European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday november 13,1993 at a glance new Jersey s governor elect re publican Christie Whitman is fighting off allegations that her Campaign made payments to sup press Black voter turnout in this month election. Now the . Justice department is looking into the Case. For details see the Story on Page 6. Gay May win Case a Gay Marine will probably prevail in his suit challenging the Penta gon s ban on homosexuals a judge indicates. Page 4 Early smokers Analysed children who Start smoking before age 14 Are More Likely than other youngsters to do such things As Start fights a researcher says Page 7 sentence fought the women s Tennis association has retained a German lawyer to help overturn the suspended sen tence Given to the Man who stabbed Monica Seles. Page 8 Stern Book protested the Caldor Chain of. Stores has deleted the super Selling title by Shock Jock Howard Stem from the new York times Best seller list of nonfiction books reproduced in signs. Page 14 Index j Abby Ann Landers. 21 automotive 10 classifieds .22-25 comics.,. 18-19,21 commentary. 13 crossword 21 faces n1 places 20 focus. 15-17 Horoscope 24 Jumble 24 letters 12 Money matters 14 religion 9 sports 26-32 to listings 31 weather 11 . Soldier kills somali bandits attack Mogadishu Somalia a an american Soldier has killed a somali carrying a rocket propelled grenade launcher near the . Headquarters com Pound officials said Friday. The incident thursday was the second time in two Days that . Sharpshooters had wounded or killed men carrying heavy weapons. Later bandits attacked a position held by about 25 United Arab emirates sol Diers near aug of just outside Mogadishu . Officials said. . Military spokesman capt. Tim Mcdavitt of new zealand said the shoot ing Early Friday continued sporadically for an hour. None of the soldiers was wounded. Zimbabwean and use forces sent reinforcements in armoured personnel carriers but they were not needed. In Mogadishu army col. Steve Rausch the . Military spokesman said the american soldiers who shot the somalis were acting under the rules of engagement in the country. The rules allow them to fire first if they see heavy weapons. If they see someone with a Small Caliper weapon they will respond Only if threatened. . From Page 1 soil . Officials were talking about Themi nent withdrawal of nearly All Ameri can forces by March 31. At the end of the month we re sup posed to have our withdrawal plans pretty much set said Rausch adding that troop Levels would fall off after the Start of the new  called the somalian capital strangely quiet a mood that was Evi Dent around the logistics and Headquarters compounds in South Mogadishu. At the end of the week american forces Pri Marily were confined to their Camps or on exercises far removed from the chaotic crowds in the City. An amphibious exercise by 400 marines took place with Little incident thursday on a Beach 50 Miles South of Mogadishu and a . Official said Mostof the turmoil is confined to the capital. The three to four Square Kilometres in South Mogadishu is not Somalia said Ian Macleod adding that the rest of the country is very  Macleod a Unicof information offi cer who has spent 18 months in Mogadishu has witnessed a dramatic difference since the american led Effort began 1.1 months ago. The United nations has succeeded in ending the famine and tempering the civil War which has claimed at least 350,000 lives in the last year. Although unrest has not completely subsided particularly in Mogadishu so Malia s famine has been eradicated As demonstrated by the closing of All Emer gency feeding centers Macleod said. As Many As 80 percent of somalian children were considered malnourished a year ago. Today that figure is less than 20 percent Macleod said. The United nations is in the process of moving from emergency Relief to what we Hope Are going to be Community sustain ing programs Macleod said. Under so malian dictator Mohammed Siad Barre 90 percent of the country s schools were destroyed. Somalia now has 70,000 Chil Dren in elementary schools which is10,000 More than before the civil War according to . Figures. There is significant Progress Mac Leod said but there is a bloody Long Way to  Clinton from Page 1 Trade pact in the last Day. They included rep. Peter Hockstra r-mich., who got pledges that the Clin ton administration would look out for As Paragus growers and not let any great lakes water be diverted to Mexico. There was also rep. David Hobson r Ohio who said he d decided to go the president s Way because he d gotten Spe Cial Protection for Flat Glass and Broom Corn the Little Straw bristles on brooms. Two others from Ohio reps. John r. Kasich a Republican and Democrat David Mann Are newly on Board. So is Republican Nick Smith of Michigan. Critics say just about anything appears to be for Sale As the president scrounge for votes but that