European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The St Sand 5tripes vol. 52, no. 272 500 saturday january 15,1994 d 8693 a Gulf War Medicine assayed report Calls Washington a during the persian Gulf War medical teams for the air Force used supplies dating from the Eisenhower administration had radios that could t reach combat units and lacked training to treat combat casual ties a government report says. Many of the problems raised in the re port have Long since been addressed by the air Force which controlled medical evacuations. And the problems never reached the critical stage because american casual ties fell far Short of the anticipated shortcomings were reported by the general accounting office the investigative Arm of Congress. The Gao s report said the depart ment of defense did not disagree with the report s primary findings and Conlu previous Gao studies have criticized army and Navy medical operations Dur ing the Gulf War in which iraqi forces were driven out of Kuwait. In All there were 148 americans killed in action during the Gulf War 122 non combat deaths and 467 were wounded in action. The ground War unfolded in february 1991. The . Central come s surgeon staff predicted that it would need to evacuate As Many As 2,520 patients from the War zone per Day according to the Gao study. Medical and evacuation units request see War on Page 2 18,000 jobs to Bureau Washington about 18,000 jobs in the army s Active duty Reserve National guard components will be opened to women immediately following the Pentagon s new definition for direct ground combat. Women Are still barred from serving in ground com Bat units. But the policy change announced by defense Secretary Les Aspin on thursday will no longer place combat support jobs off limits to women simply be cause they Are considered dangerous. That had been the Case under the old risk i won t be satisfied until every Job in All the branches is open to women 100 percent in every serv ice said army maj. Carol Barkalow who was one of the first women admitted to West Point. Barkalow who wrote a Book about her experiences see army on Page 2 Harding guard 2 other men held in Kerrigan attack Portland Ore. A two men including Tonya Harding s bodyguard were in jail and a third Man surrendered Friday on charges that they participated in the alleged plot to disable figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. Harding scheduled to skate in next month s Winter olympics and her sex husband Jeff Gillooly were spotted Friday leaving their Rural Home. The couple had remained out of sight since tuesday amid questions about their roles if any in the alleged scheme. Neither Harding nor Gillooly answered questions. Shane Minaka Stant 22, of Chandler ariz., surren dered to authorities in Phoenix according to Fri spokesman Bart Gori in Portland. Gori said Stant was charged with conspiracy to Corn see attack on Page 2 president Clinton toasts russian president Boris n. Yeltsin on Friday after the two signed nuclear arms pacts. Leaders boost disarmament Moscow a in Post cold War breakthroughs . President Clinton and russian presi Dent Boris n. Yeltsin signed Kremlin accords Friday to Stop aiming missiles at any nation and to Dis Mantle the nuclear Arsenal of Ukraine third largest in the world. We Are giving a great boost to the goal of a nuclear disarmament Yeltsin said. For the first time in nearly half a Century virtually since the Dawn of the nuclear age the United states and Russia will riot operate nuclear forces Day to Day in a manner that presumes they Are adversaries Clinton and Yeltsin said in their Moscow declaration. At a state dinner capping the Summit Yeltsin said together Well overcome Russia and the United states will take their mis Siles off target by May 30, sweeping aside one of the most frightening relics of the cold War. In a nation gripped by chronic inflation and Sag Ging production Clinton praised Yeltsin forgiving Strong assurances that he will not Retreat from see leaders on Page 2 inside today end of seepage 4 video the Bat Leover ratings Anc the Nee
