European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Germany edition the stlr4anmfripes vol. 49, no. 349 sunday March 31,1991 b authorized unofficial publication for the , armed forces 50e d 8693 add to allow some hiring by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the defense department will continue a freeze on civilian hiring until at least sept. 30 but has modified it to allow a limited number of new workers to come on Board. In a memo to senior Pentagon and serv ice officials Deputy defense Secretary Donald Atwood said Agency managers Are authorized to hire two new employees for every five vacancies that occur after March 29, the Date of the memo. A new exception has been put in place for civilian employees hired for jobs that Are in a direct support of military operations or reconstruction assistance operations in or around the saudi arabian  All other major aspects of the freeze will continue As before although implementing instructions for the revised policy that will be written Over the weekend May result Ini additional minor changes said a defense department official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Exemptions to the freeze that existed prior the new memo will continue such As overseas school teachers and commissary workers As Well As Mission essential employees in jobs related to health safety or Security. Internal transfers also will still be allowed. Additionally civilians May be hired to fill positions that Are essential to implementation of the july 1989 defense management report and to defense department participation in the Bush administrations drug control strategy. It the freeze was put in place by defense Secretary Dick Cheney on Jan. 11, 1990, to save Money and to begin trimming the civilian workforce in anticipation of Overall reduced personnel Levels throughout the defense department. It was originally scheduled to last until sept. 30, 199 x this is the third time it has been extended. At the beginning of 1990, the Pentagon had More than 1.1 million full time Tern Horary and part time civilian employees. Since the freeze began the workforce has dropped by More than 50,000, officials said. V a a a a a. / a a a a civilians flee As Iraq shells Northern City Dozhuk Iraq apr iraqi troops moving to crush a kurdish rebellion in Northern Iraq shelled the outskirts of the provincial capital of Dozhuk on saturday As tens of thousands of frightened civilians fled the City. One kurdish rebel Leader said government forces were concentrating just North of Mosul the largest City in Northern Iraq and that there were preliminary reports saturday morning of fighting in that area. Iraqi government newspapers meanwhile accused the re Bels of murder and looting in the Northern Oil Center of Kirkuk which the government says it recaptured on thursday. Kurdish Leader Jalal Talaban who arrived in Dozhuk after a tour of the mountainous kurdish Region urged a crowd of several Hundred kurd to stay and fight any government attack. A a a a. A but people were streaming out of the City 30 Miles South of the turkish Border. Some were on foot carrying As Many possessions As possible others were in cars crammed with belongings. Saddam a forces last week launched a major offensive against the kurdish rebels who had captured nearly All of their historic Homeland in northeastern Iraq following the Allied rout of Saddam a army in Kuwait last month. The kurd Are Allied with shiite Muslim rebels in Southern Iraq whose own uprising appears to have been largely quelled by government forces. But a shiite Muslim rebel Leader Ayatollah Mohammed Taki Modaresi said saturday that rebels were in control of the shiite holy City of Karbala which the government also claims to control. In a statement issued in Syria Modaresi also claimed that rebels captured the Nara Salman Al Rahib prison. Near the saudi Border and freed thousands of political prisoners Many of whom had been tortured. The official iranian news Agency said a refugee identified As Mohammed Hamdan Al Saedi told it that 6,000 iraqi troops had deserted to join the rebels in the Southern City of Amara. Also Tehran radio quoted other refugees As saying that rebels had regained the Small town of Abu Khasi Southeast of Basra by the iranian Border. The claims of gains by shiite rebels in Southern Iraq see Iraq on Page 10a Sisters grief an iraqi woman cries As her father questions a . Translator right at checkpoint Bravo in occupied Iraq for information regarding her missing sister. The sister left for the Allied controlled zone a week ago. The military does not keep track of individual refugees so no information was  pullback from Iraq awaits formal . Pact Washington a the 100,000-plus Allied troops occupying Iraq will begin their withdrawal within a a matter of Days after the United nations approves a formal cease fire Pentagon officials say. A we want to leave As quickly As possible a it will be a Short period of time. Its not going to be a kind of prolonged dragged out withdrawal once the terms of the. Cease fire Are in place a said a senior Pentagon official. While the allies hold on Southeastern Iraq has served As the primary bargaining Chip in forcing iraqi acceptance of the . Resolution u.s1 officials believe economic sanctions will prove a the main lever in forcing Saddam Hussein a compliance. Final action on the . Resolution could come this week. While some issues remain unresolved a we re very hopeful of passage a the official said. A a it a proceeding very  / a i can assure you that not much has been left untouched in this Resolution in terms of anything that would related Story on Page 2 give Iraq the Power the where with All to create trouble a said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. A they Are the Defeated country in a not sure they have much choices but to accept the . Terms. The proposed . Resolution is designed to Clear the Way for a permanent cease fire in the Gulf War. It requires a Iraq to destroy All its remaining chemical biology see pullback on Page 10