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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, September 25, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                7 sad dam did t bite the bait Dod source say croatian hotel bombed a guest at hotel Zagreb in Karl bag Yugoslavia pauses monday to look at damage caused by rockets from a Federal army Jet. The War plane attacked croatian Sites sunday in violation of a new cease fire agreement. See Story on Page 2. By Melissa Healy and kob1n Wright los Angeles times Washington a the Pentagon awaited orders monday to dispatch ground forces along with additional fighter planes bombers and combat helicopters to saudi Arabia and Kuwait As indications mounted that at least a limited military deployment could come As Early As this week. At the White House an inter Agency group met through the afternoon to evaluate a Range of options. Those options will then be relayed to president Bush in new York As possible administration recommendations to the . Security Council. Pentagon sources said the options included dispatching some combat units possibly including elements of the 82nd airborne div to provide support and ground Security for helicopter escort operations. Those units would also provide Security for airfields ports and bases that would be used if an outbreak of hostilities required the introduction of heavier forces. A Saddam did no to bite the bait a said one Pentagon official referring to last weeks warning by Bush that the United states was prepared to use military Force if iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein continued to obstruct . Arms inspection teams. A and that Means Well now have to prove we mean business or he gets away with  with Iraq already ostracized politically and sanctioned economically . Officials said that there were no viable alternatives except military act i. A a he a isolated he a rejected. We can to impose any More harsh economic or political measures against him a an administration official said. Reversing the recent . Decision that allowed Baghdad limited Oil sales for humanitarian purposes would Hurt the iraqi people rather than the government he added. The warplanes and helicopters which were awaiting deployment orders at . Bases would join air and naval forces already in the Region to provide military escorts for . Inspection missions. At fort Bragg n.c., Home of the 82nd airborne army officials said that a a ready brigade specially trained and equipped for rapid movement continued its Normal operations pending further word of a deployment. The army ready brigade is designed to be Able to depart for world hot spots within 18 hours of receiving orders. At the same time officials stressed that a re see Saddam on Page 2iraq detains . Inspectors again United nations a iraqi troops detained . Nuclear weapons inspectors in Baghdad again tuesday and demanded that they turn Over a videotape and documents collected in their search of a records keeping building . Officials said. David Kay head of the inspection team said 60 armed iraqi Security men were surrounding the . Team members at the Baghdad building where they examined documents on iraqis nuclear program tuesday. A we have been detained for 5 i hours a he said in a Telephone interview with can from Baghdad. A we done to have Freedom of movement. A a it a not a pleasant experience a he said noting that night was approaching and that the guards were armed. But he added he did not feel a a hostility from the iraqis and did not believe the lives of the team were in danger. The same team was detained for More than 12 hours monday at a different site when it found and copied documents it said proved Iraq has been developing nuclear weapons. Iraqi soldiers seized the papers from the inspectors. Johan Molander spokesman for the . Special commission in charge of finding and demolishing iraqis weapons of mass destruction said the inspectors tuesday found a significant records at the documents repository but not Blue see Iraq on Page 2 former spymaster Wolf arrested after surrendering in Germany by Kevin Costelloe the associated press Berlin a former East German spymaster Markus Wolf returned to Germany Early tuesday and was a ested on espionage treason and bribery charges. For Welics German news Media have speculated whether the legendary espionage Boss would a come in from the  in recent interviews he said he wanted to return and hoped that courts would Clear him of All charges. Now that he has surrendered after a Short stay in Austria investigators will be eager to question Wolf about his three decades of spying on West Germany. That information includes his planting of a spy in the office of then West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. When the agents Wolf cover was blown in 1974, Brandts government fell. Wolf 68, already has made it Clear that some germans May find it uncomfortable to have him around. In an interview in the current Issue of Bunte Magazine Wolf said he knew things that a politicians and authorities in Germany would not necessarily be interested in seeing  Hans Jirgen Forster spokesman for the Federal prosecutors office said Wolf was arrested at the Ger Man austrian Border tuesday morning. Wolf is wanted in Germany for espionage treason and bribery. He headed East Germany a intelligence network from 1958 to 1987. Forster said a magistrate would decide later in the Day whether to keep Wolf in jail or free him pending further investigation. Wolf fled abroad shortly before German unification oct. 3, 1990, and had been living in Moscow since last year. He flew to Austria on aug. 30.eight people enter an experimental world  pages 14-16  
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