European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10. A the stars and stripes tuesday May 14, 1991transit Camps become temporary Home by Ron Jensen staff writer Kani Masi Iraq the Mountain Camps once filled with iraqi kurdish refugees on the run from Saddam Hussein Are emptying a sort Ofa each Day thousands of kurd move Down from those haphazard Camps on what is supposed to be a journey Home. But Many arc not going Home. Instead they Stop at a Camp intended to be strictly a re Supply Point. V. A to Date i think we be got about 14,000,&Quot said Leftenant John Howells a spokesman for 40 commandos Manning the British Royal marines Camp at Kani Masi. A a 1 a a athe commandos arrived in this Mountain Valley More than a week ago. About 200 kurd were living Here. Two Days later once word spread that food and safety had arrived the number jumped to 4,500 and has Conti cd to grow daily. The sticking Point for the refugees is Dozhuk the provincial capital just a few Miles outside the coalitions protected zone and Home for 350,000 kurd before the fighting started. Refugees vow that until safety is guaranteed in Dozhuk they will stay where they Are a a what we try to do is Tell them its Safe to go Back a said Howells. A some Are getting the message and moving  about 1,200 Are taken from Here each Day on trucks hired by the coalition. Another 2,000 or so move through on their own. But More stay re establishing Here the life they have lived for several weeks in the mountains. A in the evening we try to get As Many people headed Home As we can a said 1st sgt. Steven Cameron of cob contingency Marine air guard task Force from Okinawa. But in the morning he added those who left have been replaced by even More. They arrive Cameron said a on foot on donkeys on tractors and wagons. On ponies.�?�. Most of the people passing through Are from the Camps in Cuk Urca and Uzumcu. Cd Kurcap a population dropped from 128,000 nine Days ago to 90,000 on monday morning. Uzumcu held 27,000 refugees Early monday. Kana Masi was designed Quot to be a a displaced citizens movement Center that would simply provide food and water As refugees moved South. When they began to set up Camp in huge numbers Howells said it caused some problems. More supplies were needed to feed them Day after Day. A a a Quot a a but by the time the kurd ran out of the food they brought with them the coalition managed to Stock the Camp with enough to feed them. A a a we re going to have to do that until they feel Safe in their minds and go a he said. He said the Camp population Likely will grow even larger if the Dozhuk bottleneck is not unplugged. A i believe personally we May end up with 40,000 people Here a he said. A a that a what we re planning for. That a in Case things Are not resolved and people have to  but Cameron said that if that path is cleared a a we re looking at getting 7,000 people out of Here a  in All he said Kani Masi should push nearly 100,000 kurd toward Home before the operation is completed. The twisting Mountain Road to this dilapidated Village already is choked with trucks and Orange and White taxis taking people to Al Amadea Zakhoo or Sirsen or any number of villages already in the secure zone. The kurdish tents stretch several Kilometres through the Valley. They Are less crowded Here than they were in the Mountain Camps erected nearly overnight by people fleeing for their lives. In that sense this is at least a step in the right direction. A fall in All a Howells said a their life is a lot More pleasant Here than on the  from Page 1 a. Cal team. He said the Bangladesh operation will make use of the marines special skills. A you see for a Marine they do this All the time. Its an amphibious operation. They go in at ground Zero a Godbey said referring to the fact that the Cyclone coast lacks virtually every imaginable necessity including adequate shelter and Power. A a there a not much difference with a disaster situation whether its combat or natural a he said.  distribution of materials that a the problem and they re Good at  the . Transport plane brought in five . Army u11-60 Black Hawk helicopters and 73 Navy army and air Force members mostly Black Hawk flight Crews and medical teams. Army it. Col. Tom Ellzey 40, of St. Augustine fla., said the Black Hawks will be used first to Survey the Cyclone hit area and then to ferry material. Ellzey said the personnel had been told they would be in Bangladesh at least Throe weeks. \ among the supplies to be transported by the Macri can task Force Are 55,000 tons of wheat provided by care a .-based International Relief organization. The United states has provided $7.2 million in emergency Cyclone Aid but the . Embassy channels funds and distribution through non profit groups such As care one of the most Active organizations in the Cyclone devastated area. V As the misery continued in Southeastern Bangladesh More bad weather struck other parts of the country. High wind warnings were issued but none of the new storms and floods approached the intensity of the killer Cyclone. A a a a by v a. Foreign and local Relief agencies have been Strug a gling to get food and Safe drinking Vater to survivors thousands of whom Are suffering from diarrhoea that health officials say could turn into a cholera epidemic. Cholera is spread by Contact with human waste. The government said sunday night at least 204 people in the area hit by the Cyclone have died of diarrhoea since May i. A a a Vas the . Military began its Relief efforts the weather Bureau said squalls might hit Dhaka and five other cities monday a covering virtually every part of the country except the area struck by the Cyclone. A a we have issued warnings that storms with wind speeds of 55 to 75 Miles per hour or More May hit the area