European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed Force vol. 49, no. 307 a sunday february 17,1991 b 50$ d 8693 a Modla Pool dozens of armoured vehicles belonging to Vii corps including m1a1 tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles assemble at a staging area Friday in the saudi arabian  clowns 2 . Planes Dhahran saudi Arabia apr iraqi anti aircraft gunners shot Down two american warplanes in Kuwait on saturday As Allied pilots bombed and rocketed bunkers protecting Saddam Hussein a Best trained soldiers. A but Baghdad officials said the deadliest Allied air raid occurred thursday in a Western iraqi town and they showed foreign reporters the damage saturday. The officials said British fighters swooped Down on the town of Al Falluca demolished an apartment building and blew apart an outdoor Market filled with shoppers and merchants. They said that 130 civilians died mostly in the apartment building and that 78 were wounded mostly in the Market. The British said they attacked Bridges in the Al Falluca area but had no information on the civilian casualties reported by Iraq. The attack came one Day after . Jets bombed an underground shelter in Baghdad. Iraq said hundreds of civilians were killed. Allied military officials said the Structure was a military command and control center1 raq claims British warplanes kill 130 civilians in Western a town. And expressed Surprise that civilians were inside. Allied warplanes also struck Baghdad on saturday associated press correspondent Salah Nasrawi reported from the iraqi capital. I be said ear piercing explosions of missiles and bombs Shook the City while anti aircraft gunners fired barrage alter barrage at the raiding warplanes. As the allies flew 2,600 sorties Over Iraq and Kuwait the soviets pressed ahead with diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the War. A on Friday Iraq offered to withdraw from Kuwait but it attached so Many conditions that president Bush i same by Effie Batman Nurnberg Bureau Forth  class Robert Cote knows something fishy w Hen he sees it. So when the sergeant threw open the Hood of a late Model Bow during a routine Security inspection recently there was no question about what was smoking on the hot engine Block. A the Tail was missing but it was a fish about six inches Long a he said. A the head was there but the eyes were kind of sunk in from the heat of the  when ote the sergeant of the guard Force at William o. Darby Cavern in Firth asked the car owner to explain the woman refused to believe the fish had hitched a ride with her. A you put it there a she accused Cote. A a =. He assured the woman that indeed., he had  that lady will go to her grave thinking that we put it there a Cote said. A a misplaced aquatic life is not the Only Odd Ball item military officials have uncovered in the extensive car searches mounted in response to the threat of terrorism. Cote said his guards have also found such things As a German Gingerbread cookie on a Battery and a pork chop wedged Between some spark plugs. Cote believes that people working on the cars set the munchies Down and then forget about them. A car trunks also present a few surprises said Cote whose dozen soldiers have been nicknamed the a Frozen chosen because of the l degree temperatures they be had to withstand during the last few weeks. People have see searches on Page 10 missed the initiative As a a a cruel  a soviet president Mikhail  first greeted an iraqi offer a with satisfaction and  but on sat urday a foreign ministry spokesman Vitaly Churkin held a rare saturday briefing in Moscow and said the iraqi offer was insufficient to end the War. A unfortunately that Basic provision is linked to a number of conditions Likely to rend rut meaningless a Churkin said. Nevertheless he said the fact that Iraq was now showing a. Willingness to talk about a pullout was significant. A we continue to Hope that this statement is going to Mark a starting Point in movement toward peace a Churkin said. To keep its free Lance peace efforts alive soviet officials invited iraqi foreign minister Turin Aziz to visit Moscow at the beginning of this week for meetings with Gorbachev and other top officials. Aziz would face a great extreme risk of being shot Down if he tries to Fly out of Baghdad on his weekend see Iraq on Page 10