European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The shr and ripes. Ws3swhs3 vol. 53, no. 113 500 monday August 8,1994 d 8693 a reports of reproductive problems Are a stunning and shocking consequence of military service. A sea Jay Rockefeller . Gulf vets spouses Tell senators of birth defects j by Cindy Killion t Washington Bureau Washington army sgt. Stephen Millers son was born without an Eye and an ear. His heart was on the wrong Side his. Windpipe and oesophagus were Eon nested and he had Spina Bifid and hydrocephalus. On Friday Miller told the Senate veterans affairs committee that he a convinced his tour in the persian Gulf War is to blame for his baby a deformities. Millers wife Bianca became pregnant soon after he returned from the persian Gulf. The couple expected no problems since they already have a healthy 2-year-Ola daughter. But when Cedrick was born March 1, 1992, the Millers lives changed. Doctors said the unusual combination of deformities indicated a genetic hereditary or chemical cause. But testing had shown no genetic problems in the parents. A i told the physicians i was in see vets on Page 4 gis May head Home soon general says return could Start within weeks Goma troops told by Effie Bathen staff writer Goma Zaire a army Gen. John m. Shalikashvil came to talk to some of his operation support Hope troops sunday and confirmed that some of them May be going Home within a matter of weeks. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff a affectionately called a Ash Ali by european based service members a toured the . Water purification site that is pumping More than 500,000 Gal ions of lifesaving water each Day for rwandan refugees. He also visited the task Force Camp on a Hillside above Goma Airport and the Catale ii Camp a site where army engineers Are preparing an area for hundreds of thousands of suffering refugees. A there is move afoot to give the water purification production and distribution projects to contractors a with at least As much capability As we now have a the general told reporters after his visit with troops. A i applaud that Effort to turn it Over Early rather than late a but american efforts must be Here Long enough so that army Gen. John m. Shalikashvil chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Waves goodbye to see Home on Page 3 . Soldiers sunday after visiting service members helping Relief efforts in Goma Zaire. Top bosnian serb rallying people we must fight for our Freedom Leader says on to by John Pomfret Washington Post Pale Bosnia and Herzegovina a the bosnian serbian Leader responding to Yugoslavia a closing of its Border and fridays nato airstrike ordered the establishment of a compulsory wartime work Force. A we Are prepared to be hungry naked and Barefoot but we must fight for our Freedom a Radovan Karadzic told bosnian serbian television in an interview sat urday night. A your enemies Are encouraged a he said. A now muslims and croats Are launching offensives and nato is making it easier for them to he stressed that he is ready to proclaim a state of War throughout the bos Nian serbs self declared Republic with rationing and a full mobilization. A we have to turn toward ourselves in the future a he said. Karadzic a move is rooted partly in the bosnian serbian leadership a decision to defy pressure from serbian president Slobodan Milosevic and the West to sign an International peace plan that Karadzic has called a catastrophically the plan sponsored by the United states Russia Britain France and Germany would give 51 percent of Bosnia and Herzegovina to a federation of muslims and croats the serbs would have to surrender about a third of the 70 percent of Bosnia they control. The plan also denies the serbs International recognition for their breakaway state a key condition for their signature on any peace plan. The serbs rejection of the plan has prompted the . Security Council to consider ways to tighten the 2-year-old economic sanctions against serbian dominated Yugoslavia the main Patron of the bosnian serbs. This in turn has caused Serbia Smilo Sec the architect of the serbian nationalist struggle and principal sponsor of the bosnian serbs rebellion to shut Yugoslavia a Border with the breakaway Republic implying it would deny the bosnian serbs further military Aid Milosevic wants Bosnia a 28-month War ended so that the sanctions will be lifted and his government will be secure. But the move by Karadzic also touches see serb on Page 2msibbrobm ice Cream presents new mystery in . Simpson Case a see Page 8 Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley Jackson visit hospitals in Budapest see Page 23war casualties Vietnam s amerasian lost Between two worlds see pages 20-21
