European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 e stars and stripes saturday August 6,1994 . Air Force civil engineering personnel relax Between operations at the Airport in Rwanda s capital Kigali on thursday. Refugees around Goma awash with clean water by Joseph Owen Heidelberg Bureau Stuttgart Germany . And other water purification units finally Are producing More clean water than . Officials say is needed for rwandan refugees in he Goma Zaire area. The units total water production reached 899,000 Gallons daily wednes Day said air Force col. David l. John son Deputy commander of the opera Tion support Hope joint task Force. American service members Are producing about 45 percent of that amount More than nine tenths of the water is being hauled away and distributed to refugees elsewhere. I Don t want to say that the situation in Goma is Over but we can see a Light at the end of the Tunnel Johnson said during a briefing at the Headquarters of the . European come in Stuttgart we Are now looking at the feasibility of getting contractors and other people to focus on maintaining the level of sup port that we be Al envelope a r v after that . Troops plan to shift into the second phase of their Mission persuading the Rwanda is to return we Are now looking atthe feasibility of getting contractors and other people to focus on maintaining the level of support that we be developed air Force col. David l Johnson Home. The refugees fled their country in the Wake of a civil War that broke out after Rwanda s president died in a mysterious plane crash in april. The number of . Troops deployed to the Region had grown to nearly 2,000 by Friday. More than half of them Areat Entebbe Uganda controlling Relief flights and shifting cargo from Large air planes to smaller ones. The sudden massive Aerial Relief operation would have exhausted the up ply of Jet fuel in the immediate Region within a week Johnson said so the taskforce has drawn fuel from relatively far Flung sources such As Mombasa Kenya and Harare Zimbabwe the latter City is the site of american Aerial tankers that conduct in flight refuelling of some planes involved in the Relief Effort. Refugees at Goma created a Tempo Rary Hazard by wandering repeatedly onto the single Airstrip there Johnson acknowledged but he added that they never caused any serious delays. He. Added that the problem has been solved. The runway at the rwandan capital of Kigali offered More challenging obstacles unexploded ordnance from the bloody rwandan civil War. An american ordnance disposal team re moved the lethal clutter permitting 24 hour Airfield operations to begin there sunday. American troops at Kigali s Airport Are controlling air traffic handling cargo and maintaining Airport Security Johnson said. The command said that All the initial . Military equipment needed for the Relief Effort is now in place and that the task Force is working with the . High commissioner for refugees and other agencies to Airlift equipment and sup plies from other countries. Ivery of stripes up in by Effie Bathen staff writer Goma Zaire nearly two weeks after the first american troops began arriving in Rwanda Many gis with opera Tion support Hope have not received the stars and stripes. Copies of the paper were apparently1 put into the military mail system said col. Robert Mirelson a spokesman for task Force support Hope. He could not say when the gis would receive the  capt. Perry Nouis a spokesman for . Air forces in Europe said As far As i know we Don t have any problems Anrhein main a Germany. The prob Lem is not at our  details were immediately available on movement of the paper to Zaire or Rwanda within the military mail system. James Wysocki the stars and stripes circulation manager said the problem appears to be in Africa. They be arrived there. It s just that they be gotten bottled up in Rwanda he said. Wysocki said individual units Are sup posed to distribute the papers to their members Wysocki said the first papers were ship Ped via military mail july 30. In the Early stages,.there were problems in Germany but they have been corrected he said. Cargo planes to Goma Are leaving from Rhein main around the clock. Generally English language news serv ices Are not easily accessible in the re Mote area where operation support Hope is being carried out. The . Troops who began trickling Ina fortnight ago have found themselves the Center of Media attention. Gis work ing on water purification at Lake Kiva have been interviewed repeatedly by re porters from major television networks and wire services several soldiers said wednesday. I be been interviewed 20 times said sgt. Gerrod Slawson of task Force 51. $2,000 Reward offered in theft at Baum older Kaiserslautern Germany is a $2,000 Reward has been posted for information concerning the july 5 theft of $26,000 from an All ranks club in Baum older. Criminal investigation come agents continue to follow leads in the burglary at the Iron club said . Army Europe spokeswoman Millie Waters. The Reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the Early morning burglary. Waters would not discuss details of the Case citing the investigation. Military police discovered the break in at 4 45 . July 5 and searched the premises. The Money was found missing during the search according to an earlier Baum older Community statement. Community officials declined to say Why $26,000 had been left in a Safe overnight or whether the Safe was left open. Wing at in Ciurlik gets new Leader in Kirlik a turkeys a air Force col. John Barry recently succeeded col. Jim Kula As commander of the 39th Wing Atin Ciurlik a. Barry came to in Ciurlik from the Kennedy school of government at Harvard University in Cambridge mass. He is a 1973 Honor graduate of the . Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo. I stand Here a grateful Maybarry said tuesday in his first speech As commander of the 39th Wing. Grateful for the Opportunity to command a Wing. And grateful for the Opportunity to become a member of the Warrior proven team  Kula has received orders to Langley fab in Virginia. The 39th Wing participated in operation desert storm in 1991 and is participating in operation provide Comfort in support of the . Ban on iraqi flights above the 36th parallel  commissary to shut Kaiserslautern Germany is the Ramstein a commissary will be closed thursday for an organizational Day for employees according to a defens commissary Agency Europe statement. Organizational Days Are an accepted practice throughout the european Community the statement said. The Day off comes less than two weeks after nine business hours were trimmed from the commissary s weekly schedule. The commissary will reopen Friday at 9 . The deca Europe statement suggested that patrons who need in shop thursday should visit the Corfi Issaris at Baum older Sembach or Vogely very