European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes monday May 13, 1991u.n. To take Over 2 refugee Camps. Zakhoo Iraq apr the United nations was to assume control monday of two , Camps for kurdish refugees in Iraq As the huge Allied Relief Effort begins to pass into the hands of Aid agencies officials said. A a meanwhile the mass repatriation of kurdish Refu gees continued sunday. V v convoys of trucks ferried thousands More refugees Down from squalid Mountain Camps. A where water was expected to become scarce shortly to a Allied protected zone in Northern Iraq. The Effort Aims to bring most of the nearly 250,000 refugees still in the turkish Border Camps Back to Iraq within a month. A  a a a a prior to mondays turnover the United nations was planning to Send a Convoy of food to the provincial capital of Dozhuk and establish a humanitarian Center there. A a a / a the . Presence in the iraqi controlled City is intended to Reaf sure iraqi refugees still lingering in the Camps. However Many refugees have declared they will not return Home Lin less Dozhuk is added to the Allied a Security zone in Northern Iraq a a move that Iraq has vetoed. A the United nations will control two settlements outside Zakhoo where More than 23,000 refugees live in tents on the Flat Valley floor. A your intention has been All along to turn Over every thing As quickly As we can a said . Army maj. Susan Ives a military  . Troops running the Camp will not he going Home immediately. The United nations must find an estimated $4 million a Day needed to run the Camps. A meeting with donor nations has been scheduled for May 15. I Staffan do Mistura a representative of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan the special . Envoy for Post persian Gulf War Relief said the transition would be gradual but did not elaborate. A we Hope with the. . Humanitarian presence people will be confident a said Michel Bonnot a Mem her of the Princess staff. A. Guaranteeing the kurd so safety in Dozhuk which had a population of More than 350,000 before the War Lias been described by Allied officials As key to the Success of the Allied repatriation plan. A. More than 200,000 refugees most living within the Allied Security zone have streamed Home in recent weeks. A. A. A a a a on sunday dozens of trucks filled with families their teen agers perched atop the cabs continued to ply the roads from Turkey to Iraq. A already its a great Success a because a Levy weeks ago nobody believed in bringing people Home in such numbers a said Bonnot most of those returnees walked or arranged their own transport Back. A mass repatriation Campaign by the Allied forces to bring kurd Down from the Camps in leased trucks and buses began Only saturday. Army col. Don a Kirchoffner speaking from Allied Headquarters at in Ciurlik a in Southern Turkey said 70,000 refugees had gone Back just in the 72-hour period that ended at 8 . Sunday. An estimated 240,000 to 250,000 refugees remain in the Camps he said. A ,. Army officials escorted iraqi military officers and kurdish rebel leaders to one of the remaining refugee Camps on the turkish Border on sunday to discuss a return to Dozhuk with tribal chiefs. Relief from paged was expected to reach Chittagong the port City that Lay at the Center of the Cyclone on wednesday or shortly thereafter members of the Advance team said. A half dozen officers plan to visit Chittagong on monday to see whether the storm shattered seaport can accommodate their Fleet and to Start figuring out How Host to deploy their troops. A we got equipment Here to make pure water t out of Saltwater out of contaminated water. We can take almost mud. Anil make it drinkable Quot said Marine maj. Dave Sebastian. Sebastian a 39-year-old Engineer from Orlando fla., said the marines would probably set up several water purification Point close to food distribution centers established by foreign and local Relief teams. The Advance team arrived on two military transport planes from Okinawa under the command of Marine maj. Gen. Henry Stackpole who spent the Day conferring with bangladeshi government leaders and . Embassy staffers. The second plane an air Force c-130, landed at mid afternoon sunday piloted by a Young Captain who had spent last october in Bangladesh working with the air Force of this impoverished nation. After giving a waiting Marine officer details of the cargo aboard the plane air Force capt. Eric Huppert added earnestly a we got an air plane Here sir. We want to help. We done to want to just turn around. We want to stay and  Huppert 32, from Albany n.y., and his Crew were scheduled to return to Okinawa on monday where they May have to ferry. More task Force members whose plane was unable to leave Okinawa on schedule sunday because of a mechanical problem. L in the meantime another flight front Okinawa Puls expected to reach Dhaka on sunday night carrying about 30 More Engi Nee is and communications personnel. Also on the flights were medics who will try to keep the task Force from getting sick v. A--7 the area where the task Force will be working is a Nightmare of health hazards the diarrhoea ravaging flood survivors especially babies and Small children can be fatal because of the rapid dehydration it induces. Bangladeshi Relief workers have already warned of the danger of a cholera epidemic. A my main Job is going to be to provide medical support to the task Force and keep them healthy a said army sgt. Paul Veechio 28, of Morris Plains  the . Embassy said c-5 cargo planes were expected to arrive in Dhaka on monday with five uh-60 Black Hawk helicopters