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A-10 Friday, Jan. 8, 1993 Santa Cruz Sentinel Somalia Continued from Page Al sites and ripples of machine-gun fire during the 20-minute onslaught Thursday. At least seven Somalis were killed in the raid, directed at two arsenals in northwest Mogadishu controlled by fighters loyal to Gen. Mohamed Farrah Aidid, one of Somalia's two most powerful warlords. Military officials said the Somalis inside the compound appeared to be leaderless and undisciplined.

One Marine was wounded by friendly fire in what officials said was a case of mistaken identity. The injury was not life-threatening, and he was being treated aboard the helicopter carrier USS Tripoli. "We hit them with a firestorm," said Maj. Gen. Charles E.

Wilhelm, commander of the 1st Marine Division and the officer who ordered the assault. The attack involved 400 troops, AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters, M1A1 Abrams battle tanks, amphibious assault armored vehicles and other heavy weaponry. "A strong display of resolve, determination and force is the best way to prevent the next one from pled from power in January 1991. At least 350,000 have died from starvation, disease and warfare by rival clans. Wilhelm said the assault was ordered after it was determined that sniper fire was coming from two of Aidid's arsenals.

Aidid and other clan leaders agreed to move weapons to such containment areas after U.S.-led troops were deployed. The Marine-led assault force surrounded the two compounds Wednesday night and gave the occupants until dawn to surrender, broadcasting their warnings over loudspeakers. Wilhelm said two convoys of U.S.-led forces had come under sniper fire Wednesday night. In one instance, he said, a gun-mounted truck from one of Aidid's compounds fired on U.S. troops.

Earlier in the evening, a Marine briefing at the former U.S. Embassy, now the Marine headquarters, was interrupted by a clan firefight across the street. Even south Mogadishu, the site of the biggest deployment of U.S. troops, has daily lootings and random gunfire. happening," Wilhelm told reporters.

Wilhelm said he had no information on Somali casualties, but officers at the scene said there were at least seven deaths. More than a dozen people were taken prisoner from the two walled compounds, and the Marines seized weapons caches including tanks, anti-aircraft guns, mortars and more than 15 field artillery guns, Wilhelm said. He said the attack would have no effect, however, on the balance of clan power in Somalia, which is armed to the teeth after years of courtship by the Cold War superpowers. The raid was the biggest display of firepower since President Bush dispatched U.S. troops to Mogadishu on Dec.

9. The capital was abuzz with talk. Some cheered the fact that U.S. forces had seized a significant number of weapons. "It is the first time the Americans really tried to stop the fighting," said Mohamed Hassan Mo-hamoud, 45, a hotel cook.

Somalia sank into a nightmare of death after despotic President Mohammed Siad Barre was top Postal worker Mel Cregware displays the new stamp. Postal Service releases Elvis stamp U0 'Lir ilWJ Kiss-and-tell tome from Bowie's ex-wife IN HER NEW memoir, "Backstage Passes," David Bowie's ex-wife, Angela, tells the touching tale of their marriage. According to the Advocate, Angela "conceptualized and managed (David's) early career in its 'Ziggy Stardust' phase, shared nubile groupies and 'rent boys' with him during the mod years, and agreed to wed him in 1970 with the proviso that he help launch her career as a singer-actress." She never made it, but along the way she managed to run into some delightful show folk, including Paul McCartney, whom she calls a "a puffed-up arrogant little snot;" Ryan O'Neal, who's a "sloppy drunk;" and Dinah Shore (a "provincial Lfe with David, she says, "was like having a really mischievous cat. You may hate it, but you don't love it any less. That was David: just a bad, bad cat.

That's how he acted. He used sex the way a cat sprays, to mark his territory. It gets the job done. Does it ever." THIRTY-EWE years after Elvis Presley rocked the jail house, it's the post office's turn. From Memphis to Hollywood, Elvis fans will be shaking it up today when the U.S.

