European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday june 13, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3serbs announce cease fire in Bosnia Belgrade Yugoslavia a serbs on Friday announced a cease fire in the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina beginning next week offering their fullest cooperation yet to . Monitors trying to Stop the ethnic bloodletting in the Republic. In Bosnia Sarajevo was Calm at Sunrise after the quietest night in the capital since intense fighting began five Days earlier Between the serbs and the Muslim defenders. More than a dozen cease fires have failed in Bosnia including an earlier one proclaimed unilaterally by the serbs. The warring sides have blamed each other for those failures. But fridays offer by bosnian serb Leader Radovan Karadzic represented the first time the states serbian fighters have gone As far As allowing . Monitors to observe a cease fire from their military positions. In a news conference in Belgrade the serbian and yugoslav capital Karadzic told reporters he sent a Telegram to . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali stating his truce offer. He requested at least 800 . Monitors to oversee it from serbian positions. A we unilaterally announce a cease fire from monday a Karadzic said Reading the Telegram. He said the cease fire would Start on All fronts at 6 . . Troops might go in humanitarian roles by the new York times Washington the United states is prepared to Send troops to help Supply and safeguard humanitarian Aid to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina but has ruled out using troops in combat officials said thursday. While president Bush said a a there a no commitment on sending troops other officials said troops might go but Only in humanitarian roles. A we will do what we should do but in a not going to go into the fact of using United states troops a Bush said thursday before leaving for Panama and Brazil. A a we re not the worlds administration officials have said in recent Days that Washington was willing to assist the Relief Effort led by the United nations. Statements on thursday by officials at the Pentagon and the state department brought into sharper focus the preparations being made and the conditions under which assistance would be sent. The defense department spokesman Pete Williams said . Military assistance hinged on securing a ceasefire at the Airport in Sarajevo and on receiving a specific request from the United nations. A there has been no request from the United nations for United states support a Williams told reporters thursday. A even so we re actively looking at How Best we could support the United nations Effort to get the humanitarian Aid to Bosnia. 1 would say the United states is prepared to help the United nations provide humanitarian Williams said the United states Hail already provided Aid to other former yugoslav republics. Two . Air Force c-5 cargo planes had delivered 40 tons of food to Zagreb the croatian capital on May la for delivery to Sarajevo. Because of the fighting the delivery has been redirected to the area around split Croatia he said. Later this month Williams said 155 bulk containers of food Are to be ship Ped to Zagreb for distribution by the red Cross and the United nations the food is being sent from Rotterdam the Netherlands and from Pisa Italy. A your military positions Are open to . Monitors and we will warmly Welcome their immediate arrival a Karadzic said. There was no immediate reaction from the bosnian government led by muslims and croats. There was also no immediate comment from the United nations. Most . Peacekeeping troops had been pulled out of Bosnia after fierce fighting in recent weeks and it was unclear How quickly 800 of the troops could be redeployed the offer by Karadzic appeared to reflect the pressures serbs feel by growing world condemnation of their role in the bosnian fighting. The United nations turned up the pressure when it imposed a Trade Oil and air traffic embargo on Yugoslavia on May 30. A team of . Peacekeepers has arrived in Sarajevo to try to open the Airport for food and medical shipments to the City a 300,000 people. The Convoy led by Canadian Brig. Gen. Lewis Mackenzie reached downtown . Offices upset with treatment by maps by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau a teacher who was falsely accused of child abuse said her encounter with military police left her with a very Little Faith in the military a i believe these people would have just As soon shot me a said Marianne Penn referring to the military police. Penn 42, a second Grade teacher at the Regensburg Annex of Hohenfels elementary school in Germany said two uniformed military policemen and an investigator appeared at her school May 21. The investigator told her she had to ride 30 Miles to Hohenfels for questioning. A the said i had a Choice. I could walk out with them get in the vehicle and go to Hohenfels. If i resisted 1 would be put in restraints a Penn said. At Hohenfels she said a criminal investigation come investigator read her her rights and told her she would be charged with physical abuse of a child under 16. The charge stemmed from a girls allegation that Penn had grabbed her earlier that week outside the school bruising her . Later the Pupil admitted that she had caused the Bruise herself by sucking on her Penn said. As a civilian Penn would be subject to German Law but not the uniform code