European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 c the stars and stripes monday August 26, 1991kuwait worried As . Pullout nears Kuwait City Apas the withdrawn of the last . Troops approaches kuwaitis Are increasingly nervous about their nation s Security with Saddam 1 Hussein still in Power. A disagreements among persian Gulf states have blocked efforts to fashion a Domestic and regional military network. Meanwhile the 3.7do-member 1 Ullh army Cav regt is scheduled to begin leaving the emirate sept. 1. A you have to remember that Kuwait was traumatized by the iraqi invasion a said Khalifa Al Karafi. A member of the advisory National Council. A people remain very worried about  after iraqi troops invaded Kuwait on aug. 2, 1990, Kuwait s 20,300-member military crumbled a Border Buffer zone is now patrolled by . Units and kuwaiti police but there Are reports of iraqis crossing the Border to Salvage or smuggle weapons. Anxiety peaked last week during the soviet coup. Banks were besieged by kuwaitis fearful that soviet hard liners backing Saddam would replace Mikhail Gorbachev who supported the Allied forces that ousted Iraq from Kuwait in february. On thursday a the Day after Gorbachev regained control of the Kremlin a some members of Kuwait s advisory Council proposed negotiating 10-year military base agreements with the United states and Britain. Both countries rejected the idea saying they do not intend to maintain ground forces in Kuwait. Western diplomats and military officials acknowledged that Iraq has not Given up its Long standing claim to this Oil Rich emirate. But they also said that they believe Kuwait has not taken All Steps available to protect itself. As envisioned by the West Kuwait is to have a four tier a Security Blanket Quot a a Strong local army a backup regional Force . Observers on the Border and . Ships in the persian Gulf. Yet Kuwait a defense ministry has struggled to decide How to rebuild the nations 16,000-Man army whose ranks w Ere depleted with the departure of Many non kuwaiti soldiers. Under a plan drafted in March the regional Force was to have about 100,000 troops with egyptian and syrian soldiers backing up unit s from the six nation Gulf cooperation Council states of Kuwait saudi Arabia Bahrain. Oman Qatar and the United Arab emirates. Now the eight countries Are talking about a considerably smaller Force that May not hive a permanent base but would be organized on a standby basis. The British foreign office said in a statement that it will not consider stationing ground forces in the area. A . Diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity also said there were no plans for Basing . Troops permanently in Kuwait. Iraqi super gun the United nations plans to demolish this 170-foot-Long iraqi super gun that its inspectors lower left recently saw at Jabal Lla Rayn Iraq. The gun was de signed to fire chemical biological or nuclear weapons up to 1,000 Miles. The gun s existence was revealed under terms of the persian Gulf War  munitions explode scaring kuwaiti residents Kuwait up a a cargo of abandoned persian Gulf War munitions exploded at a military Camp near the capital late saturday creating panic among nearby residents but causing no reported injuries. The explosions began saturday evening when a truck loaded with munitions left in the desert by retreating iraqi troops exploded. The blast triggered a fire in four other trucks the Interior ministry said. The trucks were among 21 vehicles loaded with munitions at a military Camp in the suburb of Shu Daikh North of Kuwait City on the Highway to the Southern iraqi City of Basra according to the statement broadcast by official Kuwait radio. A the explosions caused no casualties and the concerned authorities began an investigation to determine the cause of the explosions a the statement said. The Shu Daikh area about live Miles from the City Center is Home to the defense ministry Headquarters army and police academics and u major military Camp. Witnesses said the explosions lasted about 20 minutes and could be heard for substantial distances causing panic among nearby residents. Last month a huge explosion ripped through a military base housing . Troops North of Kuwait killing five people and wounding More than 50 others. Saturdays explosions came one Day after Kuwait called for the deployment of . And British troops in the emirate to defend the country against any future threats by Iraq. Iraqi forces occupied Kuwait for seven months before being driven out by the .-led coalition in late  Are urged to Block Mideast peace conference from wire reports Cairo Egypt a Iran a spiritual Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lashed out sunday against the .-sponsored peace conference on the Middle East that is proposed for october and he called on muslims worldwide to foil the plan. Quot the satanic plan intends to Force the palestinian people into a Compromise in order to guarantee the Security of the zionist regime occupying gods Jerusalem Quot Iran a islamic Republic news Agency quoted Khamenei As saying. Irna monitored in Cairo said Khamenei was addressing leaders of the extremist islamic jihad for Palestine w to Are visiting Tehran. The group is believed to be holding a number of Western hostages kidnapped in Lebanon. Meanwhile , Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar said in Geneva sunday he was still hopeful for a Resolution to the Middle East hostage crisis de spite signs that negotiations on the Issue have lost impetus Perez de Cuellar said he planned to use a Short stay at the . European Headquarters in Geneva to a make an evaluation of the situation As it  he said he would meet today with his special hostage envoy Giandomenico Picco. Wallenberg file May be reopened Stockholm Sweden apr the swedish ambassador to Moscow said sunday the new Kab chief May open the Agency a secret files on the Fate of vanished swedish Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg who would be 78 years old if he is alive was arrested by the red army on spy allegations at the end of world War ii. As a Diplomat in the swedish embassy in Budapest he had saved the lives of tens of thousands of hungarian jews during the War. After years of silence the soviet government said in 1957 that Wallenberg had died in Lubianka prison of a heart attack in 1947. But Sweden has Given the soviets witness reports that Wallenberg was seen alive in the 1950s and �?T60s, and less reliable reports of sightings in the �?T70s and �?T80s, former Kab chief Vladimir Kryuchkov who lost his Job after participating in last weeks failed coup against soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had recently promised to open the secret police files on Wallenberg but never did said swedish ambassador Orjan Berner. Now a reformist Vadim Baratin has replaced Uryu Ehkaw. A with Baratin As the new head of Kab. The situation has changed radically Quot Berner said. A the is a very open person and w Illing to  t he swedish envoy said he had not had any communication with the new Kab chief on the matter but said �?o1 would be very surprised if the secretiveness will  he said he had no information about when files on the Case might be made available but did not expect anything to happen in the next few Days because of the upheaval in the soviet Union. 16 More deaths bring mount Pinatubo toll to 555 san Fernando Philippines apr sixteen More people forced to lice mount Pinatubo have died of disease bringing to 555 the number of fatalities connected to the Volcano since it erupted in june officials said sunday. Most of the latest victims who had been living in refugee Camps died of measles and gastrointestinal ailments regional officials said. The Volcano began erupting june 9, burying thousands of acres of Farmland in Ash and causing widespread flooding. Mount Pinatubo also forced the United states to abandon Clark a 10 Miles East of its slopes