European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 31, 1992 Somalia the stars and stripes Page 9experts look toward rebuilding nation proposal seeks world s Aid to restore somalian society by Mark Fritz the associated press Mogadishu Somalia a while the world tries to keep this country alive teams of specialists Are sizing up the social wreckage and drafting a blueprint for a functioning society. . Experts private consultants Relief agencies and newly formed regional committees of somalis Are to Complete their proposal next month. Needed Are adequately equipped hospitals drinkable water Safe sanitation systems and local police forces to keep order in a country terrorized by thieves extortionists and gunslingers. Children have been without schools for two years and the country has been without operating commercial seaports Trade links an agriculture Industry and a simple system for getting goods to Market. In Short the  study seeks to rebuild and in some cases improve what has been destroyed by three years of civil War and feuding. It Calls for the Texas sized country of 6 million people to have the Skeleton of a social infrastructure by dec. 31,1993. The plan a will be massaged and altered and reworked and there will be somali fingerprints All Over it a said Philip Johnston . Assistance coordinator for Somalia. Johnston said the assessment will be finished by Jan. 31 and offered to the world Community in mid february when nations will be asked to finance it. He said the expected Price tag is hundreds of millions of dollars. For instance Bob Harrari a London marketing consultant who used to run an Export import business in Somalia flew in last week to look at How to revive Commerce a a repairing a freight and cargo system that can move goods. A what sort of commercial links still exist nobody really knows a he said. More than 350,000 somalis have died of starvation in Somalia which is the focus of a Mammoth global feeding Effort. But experts said the Tricky part of Somalia a recovery is continuing to ship in needed food while reviving its farm Economy. At some Point donated food becomes Competition for local goods driving prices too Low to make farming worthwhile. A we done to want to depress local production a said Holbrook Arthur director of the world food program in Mogadishu. A if there is a Good Maize crop for example we done to want to bring in  a big key to revival is returning the tens of thousands of displaced Farmers driven away by clan Battles to their land. Farmers comprised 70 percent of the work Force before civil War ousted president Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991. Livestock bananas Corn sugar Cane and other products provided 90 percent of the Gross National product the rest came from a tiny Industrial sector based largely on agricultural product processing. Just three months ago Ahmed Yahya 30, grew com herded goats and owned a tractor in butane about 60 Miles Northwest of Mogadishu. But a War Between rival clans Over his Village left it in ruins. Bandits also took All the tractors and sold them in Kenya Yahya said. A we farm with our hands a he said and Only to survive. Most important the fighting killed one of his four daughters when an artillery Shell landed on his Home. She was 3. A we need the fighting to Stop a Yahya workers in Mogadishu sport warehouse pile bags or wheat from a Relief ship tuesday. A shortage of trucks has slowed transport of goods and the warehouse has filled to capacity. Said. Arthur said he believes the collapse of education has contributed to the number of Idle and armed Young men roaming the streets. A most of the people from age 5 to 20 have not been in school for two years a he said. A we need to put these children Back in the  water distribution has been devastated because rival clans often destroy each others Wells contributing mightily to deaths by starvation. But the answer is not simply to Drill Wells. In the famine devastated town of bar Dera for example the water is too brackish so hydrologists Are devising filtration and chlorination systems to provide clean water. Potable water also is tied to rebuilding health care a Core component of the . Reconstruction plan. The goal is to have at least one functioning Hospital with clean water and working electricity in each of 17 regions. In Gail Alassi 90 Miles North of Mogadishu bandits looted the Hospital. The elementary and Junior High schools were bombed. A the Hospital still functions a said Abdi Yusef 26, a worker for save the children a humanitarian organization. A but bandits took All the instruments and Medicine and the Generator and Light  bomb kills tourist at hotel used by gis san a Yemen apr an austrian tourist was killed and four other people were wounded when a bomb exploded at a hotel frequented by . Military personnel in the yemenite port of Aden officials said wednesday. Another bomb went off tuesday night in the parking area of Adens second major hotel injuring two terrorists who were rigging it and a passer by said Interior ministry officials speaking on condition they not be identified. The terrorists were believed to be Muslim fundamentalists protesting the festive decorations and liquor that the Gold Mohur and the Aden hotel provided for guests. In Washington a Pentagon spokesman army maj. Bryan Whitman said that a no . Military personnel were involved in the bombings. About 100 . Military personnel have been in Aden Over recent weeks after Yemen a government agreed to provide support for humanitarian Relief to Somalia. The . Personnel supervise air and sea support operations from Aden which lies across the Gulf of Aden from  austrian tourist group was staying at the Gold Mohur where the bomb exploded about 7 15 . Central european time on tuesday in or near the restaurant. One of the floors was severely damaged by the blast said the officials. They did not identify the dead tourist nor could they confirm whether the injured were from the same party. Kuhl Astrid of the German consulate in san a which is in charge of austrian interests could Only confirm that one austrian was killed and a number of people injured. But she had no other details. Michael Cronin acting Consul at the British embassy said that bombs have been exploding in Yemen for some time and that British american and other Western diplomatic missions Are always advising their nationals to a exercise caution and keep their eyes  the bomb blasts along with a spate of assassination attempts have been widespread throughout Yemen Over the past year. They reflect the political rivalry Between the parties that ruled in marxist South Yemen and conservative North Yemen before the two merged in May 1990. A transitional period was to end in november with multiparty parliamentary elections but it had to be extended because of the political violence. The elections Are now set for april 27.Covert role hinted for american killed in Somalia Greensburg a. Apr the Only american killed so far in the military Mission to Somalia served As a Green Beret while in the army and May have been working in a Covert capacity for the state department a newspaper reported. The Tribune review of Greensburg reported tuesday that friends of Lawrence n. Freedman said he had maintained close Contact with special forces personnel since leaving the service to become a civilian employee of the army. Some of those interviewed spoke Only on condition they not be identified. A the was always someplace where nobody knew where he was a a childhood Friend told the newspaper. A the was always in the forefront of what was  Freedman 51, was to be buried tuesday at Arlington National cemetery in Virginia. He was killed dec. 23 near Barbera when the vehicle in which he was Riding struck an anti tank mine. Three state department officials with him were injured. State department officials have referred questions about Freedman to the defense department which said such information can to be released without his family a permission. His family has declined to comment. Freedman grew up in Philadelphia and at the time of his death lived in Fayetteville n.c., near fort Bragg Headquarters of the army a special forces. Some friends told the newspaper that Freedman was secretive about his military duties but they believed he had Covert responsibilities in Somalia. Arthur Lacey who said he worked with Freedman at fort Bragg told the newspaper that Freedman served 25 years in the Green berets and had three Tours of duty in Vietnam. Freedman earned a Bronze Star and two purple hearts Lacey said. A the was a soldiers Soldier a he said. Quot he h d u lot of influence Over a lot of men a All