European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The so amp my gripes vol. 50, no. 338wednesday, March 18,1992 d 8693 . To Send More to Cis food Medicine to come from military surplus Washington up a the United states plans to Send 22,000 tons of food and medical supplies to the former soviet Union from military stockpiles stored in Western Europe the administration announced monday. The administration under criticism by some for not doing enough to Shore up democratic forces in the republics said All the material should reach the Commonwealth of Independent states by june 1. State department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said the North Atlantic treaty organization prepared a a final draft plan to move the excess . Military food and medical supplies to the republics by surface transportation. European come spokesman cmdr. John Wood House said a i done to have any information about the delivery of supplies to the Commonwealth at this  earlier this Winter the .-run operation provide Hope moved 2,200 tons of emergency Relief supplies to can of the 12 newly Independent states that succeeded the soviet Union. In addition Tutwiler said the National centers for disease control have undertaken a vaccination Survey in the Central asian states of Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The United states plans to transport up to 10 flights of vaccines into these areas for children. Meanwhile the defense department has been sending Relief supplies from Pittsburgh and Albany n.y., and future flights will carry material from Decatur  Cis on Page 2 bit of Ireland in Berlin the Queen Mother and members of the 1st in of the Irish the soldiers Caps arc decorated with shamrocks that were guards celebrate St. Patrick a Day in Berlin on tuesday presented by their Royal visitor. Pilot finds damage awesome by Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau an air Force Pilot who has flown twice to earthquake devastated , Lur key since last Friday said tuesday that half the buildings in the City of 175,000 have damage that a visible from the air. Capt. Greg Lynch flew one of thee Mh-60 pave Hawk helicopters to make initial surveys of the damage inflicted on Erz incan and surrounding villages by the quake which measured 6.h on the Richter scale. He flew a second Mission to the area monday. The earthquake reduced five Story buildings to rubble piles 4 or 5 feet High Lynch said in a Telephone interview  Many of the apartment buildings were constructed in such a was that once they got tumbling they just fell like a ton of bricks a said Lynch whose unit has been assigned to the operation provide Comfort combined task Force since sep see Pilot on Page 2 criminal probe opened in House Bank scandal Washington apr the government has opened a criminal investigation of activity at the House Bank a spokesman for the . Attorneys office said monday. This is a new turn in the scandal that already had lawmakers struggling to Cushion political fallout from their thousands of Oad checks. A we Are reviewing allegations of Possi ble criminal conduct involving the Bank said Mark Liedl spokesman for . Attorney Jay Stephens. Liedl would not say who might be involved or what Type of conduct was under investigation. He said the investigation began last fall following an audit by the general accounting office. The Gao said current and former House members had written 8,331 checks backed by insufficient funds from july 1989 through june 1990. The Gao audit led to a five month House ethics committee investigation that has members scrambling to explain their overdrafts. Meanwhile lawmakers on monday sifted through sloppily kept records from the Bank in Hopes of finding evidence that could soften the political damage from an epidemic of Check kiting. Rep. Robert j. Mrazek d-n.y., listed by the House ethics committee As the writer of 972 overdrafts in 39 months arranged to bring his lawyer and accountant to a meeting with government auditors to review the records. A i have never bounced a Check Quot said Mrazek a candidate for the Senate in new York in a statement that com see scandal on Page 2 Dod credit card delinquencies soar after Gulf War by Ray Rowden Washington Bureau Washington the year of the persian Gulf War appears to have been Tough on the wallets of defense department travellers who carry government issued diners club credit cards. A diners club spokesman said the War was the major reason for an surge of late payment delinquency throughout the defense department. A due to the extraordinary events of 1991, there were More problems than usual with our government accounts a said Walter Sanders from the company a Chicago Headquarters. A but we re human. We can understand  Sanders would not elaborate on the nature of problems brought on by last years events. Government and diners club officials will not comment on the current balance of overdue payments but air Force officials reported that As of oct. 1, $2.9 million Worth of payments to the credit card company were More than 60 Days overdue and $2.7 million was More than 90 Days overdue. Those figures which represent military and civilian defense department users were sent earlier this year to air Force publications worldwide in a Story intended to warn airmen to pay up or face career threatening consequences according to maj. Nino Fabiano an air Force spokesman in the Pentagon. Defense department civilians officers and senior non commissioned officers who travel frequently on business began receiving the diners club cards in 1986. The cards Are supposed to be used Only for official travel needs such As lodging rental cars and registration see credit on Page 2