European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Sims and stripes it it i a a sex vol. 52, no. 270 500 thursday january 13,1994 Clinton Clinton s european Roundup Kiev on nukes Kiev Ukraine a in the briefest of visits to a former soviet re Public president Clinton sought wednesday to Nail Down an Accord on dismantling 1,800 nuclear warheads saying that despite mixed signals from Kiev i expect it will be  ukrainian president Leonid m. Kravchuk greeted Clinton As air Force one touched Down in cold Damp weather and said implementation of the agreement hinged on unspecified assistance to his nation. We have prepared certain documents and we Are sure where therein certain assistance we will implement them he told reporters an apparent reference to Security pledges an promises of financial Aid from both Washington and Moscow. Persuading Ukraine to give up it nuclear Arsenal has been one of the United states principal foreign policy goals in the years since the soviet Union broke up and Clinton s hastily arranged Airport meeting with Kravchuk amounted to an International Courtesy Call for a pact negotiate painstakingly Over Many months. Clinton was in route to Moscow for two Days of meetings with russian president Boris n. Yeltsin. Kravch Ukis expected to join the two men in see Clinton on Page 2 see related stories on Page 5 nato s leaders agreed to invite Poland Hungary the czech Republic and Slovakia to sign partnership accords that extend military cooperation but Stop Short of extending Alliance membership. President Clinton willbe in Moscow until saturday to Confer wit russian president Boris .  o Moscow 1 Brussels Kiev Ukraine Bosnia and Herzegovina k president Clinton and his 15 Nat partners threatened bosnian serbs with airstrikes if they Block the opening of a major Airport for Relief supplies or prevent the rotation of peacekeepers  former yugoslav Republic. President Clinton stopped briefly in Kiev for a meeting with ukrainian president Leonid m. Kravchuk. Clinton and president Boris n. Yeltsin will meet Friday with Kravchuk to sign a agreement in which Ukraine pledges to become nuclear free Over a seven Yea period. In return Russia and the United states Promise not to attack. Aps a president Clinton delivers his statement Ait the . Ambassador residence in Pra gue czech Republic. From left Are presidents Michal Kovac Slovakia Lech Walesa Poland. Voclav Havel czech re Public and Arodd Goncz Hungary. D 8693 a tailored health care by Kevin Dougherty staff writer Pitburg a Germany alternative health care programs tailored specifically to the military Community in Europe May be the key to overhauling a stressed and overburdened system the Pentagon s top health official said wednesday night. Speaking to a crowd of about 80 peo ple at Pitburg a or. Edward d. Mar tin acting assistant Secretary of defens for health affairs said his office will explore entering into special arrangements with local health care providers to trea defense department personnel and fam Ilies.  by doing so the military May be a Leto make its health care system More Relia ble and Cost effective he said. When we. Ask people to go downtown we have to be much More Active tomake sure they receive adequate care Martin said. The town Hall Type meeting the third since saturday night was much quieter and smaller than the previous sessions. A total of nearly 1,000 people Many of them clearly frustrated attended the meetings in Wiesbaden Germany and Vicenza Italy. At wednesday s Pitburg a meeting some speakers complimented the air Force Hospital at Pitburg. We have always received excellent care at the local facility and with the bit Burg doctors at the Kran Konhaus As Well said Rick Whitesides a civilian air Force employee unlike the other two communities visited by Martin Pitburg a has a military Hospital that is not scheduled to close. While his office is still in the process of reviewing suggestions that May Lead to changes in health care Martin said arrangements with local doctors and Hospi tals Are an option. He compared so sch an see health on Page 2 Navy files reveal Dod radiation tests on patients Washington a in the first documented evidence of . Military involvement in human Radia Tion experiments Navy records show that researchers in 1945 injected two Hospital patients with a radioactive compound to study How quickly the poisonous sub stance would be excreted from their bodies. It had been widely assumed following recent Energy department disclosures of its cold War Era radiation testing on humans that the defense department did some of its own. But the Navy test is the first example to come to Light. The Experiment As described in an april 29, 1946,written report by the researchers was intended mainly to verify a novel technique for measuring the rate a which human blood and organs would rid themselves of Antimony a highly poisonous chemical element then used to attack killer parasites. The researchers wrote that theirs was the first test of its kind on humans. Unlike experiments that have come to Light from the Energy department and elsewhere the Navy Experiment did not appear to be part of the government s see Navy on Page 2 Tonya Harding s husband and bodyguard Are being probed in the injury of rival skater Nancy Kerrigan seepage 7 inside today a Hunt is under Way for a ? off " 9.