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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars find stripes thursday August 12,1993 at a glance australian nurse Tania Miller smiles at her British Cousin David Rowbottom after the two were re leased by kurdish guerrillas in Turkey following More than a month in Captivity. For details see the Story on Page 10. . Pilot rescued a . Pilot flying in support of operation deny flight was plucked unharmed from the Adriatic on wednesday after ejecting from his stricken f-16. Pago 4 . Spying detailed the United states extensively spied on its world War it allies newly declassified documents show. Pages note Analysed the White House says it is impossible to interpret Many of the things Deputy counsel Vincent w. Foster or. Wrote before he killed himself. Page 8 . Sending envoys the first . Diplomats posted to Vietnam since the communist North took Over the South in 1975 will arrive this month. Paged most Saturn recalled Saturn corp. Is recalling nearly All its cars More than 380,000 vehicles to fix an electrical problem that could ignite fires. Page 12 f Index i Abby Ann Landers 17 classifieds. 20-23 comics 1719 commentary. 15 crossword 17 faces n places 16 Horoscope 22 Jumble 22 letters 14 military 1 Money matters 12 sports 25-32 television 31 weather 13 in ton sets is on crime with plan to curb gun sales Washington a president Clinton on wednesday unveiled his anti crime package As a major Down pay ment on his Campaign pledge to put tens of thousands of new police officers on the Street and tighten gun controls. The president said he would sign an executive order wednesday suspending imports of foreign made assault style handguns. A second executive order seeks to strengthen regulations about who May sell guns. The first duty of any government is tory to keep its citizens Safe Clinton said in a Rose Garden ceremony with rows of uniformed police officers serving As a backdrop. Clinton said the package will include$3.4 billion Over five years to put an additional 50,000 police officers on the  plan is designed to make the major Down payment on the pledge that i made in the Campaign to put 100,000 police officers on the Street he said. Clinton also reiterated his support of the gun control Bill named for James Brady the former White House press Secretary who was wounded in the 1981assassination attempt on president Rea Gan. A statement released by the White House said recent attacks at a Law firm Insan Francisco and on children at a swim Ming Pool in Washington underscore the need for Congress to consider legislation to limit the Sale and availability of semiautomatic assault style weapons. Too Many weapons of War Are making their Way onto the streets Clinton said. Gwen Fitzgerald a spokeswoman for handgun control inc., said Clinton s executive orders would close a tremendous loophole in the ban on assault style weapons imposed by president Bush. That ban Only applied to rifles. Clinton s move for instance will ban the Uzi pistol which is nearly identical to the sub machine version Only Shorter. Bruce Reed White House Deputy Domestic policy adviser said the ban on imports of assault style pistols would not of Reet the 10,000 for which import permits have already been granted and he acknowledged that imports make up Only a Small part of the Market. The executive orders were needed be cause the efforts to keep handguns out of the hands of criminals cannot an should not wait for the passage of legis lation Clinton said. Aided from Page 1 the United states was reasonably cer Tain that a Remote controlled bomb that killed four . Soldiers sunday was the responsibility of aided. He added that officials believe aided is hiding in Mogadishu a sprawling City. It takes a very specially trained kind of group Shinn said to enter an unfamiliar City and arrest and bring Bac without a lot of bloodshed someone who lives in that area , in the somalian capital soldiers mourned their comrades an moved to keep weapons from reaching the warlord they hold responsible for the deadliest attack involving . Forces in the country. A memorial service was held at the main . Base tuesday for the four sol Diers killed sunday. Seven other Ameri cans were wounded in attacks last week. On tuesday pakistani . Forces barricaded runways at an Airfield 30 Miles West of Mogadishu and at a second Bush strip nearby said a . Military spokesman maj. Dave Stockwell. . Planes dropped thousands of leaflets saying the airfields would be closed indefinitely. Stockwell said supporters of Aidi used the airfields to Terry in arms and shipments of khat a narcotic plan chewed by Many somalis we know the aided faction obtains Apgood proportion of its financing through importing and Selling khat Stockwell said. South Mogadishu remained  