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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, April 1, 1992

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages b the stars and stripes wednesday april 1, 1992aid sought for philippine amerasian women Call on . To help children of servicemen Manila Philippines up a a women a coalition said tuesday that Washington was morally bound to help thousands of children fathered by american servicemen As their bar girl mothers lose their jobs with the . Pullout from Subic Bay naval facilities. Gabriela the country a largest coalition of women a groups urged the . And philippine governments to set up an organization to support some 2,000 amerasian living in poverty in the Liberty City of Olon Gapo outside Subic. An estimated 50,000 amerasian children have been fathered by . Servicemen in almost a Century of . Presence world at Subic nearby Clark a and four smaller facilities. Manila ordered the americans to leave Subic by the end of the year after the philippine Senate rejected a new 10-year, $1 billion lease. Washington did not seek a new lease on Clark a which was heavily damaged in the eruption of mount Pinatubo Volcano in july. . Troops vacated the faculty late last year. Most of the estimated 55,000 bar girls in Olon Gapo have been dislocated by the ongoing pullout. A was mothers of these children and As filipino women we demand that the government of the United states recognize its responsibility and take Steps to assure our children lives of human dignity for our amerasian children live in poverty and want a the group said in a statement. A it is a state of crisis that we and our children find ourselves in. It is not Charity we seek but Justice for ourselves and for our  one former bar girl said she had four children to support including two amerasian but had not been Able to find any work since losing her Job because of the pullout. A it is unlikely i would be hired even if they were to turn Subic into factories a she said. A i have no schooling and no  Gabriela spokesman Cecilia Hofman said the group would deliver a letter to the . Embassy to demand american action. A normally children of . Fathers have the right to . Citizenship a Hofman said. A in our letter we say we know this is almost impossible so we Are raising these children in this country but we need the services and  Hofman said . Legislation provided assistance to amerasian children in Thailand Korea and Vietnam but those born in the Philippines have been , Belgium report record cocaine seizures from wire reports Liverpool England a officials in Britain and Belgium reported the largest Ever cocaine raids in their nations. Police in Liverpool on monday seized 1,980 pounds of cocaine Worth $225 million that had been hidden inside 32 Lead ingots shipped from Venezuela. Fourteen members of a smuggling ring that brought the drug to Britain and the Netherlands were arrested authorities said. Police in Belgium meanwhile reported that their largest cocaine seizure was March 24. A spokeswoman for the Antwerp prosecutor said police and customs agents found 1,433 pounds of the drug aboard a German freighter in route from Panama to Israel. The drugs were hidden inside japanese refrigerators and television sets the official said. No arrests were  sergeant child killed 2 injured in car crash bad Kreuz Nach Germany a an air Force no and a child were killed and an army specialist and his wife were injured sunday morning in a one car Accident on an autobahn near Ingelheim according to a 1st army div news release. Sgt. Michael a. Britton 28, assigned to det 1, 4th air support operations group and a 14-month-old child died following the 9 . Crash the release said. The injured army couple remained hospitalized monday. Maj. Doug Curtis a 1st army div spokesman said tuesday evening that he had no information regarding the extent of their injuries. The couple were in route to the Airport As part of a reassignment from bad Kreuz Nach when the Accident occurred he said. Britton is survived by his wife Darlene and his 2-year-old son Kyle. A memorial service for Britton is scheduled thursday at 11 . At the Rose Chapel in bad  Field artillery Soldier killed in head on collision Wurzburg Germany a a 3rd inf div Soldier was killed thursday in a head on collision near Nimberg. Cpl. Robert Wesley Iii 29, was pronounced dead at the scene by German medical authorities. Wesley a pickup truck collided with an Auto driven by a German National at the Rollhaus Entrance to autobahn a-73 near Niernberg. The German was seriously injured no passengers were involved. Wesley a Field artillery Forward observer was assigned to he co 6th in 1st Field pity 3rd inf div at Rose Barracks in Vilseck. He is survived by his father Robert r. Wesley jr., of Detroit. . And German authorities Are investigating the Accident jointly. 1 keeping the peace making friends a boy identified Only As Marko laughs while a . Peacekeeper Daniel Journault pets Marc of a dog Sun Day in Darver Croatia. Journault an officer with the Canadian military is one of about 200 Canadian peace keepers stationed there on saturday the yugoslav Federal army warned it would retaliate against any attacks in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina where ethnic violence lulled at least 30 people last  promises . It will i nuclear arms from sex Republic by Susanne a Schafer a we Are not the enemies of our own Neonile. \ by Susanne m. Schafer a military writer Brussels Belgium a defense Secretary Dick Cheney won fresh assurances tuesday that recent resistance by Ukraine will not impede the moving of the former soviet unions tactical nuclear weapons Arsenal to Russia. Col. Gen. Pavel Grachev the russian Deputy defense minister and president Boris n. Yeltsin a chief military aide said he told Cheney in a private meeting that by july 1 a fall tactical nuclear weapons will be withdrawn from the new states that Rose during the collapse of the soviet Union. Cheney and Grachev met at nato Headquarters on the eve of a first Ever conference of nearly three dozen defense chiefs from the Western Alliance and their former adversaries in Eastern Europe. A i assured Secretary Cheney that the process of transferring the weapons despite the fact that it was suspended for some time by Ukraine will continue a the russian official said. A i assured him too that a it will All be seriously monitored disposed of or kept in depots in the proper  Grachev said he told Cheney there was no Chance that any of the weapons could be stolen a a nothing of the  amp a we Are not the enemies of our own people. We be Lieve the withdrawal of nuclear warheads should by controlled a Grachev said pointing to the nuclear disaster at chernobyl. Cheney spent the rest of the afternoon talking wit defense chiefs from Eastern Europe and the former so Viet republics of Ukraine and Belarus now part of the Commonwealth of Independent states. A Tif ouch subject of nuclear weapons consolidation will be pursued when the ministers meet today to Dis cuss the role of the military in democratic societies. In Advance of the meetings Cheney had said he would insist that the former soviet republics move All nuclear weapons to Russia and proceed with the destruction of a a significant number of warheads. Cheney in route to the Brussels meeting said he wanted to use the session to follow up on Yeltsin s offer to sharply reduce the former soviet strategic Arsenal a and to discuss ways the United states can help destroy those weapons. The defense Secretary said the Cirii states has been a looking for ways to spend the $400 million Congress has authorized to help the former soviet republics destroy their nuclear arms. However the administration has t been Able to meet the conditions set by Congress such As stipulating the republics adherence to arms control agreements  
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