David Saussy - Savannah Morning News

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Already dogged by tooting and security troubles, the international effort to feed Somalia's starving
is threatened with a new setback from surging dan warfare.
Relief workers fear fighting could erupt
in Kismayu, a main distribution center for
the south, and in Hardera, where aid agenctof are struggling to rebuild feeding programs abandoned in the most recent clan
battle.
Skirmishes have also been reported in
the capital, Mogadishu.
The looming battles point up the fragility
of the aid effort in Somalia,
Before Bardera changed hands in Oct. 13
fighting, food aid had cut the daily death toll
from hunger and disease from 70 to about
20. Now an estimated 200-300 people die
each day in the town.
Horst Homborg, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross,
said relief officials were dismayed that programs just starting to have effect could be
wiped out by more fightingr
"People are getting frustrated when they
see the work of weeks destroyed in one or
two days, "he said
While places like Bardera and Kismayu
may sound like names on a map to outsiders, both are very real examples of what
has happened to Somalia over the last two
years of war, looting and famine.
Bardera was a forming town known for
its tobacco, habitually chewed by Somali nomads. Now the town is a jumble of destroyed huts, and most of the 16,000 residents are displaced farmers fed by relief
programs.
In and around Kismayu, a port that once
exported livestock to the nearby Gulf states
and bananas to Italy, the Red Cross runs 62
kitchens that prepare daily meals for about
76,000 people. Other agencies run special
feeding programs for children.
The latest fighting grow* from a power
struggle between the main Somali guerrilla
chief Mohamed Farrah Aidid and Mohamed
Said Hersi, known as Gen. Morgan, the sonin-law of ousted dictator Mohamed Siad
Barre.
Morgan's forces drove Aidid's men out of
Bardera in the mid-October fighting. Now
Aidid wants back what was once his headquarters.
Last week he sent a foray against Morgan's line, about 18 miles from the town, but
was driven back.
Seated in the shade beside a war-ravaged bouse near Bardera, the bearded Morgan said last week he could hold the town,
German Officials Deport 17 Romanian Refugees
By GEORGE BOEHMER
FRANKFURT, Germany - German officials deported 17 Romanians on Monday under an agreement requiring Romania to take
back refugees denied political asylum in Germany.
The Romanians were put oil a
flight to Bucharest under the controversial agreement that took effect
Sunday as part of German attempts
to confront a flood of refugees.
A majority of Romanian asylumseekers are Gypsies, the nomadic
race that oetifarjes af Europeans
have seen as social outcasts. The
Gypsies often have been the targets
of rightist attacks on foreigners in
^Germany.
At Frankfurt airport, German
border police spokesman Eckerhart
Wache said it was business as usual,
and that deportations have taken
place even before the pact took effect.
"This is a normal day. Some days
there are more returned, some days
less," Wache said. He said 17 Romanians and one Bulgarian were put on
board the Lufthansa flight to Bucharest.
One of the would-be refugee said
he was 21 and he had worked at an
Italian restaurant in western Germany for more than two years.
"They said no to asylum," said
the man, who would not give his
name. "At home I have nothing.
What should I do there?''Til be back."
Three jailed Romanian Gypsies
climbed a prison chimney Monday
in Uelzen, about 30 miles south of
Hamburg, and threatened to commit
suicide to protest their possible expulsion. They later climbed down,
police said.
The government has denied singling out Gypsies in the agreement
Germany and Romania signed hi
September. It also requires Romania to take back its citizens who
have incomplete identity papers.
German officials say Romanians
are the largest single group of refugees and that 70 percent lack proper
identification. They estimate that
100,000 Romanians are in Germany
illegally.
A top Interior Ministry official
warned Monday that gangs of rightwing radicals who have been terrorizing refugees could soon coalesce
into a national force.
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LUANDA, Angola - Angolan
government forces had most of
Luanda back under control Monday
and appealed to citizens not to
wreak revenge on UNITA rebels after fighting reportedly left up to
l,000dead.
As rebel resistance melted in the
capital, armed civilians were reported hunting down rebels. UNITA
leader Jonas Savimbi's second-incommand and nephew were reported killed and a third top rebel
wounded. Police said they captured
three UNITA generals.
