European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2. A the stars and stripes tuesday february 26, 1991war in the Gulf at a glance mail stacks up for British  for atrocities iraqis who committed atrocities in Kuwait will be tried for War crimes a joint forces commander vowed monday. A Page 4hurting for business business has plunged More than a third at Josh lounge a bar popular among marines in Twenty nine Palms Calif. Many of its customers Are deployed in the Sands of Kuwait. A Page 5mass captives the powerful Allied ground assault has taken at least 14,000 iraqi soldiers prisoner but an Arab commander on monday dismissed fears that the Large number of pos would bog Down the offensive. N a Page 6.women in combat the Gulf War is bringing Home to America a dramatic vision of women in uniform a and women at War. A a Page 74 Kuwait signs cleanup pact the exiled kuwaiti government. Has signed a $54-million emergency cleanup contract with five saudi companies to help make the War ravaged  again. A a Page 17index Abby Landers. 19 action line. A a a a a a it 16 comics. .19-20 �21 commentary. A a a a a a a a 13 Cross woj a. 19 letters to. 12 Motiey matters. 17 sports. 22 a a a a a my my co pm 1 to listings. A a a a a a 22 weather a. 11 these traffic controllers handle precious cargo Gulf casualties by Jan by Scott the los Angeles time Rhein main a Germany a a red haired Man in Battle dress uniform sits at a Rhein main a computer terminal doing the mathematics of masterminding the movement of the sick and wounded from the persian Gulf War to hospitals across Europe. . Navy it. Cmdr. Gene Barron is a kind of air Pratlie controller Tor military Medicine a travel agent to the infirm and even mortally injured. His Mission is considered crucial to the smooth running of War. Do it badly and the merely wounded could end up dead. Before the ground War Barrons office handled 60 to 100 patients a Day moving them out of treatment facilities in saudi Arabia to Hospital wards in Europe. It ground War casualties soar he and his staff could find themselves juggling up to 30 times that Many. Seven combat patients arrived at military hospitals in Germany including six at Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center and one at the Frankfurt regional medical Center on Friday saturday and sunday. A Neucom spokeswoman said Mostof these recent arrivals were injured before the ground War began Early sunday. Until Friday at 6 p.m., the three major military hospitals in Germany a land. Stuhl Frankfurt and the . Air Force Hospital at Wiesbaden a had received 10 Battle casualties since the air War in the persian Gulf began Jan. 17. In peacetime Barron s office handles arrangements for patients inside Neucom. In War it must tackle its Normal workload As Well As much broader responsibilities. A because of the Marvel of automation and retrieval you could do several Thour Sand a Day a said Barrons Boss army col. James m. Tyler chief of operations and logistics for the Neucom surgeons office. A but his hairs going to be As Gray As mine when he does  in an interview last week Tyler said that the military a capacity in Europe to care for the injured has swelled recently to �?o10,000 Beds i could tap right now a in part through a growing number of agreements with european countries offering space in their own military and civilian hospitals. German medical a regulators a doing work like that of Barron Are already ensconced in an office Down the Hall with computer Access to available Beds in German hospitals. Denmark and Spain Are making similar arrangements and the United slates has received offers from other Host nations Tyler said. A when we planned this we planned a worst Case scenario if you will a Tyler said. A we determined the number of Beds we needed and we have those Beds. And then the Nice Cushion is when All the Host nations come on line that made our lives much  under current plans All patients evacuated from saudi Arabia Are to come through european hospitals even if Only briefly while in route to the United states. They Are flown in Many of them on litters on troop and cargo carriers to one of five air bases in Germany and England Ramstein a arid Rhein main in Germany and Raf upper Heyford Raf Mildenhall and Raf Waddington in. England. From there they must be transported by ambulance bus or helicopter to any of a an expanding number of hospitals and medical facilities. These include the Large. Army and air Force hospitals at Frankfurt Lan Stuhl and Wiesbaden As Well As other . Military facilities such As air Force contingency hospitals at Raf Bicester Raf Little Tissington and Raf Nocton Hall All in England and at Zweir Tocken Germany their route from saudi Arabia