feared . Forces would Reta Liate for sunday s attack As they have done in the past with missiles and can Nons fired by . Planes and gunships. Some Street stalls closed Early. The deaths of the american Soldier touched off Calls for intensified efforts to capture aided. The United nations has ordered his arrest and put a $25,000 Bounty on his head. Nonetheless the fugitive warlord s militia intensified an offensive against peacekeepers. On wednesday .forces said they killed seven somalian gunmen who shot at a surveillance Heli copter the Day before. In a third straight night of attacks four mortars were directed at . Facilities and three outposts came under intense Small arms fire Stockwell said. There were no . Casualties he  blamed fighters Loyal to aided for the fierce bul Brief exchanges with . Troops overnight. Serbs told to leave Peak or talks will die Geneva a the bosnian presi Dent said wednesday that he would give serbs up to two Days to withdraw from strategic Mountain or that he would walk out from peace talks. We Are willing to stay one or two More Days but then we will return to our Bosnia Alija ize Begovic said after meeting with mediators who Are trying to keep the warring leaders of Bosnia an Herzegovina at their negotiating table. " Bosnia s serbian Leader Radovan Karadzic said his forces were massively withdrawing from mount i Man Over looking Sarajevo Bosnia s besieged Capi Tal we have progressively had a hand Over to the . Forces Karadzic said. John Mills spokesman for the Media tors said that . Forces had deter mined a considerable withdrawal of serbian forces was in Progress but that some of them remained on  mediators lord David Owen an Thorvald Stolton Borg told Karadzic in very Clear terms late wednesday that his forces must leave mount i Man by mid morning today Mills said. He said that ize Begovic had pledge bosnian government troops would not try to take Back positions left by the serbs and that the mediators said . Peace keepers would Check to see that the two headers kept their promises. Mills said it was possible the negotiations would resume today if the withdrawal is effected. Ize Begovic has been demanding that serbs pull Back from the Mountain be fore he returns to the negotiations with rival serbs and croats. Karadzic said muslims were using allegations about serbian aggression to stall. None of the sides should sabotage this conference because we have to end this War and you know exactly that serbs Are ready for that Karadzic said. Muslim forces however have moved into areas Given up by serbs on adjacent mount Bjel Asnica that were to be takeover by . Forces Karadzic said. Mills said . Observers reported Thatje Masnica was Clear of serbian forces. The latest round of talks which began july 27, has failed to make Progress for 10 Days. Ize Begovic gave tentative approval to a croatian serbian proposal to split Bosnia into three ethnic republics but he has refused to accept the boundaries they envision for the map of the for Mer yugoslav Republic. Bosnian girl s condition worsens overnight of &. T of. Of m. I a we v _ London a a founded 5-year old Irma Hadz Muratovic whose suffer ing focused world attention on the injured children of Bosnia grew weaker wednesday As British doctors fought to save her life. Britain Sweden and Ireland moved to action by Irma s Case and those of other severely wounded people unable to get adequate treatment in the War zone announced that they would evacuate All 41 patients on the . List of Emer gency cases. At a news conference in Stockholm prime minister John major and Sweden s prime minister Carl Bildt said they hoped to get the joint evacuation under Way within 48 hours taking 20 people to Britain 16 to Sweden and five to Ireland. It was major responding it tearful Telephone Calls from the Public who took action monday to bring Irma to London after her doctor in Sarajevo publicized her Case. Desperate to move her to a properly supplied and staffed Hospital for treat ment or. Edo Jaganjac gave up trying to get through . Red tape and turned to the International news Media. He blamed bureaucracy for delaying evacuation from the besieged bosnian capital while Irma s condition worsened. The girl wounded during a july 30 mortar attack that killed her Mother arrived monday at London s famous great Ormond Street Hospital for sick Chil Dren. She had much of her intestine removed immediately after the attack. Surgeons took shrapnel from her Back and drained fluid from her head tuesday. On wednesday morning or. Kathy Wilkinson announced overnight there has been a marked deterioration in Irma s condition. She remains unconscious and very sick on our paediatric intensive care unit and is being constantly monitored she said  
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