European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday August 18, 1991 a a it we a amp it a Quot amp a two soldiers take part in a successful attack on a kuwaiti Oil Welt lire Friday. Army does crack Job in Oil Well fire attack ahmad1, Kuwait a the . Army on Friday attacked a kuwaiti Oil Well fire a and won. The Mission pitted a combat engineering vehicle a a modified m60 tank a against a 13-foot Mound of Coke and debris that had built up around a burning Well making it difficult for firefighters to reach the Well to repair it. Shortly after Dawn Friday an army Cev opened fire with 10 High explosive rounds and broke the hardened Coke into chunks that now can be scooped  a they be done a Good Job a said Danny Clayton manager of the red Adair inc. Firefighting team that will extinguish and Cap the Well a they probably saved us three or four Days of  Clayton said that normally his Crew would use dynamite to blast through the Coke which is a hardened mass of Sand hydrocarbons and Salt. Oil Well bg-93 in the. Burgan Field near Ahmadi is among More than 730 Oil Wells that iraqi troops blew up with plastic explosives during their seven month occupation of Kuwait. Larry flak who coordinates firefighting for the Kuwait Oil co., said that 301 of the damaged Wells had been capped by Friday Kuwait estimates it will take until March to extinguish most of the Wells and millions of dollars to repair them. Help on Friday came from the 58th combat engr co of Fulda Germany. It is among the support units assigned to Kuwait with the 11th army Cav regt. Each of the 10 rounds fired Friday was preceded by the radioed warning a on the  fired from 350 Yards away nine of the 62-Pound shells scored direct hits on the Mound and one skimmed the top. Each hit sent a Ball of Black soot into the air and chunks of Coke flying from the site. The wartime targets of Cess would be enemy bunkers buildings and Bridges. A a it a excellent training a said capt Kevin Woods commander of the engineering unit. A a it a a live Mission with a real outcome instead of an inert  Brig. Gen. Robert a. Goodbary commander of the . Troops in Kuwait said he was pleased a that we can use a piece of equipment of War for peaceful and humanitarian  another observer was Michael Black who came into Kuwait As a Soldier during operation desert storm with the 24th inf div now he works for the Kuwait owned Santa be co. That supports the firefighters. He and his Crew on Friday were to begin pulling the shattered Coke away from the Well. A Small world Isnit it a he said. Leaves the party Moscow apr Alexander Yakovlev one of Mikhail s. Gorbachev a closest advisers and philosopher behind Many of his reforms has joined millions of countrymen who  communist party. Yakovleva a departure Friday came a Day after a party commission recommended he be expelled for helping form the democratic Reform movement a Loose coalition that May Challenge the ruling communists. The party lost his powerful voice for Reform at a time of political turmoil in which it is losing membership prestige and Power and is deeply split Between hard liners and advocates of a free mar Ket democracy. Yakovleva a departure increases the likelihood that Gorbachev will fail the reformers will break away and the party increasingly will be dominated by orthodox officials clinging to Central control and Little tolerance of dissent. The reformist Rossinskaya Gazita newspaper predicted saturday that the party a will pay a dear Price for having expelled one of perestroika a architects a after Yakovlev the last party intellectuals who used to cherish Hope for renewal of the communist party will  Yakovlev 67, is the latest of several leading reformers to quit or be expelled from the party As it splits. Others include a former foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze a who had issued similar warnings about hard liners. A the vice president of the russian Republic Alexander Rutski. Insulted and disgusted Yakovlev said Friday he was turning in his party card because stalinist hard liners Are plotting a a party and state  a i would like to warn society that an influential stalinist group has formed within the leadership Core of the party speaking against the political course since 1985, and slowing social progess in the country a Yakovlev said in his resignation letter. Quot the party leadership despite its declarations has freed itself from the democratic Wing in the party and is making preparations for social revenge a party and state coup a he said. Yakovlev did not elaborate on the coup preparations or indicate whether he was warning of a Concrete Effort to overthrow Gorbachev the soviet president and party Leader or was speaking More generally and rhetorically about the Aims of hard liners. A the danger is already real a Yakovlev said in an interview that appeared saturday in the Independent Nezah Samaya newspaper. From Gorbachev a ascension to Power in 1985 until last year Yakovlev was among his top advisers and was widely viewed As the designer of his policy of glasnost or greater openness. Iranian official denies women face death for improper dress Nicosia Cyprus a an iranian official on saturday denied that women could face the death penalty for ignoring islamic dress rules that require them to cover their hair and bodies the islamic Republic news Agency reported. A those who do not observe the islamic dress codes in Iran Are not executed and what the Western Media have attributed to me Are pure lies a prosecutor general Abolfazl Musavi Tabrizi told Irna monitored in Nicosia. In a phone in program on Tehran radio thursday the prosecutor general said ignoring the dress code would be considered apostasy punishable by death under Iran a islamic Laws. The full veiling known As Hijab was reintroduced As Law after the 1979 islamic revolution. Hard Core followers of the late revolutionary Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini object to any weakening of the islamic Laws and demand that women be punished even if their hair just slips from under the covering. But the government led by president Hashemi a Sfanjani has sought to ease some of the stricter Laws on personal conduct. A fight Over attempts to detain women who were not considered fully covered precipitated a riot in the Central City of Isfahan last month. Girl 8, killed in Accident boy 4, injured Karlstedt Germany a the 8 Mitchell and her son octavious were year old daughter of a 2nd army div still in a German Hospital in Bremer hav fwd Soldier was killed and the soldiers in on Friday Thompson said. Their injun 4-year-old son was seriously injured in a one car Accident thursday afternoon a division spokesman said Friday. Tavia Mitchell died when the car driven by her Mother spec. Leslie Mitchell left autobahn 27 near Bremerhaven said Heinz Thompson of the division Public affairs office. Ries and condition were not known. Mitchell is an administrative specialist assigned to he co 498th support in on Clay Cavern. The cause of the Accident has not been determined Thompson said. German and american authorities Are  blast kills Soldier on patrol in Northern Ireland Belfast Northern Ireland a a bomb blast killed a Soldier who was on patrol saturday morning in South Armagh escalating the tit for Tat violence that has claimed eight lives in As Many Days. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing but suspicion fell on the Irish Republican army which has targeted the Security forces in its Campaign to end British Rule in protestant dominated Northern Ireland and unite the province with the overwhelmingly roman Catholic Republic of Ireland. The Royal Ulster constabulary the provinces police Force said the unidentified Soldier was a member of a patrol operating near Newtown Hamilton. No other members of the patrol were injured police said. Security forces sealed off the area. The seven other people killed during the last week included five catholics and two protestants. The Soldier was the 50th person to die in political and sectarian violence in the province this year compared with 76 throughout last year and nearly 3,000 people since violence erupted in 1969. On Friday night Security forces fired plastic bullets to disperse two Small groups of roman Catholic youths throwing gasoline bombs and rocks in Belfast after the slaying of two catholics earlier in the Day. Belfast police Headquarters said in a statement the two autos were set on fire in the sporadic violence which faded out in the Early hours of saturday. But police said no major incidents were reported an nobody was injured or arrested. Thomas Donaghy a former Ira guerrilla and Matin of prey a member of the Irish Peoples liberation organization another outlawed Catholic National guerrilla group were slain Friday