European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes thursday december 24, 1992 a at a ounce j american children in Europe like these youngsters in Taipei Taiwan have Santa Claus on their minds. Sec their letters on Page ii. Pos in China North korean officials have confirmed that . Prisoners of War were taken to China during the korean War and never returned a . Senator says. A Page 5 cigarette Butts found cigarette Butts were found at a Virginia Coal mine where an explosion killed eight miners the labor department says. A Page 6 wind report disputed a portuguese official says it is too Early for investigators to confirm that an unforeseeable burst of wind brought Down a dc-10 Jet this week. A Page 8 air Deal dropped British airways has Given up its attempt to buy a major share of us air. A Page 12 Index Abby Ann Landers .17 classifieds.20-24 comics.17-19 commentary.15 faces a no places.16 letters.14 military.10 Money matters.12 sports.25-32 to listings .31 weather.13 1 to our readers the stars and stripes on Christmas Day will he a combined Issue for dec. 25 and 26. T he newspaper will double up on the comics crosswords Ann Landers and dear Abby so you won t miss any of your favorite features. All stripes bookstores will be closed on Christmas Day hut you can still get your combined edition from newspaper vending machines. T Here will be no newspaper Dee. 26 because of the Christmas Holiday. The stars and stripes will resume publication sunday dec. 27, Turkey to debate about future of operation provide Comfort by Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau the turkish parliament is scheduled to debate today on whether to again extend operation provide Comfort the Turkey based humanitarian Effort in which More than 1,800 coalition service members Are participating. The operation has been extended previously by the parliament the last time in the summer of 1992. More than 70 coalition aircraft also Are involved in the operation which is scheduled to end dec. 31. During 1992, coalition aircraft have flown 14,000 missions in support of a . Resolution Banning iraqi aircraft from flying above the 36th parallel. A operations have been fairly constant with the routine Transfer of people through Here Quot said . Air Force maj. Mike Waters. A a we re programming into next year in Case the operation should be extended a added Waters the director of the provide Comfort combined information Bureau. The operation based at in Ciurlik a near turkeys second largest City Adana began in april 1991, shortly after the end of the persian Gulf War. The turkish National Security Council a chaired by president Turgut Ozal and including the prime minister several Cabinet members the chief of the turkish general staff and other senior military officers a has recommended that provide Comfort be extended for six months according to turkish government officials and press reports. A a there a no real Good alternative a Waters said of provide Comfort. A if the Powers that be determine that this operation is to be continued the Only place it can be accomplished from is  provide Comfort began As an Effort to Aid iraqi kurd flooding into the mountains of Southern Turkey after their failed rebellion against iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Besides provide comforts base of operations at in Ciurlik a few service members also Are assigned to military coordination centers in Kirin Ciurlik Turkey and Zachko in Northern Iraq. The . Element of the provide Comfort coalition also is responsible for purchasing and trucking $43 million in Aid for Northern iraqis which was appropriated by Congress for this fiscal year Waters said. The food and supplies purchased at in Ciurlik Are trucked to the iraqi cities of Dahouk Erbil and As Sulayman Yah where they Are turned Over to . Officials Waters said. Waters said not All of Northern Iraq is under coalition control Only a Security zone that the combined task Force established in May 1991 a an area just North of the 36th parallel that is 50 Miles deep and 160 Miles wide. Other areas North of the 36th Are controlled by iraqi forces or kurdish resistance fighters Waters said. The 75 coalition aircraft flying missions Over Northern Iraq include e-3 airborne warning and control system planes f-16 fighting Falcons f-111f aardvark fighter bombers French Mirage fighters and British  from Page 1 Fly to Barbera later wednesday to talk to clan elders and Community leaders in Advance of the marines arrival. Peck said that Oakley was either already in Barbera or in route and that the incident would not affect . Plans to move into Barbera. The special envoy also visited Mogadishu Beli Dogle and Bairoa and met with local warlords before coalition forces moved into