European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the St aps and stripes monday january 18,1993 at a glance americans today Honor civil rights Leader Martin Luther King or. Nearly 25 years after his murder Many still strive to keep King s dream alive. See stories in focus. Following Jefferson president elect Clinton began his final journey to the White House on sunday evoking the memory of Thomas Jefferson As he vowed to Quot shake things  a Page 4 robbery tied to killings police said a Quot substantial Quot amount of Money was taken from a suburban Chicago restaurant where seven workers were killed. A Page 5 Gay Sailor remembered a Gay Sailor fatally beaten in a restroom May have been victimized by the military As Well As those who killed him mourners were told. A Page 7 promises in Haiti the army announced that it has agreed to  negotiations to Advance democracy in Haiti. A Page 9 quiet lunch defended a Quiat lunch policy at Mannheim elementary school in Germany is necessary to avoid mchao3,&Quot officials said. A Page 12 Midas touch tarnished Gold is Selling near a seven year Low and Gold based investments were some of the worst performers of 1992. A Page 16 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 action line. 20 classified. 2528 comics .2123 commentary .15 crossword. 21 daily Horoscope .27 faces a i places 24 Jumble. 27 letters .,.14 Money matters.16 sports. 29-36 to listings. 35 weather. 13 Marine unit starts a. A. / i. To leave Somalia this week Mogadishu Somalia a the . Marines will Send their first combat troops Home tuesday As the United states moves toward transferring military control of Somalia to a . Command perhaps within two weeks a spokesman said sunday. But the spokesman Marine col. Fred Peck stressed that the . Security Council had not yet adopted resolutions necessary for the Transfer or decided in a command Structure and the rules of engagement. Peck said the 3rd in 9th Marine regt which arrived in Somalia on Christmas eve would return to its base at Camp Pendleton calif., Over a three Day period starting tuesday. The marines have already begun loading their equipment aboard ships for Transfer Home. The announcement of the departure of the 850 marines came on one of the quietest Days in Somalia since . Troops landed dec. 9. The United states is leading an International Effort to restore order in a nation that has lost 350,000 people to famine fighting and disease in the last year. An additional 2 million people Are considered at risk. For the first time Peck told the daily briefing Quot i done to have anything to an attack from Paget end in office for president  Secretary Dick Cheney said Saddam a is determined to create a confrontation in the closing Days of the Bush administration a and emphasized that Bush would not flinch. He referred to Saddam As a a pathetic figure for testing the . Residential transition and provoking the . Coalition after losing the 1991 persian Gulf War. Fitzwater left open the possibility of More military action if Iraq chooses to defy . Resolutions including . Inspection missions. Bush was at Camp David md., for the weekend and made no statement. While in route to Washington president elect Clinton said he was a fully briefed Quot on the military action and supported the attacks. In a statement Clinton said. A Saddam Hussein s continuing provocation has been met by appropriate and forceful response. I fully support president Bush a action. Saddam Hussein should be very Clear in understanding that the current and the next administration arc in com filete agreement on the necessity of his ully complying with All relevant United nations Security Council  the Tomahawk attack did not involve any Allied warplanes Fitzwater said and was intended to safeguard . Military personnel. Pointing out that the target was located in a Baghdad suburb Fitzwater said a a we re not targeting civilian populations Quot officials said that the ships that fired the missiles were the guided missile Cruiser Cowpens and two destroyers the Hewitt and the stump a third destroyer the Caron fired its missiles from the red sea. In his first of two briefings sunday Fitzwater cited iraqi provocations As the basis for shooting Down the single Mig plane and he warned Saddam again that a we won t give any further warnings Quot before additional military action. In Baghdad Saddam told citizens that a the aggressors will fail in their evil  his nationally televised address marked the second anniversary of the Jan. 17, 1991, Start of the Gull War in ounce today on fighting. It was a very quiet Day.�?