European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 04, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes i 1 at a glance. Thursday August 4,1994 James Jordan above the. Father of Michael Jordan May have faked his death because of financial prob lems attorneys for a suspect in the Case say. See Story on Page 6. Fire victims helped the . Government is footing the Bill for a shopping spree in the United states for people whose be longings went up in smoke in Spain. Page 4 bosnian serbs defiant bosnian serbian leaders have again rejected an International peace plan despite pressure from Serbia. _ pages Black nominated . Flip Alan wheat became the first Black person to be nominated to statewide office in Missouri. _ Page marines brought in . Marines have joined the Bat the against devastating Forest fires in the West _ _1_ _ Page 8 f " " i Kumm hmm Mumm a cigarettes under fire the food and drug administration moved a step closer tuesday to de Claring that cigarettes should be regulated. _ page9 test results when . Simpson goes on trial in september prosecutors May not have the results of key blood tests. Page 10 Wal Mart on top. Wal Mart stores inc. Eclipsed Sears Roebuck and co As the world s top Stop last year a mag Azine says. _ _. _ a. _ _ Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers 19 classifieds 22-25 comics 19-21 commentary 17 crossword. 19 faces n places. 18 Horoscope. 25 Jumble 25 letters Ivy or. 16 Money matters. 14 sports. 26-32 to listings 31 weather .7. 15 gis must stabilize conditions at refugee Camps spouses told  Northern Italy Bureau Vicenza Italy the . Military Hopes to turn he humanitarian Effort in Central Africa Over to the United nations and nongovernmental organizations once conditions have stabilized.,. Then the Job would be to get american service Mem ers Back Home. That s the message that army Gen. George a. Joulwan commander of the . European come brought to army spouses wednesday at the Headquarters of the Southern european task Force a Vicenza. I won t say we have turned the Cor Ner but reports coming from Aid Cen ters Are very encouraging Joulwan told two dozen spouses during his Quick visit to Caserma Ederle. Joulwan who returned monday from a visit to Central Africa with Secretary of defense William Perry said it was heart warming to see what american service members and others Are doing to Aid rwandan refugees. We Are now at a capacity of purifying Over 1 million Gallons of water a Day at Goma Zaire. Within two weeks we have stabilized the cholera Issue. Now there is dysentery but that s water re Jated too Joulwan said. The first priority of the . Military s Relief Effort has been to stabilize conditions in the refugee Camps at Goma and to Stop the dying Joulwan explained. We just started to move things there without conventional planning. It was backward from How you usually carry out an operation Joulwan told the gather ing. When asked How Many More troops from Vicenza May go to Central Africa Joulwan said his command is still trying to get the right sort of mix of service members on the ground. I Don t foresee at this Point Many More troops going Down there Joulwan said explaining that there Are Between 1,800 to 2,000 . Service members in Central Africa. I Hope to keep it at 3,000," Joulwan said inferring to the maximum number of service members who might deploy to the troubled Region. Most of the us Relief forces Are operating out of the main base for the . Effort at Entebbe Uganda. A Small num Ber fewer than 200 Are or soon will be in Kigali Rwanda. An additional 250 or so Are engaged in the Aid Effort in the Goma area according to the general. He said other . Personnel Are set Ting up a port operation at Mombasa Kenya to receive pre positioned Stock including up to 200 trucks that could be " used in an Overland Supply Effort. Joulwan said the american forces at Kigali keep the Airport open around the Dock. This is important he said because Kigali the rwandan capital is Only a three or four hour drive from Goma site of several refugee Camps. Asked if . Troops would move the supplies along the Kigali Goma Road Joulwan replied i be Given orders that they will stay right there at the Airport and not go  the troops involved in the Relief Effort know they have saved a lot of lives in Central Africa Joulwan said adding that the Way the military responded so quickly to the refugee crisis is a great tribute to  return from Page 1. _ _ -. Groups blame the massacres on the rwandan army and civilian militias guided by extremist Hutu politicians. No reports have surfaced of Large scale revenge killings by the rebel rwandan patriotic front which has established a new government in Kigali. It has repeat edly said innocent huts have nothing to fear in returning Home. But remnants of the Defeated Rwan Dan army and a number of Hutu politicians Are spreading rumours in the Zairi an Camps telling the refugees that the Tutsi will gouge put their eyes and Slit open their bellies if they re Cross the Bor Der. The fictions said Wilkinson Are stronger than truth. Wilkinson said he hoped his Agency would be Able to take some eiders and Community leaders Back across the Bor Der on a tour to prove