Postal Service debuts its long-awaited and much-heralded Elvis stamp. The stamp's release coincides with what would have been Presley's 58th birthday. The U.S. Postal Service, which printed an unprecedented 500 million stamps, is expecting a big demand on the first day from Elvis fans across the country. Postal employees across the country are expecting the type of customer frenzy that they usually only see with the mid-April tax rush.

Ordeal in the snow Quote of the day The power brokers of the Santa Cruz progressive movement met a few weeks ago and passed out the political pie." BRUCE McPHERSON, former Sentinel editor, who was protesting what he called a Democratic effort to lock up heal legislative races once US. Rep. Leon Panetta vacates his House seat. Story begins, Page Al. From Sentinel wire services Iraq defies ultimatum said the anti-aircraft missiles are a definite threat to U.S.

planes patrolling a no-fly zone because, even though they are old, "an old missile can kill you just as dead as a new one." The ultimatum took effect immediately after it was delivered in writing to Hamdoon, in New York at 5:30 p.m. EST Wednesday, diplomats at the United Nations said. "The message is clear: that those batteries should not be located below the 32nd parallel," White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwa-ter said. Iraq also was told not to use the missiles' radar units to track American planes. Continued from Page Al see what they could do, the air was utterly silent and bitterly cold.

They were in an area so desolate that one resident has since described it this way: "They say this is not the end of the world, but you can see it from here." It began to seem like the end of the world for the Stolpa family when no other vehicles appeared on Washoe County road 8A. As night fell, coyotes and wolves howled nearby. Inside the truck, the Stolpas bundled up Ciayton to keep him warm and wondered what to do next. They staved off hunger for four days with coconut cookies, corn chips, vitamin pills and snow. Jennifer Stolpa breast-fed Clayton and melted ice in her own mouth for water.

At night, the temperature dipped to 4 below zero. In the warmest part of the day, it rose no higher than 42. After four days and nights, they realized nobody was going to come down the road in that weather. "We figured it was either stay here and die or try to do something," James Stolpa said. "So we did what we could and tried to get out of there." On Saturday, January 2, shortly after 8 a.m., James Stolpa pulled on a pair of his wife's pantyhose, the best substitute he could find for long johns, and then donned extra socks under his tennis shoes.

Jennifer Stolpa bundled up in as best she could and then the couple put their survival instincts to work to prepare their baby for a venture out into the weather. They dressed Clayton in several pairs of baby sleepers and wrapped him in two sleeping bags a baby sleeping bag inserted into an adult bag and then zipped the warm and cozy baby into a vinyl garment bag, which the father hooked onto his belt and pulled along behind him like a tiny sleigh. The only time the baby fussed was when the couple stopped. Leaving behind the haven of their pickup, the Stolpas set out east toward Nevada Highway 140, which lay less than 20 miles away. For the next 28 hours, they walked virtually nonstop, occasionally tramping up side roads or turn-offs only to have to walk back down to county road 8A when they ran into deadends.

"It was exhausting, really hard," Jennifer Stolpa said of their trek. "Jim always kept up the faith. But with me, I would just be so tired and so discouraged, every time we'd come around another mountain and the highway still wasn't there, I would start losing faith. But Jim was right behind me, pushing me the whole way." "I told her," Stolpa said, doing this for the and if that didn't work out, I said, 'Well, the sooner we get there, the sooner we get to have some As they entered the Charles Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, they saw a sign pointing to Hell's Creek and decided to follow that road. By noon on Sunday, however, they found the road was petering out, and they turned back.

They backtracked for six hours and finally found a small cave in the side of a cliff. Monday morning, they made the crucial decision to split up. "I still had the energy to keep going," Jennifer Stolpa said, "but I was really tired, and I was really cold. It started to snow again that morning, and it was really windy. I didn't want to walk in the snow again because it would freeze into your bones.

"So Jim said, 'OK, you guys stay here, and I'll keep But it was really hard. I was really worried about whether he'd make it." James Stolpa put the garment bag over the mouth of the cave and said good-by, promising to return. As Jennifer Stolpa lay in the cave with the baby, she said, "I was just hoping that a coyote or something wasn't going to come and try to kick me out. The cave was not even as long as this bed, with just about as much space. You couldn't sit up in it." She breast-fed the baby and chewed ice and gave him water.

