European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes a Friday March 15, 1991 in the Gulf at a glance Index Abby Ann Landers 19 action line 16 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 crossword. 19 letters 12 Money matters. 17 sports. A. A a a a 22-28 to listings. 22 weather. 11 Allied remains As american a Large red Cross Convoy prepares to leave Amman Jordan for Iraq with supplies of food and Medicine. Abuses concern . Revenge attacks by kuwaiti soldiers and resistance fighters against palestinians and others concerns the . A Page 4 former pos honoured five army. Pos Are honoured for the anguish they endured at the hands of their iraqi captors. A. A a Quot a a a a a a Page 5 is amp a bailout Cost rises the House has approved a Compromise Bill for an additional $30 bit lion for the a amp a bailout. I a a page6 american cuts air fares american airlines has initiated a Broad Range of fare cuts to attract travellers put off by the Gulf War and the recession. V a Quot a a page7 soviets play Shell game the soviet Union has reportedly moved tanks armoured vehicles and artillery pieces to storage depots in violation of an arms treaty. A Page 8 Dinah ran Sudj Arabia a forensic experts have tentatively identified the remains of 13 Allied dead turned Over by Iraq As live american and eight British soldiers . Military officials said thurs a Day. A a a a -. A a. All had been listed As missing in action the officials said army forces meanwhile located another us. Crash site in Iraq and found an undisclosed number of remains of other missing americans. The sources said . Troops were actively looking for known crash Sites. The american dead were flown thursday morning from the . Military mortuary at the Dhahran air base to the Central mortuary in Dover del., for positive identification. The other remains were turned Over to British authorities. In Washington a Pentagon spokesman refused to say whether the bodies of the americans had arrived at Dover. He cited a persian Gulf War policy restricting news Media from covering the arrival of us dead. A a. A. A the policy established during desert storm has not changed. It has not been rescinded a said the spokesman air Force maj. Robert Magnuson. The International committee of the red Cross had originally reported that the remains of 14 Allied dead had been turned Over but upon , at the . Mortuary if was found that there were Only 13, said . Military officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. A a red Cross aircraft flew the remains Rorri Baghdad Iraq to Dhahran on wednesday after a 24-hour delay because of civil unrest in Iraq which appears to be threatening efforts to forge a Parma Hent cease fire. / one of the conditions for a permanent cease fire is that All american my As Are accounted for. Names of the dead were withheld pending notification of next of Kin but . Officials in Washington had earlier identified one of them As Navy u. Wil Tiam t. Costen 27, of St. Louis an a-6 Pilot. His plane was shot Down Over Iraq on Jan. 18, the second Day of the persian Gulf War. Quot a a. A a a a a the Pentagon had listed Costen As missing in action. A the identification of the five Macri cans reduces the number of . Servicemen listed As missing in action to 18. The Pentagon said 14 of the 18 were lost in the crash of an air Force gunship and a Navy Pilot was believed to have been killed in another crash. But they Are listed As missing because their bodies have not been recovered. Despite the civil unrest in Iraq the United states continued sending american troops Home. But Allied troops still occupy about 15 percent of Iraq and will hold the territory until a formal cease. Fire is worked out according to defense Secretary Dick Cheney. Nearly 2,000 american troops left the Gulf thursday including 1,200 from the 82nd airborne div headed for fort Bragg . A. Among the others departing were Marine aviation units for Cherry Point , elements of the 1st tac fighter Wing for Langley fab. Van and reservists with the 365th evacuation Hospital for Mcguire fab . A a a Saddam s troops repo kurdish Civi Athens Greece up troops Loyal to iraqi president Saddam Hussein set fire to two Oil Wells near the kurdish City of Kirkuk Iraq and massacred a Large number of people in a helicopter attack after ordering them out of the City Iran a official islamic Republic news Agency said thursday. The reports of the Oil Well fires and massacre came As heavy fighting was said to be raging Between the troops and kurdish rebels in Northern Iraq. Quoting a spokesman of the patriotic Union of Kurdistan or Puk an iraqi kurdish rebel group 1rna said Saddam a troops set fire to two Oil Wells wednesday. The Puk spokesman was quoted As saying the troops thursday forced Tesi dents of some areas in Kirkuk a to leave the City and then strafed them with helicopters killing a fairly Large number of defenceless  earlier Puk said kurdish rebels had encircled Kirkuk and fierce fighting was raging Between them and government troops in the City a environs. Some 60 percent of the City itself was reported in rebel hands although there was no Independent confirmation. Near Kirkuk the Kirkuk Oil Fields were said to be in government control. The two sides have battled for control of Kirkuk since tuesday when kurdish a apes i Mergas a or rebel guerrillas were reportedly within 7 Miles of the City. In Southern Iraq Many people were killed when heavy clashes continued Between Saddam s forces and shiite Funda mentalists in Basra and at least five other cities Irna said. Jerusalem up Peter Arnett the can reporter who gained renown by holding out in Baghdad As . Missiles pounded the City came Back to his Post in Israel and promptly asked his longtime sweetheart to marry him. The blonde Bride to be Kimberly Moore 23, answered with a big kiss in front of a room full of follow journalists wednesday night. She told rhe Veteran reporter How thrilled she was by the proposal a everyone is proud of you Peter for the wonderful Job you did. And i am More proud of you than anyone a said the native of Florida who works As a reporter for Israel televisions nightly English news broadcast. Arnett 51, a native new Sealander who worked for several years in Israel before becoming the Only foreign television reporter allowed to suit in Baghdad for the entire Gulf Wir toasted his Fiancee at a party attended by other members of the foreign press corps. Also at the Celebration at the american Colony hotel in East Jerusalem was Brig Gen. Nahman Shai the army spokesman who became a National figure when he calmly broadcast instructions during the 18 iraqi scud missile attacks against Israel. A i can to think of a nicer place to come Back to from Iraq than Jerusalem Arnett said to a round of applause. The couple said they would leave shortly for the United. States and a Vaca Tion but Are expected to return to israe in april. They have not yet selected wedding Date. Group in claims death corrections because of a reporting error a Story in wednesdays paper misidentified an 8th inf div Legal specialist As a lawyer the Story also mistakenly said that the division Provost marshal is a unit commander. He is not. Additionally the regulation cited should have been Usa eur regulation we Inot 632-10 As was reported. Athens Greece apr a leftist terrorist group thursday claimed it had murdered an american Soldier in retaliation for the .-led War against Iraq. In a leaflet published by a newspaper the shadowy november 17 group also said it would keep attacking american servicemen in Greece until All . Troops leave the country. Air Force sgt. Ronald o. Stewart 35, was killed tuesday by a bomb placed outside his Home in the Athens suburb of anon Lvada. He had been stationed in Greece for five years and worked at the air Force base at hell Nikon next to Athens Airport. November 17 has previously been blamed for 14 slayings including the 1975. Killing of Cia station chief Richard Welch. In the leaflet published by the daily newspaper Elefther Otylia the. Leftist group which opposes Greece a membership in nato and the european Community accused the United states and its allies of a carrying out the genocide of 130,000 iraqis Quot in the persian Gulf War. Tens of thousands of iraqis died in it War. Neither Side has issued a Denim figure of iraqi deaths. The leftist group has claimed resp biliary for a string of bomb and Rocke tacks earlier this year on no Csierny in l ests in protest of the persian Gult no one Wras injured in those attacks. No members of november 17 been arrested. The group  the Day in 1973 that a dictatorship crushed a student uprls1