European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse At a glance thu Hale has come to America from Vietnam with High Hopes and Little information her fathers name is John he a Black and he a american. And she Hopes to find him. Sec Story pages 14-15.searching for clues investigators were picking through the wreckage of a girl scout bus near Palm Springs calif., seeking reasons for a plunge Down an embankment that killed four teen age girls and three adults. A Page 4votes for stealth ski the Senate voted for four More stealth bombers and for $4.6 billion for the strategic decease initiative endorsing president Bush a two top military Page 6 controversial ban foreigners with the aids virus will continue to be barred from immigrating to the United states the Bush administration has decided. A Page 7mia photo source sought . Teams Are heading to Cambodia in the latest Effort to track Down the source of a photo supposedly showing three american Page b cleaning a Mountain some 1,450 windswept feet above sea level on one of Iceland a northernmost mountains army chinooks ferried cleanup Crews recently to pick up litter from 31 years ago. A Page 9 teen age investors your teen Ager May think the Only kind of cd he can buy is the Little hat kind that makes noise but financial planners say otherwise. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. 19 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 22-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 invasion from Page 1of their governments takeover of Kuwait mainly the increasing difficulty of making ends meet the result of sanctions that continue to strangle the Economy. A a there a no food no Job a said Jamal Hamid who was walking Down the sidewalk along Saadoun Street with his wife and three Small children. A year ago loudspeakers blared the news of the invasion trumpeting that Iraq had reclaimed a land Long considered to have historically belonged to it. Many people were shocked and worried about the consequences. But plenty of them were in a celebratory mood said Abdel Kareem Jassim a storekeeper. A Iraq was led to this to go into Kuwait because of the economic situation a he said. Iraqi president Saddam Hussein had been complaining that Kuwait was breaking open Oil quotas by flooding the Market with Petroleum lowering prices in the process., it he said most iraqis anticipated the reaction from the West although they did not believe it would Lead to War. The iraqis seem now to want simply for the economic embargo to end and to let the Kuwait chapter pass. Meanwhile the Pentagon said that Iraq which lost about 3,800 tanks in the persian Gulf War still has 2,000 tanks hundreds of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of aircraft. What was billed As the world s fourth largest military during the buildup to the War now has 400,000 personnel 3,000 armoured personnel carriers 300 combat aircraft and 1,000 artillery pieces the Pentagon reported. Hurd cites Pilot morale As Factor in ending War London apr Allied troops were kept from plunging deeper into Iraq because of worries of Long term entanglement and the increasing reluctance of pilots to attack defenceless iraqi forces foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said Friday. A a some people argue that the coalition should have carried the fight to Baghdad and demanded Saddam a head a Hurd wrote in an article in the times of London on the first anniversary of iraqis invasion of Kuwait. But he said the decision not to pursue the iraqis was influenced by several factors including the morale of fighter pilots and fears of being caught up in trying to govern Iraq if Saddam Hussein was ousted. A in fact once the iraqi forces had effectively lost their capacity to defend themselves Many pilots were reluctant to continue the fight a he wrote. A first the coalition explicitly limited its objectives to those set out in the United nations resolutions which related to the liberation of Kuwait. A second had we gone to Baghdad we would have found ourselves forced to choose and then sustain a new iraqi government. Once drawn into the morass of iraqi politics extricating ourselves would Nave been difficult our soldiers would have been at risk and support would have been in March Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf head of coalition troops during the persian Gulf War indicated he had recommended pursuing the fleeing iraqi forces. But later defense Secretary Dick Cheney said Schwarzkopf raised no objection to ending the War. World armament manuals indicated before the War that Iraq had about 5,500 tanks about 7,100 armoured personnel carriers about 3,000 pieces of towed artillery and about 500 self propelled models and about 800 combat aircraft. The Best of iraqis tanks issued chiefly to his Republican guard divisions that Ted the invasion of Kuwait on aug. 2 and then dug into the desert to face Allied armoured units West of Kuwait were soviet built t-72s that were no match for the mia1 Abrams fielded by the . Forces. Iraqi air Force pilots fled with 139 aircraft to neighbouring Iran some 42 were downed in Aerial engagements and 61 were destroyed on the ground. Others were destroyed after the War. Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams noted that the kinds of tanks left in Saddam a inventory a Are considerably less effective than the tanks Jie had before. Now he has the of it Ier less effective Page 1 without risk through no notice inspections and by ensuring that everyone who is coming Back to the states is aware of the rules and their responsibilities for abiding by those rules a the official said. But that is not acceptable to the other agencies involved. A it Isnit up to the level of scrutiny that we think is appropriate for overseas shipments a said a customs service official. A a we be told the air Force that they can do this if they want to but that they expect us to just Clear these shipments through when they reach the United states a he said. A we be discharging our duty if we did he said the percentage of shipments to be inspected at any one port will be up to customs service officials at that location and will depend on How Many inspectors Are available How Busy the port is and other factors. A we done to want to cause delays but some Are probably inevitable a he said. A a it a not a Good axe said he has not heard of any logjam developing yet. A but there May be problems before too Long a he said. A a you re talking about thousands of the customs service official said his Agency has been in Contact with air Force officials on the Issue. A formally at this Point their decision stands a he said. A but there have been some indications that a change Mayi get maj. Bob Howell chief of traffic management with Safe said he comment on a possible settlement because nothing a has been approved or implemented he said the air Force was trying to save manpower with its pared Down custom inspections and there a been a backlash Page 1 a presentation Are a matter concerning the palestinians and not anyone else a he told a news conference. He said it would be up to the Plo to decide whether to join peace talks. Shamir claimed thursday that the americans have accepted the israeli conditions and hinted that any attempt at Compromise could scuttle the peace prime minister said Israel had agreements with . Officials that a there wont be Plo people that there wont be people from East Jerusalem that there wont be people from the Diaspora in the palestinian delegation. A it the Issue of palestinian representation is so important that if they propose to us some solution that we Are not ready to accept this is Likely to change the whole situation a he said on Israel television. Levy in an interview Friday in the daily Haartz pushed responsibility for starting talks onto the palestinians. A it is possible to say that the Ball is in the palestinian court he said. It has taken Baker six trips to the Region to win israelis agreement to a . And soviet sponsored conference that would Lead to what the jewish state has always demanded a direct negotiations with each Arab state. Syria Jordan and Lebanon now have agreed to the formula which is expected to include a joint jordanian palestinian delegation to discuss autonomy for the 1.7 million residents of the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip. Both sides say the composition of the palestinian delegation is a matter of Content that will shape the course of talks including whether the future of Jerusalem is negotiable. Israel annexed East Jerusalem after capturing it in the 1967 six Days War and said it is not up for bargaining. The palestinians want the Eastern sector to be their capital. Israel also seized the West Bank from Jordan and the Gaza strip from Egypt in the 1967 conflict. Shamir said after meeting with Baker that he would recommend to his government that Israel attend a superpower sponsored peace conference on condition the dispute Over palestinian negotiators is resolved. He will probably win the backing of the 21-member coalition Cabinet at its sunday session. Tipsy no takes shortcut to ticket Pir Masens Germany a amps a a non commissioned officer stationed in the Pir Masens area has added a new meaning to Good Ger Man american relations. The inebriated Soldier drove herself to the local German police station where she was cited for driving while intoxicated. The no had had a few drinks before setting out to find a restaurant that she was not familiar with. When she became lost she decided to Stop at the local police station to ask for directions according to the German newspapers die Rhein Falz and the firm Senser Zeitung. Instead she received a breathalyzer test and a citation and was turned Over to military police. One Pir Masens Community member made the Tongue in Cheek comment that it just shows the lengths to which our soldiers will go to help out their German neighbors. Pir Masens officials would not release the soldiers identity or unit
