European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday August 6,1994 i at a glance a lebanese woman surveys the destruction caused by an israeli air raid thursday that killed seven civilians. In a highly unusual move Israel has apologized for the raid. Sec Story on Page 9., Chavis fights Back the Rev. Benjamin Chavis is re fusing to yield to mounting demands that he resign As head of the a act. Page 6 postal woes the . Postal service will need about a year to recover from major delivery problems postmaster Gen eral Marvin Runyon says. Page 7 joblessness grows the . Unemployment rate edged up to 6.1 percent in july. Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers 21 classifieds 2225 comics 18-19,21 commentary 13 crossword 21 faces n places 20 focus 15-17 Horoscope 25 Jumble. A 25 letters 12 Money matters 14 religion .7.". 10 sports 26-32 to listings. 77 a. 31 weather 11 correction the associated press in Atou Dup of primary election results that appeared in the stars and stripes on thursday erroneously reported that retiring Missouri sen. John Danforth plans to work full time for the episcopal Church after Leav ing office. Danforth plans to. Practice Law Par time. " ". " because of source and editing errors several items in a thursday Story that announced the 601st Wing s commemoration of its history and inactivation a Sembach a Germany were incorrect. Local nationals Are invited to attend the event. Also the Sembach flight line is scheduled to return to Germany in april 1995 after the Wing inactivates March 31,1995. Nato from Page 1 pledged to give Back a t-55 tank two a Mored personnel carriers and an anti air Craft gun. The nato raid came after serbs seized the weapons from a  site near Sarajevo before Dawn Friday and shot a . Helicopter sent to track the tank. Nato noted in a statement released at its Brussels Belgium headquarter that any uncontrolled Neavy weapons in a 20 Kilometre 12.5 mile zone around Sarajevo after feb. 21 were subject to airs takes in accordance with a nato ultimatum issued then to remove them orput them under . Control. Maj. Care Holloway a . Spokes Man said the serbs had parked the seized tank and an armoured Personne Carrier near a Hospital and a school. That would make it nearly impossible for nato planes to try to hit the weapons because of the danger of hitting civilians. Apparently for that reason plans to strike the seized vehicles were scrapped and substitute areas were selected the . Civilian source said speaking on condition of anonymity. . Officers had previously demanded that the serbian military immediately re turn the seized weapons but negotiations dragged on apparently without result. _ sniper and Small arms fire intensified around Sarajevo after the airstrike. Wit _ Nesses said two passengers on the City Streetcar line were wounded. A state department official in Washington said the nato raid was carried out by two-. A-10 Thunderbolt us and two French mirages. The a los were from Aviano a Italy. The a-10 a Sui attack aircraft designed for close air support of ground forces especially As an antitank aircraft the plane is equipped with a 30 my gun that can fire 3,900 rounds a minute. It also has Maverick and. Sidewinder missiles. Maj. Rob Jannink of the . Peace keepers reported that serbs fired two rounds of 82 my mortar fire into a Sarajevo neighbourhood wednesday in Clear violation of the 12.5-mile weapons exclusion zone. It was the first time the United nations had confirmed heavy weapons were fire Don Central Sarajevo since nato ordered the serbs in february to remove heavy weapons from the exclusion zone or turn them Over to . Control. Any violation of the exclusion zone would be grounds for . Commanders to Call nato airstrikes. Firing on the . Helicopter is also grounds for an air strike. Jannink said an undetermined number of serbian soldiers raided the weapons shortly before 4 . Friday from a , collection Point in serbian held Lidza just Southwest of Sarajevo. About 30. Ukrainian peacekeepers guarding the site did t notice the incur Sion until the serbs were leaving with the weapons and were unable to Stop them Jannink said. . Commanders sent a French Puma helicopter to track the tank but the Heli copter was forced to return to its base after several rounds of Small arms fire hit it Jannink said. No one on Board was in Jared he said. Shortly afterwards peacekeepers travel ing by Road were blocked at a serbian police checkpoint when they tried to move into the area where the tank Jad been sighted Northwest of Sarajevo Jannink said serbian commanders con tended their troops needed the seized weapons to fend off attacks by govern ment forces in the area around Vares and Isoko Northwest of Sarajevo. The Boom an serb army has an Over whelming advantage in heavy weapons Jannink said. In my opinion they would not need these four  tensions spiralled in Bosnia after Yugoslavia announced thursday it would sever All economic and political ties with bosnian serbs after their self styled parliament rejected an International peace plan for the third time. Nationalist bosnian serbian Leader shave pledged to fight on without Serbia s support which has been vital to their domination in the struggle with muslims and croats. Most Telephone service was Cut off Fri Day Between bosnian serbian territory and Yugoslavia now consisting Only of Serbia and tiny Montenegro. Perry from Page 1 logistical support to . Forces in Rwanda Tanzania Uganda and Zaire. Perry said the Money was for costs estimated through sept. 30. Senior civilian