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Thursday Thursday, Feb. 21, 1991 World Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune 19 State National International LOWS whipped Kuwait is burning PRSUAU7AD Df.bt PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) Islamic tribal eiders had two young lovers whipped for eloping in violation of an ancient, tradition that dictates arranged marriages, a newspaper reported today. By eloping with his bride-to-be, the lovesick suitor committed a crime in Northwest Frontier Province, where young women are hidden behind a veil and men risk Nuclear woes TOKYO (AP) Twelve days after Japan's worst accident at a nuclear power station, another plant today automatically shut' down when the turbine's lubricating oil pressure Suddenly fell, a company spokesman said. Investigators could not immediately determine what caused the drop in pressure inside the step.m turbine of the 1.1 million- kilowatt Kashiwazaki Kariwa No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant, said Tetsuya Terasawa, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Deadline set LJUBLJANA, Yugoslavia (AP) Slovenia's president says Yugoslavia's six republics and two provinces must agree on a way to split up the country by June or his non-Communist republic will become an independent nation on its own. The prosperous western republic's parliament voted 173-1 on Wednesday to seek the breakup of the shaky Yugoslav federation that is dominated by Communist Serbia. IMF OKs loans MANILA, Philippines (AP) The International Monetary Fund has approved more than $900 million in new loans to the Philippines, the finance secretary announced today. Secretary Jesus Estanislao said an initial $400 million will be turned over in a few days. The entire 1916 million is expected within 18 months, he said.

Pilots want more time for air campaign Editor's note: The following dispatch was subject to U.S. military censorship. By Edith M.Lederer Associated Press writer AN AIRBASE IN SOUTHWESTERN SAUDI ARABIA (AP) U.S combat pilots flying round-the-clock bombing raids say Kuwait is a burning, cratered battlefield but that allied ground forces will still face a formidable, well dug-in Iraqi army. The pilots at this base, who fly Air Force F- 111 strike aircraft for the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing, have been concentrating on tanks, artillery and Iraqi army reserves in their nightly missions in Kuwait and Iraq. They said Wednesday that the allies have destroyed a significant part of the Iraqi war machine.

"The whole military establishment is burning," said Capt. Bradley Seipel, 34, of Virginia Beach, Va, a weapons system officer of an F-111F fighter-bomber. "You look at Kuwait, that whole area, it's just fire." 'Awe inspiring' The pilot on Seipel's jet, Capt. Mike Russell, 33, of Bradenton, said: "It's like constant explosions, constant It's just awe-inspiring night after night how we ripped them up." "This is a war and we're beating them bad," Russell said. But pilots said the Iraqi army is by no means defenseless.

"It seems to me it's still a very target-rich environment, and I don't think we've come close to exhausting all the possible targets," said Lt. Troy Stone, 25, of Hemlock, an F-lllF weapons system officer. "I still see that they're going to be able to put together a great ground defense or offense. They're still able to move their goods. They're still able to produce those goods and get them to I heir army." The Iraqi army isn't as well- trained and doesn't have the sophisticated equipment the allies have, he said, but "they still have a heck of a lot of soldiers down there, and we don't have near as many tanks as they do, even after we've been bombing them.

"And they're dug in so well, they've got many Stone dismissed the notion that Iraq is less technologically advanced, saying they have the "second-best weapons" in the world, bought from the Soviet Union. A bad position Capt. Brad Roberts, 29, of Boise, Idaho, Stone's pilot, said taking on an entrenched enemy is "the worst position you want to be in" but that superior allied armor "is going to help us a lot." No pilot said he believes allied military forces could simply roll into Kuwait despite the pounding delivered to the Republican Guard, Saddam Hussein's crack troops dug in along the Iraq- Kuwait border. Seipel said, "Any one who thinks it's going to be two days, or three days, or five days, I think is crazy, just because of sheer numbers of people. It's kind of like the people saying the air war would last five days." Several pilots said their favored delaying the ground war to save American lives by taking out more targets.

"Why not?" Robeijts said. "We're taking relatively few losses and we're able to inflict a lot of damage and the longer you wait, the better it's going to be for the ground guys." Refueling The B-2 Advanced Technology Bomber prepares to take on fuel from a KC-135 tanker during a recent flight from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The B-2 can pepeiirate the most sophisticated air defenses and deliver more than 40,000 pounds of ordnance to virtually any target in the world from its main operating bases with only one refueling. The bomber has completed more than 140 hours of flight testing. (AP photo) Check This 8-Page Section For Savings Of And More.