European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world saturday february 27, 1993 Mogadishu riots subside after 2 Days Mogadishu Somalia a nigerian soldiers in the  coalition traded fire with a sniper Friday morning hut signs of Calm were returning to Mogadishu after two Days of rioting. Merchants began opening for business in their ramshackle stalls of corrugated steel. The remains of Bon fires from burning tires and junk littered some streets but traffic navigated around them. At the City s main traffic Circle nigerian troops fired repeatedly in the air in a show of Force. Workers heard some loud gunfire this morning but it s much less hairy than yesterday Cynthia Osterman of the Relief group care said in Nairobi Kenya after talking by radio with the group s workers in Mogadishu. Reports said at least six somalis were killed and five . Marines and two nigerian soldiers wounded in Vio Lence that started wednesday when backers of warlord Mohamed Farrah aided claimed that  forces had helped a rival. Relief officials said the violence halted some food deliveries but they Don t plan to pull out of the City. The violence raised questions about when . Troops could hand Over command to a  Force and leave but officials said the Transfer was not jeopardized. It was the first major protest against the coalition of 32,000 International troops including 17,000 americans in Somalia to secure relict shipments to millions of somalis threatened by starvation after two years of civil War and drought. The cause of the continued violence in Mogadishu was unclear. Aided whose angry radio address tues Day night helped set off the protests urged Calm wednes Day and on thursday night he accused looters of taking advantage of the situation. Although the  operation restore Hope has helped get Relief to the starving Young somalis out of work and with few schools to attend crowd the streets with Littleto do. On Friday morning nigerian troops atop a hotel used by the foreign news Media poured heavy gunfire into a building across the Street in response to sniper fire. Several troops entered the building captured seven men and seized one weapon a nigerian commander said sniper fire also came from the building the Day before and the nigerians blasted holes in it thursday to try to flush out the attackers. One of the captured men said some were friends of a Security guard checking the building. The seven some slapped and kicked by the nigerians were taken away to Nigeria s military Headquarters in so Malia the commander said. He said they would be turned Over to the  United nations task Force. Gunfire and grenades rocked the same area for five hours thursday As soldiers pounded at snipers. The shoot ing the heaviest in the capital in weeks was mostly by nigerian soldiers who fired without restraint at any Che they believed might Harbor a sniper. . Military officials said the snipers were suspected of being aided supporters because the violence occurred in an area he nominally controls. They said the snipers could have been acting on their own. . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali said late thursday in new York that the unrest would not complicate the planned transition from . Troops to a . Command. He has said the change could happen in several weeks. I believe that the situation has been very much exaggerated. And that the . Will be Able to do our transition according to the schedule which has been established retold the associated press. Aided had accused  forces of helping the fighters of a rival warlord Mohamed said Hirsi known As Gen. Morgan to defeat aided ally col. Omar Jess in the South Ern port of Kismay on monday. Aided had demanded that Morgan s loyalists leave the City about 200 Miles South of the capital. On thursday facing a Midnight ultimatum by . Forces Many of Morgan s fighters began leaving Kismay and were taken to temporary quarters Iso Miles West. . And . Officials have said the fighting in Kismay endangered peace talks set for March 15. . Marines take positions outside an apartment com plex in Mogadishu Somalia on thursday. Women who publicly defied nazis honoured Berlin a Charlotte Israel re fused to fade away when the nazis seized her jewish husband. Blinded by rage emboldened by love she stood in the Street and stared Down the guns until he came Home. Fifty years later she and hundreds of other such women finally Are being Hon ored As the rarest sort of germans peo ple who publicly defied the evil nazi re Gime and won. Sunday Marks the anniversary of the heart stopping stand made by the Rose Street women distraught wives who gathered on a Berlin Street feb. 28,1943, and successfully blocked the deportations and Likely deaths of their jewish husbands. At a news conference thursday Mark ing the occasion historians marvelled at a classic Case of peaceful protest almost unheard of during the nazi Era. A Book and film about the incident also were announced and a special statue will be unveiled sunday that seeks to enshrine these women in the sparsely populated