European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes at a glance a a there arc several ways teachers can prepare students for tests but a teacher at a military overseas school in Germany criticizes one practice that she Calls an a inherently dangerous and unethical strategy to improve standardized test scores. See Story on Page 10. Odd couple they Are two very different people but investigators believe that two suspects in the new York world Trade Center bombing shared More than  paged retirement buyouts buyouts Worth up to $25,000 per employee Are coming for selected defense department civilian employees in offices and shipyards from Philadelphia to the Norfolk va.,  Page 7 Sudan assailed the . Human rights commission accused Sudan s government of widespread executions and torture and ordered a Public examination of the rights situation in  Page 8 officials arrested three top managers in Italy s Energy conglomerate were arrested thursday in a mushrooming corruption  pages Lull in spending american Consumers Are catching their breaths after a Holiday spending spree that extended into january. A Page 12 Index Abby Ann Landers 16 classifieds2520 comics. 16,2223 commentary .15 crossword. 16 faces no places .11 Horoscope. 27 jumble.27 letters .14 Money matters.12 sports.3136 to listings .35 weather .13 Germany Russia preparing for bosnian Relief Mission by Mark Kinkade staff writer Rhein main a Germany while Relief operations continue logistics experts Are preparing for German and russian participation in operation provide Promise to Aid War torn Bosnia and Herzegovina. The German air Force has been practising Airdrop and the commander of German Airlift operations is scheduled to attend a briefing on the Relief operations at Rhein main air Force officials said thursday. According to it. Col. Ray b. Shepherd provide Promise spokesman the German air Force has issued a release saying that German cargo aircraft have been practising Airdrop in preparation for joining the Mission. It. Gen. Gerhard John commander of the German air Force s air Fleet will meet with Rhein main and provide Promise officials monday to discuss the operation and a possible German role said Susanne Bartsch a spokeswoman for the 435th Airlift Wing. A Date for either Germany or Russia to join the operation has t been established but a . State department official told the stars and stripes that the provide Promise update. Operation provide prot Nise continued its Airdrop and a Rint efforts thursday in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The details Airdrop Throe . Air Force 0-130$ dropped almost 21 tons of food and medical supplies near me bosnian town of Zepa Airlift three . C-130s transported $7 tons of supplies and food to Sarajevo. Russians could be at Rhein main As Early As today or saturday. A we know that at some Point they will join a Shepherd said. A we just done to know when or to what  meanwhile the Airdrop and Airlift of supplies to refugees in Bosnia continue. Three . Air Force c-130 Hercules aircraft dropped nearly 21 tons of food and medical supplies thursday morning near the bosnian town of Zepa. At the same time three c-130s air lifted 67 tons of supplies and food to Sarajevo the bosnian capital. The air dropped cargo included one ton of rations supplied by Norway one of several nations that have donated supplies to the Relief Effort. More than 70 tons of rations from great Britain arrived at Rhein main on tuesday adding to the massive amount of food that will go toward the Relief Supply efforts. Turkey donated nine tons of rations and Pakistan has offered assistance As Well Shepherd said. Part of the turkish rations were dropped with american military rations wednesday a spokesman said. To Date the Airdrop operation which began March 1, has dropped 304 tons of food and eight tons of medical supplies in the Eastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina the . High commissioner for refugees has targeted the Eastern provinces for Relief because a serbian offensive in the area has Cut off Supply convoys since Early february. Since Relief flights to Sarajevo began in july More than 9,000 tons of food medi Cine and equipment has been flown from Rhein main to the Sarajevo Airport. Agents probe arms purchases by Waco cult Waco Texas apr Federal agents in a standoff with a doomsday cult for a 12th Day Friday carried out raids in opposite sides of the country in an investigation into How David Koresh and his supporters armed themselves. The Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms gathered evidence in la Verne calif., and Richland ., of arms transactions involving the group. A we re looking into Many different sources of arms for or. Koresh a said Dan Conroy at Deputy associate director. The Branch davidians have held an army of Federal officers at Bay outside their 77-acre compound since feb. 28, when a weapons raid erupted in gun Battles that left four at agents Ana an unknown number of group members  agents have said the group has a huge Cache of arms including semiautomatic and automatic weapons. The search of a House owned by members in California yielded audio and video tapes and other records a that reflect evidence of violence by David Koresh and others a Conroy said. He would not give details. Conroy did not elaborate on the search of shooters equipment co. In South Carolina. No phone listing for such a company could be found and the at said no such company existed in South Carolina with a Federal firearms  from Page 1 overwhelming initial approval to the Resolution v an editing committee that included Yeltsin and Kha Bulatov hammered out Compromise amendments that would make the Heads of the Central Bank the state property fund and several other agencies members of the government. However the Agency Heads will remain under the supervision of the suit reme soviet the smaller standing legis nature. Yeltsin had been seeking control Over the Bank to limit the credits that it has been giving to insolvent enterprises a policy reformers blame for sending the inflation rate to 2,000 percent last year. It was not Clear what other Steps Yeltsin might take in the Power struggle. Hard liners fear he May try to impose some kind of presidential Rule that would enable him to bypass the  from Page 1 Ber about 20,000 combat and support troops. Diplomats and military officials said a peacekeeping Force would have to control heavy weapons now in the hands of warring factions patrol the Borders of the 10 provinces envisioned by the peace plan open and provide Security along Supply routes Man checkpoints and separate hostile forces among other tasks. The goal of the . Talks is peace in the Balkans but the ambitious nature of such a peacekeeping Enterprise and the record of violations of cease fires raises the risk that joining the Force would put . Troops into precisely what Washington has been trying to avoid a ground combat in the Balkans. Given those stakes Washington insists that nato an established and proven command be Given control of the Force which would be deployed with the backing of the . Security Council. . Officials say a nato command would be the most effective and that it also would keep the operation under command of a . General. But France says the peacekeepers should be under direct . Command in effect enlarging the . Force in Bosnia. French officials in Brussels say a nato command would make it difficult for Russia to take part and that the bosnian serbs objected to a nato role . Officials who asked not to be named said the French position appeared to be part of a broader Effort to diminish . Influence in Europe following the end of the cold War France is a member of nato but does not participate in natos military  from Pago 1 smaller installations be Cut or consolidated. Pentagon and congressional sources have identified fort Mcclellan in Alabama the Long Beach Calif naval shipyard . Sawyer. Fab in michigan1 the Charleston  Naval shipyard the Newport naval station in Rhode Island and Hurricane damaged Homestead fab in Florida As among the facilities on the list. Outlining his reasons for the closures Aspin said the collapse of the soviet Union and the end of the cold War mean the defense department a must get  he argued that the defense budget Bijj be Cut 40 percent in real terms from 1963 to 1997, and the number of men and women in uniform by 30 percent. Clinton has announced plans to pare the current level of 1.8 million troops to 1.4 million and to slash $122 billion from the defense budget Over the next few years