European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 r the stars and stripes monday july 25, 1994 at a glance president Clinton is greeted by his Stepfather Richard Kelley at the Airport in hot Springs ark., on saturday. The president returned to Arkansas to attend his 30th High school class reunion. See Story on Page 10. Truce crumbling there were reports of an upsurge in breaches of a shaky truce around Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina and More shelling and casualties on Battlefront in the North and North East. Pages . Reward offered a new Jersey real estate magnate is offering $250,000 for information that clears . Simpson in the slay Ings of Simpson s former wife and. Her Friend. Page 6. Reverse camouflage military technology used to camouflage tanks on the Battlefield is being Josed by the Auto Industry to do the reverse make cars easier to spot to help avoid crashes. Page 9 Happy workers according to a Survey Federal workers were much happier about their jobs at the end of the Bush administration just before president Clinton s inauguration than they were three years earlier. Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers. 20 automotive. 9 classifieds. 21-24 comics18-20 commentary 13 crossword 20 faces n1 places 10 focus 15 Horoscope 23 Jumble 23 letters. 12 Money matters. 14 sports 25-32 to listings 31 weather. 11 1,700 gis from Europe tapped to Aid by eff1e Bathen staff writer More than 1,700 soldiers  Are kissing their families goodbye and Rush ing to deploy to Central Africa. Their Mission to save the lives of More than 1.5 million refugees who have fled Rwanda and Are dying by the thousands on the zairian Border. Although the soldiers will be packing personal weapons reports from humanitarian Relief agencies and advanced Par ties sent to the Region indicate there is no military threat said Navy cmdr. Ron Morse of the . European come based in Stuttgart Germany. The potential is there but there is no specific threat to americans that we Are aware of he said. Still soldiers will typically carry Side arms or m16 rifles he said they will also be issued flak vests and helmets. Malaria and other diseases Are Likely to pose the greatest threats to american soldiers Morse said. The weather probably will be about the same or cooler than the heat they Are leaving in Germany he added. According to . Army officials in Europe units going to the troubled area will include water purification specialists and others. The Mission includes 400 Germany based soldiers mostly from the 3rd corps support come and the 21st theater army area come. The Germany based contingent has been dubbed task Force 51. 1,300 from the army in Europe s Southern Region who Are to deploy from Aviano a Italy beginning today with a Small group of about so. Soldiers from several units were alerted Friday and families Werc briefed by the appropriate commands according to a spokeswoman for the 3rd corps support come based at Wiesbaden a Germany Many soldiers were called Back from leave and notified by american forces network announcements to Contact their units maj. Mary Lou Nesco said. About 16 percent of 71 deploying soldiers from the corps support command Are women. Some soldiers have just returned from the International marches at Nijm Egen Netherlands. Others participating in the v corps exercise caravan guard were at locations throughout Germany. . Soldiers in a Rock band from Vincnza Italy had to withdraw from the . Army Europe Battle of the bands Competition in bad Kreuz Nach Ger Many on saturday because they were called to duty. As is Standard soldiers and their families were advised by their commands that the soldiers could expect to be deployed up to 179 Days. Deployments longer than that require orders for a permanent change of station and soldiers then would be eligible for different entitle ments Nosco said. The first of the 4qo Germany based soldiers an Advance party of 36 was to depart for Goma Zaire this morning from Rhein main a Germany. Among other . Involvement so far three c-141 Star lifter aircraft loaded with food cooking Oil and medical sup plies arrived Early sunday in Goma to which most of the refugees have fled. Three Mc-130h combat Talon us from the 532nd special operations group based at Raf Alconbury eng land arrived in Africa on saturday after an 18-hour flight. The converted Hercules aircraft is usually used for Day and night infiltration and Aerial reconnaissance. On sunday the Mc-130s completed the first Airdrop of Relief supplies into the Goma area. They dropped about 34,000 pounds of meat Rice biscuits flour and sugar. Other water purification specialists arc scheduled to deploy within Days. Task Force 51 s specialized equipment includes two water purification units that can process 600 Gallons per hour. The members will haul water to distribution Points in Large Mobile tanks. Heavier equipment which can process As much As 3,000 Gallons per hour will accompany other units. The 400 soldiers from Germany have been drawn from several locations. Most Are from the 3rd corps support come