European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Iraqi troops buried alive during assault officers say by Patrick j. Sloyan new Day fort Riley Kan. The . Army division that broke through Saddam Hussein a defensive front line used plows mounted on tanks and combat earthmover to Bury thousands of iraqi soldiers a some still alive and firing their weapons a in More than 70 Miles of trenches according to . Army officers. In the first two Days of ground fighting in operation desert storm three brigades of the 1st inf div Mecha the big red one a used the grisly innovation to destroy trenches and bunkers being defended by More than 8,000 iraqi soldiers according to division estimates. While 2,000 soldiers surrendered iraqi dead and wounded As Well As defiant soldiers still firing their weapons were buried beneath tons of Sand according to participants in the carefully planned and rehearsed assault. A once we went through there other than the ones who surrendered there Wasny to anybody left a said capt. Bennie Williams who was awarded the Silver Star for his role in the assault. The unprecedented tactic has been hidden from Public View reporters were banned from witnessing the feb. 24-25 attack that occurred near the tip of the Neutral zone that straddles the Border Between saudi Arabia and Iraq. Not a single american was killed during the attack that made an iraqi body count impossible. A for All i know we could have killed thousands a said col. Anthony Moreno commander of the 2nd brigade that led the assault on the heaviest defences. A see iraqi on Page 2 terrorists vow hostage help Beirut Lebanon apr pro iranian kidnappers released a photo of american hostage Terry Anderson on thursday and said they were willing to help the . Leader end the hostage crisis. A we pay warm tribute to the immense efforts exerted by . Secretary general Javier Perez see related Story on Page 3 de Cuellar said the statement from islamic jihad or islamic holy War. A at the same time we consider wednesdays release operation a positive step we at the same time consider it an incomplete one unless it culminates in freeing All our imprisoned  taints military Justice in Germany Fletcher says by Janet Howells Tierney Washington Bureau Washington a racial discrimination seems to spill Over into the . Military Justice system in Germany where service members claim the Black to White ratio of prisoners in military jails is about 4-to-l, the chairman of the . Commission on civil rights said wednesday at a news conference. Arthur a. Fletcher a comments in Washington were made in conjunction with the release of his preliminary report on civil rights complaints he received during an August visit to five military installations in Germany. At the news conference he emphasized that the reports contents were a mine and mine  he noted a this was not a . Commission on civil rights sponsored trip the report is not a commission report and this is not a commission hosted press conference. But i will be briefing the commission on its contents at its monthly meeting this  Fletcher strip to Europe was sponsored by the National association for the advancement of coloured people among other organizations. In his report Fletcher said evidence also seems to support allegations that about four Black youths for every one White Are sent Back to the United states from Europe when they have serious conflicts in the overseas military communities or with local nationals. Fletcher on wednesday elaborated on complaints he first Laid out in an exclusive interview with the stars and stripes published aug. 21. In that interview he said he had received a hundreds of complaints fro see Fletcher on Page 2 Puri in uni a Tuii Imi amp Aiudi oct Etc i Wincn Uii Cuba says Gorbachev did t consult on pullout Mexico City apr the cuban in addition to Lourdes the soviet is Keg Voigt past blends with future this Chrysler 300 concept car a space age design with the look of a roadster from the �?T30s, will be a big draw at the 54th International automobile show in Frankfurt Germany. The exhibition starts saturday. See pages 14-16. Mexico City a the cuban government has lashed out at soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev saying he had announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from Cuba without warning his formerly close ally. The foreign ministry said wednesday that Gorbachev had shown a a inappropriate behaviour by failing to consult before making the announcement. The text of the ministry statement was distributed by the official cuban news Agency Prensa Latina and monitored in Mexico City. The foreign ministry said Gorbachev was wrong when he said there were 11,000 soviet troops in Cuba the number is a substantially lower and the troop presence is largely a symbolic a it said. Western experts said the soviet Union probably has Between 6,800 and 7,700 people in Cuba a a third soldiers a third advisers and a third intelligence analysts. Gorbachev did not give a timetable for a pullout or say whether the reduction would affect the Lourdes electronic intelligence gathering facility outside Havana. Raymond Duncan a former Cia analyst on Cuba and political science professor at the state University of new York in Brockport said Lourdes is the largest external intelligence facility outside the soviet Union. In addition to Lourdes the soviets have a naval base in Cuba and have sent reconnaissance flights up the East coast from the Island. The foreign ministry played Down the importance of the soviet military presence in Cuba. But Paul Beaver editor of the London based military publication Jane a defence weekly has said cuban soldiers Are armed and trained almost entirely by soviets. Cuba expert Gillian Gunn at the Carnegie endowment for International peace in Washington said the troop pull out had symbolic importance but the economic relationship with the soviet Union was what mattered most. Cuba gets nearly All of its Oil from the soviet Union and the Lions share of its manufactured goods and grains. Secretary of defense Dick Cheney agreed that the economic relationship w3s key. A if they insist on payment in hard currency for the Oil they be already provided and barter for sugar i think All of that will have an Impact upon the stability of the cuban government Cheney said. Gorbachev said he intended to continue Trade with Cuba. A we intend to transform our relations with Cuba to a plane of mutually beneficial Trade and economic ties a he said