European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday september 6,1977 Hurricane babe hits la. Coast by United press International Hurricane babe produced 8-foot tides torrential rain and 75-mile-an-hour winds monday As the storm came ashore a Morgan City la. The Hurricane Cut off evacuation route for several coastal communities after More than 40,000 persons fled Inland. No deaths or major injuries were  tides and rain caused More prob lems than the wind officials said. More than 10,000 feet of levee around grand Isle collapsed and electricity was knocked , often accompanied by Hail and Strong winds crossed the Midwest late sunday and Early  outages thunderstorms with High winds knocked Down hundreds of Trees and caused Power outages sunday at Grayling Mich. Craw Ford county sheriff Curt Haas said a House collapsed in the winds trapping six per sons but All were rescued  had heavy winds that did a terrific amount of damage he said. We be got afew roofs blown off i would say hundreds of Trees Down and wires. But basically we re in pretty Good  than 9,000 persons lost electrical Power in the Chicago area where late night thunderstorms Cut  storms stretched from upper Michi. Gan to the Southern Plains. Carmi 111., received 2.36 inches of water in an hour. Page okla., got 1.55 inches in six  took in More than a half Inch of water along with heavy Hail. 3 pleasure boats crash killing 5, near Houston Houston a five persons were killed one. Was missing and eight were plucked from the san Jacinto River near Houston after a three boat collision. The coast guard and Harris county deputies were waiting for Daybreak before continuing their search for the missing person. Names of the victims were being with held pending notification of next of  of the victims were decapitated authorities  coast guard said two pleasure boats collided around 9 30 . Sunday. One of them hit the other broadside and the two vessels hit a nearby boat that was  of the boats overturned and Sank dumping its passengers into the River Nea Channelview a Community some 15 Miles East of Houston the coast guard said. An other of the boats Sank moments later. The eight survivors were pulled fro the water by coast guard units and Harris county sheriff s department  third boat was towed to a nearby Marina. Gunmen raid chinese restaurant in san Francisco kill 5, wound 11 san Francisco a three masked gunmen invaded a Chinatown restaurant and fired at a crowd of about 100diners Early sunday killing five persons and wounding 11, police  officer said the shooting May have stemmed from a Case of mistaken  gunmen armed with a Shotgun a semiautomatic Rifle and a revolver escaped in a dark Sedan at about 2 40 . After blooding the Golden dragon restau rant with More than 20 shots. Investigators were unable to find motive for what they called the City s worst mass murder in years. But they said it May have been linked to a decade of warring Between rival Chinatown youth British fear renewed Ira bombings London a Scotland Yard believes the capture of More than 300 pounds of explosive gel ignite in route from Dublin to London Means that the the Irish Republican army is planning a new bombing Campaign in English  sources report the Ira s provisional Wing May also be planning to Assas Sinate leading British politicians. Sources close to the provisional in Bel fast Northern Ireland s capital disclosed recently that pressure has been building up to revive the second front in the Ira guerrilla War to end British Rule in North Ern Ireland and unite the province with the Irish Republic. This pressure which has been opposed by Ira leaders in Dublin intensified after the guerrillas failure to wreck Queen Elizabeth ii s Silver Jubilee visit to Northern Ireland last  sources said Many Young guerrillas also feel something spectacular must Bedone to counter the propaganda effect of president Carter s recent Appeal for peace in Northern Ireland and his warning against Clandestine american Aid to the guerrillas. The gel ignite was discovered in Dublin last week because of what one London police source called the Paddy Factor another one of the stupid mistakes the Ira repeatedly  he said this is what happened two men in Dublin hired an Irish truck Driver to take an empty Container to North London to pick up furniture. The Container was too big to go aboard the ferry to Brit Ain so the Driver substituted a smaller  he got to London he complained to the police that his Contact at the Nort London address would t pay him because he changed containers. Scotland Yard alerted the Irish police and they examined the original Container. Hidden behind false Walls was enough gel ignite to make about 50 bombs of the Type the Ira used in Previ Ous bomb campaigns in London. Gangs. One of the dead was a Young Man whose body was riddled with nine bullets. He appeared to be the target of the attack according to witnesses and officers at the  first police said the unidentified Fili Pino Man was a known sympathizer of a chinese gang but it was later determined he was a Law student with no criminal record and was in san Francisco for a visit. If our officers at the scene mistook him then it s possible the gunmen did too. That s being investigated said police  Murphy. Murphy said another clue linking the outburst to gang violence was the fact there were persons in