European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday july 26,1993 at a glance sgt. Erik a Straus Security policeman cuts the hair of senior airman David i. Viars outside the police tent in Mogadishu Somalia As onlookers offer advice. It s just another Day in hell for . Forces in the East african nation. See Story and photos on pages 18-19. Canadian Way praised of the major health care reforms proposed so far a Canadian style health care system would hold Down costs the most according to a con Gressional analysis. Pagas execution halt urged the executive director of the a act asked Texas gov. Ann w. Richards to reopen the Case of death Row inmate Gary Graham in a bid to Stop his execution. -pagt7 israelis attack bases israeli warplanes bombed shiite Muslim guerrilla bases in five Sepa rate raids sunday killing at least 12 people. Pag9 changes in China eng Xiaoping China s Leader the past 14 years is believed to a dying and preparations Are under Way for the transition that will take place after his death . Experts say. -pagt12 affordable housing Lima Ohio is the most affordable housing Market in the United states according to a Survey by the nation Al association of Home builders. Page 16 Index j Abby Ann Landers 21 classifieds. 25-27 comics 21-23 commentary 15 crossword. 21 faces a places 24 focus 17-20 Horoscope 27 Jumble 27 letters. 14 Money matters 16 sports 29-36 to listings. 35 weather 13 Gulf from Page 1 but former president Bush Many of the repeatedly. Houghton Mifflin which plans to publish the 504-Page offering i october is to begin circulating review co pies this critical of Many decisions and episodes Atkinson s Book is almost uniformly complimentary of Schwarz Kopf s subordinate commanders and por trays the War As the broadly successful re sult of a Campaign to rebuild the spirit and competence of the . Military after , who emerged from the conflict As the most Adu lated War her since Gen. Douglas Macarthur remains an accomplished figure in Atkinson Shook. For All his volcanic rages the Gen eral practice Subtle diplomacy when needed with the coalition s skittish for eign forces and saudi arabian hosts. Atkinson concludes that Schwarzkopf made no significant error of strategy or tactic in a Campaign that crushed its enemy at minimal Atkinson who interviewed Schwarzkopf and All his senior command ers displays another Side of the general. His Public humiliations of army it. j. Yeosock for example bred con tempt among subordinates who privately and unfairly re erred to Yeosock As Gen eral Hal track the confused aging com Mander in the comic strip Beetle Schwarzkopf sped around in a motor Cade larger than saudi King fahd a and was preceded in every room by aide who Laid out a precise set Ting of water Orange juice Coffee an chocolate mocha. Cheney watched in wonder during along flight from Washington As a major held a place for Schwarzkopf in a Toile line Ana a colonel stooped on hands and Knees ironing the general s retired from the military shortly after the the conduct of the War itself one major disclosure is that Bush secretly Al Lowed Navy warships to fire cruise mis Siles without permission Over Iran which remained Neutral in the War but had Long been hostile to . also allowed the firing of missiles Over Syria s Northeast Corner from the Mediterranean sea the Book says. The Tomahawk missile had the crucial role of striking downtown Baghdad Dur ing Daylight. It used a form of compute guidance that required broken terrain to find its Way to by using a route up the Mountain Ous spine of Western Iran was such Ter rain available to missiles fired from the persian provides an apparently Defini Tive account of a secret Tomahawk War head that was hypothesized after the War by Greenpeace analyst William Arkin but never acknowledged by the . Govern warhead known As a kit 2, distributed thousands of tiny spools of car Bon filament Over iraqi electrical plants creating massive Short circuits Ana blow ing transformers. Atkinson describes a Sharp but secret debate in the Bush administration Over use of the Carbon filament warhead with Gulf War s untold Story by the Washington Post crusade the untold Story of the persian Gulf War by author Rick Atkinson of the Washington Post also describes the following details and incidents the . Decision Urbom the Amariyah Bunker in Baghdad Iraq was based on a report from a spy who was a top official in president Saddam Hus Sein s government. In the second week of february the spy reported that Iraq intelligence had begun using the Bunker As an alternate command Post army it. Gen. Wayne a. Downing the Gulf special forces commander re fused to Send search and Rescue teams after downed pilots without reasonable confirmation of their position and status. Iraqi became adept at tracking the downed americans by their radioed Calls for help. Of 35 downed . Aircraft Only seven were sought by search and Rescue teams and three aviators were saved. There were bitter struggles Over the 43-Day air Campaign with air Force targe Teers emphasizing