European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday april 9,1992 at a glance there sat least one Well stocked Market in Moscow a the massive weekend Flea Market. A look at those who gather to buy and sell All manner of trinkets and treasures is in stripes  performance the army acknowledged tuesday that its glowing claims of Success last year for the Patriot missiles performance during the persian Gulf War were based on faulty data. A Page 4travel Bill hits $775,000 Bush administration officials took personal or political trips aboard military aircraft that Cost the taxpayers nearly $775,000, but the government was repaid Only $61,585. A Page 5radioactive Sites tracked More than 45,000 locations nationwide including factories and hospitals Are potentially contaminated by radioactivity a study says. A Page 7yeltin�?Ts policies attacked president Boris n. Yeltsin s critics condemned him for reducing the russian people to poverty. A Page 9deficit called threat the nations growing budget deficit threatens to lower american living standards in the next decade the director of the congressional budget office warned tuesday. A Page 18 Index Abby Ann Landers. A a a 15 comics a. 15-17 commentary. .13 crossword. 15 faces a no places. 14 letters. 12 Money matters. 18 sports. 19-24 to listings. 23 weather. 11 Ama defends Pentagon use of animals in research tests by Ray Rowden Washington Bureau Washington officials from the american medical association on tuesday urged . Lawmakers to support defense department research using animals in the Wake of animal rights activists Call for a moratorium on such experiments. Critics of the defense departments research using animals said tuesday that the Pentagon spends $110 million a year at 58 facilities where More than 500,000 animals die each year. They allege animal cruelty in research projects. In calling for the moratorium or. Elliot Katz president of in defense of animals an animal rights organization alleged that tax dollars were being wasted and that the creatures Quot suffering is so  Quot calling for a moratorium tars everyone with the Brush that should be applied to a few a said or. Daniel h. Johnson jr., who expressed the american medical associations support for continuing Pentagon funded research involving animals in speaking to the House armed services committees research and development panel. Or. Joseph v. Osterman of the defense departments defense research and engineering directorate said it was pointless to Chart the costs Over time with a goal of reducing those costs since the research was driven by military missions. He said his information indicated that military research took the lives of 190,000 animals in fiscal year 1986 and 120,000 in fiscal year 1990. Johnson and Frankie l. Trull National association of biomedical research president listed successful research projects that included animal subjects. Among them were certain open heart surgical techniques vaccines antibiotics Vitamin deficiency treatment and potential vaccines for aids. The amass Johnson protested the abrupt ending of army sponsored research at Louisiana state University after widely publicized charges of animal cruelty resulted in congressional scrutiny. He mourned the loss of the research s potential value when 16,000 people die each year because of gunshots to the brain. Or. Neal d. Barnard of the physicians committee for responsible Medicine gave an opposing View on the leu experiments. A the department of defense spent $2.1 million on experiments in which 700 cats were shot through the head. The experimenters major finding was that cats shot through the head Stop breathing and a there is no reason to believe that the cat shooting Experiment would help wounded soldiers. But the fact is the Pentagon a planning and oversight for this program were abysmal a he added. Barnard added that in his View the leu Case Wasny to the Only example of Lack of concern either for animals or waste of Money. A if you would like to see films of military researchers placing live animals in position to be killed in a nuclear blast or blow torching a live conscious pig or burning an a-4 fighter Jet with live animals inside i can arrange for you to see  or. Martin l. Stephens who spoke for the humane society said they did not oppose All uses of animals in medical research but do oppose experiments that Are a medically trivial unnecessarily redundant grossly harmful or painful or otherwise fail to balance the expected benefits to people against the Cost to  chief among the society a concerns were the vast scope of the military a research the nature of the research As it compares to conventional biomedical research ethical justifications and compliance with the animal welfare act. Stephens noted that the defense department monitors and reports its compliance with that act to the Secretary of defense rather than the Secretary of agriculture. Quot because they Are exempt from outside inspection the Public has no Way of knowing How Well they Are complying with the minimum standards a Stephens said. Osterman said tuesday that their researchers Are in full compliance with All the Laws that apply and even met the requirements before they were formulated As Law. Questioned on How to establish guidelines on acceptable Levels of pain for animals Stephens said most researchers were already familiar with Quot Scales of  from Page 1 of Israel in 1959. He has headed the Plo since february 1969. The loss of Arafat would have struck a serious blow to the organizations cohesion and could have seriously damaged the chances for Success of .