The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 119, Ed. 1 Monday, March 24, 2003 Page: 1 of 12
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RESISTANCE MET
Allies run into setbacks on the road to Baghdad; U.S. soldiers killed
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The Associated Press
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A senior defense official said the Pentagon did not Jean Offutt, a U.S. Army spokeswoman at the base.
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to be treated
humanely, just like
we’ll treat any
prisoners of theirs
that we capture”
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The Associated Press
DOHA, Qatar — Looking by turns frightened or sto-
ical, five captured U.S. soldiers were thrust in front of
an Iraqi TV microphone and peppered with questions
Sundry. The footage also showed at least four bodies.
U.S. officials confirmed that 12 soldiers were miss-
ing after Iraqi forces ambushed an army supply convoy
around An Nasiriyah, a major crossing point over the
Euphrates northwest of Basra.
The scenes of interrogators questioning four men and
a woman were broadcast by the Arab satellite station
Several families of the soldiers had gathered at the
base Sunday evening, she said. “The mood, of course,
is very tragic."
The 507th Maintenance, part 'of the 111th Air
Defense Artillery Brigade, is stationed at Fort Bliss,
and at least two of the interviewed prisoners said they
were with the 507th.
Al-Jazeera quoted unidentified Iraqi officials as say-
ing the Iraqis are using a defensive tactic of falling
back, allowing their enemy to overextend itself and
become vulnerable to attack behind the lines.
President Bush, returning to the White House from
Camp David, said he did not have all the details of what
he called a potential capture but added: “We expect
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allied forces, U.S. officials said A U-S. MARINE is carried on stretcher to a waiting ambulance after sustaining life-threatening injuries in an Iraqi attack on Sunday at Camp Viper in the Iraqi desert. Several
Iraq used ambushes and even
fake surrenders to kill or cap-
ture up to 21 American troops
on Sunday, inflicting the first
significant casualties on the
allied forces driving toward
Baghdad. U.S. war leaders
declared the invasion on target
despite the bloody setbacks.
Up to nine Marines died and
a dozen U.S. soldiers were taken
prisoner in surprise engage-
ments with Iraqis at An
Nasiriyah, a southern city far
from the forward positions of
the allied force.
On the ^third day of "the
ground war, any expectation
that Iraqi defenders would sim-
ply fold was gone.
“Clearly they are not a beaten
force,” said Gen. Richard
Myers, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. “This is going
to get a lot harder.”
Even so, the U.S.-British
coalition fought to within 100
miles of Baghdad and tended to
a growing northern front.
And at the end of a day filled
with plenty of bad news for
troops had made what could be Marines were injured when their armored personnel carrier was hit by an Iraqi rocket-propelled grenade outside the city of Nasiriyah,
an important discovery: a sus-
pected chemical factory near
the city of Najaf. U.S. Central
Command said troops were
examining several “sites of
interest,” but that it was prema-
ture to call the Najaf facility a
chemical weapons factory.
Early Monday, Baghdad was
bombarded with what appeared
to be its strongest airstrikes
since Friday, even as a mosque
blared “God is great” and
“Thanks be to God,” perhaps to
boost Iraqis’ morale.
Allied soldiers came under
attack in a series of ruses
Sunday, U.S. officials said, with
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television. Each was interviewed individually. They captives there might be and would not identify the unit,
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See IRAQ on Page 5A A senior defense official said the Pentagon did not Jean Offutt, a U.S. Army spokeswoman at the base.
Who’s in charge?
Union, ExxonMobil to meet this week
See IN CHARGE on Page 2A
See NEGOTIATIONS on Page 3A
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■ Comics ..........
■ ‘Full blown’ contract
negotiations are under way
to enjoy their sport, do they
have the right to inflict this
unbridled noise on all of the
residents of the area, or any
area?
“Aren't motorcycles required
to have muffled exhausts?
Who’s in charge?"
■ Sports
■ Television
last week with operations and maintenance
workers of the Gulf Coast Industrial
Workers Union — who in 2001 allied with
Yarbrough, refinery mechanical manager
and lead negotiator.
“We have met three times with the
GCIWU-PACE and had an opening meeting
with the IBEW,” said Yarbrough. “All of
Question
“Almost every weekend,
Highway 146 between the
Hartman Bridge and east
Baytown becomes a racetrack
for loud, blaring, unmuffled
motorcycles.
“While the riders of these
vehicles certainly have the right
Who’s in charge?
Send questions to “Who’s
in Charge?” at The Baytown
Sun, P.O. Box 90, Baytown,
TX 77520. You can also drop
your question by our office,
1301 Memorial Drive; fax it
to us at (2811427-5252; or
e-mail it to $unnews@bay-
townsun.com.
Please be specific: state
the question and who you
want to answer it Be sure to
include city or area of juris-
diction. In case we need more
information, please include
your name and a daytime
telephone number. That infor-
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By ALLYSON GONZALEZ
The Baytown Sun
BAYTOWN — The three meetings lead- Workers on Thursday, said Jonathan
ing into the contract negotiation process
between local industrial workers union and
ExxonMobil have been described as “cor-
dial” and “professional.”
ExxonMobil representatives met again which were professional and cordial.”
last week with operations and maintenance The GCIWU-PACE Local 4-2001 is made
the local PACE International Union: the
Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical &
Energy Workers International Union Local
4-2001.
ExxonMobil negotiators also met with
unionized electrical workers with the
International Brotherhood of Electrical
Unmuffled motorcycles make
highway sound like racetrack
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 119, Ed. 1 Monday, March 24, 2003, newspaper, March 24, 2003; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1185620/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.