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Ms PfJ XocarB'aWfTiflTrSm 7 i 1 HE ATURDAY RMA 58 SE Halifax 72 SEHalii Bovs" DU7 Oxford 57 Tarboro 69 IKEOTYON THE RISE LJ ELEGRAM SE Halifax 45 Rocky Iviount 48 uins Tarboro 39 Kinston 33 Vol. 80 No. 99 16 Pages Rocky Mount, N.C. SATURDAY Daily: 35 cents Sunday: $1.00 4 January 19, 1991 Allied sltiriilke oeirsiislts GULF ROUNDUP! I i HP I I 7 7 Israel waits as U.S., allies target Iraqi launchers 1 By MQRT ROSENBLUM AP Special Correspondent -1 1 1-1 "ts in-: Up to a (SOftHi SCUD or 11 3 "iitasw'iTi uufir -1 w-v i J'-ile aunc1iers-tfcrr-1iaTr Page 3: Goldsboro families ized the Jewish state. launchers in west Iraq.

Tel Aviv and Haifa neighborhoods are hit, wrecking houses and injuring residents. None carry chemical warheads. The world waits to see if, and how, Israel will retaliate. learn of loved ones missing in action; stock market can turn with each new gulf development. Page 11: Soviets denounce Iraq for attack on Israel-Iraq says attack avenges Arab suffering; Iraqis likely to parade allied war prisoners in front of television cameras.

'mm I Air assaults: Coalition jets continue to hammer targets in Iraq and Kuwait B-52 strategic bombers launch 'carpet bombing" strikes on the Republican Guard, Iraq's elite mobile armored reserve force near the Iraq-Kuwait border. Waves of allied fighter-bombers step up strikes on military Three more U.S warplanes were lost in raids against Iraqi targets, and their crews were missing, the Pentagon said. The Baghdad government claimed it had captured American pilots and would later produce them. A U.S. air chief, meanwhile, predicted a "very strenuous campaign" to finally take control of the skies over Iraq and Kuwait.

Only eight "kills" of Iraqi warplanes have been confirmed, the Pentagon said, and low cloud cover was slowing air operations Friday targets, especially any surviving Iraqi SCUD missiles and air defense units. The toD of downed or missing coalition jets rises to seven or more. TlgramOavld Kidwll LENDING A HAND Stephanie Gee, left, and Marcla Macedo, both 15, are two of Nash General Hospital's Junior Volunteers. The volunteers, who range in age from 14 to 18, perform tasks like delivering mail and helping patients as they leave the hospital. Young volunteers a boon to patients Up on the sand-and-gravel tnnmm plains of northern Saudi Arabia, ground hostilities had occurred, the general said.

But the non-stop bombardment by U.S. and allied warplanes is expected to be only a prelude to an all-out land assault by armor and infantry to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, the tiny oil emirate they have held 5l months in the face of world condemnation. On the third day of war, looking ahead, both sides had sobering assessments. "We must be realistic," President Bush said in Washington. Patriot missile: In its first use in combat, the U.S.'s controversial high-tech anti-missile missile destroys an incoming Iraqi SCUD aimed at ground forces of the U.b.-ied coalition wheeled and maneuvered close to the Kuwait and Iraq frontiers.

Units were being repositioned "for further action," the top U.S. commander said. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf tJL Financial also said more U.S.

amDhibious Anti-war protests is phahrari 1 ill 1 nana ithAnn nnnii never cheap or easy. the U.S. and cities around By WILL ANDERSON Staff Writer The bad news islhat "candy stripers" and "pink ladies are now antiquated symbols of a time long gone. The good news is that "junior, vohnv teers" have taken their place. Volunteers between the ages of 14 and 18 grace the halls of Nash General Hospital every Saturday, making their rounds as aids to nurses and hospital staff.

Their presence is, a booh to patients as well, hospital officials say. "They're a big part of our program," said Lucy Massey, hospital volunteer services manager. "We really depend heavily on the students." See VOLUNTEERS, page 2 attacks on Israel sent stocks falling in Tokyo, but they soon rebounded and posted a second day of significant gains. the world. In Berlin, police and protesters clash as a U.S.

cultural center is vandalized. with battle-ready Marines, were moving into the Persian pulf. The U.S. Navy was already in in gulf waters, having sunk or disabled three Iraqi patrol boats, he said. Except for a minor artillery exchange early Thursday, no Iraq's Defense Ministry newspaper dismissed the "unsuccessful" U.S.

air attacks and said Baghdad had decided on "a long-term war that will bleed the Americans and their allies." See GULF, page 2 AP Veteran recalls WWII missions Baseball to. return tdRaleigh ByWjDY COGGINS IS ports Editor 'M I I By WILL ANDERSON Staff Writer Thousands of miles and 48 years seem an eternity away for most Americans, but Bennie Cunningham remembers vividly the most exciting and terrifying time of his life. For ten months in 1942, Cunningham flew missions out of England and North Africa as a tail-gunner and radar man for U.S. night-fighter planes during World Warll. HOLLAND July 4, 1942 -Cunningham and his pilot, along with three other Douglas A-20 airplanes, are sent' from England on a virtual suicide night mission across the North Sea one of the first such air attacks by the American forces inEurope.

