European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 c the stars and stripes thursday november 14, 1991 Marie Kohtala of Vienna Maine crunches through new Snow tuesday. The new England area was expecting another layer of the White stuff wednesday As Well. More weather details on Page 11. Health care plan offered a coalition of business labor and medical groups has offered a National plan for medical care that it says would save the country about $600 billion annually by 2000. A Page 4 aids patients to get drug the food and drug administration has allowed an experimental drug for treating a Type of pneumonia that afflicts most aids patients to be Reade available for free on a trial basis. A Page 6 Duke aide reportedly quits a High ranking Volunteer in David Dukes gubernatorial Campaign has resigned saying the former klans Man has not changed his racist views a Memphis newspaper reported. A Page 7 foreigners falling prey foreign tourists Are increasingly the victims of crime in the soviet Union officials say. A Page 8 airlines Cut Winter fares . Airlines still staggering from the recession announce fare sales that they Hope will lure More passengers during the traditionally slow Winter months. A Page 18 Index Abby Ann Landers 15 comics.15-17 commentary.13 crossword. 15 faces no places .14 letters .12 Money matters.18 sports. 19-24 to listings.23 weather.11 Bush wants magic to fill aids commission vacancy Washington a president Bush has asked magic Johnson to deliver his a very important message about aids As a member of the National commission on aids the White House said tuesday. That panel has been critical of Bush administration policies and Bush a role in the fight against the deadly virus which already has claimed the lives of More than 126,000 americans. Bush said Friday that he regarded the former los Angeles lakers Star As a a hero for the Way he announced that he was his positive was retiring from basketball and was planning to devote himself to spreading awareness about the disease and Safe sex practices. A the president would like to have magic Johnson on the aids commission a White House press Secretary Marlin Fitz water said. A magic has a very important message that will be very useful to this  Fitzwater said Johnson 32, was still mulling Over the offer although Johnson said in a sports illustrated article that a i d like to Volunteer for the vacancy on the commission. Johnson was in Hawaii on a weeks vacation and was not available for comment. A a the National commission on aids is a 15-member panel created two years ago to advise Bush and confess on How to Stop the aids epidemic. The Only his positive member of the panel Belinda Mason a Kentucky writer and Bush appointee died in september of complications from the disease. Serbs from Page 1 earning an army withdrawal from Croatia and deployment of peacekeeping troops said Tud Jmani a adviser Mario Nobilo. As the firing stopped in Dubrovnik the  left the montenegrin port of Zelenika to pick up the eco a 14 monitors and hundreds of civilians in the City Koestal said. All vessels entering or leaving Dubrovnik must Stop at 21elenika to be searched by the army. Dubrovnik a medieval Center was bombarded wednesday morning the third Day and the City Hall was hit croatian television reported. The army had said it would not fire on the walled old town once a tourist Mecca a unless croatian defenders used it for their operations. In Eastern Croatia Vul Kovar a defenders have run out of heavy ammunition and Only their snipers and mined streets prevent Federal troops from taking the City serbian commanders told associated press reporter Dusan Stojanovic. The Danube River City has been under siege for three months and some 12,000 people a from 70,000 who once called Vukovan Home a Are reportedly hiding in cellars without food and water. A they Are finished. Its a matter of Days maybe hours a said Mico Cuckovic a serb who commands a mortar unit in Vukovan his Hometown. Serbs fighting House to House have taken about 200 people a mostly women and children a from basements in recent Days. Among those found tuesday some cried and others Shook with Shock Stojanovic said. A Little girl hugged her broken doll As machine gun and heavy Cannon noise feed the air. The fall of Vukovan would give Federal forces near Complete control of the Eastern croatian Region of Slavonia. An adviser for Tadjman suggested that an army withdrawal could follow the Model of Jast Rebarsky a town 15 Miles South Dubrovnik under siege areas and structures reported hit by artillery West of Zagreb where a Federal armoured division began leaving under an agreement reached Between croats Ana the army tuesday. All weapons and troops must leave by nov. 30. Both Croatia and Serbia have called for peacekeeping troops to Stop the fighting but disagree on where they should be placed. The serbs want the peacekeepers inside Croatia to separate the warring sides. The croats vowing not to cede territory despite losing one third of the Republic to serbian forces in the War insist peacekeepers should be on the Border with Serbia. Dec ministers meeting in the Netherlands said tuesday that no peacekeepers will be sent until a lasting cease fire is in place. Nation s blood Supply not threatened by ban on Gulf vet donors Dod says Washington a the defense department says a move to exclude a half million persian Gulf War veterans from donating blood because of a desert parasite will reduce the nations blood Supply but not severely. Twenty two soldiers contracted a parasitic disease while in the Gulf Region prompting the Pentagon and the nation s largest association of blood Banks to ban donations from veterans and civilian visitors to the area. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said in san Diego that he counts himself among those banned from donating blood because of his visits to the Region during operations desert shield Ana storm. Of the seven soldiers with serious symptoms he said five have returned to duty with their units. A a we a rather not Cut 500,000 of them out of the donation process but it is a manageable problem Pentagon spokesman Bob Hall said tuesday. More than 1.5 million . Troops on Active duty did not serve in the Middle East during the War. Presumably they along with the 1 million civilian employees of the defense department will Supply the blood needs of the . Armed forces. But a we Are concerned about blood shortages in communities that rely on the military As blood donors a said or. Joel Solomon chief executive officer of the american association of blood Banks. The group represents 2,400 Community regional and red Cross blood centers. The disease Leishmania tropical is transmitted by Sand flies and is treated by intravenous medication. The first few cases were confirmed last april but a we did not think it represented a larger problem a said Brig. Gen. Ronald r. Blanck of the army surgeon general a office. There is a a very very lows Chance the parasite has already contaminated the nations blood Supply Blanck said. None of the 22 with the disease donated any blood said col. Charles Oster chief of infectious disease at Walter Reed army medical Center in Washington. There have been no documented cases of transfusions transmitting the parasite but five cases of a related Strain were transmitted through blood transfusion. Fifteen infected army service members have skin lesions from the disease. Seven have mild illness some with fever and diarrhoea symptoms More commonly associated with a More serious Strain of the disease Leishmania Donovan. But none of the 22 is suffering from the More serious Strain which can be life threatening if untreated. Soldiers who got the disease were positioned in Northeast Audi Arabia Kuwait and Southern Iraq. One unit was in Dhah ran and one in Riyadh saudi Arabia. The american association of blood Banks will reassess its ban in january 1993. In the meantime the army Hopes to develop a simple screening test for the disease which could hasten an end to the ban