European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. January 19, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 9 bulgarians ready to join nato partnership plan from wire reports Sofia Bulgaria the Cabinet has approved Bulgaria s participation in nato s partnership for peace program aimed at linking the Alliance with Eastern Europe. A group headed by the Bulgaria s defens minister is to work out proposals for joining the plan a government spokesman said monday. The plan approved at a nato Summit last week offers Eastern european countries political and military cooperation including joint Maneu vers with the North Atlantic treaty organization but not full membership. Like other former soviet bloc countries Bulgaria seeks membership. ,." the three former soviet Baltic republics have also welcomed the scheme. Since winning Independence in 1991, Lithuania Latvia and Estonia have expressed Security concerns fearing russian expansion. Russian kills Asylum seeker Potsdam Germany a russian Soldier on guard duty at a former soviet Barracks South Oberlin killed an Asylum seeker from Azerbaijan who was chasing a suspected thief police said monday. Police said the incident occurred sunday. They said the Asylum seeker and an ethnic German from Russia were chasing a woman and two men who had stolen a leather jacket from them at a Flea Market operating near the Barracks at Sterenberg. The woman fled with the jacket toward the Barracks while her accomplices fought with the 27 year old Asylum seeker to prevent him from catching her Potsdam police said. As the woman neared the Barracks Entrance a russian Soldier on guard duty fired several shots mortally wounding the azerbaijani. Police said that the guard insisted that he Only fired warning shots to keep the group from entering the compound however no one else involved in the incident had a weapon. No arrests were made and an investigation continues police said. The names of those involve were not released. Outgoing . Forces chief a criticizes Somalia Mission Mogadishu Somalia a the outgoing com Mander of . Forces in Somalia said tuesday that the operation has failed to disarm clans and militias and May never be Able to leave this nation with a lasting peace. " -. " it. Gen. Cevik Bir of Turkey also said future .humanitarian efforts can Only succeed if nations such As the United states Are prepared to place their sol Diers under . Commanders and keep them deployed even if some troops Are killed the world must decide the role the United nations is to play in making this a better world Bir said in a letter to . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali. President Clinton ordered . Troops who Spear headed the operation and remain its Linchpin out of Somalia by March 31 after the country s militias downed two . Helicopters in Early october the ambushed . Army rangers sent in to one of the crashes. Eighteen . Soldiers were killed 75 were wounded and 300 somalis reportedly died in the clash. The bloody debacle was a Low Point in the Mission that began dec. 9, 1992, when .-led multinational forces landed to protect Relief supplies to a country where 350,000 people died in 1991-92 from famine an clan warfare. The humanitarian Mission turned into combat when clan Leader Gen. Mohamed Farrah aided began opposing . Efforts to organize a new government and launched ambushes and attacks starting in june. After the october Battle he declared a cease fire. But the militias that he and his main somalian foe in Mogadishu control appear to be rearming in preparation for the . Withdrawal and Are already taking Over positions abandoned by . Forces in Mogadishu. Boutros Ghali urged other countries not to abandon Somalia but Many Western nations have ignored him and begun withdrawing their forces too although third world nations such As India and Pakistan Are keeping troops in Somalia the . Chief has asked the Security Council to consider reducing its Force and its goals in Somalia. Like Many other people Bir praised the . And re Lief agencies for ending Somalia s famine reducing its rampant diseases rebuilding roads and schools and be ginning to recreate police forces and Community governments. But he criticized the . Operation for being disorganized and unable to state its goals and priorities. After a year in Somalia there is no doubt that a lasting peace can Only be achieved when the Somalia factions and clans have been disarmed Bir said but we still have not succeeded in doing  japanese woman turns 115 Tokyo a Tane Sikai Japan s oldest citizen celebrated her 115th birthday tuesday witha bouquet of Flowers in her hos Pital room in Central Japan. Sikai was born in 1879 to a farming family in Nagoya 168 Miles West of Tokyo where she still lives. After suffering a stroke two years ago Sikai was moved to a Hospital affiliated with a local Home for the aged. She s bedridden but has three meals of Rice Gruel a Day. She Speaks to Hospital staff when she feels Good said Kazuhiko Crada an official at the Hospital. He said she celebrated her birthday quietly with Flowers sent from Nagoya s mayor and others. How to reach 150,000 readers for just $51.72 that s How Little this space can Cost to advertise your Bazaar test Marathon. You name it. For More info on our new and sires and rates Call Germany civilian 06155-601443 or Dan 348-8443. Wartime Coper netted milk for a Boot Crew Wellington new zealand a German a boat sailors thirsty for fresh milk apparently invaded new Zea land in world War ii sneaking into a Farmer s Field to raid his Dairy Herd. It s a Story that took 49 years to be told and one that has elements of a Clas sic wartime drama a a boat with a fear less Captain secret night landings by spies on a Dinghy and the Clandestine milking of the cows. Evidence Points to landings by the u boat in Napier on have be Bay on the East coast of new zealand s North Island in 1945. Air marshal sir Rochford Hughes one of new zealand s most honoured officers wrote in the latest Issue of the Veteran newspaper review that the submarine was on extended patrol from japanese held Singapore. Hughes said that in the late 1950s, he met the a boat s commander Heinrich Timm at a nato base near Germany s Wilheim shaven naval base. Timm said his a boat had been sent to Napier new zealand to Check reports that an Allied freighter was loading meat there for the War Effort. But the freighter had engine trouble and stayed in port so the submarine waited for three Days and nights before giving up. Timm then re called two details of that stay. He and his Crew used binoculars to watch women dancing in a Hall near the Harbor. And some Crew members went ashore at night and milked some cows. It seems we had some milk taken which was t paid for Hughes concluded. Former Napier Farmer Frank Steiner said monday that he believes it was his cows that were clandestinely milked by the germans. He ran the nearest Dairy farm to Napier and recalled that there was a Day during the War years when his Herd of cows was suspiciously dry. Steiner said his farm s location also fit with the a boat commander s anecdote. Both his farm and the dance Hall would be visible from a a boat at sea. The new zealand ship and Marine society says records show German u boat u862, commanded by it. Cmdr. Heinrich Timm Sank eight freighters in the Indian Ocean and Tasman sea. Biker Dies after Kite line cuts Throat new Delhi India a a Sharp ened line used to Fly a Kite was blamed monday for slashing the Throat of a motorcyclist and killing him. . Sanal an Engineer with the irrigation department in Orissa Eastern India was driving to a meeting in Shuba Meswar the Orissa state capital when the Accident occurred United news of India said. 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