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Show A he Daily Herald ; Sunday, June 6, 1933 least 28 killed ! burning tires, boulders and wire Saturday combat m Ey TINA SUSMAN Adjusted Press Writer Somalia -MOGADISHU, n iLRiined to Mogadishu on :i as combat erupted be-- ! a warlord's fighters and pi ai vkeepers. At least 28 v;'V. ii 'eluding Pakistani U.N. were reported killed and v. ere wounded. M. idiinc gun fire and grenade echoed through the capital d.x as U N. troops, Americans ii'.'i ' 'g iliein. battled Somalis loyal v ailoul Mohamcd Farrah Aid- ( 1 i'.'. ; v;-cr- i i s i..-- '. li lighting, the worst in Mo- since riots led in February, showed the ku security situation in Mo-- v J liu even alter six months of ign military presence. Ti e Somalis were apparently v; n.!!etl by rumors that the U.N. who took over command lit i in international military coali-t- : from the United States a nth ago planned to occupy 'J J id's ladio station. As military helicopters swooped the city, Somalis rushed their wounded to hospitals on carts .'.lied by donkeys. Barricades of J : e iii i . s i blocked several main streets. The city's two main hospitals reported 23 Somalis had been killed and more than 100 wounded. U.N. sources said three Pakistani members of the U.N. force were killed, but Italian Gen. Bruno Loy said his men recovered the bodies of five Pakistani soldiers. In an interview w ith Italian state TV. Loy said Italian troops, backed by a dozen tanks and armored personnel carriers and two helicopters, rescued 80 Pakistanis who were surrounded by snipers in two areas in the city. The Italian defense ministry said 10 American soldiers were also rescued. The Italians ferried about 30 wounded Pakistani peacekeepers by helicopter to an Italian military hospital, Loy said. No Italians were injured during the rescue, which was achieved by the show of force without firing a shot, he said. There were unconfirmed reports an American soldier was also wounded. Some of the fiercest fighting occurred near a traffic circle in the city center, a hotspot since foreign troops arrived in Somalia in December to safeguard relief supplies for victims of war and famine. U.N. officials warned foreign aid workers to stay indoors, and U.N. 'safe haven' they did, huddling inside their compounds. Bullets smacked into a hotel overlooking the circle where most foreign journalists and some U.N. workers are staying, as Pakistani troops on the roof traded gunfire By MAUD S. BEELMAN Associated Press Writer with snipers. One bullet punched through a wall of a room next to the office of The Associated Press. Journalists lay on their bellies to avoid being hit. Fresh bullet holes pocked a low wall around the perimeter of the SARAJEVO, One of the U.N. "safe havens" for Muslims came under heavy Bosnian Serb attack Saturday, blocking U.N. efforts to reach the city and mocking attempts to negotiate peace. A radio operator in embattled Gorazde said more than 40 villages in the area have "vanished from the face of the Earth" in the Serb offensive apparently aimed at wiping out the last Muslim strongholds in eastern Bosnia. Bosnian Serbs took up arms in Bosnia after Muslims and Croats voted to secede from Yugoslavia in February 1992. Fighting has left more than 138,000 people dead or missBosnia-Herzegovi- eclared hotel's roof, where journalists transmit stories and pictures by satellite telephones. Hundreds of Somalis gathered outside a United Nations building up the road, and witnesses said some tried to storm the building. The fighting broke out about 10 a.m. as U.N. troops conducted inspections of w eapons storage sites. The weapons had been taken from Somalis in accordance with U.N. demands. U.N. spokesman Farouk Maw-lasaid Aidid was informed of the planned inspections on Friday and indicated no objection. One of the sites of weapons to be inspected was near Aidid's radio station, which sparked rumors of a planned takeover of the station. Stockwell and Mawlawi denied any plans to seize the station. ing. A U.N. Security Council resolution adopted Friday would commit up to 10,000 additional troops to guard Gorazde and five other Muslim territories. But critics say the plan will only create Muslim ghettos and do little to stop Serb aggression. Ejup Ganic, Bosnia's Muslim vice president, called the safe areas "concentration camps." "They are setting up a model which will be used to destroy the free societies in the world," Ganic told The Associated SIDING HOME IMPROVEMENT DOING THE FINEST QUALITY RESIDENTIAL SIDING IN UTAH VALLEY, SINCE 1979. Recover Specialists Working year round to meet your needs. Lifetime warranty on materials & workmanship. 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Another investigation was under way at a heavily damaged Turkish restaurant in the southern city of Kon-stanzi them "from total defeat." He said the resolution was not damaging to Serbs, who, he said, want to end the war. A ham radio operator who serves as Gorazde's voice to the z. Police said a Turkish mother and five children between the ages of 3 and 16 narrowly escaped the flames in Hattingen by climbing out a window at the back of the house. Police said they are seeking a young man seen leaving the scene by the mother, who was awakened by one of the children. No one'was injured, but the house was gutted police said. The names or other details on the family were not released. outside world denounced the U.N. action as too little and too late. "Did the U.N. ... have to wait this long? Couldn't it have prevented this latest ... offensive on Gorazde, Brcko, said Mustafa Kurtov-ic- , speaking from Gorazde via Gra-canica- ?" radio. Like Gorazde, the northeastern towns of Brcko and Gracan-ic- a have been the sites of intense battles for weeks between Muslim-le- d government forces and Bosnian Serb troops. "In the last 10 days in the Gorazde area, 42 villages vanished from the face of the Earth, as well as cultural and sacred objects," Kurtovic said. In a radio message carried by Sarajevo radio, Kurtovic said "hundreds of shells are falling" on several villages surrounding Gorazde. Chechen leader nixes referendum - GROZNY, Russia (AP) Supporters of the president of a separatist Russian republic roamed through the capital Saturday, burning bags of ballots to prevent a vote on his rule. Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev also deployed tanks and troops in the city's streets to stop the referendum. The show of force in the Chechen Republic came a day after fighters loyal to Dudayev used machine guns and artillery to drive opponents out of municipal buildings in downtown Grozny, the capital. 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