European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes wednesday May 19,1993 i at a glance the conspiratorial voice of presi Dent Nixon As Well As a buzzing 1814-Niinutc Gap can be heard on White House apes made available to the Public monday. Sec Story on Page. Program called vital president Clinton holding a town meeting says his $20 billion defense conversion plan is a critical invest ment even in Tough times. Page 4 jury makeup studied the supreme court will Rule on the constitutionality of lawyers efforts to keep ail men or All women off juries. Page 5 germans Back pact Union leaders and employers in another Eastern German state have accepted a wage pact for striking metalworkers. Page9 funds cause worries the Long Boom in Mutual funds is making some investment analysts queasy. Pago 12 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds. 25-28 comics 21-23 commentary. 15 crossword 21 faces n1 places 24 focus 17-20 Horoscope 27 Jumble 27 letters 14 Money matters. 12-13 sports 29-36 television 35 weather 16 correction because of a. Reporting error a Story Friday omitted the name of a member of the gospel group Light Curtis Brown Soldier assigned to the 101st Ord in in Schwabish Hall Germany is one of the serbs from Page 1 foreign ministers meeting Friday at the United nations. The reason he told the House foreign affairs committee was that it would. Do. A futile attempt to implement an International peace plan already rejected overwhelmingly by bosnian serbs. The Only Way to enforce it would be with troops Christopher said and the United states was not prepared Todo that Christopher said he was somewhat surprised Khz Prev. Had suggested that the . Security Council impose the settlement on the warring factions and that after talking it Over monday on the Tele phone Koz Rcv had agreed to postpone his request for a foreign ministers meet ing. Christopher called the conflict in the former yugoslav Republic a historically difficult and tragic  he said May 17 daily combat 34 daily combat . 12 total combat 1,222 total combat . 633 totals do not include  or refuelling missions. Source St Haifa there were atrocities on All sides. Although or. Chairman this is a difficult situation a problem i once de scribed As a problem from hell our involvement and our actions have made a difference Christopher said. Christopher appeared before the com Mittee to justify on the Clinton adminis Hrat Orrt budget. But the focus quickly shifted to the War and How to end inc 13 month conflict in which an estimated 134,000 people have been killed or left homeless. Diplomatic efforts have entered on the plan drafted by former . Secretary of state Cyrus r. Vance and lord Owen a former British foreign secret try the plan would Divide Bosnia and Herzegovina into 10 Semi autonomous ethnic prov inces with control of Sarajevo the Capi Tal shared by muslims croats and  plan Calls for an end to the fight ing giving the bosnian serbs some but not All of the territory they gained through a military Campaign supported by the serbian dominated government in Belgrade. Christopher said he was never convinced the bosnian serbs would implement the Accord even though their Leader Radovan Karadzic signed it May 2. Voicing Sec prism that the plan could Ever work Christopher Saio a new forum May be necessary. Talks from Page 1 shaded by a Vine covered trellis were Owen . Special envoy Thorvald Stol ten Borg mate Boban Tadjman s hand picked Leader of the bosnian croats and . Officials. Bosnian radio said a pow Erful explosion rocked Mostar at Day break shattering hundreds of windows. Western journalists in the area said fight ing appeared to ease later in the Day. The eruption of hostilities Between croatian and Muslim led armies once Al lies against Bosnia s powerful serbian forces has severely complicated the search for a peace plan. Along with the overwhelming bosnian serbian rejection of a .-backed plan in a referendum last weekend the mus Lim croatian Battles have sent envoys Back to their diplomatic drawing boards in search of a solution. It was unclear How Long tuesday s talks would last or . "1 am fed up with bits of paper that arc just like confetti said Owen alluding to numerous shattered cease fires in bos Nia. He said that if Bosnia is partitioned among croats muslims and serbs it will be like Lebanon. They will go on fighting and fighting and that contagion will  among those trying to sell new proposals is russian foreign min ister Andrei Kozarev who met briefly with Tadjman and Izet Bogovic Early tuesday in the croatian port of split. He proposes a step by step plan that would include sealing the yugoslav and bosnian Borders to isolate serbian forces and establishing .