European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The slurs an stripes vol. 53, no. 133 500 3bb9 sunday August 28,1994u.s. Families to leave Cuba Guantanamo Bay naval base Cuba athe military ordered families and civilian workers to leave the . Naval base in Cuba to make water and electricity available for up to 60,000 cuban and haitian boat people. Adm. Henry h. Mauz jr., commander of the . Atlantic Fleet issued the order late Friday. Navy officials said 2,236 family members of military civilian and contract workers would be evacuated by air begin champs plan to offer health care at Lio Cost by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a families of Active duty service members in Europe Africa and the Middle East who seek off base medical care through the Pentagon a health insurance program will not have to pay any of the costs or deductibles beginning oct. 1. Under a demonstration project that will run from one to three years the defense department will cover All costs for health care provided by off base physic cans under the civilian health and med ical program of the uniformed services or champs. The move is designed to streamline administrative paperwork and ensure that local physicians Are paid promptly and fully while also easing the financial am piety of . Beneficiaries said a defense department health affairs official. By assuming the Cost shares and deductibles the defense department Hopes to a lease a major source of conflict a Stephen Joseph assistant Secretary of defense for health affairs said in a statement. A a this should provide the incentive for local facilities to accept champs payments a he said. Some local physicians have become reluctant to accept champs patients because of problems with payment procedures an aide to Joseph said. Some doctors have demanded that . Patients pay the entire Bill upfront leaving the patients to seek reimbursement from the . Military. A a foreign health care systems done to use such things As Cost sharing and deductibles a the aide said. A a. The Cham. See champs on Page 2 a Ning wednesday with More to leave later if refugees continue to pour into the base on the Southeastern end of Cuba. The first Hase of the evacuation is to be completed y sept. 6. The number of boat people leaving Cuba dropped Friday to 600. On saturday however 2,200 cuban boat people joined the other cuban and haitian refugees already camped out at Guantanamo. The flow of cuban refugees reached a Peak of More than 3,000 on a single Day earlier in the week. Undeterred by bad weather that was expected to last through the weekend and us. Warnings that they can to enter the United states would be cuban refugees vowed to leave the economically depressed Island nation the first Chance they got. A a we re going a a said Carlos Fonseca a 27-year-old Artisan who said he and two friends were just waiting for the weather to Clear. A my House is empty. I sold the to the refrigerator the stove and a mattress a a he said to buy the raft he intends to paddle to Florida. Quot Fonseca and hundreds of others planned to leave even though the Clinton administration says it will no longer Grant automatic Asylum to cubans who reach . Shores. A with the continuing influx of cubans rescued at sea the primary Mission of the see Cuba on Page 2 cafes changing credit policy m changes in the military Exchange credit plan May mean customers pay More interest beginning thursday. A seepage 12 a v. A amps Ken George a baby gets a Bath at Gomas Neosho orphanage where More than 2,500 children Are housed a up from 15 Only weeks ago. In land of the lost children orphanage struggles to Cope by sue Palumbo staff writer Goma Zaire Only the very Young ones cry. The rest of the children at the do Sho orphanage wander about in a dazed coming alive Only when its time to eat. Rice and Beans potatoes and Beans. Maybe a piece of bread in the morning. \ a we feed them what we have a said. Yvette Kasuku a zairian woman who runs the orphanage. But it is not a Fuch a visiting journalist with a tiny Box of raisins nearly Sparks a riot. Before the mass exodus from Rwanda left More than 75,000 children lost abandoned or orphaned there were crisis in Rwanda @ Aid workers harassed a narrow escape from death in tale of a lost child a Page 3 Only 15 orphans at Neosho the largest of live orphanages in Goma now there Are More than 2,500. Kasuku finally had to Tell the Drivers of the . Trucks who daily collect unaccompanied children at the refugee Camps to Stop dropping them off at Neosho. She had no More room. Only id children and one adult can fit in a 10-person plastic tent she said. Bigger tents can hold 25, but there Isnit room to put up even one More. Kasuku gets some assistance from Unicof and other no government organizations which help with the food. But there Are 6,000 other unaccompanied children in Goma alone. And there is Only so much help. The French and the israeli Milit Aries try to vaccinate All the Neosho children but some Are too far gone when they finally reach the orphanage. Every so often workers carry out a Small bundle on a Stretcher. A we usually lose two or three a Day a Kasuku said with a sigh. The orphans Day begins at Daw see lost on Page 4