European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 21, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 3 nurse a 1. A. A a. I be seen things i be never seen in the . By Chuck Roberts Middle East Bureau. A Kuwait City a Lissa Peterkin sounds More like a Soldier hardened by combat than a red Cross Volunteer who owns a clothing store in fort Motte s c a i have no idea How to going to digest All this when i get Home, said in a recent interview. Quot i told my husband i did t want to have any parties for two weeks and i do not want to talk about it Jar about two weeks. In be seen things that in be Nevet in in the u Sand i dont know How i m going to wind up dealing with  w she is one of 50 medical volunteers sent to Kuwait City after Elizabeth Dole head of the american red Cross visited a Hospital for mentally and physically handicapped people in the emirate. Peterkin arrived six Ivy priorities  changed. You feel like after you be seen this you re never going to worry about what happened on. A Alt my children or any of that stupid stuff any pore a Ussa Peterkin. A red Cross Volunteer weeks ago to find about 460 patients struggling for survival at the handicapped children a Home. For seven months a staff of 17 nurses had tried to provide care for the patients without the use of electricity or running1 water. Quot there were 300 nurses at the Hospital before Iraq invaded Kuwait. But the efforts of the remaining 17 nurses weren to enough to prevent Many of the children and adults from dying of diarrhoea starvation and heat related problems the Small amount of food available was prepared Over Wood burning stoves in stifling heat Peterkin  at the Hospital and a nearby refugee Camp returns Home this week to a world that she said will never be quite the same. _ a my priorities Are All changed said Peterkin whose father asked her to Volunteer after he received a Call from Dole a childhood Friend of his. A you feel like after you be seen this you re never going to worry about what happened on a All my children or any of that stupid stuff anymore. A a friends family and Home Are what is important. arrived in Kuwait prepared for 12-hour shifts and backbreaking labor. On the flight from the United states she said the volunteers joked about All the weight they were going to lose by being a member of a Kuwait  but the Job proved to be More mentally demanding because the group did not have such Basic supplies As food water soap and Bug Spray. Fortunately the . Military alleviated that problem by donating the needed items Peterkin said. Peterkin said leaving will be difficult for her because of the Bond that formed Between the nurses and the red Cross Volunteer Sandra Shore hugs Noorah an autistic child at the handicapped children a Home. A amps Luko Bitt children. J Many of the children were unresponsive when Peterkin and the group arrived because they had not been out of bed in nearly seven months. The volunteers have gotten the children out of bed and into the playground. Now they Are smiling laughing and giggling said Sandra Shore a Volunteer from Portland Ore Shore said the Impact of the presence of the red Cross went beyond the a phenomenal change in the children however. A a v a i think it has Given a lot of a people a breath of fresh air to realize that its Over and now time to Start rebuilding a Shore said. A a Shore was a Welcome addition to the first group of volunteers because of her experience As a nurse in Riyadh saudi Arabia. At the prompting of a Friend who had volunteered Shore called the red Cross office in Washington on a monday to find out More information. The red Cross called her Back 15 minutes later and asked her to be in Washington by wednesday. She was at the Hospital four Days later 11 the volunteers Are a special group put together by the american red Cross. Most of them Are from the United states but there also Are volunteers from Canada the Netherlands Norway and the soviet Union the red Cross had difficulty rounding up enough volunteers for the first group because of the time constraint but hundreds have volunteered to be their replacements. For Dottie Manning her Volunteer work in Kuwait Wasny to the first time that she had responded to a disaster. The nurse from Huntington Beach calif., volunteered her services to the red Cross for the first time in 1989 when an earthquake killed thousands of people in Armenia a and now i have itchy feel a Man Nin said. A like Shore Manning said the most rewarding part of the Job is seeing people come to life again. She described one Man who was found when they arrived in a fetal position and supposedly Blind. Man fling said he now grins from ear to ear As he walks with the assistance of two nurses while wearing a pair of Bright Pink Tennis shoes a which he can see. The shoes Are his Pride and Joy Manning said. A a it a Small Progress but big Progress for these people Quot she  troops arrive in Dozhuk to assess needs Dozhuk Iraq apr Allied troops entered this provincial capital monday to Survey Relief needs a Day after a first contingent of . Guards arrived As part of foreign efforts to encourage the return of kurdish refugees. The non combat Allied troops were to assess How Best to restore electricity telephones and other services while 10 unarmed . Guards were to begin patrols in the area to reassure the kurd Dozhuk was Home to Between 250,000 and 350,000 people before the failed kurdish rebellion that broke out after the persian Gulf War. Attacked and plundered by iraqi government forces the City is now largely deserted. Most of the 440, refugees who fled Iraq to the turkish Border have returned to their Homes but thousands of Dozhuk residents remain fearful of returning be Cau i of the City a exclusion from the Security zone protected by Allied forces Quot in another Effort to ensure postwar stability Britain a defense Secretary Tom King said monday that 1,100 British soldiers will remain in Kuwait for several months. King told several Hundred soldiers gathered in the desert North of. Kuwait City that they had to stay to make sure a Kuwait stays  the uniformed Allied troops arrived in Dozhuk on monday in a Convoy of about 20 vehicles said . Cmdr  a spokesman at in Ciurlik a Turkey where kurdish Relief efforts Are coordinated. The Allied team includes technicians who specialize in humanitarian Relief disaster assistance engineering logistics medical Aid Security and communications Hopkins said. The troops were also accompanied by iraqi Liaison  Allied and iraqi commanders decided to make the visit jointly As. Part of efforts to create a feeling of Security for the kurd he said the Survey team will evaluate the current condition of services in Dozhuk and determine How to restore electricity telephones sanitation and Hospital care. Its findings were to be discussed at a meeting at the Dozhuk governors House later. Monday. A separate in. Team also b Ega n s u Ivey ing t h e c i to s  d a to d e t c r mine Relief needs. The 10 . Guards drove into the City sunday As part an agreement with Baghdad to allow up to 500 . Guards to provide Security in the North and South a they will be very visible a said Staffan do Mistura the chief . Representative for Northern Iraq. A they arc 10, but they will appear to be 100.�?� yet others in Dozhuk were sceptical hat the u a guards could lure Back the citizens of Dozhuk. A a a a we Are waiting for the american army a commented one Man said Hussein Yassim sipping Lea in a cafe. A if they come they refugees will return from the  de Mistura also acknowledged that the unarmed . Guards could do Little about the kurdish guerrillas arriving in the urea. A we Are not Here to disarm people a just to reassure All those involved in the humanitarian operation a he said. On sunday Hussain Sanjari a Robe Leader arrived in the City with 10 body guards armed with ak-47 rifles