European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 21, 1993 the stars and stripes bosnian officials Call off Aid Boycott Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a . Officials were to resume food deliveries in Sarajevo on saturday after bosnian officials called for an end to the City s nine Day Boycott of Aid in sympathy with other besieged regions. But an order by . Secretary Gener Al Boutros Boutros Ghali to resume Aid deliveries to hungry bosnian elsewhere had no effect in the War ravaged East where Relief convoys still were blocked. A bosnian official said his government would not participate in the latest round of .Ibrokcred peace  Aid reached besieged enclaves in Eastern Bosnia site of some of the heaviest fight ing and worst atrocities in Bosnia s 10 month War. Both serbs and the Muslim led bosnian government appeared intent on using Aid As a political weapon the main Rea son . High commissioner for Refu gees Sadako Ogata suspended Aid to Eastern Bosnia and Sarajevo on wednes Day. Boutros Ghali on Friday rebuked Ogata and ordered Aid deliveries resumed. Becir Helmic head of a group rep resenting Eastern bosnian who called for the Aid Boycott two weeks ago met with officials of the . Refugee Agency in Sarajevo on saturday and said City Resi dents should Start receiving Aid again. Tony land head of the Agency in the bosnian capital said distribution of some 2,500 tons of food Aid backed up at store houses and the Airport in Sarajevo could Start saturday. Outside Sarajevo however Boutros Ghali s order was having Little effect. A Convoy headed for Gorazd and Zupa two besieged government Strong holds in Eastern Bosnia was still blocked by a huge Crater in the Road near Kukavi Ca some 15 Miles from Gorazd. French . Engineers had arrived and started to repair the Hole but their Bull Dozer hit a land mine and was damaged land said. One Engineer was slightly wounded. There. Was no indication who had placed the mine or whether there were More on the Road which traverses a War ravaged no Man s land. Kemal Muftic aide to bosnian presi Dent Alija inc Begovic said the governs a Vine Craw toy . Marines take time for a Friendly game of softball at their Camp located at a dirt Airfield near the town of Bard Cra Somalia. Marine kills knife wielding somali Mogadishu Somalia a somalian Man armed with a knife run to Ward another somali saturday and was shot to death by a . Marine the spokesman for the american forces said. Shootouts and skirmishes Between for eign troops and somalian gunmen have occurred frequently since a .-led coalition arrived in december to secure the nation so Relief shipments can reach starving millions. Two marines have been shot to death and the number of somalian fatalities is believed to exceed two dozen. Military officials say they Haven t kept statistics on somalian casualties. Saturday s shooting occurred at a work site near the Mogadishu Airport where bulldozers were gathering grave from a pile Marine spokesman col. Fred Peck said. About 20 somalis approached the sit and tried to get the workers to Stop he said. The reason for the protest was unknown. When the Foreman ordered work to continue a Man pulled a knife and Ranat him Peck said. A Marine on duty at the site fired hism-16 Rifle at the attacker killing him said Peck who did not know How Man shots were fired. Peck said All such killings arc investigated. The rules of engagement for the .-led military coalition in Somalia allow the use of deadly Force when a Soldier s life or the lives of others Are threatened. The United states wants to turn Over control of the military coalition in Soma Lia to the United nations. The Security Council is expected to approve the .peacekeeping Mission soon. . Officials said the new Deputy Spe Cial representative to Somalia Lansana Koyata of Guinea was to arrive on sat urday and take charge of the operation after special representative Ismat Kittan leaves this week. Kitani s assignment runs to the end of March and officials say he will finish it in new York. . Mai. Gen. Thomas m. Montgom Ery pegged to be Deputy commander of the military coalition when the United nation stakes Over is scheduled to arrive monday. Haiti sets Day of mourning for disaster victims port a Prince Haiti a Haiti declared saturday a National Day of mourning for the hundreds of victims of the capsized ferry Neptune. Critics said the sinking was the latest in a Long line of tragedies in a country where bad roads Force people to rely on unsafe sea travel. Between 900 and 1,000 passengers were on the ferry along with livestock charcoal and sacks of produce when it went Down tuesday off Haiti s Southern Peninsula according to estimates fro the  coast guard the haitian port authority and the ship s owner. The haitian Navy said saturday that there were More than 300 known survivors and that 275 bodies had been recovered As of mid morning. In the capital saturday stores were shuttered Gas stations closed and band stands for the three Day pre Kenten car Nival that begins today remained half finished. The vessel had been on a scheduled 120-mile run from the southwestern Porto Jeremie to port a Prince. It went Down in a storm 60 Miles West of the Cap ital after panicked passengers rushed to one Side to take cover from the rain re ports said. Survivors said the 163-foot, steel Hull ferry had no life jackets or lifeboats. Pierre Phillipe Lassegue Captain of the port at port a Prince said port officials Are trying to interview the ferry s Captain and its owner. He said officials believe they have grounds to revoke the two men s navigation licenses and charge them with fraud. He did not elaborate. Exiled president Jean Bertrand Aris tide called for a period of mourning. Mint had decided at a late night meeting Friday that its delegation would not at tend .-sponsored peace talks in Newyork until Aid was flowing into Eastern bosnian towns. The delegation of Bosnia Herzegovina. Cannot take part in these talks until there is provision of Ordinary regu Lar passing of convoys with food and Medicine for citizens of Eastern Bosnia he said. The bosnian serbian delegation has also said it is boycotting  and wants them moved to Geneva. The talks broke off two weeks ago Over serbians demands for More territory than they would get under a propose peace plan. The bosnian government has walked any settlement that appears to re Ward serbian aggression. Russia has Bones from Hitler s Skull reports say Moscow a Commonwealth television showed two Bones Friday that it said were pieces of Adolf Hitler s Skull and a report said the Bones were kept forbears in Russia s state archives in a Box labelled Blue  news reports said soviet agents obtained the fragments to prove to soviet dictator Josef Stalin that his fears the nazi dictator was still alive after world War ii were  latest news reports were More de tailed and persuasive than other accounts of a frantic soviet search for the nazi Leader s remains in 1945 and 1946. But they still left major questions unanswered such As How the agents concluded that the Skull fragments were hit Ler s and Why it was kept secret. The two Flat Bones shown on to were each about the size of a Man s Palm. The daily Izvestia said the fragments had Bee kept for years in Russia s state archives in a cardboard Box marked Blue  Izvestia said its account was based on files of the people s commissariat for Inte rior affairs or a kid one of the forerunners of the Kab and current Security ministry. The newspaper said the a kid interrogated Hans Bauer Hitler s personal Pilot Heinz Linge his Valet and Ott Gunsche an aide. Investigators spent months trying in vain to obtain Confes Sions that Hitler was alive. Most historians believe Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin Bunker april 30,1945, with his wife Eva Braun. Aide reportedly doused the corpses with Gaso line and burned them to prevent the from falling into soviet hands. The bunk or then came under heavy soviet shelling. Historians Likely Are to remain Skepi Cal that the Bones shown Friday Are Actu ally Hitler s. In his Book the Rise and fall of the third Reich . Author William l. Shirer quoted a witness As saying Hitler remains were wiped out by the uninterrupted russian artillery  but the Lack of identifiable remain permitted rumours that Hitler had escaped the advancing soviet army. Amon those who remained suspicious was Sta Lin Izvestia said. Russian historian lev de Omensky said last year that Smersh the soviet military counterintelligence Agency found some re Mains of Hitler Braun and nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in May 1945. He said Teeth belonging to Hitler were being kept in Kegu archives