European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 09, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday january 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 13 serbs Call cease fire then begin new attacks Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a a cease fire announced by bos Nian serbs turned into another disappointment saturday As shells exploded throughout embattled Sarajevo. The shelling forced suspension of vital Relief flights for the fourth consecutive Day and prevented bosnian president Alija ize Begovic from travelling to Ger Many for talks with croatian president Franjo Tadjman. Bosnia s serbian military information Center had sent faxes to news agencies Friday night saying the serbs had pro claimed a unilateral cease fire at the Sarajevo War but the announcement had Little effect saturday As the Boom of artillery and crackle of Small arms fire echoed across the City. At least two people were killed and 10 wounded before midday said officials of Bosnia s Muslim led military. Shelling in Friday the serbian Ortho Dox Christmas killed at least six people hospitals reported. . Observers said they counted 350 incoming projectiles from serbian positions and fewer than 10 outgoing from the government Side. Serbian forces besieging Sarajevo have shelled the City intensely for the past week killing dozens of people and prompting International outrage. Baby on Board gets free flights Jerusalem a David Cohen flew free from the beginning. Now hell Fly free to the end. Cohen was born in 1950 on. A plane smuggling jews from Iraq to the new jewish state. His Good timing Means he will get free tickets on Al Al for life spokesman for Al Al Israel airlines said Friday. The circumstances of Cohen s birth came up when the israeli airline organized a reunion last week for the Pilot Sand passengers of operation Ali Baba spokesman Nahman Klieman said. No one could recall who gave birth tothe baby Klieman said so a Call was put out through the israeli Media. Retired flight attendant Liana Marcus told Israel television that she remembered delivering a baby girl. Cohen 43, and his Mother Hana Cohen 70, saw the Story. I called the television to Tell Liana i was alive a dwell and a boy not a girl David Cohen told the Dediot Ahrnot newspaper. He was presented with a voucher for the free flights at the reunion. Al Al smuggled some 120,000 jews out of Iraq from 1949 to 1952. The plane were flown by Volunteer american pilots and were packed to the brim. Fires scorch Australia australian firefighters struggle to save a Home in Chat Wood a Sydney suburb As a Bush fire rages hear them saturday. Firestorm i 11 4, threaten a resident of Terry Hills a suburb of Sydney Australia loads his car to evacuate from oncoming Bush tires. Sydney Australia flames ringed the outskirts of Sydney on sat urday claiming a fourth life and destroying scores of houses As Forest fire burned their Way across Australia s hot dry and Windy Southeast. Police have arrested 11 suspected arsonists including two teen agers amid claims that More than half the 125 fires aging in the area last week were deliberately set. Thousands of people have been evacuated and hundreds treated for Burns and smoke inhalation. A 37-year-old woman died saturday when a firestorm overran her Home in Janna i a Sydney suburb according to the Bushfire services commission. He two children aged 8 and 12,-were badly burned. Unconfirmed reports said the three had tried to escape the flames by jump ing into their swimming Pool. Three other deaths two of them fire fighters have been blamed on the blazes. At least 100 houses reportedly have been destroyed and hundreds More re main threatened by the fires some jus five Miles from downtown Sydney Australia s largest City with 3.6 million peo ple. A thick smoke Haze covered the area triggering automatic Street lights hours before Sunset. The shells of Sydney s landmark Harborside opera House normally a Bright and shiny White in Sunshine were a Dull Orange. Police were patrolling burned out areas following reports of looters. The government has posted a $68,000reward for information on How the fires started and by saturday had received 850 phone Calls from people claiming to have seen arsonists. Summer temperatures soared to More than 104 degrees and wind gusted up to 60 Mph saturday the fifth Day of the emergency. Meteorologist said rain needed to extinguish the tires is not expected for Days. The fires were the worst in Australia since european colonization 200 years ago said fire official Phil Koperberg. Thousands fled to makeshift shelters in other communities. Those who stayed Home were Given instructions on How to survive the fires. More than 1.2 million acres of Forest and Grassland were scorched along the800-mile Eastern Seaboard of new South Wales state. It s a huge disaster and it is getting worse fire spokesman Malcolm of Croft said. Major highways North and West of Sydney were closed. Hundreds of motorists were stranded on a freeway that was closed when a series of fires jumped its six lanes. Investigators in Georgia confirm ousted Leader s suicide Tbilisi Georgia a ousted president killed himself on georgian territory a team of investigators said saturday according to the inter fax news Concession comes after top officials including georgian Leader Eduard a. Shevardnadze had expressed doubts about Gamsa Hurdia s reported suicide and suggested instead that he was slain by associates. Shevardnadze s press Secretary Zaza Candelaki told inter fax that investigators still Don t know where Gam Sak Hurdia s body is. On wednesday Gamsa Hurdia s wife announced the nationalist Leader s death saying he had killed himself on new year s eve after being surrounded by pro government fighters in Western Georgia. Gamsa Hurdia had been leading a rebellion in the West against Shevardnadze s government. Shevardnadze sent a team of investigators to Grozny capital of the breakaway russian Republic of chechen to find out if his archrival was really dead. Gamsa Hurdia 54, had lived in Grozny since his ouster two years ago. Inter fax said the team identified two witnesses s death but was prevented from inter viewing them by Gamsa Hurdia s family. The Leader of the team Deputy prosecutor general Surab Dziordz Hikiya told inter fax that the family also refused to permit an autopsy. The location of the body was still unclear. Gam Sathur Dia s wife Manana said the body was in a Safe place
