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Friday, February 1, 1991 / University,Daily Kansan
Gulf war: Nation/World
President wants prayer day for troops' sake
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush asked yesterday that all U.S. citizens join Sunday in a national day of prayer for peace and for U.S. troops pressing the war against Iraq. He also put an evenness account of
faqi missile damage from leaders just back from Israel.
Bush also signed legislation giving U.S. servicemen and women fighting the Persian Gulf
War a special tax break and an
President Bush
extension on filing their returns. The new law allows the troops to get interest on tax refunds based on their time of service in the war.
The State Department, meanwhile, said that some 70 acts of terrorism have been carried out worldwide against the United States and its allies. The State Department said them by groups alleged to have sympathies with the Iraqi cause.
Department representative Margaret Tutwiler said that the leanings of all the terrorists were not known but that the government was "not trying to devalue at all the seriousness we take of Saddam Hussein's claim to strike terrorism around the world."
"Nor are we in any stretch of the imagination letting any of our guard down," she said. She added that the government had not been able to draw a particular pattern to the terrorist incidents.
Only a few have resulted in injuries, she said. One death has been reported — a bank guard in Lebanon a week ago.
Bush, addressing the annual National Prayer breakfast attended by political and diplomatic officials, Sunday. Sunday as a national day of praerun
"I encourage all people of faith to say a special prayer on that day - a prayer for peace, a prayer for the safety of our troops, a prayer for
their families, a prayer for the innocents caught up in this war, and a prayer that God will continue to bless the United States of America." Bush said.
As for the war itself, Vice President Dan Quayle said the Iraqi attack into Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, resulting in the first deaths of U.S. ground troops, would provoke the United States into a full-scale war ground.
"We're in no hurry to engage in a ground campaign," said Quayle, who was meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. "Perhaps Saddam Hussein would like to commence the ground war because he's been so unsuccessful in
getting any of his air assets deployed."
White House representative Marlin Fitzwater had similar comments at the White House, declaring, "When we're ready to move, we'll move."
The Pentagon put the number of Marines killed in the fight at 11, instead of the 12 reported Wednesday.
Later yesterday, Bush met with the leaders of several U.S. Jewish organizations who had just returned from visiting Israel cities that suffered bomb damage from Iraqi-fired Scud missiles.
The meeting came on the heels of a controversy over a joint U.S.-Soviet statement Tuesday night that some
interpreted as providing an indirect link between settlement of the gulf war and a future peace conference to address other Middle East problems, including the question of Palestinians in Israel.
The White House has denied any link of the war to Israeli-Palestinian relations and said the joint statement indicated no shift in that stance.
The Jewish leaders said after meeting earlier yesterday with Secretary of State James Baker that he had verified the meaning of the statement
Fitzwater said before the leaders met with Bush, "We don't think there's any need to clear anything up."
Where Saddam might hide
Saddam Hussein has protective bunkers built in Baghdad and other key sites where he and his commanders could operate for extended periods.
- Tomahawk cruise missile:
Would have to hit entrances to be effective
SOURCE: Soviet Military Power
The bunker consists of three stories of command centers, for communications equipment, sleeping areas, and air supply systems.
Saddam has safe bunker
Hideout can give shelter for one year The Associated Press
Knight-Ridder Tribune News/TREVOR JOHNSTON and JUDY TREIBLE
HAMBURG, Germany — A German newspaper says Saddam Hussein is hiding from the U.S. bombardment in a luxurious, nuclear-poor bunker built with German technology and presidential palace in Bagdad.
"The heavens of Baghdad explode in bright fireballs. The city vibrates from detonations of bombs and rockets. The pressure waves of explosions force scorching air through the streets." Bild am Sonntag reported
"The Iraqi dictator sees and feels nothing of it. He is hiding in his atomic-bomb-secure bunker directly under his government palace."
Western news reports have spoken of such a complex under the palace, but details have been sketchy. The weekly did not say in the report Sunday how it learned the details and could not be independently confirmed.
designed the bunker, which is so feet under the palace, furnished it and worked for years to build it, but none of companies was identified by name.
Storage chambers are filled to the ceilings with food and medicine and up to 25 people could hold out in the room or in a cabinet year without worry, the report said.
Bild said German companies, including one based in Munich.
Situated on Jamia street, not far from the German embassy and the Tigris river, the bunker is directly underneath the presidential palaces which has been shattered by U.S. bombs. Bild said.
The bunker is 2,160 square yards, cost more than $100 million and was paid for by the same people who are now sitting in primitive cellars and trying to survive, the newspaper wrote.
The bunker's walls, ceiling and foundation are 6 feet thick and built with special concrete for added strength, it said. The doors are made of reinforced steel concrete a foot deep and access is via German-built elevators.
nuclear blast would produce only a slight vibration, Bild said.
