European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Soviets end Kremlin Rule Baltic step away from Independence Moscow apr soviet lawmakers bowing to Mikhail s. Gorbachev a will voted thursday to end seven decades of monolithic Kremlin Rule and set up an interim government to be dominated by Sovereign republics. In a sign of the republics new standing Gorbachev was poised to formally recognize the Independence of the three Baltic states. The 1,900-member Congress of Peoples deputies overwhelmingly endorsed the plan to Salvage some form of Union Tor the huge but economically troubled country disintegrating in the Wake of last months failed coup by hard liners. Even Vladimir Lenin the founder of the soviet state did not escape the upheaval. Before the Congress adjourned it was proposed that Lenin a body be removed from its stately Musot Leum in red Square and reburied in Leningrad beside his Mother. Lenin a Fate is to be taken up by a smaller legislature set up under the re structuring plan. The plan a approved 1,682-43 a was rammed through the Congress by a Force see Kremlin on Page 2 a smiling Mikhail Gorbachev is surrounded by lawmakers who accepted his proposal to abolish the centrally controlled state.., Kuwait initial pact for Access to bases Washington up . And Kuwait officials have initiated a 10-year agreement providing for . Access to kuwaiti ports and military bases and the ability to stockpile equipment in the persian Gulf emirate officials of both nations said thursday. Kuwaiti defense minister sheikh Ali Saba Al Salem is due in Washington before the end of the month to formally sign the agreement. Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said details on such subjects As the amount and types of equipment which can be stored remain to be worked out by technical experts. Sources in the Pentagon said Levels Likely would be affected by agreements now under negotiation with the five other nations of the Gulf cooperation Council. The agreement with Kuwait was the first to be announced since defense Secretary Dick Cheney a May 5-10 trip to the Region to begin discussing a Post War regional Security arrangement. He visited saudi Arabia Kuwait Bahrain Qatar see pact on Page 2 Navy surgeon general Calls Transfer delays unacceptable by Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau Naples Italy a delays in overseas transfers of Navy medical workers sometimes leave colleagues and patients in the lurch the sea service s top physician says. That a unacceptable said Navy surgeon general vice adm. Donald f. Hagen during a news conference monday at the Naples naval support activity. Hagen visited Naples As part of a tour of the Navy a health care facilities in the United kingdom Italy and Spain. Hagen said he found that some medical personnel left for their next duty stations As much As a month before their reliefs arrived a situation known in the Navy As mapped billets. A i done to think that a acceptable and ill have to try to help prevent that sort of thing from happening because its very difficult to be the Only practitioner a a Hagen said. He did not say what Steps he would take to improve the situation. For example Naples had Only one orthopaedic surgeon for almost five weeks this summer because of Billet mapping Hagen said. The Hospital normally has two orthopaedic surgeons. The remaining surgeon could do Only essential surgery and was constantly on Call during those five weeks said chaplain it Richard Sipe a Hospital spokesman. But Hagen praised Navy medical personnel in general. A we Only Send the Best medical people  he said. Quot we screen them very carefully and Many of them Volunteer to come  Hagen said he also found the condition of the Naples Navy Hospital unacceptable. It was built As a european style hotel and leased by the Navy before it was Ever used in that capacity. I he building lacks such important equipment As oxygen pipes. Tanks must be carried to anyone needing oxygen Sipe said. It also lacks bathrooms in every patient room Sipe said. Water pipes Are also Hagen past their useful life Span and some occasionally break Sipe said. The Hospital located on the Ridge of a volcanic Crater Over nuking the support activity is an area prone to seismic activity. It was damaged by earthquakes in Thesee Navy on Page 2help yourself to iraqi Road kill Chili pages 14-16