European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes thursday March 7, 1991 at a glance it. Tanya Brinkley of Atlanta displays an ak-47 Rifle and an iraqi helmet found near Kuwait  inferno like flames from hell hundreds of Orange fireballs leap from burning Oil Wells into a desert sky so filled with Black Poison that Day is like night. A Page spouses in space after much debate Nasa is letting newlyweds Mark Lee and Jan Davis become the first couple to Fly together in space. A Page 6poll reveals concerns president Bush is enjoying one of the highest approval ratings in modern polling but his rating slips below 50 percent when his handling of the Economy is assessed. A Page 9booming business Jan Medema analyses the effects of nuclear biological and chemical weapons on military gear. Lately his business has been booming. A Page 17in the Gulf Index i Abby Ann Landers 14 comics. 14-16 commentary. .13 letters .12 Money matters. 17 sports. 18-24 to listings. .18 weather. .11 correction because of a reporting error the stars and stripes incorrectly identified a family member in a Story about americans reactions to the Start of the ground War in the persian Gulf. The family member is Cathy Ream. Boring is downright enjoyable after wartime Pace base finds by Ron Jensen Middle East Bureau an air base in the Mideast a col. Merrill r. A a Ron Karp bounces around his air base these Days like a Man suddenly free of a great Burden. The commander of the 35th tac fighter Wing provisional is Here one minute and there the next stepping across the desert base in a Lively Victory dance a there is nothing to compared commanding a Wing in combat Karp said. A a in be spent my whole life preparing for this moment. This is All i Ever wanted to  in a business where Success is measured in Victory and lives the exuberance of the 24-Ycar air Force Veteran is deserved a they All came Back. Every single one of them a he said Quot we did no to lose a single soul to enemy fire. What a  when the persian Gulf War began this base the location of which is still being kept secret had a leading role. In fact the bases f-4g wild weasel radar bashing aircraft escorted the first wave of strikers. But that moment came Only after six months of hard work. The base was Brand new when the Wing gathered from 86 bases around the world Karp ordered new ramps aircraft shelters and housing facilities built including a tent City that housed 2,000 people. Fearing a ground invasion from the nearby Waters of the Gulf he had wire Strung and bunkers constructed. He oversaw every detail right Down to the erection of 500 loudspeakers to warn of scud  that first night was probably the proudest moment of my life a he said. A when those afterburners lit on the morning of Jan 17th, i knew i had done All that i could  from that Nio ment the base launched about 3,000 sorties More than 10,000 hours of flying time without losing a Pilot or having an aircraft even scratched by enemy fire. If there is a reason for their Success a and the Success of the entire air War a it is the training said col. Neal Patton Dep u to comm under. A the Money we got in the �?T80s for our. A a is amps John Millar col. Merrill r. Karp training earned dividends a he said. A training won this thing. We Are the Best trained air Force in the  Patton a Vietnam vet who flew 16 sorties in the nearly six week War passed that message along to the pilots facing combat for the first time. A my pitch to the Guys was a you re marvellously trained. Just do the things you be trained to do a a he said. The atmosphere at the base is now one of reflection. Gone is the hectic Pace of the War with scores of jets blasting off around the clock and scud alerts sending people scurrying to bunkers each night. A it is a very pleasant Type of Boring a said it. Col. Dan Shelton the base operations supervisor a the Type of Boring that is Dow night enjoyable after you be been getting shot  Shelton of Span Dahlem a Germany had his first taste of combat on the second Day of the War. A the first Mission is the critical one although they can All be critical a he said. A there is always fear involved. If you Ever Stop fearing you Are not quite As. Conscious of the threat As you should  b maj. Bart Quinn also 6f Span Dahlem was another combat Novice before Jan. 17. Now he has 32 missions to his credit a on that first one. There is a lot of learning a he said. A we changed our tactics very quickly to compensate for the threats that were out there. We got pretty   a a a a a. A the Success of the bases operations. Goes beyond the pilots and the sorties. The maintenance Crews had a phenom Nal rate of Success in getting the air planes Back into the sky maj. Janies s. Johnson of Span Dahlem the Deputy % maintenance chief said his Crews met the schedule for launch 99.6 percent of the time a rat greater than normally achieved during peacetime training exercises in Germany where fewer flights Are a made. A  a a a a a it a attributable to the fact that peo pie take their training seriously a he said echoing Patton a statements about Pilot Success. A when they were faced with War they were Able to turn their training to a wartime Mode. A everybody sensed the urgency. Its been without a doubt the High Point of my  a.  Karp too can reflect on what has happened Here since last August and he likes what he sees.,a when i went into Battle for the first time As a Young Captain i knew i had to prepare for a time when i would be a so Nior commander a he said. A a of there is a fallout from this it is that these future leaders have a perspective that has been forged in the fire of  Byda Veschak Middle East Bureau Kuwait City a a kuwaiti resistance fighter says he has Given his government video evidence of iraqi mistreatment of kuwaiti prisoners of War. A capt. Mutlick Al hag i a kuwaiti sob Dir who worked with the underground said he shuttled supplies and letters to. Kuwaitis held in a pow Camp near Baghdad and returned with videotaped interviews. The inmates described substandard treatment torture and political indoctrination hag i said. A kuwaiti government spokesman a in Dhahran saudi Arabia said wednesday that 12,000 kuwaiti soldiers and 5,000 i. Milians Are believed to be in iraqi Camps Iraq s ambassador to the United nation said earlier in the Day that his government was in the process of releasing the pos but the Kuwait spokesman said he had no information on when his countrymen would be returned. Hag i said the iraqis allowed each pow one visitor a month. In december he went to a Camp near Baghdad carrying a few supplies and messages from sol says pos mistreated at Camps Dierst families. During that visit he noticed that the iraqis did no to carefully i sped identification papers or keep close watch on the visitors. So the next month hag i returned with More messages and sup pics along with Small video and cassette recorders he said. He met three prisoners inside a Bath Doorn and asked them to Tell heir stories. �?o1 wanted it on record so their treatment could be acted on later and not just talked about a said hag i 30. The paws told hag i that shortly after the iraqi invasion of Kuwait they had been taken to the Camp on a Patch of desert 30 Miles from Baghdad. The site had been used As a pow Camp in the Iran Iraq War the kuwaitis said. They told him the Camp had been filthy and there was a shortage of Medicine and medical care. The iraqis provided two meals a Day of thin soup and old bread a things were very bad Quot i Lauri said. The kuwaiti pos also got daily lectures from the iraqis hag i said. A recurring theme was that Saddam Hussein was Quot the True Leader of the Arab world and that the kuwaiti government had betrayed its  stolen millions of dollars from them. A the iraqis tortured the soldiers a Harj said. A they wanted them to say that Kuwait was part of Iraq and to agree to return to Kuwait As spies informants and government administrators.�?�. Hag i said he did no to know of any deaths in the Camp and that he Hopes the video and audio cassettes will become part of any War crimes proceedings. A i wanted the world to know How these people were treated a he said. A i done to want them  oks Aid plan a Tokyo a Japan a government offering concessions to moderate opposition parties won parliamentary approval wednesday for nearly $.9 billion for the  forces that drove Iraq from Kuwait. Officials said the Money would be disbursed to the Allied forces a within a week or