After dropping one of their three bombs on the city below, a German fighter plane chases in hot pursuit. Tracer bullets from a flak tower torments the plane from the ground. Cunningham holds on for dear life as the plane dips and dodges artillery from the -enemy plane in the rear and the flak tower ahead. About 10 to 15 bullets pierce the vertical stabilizer as the plane catches fire in the night sky. Cunningham shoots down the pursuing plane while the pilot takes down the flack tower.

Still holding its payload of two bombs, the burning A-20 skims a cow field unable to rise due to the weighty bombs and damage sus tained. Straight ahead in the distance, Cunningham sights a windmill. The plane is too low. The pilot banks to the left raising the right wing just in time to avoid crashing into the wind machine. Once over sea, the crippled Elane drops its two leftover ombs and staggers back to England.

Still night, the pilot is unable to find the country in the dark. "He was drawing 45 inches of mercury and at 47, the engine is supposed to explode," said Cunningham. As the radar man, Cunningham had to break radio silence twice for the pilot to find England and the airport. A heading of .003 See VETERAN, page 2 ZEBULONV- Right now it's a serene Wriunding. Rocky Mount rapes up substantially It's a barren tract of land where you can hear the birds chirp, fish on a quiet pond and hear a twig crack when you walk through the tall pine trees.

But in April those sounds will change. The crack will be a wooden bat making contact with a ball. You'll no longer hear the birds sing, but people cheering and applauding. Baseball is back in eastern North Carolina, and it will be played in Wake County. The Carolina Mudcats organization, after a long and somewhat frustrating effort, turned its dream into reality.

A groundbreaking ceremony for Five County Stadium was held at the corner of old U.S. 264 and N.C. 39 on Wednesday, marking the beginning of the South-See MUDCATS, page 2 By WILBUR PARSER Staff Writer The number of rapes reported in Rocky Mount rose substantially in 1990, according to police department records. Police records show there were 51 rapes reported in Rocky Mount last year compared to 29 in 1989 and 26 in 1988. are having an increase," said Rocky Mount 'Police Sgt.

Neal Boone, who said some of the reports turned out to be unfounded. reported one rape. Nashville also had one rape. Linda Kelder, community services supervisor of the Rocky Mount Police Department, said women should be. cautious about whom they associate with.

"The important thing for women to know is that a large number of rapes are committed by acquaintances and occur in the home, so women need to be particular about the company that they keep," she said. "If the ac- See RAPES, page 2 Boone said no pattern to the attacks has been detected, except that a large number of victims were raped by someone they knew. Only a few rapes have occurred in conjunction with burglaries and other crimes, Boone said. Elsewhere, the number of rapes either declined or stayed about the same. Rape reports in Edgecombe County rose by one to eight in 1990, while rape reports in Nash County and Tarboro went down.

In Nash County, two rapes were reported in 1990 while Tarboro TelegramRudy Cogglnt BREAKING GROUND Steve Bryant, center, owner of the Class AA Carolina Mudcats, digs into the site that will house Wake County's new baseball franchise. TODAY'S QUOTE Comci'od by CynSfiia Gfirxtelal Got something on your SPEAK UP! us at 985-4488, INP5X "We must be realistic. There will be losses, ther? will be obstacles! along the way and a war is never cheap or easy." GEORGE BUSH U.S. President House expresses approval WASHINGTON (AP) Following the Senate's lead the House on Friday! overwhelmingly ex-pressed its approval of the performance of President Bush and American troops in the Persian Gulf. The symbolic resolution was approved 399 to 6, with six abstentions, a day after the Senate passed the same measure 98-0.

Last week, a majority of Democrats in both chambers voted against going to war, preferring to extend the sanctions against Iraq. Republicans who voted overwhelmingly with the president secured passage of the war authorization. will have their monthly meeting at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Shoney's. The' public is welcome.

SCHOOL BUSDRIVERS NEEDEDV Adult school bus drivers are needed for Edgecombe County and Tarboro City schools. Those interested can attend a classroom training course Monday and Tues- day from 8:15 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Tarboro High School. For more information, call 823-1189.

Submit Kerns ofommunity interest to Cynthia Grindstaff, P.O. Box 1080, Rocky Mount, N.C., 27802. SEEDLINGS AVAILABLE: One-year-old Loblolly pine seedlings are' available from the Nash Soil and Water Conservation District office in Nashville at the price of $.15 each. They are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Contact the Nash Soil and Conservation District in Room 107, County Agriculture Center in Nashville, or call 4594115.

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