European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 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 s coalition said tuesday that Washington was morally bound to help thousands of children fathered by anvers can servicemen As their bar girl mothers lose their jobs with the . Pullout from Subic Bay naval facilities. Gabriela the country s 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 Quot 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 Hof Man 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 neglected.4 marines identified in fatal copter crash Washington a the Marine corps said tuesday it had halted efforts to find four marines presumed killed in the crash sunday of a ch-46e helicopter off the coast of Somalia. The four were identified As capt. Mark d. Derickson 28, of Santa Ana Calif., from the Marine medium helicopter so based at Tustin Calif sgt. James l. Hagger 29, of Spartanburg s.c., from the 1st in 1st Marine ref based at Camp Pendleton Calif. Cpl Clarence e. Jenkins jr., 26, of Greenville n.c., also from the 1st in 1st Marine regt and Lance Cpl. Rodney n. Hudson 22, of Garden City mich., also from the 1st in 1st Marine regt. The helicopter was conducting what the marines called routine air operations about 60 nautical Miles off the somalian coast at the time of the Accident. Of the 18 marines aboard 14 were sergeant child killed 2 injured in car crash bad Kreuz 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 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 Niernberg. Cpl. Robert Wesley 111, 29, was pronounced dead at the scene by German medical authorities. Wesley s pickup truck collided with an Auto driven by a German National at the Rollhaus Entrance to autobahn a-73 near Nurnberg. The German was seriously injured. No passengers were involved. Wesley a Field artillery Forward observer was assigned to he co 6th in 1st Field arty 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. Keeping the peace making friends a boy identified Only As Marco laughs while a . Peacekeeper Daniel Journault pets Myrko s 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 killed at least 30 people last promises . It will pull nuclear arms from sex republics by Lisanne 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 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 a Skuld be stolen a a nothing of the a we Are not the enemies of our own people. We it Heve the withdrawal of nuclear warheads should controlled a Grachev said pointing to the nuclear Saster at chernobyl. Cheney spent the rest of the afternoon talking w defense chiefs from Eastern Europe and the former i vet republics of Ukraine and Belarus now part of t Commonwealth of Independent states. A Jle Touchy subject of nuclear weapons consolidate will be pursued when the ministers meet today to d cuss the role of the military in democratic societies. In Advance of the meetings Cheney had said would insist that the former soviet republics move nuclear weapons to Russia and proceed with the t Striction of a a significant number of warheads. Cheney in route to the Brussels meeting said wanted to use the session to follow up on Yeltsin offer to sharply reduce the former soviet strategic an Nal and to discuss ways the. United states can it destroy those weapons. The defense Secretary said t steles has been a looking for ways to spend t 5400 million Congress has authorized to help the flt Mer soviet republics destroy their nuclear arms. However the administration Hasni to been Able meet the conditions set by Congress As stipulate the republics adherence to arms control agreements
