European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday May 3, 1991 at a glance . ,.vavw/jv�v,0 kurdish refugees crowd aboard vehicles leaving the mountains for the Allied refugee Camp near Zakhoo Iraq. Use of Jet questioned vice president Dan Quayle took a $27,000 weekend golfing trip on an air Force Jet that left Only hours after president Bush promised a full scale review of taxpayer financed travel lbs says. A Page 4 reservations on War Gen. Colin Powell last fall had reservations about the Bush administration s shift toward an offensive persian Gulf military strategy and suggested containment of Iraq through economic and military pressure a new Book says. A Page 6 military towns booming the economic slump that hit military towns during the persian Gulf War is making Way for a mini Boom As returning soldiers who saved their dollars in the desert look for things to spend them on. Page no end in sight a string of government reports released this week show the nations Economy lurching through a serious recession with few indications of an Early recovery. A Page 17index Abby Ann Landers 19 action line. # a a 16 comics 19 �?�21 commentary. A a a 13 crossword. A a a 19 letters. A 12 Money matters. A a a 17 sports. 22 �?�28 to listings. 22 weather. A a a 11 allies vaccinating refugees to prevent measles epidemic by j. King Cruger Mediterranean Bureau in Ciurlik a Turkey a operation provide Comfort medical teams. Will begin vaccinating kurdish refugees in the next few Days to prevent the possibility of a deadly measles epidemic sweeping through their Camps a measles can be a devastating disease in malnourished and stressed populations a said or. Michael w. Benenson a . Army colonel and the operations top medical officer. Measles reportedly is beginning to spread among children in. The larger kurdish refugee Camps. Sixty percent of child deaths in the ethiopian and eritrean famines of 1985 and 1986 were attributed to measles. Benenson said that that percentage would not be surprising if an epidemic began in the  refrigerator Van has brought a Load of measles vaccine from in Ciurlik a to the allies bustling Relief support base at silo i in Southeastern Turkey. From there the vaccine which must remain refrigerated to stay effective will be transported to refugee Camps in ice chests aboard helicopters. As Many As 700,000 kurd Are estimated to be living in squalid Camps along the turkish iraqi border., ten thousand vials of measles vaccine had to be dumped after deteriorating in the heat aboard trucks waiting to unload at crowded silo i according to a newspaper report in the times of London. A that the report May be True. If vaccine is not kept cold its a waste of time to administer it a Benenson said. Turkish truck Drivers waiting for Days to unload at silo i rioted at one Point when Relief organizers tried to give priority to desperately heeded medical supplies the article said. A cholera outbreaks Are confirmed in kurdish Camps in Iran and the possibility of cholera breaking out within Camps in Turkey and Northern Iraq troubles Ben Quot Enson. A a we keep hearing rumours about cholera cases in Camps but what we actually Are seeing Are cases of diarrhoea a said Benenson who usually serves As the a amps Ken George children Are dehydrated in a tent at the Isik Veren refugee Camp in Turkey. Preventive Medicine consultant for 7th medical come at Heidelberg Germany. If cholera were to develop in the Camps along the turkish iraqi Border Allied medics would treat it much the same Way they handle severe cases of diarrhoea Benenson said. That treatment involves dehydrating patients. Cholera patients also would be Given antibiotics he said. Allied medical personnel already have 400,000 dehydration packets with them at silo i or Forward bases he said. A million More packets Are due to arrive in Turkey during the next few Days. The Allied medical Force will total More than 700 people by the end of the week Benenson said wednesday the United states is expected to have 300 medical personnel mostly army on the ground in tur correction because of an editing error a headline quote on Page 3 yesterday was attributed to the wrong person. Col. Gary Lorenz commander of the 39th tac group at in Ciurlik a Turkey said the Airlift to Aid kurdish refugees was a privilege. Uniform causes by Chuck Roberts Middle East Bureau Khobiar saudi Arabia a an army policy that sends departing desert storm troops Home in a new camouflage uniform is proving to be unpopular with some soldiers left behind. The practice is designed to ensure that each re deploying troop has a new desert outfit for Wear in parades and ceremonies Back Home. But it has caused shortages in the Middle East forcing soldiers still in the Region to Wear Green a a Woodland uniforms whose dark colors Are like a Magnet to the saudi Sun. A a it a ridiculous to give them to us As we get on the plane because Here is where we heed them a said spec. Jeffrey Tuttle who was issued most of his first desert uniform on March 1. He said he had to buy the Matching boots at a store in Riyadh saudi Arabia and he Wasny to issued patches so he had to pull the old ones off is Green bus. Tuttle said other soldiers have bought desert uniform items from a catalogue firm that can deliver to saudi Arabia in key and Iraq by then he said. Death rates in the Camps have de creased dramatically the 50-year-old doctor said. A what in a hearing is that there Are far fewer deaths. What we Are seeing and what is killing these people is nothing exotic. They Are dying from pneumonia upper respiratory diseases dehydration and exposure a Benenson said adding that a exposure is not much of a problem anymore because the kurd now have shelter and the weather has warmed  he said a the tide has turned for the majority of the people but clearly we need to get these people Down out of the Hills get them drinking Good water and get them Over their dehydration and Mal nution. That a the key to  troops still in about three weeks. Tuttle said he does no to understand Why the catalogue company can get sufficient amounts of uniforms while the army can to. A a in a sure there Are complaints a an unidentified army official said in a statement released by the joint information Bureau in Dhahran saudi Arabia. A the uniforms have become a Symbol of this War and every Soldier Here wants to Wear them. That a Why our first priority was to make sure the soldiers boarding planes were wearing clean serviceable desert camouflage uniforms. A it was More important that they go Home in a decent uniform than it was to put desert uniforms on troops involved in cleaning and packing up operations Here a the official said. The army has received about 500,000 desert uniforms since March 1, and the statement said enough Are on the Way to Send everyone Home in a desert uniform. However a shortage of about 86,000 pairs of boots is expected because they can to be manufactured fast enough. Not All soldiers find fault with the uni according to sgt. Hattie o works at a Central Issue form policy Jackson who a a facility where about 3,000 sets of desert uniforms Are handed out daily. A they really done to care because they Are going Home Quot said Jackson a Detroit native assigned to the 199th Supply co where soldiers go to pick up their desert uniform after being placed on a flight Manifest for the trip Home. A if you put on a uniform you know you re getting ready to go Bye Bye a Jackson said. A we see that big smile because they know they Are going  but pfc. Rebecca Bitner is a Supply specialist who Isnit smiling about the fact that some soldiers Are left behind with battered uniforms. A a in a in Supply and it bothers me that i can t give them Good ones a said Bitner who is assigned to the 2nd in 43rd air defense arty from Hanau pern Pany a they Are meant to be worked in and not shown because they Are just going to be put in a closet. We Don t care what we look like when we go Home we just want to go Home to our