European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 23,1993horsepower is. Came Power a . Humvee passes a group of camels near the marketplace at Mogadishu Somalia on the same Street As the Headquarters of the present task Force Sis via Chi Welty imposes restrictions to by Marian Hamilton Mediterranean Bureau Naples Italy a americans trying to drive to the Naples area this weekend May find themselves facing fines of $70. The levies Are part of a plan by City officials to reduce the use of cars which Are being blamed in part for dangerous Levels of air pollution surrounding the Metropolis in Southern Italy. Other major cities in Italy also arc restricting driving in an Effort to combat air imitation but no major . Facilities Are located in them. The Naples plan includes a ban on cars with Odd or even numbered plates on alternating weekdays and a ban on most cars on weekends. The ban applies to autos bearing italian License plates or american forces Italy plates indicating vehicles that belong to members of the . Armed forces stationed in Italy. Local american officials said they Don t know whether the restrictions apply to vehicles with foreign plates or to . Army Europe plates used for . Personnel in Germany. Several americans found out about the restrictions the hard Way last weekend. Petty officer 2nd class Mark Thomas and civilian Calvin Shanklin both of naval sup Fiort activity Naples were Given $70 tickets or driving saturday. At least one government vehicle was stopped but not ticketed. According to it. Cmdr. Dennis arg Ali of the Naples Legal office american officials in the Naples area arc trying to inform Community members about the restrictions. The task is difficult arg Ali said because Naples officials wait until thursday afternoon before deciding which driving res fictions will be in place for the weekend. Local news reports can be misleading he said. For example an article in Friday s ii Mattino an italian newspaper warned of the driving ban for sunday Dut did not include information about saturday s restrictions. Weekend driving restrictions Are affected by weekday pollution Levels and weather. A on saturday the ban covers downtown Naples from 8 . To Midnight. Sunday s ban covers the entire greater Naples area and will be enforced from 11 . To 6 ., arg Ali said. He said any last minute changes or updates regarding local driving restrictions will be broadcast Over an television and radio. Official vehicles buses commercial be hides and government. Cars will be exempt from the ban according to the Naples mayor s office. Military officials urge shift workers and people who work on weekends to get a letter explaining their work status from their commanders to avoid the fines. Cars with catalytic converters arc excluded from the driving restrictions but it difficult for americans to. Prove their vehicle has a converter. Thomas car for example has a catalytic converter but he was fined because it did no to have a Green Circle around its Gas Cap. Such circles Are found on italian owned cars with catalytic converters. American officials in Naples plan to provide form tetters to owners of cars with catalytic converters. The letters would be in English and italian stating that the car has the anti pollution device. Air re Trig inns thu following major cities in Italy have imposed restrictions on driving in an attempt to curb air pollution Varese Bolzano Turin source los Anefee time Sas photos of newlyweds May hold clues to crash Rome newlyweds in Naples traditionally pose for photos using the Bay of Naples As a backdrop and now such snapshots May become key evidence in the probe of a 1980 Jet crash that killed All 81 people aboard. Investigators Over the years have disagreed whether a missile from an Allied warplane accidentally shot Down the italian dc-9 on june 27, 1980, or whether a bomb aboard blew it up. Exponents of the missile theory have focused on the presence of the . Aircraft Carrier Saratoga in Naples at the time. Recent italian press reports have claimed the Saratoga May have been on military exercises at the time. But the United states has denied that and insisted that the Carrier never left Naples Harbor. The idea that a photo by newlyweds May serve As proof was suggested several weeks ago by a Reader of the Naples newspaper ii Mattino judge Rosario Priore who is heading the investigation visited Naples on wednesday. More than so couples who were married on june 27 or june 2,8, 1980, showed up at police Headquarters with their photos according to press reports. The newspaper corriere Della Sera of Milan reported that what seems like the Carrier appeared in at least two photos. Priore reportedly has ordered scientific tests on the  kills thousands in Southern Sudan Nairobi Kenya apr a Fly borne parasite has killed As Many As 60,000 people in a Region of Southern Sudan isolated by poverty and civil War . Officials say. The treatable disease known As Kala Azar May have killed More than two thirds of the people in the Par Yang District Robert Hadley a spokesman for the . Children s fund said wednesday. Par Yang villagers become prey to Sand flies that carry the disease when they sleep in forests said Patta Scott a Unicof monitoring officer Scott was part of a . Team that visited last week a believed to be the first Relief workers to visit the area in 10 years. The disease also called visceral leishmaniasis causes fever weight loss anaemia and enlargement of the spleen. Immunization costs about $15 and treatment is $150. Left unchecked the disease Kilts about 75 percent of victims Par Yang District roughly the size of France had about 85,000 inhabitants from the Dinka tribe in 1983, but roughly 20,000 Are left the . Officials said. They discounted the possibility that residents had left saying the area is hemmed in by fighting. Unicof plans to seek permission for a presence in Par Yang Hadley said. Sudan has been driven Back into a subsistence Economy a without electricity medicines or paved roads a by civil War Between the african South and the Arab North. The nuer is Sudan s other major tribe.3 . Ships head for Eastern Mediterranean about 360 people. The ship can serve As an operation Center and can provide anti aircraft cover. The Gettysburg can be equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles. But Skelton said he could not Cor Ifird whether the Cruiser was carrying such weaponry the Gettysburg Home ported at Mayport naval Sta lion fla., is assigned to the . 6th Fleet and Servin its first deployment. The Sylvania a combat stores ship can resupply other warships with ammunition aviation spare part and other items f r there Are about 425 people assigned to the ship. Lart Mazon a reply Tashkent Oiler with a Cre of about 450. London a amps a three More . Navy ships have been dispatched to the Eastern Mediterranean in response to tensions Between Iraq and the United states a spokesman for . Naval forces Europe said thursday. The Ticonderoga class guided missile Cruiser Gettysburg and the Supply ships Kalamazoo and Sylvania have joined the aircraft Carrier John f. Kennedy and guided missile cruisers Seeyle Gulf and Belknap in the Eastern Mediterranean it. Ike Skelton  Gettysburg was conducting routine operations in the Southern Adriatic sea before sailing eastward Skelton said. A the Cruiser which was commissioned in 1991, carries