European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday july 23,1993 i i at a glance a German Soldier walks through Mogadishu Somalia country whose recent return to deadly Vio Lence is forcing officials to re exam Ine the limits of multinational peacekeeping. See Story on Page 11. Bias deplored supreme court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg says discrimination against homosexuals and others is to be  -pafl�4 Navy gets Leader the Senate has unanimously con firmed John Dalton to be Secretary of the Navy. Page 6 winners confirmed it s official a Wisconsin teacher and his Fiancee won the nation s big Gest lottery Jackpot. $111 million. Page 7 carjacking motives carjacking is usually just another Way to Rob people of their watches wallets and whatnot new York police say. Page 8 . Plans Haiti role the United states has offered to Send about 350 troops and military engineers to help Haiti . Officials say. Page 9 scams tracked Down High tech frauds Are coming on Strong an annual rip off Survey shows. Page 12 Index j Abby Ann Landers 16 classifieds. 25-27 comics 16,22-23 commentary. 15 crossword. 16 faces n places. 24 focus 17-21 Horoscope 27 Jumble 27 tetters 14 Money matters. 12 sports 31-36 television 35 weather 13 sailors from Page 1aboard ship. The ban took effect in july. They held a Survey and there were just Over 2,000 smokers on Board the ship Active smokers that is said Petty offi cer 3rd class e avid Scott Wade a Roosevelt Sailor. There s a lot of people who said they were he smokers because they Don t smoke that much. I figure there Are about 500 of  Many smokers aboard raised objections to the ban. A Crew member who re Quested anonymity said that sailors wrote to their congressional representatives and that a congressional investigation was held. V Roosevelt spokesman it. Cd. Mcwhorter said the hearing was held but refused to comment because he lacked details of the investigation. He did Point out however that the nonsmoking policy is still in effect on Board ship. Navy officials in Washington were unable to recall such a hearing. One official said he does not think the Roosevelt smoking policy has been raised publicly at All on Capitol Hill. House and Senate armed services committees staffers were tied up thurs Day with hearings on the new policy on Gays in the military and could not be reached to comment on whether the Roosevelt smoking policy had been Dis cussed at a hearing. Militant smokers however did t  just sneak around to smoke. That goes on a lot said airman apprentice Jeff Phillips a member of the Roosevelt s main photo lab. If the think smoking on the ship has. Totally stopped they re fooling  airman apprentice Jason Sullivan agreed. You can smell the smoke. Nobody is legally smoking aboard anymore so if someone walks by that s been smoking you can Tell they be been  said several offenders have been caught. They be got a three strikes policy right now he said. The first one Jin fraction you get counselling and Emi extra military instruction extra duty. The second one you re sent to a. Mandatory smoking cessation course. The third strike could include nonjudicial punishment or something harsher Byrant s memo  added that there Are Many pro i Grams aboard to help people who want to Stop smoking. They set up a lot of thing for people who wanted to quit they set you up with the smoking cessation course they got the Patch and All these other things you can do to quit smoking. What the ship s leaders did t do he said was address the people who did t want to quit smoking. Sullivan a smoker pointed out that physical addiction was not the Only Rea son smokers smoke. A lot of people get a break stress Relief by smoking he said " it s just a Chanceton get away for five or ten minutes. A lot of times being on the ship for a while you Start to get real edgy and you have problems with other workers an people from other departments. At times if you re having those problems you can say hey i m going to go smoke a cigarette and you just relax and you can go Back and work the problems  we got together a lot in that place where you can meet people from differ ent departments and divisions that you never really see Wade said. I met a lot of people from different places and made hookups that. If i needed to see one of the career counsel ors there s someone from there that smokes. I Learned about the College pro Gram that i could get entered into by talking to one of the chiefs in the smok Phillips Wade ing  even some nonsmokers had a few reservations on the ban. Myself i m a non smoker and i be got mixed opinions on it said Phillips. While irs not right to take away some one s right to smoke is it right to make someone else breathe their secondhand smoke but we had just about contained everyone s smoking when there were smoking areas audit did t really bother me a lot. The Only time it really bothered me was two or three Days before the smoking lamp went out and a Bunch of us photographer were asked to go into the Heads Ana take pictures of Guys smoking. I thought