European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 2s, world tm6 stars and stripes Page 13 Germany set to withdraw 400 troops from Somalia from wire report Bonn Germany Germany soon will withdraw 400 of the 1,700 troops from Somalia the government announced tuesday. The 400 logistics specialists will be Home for Christmas and there should be a decision by then on the Fate of the remaining 1,300 soldiers said spokesman Norbert Schaefer. They May begin leaving in january he  germans were sent to Supply an Indian . Force that never arrived. Instead the Indian troop were deployed to a More dangerous area in the South where Germany did t want to Send its  officials Are worried that their troops which have no mandate to fight might be threatened if Somalia sinks into anarchy with the withdrawal of american troops by March 31.bandits have attacked convoys along the 180-mile stretch Between the capital of Mogadishu and Bele Thuen where the German troops Are encamped. German officials expect the attacks to increase with the pullout of . Troops which should be half completed by january. Rats rat on fainted potatoes Moscow russian customs officials on the chinese Border have been conducting some unusual taste tests with the Aid of  officers recently offered samples of russian potatoes and chinese potatoes to Russia rats the itar Tass news Agency reported wednesday. The rats ate the russian potatoes but refused the chinese imports it said. The test and the rats reaction were cited a justification for a russian decision to ban imports of chinese potatoes because they Are saturated wit chemicals from fertilizers the report said. Psychic treats elephant Bangkok Thailand after Standard medical treatment failed a psychic visited the Bangkok zoo to try to heal a baby elephant that had been hit by truck an officer of the zoo said wednesday. The psychic went to Dusit zoo on monday saying she saw Honey the elephant in a dream crying and begging for help the officer  psychic said some magic words then blew some holy water out of her Mouth onto Sticks of sugarcane and bananas that she fed to Honey. The woman then lighted nine Joss Sticks an pitched them into the Corner of Honey s Cage. She will be Able to walk in five Days the woman , a circus elephant was struck three weeks ago while walking on a Road near la Pang about317 Miles North of Bangkok. She suffered a broken leg and Pelvis. A week later she was brought to Bangkok for treatment. Mortician admits addiction Toronto a mortician has pleaded guilty to professional misconduct after admitting that he embalmed bodies and conducted funerals while High on drugs or intoxicated with alcohol. Brian Riley told a disciplinary committee hearing of the Ontario Board of funeral services on tuesday that he had a drug addiction from 1988 to1992 and regularly worked under the influence of marijuana hashish and alcohol a Fly 29, of Toronto said he took drugs before work and sometimes during the Day while embalming bodies making funeral arrangements with families and conducting  May Riley also pleaded guilty to professional misconduct after being charged for encouraging fellow mortician to steal a leather jacket from a Corpse. The committee ordered Riley to take further medical tests before imposing a penalty for the misconduct and for a related charge of incompetence. Moscow cold kills 7 drunks Moscow seven people have Frozen to death while drunk on the streets of Moscow during an unusually cold november officials said  other people suffered frostbite but were picked up by ambulances in time to be treated. The seven who died were Ordinary people not homeless said Igor Nader Din a spokesman for the Cit medical directorate. Nader Din  death toll was about average despite the colder than usual weather. The Winter in Central Russia usually comes i december and the three last Winters have been exceptionally mild. S moving again toward bosnian towns Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a con Voys rotted from two directions toward Central bosnian on wednesday with the first food Aid in four weeks fora Region where 1 million people Are in dire need. We re trying to pump in As much Aid As possible said Peter Kessler a spokesman for the . High commissioner for refugees. He said both convoys could reach their destination a . Depot in Zenia 35 Miles Northwest of Sarajevo by Nightfall. Three other convoys were heading into Eastern bos Nia from Yugoslavia carrying 160 tons of food for the Eastern Muslim enclaves of Tula Zepa and Srebrenik Ca these convoys got the go ahead after yugoslav authorities agreed to a temporary easing of new customs clearance requirements that the United nations had denounced As bureaucratic harassment. Air born baby Jeff countryman of Orlando Fla holds his 1-Day-old Soa in Edmonton Alberta on tuesday. Countryman s wife Lydia fare birth to the baby aboard a Northwest airlines flight somewhere Over Western Canada. A team of doctors and nurses from opera Tion smile a Agency that provides facial surgery for children i underdeveloped countries happened to be aboard the flight and assisted with the birth which came seven months into Lydd countryman s pregnancy. The plane on a flight from Tokyo to de troit made an unscheduled Stop in Edmonton. Airport officials Aid the child will have dual Canadian and american citizenship. Blockage of . Aid has been used As a weapon Byall sides in the 19-month-old War which started when serbs rebelled against a 1992 vote by Bosnia s Muslim Sand croats to secede from Yugoslavia. More than 200,000 people have been killed and More than 2 Mil lion Are homeless. An estimated 2.7 million bosnian Are at risk fro cold and starvation. And the need has been made More urgent by the arrival of frigid snowy weather much ear Lier than usual in Bosnia s second Winter of War. . Convoys to Central Bosnia were suspended oct.26, the Day after a danish Driver of an Aid truck was shot to death. Kessler appealed to local residents for patience if they did not receive food immediately. More convoys will come he said. There s no Nee to be anxious.". Plo reports israeli talks .,.,.j progressing Cairo Egypt a Plo negotiator reported Progress wednesday in talks with Israel on the key Issue of freeing thousands of palestinian prisoners under their peace Accord. Delegates began a second round of Mai talks in Cairo this week on working out de tails of Israel s withdrawal from the occupied Gaza strip and the town of Jericho on the West Bank. In Al Arish on the Mediterranean sea second meeting was being held on the trans Fer of civilian authority. The israeli Plo Accord signed in sep tember would have Israel turn Over Day to Day government of Gaza and Jericho to palestinians starting in mid december. Israel also is to begin withdrawing troops in Favoron palestinian police. In Cairo a palestinian source confirmed reports that Israel agreed tuesday to in clude a timetable for the release of prison ers in a separate document to be signed by negotiators before the withdrawal begins. The agreement to put the prisoners Issue in a written Accord came after Israel s delegates got new instructions from prime min ister Yitzhak Rabin the israeli newspaper had Ashot quoted chief palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath As saying. Apparently the two sides were still negotiating the timing for the release of 9,000 to 10,000 palestinians held in israeli prisons. Most were arrested Over the past six year during the uprising against israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip since the 1967 Middle East War. Shaath has said repeatedly the Palestine liberation organization would refuse to sign the withdrawal Accord without written guarantees for freeing the prisoners. For Plo officials freeing the detainees Isan important signal to palestinians that the peace Accord will have real benefits in the occupied lands. Guns explosives seized at British port Teesport England a customs officer wednesday seized 300 assault rules two tons of explosives and other arms being smuggled to pro British gunmen in Northern Ireland. The customs and excise department  haul was found hidden amid ceramics on the cargo ship my Ino wroclaw from Poland. A customs spokesman said officers acted after Polis Security authorities and British intelligence agents uncovered efforts by an illegal Northern Ireland Organiza Tion to buy weapons in Poland. The spokesman said none of the Crew members was arrested As the ship docked in tee port 180 Miles North of London. The spokesman said it was not known if the arms originated in Poland or elsewhere in Eastern Europe. The Agency  arms were destined for an outlawed paramilitary organization with roots in the protestant Community possibly the Ulster defense association the largest outlawed paramilitary organization on the protestant Side. The haul also included detonators grenades and Large amount of ammunition