European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday february 11, 1991 absorbed in his work Media Pool a truly dedicated technician with the British Royal air Force gets deeply involved in his task of inspecting one of the massive engine exhausts of a Tornado bomber at an air base in the persian Gulf. A a a a a a . Using old strategy Powell say continued from Page 1 Iraq meeting Little resistance. In recent Days the air Campaign has focused More and More of its bombing on iraqi ground forces a an Effort to reduce their fighting capability for the More torturous land combat now seen As inevitable the airland Battle doctrine was composed largely to Deal with the combined Power of the soviet Union and its Warsaw pact allies on the battlefields of Europe. Nato strategists contemplated the need to fight Warsaw pact forces in the front lines As Well As the More heavily prepared soviet forces in the rear. Quot Powell said this bears a striking resemblance to the Guf situation in which iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein has put his Best supplied and most experienced troops a the Republican guard a behind lesser forces deployed on the Kuwait Border with saudi Arabia. In addition Iraq relies in Large part on soviet armaments and for years had the Benefit of soviet military training and advice. The airland doctrine Calls for the coordinated use of air Power and land forces to conduct hostilities simultaneously against both front and rear threats. While declining to discuss the detail of the Battle plan Powell noted that the airland doctrine suits the present circumstances. Some observers have predicted a Battle plan against Iraq in which airland is used in a massive All out Blitz against Iraq from air land and sea. A senior american official said it appeared . Strategy would follow the approach of enveloping or flanking the iraqi army after -hav.ing4cvered its lines of communication. A the final outcome of thet Battle wont be determined by the number of casualties or tanks taken a a it will depend on the lighting will of the enemy a  in another development Secretary of state James Baker touched on the topic of the assassination of Saddam when he old not Chewer on cd so a face the seventy five More iraqis crossed the Border into saudi Arabia Durine the previous fright to and Turne from Page 1 More a Cheney said yet added that the allies do not want to underestimate it. Following the talks a senior military official said there was a general feeling among . Officers that Allied forces could use another three to four weeks to prepare for ground  the Guys just off the boat they could use some More time a a the official said referring to ground units recently arrived from Europe. Such forces have the specialized m1 Battle tanks designed to confront iraqis soviet made t-72 tanks. A a. /. A but Cheney declined to say when a ground War might Start to oust hundreds of thousands of iraqi troops from Kuwait or what would warrant its Start. Asked when . Troops could expect to return Home once Iraq is driven from Kuwait Cheney said the United states has no timetable for that. But he said the troops who  in the desert storm theater the longest probably will be the first to leave. Cheney downplayed reports of significant numbers of civilian casualties in Iraq citing the coalitions efforts to avoid casualties when bombing military targets. Nation a i think As the president said,.nobody would shed any tears it Saddam were killed. And its going to be important in terms of w hat can or cannot be done in that area in the aftermath whether its economic reconstruction or what it is. A but i do not believe that we should Amend our War Aims or our War goals to make that a War aim of the United states a Baker said. A a \ the United states lost its first aircraft to iraqi fire in More than a week saturday afternoon when a Marine corps attack Jet was shot Down the . Central come said sunday. The command identified the downed plane As an a so harrier attack Jet and said the Pilot was missing. It was the 15th . Aircraft lost to iraqi  a at an evening news briefing the Central come said that the United states had essentially completed its military buildup in the Region. . Troops in the area Stow total about 505,000 of the 700,000 coalition forces in operation desert storm said Marine Brig. Gen. Richard i. . A /. A. A. A a we be closed All of our forces just about All of them. 1 think we be got one More ship coming a Neal said in other developments sunday themselves Over to coalition forces Neal said. Some c the iraqis were carrying ak-47 rifles a Navy a-6 planes destroyed two iraqi patrol too boats during the preceding 24 hours and the Navy als attacked an iraqi naval base in the iraqi town of ukr Qasir on the iraqi kuwaiti Border. Also an army a 64 Apache attack helicopter attacked and destroyed a iraqi Border outpost building that was festooned wit antennae. R a . B-52 bombers landed safely at Raf fair orc England after what was thought to be the first Gulf a bombing Mission from Britain. Britain is about 1,00 Miles closer to the Gulf than Diego Garcia the India Ocean Island from which initial b-52 raids were staged. A in Jordan Amman radio quoted diplomatic source Quot Tehran As saying Iraq had rejected an iranian Peac initiative. And in Amman iraqi Deputy Premier is Doun Hammadi called on Arab countries to a Boycott a aggressive countries As a symbolic expression again this flagrant aggression against  a a senior Western Diplomat in Riyadh predict a that the Bill for repairing the wartime damage to Kun a would amount to More than $60 billion. The associated press contributed to this report Israel lets some palestinians return to work Bethlehem occupied. West Bank apr More than 1,000 palestinians re Turnaj sunday to jobs in Israel after officials maxed a curfew that has kept arabs in the occupied lands confined to their Homes for three weeks officials said. Hundreds of palestinian workers jammed an army Roadblock near Bethlehem in the West Bank trying to return to their jobs in Israel. However those lacking permits were turned away. Some expressed fear that their jobs had been take by israelis or newly arrived soviet it migrants during the 25 Days of curfew. A i May have no Job left Quot said Ahmed Hassan 30, a construction worker from the West Bank Village of Hussan. He said he had the Job for four  minister Moshe Arens allowed selected palestinians to return to work after appeals from humanitarian groups and complaints by israeli industries dependent on cheap Arab labor. The military government issued a few thousand permits to palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza strip but Only 1,300 actually showed up for work Mili. Tary sources said. About 110.000 palestinians were Cut off trom jobs in Israel when the army clamped the curfew on the 1.7 million palestinians. Israeli officials called it a precautionary step dictated by palestini. An support for Iraq and fear of guerrilla attacks during the persian Gulf War. \. The curfew has worsened the local Economy which was already suffering trom the three year palestinian uprising against israeli occupation. Maher Jalaja a Mechanic front Bethlehem said a it is about time we went Back to work. We desperately need the.  r Brig. Gen. Fredy zilch Deputy director of the military government in the , warned palestinians that the decision to ease the Curlew could be easily reversed