European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world wednesday january 12,1994 s 6 raid i is f ree a id worker dad s ays London a the father of a British Aid worker kidnapped while walk ing on a Mogadishu Street said his so was freed unharmed by his somalian Cap tors tuesday. There was no immediate confirmation from Somalia where communications Are spotty. Aid officials said earlier tuesday that somalian elders were helping the Effort to secure the release of Calum Gardner 35. Gardner was kidnapped by three men monday while walking to his office at the ten. World food program. It was not immediately known who kidnapped him. Thomas Gardner of Carlisle England said his son was unharmed apart from a nerve racking and distressing expert  it would be impossible to express the extreme sense of Relief he said. He said it was too Early to say whether his son would stay in Somalia for the remaining eight months of his contract As finance officer for the . Food Agency. He is a pretty determined Young Man and i think he has been enjoying the work there Gardner said. It was More than just a Job to him. It was a rewarding Way of life really. I can fully understand How he  Calum Gardner went to Somalia in october 1992 As an employee for the Aid group save the children. He joined the world food program two months ago., with the United states and other Western nations withdrawing troops fro the . Peacekeeping Force the Security situation for civilian Aid workers has grown markedly worse. There is Little fighting among the clan militias. But banditry and other violence have been grow ing the safety of Aid workers and food shipments was one of the major justifications for the  intervention in so Malia 13 months ago. Ers join Battle against Paris a helicopters and work Crews tuesday dumped hundreds of sandbags and Concrete blocks into the rain swollen Rhone River that threat ened towns in the Ca Margue lowlands of Southern France. Meanwhile 600 firefighters and about100 foreign legionnaires cleared debris and brought supplies to residents in Tri nearby Vaucluse Region where flooding forced 6,000 people from their Homes. Rain several times above Normal has swamped Large stretches of Northern an Southern France since mid december killing at least 11 people this month alone. Three of six missing people were found dead monday. Northern Spain also was hit by heavy rain Over the past week. Five helicopters dropped Sand an Concrete along the Rhone which breached one Dike in a dozen place overnight monday. Officials doubled work Crews to 40 to plug any new leaks. In the Vaucluse Region near Avignon,24,000 acres were under Rhone River a huge chunk of a Spanish Highway near Porrino is missing after landslides played havoc in Southern France and Northern Spain. Water. About 50 Homes were evacuated civil defense officials on Alert at Pierre Latte where the River Rose 20 the Seine in Paris stabilized but con inches in less than half an hour overnight tinted to flood the quays where House monday. The rising Saone River forced boat owners waded Chest deep to get to closure of southbound traffic on the main their moorings and tour cruisers were Paris Lyon Highway at Macon and put shutdown. A novel Way to enjoy a great Book nightmares dreams apes Stephen King s nightmares and dreams cripes read by All Star ensemble eight unabridged selections Over 11 hours on 8 cassettes publisher s list 30.00 95 Bram Stoker s or icel i read by Richard e. 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Rules of engagement said the spokesman col. Steve Rausch. Evidence made Public by the us. Military suggested the marines fired High Caliper weapon one usually used to penetrate the engines of moving vehicles into the Market area where the woman 30-year-Oldhalima Khalif Ibrahim sat at her Tea stall. Skinheads Cut girl Berlin German police said tuesday that three Neo nazi skinheads carved a Swastika into the face of a 17-year-old disabled girl in wheelchair. Officers said a nationwide search was under Way for the rightist youths who carried out the attack in the Eastern German City of Halle. A police spokesman said the Trio carved a nazi Swastika into the girl space with a Sharp instrument. Disabled people the homeless Gay Sand foreigners have been targets of Neo nazis violence. Gun wielder jailed Windsor Ontario a woman who shot her estranged husband inthe buttocks after seeing him with another woman was sentenced to six months in a county jail and ordered to perform 500 hours of Community service. Mary Talbot 43, of Colchester South township near Windsor pleaded guilty monday to aggravated assault in the shooting of Robert Talbot from whom she had Bee separated for six months. Mary Talbot went to her estranged husband s Home May 29 and saw him sitting with another woman the court was told. She stormed off an returned a few hours later after buying Shotgun shells and taking her brother s Shotgun bus plunge kills 4 Beijing a speeding bus drive trying to overtake other cars on a narrow Rural Bridge caused his vehicle to plunge into a River in Eastern China killing four people and leaving at least 40 presumed dead a newspaper reported tuesday. The Driver who along with seven others was plucked from the River by fishermen admitted to overloading his bus with 53 passengers and driving recklessly after his bus tumbled through a restraining Wall and plunged into the River in Zhijian province. Live bomb found Manila Philippines philippine construction workers have uncovered live 1,000-Pound bomb believed to have been dropped by a . Plane during the retaking of Manila i world War ii. A bomb disposal unit was called to the City s Makati financial District and removed the lethal relic for disarming