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turns out that those trucks were Army vehicles, not weapon systerns. They were not part of a unit
equipment, they were reserve vehicles The Army has located ten, and the senior Ariny commander,
(Lieutenant) General (John J.) Yeosock, suspects that the Marines borrowed the other 35. (Laugliter)
~o it is not a problem1 they are not in enemy hands, 1 can gnarantc~ you.

     Q: A great deal has been asked about the &ont lines. Do you know exactly whal0a Łolng 0n1
for Instance, in Kuwait City? is there any great buildup or retrenching goiŁ)g on there that gives the
appearance that there might be a very tough fight tl)ere7
     A: I think there's evidence across the baŁtlefleld, as we've discussed bcforc, that they are
digging in to try to protect themselves against army air attacks. I3ut in terms of any rcpositioning,
no evidence of that. They're simply in place, digging in, and try to protect their assets.

     Q: With reference to the battleship sailing fairly close to the coastline,~wo~l(1 the same be
true of the `nine threat7 Are you reasonably confident tliat the threat from the mines has been swept
away?
     A: I didn't say the battleship was necessarily close to the coastline, but if you draw a 25 mIle
arc you p,robably could draw some conclusions. But In terms of the mine threat, up to this point 1
think we ve uncovered about 40, and they tend to be in a random pattern - some of them floating,
some perhaps have become disconnected from their moorings. We have destroyed those, and the few
that we have recovered to exploit, to find out where they're being made and what kind of a mine it
Is. But at this point, certainly no threat to a battleship whIch, as I say, the bottoui part of the hull
is the most reinforced   anywhere up to 17 inches of rein~~~ced steel. So a pretty invulnerable
target in terms of the kind of mines we've beco seeing in the Persian Otilt.

     Q; There's been a lot of talk in recent days of tl~ successful cutting off of supplies Soing
into Kuwait. Can one assume, then. that there's also been a cutoff of food supplies to the civilians
n Kuwait -- that there perhaps are food shortages among civilians as wet!?
     A: I would not doubt that there0s been some ~~ucdon in the supply to the civiliant
population, bt
bit, but there ~~u we d6 have reports that the food Is still there. The prices may have gone up a little
            no indication that the Kuwalti people are suffering enormously because of lack of
food supply1 but J couldn't give you order of magnitude.

     Q: Where would the food that they're geltuig be coming front, if it's not coming from Iraq?
     A: 1 don't have perfect insight, but of course they had a good deal stored in the r~~t place.
Plus in the early stages it was clear that there was still some coming into Kuwait through different
means -~ tItrough Iraq. So I don't think we have shut o(f the supply of civilian food into Kuwait,
perhaps until the more recent past when we started the air campaign. I think they have fairly good
supplies currently in Kuwait city.

     Q: Jiow significant is tlils movement of command and control and military equipment into
civilian areas? How serious a military problem will that be for the allies?
     A: I~think it will be a concern to us. but there arc other ways to cut off his command and
cootrol. It doesn't have to be the radio that happens to be now in a school area. We have ak~ady
accomplished an enormous amount of degradation of his communication capability - both on the
leadership level, and even on a tactical leveL So I would not view that as being a war stopper0 that
we somehow lost a target that is key to the success of our campaign.

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