European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday january 30,1991war in the Gulf War mocks Tel Aviv slogan the City that never sleeps israelis clog the freeway As they try to escape iraqis almost nightly missile attacks on Tel Aviv. By Doug struck the Baltimore Sun a a a Tel Aviv Israel a the routine of nighttime missile attacks has changed the face of this once vibrant Metropolis to that of a City under siege. By Day it assumes an appearance of normalcy work has resumed schools Are slowly reopening and shops Lill with customers for shortened daytime hours. But the night belongs to the air raid Siren. The roads out of Tel Aviv Are jammed with residents fleeing to Jerusalem or safer outlying areas. Whole City neighbourhoods Are dark. Restaurants and nightclubs Are locked their windows crossed with tape in preparation for missile blasts. Those left in their Homes wait anxiously for  and the All Clear signal before they can finally get some sleep. A a. A a ����., already. 2-year-old Gil Belkin is sleeping through the if raid sirens. Her father would too but Efrat Belkin always nudges her husband  a a in a still afraid a admits the 29-year-old Mother. But after the attack and the All Clear Siren �?�1 go right to sleep a she   a psychological Survey shows that fear among citizens. Which was very High after the initial attacks has dropped somewhat according to results released monday by the israeli Institute for military studies. But nearly a third of the respondents said they still found the situation a very  nearly two in five have difficulty sleeping. Many feel angry. During last fridays bombardment the israeli National ambulance service carried 476 people who suffered heart attacks or Hyst Efla or who mistakenly injected themselves with the nerve Gas antidote atropine fearing a chemical attack. The missile attacks have resulted in four deaths nearly 200 injuries and damages to about 3,300 buildings in Tel Aviv. �?���.���. A a. A. To help restore normalcy the government has ordered employees Back to work and those who do not return risk being fired. But in Many offices and businesses employees Are just going through the motions. A at work we spend 90 percent of the time talking about the War and 10 percent getting ready to leave Early a said one Engineer. Monday at the world famous Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange a manager of the retail outlet said the store now gets Only two or three customers a Day. They do not put the jewels in the showcases for fear a missile would scatter them said Nira Lieberman. She remained optimistic a diamonds done to break with the scuds a she said. But fear of attacks has made a mockery of the City a unofficial slogan a the City that never  the Busy night life and the cosmopolitan Pace have surrendered to apprehension. Pubs and restaurants normally full at 2 . Are now open Only for lunch. Shops that used to stay open until 8 . Are closing at 4 . To allow their employees to get Home before dark when the missiles generally come hundreds Cross reopened iraqi Border by Mark Fineman the los Angeles times ruwe1sheu, Jordan Shell shocked and half Frozen hundreds of War weary refugees began pouring across the iraqi Border Here monday after nearly a week with Little food and no shelter at a cold desert Frontier crossing that iraqi author ties had closed without explanation six Days ago. Many of them like jordanian schoolteacher Abdul Aziz fares who had lived 26 years in Kuwait brought with them credible eyewitness accounts of life inside occupied Kuwait City a including the Ter ror of a week inside bomb shelters and the horror of children freezing to death at the closed iraqi Border outpost. Others like Indian refugee . Nayak who worked As a contract labourer on the construction of a new Palace for iraqi president Saddam Hussein in the Southern iraqi City of Basra told of nighttime Allied bombing runs pounding that City and also the main Highway from Baghdad to Jordan. That artery is now All but severed by bomb craters and burning trucks and buses refugees  others like Kheirieh Salman expressed sheer Joy for having finally reached an Oasis of peace in the growing Gulf War. "1 kit sed the. Ground when i finally touched Jordan this morning a said Salman who was forced  the family car behind in Kuwait and pay s 1.5 h Tor herself her husband and two year old twins to share a single seat on a bus to flee Kuwait four Days ago. But Salman added that two Days of misery experienced while she and her family were stuck on the iraqi Side of the Border had not changed her sympathies m the War a when i got Here. 1 said. Quot god Bles King Hii Sein of  and Saddam Hussein a a Yel when she was asked what Lite was like in the vast and no in parking lot at the iraqi Border crossing of Rebeil. Where she and an estimated 3,000 other a jordanian Border officer walks Between two loaded Down palestinian refugees As they approach a control Point. Refugees were literally trapped Between a land of w a and one of peace Salman was not so enthusiastic. A it was  she said. A it was cold. The King helped us. He sent food water. But we had to sleep in the bus All in one seat. And the ones outside Many of them . Iraq s reasons for having closed the Rebeil Border crossing remained As unclear monday As its decision to suddenly reopen it. Iraq s ambassador to Jordan had blamed the closure to bureaucratic technicalities and other reports said that Many refugees without exit papers were forced to return to Baghdad to obtain  a Quot it s very difficult to get an answer a Jordan s information minister Ibrahim 1/zeddme. Told reporters when they asked him Why Iraq had closed one of Quot its few exits. Their was another troubling note More than a dozen refugees Here and at a nearby red Cross transit Camp said Iraq was permitting All foreigners stranded in i Rebeil to leave a jordanians lebanese palestinians indians. Syrians and Suda Nese a but there was no Trace of hundreds of egyptians reportedly trapped there Quot. Hans Einhaus head of the . Disaster Relief organization in. Amman said there were no egyptians among the nearly 1.000-refugees his Agency had counted by late monday Egypt Quot is a member of the  Allied Force confronting Iraq in the  like information minister Izzeddin. Einhaus had no explanation for Iraq s seemingly erratic policy toward keeping the vital refugee crossing open