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Show Thursday, August 30, WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. military's first strike will be against remote air bases, missile sites and chemical weapons installations if the Persian Gulf standoff turns into a shooting war, experts on the Middle East and national security say. An attack on the presidential palace in crowded Baghdad is also seen as a possibility. American officials in Saudi Arabia say an all-oassault on Iraq is highly unlikely unless the Iraqis Ore first They have discussed conut tingency i - in ,1 ' APLaamkato check on an An Air Force EisJst line attendant goes through a defense a The fcBfrtaanacd AaSsh. against tanks. Waring, b major ht pre-Gig- A-- 10 jet Wednesday in Snail A-- U, ioo eaoExo, tfattigues - NEW YORK AP) Presenting Gulf Chic, the hottest look tinder the Saudi sun and on the military surplus circuit: desert khaki and jchocolate town, gas mask option; al. Americans weary of the same old iatigues are snapping up desert camouflage outfits just like the ones U.S. troops are sweating in on duty in Saudi Arabia. And travelers to. the Middle East who like to come prepared are packing Israeli gas masks next to their sunscreen. "It's the in thing right now," said of Peter Kalaydjian, military supply store in Los Angeles. '"It's what's seen on TV, and that's when the wanna-be- s come out." Fashion critic Mr. Blackwell, best known for his annual worst-dresse-d celebrity lists, , has declared the desert camo a It's an old ."light and airy look. ' idea with a new twist." Now available at military surplus st for $50 or $60 a set. "We got everything! The pants! The shirt! The hat!" crowed Eric Yefet, manager of The Real Army & Navy Store in Brooklyn. Desert camouflage sales have jumped a inere 20 percent, but gas masks! "This went up 700 percent! Pri. vate people, big companies, everybody wants 'em! Forget it! Big order for the gas masks!" Yefet yelled into the phone on Tuesday. "The prices have gone up on wholesale four times in the last two weens; u s going up again; Civilians traveling to the Middle East, including reporters, photograer RE-CON- -1 . owner of Soldier Surplus in Mesa, Ariz. "One guy called from New York for 100,000 masks." Knutson said businessmen buy as many as they can and scalp them in Israel for $200 each. But they're still selling for $9 at Missouri Wilderness Catalogue Co. of Columbia, Linda Mullins said. Mo., apparently launched a nuclear weapons program, but will not be able to build such arms on its own until late in this decade. Rubin said the nuclear plant would not be an important target because, for the short run, Iraq has no nuclear capability. After the Air Force and the missile sites, he said, the principal aim "would have to be at the capacity, not at civilians or even at the industrial capacity." The State Department has said it had credible reports that Iraq was moving foreigners trapped within its borders to industrial sites that might be targets of attack. Quandt said he assumed the U.S. military would take that into' account "up to a point, but I think once they have decided something is really a high priority target, they will go after it with or without the presence of American civilians." war-maki- STIHL 7ft3S7IK!.034 NUMBER ONE WORLDWIDE 034AVEQ for onccntionzl performance! taw399" The latest in a new generation of cutting power, light-- , s rr. aw,-- - HA iwArc rahah o hmh nprtnrm- - schedule ance for your heavy-dut- y tree after tree, cord after cord. 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"To destroy the Iraqi air force on the ground will be the No. 1 priority, and to prevent them from firing missiles," said Barry Rubin, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a private research group. Other targets, Rubin predicted, would be supply depots and supply lines and places that produce chemical weapons. Asked to be specific, he said: "I don't think it would be useful to go into that. But we know where the chemical installations are, and satellites take very nice pictures." William B. Quandt, a National Security Council official in the Nixon and Carter administrations who is a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, listed much the same priorities. "I think their first concern would be to neutralize surface-to-surfac- e missile capability and then to establish air superiority without any question," Quandt said. He said military officials would be likely also to pinpoint "anything they know about chemical depots not so much the plants but where they store the stuff." "And then there is the kind of notion that we ought to sneak in and drop a bomb on the presidential palace on top of it all," Quandt said. "I am sure somebody is thinkcoming about hitting the mand and control centers." Such an attack would strike at the heart of Baghdad, a city of more than 3 million people. "I am not sure you could take anything without taking out civilian populations; not around Baghdad, that's for sure," said Joyce R. Starr, a Washington consultant and expert on Middle East conflict who served in the Carter White House. "I think if they really decide to go for broke there will be civilian casualties," Quandt said. Rubin said the military installations, unlike the presidential palace and other government buildings, ;; two weeks ago now costs investment!" Yefet $10 Page D7 How old are these things, anyway? "Older man I'd like to think about. About IS years," said Mitchell WerBelL president of Brigade Quartermasters of Kennesaw, Ga., suppliers of what he likes to call "action gear" for soldiers, police, those." .v hunters, campers, survivalists and Will they work against Saddam's people who need casual yet indeschemical weapons?: tructible clothing. "The writing on the box is in "It's new, never been used," he Hebrew. Let me see if there are hastened to add "It's . just old. directions inside," Mullins said. not most the sophisticated, "Hmmmmm. Those are in Hebrew,' They're military gas mask. too. Gosh, it'd be interesting if I You cant get those." could read this and find out if it I guess I No matter. People seem to want was chemical-resistan- t. couldn't make any guarantees." whatever they can get, just in case. coast-to-coa- for - That could change momentarily however. "It depends how scarce they are. We're ' looking at 30 of them right now, and I can usually get more," she said. "1 did sell a gas mask right out of the blue yesterday, plus a gas mask bag. We never sell ... phers and business types, have pushed the market to the limit. The Israeli surplus gas mask that sold THE HERALD, Prcvo, Utah, flrct, eiipeirSs Iraqi plOtes sites - I'M. . uajMlI! (y). 1990 UTcU 81HIjTS KiM |