European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Vol. 51, no. 248 35c monday december 21, 1992 b d 8693 troops seize crucial port marines belgians control Kismay Kismay Somalia apr welcomed by thousands of cheering somalis . Marines and belgian paratroopers poured ashore in Broad Daylight sunday and quickly took control of this Southern City sport and Airport. The seizure of Kismay reopened an important Gateway for the shipment of food to the starving in this ravaged Hast african nation. Clan fighting and looting had kept the port closed for months reducing the flow of Aid to a trickle delivered by planes from neighbouring , major to toughen Bosnia action Washington apr president Bush and British prime minister John major said sunday that they agreed to cooperate on a proposed . Resolution to enforce compliance with a no Fly zone Over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bush appearing with major at the White House after weekend meetings declined to say whether . Warplanes would attack serbian aircraft violating the zone yugoslavs vote for a serbian president a see Story on Page 3 previously declared Over the former yugoslav Republic. Both men disputed a report in the sunday times of London that they had decided the Resolution would give serbian forces 15 Days to Stop flying military aircraft Over the area. A we did agree to cooperate in a Resolution of the United nations to enforce compliance with the no Fly zone a major said standing beside Bush on the White House Lawn. Bush asserted that no deadline for enforcement had been agreed. A no we done to have a Trig see action on Page 2inside today Holiday in Europe a Marine patrol in Mogadishu meanwhile exchanged fire with somalian gunmen hitting one a . Spokesman said. No american casualties were reported. With cobra helicopter gunships whirling Over Kismay and f/a-18 Hornet strike fighters and a-6 intruder attack planes streaking above the first 180 marines splashed onto the Beach in amphibious vehicles at 6 30 . They were followed by 90 paratroopers of Belgium s see troops on Page 2 apts amps Orestes Lorenzo Perez who defected in 1991 from the cuban air Force hugs family members saturday after he made a Surprise Landing on a Road in Cuba picked them up and flew them to Freedom near Miami. Cuban air Force defector returns in Small plane flies family to . Miami apr a former cuban air Force major who defected nearly two years ago in a Mig fighter flew to Cuba on saturday and picked up his wife and two sons. Orestes Lorenzo Perez used a four passenger air plane to get his family and Fly them to Florida said Armando Valladares of a human rights group the Valladares foundation. The foundation provided the plane. A my family they Are free now a Lorenzo said after he landed saturday night at an Airport North of Miami. He said he flew the plane and landed on a Busy two Lane Road near cubans Paradero Beach in the Northern province of Matanzas. A i landed before a car and a truck and a bus. They stopped and i turned the plane around. I opened the door. They his family went in Quot Lorenzo told Miami television station a tvs. Lorenzo took action after Cuba repeatedly re fused to let his wife and children leave said Valladares a former cuban prisoner. A the tried to get his family by Legal Means pleading to the cuban government to allow his Wile and kids to be reunited with him so i guess his doors were dosing Down a Valladares said in a Telephone interview from Springfield a. Valladares said Lorenzo was interviewed by j ill agents after returning front Cuba and Landing at Marathon key near Miami Latrano and his family were taken to an undisclosed location Valladares said. Lorenzo 37, startled americans when lie landed a Mig-23 at Chica naval station on March 20, 1991. It was the first such defection by a cuban Pilot since the 1960s. President Bush during a Campaign Slop in Miami see cuban on Page 2