strategic bombing in Baghdad and Iraq while Armand Marine generals sought to attack iraqi forces in Kuwait. Gen h. Norman Schwarzkopf played almost no role in designing the Campaign and asked Waller to Settle the interservice disputes. . Special forces rehearsed a plan called Pacific wind to Rescue american diplomats trapped in the . Embassy in Kuwait in october and no vember of 1990. The plan was made unnecessary when Iraq released the Diplo Mats in december. The Marine corps which lacked sufficient mine Clearing equipment secretly obtained a Supply from Israel at a time when the coalition acknowledged no military relationship with the jewish state. Navy target planners apparently unaware of new rules of engagement lankan iraqi Oil Tanker a prohibited target and loosed Large quantities of crude Oil in the persian Gulf. Schwarzkopf gave formal notice that he was considering court Marti Aling vice . Stanley r. Arthur and his staff and a badly shaken Arthur diverted substantial time to preparing a defense. Air Force Brig. Gen. Buster c. Glosson suggested using Small nuclear War Heads to destroy 18 iraqi biological weapon Sites but Gen. Colin l. Powell the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff ruled that out. . Planners debated at length How they would retaliate for a chemical at tack which never came. Schwarzkopf recommended a demarche to Baghdad that would say if you use chemical weapons we re going to use nuclear initially assigned to one of two Arab army corps the French Daguet Divi Sion was shifted to the . Xviii airborne corps after its commander Brig. Gen. Jean Charles Mous Cardes begged Schwarzkopf for god s Sake you begot to get me out from under the command of the . Liaisons to the saudi units found saudi tanks parked immobile behind Flimsy Sand Walls but had difficulty persuading the saudis to give up what the americans called " kill me Marine warplanes dropped napalm and fuel air explosives directly on iraqi infantry positions. Official accounts at the time suggested that napalm which produced some of the most harrowing images of the Vietnam War was used Only to Burn off Oil in iraqi fire trenches and that the huge fuel air explosives were used Only to set off minefields. Seventy six of 167 laser guided bombs dropped by f-117a stealth attack Jet sin the first five Days of the War missed their targets because of Pilot error mechanical or electrical malfunction or weather. These results remained Classi fied while Public briefings depicted unbroken Success. Schwarzkopf who displayed combat footage in a Jan. 30 Public briefing of what he said were seven Mobile scud launchers being destroyed Learned with in minutes that the Cia believed the vehicles were Oil tankers. Neither he Norris staff corrected the record. . Warplanes bombed the regional Headquarters of the iraqi intelligence service which . Planners did not know was the prison for air Force col. David Eberly and some other american prisoners of War. All the prisoners sur Vived. Opponents arguing that disclosure of the weapon s existence would prompt others to imitate it and eventually jeopardize the United states own electrical Grid. But Cheney determined to avoid the gradual escalation of Vietnam urged giving Iraq the full Load of . Weaponry. Crusade also provides new details of the Complex . Relationship with Israel considered the likeliest Point of fracture of the Brittle Gulf War coalition. Secretary of state James a. Baker i and the National Security adviser Bren scowcroft directed envoys to convey an ultimatum that infuriated the israeli government Only if it promised not to fight Back would the United states provide More Patriot missiles to defend against iraqi scuds that fell throughout the War. On one of the major postwar controversies Atkinson adds weight to assertions that Schwarzkopf fully agreed with the decision to end the ground War after 100. Hours. . From Page 1 the attack came just a Day after the bos Nian serbian military command reportedly ordered All its units to avoid incident with . Forces and possible airstrikes by nato warplanes now stationed i Italy to provide backup. It also came As negotiators geared for what they said would be a meet until peace session in , bosnian serbian Leader Radovan Karadzic in interviews with the associated press made Clear that he had nothing to negotiate and was going to the talks with an ultimatum for the Bosnia government to accept ethnic partition of Bosnia or War to the death. The talks were postponed twice of heavy serbian assaults on Sarajevo. Sunday s agreement by All sides to Hal military offensives As of 10 . Was in tended to Calm the situation so that negotiations could begin tuesday. Rock fans rampage Warsaw Poland a four hour riot touched off by Rock fans who tried to Force their Way into a Rock concert in Northern Poland resulted in 38 people being injured and 12 arrests local police said 1,000 fans went rampant a Brodnicka about 125 Miles North West of Warsaw after they were re fused entry to a concert because they had no tickets
