European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 26, 1994 the stars and stripes r Page 5 Gucma Tinamou dependents to move by John  Washington Post Washington the military plans soon to begin removing dependents of service members stationed at the . Naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba to transform the installation into a tent City for As Many As 65,000 cuban and haitian refugees Pentagon officials said wednesday. In addition senior military officials Are considering. Stripping Guantanamo of its usual Mission As a naval training facility so that the base s water and electrical capacity can be devoted to the refugee operation. Before the refugee crises Guantanamo was famous largely As a historical curiosity. The United states has held a lease for the installation since 1903, making it the oldest overseas military base. Cuban Leader Fidel Castro disputing the legitimacy of the lease has re fused to Cash the annual . Rent checks for $4,085. Yet for the last two months the place known uniformly to sailors As Gimp has played a Pivotal role in the . Effort to Cope with the massive human flights from Cuba and Haiti. Secretary of defense William Perry s announcement wednesday that the arid Hilly installation on the Southeastern tip of Cuba will soon accommodate 40,000 refugees nearly 2yi times the 17,000 or so there now thrusts Guantanamo even More dramatically onto the Public stage. The increase will vastly complicate the logistical Challenge of housing the refugees As what had been a manageable diversion for the installation becomes its All consuming Mission. Perry s order also had repercussions far from Guantanamo As the army Navy and marines were scrambling wednesday to find personnel and equip ment to contribute to the operation. Right now there Are More than 3,000 people helping run the refugee Camps but that number would Rise to Between 7,000 and 9,000 if the refugee population rises to 40,000. The needs Range from the obvious such As military police and medical team s to the less obvious including dozens of clerks to help the military keep track of the various accounts out of which the Guantanamo operation is being supplied and funded. In addition to calling upon Active duty forces the Pentagon May be forced to Call up Reserve troops to help at Guantanamo said a source familiar with planning for the joint chiefs of staff. The variety of tasks to be performed was reflected income of the army s deployment orders wednesday. A military police unit of 125 people from fort Bragg n.c., is on the Way to Cuba a spokesman said. At fort Hood Texas 25 laundry workers four chaplains and More than 100 Cooks and other support personnel were packing their bags. Pentagon spokesmen said they did t know How Many personnel would go to Cuba and where they would come from. Pentagon spokesman Douglas Kennett insisted that we have the expertise to do this sort of thing. We have people who Are trained to build infrastructure to fight a War As they did in desert storm and the same skills apply Here. Although water sewage and electrical capacity Are at a Premium physical space at Guantanamo is not an especially difficult problem a military official said. The base which lines both sides of the Bay Mouth that Columbus housing the refugees the Clinton administration will expand detention Camps at Guantanamo to House up to 65,000 refugees. To Date 2,000 cubans and 14,000 haitians Are at Guantanamo. Another 7,000 cubans Are on their Way. Capacity is now 23,000, and  expanded to 30,000 later this week. The base will reach 40,000capacity next week. The . May commit several dozen More marines military police units a 50-bed Hospital and 125 support personnel to feed the refugees. Soccer Field showers a a / food Ontl Barracks  a this. V. V Vit. Tjho  a i up by the patrols Are taken a Federal detention Center West of Miami Havana m a fryc i i Wei \ to or a Al \4 x 12-Mlte limit Cuba s 1guantanamo Bay i see Nepf  .7dovei source a research a we j. Castello Karl Tate sailed through on his second trip across the Atlantic in tary built desalination facilities after Castro turned off 1494, has 32 Square Miles of land roughly half the size the water pipes in 1964. Of the District of Columbia. The Border with the rest of Camps for haitians and cubans separated by a Cou Cuba features the world s largest minefield which has in pie of Miles Are surrounded by barbed wire and have habited cubans from coming in by land. Tents that sleep from 16 to 20 people. Guards inside the because mountains Block weather currents Quanta Camps Are unarmed. The military has provided soccer Namo does t get much rain. Its appearance is similar Fields As Well As classes for kindergarten language his to the american West Complete with Cactus. The Mili tory and other subjects for children and adult refugees. Probe of Cowlings May Aid Simpson prosecution los Angeles a the. District at Torney confirmed that he is using a grand jury to investigate Al  Cowlings and suggested he May wind up with evidence against his Friend . Simpson As Well. District attorney i Garcetti said wednesday that he is not seeking a grand jury indictment against Cowlings the drive during Simpson s Highway Chase the Day he was charged with murder. We Are there for strictly investigative purposes he said. Garcetti did t comment specifically on the Simpson murder Case but said any information obtained by the Cowlings grand jury can be used in any other criminal proceed ing As Long As it s  he said he is using the grand jury rather than his own investigators because the panel has subpoena Power that his office lacks. Furthermore he said the formal setting of the grand jury room often prompts More truthful answers. Cowlings attorney Donald re told the los Angeles times that it would be inappropriate for any prosecutor to take a Case to the grand jury with the intent of developing evidence against someone who already has been ordered to stand trial As Simpson has. But if the grand jury investigating cowl Ings happens to come upon evidence Rele vant to the Simpson Case for example about his reasons for fleeing with Cowlings the Day he was charged prosecutors could use that evidence re and other experts said. Simpson 47, has pleaded innocent to murdering his second sex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her Friend Ronald Goldman. His trial will Start sept. 19. Judge Lance Ito is to Rule today on whether certain blood samples must be shared with the defense so it can conduct its own in tests. Cowlings Simpson s lifelong Friend and former teammate drove a White Ford Bron co during the nationally televised freeway Chase in june that ended with Simpson s arrest. Cowlings was arrested for investigation of aiding and abetting a fugitive. Re said Cowlings was trying to talk Simp son out of killing himself not help him escape. Garcetti s disclosure was the first time he had confirmed what was going Ori behind the grand jury s closed doors. Normally prosecutors do not comment on secret grand jury proceedings. The state Pena code bars jurors from discussing them but does t mention prosecutors. Noted defense lawyer Harland Braun a former prosecutor said he had never heard of a District attorney s publicly discussing a grand jury probe. It is sort of indiscreet Braun said. The whole Point of the grand jury is if you Don t indict someone then you Haven t besmirched their  either Way Garcetti was making no promises. If the evidence establishes that  or anyone else was involved in As sisting criminal conduct we re going to prosecute that he said v those entering the grand jury room wednesday included Denice Shakarian Halicki the Fiancee of Simpson s Friend an lawyer Robert Kardashian. On thursday morning Simpson Girlfriend Paula Barbieri was seen going into the room. Simpson and Cowlings were at Kardashian s House on the morning of june 17, when Simpson fled instead of surrendering Asar ranged. Another grand jury witness was or. Henry Lee a forensic expert on the defens team who was at Kardashian s House on the morning Simpson fled. M in other developments Abc news cited unidentified sources who said the mystery envelope that was sealed and Given to the judge during Simpson s preliminary hearing contains the German made stiletto that Simpson bought on May 3 and the receipt. News week also citing unidentified sources re ported in july that the envelope contained a knife. Can cited unidentified sources close to the defense As saying that the defense team found the knife lying in Plain sight at Simpson s Brentwood estate after Sev eral police searches and that it was Unda Maged. Simpson s defense team pulled the plug on its tip hot line at least for now. Calls to the hot line from tipsters with possible leads have plummeted in the last few weeks and have also declined in qual Ity members of the defense team said wednesday