European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Vol. 49, no. 299 saturday february9, 1991 35c Dally and 50c sunday d 8693 Achenes Well get this Over says sea ground assaults needed from staff and wire reports taif saudi Arabia a defense Secretary Dick Cheney on Friday told . Airmen and women that they Are part of history a most successful air Campaign. But he also said amphibious and ground assaults Are needed to make Saddam Hussein a army More vulnerable to continued air strikes. Cheney and Gen. Colin Powell chair Man of the joint chiefs of staff spoke to several Hundred people at an air Force base in Western saudi Arabia As they began a Quick trip to assess the Progress of the War and prepare advice for presi Dent Bush on moving into the ground phase of the Campaign. A you tire at the heart and soul of the most successful air Campaign in the history of the world a Cheney told the airmen and women. A a we la get this Over with a simple process a we re going to Cut it off and kill it a Cheney said to enthusiastic cheers. The air base is interim Home for the 48th tac fighter Wing an full fighter bomber Wing based in Lakenheath England. The unit has been augmented by the 390th electronic combat so from Moun Tain Home fab in Idaho. Meanwhile . Officials Friday confirmed that More than 10 percent of iraqis tanks and artillery have been destroyed. A military official said 600 of iraqis 6,000 tanks have been destroyed. . Warplanes knocked out an. Iraqi Mobile missile launcher and scored possible hits on three others overnight the Mil see Cheney on Page 10swiss show generosity not neutrality by Randy Pruitt. Staff writer Gabriele Thomas says she represents the silent majority of Switzerland a country Well known for its neutrality. X she has evidence a tons of Sweet tasting evidence a to prove that Many of her countrymen Are anything but Neutral when it comes to support for troops in the per Sian Gulf. The 41-year-old who runs 3n antique shop in Grid Ningen a Village near Zurich arrived in front of the red Cross in Stuttgart Germany on thursday in a truck loaded with 16 tons of packages for Allied in my shop Groningen Germany nothing else was in the minds of my Cli eats after the War started a she said Friday. A everybody was thinking the same As me that we have to say a thank you to the soldiers inc c. In a. And stay behind the s4s Sharon Kiwayo j a a . it also brought to mind the time when she was a child and first Learned about Adolf Hitler a i asked my father Hove Lilyas possible in Europe to have a Man like Hitler and nobody did him a she recalled. A my daughter is 6 years old and i told myself i have to do something not to get the same so she told her customers to quit talking. A i told them to make packets for Valentines Day to give them the troops a sign we Are behind she began phoning people in her Village a local newspaper reporter interviewed her she appeared on a radio station. Her drive to gather gifts for the Gulf began to snowball. A entire offices collected Money and made packets companies donated huge quantities of world famous Swiss chocolates individuals filled boxes with sweets cigarettes and dried fruit. Kindergarten children even paint Pri pictures forthe service members. A total of 6,000 packages were sent to her House clogging up the towns postal system. Pc a i think letters to soldiers Are in about 80 percent of the packages a she said. This individual touch is what she a proudest of. A the Swiss people were running after me with Money but i did no to want to come Here waving a big see Swiss on Page 10 . Airmen at Raf Fairford sweep Snow off a b-52 Friday As Britain suffers its worst Winter weather in four years. Bombers at the base Are being used to carry out Long Range operations against Iraq in the persian Gulf causes 4 London up a a killer storm blowing out of Siberia sent temperatures. Plunging below freezing across Europe on Friday. Roads were blanketed with Snow snarling traffic stranding thousands of travellers and causing at least four deaths. A the Snow from Yugoslavia to Britain piled up More than 3 feet deep in places shut schools and airports and caused traffic accidents. In Britain hundreds of motorists trapped on Windy Snow bound highways spent the night in their cars end during the Vor Stilmer we theft Trouf Earst rav lers were advised to stay Home Friday because Many roads were nearly impassible or closed and air and ground Public transportation was crippled. A at London a Gatwick Airport the Mercury dropped to 10 degrees overnight and More severe cold was forecast to last until next week. The coldest temperature recorded overnight in Britain was 5 degrees. Up to 10 inches of Snow fell in Britain on thursday and Friday with 10-foot drifts blocking roads in some areas. \ the Royal automobile club received 20,000calls for help thursday its busiest Day in 94 teen agers were killed in a weather related traffic Accident and a couple in the British midlands were found dead in their snowbound cottage apparently from Gas poisoning. Most schools in Southern Britain were closed As communities struggled to Clear away the Snow. In Warwickshire North of London police put Tea urns in their patrol cars to hand out to stranded Motorist France suffered through its coldest 48 Houts in recent years As most of the country including the Riviera in the South. Friday morning the temperature in the Paris suburbs fell to 10 degrees and fridays High in downtown Paris was expected to be 18 degrees. While the cold and Snow stretched from Brittany in see storm on Page 10
