European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday november 13, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3yugoslavs press Dubrovnik Vukovan Zagreb Yugoslavia apr serbian dominated Federal forces tuesday pounded the medieval heart of Dubrovnik with artillery for a second Day and tightened its noose on the Eastern City of Vukovan another vital croatian outpost. Both cities have great symbolic and strategic importance in the 4v-month-old civil War which has claimed More than 1,700 lives. Federal forces using heavy artillery monday appeared close to capturing the Danube River City of Vukovan where croatian defenders have apparently run out of ammunition. The Eastern croatian City has been under siege for nearly three months with an estimated 12,000 people living under. Ground. Vukovan on the Border with Serbia has become a rallying Symbol for secessionist Croatia. In making a stand in the City croats have frustrated serbian efforts for exclusive control of a Large chunk of Eastern Croatia Federal forces surrounding the Adriatic port of Dubrovnik resumed shelling of the City at 6 20 . Tuesday european Community spokeswoman Renilde Steeghs quoted dec monitors in the City As reporting. Some 28 people have been killed and 300 have sought medical assistance in the past two Days of heavy bombardment croatian radio said. The City a 50,000 residents who have Short of bread and drinking water after a a a six week siege that has devastated the spent Days in cellars and shelters Are she. Week Sec City a Gem of medieval architecture. For a second straight Day shells were smashing into the walled old town Section dec Deputy spokesman de Koestal said after speaking with monitors in the he hotel Argentina where 14 dec a statue of Dubrovnik a Patron and the burning Imperial hotel Are silhouetted against an evening sky after renewed attacks. Monitors Are staying was among buildings hit by shells tuesday. One slammed into the fifth floor where the monitors rooms Are located but they were in the hotel cellar Koestal said. The dec is trying to evacuate its monitors from the City and Steeghs said talks were being held with the Federal army on withdrawing the team safely. On monday Dubrovnik was reported ablaze and enveloped in smoke. Meanwhile air raid sirens wailed in nine croatian towns tuesday including Barlovac Southwest of the croatian capital Zagreb Sisak and Nova Gradiska on the Central front croatian radio said. It also reported that the euro River a Malta registered cargo ship Sank late monday off Croatia after being hit by two missiles. Serbian dominated forces have taken about a third of croatian territory in the fighting which erupted after Croatia declared Independence on june 25. Serbian insurgents Are opposed to croatian Independence claiming the republics 600,000 serbs would face discrimination in an Independent Croatia. They Are backed by the largest Republic of Serbia Croatia a bitter rival. Croatia maintains that serbian presi Dent Slobodan Milosevic is using the minority Issue to create an expanded Serbia that includes territory in other republics where serbs live. On monday president Franjo Tudja Man of Croatia said Dubrovnik and Vukovan had been a plunged into total he called for the dispatch of . Peacekeeping troops. Lord Carrington chairman of the eco a so far fruitless peace Effort said he thought military intervention was the Only Way to Stop serbian attacks on Croatia a but that dec nations Are not Likely to support it. He said in an interview monday that he thought Serbia and Croatia would eventually be recognized As Sovereign countries. A in the end if this goes on obviously Serbia and Croatia in my judgment will be recognized a Carrington said on British television. Serbia is the Only Republic that has rejected an dec plan to convert Yugoslavia into a Loose association of Sovereign states with present Borders in tact and International guarantees for minorities. Milosevic argues that would mean the dissolution of settles Case of hot lips slander los Angeles apr a condominium association gave an undisclosed settlement to a woman who was threatened with a Fine for kissing her Boyfriend goodnight in her driveway. A i Hope that my Story encourages others to stand up for their rights Helen Garrett 52, said monday after receiving the Cheek from the Tow Square owners association. Garrett sued the homeowners association in what amounted to a Case of mistaken identity. In May she briefly kissed a Friend Good night after he dropped her off in the driveway of her Santa Ana condominium Complex. The next month a notice appeared on the Public bulletin Board warning her to desist from kissing and doing bad things for Over one hour. The Case received National attention when Garrett hired a lawyer saying she had been subjected to such humiliating remarks As a Marathon Kisser and a hot the association later apologized and said it had based the notice on erroneous information from a Doorman who had seen a teen Ager necking with a Young Man inside a car. When confronted the girl had Given Garrett a address. Garrett a attorney Gloria Allred would not disclose the settlement amount. To evangelist Roberts pleads for Cash to pay ministry Bills Tulsa okla. Apr television evangelist Oral Roberts has written More than 1 million of his regular contributors for Money to save his ministry from a a satanic a a we be got to have a financial breakthrough or All hell is going to break Loose against this ministry a says the letter seeking $500 apiece from the ministry a regular contributors nationwide. A please understand we be got to have the finances. There is no other Way hear me there is no other Way a news of the letter was reported in tuesdays Tulsa world. In a successful Appeal in 1987, Oral Roberts said god would a Call me Home if he did not raise $8 million in contributions for medical missionary scholarships. The controversial fund raising tactic was widely criticized As offensive and inappropriate. The letter for this Appeal describes the financial emergency Only in Broad terms and does not say How much Money is needed. The letter warns contributors of a a satanic conspiracy to Stop gods Healing ministry in the a i am unable to Tell you the full severity of this problem on television because of the enemies of this ministry Quot the letter says. The letter includes a Promise from each member of the Roberts family a Oral his wife Evelyn son Richard and Richards wife Lindsay a to a a sacrifice one week of their salaries from he ministry. Richard Roberts said in an interview that the Money was needed to pay vendors and suppliers to the ministry and to cover the Cost of the ministry a television shows. A it irritates the life out of me to be forced into the position of discussing this letter with the secular Media a said the younger Roberts executive vice president of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa. Roberts said that neither he nor his father would ask for donations Over the air a because this is a private matter. We went to our prayer partners a our family a with our he said the ministry had seen a Sharp drop in donations Over the past 30 Days. He linked the decline to the scandal following reports that evangelist Jimmy Swaggart was with a prostitute when his car was stopped last month by police in Indio calif., for traffic violations