s not the Case the White House insists noting its refusal to Deal on the cigarette tax. Rep. Charlie Rose Iii. . Figur ing the White House is in a mood to Deal offered to vote for Naftal which would phase out Trade barriers Between the United states Mexico and Canada. Rose has been a firm opponent of Naftal. I could be persuaded by the White House if they were sufficiently serious to lower the tobacco  Rose said this week adding he could live with a doubling of the existing 24-cent-a-pack tax. Rather than the 75 cents Clinton has proposed. Cargo planes an aircraft Carrier a sewer line a Community development Bank a re treat on grazing fee increases reductions in an airline tax and protections for Orange juice sugar tomatoes and wheat All report edly have been dangled in front of lawmakers to get their votes. The big Champ of the bartering so far has been rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson d Texas who told a reporter she secured the administration s support for two addition Al c-17 cargo planes to be built in her dal Las District. Congress of course would have to approve that appropriation As it would any other spending project Clinto promises. Here s a look at some of what s going on As the White House tries to line up votes the transportation department just awarded two airline routes to London to american airlines serving North Carolina and Tennessee. It s purely coincidental said Bill Daley the White House s Point Man on Naftal but three Law makers from those states Are said to have been swayed by the decision. The Interior department is reported to be delaying a decision on an increase in grazing fees an Issue that several Western lawmakers have said would keep them from supporting Naftal. The White House is pushing for a $10 million Center for the study of Trade in the Western hemisphere in demo cratic rep. J j. Pickle s Texas District Al though Pickle has been a Naftal sup Porter before. Special protections for Citrus grow ers sugar beet processors and Grain growers worried about mexican exports these provisions Side agreements to Naftal Are important to the 23-Mem Ber Florida delegation. These lawmakers also Are trying to get protections for to Matoes and other crops. Rausch said a . Soldier atop building in the . Military Headquarters compound spotted the somali carry ing the rocket propelled grenade launcher within 500 Yards of the compound. The grenade launcher has an accurate Range of 500 Yards. The somali was killed bythe first shot Rausch said. The . Sharpshooter missed a second somali who picked up the weapon and fled. Soon afterwards the american position came under fire from an ak-47 assault Rifle from a second floor window in the same general Vicinity. After return fire the gun fell from the window. Libya assails new sanctions Cairo Egypt a showing no sign of backing Down Friday Libya denounced new . Sanctions designed to Force it to surrender two suspects for trial in the 1988bombing of pan am flight 103. Libya s foreign ministry said the Secu Rity Council Resolution adopted thursday was aimed Only at harming the libyan people. The official Jana news Agency called it a decision by imperialist West Ern nations that ran counter to world Opin Ion. The ministry statement and Jana s re port pictured the Resolution As unjust and did not even mention the possibility of giving up the two libyans sought by the unit de states and Britain in the bombing Over Scotland that killed 270 people. The Security Council Resolution effective dec. 1 unless Libya complies will freeze libyan assets abroad and ban the Sale of some Oil equipment it expands an air and arms embargo in effect since april 1992. However it Falls Short of doing what most critics say is the Only Way to Force Libya to turn Over the suspects Banning the Sale of libyan Oil. Libya s Economy relies on daily Oil exports of 1.5 million barrels that generate $9 billion a year in Revenue. Blood from Page 1 no deficiency virus that causes aids. . Officials have said at least 10.600 americans have received health care in German hospitals known to have received us plasma products. The hot line was set up to answer questions about the aids Sims the risk of infection or other concerns about trans fused blood products to americans command officials said this week. The number is Dan 486-8888 or civil Ian 06371-86-8888. Outside Germany the country code is 49. A German information hot line in Bonn was staffed Friday and is scheduled to be staffed by medical students who can speak English from 9 . To 6 pin. Every Day. Its number is civilian 0228-941-1111. Also Friday German health officials re ported that at least 50 babies Bora prematurely May have received his tainted plasma during treatment in bavarian clinics. Health authorities have shut Down two companies that were discovered to have distributed blood products tainted the aids virus. Contributing to a poit the