European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                At a glance a worker wearing a mask to protect against toxic times holds an Oil covered shag found alive on the Beach in the Bay of Quendal Shetland islands on thursday live Birds soaked from the spill. From the Tanker Braer Are being cleaned and treated. See Story on Page 9. Upscale epidemic an estimated 15,000 coloradans May have been exposed to hepatitis in an outbreak traced to la Kitchen manager at a High society catering company  a Page 4 change in plans worsening deficit projections May Force president elect Clinton to drop plans for certain tax Breaks. A Page 5 Uver toll Down the death rate from chronic liver disease is dropping As americans reduce their alcohol consumption officials say. A pages slovak Pardon asked president Bush is being asked to Pardon pvt. Eddie Slovik the Only . Soldier executed for desertion since the civil War. A Page 7 december sates Strong the nation s Chain stores on thursday reported Strong sales in december their Best Holiday season since 1983. A Page 17 i Index i Abby Ann Landers 19 comics .19-21 commentary. 13 crossword .19 faces a no places .18 letters12 Money matters. 17 religion.10 sports. 22-28 to listings .27 weather .,., 11 from Paget going where All those batteries Are located but we will Monitor it carefully and in due course we will be Able to make a judgement As to what they have done and whether it is satisfactory a Powell told lbs news. Quot there is a lot of activity going on but it will take a White for it to Settle Down and for us to make an objective assessment of what they have done Quot said Powell. He said Iraq clearly had not penetrated the 32nd parallel since the United states and its allies Laid Down its warning on wednesday. As the deadline approached iraqis National Assembly was called into session by speaker Saadi Mehdi Saleh. The 258-member Assembly generally acts As a rubber stamp for policies adopted by Saddam a revolutionary command Council but it has in the past made face saying moves to end political impasses. But Deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz told an emergency Cabinet session that Quot Iraq will not heed the West s ultimatum and will uphold its right to keep its air defense bases where they  Quot should these bases be attacked Iraq will certainly respond in kind to the aggression a he said according to the state run iraqi news Agency monitored in Nicosia. In another act of Defiance Iraq banned All flights by . Weapons inspectors on . Aircraft within Iraq according to an announcement in new York on Friday. A , spokesman called it a serious breach of persian Gulf War cease fire agreements which require Iraq to be fruit International inspection of ifs weapons facilities. In recent Days Iraq moved Mobile soviet made Sa-2 and Sa-3 surface to air missiles into the no Fly zone established by the United states in August to protect iraqis rebellious shiite Muslim population from further attacks by government forces. The soviet made missiles Are considered a threat to the Allied jets patrolling the zone. It Aziz was quoted As saying the missile batteries were Quot purely defensive and had been in place since August. The european Community in a statement from Brussels Belgium said the iraqi government Quot bears the full responsibility for the present unacceptable  iraqis official response to the ultimatum a four Page arabic language statement was delivered to Western ambassadors thursday by iraqis . Ambassador Nizar Hardoon. He told reporters his county rejected the legitimacy of the no Fly zone As a violation of iraqis sovereignty but declined to say whether Iraq would move the missiles. Iraq and the West have been at Odds since the .-led Force pushed iraqi troops from Kuwait in february 1991. Hie current confrontation began on dec. 27, when iraqi Mig-25s began intruding into the no Fly zone. One was shot Down that Day by a . F-16. Since then Iraq has repeated its right to defend itself and to exercise full sovereignly. The United states has a potent air Arm and a naval task Force in the Gulf Region and France and Britain have squadrons of fighters fighter bombers and tankers based in saudi Arabia. Britain also has two warships in the  from Page 1to meet with Marine commanders to express their concern. Nevertheless the commander of operation restore Hope said Friday that some . Troops probably will begin going Home in two to three weeks. . Marine it. Gen. Robert a Johnston in an exclusive interview with the associated press also said he was pressing the United nations to Speed its takeover of the .