European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 a a the stars and stripes sunday february 10, 1991 Long Beach Calif. A the new Jersey the Navy a most decorated battleship and Veteran of three wars was decommissioned Friday for a fourth time As other battleships join in the persian Gulf War. A a its a shame to put it out of commission especially at this time but titties change a said retired Navy cmdr. William Brown who served aboard the new Jer sey during the Early 1950s. The ceremony Drew More than 3,000 people including vice . David m. Bennett commander of the naval surface Force which is part of the Pacific Fleet. The new jerseys last Crew was on hand. A a v a a a a a Quot a a the 887-foot new jerseys fourth period of service began in 1982, when it was recommissioned by former president Reagan As the first of War ii Era battleships returned to service. The new Jersey is the second of the four to be decommissioned for budgetary reasons following the Iowa last october. Originally commissioned in May 1943, the battleship served in More than a dozen world War ii campaigns. The warship then supported Gen Douglas Macarthur a Surprise amphibious Landing at Inchon during the korean War and was used extensively As a floating artillery ship in the go 1 f of Tonkin during War. A retired Navy capt Joe Azzolina said it was a a mistake to decommission any of these great ships if for no other reason than to tour the world for Good 8 iraqis surrender to marines a saudi Arabia a amps a eight iraqi soldiers including six officers crossed into saudi Arabia on Friday morning and into the hands of . Marines. A Marine spokesman said the prisoners came in separate vehicles two hours apart. Two officers both captains came about 7 . In a japanese made vehicle waving a White Flag. They got out of the vehicle with their hands up armed Only with hours later six More iraqis approached in a Tan Chevrolet truck. They included two captains two lieutenants and two enlisted men said capt. Martin a chorus from Page 1 Thompson Jenner and David Foster. The goal is a conveying love compassion empathy and emotional and Man dial fortification Cor the Allied forces in the persian Gulf and those loved ones left Jenner and Foster Promise All Money raised by the song video or related activities will be divided1 Between the american red Cross Gulf crisis fund and the Uso. Organizers contend the lyrics of the song written by Jenner and set to music by Foster and Cetera a is carefully constructed to remain totally apolitical but rather humanitarian in its intent a Jenner and Foster said in a statement. T he lyrics in part say a a we Pray to make the future Bright. With no More wars to fight for this Well sing your Praise. A a stand tall stand proud y voices that care Are crying out loud. V and when you close your eyes tonight feel in your heart How our love Burns Bright. A the song and video will be recorded sunday at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank. Wolf whose unit of two Light armoured vehicles captured the defectors. A kill Hussein a one of the eight urged in English. Another said a the bombing never Wolf said the prisoners did no to look Well and were hungry arid cold. They had no evidence of lice or open sores that have been reported Ori previous prisoners. The officers should Supply . Military intelligence ppr Orinel with a fair amount of information about iraqi defences and morale Wolf said. Information for this article waa gathered by Pentagon Media Pool report a Erst a a i a. A a a a wounded Marine arrives in Germany Wiesbaden Germany a amps a . Marine wounded in action near Khalaji saudi Arabia arrived at the air Force Hospital at Wiesbaden on Friday bringing to three the number of persian Gulf War casualties being treated at . Hospitals in Germany the Marine was identified saturday As Lance Cpl. Ronald s. Tull 22, of Twenty nine Palms Calif. Tull who is assigned to the 3rd Light Arrild inf in was in stable condition said . Air Force capt. Tom Gilroy a Hospital spokesman. The . European come said two other from operation desert storm Are being treated at the Frankfurt army regional medical Center and at the Lan Styhl army regional medical Center. The Marine in Frankfurt was admitted to the Hospital late wednesday night or Early thursday morning and the casualty at Lan Stuhl had been there since monday night said Navy cmdr. John Woodhouse a european come spokesman. Under Navy policy which governs Hie Marine corps personal information such As the patients name and condition cannot be released without the patients consent. Woodhouse said he did not have consent to release More information in the other two cases. Thomas mourned Mario Thomas left followed by husband Phil Donahue leaves after funeral services Friday for her father Panny Thomas with her Are her Mother,1 Rose Marie and brother Tony. The emmy winning entertainer who portrayed one of tvs favorite fathers in a make room for daddy a died of a heart attack wednesday at the age of 79. Reagain and Ford and comedian Bob Hope were among some 500 mourners at the mass. A i have it on Good authority a Hope noted a that cod said a move Over make room for a raids from Page 1 saudi Arabia two Large Oil skimming a ships but both Are still in the Black sea and w ill take two weeks to sail to the per-.