European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and tuesday april 26,1994 at a glance a South african Soldier stands guard monday near the site of a deadly car bombing sunday in downtown Johannesburg. A second car bomb on monday raised the blast toll in the Johannesburg area to 19 As the nation prepared for this week s historic All race elec Tion. See Story on Page 5. New prime minister Tsutomu Hata a Veteran politician known for his Fence mending skills was chosen prime minister of Japan on monday " pages teen troubles teen agers were caught in a wors ening web of violence pregnancy and failure to Complete High school quickly a study says. Page6 awaiting the Day barring last minute delays Timo thy Spencer on wednesday will be the first to be put to death based on Dan evidence a page9 presidential Winner conservative Armando Calderon sol captured a landslide Victory Over his leftist presidential opponent in Al Salvador. Page 10 economic optimism finance officials from the seven top Industrial countries expressed optimism that the world Economy can achieve faster growth this year. Y Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers. 20 classifieds. 22-25 comics. 18-19 commentary. 13 faces n places. 20 focus 15-17 Horoscope. 24 letters. 12 Money matters. 14 sports 26-32 weather. 11 allies from Page 1 condition set by the muslims for peace talks with their tormentors. However Abig question Mark hangs Over the serbs who had hoped to improve their bargain ing position by seizing additional Muslim territory. It appears that the pressure brought to Bear by nato and the United nations has worked that the cease fire i working that the withdrawal is continuing president Clinton said monday i Washington. It s now clearly time to get the diplomatic initiatives going again while we maintain our Churkin arrived in London to work with Charles e. Redman the top . Negotiator for Bosnia. Christopher is to meet in Geneva today with russian for eign minister Andrei Kozarev. Russian president Boris Yeltsin has proposed a Summit of the United states Russia the european Union and the United nations but a senior . Official said the idea is still premature. The United states won t be ready to move on a Summit until we have a better idea what the serbs Are up to said the official speaking on condition of anonymity. On a related front Christopher said he is confident the United nations will support any decision by the nato commander to bomb the serbs if they violate ultimatums to Stop fighting withdraw and turn Over their heavy weapons. Sen. Joseph Biden d-ejel., a senior member of the Senate foreign relation committee said monday that we should have used air Power on saturday when the serbs continued to bomb Gorade despite the . Ultimatum. Look what they did on the Way out Fogo Pazdej Biden said monday of the ser Biani withdrawal. They burned and pillaged on the Way out destroyed the water system. It s outrageous Biden said on Abc. Biden said the cease fire will work Only if we say All of the Safe areas fall with the Purview of this new ultimatum Andanto is willing to use air Power to save lives As Well As to lift the arms embargo against bosnian muslims. Christopher talked twice by Telephone sunday with . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali and established that a . Order is not necessary to open fire the officials said. Speaking sunday on Abc s this wee with David Brinkley Christopher said he was encouraged by reports that the serbs appeared to be withdrawing from a 1.9-mile radius around Gorade As ordered although mortar attacks and Small arms fire continued. He said that if the fighting there can blended i think there s a Chance for a negotiated Christopher warned however that theato ultimatum remains in effect and there will be action taken if there Are Vio lations.". / ,. nato from Page 1 something the serbs would never Ever Ever want to experience again and to give a very vivid demonstration of what we can do to such an intense and protracted bomb ing Campaign which could last several Days would Mark a dramatic escalation from the tit for Tat attacks launched april 10 and 11 in support of . Observers in Gorade. Nato officials noted sunday that simply the threat of such wholesale bombing which would require approval from senior . Officials May have contributed to the serbs apparent pullback from the outskirts of Gorade. Nevertheless nato planners recognize several potential Pitfalls in broaden ing the air attacks including the Prospect that serbian militia members could Reta Liate against the 13,000 . Troops in Bosnia and the difficulty demonstrated in Vietnam and elsewhere of forcing a recalcitrant enemy to negotiate by bombing it into last Guy who tried that just died one nato officer said referring to the efforts of former president to Ixon to pres sure North Vietnam through massive air strikes. ". A / nato agreed Friday to authorize air attacks unless serbian forces immediately halted their bombardment of Gora Deand withdrew All heavy weapons from a military exclusion zone a extending for 12 Miles from the town s Center by wednesday