European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes tuesday april 28, 1992 a Mujaheddin rebel fires off an Reg rocket toward the presiden tial Palace As fighting intensified Between rebel groups sunday in Kabul Afghanistan. See Story on Page 8. Perot Calls on Rich h. Ross Perot the wealthy texan who is contemplating an Independent Campaign for president said that Rich americans should carry a bigger Burden than other people to help erase the Federal budget deficit. A Page 4 Seattle s water crunch the bluest skies in recent memory Are giving Seattle area water planners the blues this Spring As possibly the worst water shortage in the City a history looms. A Page 5 Cosby show criticized the Cosby show desensitized Whites to the nation s racial inequalities because it features an affluent Black family according to a study funded by Bill Cosby. A Page 6 boy s arms reattached a 6-year-old Wisconsin boys arms were torn off in a farm Accident and doctors reattached them in an eight hour operation. A Page 7 bumper sticker Battle a Mechanic at Warner Robins fab a whose anti Bush bumper stickers were banned by his air Force Bosses is going to court for the right to display the messages on the truck he drives to work. A Page 9 Index Abby Ann Landers 20 action line.16 comics.18-20 commentary.13 faces a places .10 letters .12 Money matters.17 sports.21-28 to listings .27 weather.11 Genscher from Page 1 sceptical Reagan administration by insisting on cooperation with the soviet Leader. Genscher a insistence in Early 1989 on linking the reduction of Short Range nuclear weapons in Europe with cuts in conventional arms also initially provoked tension with Washington. The Veteran politician raised some eyebrows late last year when he virtually pushed the european Community into Quick recognition of Croatia by indicating that Germany planned to take the step by itself. The United states had at the time advised against recognizing Croatia saying that could intensify the fighting. Genscher argued the opposite and a cease fire was reached in the breakaway yugoslav Republic not Long after dec recognition. Genscher has Seldom backed Down from his views. After the uproar Over Croatia Genscher boasted that his policy had helped quell the violence there. He also contended that in most foreign policy matters critics usually find them selves agreeing with Germany. _ Genscher is a member of the centrist free democratic party the Junior coalition partner of Kohls conservative Christian Democrat Union and is not considered to be resigning to pursue the chancellors hip. That Post has traditionally been filled by politicians from Germany a two largest parties the Christian democrats and the social democrats. Genscher has been Long troubled by health problems in Cludine previous heart trouble and a bout with tuberculosis in Thorn in Weideburg near the Eastern German City of Halle in 1927, Genscher returned to the soviet occupied sector of his Homeland after capture by the americans and imprisonment in Britain until the end of world War ii. After studying Law at Leipzig University and growing disenchanted with the new socialist state he went to the West in 1952. With the Advent of Gorbachev a Reform efforts and West Germany a desire to play a greater role in european events his philosophy became a driving Force in West Germany a foreign  from Page 1 the strike would not occur. Police expect vehicle traffic to increase today. Air Force facilities Are a fairly Well away from major population centers a air Force spokesman it. Col. . Crowley said adding that Rhein main a near Frankfurt was an exception. In Aschaffenbur although City buses did not run monday and Bun Desbah trains ran sporadically the military Community did not experience problems with late arrivals for work said Hannelore Ludwig spokeswoman for the Schaffen Berg military Community. A from what i understand Aschaffenbur has not been affected much a she said. A a we re a rather Small Community and i think the real problems were in much larger  George Polich a spokesman for the Wiesbaden military Community said the strike had Little Impact there. A the Only thing we re aware of is that we done to have rail connection to Mainz a Polich said. Mainz is located a few Miles a from Wiesbaden. Those who rely on Public transportation had to find rides to work Polich said. A that seems to be the Only effect its had on us. But things could change in the future a Polich said. Union officials said 35,000 Public transportation workers were taking part in the one Day strike which will be followed by other walkouts throughout the week. It is the first Public employees strike since 1974. Public transportation was the primary target of the first Day although thousands of workers in other sectors also stayed off the Job. Officials of the Bun Desbah the Federal railway system said operations had not been seriously affected monday morning although a number of trains were running late. Railway workers unions said that the strikes would soon be extended to freight and Long distance passenger trains. In the Central state of Hessen garbage collectors refused to pick up trash. In Hamburg Harbor workers walked out disrupting the City a Busy shipping traffic. Some train service was also affected in Western parts of the country. Several thousand government clerks in Federal agencies in Bonn and Berlin also stopped