to them that it is Safe for their people to return. In the squalid Camps the refugees Are dying at a rate of 600-700 a Day Wilkin son said. That s Down from 800-900 two Days ago and far fewer than to Etc 1,800 2,000 who were dying each Day Early Las week. But Wilkinson added All Sigris Are that dysentery is on the Rise so this May be Only a temporary drop in  More than 22,000 have died since the crisis began two weeks ago and although governments and Aid agencies have made Progress in stemming the deaths Muchmore is needed. The French military has lowered its estimate of the number of refugees in the Goma Region to 890,000. The Unher acknowledged its original Estir mite of 1.2 million refugees was exaggerated but declined to give a new estimate. With the arrival of the first american trucks in Zaire . Army convoys delivered More than 100,000 Gallons of water tuesday to the gruesome Kib Umba Camp where More than 250,000 rwandans have taken Refuge. Five army tractor trailers hauling3,000 Gallons each shuttled Back and Forth Between the army water Purifica Tion Plant on the Shore of Lake Kiva in Goma to the Camp about 20 Mijes North. The . Air Force landed eight jumbo cargo jets at coma s single strip Airport carrying four bigger american trucks Able to carry 5,000 Gallons each and nine water trucks donated by Finland. The /army s 10 water pumps and Chlorinator can produce a half million Gallons a Day. But the United nations estimates the refugees around Goma need 1.25 million Gallons More if they Are to keep clean essential for preventing disease. In Geneva the Unher on wednes Day said it was disappointed with the International response to a . Request for $434 million to ease the rwandan Cri Sis. Representatives of some 60 countries meeting tuesday pledged $137 million to the . Relief Effort. 7 Unher spokeswoman sch Etna Foa said it would be difficult for the United nations to plan and warned that pro Grams such As supplemental feeding for chronically sick refugees would suffer. Countries expect the United nations to operate and to be effective and coordinated she said. It would just feel Good for once in a crisis of this magnitude to be fully funded and not to Piave to work or about it for a  the nations also pledged More than$230 million in material help including sanitation equipment and fuel from Ger Many and Road maintenance and repair work from the Netherlands. Goma from Page 1 walked through the powdery Brown dirt on the Hillside above the Airport runway. He called the dirt Moon dust because it reminded him of the fallout from the mount St. Helens Volcano near his Home in port Orchard Wash. About 10,000 refugees have died since he arrived Burgess said. The situation was so desperate he did t think there was much Hope of saving the million Refu gees who had fled Rwanda and now sleep under a Volcano near Goma. The americans in the Region do not know the name of the smoking Mountain just North of the Camp in this land just below the Equator where shadows fall on the South Side of a person at noon. Water going Down a Shower Drain spi rals in the opposite direction than Ameri cans Are used to soldiers say. But that is something they Haven t seen since most have not had a Shower in a week. When Burgess arrived he judged that ground Crews were using Only a third of the Goma Airport s capacity for unload ing food and medical supplies. By Day 12, he said things were looking up. He estimated that along with inter National military help the joint task Force has doubled or tripled the Airport s capacity. The kids refugees Are getting More aggressive. There s an increase in theft people Are looking better Burgess said. Americans brought in water Purifica Tion units. An israeli Mobile Hospital has arrived and so has one from Finland. Today local children from Goma flit at the Edge of the military tent Camps that have sprung up around the Airport Misla. Give me they chirp to the pass ing soldiers and Aid workers. Last week Hutu refugees lined the roads. Some were sleeping. Some begged for food. Some you thought were sleeping but they were dead Burgess said. In the first Days he was there Burges said the Airport was chaos. A Small British group was making miracles he said. The greatest need was for heavy equip ment to unload supplies from planes still others whom Burgess Calls Johnny come lately do not see the Progress there s absolutely no order said Mary Yates of the american embassy i Zaire. She darted her Toyota land Cruiser Between vehicles and planes on the tar Mac earlier this week. Wings of giant c-5 Galaxy cargo planes drop 40 feet Over the edges of the. Narrow runway. The planes must unload within an hour and Fly on to another Airport such As the one in Nairobi Kenya for Crew rest. One plane flying tuesday from Rhein main a Germany brought an eight member . Assessment team from Mannheim Germany. The team will work with the 51st Maint in to evaluate Airport and humanitarian operations. The plane also delivered five Unicof and finnish tankers. Burgess said he d take the tankers Over assessment teams any Day. But he does think he needs More than the last three forklifts that arrived tuesday to do the Job. That he said is also a Good sign