European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes sunday August 7,1994 at a glance cuban Leader Fidel Castro threat a cd a refugee exodus to the United states after thousands of anti government protesters fought with police and communist party Mili Tants in Havana. Sec stories on Page 10. Breast feeding urged the surgeon general urged health providers to take Steps to increase the percentage of mothers who breast feed. _ Page 6 shave order opposed the Justice department wants a judge to reconsider allowing the Cit Adel to shave Shannon Faulkner s head. " Page 7 Jailhouse fashions a new style of pants has some Texas inmates hopping mad. Michael Lisa arrive Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley Jackson arrived in Hungary for their first Public appearance since their stunning marriage announce ment. Page 1 1 verdict 20 cents Bill Cosby will have to pay dam Ages for assaulting a photographer who snapped his picture. The pay out 20 cents. _ big Deal takeover fever took Over on Wall Street last week prompted by Amer ican Home products corp s $8.5 Bil lion bid for american Cyan amid co. _ _ Page 20 Index Abby Ann Landers classifieds commentary. Faces n places. Horoscope. Letter Money matters Mutual. Sports. I., v. Weather. 16 24-291516 .2714 .20 20-23 29-36 17 Tipper Gore planning to help Relief Effort by Wayne v. Hall staff writer Rhein main a Germany scr ice members who expected to Greet the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff on saturday got an unexpected Surprise when they Learned that he was being accompanied by the wife of the vice presi Dent. Army Gen. John m. Shalikashvil and Tipper Gore wife of vice president Al Gore spent about three hours at Rhein main a before flying to Entebbe Uganda to observe . Involvement in operation support Hope. In an interview at the base Gore said she will help in the refugee Camps in Goma Zaire working with women an children. She said she plans on spending about two Days in Goma. Her interest in the Mission she said i spurred in part by a sense of Pride in the american Effort to provide humanitarian Relief to the rwandan refugees. She also wanted to thank the .forces organizing life saving efforts in the Region recently devastated by civil War. I think it s important that we say that we care about these people Gore said. We want to make sure that we stand fora humanitarian cause around the  she said humanitarian efforts Are important particularly ones that involve children and families. The crisis in africans particularly bad she said because an entire nation has been affected. I Don t think anybody can look at the pictures and understand the reality of the ravages of the civil War seeing the Chil Dren and seeing the Relief workers who Are providing such terrific assistance an themselves probably tired and in need of Relief Gore said. Saturday marked the second time that Gore visited with service members at the is Wayne v. Hall Gen. John m. Shalikashvil Center and Tipper Gore appear saturday at Rhein main a with col. Donald Siegol chief of the air mobility support so and Squadron members. Base. In december she accompanied he husband who thanked participants of operation provide Promise the . Por Tion of the peacekeeper Mission to for Mer Yugoslavia. I think that it s important that the military be ready for National Security purposes Gore said. I think that something that the american want first and  people but the amount of existing and Poten tial civil unrest worldwide has led mos people to predict we re going to see More of these ethnic conflicts and the worlds going to be needing humanitarian re Lief Gore said in support of the expanded role for . Fighting forces. I am delighted to see that the military is very efficient and very organized in providing humanitarian Relief she said. Serbs from Page 1 both operation provide Promise in for Mer Yugoslavia and operation support Hope in Africa. _ while the United states has been involved in Bosnia for More than two years the joint chiefs chairman does t foresee american service members remaining in Africa nearly that Long. I think this is not one of these Long term commitments said Shalikashvil. We went there to jump Start the process. To help the civilian organizations and the nongovernmental organizations when they became so quickly overwhelmed by those masses of refugees that moved out of Rwanda. I Don t View it As a Long term  his Hope is to keep the . Strengthen Rwanda at fewer than 4,000 service members however he said the size of the Force needed will be determined by army  a. Joulwan com Mander of the . European come. There Are currently about 2,000 Amer ican military personnel in the Region. Restoring normalcy to the Region Shalikashvil believes lies in stopping the misery and dying in and around  water must be supplied and the cholera epidemic must be stopped both of which he said Are being done. The latest figures that i have that Hope of confirm when i get Down there Goma from Page 1 was lined with piles of Hutu  thursday the sky was Gray. Part of it was smoke in Fields where Brush was being burned away to minimize insects and spread of  of the rest was due to two smok ing volcanoes overlooking the  the time the truck reached Camp Kib Umba at 3 p.m., the sky was nearly Lack with choking smoke. American engineers had Cut a Roadway into the Center of the Camp a few Days before and spread lava gravel to even out the surface of volcanic Rock. As the trucks pulled up the soldiers connected hoses leading to collecting tanks. A few feet away thousand of refugees waited in lines around spigots most remained quiet and took no notice of the trucks and soldiers. They re All victimized said sgt. Ron Conway a truck Driver and native of Fredericktown to. He said that he was stunned by the number of people he saw clinging to life. They had nothing to do with the civil War he said. Some Drivers shouldered their m16 rifles while pumps sent the water through Clear plastic pipes. Their commander Haft asked that sol Diers keep their vehicles secure avoid physical Contact with the refugees an walk in pairs if they wanted to go into the Camp area most Convoy soldiers decided to wait near the trucks until the water was unloaded but some did a bit More. They share smiles when a few children asked for Bis Cuits French for cookies. And when it. Michael Johnson of Lansing kan., went into the Camp he old his Drivers he had discovered some thing interesting. A lot of Little rwandan kids he said,."now know How to give a thumbs up and say Huah ". Show that we Are now exceeding the mini mum requirement for fresh water that the Unher has established he said referring to the . High commissioner for refugees. All the reports from Goma indicate that they now Nave a Han dle on that cholera epidemic. It s hard to overstate what our servicemen and women have done starting Here at Rhein main and All the Way Downto those who Are in Goma and working at All the places in Between he said. I think without them we d still beheading the headlines that we were read ing just 10 Days ago about the thousand that were dying every night. But i think we still have a Little ways to go before refugees in any numbers will go Back to Rwanda skinheads Battle German police Hannover Germany a anarchist punks Neo nazi skinheads and Drunken Rock fans clashed with police Early saturday yen three German cities. About 500 self described punks fro around Germany threw rocks and empty Beer bottles at train cars and police be fore fleeing into abandoned rouses in Hannover in the Northern state of Niedersachsen. Federal police flushed out the youths and booked 190 of them on variety of charges. _ _ in Bremen Northwest of Hannover police responded to a Rock concert and were surrounded by 250 Drunken  policeman was injured by a thrown bottle and six youths were arrested. In Gotha in the Eastern state of thu Ringen police arrested eight Neo nazis after skirmishing with a group that had been blasting recorded Adolf Hitler speeches and nazi songs from a tape re Corder at a Gas station