If confirmed, the losses would be
a major setback to the U.S.-backed
UNITA rebels, who signed a ceasefire with the pro-Soviet government
in 1991 to end a 16-year civil war in
which 350,000 people
Clashes between the governing
MPLA - the Popular Movement for
the Liberation of Angola - and
UNITA - the National Union for the
Total Independence of Angola erupted in the provinces Thursday
and spread to Luanda Saturday.
State radio said up to 1,000 people
died in the fighting, which threatened to renew the war until a U.N.sponsored truce took effect just after
midnight Sunday.
Tensions had been rising since
national elections in September,
which UNITA lost. Savimbi contends
the vote was rigged; the United Nations says the balloting was generally free and fair.
Rebel officials reported skirmishes in some parts of the country Monday, but police claimed to have
Luanda back under control. Only
sporadic shooting and explosions
were heard in some districts.
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City Official Angers Jewish Leaders
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FRANKFURT, Germany - A
city official in Rostock resigned
late Monday hours after he angered Jewish leaders by questioning the patriotism of the head
of Germany's Jewish community.
The incident involving Jewish
leader Ignatz Bubis and KarlHeinz Schmidt, a Rostock city
councilman, came at a sensitive
time for Jewish-German relations, which are troubled by a
surge in neo-Nazism and attacks
on Jewish monuments.
Bubis, a Frankfurt businessman who is chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany,
led a delegation to Rostock to inquire about the violence and the
arrests of French Jews there after a protest last month.
The Baltic coast city has become synonymous with a recent
wave of violence directed at foreigners and asylum-seekers.
During a news conference,
Schmidt asked Bubis whether he
The Associated Press
considered Israel his "homeland" and what he thought about
Israel's treatment of Palestinians
on the occupied West Bank.
MOSCOW - Russian politicians said Monday that a new U.S.-made
film about Josef Stalin was a crude "gangster movie." Its producer
said the portrayal of the ruthless Soviet dictator was on target.
"This film should not be shewn/' hard-line legislator Nikolai Pavlov said after watching excerpts of "Stalin,'' starring Robert Duvall in
the title role, during the taping of a television talk show in Moscow.
Pavlov called it a "political thriller in gangster terms."
The film premieres Nov. 21 on the international Home Box Office
TV network, which spent $10 million filming the movie in the Kremlin
and other Moscow locations.
"^
The film depicts Stalin as a monster who systematically kills or
terrorizes virtually everyone around him.
"In the crudest, crassest way, it over-simpHfies what really happened, and the horrible tragedy of the people," Pavlov said "All that
is left is a licentious sadist, a hangman thirsty fpr power."
Sergei Stankevich, an aide to Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin,
faulted the movie for not showing "the lives of ordinary people who
lived under Stalin; the three generations who invested their lives in
this time."
The comments were made during taping of the TV program "Top
Secret," which organized a roundtable of government officials and
legislators to discuss the movie.
American producer Mark Carliner attended the taping and made
no apologies for the film.
"Stalin was the biggest gangster of the 20th century," said
Carliner. "Stalin was Lenin's enforcer, a man of violence like Al Capone. In fact, Stalin admired At Capone and liked to show gangster
movies in the Kremlin."
Carliner said the film had to be packaged as a gangster movie to
hook viewers - and Hollywood funding. But the end product is moreof
a political biography, not just blood and guts, he said.
"There was no attempt to characterize Stalin, to research his character," said Alexander Burdonsky, a 50-year-old theater director
whose father was Vassily Djugashvili, one of Stalin's two sons.
"The movie shows Stalin knock someone down, and strike a match
on somebody else's hand, but never shows us why he would do such a
thing," Burdonsky said.
"These are the kind of questions that stir up anti-Semitism in
Germany all the time," an angry
Bubis replied. "The basis for
anti-Semitism and hate of foreigners are precisely such questions."
"My homeland is Frankfurt,"
he said. "When you say that my
homeland is Israel, then I understand it as if you are asking what
am I doing here if my homeland
is Israel,
"For you, a Jew is something
foreign, something that belongs
in .Israel,* 4 - Bubis continued.
"There was German Jewry once
upon the time and it was wiped
out by the Nazis. The fact that
there is no new German Jewry
today is linked to such questions
that you pose."
he had seen the corpses at a Luanda
police station of UNIT A's No. 2 official, Jeremias Chitunda, and Elias
Salupeto Pena, another top official
and Savimbi's nephew.
