European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Theofas vol. 50, no. 318 350 thursday february 27,1992behind kuwaiti cheers a sadness Kuwait apr tens of thousands of kuwaitis cheered wednesday As two . Stealth bombers streaked overhead in a display of air Power by coalition forces marking the anniversary of the emirates liberation. But the air show by 125 air Force planes from 10 coalition nations was the Only official ceremony to Mark the occasion. A year ago there was boundless Joy when Allied troops liberated Kuwait from seven months of iraqi occupation. This year there is mostly gloom. Crown Prince Sheik Saad Al Abdul Lah Al Salem Al Sabah earlier led a silent March of 4,000 people. The government shelved other plans out of respect for the families of an estimated 1,400 residents a More than 700 of them kuwaitis a still believed held in iraqi prisons. Most people Are feeling too Blue to celebrate at Home anyway. A Down deep inside us there is unfinished business a said Altaf Sultan a Counselor. A when your House is broken into and your prisoners Are still in Iraq you done to feel like  much of the visible destruction is gone. Utilities returned weeks after liberation and the last of about 770 damaged Oil Wells was capped in november. Oil production is inciting up Back salaries have been paid and stores Cater to every whim. The four Day weekend to Mark National Day and liberation Day prompted at least 200,000 people to leave Many headed for nightclubs in Dubai. But Saddam Hussein remains in Power in Iraq. Kuwait feels alienated from Many of its Arab neighbors. The owners of smaller businesses have not had their losses replaced. Deserts and beaches arc still infested with mines. About 1,600 people have been killed or wounded by them Over the past year the health ministry said. In general the expectation of a better i wait to emerge from the conflict has yet to appear. A people Are frustrated a said Ghanim Al Nijar a political science professor and director of the kuwaiti association to defend War victims. A during the occupation simple people Felt like they could do  on the positive Side campaigning has see sadness on Page 2 Bush stung again Kerrey gets boost Nebraska sen. Bob Kerrey gets congratulated by opel Doyle after he won the South Dakota primary tuesday. Sioux Falls . A Republican challenger Patrick Buchanan said wednesday that the Strong protest vote against president Bush in South Dakota shows the president is a weak As a  the Bush Campaign said it took the vote As an admonition to work harder. Sen. Bob Kerrey flew South on wednesday in Hopes that his Victory tuesday in South Dakota a democratic primary would ignite a rally in the Delegate Rich primaries of March. Republican voters on tuesday reprimanded Bush for the second week in a Row with nearly a third of those casting ballots in South Dakota opting for a a uncommitted instead of the presidents delegates. A we need to work harder a Bush Campaign spokeswoman Torie Clark acknowledged. Buchanan campaigning in new Orleans said the South Dakota vote shows a George Bush is weak As a  a i Tell you what it shows. It shows a terrible endemic weakness of the George Bush candidacy a he added. Kerrey said his Victory Over fellow farm state sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa and the rest of the democratic pack would ignite his Campaign. Kerrey immediately left for Georgia which will hold a primary next week and said he could fight on equal terms against Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton in Clinton a Southern base. A a in be got nothing to apologize for in a general election against George Bush and in a going to say to the Good democratic delegates that in Mon the Hunt for you a Kerrey said wednesday on cd so this morning. Kerrey said voters were in a new mood. A now that the cold War is Over now that the world has changed so dramatically people saw that peaceful revolution worked in Eastern Europe it worked in the soviet Union and now they re beginning to say perhaps it can work Here at Home Kerrey said. A and in a saying perhaps right a Kerrey said. A it can see results on Page 2 South Dakota results Here Are returns in the presidential primary in South Dakota on tuesday. Pierre a Iju a  an George Bush 69% uncommitted 31% Bob Kerrey 40% Tom Harkin 25% Bill Clinton 19% Paul Tsongas 10% Jerry Brown 4% Larry Agran 1% Lyndon Larouche 1% Doug Wilder 0% Sas Aspin seeks to trim Bush s 93 military budget Washington a the chair Man of the House armed services committee called wednesday for a Cut ranging from $5 billion to $8 billion from president Bush a fiscal 1993 military budget arguing that the Pentagon a plan Falls Short in Matching the demise of the soviet bloc. In a letter rep. Les Aspin d-wis., recommended paring the budget in the fiscal year beginning oct. 1. The president has called for the authority to spend $281 billion on defense with actual spending totalling $286 billion. Under Aspinw a plan defense budget authority would fall to Between $273 billion to $276 billion whereas real spending would remain the same or total slightly More in the Range of $286 billion to $288 billion. Aspin in the letter to House budget committee chairman rep. Leon e. Pan Etta d-calif., released wednesday also said he endorses a five year reduction in defense of $91 billion. A while there May be a temptation to Cut More in defense in fiscal year 1993, i would have grave reservations about deeper defense cuts in fiscal year. 1993,�?� Aspin said in the letter. Aspin presented his defense proposal to House democrats at a morning caucus. The plan Drew a mixed reaction with some lawmakers questioning whether the cuts go too far and others contending the reductions Are insufficient. On tuesday at a hearing of the House budget committee Aspin formally released his four options for cutting military spending Over five years with reductions ranging from $15 billion to $208 billion. Aspin said his proposals a take into account the fact that we be had two revolutions in the soviet threat. The first one marked the end of the Warsaw pact the second the end of the soviet Union  earlier tuesday House speaker Thomas s. Foley d-wash., endorsed Aspinw a preferred option of the four a reduction of $91 billion Over the five year period of fiscal 1993 to fiscal 1997. Foley when asked about Aspinw a plan at a news conference said �?o1 think it will definitely be part of our budget next week. I support his  Foley acknowledged that some democrats prefer to Cut deeper and others see budget on Page 2