European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1942-1992 50 years of service vol. 51, no. 233 500 sunday december 6,1992 d 8693 Somalia duty could last past january officers say marines make Calls from Camp Pendleton calif., after receiving word they will be deployed to Somalia. Washington apr american troops heading for Somalia As a a peacemakers May begin handing control to . Teams in Early january but most of the 28,000-Strong . Force will be there a lot longer senior military officers say. Thousands of .-based marines and army soldiers were packing their gear saturday and getting ready for a Holiday season deployment which officials said would not Start before monday. Supply ships were loading at . Ports this weekend. Some 1,800 marines meanwhile remained aboard ships offshore from the East african nation. A America must act a president Bush said in a nationally broadcast address from the Oval office. He said As Many As 1 i million somalis Are in imminent danger of starvation. The president ordered the deployment just 47 Days before he will leave office and hand the situation oversee Somalia on Page 3 a Relief Agency cancels two loaded convoys amid fighting in Somalia. I soldiers Hustle to update wills and life insurance and in some cases to get married. I mail system being set up for . Troops. See Page 3mps by Rosemary Sawyer Brussels Bureau military police have begun targeting . Civilian and military personnel assigned to european countries outside Germany to prevent them from shopping in commissaries and Post exchanges within Germany. Military police recently began enforcing a Little known agreement Between the United states and Germany that allows use of the facilities by . Personnel and their families stationed outside Germany Only when they Are on leave or temporary duty. In a one paragraph response to questions from the stars and stripes . Army Europe he in Heidelberg Germany offered no explanation Why the 14th military police brigade had begun enforcing the agreement. The brigade a has been enforcing these requirements to help service members civilian employees and their family members avoid committing customs and tax violations a the statement said. Officials a were not in a position to comments on customs requirements it said. The agreement which Usa eur he did not specifically identify requires that shoppers in Germany have documents identifying their duty station and leave status. Hilde Patton a spokeswoman for Usa eur he could not Sadr Friday whether this would require service members from other countries to use annual leave on weekends in order to shop in Germany. It is also unclear How civilian employees can document leave status on weekends and whether family members can shop without their sponsors. . Sources in Belgium and Holland said that Legal officials in Heidelberg discussed Cross Border shopping with 14th military police brigade leaders Friday. However Usa eur Legal officials refused to confirm whether the subject see shoppers on Page 2 . Offers warship to Turkey to replace one hit by missiles Ankara Turkey a the United states is offering an advanced warship Worth $175 million to compensate for a turkish warship accidentally hit by missiles from the . Aircraft Carrier Saratoga a newspaper reported saturday. The ship a Knox Type frigate will be sent to Istanbul to be examined by turkish military authorities who will decide whether to accept it the turkish daily Mill yet said. Five turkish sailors were killed when two sea Sparrow missiles fired by the Saratoga hit the Mua Venet in october. Both ships were taking part in nato exercises in the Aegean sea. The 3,375-ton Mua Venet was a world War ii . Navy destroyer called the Gwin before it was modernized and Given to Turkey in 1971. Adm. Mike Boorda commander of . Naval forces in Europe said wednesday that the United states was considering providing Turkey with a new ship. A . Navy court found that the firing was an Accident. Eight Saratoga crewmen face possible administrative punishment Over the incident. Germans plan task Force to Battle Neo nazi groups Bonn Germany apr the government will set up a special task Force to crush Neo nazi violence and More undercover agents will try to infiltrate extremist groups officials said Friday. Interior minister Rudolf Seiters said his counterparts from Germany a 16 states have endorsed his plan to create a nationwide task Force to Deal with Neo nazis and other rightist extremists. The task forces work will be coordinated by the Federal office for the Protection of the Constitution the German equivalent of the Fri. Authorities plan to use More undercover agents to infiltrate right Wing extremist groups and to raid rightists meeting places said Frieder Birzele the Interior minister of the state of Baden Wiir Temberg. In yet another Case of German troops participating in right Wing violence a newspaper reported that soldiers beat up the owner and employees of a yugoslav restaurant in the Northern German City of Emmerich. A seven Drunken soldiers walked into the restaurant and cursed foreign guests there by saying a Germany for the germans a and a foreigners go Home a a the Bild newspaper said. It said the restaurant owner drove the soldiers out of the establishment but the soldiers returned and beat him and his see nazi on Page 2