European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 52, no. 231 500 sunday december 5,1993 Aid id s free ride irks reaction is surprising. Hiring the Armor Here really deters the clan on clan fighting \ set aary Mcbride v  j u a is h a not cleared m. A amps Vince Crawley sgt Gary Mcbride Lake a break on a Abram Jank dubbed Monkey Bulnes while the Sun beat Down outside Mogadishu. Monkey business on hold in by Vince Crawley staff writer Mogadishu Somalia a sgt. Gary Mcbride sat in the Shade of his my Abrams tank a named Monkey business a to escape the heat of the african Sun. A everybody was opposing what the president set out for us to do a said Mcbride an Abrams gunner with the 30-tank task Force that president Clinton dispatched to Somalia following a disastrous oct. 3 helicopter raid in downtown  at first i thought it was not a Good idea to Send Armor troops Over. Be cause of the possibility for bloodshed a Mcbride said. He changed his mind when he saw How somalis responded to the Monkey business. A the reaction is surprising a said the 29-Yearold Tanker from Atlanta. A having the Armor Here really deters the continued on Page 4 Mogadishu Somalia a . Military officials had a message saturday for somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah aided no More free rides on our planes at least not if we can help it. Embarrassed by images of the clan Leader getting a lift aboard a . Military c-12 to a peace conference in Ethiopia the army made a Point of telling reporters that the trip was a state department idea and not cleared with the senior american commander in Somalia. Aided is blamed for leading attacks that left dozens of . Peacekeepers dead including 24 americans and was the target of a furious manhunt by . And . Forces earlier this year. The search was called off after an oct. 3 firelight that killed 19 americans and More than 300 somalis. Both the United states and the United nations have since tried a More conciliatory approach in seeking to get the warlord to talk with his rivals and Call off his harassment of the . Peacekeeping Effort. Aided a a last minute decision to attend gathering of somalian clan leaders in Addis Ababa the ethiopian capital led to a mad scramble thursday to find him transportation. He was shuttled to the Airport under us. Guard. Col. Steve Rausch spokesman for . Forces in Somalia said the use of an army plane to carry aided and his armed bodyguards was requested by the staff of the . Liaison to Somalia Richard w. Bogosian which has routine use of an american military aircraft. Rausch said the office s request was cleared at the military staff level without being run past maj. Gen. Thomas m. Montgomery commander of . Troops in Somalia. A the was not a Happy camper that aided was flown on a . Army aircraft a Rausch said. A the speculation is see aided on Page 2 astronauts grab Hubble find solar. K _ a. A to Al Rte or a Tot Tunc 41 space Center Houston a endeavour s astronauts captured the Hubble space Telescope with practice ease saturday and found one of its solar panels seriously twisted out of shape. Replacing the 40-foot-Long solar panels had been a principal task of the Telescope repair Mission. The Bent Nanel and bowed supporting Stem caused Nasa to make minor changes in the spacewalk routines for today and monday. Astronaut Tom Akers said that there was a a definite Kinky in the upper Edge of the Stem and that it was twisted 90 degrees. He also noticed a second smaller Kink below the first. The other panel appeared to be Fine. Akers and Kathryn Thornton Are to replace both electricity generating solar panels monday during the second of rive spacewalks. Mission director Randy Brinkley said some warping had been expected but not to that degree. Other than the solar panel the Telescope appeared to be in fairly Good shape after 3vi years in space officials said. Cmdr. Richard Covey a four time shuttle flier and former combat Pilot steered endeavour to within 35 feet of the Telescope As the Craft zoomed around the world at 17,500 Mph. Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier see Hubble on Page 2 Lack of space is forcing the checkpoint Charlie museum to sell a Berlin Wall watchtower see Page 13 inside today bargains _s9flpag93 caring for Somalia see sunday Magazine