European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday August 28,1994 Fogleman picked As air Force chief is by the new York times Washington the White Houston Friday nominated Gen. Ronald r. Fogleman head of the . Transportation come to be the next air Force chief of staff Fogleman a 52-year-old fighter Pilot will replace Gen. Merrill a. Mcpeak 58, who is scheduled to retire in october after serving As the air Force s top offi cer since 1990. The appointment requires Senate confirmation which is expected. As chief of staff Fogleman will be responsible for organizing training and equipping All Reserve and Active duty air Force personnel and he will represent the air Force on the six member join chiefs of staff. Fogleman an air Force Academy graduate has commanded the . Transportation come at Scott fab 111., in the stars and stripes 10 years ago aug. 28,1984 president Rea Gan extolled hard work in school and vice president George Bush hailed military technology As the key to National Security As they sought to sustain momentum from the re cent Republican National Conven Tion 20 years ago aug. 28,1974 Turkey rejected a soviet plan for enlarged Cyprus peace talks and denied Moscow s Contention that an attempt was being made to turn Cyprus into a nato bastion. 30 years ago aug. 28,1964 president John son and sen. Hubert Humphrey were nominated by acclamation to head the party s ticket for 1964 at a tumultuous session of the demo cratic National convention. 40 years ago aug. 28,1954 a group of staunch backers waged a behind the scenes Battle to save the euro Pean defense Community treaty from virtually certain defeat in the French National Assembly striving to postpone debate to permit further talks and changes. World War ii 50 years ago today aug. 28 19v44 american soldiers fight their Way. Across the Marne River at Meaux in France in Southern France the besieged German garrisons at Toulon and Marseille surrender to free French forces. Soviet troops penetrate Transylvania across the of Tuz pass in the Carpathian mountains threatening Hungary. A new government in Budapest announces Hungary is ready to negotiate surrender. Source 2194 Days . Smith publishers inc. The Wori almanac of world War ii Bison books corp., 1981 a since August 1992. In that Post he is the nation s top military transportation offi cer coordinating air land and sea ship Ping. The command is also responsible for wartime Airlift requirements and Fogleman has been involved in Contin gency planning for possible military action on the korean Peninsula. Fogleman served As an f-100 Pilot an Forward air controller in Vietnam and Thailand during the Vietnam War earn ing a Silver Star and purple heart. He moved up to command squadrons and airings before ultimately serving As com Mander of the 7th air Force in Korea from 1990 to 1992. In another important military Chang of command the administration will soon nominate it. Gen. John j. Sheehan director of operations for the joint staff Tobe the head of the . Atlantic come. Compromise by Clinton possible on health care Washington a the Clinto administration is sending signals of flexibility As congressional leaders make Clear that comprehensive health Reform is not in the cards this year. The latest casualty of timing and poli tics was Senate majority Leader George Mitchell s Broad Reform Bill. The Maine Democrat agreed Friday to negotiate with leaders of a bipartisan main Stream group using their relatively modest proposal As a starting Point. He s going to work from the language of our Bill said sen. Dave Durenberger r-minn., a participant in a negotiating session Friday with Mitchell. We Don t Start with anything of the Mitchell  president Clinton chided the authors of the bipartisan Bill earlier in the week for abandoning his goals of employer paid insurance and Universal coverage. But he sounded More receptive Friday. I certainly Don t want to embrace a approach that will do More harm than Good and that won t achieve our objectives. But let s see what they re doing Clinton said. I m not prepared to make a final judgment. At this  in his weekly radio address saturday Clinton tried to make the Case that Washington has already made More Progress on health care than Ever be fore members of both parties Are trying hard to work put their differences he said. And health care will be the firs order of business when Congress re turns after the labor Day Holiday. We have to continue this fight. Behave to win it Clinton said. A big obstacle for Clinton is his vow Early this year to veto any Bill that does not guarantee Universal private insurance coverage. He was asked three times Friday if the threat still stood and he refused three times to answer the question. White House chief of staff Leon pan Etta hinted More strongly that the veto threat was eroding. Insurance reforms and other limited Steps Are something obviously he presi Dent would look at Panetta said at a lunch with reporters. He added quickly however it in t health Reform. No on should be  no thanks yanks russian hard liners display soviet flags and shout anti american slogans during a fesdns5 7n t a e"?m7  a. The Russ we pro testing joint .-russian peacekeeping training planned for sent 2.10 in Ink Lenv a Dod to pay for Downing Washington is the de sense department will pay $100,000 to the families of each of the 11 foreign nationals who were killed when two army helicopters were mistakenly shot Down Over Iraq defense Secretary  announced Friday. Fourteen . Service members and a state department employee were also killed when the pilots of two . F-15fighters mistook the Black Hawks for iraqi Hind helicopters and fired on them april 14r " v. Defense officials said Perry decided to make the extremely rare payments be cause of the unique circumstances sur rounding the  they said the payments Are not required by  or International Law Andare strictly a humanitarian gesture made solely by the Secretary of  payments of $100,000 will go to the families of the British turkish and French military members killed in the Accident. Additionally the families of five kurdish workers employed by the . Government will also receive a death Benefit from the department of labor. Since that payment will be less than $100,000, however the defense depart ment will make up the difference so that it will equal the payments made to the other foreign National families defens officials said. Admiral in sex controversy to retire Washington a _ president Linton has nominated adm. Stanley r. Arthur the Navy s vice chief of  for retirement As of next feb. 1,the Pentagon said Friday. The Admiral became the Center of controversy earlier this year. His nomination to head the . Pacific come was with drawn when some senators criticized his handling of a sexual harassment Case. But Arthur enjoyed wide support on Capitol Hill and adm. Mike Boorda the chief of , was forced to defend the move amid criticism that the Navy had succumbed to political Correct Ness. Boorda said that any Senate Resis Tance to Arthur have would left a key Post unfilled for too Long