European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a the stars and stripes thursday november 12,1902shape Center to reduce health services by Rosemary Sawyer Brussels Bureau Casteau Belgium a army officials have approved a plan to discontinue inpatient car and specially services such As obstetrics and orthopaedics at the shape medical Center by Spring or Early summer. The move to close the 196th station Hospital will Force . And Allied personnel and their families to go to belgian hospitals or other military hospitals in Europe for the curtailed services. Although driven by . Troop reductions in Europe the closure also makes sense medically and economically said or. Col Roger v. Carol the medical Center commander. A we really came to the conclusion that As an International Hospital it is becoming More difficult to justify a continued existence As an autonomous Hospi talk with a reduced patient Load and with car available nearby in belgian facilities Carol said tuesday. The army run Hospital is just one part of an International medical Center serving the supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe nato Headquarters and other units in the area. Medical officials have been working for months on a plan to provide the curtailed services through three area belgian hospitals. The plan was approved Friday by Gen. John m. Shalikashvil supreme Allied commander Europe. As the 26-bcd Hospital closes doctors in family practice will staff a clinic that can handle up to 90 percent of patients without referring them to specialists. The clinic will be open around the clock but not for major emergencies. Lab services and service in radiology psychiatry pharmacy optometry and ophthalmology will continue to be provided Carol said. In addition local doctors will be contracted to Back up family practice doctors in paediatrics and internal Medicine. Obstetrics and gynaecology and orthopaedic services will be Cut. The future of physical therapy and preventive Medicine services is still being discussed. Dental services for . Personnel also will be Cut Back with specialists in orthodontics a endodontics periodontics and prosthodontics being replaced by two general practitioners the hospitals that have been coordinating with shape officials include am Broise pare Hospital in Mons Hospital Erasme in Brussels and Soignier Hospital in Soignier where most obstetrics cases will be referred. The Ambroise pare Hospital which will receive the most . Business has stowaways journey to America ends at army facility in Germany left Wing students wearing Skull masks picket wednesday in front of the japanese embassy in Manila Philippines to protest the possible passage of a freighter carrying plutonium through philippine  to explain separation benefits Ramstein a Germany a amps a seminars on benefits for service members soon to leave the military or interested Active duty members will be offered by representatives of the department of veterans affairs at . Air forces in Europe bases local family support centers have More information on the a presentations. Also members leaving Active duty with the special separations Benefit or voluntary separation incentive May be eligible to enrol in the Montgomery i Bill chapter 30 before their separation Date. Local education offices have details. Seminars will be held a Friday at Sembach a Germany. A monday at Tempelhof a Germany. A nov. 19 at Hahn a Germany. A nov. 23 at Rhein main a Germany. A dec. 2 at Aviano a Italy t Pec. 4 at san Vito Dei Normanna air station Italy. A Pec. 8 at Ramstein a Germany. A dec. 10 at Lindsey air station Germany. A dec. 11 at Span Dahlem a Germany. T dec. 15 at Iraklion air station Crete. Already been training some of its staff in English said or. Daniel Desir the hospitals chief executive officer. A with this announcement we will go into another phase a Desir said. A we will have bilingual personnel in our information desk on a 24-hour  in addition Hospital officials have identified staff members who already speak English Desir said noting that at least 20 of the hospitals doctors have studied in the United states. The move will Cut 90 jobs at the medical Center 30 of them held by americans. It also Means increased medical costs As patients pay for deductibles and services not covered by the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services. Officials Are exploring solutions to that problem. In the meantime Carol recommends that service members pick up supplemental insurance policies.. Watching plutonium ship Tokyo up a . Nuclear submarines in an apparent move to foil hijacking attempts Are watching a japanese freighter carding More than a ton of plutonium from France the Kyodo news service reported wednesday. Kyodo quoted . Government sources As saying the Akatsuka Maru has been watched by the submarines since it embarked on its two month journey from Cherbourg France on saturday. The report did not specify How Many submarines were following the ship at least one of the submarines is carrying Navy special forces seals the sources said. The sources told Kyodo that the freighter is also being watched by . Reconnaissance satellites. Japan has provided a patrol ship from its maritime safety Agency Japan s coast guard to accompany the Akatsuka Maru on its journey but it is not adequately equipped to engage in Battle in Case of attack they said. The shipment has caused an uproar in the International Community with a dozen nations refusing to let the ship into their territorial Waters. The ships route has been kept secret from the Public. In the Philippines about 50 leftists demonstrated wednesday in front of the japanese embassy in Manila to protest the possible passage of the ship through philippine Waters. Tokyo insists it will use the plutonium Only to run nuclear Power plants but the substance is also the main ingredient of nuclear weapons. By Bob Klose staff writer three romanian men refugees seeking a new life in the new world apparently paid 8,000 German Marks for stowaway passage aboard a boat they thought was headed for America. It took them instead up the Rhine River to a . Military warehouse in Germany the men All believed to be in their 20s, were discovered monday night when they pounded on the Side of the shipping Container that was taken off the River and towed to the army Sermersheim Central distribution Center North of Karlsruhe. A i can Only imagine that when they heard american voices outside the door they believed they were in America a said Adam Cohen a spokesman for the defense subsistence Region Europe. Quot but they were not. They were in  Cohen said the romanians told authorities they had been in Antwerp Belgium on nov. J seeking passage across the Ocean to America. The refugees apparently paid 8,000 Marks or about $6,500, to someone who locked them inside a Container loaded with toilet paper which they were assured was headed West across the Ocean Cohen said. A but this was merchandise that was headed East and had already arrived from America a he said. The Container was put aboard a Barge that steamed for nine Days up the Rhine the Container was then unloaded and towed to Sermersheim late monday afternoon. The Sermersheim facility is a distribution Hub for . Military commissaries in Central Europe. Workers on the warehouse Dock there heard pounding from inside the locked con Tamer shortly before 8 . Monday and military and German police were called Cohen said. All three men appeared to be suffering from dehydration he said. It was not known Bow much food they had with them when they were locked  had about 10 bottles of water that were exhausted and one Man was very ill a Cohen said. The refugees were taken into custody by German police and placed in a Karlsruhe Hospital for observation Cohen said