European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 b the stars and stripes saturday March 9,1991 not by de Reavis / staff writer /. The . Military has apparently decided to postpone a plan to close Down its recreational hotels in Berchtesgaden the mayor of the bavarian resort town said Friday. V Rudolf Schaupp said he has not been officially Noti tied of the decision but he heard about it from an official at the armed forces recreation Center which runs the hotels. _ the hotel Chain announced last month that its four hotels in Berchtesgaden As Well As one in Garmisch would be closed Over the next 14 months because of the planned troop reductions in Europe. But Gen. Crosbie Saint the . Army commander in Europe said in a recent an television interview that he was looking at the possibility of using facilities in Berchtesgaden for the rest and recreation of eur soldiers returning from the persian Gulf a Quot War. A a a a a a a a a / Quot a a a however it was not Clear from saints comments whether his command would take control of the hotels or whether they would remain open under Aryl. Management. V a eur spokeswoman said Friday that an announcement on the plan to keep the hotels open was not expected until next week. An arc spokesman also said he could not comment on the said the town a could no to be happier with the latest decision a even though we done to know How Long. Our. Reprieve will be. It not Only Means continued employment for 280 people Here but a Good slice of our yearly tourism.�?�. ,.Schaupp said the town population 9,000, is visited by180,000 americans a year Many of whom Are guests at the military resorts. A we also calculate that americans spend some $5 million tourist dollars a year Vin the town Schaupp said. A you can see How important americans Are for the mayor said the town also fears the area could attract right Wirtz extremists if the americans pull put. Adolf Hitler was a frequent visitor to the Berch Tesla Ijar it Den area and stayed at some of the facilities now under arc control. Hitlers chalet the eagles nest is also nearby a a i dread to think of what would happen if the americans left and some private person bought the place and decided to make Money out of its nazi past a Schaupp said. A even the hotel general Walker has a world War ii Bunker that someone could play up As a nazi relic attractive to the \ arc s Berchtesgaden or Hof and Gen. Mcnair hotels were scheduled to close april 1. The other two hotels in Berchtesgaden the Walker and the Skytop were scheduled to close april 1,1992. The Gen. Abrams hotel in Garmisch is also scheduled to those april 1. Additionally a $67 million 450-room hotel Complex planned for Garmisch has been cancelled. / a / a. / the proposed closings would have left arc with two hotels at Chi Emsee and. Three in Garmisch and saved taxpayers about $10 million by 1993. Contributing to Twila report to Tiff Watt to St a a Taylor in Munich or. A Many. / �2nd army by Luke Britt staff writer the first of4,000 soldiers from the 2nd army div fwd came Home to Germany on Friday after spending three months in the deserts of saudi Arabia and Iraq. A a it a so Good to be Home a said staff sgt. Roy Gammill of 4th in 3rd Field arty regt. A so Gammill was one of 75 soldiers met in Garl Studt Germany by a crowd of More than 1,000 people including the soldiers families members of the rear it a detachment and German citizens said Community spokeswoman Jeanie kitchens. A it was a real tear Jerker. It was wonderful a kitchens said. A now if we can just get the rest of them the crowd surrounded the troops then United in singing a the Star spangled banners and other patriotic songs before the soldiers were briefly separated from their loved ones to Complete some administrative paperwork that marked their return to life away from the combat zone. By dusk Clay Cavern. Was almost empty. Kitchens said. A they were in a real hurry to be alone with their a. / a soldiers bid goodbye to the War arid a liberated Kuwait when their c-130 Hercules lifted off the runway at Kuwait International Airport on thursday morning. After spending the night in saharan they arrived in Hamburg Germany late Friday afternoon and travelled by bus to Clay Cavern a Community spokeswoman said. / a a a. / a Quot / a a in a going to spend the whole weekend at Home with imy husband. Chilling out a s a id s Pec. Candy Fisher of the divisions he co. A seeing him. Is the Best part of being \ _ in saudi Arabia the brigade sized unit was attached to the 1st in div and helped breach the enemy barricade along the iraqi Border making Way for the 1st and 3rd army divisions to push North and then East into Iraq Gammill a Field artillery meteorologist said his unit followed the tanks into Iraq and through a desert void of iraqi soldiers but full of their abandoned equipment. V a the first iraqis i saw after the ground War began were prisoners of War a said the 31-year-old Soldier. A it Wasny to any thing like i expected. But i done to on Friday it took Gammill More than five minutes to find his wife Melinda and 6-year-old son Scott among the crowd. The most important thing to the Soldier was telling his Small family that he loved them. A a the most important thing to my son though a Gammill said a was showing me the tooth he lost. Its his first Fisher a Supply clerk was so excited she could hardly talk even three hours after she stepped off the bus. She managed to say that although the War Wasny to what she expected either the soldiers were nervous up to the last