European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes thursday March 5, 1992 7 7 military babies take a leap into life airman 1st class Glenn Cooper holds his leap year child Cain while Kathy Cooper holds her songs hand. By Peggy Davidson Kaiserslautern Bureau Lan Stuhl Germany Cain Patrick Cooper will celebrate his second birthday in the year 2000. No his parents Arentt planning ahead nor do they have the ability to see into the future. Cain the son of airman 1st class Glenn Cooper and his wife Kathy was born feb. 29 at Lan Stuhl  regional medical Center making him one of 17 leap year babies born in military hospitals in Europe this year. The Navy hospitals in Europe reported Only one leap year baby a boy born at the Hospital in Rota Spain said it. Jack Papp a Navy spokesman. The air Force came in second with four leap year babies at its hospitals. Three were born at the Hospital at Raf Laken Heath and one was born at Raf upper Heyford both in England. The  a 11 medical facilities reported a dozen babies said Bill Swisher a 7th medical come spokesman. Army medical centers arc located in Germany Belgium and Italy. Cain was one of the  a count because he was born at an  facility despite his air Force father. He was one of three babies born at Lan Stuhl on feb. 29, said staff sgt. Rourk Sheehan a Lan Stuhl spokesman. It takes the Earth 365 a Days to revolve around the Sun. To keep the Calendar consistent an extra Day is added every fourth year. What it Means for children such As Cain is that they will begin school Halfway Between their first and second birthdays. If he Waits until his 16th birthday to apply for a Drivers License said his Mother he will also be applying for retirement. Cain will be 64 in actual years. A we plan to have a lot of fun with this Kathy Cooper said three Days after her child a birth. Glenn Cooper who is assigned to the 86th comm group at Ramstein a made the Tongue in Cheek comment that they will a save on birthday gifts since the Date comes up Only once every four years. But he acknowledged that they will have a big Blowout every fourth year. The couple Are still debating How and when they will celebrate their Only child a birthday. Kathy Cooper is leaning toward randomly picking a Date each year and having a special Celebration on the leap year. Glenn Cooper prefers celebrating on feb. 28 each year with the big Bash coming when a year features a feb. 29. Cain was born a month Early just to have a special birthday said the parents As they sat with their fingers entwined. Kathy Cooper went into labor Friday morning and expected the baby to be born that Day. When she went into the delivery room it was 15 minutes before Midnight and she began to realize she was about to have a leap year baby. Kathy Cooper said the nurses and doctor joked with her about the possibility saying a a let a  but Cain made the final decision. He was born at 12 13 a.m., and though a month Early weighed 6 pounds 3 ounces. His Mother said Caine a unusual birth Date is a kind of  looking at her husband she added a a it a like the relationship we have. Its something  military leaders put face on draw Down talks by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a lawmakers on the Senate armed services committee generally seemed satisfied with the Pace of military Force reductions in Europe especially after top . Commanders put a human face on the draw Down at a hearing tuesday. Gen. Crosbie e. Saint commander of the  in Europe offered examples of some of the hurdles faced by troops leaving a typical unit in Aschaffenbur Germany. Adm. Jeremy a Mike Quot Boorda commander of . Naval forces Europe spoke of the trauma Felt by the Small Community surrounding the submarine base at holy Loch Scotland from which the last . Navy vessel will sail next week. A total of 77,000 troops will leave Europe in 1992, said Gen. John r. Galvin supreme Allied commander Europe and chief of the . European come. Galvin and the other commanders warned that to try to Speed that Pace even further could damage the Force. A we arc not dragging our feet on the withdrawal a Saint said. A i have to Tell you i am now on the Edge of breaking my Force breaking our ability to train breaking support services and breaking the soldiers Confidence in their Lead armenians Slaughter at least 120, police say Agram Azerbaijan apr coffins in this City just outside Are stacked leu up Magorno Karabash for the scores of bodies of azerbaijanis police say were massacred by armenian militants in the disputed Region. Police said tuesday that they had collected 120 bodies