those towns. On tuesday Peck said no opposition was expected in either Barbera or Hod Dur where marines Are headed on Christmas. Oddur is about 90 Miles North of Bairoa. Both towns Are important distribution Points for Aid in a country where famine has killed up to 350,000 people and threatens 2 million More. The marines planned to leave Bairoa Early today and seize bards Ray a Airport before Sundown. Two companies of French paratroopers and one company of marines then were to take Oddur. Oakley had not planned to meet wednesday with said Hirsi the regional warlord. He is also known As Gen. Morgan. Said Hirsi was among the most ruthless commanders in Siad barrels army. He planned and executed bombing raids that reduced the Northern Somalia town of Hargeisa to rubble in the civil War that preceded the dictators january 1991  from Page 1 Ever closer to rounding out his Cabinet. Rounding out the team were a James Woolsey Carters undersecretary of the Navy and president Bush a negotiator for a conventional forces treaty in Europe As director of Central intelligence. A Anthony Lake a Veteran foreign affairs specialist who once worked for Henry Kissinger and also served in the state department under president Carter As National Security adviser. A retired adm. William j. Crowe chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under presidents Reagan and Bush and a Clinton Campaign adviser to head the foreign intelligence advisory Board which reviews proposed Covert operations. Clinton also named Clifton r. Wharton jr., a former University president and currently the chief executive of a new York company that controls some $100 billion in pension funds to be Christophers assistant. Christopher served As Deputy Secretary of state under Carter the last democratic president and was intimately involved in negotiating the 1981 release of the 52 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. Samuel Berger a top Clinton Campaign and transition adviser was named lakes top Deputy at the National Security Council. Aspin a Wisconsin Democrat respected for his grasp of weapons systems and the military budget said he supported Clinton on lifting the ban on homosexuals in the military but declined to offer any suggestions on How to do so. Aspin said his task is to maintain the Quot finest military Force in the world while reducing it to reflect the end of the cold War and the need for lighter More Mobile forces to respond to regional crises As in Somalia and the Middle East. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney called Aspin an Quot excellent choices and promised a smooth transition. The president elect said he hoped but could not Promise to meet his goal of filling the Cabinet by Christmas. Unfilled jobs include attorney general a Job aides say will go to a woman and the secretaries of agriculture transportation and Interior. Former Arizona gov. Bruce Babbitt and new Mexico rep. Bill Richardson Are the Interior candidates with Babbitt Likely to land As . Trade representative if Clinton taps Richardson who is hispanic for Interior. That scenario has gained some weight since Clinton said it was a a distinct possibility he would name a second hispanic to the Cabinet. Richardson 45, was born in California but was raised by his mexican Mother in Mexico City. Chicago banker William Daley is said by top transition aides to be Clinton s Choice for transportation Secretary. As a team Clinton s foreign policy National Security choices will inherit such pressing global problems As the military deploy mint to protect Relief efforts in Somalia the civil strife in the former Yugoslavia and the tug of War Between reformers and hard liners in Russia and elsewhere in the former soviet Union. Rhein main Relief flights to Sarajevo resume Rhein main a Germany a amps a Airlift operations from Rhein main All to Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina resumed this week after being halted for three weeks because of hostile fire. T he operations Are in support of . Peacekeeping missions in the former yugoslav Republic. . Officials suspended flights into Sarajevo on Dee. 1 because a . C-130 Hercules transport received Small arms fire said tech. Sgt. Sandra Whipps a spokeswoman for the command information Bureau at Rhein main. However flights from Rhein main into split and Zagreb Croatia continued she said. Whipps said two to three c-130 flights leave the air base each Day carrying meals ready to Fiat into split Croatia Zagreb and Sarajevo. Units flying from Rhein main in sup port of the . Efforts include a the 37th Airlift so from Rhein main. A the 40th and 41st Airlift Sis fron the 317th Airlift Wing at Pope fab  a and the 167th Airlift group an Ai National guard unit from Martinsburg