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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, July 7, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                United kingdom edition the stars and ripes a authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces 50c d 8693 a for services health systems Lori Mehmandoust shows a picture of her three children. Wife s Iran venture gets children Back Godfrey 111. Apr a woman whose husband fled to Iran with the couples three children after she filed for divorce was reunited with her children and the Man was arrested in the United states after a risky ruse in his Homeland. Mehrzade a Martin Mehmandoust agreed to return to the United states after his wife Lori Mehmandoust followed him to Iran and spent three months convincing him All charges had been dropped and she wanted to reconcile. Her husband was arrested by Federal agents monday As he stepped off an air plane with the children in Atlanta. The couples 6-year-old daughter and 2-year-old twin sons were returned to their Mother. He violated a court order and look the children to Iran during the thanksgiving Holiday to pressure his see venture on Page 10 by Brent Mitchell the Washington Post Washington the military health care system needs to be centralized if it is to survive upcoming budget cuts without lowering Quality of service according to a report prepared for the Pentagon. The report suggests that a single authority oversee the activities of the Navy army and air Force medical branches and the insurance program that covers Active duty personnel retirees and their families. A while the current medical readiness posture is Good for most of the last 30 years the services preferred spending their limited budgets on combat equipment rather than support medical equipment a the report said. A based on the past Many observers conclude that the present divided health care system Bijj be unable to protect medical readiness during declining budgets a it continued. Currently the three branches and the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services champs have individual budget and command structures. The Navy provides medical services for the Marine corps. The study proposes that the military could save Money and improve crisis response if it either gave increased Power to the assistant Secretary of defense for health affairs or created a new bureaucracy such As a . Medical command or a a defense health  the report was prepared in March by David o. Cooke the Pentagon a director of administration and management for Deputy defense Secretary Donald j. Atwood. Jumps b. Turner a Pentagon spokesman said he could not comment on the report because it is being reviewed the present divided health care system will be unable to protect medical readiness during declining budgets a Pentagon study by a key department of defense  the uniformed services Lei pc resisted plans to centralize military Medicine for More than a decade. Critics argue that the branches unique combat roles require separate medical corps. The report notes that assistant defense Secretary for health affairs Enrique Mendez or. And the Heads of the three medical branches oppose consolidation. In 1989, the medical system including military hospitals and champs recorded about 1.2 million Hospital admissions and almost 56 million outpatient visits according to the study. The system serves 9.2 million people almost half of whom Are retired personnel their dependents or their survivors. The report also suggests that the military guarantee a minimum level of services Tor current and former service mesh ers and a minimum level of Access to hospitals. Currently these standards vary in different areas of the world. The proposed Central military organization would be patterned after the . Trans come a joint Scricc group created in 1988 to oversee land sea and air deployment won Praise for its pc for see merger on Page 10u.n. Team sees iraqi missiles blasted Baghdad Iraq apr a , team witnessed the explosion of 28 warheads in the iraqi desert on saturday ending a week supervising the destruction of iraqi missiles and launchers. Twenty eight warheads of a1 Hussein and Al fahd missiles were detonated at the Al Taji launch site 27 Miles North of Baghdad said . Army col. Douglas Englund the team Leader. The Al Hussein and Al fahd Are longer Range variants of the soviet made scud missile. In contrast to . Nuclear inspectors who have encountered resistance and gunfire from iraqi authorities the ballistics learn has received full cooperation Englund said. A the iraqis a destroyed what they said they were going to destroy a said Englund. A they really did no to have any  some iraqi officers muttered regrets about the demolition of hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment they had guarded with their lives team members said. The destruction of the missiles that terrorized Israel and saudi Arabia during the persian Gulf War a but had Little military effect a occurred at three bases around Baghdad. On Friday iraqi president Saddam Hussein promised the United nations a Complete list of iraqis nuclear materials and said he would Grant inspectors instant Access to All nuclear Sites. He made the pledge As the White House warned that the United states could take military action if Iraq continued to violate . Resolutions by failing to allow inspection of its nuclear Sites. A new . Nuclear inspection team arrived in Baghdad on saturday. Its Leader Dimitri Perrico said his 37-person Crew would spend a week investigating reports of a secret Cache of nuclear weapons making equipment and would try to visit alleged nuclear Sites. As for the 21-Man ballistics team it spent last week watching As iraqi soldiers bulldozed their own missiles and sliced up launchers and plate Sims with blow torches. The destroyed iraqi Arsenal included 61 missiles 10 Mobile launchers two fixed launchers nine liquid fuel transporters and eight missile transport vehicles Englund said. 0 All were identified by Iraq under the april 3 . Cease fire Resolution ending the Gulf War. The agreement obliges Iraq to identify and destroy All its missiles nuclear and chemical weapons. Toward the end of the month another . Team headed by Englund will finish the task of eliminating iraqis missile capability when it travels to Western Iraq to inspect More fixed launch Sites and eight supporting factories he said. Most of the nearly Sites were believed destroyed by Allied air attacks Englund said. He said the remainder will be slowed into the ground. Also 30 chemical warheads Are to be destroyed by a separate . Inspection team. Englund and other inspectors said they observed nothing to indicate Iraq was hiding missiles  
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