so far and were being blocked from recovering More victims of an armenian attack last week on the Village of Khodzh Aly a few Miles away in Magorno Karabash. But armenian officials in Moscow said the azerbaijani governments claim that More than 1,000 people died at Khodzh Aly was a a Gross  in fighting tuesday night 30 armenians were killed when a helicopter ferrying women and children from the embattled City of Stepan Akert was shot Down according to russian television and a spokesman for the Magorno Karabash parliament. Stepan Akert lies 15 Miles Southwest of Agram. Forces from the Commonwealth of Independent states halted their pullout from the area. The 1,400 Commonwealth troops Are the last Buffer Between War ring armenians and azerbaijanis whose four year fight Over Magorno Karabash has been the bloodiest ethnic conflict in the former soviet Union. Magorno Kara Bakho a population of about 200,000 is mainly armenian. But the Region is encircled by azerbaijani territory and has been administered by Azerbaijan since 1923. Videotapes broadcast tuesday by Commonwealth television and Abc to in the United states showed the bodies of dozens of victims including women and children scattered on hillsides outside Khodzh Aly. Azerbaijani men with Kalashnikov rifles Slung Over their shoulders sobbed As they collected the bodies some of which had been mutilated. A Brick and Wood one Story building next to a Damn a mosque was transformed into a temporary morgue and four mutilated corpses Lay there tuesday night. A caretaker said the bodies needed to be identified before burial. A police official who would not give his name said they were among 120 corpses recovered from the rolling Hills in Magorno Karabash during the last Day.  Over the course of fiscal 1992, which ends sept. 30, the  will move 72,000 troops 91,000 family members 27,000 cars and All their household goods out of Europe a logistical exercise roughly equivalent to moving the entire City of Savannah a. A the magnitude of the moves is traumatic a he said. A just since january 11,000 sets of orders have been Cut for troops leaving Europe a Saint said. A Johnny is marching  but to maintain that Pace the services have severely taxed the logistical system in Europe and accelerating it would a abuse our people a said Gen. Robert c. Oaks commander of . Air forces Europe. A that kind of stress on our people is  Oaks recounted the Story of an airman who recently received a Surprise medal. When asked if he knew Why he was getting it the airman replied that he assumed he was about to be forced out of the service Oaks said. Nunn seemed to agree. A no matter what the five year defense plan is we have to Pace the reductions to limit the pressure on families As Well As to maintain military readiness a he  Hill scurries to to Michelangelo virus threat Washington a the Michelangelo computer virus has invaded Capitol Hill sending congressional staffers scurrying for a remedy before fridays trigger Date. A a it a like grand Central station Here a said Hamish Murray director of the House information systems whose office was Busy tuesday distributing virus killing diskettes to congressional offices. Agriculture department officials also reported finding the virus in their computer system. By some estimates the Michelangelo virus has infected As Many As 5 million ism compatible personal computers worldwide. Dormant for the moment it will activate on any infected pc turned on Friday the Renaissance artists birthday. It will proceed to overwrite vital areas of a computers hard drive thereby wiping out programs and data. Congress uses thousands of the ism Type machines in its offices to handle word processing mailing and other tasks. Officials say that so far the virus has been found in just a few machines but they re taking no chances. The Senate computer Center has issued a bulletin to All offices on How to purge the virus warning them to make backup copies of their data. A the Michelangelo virus has been found in More than one Senate office a the bulletin said. Murray said he was aware of Only one confirmed Case in the House but his experts have detected a half dozen other viruses during their Effort to eradicate Michelangelo. Murray said that although individual Hill offices were at risk there was no danger from the virus involving Congress big mainframe computers. The virus is spread to a computers hard drive and memory when users attempt to a Boot up a turn on a from any infected Diskette. Once the hard drive is infected the virus then will be passed Back to any Diskette used in the machine