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Monday, April 8, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Michelle L. Myers/KANSAN
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Jon Hays, Topeka sophomore, and Chad Gardner, Lee's Summit,
Mo., freshman practice for the steeplechase at Memorial
Stadium. Hays and Gardner practiced yesterday in preparation for the 66th Annual Kansas Relays, April 17-20 at Memorial Stadium.
U.S troops are psyched to come home
Cease-fire agreement Saturday with Iraq makes waiting in the desert even harder
The Associated Press
SAFWAN, Iraq — With a cease-fire approved, impatient U.S. troops asked yesterday that the desert felt hotter, more dusty and less scenic than the day before as they awaited word on their withdrawal from Iraq.
“It's time to go, like a good actor who leaves the stage while people are still applauding,” said L. Kevin Petitt, of Thousand Oaks, Calif. “If we stay any longer, nothing good will come of it.”
Slightly fewer than 100,000 U.S. soldiers remain based in the desert of
Soldiers with the 3rd 'Armored Division in the devastated border town of Safaan said that despite Iraq's acceptance Saturday of U.N. cause-fire terms, they still had no information on when they would pull out.
southern Iraq and are likely to leave quickly now that Iraq's Parliament has agreed to cease-fire terms set by the U.N. Security Council.
Gen. Colin Powell, chairperson of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last week that it could be more than a million soldiers were withdrawn from Iraq.
However, a complete withdrawal is unlikely until a U.N. monitoring force is in place to watch over the Iraq-Kuwait border. No date has been announced for the arrival of U.N. forces.
U. S. forces have been occupying the southeastern corner of Iraq since the allied forces chased the Iraqi fortress of Kuwait at the end of February.
For most U.S. soldiers, it has been dull, tedious duty in a setting only a
camel could love. The temperature hit 90 degrees yesterday, and the strong seasonal winds sent hot sand blowing like swirling snow.
Sgt. Keith Williams of Lafayette, Tenn., said, "My wife keeps writing, It's over. When are you coming home? Since the fighting stopped, it gets a little tougher to stay every day."
— we give them water, they give us tomatoes," said Browne, 23 of Chicago. "They ask for whiskey, but we don't have any of that."
"We've developed a camaraderie
Spec. James Browne, a military police officer, has encountered so many Iraqi refugees at his checkpoint north of Safat that he has been called in by the Iraqi taxi drivers who pass to and from the town daily.
He said some Iraqi soldiers captured during the war and repatriated were turning themselves in a second time. The volunteer prisoners have
memorized the numbers assigned to the pre-packaged army ration meals and ask for their favorites.
The U.S. Army is caring for some 7,000 Iraqi refugees on the abandoned grounds of a construction company in Safawan. Many of the refugees and their families in the country monitors will not be able to protect them once the U.S. citizens leave.
Adnan al-Salahy, 19, of Safan,
said, "The American soldiers have
been very generous. But if they
really want that the Iraq army
will attack it,"
Sgt. Michael Massey, of Marietta, Ga., predicted that the U.S. military would pull out at night to eat them and not fright out when they see us going."
"I wouldn't mind staying here longer if we could make a difference," said Massley, who drives fuel truck minibuses to stick. But we can't be here forever."
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