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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Theofel 1942-1992 50 years of service of a a vol. 51, no. 247 50c sunday december 20,1992 b a  d 8693 marines to escort Convoy food to Bairoa first in a month Mogadishu Somalia a . Marines said saturday that they would escort the first food Convoy to Bairoa in More than a month today and they appeared poised to extend their protective Ann to the starving in Southern Somalia As Well. Speculation Fri see related stories on Page 9 a Marine is mobbed by children As he goes on toot patrol Friday through the streets of Bairoa Somalia. Was that the marines will try today to secure the violence torn Ort City of Kismay 50 Miles Southwest of Mogadishu and an important Gateway to the South. The world food program planned to move 300 tons of food on 20 trucks to Bairoa in Somalia s hard hit Interior spokesman Paul Mitchell said. Marine spokesman col. Fred Peck said they would be accompanied by 15 military vehicles and a reinforced Rifle platoon of about 60 troops. After the 51/2-hour trip to Bairoa 160 Miles by Road Northwest of Mogadishu the marines will escort the food to 20 nearby villages. Mitchell said the food would be enough to feed 750,000 people for one Day. A Force of marines and French foreign legionnaires secured Bairoa unchallenged on wednesday. The last Convoy to the City of 80,000 people was on nov. 11, when 32 trucks organized by the Relief Agency see marines on Page 2 palestinian deportees in limbo red Cross provides supplies for homeless throng Marj Al Zohoury Lebanon apr palestinian deportees saturday settled into a makeshift refugee Camp on a Snow covered Hill with no sign of an end to their new lives in limbo Between Lebanon and Israel. Although Israel argued the deportations would help curtail Muslim extremism and violence israeli soldiers shot and killed at least six palestinians in clashes saturday in the occupied Gaza strip Arab and . Reports said. The International red Cross and the United nations sent More tents and mattresses to the 415 deportees who were stranded in freezing temperatures in a no Many a land Between the israeli and Leb anese armies. Sixty three tents have sprung up on the Hill since Relief convoys began reaching the deportees Friday evening a Day after they were expelled from the self declared a Security zone Israel occupies in South Lebanon. Israel rejected a . Security Council Resolution Friday that strongly condemned the deportation and ordered the jewish state to allow the deportees to go Back to the israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza strip. The United states israelis strongest ally endorsed the Resolution. The unprecedented mass deportation has left the .-sponsored Middle East peace process in jeopardy after the palestinians said they would not participate until the deportees arc allowed Back. Israel said it acted to avenge the killing of an israeli policeman sgt. Maj. Nissim Toledano by the fundamentalist Hamas movement last week. He was the sixth israeli trooper killed by islamic fundamentalists in a 10-Day period. Israel claims the deportees were suspected of membership in Hamas and in islamic jihad which have been blamed for the attacks. On saturday israeli soldiers shot dead at least six palestinians and wounded More than 25 in clashes in the Gaza strip town of Khan Yunis Arab reports and . Relief workers said. The violence erupted right after troops temporarily lifted a 10-Day curfew in the town they said. Stranded in freezing temperatures in a no peace process in jeopardy after the pales after troops temporarily lifted a 10-da Many a land Between the israeli and Leb winians said they would not participate until few in the town they said. Rench Assembly votes to try sex prime minister Aris apr facing outrage Over letting its col to charge Fabius former social affairs minister the conservative dominated Senate last week us off the Hook the National Assembly on sat Georgina Defoix and sex Deputy health ministered to charge Defoix and herbs with involuntary Paris apr facing outrage Over letting its colleagues off the Hook the National Assembly on saturday reversed itself by voting to try sex prime minister Laurent Fabius and two others in an aids scandal. The socialists vacillation in the affair further tarnished the governing party a image before March legislative elections the conservatives Are expected to win. Fabius demanded thursday that he stand trial so he could Clear his name in the scandal surrounding the infection of Haemophiliacs with aids tainted blood transfusions in 1985. More than 300 have died. The Assembly voted 518 to one with six abstentions to charge Fabius former social affairs minister Georgina Defoix and sex Deputy health minister Edmond Herve with not assisting a person in danger. The maximum sentence is five years in prison. The Senate was expected to give its required approval As Early As today. On thursday the Assembly voted not to charge the three. Politicians and Haemophiliacs called the vote a a cowardly and  three lower level officials have been convicted in the scandal but government critics say the three were made the scapegoats for Fabius and other leaders. The conservative dominated Senate last week voted to charge Defoix and herv6 with involuntary manslaughter and other charges but decided there was not enough evidence to try Fabius on the charges Frances state run transfusion Center provided blood products for transfusions known to be tainted with the his virus contaminating 1,200 Haemophiliacs in 1985. Fabius and other top officials say they were unaware of what was going on. Both houses of parliament have to agree on the same charges that would be tried by the High court of Justice  
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