European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a the stars and stripes thursday november 14, 1991iraq loaded scuds with chemicals but lacked expertise inspector says Vienna Austria apr Iraq loaded lethal chemicals onto scud missiles during the persian Gulf War but did not have the know How to use the rockets effectively in Battle a defense expert said wednesday. Quot no one knows whether it really would have worked a said it. Matthias Haydn part of a three member austrian team that visited Iraq on two . Inspection Tours. The scuds were discovered about 60 Miles North of Baghdad during the teams 19-Day visit ending sept. 11, Haydn said in a Telephone interview. The missiles were Quot prepared and in part loaded with poisonous chemicals he said. During the second Mission a a three week tour ending nov. 5 a inspectors found bombs and shells loaded with chemicals. The visit covered Sites in Mosul North of Baghdad As Well As in Southern Iraq about 120 Miles North of Basra and in Western Iraq Haydn said. The chemicals discovered included Sarin a liquid that quickly vaporizes and Mustard Gas. Both chemicals paralyse breathing in humans Haydn said. He said testing is needed to determine precisely what poisons were loaded on the scuds. Iraq bred dozens of scuds at Israel saudi Arabia and other areas during the War but All missiles carried conventional warheads. . Cease fire accords Call for the destruction of All iraqi weapons of mass destruction including its scuds and chemical agents. A soviet expert who was part of the first inspection team Quot just Shook his head when he looked at the technology used to modify the scud missiles Haydn said adding Quot he was amazed by the  Haydn one of some 25 expense from various countries involved in the inspection declined to speculate on How Many chemical weapons Iraq had available. He said destruction of some bases during the War made estimates impossible. In july . Officials said Iraq had 46,000 chemical munitions a about four times the number it declared in april. The United nations also said Iraq had about 3,000 tons of chemicals that could be used for weapons a almost five times More than it admitted previously. The United nations has not yet decided How the weapons can be destroyed Haydn said. They could be burned in High temperature incinerators or neutralized by chemical processes Haydn said. Mobile incinerators could be used if the weapons Are too unsafe to transport to Baghdad Haydn said. A team from the .�?Ts International atomic Energy Agency is in Iraq. That team is expected to leave Baghdad on nov. 18.deserf exercise brings memories to marines Gibbs Range Kuwait a about 150 . Marines flew to a Remote desert area tuesday for joint exercises with the kuwaiti military a a Mission that evoked memories but lacked the drama of the persian Gulf War. Quot last time there was definitely a cause that made it worthwhile to be away from Home a said chief warrant officer Tim Hoffman of Wheaton my. Quot the same excitement and enthusiasm Are not there but i have a Job to do and i am proud to do  the marines were transported by five helicopters from the amphibious assault ship Saipan moored off Kuwait City to Gibbs Range 50 Miles Northwest of the capital. The 12-Square-mile Range was developed by american forces on an area that was heavily bombed when a .-led coalition drove Iraq from Kuwait. Marines airmen and sailors a about 2,300 in All a who arrived in Kuwait aboard three Navy ships on sunday Are taking part in an 11-Day joint military exercise dubbed eager Mace. The exercise which began monday Falls under a recently signed defense pact Between the United states and Kuwait. The agreement Calls for the positioning of military equipment training and Maneu vers. The troops began setting up their guns and making other preparations at Gibbs Range for the training phase of the exercise. Hoffman said about 70 kuwaiti soldiers will practice marksmanship mostly by shooting at targets such As damaged iraqi tanks and trucks. It. Dutch Berthoff of Camp Lejeune n.c., a Gulf War Veteran said he would like to visit Kuwait City and meet kuwaitis on this trip. Quot last time we did t Sec any kuwaitis except for those who were waving at us on the roads Quot said the 26-year-old Marine. Quot its a lot More pleasant now but the Lance Chi. Rick Godfrey of fort Worth Texas gets set for an assault on an a enemy target in the desert North of Kuwait City. Desert is still the same a cold at night hot during the Day and a lot of Sand a Berthoff said. Besides the visiting troops there Are about 1,500 american troops in Kuwait. The soldiers Are scheduled to leave in december. The . Military presence has Given a feeling of Security to kuwaitis who say they fear iraqi president Saddam Hussein will once again Send troops into their country. Western military sources say those fears Are unjustified because iraqis military capabilities were crushed in the War that ended the seven month iraqi occupation feb. 26. The emirate is trying to rebuild its 16,000-member army which crumbled in the face of iraqis invasion in August 1990. Military experts estimate it will take five years to put Kuwait a army into shape. Kuwait and other members of the Gulf cooperation Council have signed or Are expected to sign defense agreements with the United states and other Western  police s list of jews found after 47 years by Steven greenhouse the new York times Paris a researchers have ended a decades Long mystery by finding a file bearing the names of 150,000 parisian jews that French police used in their concentration Camp roundups during world War ii a nazi Hunter says. Serge Klarsfeld said tuesday that the files missing since 1944, were discovered in the archives of the ministry of veterans affairs. Klarsfeld and other French jewish figures have suggested that government officials hid the files to avoid embarrassment about Frances collaborationist role with the nazis. Judge Jean Pierrc Gutti who is overseeing inquiries of two people suspected of deporting French jews began Legal action tuesday to obtain the files. The parisian police compiled the files pursuant to a sept. 27, 1940, order from Germany a military administration in France that called on All jews in Paris and surrounding towns to Register at local government offices or face fines or confiscation of their goods. The files were used for roundups in May August and december 1941 in which 8,700 jews were taken to four French internment Camps Dancy Beaune la Rolande i Thivierg and Compi amp one. Historians say those files were also used in the velodrome do Hiver Roundup in july 1942, when the police arrested 12,884 jews including 4,051 children. Klarsfeld said about 76,000 French jews were de red during world War ii about one fourth of the port 300, 000 living in the country at the time. The files were discovered when researchers Workin under Klarsfeld were looking through the ministry archives As part of a historical project on the dealt and deportations of French jews in world War ii. Getti Hopes to use the files in his investigation it Rene Bousquet a former Secretary general of France Vichy government. Bousquet has been indicted pc crimes against humanity Over his role in Deporter jews. Getti also plans to use the files in his investigation it Alois Brunner former nazi director of the Dancy ii Ternent Camp outside Paris. In july the judge Signe an International arrest warrant calling on Syria to Tui Over Brunner. Nazi Hunters have Saia Brunner was responsible for deporting More than 25,000 jews from Dancy to nazi death Camps