i was going to die from lung cancer on the spot. The place was just  during the time a limited number of smoking spaces were allowed on Board Mcwhorter said the Carbon monoxide lev Els in those areas were so High that Crew members would have had to Wear Gas masks if the areas had been work spaces. Sullivan had one final observation. It s kind of funny said  All the fumes on the flight deck and exhaust and everything you can barely breathe. And yet you re not Al Lowed to  suit write Chuck Vine m Washington contributed to of policy from Page 1 Mittee hearing wednesday rep. Randy Cunningham a decorated Navy Pilot who has worked to keep the ban on homosexuals in the military could t hide his frustration. I cannot believe that you support this the California Republican told the joint chiefs after their More than four hours of defense of Clinton s policy. My mind May but my heart  Gen. Colin l. Powell the joint chiefs chairman responded firmly. Your heart should because i m speaking with my heart and mind. My heart always is speaking for the Best interests of the  both the Senate and House armed services committees Hope to Complete their versions of the defense budget by Early next week. Rep. Ike Skelton d-mo., the panel chairman could make it difficult for Clinton if he joins forces with conserva Tive republicans on the panel and sup ports codification of the ban. Skelton described the Issue in personal terms. My family background is deeply rooted in religious traditions he said. My constituents believe the president  a former prosecutor Skelton wanted to look the joint chiefs in the Eye and find out if they support the policy. After the hearing he said they Eye fled me i believe  those intent on writing the 50-year ban into Law attacked the Clinton plan As fraught with inconsistencies and a mag net for Legal challenges. Defense Secretary los Aspin dismissed the complaints telling one gop critic the proposal we Are making Here is essentially a proposal which is a sound Compromise Ana one that is frankly More  in support Aspin cited a memorandum from attorney general Janet Reno stating that the new policy should improve the Justice department s ability to defend it in court. Rep. Duncan Hunter r-calif., an out spoken critic of both Clinton and his efforts to lift the ban assailed the joint chiefs for failing in your duty to your troops and your  Hunter contended that Middle Ameri Ca will decide the Issue when they refuse to allow their children 40 join the Mili tary. Powell responded that Middle America elected Clinton president and said i Don t believe we have  water from Page 1 ago and additional heavy Rains would in crease the threat to hundreds of Miles of levees Mushy from Long exposure to High surging water. Flooding since the Start of june has contributed to at least 33 deaths and caused $10 billion in damage left 16,000 Square Miles of Farmland underwater and damaged More than 22,000 Homes. We Are going to have another Crest coming Down said Lairy Crump army corps of engineers spokesman at Kansas City mo., along the Missouri River. I Don t know when it is going to come but it is a pattern that has repeated itself Over and Over and  it began repeating itself again thurs Day As More rain poured into the mis Souri and Mississippi River basins As much As 5 inches in parts of northeastern Kansas. The rain did t keep Des Moines from trying to regain a semblance of normalcy. Traffic returned to highways and parking garages refilled after officials announced that water was in All 810 Miles of the City s Mains. Fire Protection was restored and companies can reopen once building sprinklers Are checked. At mid morning officials allowed peole in one quadrant of Iowa s capital to Egin using running water again. Water is Only for bathing Flushing toilets washing dishes and flood cleanup said . My Mullen the City s water chief. As soon As be heard the news Lewis James raced upstairs turned the tap and let water splash into his Bathtub. I wanted to fall in it clothes and All James said. He did t because head to go to work. Safe drinking water is about three weeks away officials said. Mcmullen said thursday morning that he hoped running water would be re stored to the entire City by this weekend. The Raccoon River swamped the City s water Plant july 11, knocking out service to 250,000 people. As workers tried to refill the system a pump broke people opened taps against orders and on wednesday a broken pipe was discovered. The flooding continued thursday in Nebraska where the big Nemaha rive pronounced Nee muh Haw Rose from 12 feet to about 25 feet at Falls City and was Crest ing late thursday morning at Falls City the National weather service said in Omaha neb. Flood stage there is 20 feet. That s the seventh time it s been out othe Banks since the first of the month Saia Roy Osugi a weather service hydrologist major flooding occurred along eur key Creek and the South Branch of the big Nemaha River the weather service said. The Richardson county sheriffs office re ported none a a equations or accidents