European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday january 16, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 3crisis in the Gulf for handful of . Troops some roads Lead from Gulf by Dave Schiad Middle East Bureau Eastern saudi Arabia As . Troops continue to pour into saudi Arabia a few leave the desert kingdom each Day. The departure is Seldom Welcome. They often Are heading Home to face serious illnesses or deaths of family members. Less frequently soldiers leave to face administrative or disciplinary action. Some Are even leaving the service. Pfc. Danan Thomas sat recently beside his Small travel bag in an air terminal in saudi Arabia waiting for a flight to Detroit. Head been told that morning of his fathers death and that he would get 14 Days of emergency leave to attend to matters at Home. A a in a upset about my dad and i want to do what i can for my family but if something happens Here and in a not around i think i know How ill feel a said the 21-year-old stinger anti aircraft missile gunner from fort Bragg . A a in la want to be Here to help out my team. I feel like i belong with them a we be been training together for a Long time.�?�. Thomas said the timing of his departure be worse. A a i think a lot of people including me thought the iraqis would Back Down. We were surprised when they did no to said the Soldier from 2nd in 52nd air defense arty. A . A a. A i believe we re going to War. We be spent too much Money and sent too Many soldiers Here not to. It would seem like a joke if we did no to. A still i Hope this is settled peacefully a i have a lot of friends a few feet away chaplain. Larry Baldridge sat absorbed in thought. The army personnel system was sending the 1st Cav div Captain Home to fort Hood Texas to separate from the army. A a in a love to stay with my soldiers but i guess they have enough Baptist chaplains a Baldridge said. A my heart is heavy right now but in a just putting my Faith in god. He must want me to minister somewhere else and he must have another Good Man coming in behind me who will be Good for my after spending three years with the same tank battalion Baldridge said that saying his goodbyes Hadnot been easy. A a. A i like the army and i have asked to be with better people than the ones in be served yith a he said. A i told my soldiers that ill be a prayer Warrior for each of them.�?�"1 sound of music a cheap buy in most Middle East countries by Deedee Arrington Doke Middle East Bureau. Airman 1st class Paul St. Jean loaded his Luggage with music cassettes when he deployed to the Middle East last september. A a in a just a music kind of Guy a St. Jean explained earphones dangling around his neck As he displayed his selection. He could have left his tapes at Home. The persian Gulf is alive with the sound of the cheap Bootleg tapes that flood the Market in Gulf countries because of lax copyright Laws. A foreign works published of shown abroad for the first time do not enjoy Protection a is one provision in saudi arabians copyright Laws. Prices vary from a Little More than $1 in the emirates to roughly $3 in saudi Arabia. At those prices music connoisseurs who might have shied away from paying $7.50 at military exchanges for tapes by lesser known artists like Tran vision Vamp Are More willing to Sample something new. Taped in Indonesia and the United Arab emirates from copyrighted originals the 60 to 90-minute tapes also Are a Boon to those who want extensive a greatest hits collections by anyone from headbangers acc to country Singer Randy Travis. A a in be gotten some things id normally buy but you can get things you normally get a like two whole albums on one or live Bootleg concerts and some songs you normally get on the same album a said army spec. John King of the 8th in 158th aviation a i. A a you a have to buy four or five albums to get the same thing a said spec. Robert Thompson also of the 8th in 158th aviation regt. Thompson said he found the tapes Quality a not bad. On Walkman they sound pretty most merchants willingly Exchange faulty tapes. Sometimes you get what you pay for. Occasionally the last song on a Side cuts off abruptly. And on Best of Belinda Carlisle tape one hit turned up five times. The Clunky tape boxes Are larger than their Legal cousins so they done to fit into Normal tape holders. But the larger Box has an advantage its heat resistant leaving it less vulnerable to a gooey destruction during Gulf Summers. A a. A. A a computer users also find that the Gulf countries less stringent copyright Laws apply to software and manuals. A desktop publishing program that Sells for $800 in Western countries for example can be bought in Qatar for $50. In saudi Arabia an original manual for a word processing program sold for $50 at a computer store while a copied version Cost $5 at the same store. About a year ago the United states began leading a drive to get the United Arab emirates to close the loopholes that allow firms to pirate and Export the music tapes. So far the Effort has been unsuccessful arid the illicit tape Market continues to flourish. Even tapes produced legally and at Western standards Cost less than elsewhere Selling for about $4 in saudi Arabia. A wok its just a Dollar More a agreed a Soldier who shopped at a tape and record store in Al Khobiar where originals and copies were available. A but think How much you can save for More tapes by buying the bootlegs.