to a european Hospital is plotted by Barron and his staff in the cramped quarters of the joint medical regulating office at Rhein main a. The regulators work out on computers a Complex calculus of air flow flight time available Beds and specialized medical skills. A this is a tremendous coordinating system a said Barron who happened into the Job just one week before Iraq invaded Kuwait on aug 2. A a you worry about the people the hours they re working the patients that Are coming in that they re regulated correctly that they get to their destination in  undignified As it seems the computer reduces each patient to a statistic like Luggage. Each is placed in one of 12 cat Gories of medical care. Barrons Job is to match say 10 orthopaedic or Burn cases coming into Europe with hospitals Able to provide care. To do that he and his staff pore Over reports from dozens of hospitals in the . And German systems. They then notify the chosen hospitals. Before each patient is loaded onto a plane $ tag is attached to his or her clothing showing the patients diagnosis medical need and destination. Contributing to this article staff writer Deedee Arrington Doke in Kaiserslautern Germany injured arriving at British Hospital Raf Nocton Hall England a amps  desert storm casualties arrived at Raf Nocton Hall late sunday evening but none of the wounded had been injured during the ground War that started earlier in the Day. The personnel were suffering from a variety of injuries said a spokeswoman Lor the 310th . Air Force contingency Hospital at Raf Nocton Hall. A the majority were non combat casualties a sgt Julie Briggs said. But some had been wounded in ground skirmishes before the Large scale ground War started she said. The patients were flown to Raf Waddington a British air Force base about eight Miles from Nocton Hall and then transported by a military ambulance bus to the 750-bed Hospital she said. Nocton Hall is the second of the three contingency hospitals in England to receive personnel injured while serving in the persian Gulf area. Seventy two american serv ice members Are being cared for at the. 1,500-bed contingency Hospital at Little Tissington a spokesman there said. Those patients started arriving feb. I i and were suffering from a non battled injuries capt. Mike rein said. None apparently was injured i combat. Neucom activated the contingency hospitals at Nocton Hall Raf Bicester and Little Tissington in England and Wei Brincken a Germany shortly after operation desert storm began in Jam uary. \ a a a a a a a. A 6 britons arrested on Fairford s Airfield Cheltenham England a amps six British citizens were arrested sunday on the Airfield at Raf Fairford where some . Air Force b-52 warplanes bombing Iraq and Kuwait Are based. Five of the people had Cut a Hole in the perimeter Fence and were arrested on the Airfield a spokeswoman for the Cheltenham police said monday. A sixth person was arrested on the Airfield after climbing Over the Fence. The police did not have the individuals names but said that four were women and two were men. Three of those arrested were charged with criminal damage while the other three were charged with violating the official secrets act for having trespassed onto a military installation said a police inspector Mike Pennington. One of those charged with violating the act a patently was carrying a map of the Airfield he said. The six Are to appear in the Cirencester magistrates  a Date yet to be determined said police spokeswoman Hilary Alison. Peace demonstrators outside the base at Fairford have been keeping up constant protests against the persian Gulf War and against the stationing of the b-52s in Britain. During a protest feb. 17 attended by an estimated 600 demonstrators six people were arrested but Only three were charged with criminal damage Pennington said. Those three will appear at the Cirencester magistrates court March 28. \ an air Force spokeswoman at Fairford declined to comment on the protests. A new Delhi India apr Patriot eats scuds so let us eat Patriot Quot an Indian restaurateur is telling customers who order his new dish named for the . Defense missile a news Agency reported  Trust of India said the a Patriot dish a shaped like the missile is a a great hit among diners at the restaurant in the Eastern town of Guy Amati. But it did no to say what the dish is made of. The Sish costs is rupees or a Little less than $1, press Trust said. The popularity of the dish Quot suggests that people in this far Corner of the country Are truly concerned about the conflict in the persian Gulf the news Agency quoted the restaurant owner As saying. He was not identified Guy Amati is 880 Miles East of new Delhi in the state of Assam