pantheon of germans who publicly opposed nazi dictator Adolf hit Ler s Slaughter of 6 million jews and Sev eral million others. Israel since widowed and remarried and now Charlotte Freuden theil quietly sat in the press rows and occasionally dabbed her reddened eyes As this wrenching episode was subjected to scholarly dissection. After the camera lights flicked off she talked about How women numbed by loss came out of their Homes on a sunday afternoon and quickly coalesced into a life saving Force. Naturally we All expected to die the 82-year-old Berliner said softly. I would not leave until my Julius came Home. Could  Julius Israel a former musician and tailor was among an estimated 27,000 jews married to non jewish germans in Berlin. They enjoyed a privileged status for a time working As forced labourers in the German arms Industry while other jews were shipped to death Camps. In late february third Reich propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels phoned Al Bert spacer who ran Germany s arms building program and said no jew can remain in Berlin any  Israel was among thousands of people Many of them children who were rounded up. One group was taken to a former jew ish Community Center on Rose Street pending deportation to Auschwitz the notorious death Camp in Poland. Freuden theil heard rumours that her husband was being held on Rose Street and went there feb. 28. She saw two dozen other women clamouring for their husbands or children. The crowd slowly grew almost All of them women. News of the Vigil spread and the crowd grew to 1,000. Give us Back our men the women shouted. We want to see our men the women refused orders to leave and kept up their Vigil for Days. On March 4, troops from the elite is set up machine gun nests and ordered the Street cleared. The women remained. Six Days after the protest began Goeb Bels ordered the release of the 1,500 prisoners inside. Twenty five men already bound for Auschwitz concentration Camp numbers freshly tattooed were returned. It s still unclear Why the nazis buckled to the Rose Street women. Long a tiny footnote in German history books the protest has drawn an enor Mous amount of press coverage this week in Germany which is awash in a Resur gence of Neo nazi violence. Freuden theil said she sees similarities Between today s rightist crimes and the Early Days of nazi thuggery. But when i turn on the television and see hundreds of thousands of people marching against it i feel better she said. Nazi Hunter denies possibility Hitler aide fled to Paraguay Frankfurt Germany a Germany s to nazi Hunter has denied a report that Hitler s chief aide lived and died in Paraguay after world War ii an that Germany knew it. Alfred Streim who has headed Germany s nazi re cords Center in ludwigs Burg for 30 years said thurs Day that Martin Bormann was killed trying to flee Ber Lin in 1945. He was responding to a report wednesday in Para Guay s Al Diario de Noticia newspaper which printed photocopies of what it said was a 19ol report by Interi or ministry agent Pedro Prokopchuk to his Boss. Prokopchuk reported that Bormann had lived in Par Aguay for three years and had died in Asuncion on feb.15, 1959, the newspaper said. It said Bormann was buried in the town of Ita 25 Miles South of asunci6n. The report in the asunci6n-based paper also allege that German intelligence knew Bormann was living in Paraguay and that he had been treated by the Noto rious nazi doctor Josef Mengele who was also i South America in 1958, Complete nonsense Complete nonsense Streim told the associated press in a Telephone interview. We believe 100 percent that he was killed during his attempt to break out of Berlin at the end of the  Bormann s Skull was Analysed Streim said and peo ple who tried to flee with him after soviet troops sur rounded the German capital told investigators that a Shell exploded near them and that Bormann was killed. Even if he were Only wounded by the Shell it would have been impossible to get out of Berlin because Ber Lin was completely surrounded he said. Streim said his office probed several rumoured sight Ings of Bormann Over the years and found them unfounded. This sort of thing crops up again and again he said. Body found dangling from egyptian jetliner Lagos Nigeria a an Egypt air jetliner landed at Lagos Airport with a Man s body hang ing from its nose Bay. Officials said Friday. Wing commander John Ojikutu military com mandant at Lagos Surtala Muhammed International Airport said he suspected foul play. He told reporters that he was barring Egypt air planes from Landing there unti the airline re moved the unidentified body from Nigeria. Egypt air flight ms856 landed in Lagos on thursday from Cairo after making a Stop in Abidjan Ivory coast. The Boeing 767 was de tamed for two hours while its Captain Sherif Gaber was questioned about the body Ojikutu said. He said he was suspicious because the Captain claimed he was unaware of the body until he was alerted in Lagos by an Egypt air ground Engi Neer. The plane was allowed to leave