European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Voi 52, no. 232 500 monday december 6,1993 d 8693 anew Trace of Gulf War Gas Birmingham Ala. Apr France has become the second country to report that its troops detected Low Levels of chemical warfare agents during the persian Gulf War. A French military officer revealed the detections of nerve agents and Mustard Gas Friday . Sen. Richard g Shelby said in Paris during a we Klong trip to Europe with the Senate armed services committee. The panel is investigating whether thousands of ill Gulf War veterans in the United states May have been exposed to chemical weapons. Earlier czech military headers reported that their troops found similar traces of chemical agents during the 1991 War and some became ill. The French czech and . Troops were part of a multinational Force sent to Force iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein a troops out of Kuwait. A it further confirms to me that our troops and our allies were exposed to chemical warfare agents a Shelby d-Ala.,was quoted As saying in saturdays Birmingham news. A logistics officer with the French contingent it. Col. Jean Paul Forrand said the detections occurred Jan. 24 or 25,1991, about 15 Miles South of King Khalid military City in saudi Arabia. Ferrand reported see Gas on Page 2 astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman opens a door on the Hubble space Telescope while attached to the robot Aron in a televised View saturday. Space Center Houston a Nasa officials decided sunday to Jettison the Bent solar panel on the Hubble space Telescope after trying and failing to Roll it up for stowage on the trip Home. After two space walkers remove the panel overnight astronaut Kathy Thornton is to hold it overhead and simply allow it to Drift away. The panel will join some 7,000 other pieces of space it eventually is drawn into the atmosphere and Burns up. The decision came hours after two Spac walking astronauts made the first repairs on the Telescope overnight saturday replacing failed parts and even managing to Latch a misaligned Access door. Jeffrey Hoffman and Story Musgrave had no problem accomplishing All their tasks a installing two pairs of gyroscopes two Gyroscope electronic units and eight fuses. Everything they put in worked. But they were stymied by the see panel on Page 2serious crimes drop Fri says Washington apr even As Public fear of crime pushed Congress to vote for harsher criminal penalties and More police the number of serious crimes declined slightly the Fri reported sunday. Violent crime during the first six months of 1993 decreased 3 percent from the same period in 1992, while the number of property crime see crimes on Page 2 Aspin to Hammer out nato plan meetings set on joining with East in partnership by Chuck Vinci Washington Bureau Washington defense Secretary will a Les Aspin Lay the groundwork this week for a proposal that officials on both sides of the Atlantic Hope will provide nato with a More coherent sense of its place in the Post cold War world. Aspin said Friday that under the plan members of nato and other Central and Eastern european nations would share military planning and training operations and would undertake joint Rescue missions disaster Relief and peacekeeping patrols. A these consultations a a he said a should do much to increase the sense of Security and stability of the Eastern a senior defense department official speaking to reporters at a background briefing said the proposal a a new process for identifying potential future members of the Alliance a Wilt be announced in More detail at the nato Summit in Brussels Belgium next month. The a partnership for peace initiative assumes that the roster of nations accorded full nato memberships00 Aspin on Pago 2 inside today seepage Job Market brightens for College graduates i see Page 5 the search for a kidnapped girl has ended with the discovery of her body see Page 7 the War to end All wars continues see pages 26-27