Out on the road, James Stolpa headed back to the truck alone, his family constantly on his mind. "I was worried because they had no food. I was just really exhausted. It was really grueling. I walked back to the truck, which was about an 18-hour walk from where she was staying.

I stayed in the truck overnight." On Tuesday, a week after they had set out from home, Stolpa left the truck and continued west, backtracking toward Cedarville. He walked for more than 28 hours and covered nearly 40 miles. At night, he heard coyotes wailing again. About 11:30 Wednesday morning, as he wandered down the frozen highway, battered and worried, he saw someone on the road and realized he had made it. Washoe County Road Department Supervisor Dave Peterson was looking bemusedly in Stolpa's direction.

"He saw me coming down a perpendicular road," Stolpa said. "I was jumping up and down, waving my arms and stuff. He said the only reason he came over there is he thought I was a cow out of pasture. He pulled up and I almost fell to the ground." Stolpa yanked open the driver's door of Peterson's truck. "I jumped in and gave him a big handshake.

When we got back to his house, I gave him a big hug." While Stolpa was taken to the hospital in Cedarville, rescue workers, led by Peterson and aided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife employee Hugh Noll, who was familiar with the Hell's Creek area, found Jennifer Stolpa at 5:20 p.m. Unable to stand up, she was waving frantically at the rescuers. They put her and the baby on a skip loader, but that soon got stuck in snow drifts and the rescuers and rescued hopped into a pickup truck and then transferred to a Sno-Cat and eventually arrived at the Cedarville hospital at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, beaming with thankfulness for being alive, Jennifer Stolpa said of her husband, "He is more than a hero to me.

I don't think I could have picked anyone better. He had the courage and the drive to get us out of there. He promised me he would, and he did. He'll always be my hero." Rainfall figure! Reported In Inches ending Continued from Page Al know where the missiles had been taken partly as a result of cloud cover and ensuing darkness but believed they were still south of the 32nd parallel which delineates the no-fly zone. Meanwhile, Iraq's United Nations envoy, Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon, said Iraq rejects the legitimacy of the "no-fly" zone.

But, it was unclear whether Baghdad rejected the 48-hour ultimatum and, added Hamdoon, "I hope the crisis has been defused." U.S. analysts said the missiles were moved standard practice for the Iraqis when their weapons are endangered and were probably covered by a camouflage net to hide them from reconnaissance planes and satellites. Iraq, using camouflage and decoys, evaded allied detection of many of the Scud missiles it fired at Saudi Arabia and Israel during the Persian Gulf War. Iraq's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, had rejected the allies ultimatum, declaring that "it is the right of Iraq to deploy air defenses throughout the country," accord-' ing to Iraq's official news agency. But Pentagon spokesman Bob Hall said at a briefing hours later, "We will tolerate no interference with our ability to enforce the no-fly zone." President Bush was described as "very resolute" by lawmakers who met with him at the White House.

House Minority Leader Bob Michel said that in the Gulf War and other foreign policy matters Bush had prevailed by "sticking to his guns and not backing away from a tough decision. He'll ate p.m. inursaay Season to Last year make (this one) if it's necessary." Still, there was no crisis atmosphere at the White House, where Bush took time later in the day to visit and banter with Reggie Jackson, elected to baseball's Hall of Fame on Tuesday. In Little Rock, Presidentelect Clinton emphasized that the incoming administration is behind Bush. "I don't know whether (Saddam) is testing our resolve or not.

But I agree with what President Bush is doing," Clinton said. He said the change of administrations would not make "any difference in the dedication of the United States to the terms to which (Saddam) agreed at the end of the Gulf War." The surface-to-air weaponry had been put near the 32nd parallel in what the allies saw as a threat to their jets policing the zone set up to protect Iraq's Shiite minority from air attack. At the Pentagon, Hall said, "We hope that the Iraqis will respond to the demarche that was given to them at the U.N. last night." Placement of the weapons near the area where Iraqi jets have repeatedly violated the no-fly zone puts them in "a potentially hostile deployment pattern," he said. CIA Director Robert Gates said early Thursday defiance by Saddam of the ultimatum could well invite a military strike.

