European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes monday december 21, 1992 a i at a glance in Lisa Brusly 6, gets some help from her dad staff sgt. Jacques Bruffy 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 another checkup president elect Clinton went to the doctor for the third time in a month then took a break by playing Golf. 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 a no 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 j1mi Jones Staft 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. Quot 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 i Eberstadt 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 Are 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 All 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  from Page 1 raced for the derelict Airport four Miles to the South. Somalis on the streets and on rooftops cheered and waved As the marines sped by. Warned of their coming Many residents had painted signs saying a 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. A it went great a said maj. Lance Ledoux operations officer of the 15th Marine expeditionary unit. A the Good lords watching Over us let me Tell  . And private Aid agencies had pleaded with the .-led military coalition to secure Kyj Mayu about 250 Miles Southwest of Mogadishu on the Indian Ocean coast. Their work had been crippled by the lawlessness and fighting among clan factions that closed the port for months an Britain from Page 1 the Eastern Mediterranean a it said. The observer Independent and sunday Telegraph All reported that Bush and major reached the agreement but the sunday l Imes was the Only British paper to report the details. There was no immediate comment from the White 1 Louse. Reduced the flow of Aid to a trickle delivered by cargo planes from Kenya. Similar conditions and entreaties from Aid workers led american military commanders to Send a combined Force of marines and French foreign legionnaires into the Central town of Bairoa on wednesday. A . Source who spoke on condition of anonymity said military briefer told a regular weekly meeting of Aid officials sunday that the towns of Oddur and Gail Alassi would be the next goals. The source said the military leaders promised to have those towns secured within four or five Days a and said it would be a Christmas present to us and the somali  Oddur has been overrun by bandits and militia members who fled the marines and legionnaires in Bairoa about 80 Miles to the South. Gail Alassi is about 120 Miles North of Mogadishu in an area still relatively untouched by Aid workers. Although the Marine spokesman said no shots were fired one was. It came As the marines amphibious assault vehicles prepared to launch from the amphibious transport Dock Juneau Eagleburger told the British broadcasting corp. On sunday in a Telephone interview from Washington that the agreement still needs to be completed. Asked whether the United states and some european countries had agreed to enforce the no Fly zone he said a i guess the answer fundamentally is yes. Yve still have some details to work out. We still need to work together to net the right Resolution through the , Security c. , but a Ami Large 1 think we re on the same  and one of their machine guns accidentally fired blowing a Hole in an air vent on the Juneau a flight deck. A Navy warrant officer who was videotaping the operation fell and broke his leg. High spirited marines had been told they were Likely to face Little resistance in Kismay and showed Little of the nervousness Normal before a Battle As they mustered on the Juneau. Inside their fighting machines marines cheered and gave each other thumbs up signs As the floating tanks hit the water. It. Col. Marc Jacobin the belgian commander in charge at Kismay met after the Landing with a local warlord col. Omar Jess to advise him of his plans. A everybody was cooperative a Ledoux said. A Jess was very Nice cordial. He Wel corned us  Jesse militia has been heavily involved in the factional fighting in Kismay. . Special envoy Robert b. Oakley met with Jess clan elders and other Community leaders saturday duplicating a Mission he performed in Bairoa the Day before it was taken by the marines and legionnaires. 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. The . Security Council is expected to authorize military enforcement of the no Fly zone Over Bosnia this week. Major had expressed fears that British troops on the ground and unarmed relict workers could face retaliatory attacks. The newspaper report said the Pentagon promised to respond to any such attack with Large scale airstrikes against serbian targets the British military also was considering sending reinforcements to support its ground troops the report said. Floridy asian the octet Marathon a pit cuban from Page 1 Apsis in october had Lorenzo stand up and then exhorted Castro to let Lorenzo a family go. Cuban officials said Lorenzo was considered a traitor and had no right to expect his family a visa