European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes tuesday december 29,1992 a i at a glance former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev views the soviet unions disintegration As a a tragic mis  see Story on Page 9.d.c. Hopes fading ebbing support in Congress could Wash away boosters Hopes of statehood for the nation s 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 7u.s., Japan glum a record 47 percent of japanese and 59 percent of americans judge relations Between the countries As Quot not Good Quot a Survey shows. A Page 6rescue riles Cuba Cuba s official press has denounced a defectors Rescue of his family As a Hollywood stunt. A Page 9a True deduction looking to escape state taxes go North to Alaska. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers .20 comics.18-20 commentary.13 faces a no places. 10 letters.12 Money matters.17 sports.21-28 to listings .27 weather .11 . Chief rattles sabers in bid to end bosnian War Geneva apr . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali warned Yugoslavia a president monday that foreign armies May intervene in Bosnia and Herzegovina a War unless Steps Are taken to end the fighting a spokesman said. The warning came amid a flurry of diplomacy at the United nations european Headquarters in Geneva. Serbian dominated Yugoslavia supports ethnic serbs who have captured More than two thirds of bosnian territory since the civil War began last March. The . Leader asked yugoslav president Dobrica Cosic to use his authority and influence to Appeal to serbian forces in Bosnia to end the bloodshed said Dragos Lav Rancic a spokesman for Cosic. Quot Boutros Ghali is apparently under enormous pressure and wanted Cosic to know this a Rancic said in an interview. Cosic though a Strong serbian nationalist has opposed some of the actions of Serbia a powerful president Slobodan Milosevic who advocates full support for serbs in Bosnia and Croatia. Milosevic was reelected dec. 20. Boutros Ghali held separate meetings with Cosic and croatian president Franjo Tadjman who warned that the bosnian War could escalate with islamic nations coming to the Aid of bosnian muslims and russian fighters intervening on behalf of the serbs. Boutros Ghali planned to Fly to the besieged bosnian capital Sarajevo in the next few Days said his spokeswoman the rese gestaut. . Secretary of state lawrences. Eagleburger also in Geneva said he expected the . Security Council to adopt a Resolution this week to enforce the grounding of serbian warplanes Over Bosnia. Boutros Ghali and two International mediators a Cyrus r. Vance former . Secretary of state and Britain a lord David Owen a have opposed such a Resolution appealing for More time to allow the 4-month-old peace talks in Geneva to find a political  from Page 1 the appropriate  he did not elaborate. The spokesman quoted by Baghdad radio said the iraqi planes were on routine patrol Over iraqi soil. But Hussein Amin an egyptian analyst and retired ambassador said Quot the iraqi planes violated the . Prohibition zone apparently As a feeler to test the United nations determination to implement its decisions a 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  Quot if so that decision was ill timed a Kam Hawi said. Quot we Hope that this incident will not Mark an intended escalation of the situation in the  Cia director Robert m. Gates said on lbs to that the incident was a part of the pattern Over the last several months of increasing iraqi aggressiveness in challenging the .�?T but he said it was a too Early to read larger implications into  iraqi officials said after the no Fly zone was imposed that their forces had been ordered not to respond. ., British and French aircraft made about 7,500 flights in the zone without Challenge by iraqis. The Allied patrols continued monday with no incidents reported. It. Col. Howard Carter a . Military spokesman said in Riyadh saudi Arabia a a we re continuing to Monitor the  but he noted that sundays attack Quot brought to mind How potentially dangerous the operation  the . Aircraft Carrier Kitty Hawk which was scheduled to be in the persian Gulf providing warplanes for operation Southern watch is near Somalia. That makes it virtually certain that the f-16s involved in sundays interception were flying out of saudi Arabia. The remnants of iraqis air Force Are generally considered to be in poor condition because of . Economic sanctions imposed after iraqis army invaded Kuwait on aug. 2,1990. Iraq withdrew most of its operational warplanes in the Region to the North before the no Fly zone was  from Page 1 dirt Airstrip aboard 10 uh-60 Black Hawk helicopters just after Dawn following a flight from Beli Dogle a town about 100 Miles West of Mogadishu that has become the operational Center of the . Army s 10th Mountain div Light from fort drum . Hundreds of somalis watched from the edges of the strip As the helicopters and later c-130 Hercules cargo planes disgorged soldiers and returned to the air. A we passed the word yesterday that anyone that has a weapon parallel to the ground is a threat and will be dealt with a said it. Col. Carol Mathieu the Canadian commanding the  from Page 1 in Nicaragua. Congress had banned such dealings with the rebels. It was hoped the missiles could be 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. A cooperation meant giving them the testimony that they wanted that would enable them to implicate president Reagan a Weinberger said. A when they could t get that then they went after me with five felony counts All of which they would have been by the end of the week some 800 canadians Are to be in Belet Huen which is 200 Miles North of the capital near the ethiopian Border. The americans Are to be withdrawn for other tasks. With the ports and airports at Mogadishu and Kismay secured and Large amounts of donated food beginning to pour into the country the coalition plans to establish distribution centers in the six Interior towns. From the centers supplies will be moved out into surrounding villages and the Countryside in an Effort to flood Southern Somalia a famine Belt with food. But finding trucks capable of making the trips has been difficult. Somalian truckers whose vehicles often Are relics from the 1950s, protested sunday against the world food programs hiring of ethiopian truckers to perfectly willing to drop if 1 had quote cooperated with them. And i Wasny to going to cooperate with them Quot 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. A the president of the United slates then president Reagan insisted that he did t think  Weinberger appearing monday on haul the food Aid. More than 350,000 somalis already have died in what has been called the worlds worst humanitarian crisis and 2 million More Are at risk of starvation and disease. President Bush who is to visit Somalia for new years has expressed Hope that the United nations will take Over the mercy Mission and that . Troops could Start coming Home by Jan. 20, when president elect Clinton takes office. It. Gen. Robert b. Johnston commander of the . Joint task Force told the .-based Cable news network that it was a reasonable to expect that some troops May be removed in january. More than 18,000 american service members Are in Somalia either ashore or aboard ships just off the coast. Washington originally planned to Send 28,000, but that figure might be reduced. 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