European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The Sims and Fries vol 53, no. 129 500 wednesday August 24,1994 d 8693 agis pulling out of Good by Doyle Tillman staff writer Goma Zaire a the . Military is withdrawing from. Goma this week ending its leading role in what has been the worlds biggest refugee Center. A a we re hoping to have the last Man out by the 25th thursday a a said maj. Luis Cruz air terminal movement control team commander for Goma and Entebbe Uganda. The first soldiers to leave Goma pulled out last week. Other units have been returning to Europe this week. Although the permanent withdrawal of forces is imminent military aircraft will bring supplies into the Goma Airport and some cargo handling equipment also will remain officials said. Goma has been the focus of the humanitarian efforts to protect the 2 million people who fled Rwanda a vicious civil War. Nearly half the refugees fled to the Bor Der City. A the first . Service members arrived july 22, launching emergency programs that have included water purification medical care Road building and food distribution. At the Peak about 300 americans were on duty in the Goma area. At a Brief ceremony monday . Officials thanked the americans. Without their presence the refugee sit see Goma on Page 4 a year later Dod review going Over like a bomb by the los Angeles times Washington barely a. Year after it was unveiled the Pentagon a highly touted a Bottom up review of . Defense policy a Quot intended to serve As the Clinton administrations blueprint for the Post cold War military a is largely in tatters. As envisioned by former defense Secretary Les Aspin the review was supposed to clean out old cold War thinking forge a new role for the military and yield a smaller but tougher fighting Force. Aspin claimed that it did exactly that. A it has produced a lean Mobile High tech Force ready to protect americans in this new time a he proudly said last september when the new study was completed. A it is based upon the real dangers that face America in the new but today one year later the Bottom up review has become a liability derided by outside defense experts of All stripes and Given Only a lukewarm embrace by the defense departments new management. Liberals complain that the reviews Central recommendation a that the United states maintain a Large enough Force to fight two major regional wars a nearly simultaneously a is merely a Holdover from cold War Days and is out of sync with the relatively Low intensity conflicts that have broken out in Rwanda Haiti and elsewhere. Conservatives charge that the see Dod on Page 2 senior airman Marvin Lewis of Panama City Fla., offers fresh water to Javier Gonzalez right and Roberto Santorek after the youngsters arrival at Guantanamo Bay Cuba where they Are among cuban refugees who have been picked up at sea. Inside today the University of Maryland reopens amid debris after moving again air Force sergeant faces British jail term Over wife a poll tax blockade of Cuba could be washout by Art Pine los Angeles times Washington a military strategists say there probably is Only one effective Way to Stop the flow of refugees from Cuba impose a blockade around the Island and Stop All vessels and aircraft that might be carrying would be immigrants a blockade on Cuba worked in 1962, when the . A a quarantined the Island to prevent further delivery of soviet missiles to Fidel Castro a regime. It has worked to embargo Trade generally in Bosnia and Herzegovina Iraq and Haiti. Leon Panetta the White House chief of staff even raised the idea on a National television interview program. W but the Mere suggestion sends chills through the ranks of those who would have to set up and operate the blockade and among policy makers who having failed to improve the situation still think this idea could actually make it worse. Sceptics say a blockade would require a massive Effort that would sap warships away from military operations around Haiti and might even backfire by degrading conditions in Cuba so badly that More cubans would try to flee. Under International Law it also might Wibly prompting Castro to launch a last ditch be considered an act of War a Possich military stand that could put Ordinary cubans at risk and draw the United states into a tense military confrontation. Indeed despite Panetta a remarks the administration was backing away from the idea monday. A a that a not part of our present planning a defense Secretary William Perry said at a news conference in key West Fla. In truth the administration already has see blockade on Page 2 freeing Paris French capital liberated 50 years ago this week a see pages 17-20
