European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes saturday january 12,1991 crisis in the worry grips wives As deadline nears continued from Page 1 a other military spouses in Europe Are trying to get through each Day As Best they can. A a a a a a a a a a. A. A a a they rely on friends to hold their hands during difficult times they take care of routine chores and they stay in touch with their husbands through near . A. Frechette said she a mentally prepared for her husband to be away from Home As Long As one year. If its longer than that a i think id pack it up and go Home a the new Hampshire native said. For now though Frechette wants to be in Europe. If her husband is wounded ii combat she figures hell be sent to Germany for a a plus 1 have friends Here who i can go to with my problems Quot she said. A when one Boohoo we All Boohoo. The one of us gets a letter we re All on a High for several All three women were surprised that their husbands were sent to saudi Arabia last month. They figured that virtually All the soldiers needed to confront Iraq would be shipped to the Middle East from army bases in the United states. Pennington said her husband participated in the december 1989 invasion of Panama while stationed at fort Ord near Monterey Calif. He received word that. Lie was deploying to the Middle East four months after he was transferred to Stuttgart last August. Demayo a husband who also had been at fort Ord arrived in Germany at the end of october and was sent to saudi Arabia six weeks later. Frechette said she thought her husband was Safe in Germany after his Transfer from fort Belvoir near Alexandria va., last february. She Learned otherwise after joining him in Stuttgart in August. A. A a i knew when i married him if there was a War or the threat of War head have to go a she said. A in a sense its part of your wedding vows when you marry a Soldier. You just done to know when you re going to lose All three women said the hardship of having a husband in a potential War zone. A. A a -. A a a -. A. A a a is amps gu8schuettler Kathy Frechette from left Sharon Demayo and Laura Pennington discuss their problems As their children play. The youngsters Are on floor Jason left and Daniel Demayo and in background Leann Demayo left and Diana Frechette. At right is Kyle Pennington. Is complicated by the fact that they have children. Demayo and Frechette each has two sons and one daughter while Pennington is the Mother of one boy. Pennington sometimes wonders whether her 18-month-old will remember his father if the crisis drags on too Long. She said the youngster his dad after he had been in Panama for two weeks followed by two months at an army training school last year. A Kyle does no to understand Why daddy a not Here a Pennington said. A but he does have a picture of himself with his father that he insists on carrying All the time. He wont go to bed without for her part Pennington said she makes do with Romance novels and lots of other Reading to fill Days that sometimes seem too Long. A she comforts herself in the knowledge that her husbands work in communications keeps him away from the front lines which should mean hell be Safe if fighting Breaks out. But such thoughts done to cure loneliness. A a in a envious of other couples i see walking around together a she said. A i can to watch them. I turn my Demayo said she tries to avoid thinking about her husbands getting wounded or suffering psychological damage in Battle. But staying upbeat is impossible sometimes a a ����.�. A a a a a. A a a a. A we just done to know How much its affected them mentally being Down there waiting a she said. A i want my husband to return the Way he was before he greens say 100 gis filed As cos Bonn Germany a the pacifist greens said Friday that 100 us. Soldiers stationed in Germany have filed for conscientious objector status to avoid Gulf duty and that 40 of them have deserted. Greens in the Northern port City of Bremen have formed a committee called a action Winter vacation a which along with other pacifist groups has helped the soldiers make their applications said Martin Thomas a greens Leader in Bremen a state government. Thomas said Many of those who were absent without leave or awol were being housed by German families. . Military officials doubted the number was Correct but said even if it were it would be minuscule in comparison to the clarification a member of the self help group of concerned women in Nurnberg said the group s views about other military spouses were misrepresented in an article this week. The article should have said they had no patience with military wives who Only clip yellow ribbons and mail packages. It also should have included their View that the spouses could better serve their husbands by id so working for peace. Tens of thousands who had already left for the Gulf. Referring to the greens statement cmdr. John Woodhouse a spokesman fori the . European come in Stuttgart said a these Are the same ones that said thousands were trying to get out a couple of months . Woodhouse said soldiers were not considered awol unless they had Beert away from their Post for at least 30 Days or Quot made Clear they Don t intend to As for the number of conscientious objector applications Woodhouse said he could not say Many came after the Gulf crisis began and How Many were already in the pipeline. Once soldiers receive new orders applications for conscientious objector status Are handled at the new Post. Hence soldiers applying for co after receiving their Gulf orders would be sent there anyway. A basically you have Many thousands of people that have left Germany in route to the Gulf Woodhouse said noting there a May indeed be a Small percentage that have deserted because they did not want to military has refused to say exactly How Many . Troops stationed in Germany have left for the Gulf Sud it was in the a tens of military officials speaking on condition of anonymity said the number of people they know of who be sought objector status or refused to go to the Gulf is under 10. Arrest warrant issued for reservist in Gulf Olathe Kan. Apr a judge issued a warrant for the arrest of a Marine corps reservist sent to the persian Gulf while facing an armed robbery charge. When Nelson Hopkins 20, of Kansas City mo., failed to show up for a preliminary hearing wednesday Johnson county District judge Robert Jones forfeited his $15,000 Bond and issued the Bench warrant. 1 be set a new Bond of $100,000 a Marine corps spokesman in Washington said military officials would make every Effort to have Hopkins arrested and returned to the United states. Hopkins would not have been allowed to leave w Ith his unit if his superiors had known he faced criminal prosecution he said. Hopkins is charged with robbing a Shawnee convenience store Derk on july 30. The clerk was hit on the head with a Glass bottle according to police ims condemn iraqi aggression Mecca saudi Arabia apr Muslim scholars warned Friday that iraqi soldiers will go to hell if they die fighting fellow muslims and appealed to them to disobey president Saddam Hussein. A we sincerely Appeal to the iraqi army to disobey the orders of their wayward leadership and not to get involved in a War against their Muslim Brethren a said the scholars in a declaration to the Muslim world. The declaration was issued at the end of a three Day meeting of the executive Council of the islamic popular Council grouping dignity a a Ries from leading islamic countries. The declaration held extra weight because it was issued in Mecca islam a holiest City. It accused Iraq of exploiting islam to justify its aggression against Kuwait stating a a downright it rejected Saddam a claim that fighting against the mainly non Muslim .-led multinational Force in saudi Arabia amounts to jihad or holy War against infidels desecrating the islamic holy Sites in saudi Arabia. A
