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Fire captain flaunts flag on his head
UNION CITY, Calif. — Fire Cap, Mike Brown can wave the flag without lifting a finger. He's had the back of his head shaved into a full-color, ear-to-ear replica of the Stars and
The Associated Press
"I wanted to display the flag, and now they can't tell me not to," said Brown, who spent 3½ hours in beautician Vicki Hudson's chair to make his statement. "It's a show of support for the troops and a way of saying I'm proud to be an American citizen."
Brown, who has several friends in the Persian Gulf, made the unorthodox move after the Union City Fire Department ordered employees last week to stop putting U.S. flags on their helmets and fire engines.
City council members did not actually ban flags on city equipment, but they voted to supply yellow ribbons and on yellow employees to wear them.
Firefighters were told the resolution meant yellow flags or ribbons were the only symbols allowed. The department ordered employees to remove U.S. flags from fire engines and stickers from their helmets.
Brown went to Hudson Hair Alive in San Lorenzo on Friday, where Hudson cut, shaped and dyed his hair —for free.
"It really looks like a flag," said Hudson, somewhat surprised. "It's my first flag. Usually people want their initials carved in."
Brown's wife and two children had not seen the haircut yesterday because he had been on duty since Friday. His colleagues thought it was great, he said, but none had volunteered to follow in his footsteps.
Allies hit bridges, supply lines
Baghdad
Israel
1 Iraq fires Soud missile at Te Alav; Patroit missiles intercept it
Hundreds of allied planes bomb Iraq, hitting mobile missile launchers, bridges and supply routes. Iraq fires a Scud missile at Israel.
2 Three of six bridges in downtown Baghdad destroyed by allied aircraft
Announces all 17-year olds will be drafted into the army
Iraq
In the air
On the sea
U. S. planes destroy five Iraqi mobile missile launchers
3 iraq patrol boat destroyed by U.S. and British aircraft fire
Allies report their losses
Troops
30 Killed in action, including 12 Americans
46 Missing in action, including 28
46 Missing in action, including 2E
Americans
12 Prizers of war, including 8 Americans Planes 22 Lost in combat, including 15 U.S.
Basra
4 Two American POW, including the only female, taken in Russia.
Iraq reports its losses
90 killed in action
Civilians 647 killed
Civilians
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
Troops say ground war push into Kuwait is drawing near
The Associated Press
ON DEATH ROW HIGHWAY,
Saudia Arabia — It looks more like war every day here. Massed allied forces, miserable from the cold nights, jump from the wait and still in some disorder, are raring to go.
Hand-letered signs designate the road "MSR Dodge," a military supply route, but the military police call it Death Row.
"Everyone here knows he is not going home except through Kuwait," said a senior U.S. officer who sends convicts up this long narrow road south of the Iraqi border. "They are ready."
So far the only hostile action is behind the wheel, but sporadic skirmishes to the north have brought the utility to months of training exercises.
"No one gets in, not even Bedouins looking for their sheep," a military police officer said near an army division's rear position far up the road. "If they give us any trouble, we bump" and stuff "em."
Arabs deemed suspicious are turned over to Saudi authorities. Errant journalists are detained until public information officers arrive to dispatch them back to Dhahran.
And Iraqi forces can expect worse. "From here you can see the bomb flashes at night," said another officer who, like others, said he feared reprimand if named. "This could get very ugly at any moment."
Death Row Highway is evidence enough. A scramble to deploy has left
the roadside littered not only with smashed vehicles and upturned heavy trucks but also with straggling soldiers.
His M-1 Abrams tank, fitted with a heavy anti-mine scoop, was stranded when its transport blew too many tires to continue with its load.
"We've been stuck here eight or nine days," said a forlorn tank driver, down to the final chapter of his last Louis L'Amour novel. "They're coming today at noon." It was 3 p.m.
Saudi police and military police patrol the road, but they only check identities, not speed limits.
"I can't tell you how many deaths there have been," said one military police officer, a drug investigator at the Saudis' home station in the Saudis don't drive defensively."
Traffic trundling by reflects the irony and die-may-care climate of a widening war. Mercedes from Kuwait and Bedouin pickups full of sheep weaved among ammunition carriers.
