European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Like Many refugees living in a Zagreb gymnasium Thea couple blames America and Europe for allowing the War to drag on too Long. M on the Frincis Quot War Austria Romania continued from Page 1 More than 700,000 of the Dps Are in Croatia Many of them in and around Zagreb which had a peacetime population of just under 1 million. Sister Angelita of the Catholic Relief group Caritas translates the refugees angry words into her own croatian and australian accent Quot this land this country has been impoverished. The whole world turns its Back on  half a dozen refugees who have lost their Homes and much of their families in this latest round of a timeless War gather in a semicircle around the nun. An ancient woman comes up and Speaks in Clear if flawed English saying she Learned it in an american Hospital in 1952 and has t spoken it since. Quot now is not so Good Quot the woman says. Quot this War is not Good. Because i have nobody. My House is  the others speak no English but shout their complaints to the sister who translates Quot America can Stop the War but does t want to. Congress put an embargo on Croatia but not to Stop the  the army issued warnings about such scenes of disillusionment says sgt. Christopher Berthold one of the 350 americans with the task Force 212 Hospital. Quot we were told they were expecting us to come and save them and we did no to Quot says Berthold who spent his wedding anniversary in Croatia far from his wife Tina Back in Wiesbaden Germany. Quot we were sent Hefe to support . Forces Quot Berthold says. Quot so that s Why they re  unless they specifically seek it out the american soldiers Are far removed from this underside of Zagreb. The City shows an unnervingly Normal face for a capital at War with Well stocked marketplaces and citizens who appear eager to Converse in pidgin English. The bulk of the . Forces with uniforms from 30 nations is looked on As a nuisance. But the individual american soldiers and airmen seem immune from the disenchantment. The 212th Mobile army surgical Hospital has caused the word Quot Mash Quot to enter the croatian language and the task Force is routinely spotlighted in local papers. American doctors and the c-130 pilots who make daily Relief flights into Sarajevo bring with them Quot Good shopping Good business for me Quot a Street Vendor says. The americans also bring More dollars and German Marks into a War troubled Economy where the inflation driven Exchange rate Rose by 20 percent in the three weeks after the american Hospital task Force deployed from Germany. Yet every time sister Angelita brings american journalists or dignitaries to one of the refugee centers she says the complaints become louder and More embittered. Here Are people who owned Homes a year ago she explains. Now they aps amps have nothing but the clothes and food Given by Charity and the cigarettes that they Chain smoke Down to the last precious flakes of tobacco. Quot there is poverty that is caused by natural disasters a people can understand it Quot the sister says. But War she adds is different with poverty and suffering that Are incomprehensible. Sister Angelita who belongs to the order of the adores of the blood of Christ was born in Croatia and spent 23 years in Australia. She came Home for a visit this Spring and was ordered by her Church to stay. The sister would prefer to Quot take All arms from everybody. If Justice is to be done it should be done for  both the croats and the serbs have committed Many wrongs Over the past half Century she says. But Many of the croat atrocities were caused largely by the serb dominated regime of the former Yugoslavia. Quot even then the serbs did More than us. We were under the communist regime. Croatians have always been under somebody s  until now. The Republic declared its Independence As Yugoslavia splintered last year. The worst tales of More recent croatian atrocities Are Quot a serbian propaganda Quot the nun says testily. She is interrupted by a Man who shouts that 14 of his relatives have been executed in Eastern Bosnia. Quot we feel like cattle like sheep Quot a woman says weeping. Quot George Bush Quot another Man says in disgust blaming his tragedy on the outgoing american administration that has thus far avoided getting tangled Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday december 11,1