European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday january 23,1994 at a glance former president Bush says presi Dent Clinton s top foreign policy aides More than Clinton himself arc to blame for . Setbacks in Haiti and Bosnia and Herzegovina but Bush said it was too Early to Grade Clinton s Overall performance on foreign policy. Sec Story on Page 5. Maybe in May members of a new Federal task Force held out Hope that they will be Able by May to define the mysterious illnesses that have plagued hundreds of persian Gulf War veterans. Pages gridlock broken president Clinton said saturday that we be broken gridlock and transformed the nation s Agenda in the course of his first year in office. Pages instructions ignored supervisors in charge of the raid on the Branch Tavidian compound ignored instructions to Call off the raid if they lost the element of sur prise a Federal agent testified. Page 10 switching sides the Board of Paramount communications inc. Terminated its merger agreement with ivc network inc. To endorse the latest bid from its rival Viacom inc. Page 20 Index Abby Ann Landers. 17 classifieds. 24-28 commentary .15 faces n places. 17 Horoscope 26 letters. 14 Money matters 20,23 Mutual. 21-23 sports 29-36 weather. 16 Indonesia mulls magic visit notion considers exception to ads re ated ban from wire reports Jakarta Indonesia government officials Are trying to decide whether to allow Ervin magic Johnson into the country on his scheduled visit with a basketball team. On Friday the director general of immigration Roni Sika sin Raya said he would Block the basketball Star s visit because of his aids  the official said a 1992 immigration Law allows the government to refuse peo ple with contagious diseases entry to the country. However sin Raya said saturday that an exception could be made by the health minister or the youth affairs and sports minister if one of them decides the benefits of the visit outweigh the risks. Johnson was scheduled to arrive in Jakarta on feb. 24 along with other players for three Days of exhibition games at the invitation of Indonesia s basketball association. The games in Johnson elude an exhibition match to raise funds for aids. An indonesian legislator Narsiah boy said if the government decides to bar John son s entry it would prompt criticism from the International  this would be bad for Indonesia be cause it would signal we Don t understand about the spread of aids he said. Ary Sumarsono promoter for the exhibition said he is aware of the reaction to Johnson s arrival and for that reason he said i will immediately submit a letter of permit to  in los Angeles Johnson s agent brushed off sin Raya s statement As a Case of someone speaking out of place the sports health and information ministers Nave Given clearance for Earvin to be in Indonesia. They Are absolutely letting him in Lon Rosen said after talking with promoters of the three games. It s just a Case of somebody speaking out of  soldiers from Page 1 Are Good for swimming but swatches of the Bay Are off limits to the town s Small Fleet of fishing trawlers the seabed is littered with sunken vessels from the Allied Landing. The unzip attack was an attempt to help the Allied army stalled to the South near Monte Cassino break through the Tough German defences. The very inva Sion of Italy was aimed at drawing Ger Man forces away from the russian front and from the Normandy landings. About 68,000 British . And other Allied soldiers hit the Sands. The Landing went smoothly and remained a Surprise. But the germans quickly massed a fierce counterattack and the allies barely Clung to their beachhead in world War i like Trench warfare. About 22,000 Allied soldiers and 25,000 germans died before the allies broke out in May to March on Rome. Nobody in the United states knows anything but Normandy said retired Brig. Gen. De Thomas a 75-year-old Charlotte ., head of the veterans of the 1st special service Force a unit of canadians and americans who fought Here. I m fighting to change this. There s a lot of men out there he said sweeping his hand toward the convex rows of White Marble crosses at the american Ceme Tery. ".". In fact there Are 7,862 War dead buried there including those who fell at Anzio in Sicily and the Battle for Rome. Belle udi 68, helped Bury Many of them and then spent 30 years tending the cemetery which is in Anzio s twin City of Nettuno. Eighteen at the time of the in Vasion he immediately went to work for the . Troops transporting ammunition. Their canned food and clothes helped the people survive. We were in misery he said. Antonio combi who has always lived near the beaches of Anzio and neighbor ing Nettuno is glad to see the old Ameri can soldiers return. He owes them a lot. And he buried Many of