European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday january 6,1995 three commissaries rework operating hours from staff and wire reports Kapaun air station Germany the commissaries in Baum older Neu Briecke and Idar Oberstein have revised their shopping hours. The change is really for customer convenience said Gerri Young a spokeswoman for the defense commissary Agency Europe. Especially during the Winter when the weather creates dangerous driving conditions in the Region. As 1995 begins Baum older s commissary will add three hours to the weekend schedule. Shoppers can Hunt for bargains saturday and sunday from 10 . To 6 ., under the new weekend schedule that took effect monday. The Baum older commissary schedule for weekdays will  same tuesday through Friday from 10 . To 8  With the facility normally being closed on mondays. The Neu Briecke and Idar Oberstein commissar annexes Are now open monday from 11 . To 6  To ease the shopping Burden when the Baum older store is closed officials said. The Neu Briecke store is open monday tuesday Friday and saturday from 11 . To 6  The store is closed wednesday thursday and sunday. In Idar Oberstein the store is open monday tuesday thursday and Friday from 11 . To 6 ., and saturday from 11 . To 4  The facility is closed wednesday and sunday. Store hours changed Kapaun air station Germany the Baum older Sembach a and Vogel Weh commissaries will be open for one monday Only Jan. 9 while the Ramstein a store is closed for renovation according to a defense commissary Agency Europe release. Each commissary is normally closed on mondays. However to minimize inconvenience to customers each store will be open Jan. 9, said Gerri Young an Agency spokeswoman. The Agency also announced a two hour Extension of the Vogel Weh store hours for monday the commissary hours Are As follows Baum older 10 . To 8  Sembach 10 . To 6  And Vogel Weh 9 . To 7p.m. Opening the three stores for the one Day will make sure customers from outlying areas Are Able to shop Young said. Anti Hitler plotter honoured Berlin the Quartier Napoleon base that was Long used by French troops was renamed thursday to Honor a resistance figure executed 50 years ago by the nazis for plotting to kill Adolf _ Hitler. Defense minister Volker Rishe presided Over a ceremony re dedicating the base As Julius Leber Kas Crne. La Gerwasia social democratic member of parliament imprisoned after Hitler Rose to to yer in 4,933.  a a Fred in 1937, he joined the plot that led to the attempt to kill Hitler with a bomb in 1944. Leber was to have been Interior minister if the nazis had been overthrown. Instead Hitler was Only slightly wounded. Liber was executed Jan. 5,1945. The military base considered Berlin s finest was named for the French emperor after world War ii while French troops were quartered at the site bordering Tegel Airport. Allied troops left Berlin in september and the base is to House German military Honor guard units bands and other ceremonial units. Services today for Soldier Wurzburg Germany memorial services will be held today in the Gie Belstadt Chapel at 2  For a 3rd inf div Soldier who died tuesday division officials said. Sgt. 1st class Noel Mcdonald 46, of he and he Btry 69th air defense arty brigade died at the University Hospital in Wiir Burg. Hospital officials would not provide information on cause of death. Mcdonald is survived by his wife Linda and a daughter Claudia. Floodwaters stall cars at an intersection just East of Torrance calif., after heavy storms struck the area. Storm swamps California los Angeles a a powerful storm heaped rain and Snow on Southern California on wednesday forcing the evacuation of More than 100 people from convalescent Home with a Leaky roof. Three people were hospitalized with . No fatalities were reported. The Leaky roof forced Golden West convalescent Home in suburban Hawthorne to move about 120 elderly residents to other Homes in the area. Near los Angeles Harbor Rescue Crews worked Toffee motorists from about two dozen vehicles that unwittingly drove into a Lake of swirling floodwaters. The fast moving Waters trapped a 30-year-old woman and her 7-year-old daughter. The Mother was pinned under her car for several minutes. She was in critical condition wednesday at san Pedro Peninsula hospital., the daughter was in stable condition. In suburban Torrance flooding forced residents evacuation from about a dozen Homes. The National weather service issued Flash flood warnings wednes Day in some areas scorched earlier by wildfires. Residents who were worried about the threat of mudslides stacked sandbags in Malibu and Altadena where As much As an Inch of rain was reported by afternoon. A minor mudslide blocked part of a Malibu Road about two Miles North of the Pacific coast Highway. Officials urged people living in flood warning areas to prepare to move quickly. It s so horrible i be never seen anything like this said Susy Yoon a san Fernando Valley resident. The red Cross prepared to open a shelter in the Sangabriel Valley to House and feed people displaced by flooding and mudslides. In the Antelope Valley Light Snow fell wednesday taking some los Angeles county Drivers by Surpri Seand causing fender benders. The storm also made trouble for Northern califor Nia. A blustery front shut Down highways Cut Power and delayed flights. Heavy Rains touched off mudslides closing a stretch of the Sonoma county coastal Road temporarily. Grozny gets breather from fighting Grozny Russia a gunshots and sporadic tank blasts rattled the fog bound chechen capital thursday after russian president Boris Yeltsin sus Pended air raids giving both sides a respite from Days of fighting. Russian fighter jets and helicopters however again buzzed Chechnya and intensive fighting was heard near villages West of Grozny. On the sixth Day of Yeltsin s bungled offensive to quash the Republic s Independence drive a senior rus Sian official claimed Grozny could be in russian hands without a major Battle by late thursday. _ but russian forces continued to flow toward the re Gion and Street fighting seemed certain to flare again. In Moscow the press service of the russian govern ment said heavy fighting had taken place around the Railroad station in Grozny. The government said rus Sian troops had repulsed rebel attacks and killed about 100 chechen fighters. _ _ there was no word on russian losses and throughout the War Moscow has exaggerated its claims of rebel deaths. Yeltsin on thursday came under increasing political pressure. Communist party Leader Gennady Zyuganov called for Early presidential elections and lawmakers gathered enough signatures to ask speaker Ivan Rybkin to Call an emergency session of the legislature. On wednesday Yeltsin s press service announced Ahalt in airstrikes under criticism from foreign govern ments and after apparently random bombings killed a least 100 civilian villagers. " y hundreds perhaps thousands of civilians and fight ers have been killed or wounded in the 3-week-old in Vasion. The red Cross estimates 350,000 people have been left homeless v bosnian troop presence snags talks Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a bos Nia s nationwide truce stumbled into its fifth Day with talks stalled on implementing it around Sarajevo. A . Spokesman said the Muslim led bosnian government had not withdrawn its troops from a strategic Summit just South of Sarajevo. As Many As 150 govern ment troops remained in the demilitarized zone of mount i Man it. Col. Patrick Declet said  troops presence Taigman caused the collapse of High level talks late wednesday on implementing the four month truce. A lower level delegation met at Sarajevo Airport thursday. Under the truce serbs  were to allow civilians to enter the capital. But the serbs demanded that government troops first leave i Man. Government forces have been Able to fire on a key serbian Supply route from strategic positions. 7 fighting in Northwest Bosnia also posed serious threats to the truce which took effect sunday. . Peacekeepers in velika Kladusan reported hear ing at least 80 artillery detonations along with heavy Small arms and machine gun fire exchanges East of the town thursday morning said maj  a . Spokesman. On wednesday the United nations reported a East 116 explosions in the velika Kladusan area. The fighting there pits the government army against an Allied Force of rebel serbs from neighbouring Croatia and Muslim fighters Loyal to local Leader Fikret Abdich neither of whom signed the truce