European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 51, no. 224 350 Friday november 27, 1992 30,000 . Troops offered for Somalia Washington a the United states has offered to commit up to 30,000 troops to a . Force assigned to protect Relief supplies in Somalia from feuding warlords officials said. Acting Secretary of state Lawrence s. Eagleburger made the offer wednesday to . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali. Eagleburger was responding to the . Leaders plea for More help with the unsuccessful . Relief Mission to the famine strike african nation the officials said. Boutros Ghali did not decide immediately whether to accept the offer one official said. A spokesman for the . Central come which has responsibility for a mul to service . Task Force providing Relief in area said the command has not been assigned to provide More troops or increase operations in Somalia. A the Mission of the Jef Junt f so Force has not changed one Iota a Marine corps capt. Ken Larson told the stars and stripes. The task Force with Headquarters in Mombasa Kenya has been flying an average of 11 Relief flights of food weekly from Kenya to Somalia since mid August. The Central Comdr a area of responsibility runs from Egypt to Pakistan. It includes Somalia Sudan and Kenya As Well As the persian Gulf. The . Security Council has authorized a safeguarding Force of up to 3,500 troops in Somalia but Only 500 Are there because somali warlords will not agree to the full deployment. Earlier wednesday the United states tentatively agreed to provide transportation for the other 3,000 a none of them americans. In Somalia Aid workers expressed mixed feelings about the . Troop offer. Paul Mitchell of the . World food program said he welcomed any measure that would provide the Security needed to run a full scale Relief operation but said he feared the troops presence could Lead to More bloodshed. Quot we re quite concerned that gunmen see troops on Page 2 a cars make their Way along interstate 40 in Amarillo Texas amid wind and Snow  storm loses killer punch from wire reports a wintry storm that socked parts of the great Plains with up to 19 inches of Snow stranding thanksgiving Holiday travellers and causing at least nine deaths lost its punch thursday As it moved across the great lakes. The storm system hammered Texas Kansas Oklahoma Missouri and Iowa wednesday. The blizzard was blamed for at least nine deaths three in Texas three in Iowa two in Kansas and one in Missouri. Icy roads blowing Snow and flurries caused headaches for motorists on interstate 80 and interstate 35 in Northern and Central Iowa on thanksgiving Day an Iowa state police spokesman said. Dubuque Iowa got 10.4 inches of Snow the most in the state the National weather service said. Quot it the storm has moved off into the great lakes it s just about dead now a forecaster Mike Rowland said. Snow showers were reported in parts of Wisconsin Michigan Indiana and Illinois thursday. About 2 to 4 inches of Snow w As on the ground in Michigan s upper Peninsula and forecasters expected another 2 inches to fall before the storm abated. Murries and Light Snow dampened Chicago where residents tried to keep the Gray overcast skies Tom dampening their Holiday spirit. The Windy Ity s last sunny Day was oct. 28, but forecasters said skies May Clear partially by today for what is traditionally the years busiest shopping Day. No delays were reported at Chicago so flare inter see storm on Page 2german held in firebombing that killed 3 Frankfurt Germany apr authorities said thursday they had arrested a possible suspect in the firebombing that killed three turkish residents and said he was a member of a Neo nazi terrorist group. The chief Federal prosecutors office said 25-year-old Michael Peters and 10 other people were being investigated for founding and belonging to a Quot rightist terrorist Quot group. In a statement the Karlsruhe based office said the remaining 1 1 were known to the authorities but it did not release their names. Peters was taken into investigative custody wednesday on the suspicion of attempted murder and arson in two eases and one count of breaching the peace. He and the other 10 Are suspected of founding a group which intended to pursue its a rightist extremist and xenophobic goals through violence especially arson against foreigners living in Germany the statement said. Quot members of this group Are currently under investigation to determine whether they were also responsible for the nov. 23 attack in Molln a the statement said. It said Peters was from the Village of Gudown 8 Miles South of Molln where a turkish woman and two turkish girls died in a firebombing Early monday. The victims were a 51-year-old turkish woman her 10 year old Giand daughter and a 11-year-old visiting relative. The woman ban do Arslan belonged to a turkish family that had lived in Molln Foi 25 years. Her granddaughter had been born in Germany. The police were alerted to the lire by a caller who signed off with Quot Heil  More than 1,700 rightist attacks have been re see German on Page 2