European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 a the stars and stripes Friday May 3,1991refugees from Page 1.been guaranteed. As More kurdish villages Are brought under Protection of the coalition additional kurd Are expected to return. \ a it is Clear that a trickle is turning into a Stream a he said. A a a. A a. A a a a a / a. A a Many will go to their Homes or to live with relatives As they did when the Zakhoo Camp opened this week. It now houses about 3,000, although officials say As Many As 30,000 kurd have left the mountains most of them going Home. The push eastward began in a morning fog about ? following a Day and night of heavy rain. About 2,500 troops took part including members of the 3rd in 325th inf airborne combat team stationed at Vicenza Italy. Also involved were British Royal marines dutch commandos and French soldiers. A your Mission is to help the kurd a said master sgt. Lawrence Brooks of the Vicenza unit. A but if Saddam tries anything we re officials were not expecting any trouble from iraqi soldiers in the area who were withdrawing As the Day began. British Brig. Gen. Andrew Keeling who commanded the push said a my men have found the iraqis that they be spoken to Friendly polite dispirited and said Many iraqis had left areas they were in earlier in the week. A we Are not looking for conflict. We Are not looking for trouble a he said soon after the movement began. A the iraqis Are playing Ball with he said the coalition did not wait for the iraqis to withdraw completely and that the push was made As carefully and As quickly As possible. The area of the new zone includes a Valley of Lush Green Fields and rolling tree covered slopes. In the Center of it All is a Hill topped by one of Saddam a palaces and manned by several guards. The guards will stay and the Palace will not be touched. A no . Or coalition forces will enter that a said maj. Gen. Jay m. Garner the commander of the joint task Force with Security in the safety zone. He is also Deputy commander of v corps in Frankfurt,1 Germany. A we have no interest in the Palace at All a he said. A it has nothing to do with the resettlement of the the Palace Complex consists of several buildings atop a plateau and surrounded at the Bottom by a Concrete Fence. From the Palace windows Saddam had an impressive View of the Valley that was part of the kurdish Region of his nation. Keeling said the Palace is a sensitive area for the iraqi government. A we have no need or plans a he said a to tread on those sensitivities.�?�29-year Veteran named new sergeant major of army Washington a amps command sgt. Maj. Richard Kidd has been named the new sergeant major of the army officials announced 47, will replace sergeant major of the army Julius Gates who is scheduled to retire june 30 after More than 33 years of service Kidd is a 29-ycar.Veteran who is the command sergeant major for i corps at fort Lewis Wash. He has _ served Tours in Vietnam South Korea and Germany including a stint As the commandant of the 1st army div no Academy in Ansbach Germany. A native of Morehead ky., Kidd is married and has two children. His awards include the legion of Merit the Bronze Star the meritorious service medal the combat infantryman badge and the senior parachutist the sergeant major of the army serves As the senior enlisted adviser to the army chief of staff on enlisted personnel issues. Shuttle performs acrobatics space Center Houston api the space shuttle discovery executed a couple of flip flops thursday in a a Star wars Experiment designed to help scientists develop a system for destroying enemy missiles. After steering the spaceship to within a a Miles of a $94 million satellite that a gathering data on the shut ties exhaust the Crew guided discovery through two fancy flips 161 Miles above Earth. Mission control reported the projects manager was a ecstatic at the data Nasa flight director Rob Kelso was just As thrilled. Quot a when All the judging comes in id have to give it a 10-plus in performance a Kelso said. Toll from Page 1 a. Rahman Khan the minister of state for Relief. A this is a National the minister painted a grim picture of colossal damage that ruined Bangladesh a main Harbor wiped out much of its Quot current Rice crop and threatened next years crop by splashing paddies with Salt water. Seventy percent of the cattle in the area drowned. The storm flattened wide areas along the East coast from North of the port City of Chittagong to Cox a Bazar a City near the burmese Border that took the full Force of the storm v a foreign diplomats said Ziaus 6-Weck-old government seemed to be grappling with the Relief Effort As Well As it could. A v a but they be admitted that the need outstrips their ability to meet it a said a Western Diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity. Khan said that according to preliminary estimates Bangladesh needed $1.42 billion in emergency funds to overcome the crisis. A we need generous donations from foreign countries a he said. Six merchant ships and two naval vessels were partially sunk he said. A it looks As if we do not take immediate action our Chittagong port which is the lifeline of Bangladesh will be lost. The port will not operate in future a he said. The Cyclone is the most powerful storm to hit Bangladesh but the number of deaths Seelow the toll of a storm in 1970 that claimed 500,000 lives. Another massive Cyclone in 1985 killed 10,000 people. Since then the government has built up Relief facile tics erected storm shelters of Stone and Brick mounted on earthen platforms and built flood embankments on some islands exposed to the fury of the sea. A Low lying country on the Delta of three great Himalayan Rivers Bangladesh is