European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday september 22, 1991 at a glance Singer dancer Tony Harrison was in the right place at the right time when he was stationed in Niernberg Germany. See sunday mias a town Square that looks like a Page out of Norman Rockwell s America becomes a Jungle stockade on a Day set aside to remember . Military personnel missing in action. A Pago 4recruiters banned gov. Mario Cuomo a Gay rights office orders a new York University to bar military recruiters from Campus because the armed forces won t accept homosexuals. A Page 5plane lands safely a Continental airlines Jet with one of its three Landing gears stuck skids to a Safe Landing on a foam coated runway in Detroit. A Page 63 americans free military police question three americans after their release from three weeks in Captivity in the hands of kurdish rebels. A Page 8copter Crew rescued a helicopter from the guided missile frigate Stark crashes in the persian Gulf and the two army Crew members aboard Are rescued by another military chopper. A Page 9pan am head named Russell l. Ray jr., an executive at the Mcdonnell Douglas corp., is elected As president and chief executive of pan american world Page 20 Index i Abby Ann Landers. 17 commentary. 13 letters. 12 Money matters. 20 Mutual. 18-19 sports. 21-28 weather. 11 croatian government meets As Federal offensive continues Zagreb Yugoslavia apr the government of Croatia faced with the Federal army a heaviest offensive yet against the secessionist Republic went into an emergency session saturday As fresh fighting erupted in the Northeast and South. Battles were under Way in several parts of the Republic the croatian defense ministry said but it provided Only sketchy information and failed to give casualty figures. Hostilities appeared less intense than on Friday when fighting raged across the Republic from the Danube River to the Adriatic sea. Croatia a 4.75 million people include 600,000 ethnic serbs Many of whom say they will not live in an Independent Croatia. Backed by serbian president Slobodan Milosevic they demand that if Croatia is allowed to secede it must give up serb dominated territories. The army has deployed troops tanks howitzers and rocket launchers to Back its latest incursion into Croatia. As the croatian government met in the parliament building in Zagreb an air raid alarm was sounded in the republics capital. However an All Clear came just so minutes later. Meanwhile Sibenik on the Dalmatian coast was the target of two consecutive air raids saturday morning. The defense ministry reported bombing continued concentrating on sic Nike a Jamniak military warehouse. It said Federal warplanes also raided the Mandalina hotel Complex on a nearby Peninsula. The port authority in Ancona Italy saturday picked up a message from split radio also on the Dalmatian coast. The message said a the cities of adar Sibenik and split arc being bombarded every Day by the yugoslav air Force and Are under attack by the army and by the Navy. A we Are without water and Light. Our ports streets and airports Are blockaded. Appeal to your ministers end the War in Croatia a a the message said. Late Friday a clearly defensive croatian president Franjo Tadjman sent a letter to defense minister Veljko Kadijevic offering to lift the blockade of army Barracks if the army ended its offensive. In his reply Kadijevic on saturday said he was ready for negotiations provided Tadjman carries out the obligations under tuesdays european Community brokered cease fire that has evaporated. In Vukovan 15 Miles into Croatia Federal troops Friday broke through croatian defences capturing part of the City Belgrade radio said. Croatian radio said saturday that heavy fighting continued around Vukovan and Vinkovic overnight. However the Federal army failed to break through to Vinkovic which was attacked by planes and came under mortar fire Friday. At least six people were reported killed then. Vinkovic and Osisek Croatia a key stronghold in Eastern Slavonia near the Danube Border again came under mortar attack the defense ministry in Zagreb said without from Page 1 Force might be used to escort the . Teams if Iraq does not cooperate in the Effort to find and destroy All of its Long Range missiles and any chemical biological or nuclear weapons. Iraq insisted it was cooperating As required under the persian Gulf War cease fire agreement. It accused Washington of using a dispute Over whether . Teams can use their own helicopters As an excuse to launch another military Campaign. Leslie Thorne the 59-year-old British Leader of a nuclear inspection team that came out of Iraq to Bahrain on Friday said the iraqis were taking the . Threats in stride while they celebrated a Muslim Holiday. Iraq like the rest of the Muslim world has a Long weekend Holiday in Honor of