| Show I 14A The Salt Lake Tribune US Jets Join Qatar in Sunday September 2 1990 For Now Operation Desert Shield Means US Troops Sit Sweat and Wait It Out By Larry Eichel Newspapers SAUDI ARABIA — And still they come thousands of them No matter that the Persian Gulf seems at least for the moment to have moved back from the brink of war The Americans keep arriving one jumbo jet after another Their stay in Saudi Arabia however long and eventful it may turn out to be begins here in the heat of the morning at a vast barren air base in the east of the country where everything is bleached the color of dust Having flown day and night and then some from Pope Air Force Knight-Ridde- Base NC via Brussels Belgium the new arrivals stride down the steps from a United 747 carrying their packs on their backs duffels over one shouldcr and over r M-I- the other Some look apprehensive as they take in the bleak landscape for the first time Some look eager others Just exhausted Some make a show out of being cool More than a few have tiny American flags tucked in the pockets of their camouflage fatigues "It looks pretty much the way I expected" said Army Specialist Vincent Hairston Harrisburg Pa who had flown in with the 27th Field Ar 2 Alter View on Arms Senate Group Carries Mail Word of Support to Yanks DHAHRAN Saudi Arabia (AP) — A delegation of US senators Saturday brought mail and words of sup- US to port troops in Saudi Arabia and two said the Middle ' East crisis had changed their - views on sales of US arms to the Saudis The ber delegation og4 –Arc' s- 14-me- ceived a re- - 30-mi- ute briefing from the commander 4 i' --- -- John Glenn of American forces in East Army Gen H the Norman Middle before heading to Schwarzkopf American base camps in northeast Saudi Arabia Senator Alan Cranston said Schwarzkopf told the senators the US mission remained a defensive one and that no attack on Baghdad is planned Killings Due to Soldier Discipline Reuter News Agency JERUSALEM — Israeli troops shot dead only one Palestinian in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in August the lowest figure for any month since an uprising against Israeli rule in the territories started in December 1987 Security sources and Palestinians Saturday attributed the drop to strict orders to soldiers on when they may open fire and on the streamlining of Israeli forces "If you do not shoot you do not kill and the army is very strict on the Issue of opening fire" an Israeli security source said August statistics compiled by Reuters from Israeli Palestinian and United Nations sources showed that soldiers shot dead one Palestinian in the West Bank Two were killed by Israeli civilians There were no deaths in the Gaza Strip The Israeli army maintains that the Palestinian uprising is in decline but Palestinians dispute this tillery Brigade based at Fort Bragg NC "Till you see it though it's just imaginary It's real now" The commanding officers say the mood of the men is upbeat But it is of course not that simple "Some days I wanted to come some days I didn't" Hairston said gazing out on a horizon of makeshift toilets skids loaded with supplies and huge transport aircraft "I just got here and I'm ready to go home I sure don't want it to blow But if it does we've got to do what we need to stay "They've been sitting here" Hawaii around for weeks just waiting to come rap-mus- ic high-heele- rooms" A dispute over the microphone at by about 200 the rap party attended people preceded the fighting police Sgt Harold Moret said Investigators do not believe the brawl was gang-relate- matter" Officers arriving at the hotel were shot at and returned fire Moret said One gunman was wounded in the parking lot Six people were arrested and booked for attempted murder said police Lt David Garza They were identified as Timothy Rankin 23 Michael Williams 20 his cousin Marcus Williams 21 Dwayne Callis 19 and J T Brandon 45 all of Los Angeles Also arrested was Delton Prescott 24 of Los Angeles who was shot in the hand Garza said Rollie Hayes a Jenny Craig 'bonne Si711P5011 I'd struggled with my weight for years with little success Jenny Craig was differentThanks to the entire Murray staff I lost the weight and gained the confidence I needed to win the pageant What a proud moment for me to stand there with my beautiful daughter Rosanne' Now you can m (aujNoawat-ti- 266-790- Sandy 571-047- Service tee Jenny's Cuisine additional i litiO aedit 3 cards acaTted v Provo (Ogden 373-144- 394-504- 4 9 7 Sugarhouse 4 86-94- Open Satuidays and evening! 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Then get your two goddamned feet moving!" a sergeant barks Those buses will still be sitting there an hour later with the same soldiers still inside "Morale's just super high" said Marine Maj Charles Young whose men had just come in after a seemingly endless multistop flight from MTMel of the 1990 MotherDaughter Kearns Reuter News Agency DOHA Qatar — dust-covere- Cranston a strong supporter of Israel who has opposed past sales of high-tec- h US arms to the Saudis said the current crisis had convinced him "we should make available what they need" Another fierce defender of Israel in the Senate New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan said he too was convinced the Saudis now are deserving of further US military equipment Several senators said they wished more nations would join in the multinational defense force "I would like to see some of the Western European nations being more supportive" said Sen John Glenn an Ohio Democrat Glenn the former astronaut rode in the cockpit of a C-- I 30 Hercules transport plane for one leg of the trip The senators took notes from soldier constituents and promised to contact families back home They also brought boxes of mail and words of support Israeli Forces Cut Air Exercise I photos Randy Nelson Robert Baxter May Nelson EASY FREEWAY ACCESS 4854000 2768 So West Temple : |
