European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 02, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The St is and pipes is we pm vol. 53, no. 107 500 tuesday augusts 1994 d 8693 a Dod numbers doubted 9 x Agency sceptical if two War strategy feasible by Che new York time Washington congressional investigators and some senior military planners Are expressing growing concern that the Pentagon cannot afford its ambitious Long term strategy of being prepared to fight two regional wars at the same tune. The general accounting office said in a report Issue monday that the defense department May have Over stated savings and underestimated costs by More than$150 billion in its $1.2 trillion budget for 1995 to 1999. The $150 billion figure is substantially higher than the estimate figured by the Senate armed service committee in june. Figuring the Gap at $60 billion the committee declared itself seriously concerned that the Pentagon would be unable to finance the strategy. Defense Secretary William Perry has repeatedly assured Congress that the Pentagon can deliver on its plan. The Pentagon said last december that the deficit was about $50 billion Over five years. That Gap shrank to $11 billion to $20 billion after More optimistic inflation estimates were calculated and after president Clinton agreed to give the armed forces More Money to offset a decision by Congress to in crease military salaries. In their defense Pentagon officials cite a March re port by the congressional budget office a frequent critic of the defense department Catling the Penta gon s budget sufficient to pay for the military s future Force Structure the budget office however said the Pentagon might have underestimated potential Cost overruns on new see strategy on Page 2 i _ Young rwandan refugees gather outside the american military Encampment at the Airport in Goma Zaire on monday. Keep if Cean deploying troops told by Joseph Owen Heidelberg Burea Stuttgart Germany drink lots of water but eat and drink Only what Uncle Sam gives you. Wash your hands and your dishes Well. Dig latrines far from eating areas. Use insect repellent and Mosquito nets. And avoid any kind of Panky with the locals. All this roughly is what . Euro Pean come officials Are prescribing for the thousands of service members Likely to be serving in sub saharan Africa As part of operation support command considers the chief med ical threats in and around Rwanda to Bedia Rheal diseases heat related illnesses malaria and sexually transmitted diseases particularly the aids virus. Diseases Likely to induce diarrhoea in clude cholera and dysentery. The death rate among rwandan refugees infected with cholera has dropped from 27 per cent july 23 to about 2 percent how7 said Navy capt. Gordon Peterson a european come spokesman. But dysentery Hai become a threat in its place he said. . Forces Are not Likely to contract cholera a waterborne illness if they see clean on Page 5 Aid flights Likely to land at All hours in Kigali by Joseph Owen Heidelberg Bureau Stuttgart Germany anticipated round the clock operations at the Airport in Kigali Rwanda Proba Bly will permit 25 to 30 Relief flights to land there daily according to the .european come. The joint task Force carrying out operation support Hope already had 108 service Mem ers assigned to the Airport number May nearly double when Airport operations get into top gear Ina few Days. Two us. Air Force c-5 Galaxy jets landed at Kigali on sunday. They carried two loaders two hmm was or humvee and airmen assigned to the air Force tactical Airlift control element that will operate the Airfield said Navy capt. Gordon Peterson spokesman for the Stuttgart based european come. The command s aim is to turn the Airfield into a fully functioning Logis tics Hub that can Forward Relief sup plies by land to the cholera Ridden refugee clogged Border town Ofoma Zaire. Meanwhile in Goma . _ and germ Arr daily production of clean see Kigali on he . Says it s prepared to Lead Haiti invasion United nations a the United states is ready to head an invasion of Haiti to restore the elected government there . Officials said after the Secu Rity Council approved the use of All necessary Means to Force the country s military leaders out. But Haiti s army installed government reacted defiant _ by Early monday declaring a state of siege and vowing to fight any invasion with All our might and the . Military is prepared to organize and Lead an invasion Force . Ambassador Madeleine Al Bright said after sunday s Security Council vote. We seek and anticipate that others will -._. The message to the haitian military she said was you can depart voluntarily and soon or you can de part involuntarily and soon. The Sun is setting on your ruthless ambition. White House chief of staff Leon pane la called the vote a very Strong signal that the world Community is United that we want the military dictatorship to but in an interview sunday on can Panetta declined to say How Long the Clinton administration would give Haiti s military to step Down before taking action. J i think it is sufficient to say soon he Aid. And they d Bette get that signal the Resolution authorizing the use of Force passed by a vote of 12-0. China and Brazil abstained. The 15thmember of the Council Rwanda was absent. Early monday morning Haiti s de Facto president Emile Jonassaint declared a National state of siege and announced that the Battle of Haiti is under Way. We will fight it with All our might and Means. It will see Haiti on Page 2
