European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ike . 50, no. 246 sunday december 15,1991 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces 500 d 8693 female flier study defended personnel issues Cloud change official says by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington some lawmakers Are upset with a defense department decision to delay letting women compete for combat Pilot jobs but the Pentagon a personnel chief says there Are reasons to proceed slowly and cautiously. A a there a a sense that we should just do this in a matter of weeks a Christopher Jehn the assistant Secretary of defense for Force management and personnel said in an interview Friday. A but we cannot sensibly and responsibly make changes in policy on women in combat aircraft squadrons  Pentagon officials said last week that they would wait until a presidential commission studies the broader Issue of women in combat before deciding on what changes if any should be made to combat aircraft assignment policies. The 15-member commission created by the fiscal 1992 defense authorization act is due to compile a report by dec. 15,1992. Reps. Beverly Byron d-md., and Pat Schroeder d-colo., along with sen. William Roth r-del., have All criticized the Pentagon for As Byron put it a circumventing the will of  the fiscal 1992 defense authorization act repeals the Laws that have prohibited women from flying combat aircraft in the air Force Navy and Marine corps. The army which is not governed by Law but has its own policies barring women from combat aircraft was not mentioned in the Law. The Law lifts the Legal barriers to women in combat aircraft but does not order the Pentagon to alter current policy. Even so lawmakers clearly expected see flier on Page 2 a Blanket of Snow sets Dov com surrounded by a thin Blanket of freshly fallen Snow a couple take their dog for a walk in Crum Stadt Germany on saturday. Temperatures in the Frank Furt area reached a High of 21 degrees fahrenheit the Low was 18. For More details on european and stateside weather see Page 11. . Sending tons of supplies to help soviets Washington apr Crews loaded Relief supplies for the soviet Union aboard a . Military Jet saturday but officials feared the recipients May be unable to distribute them. A senior state department official said the soviet distribution system is in such disarray that the United states and other Western donors Are finding it difficult to figure out where to Send the supplies. The official spoke on condition of anonymity. The military plane a c-5a, was loaded saturday at Andrews fab my. It was scheduled to leave today carrying 75 tons of cots blankets clothing and medical supplies. It was being accompanied by a soviet military Jet loaded with an additional 200 tons of supplies which the soviet aircraft picked up earlier in san Francisco. Meanwhile Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii was departing saturday for a trip to five of the soviet republics a Russia the Ukraine byelorussian Kazakhstan and Kirghizia a that have agreed to join a new Commonwealth to replace the soviet Union. Baker said his trips top priority was to secure and eliminate nuclear weapons m the Region but that humanitarian assistance was a close second purpose. Half of the Relief cargo will be unloaded in Moscow see . On Page 2 journalist Anderson finds Media a scary lot to confront sister says Nashville Tenn. A Terry Anderson a Veteran journalist is having trouble adjusting to All the Media attention heaped upon him after nearly seven years As a hostage his sister says. Anderson the longest held american hostage was not ready to Deal with reporters the Day after his dec. 4 release by pro iranian extremists in Lebanon. He asked sister Peggy say to be at his Side for his first news conference. A the said a please if you la introduce me ill answer the questions a a say said Friday at an Airport news conference before returning to her Cadiz ky., Home about 76 Miles Northwest of Nashville. Say said Anderson wept briefly at the Start of the news conference in Wiesbaden Germany but embraced her and regained his composure. He went on to deliver an eloquent and often moving account of his stubborn will inside today a the mystery woman in Terry Anderson s life. A Freedom an elusive concept for sex hostage Brian  Page 8. To survive the torments of Captivity. A surprisingly he a afraid of the Media. Say said. Anderson was the associated press chief Middle East correspondent when he was kidnapped in Beirut on March 16, 1985. Say crisscrossed the Globe meeting with religious and political leaders in efforts to gain her brother a Freedom. She defended her Active role in trying to Speed her brother a release a men were chained to Walls living in their own filth a she said. A to not go for this would have been  the Rev. Martin Lawrence Jenco released in july 1986, told say How captors forced hostages to balance jars of urine on their Heads until they collapsed. The roman Catholic priest who by coincidence shared with say the same flight from Washington to Nashville had one piece of advice for Anderson on Friday find a Good secret  life for Anderson should return to Normal in about two months he said. Hostage Thomas Sutherland gave say and another sister Judy Walker poems Anderson composed during his Captivity. See Anderson on Page 2 Peggy say