European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes Somalia saturday december 12, 1992troops get marching orders on customs Camp Pendleton Calif. A never kiss a somalian woman always shake with your right hand and when in a social Jar try a Tongue twister. Those Are among the list of Dos and done to tucked in the packs of . Troops bound for Somalia. The 18-Page, pocket guide to Somalia was issued by the . Central come and distributed to All military personnel taking part in operation restore mope said Camp Pendleton spokesman staff sgt. John Earrell. Independent specialists 011 Somalia said the Pentagon a advice is Brief but accurate. The Booklet for example says using one s left hand in a handshake would be a serious mistake. Charles gosh Cater a professor of african history at the California state University Chico and producer of the pcs film the marching of Somalia explained the custom. A the left hand is used for certain bodily functions. There is no toilet paper a he said. While a Soldier can return a hug or kiss on the Cheek initiated by a somalian Man As a sign of Friendship a under no circumstances will you hug or kiss a somalian woman according to the guide. A the whole business of Public displays of affection is much different in somali culture a Geshekter said. A men can hold each others hands but you  see a Man holding a woman a  t he Booklet says that demonstrating verbal prowess such As reciting a somalian poem or Tongue twister a will win esteem for your  but Edward Alpers a professor of african history from the University of California los Angeles said the advice would be of Little use to most americans. Alpers described verbal sparring and rhyming As a High arts that few nonnative could master even if they knew the somalis language. However it would pay to learn a few somali phrases listed in the Booklet he said. A since somalis done to expect anyone to speak somali even being Able to say a hello or a thank you in somali people would respond very positively to that a he said. The guide recommends that when visiting a somali s Home that the guest thank the Host profusely for his hospitality and if Given a gift return the favor at a later Date with a present of slightly lesser value. Bad etiquette would be for a Soldier to Overly Praise a Possession of the Host. The guide says the Host could turn around and give the object to the guest. And the guest would be expected to accept it no matter what. Geshekter said he made such a Faux Pas on one of his visits to Somalia and ended up having to take Home two very Large heavy stools that his somalian Host had bought in Ethiopia. A the stools were exquisite but i had to carry them All through the Airport a he said. A to say a not is an act of extreme , scowling legionnaires draw Gawker by Reid g. Miller the associated press Mogadishu Somalia it has quickly become Somalia a favorite Spectator sport gawking at american marines and French foreign legionnaires. Wherever they go the legionnaires in their Olive drab and the americans in their desert tans draw Large crowds of the Idle and curious. The marines draw the larger crowds if Only because there Are More of them. But the legionnaires put on the Best show of toughness. The average Legionnaire is built like a Longshoreman and wears a permanent scowl. It May not be an act. Two somalis were killed and seven injured when they crashed through a French checkpoint t thursday evening and were greeted by a burst of gunfire. It was not Clear whether the French fired or nearby americans were involved. Earlier in the Day about half a dozen legionnaires were Manning the Roadblock near an intersection known As Kilometre 4, for its distance from Mogadishu s Center. They had traffic backed up a Quarter of a mile in one direction. A Lew weeks ago a tie up like that would have brought a cacophony of honking horns screamed curses and endless arguments among Drivers trying to jockey around one another. It might even have brought some gunplay Between the armed guards once hired to guard every vehicle. The old Rule was that the vehicle with the most gunmen and heaviest weapons had the right of Way. But Drivers and passengers in the Long queue of battered cars vans buses and trucks waited patiently to be searched for weapons a a search carried out with ruthless efficiency. A somalian youth blows a Bubble As other children Check out Lance Chi. Patrick Nevarez of Ogden Utah on thursday. The French brought order. Maybe even a bit of fear. The legionnaires went about their work of confiscating discovered weapons. T hey never smiled. Not even at one another. But they did no to find very Many weapons. T he guns and the spacy Young thugs who used to Wield them have largely disappeared since the foreigners arrived. The gunmen were usually teen agers whose brains were usually somewhere Between Saturn and Pluto from chewing a narcotic Weed called khat. But if the French won on toughness the smiling americans took the prize for technology. In a country where a heavily armed military vehicle most often used to be a pickup truck with a machine gun mounted on the bed the marines hum vees with their weapons and the even More fearsome looking Bradley fighting vehicles Drew Many an envious  refugees already plan to return Home Geneva apr somalian refugees in Kenya Are so encouraged by the Landing of the . Marines in Mogadishu that they be begun preparing to return Home a . Relief official said Friday. A people suddenly have a new sense of Security and Are already talking about wanting to go Home Quot said Sylvana Foa a spokeswoman for the . High commissioner for refugees. The change in mood was Swift can faster than the Chance that occurred among kurdish refugees in Iran after the persian Gulf War when the United states and its allies set up a zone in Iraq to protect the Kuril from iraqi forces Fao said. Quot the kurd coming in from Iran they came Back Home almost As fast As they left a she said. Quot we were really hard pressed to get together All the food and shelter materials that we needed to help them so that a Why we re starting a Little  there Are about 420,000 somalis in Kenya and about 350,000 in Ethiopia with others scattered in various countries As far away As Singapore Foa said. A Small number of refugees already have been repatriated by Relief transports crossing at the a a secure Frontier Post of Mandera she said. Unher will not encourage refugees to go Home until it has decided conditions Are Safe she said but the Agency will provide them with supplies and transportation if they decide to go earlier. The Agency estimates that up to 500,000 refugees will want to go Home when Security is re established in their areas Foa said. Unher has started making contingency plans for a a very very fast and massive repatriation a she said. A a we re putting together packages of seeds tools and seeing what else people will need what amounts of