Pentagon officials and top Field commanders have expressed increasing alarm that the costs of peacekeeping and Relief missions Are straining their de Clining budget and Imp riling the Penta gon s main goal to be prepared to fight two regional wars nearly simultaneously. Perry reiterated the administration s position that the United states would Supporta . Peacekeeping operation in Rwanda but would not directly take part. And he said that if widespread killing resumed the United states would withdraw. We do not plan to put in military forces to enforce the stability in the area Perry said. Therefore in that Case we Wouldhave to pull  he also said the United states Relief mis Sion dubbed operation support Hope would be Brief. We re there for emergency humanitarian Aid and As soon As the operation is up and running we want to get out and turn things Over to the Relief agencies he said. Perry has said the . Involvement would last less than a year. Perry was accompanied by army  m. Shalikashvil chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and John Hamre the Penta gon comptroller. The defense Secretary also heard con Cerns from lawmakers that Relief operations could reduce combat readiness. We re desperately concerned about readiness being eroded by All these con Cerns said rep. John Murtha d-pa., who Heads the military spending subcommittee. Shalikashvil said he ordered a review of the deployment of certain units in High de Mand such As c-130 Hercules cargo plane Crews and Marine expeditionary forces to determine if we re running them  Perry s remarks on Haiti reinforced vie she voiced tuesday in a meeting of senior National Security advisers. At the meeting Perry said the United states should fully explore All options for forcing out Haiti s Mili tary leaders before resorting to an invasion administration officials said. American intelligence analysts in Washington and in Haiti Are sceptical that tighter sanctions which clearly Hurt the country s poor people Are pinching the pocketbooks of the elite Ana the military rulers. The pm Bjorgo to Date has had a very limited effect on the regime or the elites Perry said. We be been very effective in blocking goods coming by sea. Meantime the Back door is wide open to goods coming in through the dominican Republic. Jintil that Back door is closed sanctions can t be that  the Pentagon said this week that it was sending six helicopters 18 military scouts and several technical experts to the Domin ican Republic on monday to help Stop smuggling of fuel. The officials will be part of an International team of 88 observers who will patrol the 186-mile Border under an Accord signed monday Between the United states and the dominican  dominican Republic will also be continuing to patrol and this will be in Addi Tion to that a Pentagon spokesman Den Nis r. Boxx told reporters thursday. Shots from Page 1 medical det in Grafer Wohr Germany.. Medical personnel obtained a French vaccine from French Relief Agen cies and inoculated the americans the medical officials said. The officials added that an american vaccine would not have been available for a few More Days. Doctors in Goma gave the soldiers a briefing before inoculating them in two sessions. None of the soldiers said he had received a meningitis vaccine before Leav ing Germany the doctors said. The deployment of troops from Vilseck happened really quickly said a 12thgeneral dispensary immunization technician spec. Jeffrey Lewis. He said that to his knowledge All the 94th engr in soldiers who processed for deployment were screened and properly inoculated. Barbara Slifer spokeswoman for the 7th medical come said that the medi Cal records of All soldiers deploying from Tho. 94th engineers in Vilseck were screened at the local medical clinic. Soldiers who had not received the Beningo Coucal inoculation in the past five years received it before deployment to Rwanda and Zaire Slifer said in a statement. Soldiers who had received i within the past five years did not need it. They Are still  Slifer said it was not possible to asses the risk to anyone who May not have been inoculated. There Are too Many variables wit regard to the threat of disease she said. But it is for the potential threat of Dis ease that we  without the preventive inoculations it s possible to contract the disease with in three Days or you could go a year without contracting it Slifer said. Meningitis is an inflammation of membrane sin the brain. _ the members of the engineering unitary among the few americans who Are coming into Contact or might have con tact Svith refugees. They Are building roads and lending their equipment to re Lief agencies to dig Graves according to officials. Maj. Martha Sanders the medical detachment s commander for preventive Medicine said american soldiers were not digging Graves. However at least on Soldier from the engineering unit said they were. In either Case the soldiers were at greater risk to be exposed to the fast act ing and deadly disease because of their proximity to the Camps and those in it local medical officials said. A bacterial or viral version of Menin gitis is transmitted by airborne droplets. It also can be contracted by coming in Contact with soil contaminated with drop-.lets.,. A the French vaccine differs from the american vaccine but was determined to be sufficient for the varieties in the re Gion Sanders said. No information was available on the differences Between the two vaccines. She said she knew of no other Inci dents in which soldiers did not receive inoculations