European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday january 13, 1994 i at a glance members of the Caribbean strand ing network carefully clean off crabs stained by last week s Oil spill in san Juan puerto Rico. Else where in the City the coast guard held hearings into the cause of the 750,000-gallon spill. See Story on Page. Sex wife gets pay a woman who survived an attempt on her life by her army officer Hus band will receive most of his pay Check while he is in prison a court says. Page4 new yorker favored new York state s police superintendent will become administrator of the Federal drug enforcement administration sources say. Page 6 . To help Russia Russia has agreed to accept . Help in destroying its chemical weapons two House members say. Page jets going smoke free United airlines will test smoke free flights on some new York London and los Angeles Australia routes. Page 8 Channel rates set a drive on train ride in the Tunnel connecting England and France will generally Cost More than a ferry ride with prices ranging from $330 to $465 for a round trip. Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers 19 classifieds. 22-25 comics. 19-21 commentary. 17 crossword. 19 faces n places 18 Horoscope. 24 Jumble 24 letters. 16 Money matters 14 sports 27-32 to listings 31 weather 15 Clinton to seek outside probe of Whitewater Case aide says Washington a bowing to political pressure president Clinton will ask for appointment of a special counsel to investigate his investment Iran Arkan Sas real estate Deal a senior White House official said wednesday. The White House was expected to announce the decision later wednesday the official said. The policy reversal came As Senate re publican Leader Robert j. Dole called for a special Senate committee to investigate Clinton from Page 1 Russia on Friday for a formal signing Cere Mony. The agreement would require Ukraine to dismantle its 1,800 nuclear warheads left behind with the breakup of the soviet Union Over the next seven years. Ukraine has the world s third largest nuclear Arsenal. Kravchuk s vows to surren Der the weapons have met resistance in the ukrainian parliament. The agreement would offer Ukraine $177 million from a congressional fund to help former soviet republics dismantle their missiles $155 million in direct . Aid and up to $1 billion Over 20 years from the commercial Sale of uranium extracted from the warheads. Also Russia which provides Ukraine with about 96 percent of its Energy has promised to sell Oil and Gas at bargain rates to join with the United states in promising not to launch a nuclear attack and to respect Ukraine s territory. Earlier in the czech capital of Prague Clinton sought to allay fears of russian aggression among former soviet satellite states assuring Eastern european leaders wednesday that the Security of your state is important to the Security of the United  Clinton told the leaders of Poland Hun Gary the czech Republic and Slovakia disappointed they weren t awarded full nato membership that the West has a major stake in the Well being of their nations. Together we can place Central and the Clinton 1980s investment in the Whitewater development corp. The White House for weeks has opposed Republican  for an inde pendent investigation of the investment arguing that an ongoing Justice depart ment investigation was adequate. Echoing the White House attorney general Janet Reno has said she did not believe it was necessary for her to appoint a special counsel and has said that if she did republicans would question the investigator s objectivity. But republicans have been relentless in their criticism and the Calls by a grow ing number of democrats for Clinton to Call for an Independent review stripped the administration of its argument that republicans were trying to Embarrass Clinton. Clinton said tuesday that he was re evaluating his opposition to a special counsel even As he reiterated that he and his wife had committed no wrongdoing. President Clinton wearing a Skull Cap follows tour guide Jaroslav Safranek right through the centuries old old jewish cemetery in Prague on wednesday. Eastern Europe at the heart of a new Europe an integrated Europe democratic prosperous secure and free he said at a news conference on the Steps of the palatial . Ambassador s residence in Prague where he met with the Eastern european leaders. Clinton sought to minimize the fact that nato stopped Short of offering them full membership and Protection from aggressors and he dismissed a reporter s question about whether the new partnership for peace turned the Eastern european countries into second class cousins. The president said let me be absolutely Clear. The Security of your state is important to the Security of the United  both czech president Vii clan Havel and polish president Lech Walesa made Clear that they wanted More than the closer Mili tary and political cooperation offered by nato leaders under the partnership plan. Health from Page 1 arrangement with health management organizations or mos common in the United states. Such organizations guarantee certain Levels of health care for identified groups or members. Martin also said the champs sys tem will remain in Europe. Champs the civilian health and medical pro Gram of the uniformed services is a health care insurance system for military family members and retirees. We do have an obligation to the Mili tary people Here said Martin explain ing that includes Federal civilian employ. Yes. Most in the audience were defense department civilians. Martin fielded about 20 questions ranging from rules on walk in visits at the military Hospital to fees assessed to civil ians who seek medical care. The fee assessed to civilians probably will increase from $94 to $97, Marti said. Navy from Page 1 not appear to be part of the government s Effort to learn How radiation affected humans. Rather it was used in this Case mainly As a tool to help understand the use of Antimony As a treatment for parasites. Still it is not Clear whether the two test subjects described by the researchers As volunteers were told they were being injected with radioactive substances. Their names were not Given but one subject designated by was described As 20 years old not bedridden but apparently suffering from elephantiasis of the Testicles a chronic condition caused by the presence of a parasite in the Lymphatic system. He apparently was a member of the military but no other identifying in formation was provided in the report. There was no description of the other male  report was reviewed by the associated press at the naval medical re search Institute in Bethesda md., which sponsored the Experiment. The two subjects were patients at the . Naval Hospital in Bethesda. Limited information made Public so far has indicated that besides the Energy department the veterans administration and the National aeronautics and space administration had ? hand in cold War Era radiation experiments using humans. The Cia has said it so far has no indication that it was involved though it has acknowledged that it used humans i chemical warfare experiments. Officials at the naval medical re search Institute initially said their review of available records had turned up no Evi Dence of human experimentation involving radiation. However when asked later about the 1945 test capt. Robert Gaugler the Institute s scientific administrator and act ing commander said the report would resubmitted to a Clinton administration group that is assembling All available re cords on human radiation tests. Gaugler said most of the Institute s work with radiation is believed to have used animals rather than humans As test subjects. An a review of records Avail Able at the Institute this week seemed Tob ear that out. In Institute was created in october prob Ems arising in