repeatedly savaged by storms arising in the unpredictable Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean. The Monsoon Rains often bring floods and drought is common in the dry months before the Rains. Bangladesh is one of the worlds poorest arid most densely packed countries. Its 110 million people eke out an average $170 a year. About-2,000 people live in an average Square mile the third highest population density after Hong Kong and from Page 1 in a Gonna be up dancing in three Estefan who broke her Back in a bus Accident a year ago signed autographs posed for pictures and chatted with the troops for More than an hour. In All the cuban american Singer provided 245 free tickets to her show for patients at three . Military hospitals in Germany plus their guests and medical attendants. Although Many of the injured were in casts and wheelchairs that did no to Stop them from wearing their desert camouflage uniforms. A a it was real exciting a said Marine Lance Cpl. Lonnie Rush from Camp Pendleton Calif. A it shows that people a even when they make it to the top a still care some people think they get Rush who was in a wheelchair with a fractured ankle said he chatted with Distefan arid the Singer even sat on his Lap. For several of the injured soldiers the concert was the first Chance to leave the Hospital. A it was fun for us to get around a said pfc. Theresa Cross of the 1st signal in in Kaiserslautern Germany. Because she was confined to a wheelchair with neck and Back injuries Cross said she a could no to see a bit of the show a but the music was she said she especially appreciated the fact that Estefan had provided the tickets. A it was Nice that someone showed some appreciation for us a she said. A it made us feel Good at a news conference in Frankfurt on wednesday afternoon Estefan said that a soldiers have a special place in her her father an army Veteran wounded in Vietnam was confined to a wheelchair until his death in 1980. Estefan said she has a always taken special care to have handicapped seats available at concerts. Her own injury which occurred when a truck slammed into her tour bus made her feel even greater empathy for the handicapped she said. A a in la Tell you one thing i certainly look at injured people and people in wheelchairs in a different Light than i did before a she said. A being that close to it myself i just put it in a whole new perspective. I Hadnot realized How difficult life for the handicapped is until i went through this 33, underwent months of physical therapy following her injury a process she described As a like starting Over froth she gradually regained her strength through three months of hydrotherapy followed by weight training and Low Impact aerobic sessions. trains six Days a week to keep up her stamina. In december she began dancing again during the filming of the video to her latest single a Seal our her first performance following the Accident was in Miami on March 1. Estefan said that although she has Metal rods and screws in her Back she is now a was 100 percent As ill a i done to find any limitations on stage and there a very few things that in be tried now that in be wanted to do that i can to do a she said. Wednesday Wasny to the first time Estefan showed support for desert storm troops. She invited 1,000 family members of service members on duty in the Gulf to her opening show in Miami. A Gloria likes people a Estefany a husband Emilio said wednesday. A a she a a very sincere person. What you see is what you the soldiers who met her in Frankfurt were Happy with what they saw. It think she a fabulous a said sgt. Michael Mobley a reservist from san Antonio who was suffering from a ruptured Tendon. A she Means a lot to me from Page 1 Are not at the Point where we can make a decision As to what we will put there if anything a Moore said. Last year officials announced that Hahn would be the first Safe base to receive f-16s outfitted with the lantern navigation system which helps turn night into Day for pilots. The system never was introduced there. News of the inactivation shocked German officials a member of the departing Christian democratic government in Rheinland Pfalz said. A we were Given not warning a said Interior minister Rudi Geil whose party was voted out of office april 21. A we had however Long ago prepared ourselves for such a Geil said a major concern is the 472 German civilians who work at the base. He said he Hopes some of these employees can be transferred to jobs at nearby . Bases. Members of the social democrats whose party emerged As the strongest from the elections were unavailable thursday for comment. They Are trying to put together a coalition government that will replace tha Christian democrats who governed the Federal state for the last 44 years. Geil said the Christian democrats had already worked out a program that addresses problems caused by the closure of . Installations in the area. He said the social democrats who will take Over sometime after May 21, Are being left with a program to build upon. Jurgen Dietzen a spokesman for Geil said the closure will Hurt the Hahr area financially. 4 not Only will jobs be lost but there the housing m Ket will be hard hit a Dietzen said. A americans it Well paying renters in the area. There will also be drop in retail currently there Are 4,582 service members assign to Hahn out of 5,649 authorizations 142�?~, civilize out of 181 authorizations and 676 local National e Plo yees out of an authorized 773 slots. Among the Hahn based units that do not belong the 50th tac fighter Wing Are the 7451st tac Intel i 6911th electronic Security so and the army a 66th n itary Intel group. Contributing to this report Mary Neth in Darmstadt Germany
