European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february yes 1991the stars and stripes Page 3 War in the Gulf since Start of War reported by allies More than 70,000 sorties flown. 33 killed in action including 14 americans and 19 saudis. 25 amen cans non combat deaths. An additional 105 americans listed As non combat deaths in operation desert shield before War. 47 missing in action including 23 americans eight British one italian and 10 saudis.12 prisoners of War including eight americans two British one italian and one kuwaiti. A31 Allied planes lost 24 in combat including 16 american five British one kuwaiti one italian and one saudi. Non combat losses seven planes including five american one British and one saudi. Six american helicopters to non hostile causes. More than 1,040 iraqis taken prisoner. 139 iraqi planes and four helicopters destroyed. ,. 147 planes flown to Iran reported by Iraq More than 180 Allied Craft downed. More than 20 Allied prisoners held. 1,147 civilians and 90 soldiers kilted 750 civilians wounded. Iraq fire Jwo scud missiles at hair Al Batin which is near a major saudi military base. The rockets apparently exploded in flight. Falling debris caused minor injuries. Kuwait hair Al Batin saudi Arabia ef-111a length 77 feet 1.6 inches Max Landing a Dight 80,000 la Max combat Speed 1,160 Mph armaments none ferry Range 2,157 Miles Basic service ceiling 54,700 it source Jane s All the world s aircraft a amps Susan Harris two american airmen were killed when their ef-1 j 1a electronic jamming and radar detection Jet crashed. The largest group of iraqi deserters to Date -22 walked across the saudi arabian Border and  of Oil spills reduced by the los Angeles times d hah ran saudi Arabia a saudi officials Are dramatically reducing their estimates of the size of two giant Oil Slicks in the persian Gulf saying that it now appears Likely that a total of 3 million barrels or less has been dumped from Oil facilities and tankers off the coast of Kuwait. Though authorities initially announced that the spills could reach h million barrels the largest in history a . Coast guard spokesman said wednesday that the saudi meteorology and environmental Protection Agency now believed that the Slicks ranged from 500.000 barrels to 3 million barrels. In Alaska,"254,762 barrels spilled during the Exxon Valdez Accident Tri Prince William sound. Moreover it appears that a third spill near the Mina Al Bakr Oil terminal in Southern Iraq is leaking about 1.000 barrels a Day a rate of flow that raises some Hopes that the widening Slick can be controlled before wreaking environmental devastation throughout the persian Gulf. Meanwhile saudi Petroleum ministry officials said that Large dark Clouds of smoke were moving toward saudi Arabia from an estimated 40 to 50 Oil Well fires allegedly triggered to iraqi forces in Kuwait. At least five additional Wells have been torched in the Southern kuwaiti Oil Field of Zafra Over the past week alone . Military briefer in the saudi capital of Riyadh said. A we believe this is an integral part of the iraqi War fighting strategy whereby they re periodically tight off Wells to Cloud the Battlefield and mask their movements a . Marine Brig. Gen. Richard Neal said a Petroleum ministry spokesman said that the smoke Cloud was moving steadily South. A right now there is a big Cloud of smoke it is right now in Kuwait and Over the Gulf a he said. Officials cautioned that the new Oil spill estimates were tentative and based on overflights of the coast of saudi Arabia that did not venture into the Waters off Kuwait or Iraq. Quot satellite photos show a potentially much More alarming picture with unidentified darkened  As much As a third of the Northern persian Gulf a saudi official said. However some saudi scientists have said that they believe the darkened areas Are not Oil but perhaps Coral reefs algae or patches of sea grass a at this Point we Are talking actually about a Range somewhere Between 3 and 10 million barrels a said Abdullah e. Dabbagh head of a research Institute in Dhahran plotting the course of the spill. A i think 3 is probably a fairly reasonable  saudi officials said that their original estimates of the size of the Oil Slick were based on calculating the amount of Oil believed to be contained within the leaking tankers plus the Quantity that could have been pumped through the pipeline at Mina Al Bakr during the Lime the taps were flowing. New estimates Are based on the actual flow of the spill Ian sail i Arabia and the Guesswork available Hirough limited overflights. The estimates remain very inexact however because so much of the spill remains hidden from View in kuwaiti Waters. Scientists have been unable for example to measure the depth of most of the spill a Factor that provides an important clue to How much Oil is in the water. The lower estimates were receiving support from other experts As Well. The Oil spill intelligence report a weekly International Oil spill newsletter based in Arlington mass., Points out that other factors might com rib me to an even greater reduction a because the Oil is a Light crude about 40 percent of that probably evaporated within a couple of Days according to Dagmar Elkin research editor of the spill report. She said that the Oil that evaporated would have Chen the most toxic the most flammable and the most  most 24 million Gallons or 571,420 barrels remained in the water several Days after the spill she said. Oil spill experts said that it is extremely difficult to determine the size of a spill in the Best of times much less during a War situation. During the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska for example observers in planes reported Oil that turned out to be algae