European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Germany edition the  vol. 50, no. 30 monday May 13,1991 b authorized unofficial publication for the  armed forces 35c d 8693 . Troops join Relief Effort in disaster hit Boh Gladesh Dhaka Bangladesh apr . Marines and army special forces promising to make contaminated water Safe for drinking arrived sunday and joined the International Effort to save Cyclone survivors from disease and starvation. More than 139,000 people were killed by official count in the april 30 Cyclone and tidal wave that inundated Low lying islands and coastal villages along the Bay of Bengal. Bangladeshi officials estimate that at least 8 million survivors face serious health problems and food shortages. Many already suffer from life threatening diarrhoea and Are without adequate food and shelter. Some 200 people have died of diarrhoea alone information Secretary Manzur Emoula told reporters sunday night. At least 64 marines and army rangers landed at Dhaka International Airport on sunday. The group is the Vanguard of an american military task Force and consisted mostly of engineers and communications experts. They will Lay the logistical groundwork for the thousands More marines who will come. The . Task Force will include 4,600 marines and 8,000 sailors along with hundreds of other troops going separately said Navy it cmdr. Kenneth Patterson a spokesman for the . Pacific come in  marines were on their Way Home from the persian Gulf War when president Bush diverted them to Bangladesh to join the Relief Effort. The amphibious assault ship Tarawa see Relief on Page 10 . Military personnel unload supplies sunday from a transport plane in Dhaka  s objections stall Mideast talks Cairo Egypt apr syrian president Hafez Assad refused to yield sunday on two of his key demands for joining a Mideast peace conference. Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii began to look for fresh approaches to save a . Initiative on which a Many Many things have been  after meeting with Assad for nearly six hours in Damascus Baker flew to Cairo late sunday to coordinate strategy with soviet foreign minister Alexander Bessmer Nyoh who was concluding his own tour of the Region. Baker plans to meet with egyptian president Host Mubarak on  Baker and Bessmer Nyoh began their session Baker said there were More Points of agreement than disagreement for forging peace talks in the Region talks backed by the superpowers. A a i he Points of disagreement Are relatively Tew a he said. A Many Many things have been agreed. One or two things maybe three have  Bessmer Nyoh said they had come a great distance see talks on Page 10gen. Franks returns full of Praise for his troops by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart Germany a having vacated Iraq and sent More than half his Germany based troops Home from the persian Gulf ahead of him Vii corps commander it. Gen. Frederick m. Franks or. Flew Back to Stuttgart on sunday with his staff. A a it a great to be Home a Franks told a dignitary studded reception committee alongside the Stuttgart army Airfield runway his Boeing 747 landed at 2 . Franks credited As one of the architects of the coalitions successful land War Strat egy said his soldiers accomplishments in defeating the iraqi army in less than four Days is an accomplishment that a will be forever stamped on the Sands of Iraq and  a this was for keeps and our soldiers and leaders knew it a he said. A and they were magnificent. And they were All  Gen John r. Galvin the commander of . Forces in Europe and Vernon Walters the , ambassador see Franks on Page 10germany May open military base in . Washing i on a state department and defense department officials said they have had talks with the German government on establishing a German military base in the United states. German air Force units have trained at . Air Force bases in the american West and Southwest since 1955. A base under foreign control could be the first on . Soil since British troops occupied Points in the old  territories before the War of 1812, not counting the confederacy of the 1861-1865 civil War. The officials who spoke on condition of anonymity would give no details of what the German base would include or exactly what its purpose would be. One state department official did say discussions at several Levels of government had concerned a German training base in the United states last week two members of Germany parliament said in Washington that they lad discussed with Pentagon officials an increase in the number of germans being trained in the United states. A the two Werner Hoyer of the free democratic party and Bernd Wilz of the Christian democratic party represent the parties of Chancellor Helmut Kohls a see base on Page 10 i