of military Justice. It. Col. Henry Hughes base support battalion commander in Hohenfels denied that Penn was arrested. He said she accompanied the investigator to Hohenfels voluntarily and was not charged. He referred other questions to the 7th army training come. A command spokesman sgt. 1st class Steve Barrett refused to comment thursday on the incident. Michael Bauernfeind a lawyer with the overseas education association teachers Union said the incident exemplifies the army a continuing encroachment on the school system. Penn said her ordeal led to a severe flare up of Lupus a chronic disease she has had at least since 1985. The army eventually absolved the teacher of blame but Bauernfeind said the stress induced illness gives her grounds to file a claim against the army. School system officials Are treating the incident As an honest mistake on the army a part. A i think the military command tried to help us As Best they could a Annex principal Bart Zwicker said adding that the girls parents should have talked to he said i had a Choice i could walk out with them get in the vehicle and go to Hohenfels. If i resisted i would be put in restraints Marianne Penn school officials before going to the police and the police appeared to be Young. He declined further comment on the subject. Department of defense dependents schools spokesman Frank of Gara said that such mistakes May happen because new military policemen sometimes done to understand the rules governing civilians or Arentt fully informed about them. A they army officials have assured us that they will make their people aware of those a of Gara said. A a we re satisfied that the commander will take care of the Bauernfeind said an april 16 memorandum from . Army Europe he in Heidelberg appears to have inspired the military police to act in Pennis Case. The army note informs commanders that the Headquarters is drafting a new regulation to Deal with child abuse allegations. In the meantime accused suspects must be removed from Contact with children. A Dodds principals have authority to decide whether a teacher will be removed from the classroom. While commanders do not have the authority to interfere with Dodds personnel decisions they must initiate or approve measures that will protect abuse victims from further harm a the memorandum said. It added that if the principal does no to remove the employee the commander has the authority to bar that person from the military installation until the Case is resolved. However Penn a Tyler Texas native who has been a teacher for eight years does no to work at a . Installation. The school Annex is on a German military Post. Also the memorandum says nothing about what commanders should do with a person who already is on an installation not trying to enter it. Gary Nelson another Union lawyer said about eight cases like Pennis have occurred since last fall in the Region of Germany for which he is responsible. In one of them maps handcuffed a teacher Pat searched him escorted him to the criminal investigation come for interrogation and told him he had no right to a lawyer Nelson said. The teacher returned to his classroom later and the school system found no cause for action against him Nelson said. A a we re investigating Legal avenues on those and sum Lar episodes Quot he said. Usa eur had not replied Friday to a query Stais and stripes filed last week about the child abuse regulation. In any Case the army memorandum does not ailed Dodds personnel decisions said Fred Drath the school systems chief of executive services. A i done to think it changed any of our policies really a drat i said. A we still have the right to make a determination whether child abuse has Penn who remained ill thursday is More concerned about the treatment of on the Lam found the Good life a in Utah Providence . A investigators who spent three Days this week in Utah say John Fazioli a Man who lived a i surely life in downtown Salt Lake City actually was fugitive Bank president to Eph Mollicone or. Rhode Island officials have blamed Mollicone who allegedly embezzled $15 Lillion from his Small Providence Bank nth starting a Chain reaction that led to state banking crisis. The collapse of Mollicone a heritage loan and investment co. In late 1990 pulled Down the states shaky private Deposit insurer. That led gov. Bruce g. Sundlun to shut Down 45 Banks and credit unions in january 1991. More than a dozen were closed for Over a year. Estimates of the bailouts Cost to taxpayers have ranged up to $800 million. Mollicone 49, vanished in november 1990 when his Bank a problems were emerging. He surrendered in mid april and has been jailed on embezzlement charges. Authorities had traced leads to trance Canada latin America Australia and Italy. After his arrest they discovered he had lived the life of a Young Retiree in Utah said Rhode Island attorney general James e. Of Neil. Mollicone grew Long hair and a Beard rented a $750-per-month furnished apartment and told friends he owned a jewelry factory and had come to Utah to escape the fast Lane investigators say. A i mean the Guy was Superb Quot said Ahmed Jadallah owner of the Del 1-Egance International Art gallery. A there s not a single single single bad memory or bad advice i got from the Jadallah and Mollicone met at a 1900 Christmas party and became friends. A maybe the Economy went bad k East. Maybe something went wrong a Jadallah said. A i done to believe he would step on a Fly a