�?�. Quot . A . Contributing to this report the associated press in Dubai United Arab emirates. . Sending More planes to Turkey Ankara Turkey apr the United states will Send 48 additional air Force warplanes to Southern Turkey from bases in Europe a . Embassy spokeswoman confirmed tuesday. The extra planes will be based at the in Ciurlik nato base near the Southern City of Adana the spokeswoman said speaking on condition of anonymity. Turkish prime minister Yildirim Akbulut announced monday night that the United states had agreed to Send the extra planes to bolster turkeys defense in Case of a Gulf War. Turkey is the Only nato member bordering Iraq. Since Iraq invaded Kuwait on aug. 2, the United states has been Given permission to station 48 other planes at in Ciurlik. They include full f-15 and f-16 fighters. . And turkish aircraft have been conducting Aerial refuelling exercises at the base recently with tank or aircraft. Officials said they could not confirm a report in the Istanbul daily. Millie of that 36 . F-16 fighters would be sent to Turkey from Torrejon a in Spain. The sem official Anatolia news Agency also reported tuesday that about 50 cargo planes had arrived at in Ciurlik in the previous 24 hours. Some of them would go to saudi Arabia it said. A base spokeswoman sgt. Marty Davis said some cargo planes were at the base but she did not know their destination. A Anatolia also said a Hospital plane had arrived from Torrejon with 30 doctors. The report could not be con firmed. Desert Joseph Owen East meets West in saudi Arabia Riyadh saudi Arabia a the weathered White Volvo glided to a halt then backed up. A Young saudi Driver w Ith a w spy Beard looked at me witly eager curiosity my Backpack had. Advertised me loudly As a Westerner. Quot can i help you Quot i asked vaguely suspicious in fractured English he asked where i was from. I said i was an american looking for a cheap hotel. He said his name was Zaid and offered to show me one. As we drove off. He invited me to visit his family by which he meant his children. I accepted. Two boxes of Candy bars sat on the seat anti Zaid As he could hold with one hand and gave them to me. He had become my Host. Candy bars were All he had to offer. A Shukran 1 said thanking him and exhausting half my arabic vocabulary. Zaid pulled into a Side Street and parked next to a chipped White Cement Wall like those surrounding Many saudi Homes. We passed through a Gate then through a Side door into his living room a the room was tidy but decayed. A rack of shelves held a Tele vision set videocassette recorder English instructional tapes a Telephone and some books. An air conditioner Hung precariously in a Corner its wiring disappearing into a. Coarsely gouged Hole. A i listen radio a Zaid said after a while. Quot bbl i no watch a he said apparently referring to English language television. A i love you English a he added enthusiastically. Zaid 28, came from a Village South of Riyadh. He owned a House there but a erred the one in the capital. Although allowed four wives Zaid said., he had Only one. More would Strain his meager income. We heard muffled voices behind a Conn Dor door. Zaid unlocked it and his two tiny sons Ages 2 and 4, tumbled into the room. Zaid unrolled a prayer Rug Knelt on it bowed Low toward Mecca and began praying aloud. The boys littered and poked at each other playfully. I Sal against the Wall wondering what the proper etiquette was. Eventually Zaid called his younger son to his Side. Still praying he ran his fingertips delicately and methodically Over the boys body As though he were Transfer ing piety to him by Static electricity. Then the prayers ended. Zaid escorted the boys from the room and returned with a bowl of dates harvested from his Back Yard. He urged me to eat pulling a tissue from an elaborately decorated Box and spreading it out for discarded pits lie left the room again briefly and returned with a bowl of warm Frothy Yogurt to dip the dates a few perfunctory criticisms of iraqis invasion of Kuwait he quickly darted to other top ies. When the conversation turned to religion Zaidy a chatting degenerated into abstract oratorical fog. Nouns and verbs tumbled Over each other like a bag of marbles spilling onto the floor. He serried to be saying that his father never would have invited an american Home. But Zaid Felt islam obliged him to respect others. All the while he plied me with Coffee then Tea observing classic rituals of saudi hospitality. Some time later the proper time for a strangers visit had elapsed. I prepared to leave. We got into the car and he drove me to a crumbling mud walled houses to prove his country Isnit just a bastion of wealth. Zaid took me to tie old in Midtown hatha District stopping at a run Down hotel that fit a beggars budget better than mine. I thanked him effusively anyway not cast a pall on the moment. We traded phone numbers. Zaid thrust three Candy bars into my Backpack. W e Shook hands and he drove off into the honking erratic City traffic
