European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Somalia wednesday december 23, 1992 while her son sits on the hot ground holding a piece of bread a somalian Mother samples food brought to Waajid by Relief efforts. A amps photos by Ken George town s life hangs by thread food helps but diseases take toll apparently unaware of any danger a somalian child plays with some shells. By Bob Klose Staft writer Waajid Somalia a Quot the children Are  Sharif Safi Roble mayor of this isolated farming town for Only one month fanned through a folder of creased and worn papers memorializing the thousands of deaths from disease and famine Here. Quot there Are Many diseases in the town Quot he continued. Quot the death rate is 55 children dying every Day. More than 400 people died of measles three weeks ago. Sixty six people at one feeding Kitchen died of measles last  concern an Irish disaster Relief Agency distributes wheat Rice Beans and Oil regularly to some 13 Sites surrounding Waajid the fledgling seat of civil authority for some 44 surrounding villages and 22 different somalian tribes. Medici is sans frontiers doctors without Borders operates a feeding station on the Western aps amps fringe of the City delivering to children and others a greyish Mush of High protein Grain meal and powdered milk. But the food alone is often not sufficient to Promise survival and if residents in the town children and adults alike fail victim to a disease or infection there is no medical help. Quot we have food but we need More medical help. The people Are dying a said Roble 40. He said Medici is sans i Ron Tieres the French based medical Relief Agency left a week ago after Security in Remote regions of Somalia declined with the the arrival of american forces in Mogadishu and the Retreat of armed gunmen into the Interior. Roble said roadblocks by Waajid a militia arc protecting the town from the so called Quot technical Quot the euphemism Given to armed vehicles and the gunmen Manning them who hire themselves out As Security forces but Are credited with anarchy and looting throughout the country amp the militia Roble said turned Back a column of gunmen who were fleeing the expected americans. Quot the Are bypassing Waajid in route to the ethiopian Border confirmed Gus Macentire the 30-year-old director of the Irish concern food program in the town. Still the mayor said a the. Red Cross wont come Here even though we Are one of the safest places in  there Are Many problems facing this Rocky and desolate farming area. Asked to prioritize their needs Btl Druple Secundy first medical care second and although the mayor can boast Possession of a viable wis Rtula Lyno  care or Hygiene 51�?T Medici is sans frontiers clinic housed in a the Niht fn8 y 0vietmilltarydurinethe 1980s a Quot half her communist country had 50,000 troops in medical staff0108 g de by militia members but has no a two Story Hospital on the South end of town also a Nahani i f so Viet cold War diplomacy in Africa is abandoned and gutted. Successful food distribution has Cut the death Rale pop Idava vac entire Saij famine was Killi Quot Eal it out 100 i Quot Middle of ?zfbtapr�8ram a it uce Ives tons of food from daily or a american German and British air Force Trews and private transport firms. The Grain and Oil i haded to Leith f0�d Supply for some 33 000people, and less re. 1 a a in centers around town each Day a ass regularly to villages surrounding the area. 1 non aboard a 1-ton truck provides meals for Swift 21 cd Macentire a Irish colleague Hugh but death from hunger and disease remains a daily continued on next Page