European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 b the stars and stripes sunday april 28, 1991 at a glance in los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley evokes a Gleeful reaction from a boy at an orphanage in Llong Kong saturday. Navy promotes woman the . Naval Academy has named a female midshipman As in Gade the first time in its 146-year history. A a a a. A a page4 dismayed by denial a former Beauty Queen who says she had an affair with sen. Charles Robb while he was governor is dismayed by his denial and says she a not interested in a Page 5 a giving a Hoot a logging restrictions for 11.6 million acres of Forest in the Northwest have been proposed to save the endangered Northern spotted owl. A Page 6it it. A Quot / _ a i. / Quot a a. A Quot quo Gorbachev lashes Back Mikhail Gorbachev is condemning communist party hard liners after defeating their attempt to Force him out of the party Stop Job. V Page 7 resurrection questioned a British medical journal is Chai lending one of the tenets of christianity a that Jesus Christ died on the Cross and was resurrected. A Page 8 Clark a murder Case philippine lawmen arrested a suspected communist guerrilla Leader who they said had ordered the killing of two american servicemen outside Clark a. A Page 9 end of the Gold Rush for thousands of adventurous american entrepreneurs the Rush to do deals in the huge and hungry soviet Market appears Over. A Page 15 Index Abby Ann Landers ,.14 commentary. 13 letters. 12 Money matters. 15-17 sports a 18-24 weather. .11 to help construct tent City by j. King Cruger Mediterranean Bureau. Zakhoo Iraq a two Hundred and fifty men the first of hundreds of thousands of kurdish refugees expected to return soon to Safe Haven in their Homeland were helicopter red saturday into a temporary tent City in Northern Iraq. The men All healthy and Strong were handpicked because of their physical condition to return first. The kurd were flown from their dismal Mountain refuges to the tent City outside Zakhoo aboard . Marine corps ch-46s. A. Looking visibly relieved that their Wicks Long ordeal in the mountains had ended the kurd entered the. Tent City giving a for Victory signs and with clenched fists raised. A this land is our land a said a bearded kurd uprooting a handful of Lush grass for emphasis. A we Are very Happy today a said the Man who declined to give his name. Another kurd 22-year-old Obaid Ali said the men had come to the Camp to help build More tents for returning refugees. A v a a a v a. As of saturday Allied military forces the overwhelming majority of them . Marines from the 24th Marine expeditionary unit had erected More than 700 tents outside Zakhoo. The Blue and White High sided tents All donated to the International Relief outfit by a leading american mail order firm can each accommodate six people. An estimated 700,000 kurd Are seeking safety along the Iraq Turkey Border and the allies aim to provide them with Safe Haven from Saddam s forces. The Safe Haven zone presently centers around Zakhoo a Small City about six Miles South of the turkish Border. The tent City sits on a vast Grassy Plain in a huge and incredibly Beautiful Valley. Snow capped peaks just above where masses of kurd huddle in squalor form a dramatic backdrop. The Valley at Zakhoo was selected As the site for the first tent cities because it is near thousands of refugees. It has clean Well water and favourable terrain. Plus it is near roads Over which adequate supplies should be Able to flow from the nearby humanitarian services support base at silo i just across in Southeastern Turkey. A this Camp could expand to hold 21,000 people a said air Force or. Col Kenneth Koskinen the senior Allied medical representative in Iraq for operation provide Comfort. Currently four Large medical tents Border a Side of the Camp. A Marine welcomes kurdish refugees saturday after they were flown by helicopters from the turkish Border to a Camp near the Northern iraqi town of Zakhoo. A those tents will be at the Center of the Camp if the entire Camp is built a Koskinen said. The Safe Haven zone in Iraq May expand according to Allied military leaders. A if needed As Many As 10 of these Camps holding As Many As 210,000 people could be built a Koskinen said. While ., Canadian British and dutch military toil in the Camp International Relief agencies Are conspicuous by their absence. V Quot there appears to be political bickering up in silo i. They the Relief organizations should All get Down Here and get on with the Job a Koskinen said. About to get on with the Job saturday was a married couple from Wales. Sylvia and Gareth Edwards paid their own Way to Zakhoo to help the Gareth is an operating room nurse and in Man of gyn nurse. We were bowled Over by the suffering we were watching Quot Sylvia said saturday shortly after entering the tent City. A we said a Why sit on our bums watching Telly when we could be doing so Here we Are. What can we do Quot they asked Koskinen. A the told them where they were needed and said a if we could get More like you we the military could pack up and leave a the streets of Zakhoo Center of the Effort to repatriate the kurd were nearly deserted saturday one Day after hundreds of iraqi police had obeyed Allied orders to get out of town. A Marine cobra gunship flew Low Over Zakhoo. Air Force a los scouted on High. . Marines and British paratroopers ran frequent patrols aboard armoured pc hides. A v a v. The Community a children All of whom appear to know How to say a Chi mister a were receptive and every shop and business was shuttered. Few adults were on the streets Zakhoo a trading town had. A population of 50,000, twice its current one before Saddam Hussein began his drive against the kurd in March. Nearly All of the kurd who fled Zakhoo Are Muslim Christian kurd a Small minority of the kurdish population and orthodox Christian armenians stayed be a Hind. A some of the kurdish men who entered the Camp saturday have Homes in Zakhoo. They remain afraid to return to their Homes a / a a Quot we wont go into the town until we know All the iraqi soldiers have gone a said Ali formerly a University student. There is some confusion As to whether Iraq is allowed to keep up to 50 policemen in Zakhoo. It is these forces that All refers to As soldiers \ a we know it is Safe Here in the Camp because the americans Are Here the other kurd will come Back Down from the mountains because we Trust the americans a Ali added. Marine Cpl. William Hawk a machine gunner providing Security in Zakhoo said he no longer sees any iraqi soldiers around the City. A but a said the 23-year-old resident of Edwardsville ul., got a feeling they Are still Here 6 sailors could be charged in Braw Manama Bahrain apr sex . Sailors might be brought to trial for a Midnight Brawl with seven Bahrain taxicab Drivers a Navy spokesman said saturday. Three of the Drivers were injured one of them seriously in the Brawl in which Plank wielding . Sailors were said to be demanding preferential treatment. The spokesman said that 10 cars were damaged. The fight occurred monday night less than 48 hours before the sailors vessel the amphibious command ship Blue Ridge sailed from Bahrain in route to its Home port in Japan after a 9-month deployment to the persian Gulf As the com Mand vessel for naval forces supporting operation desert storm. Speaking from his Hospital bed his right Arm and right leg in a plaster cast 35-year-old Driver Ali Abdullah Al Makki said the Brawl started As a Small argument when five american sailors were insisting on Riding in a four passenger cab. A one of the americans insulted one of my friends other taxi Drivers interfered and a Small clash happened but no one got Hurt Quot he said. The taxi stand area was close to the american support unit land facility for the Navy Ana one of the Drivers used his car Telephone to ask for american help the sailors left he said. After 45 minutes the first five and about 11 of their friends returned to the taxi Stop with planks and started to attack the taxi Drivers and their cars he said. Other taxi Drivers said some of the americans shouted a we liberated Kuwait for you you should drive us around for it. De Barker Public affairs officer aboard the la Salle the command ship for Navy forces in the persian Gulf after wednesdays departure of the Blue. Ridge said no formal charges have been filed As investigations continued
