European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 51, no. 250 35c wednesday december 23, 1992 b d 8693 Aspen picked for defens Clinton taps Christopher to head state Little Rock Ark. Apr pc Sidcot elect Clinton on tuesday named lawyer Diplomat Warren Christopher As Secretary of state and chose Veteran democratic rep. Los Aspin of Wisconsin to be Secretary of defense. Fashioning his National Security and diplomatic team Clinton also appointed James Woolsey a former undersecretary of the Navy As director of the Central intelligence Agency. Anthony Lake a chief aide on Clinton a Campaign and transition team was handed the Job of White House National Security adviser. A the world is no longer a simple place with Clear choices a Clinton told a nationally televised news con Ference. He said the Post cold War Era required a bold new hands and the strength and courage to Advance our american  the president elect under pressure to name More women to top posts tapped Madeleine Albright As his ambassador to the United nations and said he was elevating the Job to Cabinet level status. Lakes words could have served As summation for the entire Clinton team. A there is an immense amount of work to do a he said. A i cannot  Clinton made his appointments As he worked to Complete his Cabinet by a self described Christmas deadline. Still to be named Are Heads of the Justice Interi or agriculture and transportation departments and at least some of those posts were expected to be filled today. Christopher served As Deputy Secretary of state under Jimmy Carter the last democratic president and was intimately involved in the negotiations to free the american hostages held at the . Embassy in Iran. A democratic insider he headed the panel that looked into the causes of last Springs race riots in los Angeles and has served As director of Clinton a transition. A the was by my Side for what was perhaps the Best decision of my Campaign a the selection of a1 Gore Assee Aspen on Page 2 Bush to Greet 1993 with Somalia troops Washington a president Bush will visit the . Forces in Somalia Over new years the White House announced tuesday. A the president s visit will demonstrate the United states concern for the people of Somalia our commitment to humanitarian assistance and our support for american and United nations forces a said the White House press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater. Bush will leave the United states on dec. 30 and will arrive in Somalia in time to spend new years eve with . Troops Fitzwater said. The president will visit Relief operations in Somalia on Jan. 1 and leave the East african country that evening Fitzwater said. Bush ordered . Forces into Somalia earlier this month on a military humanitarian Mission to safeguard food supplies to starving somalis. Operation restore Hope began dec. 9 when the first . Troops landed in the nation. The . Forces have led . Peacekeepers now spreading across the impoverished country where 350,000 people have died since a january 1991 coup threw Somalia into lawlessness. Bush plans to spend Christmas weekend at the presidential Retreat at Camp David md., then head to Texas on monday for a Brief Hunting trip Fitzwater said Bush was expected to Stop in Washington on dec. 30 before heading to Somalia. S Bush a wife Barbara recently said they were interested in going to Somalia but Only if the trip would not interfere with Relief operations. The president in a dec. 4 televised address announcing the operation said a the people of Somalia need our help. We must help them live. We must give them Hope. America must act. A in taking this action i want to pm Hasiec that i understand the United slates alone cannot right the worlds see related stories on Page 3 wrongs. But we also know that some crises in the world cannot be resolved without american  the head of care International urged Bush last week to go to Somalia to see the devastation wrought by nearly two years of clan warfare. Bush spent thanksgiving 1990 with . Troops in the saudi arabian desert As they prepared for the persian Gulf War that drove iraqis army out of Kuwait a few months later. Bush has kept a Low profile since he lost the election to Bill Clinton on nov. 3, but he has stayed Busy on several foreign policy fronts behind the scenes. In addition to Somalia he has been enlisting International support for tougher enforcement of sanctions against Serbia to end the violence in the former Yugoslavia. 157 killed in libyan airline crash Rome apr a libyan Boeing 727 Lane on a Domestic flight crashed tues a killing All 157 people aboard libyans Ana news Agency said. The Agency in a Brief report said the victims were on a morning flight from Benghazi libyans second largest City to in capital Tripoli when the plane Rashed about 10 . Egyptian television carried footage of the crash site that showed libyan sue officials standing near the charred Ull of the plane. It also showed bodies rapped in White plastic bags on the round. Jana said authorities have opened an investigation into the cause of the crash of flight 1103. It occurred a Day after the fourth anniversary of the bombing of pan am flight 103 Over Lockerbie Scotland which led to . Sanctions against Libya. A i think the coincidence of the two see related Story on Page 10 flight numbers on the fourth anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster is a bit sinister a said Jim swire whose daughter Flora was killed in the 1988 bombing. Swire who is head of the British families flight 103 group made his remarks in London. Jana a Rome office said the crash tuesday involved a Boeing jetliner owned by libyan Arab airlines. Flight schedules list the Craft serving that route As a Boeing 727. There was no immediate report from other Middle East news agencies on the crash. The . Sanctions imposed last april include an air embargo barring flights by foreign airliners to Libya and blocking flights by libyan airliners abroad. The United nations slapped the pm see crash on Page 2