European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 04, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a a the stars and stripes monday february 4,1991. Gis repulse iraqis after Brief by the stars and stripes wit the  forces saudi Arabia a an iraqi patrol tried to ambush american soldiers Friday night several Miles inside saudi Arabia but hurried Back after a 15-minute firefight with troops from the 82nd airborne div. About 25 Iii is aboard two Light vehicles armed with rocket propelled grenades and machine Guinis sneaked across the Border after dark and found higher ground above a smaller . Reconnaissance team. The opposing soldiers were As close As 250 Yards apart when they opened fire simultaneously said it. Col. John vines battalion commander. A we had to engage them to avoid getting caught in an ambush a he Quot said. A i would perceive that As an act of desperation because i think he Saddam Hussein is trying to get a cheap Victory and inflict some casualties on  a there were no casualties among the americans and no evidence of iraqi casualties was found. The skirmish took place about 10 . Friday lighting the desert with the yellow flashes of anti tank blasts and ther Quot streaks of tracer machine gun bullets that help direct fire at night. Officials said troops would increase surveillance in Case iraqi tanks stage an assault similar to one earlier last week on the saudi arabian Border town of Khanji. A a that a a concern Here. We could be in the same boat a said 1st it. Scott Pearce 25, of Leesburg fla., a cobra helicopter Pilot. A my senses Are More  earlier Friday . Troops went into full combat Alert after suspecting iraqi soldiers and tanks were poised to Cross into saudi Arabia. The men rushed to their bunkers and Foxholes and assumed positions to prepare for a possible iraqi offensive. A a they re getting bolder a said 2nd it. Terrence Rosales 28, of Takoma Park md., commander of a Sheridan armoured vehicle platoon. A either they Start moving or they give up. We have to be More  information for this article was gathered by a Pentagon Pool reporter on the scene a vehicle from Page 1thormities none of the vehicles has been found. The mounting toll of vanishing vehicles assigned to units throughout the theater follows intelligence reports to commanders that More than a dozen palestinian terrorists were known to be operating in the sector now occupied by the 1st army div. In response the sentries posted on the perimeter of american Camps scattered across the desert have been warned to watch for a foreign nationals driving civilian vehicles an behaving in a suspicious manner. The Prospect is even More worrisome because this Barren piece of desert is crisscrossed every hour by Hun Drc Sof american military vehicles. Some officers have discounted the notion that the thefts Are terrorist related. They contend instead that . Soldiers May be stealing the vehicles in an extreme response to significant shortages of spare parts and be i Clef among Vii corps units awaiting supplies that have not yet been delivered from base Camps. A some olt hese Guys Are having trouble keeping their vehicles going a one intelligence officer said. A the Way i look at it this is cannibalization pure and simple. V but most officers believe the thefts have links to terrorist activity and fear a Well planned terrorist attack. They stressed however that adequate Security Mea shoes arc already in place to guard against such an at a tack. A information for this article was gathered by Pentagon Pool reporters on the scene in saudi Arabia a ,��.����� .9 Quot a a. Poor sales Force Folies Bergere to close doors temporarily Paris up a the Folies Bergere music Hall said. Sunday that it was closing for two weeks because of a dearth of reservations for february amid fears of persian Gulf related terrorism. Several Winter carnivals were also cancelled across France. A spokesman for the parisian music Hall said business had held up in january but the Lack of interest in watching the performances this month meant that the theater could not cover the costs of staying open. Most of the potential customers who decided to stay a done were people from the French provinces who feared terrorist attacks in Paris the spokesman told France info  Page 1 Ocean South of the persian Gulf. The latest deaths brought to 14 the number of american service members killed in action since the War began. V iraqi  Syria had turned Over to . Officials in Damascus seven american pilots who parachuted into syrian territory after their planes were shot Down by Iraq. Syria and the United states said the iraqi report was false. A. A. A a a a. The allies kept up their air attacks against Iraq on sunday. On saturday they blew up iraqi airfields hit tanks and a a scattered a unit of the elite Republican guard military officials said. Ramsey Clark a peace activist and former  attorney general arrived in Baghdad on sunday and met with foreign ministry officials the associated press reported. Clark was also expected to meet with iraqi president Saddam Hussein during a visit that Clark described As a a peaceful  he said he expected to stay several Days but declined to give More details. On saturday iraqi anti aircraft gunners shot Down two . Warplanes the first lost in As Many Days. The . Air Force searched behind enemy lines for the downed airmen. One Marine was killed and two were wounded saturday when their Convoy reportedly was struck in saudi Arabia by Cluster bombs dropped by american warplanes. There was Little ground activity saturday and the . Army inspected hundreds of Bradley fighting vehicles its top armoured infantry transport for a transmission defect that could limit its Speed to 12 Mph. The vehicle is designed to travel up to about 40 Mph but 511 Bradley about one fourth of All those in saudi Arabia May have the problem according to an army memo obtained by the a. On sunday a senior army official said investigators Are inspecting