European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 09, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes tuesday february 9,1993 at a glance apparently hoping to head off potential trouble with Washington German Chancellor Helmut Kohl promised monday not to shrink the German military without consult ing nato. Sec Story on Page 10. Another tax confession Commerce Secretary Ronald h. Brown admitted that for the past Sev eral years he failed to pay social Security taxes for his part time House hold help. Pages help for veterans Secretary of veterans affairs Jesse Brown wants to enable the Agency to raise Money improve its medical facilities and extend treatment to Mil Lions of vets who now Are shut out. T-page7 Wii executions scholar j. Robert Lilly says that Al most four times As Many Black sol Diers As White ones were executed in Europe after courts martial during world War ii. Page mud houses face lift traditional mud houses Are under going a face lift in an attempt to pro vide housing for millions of Home less people in Rural India. Page 11 just like Dick Tracy the world s leading electronics and communications companies Are developing standards and technology for personal  Page 16 i Index i Abby Ann Landers classifieds. Comic commentary.  n1 places  letters Money matters. Sports to listings weather .21 25-28 21-231512 .21 .24 17-2027 .271416 29-36 .3513 troops Stop somali colonel confiscate rocket Ian Mogadishu Somalia a . Troops monday briefly detained a top ally of somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah aided and confiscated a rocket launcher and other weapons from his vehicles. Col. Omar Jess was one of 32 people in two vehicles stopped at a Roadblock North of Mogadishu for a routine weapons search Marine col. Fred Peck told the daily briefing for journalists. Clashes last month Between factions led by Jess and Mohamed said Hirsi known As Gen. Morgan near the South Ern port of Kismay violated a cease fire and scuttled preliminary peace talks. . And belgian forces intervened to Stop the fighting destroying several vehicles that at the time Peck and others said belonged to Morgan. But Jess said in an interview monday that the destroyed armed vehicles were his not his rival s. Peck said weapons seized from Jess vehicles monday included five ak-47 As Sault rifles two machine guns a rocket launcher and five rocket propelled Gre Nades. All 32. People detained including Jess were freed after questioning Peck said. Jess told Cable news network that . Troops were preventing his forces from moving about freely while failing to crack Down on Morgan a son in Law of former dictator Mohammed Siad Barre. He said All factions should be disarmed so peace talks could begin but added he would refuse to meet with Morgan. Morgan is not one of the factions Jess told can. What i m talking about is organizations that represent some of the population of  Morgan continued to fight after his father in Law fled into exile 10 months ago. Siad Barre s ouster from the presidency in Early 1991 was followed by clan War fare and drought that claimed 350,000 lives last year. More than 20,000 . Troops arc in Somalia with some 14,000 troops from 22 other countries to try to restore order so vital food Aid can be distributed. Peck also said . Military police arrested five men suspected of abducting and raping two women during the week end and that italian troops killed two men and wounded a third during a Rob Bery attempt in Mogadishu. Effort from Page 1 improved Overall he said. Maj. Gen. Steven l. Arnold com Mander of army forces in Somalia also disagreed with Stader. We have brought Many people together talking trying to find peace he said. Stader said there is a Glimmer of Hope if the United states is willing to commit resources and stay in Somalia for an extended time. But there still in t a great Chance for Success he said. Stader claims history shows Somalia is ruled by the Lawless and there is no one Strong enough at present to form a government. He also pointed to a Somalia massacre last August of 2,609 people during clan fighting Over potential Graz ing rights in Eastern Ethiopia. The clan clashes destroyed thousands of Homes. He cited this As an example of the Soma Lis tendency to fight each other. Stader also cited references to the so malian culture in sir Richard f. Burton s 1856 Book first footsteps in East Africa the honest Fellows arc not so anxious to plunder As to ennoble themselves by taking life. It is by no Means necessary to slay the foe unfair combat. Spartan like treachery is preferred to stand up fighting and you  their horror by the fact that women Are murdered in cold blood.". Stader pointed to sniper fire against coalition forces and the Many women and children killed in Somalia s civil War As proof that the ideas of the 19th Century remain valid today. Americans think in Black and White he said. If a child is hungry pro vide food. If a War is going on Stop it. We be got to consider All the reasons a they refractions love to fight and jus getting food will not solve Thelong term problem. The food will save lives and that Good but once the coalition forces Are gone those lives maybe lost to civil War.1 . Consul to Mombasa Kenya situation is volatile before we  the eventual outcome of operation re although the state department offi store Hope both agree that it will take Cial and the military May be at Odds Over years if not decades to rebuild Somalia. Reagan from Page 1 administration feared was illegal. Walsh said Shultz would have been a reluctant witness but could confirm he was concerned that the White House was trying to rearrange the record to protect Reagan by insisting the president had been unaware of the shipment. And Weinberger s notes taken during the scandal suggest attorney general Edwin Meese Iii was warning the presi Dent s advisers that to disclose the presi Dent s knowledge of the november 1985 missile shipment would expose him to a charge of illegal activity Walsh said. The Reagan administration had claimed in novem Ber 1986, when the Iran Contra scandal began unfolding that the president did not know about the shipment of 18 .-bought Hawk missiles from Israel to Iran. The shipment which the Cia assisted was designed to free american hostages held in Leb anon. Reagan administration officials feared it violated the arms Export control act forbidding re shipment of . Regan arms to a third country. The Sale was a key element in the scan dal which also included diversion of arms Sale funds to help the nicaraguan contras at a time when . Military Aid to the rebels was outlawed by Congress. Regan would have testified that As White House chief of staff he was concerned about the possibility of impeach ment and that when Meese stated. That the president did not have contemporaneous knowledge of the november 1985 Hawk shipment Regan knew the statement was untrue Walsh s report said. Walsh said Meese and possibly George Bush would have been called As defense witnesses for Weinberger. Jet from Page 1 the Accident As he drove to work at Meh Rabid Airport said the jetliner was about 1,300 feet High when the collision occurred at 10 15 . The air plane was just taking off and the fighter came from the opposite sideband the two collided he told the associated press. The air plane fell out of the sky. It hit the Earth and exploded. There was a very very terrible noise fire and smoke he said. The plane fell in an empty lot inside a compound of Iran s revolutionary guards corps 25 Miles from the Center of the capital. There were no casualties on the ground sentries at the base said. The guards refused to allow non Mili tary personnel into the fenced com Pound turning Back even forensic experts. The guards said the wreckage of flight 962 and the bodies were strewn Over a 600-Square-Yard open area inside the compound. Anxious relatives gathered at the air port most of them weeping. A Man in civilian clothes stood on thereof of a military car to read the list of victims. As he read each name cries an screams erupted from the crowd. Some people collapsed. Sister my sister what a disaster what misery wailed one woman As she banged her head against a Metal Gate. Another Man wept and hit Bis head against a parked car. He screamed that he had lost a 20-year-old daughter who was married Only three weeks ago. In Moscow a russian air transport min Tatry spokesman said that the passenger plane was a medium Range jetliner while the military Jet was a fighter bomber