European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a the stars and stripes saturday january 26,1991 by Deedee Arrington Dok Kaiserslautern Bureau Ramstein a Ger tiny a ser Ribach a will lose an additional 599 Active duty slots when the 66th electronic  inactivates before. Sept. 30, air Force officials announced Friday. The cutback is part of the fiscal 1991 air Force withdrawal from Europe that was announced by Secretary of defense Dick Cheney last september. Along with other cutbacks that were announced last month Simbach will lose a total of 1,160 Active duty and civilian slots this fiscal year. The wings inactivation docs not mean that Simbach a which has 3,575 military members and 700 civilian workers is closing. However a new Host unit has not yet been named to takeover the 66th�?Ts support role. A a we re studying the bases future a said Doug Moore a spokesman for the . Air forces in Europe. The inactivation of the Wing Means that Sembach also will lose 10 . And 26 local National civilian slots. Simbach Home of 17th air Force Headquarters is nine Miles North of . The electronic  conducts electronic countermeasure operations to disrupt enemy air de sense systems and enemy command control and communication nets. It works in support of tactical air and ground operations. The wings assets include the of Llla Raven,.flown out of Raf upper Heyford England and six ec-130h Compass Call aircraft which Are based at Sembach. The 20th tac fighter Wing at upper Heyford will assume the of Lllan a airborne electronic jamming Mission and its operational control. The air Force has not said where the ec-130hs will go said Jim Sherman a Sembach spokesman. A. The cutbacks announced Friday primarily affect jobs associated with the wings aircraft such As pilots and certain maintenance positions Sherman said. He emphasized that the cutbacks involve positions not people. A one of our roles is going away but most of the support will remain a Sherman said in reference to the wings support role for numerous geographically separated units. A a a a v the 66th is the. Air forces Only designated electronic . It reactivated in june 1985 after 15 years of inactivation. T a. Elements of the 66th electronic , including some ec-1301 is have deployed to Turkey to support operation desert storm Sherman said. Iraqi pos in poor by the stars and stripes Riyadh saudi Arabia a Many of the More than 100 iraqis now in the hands of american forces in the Gulf Are covered with lice poorly fed and seemingly glad to be prisoners of War a Marine general said Friday. A. A. A a a a a a. A a a fifty one prisoners were taken thursday from the Island of Sarah off the kuwaiti shores after a skirmish. Marine maj. Gen. Robert a Johnston said the fight was Brief. A they did not return fire very vigorously a Johnston said which fuels beliefs that some iraqi troops Are suffering from morale problems. The prisoners had been getting Only one food ration a Day Johnston said. The reports of Little food suggest he said that Allied attempts to disrupt Supply lines Are having an effect. But Johnston said he does no to know How severely the air raids have Cut off iraqi forces supplies. He said that about half of the 60 iraqi soldiers taken As prisoners earlier were a wire crosser so a that is deserters who willingly gave themselves up to their foe. However he added he is not suggesting that iraqi troops Are simply waiting to give up. A a that a a pretty seasoned army out there a he said. Six other iraqi soldiers turned themselves in at a Point along the heavily fortified saudi Border said saudi col. Ahmed Zobayan a spokesman for the coalition forces. He said he had not seen the iraqi troops and therefore did not know whether they were in the same conditions As those Johnston described. Zobayan also said iraqi troops and .-led coalition forces exchanged artillery fire across the Border at several Points Friday. A we have no reports of injury or significant damage from the shelling a he said. A a number of iraqi artillery Points have gone silent after receiving return fire from the coalition air strikes and  from Page 1 looks desperate. It looks last gasp. It does not measure up to any military  on another sensitive subject Bush refused to Rule out that Saddam might remain in Power after the War. Asked directly he said a your objectives remain the  Bush has outlined Allied War Aims As the liberation of Kuwait and the restoration of the kuwaiti government. A a we re not in the business of targeting Saddam Hussein a he said. Yet he reiterated Quot no one will weep when he a  one Pentagon official said a we go after command and control targets and if he happens to be there great Quot the Pentagon official speaking on condition of anonymity said it would be Quot too inefficient and iffy to expend a lot of Energy going after Saddam. But he said that if the iraqi president fulfils his duties by going to command posts to oversee operations a then he is  the officials were commenting on a Washington Post report that bad weather thwarted an attack on a site where Saddam was believed to be. Bush said he planned to go about his