European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 05, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday August 5,1994 i at a glance a woman in Little Rock ark., observes a moment of silence outside the governors mansion after hear ing news of the execution of Hoyt Clines the first of three men executed wednesday for a 1981 Mur Der. On the ground is a Chalk figure protesting the murder of Clines. See Story on Page 6. Mystery witness the so called mystery witness in the o. J. Simpson Case is a convicted Felon who has provided false leads in other cases reports say. _ Page 7 Breyer joins court Stephen Breyer was sworn in As the 108th supreme court Justice at a private ceremony at chief Justice William Rehnquist s summer Home. pages King of the skies Jordan s King Hussein piloted a Royal jetliner through israeli airspace roaring Low Over Jerusalem s Muslim holy Sites. _ Page 12 buying influence the spending Power of Black americans is rising at a faster rate than the nation As a whole. Page 18 Index Abby Ann Landers. 25 classifieds. . 28-32 comics 25-27 commentary. 17 faces n places 14 focus 19-24 Horoscope. 31 Jumble. 31 letters., 16 Money matters 18 sports 33-40 to listings. 39 weather. 15 correction because of a reporting error the Date for the Berlin Marathon was incorrect in the sports log of thursday s stripes Magazine. The race will be sept. 25. Sarajevo May Start getting plan loads of help again by Waynes Hal staff writer humanitarian Aid flights carrying food and medical supplies into Sarajevo air port Are expected to resume today after being suspended in late july a . Spokesman said. The United nations High for refugees had asked them countries that make the Relief flights to restart the Airlift As soon As possible Ron Redmond a spokesman for the Unher said thursday by Telephone from his office in Geneva. Requests for Airlift support to Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Unher Are channelled to a group of senior military officers from each country contributing to the humanitarian Effort including an american officer Redmond said. Normally the officers meet by teleconference said Redmond. This time How Ever they met face to face in Ancona Italy. The Unher received Confirma Tion wednesday evening that the flights to the bosnian capital would resume. However at midday thursday official with the joint information Bureau at Rhein main a Germany had no Wordon the resumption. The decision to suspend them was t made Here. Likewise the decision to re Start won t be made Here either said air Force maj. Bob Williams a spokes Man with the Bureau. . Officials closed the Airport in Sarajevo on july 22 after a number of planes were struck by gunfire Over a two Day period. An american c-141 starlit or Jet was hit by a stray machine gun round july 20, shortly after Takeoff. The following Day three aircraft an Ameri can c-141, a British aircraft and a rus Yugoslavia Breaks links with bosnian serbian Side Belgrade Yugoslavia a Yugoslavia buckling under sanctions imposed for backing the serbs in bos Nia on thursday Cut All ties to its proteges after they again rejected the latest peace plan. Bosnian serbs have depended on Yugoslavia for weapons fuel and other supplies throughout the 28-month War against muslims and croats. Belgrade said it would shut of everything except food clothing and Medicine and banish bosnian Serbia leaders. A similar ban was announced inlay 1993 but barely enforced. This time the rift Between bosnian serbs and Serbia appears to be real. Serbia along with Montenegro makes up Yugoslavia. Serbia s powerful president Lobo Dan Milosevic denounced bosnian serbian leaders for rejecting the plan and giving up the Chance to keep half of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He told bosnian serbs that their leaders had betrayed them and should be Over thrown. The plan would reduce Bosnia serbian holdings in Bosnia from 70 percent to 49 percent and give Theresa to a Muslim croatian federation which has accepted the peace has outta neutered every rival in former Yugoslavia and the International Community in three years of Balkan warfare. He could now Seal his transformation from warmonger to peacemaker if he wins the loyalty of bosnian serbs. Sian plane were struck. We estimate that there is betwee seven and 10 Days Supply of food left in Sarajevo Redmond said. It s not Des Perate but it s flights Are expected to be going to the City throughout the weekend said red mond. That s something that has not happened for More than two months. Before the flights were stopped the Sarajevo Airport had been receiving about 16 to 18 flights a Day from five countries and one Relief , British French Canadian and German military aircraft Are participate yanks from Page 1 miss them most in the shops and were always around the town or their relatives As they stayed Here when they came to visit them Cotton said. I think we miss them because they were Al ways local merchants Are also bitterly disputing the Contention of the British de sense ministry which insists the economic Impact of having fewer . Forces in Britain has been minimal. Paula Williams a ministry spokeswoman said environmental studies concluded that most americans lived on base and spent their Money in the exchanges. I has not had a major Impact she said. Jesse Johnson a former . Air Force master sergeant from Chicago who retired in Woodbridge in 1983 after working on Ben Waters for five years said those studies fail to take number of americans who lived off base in apartments around the historic Market Square District or in suburbs near the base. It s just not True that it has t had an Impact he said explaining that Ben Waters was 800 houses Short of the need for mar ried officers and that Many others like him self chose to live off base. . Service members contributed about $25 million to the local Economy and the withdrawal of 13,000 people including military family members and civilian employees from a Rural town that counts 20,000 residents living in the Region has been devastating Johnson said Johnson pointed to the closed stores and restaurants on thoroughfare Street Wood Bridge s traditional shopping Street and the proliferation of antique stores that Appeal tothe British Market. But it in t Only the Economy that s suffered. Johnson said the absence of Ameri can service members Means the elephant and Castle s Dart team now lacks players for competitions and even the membership of the local Lawn Bowling club has suffered. But not everyone in Woodbridge is pining for the americans. Violin maker Russell Stowe said the town thrived for centuries before the Rise from Page .1 a Day a major improvement from the1,800 to 2,000 perishing daily almost two weeks ago Wilkinson said. . Soldiers German Aid workers and others treated about 780,000 Gallons of water wednesday the highest daily total yet Wilkinson said. He said they hoped to reach 1.04 million Gallons a Day in the next few Days which would be close to the target of 1.3 Gallons a Day for each person in the Camps. The refugees entered Zaire in a massive surge three weeks ago. Most Are huts who fled in fear of retribution from a victorious rebel army led by Tutsi members of the ethnic minority in Rwanda. Tutsi were the chief targets of massacres by the Defeated rwandan army and civilian militias guided by extremist Hutu ing along with an air plane operated by the British based overseas development Agency. When humanitarian flights were fired on in the past . Officials closed the Airport until it received assurances that such violations would not occur again. We received basically the same Assur ances said Redmond referring to the Security of flights if the Airlift resumes. Before the Airport s closure humanitarian flights had delivered More than122,380 metric tons of food and medical supplies to the More than 380,000 Resi dents of Sarajevo. Americans came and will adjust now that they re gone. They did add a Little sparkle to the town he said. Business Wise yes they had an Impact but i Don t think there Are Strong views on the Impact on other Stowe said the town s major worry now is what s going to happen to the base which the Royal air Force carved out of Forest lands during world War ii. _ when the americans left in september 1993, the 1,000-acre Ben Waters base com plete with 60,000-Square-foot shopping Cen Ter and movie theater was turned Back to the British defense ministry but the government has decided it has no use for the property and is offering i for commercial use. There s Little Hope that the americans will return. I m sure they would like to see them come Back but i Don t think they will Johnson said. The american taxpayers i know Don t want to pay anymore to keep the military in foreign countries now the cold War is -. 1 politicians. Up to half a million men women an children were slaughtered in three months of genocide. The killings began after Rwanda s pres ident a Hutu died in a mysterious plane crash on the outskirts of the capital Kigali on april 6. That also reignited a 3-year-old War be tween the rebel rwandan patriotic front and the government that had been halted by an Accord last August
