European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday arbruary 18. 1993 world the stars and stapes 11 fired on australians kill somali Mogadishu Somalia a australian troops killed one somali and wounded two in a firefight near Bairoa Northwest of Mogadishu . And Mili tary spokesmen said wednesday. It was the first time australian troop sin Somalia had killed or wounded any one. A 10-member patrol was fired on tuesday As it crossed a Bridge near a Well in Bairoa said maj. David Tyler at australian army Headquarters. The patrol returned fire hitting three somalis. One was hit in the stomach area one was wounded in the shoulder and Chest area and a third was hit in the thigh Tyler said the Guy that was hit in the stomach died on the Way to . Spokesman Farouk a Mawlawi said the wounded somalis had been brought to Mogadishu for treatment. A fourth somali was detained for questioning and soldiers confiscated an my Rifle and found spent ammunition cases that indicated an ak-47 assault Rifle had also been fired Tyler said. The firefight came hours after another australian patrol was fired on near a Dif Ferent Well in Bairoa Tyler said. No one was injured and the soldiers captured four men two of them armed with Semi automatic rifles. Mawlawi said italian troops in North Ern Mogadishu found an arms Cache that included 13 rocket propelled grenades three bazookas two recoil less guns nine hand grenades and 70 rifles and other Light weapons. The military coalition secur ing Somalia has repeatedly seized weapons caches but Many More heavy and Light weapons Are believed hidden by warring clans and factions. A . Peacekeeping Force is expected to take Over control of the coalition from the United states in the next few months. Foreign troops came to Somalia in de Cember to restore order and allow Relief Aid to reach millions of starving people. The Coventry plunged into clan warfare and famine after the fall of dictator Mohammed Siad Baric s government in 1991. Some 350,000 people died last year from fighting disease and starvation. In Copenhagen Denmark a dodging eggs and insults police swept into one of Europe s oldest and Best known squatter communities tuesday in an attempt to break up Denmark s big Gest hashish Market. Uniformed police entered the Community in Central Copenhagen for the first time in about seven years. They arrested at least 17 people among the brightly painted stalls of Pusher Street where Brown blocks of hashish and pipes to smoke it have been sold openly. Police estimate that hashish with Street value of More than $41 million changes hands annually in the settlement that residents Call Christiania. Criminal inspector Willy Eliasen said More than22 pounds of the drug Are sold daily. Daylong sweeps by about 150 riot equipped police began at 4 . The raids marked a new turn for the Community which has existed uneasily for 21 years in the tension Between danish Lawand Public tolerance. We consider Christiania part of Copenhagen and we want to patrol Here As we do elsewhere Eliasen said. Nice people in suits come from out Side Christiania to buy hashish. This must Stop he said. Some among the More than 800 Resi dents threw eggs at police and set off firecrackers near them. Go Home cops one Young woman shouted. Want to buy some hash Pinhead Aman asked. Police took his name and said he would be fined 500 Kroner $80 for insulting an officer. No injuries were reported. Well to do leftist Young people pro testing housing costs began Christiania in 1971. They barricaded themselves in Side a derelict 18th-Century cavalry bar Racks owned by the defense roughly 84 acres of Brick buildings and Fields later became a Sanctuary for drug users political radicals artists criminals school dropouts and others. Popular opinion hampered police who wanted to storm the Barracks. Residents threw rocks and. Bottles at the few offi cers who ventured in. Christiania became one of Europe s police search a Man during one of their raids tuesday through the squatter District of Christiania in Central Copenhagen. Best known symbols of counterculture and social Experiment. Residents fixed up squatter Homes an installed water and electricity. They invited the Public to Craft fairs and concert Sand opened restaurants and Art galleries. Hundreds of dogs roamed the ground Sand in communal blurring of family lines children seemed to have dozens of parents. Authorities fretted Over the conditions but put up with them. Gradually Christiania moved nearer the mainstream. Residents took jobs. They began paying taxes and electrical ills and enrolled in National health insurance plans. The Community expelled criminals an heroin addicts in 1980. But residents resisted official suggestions to close Down the hashish Market in return for permission to stay in the bar Racks and thus end their squatter status. Police stepped up the pressure Las year putting the Community under video surveillance via a camera set up on thereof of a nearby building. We arc Here to stay Eliasen said. A Christiania resident declining to be named said he thought uniformed offi cers could accomplish Little. They will do nothing he said. The ones we fear Are plainclothes cops. They Are Tough and Charles hails mexican recovery but adds warning Mexico City up Britain s Prince Charle praised Mexico s economic stability program but in his speech tuesday to the British chamber of com Merce also warned that growth should not come at the Cost of the Prince congratulated mexican president car los Salinas de Gortari who has made economic re covery the Cornerstone of his presidency. Salinas educated at Harvard University in Cambridge mass.,took office in 1988 and will leave in 1994 without the possibility of does Seera to me that bringing Down the inflation level from More than 110 percent to almost sin Gle figures in just five years and reducing the level of foreign debt from 75 percent of Gap Gross Domestic product to 32 percent in the same period is a remarkable achievement Charles said. The Prince added however that the environment should not be sacrificed for economic growth. It is a great Deal More expensive to clean up polluted City polluted water systems or a degraded landscape after installing the Plant which is the source of the problem than it is to invest in better cleaner More efficient equipment at the outset he said. Mexico City with some 20 million people is renowned As the City facing probably the toughest of All challenges in combating the pollution which threat ens it Charles said. An immense amount has been achieved in these areas but of course huge Chal Lenges clearly the Quality of Mexico City s air is considered the worst in the world with contamination Levels that regularly exceed internationally accepted safety Stan Dards. Earlier tuesday Charles visited Mexico s second largest City Guadalajara. He toured an area devastated by Gas explosions that killed More than 200 people last year
