European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 09, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday february 9,1993 the stars and stripes b Page 3 bosnian Battles rage despite truce Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a All out Battles were reported in two Eastern bosnian towns monday de spite a local cease fire sought by the United nations to get Relief supplies tothe area. Cmdr. Barry Frewer a . Spokes Man in Sarajevo said the Muslim led government and serbian rebels agreed to a cease fire in the area of Srebrenick Dur ing a meeting sunday with the commander of . Forces Gen. Philippe Moril Lon. Srebrenick is 50 Miles Northeast of Sarajevo and 10 Miles from the Border with Serbia. However fierce Battles monday were reported by bosnian government and yugoslav Media in two towns near Srebrenik Ca Al Asnica to the West and Bra Tunac to the North. Blood is running in the streets of Vla Senica bosnian radio reported. It did not provide details of the fighting. The Belgrade based to Jug news Agency cited col. Slavko Ognjenovich a serbian commander As saying extremely rightist group in Germany Frankfurt Germany a de spite a ban on its activities and anti rightist demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of germans Over two months one Neo nazi group is thumbing its nose at the government late sunday one of two government to networks broadcast a clip showing Deutsche alternative holding a recent meeting in a hotel near Cottbus in East Ern Germany. With several German police officers in uniform shown sitting in on the meeting apparently to Check on Neo nazi activities group Leader Frank Huebner grinned As he entered with other known Neo nazis. Police made no arrests because the group had changed its name the report said but did t say what its new name was the Leader admitted recently he would avoid restrictions by reorganizing the group under a different name. Interior minister Rudolf Seiters in a National radio interview sunday said there Are at least 41,400 Radical rightists in Germany about 6,400 believed to be according to official reports there were 2,285 violent Radical rightist attacks reported against foreigners jews and leftist Ger mans last year resulting in 17 deaths. Thatis a 54 percent increase Over 1991. Deutsche alternative is known for flouting regulations. For example the nazi Salute is banned in Germany but the group has devised ways of masking the straight gesture while dancing. Police cannot arrest group members who commit no obviously illegal acts. The program on Ard television showed the group singing deutschland Liber Alles the Anthem of nazi Ger Many. It also showed tables covered with Neo nazi Reading material that called for Germany for the germans foreign ers group is one of four groups banned by the Interior ministry in de Cember for propagating hatred and trying to incite the Public against foreigners jews and leftists. The Ard report came a Day after beit ers said Radical rightist activity since no vember had subsided primarily because the government had stepped up its Campaign against such groups and because germans have taken to the streets by the hundreds of thousands in anti rightist demonstrations. Delegates divided on rapes in bosnian War Zagreb Croatia a a con Ference called to show International Solidarity for rape victims in Bosnia and Herzegovina s War ended in disarray sunday when some Muslim and croatian women objected to a Resolution they said was too soft on serbs. More than 500 women including some of Western Europe s leading female politicians turned out for a meeting to denounce the mass rapes reported in Bosnia and work on Stra Tebics for halting such crimes. But their Solidarity collapsed Over a Resolution that while blaming serbian fighters for most of the atrocities said men on All sides had raped women during the War. We refuse this Resolution because it mentions Only Bosnia and Herzegovina and not Croatia and because it equates the aggressor and the victim saying that All parties rape said Vica Bilic of Wall of love a croatian group founded in 1991. Heavy fighting was under Way around Bra Tunac after an attack by government troops. The report said both sides were using All they on sunday bosnian radio quoted officials in via Senica As saying that More than 1,500 shells had been fired toward cd ska a nearby town and that a Serbi an infantry attack had been repulsed. Guns tanks howitzers multiple rocket launchers and 120 my mortars sup ported by anti aircraft machine guns and guns Are destroying everything before them the radio said. Meanwhile the International Aid Airlift \ to a president Clinton and his secret service Shadow jog in the easer Potomac Park on monday. Clinton s run spares commuters Washington a president Clinton gave commuters a break Mon Day morning when he took his jogging entourage on a different Rov the avoid ing the City s main traffic arteries. Clinton was later than usual for his morning run leaving the White House at 7 30, dangerously close to prime commuting time for the thousands of people who drive into the nation s his 10-car motorcade took him to Hains Point an isolated Peninsula that juts into the Potomac River where he ran three Miles in 24 min new jogging path was a Wel come change for commuters Many of whom were left tied up in traffic along some of Clinton s other routes. To Sarajevo the bosnian capital resumed monday after a two Day suspension. The .,. High commissioner Tor refugee said planes were taking off from Ger Many Arr Dommia. Aid flights were halted saturday after anti aircraft fire struck a German Relief plane that had left Zagreb Croatia injuring one crewman. . Spokeswoman Shannon Boyd said . Troops saw rebel serbs near Fca Lovac 25 Miles Southwest of Zagreb fire at the plane. Sarajevo was unusually Calm monday after a mortar blast sunday near a group waiting for water killed at least three people. The capital s food reserves have fallen desperately Low. Fighting in Bosnia Over the past year has claimed at least 18,000 lives. Serbs re belled after muslims and croats voted for Independence from serbian dominated Yugoslavia. Most of Eastern Bosnia was captured by serbian forces soon after War began and thousands of muslims were killed or forced from their Homes along the Drina River Border with Serbia. Chapel goers donate Money for refugees Bamberg Germany is a Check for More than $950 is to be presented today to a Bamburg City official to help care for people from Eastern Europe Africa and Asia who arc seeking Asylum in the City. The Money gift from the Chapel goers in the Bamburg military Community. It was collected As a special offering by the congregations of the protestant Catholic and True saints Church of god in Christ congregations during january. Rudolf grabber Ger whose title is the second mayor of Bamburg is to accept the Check for $952.59 at 10 . Today at the Community Chapel. The offering was the idea of chaplain capt Mark Kay scr who became aware of the Asylum seekers plight in Bamberg through radio and newspaper articles. The proposal for the offering was approved by the Chapel fund Council. For love. He said the offering displays the military Community s ability to care for those outside its own Borders. He said it will let the Asylum seekers know that they arc not forgotten people. Former Fulda teacher Dies of brain tumor Wiesbaden Germany is schoolteacher who left Fulda elementary school last year because of illness has died in the United j. Pickett 53, died Jan. 15 in a nursing Home in Florida after a five month bout with a brain tumor. School officials said Pickett became ill while in the United states after the 1991-92school year preventing her return. Pickett began teaching for department of defense dependents schools in the Philippines in 1987 and came to Fulda during the 1988-89 school year. She taught in Brooksville Fla., before coming to is survived by two daughters Tammy Maddox and Shannon Lic Slin both of Tampa Fla. And three sons Donald Thomas and Paul Maddox All of funeral was held Jan. 19 in Clearwater Fla
