European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 53, no. 189 500 sunday october 23,1994 d 8693 a some Gulf heard after years of crying out by Bill Scanlon Scripps Howard news service Aurora Colo. Doctors finally Are listening toaster sgt. Henry minor. Three years after returning from the persian Gulf after three years of diarrhoea joint pain and blackouts he has found a Hospital where doctors Don t think it Sall in his head. The persian Gulf service Center opened last Mon that Fitzsimons army medical Center in Aurora a Den ver suburb. So far 175 veterans of the Gulf War have been evaluated at the 29-bcd unit by a team of doctors intent on learning Why so Many soldiers have muscle aches and memory loss. Minor has been at the Center More than two weeks after spending eight months in 1990 and 1991 near Kuwait City and the giant Oil fires. The smoke was so thick you had to have your Light son 24 hours a Day said minor who is stationed at fort Leonard Wood to. You just could t breathe. I coughed up everything inside of  he went to doctors at four hospitals and none could find anything wrong. Tests at Fitzsimons so far have come Back negative too. But doctors say too Many veterans have too Many symptoms to write it off As coincidence or malingering or Post traumatic stress. They be ruled out chemical or biological warfare be see vets on Page 2 Oil Gas spills Worsen flood woes in Texas around san Jacinto River Houston a gooey crude Oil and gasoline some of it burning stretched 20 Miles Down the flood Swol Len san Jacinto River on saturday keep ing cleanup Crews Busy trying to avoid serious environmental damage. It s a lot of Nasty stuff said coastguard capt. Richard Ford coordinator of the cleanup. I am really hopeful that we will collect a lot of Oil there today and we will see a substantial improvement in the next 24 hours. This Black Oil while it looks bad has a very very High evaporation rate. A Lotof it has  he estimated that the cleanup would take at. Least a week if conditions remain favourable. The Oil is easier to clean up when it clumps in Long streams. The continued burning of Oil and other fuel leaking into the River from punctured pipelines also aided cleanup since less had to be contained with booms and vacuumed with skimmers. Federal officials said they believed debris on the River overflowing after torrential Rains earlier in the week punctured the pipelines spewing gasoline diesel fuel and crude Oil into the waterway. On saturday the National transportation safety Board reported a fifth broken pipeline and said it was leaking Jet fuel. The leaks first exploded into flames on the River thursday sending 120 people to hospitals and adding to the flood woes of Southeast Texas where 18 lives have been  fires burned for 36 hours we tout briefly Early saturday then reignited. Pools of gasoline and some Oil were a  source of. The crude Oil was a 20 Inch diameter line belonging to Texaco see flood on Page 2 Bill Alvarez wheels a wet carpet out of the High school in Kingwood Texas on Friday. Inside today making the Grade Ilist Sembach a prepares for a supporting role. See Page 4 is find True grit with duty in Kuwait Bevin Ccrawley staff writer Kuwait City Kuwait the desert climate like the heated tensions a few weeks ago on Kuwait s Border with Iraq a has cooled in recent Days As american soldiers dig in for their show of Feree deployment. Temperatures above 100 degree fahrenheit a week ago have tempered As an Early autumn Falls Over the Oil Rich emirate. Bits of rain wet the Sand almost daily an Clouds often cover the blast of the Sun. When the army comes the weather becomes Nice said a Man who identified himself As Mubarek on Friday at the Kuwait zoo. Maybe it is god. God wants the soldiers to be  but storms Are fierce and frequent. Lightning storms three nights in a Row accompanied by Glie Force winds off the Persi Anulf temporarily knocked out International phone lines in the country. Away from the City sudden winds of More than 50 Mph move dunes overnight erase roads and threaten to Bury vehicles withstand. A Soldier does not have to practice to be miserable. It comes All by itself said sgt. Maj. De Foerstel of the 3rd in 69th Arm regt. Foerstel said he was sleeping in a tent the other night when he awoke to find that a Wall of wind had blown him and his cot , he had to Chase after his belongings which were whipping across the Sand. Most of the combat troops who see grit on Page 3 Bones of two new types of dinosaurs discovered seepage actor Kevin Costner and wife Cindy divorcing after 16 years see Page 20