European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes at a glance Lisa a nifty 6, gets some help from her dad Staft sgt. Jacques Brusly selecting books to Purchase. Lisa and others at Halvorson elementary school Germany raised Money to buy books for a school Library near Homestead fab fla., that was destroyed by Hurricane Andrew. Sec Story on Page 9. One Man one vote a 20-year-old was elected Justice of a Rural new York town nov. 3 after receiving a single write in vote a his own. A Page 4 cities Selling guns guns confiscated by police Are being sold by cities trying to ease budget crunches a practice that has appalled some activists working to curb inner City violence. A Page 5 Happy holidays a Survey shows that people spend More time bickering and trudging through malls than relaxing with friends and relatives this time of year. A Page 6 germans rally More than 500,000 people marched with candles through Snow and rain soaked streets sunday throughout Germany to protest right Wing violence against foreigners. A Page 7 hold the line a Law that would have prohibited recorded telemarketing Calls has been blocked by a . District court pending outcome of a lawsuit. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers .20 comics.18-20 commentary.13 faces in places.10 letters.12 Money matters.17 sports.21-28 to listing .27 weather. 11 soldiers from Germany units prepare for duty in Somalia by jim1 Jones staff writer while Dock workers at Livorno Italy began loading equipment aboard a transport vessel sunday the first group of soldiers from task Force 5-158 prepared to leave Ramstein a Germany for Somalia today. A . Air Force c-5 Galaxy transport plane is scheduled to leave the base this evening with the first wave of task Force 5-158 soldiers and equipment bound for the famine stricken East african country. The vessel a civilian contract ship called the american Falcon arrived in Livorno late saturday evening. Its Home port is san Francisco. A a everything a starting to come together a said army maj. Corey Langenwalter operations officer for the 8th support group which has its Headquarters at Camp Darby near the Livorno port. The support group Headquarters is coordinating the loading operations with the agencies and units involved in the deployment. Task Force 5-158 members Are heading to Somalia for operation restore Hope an Effort to safeguard food ship ments to starving somalis. The group of about 650 soldiers from helicopter units in Germany comes mostly from v corps and the 7th medical come including Crews from Ansbach Gie Belstadt Hanau Mannheim and Wiesbaden. Being loaded onto the ship sunday were 31 Germany based ch-47d Chinook cargo helicopters and Black Hawk air ambulances. The aircraft were flown to the port area last week by aircrews who expect to be in Somalia by the end of the year. A most of the people Are flying from Germany to Somalia a said sgt. 1st class Phil Tegtmeier a spokesman for the army a Southern european task Force. He said if the Falcon departs tuesday As planned it should arrive in Somalia in seven to nine Days. Meanwhile four of the uh-60 Black Hawk medium lift helicopters along with 30 task Force members arc to travel from Ramstein to Mogadishu today a v corps spokesman it. Col. Dick Bridges said sunday. The plane should arrive Early tuesday Bridges said. Six c-5 and four c-141b Star lifter sorties Are scheduled to move the Black Hawks some 170 soldiers and about 900,000 pounds of equipment and Materiel currently at Ramstein to Somalia by thursday Bridges said. The rest of the task Force soldiers Are preparing for a departure timed to coincide with the arrival of the american Falcon in Mogadishu Bridges said. Once in Somalia the aviation brigade basically becomes part of the 10th Mountain div Light whose Home base is fort drum . The unit will be flying humanitarian Relief missions Tegtmeier said. The bulk of the task forces other vehicles and supplies Are being transported by train from Home stations in Germany. The last of the trains is scheduled to arrive sometime today according to . Army Europe transportation officials. A also some of the oversize vehicles  be cleared by rail Alt the Way to Livorno a said Langenwalter of the 8th support group. A those vehicles will be dropped off in Bologna Italy and driven Down by  a Volunteer group of local National Drivers who normally work in Camp Darby a depot and some military personnel will make the 100-mile drive today. Troops from Page 1 1st airborne in in . Navy hovercraft and transport helicopters that dropped some of the soldiers on the ports Broad Concrete Dock. A everything went Well. Not a shot was fired a said col. Fred Peck a Marine spokesman in Mogadishu. As the belgians secured the port the marines moved into the City in their armoured vehicles and raced for the Airport about four Miles to the South. Somalis on the streets and rooftops cheered and waved As the marines sped by. Warned of the Landing Many residents had painted signs saying Quot Welcome american  two hours and 20 minutes after the Landing the Airport was declared secure. A . Government plane touched Down less than an hour later followed by two Relief flights of the International red Cross. . And private Aid agencies had pleaded with the .