European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes wednesday december 9,1992 at a glance Somalia a youth takes to the airwaves on his snowboard monday after heavy Snow blanketed areas near incline Village Calif. Storms battered much of California and the West with a Tornado causing damage in Southern California. See Story on Page 5 and weather details on Pace 11. Hail the comedian Dana Carvey performed his hand waving goofy Grin impression of president Bush at White House on monday. A Page 4 pain lingers in ceremonies around the country Pearl Harbor survivors recalled the horror they Felt 51 years ago. A Page 5 financial turbulence struggling Northwest airlines has cancelled or delayed More than $6 billion Worth of aircraft orders. A Page 17 Index i Abby Ann Landers 19 comics.19-21 commentary.13 crossword.19 faces in places.22 letters.12 Money matters.17-18 sports.23-28 to listing .27 weather.11 to our readers an Early printing deadline May affect the stars and stripes ability to get some late breaking news into today a editions. The print deadline for the newspaper was moved up about four hours because of electrical and motor maintenance on the newspapers 24-year-old main printing press. No disruption in Home delivery or other distribution is expected. 1 correction because of a reporting error an article tuesday incorrectly stated the number of . Air forces in Europe personnel sent to Moron a Spain in support of the Relief Mission to Somalia. As of tuesday morning the number was 40. From Page 1 ment. Unicof officials said the Man had been called by the clansmen for questioning apparently in connection with a water distribution project and went voluntarily. One Unicof worker said the Man was not being mistreated and no Ransom was demanded. His jailers said he would Only be freed after aided approved it the worker said. Aided was not available for comment. Special . Envoy Robert b. Oakley was to meet tuesday with aided and Ali Mahdi Mohamed the rival warlords whose struggle for dominance reduced the country to chaos. Oakley a former ambassador to Somalia was expected to seek assurances that the warlords men would steer Clear of . Troops As Well As to make Clear that the americans intentions Are strictly humanitarian. Oakley met with Relief officials monday including Mark Stirling head of local Unicof operations. Stirling and another Unicof spokesman Ian Macleod said at the time that they were not worried the . Arrival would make foreign workers targets. Aid workers had expressed such fears when first informed of . Plans to Send in More than 28,000 soldiers and marines to halt fighting Between rival clans and safeguard food shipments Somalia collapsed into chaos after rebels drove dictator Mohamed Siad Barre from Power nearly two years ago then began fighting among themselves and hindering International efforts to help drought victims. About 300,000 somalis have died this year from starvation disease and War. An additional 250,000 could die by the end of the year without help. J the . Troops alone with smaller contingents from France Canada Italy Egypt and other nations Hope to impose  Page 1 million pieces of mail Yere processed during october and november. During the same time last year 26.1 million pieces were processed said maj. David Field commander of the mail terminal where inbound mail arrives and outbound mail is loaded on aircraft for All military destinations in Germany and some of the rest of Europe. The decrease was less than expected considering that about 70,000 service members were pulled from the military Force in Europe during the last year. Although inbound mail volume is Down about 30 percent outbound mail has increased by 4 or 5 percent Field said. A i can to really say what the reason for that is a Field said. A but if i had to take a guess id say some of that is due to people mailing some of their household goods Back to the  spec. Lamar Turner said insured and certified mail which he handles at the Offenbach facility has almost tripled there. A we usually have one shift and we be had to add a night shift a he said. Officials also say there seems to be an increase in Catalon orders from the United states this Holiday season perhaps because of the weak Dollar in Europe. There have been no problems with Holiday mail this season Field said. A everything is working real Well a he said monday. A when i came in this morning there Wasny to a piece of mail Here. Everything that is Here now came in today and will be out  both the Offenbach and Frankfurt facilities Are using Augi Kentees from units throughout Germany and reservists from the United states to supplement regular staff during the Holiday mail Rush. Truck runs from the Offenbach and Frankfurt facilities to Post office stops have increased from the usual one per Day to two when mail volume necessitates More trucks. Offenbach which usually dispatches trucks five Days 9 week has shifted to a seven Day a week dispatch operation. Pfc. Arman Adamian describes his temporary Job of sorting letters in Offenbach As a fun for a  a i had no idea there was so much mail coming and going a said the dental assistant from Frankfurt. Airman Palmer Warrick from Sembach a volunteered