European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse "5 i vol. 52, no. 223 500 saturday november 27,1993 a we at an d 8693 a report supports army tour policy by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington a recent congressional report endorses the army s policy of assigning most of its Europe stationed troops to three year accompanied Tours. The general accounting office report dated nov.10, stemmed from a request by reps. Dave Mccurdy d-okla., and Patricia Schroeder a Colo. The report rebutted the argument made by some lawmakers that assigning soldiers overseas on unaccompanied Tours without their family members and closing the extensive network of family support facilities overseas such As schools child care centers and family housing would save millions of dollars. Any such savings the report said would be offset by the need to expand such facilities in the United Statig if families remained at Home while the troops went overseas. Such added costs suggest that the alternatives May not provide Cost savings Over the current system the see army on Page 4 a comparison of . Army troops i Europe and South Korea. With their families without their families Europe 104,392 at of february 1993 South Korea 27,081 a�o�mty19w 4% 1,144 source ath . Army South Korea end Usah Fuh american i mat abducted in Yemen san1 a Yemen a an american Diplomat has been kidnapped by unidentified abductors in the yemeni Capi Mahoney the . Information service station chief in Yemen was grabbed after he left a British airways reception thursday night. . Embassy guards and Diplomat reached at Home by Telephone Friday the Muslim Sabbath refused to discuss the said Mahoney s rela Tives in san a have not been harmed. In Washington state department spokeswoman Julie reside confirmed that Mahoney was abducted from his Carand said . Officials Are receiving Excel Lent cooperation from yemeni authorities in the investigation. We re not in a position to speculate about possible motives at this time she said. The embassy in san a has asked All americans in Yemen to keep a Low pro file and to exercise caution in the next few another official said the Clinton administration had reached a preliminary conclusion that the kidnapping was not see american on Page 2 radioactive chair blamed in Man s mysterious death s no fun Fausto Mendoza 2, helps his dad Francisco Mendoza i Jovel some of the Isnow in Sioux City Iowa. Snowstorms Paral Zed parts of the United states Day. Sec Story on Page 5. On Moscow Orpi a russian Busi Nessman who died recently of mysterious causes was apparently killed by his chair which was found after his death to be highly radioactive russian newspaper reported Friday. Investigators discovered that the deadly office chair was the source of 1.5 Mil lion times More radioactivity than Norma background Levels the daily Poscovsky Koms molets said. It was not known How the chair be came radioactive though there have been other incidents in Moscow where Ordi nary household items and even foods have been found to be radioactive. The Man identified Only As v. Kaplun was general manager of a Moscow based private company and had been hospitalized More than a month before see death on Page 2 inside today former army pharmacist says she lost her Job h of. ---._,. ,j4.-= Rahat Feslis feb a t f it v see Pago 3 cloning branches out to Christmas Trees and tomatoes see Page 8 Christian resort tries to shed Jim Bakker s influence see Page 14 Giessen outsmart rivals in annual academic bowl see pages 20-21 a