-protccted safety zones for muslims and other refugees. In new York however . Diplomats said Russia was giving up its Effort to Convene a Security Council Summit of foreign ministers. The Medjugorac meet ing coincided with mounting concern that Croatia has turned against Bosnia and May be party to a serbian croatian Deal to Divide up Bosnia Between them. The european Community last week blamed Croatia for the Mostar fighting and threatened it with sanctions Simi Lar to those punishing serbian dominated Yugoslavia for its role in the bosnian War if the violence continued. Tadjman and other croatian leaders deny responsibility. In split Tadjman told croatian television tuesday that extreme Muslim forces were provoking the clashes. In Mcdo Gorje Sefer Halilovic com Mander of bosnian government forces said his Side was prepared to let bygone be bygones. Doctor from Page 1 -., comics he said. The overuse of such treat ments stems from doctors individual biases and the Lack of Good data bases that would allow them to compare an individual Case with similar ones. Part of what we need to do is set up a new system that is Able to provide full a Cess to Quality care for everybody who needs it. And if 25 percent of the work that we re doing is needless that gives me a margin in there to allow a draw Down and improve services Ulanov isaid. Establishing procedural protocols could Cut the number of unneeded treat ments but still allow a doctor to exercise professional judgment and perform a procedure if a particular patient s Condi Tion seems to Call for it. The current review is important be cause the army has directed the medical corps to reduce its number of doctors by 1,0 37, or nearly 20 percent Over the next few years. The army already suf fers from a shortage of some types of doctors such As obstetricians and Anaesthesiologist a however so it in t Likely to release those  from doctors other professional sin Short Supply in clude certified registered nurse Anes Lanoue heists and medical equipment maintenance technicians. If it comes to a if reduction in Force or to selective Early retirement boards we re going to be very protective of those areas where we re Short Lanoue said. A More efficient health care system also is crucial because the percentage of soldiers with family members is growing even while the army is shrinking he said. And the population of military retire Sand Retiree dependents is growing As Well Lanoue said. They deserve full Access to Quality care As Well and it s not our intent to turn them away As secondary citizens. We need to build a system that accommodates everybody s needs he said. Asked about the future availability of abortion services in Europe Lanoue noted that the procedure is widely an safely available in non american nos i tals and they usually charge far less to perform the procedure than the $477 fee the army has set for it. Since president Clinton lifted the ban on abortions in military hospitals the army s 7th medical come has Bee looking for . Or other English speak ing civilian doctors who would perform the service under local contract. Army doctors in Europe have refused to per form abortions a decision that defense department policy permits them tomake. Other medical procedures pose ethical questions for military doctors Lanoue said but As an ethical Issue abortion is the Only one that s so Well packaged that it has a lot of political sensitivity an that people have riots  fire from Pago 1 Villu Island in the South Pacific in 1944 an exhaustive study of . Casualties in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969 and the per Sian Gulf War. Milach of these studies included details of individual dead and hmm did and in Many cases positive identification of the weapons that cause the casualties. This information was particularly useful because a wound caused by a weapon used Only by Friendly forces was considered As evidence of fratricide. For example a fragment of depleted uranium in the body of a Gulf War casualty was evidence of a hit by an Ameri can since Only american weapons fire uranium Core projectiles. Similarly wounds in Vietnam caused by Claymore mines and m-79 grenade launchers were considered Likely to be fratricidal. The results of Saadeh s analysis Sug Gest that fratricidal casualties in the Viunna Campaign were at least 14 per cent in Houi Stinville sonic 24 percent and in Vietnam 11 percent. The analysis confirmed earlier studies that showed that fratricidal casualties in the persian Gulf Campaign came to 17 percent even training exercises in which no real bullets or shells Are fired seen to confirm estimates of High fratricide rates. In the late 20th Century it is no longer possible to wait until you see the White of their eyes before opening fire opposing tanks generally Mart shooting at each other from ranges greater than one mile and aircraft pilots May not j be their tar gets at All except on radar displays