European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes August 1977 Somalia Kenya a Somalia claimed monday that ethiopian Jet fight ers raided three settlements in Northwestern killing civilians and Somalia official radio Mogadishu said two american built is jets were shot Down in the strikes near the regional there was no immediate confirmation of the attack from Ethiopia or from other somali president Siad Barre in a Broad cast late sunday warned his million people to prepare for an ethiopian inva 1 Call on you to be ready for a Tough period be prepared to defend your free Barre be prepared As you have done traditionally to mobilize your strength and capacity to defend your pre Cious downed migz1 pour Western correspondents reported sunday from Ethiopia embattled South cast regions of adjoining they had been shown the wreckage of a downed mig21 Jet fighter carrying the five Point Star of the somali air ethiopian officials said the Jet had been shot Down Friday Over the town of 40 Miles Southwest of the somali Border in the Ogaden the journalists were the first Western reporters allowed to visit the Region since fierce fighting broke out throughout the area three weeks somali has persistently denied charges by Ethiopia marxist military govern ment that its troops have invaded the Ogaden Region in support of secessionist rebels of the Western somali liberation front political support the somali government Only acknowledges giving political support and supplies to the liberation a guerrilla army of nomadic ethnic somali tribesmen who Are fighting to take the Scmidt sort plateau from Christian Ethiopia and unite it with moslem the guerrilla movement claims to control 97 per cent of the Ogaden but ethiopian government forces still hold three strategic towns in his said ethiopian troops plan to attack Somalia because pakistani Heads panel Switzerland All Paki skins attorney synd Sharifuddi has been elected chairman of a United nations ant discrimination lie was unanimously voted into the chair of the subcommission on prevention of discrimination and Protection of Minori ties at the Start of its three week 30th annual they Are no longer Able to withstand the tide 0 the liberation War and the internal he asserted again that somali troops were not involved in the Ogaden Strug Gle and said in a message to the liberation front i urge you to fight for your rights and Somalia will give you Alt the Aid it can give offer Washington api first Larry Rosalynn who will celebrate her 50th birthday was oper ated on monday in what her press Secretary described As a routine gynaecological Carter is one and will leave the Hospital later said press officer Mary Hoyt after the Dila Tion and Curettage Carter arrived at the operating room in by Thesda naval Hospital about and returned to the presidential suite at Hoyt it is anticipated she will be picked up later today by the president and will go tiredly from Tho hopi Pisarto David for the rest of the she v 4jt Procku pfc was Seifo Intfen by Douglas chief of the obstetrics and gynaecological to Frethe Maryland for Many years the procedure has been used to treat minor irregularities in the female reproductive Hoyt and White House phys Dan Wil Liam Lukash accompanied Carter to the Hospital sunday Nighti Vav the first who is to visit Canada iater4hls London human rights group says Nicaragua guilty of mass abuses London api amnesty International said monday that it has obtained Exten Sive testimony and other evidence of mass torture and killings of peasant Farmers by Security forces in military gov earned the populations of entire peasant Vil Lages have been reported exterminated or taken away As prisoners of National guard the Londo based human rights organization said in a 75page the wholesale killing of Camp Tinoi peasant Farmers and their disappear Ance after detention is probably the most serious aspect of human rights violations in the report Coal miners ignore Appeal to end strike by the associated press virtually All West Virginia Coal mines remained closed As Wildcat strik ers disregarded an Appeal from their Union president and carried their protest of reduced medical benefits into its eighth a West Virginia Coal association spokesman that United mine workers members were Idle an estimated More were not work Ingi Eastern the miners appeared unmoved by ump president Arnold Millers saturday night television appearance in which he told them that further striking will not help regain the medical benefits that were Cut july a Coal mining subcommittee of the West Virginia legislature voted sunday to ask the department of labor to try to negotiate a backs work agreement and investigate Benefit the miners Are protesting cutbacks in their  which until recently was fully paid by a Union manage ment another member of the com said there is utter chaos in South pm West Virginia weve got to do something he ninety per cent of the miners in Mcdowell county want to go Back to work but were being intimidated by a Small in another Effort to end the local Union presidents Are being ordered to hold meetings to direct them to return to said Jack president of Charleston based District Arnold Milter said what he had to say and weve said what were going to a Miner told a local television All reporters were asked to leave the meeting by miners who we dont want anyone to get Therese plenty of mad people the John president of Longacre local said he had lost some Confidence in him Miller As a said Miller seemingly until everything snowballs on him before to gets into now the whole country out and i dont know whether hell Ever get them amnesty International said its report was based on testimony from Many nicaraguan including on the findings of a woman Mission it sent to the Central american Republic in May the report says the tortures used by the military include mutilation and simulated execution by hang it is highly probable that most prisoners were it in december 1974 the government of president Anastasio Somoza imposed mar tial suspending constitutional Guaran after a leftist guerrilla attack in the capital City of amnesty International said there is now no justification for martial the report quoted the widow of a Union Leader As saying that in August 1971 her husband was dragged from their Home by members of the National that they Cha off his ears and Tongue and that within two Days he died in amnesty International cited a june 1976 letter to Somoza signed by 31 american Capuchin missionaries from the Northeast Ern area in which they said helicopters had fired on peasant troops Jed burned and Clandestine cemeteries had been the missionaries said 92 persons seized in the town of Sauna in late j975 and Early 1976 had temperatures l h 71 i n a h u u 15 u i 71 h n u m n n to a n n n attune alms into Ault lilt aii4miki  Austin by wry l h 47 n jew Famh u ii Koto tally 73 s Boston floods rout residents by the Asunci Atco press four Days of steady rain forced some Rivers and creeks to flood Banks in Caskran Kentucky and Southern West Vir Ginia on prompting the evacuation of at inst 100 people the Sirota was hit hard by floods but sign duty was limited to by Wei mails and first in Martin by Erri Crosny so nuts a Cir Titi reached Tho or if fiefs of but none f the Homes were washed a their  or severely radio station we to reported that it was contacted by 16 families who said they had been forced u evacuate their Homes be cause of the rising Waters Little said All returned mice the Fri ours began to the states department of highways said three damaged Kentucky 40 and were closed by High smaller Mads also were thru to fue of rain fell Over parts of kor Lucky from Ali Rodsy the Muir Law Bureau one in Southeast Kentucky received inches during the it hour period that ended at 8 a in West about five inches fell in Logan town of Kermit received about torn acting director 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