European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday june 12, 1992 at a glance in Canton China Zhou Kaiping dishes out taste tempting meals of a super Deer a a classic chinese euphemism for rat. See Story on Page 16. Perot wins contest Texas billionaire Ross Perot has emerged As the write in Winner of the Quot Beauty contest Quot democratic presidential primary in North Dakota with no major candidates on the ballot a Page 4 female pow raped a female army officer was sexually assaulted after being captured during the persian Gulf War the army said wednesday. A Page 5 Dan dog tag work starts army recruits at fort Knox ky., have started to give blood and saliva samples for the services new Quot genetic dog tag Quot program. A Page 6 cancer rate compared women Are better than men at spotting the skin cancer Melanoma on themselves and that May be one reason women have a lower death rate from the disease researchers say. A Page 7 chopper costs climb the Cost of the army s futuristic Comanche helicopter has increased to an estimated $19.1 million per chopper congressional investigators say. A Page 9 South tops House Survey southerners saw the value of houses grow fastest in the first Quarter of 1992, a Survey said wednesday. A Page 17 Index  Abby Ann Landers .19 action line. .16 comics. 19-21 commentary. .13 crossword. .19 faces a places .18 letters. .12 Money matters a .17 sports. 22-28 to listings. .27 weather. .11 top military court to review trial for possible impropriety by Ray Rowden Washington Bureau Washington complaints of sleeping jurors is one reason Why a Soldier who has already served a six month sentence for indecent assault and soliciting adultery will have his Case reviewed the military a highest court ruled last month. The court ruled that allegations of mishandled defense complaints about sleeping jurors and the appearance of unethical behaviour among an army judge prosecutor and juror in Stuttgart was enough to Send the Case Back to Germany. Staff sgt. Otha l. Norment was convicted april 5,1990. He was sentenced to a bad conduct discharge confinement for six months loss of All pay and allowances and reduction to the rank of private. Norment was assigned to he act 1st Maint in at the Bobingen maintenance facility at the time he was charged with assaulting three female soldiers in their respective rooms. He was also charged with seen driving away together during a re soliciting one of them to commit adultery. Cess. The court noted that such out of ii a to  Tkv court associations raised the possibility of a is Russel to amp Ssiss Sussi a als set aside the Stuttgart decision May the defense lawyers complaints were dismissed after the Stuttgart staff judge advocate added a statement to the trial record saying that his inquiry revealed a no basis in fact to the  no details of the inquiry were included in the record. However the High court held that details of the inquire should be part of the civilian lawyer filed complaints that by c1ourt.,i, a that the added a holding the trial in a single 17-hour ses should have been Given to Norment s a Sion the Case was decided by inattentive yer for comment jurors. He included statements from peo a claims of inattentive court members pie present in the courtroom that several and improper influence of a court Mem jurors dozed during arguments. Ber buttressed by detailed eyewitness a the complaint also alleged that the counts Are not issues to be whimsically judge a juror and the prosecutor were dismissed a the court wrote. 11. The Case will now be reviewed to determine whether Normente a original sentence should be imposed reduced or thrown out said maj. Rick Thomas an army spokesman. A lesser sentence could result in compensation for Norment Thomas said. After the trial in Stuttgart Normente Sart a role from Page 1 Bat role for . Forces. Instead the emerging proposal seeks to bring what one policy maker called a enough pressure on the parties especially the serbs to cease firing Long enough that Relief can be moved in. Once a cease fire is in place however briefly humanitarian efforts would begin and a military coalition could undertake to support and protect the Relief workers. The current inter Agency review of . Policy on Yugoslavia coincides with growing Calls outside the administration for the use a or threat of use a of . Military Force. President Alija ize Begovic of the newly Independent Republic of Bosnia 1 and Herzegovina pleaded monday for an american attack on the serbian artillery emplacements laying waste to his capital of Sarajevo. In Washington a senior administration official said wednesday that Bush and his immediate advisers remain a extreme a reluctant to commit . Military forces to any Balkan operation because of the High risk of casualties uncertainty of Success and an overriding belief that europeans should take the Lead in their own Back Yard. Also wednesday sen. Richard g. Lugar r-ind., said in a statement that a Onato should draw up plans for a comprehensive use of Force As thorough As that formulated for air sea and ground forces in desert  Gen. John r. Galvin who retires this month As the top . And nato commander in Europe said in an interview that military options Short of Large scale combat a Are in circulation in the Bush administration. Galvin met wednesday at the Pentagon and the White House with fellow regional commanders in chief. He also discussed Yugoslavia this week with army Gen. Colin l. Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and . Jonathan Howe the president s Deputy National Security adviser. Galvin suggested a sequence of events in which humanitarian Relief efforts gradually could Lead to More direct control of events on the ground in Yugoslavia a civil War. Galvin cited As an analogy the Allied operation in Northern Iraq to feed shelter and protect ethnic kurd from iraqi retribution after the persian Gulf War. He said he did not seek to a Start moving divisions into Yugoslavia a but added a that does no to mean that its impossible to do  Sarajevo from Page 1 cars. But there were plenty of reminders of the danger of even usually mundane activities like shopping. Along the main route from the . Headquarters to Central Sarajevo a Street made dangerous by snipers the body of a Young woman with shopping bags Lay crumpled on the ground. Also on thursday a . Col. Richard Gray of new zealand confirmed local reports wednesday that Sarajevo had been attacked by a Cluster bomb saying a yugoslav air Force Elane had dropped a bomb near . Cad quarters. Military spokesmen in Belgrade had denied the report. A the Leader of Bosnia a serbs Rado Van Karadzic was quoted As proposing that All of Sarajevo be put under . Protection. A a one peacekeeper was reported to have been wounded wednesday in an unsuccessful attempt to escort a Relief Convoy through the conflict s front line. Shelling that Shook Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina quieted Down but shooting and explosions still could be heard. Canadians from Page 1 release. Now headquartered in the croatian City of Darugar the battalion has been supervising a cease fire in Croatia a Western Slavonia Region since mid april. On monday the . Security Council approved the deployment of 60 , military observers headed by Canadian army Brig. Gen. Lewis Mackenzie. The Force would confirm whether a durable ceasefire exists in Sarajevo and that warring factions have withdrawn their weapons. The battalions deployment to Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina will occur Only if those conditions exist the government said. The battalion is about two thirds of the Canadian Force deployed As part of the . Peacekeeping Effort in the Balkans. It is made up of the Royal 22nd regt and elements from the Royal Canadian regt and 4 combat engr regt. Soldier from Page 1 next of Kin. It was the second shooting incident aimed at american troops this week. On sunday gunmen fired on a guard Post at Albrook All on the Edge of Panama City but there were no injuries. After the shooting . Military officials imposed a 9 . To 5 . Curfew on american soldiers defense department civilian employees and their dependents. Also wednesday demonstrators at the University of Panama erected barricades of burning tires and set fire to a car said to belong to an american. Slogans of Quot out with Bush Quot and a no to gringos and Gringo lovers were sprayed in red paint around the Campus. Many panamanians Are bitter Over the damage and loss of life from the 1989 in asian. Hundreds of millions of dollars in property was destroyed in the fighting and in looting w Hite House officials insisted wednesday s disturbances would not alter plans for Bush a scheduled 4vi-hour visit to Panama the first by an american president since 1978. Interior and Justice minister Juan Chevalier said after wednesday nights riot in the Park that the government would not tolerate any More disorder. The attack was the latest in a series of acts of violence by panamanians angry Over the Challenge to their sovereignty represented by the 1989 invasion Winch claimed the lives of More than 300 panamanians and 23 american service Mem ers