European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 b the stars and stripes saturday november 23,1991u.n. Force requested by croat Leader refugees of the Vukovan Convoy on thursday get ready to Start the trek from Kremska Mitrovich to Dvor in Bosnia Herzegovina. The transport carried about 1,600 civilians and 400 wounded. Zagreb Yugoslavia apr serb led forces ringing Eastern Croatia a main City stepped up their attack Friday and Croatia a president appealed for the immediate deployment of an International peacekeeping Force. The government of croatian president Franjo Tudja Man also apparently moved to quell criticism of its military defeat last weekend in the Eastern town of Vukovan by detaining two leaders of the Ultra nationalist party of rights. The party opposes any negotiations aimed at ending the nearly 5-month-old civil War that has killed thousands of people in the secessionist Republic. In Geneva the United nations announced it had freed $1.75 million in emergency Aid to feed clothe and provide Medicine for a half million displaced people in War torn regions of Yugoslavia. Fighting broke out in Croatia after the Republic declared Independence on june 25. Since then serb nationalists and the serb led army have seized a third of Croatia a territory. Serbia says serbs living in Croatia face persecution in an Independent Croatia. The secessionist Republic says Serbia a goal All along was to grab territory As Yugoslavia disintegrates. The serb led forces boosted by their Victory at Vukovan now Are besieging Osisek a City of 140,000 and the capital of the Slavonia Region of Croatia. European Community monitoring teams around Osisek 20 Miles Northwest of Vukovan and 130 Miles from Zagreb reported Friday a heavy buildup of yugoslav forces and to a lesser extent croatian forces dec spokesman de Koestal said. Osisek is nearly encircled by yugoslav and serb forces and has been shelled almost daily for several months. After a night of heavy artillery attacks shelling resumed Early Friday morning on villages North and South of Osisek according to defense officials in the City and croatian radio. Dec officials reported that males 18 to 60 were not allowed to leave Osisek Koestal said indicating croatian forces might be preparing to mobilize there. With the capture of Vukovan last weekend Federal Swiep Headsville by. A a derailed Tanker car filled with a flammable liquid was put Back on the tracks Friday. And As it rolled out of town 3,000 people returned to the Homes they had evacuated 2xh Days before. The car which carried 30,000 Gallons of propylene oxide derailed along with 26 other freight cars tuesday As a train was crossing a Bridge Over the Salt River. Thirteen of the cars plunged into the River or onto its Banks sparking a fire that burned for hours. The others including the Tanker and a freight car filled with Cluster bombs piled up on the Bridge. The a carrying troops and serb militants gained control Over a slice of Eastern Croatia along the Danube River. The capture of the Osisek area would ensure domination of a much broader Swath. The serb led offensive continued despite efforts this week by . Envoy Cyrus Vance to find common ground among croatian serbian and army leaders for the deployment of a peacekeeping Force. Weakened by the defeat at Vukovan Tadjman on Friday asked for International help to Stop the fighting. A we. Appeal to you to apply All diplomatic and other possible pressure on the yugoslav army and Serbia to cease further War destruction and to Send . Peacekeeping forces immediately to Croatia a Tadjman said in a letter carried by the croatian news Agency the bombs was removed wednesday. After the wreck authorities feared an explosion or huge fire and ordered people living within a mile of the Accident to leave. A the City of Shepherdsville was very Lucky we did not get someone killed in this. In a glad its Over a mayor Larry Hatfield said As he announced that residents could return Home late thursday night. Local schools remained closed Friday. Several other damaged cars remain at the site. Dick Bussard a spokesman for Cox transportation the company that operated the freight car said it could Hina. The report did not mention Vance a Mission. It said the letter was addressed to several unidentified world leaders and to lord Carrington the european Community a chief negotiator on Yugoslavia. The dec has brokered 13 cease fires but All have failed. An estimated 3,000 to 7,000 people have died in the civil War hundreds of them in Vukovan. Both sides claimed massacres in Vukovan and elsewhere but the reports could not be confirmed. On wednesday yugoslav photographer Goran Mikic said 41 serb schoolchildren had been slaughtered by croatians near Vukovan. His report was first carried by Reuters news Agency. On thursday however Reuters withdrew the Story saying Mikic acknowledged he Hadnot seen or counted the bodies. Take a few weeks to clean up the area repair the damaged track and Bridge and reopen the Section on the railroads main line Between Louisville ky., and Nashville Tenn. Authorities believe the derailment was caused by a garbage truck that struck a trestle leading to the Bridge and buckled the track. Two people in the truck suffered minor injuries but no one on the train was Hurt. Four firefighters working on the fire thursday became ill apparently from inhaling Carbon monoxide produced by burning Wood pulp. They were treated at a Hospital and heard of 63 plot to kill Juk in Miami Miami apr two weeks before president Kennedy was assassinated Miami police taped a conversation about a plot to shoot him from a Miami office building a retired intelligence officer says. And Kennedy a motorcade was cancelled because of the information said former Miami police it. Everett Kay. Kennedy then flew to Texas on his Southern tour and was shot to death in a Dallas motorcade nov. 22,1963. A whether its coincidence or the truth Well never really know a said Kay 70. A but it should never be the Fri and the secret service refused to discuss the Case. Federal authorities and congressional investigators reviewed the tape in the 1960s and 1970s, but never reported finding any link with the assassination. In 1963, Kay was involved in the Miami police departments infiltration of right Wing hate groups. In the weeks before Kennedy a visit Kay Stop informant William Somersett spoke of rumours concerning an attempt on the presidents life. Kay decided to tape a meeting in Miami in Early november Between Somersett and Joseph Milteer a wealthy Georgia Man associated with the White citizens Council. Both men Are dead now Kay said. Milteer says on the tape that Kennedy is a a marked when Somersett asks How it would be done Milteer says a from an office building. With a High powered Milteer says it would be easy to take a gun in pieces into an office building. And he dismisses Somersette a concern that an assassination would cause a juror. A a hell pick up somebody within hours after if anything like that would happen. Just to throw the Public off a Milteer says. Authorities have said Lee Harvey Oswald carried a disassembled Rifle into the Texas Book depository. He was arrested within hours of the shooting. Kay said he turned Over the tape to the Fri after the assassination but never heard from them again. He said neither the Fri nor the Warren commission the Federal panel that investigated the assassination Ever talked to return Home As derailed Tanker is removed
