European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday june 19,1994 the stars and stripes Page 5france to Send troops to Rwanda . To ship vehicles to peacekeepers Heidelberg Germany a amps carriers one m113a2 configured As a shipment is scheduled to begin by an ambulance and three m578 Friday of 50 armoured vehicles to the tracked recovery vehicles will be ship . Peacekeeping Force in Rwanda Ped from Rhein main a to Entebbe the . Army Europe announced Airport near Kampala Uganda. In saturday. Kampala the vehicles will be turned a we got our execute order today a Over to . Representatives for trans spokeswoman Millie Waters said. Port to Rwanda. No Usa eur soldiers will go with All 50 Are to arrive in Uganda by the vehicles to Rwanda however june 30, Waters said. Waters said a a Small Quality assist the vehicles Are being drawn from Ance team May go to Urantia. But storage in Karlsruhe and Mannheim that a yet to be Germany and Brun sum nether the 46 mu3a2 armoured personnel lands. Paris apr declaring that a every hour counts a president Francois Mitterrand said saturday that France will Send an intervention Force swiftly to halt mass Slaughter in Rwanda even if no Western partners can be found. A a it a a matter of Days and hours a Mitterrand said during a Enesco conference on a two or three african countries have responded positively a he said. A a in a still waiting for firm responses from european countries. But whatever the Case we will do it. Every hour he said France will act without waiting for possible deployment of a .-Organ-ized peacekeeping Force. Since wednesday France has been seeking partners to join an intervention in Rwanda intended to protect civilians from further massacres there. Several african leaders have welcomed the proposal but Rwanda a Tutsi led rebel movement denounced it saying France cannot be viewed As impartial because of its past military support for the Hutu dominated government. Mitterrand however said he had been thanked by rebel leaders for Frances help in peace negotiations last year. The peace initiative was shattered when Rwanda a president Juvenal a Byar Imana was killed in a plane crash april 6, unleashing violence that has left an estimated 200,000 people dead. Most were of the minority Tutsi tribe killed by the Hutu majority army and militias or were Hutu moderates killed by extremists. A cease fire was negotiated during an organization of african Unity Summit in Tunisia ending wednesday. But Mitterrand said he and other French officials decided to act on their own because it appeared any . Peacekeeping Force might take weeks to be assembled. French foreign minister Alain jupp<5, during a visit to the Ivory coast on Friday said 1,000 to 2,000 soldiers would be needed for the intervention Force. He did not specify whether France was prepared to Supply All the needed troops itself if necessary he said the intervention would be a a humanitarian operation. Under the Flag and with the support of the .�?� Jup pts conceded that the rwandan rebels opposed French intervention. A we will try to persuade them a he said. Quot we have Good arguments to even if the rebels managed to win in combat Juippi said they would never have been capable of governing Rwanda on their own. Tulve Tutsi make up Only about 15 percent of Rwanda a population. Almost All the rest Are huts. There has been Broad support in France for intervention. Several human rights groups planned a demonstration today to urge deployment of French troops. The Relief group add veins sans fron litres doctors without Borders for the first time in its history has called for Mil itary intervention. But it said France because of its past involvement there should limit itself to log Stiehl and financial support. Plane crash at Dulles kills All 12 Chantilly a. A a plane crashed while approaching Dulles International Airport in a heavy fog saturday killing All 12 people aboard officials said. Mike Zurik a spokesman for the Federal aviation administration said a Lear Jet Model 25 went Down in a heavily wooded area within the Airport s sprawling grounds a we have confirmed 12 people dead a eight adults four children a Zurik said. He could not provide identities or nationalities of inc victims. The National transportation safety Board was slated to hold a news conference at the Airport. Zurik said the private plane was registered in Mexico. The passengers May have been headed to Washington for a first round world cup match Between Norway and Mexico scheduled for today at Robert of Kennedy stadium Minnesota s gop snubs governor backs conservative St. Paul Minn. Apr a gop convention packed with religious conservatives spurned gov. Arne Carlson and enthusiastically endorsed Farmer Allen quist a creationist who has said men May have a a genetic predisposition to head a family. Quist 49, described himself amps a the candidate for governor who has the audacity to run on the Republican he received 69 percent of the 2,117 votes cast. Carlson a moderate received 29 percent. A 60 percent vote was needed for endorsement which is largely symbolic Carlson 59, has Long been alienated from the religious conservatives who control his party primarily because he sup Orts abortion and Gay rights and he Allut conceded the endorsement weeks ago. He will seek the gop nomination in the sept. 13 primary where the Pool of voters is much larger than that of convention delegates. Allies March in Berlin for last time Berlin a More than 75,000 berliners on saturday applauded the last joint Parade of ., British and French troops in the formerly divided City. Braving rain showers people waved Allied and German flags and cheered and clapped As the three countries military units passed in review with bands blaring and bagpipes wailing. A during the past 50 years you and your comrades Nave been in the front line of the defense of not Only the Freedom of West Berlin but the Freedom of Europe and the Peoples right to self determination Quot Berlin mayor Eberhard Diepgen said to the Allied units. The Parade was Replete with reminders of West berlins delicate and sometimes dangerous position during the East West conflict. A Low Altitude flyover of an old dc-3 aircraft pointedly recalled the 1948-49 Berlin blockade. Moscow tried to starve isolated West Berlin into submission but was thwarted by the .-led Airlift that carried 2 million tons of supplies to the City at the height of the cold War. Although russian troops who arc leaving Eastern Germany this summer like the allies wanted to be part of the joint Parade to show their role in defeating nazi Germany the russian farewells Are being kept separate As a lingering hint of the cold the joint Parade of ., British and French units was an annual event in West Berlin demonstrating the West a military commitment to the City after construction of the Berlin Wall began in 1961. The Parade had not been held since the Wall opened in 1989, but was brought Back one last time. The Berlin mayor used the term a protecting Powers to refer to the allies in his speech which was translated into English and French for the serv the . Army a Berlin brigade band marches saturday during the final Allied Parade in Berlin. The event Drew about 75,000 spectators. Of the Allied forces with a mixture of sadness and Joy Quot he said. The a a Joy came from German unification he said but berliners were sad that the Western troops Are leaving the German capital. President Clinton will symbolically inactivate the . Army a Berlin brigade during a visit july 12, and the military departures from Berlin arc to be completed in Early september. 7ncin Western Germany. The Western allies will keep troops any. The russian Mili that a Spectator holds ., British and French flags As he watches the allies make a final joint March in the once divided City of Berlin. Ice Meinberg massed on the Strasse Des 17 Juni West of the Brandenburg Gate. Applause rang out repeatedly from people standing 10 deep As Diepgen declared that Germany would never forget the Allied commitment. A we think of the coming withdrawal tary is leaving under treaties brought German unification. The last Allied commanders . Maj Gen. Walter in Yates jr., British Brig. David Bromhead and French Gen. Jean Brullard reviewed the troops. German Brig. Gen. Hasso Freiherr von Uslar Gleichen also stood in review of the troops which never happened during the cold War. West Germany a sovereignty was limited by Allied agreements and there was a ban on German military in Berlin a observed carefully by the Western allies but not in communist run East Berlin. Saturdays Parade used the same route As before the Berlin Wall opened and the troops did not March in East Berlin where russian troops will hold one of their Farewell parades next saturday
