European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes at a glance Yasser Arafat chairman of the pal Emine liberation organization condemned the kitting of a jewish settler and appealed for an end to violence see Story on Page 12. . Campaign probed investigations were initiated and a special counsel was named to look into charges that the Campaign of new Jersey s Republican governor elect Christie Whitman spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to sup press Black voter turnout. Page 6 3 charged in heist a retired police detective arid a priest were among three men charged Friday in one of the largest heists of an armoured car company in . History the Fri said. -pao�7 Engineer sues ism an ism Engineer filed suit alleging that her supervisors forced her to have sex with a key Pentagon official so that the computer company might secure millions of dollars in funding from the Agency. Page 8 help for obese a greater number of obese people could get help with employment conflicts if the government is successful in arguing that some obese people Are protected from discrimination regardless of whether the weight was caused by disease or poor diet. Paged Burger King denial Burger King corp. Denied a report that it has received permission from the government of India to open fast food restaurants there. Page 20 l Index j Abby Ann Landers 17 classifieds. 24-29 commentary 15 faces a places 17 Horoscope 26 letters. 14 Money matters 20,23 Mutual 21-23 sports 30-36 weather 16 . Mulls when . United nations a Secre tary general Boutros Boutros Ghali is offering options for a scaled Down peace keeping operation in Somalia if departing . Forces Are not replaced the smaller operations would to longer use Force to disarm somalian fighters instead leaving the task to local factions Boutros Ghali said in an outline of a re port to be Given to the Security Council on monday. Without recommending any option Boutros Ghali appeared to oppose the smaller operations saying peace would be impossible while somalian fighters Are still armed. If . Troops Are replaced the Mission would remain essentially unchanged in the capital and elsewhere major factions Are re arming apparently in anticipation of a possible return fighting sometime in 1994, he said in the document obtained Friday by the associated United states the Backbone of the 26,000-Mcmber Force in Somalia plans to withdraw by March 31. France Belgium and Sweden also Are planning to pull out. The Force sent initially to guard Aid shipments has rebuilt schools provide medical care and partially disarmed the country s warring , Boutros Ghali said so Malia still has no functioning government or police Force. I the options outlined by Boutros Ghali for continuing the . Mission after . Withdrawal include the Mission would remain Essen sunday november 14,1993. Options pull out tally unchanged with other countries supplying troops to replace the . Force. The . Force would be reduced to 1800 troops they would maintain humanitarian efforts but would not try to disarm somalian fighters by Force relying instead on the cooperation of the somali the Force would be reduced to 5,000 troops who would try Only to keep the country s airports and ports open. Fighting broke out in the East Africa nation in 1991 after rival clans ousted dictator Mohammed Siad Barre. arrived in december 1992 after Somalia suffered 350,000 deaths from famine and fighting that year the United nations took Over the operation inlay. Allies Honing skills during Gulf Maneu vers Manama Bahrain a in Ashow of military strength ., British and French warships and planes began exercises in the persian Gulf the . Navy said saturday. The four Day exercises called Gulf Xxxi started Friday and include forces of the six nation Gulf cooperation Council said Navy spokesman it. Cmdr. Bruce Cole. The Maneu vers coincided with reported iranian military exercises in the Gulf involving the islamic revolutionary guards corps although it was not Clear How far away the iranian troops were. The Western aircraft taking part Are based in Dhahran saudi Arabia to Monitor a no Fly zone in Southern Iraq the zone was established to protect shiite muslims from attacks by Saddam Hus Sein s air Force. Cole quoted the top . Navy officer in the Middle East vice . Douglas j. Katz As saying the Maneu vers Are de signed to Sharpen the three navies ability to work together in support of peace inthe Cole said the exercises will include the formation of surface units to attack to bile targets surface gunnery resupply at sea anti ship missile defense simulated boardings of commercial vessels and anti submarine participating Are the destroyer Nicholson of the . Navy the frigates Cornwall and Campbeltown of the Brit ish Navy and la Motte Picquet a French Navy destroyer. Royal air Force Tornado Jet aircraft also will take part in the exercises. The United states Britain and France were the leading Powers in the coalition that helped the Gulf states evict iraqi occupation forces from Kuwait in 1991. The three Western Powers maintain air an naval presence in defense of their Gulf Al lies which have two thirds of the world proven Oil reserves. Army from Page 1 reductions threaten the nation s ability tonight and win wars. In that regard the document is an explicit Challenge to defense Secretary Les Aspin who recently unveiled the administration s plan for a smaller More to bile Post cold War military of 1.4 million uniformed men and women compare with .1.6 million under the Bush administration s proposed base Force plan. Aspin has said repeatedly that despite the cuts the nation s military will retain its combat readiness and ability to fight and win two nearly simultaneous regional conflicts. Aspin has described the Bottom up review As a Collegia broadly collaborative Effort in which the military service Shad substantial say. However the memorandum makes Clear that the army feels slighted by the process in comparison with the other services especially the Marine corps which fares better under Clinton s plan than it did under president Bush s proposal the internal document was incl Dedas an unclassified addendum to the army s secret program objective memorandum which outlines the service proposed spending plan for 1995 through 1999. Portions of the addendum have begun to leak out in the defense Trade press and a copy was obtained by the Washington Post. We re not Only on the razor s Edge but in danger of falling off the razor s Edge said one of Sullivan s staff officer who asked not to be named. I think there is a lot of recognition not Only with in the army but outside the army on Capitol Hill that the Bottom up review is flawed that you can t get there a senior defense official who also spoke on condition of anonymity disputed such claims. He suggested the army is feeling the pain of defense cuts More acutely than other services because it has not matched their successes in Par ing unneeded bases and overhead. I Don t think the army has done Smuch As the Navy and air Force in looking at their infrastructure the offi Cial said they Haven t done As much in retooling their overhead. Why Doe the army still have to have 17 separate branches. These Are basically people who work in most of the hard choices in any event have been postponed. On wednesday Congress passed a $261 defense spending plan for fiscal 1994, shaving a modest j2.5 billion from the administration s re quest but deferring serious debate on the recommendations in the Bottom up re View until next year the budget is about $12 billion smaller than the 1993 spend ing plan Bush s last. In a statement Friday Aspin thanked Congress for producing a budget that largely protects the readiness of attack from Page 1 he will be considered responsible if terrorist attacks occur against . Or . such attacks occur we will hold him accountable Stock we said. Wended to let him know that we . Military policy is not expected to change because of the new development said col. Steve Rausch . Military spokesman in Somalia. The saturday morning killing and the revelation of organized terrorism follow a three week period of relative Calm . Activities in Somalia. Forces in the country Are reviewing Security measures to guard against possible terrorist attacks. Lincoln 23, who worked in the civilian operations Center was driving to work at 6 50 . From his residence at the South pm compound near Mogadishu Airport tothe Headquarters of . Operations so Malia known As Uno som. The White Toyota land Cruiser that Lincoln was ending in was stopped by four gunmen. Lincoln and the two colleague were ordered out of the vehicle. An Exchange of gunfire ensued the three civil Ian staff members were wounded and one of the four somalian gunmen was remaining gunmen sped from the in a the a Yota takin8 with
