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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, December 22, 1992

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 51, no. 249 350 tuesday december 22,1992 b d 8693 israeli backed militia fires to halt exiled palestinians Marj Al Zohoury Lebanon apr Israel s proxy South Lebanon  fired machine guns and artillery to prevent 415 palestinians from returning to Israel on monday. Two people were wounded. Lebanese foreign minister Faris Bueiz urged the . Security Council to impose sanctions on Israel for deporting the palestinians from the israeli occupied territories and reiterated his governments refusal to accept them. Israel which deported the palestinians on thursday on charges of supporting the fundamentalist Muslim movements Hamas and islamic jihad said it would not allow them Back. The expulsions followed the killing by Hamas of an israeli trooper. Reporters accompanying the deported people carried Suleiman Kawami and Amjad Zamel both 20, to a clinic in a Shay a North of the area Israel Calls a Security zone after they suffered from minor shrapnel wounds. The confrontation started at 11 a.m., an hour after the deportees left tents on orders from the lebanese  and headed toward the Security zone in South Lebanon. The israeli affiliated South Lebanon  militia dispatched two tanks and two armoured personnel carriers backed by 25 infantrymen to confront the group. When the group reached within 200 Yards of the militia gunners sprayed the terrain with machine gun fire and fired eight howitzer and mortar shells wounding Zamel. The deportees stopped prayed in the rain and waved copies of the Koran then tried again to Advance at 2 30 . Tanks fired a dozen shells around them and sprayed the Road with machine gun fire. Kawami was wounded. Two israeli helicopters hovered overhead. The deportees retreated and considered returning to their Camp controlled by the lebanese  after they left. An associated press reporter in the Security zone Butros Wanna said engineers used a Bulldozer to set up a barbed wire Fence North of the Gateway close to a strip mined earlier to Block the deported people. A amps Wes Booher Jet crash kills 54 in Portugal Faro Portugal apr a dutch dc-10 passenger Jet carrying 340 people split in two and burst into flames monday while trying to land in a storm in this Southern resort. At least 54 people were killed and four were missing said Airport and dutch embassy officials. Flight my 495 was heading from Amsterdam a Selim Phol Airport to this Beach town in Portugal a Algarme Region when it crashed about 8 30 a.m., said Martin air spokesman Udo buys in Amsterdam. Aboard were 327 Holiday travellers a including 12 children and eight infants a and 13 Crew members buys said. At least 54 died in the Accident assistant Airport see crash on Page 2it�?Ts great to be Back Sas John Bomar staff sgt. Robert Gooden is elated to see his wife Jackie and 15-month-old son Robert jr., after returning to Germany on monday from Kuwait a just in time for the holidays. His family greeted Gooden at his unit Headquarters at Rhine ordnance Barracks in Kaiserslautern. Gooden a Patriot missile specialist with the 1st in 7th air defense arty brigade 32nd  air defense come had been in Kuwait since  withdraws some  from Mogadishu Mogadishu Somalia apr a main somalian warlord started moving his heavy weaponry out of the City monday in what . Officials called a first step toward the demilitarization of the capital. Gen. Mohamed Farrah aided a a fighters drove 30 to 40 weapon mounted cars and trucks out of the Southern part of Mogadishu according to . Officials. Aided a a rival Ali Mahdi Mohamed was to rid Northern Mogadishu of armed vehicles today. Aided a a weaponry was displayed later at Ware houses several Miles outside the City. A half dozen aging tanks were lined up with trucks and vans mounted with machine guns or anti aircraft weapons. The area was crowded with Young men carrying see related stories on Page 8 ak-47 assault rifles. One of the men fired his weapon Over the Heads of journalists. . Officials said the vehicles would not be stripped of their weapons but the vehicles would be kept in designated areas while negotiations continue Between aided and Ali Mahdi. The two rivals agreed in a .-mediated pact dec. U to withdraw their a technic also a the main War machines in factional somalian fighting and the gunmen who Man them a within 48 hours. The agreement was not honoured until now. On sunday night armed somalis in a pickup see  on Page 2  
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