European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Sims and stripes vol. 53, no. 189 some 500 sunday october 23,1994 d 8693 a by Bill Scanlon Scripps Howard news service Aurora Colo. Doctors finally Are listening to. Master 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 s All in his head. The persian Gulf service Center opened last month at Fitzsimons army medical Center in Aurora a Den ver suburb. So far 175 veterans of the Gulf War have been evaluated at the 29-bed unit by a team of doctor 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 ii 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 of biological  see vets on Page 2 Oil spill fires on Texas River causing havoc Unter san Jacinto ver Houston a gasoline and die Sel fuel from ruptured pipelines burned in the san a acierto River Early saturday As authorities tried to Stop crude Oil that leaked out of another pipeline from contaminating gives Tori Bay. There is a massive presence of Pil said coast guard capt. Richard Ford. He could not estimate the amount of the spill which created a 20-mile-Long Slick. The Texaco inc. Oil pipeline running under the River ruptured Friday and the coast guard scrambled to contain the spill with 30,000 feet of booms and skim mers. But workers were unable to keep the Oil out of Galveston Bay which is ringed by sensitive marshes and Saltwater inlets where waterfowl and fish Breed. Once it gets into the Bay itself it spreads rather rapidly and starts to dissipate Ford said. Texaco spokesman Paul Weeditz said the company commissioned a pair of ships to begin picking up the Oil sat urday. The pipeline Breaks Are believed to have been caused by the widespread flooding in Southeast Texas last week said George Mocharko an investigator for the National transportation safety Board. Inspections won t be possible until the water recedes and the fires die Down. Companies shut off More than a dozen pipelines crossing the san Jacinto River in Houston s Spaghetti bowl the Mouth of the nation s interstate pipeline network. Flooding from heavy rain that fell last sunday through wednesday has been blamed for 18 deaths. Thirty three coun see havoc on Page 2 in Side today making the or Cje Bill Alvarez wheels a wet carpet out of the High school in Kingwood Texas on Friday. Is find True grit with duty in Kuwait by Vince Crawley stall writer Kuwait City Kuwait the desert climate like the heated tensions a few weeks ago on Kuwait s Border with Iraq has cooled in recent Days As american soldiers dig in for their show of Force deployment. Temperatures above 100 degrees fahrenheit a week ago have. Tempered As an Early autumn Falls Over the Oil Rich emirate. Bits of rain wet the Sand almost daily and Clouds often cover the blast of the when the army conies the weather becomes Nice said a Man who identified himself As Mubarak on Friday at the Kuwait  it is god. God wants the soldiers to be  storms Are fierce and frequent. Lightning storms three nights in. A Row accompanied by Gale Force winds off the persian Gulf temporarily knocked out International phone lines in the country. Away from the City sudden winds of More than 50 i Mph move dunes overnight erase roads and threaten to Bury vehicles with Sand. A Soldier docs not have to practice to be miserable. It com Sall by itself said sgt. Maj. De Forstel of the 3rd in 69th army regt. Forstel 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 outside. Undressed he had to Chase after his belongings which were whipping across the Sand. Most of the combat troops who see grit on Page 3  Sembach a prepares for a supporting role see Page 4 Bones of two new types of dinosaurs discovered see Page 6 actor Kevin Costner and wife Cindy divorcing after 16 years see Page 20