European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse I the i is sex vol. 53, no. 112 500 sunday August 1994 Esssie d 8693 a serbs playing with fire7 Quick end to violations needed Shalikashvil says by Wayne v. Hall staff writer Rhein main a Germany army Gen. John m. Shalikashvil chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said saturday that the bosnian serbs Are playing with fire by constantly violating cease fire agreements. There Are an awful lot of violations that Are ongo ing and we need to find a Way very quickly to bring those violations to an end and return to the time when we were having the secure zones around Sarajevo and Gorade without any shooting going on and people could live a Normal life the chairman said during a three hour Stop at the air base Shalikashvil was on his Way to observe . Service members participating in operation support Hope in Africa. I think what we be seen Here in Bosnia is an escalate pm attack in Bosnia h serbs return last of missing vehicles b nato ready to strike again b Aviano a s Security tightened Page 5 ing pattern that has been developing lately and it is very very dangerous and can escalate out of control very quickly Shalikashvil told the stars and stripes and an re porters during an interview. I am very much in support of the airstrikes that were conducted Friday he said re Ferring to a raid by nato aircraft on a bosnian serbian target that destroyed an anti tank weapon. The raid was conducted after the bosnian serbs seized a tank and other heavy weapons from a . Depot in bos Nia and Herzegovina and shot a . Helicopter it s not enough just to return the weapons that were taken from the exclusion areas by the serbs. I think we need to bring those countless violations that go on Day in and Day out around Sarajevo and Gorade to a very speedy halt or this whole situation could unravel. I think what the situation Calls for is resolve like we saw yesterday because clearly that s the Only thing that in my judgment the bosnian serbs the chairman accompanied by Tipper Gore wife of vice president Al Gore spent his time at the base visit ing Many of the service members working in support of see serbs on Page 2 rwandan refugees carrying containers for water form a line As a French water distribution truck arrives at a Camp in Goma Zaire on Friday. Is Dave casey7 army trucks lumber through Smoky hell by Effie Bathen staff writer Goma Zaire boys on crudely made wooden Lor Ries Dart along the Road. Women with babies strapped to their backs totter beneath bundles of bananas Orwood on their Heads children and goats Bounce Ber tween them. � horns honk and goats bleat. In the the dust army truck Drivers try not to take any lives. Their Mission is to save lives by helping to deliver some 500, Gallons of clean water daily to hundreds of thousands of rwandan refugees. This certainly Ain t no Highway grumbled the Driver on an hour Long gear grating run thursday he used his full strength to punch in the five gears on his trac Tor trailer them punched Back. He was More worries for refugees some water trucks required repairs cafes stores to open this month Page 4 too Busy to talk except to say that the drive was hell. A the heavy Hauler was loaded with a Large bladder carrying 3,000 Gallons of chlorinated potable water from Lake Kiva. According to Relief agents about one gallon can sustain one life pne Day Jor most of the refugees clinging to the Hillside Camps. _ is it Safe to go Back to Rwanda two Young Hutu girls asked one Driver spec. Richard Hanson on his first trip. He has made a half dozen deliveries since then. He told them that he did not know Hovito answer Hanson was a passenger on a truck run thursday to Camp i Umba a 16-Miledrive. Poverty stricken Zaire with the desperate rwandan crisis piled on top of it was startling he said during the trip. These people Don t even know what a microwave " oven is or Cable to he recalled having thought on his first trip. I stared at everybody and the Road is lined with lava rocks the size of Basket balls and footballs. When Hanson saw it last week it -.,.i " see Goma on Page 2
