European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 08, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5Serbian shelling slackers on Holiday Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a ser Bian shelling of Sarajevo decreased slightly Friday the Day of serbian orthodox Christmas. But at least three people were killed As mortars pounded the City Center and shells sliced overnight into a Western suburb. Ten other people were wounded two severely Hospi Tal workers said. The City morgue reported receiving 11 bodies Friday most of them apparently people who died of injuries suffered in thursday s bombardment of residential areas. At least 40 people have been killed in Sarajevo this week. . Peacekeepers said the shelling followed bosnian government attacks on the front lines of bosnian serbs. The serbs retaliated with fierce bombardment particularly of residential areas. The bosnian army is much More aggressive in Trie last month said spokesman it. Col. Bill Aikman. Thursday s shelling started after fierce government serbian fighting around a jewish cemetery and the con tested suburb of Grba Vica Aikman said. Sarajevo Airport the capital s lifeline to the world was closed for a third Day. The City of 380,000 also was without Power water or Gas. In the Muslim half of the divided City of Mostar Doc tors and City authorities issued an Appeal to the world for food Medicine and action to save them. We have been living eight months already in cellars hungry and thirsty naked and Barefoot without electricity and fuel lacking medicament and equipment. Forgotten by the rest of the world said the Appeal re leased by the bosnian embassy in Zagreb Croatia. It said that a real catastrophe threatens the Medie Val Type care doctors must use to treat 5,000 wounded and sick 60 percent of whom Are children women and oldmen. ". / Mostar was the scene of heavy Battles Between mus lims and bosnian croatian forces for most of last year. On thursday More than 900 projectiles from mor tars artillery tanks and multiple rocket launchers slammed into Sarajevo wounding five French . . Expert on Balkans quits in frustration from wire reports Washington a former ambassador to Yugoslavia is resigning from the foreign service in protest Over . Policy in Bosnia and other aspects of foreign policy an official said thursday. Warren Zimmerman 59, is the fifth state department official to quit for reasons related to the Bosnia policy Over the past 17 months. Of the five Zimmerman is by far the most senior. His office said he was refusing reporters Calls. After serving  to Belgrade Zimmerman returned to the state department in 1992 As director of the office of refugee affairs the Post he was holding at the time of his resignation. The official who asked not to be identified said Zimmerman initially supported the limited . Role in Bosnia and Herzegovina but has become increasingly disenchanted with the policy. The Clinton administration has expressed a willingness to Send troops to help Monitor any cease fire the warring factions May reach in Bosnia and to order airstrikes if serbian forces attempt to strangle Sarajevo the bosnian capital. Zimmerman a foreign service officer for More than three decades also based his resignation on personal frustration that he had not been appointed to a new Job. The Job which will be created soon is called assistant Secretary of state for population and refugee migration affairs. State department officials acknowledged that the White House had rejected Secretary of state Warren Christopher s recommendation to appoint Zimmerman despite a widespread feeling in the administration that he is the person Best qualified to fill it. White House personnel officials have insisted that the Job be Given to a woman or a nonwhite Man the officials said. Peacekeepers and killing at least four people. Residents in Western Sarajevo woke at 2 30 . As six heavy howitzer shells slammed into or near apart ments. At least one person was killed there. Several heavy mortar rounds thundered into Central Sarajevo on Friday morning one of them Landing 50 to 60 Yards from the battered bosnian presidency build ing. Two people died. Workers in the building spent the night there thurs Day for the first time in nearly 21 months of War be cause shelling made it too dangerous to leave. The upsurge in shelling has dimmed Hopes for any peace Accord at Geneva talks scheduled for Jan. 18 and renewed Calls for foreign intervention. Bosnian Premier Haris Silajdzic said thursday in Bonn Germany this is a Good Opportunity for action by those who said they would use Force if serbian Artil Lery attacks on Sarajevo  France on Friday intensified Calls for .-Backcd military intervention in Bosnia after the five French peacekeepers were wounded. Madeleine k. Albright the . Ambassador to the United nations said Friday that blocking Aid convoys should be considered a War crime. The United nations says All three sides have blocked Aid convoys. Albright spoke a Day after visiting a mass grave out Side Vukovan Croatia a City destroyed by the serbs be fore they took it in november 1991. New rain brings havoc to soaked South of France the restaurant la Paella is surrounded by water As winds Rise to so Mph at Sausset ies pins in France s Mediterranean Region thursday. Fierce Rains have been pounding and flooding the South of France. Paris a a new Winter storm dumped More Snow and rain on an already soggy Southern France on Friday causing blackouts blocking roads and forcing hundreds from their  raging River near Avignon washed away a car with a 12-year-old boy aboard after the Mother who was driving him to school escaped. Divers launched a search. At least eight people have died in two weeks of flooding across France hit by heavy rainfall that has also put portions of Britain Belgium and Germany under water since  towns were on Alert in Southern France including areas hard hit by deadly flooding in 1992, and officials expected no Relief until at least today. Officials said the Ca Margue Region of the Rhone River Delta could face the worst flooding in a Century. About 300 people were evacuated along the Durance River near Avignon 330 Miles South of Paris officials said. Dozens of others including boarding school students Farmers campers and horse riders were evacuated from nearby  least 700 firefighters were mobilized to prepare for Rescue operations in the Vaucluse Region where the ouse be River had risen Over its Banks Friday in Faison la Romaine and other towns. Most of the 38 people who Dieden flooding in september 1992 were in Faison a Romaine. Heavy Snow caused a transformer to catch fire cutting off Power Friday morning to 80,000 people in the Forez area West of Lyon 280 Miles Southeast of Paris electric it de France said. In the Southern Alpes maritime Region 3,000 people lost Power because of an Avalanche. Fuel spill from Barge stains san Juan beaches san Juan puerto Rico a a Barge carrying More than 1.5 million Gal Lons of diesel fuel struck a reef off the puerto rican capital Friday blackening the City s Palm lined beaches. The diesel covered a Cambron Beach in san Juan s Puerta de Tierra Section and a private Beach owned by the exclusive Caribe Hilton hotel. Currents moved the spill and its overpowering stench West toward the walled colonial City of old san Juan and East toward the con Dado and Ocean Park tourist sections. The Oil spill comes at the height of puerto Rico s Winter tourist season. We Are talking about a disaster said Benito Pinto a senior official with puerto Rico s department of natural resources. Pinto estimated the san Juan beaches would be closed for at least a month. Beaches and resorts outside san Juan were not immediately affected. The spill began about 4 . When the line broke on the tugboat towing the mor Ris j. Burman Barge. It was t immediately Clear How much fuel had spilled. At least two of the Barge s nine tanks ruptured on the reef. Six foot High Waves and 10-15 Mph winds kept . Coastguard specialists from reaching the ves Sel which was still leaking fuel 500 Yards offshore at mid morning coast guard spokesman Christopher Haley said. Three c-130 cargo planes carrying equipment and special coast Gud Oil fighting personnel were in route from Al Obama and new Jersey Haley said. Vacationers began planning to leave Early said Ralph Perez a manager at the Radisson Normandie hotel. Nearby hotels moved people to higher floors because of the fumes and some chartered buses to other beaches on the Island. I just Don t believe it. I walked Down Here just ready to Lay in the Sun. This is Ter Rible said Betty sue Cooper of Dallas who stood on the Caribe Hilton Beach carrying sunglasses a Towel and fashion magazines. Cooper said she arrived thursday night but because of the spill is considering going to the Bahamas