European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 09, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 9,1994 the stars and stripes pages i Slaughter of Aristide backers vowed to i army to target internal enemy if . Invades officer says by new Day port a Prince Haiti a Junior army officer says that if the United states invades Haiti the guns of the army and its allies will be turned on supporters of exiled president Jean Bertrand Aristide Haiti s army last week began training hundreds of civilians not so much to counter a possible american As Sault but to go after Aristide backers who Are now in the country and those who might return after an inva Sion the officer  people who Are training Are not going to try to fight the United states the officer said speaking on the condition that he not be further identified they Are going to free with their arms and use them against whom against  lavalas which Means Rushing Waters in the Creole language of Haiti is the name of Aristide s leftist Polit ical movement. Lavalas partisans Are concentrated in numerous impoverished neighbourhoods of port a Prince and throughout the Countryside. Last week following the july 31 vote in the . Security Council giving backing to a .-led invasion the army in Haiti started training civilians at police head quarters and other locations around the capital. On thursday and Friday the civilian recruits began doing calisthenic and Basic Parade Maneu vers. Under the supervision of army trainers they paraded and chanted we Are ready for the foreigners and we Are ready for the invasion some were seen Smil ing and drinking Beer As they took Breaks during the exercises. One military source said Many of the civilians were your Ted up and drafted from the surrounding streets by plainclothes soldiers. In an interview with new Day an army officer said the High command has sent memorandums to All Mili tary Barracks ordering them to prepare themselves for an invasion. But it is understood throughout the armed forces he said that there will be no significant Resis Tance to any attack by the United states. Some extreme right Wing fanatics May throw them selves at the invading Force in suicide Type actions he said but most soldiers and their new civilian recruits know that any attempt at serious resistance would be futile. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago aug. 9,1984 China reported that mines planted in the red sea had damaged two chinese ships one of them seriously. 20 years ago aug. 9,1974 Richard m. Nixon his 2,026-Day presidency shredded by scandal told vice president Ger Ald Ford that he was resigning a White House aide said. 30 years ago aug. 9,1964 turkish air Force planes made rocket and machine gun attacks for the second straight Day against greek cypriot targets along the Island s Northwest coast Between the towns of polls and Xeros. _ 40 years ago aug. 9,1954 the . State department charged that the Krem Lin s primary strategy in latin Ameri Ca was to promote anarchy in order to have a Freer hand to carry on its aggressive imperialism  50 years ago " aug. 9,1944 a captured Ger Man intelligence officer claimed that Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler had been assassinated and Field marshal Hermann Goring wounded in a fresh outbreak against the nazi Hierarchy British authorities said. World War ii 50 years ago today aug. 9 the . Army s Xiv corps turns North from be mans and Heads toward Argenta aiming to link up with Canadian troops pushing South toward Falaise and pocket the German forces trying to keep the. Allies locked up in Normandy. In the Pacific the japanese end their attempt to drive american troops from the a tape beachhead in new Guinea. Organized japanese resistance ends on Guam. Source 2194 Days o1 me if. It Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world Warll. Bison books corp., 1981 o Cetl flt. ,.iit2�simn/00rts of 4\ n1 a \ copter a Ftp recur of Book a ? ? no nil , 84, sunday v cd became the world oldest nest time parachutist and said she would not mind jumping again. The woman who is Blind made the daring lean from a helicopter Over Stockholm tied to an experienced  was wonderful. I would t mind doing it again but not right now she said after Landing in a Field in the swedish capital Nonni hasten 84 and wind became the world s oldest fit  sunday when Shle aped tem a helicopter Over Stockholm Sweden. She was tied to an experienced Chutis Tor the feat ,x.,