European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr Bosnia s government pulled out of peace talks with serbs on saturday to protest the slaying of a Deputy prime minister. Meanwhile the bosnian official Hakija Turajlic was buried saturday amid recriminations and appeals for Calm. Turajlic a Muslim was shot seven times Friday in the head and Chest by serbian forces despite the Protection of five . Peacekeepers. The slaying occurred while Turajlic was sitting in a . Armoured vehicle after he was detained by serbian rebels at a Roadblock. Bosnian president Alija ize Begovic said in Paris a the government of Bosnia Herzegovina has decided to suspend the negotiations in Geneva to protest the assassination of the Deputy prime at a news conference after meeting with French president Francois Mitterrand in pans ize Begovic said a consultations will continue but at this stage i am not sure i will return to the peace talks were to have resumed today. A the negotiations suffered another blow when bosnian serbian leaders meeting in Bike Lina Early saturday rejected an International plan that would have divided the War torn former Republic into 10 largely autonomous restaurant Palatine Iii apr the bodies of seven people were found Early saturday at a fast food restaurant in suburban Chicago police said. The victims had been shot and some of the bodies were left in a walk in refrigerator at Browne a Chicken restaurant said Geofge Cantrell of the Cook county medical examiners office. The restaurant is located in Palatine 25 Miles Northwest of downtown Chicago. Or. Robert Stein the medical examiner said bodies were found in More than one place in the restaurant. Police did not release further details nor would they speculate of a possible motive. Nursing supervisor Jeff Shaw at Northwest Community Hospital said police had indicated the victims were All employees who were shot after the restaurant closed. Employees usually closed the restaurant at 9 . And left an hour later after counting Money from the Cash registers and cleaning up said Jason Georgi 17, a restaurant employee who took Friday off. A a in a really glad i Wasny to there but i feel so bad for them because someone had to take my place and if someone who took my place a 1 done to know. I feel real bad a Georgi said. He and another Browne a employee Celso Morales Iii also 17, said the Back door of the restaurant was always left unlocked. Morales described the restaurant As a Homey place where no one worried about safety. A there is no Security a Georgi said. A there is nothing they employees can do. No weapons in there. There a no Security seven people work each shift most of them teenagers Georgi assassination More than 17,000 people have been killed and upward of 1 million left homeless since ethnic serbs set out to crush muslims and croats who voted to secede last february from serbian dominated Yugoslavia. . Officials in Sarajevo and bosnian serbian leaders portrayed Turaj lies slaying As an act by overwrought gunmen rather than a planned provocation. Turajlic he was the first major political figure in former Yugoslavia assassinated since the country began unravelling in 1991. Military sources in Belgrade and the United nations in Sarajevo said the serb who shot Turajlic had been arrested. No further details were available. Ize Begovic in Washington called the killing a not Only an attack on our government but a a. An attack upon the United a it shows very clearly that . Convoys Are not protective and that paramilitary serbs can. Kill anyone he said outside the White House on Friday after meeting with president Bush a National Security adviser Brent scowcroft. A French battalion commander col. Patrice Sartre said that at one Point he had stood Between the serbs and the armoured personnel Carrier in which Turajlic sat. A. A a he said tempers appeared to be Cooling after a standoff of several hours but then two serbian soldiers broke away from others who were shouting a no no a and fired Over Sartre s shoulder into the vehicle mortally wounding Turajlic. The serbian commander Gen. Katko Mladic said in Bike Lina that he regretted the slaying and promised an investigation. He described it As inc work of a a nervous soldiers. About 300 people gathered saturday morning at the Ali Pasa mosque next to the presidency building in Sarajevo for the funeral. Vice president Viup Ganic shovelled the first pile of Earth onto the coffin while Turajlich a wife and two daughters looked on tearfully. Automatic gunfire rattled from the Hills overlooking the City. Ganic said before the funeral that he held the . Force responsible. Working under pressure somalis in the port of Mogadishu unload a cargo of Corn that arrived Friday aboard a saudi arabian ship. Dangerous conditions were hampering the flow of Relief supplies into the somalian capital. On thursday . Marines killed seven somalis in their biggest strike against bandits and feuding clansmen. Hamper Shetland Oil spill cleanup Sumburgh Shetland islands a violent seas and wind gusting up to 80 Mph swept Over the wreckage of a Tanker saturday stalling efforts to mop up a huge Oil spill that threatened the areas Salmon farming Industry. A a fresh Rivers of Light crude poured from two or three of 15 cargo lids that the storm blew open overnight on the 89,700-ton Tanker said George Sutherland chief of Shetland Marine Tanker was splitting in two in the pounding surf. But a dutch Salvage operator Geert Offeman said the breakup might not dump More Oil into the sea because the cargo holds appeared to be breaking off in one piece. During a Lull in the winds aircraft sprayed detergents to break up Oil in the Bay of que Dale. Quot the Tanker Braer had been carrying 24.6 million Gallons of norwegian Oil tuesday when a Hurricane drove it onto the Rocky Shoreline of the Shetland islands located 100 Miles North of Mainland Scotland. The Slick has killed hundreds of Birds and fish in the Rich wildlife Region. Offeman estimated that at least half the crude remained on Board the Tanker. Still the spill threatened to be larger than the Exxon Yaldez disaster in which 11 million Gallons of heavy crude gushed into alaskans Prince William sound in March 1989, the heaviest Slick is along the South Point of Mainland the largest of the Hundred Shetland islands a Sheen of Oil extended at least 20 Miles North along Mainland a West coast. A Barge equipped with powerful pumps was scheduled to arrive in the shetlands from Rotterdam Netherlands on monday. Offeman said it should take another Day to secure the Barge alongside the Tanker and Rig the pumping gear. A i am aware of a great sense of impotence among people who want to do something to help but can to Malcolm Green chief executive of the Shetland islands Council told a news conference saturday dead fish sea Birds seals and other mammals from the shetlands Rich wildlife colonies littered Oil coated beaches. Inland farm animals and crops were coated with oily sea Spray. The government Friday suspended Salmon harvesting in the area and the Tesco supermarket Chain one of Britain a largest fish Sellers said it would no longer sell fish caught near the islands. The National supermarket group Marks amp Spencer said it had stopped buying Salmon from offshore Shetland fish farms a was a temporary precautionary measure.�?�. Salmon farming fishing fish processing and sheep farming Are economic mainstays of the 22,000 Shet Landers. Salmon farming in which the fish Are reared in offshore pens is a $50 million a year Industry. Fishing brings in $35 million and fish processing $32 million
