European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 09, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 9, 1994 population group puts off of abortion Issue the stars and stripes Page 5 Cairo Egypt a temporarily setting aside the Issue of abortion the . Population conference turned thursday to discussing How to spend a proposed$17 billion budget on a 20-year plan to slow population growth. " abortion has proven so divisive that delegates As signed it to a special committee which is to report Back today on How to handle a Section on abortion in the proposed 113-Page plan in the abortion Battle Western countries found they could make a Deal with muslims and get most countries to sign on but not the Vatican and its staunchest Al.   v  they turned to the question of finance thurs Day delegates were holding to the draft plan s $17 Bil lion target budget said . Meier an adviser to the new zealand delegation. But he said they still disagreed about How the Money would be divided up among categories such As family planning aids prevention research and reproductive 0 health. .-.".-./. The abortion debate has revealed growing anger among Many delegates at the domination of the Confer ence by the abortion Issue which most consider peripheral to the real issues of population and economic development. V. Earlier this week some delegates groaned and booed when the Vatican representative stood up to oppose Compromise language on How to Deal with unsafe Abor Tion. .. I think the Vatican is trying to Hijack the meeting said Naomi Manyama Uganda s representative on the negotiating committee. Added former . Rep. Bella Abzug a member of the . Delegation i Don t think one religion should come into an International conference. And hold up its  at a noisy Rne eting thursday of women s organizations from around the world speaker after speaker expressed outrage at what they considered the Vatican s domination of the conference. The session attended by More than 300 women was repeatedly interrupted by anti abortion  minister Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway one of two women National leaders at the conference said she feared family planning goals would become meaningless amid All the Compromise. Brundtland s hard hitting speech to the conference s opening session energized women s rights activists. I tried to put up the Stop sign. On behalf 4 f the. Women of the world she said in an interview with the associated press. She said she wanted to Stop attempts to water Down the reality of unsafe abortions and to Block efforts to limit Access to family planning information and contraceptives. American soldiers and cuban refugees play football wednesday at a new tent City built in Panama cubans find food space soap in Jungle Paradise Empire Range Camp no. 1, Panama a cuban refugees who traded the Dusty . Navy base at Grant Namo Bay Cuba for detention in Panama say their new Jungle Camps Are Paradise compared wit the overcrowding they left behind. / More than 200 cubans arrived in the first two Days of a . Plan to Fly in up to 10,000 refugees. We re eating food we Haven t tasted in years Chick in Rice even milk for the children. Before we did Teven have razor Blades or soap which we have now said Redel Perez Alfonso one of those who came from Guantanamo to this Camp alongside the Panama canal. Elsewhere foreign minister Gabriel Lewis Galind promised Panama s National Assembly on wednesday that the cubans would be accepted As a humanitarian gesture but Only for six months. What s going to happen after six months when there s no solution to this cuban crisis asked Deputy Albero Cigar Vista. Galindo responded that the cubans would have to leave when the deadline was up. But the cubans appeared Happy despite their Uncer Tain future. This is a thousand times better than Guantanamo said Juan Carlos Gomez speaking wednesday to re porters at Empire Range Camp no. 1, the first of four tent cities operated by the . Military. American soldiers played touch football with Young cuban men. Other refugees read newspapers with their pictures on front pages or dozed on aluminium cots be Neath the Green Canvas tents. Many shrugged off detention behind 8-foot Cyclone fences. We could have died in the jaws of a shark or at the hands of Fidel Castro s regime said Octavio Luis Cajuso Torres. Now it can Only get  while most of the refugees Are men in their 20s and 30s, there were also children an elderly Man and an amputee. Many told of battling High Waves in the Florida Straits watching Sharks Trail Flimsy rafts built of Styro foam blocks wooden planking or inner tubes that were lashed together. We spent four Days at sea said 20-year-old Yule Nisben Iez. Sick Gulf War vets not getting. _ a a. Proper care. Guard report says by Thomas  Hartford courant the . Departments of defense and veterans affairs have failed to properly care for persian Gulf War veterans who have illnesses from the War a . National guard report says. The report provides detailed criticism by the military of the military s handling of thousands of Gulf War vet Erans sick with various ailments collectively called per Sian Gulf syndrome. The 57-Page classified report written by the office of the inspector general of the National guard Bureau inthe Pentagon was approved by maj. Gen. Raymond f. Rees acting chief of the Bureau. It was written to address problems of National guard and Reserve person Nel in the army and the air Force but also criticize health care for Active duty soldiers. Some policies affecting Soldier health care evolved contrary to regulation in a manner adversely affecting National guard soldiers the report says. The report made Many observations and findings. Among them patient administration of desert storm National guard veterans by the two departments inadequately addresses vague and undiagnosed illnesses resulting from exposure to environmental  a conservatively estimated 546 National guar members were erroneously released from duty after they complained of Gulf War related illnesses. This eliminated potential medical and other benefits for their families. The soldiers Are estimated to be Only Small fraction of those improperly released. An army appeals panel set up to Correct these erroneous releases provided Only superficial Relief to sick National Guara members. The labyrinth of military bureaucracy creates years of delays before some soldiers Are properly diagnosed and treated for service related illnesses or finally obtain the disability payments they deserve. One unit of National guard painters was unnecessarily exposed to hazardous chemicals contained in vehicle paint because the service never supplied the with proper protective gear. Forty percent of the unit members now have permanent lung damage. Some family members of Gulf veterans Are showing symptoms of the mystery Gulf illnesses and yet there Are no provisions in the a or military medical systems to help them. British official works to ease protestant fears Belfast Northern Ireland a addressing a bastion of aggressive protestantism a British Cabinet minister said the majority has nothing to fear from negotiations with Catholic parties on the future of Northern Ireland. Sir Patrick Mayhew told members of the Orange order on wednesday that they have a cast Iron guarantee that no settlement will reimposed against the wishes of a majority of Northern Ireland s people. The Orange order is the province s largest protestant organization with 80,000 to 100,000 members. The order s name recalls William of Orange the protestant King who Defeated James ii a Catholic in 1690. The order s celebrations each july of old protestant victories Are a major irritant to catholics. The senior Branch of the order the Royal Lack institution is led by James Molyneaux the senior protestant politician in Northern  has kept quiet during the peace overtures. As the Irish Republican army cease fire entered its eighth Day thursday soldiers in Belfast switched from helmets to berets a slight but sym Bolic change of easing tensions. They remained heavily armed