the restaurant at the time of the shooting that Are known to be gang  chief Charles r. Gain calling it an apparent Gangland shooting said the investigation was being hampered by the reluctance of witnesses to talk. According to police witnesses reported that when the gunmen entered one of them approached a male Patron sitting at a tableland fired a Rifle shot into his head. After the Man fell to the floor the gunman fired two More shots at him police said then Al three gunmen began shooting at random. Although the men wore ski masks police believe they were Oriental youth because of their builds and a description by one witness. One Case Afaf legionnaires7 disease fells 4 Ohio women Columbus Ohio a state an Federal health officials Are checking for other possible cases of legionnaires1 Dis ease after confirming the illness has stricken four Columbus area women kill ing one of them. Or. Thomas j. Halpin chief of the Ohio health department s communicable Dis ease division said sunday that a fifth woman May have the disease first diag nosed among 180 persons most of who attended an american legion convention in Philadelphia last year. Sunday a relative confirmed that Cathe Rine m. Mccoy 56, of Columbus died of the mysterious disease. The death occurred aug. 6, five Days after she entered River Side methodist Hospital where All five cases have been treated. None of the remaining confirmed Vic Tims has been identified but health officials said they Are Ages 50, 39 and 51. A 65-year-old woman May also have the Dis ease. Somewhat serious condition Halpin said the 50-year-old woman re covered after being treated for the disease and was discharged from Riverside Friday. The 39-year-old woman is doing fairly Well but the 51-year-old woman and the suspected victim Are in some what serious condition he said. The women did t know each other atall Halpin said. They did t know each other by name there was no connection or link Between their employment or their husbands employment and their relatives Don t know each  Halpin said Riverside s infectious Dis ease chief became suspicious following Mccoy s death when a second patient with serious pneumonia did not respond to Normal treatment. The Federal Center for disease control cd in Atlanta confirmed the first three cases were legionnaires disease Friday and the fourth sunday night. Halpin said officials expect to know the results of tests on the 65-year-old woman within a week to 10 Days. Meantime a cd team of two physicians and a microbiologist Are in Colum bus to help state health officials investigate the cases. We re going through charts at other Community hospitals for other unusual pneumonia cases Halpin said. We redoing to be looking in a number of other directions As time goes on probably at employees at Riverside and other hospitals and at environment of the victims legionnaires disease is a severe respiratory illness. Cd researchers discovered in january it is caused by previously unknown bacteria like living organism which has no name As yet. Of the 180 persons stricken at the Ameri can legion convention in Philadelphia 29 died. Since then Halpin said there have been about 30 cases reported in a dozen other  next largest number i know of was about six months ago when three cases occurred in new Jersey within 20 Miles of each other Halpin said. But they never proved any link Between  temperatures Bhutto is linked to second slaying Islamabad Pakistan a de posed prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto under arrest for an alleged political murder has been accused of ordering the killing of a second opposition Leader fed eral investigators said monday. They said the allegation was made by four Federal police officials and an alleged Assassin who Are under arrest As suspects in the slaying of or. Nazir Ahmed an opposition member of the National Assem Bly in Southern Punjab province in 1972. The five said Bhutto who was then prime minister ordered the killing of Ahmed because he had made speeches blaming Bhutto for the secession of East Pakistan now Bangladesh in the 1971india-Pakistan War. The suspects said the killing was or dered through Ghulam Mustafa Khar Punjab governor at the time the investigators said. It was not known when Bhutto would be formally charged in that death. The former prime minister is being he din the Central pakistani City of Lahore 180 Miles South of this capital facing murder charge in the 1974 killing of a Polit ical opponent s father. Police officials allegedly involved in that slaying reportedly have said Bhutto ordered the killing of Ahmed Raza Kasuri an opposition member of parliament but that Kasuri escaped and his father was killed. Bhutto was ousted from office in a Mili tary coup july 5 after 5l/2 years in Power. Political opponents have also accused him of other abuses of Power. L h 54 78 61 87 69 q6 49 61 59 83 68 81 70 79 73 99 67 86 53 86 74 84 49 78 56 93 62 72 70 96 54 78 47 87 75 80 66 87 68 92 54 79 67 86 63 86 54 80 69 85 60 83 70 97 59 86 58 82 68 78 55 82 57 67 62 94 32 61 60 64 47 86 57 88 59 80 49 86 75 88 75 94 64 85 72 88 72 91 70 76 Albany Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Brownsville Buffalo Casper Charleston . Charleston . Charlotte Cheyenne Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbia . 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