European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes \ wednesday May 1,1991campfrom Page 1 a i _ leaving the mountains Are heading Horrie. A the exodus of kurd from the mountains to their Homes deeper inside Iraq shows they have Confidence in the allies to secure their safety in protective zones said air Force it. Col. . Crowley. By and Large the people that Are coming Down from the mountains Are going Home a he said. A ultimately if we get these people Home that is  the kurd now in the Camp at Zakhoo Are the workers chosen to help establish the Camp plus their Fame a lies. R a a a a a a a Quot \ v. Crowley said officials Hope the slow flow of refugees into the Camp continues so As not to overwhelm it a what we be said to the kurdish elders is we can to have everybody coming Down the mountains at once a Crowley said. A Small but steady Stream of refugees would ensure that the Camp is Able to maintain sanitary conditions necessary to prevent disease. The kurd Are travelling by foot or in private vehicles from the mountains where they sought Refuge from the iraqi army. Crowley said they Are travelling under the Protection of armed kurd or pesh Merga which Means a those who face  a they Are controlling the i flow Down from the Mountain and ensuring their Security in route a he said. Meanwhile the military is seeking an additional 25,000 tents from turkish sources to enlarge existing Camps and create new ones if needed to accommodate several Hundred thousand refugees Crowley  Gas 7from Page 1 Gas who grew up Only a few Miles from the state and then graduated from Dartmouth College. I from new Hampshire Tsongas flew to Iowa another Early voting state a Tsongas was Likely to have the Field to himself for the coming weeks and perhaps months. Most better known democrats a Sens. Albert Gore or. Of Tennessee and Lloyd Bentsen of Texas House majority Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri and goes. Mario Cuomo of new York and l. Douglas Wilder of Virginia a Are holding off probably until the fall on announcing their 1992 intentions. Tsongas health could be an Issue. He declined to seek re election to a second Senate term in 1984 after he was diagnosed As suffering cancer of the Lymphatic system. He underwent Radical treatment and now says he is free of the disease. A his principal message is economic. J in an 85-Page Booklet in which he spelled out his positions on a Range of issues Tsongas advocated buying american products Over foreign competitors because a i derive a quiet pleasure knowing that my Money will remain in our Economy and multiply. I instinctively understand that my economic Well being will eventually be determined by the economic Well being of every other american. \ a i think like a japanese would or a German would. I think like an economic  his announcement in Lowell to a crowd of several Hundred in front of a renovated textile Mill was marred by the steady rain. But the site had symbolic value As a reminder of development spearheaded by Tsongas when he was a City councilman and later a congressman and senator. Lowell boomed in the 1980s, the Days of the a Massachusetts Miracle often cited by Michael Dukakis during his 1988 presidential Campaign. R but like the rest of the state the City now has fallen on hard times. A i worked 10 weeks last year a said Edwin Grochmal 51, an electrician. A a in be worked seven weeks this  Grochmal said he hoped Tsongas a does better than the other person a Ana you know who i mean. Dukakis ruined  the comparison with the former governor a they Are both from Massachusetts both of greek heritage and both regarded As liberals a is one of the acknowledged handicaps faced by Tsongas. He focused on the Economy and International Competition in the speech and people in the crowd waved signs Reading another economic Patriot for Paul Tsongas.�?�. _. A we were never meant to be the worlds greatest debtor nation a he said. A we were never meant to have our ancestors Patrimony sold to the highest foreign bidder. ,. A a a. A we were never meant to have american workers rank ninth in the world in  we continue with the enlargement of the site at Zakhoo and the establishment of a second site Down the Road Well need a Large Supply of tents a he said. More than 800 kurdish men have moved to the tent City and Are helping to Complete it officials said. On monday night 114 More people arrived from the mountains where they took Refuge after Saddam a army crushed a kurdish rebellion. Three Hundred other people returned to Zakhoo late monday or Early tuesday and went to their former Homes said . Army maj. Gen. Jay m. Garner commander of the multinational Force in Northern Iraq. Those in the tent City Are either from areas South of the. Allied a Security zone or need shelter because their Homes were damaged in earlier fighting i a , Convoy that arrived in Zakhoo from Turkey on tuesday morning brought equipment supplies and about a dozen personnel from various .  Mistura said the United nations would take Over the tent City after work on the Camp is finished Western troops leave and funds Are provided for the . Team. He said the . Team wanted to a keep a very Clear separation from anything  the United nations set up its humanitarian Center across the Street from the Allied built tent Camp. . Of a a it a a great Day to be. A human being a Garner said. But he added �?o1 done to think the Job is finished. We have to make a Security  he refused to elaborate on How Long the Job would take saying a your timetable is to save  a kurdish guerrillas expressed grudging approval of the operation. _ a they the refugees arc Happy but not very Happy about the safety in Zakhoo because we done to believe Saddam Hussein a said one guerrilla Star Hassan 25. After Allied forces entered Northern Iraq to set up protected Camps some kurdish guerrillas blocked the refugees return out of fear for their safety. Other guerrillas stopped refugees at checkpoints and demanded payment for passing through. Col. Jim Jones the highest ranking . Marine corps officer in Northern Iraq said . Patrols were sent to some of the More notorious checkpoints a to Tell them to Knock that stuff off.