European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes saturday november 14,1993 a i at a glance a be careful where you dump your trash around bad Kreuz Nach Germany or you May find yourself face to face with Rochen Collaco also known As a non Bio Betty see Story and photos on pages 14 and  loan probe the Justice department has taken the first step toward appointing an Independent counsel to investigate the government s handling of a Bank fraud Case involving Iraq an official says. A Page 4inouye wants inquiry sen. Daniel Inouye the Democrat from Hawaii said thursday that he would Welcome a Senate ethics committee investigation into allegations that he sexually harassed or abused women. A Page 7ukraine wavering Ukraine said it will not sign the charter of the Commonwealth of Independent states worked out at Friday s meeting of Cis Heads of government increasing speculation that Kiev is set to opt out of the Post soviet Commonwealth a Page 8gm sees Silver lining general motors corp. Pledged thursday that its Cash bleeding North american operation will break even before taxes next year a stunning turnaround from multimillion Dollar losses it has suffered Over the last two years. A Page 17 a no sex 1 Abby Ann Landers. 19 comics. 1921 commentary. 13 crossword. 19 faces a no places. 18 utters 1 a. .12 Money matters. Religion. 10 s5eiits2228 to listings. .27 weather. 11 Azacs using italian base for bosnian monitoring flights by Rosemary Sawyer Brussels Bureau nato radar aircraft that had been monitoring bosnian airspace from their Home bases in  Germany and Raf Waddington England began flying out of Aviano a Italy thursday. From Vantage Points Over Hungary and the Adriatic sea the aircraft sometimes referred to As a eyes in the sky Quot have been watching a United nations mandated nobly zone Over Bosnia and Herzegovina since october. The United nations banned military flights in an Effort to protect humanitarian flights into the War torn Region. The multinational e-3a component and British e-3d component of natos airborne Early warning Force have been flying missions Over the Adriatic since oct. 16 and Over Hungary since oct. 31. Missions Over Hungary were added because of surveillance difficulties caused by the Mountain Range that parallels the Adriatic coast. Integrated Crews of . Air Force personnel and airmen from 10 other Allied nations Fly the Boeing e-3a aircraft based in Ceile Skirchen. British personnel normally Man the e-3d component of seven aircraft. On the Bosnia monitoring flights however three places have been reserved on each plane for Allied Crew members to show nato Solidarity said maj. Randy school a spokesman for he Allied come Europe. Seventeen service members form the Standard Crew aboard each plane. German service members Are participating Only in flights Over the sea As their country a Constitution prohibits their taking part in operations outside of nato territory. The aircraft Send reports to a nato ital Ian monitoring Center in Martina Franca Italy which forwards the information to . Officials in Zagreb Croatia school  Page 1 i of Clinton in september was regarded by aides As pc turning Point in answering a the commander in chief questions about the Arkansas governor has disagreed with Clinton on the ban. Among those on the other Side is Gregory King of the human rights Campaign fund a leading Gay rights lobbying group. On thursday King rejected the Call for a study commission. Quot i expect that president elect Clinton will repeal the ban on Gays in the Early Days of a Clinton administration Quot he said. Clinton appeared to fuel both interpretations thursday. Though repeating that he wanted to permit acknowledged homosexuals in the military he said he wanted Quot to put together a group of people and let them advise me about How we might Best do  his statement which soft peddled another Campaign Promise to sign an a immediate repeal of the ban gave Hope to both sides. The policy barring homosexuals dates to Early world War ii and was last revised in 1986. It has resulted in the discharge of 16,919 service members from 1980 through 1990. The ban does not apply to defense department civilian employees. Despite the apparent indecision on the Issue Clinton and his transition team already have started to consider ways to allow homosexuals to serve without severely disrupting the military. Contributing to the process is a group of about eight lawyers some of them Gay activists who Are completing the last of several drafts of an executive order that would repeal the ban and create a presidential committee to oversee implementation of the new policy. The group which planned to finish its work Friday is recommending that action be taken 10 Days to two weeks after Clin ton takes office Jan. 20. One idea would link a repeal of the ban with orders to end discrimination against Gays in Federal employment and contracting. But some Clinton advisers and military officers said the Issue is More complicated than it first appeared in the presidential Campaign. Because the ban is not a matter of Law Clinton could end it by executive decree. But Clinton must also decide a whether to drop pending cases to enforce the nearly 50-year-old policy. A whether to allow for reinstatement or rehearing for service members previously discharged. A and whether to establish mandatory educational programs modelled on those addressing bigotry toward Blacks and women. He also will have to define the permissible lines of homosexual conduct in military  Page 1 round trip military discount fare Between Frankfurt and new York is $628. The new plan reduces the Price to $550, a saving of 12.4 percent. A Standard coach class ticket for the same route costs 999 Marks or about $653. Coach class tickets arc available to All customers. Here Are some comparative prices to other cities. The first Price is Continentals regular military discount fare. It is followed by the airlines new Price Frankfurt Chicago $748, $640 Frank Furi Denver $846, $750 Franl court san Antonio $884, $800. Continentals new fares come with some restrictions. Unlike the regular military discount fares they apply Only to round trip travel. Tickets must be purchased at least two weeks in Advance and reservation changes Are subject to a $50 penalty. Travellers who cancel pay a 50 percent penalty. But there is no supple mental charge for weekend travel. Normally when one airline cuts prices the others follow suit to remain competitive. Hans Schneider a spokesman for Northwest airlines in Frankfurt said Northwest would Likely match the Continental fares but a a it a not definite  Page 1 Are urging those vendors that we Deal with directly to consider  he did not know How Many Tours had been cancelled. Janet Petronis Consul in the special consular services unit of the . Consul ate in Frankfurt said the state Depar ment on oct. 26 issued an advisory a Cai Tiona on travel to Egypt. That indicates moderate level of concern Between Quot notice Quot and a  the advisory says Egypt a has been seriously affected by extremist  cautions against travel to the any tit an Minya regions in upper Egypt a and Parth ulary the town of  airman gets 18 months for hitting wife Raf Alconbury. Enc land in rpm a Timoc Volt it a ,. A a Raf Alconbury England a amps a a military judge has sentenced an air Force staff sergeant who hit his wife to 18 months in jail. Staff sgt. Joseph j. Drobnock 27, pleaded guilty to the aug. 6 attack on his wife Katharine at their Home in Huntingdon England. He was accused of hitting her three times with his fists and throwing a broken bottle at her which Cut her thigh. After a three hour hearing monday military judge col Michael b. Mcshane found Drobnock guilty of assault consummated by Battery and aggravated assault Drobnock also was demoted to airman Basic and Given a bad conduct discharge the maximum penalty could have eluded a dishonourable discharge a i forfeiture of wages and three years in Drobnock who has been in the Force nine years had been assigned the 10th comm so As a radio syst maintenance technician at Raf Al it Bury since Jan. 6,1991. Germany deports 100 romanian refugees 1m / a a a.1___ j _ w Berlin apr authorities de ported about 100 romanian refugees Friday in the first application of a controversial agreement with Romania to reduce the flow of foreigners to Germany. Ard television showed police in Offenburg a town in southwestern Ger Many rounding up several men from a refugee shelter and escorting them to a bus that took them to Munich for a flight to Romania. Romanians make up the largest proportion of Germany a Ever growing number of Asylum applicants. Since Over half of the romanians in Germany Are gypsies their expulsion has brought criticism that mass deportations hark Back to the nazi Era when gypsies ranked next to jews As candidates for persecution. About a half million gypsies perished under the nazis