European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday december 13,1994 it at a glance a composite sketch shows a Man suspected in several mail bombing attacks which the Fri says May be motivated by a hatred for computers. See Story on Page 8. Rescue described Crevy members of a philippine air lines jetliner said monday that they pulled a passenger out of a Hole in the floor of the aircraft just after a bomb exploded on Board.  a Page 4 mixed results a trip to North Kcjr a by two . Senators yielded Good will but Little information about the reclusive country s de Facto Leader. Safety first Many travellers whose flights were cancelled on american Eagle at planes were relieved not . A "  6 close encounter an asteroid about the size of a Small school bus narrowly missed striking Earth on Friday an Astrino Mermaid. A,.- a a. "  v Pago a prosecutor to stay the judge in the o. J. Simpson trial has refused to remove a member of the prosecution team. Keeping score there were winners and losers galore at the Summit of the americas.  ,. Page 14 i Index i Abby Ann Landers classifieds. Comics. Commentary. Computers. Faces n places. Focus. Horoscope. Jumble. Letters. Money matters sports to listings. Weather. 20 21-24 18-20 .1310 .15 16-1722 .221214 24-32 .3111 2 .  4  a .,." v Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a bosnian serbs freed two danish peacekeepers on monday but later wounded four . Soldiers from Bangladesh one of them critically Jun. Official said. -. The soldiers were wounded when their armoured personnel Carrier took a direct hit from what . Spokesman Paul Ris Ley said were believed to be anti aircraft  attack occurred at 3 15 p.m., while the armoured personnel Carrier was Leav ing the logistics base of the bangladeshi battalion located just South of velika Kladusan an embattled town in the North Western Bihac pocket. Risley said the armoured personnel car Rier was on fire arid blocking the Entrance of the compound. He said the two Rock ets came from croatian serbian held territory within the pocket. Thiere was continued lighting in the Western part of Bihac and shelling around velika Kladusan Risley said. . Operations were facing a very tense and very Bleak situation Risley said earlier at Headquarters in Zagreb Croatia. All our convoys Are blocked or their movement restricted he said. The . Commander for Bosnia British it. Gen. Michael Rose was travelling to bosnian serbian held territory just outside Sarajevo on monday to demand an end to the harassment. . Operations Are facing harassment by bosnian serbs on two fronts the serbs announced they would no longer allow . Armoured vehicles to escort food convoys through their territory and they Are choking off the Supply of fuel. The refusal to allow armoured escorts by the . Protection Force for Aid con Voys that Cross the 70 percent of Bosnia under serbian control left . Officials fuming. Aid convoys often Are delayed or harassed and sometimes looted. The re Moval of such escort strips them of important Protection. Peter Kessler a spokesman for the . High commissioner for refugees termed the limitation outrageous but said his Agency would try to work around it. / Kessler said that three food convoys bound for government held enclaves of Eastern Bosnia had been held up by the serbs since saturday and that Unher was awaiting permission to Send one to Bihac. A Unher Convoy that arrived i Bihac on Friday was the first since oct. 1. The danish peacekeepers were caught in the tussle Between the United nation Sand bosnian serbs Over fuel. Spokesman it. Col. Patrick de Fety said the United nations had Only eight Days of diesel fuel and two Days of Gaso line left in Sarajevo. Diesel and gasoline supplies at . Garrisons in Bihac go razed and Zepa Are Down to Zero. A three truck danish fuel Convoy was hijacked to bosnian serbian territory saturday night by men armed with rifles and rocket propelled grenades. The two peacekeepers were held until sunday night and then released without their vehicles. A rust pay Washington a the govern ment must pay disability benefits to vet Erans injured by treatment at veterans hospitals even if the Hospital was not at fault the supreme court ruled monday. The unanimous decision invalidate the government s Long standing policy of denying such benefits to some veterans unless they prove their disabilities were caused by Hospital negligence or an Acci Dent.  . Justice David h. Souter wrote for the court that Federal Law contains not so much As a word about Hospital fault being required for veterans who seek payment for injuries caused by nonuser vice related treatment. C the government had said that paying disability benefits to such veterans would Cost about $1 billion Over five years. The Case evolved from the experiences of korean War Veteran Fred p. Gardner of Bryan Texas. Gardner underwent Back surgery at a a Hospital in june 1986. The condition was not related this military service he later filed for disability benefits saying that the operation caused severe nerve and muscle damage to his left leg and that he now must use a leg Brace and a Cane.   the government denied Gardner s application even though it routinely pays disability benefits for injuries caused by veterans Hospital treatment for service related health problems. Veterans whose treatment was not for a service related health problem May receive benefits Only if the injury was caused by Hospital negligence or an Acci Dent the a ruled. The court of veterans appeals re versed the ruling saying Federal Law does not require such veterans to prove the Hospital was at fault. The veterans court ordered Gardner s Case reconsidered without that requirement. The . Court of appeals for the Federal circuit agreed As did the supreme court in its ruling monday. Souter noted that the Federal Law say benefits will be denied if the injury was caused by the Veteran s own wilful mis conduct but it sets no requirement that veterans prove a government Hospital Wasa fault. A v vaccines from Page Ward Martin the Pentagon s no 2 Manfor health affairs last Spring still hold True. Pc. ". " during testimony taken under oath bythe Senate veterans affairs committee last May Martin said that at the Tim these decisions were made the food and drug administration concurred with the Pentagon s belief that in View of the risks associated with the potential use of biological or chemical warfare agents by Iraq and the Lack of any alternative ther apy not using these drugs would be contrary to the Best  military per  during a second phase of defense department research on the drug the sen ate report said it was discovered during animal tests that a dosage four times larger of atropine was needed than what had been Given to service members i their individual chemical attack kits. The atropine dosage was never changed to the higher More effective amount the report said. When Rockefeller questioned the de sense department on the dosage discrepancy the department stated that the dose of atropine in the Mark i kit was established based exclusively on safety rather than on effectiveness in animal research on monkeys an atropine dosage 12 times smaller than the established effective dose caused Side effects such As blurred vision decreased sweating and a High heart rate. Apparently defense officials decide that the High dosage required for Protection would impair performance so the selected the much lower dosage even though its effectiveness was questionable the report said. Even if the drug was effective the botulism vaccine was Given too late to be of any use the report said. Also the anthrax vaccine is considered to be effective against Only direct exposure to the skin not through the air which is How a biological attack would come. The botulism vaccine has to be Given i three injections spaced several weeks apart before the body will build up a resistance. � during the operation desert shield buildup to the Gulf War the Fra told the defense department that there was a severe shortage of the botulism substance and that it would be several months be fore More of the vaccine could be devel oped. Because of the shortage the first serv ice members weren t vaccinated until jan.23, 1991, seven Days after he air War began. Defense officials told the Senate committee staff april 20 of this year. About 8,000 service members receive the vaccine but then Only one or two injections they said. Because the War ended feb. 27,1991, the third series was never administered. Therefore 99 percent of deployed personnel received no Protection and the remaining 1 percent probably had Little Protection since the vaccinations started too late the report said. The anthrax vaccine has been used inthe United states for years by workers in labs and meat processing plants where exposure to animal carcasses could Posea Hazard. This vaccine which was Given to about150,000 service members is considered effective by the Fra in cases of skin to skin Contact Only the report said. It s unclear whether it gives Protection when anthrax microbes Are delivered through the air the report  the report said the Pentagon had no solid scientific evidence that the vaccine would be effective during a biological at tack if Iraq loaded a scud or other mis Sile with the agents and exploded it . Forces. The report s prime investigator was  Olson a congressional science fellow