European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 24, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 9 a amps j. King Cruger in the left photo sgt. Michael Hamilton left and staff sgt. John of Curgian from the 526th fighter so at Ramstein a Germany disarm missiles on an f-16 after it returned to in Ciurlik a from a flight Over Iraq. At right capt. David Specht an a-10 Pilot talks with his Crew chief sgt. Harold Gough. Both deployed from Raf Woodbridge  sound of Freedom roars above iraqis lie Low by j. Kin Cruger Mediterranean Bureau Adana Turkey a Allied reconnaissance flights Over Northern Iraq Are finding Saddam Hussein a much diminished air Force hunkered Down in shelters and his ground forces largely confined to garrisons. Surveillance missions Over Northern Iraq operate around the clock from in Ciurlik a in Southern Turkey near the City of Adana. The flights Are being flown by operation provide comforts air component to protect kurd. A we Are learning every Day about what he has and his capabilities a said air Force it. Col. Ron Winter Deputy commander of operations for incur like a 39th tac group. A the intelligence Community is doing a Good Job of keeping up on where everybody is located a Winter Saia. A iraqi forces Are reconstituting. I done to see a threat out there in Northern Iraq. I just see a country trying to get reorganized. A the iraqi aircraft Are in shelters a he added. A they have not flown a sortie since they stopped flying in the  in the first weeks of operation desert storm Allied air strikes virtually wiped out All of iraqis command and control centers. A their system was shattered. Now they Are trying to rebuild their command and control communication systems. They have surveillance radars Back up a reported air Force col. Paul e. Dembrowsky chief of staff for the combined Allied task Force. A we have seen them the iraqis turn on their aircraft radars on the ground. That indicates that they Are doing maintenance on their aircraft a Dembrowsky said. Dembrowsky said Iraq May have 200 to 250 aircraft left out of the 700 combat aircraft before the persian Gulf War. A a it a a matter of conjecture How Many aircraft they May have left. In Iraq it is hard to Tell fact from fiction and there is a lot of fiction out there a Dembrowsky said. The allies have lots of eyes and ears on the ground in it s a matter of conjecture How Many aircraft they May have left in Iraq it is hard to Tell fact from fiction and there is a lot of fiction out there / a a col. Paul e. Dembrowsky Northern Iraq according to Dembrowsky and information from those sources constantly flows Back to in Ciurlik for analysis by intelligence experts. Reconnaissance aircraft Fly out to investigate suspicious sightings Dembrowsky said. The flights Many at Low Levels enable the allies to Monitor any movements of forces in Northern Iraq. The Allied flights also demonstrate the coalitions resolve to the Baghdad regime Dembrowsky said adding that Low level flights allow More people to see and hear a the sound of Freedom  the allies Send 30 to 40 fighter and reconnaissance sorties into Iraq every Day said Winter a resident of Manhattan Kan. The missions Down to the 36th parallel in Iraq Are being flown by . Air Force a-10 Thunderbolt us ef-111 Ravens f-16 fighting Falcons and full aard Varks and by British Jaguar and French Mirage photo reconnaissance planes. Reconnaissance aircraft Are supported by . Air Force and French tankers and by american airborne warning and control system planes. A we Are trying to keep something in the area of operations at All times. We could put More aircraft in there but then we would Start breaking air planes and having traffic problems a Winter said. A we Are varying the timing of the flights so that we Are  in Ciurlik generated 5 percent of the total combat sorties flown against Iraq during the War and Between its involvement in the War and its Effort to Aid the beleaguered kurd the base has operated at a frenetic Pace. In the first nine months of the year in Ciurlik recorded 93,953 takeoffs and landings. So familiar with Northern Iraq Are some of the pilots involved in the Allied air Effort that they can Fly around that country without a map Winter said. A if its North of the 36th parallel then it is like flying in our own Back Yard a said the 44-year-old Winter an f-16 Pilot. A these the current air operations Are the same things we did in the War a he said adding a when this thing provide Comfort started we just blew the dust off the  hints he d like Czechoslovakia in nato Washington a czechoslovak president Vaclav Havel told members of Congress on wednesday that his newly democratized country wants the closest possible ties with the North Atlantic treaty organization possibly including status As an associate member. Havel a comment came one Day after the Bush administration made Clear it will not support efforts by any of the former Warsaw pact members of Eastern Europe to join the 16-nation nato As associate members. The administration told Havel on tuesday that the United states can support Only a Liaison relationship with nato for Czechoslovakia Poland and Hungary a spokesman said. In a speech to members of the House foreign affairs and Senate foreign relations committees Havel said nato was important to Czechoslovakia a future Security. A we Are interested in having the fullest possible cooperation with the North Atlantic Alliance a cooperation that could Lead to some form of institutional link or associate membership a Havel said through a translator. The czechoslovak president also praised president Bush a sept. 27 Initia Tive on nuclear arms reductions calling it a truly revolutionary a and he said Nis country believed it was important for the United states to remain involved in Europe a Security affairs. In addition Havel said that while a it is not my objectives to continue arms sales to areas of tension a we Are not in a position to convert quickly the czechoslovak arms Export Industry to civilian uses. Meanwhile the administration signed a new investment treaty to Mark Havel a second visit to the United states since wresting Power from the communists in december 1989. Bush said the pact would assure a an attractive investment climate for american firms in Czechoslovakia which is suffering economic hardships because of a collapse in its exports particularly to the soviet Union. Assistant Secretary of state Thomas Niles said Havel during an hour Long meeting with Bush sought a More institutionalized relationship Between his country and nato to provide for increased Security. Despite the soviet unions new direction Havel voiced a a certain insecurity since his country Borders the Ukraine ruthenian area a former province of Czechoslovakia Niles said