European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Restorers of Hope last of a series pre mixed Cereal with milk and biscuits Are provided to children at a Waajid feeding Center. Soviet made weaponry is a common sight on the Somalia Countryside. A Man rides Shotgun on a wheat truck. Residents of the Remote farming town of Waajid Somalia Are operating under a crude but working system of representative government that could be a Model for the nation in replacing anarchy with civil authority. It s an example of How our country can get Back together Quot said Abdullah Abdinur who served As interpreter for Waajid mayor Sharif Safi  is mayor of a town where the primary product is death by starvation and disease. There is no food other than what Relief agencies deliver. Employment is almost non existent. Sanitation is unheard of. Schools have been closed for More than two years. There is no health care no Hospital. Nonetheless Roble 41, is head of a system of government that has United groups of people who otherwise would be fighting in the clan warfare that has All but destroyed somalian civilization. Waajid is the trading Center and Crossroads for 44 villages and 22 tribes or subclass to the Northwestern Corner of the Makool District of Central Somalia. Leaders of the area attempted to remove themselves from the somalian fighting in november when they formed a 22-member a town committee Quot and selected As mayor Roble who Tike almost everyone else Here was unemployed and had nothing else to do. A _ As explained by Roble Basic forms of democratic and representative government were used to reestablish civil authority a we asked each tribe to elect a member to the town committee. That s How we keep the peace a Roble a said through his interpreter Quot it would be very easy to form a National general Assembly like our town. Committee if each family controls its town like ours. A but some families Are trying to control other families. That s the problem that caused the civil  in Advance of american and French peacekeepers under operation restore Hope the Waajid town committee set up a militia for Security against. Marauding bandits and established a working partnership with the Only Industry in town the Irish concern famine Relief program. A a Gus Macentire 30, and Hugh Swift 23, operate the food Relief program through which food Staples a wheat Rice Beans Maize cooking Oil and premixed Cereal a Are delivered As Many As five times a Day by continued on Page 16 1  it it t f stones Mark Row upon Row of fresh grave Sites at a children s cemetery in Oddur a town Northeast of Waajid. I Toporsh us Bob Center Andrt Natoo Abdu uth Abdnor ten. A worried Mother Waits outside a medical clinic explain the emerging democracy. Page 14 the stars and stripes wednesday january 6, 1993 a family draws water from a Waajid Well. The stars and stripes a Page 15