European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday june 20. 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3 . Efforts at Sarajevo Airport thwarted Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr fighting forced two . Vehicles to Retreat from Sarajevo a serbian held Airport Early Friday delaying work to open up runways for Relief flights. Sarajevo a 300,000 hungry people have been reduced to eating grass Nettles and weeds to stay alive. They Are under siege by yugoslav backed serbian forces fighting muslims and croats who voted 2vi months ago to secede from Yugoslavia. Rocket and machine gunfire jarred residents North of the old City Center before Dawn Friday. Serbian attackers and the City a Muslim led defenders traded fire around the fiercely contested marshal Tito Barracks which the yugoslav army abandoned two weeks ago. Shelling also echoed around the Muslim old town in the bosnian capital. . Officials were optimistic about carrying out a 2-week-Ola agreement to reopen the Airport after 80 peacekeepers entered the Airfield thursday said Adnan Abdel Razek chief . Civilian officer in Sarajevo. But fighting continued Friday near the Airport in the suburb of Dobrija and two vehicles carrying . Liaison officers were turned Back because of fighting Razek said. In Central Sarajevo air raid sirens wailed shortly before noon sending some people running for cover while others kept walking. A a it a not that in a not afraid i just can to run any More a a woman who identified herself Only As Klara said As she walked with her son. No planes were heard Over the next hour. Meanwhile in the serbian capital of Belgrade 55 . Diplomats and their family members left in a Convoy for Hungary. The embassy staff has been Cut from 90 to 35 to protest Serbia a involvement in the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. . Ambassador Warren Zimmermann was recalled last month along with the ambassadors from the european Community and other nations. In Geneva on Friday a major International Trade group suspended Yugoslavia a membership. Quot Serbia and Montenegro the Only republics that remain in the former yugoslav federation had demanded to succeed Yugoslavia in the 103-nation general agreement on tariffs and Trade. But some Gatt members did no to feel the diminished yugoslav federation was representative of the country. Sarajevo has been under a tightening siege since Early april when fighting intensified throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina after Bosnia a Independence was recognized by the United states and Western Europe. More than 5,700 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands made refugees in Bosnia since fighting started after muslims and croats who form a majority in the Republic voted feb. 29 for Independence. Ian Kelly head of the u suitcase held by his son is. Information Center in Belgrade Yugoslavia attaches a tag to a will As . Envoys und their families left for Hungary on Friday. European group set to offer peacekeeping Force Bonn Germany apr the Western european Union a Long dormant Security body said Friday that it was willing to offer peacekeeping troops for use in global trouble spots. German diplomats speaking on condition of anonymity said the agreement would allow troops to enter conflicts in which nato cannot or will not get involved a such As the fighting in areas that once belonged to Yugoslavia. The decision was made at a meeting near Bonn of the defense and foreign ministers of the nine nation organization. The agreement did not specify where troops might be sent or set geographic restrictions on their deployment. It was unclear whether Union troops could be used in combat. Douglas Hurd the British foreign Secretary said member countries planned to examine How their troops could be used to enforce . Sanctions against Serbia although they did not foresee sending combat troops into Yugoslavia unless there was a cease fire. However German foreign minister Klaus Kinkel said military Force a should not be excluded if . Sanctions against Serbia fail. There have been increasing Calls for intervention to Stop the bloodshed in Bosnia and Herzegovina where More than 5,700 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands made refugees in ethnic fighting. Under a declaration adopted by the ministers the we nations would make available troops if requested by the United nations or the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe. Two weeks ago the North Atlantic treaty organization made a similar decision. The Western european Union created in 1954, is composed of Germany Britain Spain Belgium Italy the Netherlands France Luxembourg and Portugal. All nine Are also members of nato. . Appeals judge s rejection of honorarium ban by Ray Rowden Washington Bureau Washington a the Justice department filed suit this week to retain the ban on honorarium for military officers and civilians in the executive Branch. In a March 19 ruling judge Thomas Penfield of the . District court declared the ban unconstitutional. But he allowed the government to Appeal which the Justice department did this week. The department is seeking to extend indefinitely the ban which began last year. Those who violate the ban in the ethics Reform act of 1989 can be fined up to $10,000. The ethics Reform act was originally aimed at Congress which passed the Law following disclosures that several of its members were earning several times their official salaries by speaking at private functions. However the wording of the Law extended the ban to virtually everyone who reports to the president. Enlisted personnel Are not covered by the ban. Until appeals end government workers May not accept Money for individual articles they write or speeches they make outside their workplace. However the government ethics office changed the definition of Honor aria to exclude a series of three or More articles or speeches As Long As the topic docs not relate to the employees duties. The office is responsible for matters relating to ethics for the Federal executive Branch. For example a military weapons specialist could accept payment for Speed pcs or articles relating to topics other than military weapons. The ethics office has also endorsed the practice of placing fees earned through writing and up calling into escrow accounts until a final Legal decision is reached. The ethics office modifications have not reduced the Fervour of some who oppose the ban. A this just Points out the Absurdity of the distinctions being drawn a said Barbara Atkin the senior appellate counsel of the National Treasury employees Union. The Union led the Legal Challenge to the ban. A Justice department lawyers argued that this Law Aid not deny anyone their right to free speech a she said. A but it effectively muzzled thousands of people who could not afford to write or speak for Quayle on Mark with Twain quote aide says Washington up vice president Dan Quayle put a Light hearted spin on his misspelling of the word potato thursday by paraphrasing Mark Twain. Despite reports to the contrary Quayle May have known what he was talking about. In an interview with san Francisco a Kron television station Quayle said a i should have caught the mistake on that spelling Bee card a a reference to the error earlier in the week when he directed 12-year-old William Figueroa to add an a be a to the word potato. Quayle added a but As Mark Twain once said a you should never Trust a Man who has one Way to spell a a in fact Twain who did not mince words for political digestion said a i done to give a Damn about a Man that can spell a word Only one original press accounts of Quayle a remarks including the United press International dispatch from san Francisco quoted Twain scholars who said they found no similar citation to the remark offered by the vice president. Quayle a press Secretary David Beckwith armed with three books of humorous quotations called up to say the vice president was indeed right. But Richard Bucci editor of Mark Twain project at the University of California at Berkeley said he has been unable to find the quote in his archives. The closest that researchers have been Able to come to a source for Quayle a quip he said was a May 12, 1875 speech Twain gave in Hartford conn., after he himself lost a spelling Bee. Twain lost the Bee after misspelling Quot caldron Quot a unit of measurement by leaving out the a a a a Bucci said. According to Bucci Twain told an audience after the contest a i done to see any use in spelling a word right a and never did. I mean i done to see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary Way of spelling words. We might As Well make All clothes alike and Cook All dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome variety is
