European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday december 20,1993 at a glance Slobodan Milosevic Serbia a nationalist president greets reporters at a polling station sunday in bal Grade Yugoslavia Milosevic predicted Victory Tor his party but some polls indicated he would fall Short of his election goal. See Story on Page 4. Farrakhan for peace the Rev. Louis Farrakhan urged Blacks to take greater responsibility for addressing violence and to develop stronger spiritual discipline. A Page 6 benefits might be Cut members of a Clinton administration task Force have discussed cutting welfare benefits to Legal noncitizens As an option to fund welfare Reform programs administration sources say. A Page 7 Odds on favorite Rolf Kutz Mutz who once informed for the East German secret police was the Odds on favorite to become the first reconstructed communist to win a big City mayors Job in unified Germany. A Page 10 warning from Disney the Watt Disney co. Warned that it will Back off from its plans to build a . History theme Park unless Virginia a legislators support taxpayer financed improvements in roads and other infrastructure to support the Park a Page 18 Index Abby Ann Landers 24 automotive .13 classifieds .29-31 comics a 1 a a. 22-24 commentary .,17 crossword. 24 education. 14 faces n places 19 focus. 25-28_ Horoscope. 31 Jumble .31 letters. 15 Money matters.18 sports. 34-40 to listings .39 weather .15 go from Page 1 wounded and 300 or More somalis killed. The awful events of that Day changed everything. The death toll was terrible enough but one single sickening sight a a photograph of a mutilated do Soldier tied with rope before a be egg crowd a chilled Many who had continued to think charitably about the United states purpose in Somalia. Only four Days later president Clinton announced that troops would withdraw from their mercy Mission within six months by March 31. The withdrawal was not the fruit of Victory Somalia remained in deadly disarray. Instead it was inspired in great part by the revulsion of the american people when they saw the humiliating spectacle made of that one slain Soldier. And still who he was remains unknown. Of the 18 men killed by aided a a supporters five were reported missing until the somalis returned their remains. Quot they were the Only ones that could have been in that photograph Quot said Navy cmdr. Joe Gradisner a Pentagon spokesman assigned to answer Field questions about Somalia. Was he sgt. Thomas Field a skilled Mechanic from a family of Stock car racers whose father Felt uneasy about his Choice of an army career was he staff sgt. William Cleveland 34, whose military heritage dated Back to a Soldier who died fighting on the Union Side in the civil War and whose ambition since childhood was a life in uniform like his father was he chief warrant officer Raymond Frank 45, a Pilot for 27 years who dearly loved flying. Was he sgt. 1st class Randall Shug Hart a 35-year-old from Newville pa., who so loved the military that he made his wife Stephanie Promise never to ask him to quit or was he master sgt. Gary Gordon 33, whose funeral in Lincoln Maine the paper making town he left 15 years ago d Rew Hund reds o f mourn ers the Pentagon a position is this naming the Man in the picture serves no Pur Rose and would Only pain those who oved and lost him Quot they were american soldiers Quot Gra Disher said. Quot that in itself is jarring enough. You done to need an individuals name to express horror at the treatment of the bodies Quot Gradisher said he did not know if the Pentagon had even identified the Soldier in that indelible photograph a taken by Toronto Star reporter Paul Watson and distributed worldwide by the associated press a or other bodies shown in television footage. It the Apps Effort to determine their identities required Calls to relatives and others who knew the 18 men before the list could be narrowed to the five whose names the Pentagon then confirmed. Most of those reached were these five soldiers parents widows had moved had newly unlisted numbers or took Refuge behind the Shields military families learn to erect. And some who did not want to be quoted said it was better to leave the grieving alone. Nada Morford the Mother of William David Cleveland or fell that Way at first she knew her songs Stepmother had told a Virginia newspaper that she recognized David As the Man in the a photograph but Morford immediately protested saying it was not her son. Quot i want him to rest in peace and let him go a she said then. But Morford had Only glanced at the picture in the newspaper weeks before and the question gnawed at her. She went to the town Library to make photocopies of pictures in a time Magazine article. And then she asked a reporter for the a photograph. She swallowed tears As she described How she pored Over the pictures How she found contours that seemed so familiar but not enough for her to say with certainty that the Soldier in the photograph was her son Quot my son had Black eyebrows and eyelashes Quot Morford said a the Quot a the Soldier a a had Light hair Black  but then she said she noted that the legs and feet resembled David a. Quot i would hate to say this is positively my son and have it be somebody else so she said from her trailer Home in Peoria Ariz. Then she began to cry. Chief warrant officer 3 Michael Durant who was taken prisoner when his helicopter was shot Down and later released offers the five families at least some Comfort he believes All five men were dead before the. Somalis got to them. But Durant will not publicly even attempt to put a name on the face in the photograph. A a there a no Way to prove beyond any doubt a he said a so Why put the family through what they be already been through map photo family reunions army chaplain capt Ruben Coon above gets a Santa hat from his wife Cary and son Omar at fort Slenning ca., on sunday. Colon was one of about 400 soldiers from the 43rd engr Len who arrived Home from Somalia. At fort drum n.y., Kob Bynne Langford right kisses her husband spec. Joshua Langford of fort Worth Texas about 140 troops from the 2nd in 14th inf regt also returned Somalia from Page 1 auspices of the United nations. Fabbri a like Shalikashvil on a tour to Greet his country s peacekeeping soldiers for the holidays a confirmed that Rome also intends to pull out its contingent by the end of March italian state television said. Quot Shalikashvil is scheduled to travel in land to Bairoa today to meet with brie. Gen. Mona bag hat the commander of the Indian brigade that recently relieved French forces there. The . General is to return to the somalian capital tonight and meet with . Forces before con eluding his two Day visit Bennett said. Shalikashvil flew to Mogadishu from Nairobi Kenya where he reportedly met saturday night with retired . Adm Jonathan t. Howe . Special envoy to Somalia. Bennett confirmed that Howe is in route Back to the United Nat on for consultations the United states began pulling its combat troops out of Somalia on fonday Alta Ion 8iat took part in an oct. 3 clash that ruled 18 americans and prompted Clinton to Promise All troops would be out by the Enofk about 2,500 . Troops a 30 percent feta a a a it fun Tad thu Uwi Al Bath quote