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Hazleton Standard-Speaker, Saturday, January 19, 1991 3 War in the Gulf Americans ffocuis on war; country in upbeat mood fr i (IS Vr distance calls since the start of the war, spokesman James R. Lowell said. The Army said it has received 10,000 calls an hour from families and friends of soldiers since Wednesday. Nancy Brager, of Cando, N.D., whose husband, Frank, is a member of the 132nd Quartermaster Detachment, finally heard that he is safe in a bunker. "I don't know if people can understand.

This has consumed our lives for five months. Luckily, the girls basketball team made it to the state tournament, so for a while we had something to talk about," she said. Mary Tobrey relies on Bible verses and Cable News Network. "I go back and forth from the Bible to the television. It comforts me.

It helps ins Jeal with what I'm seeing," said Mrs. Tobrey, whose 19-year-old son, Army Pfc. William D. Tobrey III, is stationed 10 miles from the Kuwaiti border. Others have taken to the streets; about 1,500 demonstrators have been arrested.

But the anti-war protesters appeared to have learned from the plight of Vietnam veterans who felt traumatized in war and abandoned when they came home. This time around, there is a distinction between opposition to war and animosity toward those fighting it. His speech Wednesday night apparently attracted more viewers than any program in U.S. television history, and now that Israel is involved, the crisis dug deeper into many American hearts. "There will always be people who oppose war, and that's good.

We always need that," said Rabbi Herbert Brockman of the Congregation Mishkan Israel in New Haven, Conn. "But we have to realize that peace and justice go hand in hand." Churches in downtown Pittsburgh plan to ring bells every weekday until the war ends. In Denver, sales of flags skyrocketed so that "we can barely keep up," said Lori Haude of American Pennant. A Radio Shack store in Denver was crowded with people hoping to buy shortwave radios to monitor events in the Middle East. "People want to know what's going on," said store manager Dana West.

Charlie Watson of Denver, who was among those participating in a national campaign to display orange ribbons to show supporffor U.S. troops, said it helps ease his pain; he served two tours of duty in Vietnam. "There's a lot of pain involved in this and a lot of memories," he said, "and if I could help someone get through this Top-40 KIIS-FM radio in Los Angeles opened a request line for songs dedicated to U.S. troops in the gulf. Most requested were "Give Peace A Chance" and "Stand By Me." "We're trying to play songs that are more reflective of what appears to be a really upbeat mood," said Jay Sinclair, disc jockey at WDCV-FM in Savannah, Ga.

At McClellan Air Force Base in California, the main repair center for the F-lll fighter-bomber that has been attacking Iraq, Steve Habbestad worked overtime to get more jets in the air. "We have a madman over there and we need to stop him," the 35-year-old sheet metal worker said. People gave what they could. The South Florida Region of the American Red Cross received hundreds of calls from people volunteering to donate blood, spokesman Chris Chidley said. An American Red Cross blood-mobile in Winston-Salem, N.C., drew twice as many people as ex-.

pected. "Praying and giving blood that's about all anybody can do now," said Paul Horton as he rolled up his sleeve. reported a 40 percent increase in international calls and a 20 percent rise in domestic long Doug Kukta, a University of Pittsburgh student, burns an Iraqi flag during an anti-war rally that turned into a pro-Bush rally on the Greensburg, satellite campus Friday afternoon. (AP) Iraq calls attack on Israel 'revenge' for Arab suf erin a By DAVID CRARY Associated Press Writer NICOSIA Cyprus (AP) Iraq said Friday its missile attack on Israel was in revenge for Arab suffering, and a Cabinet minister predicted allied forces would shed "rivers' of blood" in a long Persian Gulf war. Iraqi radio, quoting the speaker of Parliament, said hundreds of thousands of weapons were distributed to Baghdad residents, turning the capital into "a jungle of fighters and trenches" ready to repel attackers.

Since war began early Thursday, Baghdad has been one of the principal targets of bombing by the U.S.-led coalition that is trying to By MARY MacVEAN Associated Press Writer Americans lined up to give blood, worked overtime and rang bells in enthusiastic support of the war, though the president tried to temper their optimism Friday by warning that the fight could be long and costly. Even most of those who oppose the war draped their protests with support for the men and women in the Persian Gulf, using such slogans as "Support our troops, bring them home." During a clash Thursday night between peace activists and counter-protesters in Winona, both sides chanted "USA! USA!" Americans told pollsters they supported the president by wide margins. If they could do nothing else, they stayed glued to television sets, eager for any news of the 425,000 troops overseas. "You can't get it off your minds, even at a place like this," said Ginny Sarver, at a convention at the Lake Buena Vista Palace hotel at Walt Disney World. President Bush told the nation in a televised news conference Friday that his effort to eject Iraq from Kuwait was going well, but said war "will take time" and there "will be losses." said the missile corps commander reported to Saddam that his men "have been striking at targets inside the criminal Zionist entity with long-range missiles to avenge the suffering of the Arab and Muslim people." A later military communique suggested there were artillery or missile exchanges near the Saudi Arabian border with Iraq or occupied Kuwait.

