European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 04, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 4, 1993 the stars and stripes d pages . Cuts Back bosnian convoys attacks on Relief trucks pose deadly danger Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a the United nations said wednesday that it was reducing convoys to embattled cities in Bosnia after three attacks one deadly on the trucks that bring vital food and fuel to much of the War torn state. \ the announcement came As fighting continued in Bosnia and Croatia where rebel serbs were reported attacking croatian defense lines despite suffering considerable losses tuesday in the intensifying Battle for the serbian held Krajina Region. The Road from Sarajevo to Mostar in Southwest Bosnia and Herzegovina has. Been closed to All convoys from the . High commissioner for ref uleces until the Agency gets assurances of safety and an explanation for a deadly attack tues Day Agency spokesman Larry Holling Worth said. A local translator was killed and a danish Convoy Leader severely wounded when a single mortar hit the 15-truck Convoy North of Mostar. The Convoy came under fire twice More without fur ther casualties said a . Spokesman cmdr. Barry Frewer . Relief trucks will have to take time consuming alternate routes or Sim ply not go to War zones Hollingworth said. This Means convoys for Sarajevo which already is not getting its minimum of 270 tons of food daily will consist of trucks with Only Light loads travelling roads that take twice As Long. The . Ban on travelling the Mostar Road dashed Hopes of a Convoy s reach ing Sarajevo on Friday with i Csc fuel from Plocic an Adriatic port Southwest of Mostar. Sarajevo has had no deliveries of Dic Sel fuel since Jan. 22 because of fighting Between croatian and bosnian govern ment forces once allies in Central bos Nia. Serbian artillery launched another at tack on the Center of Mostar on wednesday morning said Veso Mcgar a local croatian army spokesman. He reported that serbs attacked the croatian defense line from Stolacz 20 Miles to the South of Mostar but the croats responded and were holding their positions. Serbian rebel forces suffered consid Erable losses tuesday in fighting in the Dalmatian hinterland for Krajina re porters said in Krajina s capital knit. A european Community official said tuesday that both sides were massing troops around the Krajina Region. Bosnia and Herzegovina a Sas poli t i is Don t play a part in Bosnia evacuation flight Sis Kevin Dougherty bosnian patient Elvir Kuric is readied for transport. By Kevin Dougherty  Bureau Zagreb Croatia despite a Plum assignment Elvir Karic deserted from the former yugoslav regular army in december 1991 after Only 12 months in uni form. I was a guard for a top general Gen. Andrija Rasta and i realized what was going on so i escaped Karic said through an interpreter explaining that he deserted before the civil War spread to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 21-year-old bosnian and two other soldiers slipped into the Woods that surrounded their base and met up with a waiting car that whisked them away. Karic eventually joined a bosnian militia. Fourteen months and a War wound later Karic is on the move again but this time it is for medical purposes. Karic was one of eight bosnian War victims who were airlifted from this warring Region tuesday aboard a c-9a Nightingale transport plane As part of a new humanitarian Relief Mission. The eight ranging in age from 14 to 44, were flown to Ramstein a Germany where they spent the night at nearby Lan Stuhl army regional medical  six bosnian and two croats were scheduled to leave wednesday in a c-141b Star lifter bound for the United states. Six stateside hospitals have volunteered to provide the medical evacuees with reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation. Karic s group is the. First of what officials Hope will be semimonthly Relief flights to Zagreb. The program is coordinated by the defense department and the inter National organization for migration an Independent Agency based in Geneva. This is the second flight to America and the first involving the . Military said Valerija Martinovic an Agency official who accompanied the group. The migration organization started similar1 Relief flights in september and has sent injured bosnian and croats to hospitals in Norway Hungary and Switzer land said Anne Convery an Agency official based in Zagreb. Their political status does t play into the selection process Convery said. It s their physical  the surgery they will face in the United states is secondary treatment that is unavailable in their War torn land. Many of the wounds afflicting this first group were caused by shrapnel. Such is the Case with 14-year-old Malik Muratovic who has a piece of shrapnel lodged behind his left Eye. Malik was running for a shelter last aug. 7 when the shrapnel struck him in the Back of the head. He has partial vision in his left Eye. He does to know if he wants to go Back said Martinovic. The same blast killed Malik s 8-year-old brother an injured his Mother and father. His father accompanied him on the trip. These people can use All the help they can get said Robert Wolthuis Deputy assistant Secretary of de sense for global affairs. Wolthuis who went along on the inaugural flight Lik ened the bosnian Mission to the afghan Relief pro Gram one aspect of that program involved transport ing injured War victims to Europe and the United states for specialized treatment. Germany helping postal users learn new codes by Joseph Owen Heidelberg Burea americans who get mail at a German address won t have  using new five digit postal codes until july 1, but they can prepare for address changes now by finding out what the proper codes Are. The German postal service announced All its new codes last week and has set up a Telephone number that customers can dial toll free within Germany to ask about them. The 24-hour number is 0130-55555. The Post office also said it will notify each postal customer of code changes Early this month and w ill deliver a free copy of a National postal code directory to each household in May. Computer software Al ready is available to help Large companies and organizations update their address lists. The five digit codes will replace a 32-year-old, four digit system that German unification made obsolete in 1990. In Many cases tie first one or two digits in the code will not re Iange. Heidelberg s current postal code for example is 6900. Beginning in july the City will have eight new five digit codes assigned to neighbourhoods or groups of neighbourhoods. All eight codes begin with 69." Heidelberg s Rohrbach District where the Headquarters of the . Army Europe and the 7th medical come Are located will use the number 69126. To postal customer who uses a German Post office Box will get a five digit code that differs slightly fro the one assigned to the customer s Street address even if the Post  and the residence Are in the same neighbourhood. The postal service has embarked on a big advertising Campaign both in Ger Many and abroad to make customers aware of the change. It has recruited several famous German film directors to make 30 and 45-second television commercials about the five digit  officials in Ulm Are irate about the new codes a Stuttgart newspaper reported last week. Ulm is in the state of Baden Wiir Temberg and its current four digit code begins with a "7," just As those of most other cities and towns in Baden  do. Under the new system Ulm codes will Start with "8," the digit assigned to communities in Southern Bavaria including the City of Neu Ulm which is just across the Danube River. The City s leaders claim Ulm s image already suf fers from identification problems and the new postal codes will make matters worse the paper reported. A look at the new map of German postal regions reveals that initial number designations overlap state Borders in several other places As Well just As the first two digits of zip codes sometimes do in the United Stales