work monday. Angry opera goers had faced closed doors saturday evening shortly after unions representing Public sector railway and postal employees voted in favor of a strike. Airport workers Are among those scheduled to walk off the Job in coming Days. There already has been talk of putting the German army to work hauling trash if More garbage collectors take to the picket lines. The Public service and transport Union Otvis pressing for a 9.5 percent pay hike. Government officials say they cannot come anywhere near to meeting such a demand and have counter offered with 4.7 percent. Eastern Germany and Eastern Berlin Are not affected by the current labor stoppages. Postal workers already have been striking at 30 Post offices across Western Germany leaving a backlog of tons of mail and packages. The postal Union said it will now strike in other sectors including Tele Kom the Agency responsible for Telephone and other communications. However postal Union spokesman Rudi Vetter said in Frankfurt that service to radio and television stations will be continued a so the Public can remain informed on the strikes. Contributing to this report were staff writers Joseph Owen in Stuttgart and Luke Britt and Ron Mckinney in Darmstadt War from Page 1 Craft to flush out syrian missile Sites when it struck at terrorist Camps in the Bekaan Valley in 1982. Syrian surface to air missile Sites began tracking israeli drone aircraft called pioneers and scouts under the false impression that they were manned combat planes coming in for an airstrike. Once the missile guidance systems were activated they became vulnerable to nearby Jet fighters packing missiles that Home in on electronic signals. The . Air Force dismissed the tactic As an a unworthy gimmick Quot said a Pentagon procurement official who requested anonymity. But the idea was floated during the initial planning stages of the Gulf War and a caught  the . Navy had for years experimented with two types of drone aircraft. The engine powered remotely piloted Bqm-74 and a glider called the tactical air launched Decoy. Pentagon officials said they were confident that the decoys would provoke missile Sites leaving them vulnerable to attack but they wanted additional insurance that their pilots could electronically discern each installation and fire radar seeking missiles at them. Those goals gave the defense department an Ideal combat Opportunity with a Tomahawk cruise missile carrying a payload so secret that Only a handful of senior officials at the Pentagon even knew it existed. The defense department heralded the effectiveness of the approximately 200 conventional Tomahawk cruise missiles fired during the War. But no mention has been made of the Success of a handful of tomahawks fired at iraqi Power stations on that first night and the payload they carried. A Standard sea launched cruise missile which defense department officials say is so Well guided by internal computer software that it can a split a goal Post several Hundred Miles away packs a Large explosive payload. But Many of the first tomahawks launched at Baghdad carried something far different. Those missiles launched at electrical stations supplying Power to iraqi surface to air missile Sites carried spools of thin Carbon wire. It was theorized that the Carbon fibres would Short circuit Power stations which would sever connections with defense networks and Force each site to rely on its own radar and Generator. This would make it easier for radar seeking missiles to find their Mark. The United states initiated its attack during the fateful overnight hours of Jan. 17 with a wave of f-117a stealth fighter bombers which Slid undetected through radar defences. As the Jet Black f-117s pounded select targets in Iraq the Pentagon a secret plan began to unfold. Remote controlled Bqm-74s were launched from saudi Arabia and tactical air launched decoys were dropped at 20,000 feet by a-6 intruder bombers based on aircraft carriers in the red sea. And battleships in the persian Gulf let Fly with the specially configured cruise missiles. The cruise missiles hit the Taji and Doura Power stations around Baghdad and the Bhaiji facility near the town of Kirkuk believed to House weapons production plants and airfields. Arkin said the tomahawks worked exactly As planned. Arkin said he interviewed iraqi engineers who were at those Power plants during the attack and they told him there a was a massive Short circuit that night. A additionally Arkin said he visited the Power plants and brought Back to the United states fragments of the Carbon wires. Iraqi surface to air missile Sites switched to individual systems when their common Power source and radar were lost. At the same time the robot aircraft a flying Lazy figure eights a entered Baghdad a air defense zone and were fired on by iraqi Sams. F-4g wild weasels the air forces primary a radar killer a and Navy Falo hornets detected the iraqi missile Sites and fired harm missiles that ferret out electronic emanations. Within a few hours the advanced air defense system that president Saddam Hussein acquired by Hook or Crook Over Many years was crippled. A it worked like a Charm a an air Force official speaking under conditions of anonymity said. A they played right into our  the Pentagon a 1,300-Page conduct of the persian Gulf War report makes no direct reference to those components of the air War