It said Iraqi ground troops had struck at "enemy concentrations, damaging them greatly." Information Minister Latif Jassim was quoted by the Iraqi News Agency as saying White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater was right to caution the American missiles eral said in a briefing held for reporters at the Pentagon. The downed American planes included an F-A-18, two A-6 Intruders and an Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle. The two airmen aboard the one of the A-6 aircraft were identified as: Lt. Robert Wetzel, age 30, and Lt. Jeffrey N.

Zaun, age 28. Kelly said 196 cruise missiles also had been launched against Iraqi targets. Kelly and Rear Adm. John M. McConnell spoke with reporters after congressional sources said they had been told that military brass had been able to confirm the destruction of just 11 Iraqi aircraft.

Others may have been hit when allied forces bombed concrete bunkers, military officials said. Intelligence sources said Iraq has as many as three hardened bunkers for each warplane in its Air Force. That means attacking allied forces are playing a shell game in which they must bomb three bunkers to be sure of killing one plane. high-tech single Iraqi Scud ballistic missile fired at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday night was intercepted by a Patriot marking a success for the U.S. missile's first use in combat.

The Patriot was first deployed with U.S. forces in Europe in 1985. The system includes a "phased-array" radar that can detect targets not visible to conventional radars such as those used by Iraq. The Patriot initially was developed to shoot down enemy aircraft, not missiles. But in recent years it has been modified, mainly through improved computer systems, to defend against limited missile attacks.

The United States supplied Israel with two Patriot batteries several weeks ago, but the missiles are not yet operational. U.S. technicians are helping install, program and train the Israelis in using the Patriot, but it's expected to take several weeks before they're ready for use. Air Force F-117A stealth fighter-bombers. These planes, which can deliver 2,000 pound bombs, are built with special composite materials that the Air Force claims make the aircraft impossible to detect by enemy radar.

The Allies hunt for Scud Ik oust Iraq from Kuwait. The presidential palace of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein reportedly was one of several targets destroyed by continued allied air raids. The British Broadcasting Corp. said the palace, the Air Force Ministry and radio towers were hit, but Saddam apparently was in a bunker at the time and was unharmed. The military command, in a communique broadcast by Iraqi radio, claimed Friday's pre-dawn missile attack orf Israel struck "political, economic and scientific targets" in Tel Aviv and Haifa.

But civilian areas in Israel were hit, leaving 12 people injured slightly. Iraqi radio, monitored in Nicosia, cover downed pilots. Kelly disclosed that American troop strength in the war theater stood at 450,000 an increase of 25,000 since the war began on Wednesday. "The campaign continues to unfold successfully," said Kelly, a three-star general who appeared in a uniform bearing several rows of ribbons. However, the general acknowledged that Saddam Hussein appeared to still be in contact and control of his military forces, despite the heavy bombardment of his communication systems, and that the massive U.S.

air campaign had not yet won U.S. control of Iraqi airspace. "I don't know how effective his communication is," Kelly said. "We believe he still is retaining control over elements of his armed forces." The allied forces' air missions will total 2,107 in the first 48 hours of the military operation designed to force Iraq from Kuwait, the gen as lab for Schwarzkopf, commander of all American forces in the Persian Gulf area, said Thursday from his headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The power of high-tech weaponry made its mark from the opening minutes of the war.

Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from Navy warships in the gulf and the Red Sea helped kick off the aerial assault by flying undetected into Iraq to hit key targets such as storage sites for Iraqi surface-to-air ballistic missiles. The Tomahawks, which had never been used in combat, proved so accurate that, after a flight of hundreds of miles, they were able to blow up concrete-reinforced aircraft shelters deep inside Iraq by entering the bunker through the side door, a military source said. The computer system on board the Tomahawk is so sophisticated that the unmanned, 18-foot missile can change its course in flight to correct for unmapped obstacles. The high-tech weaponry being unleashed on Iraq is sprinkled throughout the American arsenal, including: Patriot air defense missiles. A A small boy under severe shock after an Iraqi Scud missile landed near his home in southern Tel Aviv Friday morning weeps in his father's arms as they arrive at a Tel Aviv hospital yesterday.

