European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Anc stripes vol. 52, no. 30 i a � 4is&% 3 500  monday May 17,1993 b d 8693 a serb no to pact p of Mitchell says dec May have to rethink Clinton plan of. ,. .,., .-,.from wire reports Washington Senate majority Leader George j. Mitchell said sunday that the european Community might have to reconsider president Clinton s proposals for Bosnia and Herzegovina including standby authority for airstrikes if the serbs reject the latest International peace plan.  Mitchell appearing on Cable news network s news maker sunday with John do Chatelain Canadian ambassador to the United states said he expected the serbs to reject a referendum on the Vance Owen Pace plan. Voting was j held saturday and sunday. Mitchell said a rejection is no sur prise. It would be a Surprise were it otherwise but i think it s Likely to be re  and i think then our allies will have to reconsider the plan which president Clinton has Laid but and that is to tighten economic sanctions upon Serbia to lift the arms embargo on the Region with standby authority for airstrikes if Nec Essary to prevent a new wave of bosnian serbian aggression and further Steps needed to tighten the pressure to bring about a cessation of the fighting and serious negotiations Between the  in Bosnia and Herzegovina late Sun Day outgunned Muslim forces fought off serbian and croatian attacks at opposite ends of the Republic As bosnian serbs voted on the peace plan crafted by for Mer Secretary of state Cyrus Vance and Britain s lord David Owen. With that plan to end 13 months of brutal War apparently doomed the pow Erful serbs and croats who Between them control most of Bosnia and Herze Govina seemed poised to squeeze the weak Muslim led government forces and try to carve up most of the state. The croats in particular stepped up attacks on Muslim forces in the Southern town of Mustar. We Don t have a Chance Kemal Muftic aide to Bosnia s Muslim presi Dent Alija Izet Bogovic said in Sarajevo. In tacit recognition that the peace plan he helped draft is in danger Owen appealed for thousands More peacekeepers see serb on Pago 2 giving birth to a change history of the pregnancy policy 1951 the policy Man dating involuntary separa Tion of women who became pregnant gave birth while in service or had custody of dependent Chil Dren under age 18 was put in place by president Truman. 1972 service women who were pregnant or had children were allowed to request waivers to stay in the military. 1974 the defense department ordered the military services to discontinue such involuntary separations and gave them one year to implement the policy. 1975 the Navy Marine corps and air Force enacted the new policy but the army resisted. 1976 after a Federal court ruling that Dis charging pregnant women was unconstitutional the army caved in and implemented the policy. Is 75 military shift gave women new options by Muri Ditri . Bureau it has been nearly 20 years since the military serv ices reversed their policy forcing women  the military if they became pregnant. And for three Navy women stationed at Nas Kef Lavik Iceland that former policy comes to mind these Days As their children Are about to graduate from High school. The command gave Rne two options when she became pregnant said Petty officer 1st class Elodia Serna. Either i went to Germany to have an Abor Tion or i could get out Serna who was stationed at Rota Spain could t have an abortion in Spain a predominantly Catholic country that did t allow them. But she did t want one and wanted to stay on Active duty. She fought and ultimately was allowed to have her baby and stay in the Navy. But she found that the Navy then placed addition foes a Mark kotto Nhoon chief Petty officer Terry Barnthouse with son Token in Kcf Lavik Iceland became pregnant after the military s pregnancy policy changed in 1975. Al bureaucratic responsibilities on her. I had to give them an itemized listing of every thing i planned. To do in the event that War broke out Anco i had to Send my daughter Back to the states she said. I had to let them know who was going to take care of her.". Serna 43, a communications specialist also had to provide a financial statement showing How much Money she put aside for her daughter Princesa born in january 1975. In fact i had to show Toiv would i manage being in the military and being a Parent at the same time the set gee Mother from Bovina Texas said. Under Navy rules Serna. Was required to go to Cleveland every. Year to the Navy 1 Inanc Center see birth on Pago Kevorkian aids suicide despite new state Detroit a or. Jack Kevorkian assisted in suicide sunday for the first time since the practice a is outlawed in Michigan in february authorities said. Police said a 51-year-old Man committed suicide i Kevorkian s presence sunday morning at a real estate office on Detroit s East Side. The victim was not identified. The retired pathologist and his attorney be Orcy Fieger j Cut the building about two hours later and went to police Headquarters to be questioned by homicide investigators officer Rhoda Virgil Madison said. Kevorkian would be prosecuted under the new la against assisted suicide if homicide investigators decided to seek charges assistant Wayne county prosecutor George Ward told a Vij am radio. The Wayne county medical examiner s office said Kevorkian assisted in the suicide of a 51-year-old Resi Dent of suburban Southfield. The suicide was reported to the examiner s office investigator Allen Uranyl Causand. Since 1990, Kevorkian has helped 15  lives the last two on feb. 18 a week before a Michigan Law Banning the practice took , 64, who believes the terminally ill should have the right to end their lives with a doctor s assist Ance was charged with murder in his first three assisted suicides but charges were dropped because Michi Gan had no Law against the practice. Kevorkian had vowed to ignore the Law which is punishable on conviction by up to four years in prison and a $2,000  revoked the suicide doctor s License on april 27, meaning he cannot practice anywhere in the United states Gays in the the Battle Over the military s ban on homosexuals has delayed a vote in the House on the 1994 military budget. H sen. Sam Nunn was taken to task by Gay activists for drawing attention to cramped quarters aboard a submarine fit one of two openly Gay congressmen is in favor of a Compromise calling for Gay service members to keep silent about their sexual orientation. Stories on Page 9 j