VOL.101.NO.75
THE UNIVERSITY DAIL KANSAN
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS  64612
T THE STUDEN NET SAPPER OF T THE UNIVERSITY OF KANKSAS
ADVERTISING: 864-1358
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1991
(USPS 650-640)
NEWS: 864-4810
Gulf war ignites
An F-16 fighter assigned to the 138th Tactical Fighter Squadron at a base in central Saudi Arabia carries a 6,000-pound bomb with a chalked message to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Planes from the base reportedly were involved in the bombing of Iraq early today.
Saddam apparently survived a night of fire that rained down on his capital. As the misty, smoke-shrouded day dawned in Baghdad, he acctected at the allied armies in a radio message from an undisclosed location.
U.S.-led air attack strikes at Saddam
The first strike came before dawn, and a second wave followed about 10 minutes later.
"We will not fail." a somber President Bush told the nation.
The Associated Press
"The mother of all battles is under way," the Iraqi president proclaimed.
CENTRAL SAUDI ARABIA — The United States and its allies pounded Iraq with two waves of air strikes today in a furious bid to drive Saddam Hussein's armies from Kuwait and break his military might.
Baghad radio later today said Iraqi anti-aircraft units shot down 14 attacking warplanes, but the report could not be confirmed. U.S. officials did not immediately report any casualties.
The second-wave attack scored direct hits on the Iraqi Defense Ministry and the post office headquarters, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported. U.S. military officials in the city were strategic, but an Iraqi communiqué said densely populated residential areas had been hit.
Japan's Arabian Oil Co said Iraqi artillery shelled oil installations at the Saudi town of Khafif near the
Kuwait frontier, blowing up an oil storage tank. No injuries were reported.
A Western diplomat in the gulf state of Bahrain said Iraq also fired surface-to-surface missiles toward Saudi Arabia, but said they either were destroyed in the air or fell short of their targets.
Amid reports the raids were successful and drew little Iraqi resistance, oil prices fell back to $25 a barrel in London after spiking up to $33 shortly after war broke out. The stock price rose by 14% after opening down nearly $20 from yesterday's close, and Tokyo stock prices surged nearly 4.5 percent.
Bush ordered the release of crude oil from U.S. strategic petroleum Reserve.
U. S. television correspondents in Baghdad said there was little sign of damage in some sections of downtown Baghdad this morning. There was light traffic, and even the trash makers made their rounds, they said.
Local activists express concern about war in gulf
The United States seized the first opportunity for a nighttime attack after time ran out on a United Nations deadline for Iraq to relinquish Kuwait or face war. The deadline expired at midnight Tuesday EST — yesterday morning in Baghdad.
Saddam, whose armies overran Kuwait in a lighting strike $ 5^{1/2} $
See BUSH, Page 1A
Last-minute optimism by local peace activists turned to concern and worry last night as U.S. military air raids began in the Persian Gulf.
By Vanessa Fuhrmans
Kansan staff writers
Aida Dabbas, a native of Jordan and president of Voice, a campus peace group, said she was concerned about the safety of her family, friends and homeland as she watched events unfold in the gulf.
Dabbas tried to phone her family
but was not able to get through.
"The U.S. doesn't think twice about what is going to happen," she said. "They don't know that human lives are at stake."
Dabbas said that the strike came too quickly, without a peaceful resolution getting a chance.
Members of Voice have planned to meet in front of Wescoe Hall at noon today and march to South Park to join an emergency "day after" vigil being held by the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice.
He said the group called greek and University housing units during the evening to ask for support.
Dan McCloskey, Iowa City, Iowa,
junior and member of Voice, said
group members would gather to
support members who have relatives
in the region. Many Voice members were from countries in the region, including Iraq.
Louise Hanson, member of the Lawrence coalition, said people called her last night to express their fear and concern about the gulf
situation.
"The phone has been ringing not stop." Hanson said. "People are extremely worried, extremely crest-fallen."
She said people also called to find out more about the "day after" vigil, which will take place today in front of the courthouse. They will be inside, 11th and Massachusetts streets.
The vigil will protest the air raid against Iraq last night. The coalition has organized vigils every Sunday since November to oppose a possible
war with Iraq.
. map Kissam, another coalition member, said he was surprised and upset that the United States had initiated the attack.
"I didn't think I was going to see it again in my lifetime," he said. "I thought we weren't going to go to war over third world squabbles again."
Kissam said that he would go to the vigil and hoped that people opposing war in the Persian Gulf would attend even though it was a weekday.
The Rev. Vince Krische, director of
the st. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, said he also would attend today's vigil and would urge students and members of his parish to actively oppose the war in the gulf.
The coalition and other peace organizations are arranging rides to a statewide peace rally at the Capitol building in Topeka Jan. 26, Hanson said he is preparing for meetings with Sen Bob Dole. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Lawrence, to ask them to stop any military action.
Gulf overshadows basketball contest
Bv Chris Oster
Associate sports editor
Terry Brown cocked the ball behind his head and rained a three-point shot that opened the scoring in Kansas' victory against the University of Miami last night in Allen Field House. It was the start of a game-high 26-point night for the senior guard.
