European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes tuesday november 12,1991israel bids stately Farewell to Maxwell by Clyde Haberman the new York times Jerusalem a the shrouded body of Robert Maxwell was lowered on sunday into a Rocky grave on the mount of olives where jews since biblical times have found permanent rest. His funeral then burial a the latter As the Sun set purple and Gold Over Jerusalem s imposing Walls a was a remarkable Farewell by Israel to the powerful International publisher who died last tuesday at 68 under circumstances that Are still unclear. The ceremonies were of a sort ordinarily reserved for eminent israeli leaders not a foreign businessman who had drifted from his jewish roots until he rediscovered them. Yet for Maxwell the country a political leadership turned out in Force including prime minister Yitzhak Shamir and president Chaim Herzog who eulogized the once poor Empire builder As a a figure of almost mythological stature a one whose life exemplified much of modern jewish history. A refugee from Czechoslovakia whose family was All but wiped out by the nazis Maxwell was a self made in the literal sense of the phrase a Herzog said. The israeli president wore a Black hat As he stood Over the publishers body which Lay on a Stretcher covered by a Broad prayer shawl. A the scaled the Heights a Herzog continued speaking both in hebrew and English. A Kings and Nobles came to his door. Many admired him. Many disliked him. But no one remained indifferent to  Maxwell the publisher of the new York daily news London a daily Mirror and other newspapers and the owner of Book companies and other enterprises was a British citizen and a Strong supporter of Israel. Yet his relationship with Israel had become a source of Contention just before he died with an american author suggesting in a new Book that he had links with the Mossad Israel s secret service. Maxwell had called the portrayal a ludicrous a total invention a and brought a libel action against the writer Seymour m. Hersh who in turn filed a counter suit. On sunday speakers and other mourners praised the publishers contributions to Israel Many of which took place in the 1980s and included business investments and assistance in making it easier for soviet jews to come to this country. Herzog singled out Maxwell s Aid for a the Security of our  there was no Public mention of the Mossad controversy either in the spare convention Center where maxwells body Lay in state or later at his burial in a grave purchased on the wind stroked mount of olives where the world s oldest jewish cemetery sprawls across a from left Kevin Philip and Ian Maxwell sons of the late publisher Robert Maxwell Comfort each other. Slope. After the publishers body was recovered five Days ago in Waters off the Canary islands where he had been sailing on his yacht the Spanish authorities said he had died from heart and lung failure. But exactly How he ended up in the Atlantic remains a mystery and his wife Elizabeth before accompanying maxwells body to Jerusalem called the autopsy report a totally  she led family and friends in saying Farewell sunday starting at israelis main convention Hall. Hundreds of people turned out a a crowd As diverse As Maxwell s life was Complex. There were Cabinet ministers and curiosity seekers. There were hasidic rabbis from the Lubavitcher movement As Well As a former archbishop of Canterbury lord Coggan. Also at . To ship most military gear from saudi Arabia within weeks Manama Bahrain a some 250,000 tons of ammunition will remain behind but by mid december All other . Army tanks and other equipment will be shipped Home from saudi Arabia the . Military said sunday. Maj. Charles Hayes a spokesman for the . Military s joint information Bureau in Dhahran saudi Arabia said the ammunition would be shipped Back by april. In All 350,000 tons of ammunition was sent to the kingdom the main deployment Point for . Forces fighting to drive iraqi troops from Kuwait. Hayes said that army logistics teams were Busy cleaning packing and shipping Back the remaining 10,000 of an original 129,800 tanks tracked vehicles and wheeled vehicles deployed in the kingdom. The United states has signed agreements with Kuwait and Bahrain to leave weapons behind As part of a Security pact. But saudi Arabia is unwilling to allow such equipment on its soil. About 10,000 army personnel were still in saudi Arabia he said. Hayes said most would be Home by Christmas. The army troops stationed there Aren t the same ones sent to the country in february. Those remaining now have rotated into the Region replacing those who took part in the military Campaign. He said he could not speak for the . Navy which still deploys 25 ships and 18,500 sailors and marines or for the air Force which has 5,000 personnel and about 70 warplanes in saudi Arabia. Allies wrecked 17 Wells kuwaiti says Kuwait apr at least 17 of the hundreds of damaged Oil Wells in Kuwait were destroyed by Allied air bombardment during the persian Gulf War a kuwaiti official was quoted sunday As saying. Issa Bou Yabis head of the kuwaiti firefighting team told the Al Abas daily a so far we have been Able to count 17 Wells that have been hit by Aerial bombardment. But most. Were set ablaze by the  some 732 Wells were set ablaze or damaged by retreating iraqi occupation forces last february. The last two Well fires were put out last week and the Wells capped according to Oil officials. That ended the firefighting Effort at least four months ahead of schedule. Bou Yabis urged the government to maintain the same momentum to reconstruct the Oil sector by rehabilitating the damaged Wells and rebuilding the Oil installations destroyed by the iraqis. Scientists Are assessing How serious the Long term damage to the oilfields will be. Kuwaiti officials said that tests on several Wells capped Early in the operation showed surprisingly Little damage to underground reservoirs. Tending were Natan Sharansky the former soviet jewish dissident who now lives in Israel and Victor Louis a soviet journalist who often sen Edas the communists pipeline for official thinking. One of maxwells sons Philip told the mourners that his father a never forgot his  by some accounts that was not fully accurate. Newspapers in Jerusalem reported Over the weekend that when Maxwell was elected As a labor party member of the British parliament in 1964, he objected to a mention of his jewishness by the jewish chronicle of Britain. He belonged to the Church of England he reportedly said then. But in the end he died a jew and was buried As one alongside the thousands of other Graves facing the walled old City of Jerusalem. World philippine storm toll reaches estimated 6,000 from wire reports Oroc Philippines a six thousand people probably died during last weeks floods and landslides the Philippines civil defense director said sunday As a new and stronger storm bore Down on this Island nation. President Corazon Aquino promised More Aid for this commercial and agricultural City where most of the victims died when tropical storm Thelma hit the islands of Leyte and Negros last tuesday. Aquino flew to Oroc on sunday with the ambassadors from the United states and Japan to inspect Relief  staying away Belgrade Yugoslavia a Yugoslavia a income from tourism this year will be under $400 million at least seven times less than expected Media reports said sunday. Quoting the yugoslav tourist association the Tan Jug news Agency also said that figures for May and june already showed a drop of 80 percent in the number of foreign tourists compared with 1990 data. Early this year before the civil War started in Croatia the association was hopeful that tourists would bring to Yugoslavia an equivalent of Between $3 billion and $5 billion in hard currency. Most of the $400 million was earned before june 26 when the Brief War in Slovenia started