European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 14, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 Suha Arafat wife of palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat walks Down the Steps of her residence in Gaza City on tuesday. Gaza City Gaza strip a Suha Arafat gathered a group of cosmopolitan palestinian women tuesday on the Steps of her Gaza Villa to make a Point on her first Day Here. A no i will not Wear the veil a said the wife of palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat. A i done to think Gaza women Are asked to Wear a veil.�?�. Suha Arafat with her elegant suit Diamond studs and Long Blond hair is not your typical conservative Gaza woman who covers herself in a traditional Muslim show of modesty. As the de Facto a first lady of the autonomous areas the 30-year-old Arafat pledged to make humanitarian and women a issues her top priority. 4 she said she has her husbands support for  is still unclear How much support Suha Arafat born Suha Tawil will get from Ganzans. Born to a westernized Christian family she was raised in the West Bank town of Ramallal and lived in France for a time. She converted to islam to marry Yasser Arafat. A a. Quot a a her remarks about the veil were not popular with leaders of the islamic resistance movement Hamas. A your women Are conservative women who follow the Laws of islam a Hamas activist Salem Salameh said. A she Isnit familiar with Gaza society and May still be under the influence of her French surroundings.�?�. A Suha Arafat said she is determined to change the image of the Gaza strip As a backward and impoverished place. A if Gaza is conservative and poor its because of the occupation a she said. A the palestinians arc not a backward people. The occupation destroyed the infrastructure and its not our fault that we Are in this situation.�?�. She has been criticized for trying to Wield too much influence Over her husband prompting some Ganzans to compare her to Hillary Clinton and jokingly refer to her As Hillary Tawil Arafat. Suha Arafat said however that she will not emulate any of the world leaders wives in her efforts to improve the status of women. A mrs. Arafat has no connection to these women. I respect them. I like them. But our situation is different and i done to compare myself to anyone a she said. Her life in the autonomous areas of Gaza and the West Bank town of Jericho appears Likely to follow the nomadic trends of her husband chairman of the Palestine liberation organization. Where Yasser Arafat will spend the night has always been a big secret. Before Suha Arafat a arrival locals would Point out Villas or apartments where air conditioners were being installed or gardens restored and say a this is Arafat a  Suha Arafat said her husband will probably not share her one Story whitewashed Villa which belongs to a wealthy Gazan architect. A she said a group of 50 orphans that she and her husband care for would arrive later this  soldiers7 locks May be on chopping Block Amsterdam Netherlands a now that the draft is being phased out professional soldiers want to trim one of the dutch army a most famous fringe benefits a a grunts right to Wear his hair Long. A we want a professional look for a professional army a dutch army spokesman Lars Poppers said wednesday. The air Mobile brigade the army a Only All professional unit recently instituted an informal policy to keep members hair Short and forgo the ponytails and earrings that make dutch troops stand out on nato Maneu vers military leaders Hope that policy will spread through the male ranks of the 43,800-Strong service once the draft is gone in 1998. But the soldiers Union a another unique element of the dutch military a believes the lifers Crew Cut initiative is just the first step toward Banning flowing locks in the military. The relaxed grooming rules and the unionization of the military Are products of the Liberal 1970s, when the government was searching for ways to quell discontent within the ranks of the draftee army. The new to sorial tack got front Page Billing in the nations largest newspaper the Amsterdam daily de Tele Graaf a the wild locks of the dutch military Are known the world Over a de Tele Graaf said. A they Are a Symbol for the democratizing of the Netherlands army a they re also a Symbol of what some critics say is the Lack of discipline among dutch soldiery. The Union thinks the army s command Structure is using the end of the draft As an excuse to reverse that �?odemocratizing.�?�. A we feel that with the scrapping of the draft some top brass people feel its a legitimate time to turn the clock Back to the �?T50s,�?� said Bauke Snoep president of the federation of military personnel. The soldiers Union says its members Are prepared to visit the brigade Barber in wartime when Long hair or a Beard might get in the Way of a Gas mask. A but i can to see the Point that people doing office jobs Here in the Netherlands should have to have their hair Cut a Snoep said. But Poppers denied there was a stricter new grooming policy in the pipelines that would ban lowing military Manes. A this is an internal agreement within this one professional brigade which wants a professional appearance a he said. A there is no proposal in preparation to prohibit Long hair.. Probing reports of new haitian massacre port a Prince Haiti a the . Embassy is investigating reports of a new massacre of Hai a trans a spokesman said wednesday As . Human rights monitors prepared to leave under an expulsion order from the government. Twelve Young men were found shot to death tuesday near Morne a Bateau a Hamlet 19 Miles West of the capital the private haitian press Agency reported. The Agency and local radio said the victims apparently were killed elsewhere and dumped at the site. The reports could not immediately be confirmed. American investigators would go to the scene embassy spokesman Stanley Schrager said. A . Officials worried that the expulsion of the observer team would result in such cases getting Little attention. A it could very Well just fall through the cracks a said . Spokesman Eric fait one of 92 observers scheduled to leave Haiti on wednesday night. They gathered at two Hillside hotels until their departure. The observer Mission has documented hundreds of politically motivated killings kidnappings and rapes since a military coup in 1991 overthrew president Jean Bertrand Aristide Haiti a first freely elected Leader. Security forces and coup supporters have been blamed for Many of the crimes. In response to the monitors expulsion president Clinton again raised the possibility of a . Invasion to return Aristide to Power. Colin Granderson chief of the joint .-organization of american states observer Mission said threats forced the monitors to go. They were leaving with feelings of indignation and sadness he said. A indignation because w e find that a handful of individuals hungry for vainglory for whom Power is based Only in the barrel of their guns have chosen to divert National sovereignty for their Benefit to the detriment. Of the Well being of an entire people a Granderson  sadness too because we arc going to leave the haitians alone to their own Fate. No one will be Able to witness the extent of the repression in  haitian foreign minister Charles David said that the observer Mission was illegal and that its expulsion should not justify military intervention. A Haiti is not a threat to anyone a he said. A a it a Black and White. They Are not wanted Here. So they Are going to have to  the team was scheduled to leave on a . Air France flight to the Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe. All other airlines have suspended service to Haiti adhering to a . Embargo on air travel to Haiti and the French embassy announced wednesday that air France flights would be suspended aug. 1, the flight also would take out 171 haitians granted political Asylum by the United states refugee officials said wednesday. They would be the first Asylum cases to go since the air embargo began june 24. More than 1,000 others Are waiting to leave. Granderson said the monitors departure a will signal a turning Point in the haitian  he did not elaborate but Many of his colleagues believe an invasion is imminent. A if anyone thinks they re going to out Luff the International Community or the United Stales this time they re not going to a . Embassy spokesman Stanley Schrager said. A haitian Mother and child wait to Board a . Cutter after their refugee filled boat was intercepted