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Carlsbad Current-Argus A-10 Friday, January 21, 1994 Soma is ame peace chine guns. 1 In the buffer zone of abandoned houses on both sides of die line, members of the militias stood guard in windows, but didn't display their guns. After meeting and joining up with crowds of people in the north, the march returned to southern Mogadishu and gathered outside a building used by the Somali National Alliance. Inside, the same clan elders who reached the peace pact Sunday enjoyed lunch MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) Thousands of men, women and children marched back and forth across Mogadishu's treacherous cease-fire line today in support of a peace agreement recently signed by their clan elders. Accompanied by their top cjan elder, Imam Mohammod Imam Omar, and officials from the capital's two warring; political factions, the exuberant people chanted "Today is a great day! and waved purple flowers.

"This march could bring my mother and father back together for the first time in 2Vi years," said Abdi Hassan Ali, 23, as he marched with the crowd across the so-called Green Line and into northern Mogadishu. Since Somalia's civil war and famine, his clan elders. But their militias also have been rearming, taking over positions abandoned by U.N. soldiers, and erecting defenses that could be used in fighting after U.S. forces finish withdrawing from Somalia on March 31.

Aidid also continues to demand that all the forces withdraw from Somalia and to reject local councils the United Nations is helping Somalis create in preparation for the appointment of a transitional government When the march began today, the sabbath in this Muslim nation, thousands of people from southern Mogadishu walked two miles to the Green Line, which is heavily guarded by militiamen carrying assault rifles and ma mother has supported Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his Habre-Gedir clan in the south, while his father backed the Agbal sub-clan and faction leader Ali Mahdi Mohamed in the north. "My mother told me that if this march works she will return to my father again, and that will definitely happen now," Ali said in an interview. On Sunday, the clans of war-torn Mogadishu reached a peace agreement at a hotel in a northern area of the capital and promised to punish anyone who violated it under harsh laws they would draw up. Since then Ali Mahdi and officials of Aid-id's Somali National Alliance have supported the reconciliation agreement signed by their and celebrated their successful march. "The welcome we received up north was remarkable, Mohamed Kediye Geel, a southern Mogadishu clan elder, said in the crowded jubilant conference room.

Indonesia slams door on Magic JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) American basketball star Magic Johnson will not be al-. lowed to enter Indonesia as part of an all-star team because of his infection with the AIDS virus, a top immigration official said today. "I will block his visit, because of his AIDS disease," Roni Sikap Sinuraya, director general of immigration, told a news conference. HE SAID a 1992 immigration law permits the government to deny entry to people with contagious diseases. Although Johnson is infected with the virus that causes AIDS, he has not developed symptoms of the disease.

Johnson was scheduled to arrive in Jakarta on Feb. 24 along with an all-star team for three days of exhibition play at the invitation of Indonesia's basketball association. The health minister, Sujudi, said he does not oppose the visit but the case has created a dilemma for the Indonesian government He said Indonesia, as a member of the World Health Organization, has an obligation to treat AIDS victims in a humanitarian way. Syrian president's son, possible successor, dies in crash his equestrian skills and was hailed in Syria's state-run media as "the Golden Knight" But the younger Assad was introduced to Syria's seething politics in March 1984. Damascus was divided between the armed camps of Assad, laid low by a heart attack, and the president's unruly and ambitious younger brother, Rifaat, who was threatening to seize power.

Assad put on his military uniform and, accompanied only by Basil, drove to confront Rifaat. Assad told Rifaat: "You want to overthrow the regime? Here I am." Rifaat backed off and was sent into exile. A statement released today by Lebanon's presidential palace called the younger Assad "another martyr offered by Syria in its quest for the glory of die Arab nation and peace in the Middle East and Lebanon." Lebanon's President Elias Hrawi, Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and! Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri! gathered at the presidential palace near Beirut and were expected to! head for Damascus later today. The death of the younger Assad came just five days after his father met with President Clinton in Geneva and made a conditional offer of peace with Israel. today to catch a flight to Germany when his car crashed in foggy weather.

The radio said the funeral would be held after noon prayers Saturday in the family's hometown, Karda-hah, in northwest Syria. After broadcasting the announcement, regular programming stopped and was replaced with readings from the Koran, Islam's holy book. Basil, a major in the Syrian army who trained as an engineer, took little part in politics until two years ago, when photographs of him standing beside his father began to appear on cars and posters across Damascus. Until then, he was best known for DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) Syrian President Hafez Assad's oldest son and possible successor, Basil, was killed in a car crash today, state-run radio reported. He was 31.

Basil Assad was a Syrian air force major and the head of the presidential security apparatus. He was considered a candidate to succeed his father, who has diabetes and reportedly suffered a second heart attack last year, but would have been constitutionally forbidden from assuming the presidency until he was 40. The radio gave no details of the accident, -but sources close to the Assad family said Basil Assad was driving to Damascus airport early $3.00 OFF 1 HOST. Dry Extraction Carpet Cleaning Machine Rental Now rent the HOST. System! Rated 1 by a leading consumer magazine, HOST is the easiest, most effective dry extraction carpet cleaning system available.

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