European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 04, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a Gulf briefs the stars and stripes Friday january 4, 199tinsurance risk prompts pan am to cancel flights new York up a pan american world airways has suspended for a week its flights to Tel Aviv Israel and Riyadh saudi Arabia because of huge War risk insurance surcharges it was announced thursday. Pan am spokeswoman Pamela Hanlon said the suspensions would run through Jan. A and could be extended. She said the decision followed a meeting wednesday in London by insurance carriers War risk Market in which a number of airlines premiums were increased because of the Gulf crisis. For each flight to Riyadh pan am would have been charged $162,500, a 10-Fotd increase Hanlon said. Each flight to Tel Aviv would have Cost $65,000 in premiums a 20-fold increase. A for economic reasons we could not justify continuing the operation a she said. In a related development British airways and Kim Royal dutch airlines said they were reducing the number of flights to  jails protesters who damaged warplanes Syracuse . Four anti War protesters charged with damaging military planes were jailed without bail after refusing to Promise they would show up for a court hearing next week. The four were arrested tuesday after cutting a barbed wire Fence and sneaking into griffiss fab in Rome about 150 Miles Northwest of new York City authorities said. The protesters damaged a b-52 bomber with a Hammer and splashed paint and animal blood on the plane and a Kc-135 fuel Tanker said capt Barney Welch a base spokesman. They also damaged a runway with an a he  Federal court the protesters on wednesday told . Magistrate Daniiel Scanlon that if freed on bail they might not return to court for a pc Liminato hearing next wednesday courtroom clerk Kathy Gridley  Scanlon ordered them jailed until the hearing. The protesters work in Cath i if houses in poor areas of Washington d.c., and say they belong to anus peace Force Plo shares Community a Christian group. They said they damaged the planes Lor protest . Threats of War in the Mideast if Iraq fails to pull out of Kuwait. Kuwaiti Exi Les drafted by . As translators by the los Angeles times. About 5 h kuwaitis now in the United states a including Many anxious fora our to liberate their occupied nation a Are being drafted for training As translators to be assigned with . Military units in operation desert shield kuwaiti embassy officials said. The kuwaitis could serve As guides and help . And Allied forces distinguish kuwaitis from iraqis in a possible invasion said sati Al us Gynith. Military attache of the kuwaiti embassy in Washington. Quot a spokesman at the army a training and Doe Trine come at fort Monroe va., said a formal announcement is expected to be issued next week on an agreement Between exiled kuwaiti officials and the . Government. The draftees were called up by the kuwaiti government in exile and will undergo a week of Basic military training including firearms in True Tion starting next monday at fort Dix . For desert by the stars and stripes More and More organizations Are setting up programs to support americans in Germany who have military relatives serving in saudi Arabia. 1 one of the larger of such enterprises project Friendship was formed in november in Baden Wurt Tumberg by adm. Dieter Well Ershoff general inspector of the German armed forces. Members include consulate officials Church representatives and military leaders. A Central coordinating committee has been established in Stuttgart headed by it. Col. Wolfgang Schmidt. Anyone interested in the program can Telephone him at 0711-521439. Other project Friendship offices Are in ludwigs Burg sch Libisch Hall and Heil Bronn. On Jan 10, a steering committee will meet in Stuttgart to outline specific project Friendship programs for the new year. Through the project Many German army units already Are working closely with cities and communities to provide american families left behind in Germany with support and Security. A one we ii known German firm in Stuttgart provided desert shield family members with 210 free tickets to the Moscow state circus. Officials with the military project could not provide the name of the company because that could be seen As a military endorsement of a private company. Many combined German american festivities took place Over the Christmas holidays. A with our action we wish to show that the families left behind have not been forgotten but feel at Home a Schmidt said. American Community service offices also Are involved in helping hand programs. The organization is planning to have a hot line in every i military Community where callers will be Given information on questions ranging from personal to financial  Page 1 Quot the persian Gulf As Protection against germ warfare iraqis known to be developing biological warfare agents. A. A the defense department also announced that an additional 10,000 american troops had arrived in the Gulf area. The . Force in the Region now stands at 335,000 the Pentagon said 245,000 troops from Allied nations Are in the area. Britain meanwhile thursday ordered the expulsion of eight members of the iraqi embassy staff and the deportation of 67 other iraqis citing threats by Iraq to attack Western targets if War Breaks out in the persian Gulf. Several world leaders welcomed Bush a offer for talks and Oil prices plunged Early thursday to nearly their lowest level since the iraqi invasion of Kuwait on aug. 2. Light