and Crews air traffic control teams and members of the Seabee the military construction brigades. The americans join a Relief Effort that has elicited Aid from nearly every Corner of the world. In addition to shipments front various . Agencies countries As diverse As Turkey Thailand Japan and Norway have sent food Medicine blankets clothing and Cash a the total Aid received or pledged so far has topped $217 million the bangladeshi government said. The United states contribution is $7i2 million. In Chittagong 135 Miles Southeast of Dhaka government Relief coordinator a Skammel Haque said the latest tally of deaths from the disaster was 139,138. The toll has risen less Over the last few Days because of difficulty reaching Remote areas. Haque said bodies still were being found. / he said at least 1.5 1,000 people had suffered injuries such As broken Bones in the storm talk from Page 1 a so we have continuing work there have been shifts by  a  a a a a a. V a one option under consideration is to Call a conference on water resources and other regional problems with the Hope of expanding it into negotiations Over the Arah israeli dispute an administration official said. The official described it As starting at the outer Circle and moving in. Another approach being weighed is holding peace talks Between Israel and a joint delegation of jordanian and palestinian arabs a excluding Syria said the official who spoke in condition of anonymity. Baker in four trips to the area Over two months has been working on a larger pallet but the session with Assad produced no narrowing of its differences with Israel Over a . Role in the talks or provisions for re convening the conference in the event of a deadlock. Syria wants a full fledged role for the United nations while Israel having been stunned by a number of lopsided votes in the world organization wants to keep the United nations out. Another big sticking Point is syrians demand for a Way to reconvene a conference if direct Arab israeli talks falter compared with israelis refusal to have More than a ceremonial initial session. Baker will discuss those Points with israelis Yitzhak Shamir and foreign minister David Levy on wednesday and thursday. But the administration official said �?o1 done to expect to see Progress on the two issues when we get to Israel.�?�. And yet the official said Baker May go Back to Damascus from Jerusalem and keep trying. A we be got to make sure we exhaust All the possibilities a he said. Besides the official added Baker a May get  Page 1 coalition government in the defense working group of the bundestag the lower House of Germany a parliament. Wilz said the germans were looking for places where the weather is Good enough for year round training. Germany a often overcast and Rainy weather a in some years it Ean be Cloudy in Northern Europe 60 percent of the time a offers Many fewer Days for flying than the sunny american Southwest  germans said they wanted Apie Picans to continue being stationed in their country. They said the newly unified Germany had equal rights and obligations in the nato Alliance and that should mean More German troops in Allied countries. West German troops in the past have trained in Allied countries in  from Page 1 to Germany were on hand for Franks a. R a a a. Return. A the Only words that we can say to you Are the words that Are the most important to any Soldier anywhere Mission accomplished Well done a Galvin told the group. Walters said operation desert storm showed that a aggression anywhere in the world even against a Small nation will not he  Quot our gratitude to you is enormous a Walters said. A you have Given our nation Confidence in ourselves and what you Ean  one of the returning soldiers on Franks plane made an appearance even before the Boeing 747 came to a halt. Sgt. 1st class Roland Maze of the 204th military police co popped his Torso through an open window in the pilots Cabin and held a huge american hag aloft As the jumbo Jet made its last turn on the Tarmac. Family members and friends at the corps Kelley Barracks Headquarters a few Miles away cheered and waved tiny . Flags As buses hearing the returning troops rolled onto the Post shortly before 4  soldiers than assembled in the Post gymnasium where the 84th army band played the German and american National anthems. Personal reunions took place almost immediately thereafter when Vii corps rear element commander maj. Gen. Roger k. Bean told the anxious relatives that he knew they a a done to want to listen to any Long  Franks Learned that his corps would deploy to saudi Arabia on a nov. 8 television new s broadcast according to col. Jerry sinn the chief of staff Oft he. Corps rear. Franks began planning the deployment the next Day Only 20 minutes after dedicating a Section of the Berlin Wall As a Kelley Barracks memorial to the end of another conflict a the cold War. In saudi Arabia he became commander of More than 145,000 troops. The largest corps Ever assembled under an american commander. After the War ended on feb. 28 and the xvi11 airborne corps withdrew Vii corps controlled Kuwait Southern Iraq and a slice of saudi Arabia a an area about the size of Wyoming. About 56 percent of the 76,000 . Soldiers deployed to the Gulf from Germany have returned and Galvin said the rest Are continuing to come Back at a rate of about 1,000 per week. He said he does no to know vet whether All of them will return or whether a residual Force will be kept in Kuwait. The four Day ground War in Iraq and Kuwait resulted in the combat deaths of 47 soldiers assigned to the corps Franks said