to work at the Frankfurt mail terminal for 60 Days because a it sounded  a a it a Good to get away and do something different for a while a Warrick said. A after this in a going to appreciate my mail a lot  Page 1 Dorsing them a Cheney said. A but clearly Les Aspin is a very Able talented member of  military analysts outside the Pentagon also said Aspin would perform Well in the Job. A a he a very knowledgeable a said Larry Korb a senior fellow at the Brookings institution. A a he a done a lot to propel the debate on Post cold War defense issues he was instrumental in rounding up congressional support for the Gulf War and i think Hes grown quite a bit in the chairmanship of the House armed services committee a Korb said. Cheney said sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., the powerful chairman of the Senate armed services committee also would be a Good Choice. Nunn who also has advised Clinton on defense issues often has been mentioned m the same breath with Aspin for the Pentagon Job but has not commented on whether he is interested. A this Standard comment has been that he has not had any conversations with governor Clinton about that subject a said Nunn spokesman Scott Williams. Nunn May have Hurt his chances through his Public disagreement with Clinton Over the highly charged Issue of whether to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military congressional sources said. Nunn advocates a cautious approach that Calls for extensive research deliberations and hearings while Clinton made repeated promises during the Campaign to repeal the policy that Calls for automatic separation of Gays in uniform. Gay groups have seized on Nunns views a As Well As recent news reports that he removed two Gay staff members a decade ago because they handled sensitive Security information a to argue against his appointment As Pentagon chief. At the time Nunn dismissed the two aides the Pentagon and Cia still considered Gays to be Security risks because of their supposed susceptibility to blackmail a View that has since been discredited by Pentagon studies and Cheney himself who has called it a a bit of an old  congressional sources said Nunn May be More useful to Clinton in the Senate anyway. Clinton is expected to have More trouble with the Senate than the House in carrying out his Agenda because Senate republicans Wield relatively More clout within their own chamber than their House counterparts a Senate staffer said. In that scenario Nunn a probably the most widely respected lawmaker on defense issues a would be better Able to help Clinton by staying where he is sources said. Other names that have been mentioned As candidates for the top Pentagon Slot include House intelligence committee chairman rep. Dave Mccurdy d-okla., who also has been advising Clinton on defense issues and adm. William Crowe retired chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. However Crowe has already made it Clear that he does no to want the Job a spokeswoman in his Washington office said. Mccurdy on the other hand has left the door open. A if the Job was offered to him he would consider it but that a about All he has said publicly a said Mccurdy spokesman Cindy Cain. In the late stages of the election Campaign the name of rep. Pat Schroeder d-colo., was also floated As a possibility. It is questionable whether Schroeder who chairs the House armed services military installations and facilities subcommittee has Ever been on the Short list of contenders. Schroeder has been extremely outspoken on such issues As battling sexual harassment in the ranks expanding roles for women in the military and repealing the ban on homosexuals in the services views that have not won her Many friends in uniform. She certainly would be capable of handling the Job but shed come with a lot of baggage probably More baggage than Clinton could afford a a House staffer said. Seabee to leave Spain for Somalia Rota Spain a amps a a Navy sea Bee unit scheduled to spend six months at naval station Rota Spain will head for Somalia instead. The Advance team of roughly 250 construction specialists assigned to naval Mobile construction in 1 in Gulfport miss., arrived in Rota on sunday to prepare for the arrival of the 350 people who comprise the rest of the unit due at Rota later this week. Most of them normally would have stayed at Rota for six months a base spokeswoman said monday. Instead the incoming Advance team will help what is left of the outgoing Seabee from naval Mobile construction in 3 in port hueneme Calif., prepare equipment for transport to the northeastern african nation said it. Rebecca Colonna the naval stations Public affairs officer. She added that the incoming Seabee have been alerted that they will leave soon for three to four months in Somalia. Seabee battalions normally Transfer to the Rota installation for six months at a time Colonna said. She added that detachments of those units further deploy to Nas Simonella Sicily and naval sup port activity Souda Bay Crete. The civil engineering support equip ment that the Navy construction specialists Are preparing to take with them include bulldozers and trucks to lumber and nails said cmdr. Dave Pruett commander of in 1