Ducts and filters bring fresh air into the complex. Even the water for flushing the toilets is specially processed so that chemical or biological agents can't enter the system, the newspaper said.
The bunker can withstand heat of up to 572 degrees Fahrenheit, and a
It said the bunker was built on a rolling bearing system and swung up to 24 inches so that the pressure waves wouldn't crack it.
A drawn description accompanying the report showed luxuriously furnished quarters, including a living room with high quality leather furniture, some of it of French design. Adjacent to the living room is a swimming pool with a dressing area, the report said.
Saddam's bedroom has a four-
pad bed with a red silk canopy,
and a kitchen with a microwave,
dishwasher and washing machine.
There's a conference room where Saddam can meet with his generals, and an Islamic living room with the finest cushions and rugs. Bald said.
The Western-style bathroom has blinking lights and fixtures designed to mimic the sun.
U.S. B-52s to fly from Britain
The Associated Press
LONDON — The United States will use British bases to launch some of the B-12 bombers it is using to pound Germany. Secretary Tom King said yesterday
The U.S. embassy refused to say whether the United States had received permission for the bombers to fly over other European countries. But diplomatic sources said that negotiations were still going on and suggested that France was holding out.
In 1966, France refused overnight permission to U.S. F-111 planes that bombed the Libyan capital, Tripoli, from their base in eastern England
King said the United States had asked to base the B-52s temporarily at Fairfax, 70 miles northwest of London, to undertake missions with conventional munitions against Iraqi military or strategic targets.
"The government has readily agreed." King said in a statement to the House of Commons.
The decision was taken because of a lack of arrifle space at bases in the Middle East and the main B-32 operatings in Iraq and Liberia in the Indian Ocean, he said.
Up to 700 U.S. personnel will be moved into Fairford, defense sources said. They will provide the logistical support to maintain both the aircraft and their weapons. The B-52s, which have a range of 6,700 miles, will take six to eight hours to reach their bases in touch with the sources said. They will be refueled in mid-air by KC-13 tankers from the U.S. Air Force.
The B-52 can carry bombs of 1,500 pounds or 750 pounds in addition to laser and radar-guided munitions. U.S. military officials have said the bombers could be used for precision bombing of targets such as bridges, fences and fuel depots, as well as carpet bombs of troop formations.
"They are going to be deployed against military and strategic
targets to accelerate the time in which the conflict can end and the liberation of Kuwait can be achieved," King said.
He gave no indication when the bombers would arrive, but said another country, which he refused to attack, had been sending for bombing missions against Iraq.
U. S. diplomatic sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, hinted that King's announcement was timed to ensure on France to permit overflights.
King was to meet today with France's new defense minister, Pierre Joxe, appointed to replace Jean-Pierre Chevement who resigned this week to protest his increasing involvement in the war.
France has nurtured relations with Arab states.
King said 10 Iraqi patrol boats had been sunk and 4 damaged since Tuesday, including some capable of carrying Exocet missiles.
Iraqi strategy that has surprised U.S.
While the U.S. has staged massive air attacks and bombings on Iraq targets, Iraq has surprised the U.S. with some of its strategy:
Scud attacks:
Iraq's mobile
launchers target
Israeli cities, Saudi
Arabia since
second day of war
**Khatti:** Iraq captures town; first female soldier captured recently
Dhahran Bahrain
Gulf troops yearn for U.S. letters
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
The Associated Press
ABOARD THE USS INVINCIN IN THE PERSIAN GULF — U.S. soldiers in the Persian Gulf seem almost afraid to mail from home, even if it's people they've never met
Correspondents visiting troops in the field or sailors on warships are often asked, "Did you bring any mail?"
Seaman Mark Stallins of Parker, Colo., perhaps the ultimate reader. After a recent false alarm for a missile attack had ended, he pulled out his wallet to gaze at pictures of girls who have become his pen pals. Then he pulled his teddy bear out of a locker and crawled into bed.
"That missile could have been real, and we might not even be here anymore." Stallins said. "It makes you think about things. And we're not just pen pals. We're friends."
He cultivates such friendships many of them acquired through "To Any Sailor" mail in the United States in the universities.
Heather, 16, of Wisconsin,
wrote "To Any Sailor" letters
even though her father didn't
want her associating with sailors.
"She gave me her phone
number and told me to call her
if anything happened," Stallins
said. "Of course something
did."
After allied planes started bombing Iraqi targets, Stallins said he asked his family to call and tell her he was OK.
Stallins said he especially appreciated the effort made by Cory, a 6-year-old boy from New Jersey. "He doesn't write much because he's only 6 but he does take the time to write."
And he was particularly struck by Shannon, a nursing student in Wisconsin. Stallins caught a glimpse of her photography when a married buddy sat in Any. Sailor' letter from her.
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