European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 08, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes monday april 8,1991one of last Gulf air bases shutting Down Southern arabian Peninsula up one of the last remaining  air bases in the Gulf began shutting Down its operations sunday sending Home eight plan loads of flight Crews and support personnel deployed during operation desert storm. The base nicknamed a a Mirage air base because the military prohibits revealing its location for Security re a sons was Home for the past eight months to 800 . National guardsmen reservists and air Force Active duty personnel from up to 40 american bases. A we Are proud of the role we played in the Gulf War. We Are thankful the War has ended quickly a col. Steve Hannah commander for the bases 165th tac Airlift Wing provisional said. A f since August the Wing flew More than 12,000 Accident free flying hours transporting More than 20,000 troops and 18,000 ton of cargo to the front lines and a throughout the theater Hannah said. A we have had no accidents. We Are taking Home As Many As people we brought Over Here a Hannah said. On sunday Crews pulled Down Sand coloured tents and dismantled observation posts. Stacks of mattresses were piled High along the Tarmac where during the War giant c-130 Hercules transport planes lumbered into the sky for Supply or medical missions throughout the Gulf. A by the end of the week the rest of us should be gone. We be still got a base to close Down a said Hannah. V. A a Mirage is one of seven . Air bases set up temporarily in the lower arabian Peninsula after Iraq invaded Kuwait aug. 2. When the 165th leaves there will be just one . Air base left outside saudi Arabia said maj. Kevin Krejcarek of the . Joint information Bureau. A \ Quot a a a during the Gulf War the Mirage base bustled with activity As troops or bombs were loaded for delivery. On sundays Security police sunbathe on stretchers and medical technicians played cards waiting for their turn to go Home. A i was motivated to come Here by a love of country a sense of duty and a yen for adventure. In a motivated to leave because of satisfaction with a Job Well done Quot said col. Frank Welsh the wings doctor and a plastic surgeon from Ohio. Welsh said the cases he treated were mostly colds caused by air conditioned tents or sports injuries incurred at the bases volleyball basketball and miniature Golf facilities. A we had no combat casualties a said Welsh from Rickenbacker air National guard in Ohio. Base chaplains have counselled the soldiers on the effects of the Long period of separation from families and what to expect when they return Home this week. A we Are telling people not to jump in and expect to take Over at Home a said maj. Ronald Nuckles of Selfridge air National guard in Michigan. 4 a a we be been preparing people for this for three weeks Quot he said. Walk from Page 1. Hour. Instead the astronauts were in open space for Only 191/2 minutes. The Antenna at the end of a Levi foot Boom had refused to swing outward from the position in which it had been stowed for the ride into space. Mission control made six attempts to dislodge it with electronic signals but failed. It was then that the spacewalk was ordered v \ after Ross freed the Antenna it swung outward about 5 feet. The astronauts then loosened a few bolts on the Boom hinge and it moved into its proper position.1 / a a space walking astronauts had made repairs in space before but those jobs had All been scheduled before launch this one was in the contingency plans and it took the emergency of the stuck Antenna to bring it about. The problem proved to be exactly what Mission control thought it was. The Locking pin had fully retracted As telemetry showed. The Antenna Boom needed Only a Little shake to work it Loose. The satellite will record the High in Ergy radiations coming from some of the most violent processes in the universe for the next two years and perhaps longer. Everything had gone As planned in the complicated deployment sequence 280 Miles above Earth until the Antenna problem surfaced. A astronaut Linda Godwin had used the 50-foot Crane to deftly lift the Observatory from the cargo Bay and to tilt it so that its sensitive Gamma Ray instruments were pointed away from the Sun. The first crucial step was to extend the Observatory a solar arrays which were stowed like an accordion controllers at nasal a Goddard space flight Center sent signals to extend the right then the left panel. The Observatory began generating its own electricity after the solar panels were extended. The 17-ton Observatory is the largest scientific spacecraft Ever carried by a shuttle. It took up about half of Atlantis cargo