European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday december 1,1991 at a glance two haitian women talk in port a Prince on Friday a Day that Long lines formed at filling stations to await delivery of the first imported fuel since a Trade embargo. See Story on Page 9. Drought stricken . Firefighters battled the weeks fifth Blaze to threaten los Angeles area Homes. A Page 4 Duke plans gop race David Duke the former Kun flux klan Leader plans to enter several 1992 Republican presidential primaries a top adviser said saturday. A Page 5 memorials get face left tourists headed to the nation s capital Are in for a slight disappointment the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials will be shadowed by scaffolding and fencing for repairs. A Page 6 Tulsa in a tangle a tax Blunder by Tulsa City officials has allowed residents to buy huge tracts of municipal property for a fraction of the land s assessed value. A a a Page 7 Togo revolt fails rebel soldiers in Togo returned to their Barracks on saturday giving up their revolt in the face of threatened French intervention. A Page 8 company under fire the . Farben company broken up after world War ii for fueling the nazi War machine held its annual meeting in Frankfurt Germany behind police lines blocking angry demonstrators. A Page 10 Vanilla is tops a Penn state food scientist says Vanilla is no. 1 with ice Cream eaters worldwide. A Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers. 14 commentary. .13 faces no places. .14 letters. .12 Money matters. .15 Mutual. 16-17 sports. 18-24 weather. 11 shelling of croatian towns continues As . Prepares to Aid refugees Zagreb Yugoslavia apr More shells fell on Croatia a largest Eastern City saturday and fighting raged Over a key Highway. Meanwhile . Officials prepared to care for up to 500,000 refugees from the 5-month-old civil War. Fighting persisted despite a 6-Day-old cease fire. . Envoy Cyrus Vance was to leave new York on saturday evening for talks about deploying up to 10,000 . Peacekeepers in the secessionist Republic. . Officials have refused to Send soldiers to Croatia until a firm cease fire is reached Between croatian fighters and the serbian led Federal army. The latest truce Effort a the 14th of the War has reduced fighting in some for the dispatch of . Peacekeeping areas. Some army forces withdrew after troops Croatia last week dropped its objection to . Soldiers stationed Between warring groups inside the Republic. In new York , Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar has said a . Operation might require As Many As 10,000 troops. A . Envoy in Croatia meanwhile said an office will be established in a political and popular pressure Greb to help the Republic Cope with the estimated 550,000 croats and serbs thousands of people up have died since forced to flee their Homes because of the Croatia declared Independence june 25. Fighting. Yugoslav forces and ethnic serb fighters Many croat refugees fled to Zagreb opposed to secession have captured More where authorities tried to relocate them than a third of Croatia. Often temporarily to tourist hotels along in a major step that could pave the Way the Adriatic. Croatia agreed to end blockades of Federal military Barracks. But Federal forces have continued to Shell the Eastern City of Osisek and surrounding areas. In other developments croatian presi Dent Franjo Tadjman on saturday announced new general elections following the end of hostilities. Tadjman is under increasing political and pop because of Battlefield losses. Flurry of activity May signal hostage release Nicosia Cyprus apr hectic efforts to arrange the release of one or two american hostages in Lebanon Are under Way and the captives could be freed within Days an iranian newspaper and a Paris based radio station said saturday. The reports two weeks after the releases of British hostage Terry Waite and american Thomas Sutherland come As a . Hostage envoy is in the Middle East. The editors of the Tehran times news paper said they based their information on a report from their correspondent in South Lebanon. A a. There is every possibility that one or two american hostages May be released soon. Maybe in a few Days time a the correspondent said. Also saturday a report by the Paris based radio Monte Carlo from Tehran said americans Joseph Cicippio and Batann Steen will be freed no later than troops from Page 1 fort Campbell Home of the 101st airborne div said the situation has gotten worse since the persian Gulf War. Fort Campbell troops have increased from More than 21,166 in 1989 to 24,216 at september Send. The numbers Are still growing. Service members families could wait up to two years for one of the 4,153 houses or apartments on base Wilkerson said. No new construction is planned on the base until 1996. Soldiers who returned to fort Bragg