European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 b the stars and stripes tuesday december 29, 1992 . Threatens use of Force in letter to serbian leaders ing countries into the War. Bush a letter to serbian president so in i at a glance former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev views the soviet unions disintegration As a a tragic Sec Story on Page 9.d.c. Hopes fading ebbing support in Congress could Wash away boosters Hopes of statehood for the nations capital. A Page 4ringing in new Laws the new year will bring such new Laws As Indiana a $125 tax break for used computers donated to Public schools. A Page 5whites unwanted a Black owned store in Virginia refuses to serve Whites. A Page 6aids Rumor denied a doctor in Athens ala., was forced to turn to a newspaper to deny a Rumor that he had the aids virus. A Page 7soldier charged a . Soldier has been charged after a German was injured in a Kaiserslautern shooting spree. A Page 8rescue riles Cuba Cuba s official press has denounced a defector s Rescue of his family As a Hollywood stunt. A Page 9a True deduction looking to escape state taxes go North to Alaska. Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. .20 comics. 1620 commentary. 13 faces a no places. 10 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 21-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 Geneva apr president Bush has sent a letter to serbian leaders warning that the United states is prepared to use military Force to keep the civil War in former Yugoslavia from spreading to a tense serbian province. Yugoslav president Dobrica Cosic downplayed the threat but said the serbian dominated federation now made up of Only Serbia and Montenegro would defend itself if attacked. Tension in the serbian province of Kosovo has been rising Between ethnic serbs and the ethnic albanian majority. The area formerly autonomous is seen As a potential new Flash Point in the Balkans. Violence there could pull neighbor Iraq from Page 1 at the appropriate he did not elaborate. The spokesman quoted by Baghdad radio said the iraqi warplanes were on a routine patrol Over iraqi soil. Egyptian analyst Hussein Amin said a the iraqi planes violated the . Prohibition zone apparently As a feeler to test the United nations determination to implement its in Amman Jordan analyst Labib Kam Hawi said sundays incident appeared to have been a an attempt by some iraqi decision makers to test the Waters. If so that decision was in the United states Cia director Robert a Gates said on lbs television warlords from Page 1 end on the outskirts of the rally. American marines exchanged fire with three somalis who tried to Rob a television Crew from Britain a i snows outside the main Gate of Mogadishu a International Airport now a military base. One of the bandits was killed and a South african to Crew member was slightly injured in the Elbow. The two visness Crew members said they were accosted by three armed somalis As they approached the Airport Gate. Wielding a traditional Spear shield and sword Hassan Ahmed Marade Stompe coercion from Page 1 in Nicaragua. Congress had banned such dealings with the rebels. It was hoped the missiles could he traded for . Hostages. Appearing on abcs this week with David Brinkley Weinberger acknowledged errors and misstatements in his Iran Contra testimony to Congress. But he said he lacked criminal intent and charged that Walsh had pursued his indictment Only after Weinberger refused to cooperate in the prosecution of higher officials in the administration. Quot cooperation meant giving them the testimony that they wanted that would enable them to implicate president Reagan Quot Weinberger said. Quot when they get that then they went alter me with five felony counts All of which they would Hae been Bodan Milosevic and Gen. Zivola panic Yugoslavia a military chief of staff was sent last week said a source close to the yugoslav government. The letter said Quot in the event of conflict in the Kosovo caused by serbian action the United Stales will be prepared to employ military Force against the serbian the Kosovo and in Serbia Cosic attending peace talks in Geneva did not comment directly on the Bush letter. But he said �?o1 am certain that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia if attacked a and i done to believe that it will be attacked that sundays incident was a part of the pattern Over the last several months of increasing iraqi aggressiveness in challenging the .�?