European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 9,�?T 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 7saddam capture rejected Gates says by the los Angeles times Washington the Bush administration rejected the idea of trying to capture iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the persian Gulf War Cia director Robert m. Gates says. Gates Deputy National Security adviser at the White House before and during the persian Gulf War acknowledged that officials talked extensively about the possibility of making the capture one of americans War Aims. But in the end Gates said . Officials dropped the idea because they feared that the iraqi Leader would go into hiding As panamanian strongman Man Uel a. Noriega did during the 1989 . Military intervention in Panama and that . Troops occupying Iraq would be unable to find him. Gates made the comments in an interview with the los Angeles times this week. In the past such . Military leaders such As Gen. Colin a Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf the Gulf War commander have said it would have been difficult for . Troops to catch Saddam had he fled Baghdad and gone into hiding. But those difficulties have not been cited As a critical element in the decision not to pursue the iraqi Leader. Instead the explanations have focused largely on three factors. A a american troops would have taken More casualties in an extended drive on Baghdad the iraqi capital. A the Bush administration believed that Saddam would soon be overthrown in a postwar coup. A the , coalition fighting Iraq had been put together strictly to reverse the iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Saddam a ultimate Fate was a major Issue in the deputies committee a group of sub Cabinet officials who meet regularly to Iron out foreign policy Dis Putes among the state department the Pentagon and other agencies Gates said. Gates often ran the meetings before and during the War and was among the eight top . Officials including Bush who made the key decisions during this period. The possibility of capturing Saddam or overthrowing his government a was discussed at length by the deputies com Mitten and by All of us during the period leading up to the War a Gates said. Quot we specifically decided not to make it a War aim so that we would not set ourselves objectives that we were not confident we could . These artillery shells were unearthed in a fashionable area of Northwest Washington . Officials said the world War i Era munitions probably were buried by a chemical weapons Laboratory. A 1 a a a. Dump May hold chemical agents Washington a world War i Era munitions unearthed in a luxury neighbourhood were probably buried there by a chemical weapons Laboratory and May contain chemical agents officials said thursday. About 25 families remained evacuated from the neighbourhood in the capitals upper Northwest quadrant As army technical experts worked to clean up and secure the 70-year-old dumping ground. It was discovered tuesday during residential construction in the area. The weapons probably were buried by a chemical weapons research Laboratory operated by the government during world War i on the nearby Campus of american University officials said. Army it. Col. William t. Batt of the Aberdeen proving ground in Maryland said several of the munitions found in the dump were armed and several appeared to contain some Type of liquid that could be toxic chemicals. A several of the three Inch Stokes mortars in the site were fused Quot with an Impact firing mechanism Batt said. The devices were built with safeties he said but he added that Quot As old As they Etc it s hard to say what would have made them go  Batt said that besides the three Inch mortars Quot quite a few Quot 75mm shells were found. Eleven Quot barrage Type projectiles called Levins mortars were found to contain liquid a special cause for concern he said. He said one of the 75mm shells had a fuse and two 75mm shells also contained liquid. There were Quot Many possibilities Quot for what the liquid might be Batt said including irritating agents or even deadly chemicals such As phosgene and Mustard Gas. Some of the liquid inside the canisters could be water that has seeped into them . Fire department spokesman battalion chief Theodore Holmes   nets terms in insurance scam new Orleans a Benny and Tammy Milligan see themselves As living proof of the adage that no Good deed goes unpunished. Tammy Milligan is serving four months House arrest and her husband was to report to Federal prison Friday for a nine month stretch Federal prosecutors said the couple committed a fraudulent scheme to use their insurance benefits for James Mcelveen Benny Milligans longtime buddy after he suffered severe injuries in a 1990 Accident. Mcelveen is going to prison too for seven months. Quot they treated us like we murdered somebody instead of saving somebody a life Quot Tammy Milligan said thursday. All three were convicted in a Tennessee Federal court of mail fraud wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United states. The three also must repay the $49,000 Cost of Mel Vcci s medical care. Ernie Williams the . Attorney in Nashville rejected contentions that the three were unfairly punished. Quot the government of the United states viewed this As health care fraud Quot he said thursday. The Milligans and Mcelveen were vacationing in Tennessee during the summer of 1990 when Mcelveen fell off a 30-foot Cliff along the Natchez Trace. The Milligans and another couple pulled Mcelveen out of the chasm Tammy Milligan said. A we thought he was dying Quot she said. Quot he had no pulse his face was Gray and his lips were Blue. His head was cracked open and he had blood All Over  Mcelveen who worked for a painting contractor had no medical insurance. Milligan had insurance through his employer Martin Marietta corp. Quot we were scared and Benny just switched ids so James could use his insurance Quot Tammy Milligan said. Mcelveen 32, said he had fractured his Back in 10 places and a disk in his spine had exploded. He underwent nine hours of surgery during which doctors put four screws four Hooks and three rods in his Back and fused some Bones he was in a full body cast for three months and missed another three months of work. Quot we  have done it Quot Mcelveen said. A but i thought my Choice was to stay Benny and have the surgery or he James and just go Home and try to heal any Way i  the three Arentt sure How authorities found out about the scheme Hough Milligan had continued working while Mcelve Zirwas being treated on his insurance. The Federal government got involved because Nasa reimbursed Martin Marietta for insurance  asked to Pardon last go executed for desertion Philadelphia up president Bush is being asked to make one More Pardon before he leaves office a for pvt. Eddie Slovik who in 1945 became the Only . Soldier executed for desertion since the civil War. Attorneys representing the estate of Sloviko a wife the late Antoinette Slovik sent a mail Gram to first lady Barbara Bush shortly after Bush pardoned former defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberg or and other Iran Contra participants last month. Earlier this week Sloviko a former army counsel Edward Woods and publicist Robert Definis of Lansdale pa., delivered a letter to Barbara Bush a  the letter the two said they want a to Clear so Yiki a name secure his government life insurance on which he paid premiums. And secure clemency and preferably a Pardon for his Sake his wid owns and  it is the latest round in a 19-year Battle Woods and Definis have been waging. Antoinette Slovik had tried to approach president Eisenhower who signed Sloviko a execution order As european theater commander but had to be satisfied with vice president Richard m. Nixon. Definis said thursday that even though Antoinette Slovik died on sept. 7, 1979, he would like to get the proceeds of Sloviko a Glins Urance for her heirs. Definis said he believed some of her four Sisters were still alive. 1 Slovik was convicted nov. A 1944, of twice deserting his unit which was in combat in France. He was executed by firing squad Jan. 31, 1945. The execution was the subject of a 1954 Book by William Bradford Huie and of a movie