European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday february 15, 1993 world the stars and stripes b Page 11 _. Is erbs Back in. Aid Convoy Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a bosnian serbs on sunday blocked a Convoy carrying food and medi Cine to a Muslim town in Eastern Bosnia that has been Cut off for 10 months. The serbian action marked a fresh set Back for Relief agencies battling mounting hostility from bosnian leaders and Citi Zens who say they have not done enough to help feed up to 200,000 people trapped by serbs in Muslim held pockets of Eastern Bosnia. -. Teh trucks carrying food and Medicine to Czerska said to be a Haven for up to 40,000 slavic muslims left Belgrade on sunday and got to serbian held Vornik on Bosnia s Border with Serbia. But bosnian serbs refused to let the con Voy pass saying they had insufficient and Vance notice said a spokesman for the . High commissioner for refugees in Belgrade. The Convoy was to stay overnight in Woznica in Serbia and make a fresh at tempt to reach Czerska today said the spokesman who did not give his name. In Sarajevo .. Officials said they hoped to begin medical evacuations from the besieged City Soori. Distribution centers in the town were still quiet As Sarajevo s 380,000 residents entered the third Day of what City authorities have branded a hunger strike in Soli Darity with the hungry and diseased who arc trapped in Eastern Bosnia. The City Council backed by the government announced Friday that it would Stop distributing the food Aid to Sarajevo until convoys reach Eastern Bosnia. The food has kept residents in the capital alive during a 10-month siege. Serbian warriors recently allowed some 6,000 muslims to flee the Czerska area for nearby Muslim held Tula where Relief agencies said Many of the refugees arrived in terrible condition suffering from hepatitis head lice and frostbite. Tula 50 Miles North of the bosnian Cap ital declared saturday that it would join Sarajevo s fast for those in Eastern Bosnia. An envoy for the High commissioner for refugees Jose Maria Mundi Luce held talks sunday in the serbian stronghold of Pale cast of Sarajevo about More convoys to Eastern Bosnia. Serbian Leader Radovan Karadzic de Nied that serbs had blocked convoys except when muslims had misused them to smuggle in terrorist groups Bosnia s serbian news Agency san a said. For the second Day heavy fighting pre vented any Aid flights from reaching Sarajevo from Zagreb the croatian capital. Karin Landgren a swede taking Over . Refugee operations in Bosnia said 2,300 tons of food and medical supplies arc in warehouses in Sarajevo and at the air port. Two londoners guilty of faking jewel robbery London a two London jewel merchants were convicted saturday of faking a Manhattan Gem heist for a $2.6 million insurance payout. I Don t want you to leave the Dock with any illusions judge Andrew Brooks told Darius Guppy and Benedict Marsh both 28. You arc both going to prison for a very Long the two men were found guilty of fraud theft and false accounting charges and remained behind bars. They have not been sentenced. They Are awaiting a second trial on Gold smuggling and customs and tax fraud charges. The two were Oxford University friends and Guppy was the Best Man at the 1989 wedding of Earl Spencer brother to Diana Princess of Wales. Prosecutors became suspicious of the insurance claim while probing the other charges against them. As the scam was Laid out by the prosecution the two men flew to new York with a collection of diamonds sapphires and rubies valued by Lloyd s of London at $2.6 million. They went through the pretence of offering the jewels for Sale to several Gem dealers at deliberately inflated prices before an accomplice robbed them at gunpoint in Manhattan s Halloran House hotel on March 2,1990. The accomplice Peter Risdon testified that he tied up the men in their hotel room and fired a round from his ,22-caliber revolver into a mattress for effect. Guppy and Marsh claimed they were framed by prosecution witnesses. Jewel merchant Darius Guppy and is wife who was no identified head for court in London on saturday before his conviction for faking a Gem heist. Saddam seeks to Start anew with Clinton Baghdad Iraq a _ president Saddam Hus Sein told an american visitor that he wants to open a dialogue with president Clinton and a new relation ship with Washington the official iraqi news Agency reported sunday. I believe that the president of the biggest country in the world needs to try Wisdom and not weapons Ina quoted Saddam As saying late saturday in a meet ing with Ramsey Clark a peace activist and former . Attorney general. Is he ready to listen to the viewpoint of Iraq sad dam was quoted As saying. If he is ready i simply believe that we can pave the Way for building new relations based on Mutual respect. Regardless of what had happened Ina quote Saddam As saying. It was the first time that Saddam himself has asked for a dialogue with Clinton who took office Jan. 20. Previous overtures have come from government officials and the state run Media. Clark making his third trip to Baghdad since the iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, was not immediately available to confirm or comment on the Ina account. Clinton has thus far maintained the Dush administration s hard line against Baghdad which desperately needs an end to the sanctions to sell Oil and rebuild its War battered Economy. Saddam praised what he called Clinton s anti War past an apparent reference to Clinton s opposition As a student to the Vietnam War. Clark a leading . Anti War activist served the Johnson administration us attorney general from 1967-68. Body of woman found in egyptian desert was . Tourist Cairo Egypt a a woman whose body was found in the desert near the port City of Suez was identified sunday As a american who disappeared after arriving in Egypt for an archaeological tour. Police said an autopsy showed that Rita e. Arias a Coral Gables fla., resident in her 60s, was strangled apparently in a Rob Bery. The death so far unreported in Cairo newspapers appears unrelated to recent attacks on tourists in Egypt that killed a British woman and wounded seven for Eigners. The attacks have been blamed on Muslim extremists. Arias body was found last week in the desert Between Cairo and Suez 80 Miles East of Cairo. Money jewelry and other personal effects were missing police a Iid. Police have not determined if Arias was killed where her body was found or else where. A police spokesman speaking anonymously under departmental rules said the body was brought to a morgue in Cairo where coroners determined the cause of death and identified Arias the body was returned to Suez for fur ther investigation. The Miami Herald reported that Arias 64, arrived in Cairo on feb. 5 to join a tour group at the Nile Hilton hotel in Down town Cairo. She never showed up. After several Days of Contact Between the . Embassy and Arias husband Vincent a retired . Air Force Captain along with other family members the fam ily Learned thursday that the body of a woman answering Rita Arias description had been found near Suez. British woman to take children on assault on Everest London Dpi a Mother is aiming to be the first British woman to climb mount Everest and in tends to take her two Young children most of the Way with her news reports said saturday. Alison Hargreaves 30, will be Lead climber in a 60 Strong team of British scientists taking part in next year s British mount Everest medical expedition that is hoping to discover the cause of Altitude sickness. Hargreaves children Kate 2, and a will join the climb although they will stay at a base Camp at 17,000 feet the daily Telegraph reported saturday. Obviously the children will be affected by the Alti tude hut there will be lots of doctors around to look alter them said Margraves who was at a training Camp saturday near Scotland s 4,406-foot Jjon Nevis Summit. While the children stay at the base Camp har or caves i lit doctors and three other no medics will make their assault on the 29,030-foot Summit. I am there As a climber Hargreaves said. "1 Don t have any medical experience although i might be a Guinea pig for the Mountain sickness strikes thousands of people expedition Leader Simon Currin told journalists. We intend to find out Why and make the mountains a safer the climb will take place in september next year
