European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes monday january 28,1991 Oil Coats a Cormorant in the Gulf. Kids questions answered Abc and Abc preempted their saturday morning cartoon shows to let children ask questions about the War with Iraq. Quot. A a a a a a a a Page 4 on a Wing and a prayer pilots preparing to Roar off on another War Mission often see a chaplain standing along the flight line offering gestures of encouragement and Hope. / a a / a a a pages a kiss is not just a kiss in the language of Arab embraces Yasser Arafat a greeting of Saddam Hussein with a kiss on the shoulder puts the iraqi Leader exactly where he wants to be. A a a a a page6 increased risk for wounded troops wounded by conventional weapons have an increased risk of dying if they receive their wounds in a chemical environment a Page 7 tankers keeping planes up a Fleet of flying Gas stations Over Northern saudi Arabia is pumping millions of Gallons of fuel each Day into Allied warplanes on their Way to land from their targets. A Page 8 kids getting help coping Counselor Anne Monti is working to help children Cope with the sudden departure of their parents from the Home front to the War front., a Page 9reporting from Purgatory War is hell and television is reporting it from Purgatory. A Page 13man in the Middle Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams has become the defense Agency s Man in the Middle. A Page 14experts take the scene retired majors former National Security Agency directors and think tank denizens Are in the limelight now while working As the networks experts expounding on the War. A Page 15 from wire reports. Washington waving american flags and chanting a peace is patriotic a tens of thousands of americans marched to the White House on saturday to demand an end to War in the persian Gulf. A we cannot and will not accept the bombing a said actress Susan Sarandon one of several dozen activists celebrities and political leaders who spoke at the rally. A it is because we love our country that we want to save the lives of thousands of men and women stationed in the . Charles Rangel d-n.y., said nobody should be accused of lacking patriotism because they oppose president Bush a a we can support the warriors without supporting the War a Rangel said. National Park police estimated the crowd at 75,000. Organizers claimed 250,000. I Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue the Capitol to the White House the from marked the second straight weekend of protests in the capital. Both times however Bush was at Camp David the presidential Retreat in Maryland and did not hear the chants of a support the troops bring them Home a the Washington March was Only one of dozens across the nation a some for some against .,Mideast policy a during a Winter weekend on the Home front. Indeed the Washington peace marchers were confronted at one Corner by a group supporting the military action against Iraq. The counter demonstrators waved signs and chanted a we gave peace a some 70 College students and conservatives at the National gallery waved american flags chanting a they hey hoho Saddam Hussein has got to go Quot and a be a Patriot not a Brenda Reed held up the folded Flag that once draped her husbands coffin and warned a a there a no Boot Camp for her son was Only 3 when his father died in Vietnam she recalled. Their daughter Only weeks after the funeral. A there is no glory in a folded Flag a she said. A this folded Flag has not brought me Comfort at night. This folded Flag has not helped me raise my now her daughters Boyfriend is stationed in the Mideast. A she asked me a mom is it going to be like dad a a said Reed. A and i say a. On a bitterly cold afternoon the rally by John Millar Wurzburg Bureau Kitzinger Germany a More than 5,000 germans took to the streets of kit Zingen on sunday to support the United states and the United nations in the persian Gulf War. Police blocked streets As the pro american demonstrators marched through the town carry ing american German and is Racli flags. They also carried banners and signs bearing slogans endorsing the Allied involvement and condemning iraqis actions in the crisis. Or. Siegfried Nasser the Kitzinger county commissioner who organized the event said it was the first of its kind in Kitzinger since the end of world War ii. Kitzinger is Home to about 12,500 Service members assigned to the 3rd inf div. Quot. On saturday More than 170,000 anti an anti War a Washington Drew at least 75,000 people saturday including a 20-foot-tall Uncle Sam. V b began at the Capitol Steps. Then came the Parade. It lasted for hours As the people filed past. The crowd was diverse. There were movie stars a Tim Robbins and Margot Kidder and Richard Dreyfuss. There were Arab nationalists who chanted a shelf no. We wont go. We support the Quot there were mothers who pushed baby strollers and boys who Rode skate boards. A. A �1 about 3,000 people rallied at the state Capitol in Harrisburg a. They burned an iraqi Flag and issued a mock arrest warrant for Saddam. The rally was organized by the american legion of Pennsylvania in Albany n.y., several Hundred people braved frigid weather to gather on the Steps of the state Capitol in support of the troops. \ a a. . War demonstrators turned out in Bonn the German capital. Elsewhere sunday about 100 anti War protesters blocked the Entrance to Rhein main a near Frankfurt. A scr said he organized the demonstration Mccaus Flthe believes that anti War and anti american demonstrators do not represent the majority of germans. A Between so and 90 percent of our population support the United states Sun to the Army. But the so called. A silent majority done to demonstrate. They sit at Home and they feel with America. A the overwhelming majority of the germans will never forget what the United states of America has done for us beginning with the Berlin Airlift to the German reunification in 1990,�?� said Nasser. After the peaceful March Nasser talked to demonstrators in the marketplace. A my Basic message to these people was that. We Are not for a War we done to support a War. But never forget that the War began in August 1990, and the aggressor is Michael Glos a Kitzinger representative in the German parliament told the crowd that if the United nations had not asked Saddam Hussein would have invaded saudi Arabia and Israel and been a threat to other nations. Schweinfurt parliamentary representative Hermann Rindt told the gathering that United Germany no longer can sit Back and enjoy the benefits of free Trade then take a bacterial on unpleasant issues. The crowd responded with cheers when Rindt said germans should prepare to pay higher taxes to support the United states and the Cost of Freedom. Nasser said he was surprised by the size of the crowd. A it show s you the american we it germans support the
