European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse The so pipes vol. 50, no. 162 sunday september 22,1991 �1 Sims authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces a 50c d 8693 a biological team Back in Iraq . Nuclear group concludes week of exams near Baghdad it. Col. James Knapp of Canada the chief inspector of the u team for iraqi chemical weapons capabilities surveys a Small iraqi chemical bomb inventory. . Photon. Special inspection portion of destroyed Manama Bahrain apr a . Team of biological weapons experts saturday renewed the search for iraqi arms that May have gone undetected on earlier missions. A nuclear inspection team left Bahrain for Vienna Austria after spending a week measuring material at an iraqi facility near Baghdad. Officials said there were no reports of problems from either team despite demands that Baghdad let . Helicopters make Surprise inspection flights. President Bush has threatened to Send . Aircraft to protect the . Helicopters if iraqi president Saddam Hussein refuses to cooperate raising the possibility of renewed hostilities. . Security Council president can Bernard Mcrice said he will meet today with iraqi foreign minister Ahmed Hussein in new York to receive Baghdad a decision. Merimee and other Council members have demanded a written and unconditional reply. The inspection teams Are part of the . Special committee in charge of dismantling iraqi nuclear and biological weapons. . Officials say Iraq has failed to cooperate with earlier inspections reporting fewer missiles and chemical warheads than . Teams have found. Teams also found nuclear processing equipment the iraqis denied having. Alastair Livingston a spokesman for the committee in Bahrain said he had been in radio Contact saturday with the Liaison officer for the biological inspection team and had been told that a everything was the 13-Mcmber team is investigating biological research labs to Check iraqi claims that the research is not for military purposes. Another inspection team representing the United nations and the International atomic Energy Agency in Vienna will travel from Bahrain to Baghdad today. The United states and other nations warned Iraq on wednesday that military see Iraq on Page 2u.s.s.r. Will radically Reform military from wire reports Moscow a the new soviet defense minister outlined sweeping reforms of the military that would Cut enlistment time for conscripts and offer higher pay and benefits to career soldiers who would eventually make up a fully Volunteer armed forces. Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov said he also supported a change to civilian control of the defense ministry. A we Are talking about a Radical Reform indeed a Shaposhnikov told a news conference Friday. A the ministry and the minister himself Are not opposed to changing to a civilian meanwhile president Mikhail s. Gorbachev has issued a decree published saturday freeing citizens of the newly Independent Baltic states from All soviet military obligations. The decree was a significant step to Ward detaching Lithuania Latvia and Estonia from the soviet Union which annexed them in 1940 and recognized their Independence sept. 4. The Brief decree carried by the news Agency Tass said All conscripts from the Baltic were to be released from the ranks of All soviet military forces this month or in october. It did not say How Many men it would affect. Shaposhnikov the former air Force chief replaced defense minister Dmitri Yazoo who was arrested As a Leader of last months failed coup. Shaposhnikov said reforms already have begun in the huge soviet armed forces in the aftermath of the coup with the political department that provided strict communist party control of the military being eliminated. Institutional not personal Bias stamped out general says by Jimi Jones staff writer Ramstein a Germany a personal prejudices against different races exist in the army but institutional discrimination is under control a top . Army Europe official says. A institutional Bias has been pretty Well stamped out although it needs to be watched closely on a continuous basis a it. Gen. Paul g. Cerjan usage a Deputy commander in chief said Friday. A and we have Bee institutional Bias ban been pretty Well stamped out. Personal prejudice is a much harder one to Deal u. Gen. Paul g. Cerjan relatively effective with that. A personal prejudice is a much harder one to Deal with a Yeijan said in responding to a question posed by a person attending the european networking councils annual leadership conference. A you have to educate people. That a a simple Cerjan delivered the keynote address Friday to about 100 people replacing Usa eur commander Gen. Crosbie e. Saint who said in a letter to the group that he could not attend because he was meeting in the United states with the army a chief of staff Gen. Gordon r. Sullivan. The networking Council is an umbrella organization of Black fraternities and sororities As Well As the european Branch of the National association for the advancement of coloured people and other approved defense department private organizations that work together to improve the Quality of life for servicemen Bers and civilians living in Europe. Cerjan stalk entered on the conference motto a leadership 2000 a the Challenge of living the vision a linking it to a the Challenge of leadership a and the importance that leadership plays in the army. He said the army after a late-1970s struggle to revitalize what was generally acknowledged to be a a hollow see Bias on Page 2
