European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 05, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                \ \ above bosnian boys scrounge for sweets aboard a . Personnel Carrier. Left a swedish peacekeeper patrols Vares a City North of Sarajevo seized from the croats last month by Muslim forces. . Fight fear frustration and boredom by George Jahn the associated press peacekeeping in the former Yugoslavia is a Nightmare for most . Soldiers a Lark for a few. A Young Dane who had seen two comrades killed and gave his name Only As Karl was waiting for a plane Home after duty in Central Bosnia. The .? it s doing nothing he snorted wiping red rimmed eyes. It should pull out and let them bomb the hell out of each  Bryan Bach another Dane on a six month tour in Zagreb the croatian capital had a dramatically different Outlook. Homesick not really he said with a Grin then took one of the nude dancers at the Aloha nightclub to the rooms upstairs. The peacekeepers Are More than 25,000 soldiers and a relative handful of policemen and civilians from 32 countries.1 since they cannot keep a peace that has yet to arrive their main task is helping the hundreds of thousands of homeless and hungry created by a War that began in Croatia in mid-1991 and is still ravaging Bosnia. Members of up Rotor the . Protection Force Are United More by frustration than by their vague mandate As they watch former friends and neighbors kill each other in an ethnic and religious Bloodbath. Some complain of not being Able to strike Back when attacked either because they Are outgunned or because their orders require restraint others rail against . Bureaucrats in Zagreb or new York who they say make it harder for them to help people. All grapple with hatred or Lack of understanding by local residents and International criticism of their Mission. A report in november by humanitarian group doctors without Borders said . Attempts to mix humanitarian military political diplomatic and economic activities were misguided and ineffectual. Such criticism angers . Workers engaged in a selfless dangerous task away from Home. More than 60 . People have been killed in the 2-year-old peacekeeping Effort most of them by bullets shells or mines. The Gryfe test problem is not being Able to help p latvian and ukrainian girls Are Little Solace. Sometimes we go up to the room and just talk about Home and their girlfriends their wives their children. Sometimes we just listen to music Lena Ignatiev 18, said of some . Clients who pay $120 an hour for her services. Another Young woman said she would not take Money for sex with one Soldier because he was very scared he was shaking he had shrapnel or Bullet wounds All Over his  except in Zagreb sex and relaxation Are rare for the . Soldiers. In Sarajevo the other Large City with a sizable . Contingent the largely French peacekeepers Are confined to base after1 dark to keep them out of trouble. The same applies to the dozens of Small towns and villages where . Soldiers Are stationed. In France they have friends they can go out at night said capt. Pro Lippe Tanguy. But we just can t allow that. Here they go into town look for girls get into a fight. There Are too Many suns out  re he acknowledged however that a few probably break curfew and visit prostitutes if any officer said it never happened he would be  worse things than curfew breaking have been alleged. A . Commission is looking into possible Black Market ering by . Troopers and also is investigating reports that some took sexual advantage of Muslim and croatian women forced into prostitution at a serb run Brothel outside Sarajevo. Some women turn sexual advances by . Personnel to their advantage. I know he wants to sleep with me but he s not going to until i need him to get me out of the City a woman named Alma said after keeping an amorous influential . Suitor at Bay for hours at a party. Some genuine romances develop. A nigerian officer on duty near Petrinjak in serb held Croatia married a local girl and left with her earlier this year and a polish officer found a wife at the Post office in Slung to the South. For most peacekeepers however work alcohol and sleep Are the Only escapes from the blood and brutality. On a lonely stretch of Road in Southeastern Croatia last summer i saw a Man a woman and another Man said Cpl. Sam Dow a Canadian. I thought they were just having a cordial neighbourly talk. All of a sudden one of the men picked up a Board and hit the other one repeatedly. He fell and did t move. I think he killed him. It s something that bothers me even now though it happened when i was Only Here a couple of weeks said Dow who operates heavy equipment to keep roads open for . Convoys. Maj. Morris Zuinga a nigerian who watches out for the few frightened muslims u a e c c Civ ii r 2 s r 20 the stars and stripes wednesday january 5,1994