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tEV (fouettt Thursday, August 30, 1990 Page 3 Military moms leave lives behind Indiana Fair events schedule DHAHRAN. Saudi Arabia (API sent on a mission that potentially left four days earlier. son. "i don't want him to get in witn the wrong crowd." The mortgage on LaRoche's house has been paid through December and the utilities turned off. If Desert Shield drags on longer, LaRoche said she will ask a neighbor to help out.

Military women know to expect the unexpected so they plan ahead for their children. LaRoche said she still had no idea where her husband was or how she would find him. Her children Tricia, 18, and Shaka, 15 were none too happy about the situation. They are moving next week to Washington to live with their grandmother. "He's a very quiet kid, an honor-roll student," LaRoche said of her With both their parents shipped off to Saudi Arabia, Trlcia and Shaka LaRoche are "Desert Shield" orphans, their lives turned upside down by the U.S.

military deployment. But Sgt. Carol LaRoche, a 33-year-old transportation specialist with the 24th Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, says she was crying the hardest when she left her teen-agers Monday morning. "1 didn't want to leave them, and they didn't want me to leave," she said. LaRoche, a Birmingham, Ala.

native who now lives in Hinesville, is one of scores of military women who have left husbands and children for an indefinite stay in Saudi Arabia. These women don't know when they are going home, and they can't call. The Defense Department has not counted how many women are part of Operation Desert Shield, which aims to counter any Iraqi threat. But the numbers far exceed women ever could Involve combat. About 100,000 U.S.

troops are in Saudi Arabia, and estimates are it could go higher. Women are barred from combat, but they work in dozens of support fields including as nurses, fork-lift operators, jet maintenance crews and drivers. "My husband says, 'What ever happened to the good old days when men went to war and the women stayed home?" said Air Force Lt. Col. Jane Valentine, a 37-year-old nurse from Goldsboro, N.C.

Valentine, with the 4th Medical Group of the 4th Tactical Wing, said she had prepared herself psychologically to be away from Ashley, her 5-year-old daughter, for up to six months. "1 know she is well taken care of," Valentine said of her daughter while in a tent seeking shade from the 107-degree desert heat. For LaRoche, the Saturday call telling her to prepare to leave was particularly wrenching. Her husband, Wayne, also with the 24th, bad Indiana County's 128th fair will begin Aug. 26 and continue through Sept.

1 at the Mack Community Center in Indiana. The schedule of events is as follows. THURSDAY, AUG. 30 1 p.m. "kid's Pedal Tractor Pull, ages 4-11.

3 p.m. Grand Cavalcade of Champions. 7:30 p.m. Local Farm Tractor Pull. 7:30 p.m.

Premier Showmanship Contest FRIDAY, AUG. 31 9 a.m. Junior Livestock Judging Contest. 6: 15 p.m. 4-H and FFA Trophy Presentation.

7 p.m. Junior Livestock Sale. 7:30 p.m. Dr. McLaughlin Working Sheep Dogs.

8 p.m. Horse Pulling Contest. SATURDAY, SEPT. 1 10 a.m. Pet Show and Ronald McDonald Show.

1 p.m. Demolition Derby. 7 p.m. 4-Wheel Drive Truck Pull. Free daily entertainment will be provided by the Robinson Racing Pigs and Poppo the Clown.

Horstman's Amusements will be on the grounds all week. Admission to the fair grounds is free, but there will be a parking fee for vehicles. Wn INDIANA mUm llJmall fm Vjtf Rt tW IfKlfna 39-6110 Wf They're Back! JUPITER PRODUCTS Indians say battle must end at Oka OKA, Quebec (API Indian barricades started coming down peacefully at a bridge into Montreal, but Mohawk warriors say their confrontation with authorities isn't over in this Quebec village. After 90 days of armed standoff that began in Oka on July 11 with a bungled police assault on a Mohawk barricade, the situation showed the situation to air a much wider range of Indian grievances against the government, including demands for sovereignty. Though some of the barriers came down, traffic stilt was not moving, either down the approach roads or across the vital bridge.

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