European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday april 22,1994 at a glance the stage version of Beauty arid the beast Disney s animated blockbuster has broken a Broadway Box of fice record despite bad reviews. See Story on Page 20. Bomber worries the nation won t have the bomb ers it needs in the next five years under the Clinton administration s budget plan a general says.page6 Mia search starts More than 100 . Specialists on thursday began another in a series of searches to determine the Fate of americans missing in action from the Vietnam War  Page 10 fax costs tracked Many Fortune 500 companies Overlook the pricey Cost of involved in using facsimile machines a Gal Lup poll has found.,. Page 14 l Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds. 24-27 comics 21-23 commentary. 13 crossword. 21 faces n places. .20 focus .,15-19 Horoscope. 27 Jumble. .27 letters. 12 Money matters. 14 sports. 28-32 to listings. 31 weather. 11 correction because of a reporting error the author of a Eulogy for sgt 1st class Benja min t. Hodge was incorrectly identified in a Story thursday. Cpl. Dedra Corley wrote and recited the poem at the memo rial service for the Friendly fire victim. Also the name of the Mission was incorrect. Hodge died performing duties with operation provide Comfort in Iraq. Defiant serbs use big guns  -.,.  Butcher Hospital patients Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a defying world Calls to Stop their brutality bosnian serbian forces on thursday targeted Hospital buildings in besieged Gorade with heavy weapons killing up to 28 people. Doctors and town officials said Over Ham radio linkup with Sarajevo that thursday s bombardment of the Tow was the worst of the three week serbian offensive. Counting the dead and wounded does t make sense anymore said Esad Ohran Ovici a local official. Two tank rounds hit a building next to the overcrowded Hospital that House slightly injured patients. When i entered the devastated build ing i saw heaps of flesh and Metal Saidur. Ferid Tutic who went Over to help. There were conflicting reports of the number of people killed. Aid workers re ported up to 20 killed but Tutic said Only seven of the 35 patients housed in the building could be rescued. Soon after a mortar Shell hit the in trance of another neighbouring building and killed five people he said. The Hospital itself was hit dozens ofttimes Obranovic said. Doctors Are crawling through the corridors to. Help patients Hospital director or. Alija Begovic said. On wednesday at least 10 people were killed when the Hospital itself took a direct hit. The roof was blown off the. Day before. V Kris Janowski spokesman for the  commissioner for refugees which has four staff members in Gorade ear Lier said one Shell crashed into a red Cross refugee Center killing and wound ing Many people. He said another Shell that landed near the town s mosque amid morning also caused heavy casual ties.  a. Nunn from Page highest authority. Secretary of state Wanen Christophe said thursday that we Are getting into Bosnia to vindicate . Leadership an to try to deter the serbs from expanding the War in the  just cannot turn our Back on the situation he told a Senate subcommittee while serbian artillery kept Gorade s 65,000 civilians gripped in  a cautious Secretary of state and i guess i will always be feels a Nee to vindicate . Leadership Christo Pher said. He told a sceptical chairman sen. Ernest Hollings d.c, that . Strategic interests were at stake in bos Nia. He reiterated Clinton s assurances . Ground troops would not be sent into the two year conflict. But if theato Council concurs and Christo j her said France was lining up with Washington nato warplanes would be ready to strike serbian positions if they did not withdraw their heavy weapons from safety zones around Graz use and five other mostly moslem enclave designated As havens last year by the  Security Council Christopher said that the latest ser conduct requires a firm response and that Clinton s proposals were the Soun dest Way to Deal with this  in a glimpse of the differing opinion son Bosnia Hollings disagreed with Christopher As Well As Nunn. He questioned that . Interests were at stake and whether american casualties could be justified. Nunn said the Public must be prepare for . Airmen s deaths. If we continue to have simply pinprick attacks. I Don t think it is going to really work. We have to be willing to escalate. Otherwise the escalation is All on the Side of the bosnian serbs nun said on Abc. So the big question is whether the Al lies Are willing to not Only take step one As outlined by president Clinton but escalate All the Way to Serbia if need be the White House has not threatened to bomb Serbia itself we Haven t called for that  White House press Secre tary Dee Dee Myers said thursday she did not Rule out the option but said we be never called for targets in Serbia or anything like  asked i the idea was under consideration if Clin ton s new policy fails Myers said we Renot going to discuss options beyond what the president has  Nunn said the United states is about to be perceived As a participant in the conflict and that s justifiable considering what the bosnian serbs Are  Nunn said we Are about to reverse the Vietnam Era Nixon doctrine that the United states would help people defend themselves by arming them but use american Force Only As a last resort now we Are about to slowly and inadvertently but surely Start sending Ameri cans and other people into harm s Way.," Nunn said. Frorer Spagel Mand combined plans operations and intelligence divisions into one directorate commanded by a major general. Previously brigadier generals commanded the three separate  moves Are part of the command s efforts to meet draw Down goals. Koep predicted that Safe would have authorization for 34,000 Active duty and civilian workers by sept. 30,1995. In 1991, More than 63,000 people manned the command. Safe already has Cut its Headquarters staff which peaked at about 2,100 in 1990, Koepp said. By 1995, the staff Wil Bottom out at about 837 people. Currently Safe has slots for 41,000airmen and civilian workers. To meet its goal of cutting about 7,000 slots during the next 17 months the command is com Bining Many functions that in the past were Independent operations Koepp said. Safe has trimmed its detachments and operating locations from 204 to 81 through consolidations or elimination of Many units a command statement tues Day  geographically separate units will no longer report to Host base command ers. Instead Safe is establishing Sepa Fate regional commands designed to oversee support units assigned to various air bases in , we be inserted a com Mand layer Between numbered air Force Sand units Koepp said. It takes away the Host Wing s responsibility for those support units As signed to a base so it can concentrate on the War fighting  the move will affect units that do not directly contribute to a Wing s War fight ing Mission a statement said. The 401st munitions support so a Ghedi Italy is one unit that will fall under the new command Structure Koepp said. Currently the Squadron Falls under the 31st fighter Wing at Avi Noab Italy. The streamlining will mean the squad Ron will report to the regional support group s commander who will have the same authority Over his command As a Wing commander does at an air Bas Koepp said. Therefore that will relieve the Avi Ano commander of those responsibilities that Don t directly affect his War fighting Mission he said. Other changes scheduled for fiscal1994include either eliminating or combining Safe directorates to trim the offices from 18 to 13, cutting Field operating agencies an direct reporting units from 17 to 11. Activating three new Field operating agencies july 1 at Ramstein a. The units Are the 32nd air operations group the Safe operations so and the Safe management engineering flight. Renumbering the 4th air support operations group which provides sup port to the army As the 617th  new designation is consistent with other 17th air Force units. The group is designed to give ,. Army Europe and 17th air Force commanders a single focal Point for operational support according to the command. The group Headquarters remains i Heidelberg and squadrons and detachments located with army units i Germany and Italy will continue to re port to the group. Stroke victim Nixon Falls into deep coma ktc7ii7 a Ltd / a or. New York a former presi Dent Nixon slipped into a deep coma thursday Hospital officials said. His family was at his bedside Accord ing to the mid afternoon statement from new York Hospital. President Richard m. Nixon s Condi Tion has deteriorated and he is now in a deep coma the statement said. Before his turn for the worse the 81 year old former president suffered swell ing of the brain a potentially deadly complication of the stroke he suffered monday. Doctors sometimes try to reduce brain swelling after a stroke by placing the patient on a mechanical Respirator. Nixon however was not put on a Respirator in deference to his explicit wishes the new York times reported thursday quoting an unidentified health worker