Iraq Fires Scud Missiles at Dhahran, American Patriots Intercept Threat
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Im Krvm Senior Greg Koubek's defense helped Duke coo! the Tar Heels Saturday THE CHRONICLE pi<,._-.X See ^niiyl-fcVWira, : : MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1991 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 86. N0.79 GULF ROUNDUP Iraq fires Scud missiles at Dhahran, • A nighttime Iraqi missile attack on Dhahran, Saudi American Patriots intercept threat Arabia, was foiled by U.S. Patriot anti missile batteries. By R.W. APPLE N.Y. Times News Service Riyadh containing what ap United States forces in the Per • 23 Iraqi soldiers DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — peared to be the remnants of a sian Gulf, said allied bombers were captured during Iraq launched repeated barrages missile. A nearby insurance com had "thoroughly damaged" Iraqi a raid on oil platforms of Scud missiles toward Saudi pany building was demolished nuclear reactors and predicted in the northern Per Arabia on Sunday night and and many windows in the neigh that they "will not be effective for sian Gulf oh Saturday. early Monday morning, but borhood were shattered, but quite some number of years." Allied air attack Allied losses American Patriot missiles fired there were no casualties. Speaking in a series of broad • Iraq's four primary • Since war's start, from the big allied air base here One of the reporters, Jeffrey cast interviews with American nuclear research one American has and from Riyadh, the Saudi cap Lenorovitz, the European editor television networks, as allied facilities have been hit been killed and 12 ital, intercepted most or all of of Aviation Week and Space warplanes pounded targets in by the alliance air were missing in action. them and knocked them from the Technology, said he witnessed Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait raids, according to the Nine members of the sky before they could hit their the launching of a Patriot missile for a fourth consecutive day, chief of allied forces other allied forces also targets. and then saw the missile crash Schwarzkopf said "a considerable Gen. H. Norman were killed or missing The American command in after travelling horizontally less setback, if not a total setback," Schwarzkopf. inaction. Riyadh, which is 270 miles from than two miles. "It landed in an had been administered to fac area that was just up the street," • The U.S. Air Force •Eight U.S. aircraft Iraq, initially said that all the tories where President Saddam Lenorovitz said. "I'm not 100 per has flown 7,000 sorties have been lost during missiles targeted on that city Hussein's chemical and biologi and downed 15 Iraqi "around the clock" air were "believed to be destroyed," cent sure, but just watching the cal weapons are produced. aircraft, including five assaults since the war Defiant speech but emended that in a briefing Patriots, it did not launch prop But allied aircraft losses con Sunday, the military began, the military • Iraqi President early on Monday morning to say erly." tinued. Seven allied pilots, in announced. said. Saddam Hussein gave that one of the Scud missiles had Asked about the missile dam cluding three Americans, two a defiant speech to his crashed harmlessly into the sea. age at the early-morning Britons, an Italian, and a Ku Allied POWs people Sunday. He The command said four mis briefing, a Pentagon official said waiti, were reported by Peter Ar • Grim-faced men said his forces" are siles had been brought down over he had no reports of any missiles nett of the Cable News Network, described as downed fighting with heroism Riyadh, two near Dhahran, and landing in Riyadh. the last Western reporter left in American and allied and courage which is three over eastern Saudi Arabia. A few hours before the attacks, Baghdad, to have been inter pilots were put on unprecedented in the The attacks marked the first which caused air-raid alarms to viewed on television in Iraq. display by Iraq. history of war. time that Iraqi missiles had been sound in Dhahran and elsewhere A total of 15 allied planes have aimed at Riyadh. in the region, Gen. Norman been lost in the war and Ameri- As of 6 p.m. EST AP Reporters found a crater in Schwarzkopf, commander of See GULF on page 4 ^ University Fox skinned, Rice steamed, Tar Heels toasted student still By MARK JAFFE in Greensboro and Atlanta (1988 Life lesson number one — al and 1989). You could not have a ways expect the unexpected. more intense basketball game in Israel The men's basketball team with two teams playing better defense. It was very difficult for From staff reports snapped a three-game losing streak to archrival North both teams to score." A