European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A page2 r the stars and stripes Friday jury 23,1993 i at a ounce 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 deplore supreme court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg says discrimination against homosexuals and others is to be  -pagt4 Navy gets Leader the Senate has unanimously con firmed John Datton 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 ? carjacking motive carjacking is usually just another Way to Rob people of their watches wallets and whatnot. New York police say. Page . 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  12 i Index Abby Ann Landers 16 classifieds 25-27 comics 16,22-23 commentary 15 crossword 6 faces n places 24 focus 1721 horoscope27 Jumble 27 letters 14 Money matters 12 sports 31-36television 35 weather 13 sailors from Page t aboard ship. The ban took effect in  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 David Scott Wade Roosevelt Sailor. There s a lot of people who said they were nonsmokers because they Don t smoke that much. I figure there Are about 500 of  smokers aboard raised objections to the ban. A Crew member who re Quested anonymity said that sailors wrote to their congressional representative Sand that a congressional investigation was  spokesman it. . Me Whorter said the hearing was held but refused to comment because he lacked details of the investigation. He did Point put however that the nonsmoking policy is still in effect on Board  officials in Washington were unable to recall such a hearing. One official said he does hot think the Roosevelt smoking policy has been raised publicly at All on Capitol Hill. House and Striate armed service 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  smokers however did t quit. Some just sneak around to  goes on a lot said airman apprentice Jeff Phillips a member of the Roosevelt s main photo lab. If they 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 Youcan Tell they be been  Wade said several offenders have Bee caught. They be got a three strikes policy right now he said. The first one in fraction you get counselling and Emi extra military instruction extra duty. The second one you re sent to a mandatory smoking cessation  the third strike could include nonjudicial punishment or something harsher Byrant s memo  added that there Are Many pro Grams aboard to help people who want to Stop smoking. They set up a lot of things for people who wanted to quit they  up with the smoking cessation course they got the Patch and All these other things you can do to quit  what the ship s Leaden did t do he said was address the people who did t want to quit  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 Chance to get away for five or ten  lot of times being on the ship for a while you Start to get real edgy and you have problems with other workers and people from other departments. A times if you re having those problems you can say hey i m going to go smoke cigarette and you just relax and you can go Back and work the problems  got together a lot in that place where you can meet people from differ ent departments and divisions that you never really see Wade  met a lot of people from different places and made hookups that. If 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 poll Olpt Wade ing area. Even some nonsmokers had a few reservations on the ban. Myself i m a non smoker and i be go 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 and it did t really bother me a  Only time it really bothered me was two or three Days before the smoking Lam went out and a Bunch of us photographers were asked to go into the Heads and take pictures of Guys smoking. I thought i was going to. Die from Jung cancer on 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  s kind of funny said Sullivan. With All the fumes on the flight Deckand exhaust and everything you can barely breathe. And yet you re not Al Lowed to  9m writ Chick Vii to a Mcnolon contributed to to a Point 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 fou hours of defense of Clinton s policy. My mind May but my heart does . Colin l. Powell the joint chiefs chairman responded firmly. Your hear should because i m speaking with my heart and mind. My heart always i speaking for the Best interests of the services both the Senate and House armed services committees Hope to Complete their versions of the defense budget Byi 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  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 balled me. 1 believe  those intent on writing the 50-Yearban into Law attacked joke Clinton plan As fraught with inconsistencies and a mag net for Legal challenges. Defense Secretary Les Aspin dismissed the complaints telling one cop critic the proposal we Are making Here is essentially a proposal which is a sound Compromise and one that is frankly  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 join 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 to join the Mili tary. Powell responded that Middle America elected Clinton president and said "1 Don t believe we have  funds from Page 1 Kansas  really Are at Crest and we Are going to be hanging up there the next three four five Days Dietrich said. River engineers Are worried that hundreds of Miles of saturated levees could crumble As the High water  liver was at 46.9 feet thursday at St. Louis Down slightly from the record47.05 feet tuesday night Dietrich said. He said the level will continue to fluctuate because of factors including up Stream rain levee Breaks and levee re pairs. Flood stage is 30 feet. Downtown St Louis is protected by a52-foot-High flood Wall but a neighbor Hood at the City s Southern tip has Bee badly flooded As sandbagged levees were swept away. One of the worst levee Breaks along the Mississippi was one at West Quincy mo., last Friday that closed the last open Ridge Over the River for a 200-mile stretch. Dan Campbell sheriff of Mario county mo., said thursday he will investigate whether someone deliberately broke that levee. He said water District officials were suspicious because the levee seemed to be in Good condition just before the  Rainy Des Moines traffic returned to highways and downtown businesses re opened for the first time since the Rac Coon River swamped the City s water Plant july 11, knocking out service to 250,000  they refilled the City s 810 Miles of Mains and restored fire Protection officials announced at Mia morning that people in one quadrant of the City could open faucets and resume Flushing toilets and taking showers. As soon As she heard the news Debbie Dodge exclaimed to her 5-year-old , Vou can take a Bath by yourself. Gimme  Willie replied As he slapped his Mother s outstretched Palm. While the water was off. Willie had to Bathe with his 2v-year-old sister and 18-month-Oldbrother. By Early afternoon water service Yasback to half the City with the other half expected to get it Back by the  then downtown workers were asked to choose Between water for air conditioning or water for toilets. The water won t be Safe to drink for a least three weeks. In Illinois Kas Kaskia Island create when the Mississippi changed course in an 1881 flood was being overrun bythe River after a Section of levee failed. Most of the 125 residents who remained in recent Days fled during the night. Workers trying to plug the levee were taken from the Island by boat