European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 25, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 11artillery Battle flares in Croatia Zagreb Croatia a serbs and croats shelled each other around Croatia a Adriatic port of Zadar and a nearby disputed Airport sunday. The attacks came a Day after the . Commander of peacekeeping forces in former Yugoslavia said serbs had seized heavy weapons from . Warehouses. _ a in Geneva the latest round of talks to try to end the bloodshed in Bosnia and Herzegovina limped into a Sec Ond Day sunday in the Shadow of the fighting in Croatia. The president of serbian dominated Yugoslavia do Brica Cosic demanded a new . Security Council meet my to condemn what it called the croatian aggression. A spokesman for the peace conference acknowledged that the renewed animosity Between serbian and croatian leaders was a serious blow to the bosnian peace efforts. Officials from the serbian held Krajina Region said croatian forces launched an attack sunday from Zadar against serbian positions around the nearby Airport at be Murnik. Serbs shelled the Center of Zadar of sunday morning local defense officials said. The croatian artillery barrage on the Airport preceded the attack said Zoran Bogavac a Krajina spokesman in Belgrade. The Airport is on the Edge of the serbian held  reports said 21 serbs were killed in the clashes., Zeunik Airport is controlled by serbs but croatian forces hold a strip of territory Only Yards away from the end of its Only  Zagreb government with . Mediation has been trying to get the serbs to withdraw a few Miles of enable the Airport to be reopened to civilian air traffic. Croatian to said croatian forces were securing their positions on the cast Bank of the Mast Nica Gorge and were moving farther into serbian held territory. The Gorge is on the Only Road linking Croatia a Southern coast with the North. Croatian police backed by the croatian military moved in Friday to secure the area for construction of a Pontoon Bridge. The former Bridge was destroyed in serbian croatian fighting in november 1991. Croatian defense officials speaking on condition of anonymity charged the serbs were using heavy artillery they took from .-guarded storehouses. A they took tanks mortars howitzers Multi barrel rocket launchers anti aircraft guns a everything a . Civil affairs chief Cedric Thornbery said saturday. A the situation tonight is extremely  Salvage tugs Battle flames for the fourth straight Day sunday on the supertanker Maersk navigator which caught lire last week after colliding with an empty Tanker in the Straits of Malacca. Tanker spill threat subsides Singapore a the environmental threat from a crippled Oil Tanker ebbed saturday As a Slick of leaked Oil apparently was moving away from land officials said. However the Tanker remained on fire. Salvage Crews worked for a second Day on the 260,000-ton Maersk navigator and tugs hosed Down the port Side midship where the fire is concentrated the ships owner said. The Slick of Oil from the ship was still grow ing but appeared to be moving Westerly away from land and toward the Indian Ocean said indonesian officials. The Slick stretched More than four mites in length and was 300 Yards wide they said Singapore a Marine department and officials in Malaysia said they also saw Little danger from the Slick. The ship carrying 78 million Gallons of Oil caught fire thursday after colliding with an empty Tanker in the Straits of Malacca. The ship is about 100 Miles off the Northern tip of the indonesian Island of Sumatra it was unclear How much of the Maersk navigators Load of crude had leaked. To Chi Minh City Vietnam a a if visitors to old Saigon want to believe All pedicab Drivers used to be South vietnamese army rangers and All the Zippo lighters once belonged to american. Gis that a Fine with their hosts. Today daily life in the capital of former South Vietnam which fell to the communist North in 1975, is much like that in Bangkok or any other booming Southeast asian capital. But in the tourist districts memories of the War live on and its real or imagined relics Are for Sale. Vietnamese evince no nostalgia for the conflict that killed More than 1,5 million of their countrymen but it lures tourists and their Cash. About 400,000 foreigners visited Vietnam in 1992, and a new hotel opens almost every month. Drivers of cycles from the French word for pedicab provide one introduction to the old Saigon which was renamed to Chi Minh City after it fell to the communists. Americans who hire one May hear How the Driver worked with the americans before 1975, a at Tan son Nhut air based or a with the special forces in i corps a maybe a with the 1st Cav in  thinly veiled hostility and hard Luck stories suggest that Many feel abandoned by their one time allies. If you re not buying pity How about a lighter a when i die i know ill go to heaven because. Ivc spent my time in hell a Vietnam Danang 1970-71.�?� Zippo lighters with such slogans More often expressed in unprintable language sell for $5 to $ is. The sentiments Are authentic i even if the lighters Are not. Many of the sales Are made on Dong Khoi Street which was a string of bars known As to do Street in the american Era and in French colonial times was called Rue Catinat. A americans like to buy old things from the . Army before 1975 daggers watches clocks a said Nguyen Hui Tien 34, who works at Kodak Catinat a store that Sells handicrafts and Antiques. French tourists prefer old Glass candelabra which Tien said go for up to $800 a pair in his store and arc Worth up to $3,000 in Europe. Bulky clocks scavenged from old . Aircraft and boats also Are popular he. Said because they arc made to exacting military standards. A this is Worth $250,�?� another Dong Khoi shopkeeper said of a heavy Black dialled clock just sold to him by a poorly dressed Man for much less. Most stalls at the a american Market a once a Center for lost stolen or strayed . Army equipment now Deal in consumer goods but a few still sell american or vietnamese military gear. A. With hard bargaining a vietnamese army pith helmet with red Star can be had for about $3, North vietnamese and Viet Cong medals and Campaign ribbons sometimes pulled from beneath the counter Cost $1 each. One stall owner said he goes to factories and buys medals from veterans. He said he has about 10 foreign customers a Day and earns $500 a month a typical factory workers pay equals $45 to $75. Another kind of Vietnam experience is available on Dong do Street just around the Corner from Dong Khoi where open front bars Cater to Western tourists. Marijuana smoke wafts through the air As stereo speakers blare songs by the doors Otis Redding and other �?T60s favourites Street children Dart around Selling gum cigarettes and magazines. At the apocalypse now or across the Street at the Good morning Vietnam you can live a War movie. Just up the Road is the d.475 before 75. Sexual attacks on horses baffle British authorities London up police refused to speculate sunday on who was responsible for the latest sexual assault on a horse in South England a the 30th such attack in nine months. A spokesman for Hampshire police said detectives were a keeping an open mind on saturdays attack in which a 10-year-old Mare died from wounds to its neck and genitals the owners found their Irish Hunter Mare lying in a Pool of blood saturday at its stables at four Marks near Alton Hampshire and police were linking the latest knifing with a series of attacks on horses in the Hampshire Region. In previous attacks horses and ponies had been Cut with knives sexually assaulted with Fence posts and Broomstick handles and even had Battery acid thrown Over them. Police said there could be a sexual motive to the attacks although no Clear pattern had emerged. Police also would not Rule out witchcraft As a motive