the Bradley but so far have found Only two with the defect. A they were corrected immediately on the spot a army it. Gen. John j. Yeosock a . Central come spokesman told lbs to. Early sunday morning Iraq fired p scud missile at Israel and another at the saudi capital Riyadh. It was the second missile fired at Israel in five hours. Iraqi radio said the missile attacks the first since thursday were in retaliation for continued Allied air  a. The scud launched at Riyadh was hit by a . Patriot missile but fragments landed on a residential neighbourhood damaging apartment buildings police said. The official saudi press Agency reported that 29 people were injured. No damage or injuries were reported from the two missiles fired at Israel it Tete saturday and Early sunday . Officials outside of Israel said the first scud landed in the predominantly Arab West Bank. It was not immediately known where the second scud landed. The . Military command in Riyadh said that min utes after the scud attacks . Bombers struck two of the launch Sites. A pilots reported secondary explosions at one of the Sites a the command said in a Brief communique. Secondary blasts usually indicate that the attackers have hit a munitions vehicle or storage area officers said israeli defense minister Moshe Arens renewed is reefs pledge to retaliate for the missile attacks. Israel has been under intense pressure from the United states not to get involved in the Gulf conflict for fear it will undermine the anti Iraq coalition. Arab countries hostile to Israel including Syria Are coalition members. Baghdad radio reported that Syria had released seven . Pilots to the . Embassy in Damascus a in the past two Days.�?�. # it said that the pilots planes were downed by antiaircraft fire a during their air raids on residential areas in Iraq and that they had parachuted into syrian territory. A a. A a a a a a. A v a a a. The official syrian Arab news Agency said the report was a completely  it Bill Murphy a . Embassy spokesman in Damascus said a a we be heard that Story. The Story is  two . Warplanes shot Down saturday were an a-10 Thunderbolt and an a-6 intruder both apparently struck by anti aircraft artillery . Command spokesman Johnston said. He would give no further details because search and Rescue operations were continuing. Bush s Call for prayer Day unconstitutional atheist says Chicago up a president Bush lowered himself to the level of iraqi president Saddam Hussein with an unconstitutional Call for a National Day of prayer atheist spokesman Rob Sherman said sunday. Bush in a broadcast address saturday asked americans to make sunday a National Day of prayer for . Troops in the persian Gulf. A government is required by the Bill of rights to maintain a Complete Wall of separation Between Church and state a Sherman told a news conference at the Federal building  from Page 1 Quot. Rocks said an a photographer at the scene. Riot police responded by firing rubber bullets then charged with clubs swinging to break up the demonstrators. There were no immediate reports of injuries or arrests. Demonstrators in Japan appealed for peace and attacked the governments pledge of $9 billion in additional Aid for the multinational forces in the Gulf. About 1,000 people formed a human Chain near a . Navy base in Casebo Southern Japan police said. _ in Tokyo two people were arrested for alleged violations of Security regulations As some 1,500 turned out to listen to Rock bands and anti War speeches at a rally. The demonstration focused on Environ mental damage from the War officials said. The bombing in Peru levelled a two Story building that housed a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise in Lima police said. One Man was seriously injured when a falling Wall crushed a parked car they added. Three other people suffered minor injuries. A spokesman for Britain a department of transport said it had received intelligence information of a threat to bomb aircraft and passed it on to All airports and airlines operating in the country. He refused to comment on a report in the newspaper sunday express that intelligence chiefs in London and Washington believe the threat involves bombing teams w a palestinian links read to act on Saddam Scall for attacks on Western targets. Meanwhile the sunday times said its poll showed support for the War holding at 86 percent among the British. It said seven of 10 people interviewed for the poll thought the allies should make Saddam a specific target. An editorial in the sunday times said a Saddam cannot be allowed .7. To leave Kuwait in ruins and then withdraw to his Lair still Strong enough to boast about his prowess and plan his next1 adventure. Were that to happen no Arab moderate could lie Safe in its bed israelis could count the time to the next attack on their Homeland and a giant question Mark Quot would hang Over an Oil Rich area. Whose people cry out for peace and Security a at Rochester n.y., a Flag waving crowd police estimated at from 3,000 to 4,000 people rallied saturday in support of . Troops. There were similar demonstrations by some 3,000 people in Oklahoma City and by More than 1,000 outside the Iowa statehouse. Oklahoma supreme court chief Justice Marian Opala a speaker at the Oklahoma City rally said such gatherings Sena a signal to Saddam that americans done to give up. In Poland Stanislaw Krajewski a Leader of the polish israeli Friendship society told a crowd of several Hundred people a we have come Here to Manifest our Solidarity with Israel which faces a deadly threat. Our hearts Are with our friends in  members of the Small jewish Community in Poland and of the recently founded Friendship society held israeli National flags and banners saying a peace for Israel and a polish jews Are with you  in rallies demanding an end to the War Scotland Yard said 18,000 to 20,000 protesters marched through Central London. About 3,000 sat in protest outside Camp Darby a . Army base near Pisa Italy