Are suffering a similar housing crunch said sgt. 1st class skip Ritchey a base spokesman. A a lot of people were assigned to the 82nd airborne division just before desert storm but they shipped out immediately. Now they re coming Back and looking for places for their families a Ritchey said. The average Pool of available rental units in neighbouring Fayetteville n.c., has decreased from an estimated 500 units to about 200, he said. Even Colorado Springs colo., a City of nearly 300,000, has Felt the Impact said Maryl Neff a spokeswoman for fort Carson. The first 150 of up to 2,500 soldiers who will Transfer to fort Carson by 1993 arrived last week and met with real estate agents the next Day she said. Bob Mayo president of the Hopkinsville Christian county Board of realtors in southwestern Kentucky said the military buildup at fort Campbell had created the strongest Sellers Market he remembers. Many one and two bedroom houses that had sat vacant Are being renovated and put on the Market he said. A this tight Market is bad for the soldiers coming in with their families but its a Good situation for realtors and property owners a Mayo said. Landlords and real estate sales representatives were in a tight spot a year ago after the 101st shipped out to the persian Gulf. Some businesses dependent upon fort Campbell closed. A when we got Back from desert storm this place was like an old West ghost town a said sgt. David Boyatt 36, who teaches troops to operate computerized mortar systems. Now the situation has changed and Boyatt worries about the effect of the housing shortage on troop morale. A when those Guys come out there to go to work for me at 5 30 in the morning i want All they got a he said. A if i have someone not satisfied with his family a housing situation then i have a disheartened Soldier a Soldier who a not going to learn a Soldier who wont make wednesday. And it said the third american hostage Terry Anderson will be out within 10 Days. Waite and Sutherland had said after their release that their shiite Muslim captors told them other americans would be freed by the end of november a which was saturday a and that Anderson would be released by the end of the year. Bulgarian Admiral praises visits by . Warships Varna Bulgaria up a a visit by the 6th Fleet Cruiser Yorktown and one earlier in the year by the Cruiser Belknap Herald new contacts Between . And bulgarian navies officials said saturday. A now that the confrontation Between nato and the countries from the former Warsaw pact is Over we have a great a Opportunity to establish cooperation and rethink the role of the naval forces a said rear Admiral Dimitir Pavlov the commander in chief of the bulgarian Navy. Pavlov said vessels from the two navies had conducted joint Maneu vers and communications exercises during the York towns visit last week. The activity Marks the first time that american and sex Warsaw pact battleships have staged joint exercises. A Only two years ago something like this would have been unimaginable. Our ships were absolutely forbidden to have any communication whatsoever with nato ships a Pavlov said. Officers and sailors from the american warship toured this Black sea port and visited an orphanage where they donated gifts to the children. Pileup from Page 1 Angeles. A we could barely see. In be been in whiteout in snowstorms and it was the same feeling. We pulled off the shoulder and kept hoping no one would get us from the Eichman said at least 93 cars and 11 big rigs were involved in the accidents along a four mile stretch of the Highway that was crowded with thanksgiving weekend travellers. Dozens of other cars pulled off the Road into adjacent Fields and waited for the blinding dust to Clear. The dust from freshly slowed Fields that have been left dry by five years of drought was kicked up by 40-Mph winds. A we heard car after car bang bang bang bang a said Larry Burrow who steered his motor Home through the scene without being hit. A fall of a sudden there were several gusts and people started slowing Down a said Peter Harvey of Oakland. A it was like ice. I turn the car and i Stop the car a �?o1 heard dad yell a hold on hold on a a said 15-year-old Matt Davis. �?o1 saw the Back of somebody a car. I Felt us being hit a couple of More times from the rear. 1 was just holding on to the Davis and his family travelling to the san Francisco Bay area Home escape uninjured. The Highway patrol said visibility c the Roadway was reduced to Zero by to Strong wind and dust. The scene overnight was an eerie on with the doors of Many cars partial open their Interior lights puncturing to darkness. Cars were scattered at All a Gles across the four lanes of the High and in adjacent Fields. Authorities said the pileup was one the worst incidents in the area which w rocked by a 1983 earthquake that injury 47 people
