European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes vol. 52, no. 270 wgmi%s8iilfr Lim 500 thursday january 13,1994 Ukraine bows to . On nukes Kiev Ukraine a paying the briefest of visits to a former soviet re Public president Clinton on wednes Day nailed Down an Accord to Dis Mantle 1,800 nuclear warheads in Ukraine. He said the agreement would enhance the Security of the entire  at a news conference also attended by ukrainian president Leonid m. Kravchuk Clinton outlined several Steps the 0iirit0fif s european Roundup see related stories on Page 5 United states would take to pro vide economic assistance and Security assurances to Ukraine As part of the agreement. The president said he Kravchuk and russian president Boris n. Yeltsin would sign the pact Friday in Moscow. Kravchuk also hailed the agreement. I am sure that this Day and the forthcoming Days open the Way for the world for disarmament and for the elimination of nuclear weapons he said. Persuading Ukraine to give up its nuclear Arsenal has been one of the United states principal foreign policy goals since the soviet Union broke up in 1991. Clinton s hastily arranged air port meeting with Kravchuk amounted to an International Courtesy Call for a pact negotiated painstakingly Over Many months. Clinton also said he was offering Ukraine the same Type of limited be see Ukraine on Page 2 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 will be in Moscow until saturday to Confer with russian president Boris . President Clinton and his 15 nato partners threatened bosnian serbs with airstrikes if they Block the opening of a major Airport for Relief supplies or prevent the rotation of peacekeepers in the former yugoslav Republic. Forn wryly a � 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 Raychuk to sign an agreement in which Ukraine pledges to become nuclear free Over a seven year period. In return Russia and the United states Promise not to attack. Aps a president Clinton delivers misstatement at the . Ambassador s residence in Prague czech Republic. From left Are presidents Michal Kovac Slovakia Lech Walesa Poland Vaclav Havel czech Republic and Arodd Goncz Hungary. D 8693 a Pentagon eyes deals with clinics overseas 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 defense for health affairs said his office will explore entering into special arrangements with local health care providers to treat defense department personnel and fam Ilies.  by doing so the military Ray be Able to 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 to make 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 Hospi Tal 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 such an see Pentagon 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 at which human blood and organs would rid themselves of Antimony a highly poisonous chemical element the 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 handing Tonya Harding s husband and bodyguard Are being probed in the injury of rival skater Nancy Kerrigan see Page 7 inside today a Hunt is under Way for a few we if crib who Cut a song. 7o7  things that go hunk on the slopes seepage 13 see stripes Magazine