One British convoy, stretching 15 miles in all, held up wealthy farmers in Range Rovers, Pakistani families seeking a safe place to wait out the war, and military vehicles of other armies.
Breezy epithets painted on doors and bumpers caption the picture.
One chartered semi-truck emblazoned "Dollar Hungry" typified the vast fleet of private contractors brought in to bolster Operation Desert Storm.
"High Ball Express" carried Indonesian plywood and raw lumber for rear headquarters still being nailed together. "Road Warrior" was a grader that scraped access roads on the desolate rocky flats.
Across the back of a turned-over oil tanker, someone scrawled in huge letters. "Homesick."
Once sonnolent roadside hamlets now buzz with life. The frontier crossroads of Hafr-al-Batin the air of Dover before D-Day.
"We don't know when it is going to come, but when it does, it is going to come all at once," said a Tennessee major, using his slow draw to suggest an uproar rarely seen in modern warfare.
Most soldiers interviewed had the same impression, and their reactions to it varied.
"Yes, I'm scared," said an Army trucker, a sergeant, in al-fat-Haln. "Anyone who tells you they're not just doesn't know very much."
The unspoken fear is nerve gas, the sword Saddam Hussein has sought to hold over his enemy's head. But no one is knowing what the weapon would affect the ability to fight.
“If he uses that damn stuff, it’ll be the worst mistake he ever made,” the major from Tennessee said, and he is thought of by the allied troops, reaction.
In the chilly morning, a group of military police just shrugged at the possibility of chemical warfare.
"We wear this stuff all the time," one said.
Saudis' adherence to Muslim laws inhibits fast and accurate coverage
The Associated Press
RYADH, Saudi Arabia — Taxi drivers tune into 107-FM, the U.S. military radio. Senior officials stop into daily Saudi, British and U.S. military briefings at airports across the country, a television interview with Saddam Hussein.
The public was incensed in August when the media followed the government's lead in not discussing Iraq's imposition of Kuwait for two to three years.
Despite more open media than the kingdom has ever known, Saudis are clamoring for news of the Persian Gulf War.
So when the allies went to war Jan. 10, the Saudi government broadcast Cable News Network live for a few months, with many political and social taboos.
Monitors were often slow in interruptions offending segments, such as reports from Israel or the women announcers who favor low-cut blouses. The kingdom has long been an enemy of Islam, and it has Muslim customs dictate to the women everything but their faces covered.
The live broadcasts helped spawn news junkies. Now, state-run televised officials tape the programs and broadcast them after removing
what they consider offensive and adding Arabic translation.
"It is a breakthrough to have CNN on the air even 12 hours later," said Abdul Rahman al-Zarml, deputy minister of Commerce. "It can't change overnight."
"Our information ability today is a lot more than before, and we hope for even better."
Abdel Majid, a 24-year-old doctor, said, "They only put on the news they
wfspo speaking on communal TV. The evening news still starts with minor items, such as congratulatory telegrams sent to Sri Lanka, and the radio talk shows favor daintiresses, often in verse, against Saddam.
Newspapers tend to publish the full communiques issued by the official Saudi news agency and are short on analysis.
"They need an explanation at the end of each week of what happened and how it fits into the curriculum," a science professor, who spoke on anonymity.
Stories about the Scud attacks on Islam appeared in the English-language press here. Saudi television and radio now broadcast 24 hours. The Arabic portion of the Saudi news is carried on the nightly news.
like. They didn't show us the Saddam interview and it's important. We are the most concerned with it. We should hear it first, not last."
After the government pulled the plug on live CNN transmissions, the top video stores started stocking two of them. The network highlights lights from the network.
Clerks said the tape with the Saddam interview in late January had been the best seller, at $8 a copy.
Many government officials do not feel the shortage so acute but because ministries have their own satellite dishes to kiss up CNN.
The first of the 29 Scud attacks on Saudi Arabia also received scant local coverage, although the latest attack was aired the same night.
"People are racing the fire trucks because they want to see for themselves what the Scud did. . . There are too many rumors. They need to give a credible account," said a senior official.
"They feel if they show everything, people will panic. They wait for the authorization from the top leader, then try to bypass it by the news is history," he said.
Diplomats from Western nations in the anti-Iraq coalition said they were distressed by the traditional Saudi reticence.