Bay. Once released the Observatory will Circle the Earth for More than two years in search of Gamma rays the most energetic radiation in the universe such radiation which is invisible from Earth is emitted from exploding and pulsating stars quasars and areas believed to be Black holes. The astronauts return to Earth on wednesday. Astronaut Linda Godwin checks her deployment list before operating the robot Arm which plucked the Observatory from Atlantis cargo Bay sunday supplies from Page 1 with the air drops or interference by iraqi troops. Turkeys foreign minister said saturday that 1,500 kurd have died fleeing Saddam a forces. Kurd and shiite muslims have been seeking Refuge in Turkey and Iran / a a Quot. A. Iran on sunday said it had accepted half a million iraqi refugees and  support any More kurd from iraqis North or shiite muslims from the South. A there is an urgent need for bread lentils canned goods blankets portable lamps dates raisins shoes and clothing a Iran a Tehran radio reported. Meanwhile  state James a. Baker Iii arrived in Ankara Turkey on sunday to have a firsthand look at the condition of the iraqi refugees massed along the turkish Border with Iraq. V Baker was to have a working dinner with president Turgut Ozal sunday evening. He will Fly to the South Eastern City of Diyarbakir monday morning to visit the  is bakery a fifth visit to Turkey Over the past eight months. Baker will Fly to Israel monday to begin a tour of the Middle East. Also sunday administration officials denied allegations sunday by kurdish officials the United states had promised the kurd military help to overthrow iraqi resident Saddam Hussein. Kurdish representatives say their people Are being slaughtered at the hands of Saddam a forces in their generally unsuccessful uprising attempt while hum dress of thousands of kurd Are making the difficult trek to refugee Camps in Turkey and into Iran. Barham Salih a Kurdistan front spokesman on abcs a this week with David Brinkley a said it was his understanding the United states was promising military help when it stated its preference for the iraqi people to overthrow Saddam. A without that help i am sure the iraqi people As a whole would not have risen to be left alone and to be abandoned and to be butchered and massacred by sad troop from Page 1 ,. Packing and shipping tons of equipment Home until the end of the year. ,. The cease fire Calls for the . Observer unit to Monitor a demilitarized zone extending six Miles into Iraq and three Miles into Kuwait plans Call for a peacekeeping Force of about 300 . Military observers including officers from the United states the soviet Union China Britain and France. Central come also reported the non combat death of another american Soldier. A Cluster bomb let killed the Soldier just North of Kuwait the command said. There were no immediate details on that death. On saturday the command had reported the noncombat deaths of a woman Sailor and a i. The Sailor died of an apparent heart attack and the Soldier was fatally injured in a traffic Accident. Earlier this week four americans were killed patrolling the demarcation line in occupied Southern Iraq. Two Crew members were killed when their reconnaissance helicopter crashed and two soldiers died when Cluster bomb lets left on the Battlefield exploded. Dams forces Quot said Salih speaking from London. At a news conference in Houston with mexican president Carlos Salinas president Bush denied any Promise of help to  the kurd in the North and shiite muslims in the South launched uprisings shortly after iraqis defeat in the persian Gulf War that liberated Kuwait. A they were not misled by the United states of America a Bush said. A i went Back and reviewed every statement i made about this every single one and there was never any implication that the United states would use Force to go beyond the objectives which we so beautifully have achieved.  a Brent scowcroft Bush a National Security adviser and defense Secretary Dick Cheney also said no military help was promised. A i think it is Safe to say we did not give anyone assurances there would be . Military support for the kurd inside Iraq a Cheney said on the Brinkley program. Telephones out for repairs Mannheim Germany a military phone service at Coleman Barracks will be out for two hours tuesday evening 5th signal come officials said. The outage which will allow workers to update software in the computer driven phone system will begin at 6 . Until service is restored at 8 ., emergency services can be reached by calling the following German civilian numbers a a in Case of fire 0621-730-117 or 0621-730-8314. A military police 0621-730-114 or 0621-730-8359. The 114 number is Only or emergencies