He said Chitunda had been shot
through the jaw and throat and Pena
apparently died from head wounds.
Police said they were shot near the
city limits as they tried to flee in a
convoy of vehicles, dos Santos reported.
Police said UNITA's top military
commander, Arlindo Chenda Pena
- another Savimbi nephew - was
wounded as he jumped from the convoy, but he was not found, dos Saptos said.
TSF also said Abel Chivukuvuku,
UNITA's foreign affairs spokesman,
was seriously wounded and being
treated at a military hospital.
Portugal's Lusa news agency
said three rebel generals were detained at the Defense Ministry.
Carlos Fontoura, UNITA spok'esman in Lisbon, denied reports
Savimbi. had fled to Morocco or
South Africa, He said the rebel chief
Aguiar dos Santos, a reporter for was at his central Angolan base in
Lisbon's TSF radio in Luanda, said Huambo.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed, and police warned civilians to
stay off the streets because of snipers. Police vehicles with loudspeakers cruised the streets urging
people to respect the cease fire.
Many armed civilians had fought
alongside police against the rebels
over the weekend, and there were
fears that some might try to settle
old scores.
A government statement read
over state radio appealed to people
to show "humanitarian treatment'*
to UNITA supporters.
Jardo Muekalia, UNITA spokesman in Washington, claimed police
armed civilians for "a house-tohouse hunt for UNITA sympathizers
and supporters."
Amnesty International received
reports of several summary executions in Luanda and the provinces,
said Gillian Nevens, Africa specialist with the London-based human
rights group. She could not confirm
who was responsible or give precise
numbers.
Executions Part of Afghan Life
KUNAR, Afghanistan - In rugged Kunar province, Mir Hasan leveled his assault rifle and took revenge on the man an Islamic court
found guilty of killing Hasan's young wife and brother.
In compliance with the tenets of Islam, which preaches "eye-foran-eye" justice, Hasan executed Gul Mohammad by firing at him
from about 20 feet away.
Thousands of people, many shouting "God is great!" witnessed the
execution on Saturday in a dusty field strewn with tumbleweeds just
outside the northeastern provincial capital of Asadabad.
The condemned man trembled as a blindfold was wrapped around
his eyes, witnesses said. The first shot killed Mohammad, but Hasan
kept firing until the clip of 32 bullets was empty, they said.
The execution was believed to have been the first of its kind outside
Kabul, where Muslim rebels drove former President Najibullah from
power in April and imposed strict Islamic justice.
The details of Mohammad's crime were never made public. His trial, like all trials in the new Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, was held
behind closed doors.
For nearly 14 years rebels fought Afghanistan's Marxist government and its ally, the former Soviet Union. They vowed to impose an
Islamic system on Afghanistan that followed strict adherence to the
Koran, Muslim's holy book.
But the rebel leadership is a fractious collection of 10 ethnically diverse chiefs, all of whom have their own vision of an Islamic Afghanistan.
Some favor an Iranian-style Islamic code of conduct that keeps
women shrouded in black veils and allows little room for interpretation of the Koran.
Others say they want a more moderate Afghanistan, but so far
their voices have been muted by the fundamentalists.
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to expand his territory.
Asked about reports he intended to seize
Kismayu, Morgan said plans were a military secret But U.N. officials said his men
have advanced more than half the 200 miles
southeast from Bardera to Kismayu.
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SEOUL, South Korea - As
Prince Charles and Princess Diana
stepped into a bullet-proof limousine
at their hotel Tuesday, an American
tourist darted forward an^l blurted
"God bless you!"
About 50 hotel guests and businessmen watching in the lobby
broke into applause. The prince
smiled and the princess tilted her
head toward the woman and smiled
back.
Charles, 43, and Dians, 31, were
on the second day of a f->ur-day tour
of Korea, the lengthiest public exposure of their marriage since a book
describing it as a loveless sham was
released over the summer.
Tuesday's itinerary included
lunch with the prime minister, a
presidential banquet and a trip near
the heavily armed border with North
Korea to lay a wreath honoring Brit
ish soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War
The couple had barely stepped off
the plane before London tabloids reopened speculation about their
marraige by printing details of an
updated paperback version of An
drew Morton's biography, *'Diana
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