Sweet crude Oil for delivery in february was Down 84 cents a barrel to $25.65 on the new York mercantile  Bush a offer of High level talks monday tuesday or wednesday appeared intended to Blunt congressional demands that the United states should explore More diplomatic avenues and give sanctions More time to work against Iraq. Quot. �?o1 think the general feeling was that this was riot the time to take action immediately a sen. Claiborne Pell . Chairman of the foreign relations committee said As he left the White House. / lawmakers applauded Bush a diplomatic gesture but stressed that he. Must seek approval from Congress before ordering a military strike. A the president holds a contrary View Quot said Senate majority Leader George Mitchell a Maine. Baker warned that a Iraq must now choose to quit the soil of its peaceful neighbor or risk devastating  a and so As Jan 15 approaches we Are closer and closer to restoring Kuwait a sovereignty whether by peace or whether by Force a Baker added. A but Kuwait a sovereignty is going to be restored Quot to the dismay of the White House the congressional leaders said Capitol Hill is too divided on the Gulf crisis to adopt a  Resolution authorizing military  it probably is not particularly helpful front the standpoint of convincing Saddam Hussein of our intentions and purposes Quot White House press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said. Nevertheless Mitchell said a i advised the president i think it doubtful that such a Resolution would pass at this time or if it did pass it would be in my View by a narrow  the White House said it would be better if Congress enacted no Resolution rather than a weak one. Lawmakers said there was Broad support for Bush s demand for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. A the substantive disagreement is whether the resort to Force should be Early or whether the resort to Force should be a truly last resort Only after All other Rii eans have been exhausted a Mitchell said. Sen. Patrick Leahy Dot left the White House saying he was persuaded that a unless Saddam Hussein changes his View there will be no Way out and there will be a  a a a a a. A a 7-,. A a a a it a not a question of whether its a question of  House speaker Thomas s. Foley d-wash., said Bush a seemed to be very determined a no he seemed to be quite  while offering to Send Baker to Geneva Bush thursday withdrew a previous proposal for Aziz to meet with him at the White House and for the Secretary of. State to visit Saddam in Iraq. A today Marks the last of the 15 dates we suggested for meetings and that Effort is therefore at an end a Bush said. A Quot while i am not prepared to repeat my previous offer rejected by Saddam Hussein i am ready to make one More last attempt to go the extra mile for a  a a Quot. Rep. Les Aspin a wis. And chairman of the House armed services committee praised Bush for proposing a Baker Aziz meeting but said Baker should be seeing Saddam not Aziz whom he dismissed As a a sycophantic  a. A a \ Quot Fitzwater acknowledged differences with Congress Over tinting on the use of Force but said a we have already concluded that the sanctions Are hot going to by themselves drive Saddam out of Kuwait. A we done to have months and Days and years a he said. A we have a United nations deadline that represents the thinking of the entire world that enough is enough. Times  a a Richard Boucher a state department spokesman said Baker would leave sunday and go to the persian Gulf Region and to Europe but he refused to provide a More precise itinerary. Asked if Baker would be prepared to go on to Iraq after a meeting in Geneva with the foreign minister Boucher said a i am not in a position to Rule anything in or out.�?�. By the stars and stripes Stuttgart Germany . And German authorities Are investigating whether a military policeman and two German officers acted properly when they shot a rampaging american teenager to death a Stuttgart comi Miniie official said thursday. The army family member who had been under psychiatric treatment for some time was the son of a staff sergeant officials have said. The name of the 19-year-old is being withheld to protect the family said George Luettig a spokesman for the Stuttgart military Community. Quot the tragedy is bad enough a he  spokesman for the German state police in Stuttgart said the youth was shot on new years  both German and military police. The shooting was a matter of self defense he said.  report to be released today will show How Manv shots hit the Outh Ahe said. _ according to a Community statement a the teen Ager had injured his parents w Ith a sword before barricading himself in their apartment in the Pattonville housing area in ludwigs Burg Korm Westheim. After police broke Down the front door the teen Ager tied to the bathroom with two knives and locked the door. When he did not surrender the police forced the door open and used Mace to subdue him. He then rushed out of the bathroom and approached the officers with a knife in each hand _ _ when he failed to drop the weapons As ordered the , fearing for their safety shot him to death. The youths Mother was admitted to 5th general Hospital in the Stuttgart area. The father was hospitalized at the Lud Wissburg Hospital with head injuries. He was listed in critical but stable condition wednesday. _ on thursday Huettig did not answer other stars and stripes questions on the ease including queries about the parents conditions. By 420 p.m., no one was answering his office Telephone. Quot /