Gates, asked if he could see any alternative to force, replied: "It does not seem, after our experience of the past two years, that Saddam seems to understand any other message." Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America," the CIA chief Am i Yesterday date Aptos Ben Lomond Bonny Doon 1.86 3.75 3.92 4.35 Boulder Ci 1.90 Capltola 14.27 29.71 25.38 27.01 11.03 NA 12.01 10.79 9.48 12.04 11.76 20.68 13.71 14.55 10.04 21.51 Graham Hill La Selva Ben Live Oak Bridge Rfl Mar Santa Cruz NA 1.52 1.75 1.49 1.42 2.15 3.57 2.05 2.10 1.67 3.15 Scotts VII Soquel Swanton Watsonville Zayanteffl Sentinel graphic -L 30-day temperature range for Santa Cruz Thursday's temperatures Satellite weather map Satellite photo taken it 1:15 p.m. yesterday Forecast for noon Friday, Jan. 8 Yesterday's highs and lows: High 85 at Key West, Fla; low -29 at Warroad, Minn. 7T7 100 90 T-storms 80 70 EST Eureka 4555 (.66) Red Bluff 4246 (1.41) 60 50 40 30 Snow Rain 127 17 r--r i Marine outlook i Wind variable 15 knots seas 3 feet. Swell west 10 A Tahoe Valley 2438 I Santa Rosa 1 Sacramento 4154 (1 .50) I Ben Lomond 4458 (3.75) Swanton 4456 (2.10) Bormy Doon 4651 (3.92) Scotts Valtov SIGO (3.571 3 Ft.

cloudy Sunny Bonny Doon Watsonvilla Santa Cruz I 1 JV 4. f77 (P" QULUnn nnQ AIv vU. th .9 Pressure Santa Cruz 4956 (2.15) San Francisco Soquel 4657 (2.05) Capltola 4956(1 JO) sAptos 4757 (1.86) Stockton 4354 (.67) Oakland 4554 (1.78) San Jose 48756(1 .00) Santa Cruz 4958 (2.15) Stationary High Low Yosemlte Valley 3239 The world The nation Previous day's high and overnight low to p.m. PST. Rainfall year is measured beginning July 1 Phases of the moon Temperature and weather conditions from midnight to midnight on previous day.

del Mar 4659 (1.42) sLaServa Beach 4958 (1.52) Watsonville Hi Lo Pre Otlk Monterey Bay area forecasts Today Partly cloudy. Highs in the 50s 0 to 60s. Lows in the 40s. Juneau 30 Lo Wthr 30 clr cdy 26 Kansas City 29 53 41 Las Vegas cdy Salinas 5359 (.81) Morterey 4852 (1.10) Fm9n0 M) San Luis Obispo 6660 (NA) k- cdy clr clr clr cdy Full Now First Jan. 8 Jan.

14 Jan. 22 Jan. 30 SS Saturday Sunday Monday cdy Ti Partlu plniiHv Highs 50s; Rain likely. Highs 50s; lows 30s. Bakarsfield 4863 (.47) Ling en ng showers.

Highs in the 50s. lows 30s. cdy cdy rn cdy clr cdy cdy cdy cdy Needles 4052 (.16) Regional forecasts Santa Barbara 5662 (1 .06) Bartow 3748 (.48) cdy Hi Lo Pre Otlk Albanv.N.Y 40 25 cdy Albuquaque 57 36 cdy Anchorage 29 26 cdy Atlanta 54 47 .11 Atlantic City 46 33 sn Austin 55 47 .11 cdy Baltimore 47 38 Billings 22 06 sn Bismarck 11-15 sn Boise 24 12 cdy Boston 43 35 cdy Buffalo 38 31 cdy Burlington.Vt 37 27 cdy Casper 24 00 sn Christn.S.C 59 58 .47 Chrlstn.WVa 49 33 Chittte.N.C 51 50 .01 rn Cheyenne 20 14 .13 cdy Chicago 27 17 cdy Cincinnati 43 28 sn Cleveland 39 25 sn 43 26 sn ConcordN 40 21 cdy Dallas 53 45 .03 cdy Denver 25 14 cdy Des Moines 26 19 03 sn Detroit 35 22 cdy Duluth 07 -05 sn El Paso 63 49 cdy Fairbanks 30 29 .03 sn Fargo 06 -03 sn Flagstaff 41 36 .75 rn 04 Northwestern Calif. 3 Rain likely in the north. Northeastern Calif.

