European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 18, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 3 re a rid a us Gath e r a t u. N. Ref u g is Nairobi Kenya a More than12,000 rwandans who have arrived at Sites guarded by the United nation awaited food and Medicine sunday As fighting Between rebels and soldiers flared again in their ravaged capital. The second Relief flight arrived in a Many Days at Kigali s Airport which was under the control of the United . Officials said they hoped to bring in More flights if the violence subsided., that seemed unlikely sunday. Rebels and soldiers traded Small arms fire an mortar rounds. Or. Abdul Kabia director of the . Peacekeeping Mission in Rwanda said efforts to arrange a cease fire had stalled. The fighting in Rwanda erupted after mysterious plane crash on april 6 killed the presidents of Rwanda and neighbor ing Burundi who were returning from a meeting aimed at finding an end to the feud Between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups that has ravaged the countries for decades. Most of the victims in the subsequent savagery were members of the Tutsi minority slaughtered by Hutu gang Mem Bers and Hutu dominated government forces. The rebels who pushed into Kigali on tuesday Are predominantly Tutsi. Kabia said the United nations sent More convoys of armoured vehicles to parts of the City to evacuate people fear ing for their lives. Marauding gangs Many armed with machetes have terrorized the City randomly looting and Hack ing thousands of people to death. Some of the More than 4,000 foreign ers evacuated from Kigali and elsewhere have reported massacres in different parts of the Central african nation. These gangs Are operating in mainly victims mess Crosby Texas a Robert Williams told his flock to bring Lawn chairs to sunday s service he d be holding it in the parking  Friday a Tornado ripped through the Community Baptist Church smashing pews and scattering hymnals arid bibles across the Field next  assistant pastor at the Church was t complaining. It s really just a building it can be re placed. People can the  twister left one woman dead and at least 16 other people injured Friday. Six other deaths also were blamed on storms that Tore through the Southand Midwest on Friday and saturday including three in Kentucky and one each in South Carolina Tennessee and Ohio. The storm system drenched parts of the East coast on saturday As it moved out to sea. In this Texas town 25 Miles Northeast of Houston people who worked into the night cleaning up after the Tornado were Back at it Early in the morning. Under Cloudy skies they cleared away Mounds of splintered Glass fractured tree limbs tattered cloth ing and Sodden furniture and rummaged through the wreckage for anything that might have  houses and Mobile Homes were ripped apart others lost their roofs and still others stood  to 1,000 people were displaced by the storm said Janis Parker spokeswoman for the emergency medical service in Crosby which has a population of about 1,800.in Rural Chester county in North Central South Carolina a woman was killed and her son injure when a severe storm rolled through and tossed their trailer Down the Road Early saturday state police it. Don Lane  was what sounded like a Bumble Bee Buz zing Over our House and the lightning was flashing neighbor Joyce Clack said. Area the storm damaged about 10 Mobile Homes in the Ater of the Oong sea As Well As barns silos and cars Lane said. Miller City 111., on  from the flooding Mississippi River surrounds a farm near army controlled areas and they do not seem to be under anybody s control Kabia said. The people evacuated from their Homes in the capital have gathered at the National stadium the King Faisal Hospital and the Meridian hotel which Are protected by the United nations. On saturday Kabia reported growing desperation at the stadium where 500 bangladeshi troops were sharing meager military rations with about 9,000 Tutsi refugees. He said sanitation was abysmal and there was no water. War lessons remain says Schwarzkopf Kuwait City up . Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf said saturday the Friendly fire disaster that claimed 26 lives Over Northern Iraq on thursday should not be taken As Les sons forgotten from the 1991 persian Gulf War. Certainly there should be no infer ence that there is any relationship be tween what happened the other Day and the fact that we have forgotten any Les sons Learned Schwarzkopf said. We Haven t forgotten those lessons at  under Schwarzkopf s command during the Gulf War frendly fire mishaps claimed the lives of 35 . Service personnel and injured 72 others. Schwarzkopf on a five Day visit to Kuwait was discussing the Downing of two . Army Black Hawk helicopters Over Northern Iraq by two . Air Force f 15c fighter jets. The choppers were mis taken for iraqi Hind helicopters that Are forbidden from flying Over Northern Iraq in accordance with conditions of the .-imposed Gulf War cease fire. There is no weapon of War that is casualty free weapon weapons kill people said Schwarzkopf. He emphasized that with All the advances in nigh technology warfare we always Havethe human Factor in  in Many cases this is Good and income cases this can Lead to error Schwarzkopf said without speculating on what kind of error caused the Downing. Schwarzkopf told reporters that relat ing the tragic helicopter incident in Iraq to lessons perhaps not yet Learned fro the Gulf War was poor  we Are concerned More than anyone about fratricide that occurs on the Battle Field and we want to do everything we can to prevent it Schwarzkopf said. Draw Down activities finally reach Mannheim this week by Joseph Owen Heidelberg Bureau Mannheim Germany Mann Heim s military Community has stood on the sidelines arid watched the army shrink elsewhere since 1991, but this week it begins its own Radical two year transformation. The change starts with the departure tuesday of a 3rd brigade combat team Advance party. It will cause much More turmoil this summer when each passing week will see some 400 Active duty Bri Gade soldiers and their family members leave. The 2,650-member combat team a 1st army div subordinate unit is moving to fort Lewis Wash. Composed of a Bri Gade and a Forward support battalion the team is the largest unit to redeploy to the Continental United states since the draw Down began army officials in Mannheim said. The unit alone makes up More than 2 percent of All the army s troops in Europe. The redeployment also will remove about 500 troops from Baum older where the brigade s 2nd in 29th Field arty is assigned. Mannheim is now Home to about 6,800 Active duty soldiers according to it. Col. Rick Kuenning commander of Mann Heim s 293rd base support in. Given the brigade combat team s departure and Normal duty rotations More than half of the soldiers assigned there will be gone by september he said. The Impact on the Community is going to be profound because Mann Heim despite All the draw Down has not really experienced the restructuring. And now it s starting to happen said Kuen Ning who is leaving in july after two years in his current Post. The Community is about to lose half the colonels and lieutenant colonels who provide Community support Many of the units that sponsor Community activities and a vast number of . Civilian work ers and volunteers. Even so Kuenning said the troop loss is not expected to shut Down any Community activities. By september this year Mannheim s Active duty population should be about 4,000, he said. Other units then will move into the area raising the Active duty population to about 4,700 by september 1995. The incoming units include the 18th my brigade Headquarters 212th Mobile army surgical Hospital and an air Force unit that supports v corps arty. Other units also will move to Mann Heim Kuenning said but the army has not identified them publicly yet. The total military Community Popula Tion now More than is too should be Between 15,000 and 16,000 when the dust settles late next year he said. The Large scale brigade combat team move is expected to get under Way about the time the 3rd brigade observes its 50th birthday. Formed june 27, 194-As the Headquarters of Reserve come the Bri Gade fought in world War ii and the per Sian Gulf War. It has been stationed in Germany since 1971. Also the move to fort Lewis is occur ring under a new brigade commander. Col. Edward l. Dyer assumed command from col. Joseph l. Krawczyk last wednesday at a ceremony at Woods me Morial Field in Mannheim. Krawczyk had been commander since april 1992