European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse 1942-199250 years of service vol. 51, no. 248 35c monday december 21,1992 d 8693 troops seize crucial marines belgians control Kismay Kismay Somalia a . Marines and belgian paratroopers poured ashore in Broad Daylight sunday and to the cheers of thousands of somalis took Over this strategic Southern City sport and Airport. The seizure of Kismay reopened an important Gateway for the shipment of food to the starving in this East african nation a Gateway that had been All but closed for weeks by clan fighting and looting. With cobra helicopter gunships whirling overhead and under the cover of f/a-18 Hornet and a-6 intruder warplanes the first 180 marines came splashing ontou.s., Britain reach Accord on no Fly plan London apr american f-14s from the aircraft Carrier John f. Kennedy could shoot Down serbian aircraft in a no Fly zone Over Bosnia and Herzegovina under an agreement hammered out by president Bush and British prime minister John major British news reports said. . Secretary of state Lawrence s. Eagleburger yugoslavs vote for a serbian president a see Story on Page 3 confirmed sunday that an agreement in principle had been reached. The two leaders meeting at Camp David md., decided saturday to push for a . Resolution that would give serbian forces 15 Days to Stop flying military aircraft Over the former yugoslav Republic the sunday times said. A under the agreement any serbian aircraft flying inside the zone after the deadline would be shot Down by american f-14s from the Carrier Kennedy now inset Britain on Page 2 inside today the Beach in amphibious assault vehicles at 6 30 . They w Ere followed minutes later by 90 paratroopers of Belgium a 1st airborne in in . Navy hovercrafts and transport helicopters that dropped some men on the ports Broad Concrete Dock. A everything went Well. Not a shot was fired a said col. Fred Peck a Marine spokesman. As the belgians secured the port the marines pushed on into the City in their armoured vehicles and see troops on Page 2 aps 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 cudas 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 a 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 wife and kids to be reunited with him so i guess his doors were closing Down a Valladares said in a Telephone interview from Springfield a. Valladares said Lorenzo was interviewed by Fri agents after returning from Cuba and Landing at Marathon key near Miami. Lorenzo and his family were taken to an undisclosed location Valladares said. Let Orenzo 37, startled americans when he 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 Stop in Miami see defector on Page 2
