European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes wednesday december 16,1992 1 at a glance i americans Arentt toying around with Holiday shopping this year. They re serious big spenders. See stories on pages 14 and 15. Sentence Law reviewed the supreme court will decide whether states May enact Laws that impose longer sentences for Bias motivated crimes. A Page 5 boy cries out Thad a boy who May be living in port Angeles wash., has asked Santa to help him get to Quot even Quot so his impoverished parents wont need to feed him. A Page 6 doctor cleared in death a doctor kidnapped by  Bounty Hunters in Mexico has been declared innocent by a . Judge in the torture and murder of a drug agent Page 7 a literary diagnosis tiny Tim the ill child in a Christmas Carol apparently suffered from a kidney disease a doctor suggests. A Page 10 ism to slash jobs International business machines corp. Will eliminate about 25,000 jobs next year. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers .19 comics.19-21 commentary.13 crossword.19 letters.12 Money matters 17-18 sports.23-28 to listings .27 weather .11 correction because of a source error a tuesday article incorrectly reported that a flyover was scheduled to be part of a change of command ceremony today at the Headquarters of Allied forces Southern Europe in Naples Italy. Black Hawk copters readied for deployment to Somalia by Craig Martin Staft writer the first of 15 uh-60 Black Hawk medium lift helicopters belonging to task Force 5-158 flew to Ramstein a Germany on tuesday where they will be loaded aboard air Force jets bound for Somalia to support operation restore Hope. Five helicopters from co a 7th in 158th aviation regt in Gic Belstadt Germany and 10 helicopters from co a 2nd in 227th aviation regt in Hanau began leaving for Ramstein late tuesday afternoon because of the break in the weather according to it. Col. Dick Bridges v corps spokesman. The helicopters arc scheduled to be loaded onto c-5 Galaxy aircraft and c-14ib Star lifters thursday Bridges said for transport to Somalia. Other euro Ean based aircraft and equipment will e loaded onto ships in Livorno Italy also bound for Somalia. The task Force is the largest contribution to Date of . Forces based in Europe to the multinational Relief Effort to Somalia. All of the Black Hawks Are scheduled to be in Ramstein today. Ramstein a was chosen Over Rhein main Abas the loading area for the helicopters to deploy to Somalia because More space is available to Load the aircraft on the ramp adjacent to the runway according to Bridges. The helicopters will be loaded aboard the c-5s, Bridges said and the jets will depart for Somalia As soon As they Are loaded. Personnel and their equipment from the units will accompany the helicopters. The 159th medical co based at Wiesbaden a is scheduled to have its redeployment briefing today at 7 p.m., according to George Polich Wiesbaden Community spokesman. The unit is expected to deploy sometime after Christmas he said. Fifteen Black Hawks from the 421st medical evacuation in in Wiesbaden to be used by the 159th Are expected to be sent to Livorno sometime within the next 48 hours Polich said. Some of the 159th�?Ts Black Hawks Are being outfitted with Long Range fuel tanks meanwhile 16 ch-47 Chinook helicopters from cod 502nd aviation regt that left Coleman army Airfield in Mannheim on sunday arrived in Livorno Early tuesday afternoon according to Bridges. Co a 7th in 158th aviation regt is part of v corps 12th aviation brigade headquartered in Wiesbaden. Co a 2nd in 227th aviation regt is part of the 1st army dives 4th brigade in  from Page 1 Strong pacifist Streak within the populace anxiety about German soldiers coming Home in body bags and political Power plays have deadlocked efforts to unshackled the armed forces. Foreign minister Klaus Kinkel plans to Convene a meeting of political leaders to try to clarify permitted uses of the military. News Media say the gathering might at least Clear the Way for German troops to join in purely humanitarian actions such As the one in Somalia. The German populace May be ready for a change but a limited one. In a poll by Stern Magazine 60 percent of the respondents said the military should get involved in , peace missions but not in actual combat. The carnage in Bosnia and Herzegovina and pictures of starving somalis have unleashed an outcry among politicians for the Constitution to be finally amended. On monday postal minister Christian Schwarz Schilling quit because he thought Germany appeared cowardly for not helping with the Adriatic ship searches. Defense minister Volker Rishe said tuesday that he was getting two battalions ready to take part in future .