-brokered Arab israeli peace talks. Quot if he is gone i think this is going to raise a very serious question about the process whether it will be possible to continue it a said Sari Nuseibeh a member of the advisory committee of the palestinian delegation to the talks. He made his comment before Arafat was found. Quot there just wont be anybody with the same strength the same position with the same  Arafat a plane an algerian registered Antonov transport disappeared tuesday night on a flight from Khartoum Sudan to Tunis. Those aboard the flight included bodyguards and administrative assistants Plo officials said. In his last Contact with libyan air traffic controllers tuesday the planets algerian Captain said he was flying toward a1 Sarra to get out of the storm Plo sources in Tunis said. A1 Sarra is 150 Miles from the Arafat sudanese Border and about 900 Miles Southeast of Tripoli. At first Light search aircraft were sent from several countries Quot including Egypt Libya and Sudan and there is a search party of some 200 jeeps a Nabil Shaft Arafat a close assistant told swedish radio. Bassam Abu Sharif Arafat a chief adviser said Early wednesday from Tunis that he had asked France Italy Britain the a United states and Egypt Quot to help with All possible Means to locate the aircraft a including . Satellite data. The group was found wednesday morning amal Akkawi a member of Arafat a Fatah faction said at the palestinian embassy in Tripoli. Arafat a representative in Southern Lebanon Zeid Wahbeh said he had received a Cable from Tunis that said Arafat a has Only minor bruises but he a in Good  Quot god has saved the palestinians from a political disaster. He is irreplaceable a Wahbeh said at the Ein Al Hilweh refugee Camp. Correction because of a source error the stars and stripes incorrectly reported wednesday that mail to american military members assigned to the Netherlands was being delayed because of the dutch rail strike. Delays Are occurring within the dutch mail system because of the strike but mail destined for . Service Mem ers in the Netherlands is transported by  from Page 1 Man at the Headquarters of Allied forces Southern Europe in Naples Italy. Callen denied that the deployment has anything to do with planned , sanctions against Libya. Reports appearing in italian newspapers in recent Days have said that the deployment of the missiles is part of a nato plan to shield Sicily against a libyan missile attack. A the deployment of the missiles is part of our exercise and no real world event has triggered that deployment a Callen said. Com Iso once an air Force ground launched cruise missile base is near the Southern coast of Sicily. Libya is about 300 Miles away. Callen said dutch military authorities have not announced plans for the shipment of the missiles other than that they will be in place in time for the May exercise. Patriots won Fame in the persian Gulf War when they knocked out iraqis scud missiles. Following . Bombing raids on Tri poli and Benghazi in april 1986, Libya fired a missile that landed near the italian Island of Lampedusa site of an american coast guard base. The . Security Council has voted to impose air arms and diplomatic sanctions on Libya on april 15 if it does not hand Over two suspects in the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103, which killed 270people. The United nations also wants Libya to prove it has renounced terrorism and to give France Access to four libyans sought in the 1989 bombing of a French Airliner Over niger. That attack killed 171 people. Contributing to Thlu report the anon ipod Fri Iraq from Page 1 de in its determination to see this happen. By whatever Means it takes we Are determined to ensure that Iraq does not again acquire weapons of mass destruction a said the spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity. Powell on a two Day visit to London said tuesday that the United states will not reduce its forces in the Gulf area until Iraq fully complies with All the terms of a Ida a a a the .-mandated Gulf War cease fire. On tuesday defense department spokesman Pete Williams said in Washington that Iraq risked touching off Quot a serious incident if it continued to Send combat aircraft aloft although flights of fixed Wing aircraft in Southern Iraq do not violate any . Postwar agreements