European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes wednesday october 30,1991 . Will Clear iraqi site of deadly chemical arms by Joseph Albright Cox news service Washington a fifty Miles Northwest of Baghdad the United nations is preparing to demilitarized what one . Inspector called a the most dangerous place in the world a a storage Yard strewn with leaking iraqi chemical weapons and unexploded american bombs. A the condition of the munitions and bulk agents is not Good a Robert l. Gallucci Deputy chief of the . Special commission on Iraq said monday. A we have a substantial amount of leaking agents we have overpressure developing in the bulk chemical containers. The situation is not stable it is not  Gallucci identified iraqis site As the a1 Muthanna state facility a desert compound near the ancient City of Samarra along the Tigris River. Before operation desert storm it was iraqis main Poison Gas factory and Gas storage site. During the air War bombers knocked out the Gas making machinery but thousands of containers of nerve and Mustard Gas Are still stored there in open held or in Concrete bunkers. At a seminar Gallucci said a Large team of . Inspectors is now at a1 Muthanna considering the safest Way to destroy iraqis remaining chemicals starting Early next year. He estimated that the task will Cost $100 million to $200 million and require one to two years. Gallucci said that in the last four months . Inspectors in Iraq have found a a truly extraordinary Quantity of War chemicals at a1 Muthanna and lesser Sites scattered throughout Iraq. His list which has already been reported to the . Security Council included a 30 warheads for scud Type missiles already filled with a mixture of go and of nerve agents. A 45,000 artillery projectiles containing nerve agents or Mustard Gas. A 600 to 700 tons of barrels containing nerve agents Mustard Gas and military strength tear Gas. He said the 30 scud Type warheads which Iraq disclosed to the United nations last april were found by the inspectors at an outlying site Ana transported to Al Muthanna for safekeeping. At Ai Muthanna he said the inspectors worked last summer in 115-degree heat inside chemical suits inspecting hundreds of unmarked barrels and artillery projectiles. He said one senior . Inspector cited this uncertainty in calling the site a the most dangerous place in the  Gallucci said an iraqi Soldier was nearly killed last summer while helping a . Team destroy some projectiles. Iraqi supervisors on the site assured the inspectors the cylinders were empty. But one projectile a Small rocket exploded and spewed a nerve agent a few Yards from the Soldier. French Painter Marc Monier works at his easel while fire and Black smoke gush from a kuwaiti Oil Well fire. Artist has Brush with Kuwait s flames Burgan Oil Field Kuwait a the destructive Beauty of Oil Wells set ablaze by the iraqi army Drew hundreds of news photographers to Kuwait. Now it has become the subject for French artist Marc Monier. Monier 44, is painting the burning Wells and the firefighters bringing them under control. Working at his easel in this Field South of Kuwait City Monier described the firefighting As a a very important events and added a i would like to capture it before it  Monier arrived in Kuwait five weeks ago and knows his Days Here Are numbered. Iraqi troops damaged or set afire 732 Wells before Kuwait a liberation by Allied forces last feb. 26. Just 26 remain to be brought under control and the last Well is expected to be extinguished during the first week of november. Monier found painting amid the smoke and fire of a burning Oil Field quite different from his recent stint in Tahiti where he followed in the footsteps of 19th-Century French Painter Paul Gauguin. He said the constant movement of the fires and the firefighters made his Job difficult. �?o1  ask the firefighters to Stop their work and pose for me so i took photographs of them at work and i will fill in the faces when i go Back to Paris a Monier said. Another problem he had to Deal with was the Oil droplets that spotted his Canvas whenever he worked too near a gushing Well. A i thought it was Nice to have Little spots but it was like a storm of spots a Monier said. Some blotches will stay to add a touch of reality to his Oil paintings he added. He Hopes to have the show ready to mount at the French embassy on Kuwait a National Day feb. 25. Firefighters have befriended him. A it was a Little strange to see a Painter Here a said Chalky Haverkamp 54, of Las vegas who works for the Oklahoma based Cudd pressure control co. A but he a become friends with  firefighters visit him to look at his canvases and to bring him drinks and food. A they Check on the paintings the Way they Check on the Wells a Monier said. They also occasionally have to worry about him. A once i was painting a dead tree and suddenly the wind changed and i was shrouded with smoke a he said. A american first Aid workers came Over to make sure i was of and offered me  the Friendship works both ways. Monier has Given some of his friends Little presents a charcoal sketches of nude women. A a it a better than the fires a Haverkamp said. World turkish troops withdraw after raids on iraqi kurd from wire reports Diyarbakir Turkey a Turkey withdrew its soldiers from Northern Iraq on monday after an incursion aimed at wiping out separatist turkish kurdish guerrilla bases Anatolia news Agency reported. The sem official Agency said kurdish fighters reported 12 people killed and serious damage inflicted on several kurdish villages by turkish air raids Over the past three Days. Anatolia quoted a Clandestine radio broadcast by the iraqi Kurdistan democratic party from inside Iraq. The military and the government deny targeting civilian areas but the turkish foreign ministry said a delegation would go to Northern Iraq to investigate. It was the third time in three months that the turkish military crossed into Iraq Hunting for turkish kurdish rebels from the Kurdistan labor party. The actions followed attacks on turkish military posts near the Southeastern  hopeful on Liberia Abidjan Ivory coast a former president Carter left War ravaged Liberia on monday saying he could help organize elections within seven months despite concerns about renewed fighting. Carter said in Abidjan that he was pleased with a a commitment to the peace process displayed in meetings with rebel Leader Charles Taylor and Amos Sawyer head of a West african backed interim government. He said the two sides appeared More willing than Ever to make concessions. Carter spent the weekend in Monrovia capital of Liberia behind the rebel lines of Taylor whose fighters have overrun most of the Countryside. Carter who Heads an Atlanta based organization dedicated to conflict Resolution was invited to help organize elections and to end the 20-month-old civil War which has Cost More than 13.000  kills 1,000 new Delhi India a an epidemic of cholera and gastroenteritis has claimed More than 1.000 lives in the Eastern state of Assam a news report said monday. Press Trust of India news Agency said the deaths occurred in different parts of Assam during the past month. The state is facing a separatist rebellion by ethnic  rites scheduled for Pitburg master sergeant Pitburg a Germany a a memorial service will be held at 1 30 . Today at the Pitburg housing Chapel for master sgt. Patrick m. Fair 35, of Redondo Beach Calif. He was pronounced dead on arrival at 11 05 . Friday at the base Hospital emergency room after being found by co workers. The cause of death has not been determined. Fair was the non commissioned officer in charge at the 36th equipment Maint Sqq a aircraft Battle damage repair facility. He is survived by his wife Dolores and two sons Lawrence 18, and Christopher 7. A memorial support fund has been established for the family. Donations can be made to merchants Bank account number 267252145.Wiesbaden army officer found dead in her Home Wiesbaden Germany a amps a an army officer assigned to a unit in Wiesbaden was found dead in the basement of her Home tuesday afternoon a 3rd corps support come spokesman said. The woman died of a Bullet wound said capt. Jerry Lowe. She had been reported missing from duty tuesday  military police found the woman a body after a Brief search of her on base residence Lowe said. The woman a name was being withheld tuesday night pending notification of relatives