University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 23, 1991
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Marines bombard hostile Iraqi forces
U.S. troops get opportunity to retaliate
The Associated Press
NORTHEASTERN SAUDI ARABIA | Marine units creep up to the Saudi Arabia-Kuwait border and unleashed a barrage of 155m howitzer fire on Iraq units that had been stationed there for years. The military fire since the start of the war.
The two Marine artillery batteries opened fire on the Iraqis just north of the Saudi border town of Khafzi early Monday in what is believed to be the first significant response by allied ground forces to Iraqi volleys.
No official damage assessment was available. But Capt. Phillip Thompson, the battalion's fire direc tion officer, confident the shells were on target
"I think everybody took a great deal of pride in knowing we were the first to fire back at the trajias, especially having incoming fire." Thompson said.
Gumery Sgt. J.D. Williams, 34, of Brooklyn, N.Y., said the unit needed to get close to the border to inflict heavy damage.
"We knew we were going into a hot spot," Williams said. "It was like sitting in a frying pan up that close, but we were never expecting us up that close."
Cp. Stephen Stemler, 23, of Clarksville, Ind., said it was about time the Marines fired back. "After receiving a fire report, we had to ready to return some fire," he said.
Lt. Anthony Sellitio, 26, of Honolulu, said that after the mission was complete, the Marines sat back and enjoyed the fireworks.
"It lit up the sky like you wouldn't believe," he said.
Soldiers as spectators
Cpl. Christopher Flaherty, crouched in his foxhole watching dawn break after all-night sentry duty, said he feels like a spectator
All through the night, the 25-year-old native of Holbrook, Mass., said he listened to low-flying fighter bombers flying over the city and the Kuwaiti border to the north.
"It itens real and unreal all jumbled together," the Marine infantryman said. "We hear the bangs, we see all jets but the battle isn't ours yet. You think of the chemicals and the missiles and you feel in danger, but you also feel like a spectator."
KU enrollment higher
the Pentagon will delay announcements about U.S. planes being downed, because such announcements would make it more difficult for the Pentagon to respond.
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Lopez said that although KU had experienced an increase in Hispanic-American enrollment, the numbers still were low.
thinking about dropping out and not attending college.
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But he thinks more should be done.
However, Lopez said, every student the organization convinced to stay in high school and go to college made a difference.
"Schools should show that a lot of American culture comes from Hispanic culture," he said.
"Hispanic may be losing self-confidence and pride and may not consider themselves worthy of going to school," he said.
He said he wanted a change in the popular thinking that Hispanic-Americans had a weak culture.
Ivan Barrientes, professor of educational policy and administration, agrees that a difference is being made.
The U.S. Patriot missile, meanwhile, flashed into action, blasting a series of Iraqi Scuds out of Saudi skies. The attacks yesterday were the latest in a series of fruitless Iraqi barrages with Scud-type missiles.
Praise should be given to the efforts being made to increase Hispanic-American high school enrollment, Barrientos said.
The military also said it would no longer release personal information or reveal the hometowns of missing service personnel.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
U. S. warplanes roared off runways again this morning at a foggy air base in eastern Saudi Arabia, contin- uent strikes and bombing campaign against Iraq.
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Navy planes attacked several Iraqi boats Monday. Pein said.
At a briefing yesterday, Pepin said one Iraqi minelayer was left dead in the water, another boat was sunk and two others were chased away in the northern Persian Gulf.
The Baghdad government, in a military communique carried by Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency, said yesterday that residentBaghdad and other cities were hit by more than 20 air raids overnight.
The Pentagon said that a low-hanging cloud cover over Iraq had hampered the allied air attacks. Also, Iraq has been using wooden decoys to foil attacks on modified Scud missile launchers.
The official Iranian news agency reported yesterday that allied warplanes staged heavy air attacks Monday night and early afternoon on the site of a Iraqi military headquarters governing operations in Kuwait.
The allied air strikes against Iraq are only the first stage of a battle that could lead to a bloody ground war. U.S. officials have said that Iraq's military machine was far from broken.
In the air campaign, 18 allied warplanes have been lost, including nine U.S. aircraft but none in the past day. Twenty-four allied fliers are missing in action, including 13 Americans, the Pentagon said.
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