-led Mission to make Somalia Safe for International famine Relief. He said . Forces hoped to make the capital peaceful enough to allow some of the americans to depart. Quot i think we will clearly see a change in Mogadishu in the weeks ahead a Johnston said. Meanwhile in Addis Ababa Ethiopia warring somali factions signed an agreement Friday calling for a ceasefire a National reconciliation conference and for cooperation with Aid agencies in their famine wracked Homeland. The 14 factions meeting under . Sponsorship left undecided what would be discussed at the reconciliation conference who would attend and How the cease fire should be implemented. But they pledged to dear any obstacles by monday. The conference is to begin in Addis Ababa on March 15. Relief workers said Mogadishu had a suite night after . Forces killed seven Omalis catty thursday in a counterattack on two of aided a a arsenals. Snipers in the buildings had repeatedly fired on Marine patrols. Quot a Strong display of resolve determination and Force is the Best Way to prevent the next one from happening a said maj. Gen. Charles e. Wilhelm commander of the. 1st Marine div and the officer who ordered the assault. The attack involved 400 troops attack helicopters tanks amphibious assault armoured vehicles and other heavy weaponry. More that a dozen somalis were taken prisoner from the two walled compounds. The assault which left one Marine injured by Allied gunfire was the biggest show of firepower from american troops since president Bush dispatched them to Mogadishu to protect food shipments on dec. 9.Clinton from Page 1 and while performing their duties. Under a memorandum of instruction the new Secretary of defense would oversee such decisions As whether the military should ext emf dependent benefits to the homosexual partners of service members and whether Gay social clubs should be permitted on . Bases. Other issues left to the defense Secretary and military leaders would include whether homosexual personnel could express their sexual preferences openly under circumstances that could be recorded As disruptive and whether Gay or lesbian service members would be permitted to live together in base housing. The military has strict regulations about sexual behaviour among its members who work together. Clinton has said those rules would continue to apply to homosexuals and heterosexuals. It for Clinton adoption of the recommendation would represent a Compromise Between military leaders who have protested lifting the ban and Gay and lesbian activists. The activists Hope Clinton will lift the ban by issuing an executive order a the vehicle presidents traditionally have used for bold historic action. President Harry Truman for instance issued an executive order to racially integrate the military services. Clinton advisers however favor using a new less symbolic Way to lift the ban a Quot memorandum of instructions has the same Legal Force As an executive order they said but does not carry the same historic significance. They View the distinction As important because they believe the action jul bring Strong opposition from military leaders which they Hope to mute by avoiding use of an executive order. Transition aides also Hope to shield Clinton from military and congressional reaction by using language in the memorandum that directs the defense Secretary to Cany out the task rather than simply proclaiming the presidents order to lift it. A Clinton understands there Are two issues Here he can to Waffle and he does no to want to expend a lot of political Goodwill upfront on this Issue a said one adviser to the Clinton transition team. Quot what they re trying to do is find the Best mechanism to achieve the commitment and not Hurt  sources said the concept of using a memorandum of instruction to lift the ban is the brainchild of Clinton Friend John Holum a Washington attorney who was asked to review the president elects options on the Issue. Holum and Aspin Are expected to discuss the proposal within several Days along with several other options that Holum considers less advisable politically such As an executive order. Other Clinton advisers said the memo of instruction is a Way to move swiftly to change the policy without excluding an executive order later after civilian defense officials and military leaders review the matter serbian gunmen kill bosnian official United nations a serbian gunmen fatally shot bosnian Deputy prime minister Hakija Turajlic at a Roadblock in Sarajevo on Friday the bosnian Mission said. Earlier it was reported that he was detained by serbian rebels on a stretch of Road supposedly under . Control outside the bosnian capital. The serbian Roadblock violates an agreement with . Forces. Sanella Mujazic a Secretary at the bosnian Mission said the . Convoy in which Turajlic was Riding was stopped by two serbian tanks and he was taken from his vehicle and shot. He had been travelling from the Sarajevo Airport where he had met a visiting turkish official said an aide. Mujazic said that her office had been informed of the killing by bosnian vice president a up Ganic. Tii Rajlic s body had been taken to . Headquarters in the capital she added. The shooting comes at a Pivotal Point in negotiations to end almost nine months of War in Bosnia. Fighting began when bosnian serbs resisted a move by majority muslims and croats to break away from serb dominated Yugoslavia