European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Cheney says base closings not politically motivated Washington a defense Secretary Dick Cheney on monday defended his recommendation to close 43 . Military bases and scale Back 28 others in the face of congressional charges that the list is politically driven. A this is a Good Faith Effort. And it is done without consideration to the party of the members who represent the districts a Cheney told the base closure and realignment commission at a Capitol Hill nearing. The Pentagon chief announced his proposed list on Friday and immediately Drew criticism that he had targeted installations in the states of prominent democrats. Some of the attacks entered on his proposal to close Carswell fab in the Dallas fort Worth area a location hard hit by previous Cheney decisions to cancel the a-12 attack plane and reduce production of the f-16 Jet fighter. A those were judgments made essentially for military reasons a Cheney said of the decisions regarding the aircraft programs. He said the proposed base closings Are based on the lessening soviet threat to the West fiscal problems at Home and the planned 25 percent reduction in . Forces during the next five years. A i done to need to spend Money on bases that done to have forces on them a he told the panel. The commission must decide by july 1 see closings on Page 10turkey moving kurd to Camps Isik Veren Turkey a Turkey began moving thousands of iraqi refugees out of a settlement in the Snow capped mountains to Camps with water electricity and medical supplies on Mon. Day. A a a. A a a a. A a a a a the refugee Transfer marked a shift in policy for president Turgut Ozalis government which initially tried to bar the kurd or failing that to keep them at the Border. The refugees monday trudged three Miles Down a dirt Road to a plateau where they boarded dump trucks which would carry them to buses at the foot of the Mountain. A we Are feeling better a said an iraqi see related stories on pages 3,14-15 electrical Engineer who identified himself Only As Subhi. A my wife is 5 months a what do you Call it a he said gesturing to her swollen belly. A maybe we Are going to a better turkish officials say that 160,000 refugees Are gathered in the Isik Veren area which is at an Elevation of 7,200 feet. About 500,000 iraqi refugees mainly kurd fled to the turkish Border after a failed rebellion in Iraq. Iran says it has taken in 1 million it iraqis 4 million kurd and another million Are waiting to Many kurd walked to the Border to escape Saddam Hussein a army and Many refugees died of hunger or starvation in route. Relief has been slow in coming. Iraq claimed monday that some kurd were returning to Northern Iraq but gave no figures. The report carried by the offi see Turkey on Page 10. A a a. It. A a a a a a a. A two refugees fight Over food on the Back of a truck delivering supplies to a Camp on the turkish Border sunday. Airlift a Stopgap measure for starving by j. King Cruger Mediterranean Bureau As the nose lifted on the . Air Force c-130 Hercules 16 enormous parcels rumbled out the yawning rear door and floated 1,000 feet Down to thousands of starving kurdish refugees. A a they la have to walk a half mile along the Side of the Mountain to reach those supplies but they 11 get them a said sgt. Dan Baker 25. A and Best of All we dropped the stuff safely away from them a Baker a Load master from Post Mills vt., watched nearly 22,000 pounds of res meals ready to eat baby food and water Settle on the turkish Side of the Border with Iraq. A we had to drop the supplies on an alternate drop zone about seven Miles from the primary one a said staff sgt. Phil , 38, from Loveland colo., another Load master aboard the Relief flight. That a because there Hadnot been anyone on the ground at the primary zone said capt. Scott Frost 35, a Pilot on mondays flight. A we had been briefed that 80,000 refugees would be there a said Frost a native of Ofallon 111. A maybe they picked up and moved on. If the refused Airlift on Page 10
