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4A DETROIT FREE PRESSTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1991 Ml There's fight left in Hussein Michigan families mourn 2 who died ''xl 'Cv' GREG ENGLISHAssociated Press A British soldier gestures to a motorist to pass through a roadblock near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on Monday. Armed forces were on heightened alert for terrorist attacks on allied troops. PLANES vs. TANKS Allied fighter-bombers zeroed in on vehicles Monday. Marine Harrier jets damaged 25 tanks in 24 hours.

Other pX On the ground: U.S. jk flnH Irani fnrrpQ 1 convoys of Iraqi reportedly developments: Baghdad: Allied planes struck the city before dawn, targeting communication centers, government offices and industrial installations. More pounding: French warplanes hit positions of the Republican Guard in southern Iraq and Kuwait fired Gulf At sea: The battleship Ubb Missouri used its 16-inch guns in action for the first time since the Korean war. at traded fire across the Vv desert frontier. SAUDI XiwAlT- Bus attack: In Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, 30 miles from Mecca, shots were at a bus Sunday.

Flying glass slightly injured two U.S. soldiers. WAR, from Page 1A During combat, the battleship USS Missouri, which has fired Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad, is using its World War II-vintage guns to pound Iraqi defenses in occupied Kuwait. The blasting of shore positions Monday was the first battle use of the big guns by the Missouri since the Korean War. After the Missouri's 16-inch guns announced an escalation in the allied offensive, and as bombs again fell, an unexpected peace initiative came from Iran, the only avowedly neutral nation in the Persian Gulf.

Iranian President Hashemi Rafsan-jani, who has held discussions with Iraqi and Kuwaiti envoys, said he was willing to meet with Iraqi President Hussein and to resume direct contact with the United States to try to mediate a peaceful settlement. In Washington, however, the Bush administration dismissed the likelihood that diplomacy, not war, would drive Iraq from occupied Kuwait. "I think that we're now in a situation, having embarked on the course we're on, that we will pursue military action until we have achieved our objectives," Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said. "What's to mediate?" asked State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler. Without providing specifics, Schwarzkopf said he thought Hussein was experiencing wide mood swings and while still willing to fight, was losing his grip on reality.

Schwarzkopf said that the intensive air campaign had "not come close" to breaking Hussein's will to fight. "I don't think that's breakable, but I think we have the capability of breaking the will of his military," he concluded. Schwarzkopf voiced no sympathy for views voiced in Arab countries such as Jordan, Yemen, Pakistan and parts of North Africa that the American-led coalition, by mounting an extended and ferocious air campaign, had exceeded its United Nations mandate to push the Iraqi Army out of Kuwait. "One of the things you are seeing in such statements is a sort of contorted morality that says because the Iraqis are the guys in the black hats, they are allowed to go out and do anything they want to do," Schwarzkopf said. "But because we are the guys in the white hats, we have stand up, allow ourselves to be shot at, walk out and take on overwhelming numbers not use the weapons we have available.

I just don't understand that mentality." Schwarzkopf again pronounced himself in no hurry to launch the ground phase of the campaign. But he also made it clear that the air war, which has so far consumed more than 44,000 sorties, will not go on indefinitely. His advice to President George Bush and the Pentagon high command on launching the ground war, he said, will be based on "a compendium of actual results, measurable results, estimated results, anecdotal reports and gut feel. And you sort of put all that together and you'll say, 'By golly, it looks like about The situation on the ground at the northern front remained essentially static Monday. No new Iraqi probes were reported six days after Iraqi troops punched into Saudi territory and were repulsed in a series of bloody clashes.

But the U.S. command said frontline Marines did trade fire with the Iraqis across the border, and Marine pilots reported scoring a major hit against Iraqi armor. Four AV8 Harriers, the Marines' USS Missouri by kelly lewis and Dennis niemiec Free Press Staff Writers Two Michigan families grieved Monday for the deaths of their loved ones in weekend military accidents in Saudi Arabia. In Grand Rapids, Marine Capt. Jonathan Edwards, 34, left behind his wife, Gayle, and three children.

Edwards, whose mother and stepfather live in Ohio, was a reservist whose full-time job was as a trader with the brokerage firm of Rodman Renshaw Inn in ClftnA Din Jonathan ids. He was called Edwards Up t0 actjve in January. In a statement issued by a family friend Monday, Edwards' mother, Sally Fitzgerald, said: "He loved his country. He was proud to fly for it and defend it." The friend said Sally Edwards and her children, Spencer, 13; Bennett, 11, and Adriane, 8, were headed Monday to Ohio to be with the Fitzgeralds in the Terrace Park suburb of Cincinnati. Edwards died when a AH1 Cobra Helicopter crashed in Saudi Arabia on Sunday.

A Marine Corps spokesman said the crash was not combat related and he did not know whether Edwards was the pilot or the gunner on the two-person crew. In Garden City, the family of Marine Cpl. Kurtis Benz, 22, was told at 4 a.m. Monday that their son and brother was dead. Details, they told family friends, were to be given them today.

