European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday september 30,1994 i at a glance i a Man identified n Joel or Hector resend ii was arrested wednesday As a suspect in the assassination of the no. 2 official of Mexico s ruling party. See Story on Page 12. No lies about Elvis a state review of Elvis Presley s medical records found no evidence that the Coroner lied when he said the Singer cried of heart disease offi Cial say. Page 4� defense Bill of d the House has approved a $244 billion defense spending bin that maintains most major Pentagon pro Grams. Page 5 Cia chided a review of a $310 million office building for the Cia s spy satellite Agency said the Agency failed to pro vide Congress with adequate Cost data. Page 7 teen held in abuse a 17-year-old girl a self de scribed nazi was arrested tues Day and charged with tormenting a 14-year-old jewish girl police said. A pages United in poll a new poll shows Blacks and Whites Call crime and the breakdown of the family two of America s big Gest problems. Pages Index Abby Ann Landers. 25 classifieds. I. 28-33 comics. 25-27 commentary. 17 crossword. 25 faces n1 places.14 Horoscope. 32 Jumble. 32 letters. 16 Money matters. 18 sports. 33-40 to hustings. 39 weather. 15 in Iti of aids other health risks Howard news service the 18,000 . Service members in Haiti have been told that they re in one of the worst aids hot spots in the Western hemisphere and that the Small Caribbean nation also has Many other serious health problems. To prevent infection military doctors Are recommending sexual abstinence in Haiti. We re aware that Haiti is an aids Hotshot and we made sure that message got through to the troops said maj. Vincen Fonseca a preventive Medicine specialist at the army surgeon general s office i Falls Church a. We wanted the men to know that a per son who looks healthy May have his and we also told them to take precautions when handling blood and fluids that might be contaminated with is the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids. The warnings about aids and other health threats on Haiti Are outlined in pamphlets and booklets that were distributed to . Forces before they went ashoresept.19,. -.-. A 15-Page pamphlet titled staying healthy in Haiti was published by the Walter Reed army Institute of research before the intervention and distributed to Haiti bound soldiers marines airmen and gov to died in Haiti identified Washington a the 10th inf Mountain div Soldier who died of an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound in Haiti has been identified As spec. Alejandro Robles of los an Geles the Pentagon said thursday. Robles who died sept. 27, would have been 21 years old thursday officials said. He was assigned to co a 1st in 22nd inf regt 01-the-Ioth inf Moun Tain div based in fort drum . Robles was found shot to death in the Northern part of Tanley Schrager spokesman for the . Embassy in port a Prince said the death occurred at Villa d a Ceil Haiti a state guest House on a Hillside estate above the capital. The american soldiers were there cleaning the mansion and making Security arrangements to House haitian parliament members. A More comprehensive 70-Page Publica Tion sustaining health and performance in Haiti was assembled by Walter Reed and the army research Institute of environmental Medicine in Natick mass., and distributed to company and platoon com Manders before the landings. Haiti s problems with aids go Back to 1981, when physicians discovered the virus was attacking primarily four groups of peo ple homosexuals Haemophiliacs heroin users and haitians. Researchers quickly identified Haiti As a enter of aids contagion with most infections being caused by heterosexual inter course. A ". A " ". Haiti is still one of the worst aids spot Siri the americas said or. Armando Perugia a world health organization epidemiologist and aids expert Haiti probably has had 10,000 aids cases since the beginning of the epidemic and May now have 100,000hiv infections he estimated that Means approximately 1.7 percent of Haiti s 6 million people May be infected by-1 the virus. ,.,./ some other areas in the americas May have equated Haiti Shiv aids infection rate notably Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in Brazil and san Pedro Sula in Hon Duras but none have surpassed it be Ruga said. From Pagel put on file within a year. The Bill would also direct the de sense department to draft new regulations that would spell out guidelines for granting leave to summoned to appear in child support cases., the Bill is part of a broader legislative Effort to strengthen the nation s child support system by cracking Down on parents who try to escape making their obligatory support payments. It would Call for hospitals to establish paternity at birth among other Mea sures it would require states to revoke the. Driver s licenses of parents who fall behind in their child support payments and modify individual tax reporting forms to include information about such payments. In addition to the House armed serv ices committee six other House panels Are playing a role in drafting the legis lation formally known As the child support responsibility act of 1994, it was introduced in june by rep. Pat Schroeder a Colo. One Issue that remains murky is How foreign child support cases . Service members should be handled. / / a the Bill would treat foreign child sup port judgments the same As interstate cases but rep. H. Martin Lancaster d n.c., questioned How appear in foreign courts if they did t have the Money to travel Over season their own. Is the defense department going to pay to Fly then to wherever they need to go he asked in interstate cases the Bill would allow participation in court proceedings by Telephone. Extending that. Provision to foreign cases is one possibility but language barriers could be a major. Headache in those we need to Clear that up Fites acknowledged. We Haven t thought that through very while there still May be holes to plug lawmakers Are heartened that the Bill is taking shape. \ one of the primary causes of women with children going on welfare is a Lack of child support payments said rep. Jane Hannan a Calif. This legislation would finally serve to collect from some of these Deadbeat from Pagel quoted As telling the Stockholm newspaper afto bladet. As a passenger on the Terry Isabella which helped with the res Cue Eriksson witnessed a gruesome scene. Some of them moved so you could see they were living but we had no Chance to bring them up in the heavyset Eriksson was quoted As saying. The worst was when the bodies go sucked into the the extreme exposure and cold water have disfigured Many of the corpses. Though medical examiners promised to identify All the victims they cautioned it would be a difficult task. Or. Aki Linden the chief medical examiner told the news conference that authorities were appealing to relatives to Send pictures and photographs to Aid the identification work. He said that in some cases relatives May have to Send hairbrushes which could provide hairs needed for in testing. He said toothbrushes could also be used but did not specify How. If we have fresh corpses to study they can be identified by their physical appearance Linden said. But As time goes by deterioration becomes advanced. It s hard even for relatives to he said chances of identifying bodies trapped in the ship were relatively Good since the water temperature at the seafloor is 39 degrees fahrenheit the same temperature As a morgue. An estonian led Board of inquiry was expected to focus on the seals on the ship s front door. A surviving ship s Engi Neer said water began pouring through the door about a half hour before the ferry went Down. Sailor seriously injured when hit by car Naples Italy is a Sailor Sta Tion at naval support activity Naples Italy remains in serious condition after being struck by a car saturday. The Petty officer 3rd class whose name was not released apparently was struck while walking near a Highway in pin Tamare a town about 20 Miles from Naples which houses a Large number of american military personnel. The american whose identity is being withheld pending notification of next of Kin was transported to Carta Rellie Hospi Tal in Naples by italian ambulance. He sustained a Skull fracture and other head injuries. It. Terry Sutherland Public affairs officer for Asa Naples said the Sailor is in the italian Hospital because the . Mili tary Hospital in Naples does not have a trauma unit. The service member s condition is considered too serious to transport him to Lan Stuhl the nearest american facility with neurosurgery care. He is being tended by a . Navy doctor at Toje ital Ian Hospital
