European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 a a the stars and stripes tuesday february. 12, 1s91snow from Page 1 classes according to american forces network radio reports. If Gordon a forecasts Are Correct the Snow a will definitely be a transportation problem in some areas a said Fred Light foot Dodds chief of transportation. However Lightfoot said the decision to delay or close a school is always made by each schools principal and Community commander lie suggested people listen to an radio and television or Call their schools to find out what they plan to a do. A a a a a. A a a a a. A a a a a a. In the British Isles the Biller Winter cold continued to claim lives. Since thursday storms across Britain have. Dropped 9 inches of Snow on the London metropolitan area 14 inches in Wales and 20 inches in Yorkshire the Wor St affected areas. The storms paralysed transport caused havoc for businesses and unleashed furious criticism of British rail authorities by angry commuters. The temperatures reached 12 Friday night at the town of you Vilton in the English midlands the coldest recorded temperature in England since 1987. A cold snap that year lasted 11 Days. The lowest recorded temperatures in London hit 19 on Friday night higher than the lowest on record 14 registered in.1903 and 1947. In France thick Snow swirled and tempera lures plunged to 23 Over the weekend and the number of people killed by freakish cold weather in France Rose to at least 15. Two children aged 0 and 7, were killed at die Zendorf in the lower Rhine oni saturday when they fell through thin ice on the giver Saune. A in Britain a and her new husband skidded off an ice covered Road in Somerset Devon saturday police said the woman died of her injuries before rescuers _ could reach the couple but her husband survived with multiple injuries elsewhere in Britain a climber in his mid-20s slipped off a Mountain path in the Northwest Lake District saturday and tumbled 150 feet to his death. D t he deaths raised Britain s weather related fatalities during the week to six. The Nasty weather exacerbated an already difficult situation Quot for an estimated 1.000 homeless people in London. Many of the homeless were sleeping unprotected from the bitter cold in the streets and officials worked to set up temporary shelters to Cope with the emergency. Paris suffered similar problems and authorities ordered a metro station in the East end of he City at Saint Martin to remain open All night so the homeless could take shelter. With More bad weather predicted a spokesman for British rail could not Promise that snafus across the country that lied up institutions ranging from judicial courts to London offices would not be repeated despite emergency measures. A. A we Are in the hands of w hat happens with tre weather a said British rail spokesman Graham looms. A senior London judge Justice Alliott. Called British rail a a pathetic last week As train delays and cancellations caused half the criminal courts in London to workers failed to show from Page 1 disturbing to find this evidence that somebody s buying a a. a a a a meanwhile state department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said the number of terrorist incidents directed at the United states and other coalition countries since the War began is roughly pm ,. She said that level is than for the comparable period last year. These incidents have claimed five lives and left about 50 wounded she said. The vast majority have resulted in property damage Only and All but a few of the incidents have been the work of local terrorist groups she added. The Only one in which there was known to have been direct iraqi involvement occurred in Manila on jan.19. Bush also met monday with israeli defense minister Moshe Arens and he was meeting tuesday with the defense ministers of Britain and France. Fit water said Iraq s Flat rejection of a peace initiative by Iran is a the latest evidence that Saddam continues to defy the will of the International a a it a Clear Saddam a not interested in peace a lie said. Fit water also decried reports that Iraq had moved two . Prisoners of War including a female Soldier to Basra As human Shields and that it was establishing a death Camps in Kuwait.�?�. A if they re True it represents the most vile kind of violation of human rights you could imagine a he said. Cheney said sunday the allies have made a major inroads in destroying Iraq s fighting capacity in More than three weeks of unrelenting bombardment. But a senior military official in Riyadh told the associated press that the consensus among . Officers was that Allied forces could use three to four More weeks to prepare for a ground offensive against the iraqi army. A the Guys just off the boat they could use some More time a said the official referring to my tank Crews and other ground units newly arrived in the combat zone from Europe. A meanwhile Senate readers urged Bush to stick with the air War for now. A there Are plenty of targets left in Iraq and Kuwait a minority Leader Bob Dole a Kane a said sunday on Abc tvs a a meet the majority Leader George Mitchell a Maine said t think the air War can continue successfully for some time. A Bush asked about that go slow advice on launching a ground War said a a in la make All those decisions at the right time.�?