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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, January 4, 1994

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 04, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the Star band stripes world tuesday january 4,1994 . Agencies abandon Soma i a n site after attack Mogadishu Somalia a two . Aid agencies deserted their Mogadishu offices monday amid a wave of attacks on humanitarian group throughout Somalia. The . Development program and the . High commissioner for refugees left their shared com Pound two Days after an unidentified attacker threw a firebomb at a nearby building. No one was Hurt. Unher officer Lawrence Mangson said the Agen cies had received further threats. But he did not . ". " / v elsewhere in the City machine gun fire could be heard near the line that divides the competing militias of South and North Mogadishu. But the source of the firing could not be determined. And outside the compound that serves As the com Mand Center for the 33,000 . And . Troops in so Malia turkish guards backed by american soldiers held a tense face off with a crowd of somalis seeking work with the United nations. The crowd which had heard rumours that employ ment would be offered during the morning grew rest less and blocked the main Road past the compound when the jobs failed to materialize. The turks fired tear Gas before moving armoured personnel carriers an soldiers into the Street. Eventually the situation settled Down and the .troops pulled Back to their usual guard posts. No injuries were reported. During the last few weeks the City had been Cal with both somalis and  officials waiting to see what happens after March 31, when the american an most other Western . Troops pull out of the coun try.  recently there have been a series of attacks Onaida agencies which often operate with armed somalian guards instead of . Military Protection. On saturday three gunmen attacked a . World food program compound in the Southern City of Bai doa killing a somalian guard and gravely wounding a somalian Driver. On Christmas eve two somalian Aid workers were injured when grenades were thrown into the Bairoa offices of Catholic Relief services and the Irish humanitarian group goal Ireland. . Military officials fear that the attacks May signal a wave of anti Christian violence by Muslim extremists. Before Christmas an Anonymous group claiming to represent fundamentalist  that it would kill anyone trying to spread christianity in Somalia. Somalia is a Muslim country but most somalis do not subscribe to violent religious views . Officials and Many somalis say. In an unrelated incident monday an american m88 armoured recovery vehicle was slightly damaged when it hit a mine on the Way to a training Range South of the capital. Neither Crew member was injured. The vehicle belongs to task Force 1-64 from fort Stewart a. Confronting death on the Beach three children look Over the carcass of a giant whale southwestern France. The cause of the 57-foot whale s they found washed up on a Beach sunday near Porge in death was not immediately known. Sarajevo shelling kills 5 in family Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a fierce shelling killed 15 people in Sarajevo on monday including five members of one family and a girl who was leaving kindergarten. " the latest tragedies of Sarajevo s 20-month siege came on a Fine Day that lured residents out during the first Lull in fighting since pre Christmas peace talks collapsed. But by Early afternoon shelling and sniping erupted All Over the City sending people scurrying for shelter. Fifteen shells hit near the . Headquarters and one Shell that fell about 500 Yards from the battered presidency building killed the five family members said a spokesman for .peacekeepers, maj. Ides Bald Van Biesbroeck. In All the United nations counted 14 dead on the bosnian Side including at least three children and 22 wounded he said. One woman was killed in serbian held districts. At least 203 incoming and 37 outgoing shells thudded Down. The girl was killed when two shells smashed into a crowd of children leaving a kindergarten in Western Sarajevo. I have seen Many dead and badly wounded people. Buti have never seen such horrible wounds As this said or. Jansina Tahr Naz in Sarajevo s main Hospital As she stared at the dead girl whose stomach was ripped open. There were a lot of children playing said Alma Begovic who suffered Light leg wounds in the Kinder Garten shelling. They just left kindergarten a few me ters Yards  serbian shelling of Sarajevo has increased markedly since peace talks stalled in Brussels Belgium on dec. 23. Fighting Between government and croatian Force sin Central Bosnia also has escalated sharply. Late on monday croatian television reported renewed government attacks on the bosnian croatian enclave of the lava Valley a key Region in Central Bosnia. Talks intended to end Central bosnian fighting reset for today in Vienna Austria Between bosnian prime minister Haris Silajdzic and croatian foreign minister mate Granic. Overall peace talks Are scheduled to resume Jan. 18 in Geneva. Trial set for 2 skinheads accused of beating athlete from wire reports Suhl Germany two Neo nazi skinheads who allegedly led a gang that beat up an american luge racer go on trial Here in two weeks court authorities said  two Are accused of leading about 10 skinheads who attacked Duncan Kennedy outside Abar in oberhoff a Winter sports Center in Eastern Germany last oct. 29. The suspects one 21 and the other 16 go on trial Jan. 17 in the District court in Suhl an East German City near oberhoff court spokesman Karsten Raub Keul said. The defendants Are charged with causing grievous bodily harm. Raub Keul said it was not Clear whether Kenned Yand other american athletes would be called to testify. The american luge team is scheduled to Bein oberhoff on Jan.10-16 for world cup races. British Columbia feels Jolt Victoria British Columbia a moderate earthquake Shook southwestern British Columbia on sunday but there were no reports of injuries or damage. The quake which measured 5.5 on the Richter scale was entered 95 Miles Northwest of Porta Bernt on Vancouver Island s West coast said Dieter Weichert a seismologist at the  Center. The closest populated centers were the towns of Zeballos and tans is where houses seemed to move Weichert  / turkish protesters detained Brussels Belgium police detained 63turkish immigrants following a second night of violent protests against the visit of kurdish activists Here officials said monday. Foreign minister Willy Claes planned to meet a kurdish delegation later monday. A demonstration of kurd in front of the european parliament building was also planned. Late sunday some 400 turkish immigrants demonstrated against the kurdish visit outside the police Headquarters of the Saint Josse neighbourhood. Fighting broke out when police wanted to disperse them. Of the 63, six were arrested while the others were released following a Brief detention. On saturday hundreds of turkish immigrants besieged a meeting of kurdish activists in Saint Josse where Many of the 12,000 turkish immigrants in Brussels live. They were angered when a Radical group demanding Independence for Kurdistan hoisted its Flag and shouted anti turkish slogans. Six turkish youths were arrested saturday. Some 200 kurd had arrived from the German City of Cologne on saturday to protest the turkish government s policies toward the kurd. Mother Teresa Blacks out Calcutta India Mother Teresa suffered a momentary blackout As she fell off her chair at Church sunday but was Fine and Back at work monday her office said. I Don t know what happened. Perhaps it was a Blessing of Jesus Christ the 83-year-old roman Catholic nun was quoted As saying later. Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel peace prize in1979 for her work with the poor suddenly slumped Forward and fell on the floor during prayers sunday at St. Mary s Church. Nuns sitting next to her helped her Back on the chair. Worker kills 60, himself Beijing a disgruntled employee at an explosives factory in Southern China blew up his workshop killing himself and 60 others including four military officials an official report said. The nov. 26 blast at the factory in Hunan province is one of the More spectacular examples of growing violence in China where social controls have eased As communist leaders have opened up the nation s Economy. Tan Zhixin a worker at the Nanjing chemical Plant in Shuan Pai county blew up his workshop after his request to become a factory Driver was rejected the Beijing youth news said in it weekend edition  
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