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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, January 12, 1993

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes tuesday january 12,19�3 at a glance the deadly terror of the deep is get Ting a taste of its own Medicine As mans appetite for. Shark flesh is helping to drastically reduce the Supply or the species. See Story on pages 18-20. Aids War slowed poverty and racial discrimination Are impeding the nation s Battle against aids a commission said. A Page 4changing 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 repeat performance doctors at the University of Pittsburgh encouraged by their first Tat Boon to human liver transplant last june have performed the procedure on a second patient. A pages 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 1ihelp wanted economic forecasters predicted that . Businesses will create t .59 million jobs in 1993, the highest yearly total in tour years a Page 16 Index 1 Abby Ann Landers a 21 classifieds. 25-28 comics 21-23 commentary. 15 computers. .17 faces a no places. .24 letters. .14 Money matters. 16 sports a. 29-36 weather. .13 Tokyo a Japan a military kept publicly silent for a Fate 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 soon 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 Over a three month period failed to determine what happened to the codes and the incident was not publicly disclosed he said a the codes Are used to identify Friendly and enemy aircraft through signals transmitted by the plane. Similar codes were used during the persian Gulf War. Matsuura said no real damage was done to Western Security by the incident. He said Japan a defense Agency notified the . Military and other Western allies a Day after the loss and the codes were subsequently changed. _. A spokesman for . Forces in Japan had no immediate comment. Matsuura said the Aki Gumos a Captain and three other officers were relieved of their duties after the incident and three other officers were disciplined. Kyodo news service which Rev Chiwu a incident Over the weekend quoted unidentified sources As saying Many naval officers believed Quot a Crew member May have dropped the codes into the sea to cause trouble for the ships Captain and other officers but that 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. Kaiserslautern Germany a amps a a third Soldier has been implicated in the Christmas eve shooting of a German in Kaiserslautern an army spokeswoman said monday. Meanwhile military officials expect to file charges this week against at least one of the soldiers suspected in the shooting. Officials expect charges to be filed against spec. Noel a. Baham said maj. Cindy Sito a spokeswoman for the 21st theater army area come. A according to German police the inclusion of the third Soldier surfaced during interviews with Baham and a 33-year-old Soldier who police say drove a car away from the scene of the shooting. The third Soldier was Riding in the Back seat while Baham Rode in the front passenger seat during the incident Sito said. Baham of he det 9th finance group in Kaiserslautern is the Only one of the three in jail. He fired a pistol wounding a German in the dec. 24 shooting police said. Baham is being held at the . Army confinement facility in Mannheim. The soldiers apparently got into an argument with five germans outside a downtown Kaiserslautern pub about 1 . On dec. 24, according to German police police Are unclear who started the argument. The five germans told police they fled on foot when the soldiers brandished a knife and a razor Blade police said. Ger j Man police said the soldiers tracked the germans in a car and shot at them wounding one Man in both legs and then shot at a plainclothes German policeman who tried to arrest them. German police apprehended Baham and the cards Driver at their Homes. / German and military authorities will resolve jurisdiction of the Case once the army files charges Sito said. From Page 1 secure Aid distribution routes for millions of somalis suffering from disease famine and civil War. In the past year 350,000 somalis have died. . Envoy Robert Oakley who returned sunday from Washington said sundays fighting was an isolated incident amid a gradual reduction of clan violence. A a month ago they were in full scale civil War. There a been considerable improvement a Oakley said. Quot they Are still moving toward agreements. Most of their differences will be solved peacefully a Oakley a former ambassador to Somalia was one of the main forces behind getting warring factions to the peace talks in Ethiopia the cease fire reached sunday Calls for the factions All to disarm by March 1, but the clan warlords do not have absolute control Over their fighters and the agreement does hot affect free Lance bandits who have looted much of the food. On sunday seven . Congressmen briefly came under sniper fire As they visited a stadium serving As Camp for 1,500 marines. Rep. John a Murtha  chairman of the House defense appropriations subcommittee said he d like to see the United nations take a greater role in Somalia so . Forces could leave sooner. There Are nearly 22,000 . Soldiers in Somalia. Twenty other countries have so far contributed about 10,000, the Core of a . Peacekeeping Force meant to replace the americans As leaders in the Campaign. Australian troops began initial reconnaissance in the Interior town of Bairoa on monday australian command spokesman maj. David Tyler said. The main body of 900 soldiers from the 1st in Royal australian regt is to arrive in Bairoa from feb. 15-19 and begin taking Over Security tasks now carried out by . Marines. Also sunday the , children a fund said Security around its Mogadishu compound had deteriorated because a thriving Market in khat had appeared in the. Neighbourhood. The. Khat Leaf a stimulant is popular with the country a gunmen and . Officers said they have noted a relationship Between outbreaks of gunfire and the times of Day when khat is chewed. Quot we can time it. They get really hopped up on the stuff around five in the evening and Start shooting off a maj. Gen Charles e. Wilhelm commander of the 1st Marine div said sunday. Quot by six the next morning they re comatose. Its a Good time to kick  a a Marine dresses Down a somalian youth who threw stones sunday near the port at Mogadishu. The youth was not detained. Iraq from Page 1 see what actions May be  Baghdad has denied giving in to Allied demands to move its surface to air missile batteries from the Border of the nobly zone. A . Patrol Jet shot Down an iraqi Mig that penetrated the zone dec 27. The allies established the zone aug. 27 to protect shiite muslims from Saddam a forces. On monday iraqis in civilian clothes crossed the Border into Kuwait for a second time in As Many Days and began emptying and dismantling warehouses at a disputed naval base a . Official said. Abdel Latif Kabbaj spokesman for the . Observation Mission in Kuwait told the associated press that about 120 unarmed iraqis emptied or removed a aware houses water tanks and electrical wires. He said the men were warned by  observers that they were violating Gulf War cease fire accords. On sunday 200 armed iraqis in civilian clothing went to the same area and seized armaments including explosives and four chinese built anti ship silkworm missiles abandoned by Iraq during the 1991 War  
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