-,-Sian Gulf Tawfig said. The saudis already have one such skim a a Liing ship operating in the Gulf and the arabian american Oil co., known Asar 1 Anico is already Selling Oil that has been skimmed from the Gulf Waters. Meanwhile the soviet government news Agency reported that president Mik Hail Gorbachev said the War was taking a dangerous turn and announced he was sending a personal representative to Baghdad for talks with iraqi president Saddam Hussein. The Cheney Powell visit. Has stirred speculation that a ground attack could come As Early As next week. Air Force commanders were expected to ask for at least two More weeks to Pound iraqi positions in Kuwait and Southern Iraq before a ground Campaign started informed sources said Friday. They believe Iraq is still Strong enough to make any Allied ground offensive bloody. Central come said saturday that Allied bombing had destroyed More than 15 per cent of iraqi tanks artillery and armoured personnel carriers in Kuwait and neighbouring areas of Iraq. In other developments saturday a the Navy fired on an iraqi silkworm missile site destroying three launchers and a control Van Neal said. A a saudi military spokesman said that of the 57,000 air sorties flown by coalition aircraft since the War began 3,700were by the Royal saudi air Force additionally the kuwaiti air Force flew 330 Bahrain 126 and Qatar 21. I a a . Ah-64 Apache attack helicopter used a hellfire missile to attack and destroy an iraqi Border radar site during the night and a second helicopter engaged an iraqi patrol. A a review Lodata froma .-iraqi Aerial encounter thursday showed that the americans shot Down three Su-22 planes not two As officials had believed earlier Neal said. A a. A an air Force officer who planned the. Air Campaign was quoted in the new York times As saying that bad Wreather had delayed More than half of All the Allied bombing raids. Brig. Gen. Buster c. Glos son said the unseasonably dense Cloud i cover Over the Gulf Region had put the air War at least a week behind schedule. Contributing to a his report staff writers Joseph Owen an Vince Crawley a Taft urges Europe Unity on conflicts outside nato by David Tarrant Brussels Bureau the . Ambassador to nato supports the idea of a cohesive european approach to conflicts outside natos traditional boundaries.,William h. Taft in proposed in a speech Friday that the Western european Union a nine nation defense group could strengthen the european identity within nato As a Well As help Europe project a common foreign and Security policy outside nato a the we can serve As an instrument for a european defense identity outside of nato in realizing european global responsibilities a Taft said in a speech Friday to the International Institute of strategic studies in London. Within nato it can act As a larger european voice than any one country but Taft warned that a reinvigorated european defense pillar should not become a replacement for nato which must remain the principal organization to provide for european Amevi Cun Public a a worm not understand what was going on if the europeans stopped using nato or began replacing it with other structures to perform its historic a. A the we was established in 1954 but has not been very Active. Its members Are Britain France Germany Italy Belgium the Netherlands Luxembourg Portugal and Spain. Quot Tatis speech came just four Days after the 12 fori ministers of the european Community met to Devegh common foreign and Security policy for the future. Fiance and Germany proposed the gradual Crew of a common european defense system based on we. The we would be integrated in the Long t within the european Community and would help de a european position within nato on such area arms control and disarmament. Optimism Over the question of europeans de Oping a Long term common Security policy has take beating in recent months when various european tons presented a haphazard and divided response the Gulf crisis