Marine officials said Benz was one of four men killed when a UH1 Huey Helicopter crashed late Saturday, also in a noncom- Kurtis Benz bat situation. "His wasn't a war maneuver or hostile fire. It was a military accident," neighbor Linda Stewart said as she baked lasagna to take to the Benz family. "It's really tormenting the family. He's the oldest and only son." So far in Operation Desert Storm, 13 Americans have died in noncombat accidents nearly half of the U.S.

military casualties. At Garden City High School on Monday, students held a moment of silence for Benz. The 1987 graduate was a student to be proud of, said Principal Geraldine Kiessel. While a high school senior, Benz was cocaptain of one of the best wrestling teams in Garden City High School history. Late Monday, a group of former teammates and coaches gathered at a Westland apartment to share memories of their friend.

Plans for a scholarship fund and other tributes were being drafted. Monday, family members gathered, and a Garden City police officer sat outside the house protecting their privacy. Benz is survived by his father, Bruce, mother, Sandy, and sister's Kim and Kelly. Staff Writer Nancy Ann Jeffrey contributed to this report. SAUDI ARABMi -Jiddah Source: AP and Pentagon briefings HANK SZERLAG Detroit Free Press 1 1" Premier says Israel won join talk ERUSALEM Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told parliament Monday tViaf Terapl wniilrt npvpr take part in an international conference on Middle East peace.

"Today it should be clear to everyone that ideas like an international conference, which is fervently supported by Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat, are not the means for advancing an arrangement but for imposing the will of the aggressor," Shamir said. The United States said last week it would work toward regional peace in cooperation with the Soviet Union, an advocate of a conference. A meeting is backed by many other countries. NYC says Pan Am biased by not letting Iraqis fly NEW YORK Pan Am is violating city civil rights laws and is pandering to the "base instinct" and fears by barring Iraqi nationals from its flights, city Human Rights Commissioner Dennis deLeon said Monday. He subpoenaed Pan Am President Thomas Plaskett to answer questions Thursday about the policy.

Pan Am would not respond to the allegations or discuss the policy. UN's leader criticizes bombing Jordan's trucks United nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar on Monday condemned the allied bombing raids that Jordan says have injured and killed Jordanian truck drivers on Iraq's highway from Baghdad to Amman. "Jordan is an innocent victim of what is happening," Perez de Cuellar said. The U.S. State Department has said the truckers are violating the UN embargo on trade with Iraq by carrying oil from Iraq to Jordan.

Antiwar crowd blocks stock exchange doors AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Police used clubs Monday to disperse 150 people who hurled bricks and blocked an entrance of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. Guu Talk "Perhaps a horror movie should be made of this thing a big, black, floating thing." Abdallah Bin Faisel Al-Saud, a member of the Saudi ruling family who said the country may have to ration drinking water if one of the world's largest oil slicks reaches the Jubail desalinization plant on the Persian Gulf. WAR TOLL Here is the latest information available on various countries' combat losses after more than 44,000 allied sorties were flown. The figures come from allied command spokesmen and from government-controlled Iraqi radio. United States Deaths: 12 MIAs: 24 POWs: 8 Planes lost: 14 Allied forces Deaths: 18 MIAs: 18 POWs: 4 Planes lost: 7 Deaths: 90 soldiers, puws: ttfo Planes lost 59 Iraq claims to have shot down more than 180 allied planes.

Source: Free Press wire services and government reports Detroit Free Press Iraq Copies of the Jan. 30 Michigan At War special section are available by filling out this coupon and mailing $2 to cover postage and handling for each copy to: Michigan At War-Reprint, Detroit Free Press, 321 W. Lafayette, Detroit, MI 48226. Copies are also available at the Public Service Center in the Free Press lobby, weekdays 9 a.m.4 p.m. Name: Address: City: State: Hussein has hero status in Maghreb By Philip shehadi Reuters ALGIERS, Algeria Thousands of miles from Iraq, millions of North African Arabs see Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as a symbol of courage and hope lacking in their own leaders.

A surge in pro-Iraqi sentiment throughout the Maghreb, the Arabic name for the area of northwest Africa that Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia occupy, dramatically illustrated by a mass march in Rabat on Sunday, reflects deep resentment against the power of the West and the riches of Persian Gulf Arabs, analysts said. In Morocco, the biggest street protest since independence in 1956 has put King Hassan under pressure to withdraw his token 1,300 soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition against Iraq. The march by some 300,000 Moroccans, organized by leftist and Muslim fundamentalist opposition parties, was an unprecedented challenge to the king's close alliance with the United States and conservative gulf monarchies and emirates. It was likely to spur debate over democratic change in the monarchy where Hassan has held power for 33 years. A pro-Hussein cult has swept the streets of Rabat, Tunis and Algiers.