�. _ j /duribg4be4f4fiprchencysand Powell met briefly with saudi leaders and the exiled Emir of Kuwait. They spent saturday in a Marathon session with Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf the top Allied Field commander and other senior generals and admirals to review what shape iraqis forces were in after 25 Days of bombing. Despite serious damage to iraqis air Force and Navy Saddam a retains a very significant part of what was the worlds fourth largest army a Sakl Cheney. But he added a i done to think its the fourth largest army any a a a a a a a. A a. a a a Quot a a. The defense Secretary said the air Campaign had reduced the fighting Power of some iraqi divisions by As much As 40 percent. V Cheney and Powell stressed that the air War will not Stop when the ground Campaign begins but will be conducted in concert. A patriots from Page 1 nym Ity said Iraq was playing a a Shell games with its. Remaining aircraft putting some in hardened Concrete sjie11ers Ari Jerair str i Kes Anid hiding others in civilian and wooded areas. No iraqi planes Are known to have escaped into Iran in the last Quot few Days the officials said. They said 147 iraqi planes were in Iran a including 121 combat planes Many of then among Saddam Hussein s Best. Some fleeing planes were apparently flown by pilots so inexperienced that a they did t know what to do when our radar Wasj eked on. They did t go into the proper evasive action strategy Quot to avoid being hit the officials said. A Baghdad was believed to have about 7 h aircraft at. The outset of the persian Gulf War. The allies say they be. Downed 34 planes and confirmed the destruction of 99 on the ground. . Marine Brig. Gen. Richard Neal told reporters in Riyadh on. Monday evening that Allied pilots had flown 2,90 1 sorties in the previous 24 hours to soften up iraqis Large dug in ground Force and to disrupt Supply lines the sorties included 750 missions Over Kuwait and 201 against the Republican guard. More than 69, h 0 sorties have been flown by Allied bombers in the 26-Day-old War he said. Quot i think its a fair Assumption to make just by numbers we Are in fact intensifying the air Campaign particularly against items like the Republican guard in what we we old Call our Battlefield preparation phase Quot Neal said. A there is no rest for the weary for any of them. There is no division there is no brigade there is no. Battalion that is spared from attack he said Neal also said Allied raids had succeeded in halting most of the military traffic Between Baghdad and the port City of Basra the iraqi military Headquarters. In Baghdad a correspondent Salami Nasrawi said the martyrs Bridge damaged in a weekend raid was destroyed Early monday. Three of the six Bridges Over the Tigris River in Central Baghdad have now been destroyed., the Pentagon confirmed monday that Iraq apparent in has a moved two captured . Soldiers including the Only known woman captive to Basra. An official speaking on condition of anonymity iraqi prisoner of War described two americans to the military command Center. The Irac i. Captives description appeared to match that Quot of army spec. Melissa Rathbun Nealy a 20, of grand rapids mich., and spec. David Lockett 23, the Pentagon official said. The two americans were declared missing on feb. 1 after disappearing on a Road in saudi Arabia near the Kuwait Border. Ai so to n d a a f-15 f i go t e r s Niay h a Ved Troye d As Many As four Mobile scud missile launchers in Eastern and Western Iraq Neal said. \ in other developments monday a a British Navy Lynx helicopter under fire by antiaircraft guns attacked a75-foot iraqi patrol boat near Fay Lakah Island off the coast of Kuwait group capt. Niall Irving said. Then american aircraft a which had spotted the vessel near Fay Lakah Island a moved in and set the boat afire a Pool report said. A while the .-led coalition has control of the persian Gulf Irving said iraqis Navy is not completely out of business. Bad weather May have caused coalition pilots to overestimate the amount of damage they inflicted on some iraqi vessels after the War started nearly four weeks ago and Iraq probably has commandeered kuwaiti vessels he said. A nine iraqi soldiers including an officer surrendered. Monday to the syrian forces deployed on the front lines in the Hul fear military sources said. More than 900 iraqi soldiers have surrendered or been captured since the War began but first report giving themselves up to their Long standing syrian arc sources said that the officer among the group was w Ith the rank of major. ,. A the Island nation of Bahrain appealed for help in containing an advancing Oil Slick that threatens to devastate its water Supply As Well As the persian Gull Breeding grounds of Marine and Bird life. Staff writers Vince Crawley and Joseph Owen contributed to this report official praises Dodds exceptionally Jimi Jones education writer bad Kissinger Germany unique aspects of the military a overseas schools could result in the systems being a front runner in preparing american students to be competitive in a world Economy a defense department official says. Mill ice it w. Woods said that when she joined the defense department last March she was impressed with How to to Rable department of detente dependents schools compared with stateside schools briefings and visits , students commanders and educators showed her that Dodds a can Quot stand Side by Side with the finest in . Education and can do pride.�?�. But after a few months As Deputy assist ant Secretary of defense she said Dodds has exceptional assets assets never found generically in . of the differences she said Are that Dodds teachers Are Advent tiresome. Intellectually curious and interested in other cultures. Furthermore. Dodds a students Are learning in an Eini Rosment where Thev can experience firsthand other cultures and a stems said Woods w to is responsible Tor personnel support families education and safety. Woods addressed nearly 2nn people sunday night at the opening session of a we Klong seminar called a East Central Europe and the . S. R update the workshop is designed to help so Cial studies teachers incorporate the reforms under Way in Eastern Europe into their curriculum. The workshop is in bad Kissi Gety on it a few Miles from where barbed wire fences of the Iron curtain once Shoou. Participants include j Odds educators rom my a