�. In still another indication of improving Security a Convoy of 25 trucks carrying almost 400 tons of food set out for the first time Over 400 treacherous Miles to Western Somalia. French troops accompanied the Convoy. A the roads have not been used a said Brenda Barton spokeswoman for the world food program. A it much cheaper if we can manage to move food of Road on a regular basis. That Means we re going to be Able to gradually wind Down the Airlift operation. Gen. Mohamed Farrah aided one of Somalia a most powerful warlords pre dieted that a three Day old cease fire among the country a warring factions will hold. A i believe it will be implemented correctly a he said after returning from Addis Ababa Ethiopia where the agreement was signed by 14 factions Friday. Asked if he would hand Over his heavy weapons to . Forces As required by the cease fire agreement he said a we have already confined these weapons to Camps. We will keep them in these Camps. We will discuss this. We have decided this should be done  aided a a strongest rival Alt Mahdi Mohamed said previously that his militia members had taken their weapons to an Assembly Point and were gathered in Camps under provisions of the cease fire and disarmament agreement. Peck said the changeover in the american presidency with wednesdays inauguration of Bill Clinton could be contributing to some of the delay in setting up a . Military command. A he said the . Forces would not make the Transfer until the . Command was set up. A and things seem to be going Well a he said. A the . Is discussing  quoted defense Secretary Dick Cheney As saying at the Start of the operation that he envisioned some sort of . Military Force staying off Somalia a coast for some time. Peck said the . Headquarters staff already had been trimmed by 300 personnel in two increments one in late december and the other about a week ago. There Are 9,814 marines now in Somalia among the total 25,074 american military personnel. An additional 11,112 soldiers from 20 countries round out the International Force. Baghdad from Pago 1 at the hotel was caused by anti aircraft fire or a . Missile. An iraqi army photographer displayed a piece of Metal bearing the marking a Jacksonville  in Washington White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said he was aware of reports of damage to the hotel but he did not believe it was damaged by a cruise missile. He speculated an iraqi anti aircraft Shell might have hit the hotel. A Crater 10 feet deep and 20 feet across was outside the hotel and twisted furniture and debris littered the lobby. The hotels Power was out. A i just heard a whoosh and it just exploded right in front of me Quot Derek Wilkinson an Abc tape editor told can. He had been in the hotel room where Abc has its Baghdad office. Quot the biggest Shock was to see the state of the room 1 was in Quot he said. A there was a door on top of me. I think in a just Lucky to be  can showed the room where a window Hung off its hinges and camera equipment Lay scattered. Wilkinson said the blast a was so loud i Don t think anti aircraft could be As loud As  Tracy Fleming of can said she was standing at a window during the explosion and was thrown Back by the Force of the explosion. A from the Corner of the window i saw a fireball Flash by. We heard a Large explosion a she said. A it was quite powerful. It blew me out of the  the . Assault began at 9 3j> . In Baghdad much like the night two years ago sunday when the persian Gulf War began. . Networks provided live coverage. The Pentagon said . Navy ships in the persian Gulf and the red sea launched More than 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at what Fitzwater described As a nuclear weapons development site 13 Miles from the Center of Baghdad. . Officials said they a it uld not comment on damage to the target. Which .-led multinational forces ended iraqis seven month occupation of Kuwait. In his first briefing Fitzwater decried iraqi provocations against coalition allies who were conducting fights to Monitor Iraq s compliance with the resolutions. . Officials said that there were three fighter confrontations sunday involving iraqi and . Or British fighters and that iraqi anti aircraft batteries fired on coalition flights monitoring the Northern no Fly zone. A senior Pentagon official who spoke on condition of anonymity said no . Military personnel were injured in sunday s  the official said the f-16 used an advanced medium Range air to air missile to shoot the iraqi Jet out of the sky. It was the first such Downing in the Northern zone of an iraqi Jet. The incident comes Only weeks after a similar incident on dec. 27 when an air Force f-16 blasted an iraqi Mig Down in the Southern zone. The senior Pentagon official said it was not immediately Clear whether the iraqi air defense site was destroyed in the attack by a . F-4g wild weasel. He said the pattern of provocations Over the past Day includes repeated violations of the Northern no Fly zone by iraqi aircraft flying northward into the area. One such violation resulted in sundays latest shooting he said. Miso the iraqis have been turning their anti aircraft radars on and off repeatedly aiming them at Allied aircraft. The move As considered hostile. A the Mig was in the no Fly zone. That was reason enough Quot to shoot it Down the Pentagon official said. The . Jet fired a missile after the iraqi radar a locked on the . Aircraft. After that the radar went off the air and Pentagon officials were unsure whether the sue was destroyed by the missile or if Ine iraqis suddenly turned it off to deflect the missile the official said