European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes thursday december 12,1991 a croatian pow freed by the yugoslav army reaches from a bus window tuesday to shake hands at Bosa Sld Samac. Yugoslav peace Effort goes on As prisoner Exchange delayed Zagreb Yugoslavia apr a Lull in fighting wednesday followed overnight shelling As mediators sought to negotiate a local cease fire in the embattled Eastern City of Osisek. Croatian authorities and the serbian dominated Federal army postponed a prisoner of War Exchange for the second Day. A mined Road near Barlovac 30 Miles Southwest of Zagreb on tuesday prevented the croatian Side from transporting six buses of prisoners to Kamensky three Miles to the Southeast. The International committee of the red Cross initially said wednesday that the Exchange had begun then said it had been delayed for at least one More Day. Other exchanges involving hundreds of prisoners went smoothly tuesday. The exchanges Are mandated under a  cease fire Accord signed nov. 23. Also wednesday Budimir Loncar formally stepped Down As Yugoslavia a foreign minister the Tan Jug news Agency reported. Loncar a supporter of Yugoslavia a reformist Premier Ante Markovic. Resigned last month. Both croats had been sharply criticized by Serbia and Croatia for their efforts to keep Yugoslavia together and avoid a civil War. And at the United nations Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar recommended in a report that . Peacekeepers should not be sent to Yugoslavia while fighting continues. He met tuesday with special envoy on the yugoslav crisis Cyrus Vance to draft a report on the latter a efforts to halt the fighting. The . Chief and Vance former . Secretary of state have said repeatedly they cannot Send peacekeepers into a combat zone. There was sporadic shelling of Osisek capital of the Eastern Slavonia Region and one of the last major croatian strongholds in the area and of surrounding towns at around Midnight. But the one time City of 140,000 was quiet wednesday local defense officials said. A team of european Community monitors was to negotiate a cease fire for the City with local croatian authorities and Federal army commanders said de Koes Tal Deputy spokesman of the dec monitoring Mission in the croatian capital of Zagreb. Osisek was targeted by serbian dominated forces last month after they took the Danube River town of Vuko Var thus gaining control much of Eastern Slavonia. Taking Osisek enable them to virtually dominate the Region. Serbian insurgents backed by the serbian dominated Federal army have taken More than one third of Croatia a territory since fighting broke out after the Republic declared Independence june 25. Thousands of people have been killed. The dec representatives in Osisek reported that the Hospital there was hit by a tank projectile As they toured it tuesday necessitating the Eva Culaton of 15 wounded patients. The City was under nearly constant fire ail Day. Elsewhere sporadic shelling was reported on the coastal City of Zadar overnight one croatian guardsman was killed and one was wounded croatian radio reported. There was continued shelling on the Central front at Nova Gradiska on the main Highway Between Zagreb and Belgrade the Federal and serbian capital. In another development the Belgrade based Tan Jug news Agency reported that Federal authorities planned to ban German planes trucks and ships from entering the country starting monday. Quot the move was in retaliation for similar Steps taken by Germany against Serbia and its ally Montenegro the German ban became effective tuesday. With its action the German government stepped up pressure on the two republics it it Lames for the civil War in Yugoslavia. The German airline Lufthansa has already stopped flying to Belgrade. World refugee 24, mistakenly gets abortion in France from wire reports Lyon France a a vietnamese refugee seeking a routine pregnancy checkup awoke to find that her fetus had been aborted in a Case of mistaken identity authorities said wednesday. Thi Nho to 24, a vietnamese refugee went to Lyons hotel Dieu Hospital nov. 27 from her Home in the suburbs. In the fifth month of pregnancy she had scheduled a routine examination with gynaecologists at the Hospital. Another woman with the same name arrived at the Hospital at the same time seeking an abortion authorities said. Staff members confused them and performed an abortion on the wrong woman they said. A Legal Case was being prepared against the institution the woman said wednesday. The Hospital has not officially commented on the Case  cutting reserves London a Britain plans to reduce its military reserves the territorial army by about 14 percent. In june Britain said it would Cut its regular armed forces by More than a Quarter Over the next four years with a Sharp reduction in Germany following a nato decision to create a rapid reaction Force headed by Britain. Under that plan a 25,000-Strong expanded armoured division would be based in Germany with a multinational corps Headquarters. Defense Secretary Tom King told the House of commons on tuesday that the territorial army will be reduced from 74,000 to about 63,500. But he stressed that the reserves of All the services would have a a continuing and important role supporting the regular armed forces. King said the strength of the Reserve infantry would be Cut by about 18 percent. But the Royal engineers Royal signals intelligence corps and army air corps units would All grow. He said later a we shall be looking to recruit some 20,000 to the to this year. That a a recognition of the substantial turnover there  held Over drugs Manila Philippines a police arrested an american woman wednesday for allegedly trying to slip out of the country with More than $1 million Worth of heroin in her underwear. Maj. Teodoro Gutierrez Airport police commander said Viacita Latura 24, of California was arrested at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport As she was about to Hoard a Northwest airlines flight for san Francisco. He said three packets of heroin were found concealed in her underpants while two other bags were hidden under her Bra. Two packets of the drug also were recovered from a nearby garbage can Gutierrez  kills eight Pago Pago Tutuila a Cyclone Val Tore through both the Western and american samoan Island groups killing at least eight people injuring Many and wreaking enormous damage officials said wednesday. They said seven people were reported killed tuesday in Western Samoa and one was confirmed dead in american  for know it All West germans honoured Berlin apr the word of the year in United Germany is Besse Wess the ironic tag bestowed on Western germans who think they know Best How to Reform the former communist Eastern part of the country. The society for German language in Wiesbaden honoured Besse Mussi on tuesday As the Best new word or phrase of 1991, describing it As original and pregnant with meaning on the relations Between germans in the East and West. The neologism is a combination of the Standard German word Bess Ensser meaning a know it All a literally better Knower a and the nickname Wessli for West germans. Its origin Isnit exactly known. But undoubtedly the Ossis or East germans thought up Besse Ressi to impute arrogance to Western officials who Are imposing programs to transform virtually All aspects of Public and economic life in Eastern Germany. Among the also rans from the first full year since the Germany s United on oct. 3. 1990, were a Kurz Arbe of you literally Short work Zero the term for the labor status of hundreds of thousands of Eastern germans who Are on payrolls but not working. A a Wicken a verb that has a to unwind As its primary meaning but that has become the ubiquitous weasel word for liquidating factories schools institutes and any other object the Besser Wes Sis decide the Ossis Don t need anymore. A Zuskind crab meaning hate of foreigners. To describe what a behind the eruptions of violence against non germans in recent months. A preut Fen Reber or Prussia fever a term encompassing the Way United Germany is reviving symbols of Prussia that were repressed under communist Rule in the East the old prussian heartland. The symbols include deciding to move the government s scat to Berlin the refurbished Brandenburg Gate in the Center of Berlin and the reburial of Isth Cen Tury King Frederick inc great in Potsdam. The society said a my of seven language specialists  Over some 10,0 0 choices to pick the words and phrases that Best characterized language development in 1991