European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 05, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The nov stripes vol.53, no. 171 wednesday october 5,1994 d 8693 a by hears of s co of Coho so up training Down general says Ilem a Germany a up 20 percent and alcohol abuse is up 11 spent nearly two thirds of the last 22 whole Are starting to Tal or War is Down while child percent. Meanwhile Pilot training has months de loved away from the base a readiness of Chil abuse and alcoholism Are up because of the Strain of growing . Military commitments the commander of a fighter Wing told defense Secretary William Perry on tuesday. In a presentation that was surprisingly Blunt for what was to have been a straightforward vip tour air Force Brig. Gen. John r. Dallager told. Perry that re ports of spouse abuse Are up 9 percent in the past year at the base child abuse is u percent. Pilo declined As pilots Are needed for missions Over Iraq and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The general used a slide presentation to Tell up close stories about air Force members operating under the Strain of missions in Rwanda Bosnia and North Ern Iraq. Tony and Louisa gift both senior air men Are leaving the air Force because they Are apart too often. Capt. Timothy j. Hogan an a-10 Thunderbolt ii Pilot spen month deployed missing his birthday the birthday of his wife Linda and their fifth wedding anniversary. Linda Hogan told an air Force inter viewer that she feels like a single Parent. Violence and other Domestic problems could be the result of better reporting at this base of 11,915 civilian and military personnel Dallager said we be made this a priority Dallager said. Individual units and the base As a Whol take care of peo ple the pressure that constant deploy ments put on training is beyond question Dallager said. Protecting the kurdish population in Northern Iraq patrolling the skies Over Bosnia and sending Logis tics experts to the rwandan Relief mis Sion All Cut into the time pilots and con trailers need to keep up with training he said. And because of frequent poor weather see Perry on Page 2 Martian strongman flees Over Border port a Prince Haiti a coup Leader Michel Francois widely considered the Power behind Haiti s military Junta fled to the dominican Republic on tuesday in a four wheel drive vehicle. Francois police chief of the capital port a Prince masterminded squads of attaches or army auxiliaries responsible for much of the terror in the nation since the september 1991 overthrow of elected president Jean Bertrand was no indication that his fellow coup leaders it. Gen. Raoul Cidras and army chief of staff Philipp Biamby had joined Francois in exile. The United states with thousands of military personnel in Haiti to help res Tore the elected government is seeking the peace Ful departure of All three military , Cidras and Biamby agreed to step Down by oct. 15 under a last minute plan negotiated by former president Carter that narrowly averted a . Inva sneaked past the Hai Tian Border Post tuesday morning Frangolis no . Soldiers arrest a haitian police officer monday in port a Prince after a raid on a militia group s Headquarters. Americans will rally behind.,.,. Of forced 7n Haiti Perry predicts and waited several hours in a 100-Yard diplomatic Man s land at Mai paso to go through dominican Cus Toms . Embassy spokesman Stanley Schrager said. He crossed the Border at 10 30 . In route to the capital of Santo Domingo Border officials in the dominican Republic confirmed. The Border officials who asked not to be identified said Francois was travelling in a vehicle with dominican diplomatic License plates and was being escorted by two other vehicles cd i a dominican foreign affairs Secretary Carlos Morales see Border on Page 2 by Ron Jensen Nurnberg Bureau to Grafe Wohr Germany the american Public s opposition to . Military involvement in Haiti will soon fade Secretary of defense William Perry predicted tues Day i think the american people will rally to the support of the american forces there Perry said. This has Beena military operation done with great recent polls have shown wide Disfavour for operation restore democracy. Currently More than 20,000 . Service members Are in the Island nation attempting to preserve order and establish Security for the oct. 15 re " turn of elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Perry noted that haitians had died since the Ameri can occupation began but he said Haiti has Long been a violent place. He said he did t have statistics but guessed that fewer haitians died during the first week of the occupation than died the week before. Perry made his comments during Brief interviews with the stars and stripes and american forces net work during an afternoon tour of the army training facility in Grafe Wohr. Perry also said that discussions were taking place to improve the Quality of life in Europe namely by dealing with the increased number of deployments and exercises that separate service members from their families. Five years ago he noted Europe was a tour in which soldiers trained for a War with the soviet Union. Now Europe has become a Forward deployment see Haiti on Page 2 improved the we Anjier Page starting today to Broviac a better forecast for Europe. 7 the temperatures on the european weather map now reflect die predicted High for today and the predicted Low for the following morning the old map provided yesterday s actual High and Low temperatures. _. For example the map on Page 13 gives you the predicted High for today and the Low for thursday. _. _ _. The Page s till provides the previous Day s highs and lows in major european cities hosted in a separate Section similar to that for temperatures in the United states /.__. _
