European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes world sunday february 6. . Limits troops role in Somalia by the Washington Post United nations the Security Council gave . Peacekeepers in so Malia a new limited Mission Friday that will reduce . Operations there substantially after american forces pull out Marchol. In issuing a mandate for the . Force in Somalia to run through March 1995, the Security Council retreated from aggressive sometimes combative peace making operations it has tried in the three years under Secretary general Boutros Boutros halt. The decision Sig naked a return to the More cautious Neutral role the organization traditionally had played. But the Council s vote also Means the United nations troubled Effort to re build Somalia will go Forward under the leadership of several third world nations despite the Clinton administration s decision to bring american service members Home. Under the new mandate . Peace keepers will aim mainly to protect humanitarian Aid deliveries outside the Cap ital Mogadishu where somalian faction readily fight for Power . Troops also will no longer forcibly disarm feuding so malian factions a . Drive to round up. Heavy weapons in Mogadishu led the organization into a gun Battle with the militia led by somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah aided. That conflict culminated in Street Battles in october in which 18 . Serv ice members were killed prompting presi Dent Clinton to set the Date for . Withdrawal. The Security Council decision Friday to stress Intra somalian peacemaking and to avoid further . Efforts to impose peace showed that most of the nations with troops in Somalia Are dismayed and exhausted by the United nations War with aided and wanted a less controversial stance for the peace keepers. In part however the . Re treat has been forced by its loss of the United states military clout and exper Tise. . Officials took the Lead in creating the new mandate partly out of a sense of boxing match parachutist barely lands on Palace _ London a american James Miller who glided into a heavyweight boxing match in Las vegas last year was arrested on saturday after Landing a propeller driven Parachute on thereof of Buckingham Palace police and the . Embassy said. Miller half naked and heckling police As he approached the Palace stripped in Chilly temperatures after he set foot on the roof a Scotland Yard spokesman said. He was not armed and was arrested immediately. Queen Elizabeth ii was not at the Palace her official residence in Central London. Scotland Yard said no Mem Ber of the Royal family was in danger. Miller 30, interrupted the evander Holyfield Riddick Bowe heavyweight title bout nov. 6 in Las vegas by float ing into the open air Arena on a Para glider. He was charged with a Mise Meanor. His identity was confirmed by a .embassy official who requested anonymity. Miller had been in England for about a week police said. Parachutist James Miller lands on the ropes during the title fight Between rid Dick Bowe and evander Holyfield in Las vegas on nov. 6. Miller was spotted by police As he flew along the River thames then Down a Broad and Leafy Avenue toward the Palace. Police said he circled his propeller driven Parachute above the Palace be fore Landing on a roof and stripping off his pants to reveal he was painted Green from the Waist Down. He ran to Ward a flagpole above the Entrance to the Palace and taunted police this stage i Don t know Why he did it said police inspector Stephe fillery. Gangs reportedly seek nuke ingredients Hamburg Germany Apter Aorist and criminal groups Are pressing to get hold of nuclear material for Black mail German authorities were quoted assaying saturday. And for the first time officials have uncovered the smuggling of highly enriched uranium of the Type that could be used to make bombs the report in Der Spiegel Magazine said. It quoted from an 18-Page report from the Federal intelligence service that was delivered to Chancellor Helmut Kohl Las month. The Magazine which released an abstract of an article that was to appear monday did t name the terrorist groups or say where the highly enriched uranium was found. Officials no longer can Rule out that nuclear or biological weapons will fall into the hands of the mafia or other criminal organizations the Magazine said. Much of the smuggling is entered in the lithuanian cities of Vilnius and Kamas it said. A Small plane allegedly carrying Ger Man nuclear smugglers travelling from Prague czech Republic crashed Jan. 24 into Lake Constance on the Swiss Bor Der. The plane reportedly was carrying five people but they have not been identified nor their bodies recovered. Early reports said the plane had 70 tons of radioactive cesium-133 aboard but tests found no evidence of radiation. The Bild newspaper reported Friday that two businessmen bought the material in Russia or Latvia and planned to sell it inching. Last year bavarian state police reported that a group calling itself the bosnian rage front threatened atomic attacks on european cities unless its demands for Aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina were met but authorities described the threat As a empty one. Ukraine official vows to scrap nuclear arms by the Washington Post Kiev Ukraine the Day after its parliament passed two key nuclear disarmament accords Ukraine s foreign min ister pledged that the country will fulfil its remaining obligations to relinquish it nuclear Arsenal. Speaking to journalists and diplomats Friday Anatoly Zlenko said he is confident that the parliament jul endorse the nuclear nonproliferation treaty in the nearest the treaty is the last of a series of documents that must be ratified or endorsed by lawmakers according to the Kiev government before the former soviet Republic meets its promises to president Clin ton and other Western leaders to become a state without nuclear weapons. On thursday the parliament ratified the strategic arms reduction treaty on nuclear disarmament or Start. The parliament also ratified last month s Moscow Accord with the United states ? 8no is a in def that pact Ukraine s-1,800 nuclear warheads will be Dis mantled within four years in Exchange for compensation and Security guarantees housed in silos in the Countryside. Responsibility for the faltering operation. We played a critical role in Somalia and want to see the Mission succeed. We can t just Wash our hands a . Official said. The Security Council unanimously authorized a maximum of 22,000 . Troops in Somalia Down from More than 30,000 it ordered deployed in March 1993. In practice . Officials expect to be working with about 16,000 troops Pri Marily from Pakistan India Egypt Malaysia and other developing nations. The major european countries Italy Germany and France Are follow ing the United states in withdrawing from Somalia by March. . Troops help woman stricken in Macedonia Camp Able sentry Macedonia is a mixed Force of . Peace keepers responded to a distress Call Fri Day for a stricken macedonian woman after a family member Rode a Donkey through rough terrain to seek medical Aid . Officials said. American soldiers from Vilseck Ger Many and their norwegian counterparts stabilized the woman believed to be suf Fering from severe Back problems before a . Helicopter evacuated her to a Skopje Hospital according to an opera Tion Able sentry news release. The Vilseck soldiers members of the 1st in 6th inf div Are part of a 300 member . Task Force based at Camp Able sentry in support of a . Peace keeping operation in Macedonia. The injured woman Bekteshi Ayshe was in Good condition and will probably be released from the Hospital in a couple of Days maj. Dave Richards a spokes Man for the Camp said saturday. Richards said the woman suffered some kind of Back injury but her exact medical problem could not be deter mined. . Army sets. Joseph b. Messier and Richard b. Rhodes had been patrolling the serbian macedonian Border with two norwegian soldiers when a member of the woman s family approached on a Donkey and pleaded for help the release said. The soldiers found the woman turn ing Blue and sweating profusely in a rugged area connected mainly by foot paths it said. In Winter the area often can be reached Only by a four wheel drive vehicle or by air. The soldiers stabilized her neck and Back with splints and stayed with her until medical help arrived. They carried the woman to the observation Point where a . Helicopter later landed Richards said. The . Helicopter carrying sgt. Tommy Morris from the battalion Aid Sta Tion and or. Capt James Ellis who was visiting the american Camp picked up the woman and transported her to Skopje in a 10-minute flight to the Hospital. It s not an everyday occurrence for a . Helicopter Crew to Fly a macedonian woman to a Hospital Ellis said. It was real unusual " he said. However the United nations would Render humanitarian Aid if we Felt it was a life threatening norwegian . Peacekeepers normally patrol the area where Ayshe was found. The americans were temporarily patrolling the sector to allow the norwegians to attend a ceremony at their head quarters