business undeterred by the War. A life goes on. I am not going to be held a captive in the White House by Saddam Hussein. I am not going to screech my life to a  a Fitzwater also announced that the United states had begun shipping More Patriot anti missile missiles to Israel to help protect against iraqi scud missile attacks. He would not disclose the size of the new shipment but said the missiles began arriving in Israel on thursday night. A 3 German cities Fasching celebrations by the stars and stripes Cologne Mainz and Disseldorf the centers of the German Fasching celebrations have followed the Lead of other cities in Europe and cancelled their pre lenten carnivals. The carnival committees in the three Rhine cities cancelled the festivities including their renowned Rose monday parades on feb. 11, because of the War in the Mideast. Martina Weisel an official at the Mainz tourist office said Friday that Mainz had cancelled 11 carnival events including the popular roasts of politicians and other Public figures. A press release issued earlier this week by the Disseldorf press office said the Disseldorf Fasching was can a Clad a in the face of the developments in the Gulf in which an extended period of hostilities is to be  Venice Italy Vienna Austria and Munich Germany announced last week that they would riot hold their traditional carnival  Page 1 planes in combat including 11 american and six British. Baghdad radio said Friday a a number of citizens seized a British Pilot shot Down Over near Basra in Southern Iraq the Center of the military defense of Kuwait. The radio also broadcast More of what it said were interviews with captured pilots a three americans and an italian. The americans identified themselves As air Force col. David William Eberly Navy it. Lawrence Randolph Blake and air Force maj. Thomas Edward Griffith. All have been listed As missing by the . Military a although a a Blakes is believed to be Lawrence Randolph Slade ,. All six downed British planes were Tornado assigned to Low level bombing of airfields and similar targets.  Page 1 _  Patriot batteries were brought in last weekend w Ith . Crews to train israelis to operate them. Two others had arrived in Early january. Patriots also intercepted a pair of scuds fired at Riyadh military officials said. Cable news network showed a damaged building in the saudi City but it was not Clear if the destruction was caused by falling debris or a scud. Relatively High a a kill rate on the planes led the British to announce Friday that they were shifting tactics dispatching High level Buccaneer bombers to the Gulf. In saudi Arabia there was As much military traffic on the ground As in the skies. North South and East West highways were clogged with convoys of newly arrived . Forces and Armor some freshly painted in desert camouflage. A a a a. A dozens of fuel tank trucks headed North to new desert fuel depots that will be needed to keep the helicopters Hying and tanks moving. . Marines meanwhile were Honing their amphibious assault skills for possible attacks on Iraq or Kuwait. American military officials refused to specify How Many marines were involved in the Gulf exercises but said it was the largest amphibious assault Force assembled since the korean War. A soviet report meanwhile said that two top iraqi commanders were executed by order of Saddam. Nato won t hold Mons Belgium a amps nato has cancelled a training exercise in Turkey according to a shape spokesman. The exercise which was to have taken place before the end of March was a regularly scheduled land Man Euver involving the Allied command Europe Mobile Force the spokesman would not say Why the Man Euver would not take place. The Ace Mobile Force is a Small multinational task Force that can be seat at Short notice to any threatened the iraqi press attache in Moscow denied the report by the Independent soviet Agency inter fax which said the iraqi president ordered  of the chiefs of the air. Force and anti aircraft defences. \. Thursday marked a Milestone in the Battle to drive Iraq from Kuwait. The . Navy seized tiny Baruh Island about 35 Miles off Kuwait a Southern coast in the fighting three iraqis were killed and 51 taken prisoner the military said. The Sliver of Sand spit is Only about 400 Yards wide and is almost submerged at High tide a but it was the first kuwaiti territory regained since the emirate was overrun aug.2. A / Iraq however contended that it had simply decided to withdraw its troops and boats from the Island. Baghdad radio said Friday that Many of the Small islands Are used As temporary listening posts the Navy also Sank an iraqi minesweeper thursday . Officials said. Training exercise part of nato territory to demonstrate the Solidarity of the Alliance and its ability do defend itself against aggression. The Torce is trained and tested every year in exercises held in both the Northern and Southern Hanks of Europe. The last land exercise in Turkey was a Allied express Quot in september 1988. An air component of the Ace Mobile Force was sent to Turkey earlier this month to help protect Turkey against any possible attack by Iraq