� but he said it was a too Early to read larger implications into Only Yemen joined Iraq in criticizing the . Action. Foreign minister Abdul Karim Al Loriani said it was an example of the a injustice and double standards applied by the . Security Council. Speaking in Muscat Oman he said the Security Council sanctioned Downing a an iraqi plane flying Over its own territory a but has taken no action to Force Israel to implement resolutions related to the Arab israeli conflict. Yemen was one of the few countries that remained sympathetic to Iraq after the Kuwait invasion. Sundays interception was the first known clash Between iraqi aircraft and his feet on the ground for emphasis. A Wallah sent the americans from far away to bring peace. We done to want the americans to go Back until we can stand on our own feet Quot said Hassan describing himself As a former government employee. A for two years the two sides Only met in War not peace. What you Sec Here today was made possible by the americans Quot said Omar Mohamed a White Mustach cd former police colonel. Moments later a jeep emblazoned with crossed somalian and american flags and the words a twin Brothers passed by. Dictator Mohammed Siad Baric was driven from Somalia in january 1991 after 21 years in Power during which his Mare Han Section of the darod clan enriched itself. Perfectly willing to drop if i had,.quote, a cooperated with them. And i Wasny to going to cooperate with them a he said. Weinberger disputed the suggestion that Bush pardoned him to cover his own tracks. Weinberger acknowledged that his notes indicate Bush then the vice president favored an Exchange of 4,000 Tow tube launched optically tracked wire guided missiles for hostages during a Jan. 7, 1986, meeting in the Oval office. But he said the Issue was not arms for hostages because Reagan later asserted that part of his motive was to improve relations with Iran. Quot the vice president at that time attended some of the meetings. He knew these discussions were going on. He said so. But again whether or not it was arms for hostages was basically a matter of opinion Quot Weinberger said. Quot the president of the United states then. President Reagan insisted that he did no to think it Weinberger appearing monday on a will have to. Defend itself International military intervention in the Region a would present not Only misfortune for Bosnia Herzegovina Yugoslavia and the Balkan Peninsula but i think that it would be an unhappy event for All those that would take part in the intervention a Cosic said. The letter also said the United states was prepared to use Force against serbian aircraft if the . Security Council passes a Resolution to enforce a no Fly zone Over Bosnia. . Force could be used to protect . Troops in Bosnia and to ensure the delivery of humanitarian Relief in Bosnia the letter said. Allied fighters patrolling the no Fly zone declared by Bush a and endorsed by the United nations a in late August to protect shiite rebels from air attacks by Saddam a forces. However . Aircraft patrolling another no Fly zone in Northern Iraq to protect kurdish rebels shot Down two iraqi jets Early last year. Allied patrols continued monday. It. Col. Howard Carter a . Military spokesman said in Riyadh saudi Arabia a a we re continuing to Monitor the he said the allies detected a nothing unusual monday. But he added a the activity of yesterday brought to mind How potentially dangerous the operation it is virtually certain that the f-16s involved in sundays incident were flying out of saudi Arabia where a number of american combat jets Are deployed. The victorious Hatiye clan split to fight Over the spoils. Heading the a gals sub clan was Ali Mahdi a wealthy businessmen. Aided a general who had served Barre led the Habar Gedir sub clan. A Century of development in Mogadishu was reduced to rubble and blood through their enmity. Meanwhile . And Canadian soldiers on monday seized the famine racked town of Belet Huen the final target of their Campaign to make Somalia secure for food shipments. Some 200 members of the 2nd in 87th inf regt and 40 Canadian soldiers entered Belet Huen unopposed As was the ease in seven other cities secured by the .-led Force since it began arriving in the country dec. 9. Abcs Good morning America said he did not conceal his notes which he described As a Little jottings that included such things As taking his dog for a walk As Well As his recollections of meetings on Iran Contra. He said he thought the special prosecutor wanted official minutes of the meetings. Sen. Carl Levin d-mich., said on no cd a today show monday morning that two things motivated the pardons by Bush a one was a gift to some friends and allies of the president. The other one was that the president in effect protected himself because there were documents which have now finally been sen. Orrin g. Hatch a Utah also appearing on today noted that there had been bipartisan support for the pardons. Quot i think that was the Straw that broke the camels Back when they indicted a Cape Weinberger on the thinnest of Reeds a Hatch said a it started to look More like persecution than prosecution a