�?�. Ones commands 3,200 american British and dutch marines along with about 1,000 . Army soldiers handling Security operations in the Aren. Senior . Commanders have predicted kurd soon will leave the mountains in Large numbers and say they Hope to Cleat refugees from the Border with Turkey by june 1. A Vav r a although the United nations is to administer the Camps being set. Up by Allied troops in the secure zone it has not yet made plans to protect them the five permanent members of the Security Council Are considering a european Community proposal to replace the Allied troops with a . Police Force. Iraq on monday denounced the proposal but Baghdad is in no position to Challenge the allies. It was crippled in the persian Gulf War Over Kuwait and is seeking an easing of Trade sanctions so it can sell Oil and buy food. R kurdish leaders after negotiations with Saddam reached agreement in principle for greater kurdish autonomy and democratic reforms nationwide. More talks Are scheduled to work out details. Contribute Anglo this report staff writer Ron Jenson at in Ciurlik a Turkey a Money not clothing needed to Aid kurd red Cross says Stuttgart Germany a amps a the american de Cross is urging donors who want to contribute to the kurdish Relief Effort to keep their clothes and Send Money instead. The Agency a european Headquarters in Stuttgart has received two or three Calls about offers of clothing every Day since the Relief Effort began according to Myra Halpin one of four american red Cross regional managers in Europe. A we regret that we Are unable to accept it a Halpin said a we have had a request from probably every .base.�?��?T, a. A a. L a a a the american red Cross has sent seven of its european based workers and two from Washington to Turkey to help the us. Military assist the kurdish refugees just Over the Border in Iraq. However those workers have no Means to distribute donated clothing Halpin said. The Agency already has provided More than $1 million for the Purchase of blankets tents and cooking utensils and additional donations would be used to buy even More of those items she said. A a a ,. A a a a. Quot a a a a a a the Agency also is helping the league of red Cross and red Crescent societies at kurdish refugee Camps in Turkey Halpin said. Quot. R Able to american red Cross kurdish Relief arid deliver them to a local red Cross office or mail them to american red Cross european area he Apo 09154-0017.fire. A. A a. R_.___/. _. A s a from Page 1 a. Clear Side responded As it should have and things went Well a Serene said. She said she did no to know How far the fire was from the nuclear Section of the Plant but a fire official said it was a quite a  at such a Plant a nuclear reactor produces heat that makes steam. The rest of the generating Plant is similar to other Power plants. The Power plants main transformer buckled and spilled Oil into the building Scrnnci said. She Wasny to certain How much of the transformers 20,030 Gallons of Oil had spilled. V about 15d Gallons of Oil and water overflowed into the Back River which runs past the Plant she said. Booms were placed around the Oil spill and seacoast Ocean service was hired to clean it  Page 1 map a he said. A the georgian foreign ministry in Moscow there pub lies lawmakers and local police had earlier reported that about 100 people had been killed. Sigua said the death toll he provided was not the final figure and that the search for victims in Remote areas was continuing. In front of City Hall in Kutaisi Georgia a second largest City workers loaded buses with food water tents and other supplies for the stricken Region. The City with a population of 235,000, largely escaped damage. Rescuers managed to save 30 miners trapped in the a dozen workers were cleaning up the Oil outside the Plant tuesday morning and the odor of Oil was Strong in the area. Oil is used in a Power Plant to Cool trans formers. A a a v the Plant is in the coastal town of Wiscasset but is several Miles from the main population Center of the town which has 1,350 residents. The site is some of Miles Northeast of Portland. A / Maine Yankee officials provided Only sketchy details about the fire monday night and made no mention of a possible explosion Kimball said monday evening that he had no idea How Large the fire was but that it was under control and nobody had been Hurt. When asked tuesday about the a Rcd a version of what happened Kimball said he could not provide any details about the fire or the extent of damage to the Plant. A a a a a a  those Are details that we Are trying to put together right now a he said a we Haven to deceived anybody. We stand by everything we be said As being  a  mine High in the caucasus mountains near the quakers epicentre said Georgia a Deputy health minister Merab Metashvili.  injured although several were Short of breath he said by Telephone. T the earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck at 12 13 . Monday in mountainous North Cen Townsle Dria among sparsely populated villages and its epicentre was near 11,363-foot mount same risk Hie near the town of ambr Lauri 90 Miles Northwest of the georgian capital of Tbilisi. 5ile Institute of physics and Earth sciences said the a was throughout much of the caucasus l he seismic focus Center a or the hardest hit area was about 24 Square Miles said spokesman Sergei Arefyev