European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 06, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Stesan stripes vol. 52, no. 110 Friday August 6,1993 d 8693 a u. N. Troop pullout from Bosnia urged. I before strikes Start by Patrick j. Sloyan new Day Washington the United states wants allies to withdraw their . Peacekeeping troops from bos Nia before a . Air Campaign is launched to lift the siege of Sarajevo in an attempt to avoid retaliation by serbian forces. The pullback of 9,200 lightly armed soldiers will be proposed next week when Alliance officials in Brussels Belgium resume consideration of president Clinton s proposal to end the roadblocks and silence the serbian guns that have brought muslims to their Knees in the bosnian capital. We re still working out the details but a withdrawal see pullout on Page 2 serbs vow Retreat amid air raid study Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a ser Bian forces facing the threat of . Airstrikes pledged thursday to ease their stranglehold on the besieged bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Before they issued the pledge a . Statement reflected increasing International resolve to prevent the serbian capture of the bosnian capital. The statement was released thursday in Zagreb after a nato-. Meeting in the croatian capital wednesday. Shortly afterwards an aide to bosnian serbian Leader Radovan Karadzic said serbian troops would lift the siege on Sarajevo and open two key roads leading to the capital. The end of hostilities around Sarajevo would Case the threat of a nato attack and resuscitate the Geneva peace talks which have been impeded by the Serbi an assaults around the capital. Under the agreement announced in Geneva on thursday serbian troops arc to withdraw by today from mount i Man Ana mount Bjel Asnica a nearby Peak also seized from government troops this  serbs who hold 70 percent of bosnian land now claim to control All strategic Heights around the City. But serbs like the other warring factions in Bosnia have broken promises Many times before. On thurs Day bosnian radio reported serbian attacks of the few government forces remaining on mount i Man outside Sarajevo. Karadzic s aide Nikola Kol Jevie would not say whether nato s readiness to bomb serbian positions led to the pullback offer but he indicated that the see serbs on Page 2 trucking company linked to thefts of officials say. By Kevin Dougherty Kaiserslautern Bureau Ramstein a Germany at least seven employees of a German trucking firm have been implicated in a theft ring involving shipments of american House hold goods Many of which originate from the Kaiserslautern military Community air Force officials said. German authorities have not arrested the employees because of their continuing investigation into the ring which based its operation but of a town near Bremerhaven said Woody Taylor a Spe Cial agent assigned to the air Force s of fice of special investigations at Ramstein a. Under German Law authorities have a limited time to prosecute a Case Taylor added. The scope of the operation and vol ume of household goods taken Are the reasons German officials Are waiting to strengthen their Case Taylor said. The seven employees have All been interviewed and they All admitted to being involved in the thefts Taylor said. While Ramstein Osi officials declined to give a Dollar estimate on the goods Sto Len a German newspaper reported that officials in the Kaiserslautern customs of fice estimate the goods taken at $360,000. The Osi investigation was launched following a series of articles in the stars and stripes last year that chronicled problems that service members and civil ians were having with items missing from household goods shipments said it. Col. Steven d. Shirley the Osi commander at Ramstein. Starting with some of those individual cases Osi agents Jacob Albrecht and Lothar Gries soon broadened their investigation to include scores of additional cases from the Kaiserslautern area Shir Ley said. To Date the earliest theft involved stolen stereo equipment taken in the summer of 1991 from a shipment that originated from Sembach a Germany. A member of the ring has told German authorities that the thefts began at least see thefts on Page 2 Black leaders assail sentences los Angeles a Rodney g. King joined Federal prosecutors and Black leaders in criticizing the 2w-.ycarsentences Given the two police officers convicted in his beating. Prosecutors said they May Appeal. If it was me i would have been doing 10,15 years King King said in an interview shown thursday morning on Abc s today. But once you re going up against police officers it s hard to prove it. Who s going to believe you while he said he was t see leaders on Page 2 or. Laccy c. Koon grins after being sentenced. Simonella to serve As european blood depot by Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau Nas Simonella Sicily a storage unit located in the basement of the Simonella Hospital is expected to emerge As a vital artery for medical care throughout the european theater officials say. The blood product depot has been tabbed As the contingency blood Supply Reservoir for All military hospitals in Europe. No such Reservoir exists in Europe to serve . Military members and their families. The depot a room containing 57 freezers opened in june and currently contains several Hundred. Units of blood most of which came from the air Force Hospital at Wiesbaden Germany which is closing. However officials expect the depot to contain about 40,000 units of blood by 1996, said Adrian Figueroa see related Story on Page 4 one of two civilians assigned to the depot. A unit of blood is roughly equivalent to a pint. The value of the Frozen blood could reach $8 million once the depot is fully stocked said it. Cmdr. Mary Lynn Hauser the Hospital s spokeswoman. The depot is under the direction of the . Euro Pean come s joint blood programs office which coordinates All of the services blood programs in the Thea Ter. Most stored blood donated by service members and their families in Europe stays in local area hospitals such As the Lan Stuhl regional army medical cent Erin Germany. Some of those hospitals store hundreds of blood units Figueroa said. The Simonella blood depot will augment local blood supplies Figueroa said and can ship units of blood in emergencies to other . Medical facilities within 24 hours. It will receive its blood units from the United states via the naval medical come in Bethesda my. Navy officials chose Simonella for the depot because of its proximity to . Ships in the Mediterranean said maj. Gary Corrick chief of medical plans at the Neucom command surgeon s office in Stuttgart Ger Many. Ships often pull into Augusta Day near Simonella to replenish supplies. Blood stored in the freezers is kept at minus 128 fahrenheit. Stored in glycerol blood is usually shipped Frozen and can be thawed in about 20 minutes