David Saussy - Savannah Morning News
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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. The Associated Press 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. Elect David Saussy City Official Angers Jewish Leaders The Associated Press 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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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 David Saussy
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