European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. January 28, 1991 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 War Iii the Gulf chemicals increase risk to wounded by the stars and stripes at the 1st tac fighter Wing Hospital saudi Arabia a troops wounded by conventional weapons have an increased risk of dying if they receive their wounds in a chemical environment according to air Force doctors a if you Combine conventional injuries in a chemical environment it increases the risk a said or. Maj Richard Wil. Liams commander of the 1st tac fighter Wing Hospital. A a. The problem is one of delay he said. A service member must be decontaminated before his wounds can be treated and that process takes time. A you can t do much for a patient until he is out of the chemical environment Quot Williams said. When a wounded service member exposed to a chemical agent is brought in he will be taken to a decontamination tank attached to the Hospital. His suit will be Cut from him and the agent will be washed from his skin with a bleach like solution. Only after this 10-minute procedure can a person enter the emergency room for treatment. A you can to do anything Quot for him until he is decontaminated so it slows us Down and May Lead to loss of Lite Quot said l r. Terry Hassler the Hospital triage officer who will identify troops exposed to Chemi. Cal attack. The Hospital s main Mission is to treat members of the fighter Wing but if a ground War starts the Hospital will treat some casualties from the front line. So far chemical weapons have not been used in either the scud missile attacks on cities in Israel and saudi Arabia or in artillery and rocket attacks on frontline troops near Kuwait and Iraq. While there is disagreement on whether scuds can carry chemical warheads a Media Pool live fire exercise Marine Lance Cpl. Gary Wright mans a machine gun during a participate la such exercises in preparation for a possible ground live fire exercise in saudi Arabia. Forces in the Gulf continue to assault against iraqi forces in Kuwait Las vegas gambling palaces fall victim to far off persian Gulf War by Dean e. Murphy the los Angeles times Las vegas a at the Excalibur Casino hotel the giant fantasy Castle with enough distractions and entertainment to Busy you Day and night guests have been calling the front desk with a rather Odd complaint. A Why can to i get can in my room Quot they want to know. Those of course Are the visitors who bothered to show up Here last week. Saddam Hussein May be doing Little to deter the . War machine in the persian Gulf but he has brought bad Luck to the nations gambling Necca. A there is a lot of sympathy for the War said Blu Clendening publicity director at Aladdin hotel which Cut its work Force by 10 percent because of a drop in visitors attributed to the persian Gulf crisis. Quot i know that i am glued to my to set waiting to see what is happening and i think the general Public is the same  Las vegas tourism officials confirmed hat every Bellman and waitress in town there Are two things people Here Are talking about. One is the War and the other is How dead vegas is.1 u a. A Cathy Morrison had known for Days the recent three Day Martin Luther King  was a bust. Room occupancy rates dropped 19.2 percent in motels and 4.9 percent in hotels compared with the same Holiday weekend last year. A there Are two things people Here Are talking about a said Cathy Morrison a Lafayette ind., businesswoman playing the Slot machines at the desert inn. Where Telephone reservations Are off about 10 percent. A one is the War and the other is How dead vegas  an informal Survey of 50 hotels and motels by the Las vegas convention and visitors authority showed that As Many As 100 guests cancelled their weekend reservations at some establishments after the outbreak of War. The total number of visitors to the area remained hat at about 138,000, even though volume had been increasing 10 percent before the War. A people Are scared a said cab Driver Carl Boyd. A they done to want to Fly or go out. Those that Are Here had already hooked and had no  on top of it All a sin City seems to have developed an uncharacteristic Case of the guilty. For the second week in a Row tourism officials have suspended All. Television advertising a to the tune of $50,000 a week a because of worries that it May offend viewers. A it is a wild card in the deck not  to advertising right now a said Rob Powers of r so r advertising which handies advertising for the visitors authority. A but we thought it was not the right thing to run television spots about fun and entertainment in Las vegas when they might be juxtaposed with Allied casualties in the  Tillery and tanks can launch them. The Hospital staff members plan to. Work in chemical suits but Hassler and Williams downplay the threat posed by nerve agents and Gas. A unless you re caught napping it should not generate a mass number of casualties Quot Williams said. They said the majority of Battlefield injuries will be anything  to broken Bones but history has shown that 10 percent to 20 percent will be life threatening. Said Hassler a conventional weapons scare me a Heck of a lot  information for this Artl Cla wit gathered by Pentagon Pool reporters on the scene in saudi Arabia polls show Long War expected new York apr most americans expect the persian Gulf War to continue for at least four months. They favor con tinned Aerial bombing Over a ground As suit according to a new time can poll. Another poll which appears in the feb. 4 Issue of Newsweek shows the War aim most strongly supported by americans is overthrowing the  iraqi pies Dent Saddam Hussein. Of the 1,000 people time can polled 59 percent said they expect the War to last four to six months or longer. Only 5 percent said the War will end within four weeks or less. Of the 751 people polled by Newsweek 63 percent said they think the War will last several months a up from 36 percent Hist week. Only 12 percent said they think the War will end in Days or weeks. The thine can poll shows 54 percent of americans believe the Allied forces should continue to rely entirely on Aerial attacks. About 32 percent favor starting a ground War. Some 47 percent of those polled by Newsweek say the United states should end military action against Iraq Only after Saddam a government is removed from Power. That poll also shows that 78 percent believe Allied prisoners of War  tortured and 62 percent support attacks on iraqi positions even if Povis Are being held there. The new Sweek poll also shows that 86 percent approve of How Bush is handling the Gulf crisis. If something were to happen to Bush according to the time can poll Only 28 percent of americans say they would feel confident that vice president Dan Quayle could Lead the nation in War. Asked what the major goals should be in the War 90 percent or More agree that the most important Are to Force Iraq to leave Kuwait remove Saddam from Power and destroy iraqis nuclear and chemical weapons. Only 41 percent said killing Saddam should be a major goal. That poll also shows Broad support for military censorship of reports from the Middle East. Only 9 percent of those questioned believe its wrong to censor news reports. Some 88 percent agree censorship is necessary. The time can Telephone poll of 1,000 adults was conducted thursday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage Points. The Newsweek Telephone poll of 751 adults conducted thursday and Friday has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage Points