European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday novmbeh9, 1993 the stars and stripes Page 5 \ " 5 it ? i a Sarajevo Man left tows his sled through the slush in the old part of the besieged bosnian capital on thursday. Two women with axes right watch a tree fall in front of the burned oat towers of the former Trade Center in Sarajevo on wednesday afternoon. The women began cutting the tree about Midnight tuesday. Killing cold begins to claim Bosnia s weak Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a month before the official Start of Winter frigid weather already is taking its toll among Bosnia s most Vul Era  As leaders of the warring factions signed an Accord in Geneva promising to let . Aid convoys pass unhindered the news from Bosnia where nearly 3 Mil lion people Are at risk this Winter was As Bleak As even . Officials said five patients died this week at a unheated mental Hospital near Sarajevo and others were wandering naked. Shots were fired at a . Aid Convoy in route to two other mental hospitals in the War zone. One of Sarajevo s two main hospitals prepared to discharge about 100 patients and move 150 others to underground corridors Wanned by Wood stoves because the buildings cannot be heated. A British based medical Relief group said it was halting crucial surgery for Sara Evans because patients were too cold and weak to withstand operations. Winter has already gripped Bosnia said Cedrict Holbeny the . S chief civil affairs officer for for Mer Yugoslavia. Everywhere we go the people Are hungry and need help. But everywhere we go the me with guns Are preventing that help being brought to them. I think it is a kind of madness. We Are now facing an impossible situation in bos Nia Herzegovina with an almost total strangulation of All humanitarian and logistic  the deaths of the five mental patients were reportedly . Military observers who reached a Hospital at Lazaric about 12 Miles West of Sarajevo. Ray Wilkinson the . Relief spokesman in Sarajevo said the Hospital has no heat electricity or running water for its 389 surviving patients. Lazaric is controlled by the Muslim led bosnian government but Relief convoys must pass serbian territory to reach it. They often have been blocked by Serbia women demanding release of serbian War prisoners. In Sarajevo where temperatures hovered around freezing thursday officials at the unheated state Hospi Tal said they would move Iso patients into basement corridors and shut Down much of the rest of the four building Complex because of Gas and electricity Short  not preparing for or recovering from surgery will be discharged said or. Bakir Nakas the director. Nakas said the Hospital had Only is quarts of fuel left to Power generators. He said the staff would Cut Down several Majestic Trees on the Hospital grounds to fuel Wood stoves. Without electricity and Gas a lot of people will die Ordinary people in town and especially people in the Hospital he said. The British based humanitarian Aid medical an development said cold and the weakened condition of patients forced it to suspend its surgical program at the state Hospital. It had provided Sara Evans a Chance for elective an reconstructive surgery a local doctors increasingly limited themselves to lifesaving operations. Philip Garvin director of the group s Sarajevo opera Tion said patients were so cold and malnourished that it was no longer Safe to operate on them even for sur Gery intended to avoid amputations. He said the leg of one Young Mother amputated wednesday probably could have been saved if reconstructive surgery had been performed earlier. As temperatures fell in recent weeks doctors notice Dan increase in postoperative infections he said. To perform elective surgery under these condition Sis life threatening Garvin said. In Zagreb Croatia Thornberry blamed All three warring factions for restricting and harassing Relief efforts. He said a bosnian serbian Captain wednesday re fused to let a fuel Convoy pass to besieged Sarajevo which has not been supplied with any fuel for two weeks. Bosnian croats have closed main Supply routes int Central Bosnia. On wednesday they blocked Access to two mental hospitals near Fornica where peacekeepers Are helping care for about 560 patients. A Convoy witha Generator and other supplies reached the hospitals thursday but Only after being fired on in Fornica peacekeeper spokesman cmdr. Ides Bald Van Biese Broeck said. Continental Jet nearly landed without wheels Chicago a a Continental airlines jetliner with 88 people aboard came so close to Landing without its wheels Down that its belly scraped the runway Federal investigators said  Accident at o Hare International Airport was averted monday afternoon Only because a Pilot in another jetliner noticed that the plane s Landing gear was t  flight 5148 from Houston then circled the Airport and landed with81 passengers and seven Crew members  was a potential disaster in the Mak ing said Michael Benson a spokesman for the National transportation safety Board in Washington. The plane was a few feet off the ground when an american airlines Pilot flying behind the Boeing 727 noticed its wheels were not Down and radioed the control Tower. The Tower immediately ordered the Continental Jet to abort the Landing. The rear third of the plane s underside apparently scraped against the runway As the Pilot pulled up for another try. No one was Hurt but the Contact left holes in the fuselage Benson said. Continental spokesman Ned Walker said flight 5148 had a seasoned Crew. Cockpit warning Homs and lights presupposed to Alert the Crew to problems with the wheels. Neither Benson no Walker would speculate on what might have happened. The plane was later flown without Pas sengers to its base in Houston for inspection and repairs. Beaujolais corks popping a Little less loudly this year Paris a the annual Beau Jolais Nouveau party began thursday with wine bottles uncorking around the world. But dwindling sales and scoffs from connoisseurs have soured the fad s aftertaste. Beaujolais parties from Paris to Battaya still Christen the wine s arrival on the third thursday of every no vember. Yet few seem to know what to make of this year s fete. Everyone knows it is not a Premium wine said Erika Marcoue who owns Hermoz caves a wine store in Paris where tasting crowds gathered thursday. But it has its function. It is a wine for pleasure for the table Formant people for every  after booming along with the world Economy at the end of the party mad 1980s, volume sales and prices have plummeted the last couple of years part of an Industry wide trend rooted in the global recession. Beaujolais Nouveau sales Plum meted 39 percent in Japan last year and Are expected to fall the same amount in 1993, they climbed in Ger Many and the United states in 1992, helped along by prices falling or level ing off. The Cherry red wine Sparks ritual commentary every year by connoisseurs and part goers. Experts found the 1993 version trim and vivacious with a dominant flavor of fresh grape underlined by a bouquet of red fruit such As Strawberry and currant. A bottle of Beaujolais costs 26 francs $4.40 in Paris this year