their friends. Two Days after the Landing the Ameri cans began digging a temporary Ceme Tery combi was among those hired to help. He remembers bodies and bodies stacked in trucks stray artillery rounds that killed the american Engineer ser Geant overseeing the cemetery construction. /. Combi 75, and Belle udi remember How during Breaks from the digging americans at the cemetery taught ital ians to play a strange game. What were they going to make War with bats and gloves Belle udi said. But it took last year Nettuno s professional baseball team won the italian National championship for the 14th time. The Landing and 60 Days of fighting re main vivid for weeks 74, of Laurel Hill  After relating his activities in a pre Cise practice manner he paused for a while. Then he said i lost my closest Friend Here at  Broadus 69, of Macon ga., was wounded seven Days into the fighting by shrapnel then Hurt again when a British plane dropped an explosive on his Field Hospital killing seven nurses and a Doc Tor. He Only recently began talking about the Landing. Best thing is to keep it out of your mind he said. Why sad he answered simply reflexively removing his Cap when a bugler began to play taps. . From Page 1 temperatures were forecast to fall into the 30s and rain was expected by today. Aid workers roamed the City Friday urging some of the 14,000 people living outdoors to find Refuge in a tent a Shel Ter or their own Homes. Many won t go unwilling to Trust any Structure because of aftershocks. Many people were discouraged after another Day of waiting for help. Bob Felts waited four hours at a disaster Aid application Center then got an appointment for feb. 16. I can t wait a month. My House is condemned said Felts of Canoga Park. In other developments president Clinton ordered the Feder Al emergency management Agency to Speed up Aid by streamlining the application process and More than doubling the number of operators taking Telephone re quests to 700. All but 97 los Angeles schools were scheduled to open tuesday. Those that will remain closed indefinitely to their 100,000 pupils Are in the Western san Fernando Valley near the quake s Northridge epicentre. Figures for the number of people made homeless by the quake remained elusive. The red Cross said 25,000 dwell Ings were damaged and 14,000 people were sleeping in Parks besides the More than 10,000 people in shelters. To our readers the stars and stripes education Page will move from monday to wednesday beginning this week. Bobbitt from Page 1 live later Friday. Biro and his wife Marylyn who raised John Bobbitt watched with him As the verdict was delivered online television. Prosecutor Paul b. Ebert told report ers that he has a certain amount of sym Pathy for mrs. Bobbitt but that does justify what she  the jury of seven women and five men deliberated Ivi hours Over two Days be fore finding Lorena Bobbitt innocent of malicious wounding which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. It s a sad situation for everybody juror Jean Salisbury said in saturday s Washington Post. I m glad it s Over and hopefully the Healing process will begin for her. We know the difficulty Shell face ahead of  the jury also considered unlawful wounding a lesser felony charge that car Ries a sentence of no More than five years in prison. Jurors could have acquitted her outright had they concluded she acted itself defense. Bobbitt 24, was taken to Central state Hospital in Petersburg where she will be examined by state doctors and at least one outside expert to determine if she needs treatment and if so to what extent. The doctors will not be selected until at least monday said or. Russell Petrella state director of mental health services. Bobbitt will join a women s Ward with15 patients. Two psychiatrists and two psychologists agreed at the trial that Bobbitt suffered severe depression. But Only one of them or. Susan Fiester suggested that she was temporarily insane. After the verdict one of her closest friends read a message Bobbitt directed to abused women. She encourages you to reach put talk to someone today said Janna Bisutti who is also Bobbin s employer. She said Bobbitt a native of Ecuador still hoped to pursue the dream she had when she came to the United states in 1986 a Good education marriage an family. In Bobbitt s Hometown of Bucay Southern Ecuador hundreds of residents flocked into the streets to celebrate and fired shots into the air. Many ecuadorean had been following the trial which had been relayed by satellite live to ecuadorean television. A previously unknown feminist group the National feminist association of Ecuador had threatened to castrate 100 american men if Bobbitt was found guilty. No one from the group could be reached for comment after the trial