European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse 1942-1992 50 years of service vol. 51, no. 235 350 tuesday december 8,1992 d 8693 first of 28,000 . Troops May land in Somalia today Mogadishu Somalia apr the mercy Mission of the . Force gathering offshore gained new urgency monday with word of a bloody skirmish in the Interior where food is Short and hundreds Are still starving daily. Two jets believed to be . F-14s on reconnaissance in preparation for a Marine Landing flew Low Over the capital monday and dropped flares apparently As a precaution against missiles fired from the ground. More than 28 people were killed in sundays firefight in Bairoa where the anarchy has imperilled the Relief see related stories on Page 3 Effort and forced out most foreign Aid workers. More than 50 people Are dying daily of hunger and disease in Bairoa. The first of 28,000 . Troops could land As Early As today. A frankly there is some disappointment that they have not arrived Here by now. We would Hope that they would hurry up and arrive a said Rhodri Wynn pop team Leader of the care International Relief Agency. The americans Are leading a Force authorized by the United nations to neutralize the bands of unruly gunmen who have plunged the nation into chaos. The gunmen Are stealing Relief shipments intended for the country a starving. Sundays violence in Bairoa 200 Miles West of Mogadishu began when an out of control military vehicle slowed into a crowd killing several civilians said Wynn Pope. Fighting then broke out Between two factions one see troops on Page 2 . Somalia veterans warn of smell of death a somalian Mother helps her 2-year-old son at a care Center in Bairoa. By the associated press As groups of . Troops headed to Somalia or other posts to help famine Relief efforts some who aided the famine racked country earlier this year warned that the emotional toll they face May be As bad As the physical danger. You can see photo _ graphs and videotape but you can never imagine the heat and the smell and the death a you can smell the death out there a and the millions of flies a said Marine staff sgt. John Kitchen who was assigned to a . Relief Effort in Somalia. Pockets of troops across the United states began shipping out Over the weekend in support of operation restore Hope air traffic controllers from Robins fab in Georgia an air cargo Crew from Mcchord fab in Washington. For three weeks in August and september Kitchen now assigned to Camp Pendleton a Public affairs office helped coordinate food deliveries in Somalia. The first time he saw the emaciated a walking dead and others too weak to move he returned to his hotel room with a sense of helplessness and despair. A i just sat there and stared at the Wall not believing what i had seen a he said. A it will re you can sea photographs and vids taps but you can never imagine the heat and the smell and the death a you can smell the death out there a and the millions of a Marine staff sgt. John Kitchen main in my head the frustration is overwhelming said Kitchen 36. A you want to take everybody and take them Home with you a he said. A you want to give them whatever you be got on you. A i kept thinking a there a got to be More i can a that response is common said Navy it. Cmdr. Robert Satterfield a chaplain who warns Camp Pendleton marines about the sickness starvation and death they will Sec in Somalia. A a it a going to affect your emotions like no other deployment we be seen before a Satterfield told members of the 1st surveillance reconnaissance and intelligence group on sunday. Satterfield and other chaplains Are responsible for helping troops Cope with the frustrations of being a Relief worker which he said Standard Marine training does no to address. A you want to feed a hungry child but you can to hand them that Are food packet because the child a system take the kind of food we cat a he said. A the problem is dealing with our own emotions when we can to Render help that As human beings we feel we need to propose halting refugees at Border Bonn Germany apr bowing to anti foreigner sentiment the nations main political parties agreed sunday to seek Asylum rules that would turn refugees Back at the Border. Politicians Hope tightening the postwar Asylum Laws a among the world s most Liberal will help curb a wave of attacks on foreigners that have claimed at least 16 lives and raised concern of a spread of nazi style ideology. Police have vowed to escalate their crackdown on Neo nazi and other hate groups but right Wing leaders have threatened to retaliate with even More violence. Under the proposal reached Between Chancellor Helmut Kohls three party coalition and the opposition social democrats Asylum seekers who Cross into Germany via another member nation of the european Community or from Poland Czechoslovakia Switzerland or Austria would immediately be turned Back. Others who manage to Cross Germany slightly guarded Borders would be reviewed to determine if they entered for political or economic reasons. Those deemed to be economic refugees would be sent Back to the country they arrived from. The plan a which must be approved by lawmakers a is an apparent attempt make Germany a neighbors take romans a a a to see Gei on Page 2tapes reveal Nixon tried dirty trick report says a see Page 5