-led military missions. But he lamented the fact that without a constitutional change these troops would not be permitted to leave nato territory. Rishe also said he and other Cabinet members shared Schwarz schillings impatience Over the constitutional restraints. A this blockade in German politics must come to an end a Rishe said Chancellor Helmut Kohls government wants to Amend the Constitution to let German troops become involved in conflicts such As the persian Gulf War. But most members of the opposition social democrats a whose parliamentary votes Are needed to change the Constitution a say Germany should participate Only in humanitarian or peacekeeping missions. Kohl has been unwilling to negotiate an amendment based on that position. Complicating the matter is the fact that some social democrats Are reluctant to tamper with the Constitution at All. Nonetheless some within the opposition party Are getting embarrassed by their country a continuous no involve Mienl. A Germany has to learn that we Are a leading Power in Europe whether we like it not a said Karsten Voigt foreign policy spokesman for the social  from Page 1 asks nato to have detailed plans of a military intervention if a request is made. To Date the allies have drafted very preliminary contingency plans including enforcement of the no Fly order on serbian warplanes and the creation of Safe havens for victims of ethnic atrocities in the former yugoslav Republic. . Secretary of stale Lawrence s. Eagleburger has been polling the allies on a military intervention. British foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd so far has been noncommittal. Quot i am laying Back from that just for the moment a he said meeting with Eagle Burger in Stockholm where the two were attending the Security conference. But Hurd acknowledged Quot there has been a Good Deal of contingency work going on and sources in London said Britain would not oppose a . Move to enforce its no Fly order. So far Britain has expressed fears that a military intervention will put its . Troops on the ground and unarmed Aid workers at risk of retaliation. On monday French foreign minister Roland Dumas agreed to support such a . Resolution. Natos military planning comes amid fears that Serbia will let the War in Bosnia spill Over into its albanian dominated province of Kosovo which Belgrade has stripped of the autonomy it once enjoyed. That officials have said risks an All out Balkan War that would also bring Albania and Bulgaria into the fray. Nato allies Greece and Turkey could also become involved but on opposing sides of the conflict albanian president Sali Berisha was to meet today with Worner at nato Headquarters in Brussels. Work already is under Way in new York on a Security Council Resolution that would threaten to shoot Down serbian warplanes and helicopters defying the Sanction. The zone was established in october to protect muslims. Since then at least 225 military flights have been recorded by , inspectors. Eagleburger has called these flights violations of the Sanction although the aircraft did not attack the muslims in Bosnia. . Writes off 75% of Al Salvador s debt Santa Elena Al Salvador a Dan Quayle making what probably will be his last foreign trip As vice president delivered a Surprise gift tuesday a a $464 million debt reduction at a ceremony ending a dozen years of civil War. Under the plan the United states will forgive All but $150 million of a $614.8 million debt accumulated by Al Salvador Over 15 years. It is the largest debt reduction Ever agreed to under president Bush a Enterprise for America initiative officials said. At the peacemaking ceremony be tween the government and guerrilla forces Quayle said that the United states continues its support of efforts to rebuild Al Salvador. As a measure of our commitment today 1 am pleased to sign with your president an agreement that forgives 75 percent of Al Salvador a official debt to the United states Quot he said. Even after the write off the salvadoran government wont have to pay interest to the United states on the remainder that Money will go instead for local needs either for environmental or child survival programs. A it is a Reward to Al Salvador for it economic reforms a said Bernard Aror son assistant Secretary of state for Lati american affairs. A they Are the Best Etc nomic reformers in the  i in Washington the Treasury Depar ment said it had signed smaller debt a it auction agreements with three othe latin american nations Colombia Chil and Uruguay. Colombians debt for food and foreign assistance Loans will be reduced by $3 million to $279.2 million Chile a by $1 million to $132 million and Uruguay s b $3.7 million to $30.7 million