European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 09, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse The stand stripes vol. 51, no. 296 350 tuesday february 9,1993 b d 8693 a somalian Effort called doomed by Steve scholar staff writer Mombasa Kenya the massive Relief Effort in Somalia is doomed to failure according to the . Consul in Mombasa because the military failed to consider culture anthropology and history before getting embroiled in operation restore Hope. The Relief Effort is doomed to failure because Mil itary planners Only considered geography when it planned the operation said Consul Donald Stader in an interview last week. According to Stader a career Diplomat who has been in Mombasa three years and is set to take up consular duties in Guatemala soon the Somalia have been a War fighting people for More than 150 years. They will fight each other Over a Small Patch of Camel grazing land he said. They re fractious love to fight and just getting food will not solve the Long term problem. The food will save lives and that Good but once the coalition forces Are gone those lives May be lost to civil military leaders differed with Stader s gloomy assessment. They spoke of normalcy returning to Many parts of the country particularly Mogadishu. The comparison Between Early december and late january is startling said joint task Force Somalia spokesman Marine col. Fred Peck. Businesses arc springing up and people arc starting to talk to each Somalia still has pockets of dangerous activity Peck said As evidenced by the recent cordon and search Mission in aug of and fighting Between clans in Mogadishu. However the situation has greatly see Effort on Page 2 up mfr Yfe Irp & a Jet Airliner collide killing at least 132 Tehran Iran a an iranian air liner with 132 people on Board collided with an air Force Jet after Takeoff monday from Tehran s main Airport and exploded in a fireball As it plummeted into a military compound. There were no survivors. The leased russian piloted Tupoljev Airliner was bound for the northeastern shiite Muslim holy City of Mashhad and most of its 119 iranian passengers were pilgrims. The Crew of 13 included a rus Sian Pilot and four other russians. No other foreigners were on Board aviation authorities said. The russian designed Soukhoi fighter was taking part in an exercise to Mark air Force Day when 14 years ago its command pledged allegiance to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini s islamic revolution the first armed Force to do so. Authorities gave no information about the Crew of the fighter but Iran s official Turkmenistan Tehran Raqi Mii am a a Iran Saud Arabia aps a islamic Republic news Agency reported the Pilot and Copilot also were believed killed. Irna reporter Sattar Oudi who saw see Jet on Page 2 Reagan knew of arms to Iran Walsh claims the Scrapheap of War members of a . Army explosives ordnance disposal team in Somalia fill a Hole with confiscated munitions monday on the outskirts of Mogadishu. The estimated 5,000 to 6 000 pounds of shells were destroyed in a controlled explosion. Washington a the Iran Contra prosecutor said monday two top Reagan administration officials had been prepared to testify in court that Ronald Reagan knew about a key arms shipment in the scandal and that the White House tried to rearrange the record to protect him. Special prosecutor Lawrence e. Walsh said Donald Regan who was White House chief of staff and George p. Shultz Reagan s Secretary of state would have been called to testify at former de sense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger s trial last month. The trial was cancelled abruptly when president Bush pardoned Weinberger and five other Iran Contra figures on Christmas live. Walsh called the Pardon the trial would have exposed new Evi Dence of the administration s efforts to conceal the facts of the Iran arms sales from the Public and from Congress Walsh told Congress in an interim report. Walsh reported that Regan was pre pared to testify that president Reagan had indeed known about a november 1985 shipment of missiles to Iran that the see Reagan on Page 2 Vy-4 by of a i i put i 11 or to 1t/ i
