European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday August 13,1993 at a glance senior airman Laura j. Coyle a member of the air Force s tops in Blue performs during a recent show in Germany. For a look at the group see Story on Page 18. Kuwaiti exercise set troops from the 3rd inf div in Ger Many Are heading to Kuwait this month for military exercises. A Page 4 12-Carrier Fleet the Pentagon has recommended that the United states have 12 aircraft carriers two More than previously considered officials say. A Page s . Troops open fire american troops opened fire amid thousands of demonstrators in Somalia reportedly wounding three people. A Page 9 a a Yeltsin makes threat russian president Boris n. Yeltsin in a potential threat to the Constitution says he is ready to Call  Page 9 food labels ordered the labels on packages of All raw and partially cooked meat and poultry products soon will be required to carry instructions for Safe handling. A Page 10 Index Abby Ann Landers .12 classifieds. 25-27 comics. 12,22-23 commentary. Crossword. 12 faces a places 13 focus. Horoscope. Jumble. 27 letters. 14 Money matters. Sports. Television. Weather. 11 serbs _ from bosnian mountains Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr bosnian serbs seemingly unhurried to threats of nato airstrikes cautiously pulled Back thursday from two peaks overlooking Sarajevo. But the United nations said thousands of troops remained the extent of the serbian withdrawal was Uncertain because of a shortage of . Observers difficult terrain and disputes Over the location of previous ceasefire lines. While the serbs said their troops were almost All gone bosnian government forces and . Officials disagreed. Troops backed by tanks and artillery still controlled the peaks and troop movements might merely be a redeployment . Officials said. They also stressed that withdrawal from mounts Bjel Asnica and Fugman the two peaks taken from bosnian government defenders earlier this month will not break the 16-month-old siege of the encircled capital or end the threat of nato airstrikes to break the serbian stranglehold. Quot what is happening on the mountains is purely a military operation and has nothing to do with the blockade of Sarajevo a said . Spokesman maj. Luuk Niessen. Quot the focus Onigman is a political thing. It is used to open or not open negotiations in Geneva. For us and our mandate the opening of lifeline routes and delivering humanitarian Aid is the  j the threat of nato airstrikes would remain As Long As there was any interference with the delivery of humanitarian Aid Niessen conceded. . Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher increasing the pressure on the bosnian serbs said that they had to withdraw from the two mountains but that the real test would be whether they lift the siege of Sarajevo. Bosnian serbian Leader Radovan Karadzic said in Geneva where peace talks Are being held that he could Quot guarantee that his forces had withdrawn to positions they held prior to a july 30 ceasefire. He said the United nations was confused about where those positions were. Humanitarian Aid convoys have moved through serbian checkpoints with relative ease Over the past several weeks said Niessen. But he added that food stocks in the City were Low that they had to be raised substantially before Winter and that the daily Airlift could not bring in enough supplies. . High commissioner for refuges spokesman Peter Kessler said fighting Between government and croat forces in Central Bosnia posed the Quot greatest problem in the delivery of humanitarian Aid. , angered by Muslim gains in Central Bosnia have created interminable delays at checkpoints Aid officials said and have been More intransigent lately than the serbs. Serbian control of i Man Cut off the last bosnian government route for smuggling arms through the blockade into Sarajevo. It has also posed a major stumbling Block to peace negotiations in Geneva. . Observers confused by the troop movements on the mountains said they cannot yet Tell if the serbs intend to withdraw Folly or just redeploy some troops and heavy weapons. Niessen said there were reports of fresh serb troops moving toward the mountains but that in. Observers believed the new units intended to take position at the base of the Mountain to cover the withdrawal. Quot you could describe the withdrawal As a very careful movement of troops because of mistrust a said Niessen. Aspin from Pago 1 last year were married according to service officials. The directive also would have required All marines to attend classes about the difficulties of managing Long separations in new marriages Quot especially ones involving very Junior marines who with Only modest salaries Are incapable of successfully handling the added financial burdens of  Mundy said he was still interested in pursuing the counselling aspects of the defunct policy but the entire Issue has been put on hold pending a broader study of the problems of Fust term married recruits that will involve All the services. Aspin said the study which will begin immediately will focus on operating Tempo marriage stress pregnancy divorce finances family services substance abuse and other factors As they affect first term recruits and military readiness. Thieves get about $1,600 in train robbery Marseille France a to edits armed with an automatic weapon robbed 10 passengers Early thursday on an overnight train crossing Southern France Between the italian and Spanish Borders. The travellers a two British Brothers three italians and five French citizens a were stripped of a total of about $1,600 in what appeared to be a Well organized robbery. Police reported that the bandits one armed with a sub machine gun got aboard the train at a Stop West of Marseille and robbed the sleeping passengers. They jumped off the train As it pulled into a Marseille station to change engines. A passenger quickly sounded the alarm but police were unable to catch the thieves. The robbery came in what French police and the National Railroad Call Quot the Bermuda Triangle a an area Between Marseille Avignon and Montpellier notorious for robberies. The Railroad has raised the number of Security agents in the zone from 823 in 1989 to 1,210 this year. Meanwhile police in Lyon reported that reinforcements on highways around the City have elided a rash of banditry against motorists principally foreign tourists driving late at night. The attacks in july and Early August Drew heavy Media attention. A British couple held a news conference in London on their ordeal. Lyon police chief Marcel Leclerc said that patrols were stepped up this month and that no attack had been reported for four Days when bandits unsuccessfully tried to Rob a French Motorist. On wednesday night however two attacks occurred near Montpellier West of Marseille. Three bandits one masked and carrying a pistol smashed the windshields of a German and a Frenchman sleeping in their cars along the Road the robbers sei2ed Luggage and other valuables and tried to steal the germans car. By meteor display a by the associated press japanese astronomers were a dazzled and Clouds cheated much of Western Europe of seeing what had been billed As this Century a most spectacular meteor Shower. Experts had predicted that people living in Japan and other parts of Asia might see As Many As 200 shooting stars per hour in what is known As the perseid Shower. But Shuzo Isobe an astronomer at a National Observatory in Mitaka about 12 Miles West of Tokyo estimated that Only 20 to 30 meteorites were visible per hour under the Best conditions. Yuichi Osawa an Amateur astronomer living in Chiba 21 Miles East of Tokyo said Quot it was much less exciting than expected. You can see that Many on any  the perseid Shower appears every August As Earth passes through a Trail of de Bris left by Comet Swift Tuttle. But this year the debris passed closer to Earth in us 130-year orbit than it has in the last 2,000 years and astronomers had been eagerly anticipating a stunning show. Undaunted Osawa said he would stay up again Early this morning to watch the sky. Isobe said people across Japan would be doing likewise. At his Home in Selsey South of London astronomer and broadcaster Patrick Moore said Quot i can to see a thing. Its most annoying. In Veall my equipment with me Here but its very  the Northern half of Germany was also blanketed by Clouds but Clear skies in the Southern part of the country rewarded some gazers especially those who went out into the Countryside. Several Hundred people got together on a Hilltop near Frankfurt to watch the show with blankets wine picnic baskets and camping gear. A in Bavaria some people went into the Foothills of the Alps. Astronomer Heinz Kaminski who went into the Swiss Alps said the excitement was not in the number of meteors but in their size. Quot it is very very rare for us to be Able to View such Large objects Quot he said. The meteor trails lasted As Long As 10 seconds he said. 0 Quot a Normal meteor is produced by a particle that weighs about one Gram. In this night there certainly were particles of 20 or 30 Grams Quot he said