Chance of snow. Highs 20s-30s; lows teens-20s. .49 cdy sn cdy San Bernardino (461 (1.91) Los Angeles 57AS2 (2.21) Rrverskk) Palm Springs 4252 (1.33) I 30s-40s. Amsterdam 43 Athens 39 Bangkok 90 Barbados 84 Barcelona 54 Beijing 36 Beirut 59 Berlin 43 Budapest 28 B'Aires 79 Cairo 61 Calgary 21 Caracas 82 Dublin 50 Havana 82 Helsinki 37 Hong Kong 70 Istanbul 37 Jerusalem 61 Jo'burg 84 Lima 75 Lisbon 57 London 50 Madrid 55 Manila 88 Mexico City 73 Montreal 27 Moscow 23 Nassau 82 New Delhi 63 Oslo 45 Paris 52 Rio 91 Rome 46 San Juan 84 Seoul 36 Singapore 86 Stockholm 41 Tel Aviv 63 Tokyo 45 Vancouver 27 Vienna 39 Warsaw 34 34 72 73 27 21 50 37 14 63 48 -11 57 39 72 32 66 28 48 61 61 45 43 32 64 45 16 23 72 48 28 46 73 30 70 30 75 32 60 37 07 32 09 Little Rock Louisville Memphrs Miami Beach Milwaukee Mpte-St Paul Nashville New Orleans New York Norfolk. Va North Platte Okla City Omaha Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Prtlnd.Ore Providence Raleigh Rapid City Reno Richmond St Lous Salt Lake City San Antonio Santa Fe Seattle Shrveport Sioux Falls Spokane Syracuse Tampa Topeka Tucson Tulsa Wash DC 39 34 48 32 43 34 80 73 25 14 11 -05 44 33 60 55 44 36 48 43 26 16 48 37 29 14 47 38 65 56 44 26 38 22 33 27 42 30 47 45 20 05 38 22 47 44 33 26 27 21 56 46 31 39 24 46 44 15 -09 11 -01 42 33 79 66 30 28 60 62 47 34 48 39 cdy 08 Mt.

Shasta-Siskiyou area Rain likely by midday. Highs wbrf forecast Swell out of the west with moderate surf. Water temperature is in the mid-50s. Tides Southern Sierra tBxJL Lingering snow showers. 'WZW Snow level above 4000 to 6000 feel San Diego 6063 (134) LV in the 30s; tows 20 to 30.

JL Today: Low: 3:26 a -2. Tf LosAngeles area clr clr clr cdy clr cdy cdy sn cdy cdy cdy clr cdy cdy clr cdy cdy clr clr rn cdy clr cdy cdy cdy High: 9:21 a.m.; 6.3 1122 p.m.; 4.6 10:10 a.m.; 6.2; Kamy cloudy with a 30 percent sunrise aunsei ctenwshowersJHighseOs; a.m.; 5:10 p.m. tows in the upper 40s. Moonrlse Moonset Tomorrow: 4:16 2.6 cdy sn cdy Grand Rapids 29 26 Great Falls 24 06 Hartford 41 29 Helena 07 -11 Sacramento Valley Variable cloudiness. Highs in the 40s-50s; lows 30s to near 40.

S.F. Bay Area Variable cloudiness with a chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the 40s-50s; tows in the30s-40s. I i ii tmmm S. Calif, coastal areas cdy 5:49 p.m.; 7:24 a.m.

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