San Angelo Standard-Times from San Angelo, Texas • 3

W-' S' -V SAN ANGELO Wednesday March 3 BA Four die iii Kismayu unrest US special envoy claims Somalia has been secured Serbs block evacuation kill civilians KISMAYU Somalia (AP) US special envoy Robert Oakley said Tuesday foreign troops have made Somalia safe for aid deliveries but four people died in a third straight day of unrest in this southern port The violence has claimed 10 lives all Somalis Marine CoL Fred Peck the US military spokesman said a grenade blast Tuesday killed three people and wounded 16 And he said a Somali man who tried to stab a US soldier was shot to death by another soldier Relief agencies in Mogadishu say their workers have been unable to distribute food in Kismayu because of the violence Belgian forces have been bringing food and water to 10 camps in the city At peace talks in Mogadishu 15 factions turned in lists of their weapons and fighters as the first step toward disarmament under UJf supervision Marine CoL Peter Dotto who represents the US-led military coalition at thq talks said the next step would be to agree on a date for the groups to gather in designated areas so disarmament could begin At a farewell press conference in Mogadishu Oakley said the US-led coalition had stripped warlords of their military might He said further unrest was expected but 11 would be leu serious without heavy weapons problem of clan warfare which has taken so many lives is virtually gone" said Oakley who la scheduled to leave Somalia on Wednesday not to say that any where in this country you find a lot of violence" He cited the widespread feeding programs that have ended starvation in most areas patrolled by foreign troops and the start of rebuilding projects find children not dying but going to he said a big Oakley received a medal and citation from the com-mander of the coalition forces LL Gen Robert Johnston crediting him with saving lives in Somalia Oakley a former US ambauador to Somalia wu one of the main forces behind getting warring factions" to begin peace talks Fighting in Kismayu erupted Sunday between sup-' porters of warlords CoL Omar Jeu and Mohamed Said" Hirst known as Gen Morgan Pharmacist expands to home health care A San Angelo pharmacist has branched out into home health care opening a business that he expects to eventually expand into the Midland-Odessa area Erie Neal currently works at Shannon Medical Center but also operates the new Medical IV Inc office at 224 Beauregard Ave Suite 201 The business is a infusion-care pharmacy" Neal said explaining that it is a unique market and growing industry for patients that might need some intravenous medication but are not sick enough to require he said The firm provides IVs for nutrition antibiotics and pain often uses some of this type of therapy" Neal added The local operation which opened near the end of 1992 is not large enough yet to occupy Neal full-time He currently works in the oncology satellite at Shannon helping provide cancer treatment for both outpatient and inpatient use hie said now (the Medical IV office) is slowly taking off" he said intentions are to become so busy that I can become a full-time Medical IV is a Texas-owned corporation headquartered in Fort Worth along with sister comany Medical Air Supply Inc Medical Air Supply is the largest durable medical equipment company in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex he said Neal graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1967 with a degree in pharmacy He worked at Methodist Hospitals in Lubbock and Levelland before moving to San Angelo three years ago to work as a staff pharmacist at ShewwMi i i SARAJEVO I 1 1 Hersegovina (AP) Bosnian Serbs massacred civilians and blocked UJf'efforta to evacuate 1500 sick and wounded people Tuesday as they overran a Muslim enclave in eastern Bosnia according to UN officials Serbs were wiling and said Lyndall Sachs a UJi spokeswoman with tanks rumbling through the smoldering rulnp of villages where American pilots had dropped thousands of meals the day before The food mostly fell into Serb hands according to the Pentagon while' some 10000 people it was meant to feed fled into the icy mountains Some Muslims trying to collect aid reportedly were picked off by snipers said another UN spokesman The UN officials basing their information on ham radio dispatches said Serb fighters in the Cerska and neighoring Srebrenica area were killing women and children only 10 percent of the reports being received from ham radio operators are true a massacre is taking said the officials of the UJf High Commissioner for Refugees in a report radioed to Sarajevo from the northeastern city of Tuzla Bosnian radio reported 500 civilians killed and about 15 villages set ablase since the Serbian assault began Sunday US fliers made more drops Tuesday parachuting 21512 meals and half a ton of medical supplies over Zepa 15 miles southwest of Cerska If all the food reached the 29000 Zepa residents it would meet a little more than half their daily food requirements according to UN officials A report that a shepherd had found two large packages of medicine on a hill near Zepa was the first sign of success for the US humanitarian mission President Clinton asked about the mission during a morning photo session said last report I got this morning looked pretty good based cm the last Information I had" Russia announced its military planes may soon Join the airdrop Seven big reasons to invest with Edward Jones Co 1 US Government Guaranteed Bonds 666 CuvantMd aa to Umljr payment of principal and Mmat 2 Federal Income Tax-iYee Municipal Bonds- 564 3 Investment Grade Corporate Bonds- 746 4 FDIC or FSLJdnsured Certificates of Depoaty 485 Bank iaauad FDK-kuund from to IKXUWO Subatntlal penalty lor tarty withdrawal 5 Insured Federal Income Tax-Free Municipal Bonds 560 6 IRAs and Retirement Plans 746 Baaad on Anted Corporate Banda 7 Glen Kerby 6585815 1-800-755-9829 Bob Carothers 915-365-2505 1-800-995-1252 NEW STATION GOES ON AIR KDCD a new country music station broadcasting on the former KBIL FM frequency has gone on the air the owners confirmed Tuesday Regency Broadcasting a new company has purchased the frequency and opened the station Jack Anldrtdge a majority owner of Regency Broadcasting and operator of the station said initial reaction has been positive The station broadcasts at 92J FM Yeltsin ready for showdown with hard-liners MOSCOW (AP) President Boris Yeltsin mustered his political allies Tuesday before a showdown with Russia's hard-line Congreu and said he was willing to take to save his reforms Yeltsin solemnly told a gathering of about 80 lawmakers and members of reformist factions in his second lobbying appearance this week that democrats alone cannot pull out this heavy cart" He urged supporters to forge ties with other political groups before the next Congreu of People's Deputies The session probably will open March 10 he said The most chUllng part of speech wu his warning that hardline forces planned to assert their power through the Communist-dominated Congress to further weaken his government If they succeed forces will bring about a reversal of the reforms to which people already have become accustomed" Yeltsin said forces that can destroy Russia appear extreme steps will have to be taken to save the country reforms and democracy" Former Yeltsin adviser Galina Starovoitova said later that Yeltsin wu referring to the introduction of direct presidential rule DATABANK 711 Strata Ave Continental Building Suite 100 1 7 Chad bourne aas LEADING INDICATORS FORECAST MODEST GROWTH The main forecasting gauge of future economic activity inched up In January suggesting a steady but modest expansion this year Meanwhile new home sales plunged during the month Analysts unduly alarmed though They sakfthe drop was partly related to bad weather and they expect low mortgage rates will entice more people into buying homes later this year The Commerce Department said Tuesday its Index of Leading Indicators edged Just 01 percent higher in anuary Usually that would be taken as a prognosticator of near stagnation but it followed a large 17 percent Jump in December the biggest in nearly a decade Taken together the two months portray an economy poised to grow at a healthy though far from spectacular pace analysts said In a separate report the department said new home sales in January plunged 138 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 561000 It was the biggest drop in 11 years Compiled by William Taylor from itaff and arira report 1 Rate expressed at yield to maturity a of 501-93 Edward Jones Co Mnt6fN9isiMH9dife6hffi6lM-0ndl Swing Individual InvMtars Fftaa Mora Thai 1600 OMcas Nrtkmklab.