(AP) Anxiety in Israel rises after missile attack public that the war would not be quick or easy. "Not a few drops of blood, but rivers of blood will be shed," said Jassim, who, according to the British Broadcasting met with reporters under a single light burning in the hallway of his otherwise darkened ministry building. Jassim denied Egyptian reports that 50 Iraqi tanks had defected and suggested, without elaborating, that Iraq had fired more than one missile toward Saudi Arabia. U.S. military 'officials said a lone Iraqi missile fired in that direction was destroyed Friday morning by a U.S.

counter-missile. Iraqi radio quoted the military as saying 29 more allied planes were shot down Friday, raising the total to 94. U.S. military officials said a total of seven allied planes have been downed. The Iraqi news agency quoted a military spokesman as saying 64 Israeli warplanes landed in Saudi on Friday morning.

A Saudi military source denied the Iraqi claim, saying it was "totally inconceivable" that Israeli planes would join the multinational force on Saudi territory. An Iraqi official claimed American pilots had been captured, and offered to let journalists meet them, Cable News Network reported from Baghdad. CNN offered no other details and said its report was subject to Iraqi censorship. Iraq's first confirmation of its missile strike on Israel came over Iraqi radio about eight hours after the attack. "Let the United States hear the wailing of its daughter implanted in the heart of the Arab homeland," the radio said.

The United States has sought to keep Israel out of war to preserve the alliance with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria. The U.S. targeted Iraqi missile batteries in its initial air raids in a failed attempt to preempt an attack on Israel. weapons makeup of the materials is a secret. The stealth planes were first used in the U.S.

invasion of Panama. They were among the first U.S. and allied aircraft to bomb Iraq in the opening hours of the war. Schwarzkopf on Friday showed reporters a videotape of a stealth bomber's attack on Iraq's air defense headquarters in Baghdad. The plane's laser-guided bomb was so precise that it dropped into the concrete building through an air shaft.

The building appeared to be destroyed. Night-vision goggles. These devices, worn either by helicopter pilots or ground troops, turn night into day by amplifying the light from the stars or the moon. Airborne radar. The Air Force's Airborne Warning and Control System planes deployed in Saudi Arabia are seeing their first combat service.

These planes, similar to Boeing 707s, use advanced radar and air-to-ground communications to detect enemy aircraft hundreds of miles away. They act as a key link in command and control of American and allied aircraft searching for aerial targets. always with a gas mask slung over the shoulder. At the Co-op Supermarket in the Jerusalem suburb of East Talpiot, shoppers cleared the shelves of milk and bread. Julian Nochomovitz, 34, spoke not of fear but of a desire to avenge Friday's attack, the first since Iraqi President Saddam Hussein nine months ago began threatening to hurl chemical warheads at Israel.

"Sitting in my gas mask, I wanted to napalm Nochomovitz said. "I wouldn't lose much sleep if he were fried." Across town, Roy Makov waited in a long checkout line in the Supersol market. "On one hand, it is tense here," he acknowledged. "On the other hand, there is security." He said his faith was in the Israeli military, which acts on the premise that "if we don't protect ourselves, no one else will." The missiles, with conventional warheads, landed in the coastal cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa, slightly injuring 12 people, hospitals said. FAMILY PET CEMETERY and CREMATORY R1000 South Church St.

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Army psychologist Moshe Even-Chen went on national television to assure the jittery public that fear was OK. "The public is worried," he said. "They have butterflies in their stomachs. This is legitimate." Anxiety could be seen in the vacant streets as most Israelis heeded the government's emergency regulations and stayed home. Few buses and taxis ran.

People short of food made quick forays to grocery stores, almost Located PICK-UP SERVICE AVAILABLE MEMBER at By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER and JIM DRINKARD Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. and allied warplanes are "searching assiduously" for Iraq's mobile missile launchers to cut off Saddam Hussein's ability to attack Israel and other targets in the Persian Gulf war, Pentagon officials said Friday. Lt. Gen.

Tom Kelly told reporters at the Pentagon that allied military officials had confirmed the destruction of eight Iraqi aircraft in aerial combat, with "a couple of other airplanes suspected damaged, probably on the ground." Iraq's air force is believed to number about 700 planes, spread through 25 heavily protected bases. Kelly said four American aircraft were lost and seven crew members listed as missing in action in the first two days of the war. "They all went down behind enemy lines," he added. "We know of no American prisoners of war at all," he said. He refused to discuss any effort to re War serves By ROBERT BURNS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A U.S.

Patriot missile destroys an Iraqi rocket roaring toward American troops in Saudi Arabia. Tomahawk cruise missiles pass their first battle test with flying colors. Stealth fighters streak in and out of Iraq "before the antiaircraft even comes on. The sands and skies of the Middle East are serving as a live laboratory for some of America's newest high-tech weapons of war. "There has never been a case in a wartime situation in which such ingenuity and performance have come together," Sen.

Richard Lugar, said Friday after a briefing from senior Pentagon officials on results of the U.S. air campaign. The full picture of how the most sophisticated U.S. weapons developed over the past two decades at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars is not yet clear. But military leaders say U.S.

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