Show A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday April America at war Q 2003 1 3 for life on the front lines IRAQ (AP) — The howitzers flash recoil and roar lobbing shells over the heads of sweating Navy surgeons SOUTH-CENTRA- L Inside sweltering khaki tents the n operating team tends to the wounded: Moaning Iraqi lighters claiming to have been shot by their own when they tried to surrender Two Marines Two British allies one dying If the of helicopters signaled the closeness of eight-ma- chop-chop-ch- op MASH units to the front in Korea and Vietnam the howitzers do the same in Iraq — firing American outgoing artillery over die heads of surgical teams operating between American and Iraqi lines “We ARE the front line” Capt Tony Serfustini a surgeon says outside a tent a discarded and bloody wooden splint by his feet “Can’t get any farther forward than that” The teams are called forward resus- - citative surgical systems operating for the first time ever in combat over the past two weeks in Iraq Six eight-ma-n teams are scattered over the country All mark the closest Navy teams have ever operated to combat Their aim: to get critically wounded onto the operating table within an hour of the time they fell on the battlefield “The ’golden hour’ of trauma You have one hour to get them to surgery before bad things start to happen” says Cmdr Robert Izenberg a surgeon in operating scrubs and pushed-dow- n white mask The front-lin- e lifesavingunits grew out of the 1991 Gulf War Somalia and other Marine engagements of the past decade or so Past wan had static fronts for months and years at a time — in Vietnam 14 hospitals that never moved tended to patients scooped out by helicopter or plane In the Gulf War and onward Marine units rushed too far forward on too many fronts for the ohlstyle medical teams to wounded to care in time get critically “It’s a different conflict” said Serfustini a Vietnam veteran and now a surgeon and Navy reservist in Las Vegas Nev “This is a conflict in T-sh-irt “scoop-and-ru- See LIFE on A( Reverend Jackson to join in NBC fires repprter for Iraqi interview NEW YORK (AP) — NBC fired journalist Peter Arnett on Monday saying it was wrong for him to give an interview with state-ru- n Iraqi TV in which he said the American-le- d coalition’s initial plan for the war had failed because of Iraq’s resistance Arnett called the interview a “misjudg-ment- ” NBC defended him Sunday saying he had given the interview as a professional courtesy and feft his remarks were analytical in nature But by Monday morning the network switched course and after Arnett spoke wife NBC News President Neal Shapiro said it would no longer work wife and apologized Arnett on NBC’s “Today” show on Monday said he was sony for his statement but added “I said over die weekend what we all know about Arnett “It was wrong for Mr Arnett to grant an interview to war” the “I want to apologize to the American people for clearly making a misjudgment”’the Arnett New Zealand-bor- n said He said he would try to leave Baghdad now joking “thereJs a small island in fee Soutty Pacific that I’ve inhabited that I’ll try to swim to’1 search MELVILLE NY(AP) — The Rev Jesse Jackson said Monday he has told the families of two missing Newsday journalists last seen in Baghdad that he would try to help track down their whereabouts Jackson who has had suc-- i in negotiating fee release of American prisoners in past conflicts said relatives of Newsday correspondent Iraqi TV state-controll- especially at a time of war” NBC spokeswoman Allison Gollust said “And it was wrong for him to discuss his personal observations and opinions in that interview” Arnett who won a Pulitzer Prize reporting in Vietnam for The Associated Press gained much of his prominence from See ARNETT on A6 Matthew APphoto AsmaH child sitting on his father’s shoulders fights for a box of food as people rush to grab food packages handed out by members of the British Tactical Supply Wing from the back of a truck in the southern Iraqi town of Safwan on Monday Aid trickles into AMMAN Jordan (AP) — The first wartime UN humanitarian aid a few truck-loaof food and water trick- led across Iraq’s borders from Strang Aid trickles into Irai Emergency water remained in Turicay ds 1 i - & APphoto PV2 Roy Lawrence of Maine cleans his weapon during downtime somewhere in Iraq on Monday The tattoo reads “Hear my voice 0 God preserve my life from fear of the enemy" Lawrende is a soldier with Task Force 9 Armor 3rd Brigade Combat Team 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Banning Georgia Huge blasts pound palace in Baghdad BAGHDAD Iraq(AP) — Six explosions in rapid succession shook central Baghdad late Monday sending smoke billowing from the Old Palace presidential compound and bathing the sky in a soft orange glow Across the Tigris River on its east bank another target was hit in the city center less than a mile from fee Palestine Hotel The foundation of the " hotel where foreign journalists are staying shook as if it had been struck by a powerful earthquake The blasts were some of the air strongest since the US-le- d war began March 20 and a steady rumblingof explosions continued south of the capital early Tuesday — likely against Republican Guard positions ry Monday night Saddam Hussein and his sons Odai and Qusai appeared on Iraqi television with the station showing video footage of a meeting of top military commanders There was no way of determining when the video was shot Saddam decorated commanders and troops of army units in Umm Qasr the Faw penin- sula and Nasiriyah for their “heroic” defense of the areas state television said A communique read on Iraqi Satellite Television said members of the 1 1th Division which fought in Nasiriyah would receive medals and their families would immediately receive 2 million dinars — about $670 at the exchange rate on the eve of the war Turkey and Kuwait UN agencies reported Monday But officials said aid organiza-- ? turns and fee US military ’ remain wary of working together on relief operations for Iraq