the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed islam a founder. Thorness team of specialists from the Vienna based International atomic Energy Agency was in Iraq for a week to measure nuclear material at a research facility near Baghdad. Nuclear forum rebukes Iraq Vienna Austria apr delegates to an International nuclear conference voted 77-1 on Friday to censure Iraq for secretly making weapons Grade materials. Only Iraq voted against the Resolution by the International atomic Energy organization that a strongly condemns Baghdad a actions. Seven nations abstained a Cuba Libya Jordan Namibia Morocco Algeria and the Sudan. The measure has no enforcement provision other than rebuking Iraq in a Public forum. In a debate before the vote delegates from the United states France and other Western nations criticized Iraq for attempting to secretly produce nuclear materials suitable for use in warheads. The debate began last monday at the opening session of the five Day conference. Iraqis chief Delegate Rahim Alkita previously told the conference that his country had voluntarily revealed violations in its nuclear activities. He accused the United states and its allies of waging a political Campaign against Baghdad. Discovery of iraqi efforts to produce weapons Grade materials resulted from a . Inspection team tour that followed the persian Gulf War cease fire in february. The team was trying to assess iraqis potential nuclear chemical and biological weapons capacities. It is not Clear How close Iraq was to producing a nuclear bomb before the .-led coalition destroyed most of its atomic facilities during the War and whether it continues to conceal parts of such a program. Delegates also passed a Resolution expressing concern Quot Azcui israelis nuclear capability and threat to peace and Security in the Middle East. Arab countries and most of the developing world voted in favor of the Resolution. The United states and its allies were opposed. As in past years the measure urged Israel to open its nuclear facilities to International inspection to make sure it was not developing atomic weapons. Under the Security Council cease fire Resolution All weapons of mass destruction under iraqi control must be from Page 1 army a has gone from a unrelenting hypocrisy Down the Chain of command to a system that Calls for a creative and innovative leadership at the lowest a you did t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that to achieve Success on a Large Battlefield you had to have leaders who could effectively Deal with our greatest assets a the soldiers a cer Jan said. The service also looked at the climate in which soldiers worked he said. A we looked for institutional or social inhibitors to the creation of cohesive things a he said. A Many were identified but three stood out a drug abuse discrimination and sexual he used the army a substance abuse program to illustrate the services willingness to confront major problems. He noted the service did not attempt to a cover up the drug abuse problem. However Yeijan said a discrimination is More difficult. You can to test a persons attitude in a the key to fostering equal Opportunity is a a reliable and trustworthy system which he said he believes the army has. A we in Usa eur and the army Are committed to assuring an environment free of discrimination and sexual quoting poet Langston Hughes Yeijan pledged his commitment to a fair system there is a dream in this land with its Back against the Wall. To save the dream for one it must be saved for Levels to be increasingly sensitive to the needs of the soldiers a he said. A senior leaders will continue to Monitor closely the trends in promotions disciplines complaints and separations to ensure equal treatment and they must intervene when Necess Niy to right Yeijan said. Quot we be come a Long Way in the last two decades. I Don t believe an organization in America reflects the Success and accomplishment that we have had in the army in this area. But without doubt there is still work to Yeijan acknowledged there Are even greater equal Opportunity challenges this decade. A changes in both Force Structure and demographics will require leaders at All in defense of the complaint system Yeijan said it must be trusted to protect both the complainant and the accused. A substantiated discrimination or sexual harassment will not be tolerated a he said. A it must be rooted out. Offenders must be both punished and educated and when that fails they must be separated. A but unsubstantiated complaints must be also accepted if the system is to work. If we accept the investigation that substantiates a complaint then we need to make that same acceptance for the unsubstantiated in closing he emphasized that a fall soldiers regardless of ethnic or racial background must be treated solely on performance. We will not tolerate anything Short of
