European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 2 stars and stripes monday dec Ember to 1993 a i at a glance it Slobodan Milosevic Serbia s nationalist president greets reporters at a polling station sunday in Belgrade Yugoslavia. Milosevic predicted Victory for his parly but some polls indicated he would foil 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  Page 6 targeting noncitizens 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 a Page 7 sex communist losing Eastern German voters turned Back a former communist s bid to become mayor of the capital of Brandenburg state according to exit polls sunday a Page 10 warning from Disney the Walt 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 reads and other infrastructure to support the Park. A Page 18 i Index j Abby Ann Landers. 24 automotive .13 classifieds.29-31 comics .22-24 commentary. 17 crossword.24 education.14 faces a places 19 focus .2528 horoscope31 Jumble .31 letters. 16 Money matters .18 sports.34-40 to listings. 39 weather.15gl 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 dead Soldier tied with rope before a jeering 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 a opt 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. A they were the Only ones that could have been in that photograph a 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 career7 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 sing 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 Drew hundreds of mourners the Pentagon a position is this naming the Man in the picture serves no purpose and would Only pain those who loved and lost him. A they were american soldiers a Gra Disher said. A that in itself is jarring enough. You done to need an individual s name to express horror at the treatment of the  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. T 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 jr., Felt 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. A i want him to rest in peace and let him go, 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. A 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. �?o1 would hate to say this is positively my son and have it be somebody else v 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 there s no Way to prove beyond any doubt Quot he said a so Why put the family through what they be already been through Quot a a army chaplain capt Ruben Colon gets a Santa hat from his wife Cary and son Omar at fort Denning co., on sunday. Colon was one of about 400 soldiers from he 43rd engr in who arrived Home from  from Pago 1 Rome also intends to pull out its contingent by the end of March italian state television said. Shalikashvil is scheduled to travel Inland to Bardba today to meet with Brig. Gen. Mono 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 nations for consultations. The United Stales began pulling its combat troops out of Somalia on Friday starting with the battalion that took  in an oct. 3 clash that killed 18 americans and prompted Clinton to Promise All troops would be out by the end of March about 2,500 . Troops a 30 percent of the total . Ground Force a Are to leave by Christmas. A contingent of . Marines anchored off Mogadishu will be the last to leave .-led multinational forces first arrived in Somalia on dec. 9, 1992, to protect Relief supplies to a country where 350,000 died last year from famine and clan warfare. As the americans leave a 28,599-member , Force from 29 nations is staying behind amid questions about How effective it Wilt be. On saturday nearly 450 members of the 2nd in 14th inf regt returned from Somalia to fort drum . They arrived to a hero s Welcome thankful to be Home for Christmas. Hundreds of relatives and friends packed a gym at the Northern new York army Post during a ceremony to Greet them. On sunday another 140 troops from the same regiment arrive Home to fori drum. Also sunday about 400 soldiers from the 43rd engr in arrive at fort Denning ga., from  from Pago 1 or said a an unsolved homicide is a terrible thing to have on the books. So they close them out As suicide. Who a going to complain about an extra suicide or two a except maybe the  self inflicted deaths Are the third leading cause of death in the military behind accidents and illness according to defense department figures. From october 1979 to june 1993, the military ruled 3,375 deaths As suicides compared to 1,460 homicides the figures show. Among . Civilians there Are roughly eight homicides to every 10 suicides in a typical year the newspaper said. Spokesmen for three military investigative agencies disputed allegations that agents tailor evidence to fit suicide rulings. A we do not take shortcuts just to get a Case Over with a said cmdr. Kevin Mukri spokesman for the naval criminal investigative service. There is no career Benefit for an agent to go easy on a  the cases reviewed by the newspaper included army military policeman Chad Langford. Army investigators ruled that he shot himself to death inside his car near an army Arsenal in Alabama in 1982. The inquirer said the investigators could not find Langford a fingerprints on the gun that killed him or determine if he had fired a gun. Unidentified fingerprints were found on his radio and Handcuffs which were found hanging by his left wrist. Cords were Ted around his Ankles and neck. It said the air Force ruled that airman Allen Sulu hanged himself with a Sheet Strung from a door opener in july 1992, even though Shults was taller than the opener. Autopsy photographs showed Marks on shul Srneck that a medical examiner said were not caused by the Sheet. The dead servicemen exhibited few traits that suicide experts associate with self inflicted deaths such As drug abuse or a history of previous attempts the inquirer reported relatives described the men As positive and upbeat before their deaths. In Many of the cases the soldiers were under investigation for policy violations or had recently complained about life in the military the inquirer said. Ten of the victims told relatives they had discovered drug Traft eking or weapons smuggling on their bases the newspaper said