European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes Friday june 19, 1992u.n. Boosts efforts for Sarajevo Ai residents eating every kind of grass commander says Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr Muslim defenders recovered thursday from a Multi pronged serbian attack on Sarajevo and the commander of a pummelled suburb said hungry people in his District were eating grass. As the fear of hunger intensified in the besieged bosnian capital a . General prepared to meet with rival factions on opening its Airport to Relief flights. The City a 300,000 residents Are desperate for food and Medicine. In Belgrade the serbian and yugoslav capital . Embassy staff members and their families formed a Convoy of cars in preparation for a journey to Hungary. Just 35 embassy personnel Are expected to stay on. The United nations imposed sanctions on Yugoslavia now consisting Only of Serbia and Montenegro on May 30 Over its fomenting of violence in Bosnia. Sunrise brought a Lull in fighting to Sarajevo. Artillery boomed occasionally but the sounds of Battle were lighter than overnight when serbian attackers and Muslim defenders fought with cannons machine guns and rifles. Residents used the relative Calm to Scurry for what food remained in the City blockaded for weeks by serbs seeking to make part of Sarajevo the capital of their own Independent Republic within Bosnia. In Dobrija a Western suburb partially overrun by serbian fighters on wednesday the commander of the suburbs defenders said its 35,000 people were receiving sparse rations and will run out of food in Quot Days maybe a  Quot we Are eating every kind of grass that grows in Dobrija Parks a said the commander who spoke by Telephone and on condition of anonymity. A the adults get bread and water or if there a no electricity flour and water a he said. A but the kids get More Macaroni and  he said serbian attackers on wednesday took women and children hostage and used them As Shields to move into the High Rise suburb once the athletes Village for the 1984 Winter olympics. His claim could not be confirmed independently. A Sarajevo to reporter Rasim Borcak on wednesday quoted Gen. Lewis Mackenzie chief of the . Contingent in Sarajevo As saying . Forces might have to abandon efforts to reopen the Airport. But As the fighting eased Early thursday . Spokesman Adnan Abdel Razek said Mackenzie was to meet separately with serbian leaders and Bosnia a Muslim president on reopening the Airport. A no ones throwing in the Towel and in fact our plans Are still going ahead quite Well a Mackenzie said in a Telephone interview. The United nations signed an agreement with the serbs almost two weeks ago on reopening the Airport but fighting has prevented the peacekeepers from securing the Airfield. Tanks for the memories two soldiers take a break during the loading of . Tanks at berlins Teltow train station on wednesday. The first 16 of 32 tanks in the 6th in 40th Armor left the German capital As part of the units inactivation. British military to decriminalize Gay sex London apr the government plans to decriminalize Gay sex Between members of the armed services a but will still dismiss service members found to take part in homosexual acts a ministry of defense official says. Jonathan Aitken said wednesday that under the new policy those taking part in homosexual activity would no longer risk having a criminal record because of their sexual preference. Under current regulations homosexuals convicted of having homosexual sex can be subject to detention before dismissal. Gay rights groups attacked the government move. Peter Tatchell of the lesbian and Gay rights organization outrage condemned it As an a insulting half measure which reiterates  homosexual acts in private Between consenting male civilian adults have been Legal in Britain since 1967. Sexual acts Between civilian lesbians have never been outlawed in Britain. At the time of the 1967 act legislators decided it was essential for discipline that homosexual acts Between members of the armed forces should remain a crime under military Law. . To Cut Philippines Aid by 60% Washington a the Bush administration is greeting the Philippines next president with a 60 percent Cut in Aid and Congress is planning further cuts next year. The . Share of a multinational assistance plan once championed by the Congress has been halved once and is being Cut in half again As Congress prepares the fiscal 1993 budget. The slashes come amid strained relations Between the United states and the Philippines created after that nation rejected lease renewals for once critical . Military bases. At the same time other rising democracies Are asking for dwindling . Foreign Aid. The administration has reduced 1992 philippine Aid from its originally requested $559 million to just less than $220 million in its final allocation according to the state department. Last fiscal year the Aid totalled $568 million. The Philippines is expected to install fide Ramos the sex defense Secretary and former military commander As president june 30, succeeding Corazon Aquino. Ramos has not yet been declared Winner of the May 11 presidential race but a congressional committee says its Survey of votes shows he won Ramos who was Aquino a candidate has close . Ties As a graduate of West Point. Some Washington analysts said they think he will try to arrange . Access to the naval facilities at Subic Bay which . Forces will abandon by the end of the year. A last years volcanic eruption of mount Pinatubo drove . Forces out of Clark a and a vote in the philippine Senate will end . Use of Subic. A members of Congress who supported Aid increases after Aquino took Power from 20-year ruler Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 see the cuts As  opposition groups Hope to unite As alternative by the Washington Post Vienna Austria a More than 200 iraqi opposition leaders opened a three Day conference on Neutral ground wednesday seeking Unity credibility and . Support in their Long Effort to topple president Saddam Hussein. Organizers of the iraqi National Congress tried to minimize the absence of a major islamic opposition faction the iranian backed supreme Assembly of the islamic revolution in Iraq. They acknowledged however that the group would have to play a part in any Post Saddam government. Participants in the Congress outwardly undaunted by iranian syrian and saudi pressures that kept key opposition figures away split into committees to create what they described As a a representative Independent and credible political alternative to the iraqi government. They were buoyed by recent . State department encouragement and last months democratic elections in iraqi Kurdistan. They also appeared confident of eventually winning the support of suspicious Middle Eastern Powers and their iraqi opposition clients who boycotted the meeting. Participants planned to elect a representative general Assembly and executive committee to serve As a a responsible authority representing the will of the iraqi people in negotiations with regional and International  foreign observers viewed the move As tantamount to establishing a provisional government. Sounding a common theme Hishyar Zibari representing kurdish Leader Massoud Barzani described the conference As a a test for the West a especially the United states in its a commitment to bringing about political change in