University student was Carolina with an emotional, The Blue Devils are 15-3, 4-1 studying in Jerusalem when physical and defense-oriented in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Iraqi missiles pounded the Is 74-60 win Saturday night in UNC is 13-2, 2-1 in the ACC. raeli cities of Haifa and Tel Cameron Indoor Stadium. With Duke's starting back- Aviv Thursday night, accord But who would have counted court of Bobby Hurley and Bill ing to the study abroad office. on a struggling, disappointed, se McCaffrey wallowing to the tune A second University student nior co-captain to spark 12th- of 16 percent from the field and on the same program left Is ranked Duke to victory? Who 10 turnovers, Thomas Hill came rael and flew to Germany af would have predicted a triumvi off the bench to star for the Blue ter the U.S. State Department rate of consistent, productive and Devils. He played tenacious issued an advisory Jan. 11 for clutch Carolina seniors to lose defense on the bigger and all foreign nationals to leave their poise and fall apart in the stronger Rick Fox and led all the country, said Charles crucial second half? And finally, scorers with 20 points. Byrd, assistant dean of who would have thought Duke Christian Laettner added 18 Trinity College of Arts and could defeat the fifth-ranked Tar points and 12 rebounds, while Sciences. Heels with its starting backcourt Fox had 18 and Pete Chilcutt had shooting a combined 3-19 from 14 for the Tar Heels. Byrd would not release the the field? Greg Koubek had his best students' names. Always expect the unexpected, game of the season. He hounded Both students are on leave indeed. UNC's George Lynch and Clif from the University to partici "I'm proud of our team because ford Rozier and compiled nine pate in a one-year program at this is the type of game that points and six rebounds. Hebrew University in usually experience will win," said "If you have to single out one Jerusalem. Duke head coach Mike kid coming into the ball game Krzyzewski. "With all that inten who you're just not sure how The Iraqi missiles caused sity and physical play going on much he's going to contribute, minimal damage when they sometimes a younger team will fbutl then he goes way beyond, it impacted. More importantly lose its concentration. I thought was Greg Koubek," Krzyzewski though, Israeli officials did we kept ours and we won." said. "He had just a sensational not detect any chemical weap basketball game." ons at the sites where the mis "I congratulate Duke," said BOB KAPLAN/THE CHRONICLE Leading 42-40 with 11:50 left siles exploded. UNC head coach Dean Smith. "I thought they did a marvelous job T-riffic: Sophomore Thomas Hill pushes the dreaded Tar Heels in the game, Duke stepped up its Byrd contacted the stu in the second half ... I thought closer to purgatory by throwing down this dunk. defensive pressure and reeled off dents' parents and Hebrew their defense was good overall." a 4:55, 11-2 run. The Blue Devils University's affiliate campus The Duke .defense pestered held Duke in check for much of group of kids, they really believe forced the Tar Heels to operate in New York City regarding North Carolina into committing the first half, but in the second that they have to play defense. their offense beyond the three- the student's safety. However, 25 turnovers and shooting 35.2 half the Blue Devils connected at Our defense was excellent. point arc. Thomas Hill pressured he did not know what either percent from the field for the a 55.6 percent rate from the field. "It was a tremendous basket Fox, UNC's senior forward, into student planned to do. game. "I like this team an awful lot," ball game. It reminded me of the shooting three off-balance perim- The Tar Heels defensive effort Krzyzewski said. "For a young two ACC Championship games See HELL on page 1, SPORTSWRAP PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1991 World and National Newsfile Iraqis air aviator interviews Associated Press Oil "98* _S% __"_____ _______ Soviet Citizens protest: Hun dreds of thousands of reformers mar By JAMES BARRON The questions put to the seven captured STORM: ched Sunday to the edge of the Krem N.Y. Times News Sen/ice fliers were similar, and some of the Allied lin to demand that their onetime hero, Iraqi television broadcast crackly, answers had the stilted, precisely enun Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, barely audible interviews Sunday with ciated sound of someone reading a state LUSSv 5 Sunday, Jan. 20 resign for his role in the crackdown on seven men it identified as allied pilots ment he had been ordered to read. The Lithuania. shot down in the Persian Gulf war and captives were asked to state their names, UNITED STATES taken prisoner.