Hussein's picture adorns thousands of Algerian cafes, restaurants, homes and cars. Poems and pop songs have been composed in his honor. "Since 1948, Arab countries have always been beaten. They feel a deep humiliation faced with Israel backed by the United States. Any Arab leader who shows himself able to confront the West becomes a hero," said Rachid Mimouni, one of Algeria's best-known novelists.

Tunisians distribute photocopies of poems and Hadith, traditions of the prophet Mohammed, said to predict victory for Hussein. The Maghreb fight against French colonialism is still fresh in many minds, particularly in Algeria. In Algiers, pictures of Hussein are often posted with those of ex-president Houary Boumedienne, a revolutionary war hero who symbolized resistance to an unjust world order shaped by Western interests. Many Algerian ex-guerrillas, at the forefront of Iraq support committees, remember Iraq was the first to recognize their Tunis-based revolutionary government in exile in 1958. "The gulf Arabs are seen as spending their money on women, whiskey and casinos," said Ali Kenz, an Algiers University sociology professor.

region increased, said Walter Maude, general manager of Continental West. "Some viewers called asking, 'Do you know what these people are Maude said. "It's almost like a red scare people see a commie under every bed." Ismael Ahmed, director of the Arab Community Center For Economic Social Services in Dearborn, criticized the pre-broadcast reviews. "If they're going to monitor Arab programs, I want them to monitor everybody, including English," Ahmed said. "It also suggests and deals with us as a suspect group that they think we are going to say something that is wrong." Maude said he's reviewing the content of the shows "because it's better to be safe than sorry." "If things get a little jazzy we'll say 'Get a little sensitive to what's going on in the whole he said.

"We have to satisfy some rather diverse audiences." The longest-running Arab-language television show in Detroit is "Arab Voice of Detroit" on WGPR-TV (Channel 62) with host Faisal Arabo of cialist Party, said the country will use its armor, mechanized units and special commando forces in coming battles. Iraqi state radio said Iraqi troops are awaiting the signal to launch a "crushing offensive" against U.S.-led allied forces. The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report. Arab-language TV programs get noticed The battleship USS Missouri, on which the Japanese signed the surrender ending World War II, used its 16-inch guns in action Monday for the first time since the Korean War. It pounded prefabricated bunkers the Iraqis were moving into Kuwait HISTORY: Launched Jan.

29, 1944, and commissioned the following June, the Missouri saw action in WWII and the Korean War. After a grounding in 1950, it was mothballed. From 1984 to 1986 the ship was re-equipped and modernized at a cost of $467 million. It was recommissioned in July 1986. ZIP Code: vertical-takeoff "jump jets," found and attacked 25 to 30 Iraqi tanks across the border, unloading Rockeye antitank bombs.

Iraq said Monday it would retaliate with a ferocious hit-and-run ground war that would end in Iraqi victory. The daily al-Thawra, the official organ of Iraq's ruling Arab Baath So ARMAMENTS: 32 Tomahawk missiles; 16 Harpoon missiles; nine 16-inch guns; 12 5-inch guns. The ship's big guns fire projectiles 16 inches in diameter and weighing 2,700 pounds. Their range is 23 miles. MARTHA THIERRYDetroit Free Press BY JOHN CASTINE Free Press Staff Writer The war in the Middle East is bringing newfound interest some of it unwanted to Arab-language television programming in the Detroit area.

One program is being monitored for content and another has lost a major corporate sponsor. Norman Kiminaia, president of TV "Orient, which produces two hours of Arabic programming daily for eight cable systems, has signed a contract with Continental Cablevision West saying his programs will be translated from Arabic to English for review by station officials before airing. Continental has more than 45,000 subscribers in Southfield, Oak Park, West Bloomfield and four other Oakland County communities. Of the eight cable companies buying his programming, Continental is the only one that requires translations for review before broadcasting the shows, which include news, music, serials and movies. The translations began in late December, as tensions in the Persian Gulf West Bloomfield.

Arabo, 59, came to Detroit from Baghdad in 1951. A naturalized U.S. citizen, he went to Iraq and met with President Saddam Hussein in October and December. He said he helped negotiate the release of 14 American hostages on the first trip. Although Arabo denies his show is political, Anheuser-Busch Inc.

didn't renew its sponsorship. A spokesman for the St. Louis-based brewery who refused to be named said Friday, "Since the possibility of war in the Middle East became evident, became a fact of life, we noticed that this program was becoming more politically oriented. And we feel that that's not a programming environment for advertising our particular product." Arabo said: "I like to be ethical about it and I understand if there is a little crisis, they have to make business decisions." TV Orient's programming airs from 10 p.m. to midnight every night on some cable systems and every other night on others.

"Arab Voice of Detroit" airs on Channel 62 from 10 p.m. to midnight Saturdays. CREW: 65 officers, 1,453 enlisted I LENGTH: 887 feet, about the length of three football fields I WIDTH: 108 feet i SPEED: 35 knots Source: Free Press research by TED WILLIAMSON 1 V-s-T 1.