Three trucks carrying 847 tons of dried milk crossed from Turkey and were unloaded in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk on Saturday the UN World Food Program said in a delayed report -- country Powell said Monday it was fee first of a number of trips he intends to take in the weeks and months ahead “about our hopes for Iraq in the future-He told reporters he would tell Turkish leaden “it is unnecessary for them to consider any incursions in the ” region” Powell said he was prepared to hear “their point of view - ' and make sure we have a common understanding” Powell intends to tyke up wife Turkish leaders their concern about any potential attacks from Iraq and the restraints the Bush administration has placed on Tkukish for-ten- military incursions inside northern Iraq spokesman Richard Boucher said in announcing the sudden trip In Brussels where Powell will meet wife NATO allies and members of the European Union on Thursday the focus will be on postwar reconstruction in Iraq France mid Germany opposed fee war preferring extended UN searches for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and a division also exists over postwar plan Braka 1 - Tun Alternate r KURDISH CONTROLLED REGION r JcMikuk IRAN World Food 847 tons of dried mflk to Dohuk Sunday V r Greek donors carried 33 tone of modkrins blankets and foods to ‘ W V Baghdad o I — JORDAN ' Kut 160 family-size- d A A— 1 Najaf Diwaniyah - Samawafr - Nasiriyah - 100nl - 100 ton Jordanian bucks carried 130 tons of medical supples to Iraq on Sunday A Under UN economic sanctions against Iraq the World Food Program itself ran a program in the north while fee Baghdad government operated it for the rest of the country ' In far southern Iraq on Monday the first three vehicles carrying UN water — commissioned by the UN Children’s Fkind — managed to make deliveries from Kuwait to the captured city of Umm Qasr UNICEF spokesman trickled into Iraq Monday A few The Japanese He said people in three autonomous Kurdish provinces of the north are believed to need food more urgently than people in the central government-controlle- d remainder of Iraq because they received only a month’s rations before the war began while Iraqis elsewhere got two months’ ratipns SSSSKS" Dohuk private txmvoys have also entered the country with humanitarian aid Next “we’re preparing to move badly needed wheat flour later this week into the north” said Khaled Marisour regional spokesman for the UN agency in Amman food-rationi- atHaburGate TURKEY The first UN IJ numanoanan axi Umm WHS 10 iKHOHIk SAUDI ARABIA Spare parte for a water treatment Balltak pnuBfi iroops oosvsrso water to Zubeyr just eoubi of Basra on Monday KUWAf Basra SOURCES United Nations Aeeocieted la unsBaiwDonsconuacwi 13 vehicles to deiver water to Umm Qasr I Pish Geoff Keele reported But 10 other water vehicles did not cross from Kuwait either because they had incorrect Kuwaiti paperwork or their privately contracted drivers decided it wasn’t safe to YI AP traveling Iraq’s roads war-to-m Few private aid convoys have ventured into Iraq but on Monday a shipment’ from private Greek donors — carrying 33 tons of medicine food milk and blankets — headed fra: Baghdad from Amman the Jordanian capital A Jordanian government truck convoy and a private Algerian convoy crossed into Iraq on Sunday carrying 130 tons of medical supplies two-tru- southern travel into war-toIraq Keele said Keele also said two UNICEF trucks carrying medm ical and other goods have been waiting at the northern border for Turkish permission to cross into Iraq Mansour said Saturday’s dried-mil- k delivery also had been held up for some days pending Turk- - ck Saman and McAUester have been out of contact since March 24 when they their Island-base- d Long newspaper to would be filing materisay they al Newsday editor Anthony Marro said in the paper’s Saturday editions that he believes the two have been detained by fee Iraqi government Molly Bingham a freelance photographer from Louisville Ky and Danish freelance photographer Johan Rydeng Spanner also are unaccounted for in Iraq liie American Society of Newspaper Editors requested Monday that the Iraqi government assure the safety of the three US journalists The Danish Press Photographer Association said Spanner was among a group of people in Baghdad The association said he had sought press accreditation once inside Iraq but had entered the country as a student In 1999 Jackson negotiated fee release of three US servicemen being held as prisoners of war in Yugoslavia In 1991 he traveled to Baghdad and Kuwait City and won the release of 47 ed US citizens many of whom were ill and had been under siege in the US Embassy there for a month He has had similar successes in Syria and Cuba’ Jackson said he hopes to amass a delegation of religious leaders to help in securing the release of fee journalists — if they indeed are being held — as well as US prisoners of war and other people missing in Iraq “Each time I have gone to bring Americans home it was always with a group of religious leaders who had contacts wife religious leaders there” Jackson said NxLevel Business Plan For Success Class "Iarn Successful Business Techniques” ning France and Russia want a dominant role for the United Nations in a Hussein transition post-Sadda- m Build Your Business Plan Legal Structure and Issues Marketing and Advertising (New) CooHng Syatom McAltater 33 and photographer Moises Saman 29 asked him Sunday to help locate the two men “And I said I would do my very best” Jackson said He said he had no plans to travel ’ to the region however Iraqi-occupi- ish permission The greatest obstacle however remained the danger of Powell to discuss war with nations WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Colin Powell will travel to Turkey and Brussels Belgium for talks on the war with Iraq and postwar reconstruction of that n” Oil SarvIcavTranamiaaiona 5 Financial Atuilysis & Control Free Consulting Provided Light meal provided weekly - 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