But while Brown gave a solid performance against the Hurricanes, his mind was often on the crisis in the Middle East, where Iran has been sending mercenary serving with the U.S. Army in the Saudi Arabian desert.
"I really couldn't concentrate on playing because of what was going on." he said. "I tried to just put that out of my mind until after the game. It still bothered me during the game. It's kind of hard to block out of your mind when you've got a brother and sister over there."
coach Roy Williams informed the team of the developments in the Persian Gulf region and of the new training camp. The team's usual pregame prayer.
Brown's brother, Raymond Williams, recently completed Army boot camp and is stationed in Germany. Brown said he did not know where his brother would be sent next.
"it probably bothered our team a little bit," Williams said. "In pregame, we talked about what
The outbreak of war diminished the importance of last night's game. Williams said.
was going on and how meaningless basketball is at times like this.
"I also talked to them about the fact that I’ve gotten two letters recently from soldiers in Saudi Arabia," he said. "I hearings are hearing about how we’re doing."
The issue of whether to play the game was difficult to resolve, Williams said.
"There's no right answer as to what's going on tonight," he said. "You cannot play the game, and it isn't a good answer. And you can guess the game, and it's not a good answer. You have no way of winning."
One of the major college games to be played last night was postponed, when North Carolina and Alabama had their contest called off.
Williams said he had talked to athletic director Bob Frederick before making a decision about whether to play the game.
Media coverage of the game was pre-empted by news of the crisis by a television station in Topeka and a Lawrence radio station.
Before the game started, a moment of silence was observed in honor of U.S. troops in the gulf.
In spite of the crisis, 14,200 attended last night's game in Allen Field House, some of them tuning up their equipment to keep track of the world events.
Scott Capstack, Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., sophomore, said
See GULF, Page 13
Aerial assaults begin gulf war
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. air assaults on Iraq marked the start of what Pentagon officials said would be a long series of U.S. and allied bombardments designed to neutralize its war to its will in fight
"We're not stopping; this is continuing," one military official said.
The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said jets from the U.S. Air Force and the British Royal Air Force left air bases a.m. local time (11 p.m. Wednesday CST).
Indeed, U.S.-led forces launched a second wave of air attacks on Iraq this morning from bases around the Persian Gulf region, the western military officer in Manama, Bahrain.
Some officials privately expressed surprise that Iraq posed little or no initial resistance to the bombardments of Baghdad and targets elsewhere in Iraq and Kuwait.
One source said the commanders of Operation Desert Storm planned to step up the pace of aerial bombardments unless Iraqi President Saddam Hussein suddenly ended his refusal to withdraw from Kuwait as demanded by the U.N. Security Council.
One source who, like most other Pentagon officials, would speak today only on condition of anonymity, said Iraq apparently had not launched any of its Soviet-made Scud ballistic missiles, which may be armed with chemical warheads.
Pentagon officials said that at least 1,300 U.S. sorties would be flown in the first 24 hours of the war, which Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said began at 7 p.m. EST Wednesday (3 a.m. Thursday, Baghdad time) with a massive, U.S.-coordinated aeroplane; television newsscasts showed from Iraqi antiaircraft batteries at about 6:35 p.m.
The first four hours of the attack, which
See MILITARY, Page 1A
How Operation Desert Storm unfolded
Gulf time (subtraction 9 hours for CST
*9:15 p.m.* An air-raid alarm sounds in the港口 of Dhahran of Saudi Arabia.
*12:50 a.m.* Operation Desert Storm begins. Squadrons of F-1SE from U.S. air force in U.S. air base in Dhahran. Aircraft of other nations—Great Britain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait—target militant Iraq and Kuwait.
2:55 a.m. Anti-aircraft fire lights the sky around Badgeltal. A wave of explosives hits the south of Badgeltal. A giant red explosion lights the sky about 10 miles west.
4:20 a.m. CNN reports that another wave of air attacks has begun in Basharabad
Bahrain in the Persian Gulf
**8.10** a.m.: All air strikes are underway. In Saudi Arabia, a national air raid scenarios were prepared by the Saudi capital of Riyadh and the city of Dhahram, civilians and journalists take cover in air raid shelters. No air trawl is assigned to safeguard declares a state of emergency, adverts citizens to the war.
Brown Jr. Legislature
5 a.m.: President Bush addresses the U.S., saying "We will not fail."
News Source
First strike military hardware
F-111 bomb:
1,250 mile range; tiles
covered; used by U.S. forces
used by U.S. forces in 1986
bomb Libya in 1986
F-15 Eagle fighter:
One of the world's top warplanes, has cannon
missiles and bombs
AWACS: Airborne
Warnings and Control
plane planes
high above highway,
can detect enemy
aircrafts, and
targets to target.
Tomashak
cruise missiles:
highly
battery-powered
sea-launched
missiles with
range
Other weapons
likely used:
F-16 Fighter
F-17A stealth
fighter
Royal Air Force
Tornado GR1
Wind turbine
Wildcats