European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Vol. 54, no. 147 500 monday september 11,1995 avenges be swi d 8693 a from staff and wire reports Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a nato on sunday retaliated swiftly for serbian shelling of Tula Airport ordering its War planes to strike serbian positions that repeatedly bombarded the Airfield. As the showdown Between nato and. Bosnia s serbs stretched into a 12th Day Alliance jets continued bombing serbian targets elsewhere to try to Force rebel serbs to remove heavy weapons around Sarajevo and desist from attacking other Safe areas like Tula. Mildenhall Refu Elers pumped for petrol patrol in an attempt to end the standoff with the serbs French president Jacques Chirac said late sunday he had demanded a suspension of nato air raids to allow a possible agreement on the withdrawal of Serbi an guns. It was not Clear when the suspension would take effect. Bosnian serbian commander Gen. Ratko Mladic reportedly stressed during a three hour meeting with a russian envoy in Belgrade on saturday that he would not remove the guns around Sarajevo. Following a Telephone conversation with Chirac bosnian president Alija ize Begovic under apparent Western pressure gave guarantees that his government troops would not launch an offensive in the Sarajevo see nato on Page 4 trucks make their Way through pitted iraqi roads. The . Embargo is having a devastating effect on the people especially the kurd in the North. Is Kon George Sybil Slammon 7 staff writer Salah and Din Iraq he misses his wife but the thing that really tears him up is being apart from his 2-year-old daughter. _ sometimes at night i dream of her he confides. Her behaviour has been printed in my brain and it replays in the dream. The next Day i feel sort of complicated. I feel very sad. I Don t want anyone even to talk to asks that his name not be published because he fears it would endanger his wife and child. He has seen them just once in the last five months when they were smuggled out of the ancient iraqi City of Erbil which is held by one group of kurd and into Salah and Din held by a rival group in the secret compartment of a truck. ". a v. His daughter managed to stay silent but his wife s heart was racing like a Rab bit s when the truck reached the Check Points. His Cousin who was l. Driving bribed the guards to let the truck pass into enemy territory. It was a joyous reunion. But after two. Continued on Page 20 second in a series. Of so is ass spy a a ij1 1" ii i i 1 Gingrich caws Powell party plan a. Joke Packwood says diary filled with inaccuracies _ see Page 2 la Leeson recalls his panic when brings failed see Page 5 Washington a House speaker Newt Gingrich urged retired Gen. Colin Powell to give up any idea of an Independent candidacy saying sunday that having a president outside the cur rent party system is a joke that could Lead to disaster. Powell in his new autobiography says he is comfortable with neither party and the time May be Ripe for the Rise of a third party to represent the political Cen Ter in America. He makes no commit ment to Lead such a party. Gingrich speaking on Abc s meet the press strongly urged him against that course. I think it s frankly in the Long run a joke the Georgia Republican said. This country is a party country. There is no magic Independence of peo ple who Are just Able to stand up and magically produce a government an Independent presidency would be a disaster for this country he said. If Powell former chairman of the join chiefs of staff ran As a Republican he would immediately become the chief rival to gop front runner sen. Bob. Dole Gingrich said. Gingrich like Powell says he will make see Powell on Page 2
