Hose for Hire Advisory

By DAVID ELLIS/

RED ADAIR

Agents of the Kuwaiti government in exile have asked the Texas oil-field fire- fighting ace to stand by for the biggest job ever. Iraq has ringed the country's 600 oil wells and 26 processing plants with explosives, and if they blow, he'll get the first call to put out the Big Fire.

With reporting by David E. Thigpen