morning. After serbian forces ignored the ultimatum and continued to Shell Gorade adm. Leighton w. Smith jr., Nat commander in Southern Europe asked permission to launch retaliatory strike shortly after noon saturday the request was rejected by Yasushi Akashi . Representative in Bosnia who had just spent hours in Belgrade Yugoslavia seeking an agreement with serbian presi Dent Slobodan Milosevic and Gen. Ratko Mladic the bosnian serbs commander. Despite the continued shelling Akash wanted to delay Early sunday morning when under terms of the nato ultimatum the forces around Gorade were to have pulled Back at least 1.9 Miles. According to nato sources Akashi decision displeased Smith and infuriated Manfred Werner nato s Secretary Gen eral but the apparent compliance by the besieging forces sunday caused one nato officer to acknowledge that aka Shi seemed to have made the right Call for ". Nato s plan for attacking serbian tar gets around Gorade has been developed by . Air Force it. Gen. Joseph Washy commander of nato air forces in Southern Europe and his staff. Ashy has nearly 200 nato combat planes and support aircraft available at bases i Italy France Germany and Britain and aboard three carriers in the Adriatic. In recent months that air Fleet has been beefed up with ground attack planes such As the . Air Force Fise capable of launching precision guided munitions. The massive attack envisioned in the current nato plan reflects the philosophy of Smith shared by his predecessor in Naples adm. Mike Boorda who recently became . Chief of naval operations that overwhelming Force is More Likely to achieve the desired Politi Cal results than tentative limited strikes according to nato sources. Similar sweeping attacks also have been drafted if needed to ensure these purity of Bihac Srebrenick Tula and Zepa other .-designated Safe areas in Bosnia where nato has demanded the withdrawal of heavy serbian Capone within a 12-mile radius Accord ing to military sources. But if it came to pass around go razed and it worked there would t be a need to do it anywhere else one officer said. A. Although serbian anti aircraft gunner demonstrated their ability to shoot town nato jets last week by destroying a British sea harrier Over Gorade with an Sa-7 surface to air missile nato plan ners Hope that a Broad air Campaign could be conducted with minimal losses. In contrast to the close air support offered thus far the intense attacks envisioned under the current plan would not require pilots to Fly up close and person Al As Smith recently put it in coordinating their strikes with in. Forward air controllers abusing fro Page 1 said they accused him of sexually abusing child after he reported one of them for physical child abuse about three months ago. Although he reported Only on woman he said the other also abused children. He asserted that the child abuse occurred at the Center almost on a daily basis and included verbal abuse involving ethnic remarks letting the children fight grabbing the children s wrists in a violent manner and forcibly holding Down children during Nap time or quiet Glenn said he turned in his resignation feb. 9 because he did not want to work in such an environment. But he said his supervisor persuaded him to remain. I m totally there for the kids Glen said on his decision not to resign. One of the women under scrutiny late threatened to get even with him Glenn said adding that in a separate encounter the other hinted that trouble was headed his Way. On april 6, Glenn said a complaint was filed accusing him of sexually abusing 3-year-old child at the Smith Center. On april 14, Glenn was locked up in a Ger Man jail for 24 hours in. The nearby Community of Idar Oberstein after a questioning session in which he said on agent told him he thought he was lying. So far a judge in bad Kreuz Nach Ger Many has issued but not imposed a War rant for his arrest Glenn said. Some of the conditions of the judge s orders in clude not fleeing Germany and staying away from areas where children Are Gath ered. Glenn said the ordeal has been difficult for him and his German wife. I have a hard time facing the Public he said. One Parent told me i Don twant to talk with you " the couple also has received Anonymous Telephone Calls he said. Her nerves Are just shot Glenn Saidof his wife. She feels watched Glenn said he too is feeling the stress. I feel really scared that at any minute the German police will take me Haven t done army identifies 2 soldiers Hurt in copter crash Frankfurt Germany is the army has identified the two soldiers injured in Friday s crash of an oh-58c Kiowa helicopter that hit Power lines near Kunzel Sau Germany.1st it. Jerry l. Baird 25, suffered a cracked rib and bruised lung and capt. Howard l. Trujillo 36, suffered minor leg and Arm injuries according to a statement by the army s v corps Headquarters. Both Are assigned to a troop 6th so 6th Cav regt at in Lesheim Germany. Baird was released sunday from Wurzburg array Hospital. Trujillo was treated and released Friday from a German Hospital in Kunzel Sau. The helicopter was destroyed inthe Accident
