European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday december 20, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 3dod will Airlift military rations to soviet cities Washington a the Pentagon will Send 300,000 pounds of bulk food and excess military rations from the persian Gulf War to residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg the defense department announced on wednesday an air Force c-5a will deliver the items today tomorrow and sunday it said. The bulk food includes Tea milk bread sugar shortening flour Rice and potatoes. The rations consist of Ham beef Salmon Chicken and pork entrees. Fruits vegetables and dried foods such As potatoes Rice and pasta will also be included. In St Petersburg the cargo will be turned Over to . Embassy and consulate officials who will a work with local authorities to ensure proper distribution a the statement said. Similar procedures will also be followed in Moscow it grab pieces of Aeroflot airline pie Moscow apr Independent republics Are div vying up the crumbling airline Aeroflot and a transportation official said wednesday that the Gray soviet skies Are Likely to remain unfriendly for some time. A a we be got lots of problems a said Alexander a. Larin head of the air division in the russian federation ministry of transportation. With the fall of the Central government president Boris n. Yeltsin and other Republic leaders Are abolishing More than 80 soviet , the ministry of civil aviation ran Aeroflot the sole soviet airline. The 12 soviet republics and the three newly Independent Baltic states have each claimed Aeroflot assets within their boundaries. Many autonomous regions have their own airlines making a total of 34 slices in the Aeroflot pie. Larin said he did not know How soon the airlines assets might be sold to private owners or when they would offer competing flights. For now regional airlines Are linked in a Complex web of timetables fuel and Supply lines that collapsed with the rest of the Central Rush medical Aid to needy in soviet Union Moscow apr Western doctors Are shepherding millions of dollars in medical supplies airlifted to the soviet Union making sure the goods reach the likes of 6-year-old Olga Sokolova and done tend up on the Black Market. Doctors rushed sul Amylon Antibiotic Cream to Olga on tuesday even before workers had finished unloading boxes of Aid that arrived on american and soviet transport planes the night before. Olga was injured when a television m her Home exploded her grandmother was killed. The Aid is part of an initiative announced last year by president Bush to help meet the soviet unions critical medical needs. Aid is More imperative now with the Economy in chaos and the government out of hard currency to buy Medicine abroad. A they need about everything a said William Walsh president of project Hope the . Group coordinating american medical Aid. Walsh said that so far this year project Hope has distributed $26 million Worth of medical supplies throughout the republics of the former soviet Union. . Churches and private companies also have sent help. This weeks delivery of $6 million in Aid Marks a new level of .-soviet cooperation involving military officials foreign policy think tanks and physicians from both countries. The . Side wants to make sure the Aid reaches the designated recipients and does no tend up on the Black Market. On wednesday Volunteer american doctors and pharmacists with the Aid of an interpreter checked lists of supplies sent against what was delivered. The shipment included antibiotics insulin vitamins syringes gloves face masks and preoperative scrub sets As Well As 75,000 pounds of cots blankets and clothing donated by the department of defense. A this was a spectacular Effort a said Murray Fesch Bach a . Demographer and leading soviet specialist who flew Over As part of the Relief Effort organized by the .-based International foreign policy association and Eduard Shevardnadze a foreign policy association. Volunteers carry medical supplies into a Moscow Hospital. Eschbach and other participants in the Airlift met tuesday with Shevardnadze the soviet foreign minister. At children a Hospital no. 9, or. William Bailey a project Hope Volunteer showed Olga a nurses How to apply the Antibiotic Cream to the fresh Burns that covered the Little girls body. Bailey a Colorado paediatrician said he was discouraged by the dirty and primitive conditions in the Hospital. However he said he was impressed by the dedication of the soviet doctors. A you have to cheer them on and encourage them a he said. Or. Pyotr Portias the hospitals chief doctor said he appreciated the medical deliveries but stressed that More was needed. A this Aid Means a lot a Portias said. A but help is Here today and maybe not tomorrow. The most important thing for us is to change and improve training our own medical personnel a he said. Gulf Region s stability hinges on Allied efforts Admiral says a amps Jim Dert Elm rear adm. Raynor . Taylor commander of . Naval forces Central come stands among mines pulled from the persian Gulf. By j. King Cruger Mediterranean Bureau Manama Bahrain a the United states and its allies in the persian Gulf Region Are engaged in building a collective Post War Security Structure for the area according to the commander of . Naval forces Central come. A in Europe it took years to build a postwar Security Structure a rear adm. Raynor . Taylor said in a recent interview at his Headquarters in Bahrain a capital. A Over Here we Are in the process too of building a postwar Security Structure and that takes time that takes consensus that takes thinking and that takes attention to multiple parameters a Taylor said. A it took years to do it build the Structure in Europe and certainly we did not do it Here in 10 months a the Admiral noted. A in 1948, no one dreamed that you would have peace for decades in Europe. They had not done that for 10 centuries a Taylor said. A today few people would bet a Nickel that we Are going to have peace Over Here in the Middle East for 50 years but that is the Mission. You have to try and do he said nations in the Gulf Region which he did not identify Are taking More Active roles in their collective Security than they have in the past. It. Rob Raine a command spokesman would not elaborate on the participants identities other than to refer to them As a the Friendly nations of the a it is like night and Day before the War and after the War a Taylor said. A that does no to mean that everything is perfect and everyone is inboard the train. It is just starting. Before the War there were lots of limitations to our ships going into ports and significant limitations of aircraft Access. Now we can go into every country Quot the . Naval forces Central come still has a residual Force of 25 ships and 18,000 sailors assigned to the area. The Force stretches from the red sea to Pakistan and As far South As Kenya. A at the present time we have a Carrier Battle group entered around the Dwight d. Eisenhower an amphibious Battle group the remaining Clement of a min sweeping Force and supporting ships plus the old Middle East Force of the command ship Lasalle and its team of five frigates. A because the War is Over does no to mean that the work is Over a Taylor said. A there is still plenty of work going on Here and it is very important work. There Are two kinds of work. There is a building Down and a building of he said naval forces Are engaged in training in mines coping enforcing United nations sanctions against Iraq and working to better understand their allies in the Gulf. Taylor said residents of the Gulf Region have wealth and a desire to play larger roles in world politics. A it the Gulf is a Region o f outright interest because we As americans seek global Security and you can to have global Security unless you have regional Security in the Gulf Region a
