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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, February 21, 1993

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Set  titty f he Lifry ?1 i the teams an0 6t�kp18 a a a bosnian officials Call off Aid Boycott Sakaji \ o in it mme and Llort Tumma apr i n Uttke iils wire to resume fount Detliv Chic in Sarjoo on saturday after Busman official called for an end to the City a nine Day Boycott of Aid in sympathy with other besieged regions but an order by u a Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali to resume Aid deliveries to hungry bosnian elsewhere had no effect in tic War ravaged cast where Relief convoys still were blocked. A bosnian official said his government would not participate in the latest round of  peace talks unless Aid ecu Chad besieged enclaves in Eastern Bosnia site of some of the heaviest fighting and worst atrocities in Bosnia a 10-month War. Both serbs and the Muslim led bosnian government appealed inn it on Lomg Aid As a political Voa ton tin main u a son in High mint Sisom i Tor kit la gees Sadako Ogata suspended Aid to Eastern Bosnia and Sarajevo on wednesday. Boutros Ghali on inday rebuked Ogata and ordered Aid deliveries resumed. Beer he sic head of a group representing 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 residents 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 storehouses and the Airport in Sarajevo could mar  outside Vogt. However.  Iha ii order was having ii it effect t a Convoy headed for tier site and a spa two besieged government Strong holds in Eastern in Nama was still blocked by a huge Crater in the Road near Kukavi Ca some 15 Miles from go raid French . Engineers had arrived and started to repair the Hole but their Bulldozer 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 Many a land. Kcal Muftic aide to bosnian president Alija inc Begovic said the govern. A amps Vinco crawly . Marines take time for a Friendly game of softball at their Camp located at a dirt Airfield near the town of Uard Cra Somalia. Old arms just toys to Young somalis Mogadishu Somalia a children showed off a dangerous playground of 40-foot rockets launchers and Concrete bunkers Friday. Meanwhile 1,000 american troops stationed in the South prepared to go Home this week. The six surface to air missiles were believed to be the biggest weapons system found by the .-led International Force that came to Somalia two months ago to protect Relief shipments and Stop clan fighting in the starving nation. The United nations is preparing to take Over the operation and americans in the Kismay Region along the Southern coast will pull out tuesday and be replaced by belgian troops said col. Fred Peck a . Military spokesman. In Mogadishu on Friday Robert b. Oakley the . Special envoy to Somalia dismissed critics who say the United states will be turning its Back on Somalia at a critical juncture in the impoverished nations reconstruction. And he praised the International Mission for a making Clear that political Power no longer comes from the barrel of a  rival militias and marauding bandits had terrorized Somalia All last year looting tons of Relief food in a country where 350,000 people died from the combined effects of War and famine. With the fighting quelled for the most part the tools of War became toys for children who swarmed All Over a missile site in Mogadishu. The soviet built Sa-2 Medini Range missiles which children first showed to . Troops thursday were heavily damaged and cannibalized for parts said capt. Dave Rababy of . Marine intelligence. But four of the warheads were believed still Active Rababy said. Rababy said there was no danger that militias could have used the missiles which belonged to the army of dictator Mohammed Siad Barre before he was driven into exile in january 1991 and Somalia descended into anarchy. A a there a no Way without a massive amount of maintenance that they a he operable Quot Rababy said. 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 a Southern Peninsula according to estimates from the . Coast guard the haitian port authority and the ships 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 bandstand for the three Day pre lenten carnival that begins today remained half finished. The vessel had been on a scheduled 120-mile run from the southwestern port of j6r6mie 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 reports 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 a Captain and its owner. He said officials believe they have grounds to revoke the two menus navigation licenses and charge them with fraud. He did not elaborate. Exiled president Jean Bertrand Aristide called for a period of mourning. Nuni Hui in Lens it d a a Ianc a ghz in i Ting i fid a i Hill it delegation would no i attend a n pm Mou d peace talk in w York until Aid was Fhy my into Eastern bosnian town a the delegation of Bosnia Herzegovina cannot take part in the talk until there to provision of Ordinary Tegu Lar passing of Convoy with food and Medicine Lor  of Eastern  he said. The bosnian serbian delegation has also said it is boycotting the talks 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 proposed peace plan. The bosnian government has walked any settlement that appears to Reward 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 hitlers Skull and a report said the Bones were kept for years in russians state archives in a Box labelled a 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 11 were wrong. The latest news reports were More detailed and persuasive than other accounts of a frantic soviet search for the nazi leaders remains in 1945 and 1946. But they still left major questions unanswered such As How the agents concluded that the Skull fragments were hitlers and Why it was kept secret. The two Flat Bones shown on to were each about the size of a Many a Palm. The daily Izvestia said the fragments had been kept for years in Russia s state archives in a cardboard Box marked a Blue  \ Izvestia said its account was based on files of the Peoples commissariat for Interior affairs or a kid one of the fore run nors of the Kab and current Security ministry. The newspaper said the a kid interrogated Hans Bauer hitlers personal Pilot Heinz Ling his Valet and Otto Gunsche an aide. Investigators spent months trying in vain to obtain confessions that Hitler was alive. Most historians believe Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin Bunker april 30, 1945, with his wife Eva Braun. Aides reportedly doused the corpses with gasoline and burned them to prevent them from falling into soviet hands. The Bunker then came under heavy soviet shelling. Historians Likely Are to remain Skepi cat that the Bones shown Friday Are actually hitlers. In his Book the Rise and tall of the third Reich . Author William l. Shirer quoted a witness us saying hitlers remains a were wiped out by the uninterrupted russian artillery  but the Lack of identifiable remains permitted rumours that Hitler had escaped the advancing soviet army. Among those who remained suspicious was Stalin Izvestia said. Russian historian lev Bezy Mensky said last year that Smersh the soviet military counterintelligence Agency found some remains of Hitler Braun and nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in May 1945. He said Teeth belonging to Hitler were being kept in Kab archives  
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