European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and Stripe saturday March 9,1991"troops Mark time till they can go Home by Douglas Jehl the los Angeles times with . Forces in Kuwait still they Are arrayed As if for combat armoured Power displayed Forward trucks lined up to the rear. But look again at this occupying army and there is a sense that its time has passed. A Book is Apt to fill the hand that Only Days ago held a Rifle and folding chairs ate set out to catch the Sun. And what soldiers at War a week ago now want to know is when they might go Home. A a a a it Sas if some of the oppression has lifted a said maj. Roy Adams putting words to what seemed a uni versa i sense As this 1st army div brigade pushed across a the kuwaiti Border to leave Iraq behind. A a it a going to get worse a said maj. Paul Whittaker the senior medical officer in this 5,000-Man brigade. A the War is Over and they re not leaving. They re going to feel forgotten As if nobody a in some ways a the doctor added on a Day so Stormy that troops huddled in their vehicles for shelter from the downpour a the hardest part is yet to indeed across this newly liberated country last week there was a sense of shifting gears with Allied forces settling a Jato what appeared to be fixed positions. An Overland trip through Kuwait found that it is Mil Italy police and engineers whose work has How As Summa a frenetic Pace As they supervise an expanding network of roads. The journey acro Miles of desert found a Trail of destruction almost numbing in its extent electric wires hanging Limp paved roads scarred and cratered and charred skeletons of what once were columns of iraqi tanks. A a a Only the remains of an american m1a1 Abrams tank provided any sign that the Battle had not been altogether one sided. But already the tank was being hauled southward. And while the remnants of the iraqi army would rear the desert for years rain has already begun to turn wreckage to rust adding to the mounting sense of distance from the carnage. Some elements of the 1st army div still remain within Iraq and its Headquarters straddles the Border at the Northwest Corner of Kuwait in a continued occupation aimed at maintaining american pressure on Baghdad. But the dispatch of the 3rd inf dives 3rd brigade into Kuwait itself is an sign of the direction in which senior commanders say they Hope soon to move a southward. A Small handful of the 3rd s troops departed for Home wednesday part of a Token Force that will carry the Vii corps Flag Back to Germany this week. But the rest have been told that they should expect to stay in place for anywhere from a few hours to seven Days. Their exodus has been slowed by a policy that gives precedence to other army units that arrived earlier. In the meantime troops whose War is past them now face what they have been told May be at least three months More in a desert that brings interchanging heat and rain and alternating storms of dust and seas of the Gulf How Sweet it is with liberation Jome gis a a Arjang Candy. In a scene Shan on wednesday in Kuwait City the 3yeaoou reminiscent of world War ii. Staff sgt Marble staff secant front Phoenix is attached to the Sard unwraps piece of Candy for Muneera Faisal Al Hou military intelligence in. Vows Kuwait City up Kuwait a highest ranking official thursday promised some democratic reforms but re fused to give details or a timetable for such reforms. Crown Prince Saad Al Sabah Kuwait s prime minister also said that palestinians who cooperated with the iraqi occupiers will be treated fairly and that martial Law will be continued for As Long us necessary. Holding his first open news conference since returning to Kuwait the prime minister said a i would like to be very Clear with regard to return of parliamentary 1 but he noted that the noun Tiyo a ruler Emir Jaber Al Sabah spoke during a meeting of exiles in saudi Arabia of a general a obligation to increase and deepen popular a on this occasion 1 have nothing More to say than what his highness the Emir of Kuwait had to say at that meeting a Saad said of his Cousin who has not yet returned from exile to take control of the country. Saad declined to give a specific Date for general elections to choose a National parliament. The parliament was dissolved in ,1986 when the ruling Al Sabah family suspended the Constitution a this depends on a number of issues most important among which is the establishment of Law and order a Saad said. Parliaments abolishment had led to a growing number of anti government the aug. 2 invasion by Iraq. Quot a your country is not a dictatorship. Every one of you knows that. We Are a democratic country Saad said. A we follow the democracy of Mutual Consulta lion and will continue to do Saad also said a a Small number of palestinians living in Kuwait have been detained since the end of the Gulf War but denied rumours that they were being tortured. A i would also put on record our appreciation for the attitude of some of the palestinians in Kuwait who have helped our people and cooperated with our people in driving the iraqi forces out of Kuwait a he said a and 1 would like to reassure every body that the Rule of Law will prevail and that it will be applied to everybody without discrimination a. In Washington the state department said the . Embassy staff in Kuwait City visited palestinian neighbourhoods and could not confirm reports of harassment for alleged collaboration. Saad said kuwaitis were surprised and angered by the support for iraqi president Saddam Hussein among the palestinian leadership outside Kuwait but added that it would not change Kuwait Basic position of support for them. A Kuwait in the past gave a great Deal of Aid and help to the palestinian people a he said. A we will not Stop helping our palestinian Brothers in the occupied territories. This is our nationalist obligation in helping our palestinian referring to martial Law imposed by the government for three months Saad said a the question of the Extension of martial Law depends on a number of issues. If the government finds that the Security situation is quite stable then martial Law will be terminated. But if after three months the government finds it is a necessity a and 1 if talk about this quite frankly and quite openly a if we think that the interest i the country and the citizens requires Thal we extend martial Law we will not Hesti Tate to do that regardless of whatever am whoever says anything to the
