European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 04, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes world tuesday january 4.1994 u. N. Agencies a b a n d o n somalian site after attack Mogadishu Somalia a two , Aid agencies deserted their Mogadishu offices monday amid a wave of attacks on humanitarian groups 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 elaborate.  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 and 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 Calm with oth 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. A. " ". But recently there have been a series of attacks on Aid 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 muslims warned 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 of 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 reportedly kills 2 kids Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a two children were reported killed and several others wounded monday in shelling of a Western Sarajevo neighbourhood that abruptly ended a Brief respite from weeks of heavy bombardment. Belma Dele 7, sat in her father s Lap at Sarajevo main Hospital scared and crying her left loot wounded. At least two children were killed according to a Driver who took them to the morgue. The shells hit in the Western neighbourhood of Otoka. The night had been unusually quiet after weeks of fairly consistent shelling. . Officials said fighting had died Down in much of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnian prime minister Haris Silajdzic said he would hold talks today in Vienna Austria with croatian for eign minister mate Granic. The meeting apparently intended to end fierce Muslim croatian fighting in Cen trial Bosnia comes ahead of new peace talks in Geneva on Jan. 18. We have the impression today at least and the two last Days that it has been very quiet in the total of bos Nia Herzegovina except Sarajevo where there is still tension said a spokesman for . Peacekeepers maj. Ides Bald Van Biesbroeck. Mostar a City in the Southwest that is divided be tween muslims and croats also was still not very quiet he said. Sarajevo was quiet sunday evening after . Monitors recorded 333 incoming shells and 33 outgoing Dur ing the Day. One person was killed and seven wounded on the bosnian government Side and one person was killed on the serbian Side sunday Van Biesbroeck said. The area around Buso Vaca and Dubravich in Central Bosnia heavily contested Between Muslim led govern ment troops and croatian militias was the site of heavy Small arms and mortar fire sunday morning. Croatian radio said 10 people mostly women re turning from Church were wounded sunday in what it claimed was a government offensive on Buso Vaca. 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 monday. The two Are accused of leading about 10 skinheads who attacked Duncan Kennedy outside a bar 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  whether Kennedy and other american athletes would be called to testify. The american luge team is scheduled to be in oberhoff on Jan. 10-Lo 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 port Alberni on Vancouver Island s West coast said Dieter Weichert a seismologist at the Pacific Geo science  closest populated centers were the towns of Zeballos and Tahsis where houses seemed to move Weichert said. Turkish protesters detained Brussels Belgium police detained 63 turkish 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 its weekend edition