minute. A but the War is Over for us now a she said. A a it a sort of hard to believe. But its / v a a a Quot a a a v a a ouster from Page 1 Basra University on sunday where they were kept for two Days then trucked to Baghdad on tuesday they said. While at Basra University they were Given food water and cigarettes by their iraqi captors the journalists said. Crews of the Cable news network and British in television said their equipment was confiscated by the iraqis. Iraqis announcement that it held the missing journalists was carried by Baghdad radio less than 12 hours after foreign correspondents who had been reporting from Baghdad left under orders by the information ministry the journalists drove out of Baghdad in a Convoy headed for Jordan. A the Baghdad government earlier had refused to say whether it was holding any missing journalists though accounts from correspondents and other reports had indicated they might be in iraqi custody. Baghdad radio on Friday quoted an unidentified government spokesman As saying the 40 foreign reporters disappeared a during illegal presence in Basra a iraqis second largest City in the South where a revolt against Saddam a Rule began Over the weekend. The spokesman identified the two . Soldiers captured in Basra As 1st it. Gavin Rice and pvt. Coffrey Allen both of Vii corps. The radio said the group of journalists included 11 americans 17 French nationals two britons three italians two norwegians a spaniard two brazilians an irishman and an uruguayan. Earlier Friday two missing journalists a a lbs news Crew a surfaced near the Iraq kuwaiti Border. Timothy Dickey a technician and Chris Everson a cameraman were found wandering in the iraqi desert by . Army units. Iraqi gunmen had stolen their four wheel drive vehicle and equipment earlier in the week. An iraqi opposition Leader had claimed iraqi Security forces were hold ing foreign journalists to prevent them from reporting on anti government unrest following the Allied Victory in the persian Gulf War. The iraqi information ministry had ordered All foreign journalists based in Baghdad to leave by Friday. A Convoy of about 75 reporters photographers Cam Erar Nen Ana technicians left Baghdad Sal Rashid hotel at about 4 . The journalists reported missing included five working for american publications a Todd Buchanan of the Philadelphia inquirer a Knight Ridder paper Chris Morris and Tony Suau of time and John a. Giordano 40, and Ron Jac ques 25, free Lance photographers from Saba press photos on assignment for . News amp world report. Americans reported missing earlier were Neal Conan of National Public radio Chris Hedges of the new York times and Greg Lamotte and Tyrone Edwards of the can television network. The . Military command said Friday an agreement reached by Allied and iraqi officials on thursday Calls for several Hundred iraqis per Day to. Be sent Home by bus and truck from holding Camps in Northern saudi Arabia. A Grimmer Homecoming await those iraqi pos whose repatriation is to Begu monday. The iraqis Are also promising to release kuwaitis abducted during the nearly seven month iraqi occupation of the emirate. A the first 1,000 of them a of an estimated 30,000 a were freed thursday and some were arriving Home Friday in Kuwait City. They expressed fury at their former captors. A it was like hell a said Hami Jamal a 27-year-old computer Engineer who was taken from his House by iraqi troops three weeks ago. Official iraqi Media which at first ignored the unrest made their first overt reference to it on thursday in the form of threats against dissidents everybody who tries to undermine the Security of the revolution is a traitor and a mercenary a said the Al thaw a newspaper. A fall of them shall regret it. They will Cut from Page 1 commander of operation desert storm. Many factors will be considered in deciding when those units will Board planes bound for Europe. Among them Are a desire the first troops into the Gulf to be the first out and the Centra Comdr a personnel needs he said. A the Factor that will really Rule in this is whatever Norm Schwarzkopf says. That a what Well do because we Are the supporting people and he a the fighter a Galvin said. Galvin told the Senate armed services committee on thursday that a a fairly Large percentage of the. 90,000 troops from Europe who deployed to the Gulf would be among those to leave the continent. But he declined to provide specific numbers. T he Factor that will really Rule in this is whatever Norm Schwarzkopf says that s what Well do because we Are the supporting people and he a the fighter Gen Johngan Galvin also told the committee that the military plans to Cut its forces in Europe by half probably during the next five years. Allied nations in the Central Region of Europe plan to Cut their forces in half by the mid-1990s, he said. Fridays ceremony also acknowledged other Vii corps battalions leaving during the next few months. These include 1st 1?/-h, of re sri 3rd inf div 4th in 14th-Field arty regt 72nd Field arts brigade 1st in 18th Field arty regt and 2nd in 77th Field arty regt both of the 17th Field arty brigade and 78th engr in 7th engr brigade. Departure of 1st inf div units will be staggered Over the next few months with the final units he co and 299th support in targeted to leave aug. 1. The ceremony was attended by other dignitaries including the army vice cruet of staff Gen. Gordon Sullivan and Gen. Crosbie e. Saint commander of the . Army in Europe contributing to this report the associated pm n Washington a
