European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 50, no. 294 350 monday february 3,1992 d 8693 jobless benefits offered to gis personnel who voluntarily separate May qualify by David Tarrant staff writer Washington a service members who choose to voluntarily separate from military service should be eligible to receive unemployment compensation if they have completed at least one full term of service with an honorable discharge according to Pentagon officials and labor experts. However separating service members should also be aware that the amount of benefits and conditions for receiving them vary widely from state to state said Cheryl Templeman of the interstate conference of employment Security agencies a private non profit association. For example unemployment benefits for a service member with no dependents can Range from a maximum of $291 per week in new Jersey to a maximum of $150 per week in Alabama Templeman said. Military service members Are not limited however to the state where they last served. They can sign up for benefits in any state where they go after discharge she said. Quot they just have to be living there and have an address Templeman said. The question of unemployment compensation is attracting More interest in military circles these Days As Many troops mull Over whether to stay in the service or leave under one of the new incentive programs available to some servicemen bars with Between six and 20 years of service. Under a complicated accounting formula the departing service members can choose Between receiving a one time Lump sum separation payment or annual payments Over a period of years. With the Economy in a recession Many face the Prospect of unemployment. Those who Are considering the see benefits on Page 2 . Repatriating haitian refugees from Cuba base Guantanamo Bay naval base Cuba apr the . Military on saturday began repatriating haitian refugees held in a tent City at a . Naval base in Cuba after the supreme court cleared the Way. Officials said the coast guard Cutter steadfast carrying 150 haitians left the base for Haiti just after 10 . It. The 150 refugees had been interviewed by immigration officials and deemed ineligible for Alum Saidt. Darian Benson a spokesman for the joint military task Force handling the haitian crisis. They were volunteers tired of life in the tent City he said. A it Wasny to much of a problem at ally finding volunteers said Marine Brig. Gen. George h. Walls who is in charge of the haitian operation. Benson said More refugees were to be sent Back to Haiti on sunday but he had no further details. Haitians aboard the Cutter talked to reporters through an interpreter saturday evening. They shouted answers Down from the deck. A a they re scared because they done to know what a going to happen to them when they get Back a one haitian Man said through the interpreter. A you can to walk the streets in Haiti at night. They re scared for their lives a said another. The news of repatriation caused no immediate disturbance at the Camp in Guantanamo Bay. A there has been no resistance that i have been made aware of a said it. Cmdr. Gordon Hume another task Force spokesman. A we Are prepared for any Type of demonstrations or any reaction that there might be in the  the trip across the Windward passage from Cuba to Haiti takes about 14 hours. The High court on Friday set aside a Federal judges members or the . Joint military task Force top watch haitian refugees aboard the coast guard Cutter steadfast before it departed for Haiti on saturday from Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. Order that had blocked the return of haitian refugees. Advocates for the haitians have resisted the governments repatriation policy in an Atlanta court. Haitians have been encamped at the naval base in Cuba since nov. 26, 1991. The coast guard began intercepting their rickety boats in an exodus that continues. Hostile Era Over Yeltsin says in Ottawa Ottawa apr russian president Boris n. Yeltsin on saturday called his . Visit a Success saying the two nations Are now looking ahead to an Era of close cooperation. A we Are allies from now a said Yeltsin after arriving from Washington for a Brief Stopover in Canada. Yeltsin said he and president Bush evaded no issues in talks earlier saturday at Camp David my. Yeltsin said their a views coincided very  on Friday Bush and Yeltsin joined leaders from other . Security Council nations for a Summit in which Yeltsin proposed drastic cuts in nuclear arms. Bush and Yeltsin signed a joint statement pledging Quot Friendship and partnership founded on Mutual Trust and  they announced they would hold summits in the United later in the year. States this Spring and in Moscow Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney greeted Yeltsin inside a heated hangar. The sound of a 21-gun Salute blasted through a Bay open near the hangar ceiling. A band played the two countries anthems. A the Era of the . And Russia viewing each other As potential enemies is behind us a Yeltsin said speaking through a translator. A motorcade carried the russian Leader and his wife Naina to Mulroney s official residence for a dinner. Yeltsin was scheduled to Fly to Moscow after the four hour visit. The two leaders were expected to discuss nuclear weapons control Canadian Aid to Moscow Grain sales and other issues. They were not expected to sign any formal accords during the visit. The . And Canadian visits came on Yeltsin a 61st birthday. 250 feared buried in turkish avalanches Diyarbakir Turkey a rescuers searched sunday for about 250 people believed buried under avalanches that flattened military outposts and villages in kurdish country in Southeastern Turkey. At least 62 bodies of soldiers and civilians had been found by sunday afternoon. Blizzards prevented helicopters from ferrying supplies and rescuers to search for victims of saturdays avalanches. Heavy Snow piling up As High As 10 feet blocked roads and hundreds of villages for a third straight Day the sem official Anatolia news Agency said. No americans were listed among the casualties As of sunday afternoon according to a spokeswoman at the combined information Bureau at in Ciurlik a Turkey. Two . Helicopters sent saturday by an Allied task Force deployed at in Ciurlik had to return because of the weather but a c-130 military transport plane had been sent to the provincial Center of Diyarbakir with medical supplies and Rescue personnel. The Force with dozens of aircraft is what remains of a larger Force that helped the iraqi kurd last year after their failed uprising against the Baghdad government. Prime minister Sulayman Demirel who was in Davos Switzerland attending an International business conference Cut Short his visit and returned to Turkey after hearing news of the disaster. In the Village of Gorec located in Simak province bordering Iraq an Avalanche buried All 35 houses and a military outpost. Rescuers pulled out 56 soldiers who were alive. Sir Naku a Deputy governor Nurettin Guven told Anatolia that 71 soldiers were believed to have been killed and their bodies were in the building. Bodies of 26 civilians had been covered and perhaps As Many As 150 other Gorec residents were feared to be buried under the see buried on Page 2 a amps Wes Booher