European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                At a glance actor Charlton Heston gives the thumbs up sign during a visit to Mogadishu Somalia on Friday. Heston toured the area on behalf of the Relief group care. He said he was concerned that . Command of Allied forces could endanger Relief efforts. Sec Story on Page 9,watergate judge Dies Gerhard a. Gesell a Federal judge who presided Over watergate cases and the Iran Contra affair has died of liver cancer. A Page 4schroeder reaches out rep. Patricia Schroeder offered an Olive Branch to Navy aviators disciplined last year for attacking her in two vulgar  Page 5 Star wars test Likely a controversial Quot Star wars Quot test blocked for years by protests lawsuits and even a Hurricane May take place As Early As this week in Hawaii. A Page 6iran accuses West Tehran has sent a seven Page letter to London accusing the West of maintaining double standards and spreading lies about  Page 9 airlines trim frills major Domestic carriers Are cutting Back on food costs after suffering billions of dollars in losses in recent years for reasons ranging from fare wars to fuel inflation. A Page 16 j Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 action line. Classifieds. Comics. Commentary. Crossword. Education. Faces a places. Focus. 17-20 Horoscope. Jumble. Letters. 14 Money matters. .16 sports. 29-36 to listings. Weather. .,.13 Sarajevo quiet As residents wait for new Aid to arrive Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr City residents on sunday waited to see if . Aid deliveries would resume in their hungry City after president Alija Izot Bogovic urged an end to a nine Day food Aid Boycott and ordered a nationwide cease fire. Following the cease fire announcement Sarajevo was quiet with Only occasional incoming mortar and artillery fire. But both serbs and Bosnia a outgunned army were reported to be regrouping troops. Government sources said the ceasefire. Called by ize Begovic on saturday would assist the passage of . Aid convoys in Eastern Bosnia. Serbian obstruction of Relief deliveries there had prompted the Sarajevo Boycott. . Officials in Sarajevo said saturday they were prepared to resume Aid deliveries immediately after ize Begovic and Eastern bosnian officials appealed for food distribution to resume. But Mustafa Putmuk head of Sarajevo a City Council which called the Boycott feb. 12, indicated the body might ignore the appeals. Quot we will think very seriously about the decision of stopping the Boycott a Putmuk said on bosnian radio. A your decision was to Boycott deliveries until food gets to Eastern Bosnia. It still has t arrived. I think we must achieve the  cmdr. Barry Frewer a spokesman for ult a. Peacekeepers said a combat activity decreased noticeably on saturday. He reported no fighting sunday. An elderly resident in Central Sarajevo Hunts for food sunday in one of the Many Street rubbish dumps in the City. Most Basic City services have Long since failed. The Call for a cease fire coincided with serbian gains on Sarajevo a Western Edge and the destruction of a key government ammunition store on nearby mount i Man. Bosnian radio claimed serbian forces were massing fresh troops around Western Sarajevo and the northeastern government held City of Tula. Radio said the serbs were preparing a major offensive on both cities in coming Days. Sources close to the bosnian army said the few tanks and artillery pieces Sarajevo a defenders could spare had been moved to the Western suburbs to prevent any serbian breakthrough in Stup a key government position that is the Gateway to Sarajevo proper. Talks a. A from Page 1 to consider Airdrop of Relief supplies to muslims besieged by serbians in Eastern Bosnia. A the option has been around for a while a a senior official said. An administration official said the Airdrop could be initiated under . Security Council Resolution 770, passed on aug. 13, which authorizes member states to use a fall necessary Means to deliver assistance to civilians suffering deprivation because of the fighting in Bosnia. The Resolution specifies however that any such actions must be carried out a in coordination with the United  a . Official said saturday that the Airdrop proposal was a Worth considering but he pointed out that the main thrust of . Efforts in Bosnia was to open secure land routes to outlying areas. The administrations focus on Ai drops apparently reflects an attempt to balance the urgency of the civilians plight with the need to minimize danger to american military  from Page 1 although some appeared confused when russian airline officials insisted on checking their tickets As they debarked. There had been 72 people on the plane when it was hijacked saturday on a flight from Tyumen in Western Siberia to St. Petersburg. It landed in Tallinn Estonia where it was refuelled and the Hijacker released some passengers. Others were released after it arrived at Stockholm. No one was injured. The hijackers wife who was also on Board the jetliner had told passengers she had not known about the hijacking and was surprised by her husband s actions. But chief inspector Tore Loftheim said she changed her Story during questioning in Stockholm and confessed to helping in the hijacking. Also accompanying the couple was their 8-month-old son who police said was suffering from a cold. Police said the couple hijacked the Elane because they wanted to go to the United  from Page 1 surface Fleet diminishes and on station time of our Carrier Battle groups increases secure and reliable overseas repair and repositioning support will become More  normally . Ships have Home ports in the states and spend a on station time overseas on a rotating basis. But with a shrinking Navy the idea of foreign Home ports has gained favor in some quarters As a Way of providing an acceptable defensive capability with fewer ships. Currently Only two Navy ships have Home ports in Europe the 6th fleets command ship the guided missile Cruiser Belknap in Gaeta Italy and the Orion a submarine tender based at la Maddalena Sardinia. The Orion is to be replaced by the tender Simon Lake in april. Elsewhere overseas Only Japan has ports that serve As permanent bases for . Ships. Pentagon and Navy officials noted that the japanese pay most of the support costs for the ships stationed there. Congress virtually has shut off funds for military construction overseas since the beginning of the draw Down earmarking the Money for construction on . Bases instead. Reversing that trend would be difficult Given current moves toward austerity. A formal proposal to move a .-based ship to a foreign Home port is sure to spark heated Battles in Congress since a ships presence Means jobs retail sales and More to cities that play Host to them. However the Haifa project appears to have the support of sen. Daniel k. Inouye a Hawaii chairman of the Senate armed services committees appropriations panel. According to published reports Inouye referred to $57 million for improvements to the Hifa port in addition to the re ported $17 million during a recent visit to Israel. Israel received military assistance totalling $1.8 billion in each of the last three fiscal years according to cmdr. Keith Arterburn a Pentagon spokesman. This years figure is expected to match that he said Arab countries Likely would take a sceptical View of a . Base in Israel said Emile f. Shlieh a professor of political science at the University of North Texas. Quot it would be a source of worry and concern especially As the new administration develops  policies a Shlieh said citing concerns in the Arab world that the balanced approach of the Bush administration May give Way to a pro israeli tilt under president Clinton. A How needed is this Given that we have Access to ports in saudi Arabia Oman Bahrain and Kuwait a he said