European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 03, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday August 3,1994 at a glance a i Shannon Faulkner he first woman admitted to the All male Citadel walks with attorney Bob Black to a court hearing monday in Charles ton . A Federal judge ruled that she must shave off her hair like other cadets. See Story on Page 9. Haitian critic ambushed a politician and former . Army Soldier opposed to the Mili tary backed regime in Haiti was shot after the regime vowed to fight Back if the United states invades. Page 5 Salvo at space plan three of the nation s top military chiefs Are strongly objecting to an air Force plan to grab control of All Mili tary space operations. Pages poles asked to forgive Germany s president apologized monday for the suffering nazis caused Poland in world War ii As poles marked the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising Page 10 Bank rejects Blacks Germany so Perth largest Bank has acknowledged that it often won t open accounts for Black africans be cause of bad experiences with people of color. Page 14 Woodstock event Dies the Woodstock nation shows Little interest in a revival show at the be Thel n.y., setting of the 1969 Rock festival so the concert has been cancelled. Page 20 Index Abby Ann Landers 21 classifieds 22-25 comics. 18-19,21 commentary. 13 crossword 21 faces a places. 20 focus i. 15-17 Horoscope. 24 Jumble. A. 24 letters. 12 Money matters. 14 Spos. 26-32 to listings. 31 weather. 11 mail from Page 1 although this is a contingency zone Simi Jar to a War zone free franking is not permitted. Franking Means providing the Nec Essary postage to move the mail. However free franking has been re Quested through the office of the defens Secretary. It has not yet been approved Haskins said. The Frankfurt Germany Aerial Mai terminal or frat currently has 2 pounds of personal mail and six bags of the stars and stripes newspapers for the african based Relief Effort awaiting a flight to the air mail terminal at Entebbe Uganda. Frat workers began operations to the Central african area tuesday. Airmen at Entebbe opened their Post Al doors monday to collect and move mail from Africa to Europe and else where. Camps from Page 1 postal service for the deployed the ride of Fie i Post offices include Kigali Rwanda Apo a 09340 Entebbe Uganda Apo a 09341 Goma Zaire Apo a 09342 Bukavu Zaire Apo a 09343 Stuttgart Germany Apo a 09346 initially the focus is More on getting family member mail to Johnny said capt. John Milliman a . European omd spokesman Milliman added that the establishment of Apos was a preliminary move and that additional details Are still being worked out on further Mai handling and delivery. The air Force in Europe is responsible for mail delivery to Entebbe said Robert Bents Safe s chief of mail transportation. Ground delivery of the mail is an army task. Mail is a priority for Airlift said maj. Felecia Tavares a. Safe spokeswoman. She added that As the number of. Supply flights to the Relief Effort in creased so too would the Speed with which mail is sent and received. Once mail arrives at the air Mai Jermi Nal in Uganda it will be sorted for distribution on a piggyback basis with supplies to soldiers and airmen in outlying Apos to get mail delivered they la be using any available air and ground transportation Bents said. Air transport includes flights aboard any of the six c-130 aircraft currently operating from Entebbe postal officials added. Military officials agreed that the time for delivery would depend on the Avail ability of Airlift. Haskins and Bents speculated that the average time Between Frankfurt and Entebbe would be three to four Days. Officials could not say How Long it would take mail to reach personnel conceit arrived at Entebbe. He said. Cholera and dysentery Are both Spreadby focal contamination of food and water. Cholera is treated with an infusion of liquids and minerals to replace those lost by the body through vomiting and requires five Days of costly antibiotics. The United nations has appealed for$434 million in donations to help the refugees and representatives from about 40countries met tuesday in Geneva to pledge funds. Sadako Ogata the . High commissioner for refugees told the meeting that the Agency faced a Cash shortfall of$65 million. Despite a huge International Aid Effort she said the Agency desperately needs help improving sanitation Camp and Road facilities. Ogata made her first visit to the Camps monday then flew to Geneva. In Goma where death Aid suffering surrounded her she was cheered to see cholera victims saved by red Cross an Volunteer doctors . Planes ferrying in water tankers and engineers bulldozing roads so they could serve More people. Things Are bad but they re going Roget better Ogata said monday. In Geneva on tuesday Sylvana Foa spokeswoman for the . Refugee Agency said the arrival of More bulldozers to Bury the dead in mass Graves has helped to control the spread of disease. There were no bodies in the Cam monday and that has eliminated a major health problem she said. The Unicof on monday estimated a glance at dysentery As the cholera epidemic has begun to Wane rwandan refugees in Zaire face a new killer in dysentery. Relief workers say 30 percent of the refugees May be infected and one in 10 is Likely to die. To combat the disease thousands More latrines and much More soap and water just become available. Tow T if pm of few \. Apm Tok j k of dehydrating " f a " �31&. A i a Tepatte. Water or Wir. A Loc xxx Lamaten %.,1 \4v0 Var a / a 50,000 people have died in the Camps inthe past two weeks More than twice the refugee Agency s figure of 20,000. . Military efforts to increase the flow of clean water to the Camps gained to Merium. Transports brought the first of three 3,000-gallon . Water tankers and nine tankers were expected from Finland. . Army engineers bulldozed two paths through Kib Umba 20 Miles North Chutis from Page 1 governments to Parachute june 5 Over Normandy to Mark the 50th anniversary of thing about it being too danger Ous and All that crap was said in Normandy. It s not valid scoffed Ken Shaker,78, of san Diego who jumped onto a Muddy Normandy two months ago. It can t be any harder than the ground around Here in san Diego and we be jumped in the san Diego area said Shaker who commanded a company in the 509th Parachute Iii in and sur Vived the Battle of the bulge. He said the veterans could jump onto softer Golf course if necessary what right do they have to say no to people who freed their country and Are ready to. Die to Honor their dead com rades said Rene Gueguen a retired French colonel who helped overcome French obstacles to the Normandy Cele Bra Tion. Only in France Are there these kinds of imbeciles he said in a Telephone interview from his Home in san Diego. The veterans had supplied Roux wit certification of recent jumps copies of medical exams and liability waiver Gueguen said. The loss of the plane on such Short no Tice was a bitter blow. 7 for the Normandy re Eric tent do nations from Continental airlines and other sponsors helped the veterans pay their Way. This time they were paying for the trip to Franca and jump out of their own pockets. As . Jump is not Parton the official anniversary program. Roux said that if the French allow the jump it. Should provide the equipment and expertise. He advised the veterans to take up with the defense ministry gue aps a of Goma where the crush of refugees has slowed traffic to a crawl. The paths will make it easier for . Trucks to Carrywater there Fromm american water purification site in Goma. Defense Secretary William Peny said p Saiy that for is wil1 n be Parton a . Peacekeeping Mission authorized for Rwanda. The us. Military will be involved in Only refugee Relief operations he said. Guen said he has written to defense min ister Francois Leotard who was out of the country monday. Like Shaker several of the men who jumped m the a Day anniversary Cele bration never served in Normandy but were veterans of the invasion of the Trench Riviera 10 weeks after a Day. The other . Veterans include Ever Ett hall_75, of North Kingston r.i., who jumped m june s Normandy Celebration Wilham King 75, of Long Island Green of Selma Calif and an Gelo Poletp of Farmington Hills Mich. Now largely forgotten operation Dragoon was rated a nearly flawless air borne amphibious invasion and helped protect the flank of troops coming off the Normandy beaches. " compared with the tens of thousand Sot veterans who returned to Normandy in june Only about 400 Are expected on the Riviera to commemorate operation Dragoon
