SADDAM PULLS BACK ELITE FORCES

Approved For Release 2000/Od$!0-RDP9a-007$800020002-0 ? IUUIWnx,11OVEMBERS,:1`/. 131$ 1~RPM JACK ANDERSON and DALE VAN ATTA Saddam Pulls Back Elite Forces' Classified Pentagon reports predict that thousands of Iraqi soldiers-scared young men being used as cannon fodder on the front lines-would surrender in the first days of a war in the Persian Gulf. That information has not trimmed the Pentagon's casualty estimates, which say that tens of thousands of Americans could die in the first few weeks...