European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 13, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9 surprises always pop up in Somalia medic says by Steve scholar staff writer Beli Dogle Somalia sgt. 1stclass Rafael Lozano says there s never a Dull moment for Germany based Mem Bers of task Force 5-158 Here Lozano a medical platoon sergeant from the 159th medical co in Wiesbaden says on a Given Day he. Might be treating a wounded somali be involve Din a firefight or flying with his uh-60 Black Hawk Crew to evacuate a malaria stricken Soldier. I just never know what i m going Tobe doing he said. Things can get hectic he says when helping somalis who Seldom speak English. We picked up a somali who had suffered a head injury when his truck Over turned Lozano said. The first thine had to do was put an intravenous Solu Tion into his Arm and he started hitting me because he did t understand what 1 was doing. He was finally tied and strapped Down for his own safety until i got the in in. I still have bruises from  Lozano has treated about 10 somalis since he arrived in january. Spec. Robert Gay also from the 159th, is a motor Pool wrecker operator. Business has been pretty slow. In fact i Haven t had any. Not one breakdown or Accident in my area he said. For Gay among others the worst Parton being Here is the anguish of not receiving mail. That s our biggest problem Here he said. Task Force members Are making do i primitive working and living conditions in various parts of this decaying soviet built air base. The buildings have been stripped of windows electrical wiring roof panels or anything else not cemented in  items were taken and sometimes sold by marauding somalis. In addition the buildings Are often infested with bats scorpions and deadly snakes. Lozano tells of a Soldier who was temporarily blinded when a cobra spit venom into his eyes. Because he was close to our medical unit we saved his sight by constantly Zirri sgt 1st class Rafael Lozano unpacks medal fear at Bell Doyle Somalia. Gating his eyes with water until we got him to a Hospital in Mogadishu he said. The environment it seems poses As formidable a risk to soldiers As sniper fire but task Force members seem to be making the Best of it. Sgt. Tony Thomas a 159th administrative specialist says working six Days week 12 hours per Day in a hostile environment is  we leave this country too soon it might go Back to what it was. We re helping people every Day. I can see that. Don t get me wrong. I miss my wife Andson in Germany. But this is  russian labelled corrupt Moscow a the russian army s officer corps is riddled from toy to Bottom with corruption and potentially explosive discontent group of military critics alleged wednesday. Instead of tackling these prob lems the top brass is purging the ranks of Reform minded activist Sand critics who try to bring them to Light they said. They sounded their alarm As a leading Moscow daily published a full Page expose on what it said was a massive Giveaway of expensive country Homes to a handful of High ranking officers. Among those who allegedly got Dachau at a fraction of their Market value was defense minister pave Grachev the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomol cts said. The critics a Federal lawmaker spokesmen for two Independent military unions and a sacked offi cer who edits an Independent army newspaper told reporters such revelations fan already raging Dis Content in the armed forces. The officer former it. Col. Al expander Ivanovich Zhilin said morale is so Low that at least four underground committees opposed to president Doris n. Yeltsin have been formed inside the Mili tary. He and the others did not offer Concrete evidence supporting their allegations. The lawmaker Anatoly Alexeyev is a member of a new com Mittee on military corruption Ere ated by the supreme soviet legislature. He said the panel would look into the Dacha Story As Well As rumours that officers Are get Ting Rich Selling stolen military hardware and equipment. Yeltsin opponent agree to seek end of struggle Lucky Duck veterinarians at Tokyo s Ueno zoo begin surgery a riday to remove an Arrow Forani Duck s Back authorities captured and treated the female Pinta led Duck. I had be come a National celebrity after it eluded capture for two week with a Arrow lodged in stack indent we a authorities have discovered the bodies of two other ducks killed by similar arrows leading them to suspect there is a serial Duck killer. Moscow a president Boris  and the speaker of parliament agreed thursday to a series of meeting aimed at resolving a Power struggle that has mired Russia in a constitutional Cri Sis a presidential spokesman said. Yeltsin met for an hour in the grand Kremlin Palace with speaker Ruslan Kha Bulatov his main political opponent and both decided to Nold two meetings next week on the Issue presidential spokesman Vyacheslav Kostikova  court chief Justice Valery Zorkin also attended. Yeltsin has urged that the crisis Over the separation of Powers be resolved in a nationwide referendum that would ask russians to decide whether the president or the parliament should hold supreme  he has not dropped the idea of a referendum Yeltsin said he would try to reach some sort of Power sharing com Promise with Kha Bulatov through a reconciliation commission Kostikova said. At the same time Yeltsin would continue making preparations for an april 11 referendum the spokesman said. Yeltsin and Kha Bulatov will hold the first of a series of meetings tuesday in Aone on one session Kostikova said. That will be followed by a feb. 18 meeting with the reconciliation commission which is made up of legislators and government experts he said. The three agreed that Yeltsin and  hold regular meetings without Zorkin to enable him to serve As an impartial mediator Kostikova added. The sides agreed that in the interest of Accord it is time to end All polemics around the referendum Issue Kostik Ovaid. Despite this agreement Kostikova immediately quoted Yeltsin As saying Alist of questions that Kha Bulatov pro posed for the referendum were  he said Yeltsin would draw up his own questions for the referendum if it is held