and the 21st theater army area come. . Personnel already deployed to Goma will initially recover the air dropped food bundles and turn them Over to . Humanitarian personnel who will distribute them according to a statement from the european come also a tactical Airlift coordination element of about 200 people is to help expedite unloading and handling of cargo. Bulk food for sunday s Airdrop was loaded in Entebbe Uganda one of sever Al centers for . Aircraft operations. Half of that element is already there Neucom said. The statement did not specify the units involved. Airdrop from Page i for the . High commissioner for refugees. Miami Edeze chief of the Village of Rwan Kwi where the bundles fell looked sadly at smashed boxes Reading gift of the Netherlands and piles of flour and milk powder in the mud. Maybe if they had sent this by vehicle we would not have lost it he said. Still All we can say is thank  thernest Nyandwi 43, clutched his two sons tightly As he watched Aid work ers thrash through the Fields. We were afraid it was an attack by the rwandan rebels he said. Many people fled. Before the drop William Mccoy operations officer for humanitarian and ref Ugee affairs of the . Defense depart ment said the idea was to deliver food without trucking it through congested refugee areas. He acknowledged widespread criticism by . Specialists and voluntary Agen cies. They had argued that trucks could make the trip easily in i hours at a fraction of the Cost. The operation was Worth trying he said and if it went wrong it was Ameri can Money that was lost. Maj. Guy Shields a . Spokesman said he had no explanation for the missed target or Why not All the Load was dropped. But he noted that american c 5 galaxies and other aircraft were ferry ing supplies to staging bases. Also on sunday a . C-141 starlit or arrived from Rhein main a Ger Many carrying a single forklift and 18 journalists to cover the delivery. They re heat from Page 1 water to the Rescue. I be been to similar missions. I be been to real missions in Iraq and Turkey and now Africa sgt. Gerrod Slaw son 25, said As he finished loading Prepa rations for a water purification uni t that processes 600 Gallons per hour. We re excited. We re ready to do it. We want to do our Job he said. Because his unit has been working nonstop since Friday to prepare for the trip Slawson was so tired he had a hard time even remembering which Day it was he Learned that he was going to deploy. While helping kurdish refugees in Northern Iraq Slawson s unit had older equipment than for this Mission he said. But now we have everything we  Slawson a water purification specialist who has been in the army six years said his wife took the news of the deployment Well. / she s Happy. She does t like to see that on to he said of the rwandan refugees suffering. Slawson said he was confident that during his absence the support network in his unit would help his wife and their toddler son like they were  sgt. Lisa Sokolowski a Driver hauled ammunition for n Ine months to combat units in the persian Gulf three years Aco she said she was confident she would be Able to handle this Mission As Well. I like what we can do she said add ing that she was flabbergasted at hear ing the order to deploy. If it Means helping other people and making a d i f Ference out there we re glad to  follow on  i t s will include postal detachments More t Ransport t Ion in i t s communications services and military no lice according to army commanders As far As what to e x p e c t i n Basic accommodations Sokolowski said we re turned on the empty aircraft. The Valale Camp doubled in size to 350,000 people almost overnight because so Many refugees fled Munagi known now As cholera Camp where a viru Lent epidemic began streams of refugees walked North step Ping around the bodies neatly stacked one after the other along much of the Way it is Good for the United states to Send us food said Jean Muskoka commissioner of the Ruc Hugu District which takes in a tale but they should fix up this War so that rwandans can go Home  Aid workers said the costly Airdrop diverted badly needed resources and took the focus away from the More urgent priorities of water Supply sanitation and medical supplies. This is a total Public relations opera Tion said Alison Campbell of care. Prepared for  Sokolowski 26, who is single said she called her Mother and told her not to worry if she did t hear from her for a while. Spec. Caesar Gongora also a water purification specialist said of i be been to Kuwait. I can handle  still he was bracing himself. He said a chaplain cautioned the soldiers at their briefing that they were going to dead bodies you re going 1o see some things. You be never seen before Gongora said but the main concern is the people. They re going to he pretty rowdy.". Gongora called his brother in the 1st army div in Liau Holder and his parents in the United states to Tell them he was going to Africa his parents and his air assault trained brother told Gongora a 26-year-okl sup ply sergeant " Best wishes and stay alive. Come Back Safe " see i