European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Flee scud zone by Vince Crawley Middle East Bureau Mohammed Goss proudly showed off the bits of broken Metal he and three friends found on the Beach the Day a after an incoming iraqi scud missile was apparently blown apart Over Dhahran saudi Arabia a Quot we Are seeing missiles and War for the first time Quot Goss a 25-year-old Indian said a in faltering English. Quot they Are interesting a Goss Wasny to the Only one who thought so. More than 20 souvenir Hunters were combing the Beach during the mid afternoon Call to prayer. Gosse find looked More like old machinery parts but most  people went away with a few shards of a twisted scorched Metal or fragments of rubber casings. Earlier scavengers he said had gotten the better pieces. Not everyone is looking for scud souvenirs. Many residents a some say its More than half have fled. And foreign workers like Goss say their saudi Bosses have joined the exodus to the islamic holy cities to the West which Are expected to remain Safe from Saddam Hussein a haphazard air attacks. A. Quot like every War it is the Normal people who suffer the most Quot said an Indian maintenance worker in Al Khobiar Quot Many saudis Here have gone away leaving us  return Quot to Date. Saudi officials have downplayed a the mass migrations from the scud zones. A Quot if the iraqi dictator thought his missile attacks on Scudi Arabia would unnerve. People Here both saudis and expatriates. He is in for a rude Awakening Quot the daily. English language Arab news boasted in a front Page Story wednesday. A a the article said the attacks Quot have Only steeled the people in their resolve to fight for the liberation of Kuwait Quot and added commentary to that effect from prominent saudis. A a. A.  television showed scenes of Riyadh traffic on tuesday evening trying to convey the impression that life Here is Normal.  fact it Isnit. Customers at the saudi arabian airlines ticket office in Riyadh must wait hours to make reservations on one of the three flights leaving daily for Liddah. To. Help pick up the Slack a Riyadh bus company has scheduled extra trips out of the country.  others have been packing suitcases and setting off for saudi Arabia s West coast by. Car. In Hoff 100 Miles South of the Damman Dhahran metropolitan area. People Are reportedly sleeping in their 4-wheel-drive vehicles because All the hotel rooms Are booked. A. A. A Al Khobiar the main shopping District. Near the Dhahran. Oil companies and military posts is neither a City under seige nor a City at peace air raid sirens have a become an almost nightly occurrence and the skies repeatedly glow yellow from the. Flash of Patriot anti missile rockets. Shooting Down incoming scuds. The ritual Call to prayer is still chanted Over the City a Public address systems five times a Day but to a listener caught unaware the first solemn tones can sound like the beginning of another air raid  a a. The schools Are still closed a week into the War but trash is promptly collected from doorsteps every morning before 10 a m. Pizza Sheik fast food outlets have reopened but police Snail traffic with Impromptu passport checks along the a City s Mam streets. Mohammed Ameen who runs a fruit and vegetable stand m Al Khobiar estimated.  a a a a a a. A a a. A a. A s4swoyn j. 1st it. Peter Lohmann found a piece of missile debris that fell from the sky in Eastern saudi Arabia. That Between 10 percent and 25 percent of his customers remain in the Dhahran area the rest having fled beyond missile Range. Quot business is very Slack Quot he said but he does t fear that missiles will fall on him. Quot i believe in god. I have seen the missiles but no  War in the Gulf on the first Day or the War the City a once bustling 200-store shopping mall was almost vacant. The doors weren t locked but fewer than two dozen businesses were. Open. One shopkeeper said he came to work Only because his Boss told him to. About a third of the stores have reopened albeit tentatively. In the tuesday attack which showered debris onto a. Nearby Beach at around 7pm, shopkeepers took the Cue and closed 2vt> hours Early. Customers they say Aie still sparse  people Are leaving from Fiere Day after Day a said a clothing store worker who. Called -himself.asok. Although he gets few customers any More he still goes to Wor k Quot because it s my Job a a  everyone , he follows the War at night on can which can be s received on any one of a half dozen a it. Channels depending on the time of Day. The news network carries live reports from nearby Dhahran and this is usually the fastest Way to learn about possible attacks or to find out if All is Clear again a the area s civil defense warnings Aro. Notoriously inaccurate. During the. Tuesday evening attack in which  were reportedly blown up. Sirens sounded Long after the first Pat not had fired a ,. Ain spite of it All not All saudis have left Fahid Saud shrugged when asked Why tie. Hadnot taken his wife and children out  dam Mam. Yes the saudi said Many people had gone to jiddah., but Quot tins is my City ,. I la stay at my . A. A Bertito Gonzales a 42-year-old filipino worker said Fie and ins intends Are unhappy with those saudis who have left especially Thoi employers ,. A we Are afraid because we Don t know what will happen a Gonzales said while waiting in line to use a pay phone in downtown ask Hoar Many in line carried sacks and paper Cones  saudi coins to keep the hard to got connections. Open. ,.a a a a a a a a a a a. Gonzales saudi Foreman has left town. Cutting off paychecks and preventing a workers from getting their , which Aro typically held by the employer no work is being done at Gonzales company so tie and other workers sit in their rooms All Day a wailing to see what comes next a / Quot they Tell us  need us to Sta but All filipinos in our company want to go Home a he said. Quot we do not know what will  week  other Wor kers charge that their a. Employers left without issuing Gas masks. In Riyadh employees of the. A. A intercontinental hotel went on strike tuesday because they had no masks. And there is widespread boil Elkhal Tho collection of fast German French and. A British masks that have but eur issued will not do the trick Shoukal cud Ihm sort to a Gas attack. A ,. A some have had enough. On tin Day. C  from Delhi India quit his Job As a taxi Driver a or nine years in Riyadh the scuds a no Caliri tire one that a landed on a o y  Are prior of Titan tie can endure re a too e Sci i a r i ,-c.irt t get St.   h it a o. It a i / re Oci sgt d by Al h to .1 to not everyone has fled the scene in saudi Arabia. Some of those who Are staving behind Hunt for scud souvenirs. Saturday january 26, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 13