European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 3, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9 decontamination operations in Schwa Nchim a suburb of Frankfurt Germany continued monday As workers dressed in protective clothing swept up Asphalt that was scraped off the Street by a machine. A woman wore a face mask As she walked after the leak the cleanup through the suburb. The Street work and the mask were made necessary by a leak last week at a nearby Hoechst a chemical Plant. The Plant accidentally to pleased several tons of cancer causing chemicals polluting about 90 acres in  in Somalia kill one wound another Kismay Somalia apr us. Soldiers have killed a somalian Man and wounded another in the Southern port of Kismay where supporters of rival warlords have engaged in deadly clashes officials said tuesday. An army foot patrol came under fire monday night and shot Back killing one somali a . Military spokesman said. While trying to retrieve the body the patrol was fired on again and shot one somali in the Chest the spokesman said. Tie wounded Man s condition was not known and no us. Soldiers were reported Hurt. Kismay has been tense since supporters of Mohamed said Hirst known As Gen. Morgan launched a Surprise attack last week that sent rival warlord col. Omar Jess and hundreds of his fighters fleeing to the outskirts of town. Morgans supporters said they Only want to regain Homes taken when Jess forced them to flee in fighting last year. An International coalition led by . Troops arrived dec. 9 to halt clan warfare in Somalia where fighting and starvation left 350,000 people dead last year. The Allied military coalition in Somalia has forced Morgan a son in Law of ousted dictator Mohammed Siad Baric to confine his fighters to an area near Kenya and has seized weapons. It also has ordered Jess to take his lighten and weapons at least 50 Miles outside the City or risk attack. But supporters of the two rivals clashed sunday and monday in Kismay leaving five people dead. A belgian officer said monday that he saw two bodies from Over israelis Seal off Gaza in response to stabbings by Cox news service Jerusalem a the israeli government responding to a bloody rampage by a knife wielding palestinian on monday sealed off the occupied Gaza strip Early tuesday preventing thousands of arabs who work in Israel from entering the country. The Gaza Border will be closed indefinitely an israeli army statement said. Residents will not be permitted to leave the area. The action prevents about 35,000 Day labourers from reaching their jobs in Israel. Two israelis were killed and eight others wounded when a 19-year-old palestinian from Gaza stabbed his Way through a crowd monday morning on a Busy Street in downtown Tel Aviv. The Border was sealed at 3 . Tuesday. The army statement claimed the move was intended to allow time to determine the Validity of work permits and other documents that Are required to be carried by Gaza residents who enter Israel. Sealing the Border also will a prevent violence Between residents of the Gaza strip and of Israel Quot the army said. But a chief palestinian spokeswoman said the Border closing a can Only increase and deepen the hatred and  a this is another example of Israel s Pursuit of collective punishment. Israel should punish the person who committed the crime and not almost 1 million people a Hanan Ashrafi said in a statement. Night fighting and earlier reports listed three killed sunday. A weapons sweep sunday yielded most of the Small arms kept by Kismay residents belgian officers said. Protesters used rocks against each other in the clashes monday. Relief agencies in Mogadishu said monday that their workers in Kismay could not distribute food and other Aid for a second Day because of the unrest. Marine col. Fred Peck the military coalition spokesman said clan elders from Kismay met monday and would continue their talks tuesday on ending the fighting. With waning fighters being moved far out of town the coalition forces Hope the elders can bring Calm he said. Previous fighting Between Morgan and Jess scuttled preliminary peace talks in Jan uary but planning has started for a full peace conference to begin March 15 in Ethiopia. At peace talks scheduled for tuesday in Mogadishu representatives of Somalia s 14 factions were to discuss a plan to disarm under . Supervision. The groups were expected to turn in lists of their weapons and fighters to coalition Force leaders. Officials said Mohamed far Rah aided and a Mahdi Mohamed the two main warlords in Mogadishu already had done so. An aided faction complained monday that the Kismay trouble began because coalition forces disarmed Jess and allowed morgans people to attack. It said any future disarmament should involve All groups at the same time. High living a amp a fugitive nabbed in Paris by the Washington Post Baltimore a millionaire fugitive Tom Billman a Central figure in Maryland s mid-1980s savings and loan crisis was arrested monday in Paris after four years of a lavish life on the Lam that authorities said was financed with millions stolen from depositors. The 52-year-old Billman bought yachts threw parties and stayed in luxury european hotels while exploiting Bank secrecy Laws and the limits of . Police Powers abroad to avoid Law enforcement authorities inv stiga tors said. While hiding in Spain he frequently flew to London a always first class a according to a former Crew member on his yacht. Billman once went on a shopping spree in Tangier Morocco and the next Day he posed for a picture on the Dock his  around a local officer who was inspecting papers. He took a two week trip to Copenhagen Denmark apparently to visit his danish mistress. Hotel records showed the Bill for the trip came to nearly $18,000. Investigators said the Money supporting his travels came from $22 million in stolen savings and loan Money he had stashed in secret Swiss Bank accounts. Billman vanished in december 1988, shortly after a jury returned a is 12 million civil judgment against him and other officers in the collapse of Community savings amp loan association of Bethesda. A year later he was indicted on Federal conspiracy and racketeering charges for allegedly defrauding Community depositors of More than $100 million. The closing of Community was a major Factor in Maryland s a amp a crisis of the mid-1980s that brought the mul Libil lion Dollar Thrift Industry to the Brink of collapse. About 27,000 accounts were Frozen when the state closed the institution and some depositors did no to get their Money Back for several years. . Authorities in Baltimore said Billman surrendered As he came out of his Paris apartment monday afternoon. Billman was using the alias John rink but acknowledged his True identity to police said Richard d. Bennett the . Attorney for Maryland. Bennett and other officials would t say How investigators discovered Billman. With the help of the Fri . Marshals and . Postal inspectors european authorities had been tracking Billman for some time after learning his alias Bennett said. Hinting that investigators May have received tips from people who knew or had seen Billman . Postal inspector Karen Luehrs said there is a a possibility there will be applications for payment Quot for a longstanding $200,000 government Reward for information leading to bit Man s exr Adinion to the United states. Authorities once were so stymied in their search for Biliman that they look out advertisements in the International Herald Tribune and in yachting magazines hoping readers overseas might spot him. Bennett and assistant prosecutors Barbara s. Sale and Joyce k. Mcdonald said the next step is to get Biliman Back to . Soil. That process could Lake 90 to 120 Days if he fights extradition