European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes t tuesday january 12,1993 at a glance the deadly terror of the deep is getting a taste of its own Medicine As Man s appetite for shark flesh is helping to drastically reduce the Supply of the species. Sec Story on pages 18-20. Aids War stowed poverty and racial discrimination Are impeding the nation s Battle against aids a commission said. A Page 4 changing its tone. A Senate committee investigating missing american servicemen toned Down its criticism of former president Richard m. Nixon and his Secretary of state. Henry a. Kissinger after both men complained. A Page 5 Baboon liver working a Baboon liver transplanted sum Day in a 62-year-old Man appears to be functioning property doctors in Pittsburgh say. A Page 6 Plo urges Force the Plo has called for the use of International Force against Israel As an Arab league meeting prepared to discuss Israel s deportation of More than 400 palestinians. A Page 11 help wanted economic forecasters predicted that . Businesses will create 1.59 million jobs in 1993, the highest yearly total in four  Page 16 i Index i Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds. 25-28 comics. 21-23 commentary. 15 computers. 17 faces n places .24 letters. 14 Money matters.16 sports. 29-36 weather 13 code list Tokyo apr Japan a military kept publicly silent for More than four years about losing a code list used by Western allies to identify enemy aircraft officials said monday. Allies were notified of the incident Sooh after it occurred. Masayuki Matsuura spokesman for Japan a maritime self defense Force said the 2,150-ton destroyer Aki Gumo was returning to a Northern japanese port from an exercise in june 1988 when the codes were found to be missing. An investigation Oyer a three month period failed to determine what happened to the codes and the incident was not publicly disclosed he said. The codes Are used to identify Friendly and enemy aircraft through signals transmitted by the planes. Similar codes were used during the persian Gul f War. Matsuura said no real damage was done to Western Security by the incident. He said Japan s defense Agency notified the . Military and other Western allies a Day after the loss and the codes were subsequently changed. A a. A spokesman for . Forces in Japan had no immediate comment. Matsuura said the Aki Gumos a Captain and three other officers were relieved of heir duties after the incident and three other officers were disciplined. Kyodo news service which revealed the incident Over the weekend quoted  identified sources As saying Many naval officers believed a Crew member May have dropped the codes into the sea to cause trouble for the ships Captain and other officers  theory was never confirmed Haruo Fujii a japanese defense analyst at the private military problems research Institute said planes from the soviet Union which existed at the time of the incident could have posed As. Western aircraft and approached Western military planes or vessels if Moscow had obtained and Analysed the missing codes. He said the decision by the defense Agency not to publicly disclose the incident showed it did not fully understand the principle of civilian control Over the military. Cubans grab Captain Hijack boat to Florida key West Fla. A a group of cubans on a fishing trip tied up the boats Captain and headed the vessel for the United states the coast guard said monday. The boat arrived in key West Early sunday towed by the patrol Craft Sitki Nak for the last few Miles of the journey said Petty officer Joe Dye of coast guard District Headquarters in Miami. He said there were 15 people on Board a 14 passengers plus the Captain who wants to return to Cuba. The fishing boat left Mantua near the Western tip of Cuba Early thursday. Put once at sea the routine voyage quickly became anything but that. A five of us tied the Captain up a Francisco Reyes 25, told the Sun Sentinel in fort Lauderdale in a Story published monday. A when we got into International Waters we let him go. At that Point it was useless for him to.  they sailed the 40-foot boat for nearly three Days before being intercepted by the coast guard. A the . Attorneys office discussed the matter and decided there was no basis for prosecution a said Fri spokesman Paul Miller. He confirmed the Captain had been tied up during part of the trip. But he  speculate on whether the refugees had broken any Laws saying that would be something for the . Attorney to decide. The refugees All have relatives in Miami Miller said so they were released Early sunday to the cuban migrant transit Center in key West. The Center fed and clothed them and helped locate their families. A the Best thing is that we did it right under the nose of the cuban government a Reyes said. Marines from Page 1 tons was to take effect. A a month ago they were in full scale civil War. There s been a considerable improvement a said . Envoy Robert a Oakley. But it could not be determined if the factions were observing the cease fire or even if they had been informed of the pact. The agreement was reached during peace talks in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Communications in Somalia Are virtually non existent except for satellite telephones. In the Daylong raid dubbed operation Nutcracker the marines sealed off escape routes from the Bakara Market and seized recoilless rifles anti aircraft guns and a mix of Light a weapons Hagee said. Some of the arms including rockets and belts of machine gun bullets were dumped into an open bed truck guarded by a Marine with his Rifle at the ready. The biggest haul came from a furniture warehouse where an assortment of weaponry was found amid Beds toilet seats and mattresses another Cache was uncovered in a storeroom next to a dentists  said arms merchants May have moved some of their wares out of the Market because of More aggressive Marine weapons seizures in recent Days. On sunday the marines captured a a quite significant amount of munitions ranging from hand grenades to artillery shells at one site. A Day earlier they discovered a Large Cache on the northeastern outskirts of the City that included 10 anti aircraft guns and 16 howitzers. Such weapons have been used in two years of. Civil War that killed an estimated 350,000 people in 1992 alone spawned a terrible famine and devastated virtually every Urban Center in the land. Some somalis protested mondays arms raid. One a bearded Man wearing a flowing headdress harangued a Marine. The Marine watched the Man impassively the butt of his m-16 Rifle resting on his hip. A somali handed a note to an american Soldier saying a if you re american you have no right to take the guns. Thanks for  some somalis say they will become easy prey for the gangs who roam Mogadishu if weapons they use for self Protection Are taken away. Meanwhile the somalian factions continued to meet in Addis Ababa. They argued Over who should attend a proposed National reconciliation conference scheduled for March 15, a Marine dresses Down a somalian youth who three stones sunday near the port at Mogadishu. The youth was not detained. . From Page 1 allies had declared off limits to iraqi military flights. The no Fly zones were established to protect rebel shiite muslims. Iraq also banned . Flights to Ami Over Iraq hampering a . Effort to dismantle Saddam a stocks and production of chemical nuclear and biological weapons. The latest dispute focuses on iraqis Border with Kuwait. Iraq is facing a Friday deadline set by the Security Council to remove property now considered to be on kuwaiti territory. A . Commission established the new Border Between Iraq and Kuwait last november in accordance with Security Council resolutions stemming from Iraq s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. Abdel Latif Kabbaj a . Spokesman in Kuwait said 120 unarmed iraqis 01 monday crossed the new Border am went to umm Qasir a former iraqi Nava base 400 Yards inside Kuwait they Emp tied or removed warehouses water tank and electrical wires he said. On sunday 200 iraqis some carrying pistols went to the same area and seized weapons including explosives and fou chinese built anti ship silkworm mis Siles. The missiles were abandoned a Iraq during the Gulf War