-led military coalition to restore order in Kismay about 250 Miles Southwest of Mogadishu on the Indian Ocean coast. Similar conditions and entreaties from Aid workers led american military commanders to Send a combined Force of marines and French foreign legionnaires to Bairoa on wednesday. Armed somalis fled before the troops arrived. Peck the Marine spokesman said a Marine foot patrol was shot at sunday by automatic weapons from the parliament building in Mogadishu near the line dividing the capital into rival clan fiefdoms. He said that two marines fired single shots from their m-16 automatic rifles and that the firing from the building stopped. Within seconds a vehicle armed with a .50-caliber machine gun came around a Corner he said. The vehicles Driver spotted the marines and turned around but a Young somali Manning the .50-caliber machine gun swung the weapon around and aimed at the marines who opened fire Peck said. A they saw the Man go Down into the vehicle and the vehicle sped away a he said. A they done to know How badly injured he was. They just know they hit  at Bairoa the first truck Convoy of food in More than a month reached the starving Inland town without incident. Peck said 20 trucks of the . World food program were escorted to Bairoa by a reinforced Rifle platoon of about 60 marines. The marines had two armoured cars with Light cannons and 13 humvee armed with Tow wire guided anti tank missiles or machine guns. Peck said the troops guarded the trucks while they unloaded at 20 food distribution centers in Bairoa. The Convoy carried 300 metric tons of wheat enough to provide meals for 750,000 people for one Day. Although the Marine spokesman said no shots were fired in Kismay one was. It came As the marines amphibious assault vehicles prepared to launch from the amphibious transport Dock Juneau and a machine gun accidentally fired blowing a Hole in an air vent on the Juneau a flight deck. The Only reported casualty of the operation was a Navy warrant officer who fell while videotaping for the naval broadcast service. He was flown by helicopter to the aircraft Carrier Kitty Hawk with a suspected broken leg. Marathon  Amiama a wac Ocean of a at hot re a it a n. A a tit relm \ was o ctr Toton so i a i 2 aps amps cuban from Page 1 in october had Lorenzo stand up and then exhorted Castro to let Lorenzo a family  officials said Lorenzo was considered a traitor and had no right to expect his family a visa request to be moved ahead of a Long list of applications from other cubans. Lorenzo said shortly after he defected that he was a dying slowly in  he said he decided to defect in Hopes of gaining a new life of Freedom for his wife Vicky and two sons Reniel and Alejandro. Action from Page 1 Ger time a Bush said. The times account said that under the agreement a any serbian aircraft flying inside the zone after the deadline would be shot Down by american f-14s from the Carrier  Kennedy now in the Eastern  the Obser or Independent and sunday Telegraph of London All reported that Bush and major reached the agreement. In their meetings at the presidential Retreat at Camp David md., the two leaders a spelled out some objectives for our policy a Bush said. But he also said there was a a nothing particularly new in  major said they also considered other measures to prevent the spread of fighting and agreed to press for an increase in Neutral observers and diplomatic isolation of Serbia if it does not respond. A we agreed that our Altitude to sanctions would depend on Radical and rapid change in policy by Serbia a major said. He added that both countries a would be willing depending on Serbia a response to impose new sanctions a including closing Borders if necessary. Major said that would mean a Complete and total diplomatic isolation. For a very Long time  major had expressed fear that 25,000 British troops on the ground and unarmed Relief workers could face retaliatory attacks