European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Or it Etc ,19 9 3 afr one we. Doming Arroyo was the first service member to die in operation restore Hope. A Ball off tame erupts from the Branch Davidian compound in Waco Texas where More than 80 cult members were  among the year s victims by Jerry Schwartz the associated press t was not a Good year for children. Quot a 2-year-old boy was abducted from a Busy shopping mall in Liverpool England and killed by two 10-year-Olds. Seven homeless boys were massacred on the streets of rip de Janeiro Brazil. Three children died As a result of tainted hamburgers in Washington state. At year s end in Petaluma calif., there were tears for Polly Klaas a Little girl plucked from her own bed by a murderous intruder. And children were consumed by fire in Waco Texas in David Koresh s inferno. Quot do not do this to those people this is not the Way to end it Quot cried Fri agent Byron Sage As the first flames emerged. But 51 Days after the standoff began with an inept raid and the deaths of four Federal agents this is exactly How it ended a with an apocalypse ignited by a messianic madman. The Branch Davidian compound was in ashes and Koresh and More Dun 80 adherents were dead. Among them at least 17 children. So we must list children among the victims of 1993, a year when the victims were heartbreakingly apparent and victors were harder to come by. Indeed the victims were innumerable a six Long Island rail Road commuters gunned Down by a Man with a lethal Chip on his shoulder four shot dead in an Oxnard calif., unemployment office eight foreign visitors to Florida abortionist or. Thursday december 30, 1993 David Cunn shot by an abortion opponent. In Somalia Marine pfc. Domingo Arroyo 21, was the first to die in a mercy Mission that went terribly wrong in Early october. Americans watched in revulsion As another . Soldier s body was mutilated and dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. Enough president Clinton said a we re leaving. We did t even go to the former Yugoslavia. Instead the United states and other Powers sent ultimatums and humanitarian Aid and the death toll Rose to More than 200,000 men women and children and the misery was unending. Quot boredom shootings ii shells people being killed desperation starving misery i terror this is my life the life of an innocent 11 year old schoolgirl Quot wrote Zlata Filipovic in a diary published in 1993. For an instant a at 12 18 . Friday feb. 26 a International terror visited the army Chi James Joyce killed in Somalia is buried in Arlington a United states. At that moment a bomb planted in a Ford econ line Van ripped through level 2 of the world Trade Center s parking garage leaving a 200-foot-by-100-foot Crater. Six people died and 1,000 others were injured. Thousands struggled to find their Way Down As Many As 100 floors through smoke and darkness. Seventeen kindergarteners from . 95 in Brooklyn and their teacher Anne Marie Tesoriero were stuck in an elevator for five hours. They whiled away the time by singing the Barney theme song Quot i love you you love me ,. Within Days the arrests began a Muslim fundamentalists allegedly led by a Blind cleric Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman. Authorities alleged a conspiracy to murder and Kidnap and to bomb other new York landmarks. Somehow the arrests made americans fee More vulnerable no safer. Had the terrorist Genie been let out of the bottle on these shores. This was the nation that Bill Clinton had inherited barely a month before Clinton was neither a Winner nor a loser in 1993 a or rather be was both. Inaugurated on a Sun dappled Washington Day a his 14-minute speech a remarkable feat for a Man who tends to use 10 words where three might do a he immediately fell into a series of misfortunes. A Promise to admit Gays to the military ran into a political by saw transforming it to a policy of Quot Don t ask Don t Tell Quot and continued on Page the stars and stripes 13