European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 31, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9home opened for patients families by Janet Howells Tierney Washington Bureau Washington a families of patients undergoing Long term or serious medical treatment at the Walter Reed army medical Center now have a comfortable inexpensive place to stay. The colonial style eight bedroom Fisher House opened during a mid morning ceremony thursday with much military fanfare despite Stormy skies. Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher prominent new York real estate developers donated $500,000 for the construction costs furnishings and Upkeep of the House. The two Story House which was built in less than a year is the first acute car support facility Ever donated to the army. Max Cleland who headed the veterans administration under president Carter told the crowd that he was treated at Walter Reed after being critically wounded during the Vietnam War. A my parents visited me a he said. A it was a very painful and emotional  at the time Cleland recalled his parents could not find any affordable temporary housing in the area and had to stay with friends in Virginia. A Zach and Elizabeth Fisher have made it so those youngsters who get wounded in the service of their nation. Will no longer have to wonder Friere to put their Mother or father or wife or husband or children a he said. The medical Center treats about 26,000 patients each year said Bev Chidel a Hospital spokeswoman. Figures on the number of Long term care patients treated were not available she said. Rooms will Cost $10 per Day. Of the eight bedrooms two arc suites for larger families or those with handicapped members. The House includes a common Kitchen dining room and living room. A the House could accommodate 24 people or More but we will try to keep it at 16 because that a what the fire code will allow a said Vivian Wilson House manager and the Only staff member. Wilson a salary is paid by non appropriated funds Hospital officials said. All other expenses associated with the building have been paid by the Fishers. The Fisher House is at the hospitals nearby Forest Glen Annex and across from a military shopping mall and child care Center. Another Fisher House opened last month near the Bethesda naval medical Center my. Three other Homes Are under construction near military medical facilities in san Diego san Antonio and fort Lewis wash., officials said. The projects Are possible through an armed forces foundation that the Fishers created in the Early 1980s to serve service members and their families in time of need. A we Hope the House becomes a Home away from Home to military families in crisis Quot Zachary Lusher said in an emotional speech during the  wild horses threatened at Nellis Las vegas apr beneath the desert skies where air Force fighter jets stage mock Battles thousands of wild horses face a real life struggle to survive. Years of neglect drought overgrazing and a court fight have combined to threaten what is perhaps the nations largest Herd of wild horses. J carcasses litter the landscape say those who have been allowed on the Nellis fab test Range in Nevada. Stallions Battle Over drops of water in mud holes and mares abandon their foals a so desperate is their craving for water. Up to 6,000 horses roam the Range which stretches North from Las vegas to just Short of Tonopah some 200 Miles away. With 700 Square Miles of the Range overgrazed by the horses and Nevada in its fifth year of drought the . Bureau of land management says the Range can support no More than 2,000 animals. A a it a just devastating just an awful sight to see a said Karen Lewallen a member of the National wild horse association who visited the Range last month. Base officials truck in 10,000 Gallons of water a Day. Animals that would normally Bolt at the sight of humans instead run after the water trucks. A the ones still Strong enough were fighting each other As the water was coming out of the truck a Lewallen said. Hoping to save some of the animals and repair the damage they have done to the land the Bureau of land management is rounding up about 2,000 head and trucking them to a ranch near Reno where Many will be sold at $125 each. The wild horses descendants of horses turned Loose by ranchers and the military Over the years Are part of an estimated 50,000 that roam the West. The herds grew steadily since a 1971 Federal Law prohibiting their capture Sale or Slaughter. The legislation left the blk responsible for removing animals from overpopulated or drought ravaged areas. The Nellis Herd though received Little the ribs show on a hungry wild horse at Nellis fab nev., thanks to neglect a prolonged drought and overgrazing on the test Range. Attention partly because of restricted Access to the huge air Force training area where pilots one their skills in daily mock dogfights. In addition the animal Protection Institute sued in 1987, claiming the blk a elsewhere in the state a was removing horses not for their own Good but to help ranchers whose cattle have to compete for the sparce Range food supplies. Although no cattle Graze on the air Force land the lawsuit halted most removals there. The blk caught 600 horses at Nellis in 1989, saying it was an emergency. It cited the same conditions this time and the animal Protection Institute agreed. Blk director by Jamison told a Senate subcommittee last month that Herd management in Nevada a is out of balance and facing a  a the horses Are doing damage in Nevada and suffering themselves Jamison said. A we find mares with Colts that Are skin and Bones barely Able to walk. They Are starving to death literally eating themselves out of House and  sen. Harry Reid d-nev., said the blk spends Only 18 percent of its Herd management Money in Nevada which has about 65 percent of the country a wild horses. The Senate appropriations committee this week approved asian to increase the wild horse budget by $1.4 million to $15.1 million and nearly double the amount of Money spent in Nevada. Lewallen said the extra Money and latest Roundup Are a Start. A but the capture needs to be an ongoing thing on the Nellis Range a she said. . Suspends acceptance of cuban visa forms Washington apr the . Diplomatic Mission in Cuba is suspending acceptance of tourist visa applications from cubans for travel to the United states the state department said monday. The decision was based on a Sharp increase in the number of applications. It will enable the . Consular staff in Cuba to devote itself full time to a backlog of 28,000 applications. The staff has been inundated with applications since Cuba decided to lower the minimum age for cubans to travel abroad. In March 1990, the age limit was 65 for men and 60 for women. But it is now 35 for men and 30 for women. Before approving a visa application . Consular officials must first be convinced that the applicant has a Bona fide reason for travelling such As visiting a relative and that the applicant intends to return to the Island afterwards. The announcement said new applications for visas will be accepted once the backlog is cleared. In the interim consular officials will continue to accept applications for emergency travel As Well As from diplomats academic and official visitors and third country travellers residing in Cuba. Normal processing of applications for immigrant visas will continue the department said. Since fiscal 1991 started oct. 1, about 70,000 tourist visa applications have been received Well Over twice the rate of the previous year the announcement  int the declining Economy in Cuba has prompted a Sharp increase in the number of cubans who try to flee to South Florida by boat or raft. As of Early july the number of cubans who had arrived this year on Florida a shores had exceeded 1,200, compared with 467 for 1990. ,