said the bureaus Deputy director Azizul Hossain. Span Dahlem welcomes eight f-4gs Back to base Span Dahlem a Germany a families and friends on Friday welcomed Home 16 members of the 52nd tac f fighter Wing when they returned from More than eight months in the persian Gulf the 52nd tac fighter Wing was the first 17th air Force unit to deploy to the Gulf. Those returning Friday were aircrew members from the 81st tac fighter so who flew eight f-4g wild weasels Back to their base. During the 8ist s deployment the Squadron flew 2,452 combat sorties and racked up 6,695 flying hours. With 16 of the wings aircraft having returned an undisclosed number remain in the  from Page 1 said James gee a spokesman for the defense ministry at silo i Turkey. At 1 13 . One round was fired at the standing patrol from the same area and it was answered by one round gee said. At 1 20 ., two men emerged from a Blockhouse on the Palace Wall and began to fire Long bursts of automatic fire at the patrol. Fire was returned and the two men disappeared he said shortly afterwards two More shots were fired at the patrol. No further fire was returned gee said. Under an agreement with the allies a Small number of Saddam a troops were permitted to stay to guard the palaces and Villas Saddam built in the Mountain Valley. In another monday development the United nations took nearly 130 tons of wheat and other supplies to a provincial capital controlled by iraqi forces As the allies sought to persuade kurdish refugees to return from Mountain Camps. Plans Call for . And other Allied troops to eventually leave the area turning Over the entire Relief Effort to the United nations and other agencies. What concerns the kurdish refugees however is who will protect them after the allies leave. Officials said the repatriation of refugees from the harsh Camps on the mountainous turkish Border has continued. One major settlement that housed 100,000 refugees is now nearly empty. Yet kurdish leaders representing the people of the provincial capital Dozhuk on sunday frustrated efforts to Speed the repatriation by deeming inadequate a .-brokered Security agreement in the City. Kurdish leaders Are reluctant to encourage a return to the City which had 350,000 people before the persian Gulf War and in the Days following the kurdish rebellion. The leaders want guarantees of Allied Protection or a delay until they secure an autonomy agreement with Saddam. Dozhuk currently lies just outside the protective  from Page 1 which Are trying to negotiate the dismantling of apartheid but Are locked in a dispute Over ways to end worsening Black factional fighting. The Anc claims the government is not trying to end the bloodshed. Mrs. Mandela 56, and her co defendants a vol Iowa Falati and John Morgan a had proclaimed their innocence. Falati and Morgan were each found guilty of kidnapping and Falati was also found guilty of assault. The three had been charged in the abduction and beating of four Young men from a methodist Church Home in the Black township of Soweto. Prosecutors contended the four Young men were taken from the Church Home and beaten because the defendants believed the youths were homosexuals or had spied for police. One of the four Tompie Weipei was later killed. Jerry Richardson  Mandela s former bodyguard was convicted in the death last year. A . Mandela had claimed that she was More than 200 Miles away when the crimes took place but Justice . Stegmann said she had authorized the kidnapping Bush from Page 1 again raised the Specter of chemical weapons and demonstrated that unscrupulous regimes can and will threaten innocent populations with these weapons of terror so Long As we permit them to exist a Bush said in a statement. A _. The United states did not use chemical weapons in operation desert storm although during the War officials would not Rule out the possibility. In mondays statement Bush declared a to demonstrate the United states commitment to before leaving Home. Stegmann also said . Mandela devised a an elaborate Story to try to conceal what happened. The judge also said that suggesting the abduction was carried out without . Mandela a knowledge was like a trying to imagine a Hamlet without the  a . Mandela authorized the kidnapping before leaving for Brand fort on december 29 Stegmann said. He said that when she returned from the town which is 235 Miles Southwest of Johannesburg on dec. 31, a she must have heard or been informed of the assaults. She must have seen the injured bodies of the four who had several Sambok whip Marks All Over their bodies. A i hold it proved that she knew by january 1st that Richardson had on december 29 committed serious assaults on the four. She did make herself guilty As an accessory after the fact of the assaults a he s3id. South Africa does not have jury trials and the judge reached the verdict alone. The defense and the prosecution had completed their arguments Friday. Mrs. Mandela and the co defendants face anything from suspended sentences to lengthy jail terms. Sentencing is at the judges discretion. Banning chemical weapons we Are formally for swearing the use of chemical weapons for any reason including retaliation against any state effective when the convention enters into Force and will propose that All states follow  a White House statement also said that the United states would drop its previous position that the United states be permitted to keep 2 percent of its current stockpile of chemical weapons a 500 tons a until All chemical weapons capable nations have signed the treaty. A a these Steps can move the world significantly closer to the goal of a world free of chemical weapons a Bush said. I Call upon ail other nations to join us in the serious and cooperative Pursuit of this important