a they were very selective in what they took. There was a lot of jewelry left in the counter a Mccaughey said. But the burglar did no to get the stores most expensive jewelry. A fortunately cafes has a policy of securing nigh value items in a locked Safe at night a Mccaughey said. The Provost marshal said the jewelry items left overnight in the counter had a value of less than $500 each. Air Force master sgt. Dayton Strickland an cafes spokesman said the initial investigation showed that More than $20,000 in jewelry was taken. But Strickland could not pinpoint the exact value of the stolen items or say precisely what was missing until completion of an inventory. The Darmstadt Post Exchange does not have an alarm system. A work order for an alarm was placed More than three years ago Strickland said a whoever did this obviously knew there Wasny to an alarm system a Mccaughey said. Officials could not say late wednesday Why the work order had not been filled. The break in was discovered Between 6 and 6 30 . When a woman approached the front door to Check the store hours for the Day. A sign had been placed in front of the Entrance to conceal the broken Glass door. Because of the break in the Post Exchange was closed wednesday. The Exchange manager said Normal Houis would resume on thursday 10 . To 8 . The criminal investigation come special agents investigating the Case did not have any suspects wednesday Mccaughey said. Anyone with information on the burglary is asked to Call the special agent on duty at ets 348-6139. As an investigator looks on Darmstadt employees Start inventorying jewelry after a amps l. Emmett Lewis or Post Exchange a burglary. 5to to test program paying tax on utilities Heidelberg Germany a five military communities will soon begin to test a program that will allow service members in Germany to avoid paying the 14 percent value added tax on German utilities. The communities a Darmstadt Heidelberg Karlsruhe Vilsick and Wurzburg a will begin implementing the program in january said John Allred a staff officer with the Community family support Agency for the . Army in Europe. Each Pilot Community will have six months to establish the program. The program is expected to be fully operational throughout the command by the end of 1991, Allred said. A a Quot a v. A military and civilian participation will be on a voluntary basis and signing up will be easy a he said. A fall the customer has to do is to go to his local tax Relief office pay a one time fee of $77 and fill out a simple  the fee is to cover overhead and underwrite potential risk Allred said. Permission is being sought for participants who receive overseas housing and living quarters allowances to report the fee As part of their utilities Cost. Once the fee is paid and a contract signed the tax Relief office notifies the local Utility companies Allred said. The Utility companies then delete the tax before Billing the customer. A the vat Relief program was first tested in Pir Masens in 1985 and 1986. A about 80 percent of the Pir Masens. Community volunteered for the original test program Allred said. A that test resulted in a savings to each customer of about $125 a year usar Euraide those savings Are expected to total $4 million a  a Usa eur spokesman was not available late wednesday to say whether the amount of the tax Cut would be trimmed from living quarters  Page 1 beside me and gave me a Little  the axed material included pokes at the culture the Black gowns worn by Arab a women and islam the religion of the Region. With the exception of Hopes wife Dolores the saudi tour had no women performers. However shows on thursday in Bahrain and aboard a ship in the persian Gulf were to include the Pointer Sisters Marie Osmond and several actresses. �?o1 know exactly what they re doing a Hope said of the rules imposed on him. A and they be got a problem. The King is running the place and they got their beliefs a a and you have to kind of abide by it. If i was in vaudeville i done to think i would a the Hopes along with former Cincinnati reds Catcher Johnny Bench and country Singer Aaron Tippon staged a Low key Christmas eve show for about 6,000 service members in Eastern saudi Arabia Bench and Tippon Talke Ihor 20 minutes on , then were followed by Hopes monologue on Christmas Day the same troupe performed for the 101st airborne div in the Eastern desert Hope also visited Sev Eraf Remote desert Sites tuesday and was to perform one More show wednesday in the  were barred from All the performances. A a that a not my idea believe me a Hope said a hive for the press i guess that has come Down from the head Man Quot Gen h. Norman Schwarzkopf. A statement from the . Central come said coverage was forbidden for Security reasons. A and coverage May have a great likelihood of being exploited by iraqis for propaganda purposes the statement said. Hope seemed a bit rambling forgetful and hard of hearing. Yet a his rapid fire wit remained intact testimony to half a Century of singing one liners at troops around the world. A East year around May i went to Berlin Frankfurt London Moscow and 1 said a this is definitely my final  then up popped madman Saddam Hussein. So i finally said it we a have to go again.�?T. A of thought it was rough in vaudeville a Hope said of his Start in comedy. Quot but then i got into the desert and saw those Guys a 10 or 12 of them living in a tent. That s camping out buddy a Hope met with Schwarzkopf on a monday before starting his desert snows. Quot i was sitting there talking to him and 1 finally looked at him and said to june of ought to bring Jonathan Winters Oyer Here a you look just like Jonathan  a playing to military audiences esp1-�?T daily those far from Home during the hot Duys a has been a favorite part of Nis career Hope said. A Christmas is a special Day i think for All of us and just the Chance to sit will them and have dinner with them is a great privilege a. A a the feeling in the entire country is the same Quot Hope said of the support m me United states for the military member deployed to the Gulf. A you know that a our blood and guts Over Here. And tits i the Day of All Days