European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Sims and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 36, no. 149 wednesday september 14, 1977 a Ooisy and sunday if 21855 a 17 die As Flash floods Batter Kansas City Kansas City a rain swollen creeks and Rivers that surged Over their Banks and sent Walls of water through sections of Kansas City left at least 17 dead hundreds homeless and what one official called total destruction in some areas. Rescue workers concentrated their efforts tuesday on underground garages at a shopping Center pumping them out in search of additional victims. At midday the official death toll stood at 17 and there were reports of other people missing. We have no idea How Many cars there Are or if there s anybody in any of them said Frank h. Spink or. Director of Emer gency preparedness for the City Dis cussing the pumping operations at three parking garages in the country club Plaza shopping Center. Most shops and stores were closed when the flood struck but restaurants and bars were open. The floods spawned by the heaviest re corded rainfall in the City s history hit hardest at the shopping Center in the South Ern part of the Missouri City and at a trailer Park and Industrial District in the East. Water Rose to five feet and More in streets and buildings. Telephone and Power out Ages were reported. The Rains started before Dawn monday saturating the ground. When another downpour hit monday night the water ran continued on Page 28, col. I Rogers briefs reporters Roger up i n to by Dan Synove Nurnberg Bureau chief Leitheim Germany is army chief of staff Gen. Bernard w. Rogers said tuesday much interest has been shown in the evaluation of women assigned to units taking part in the reformer 77 Field exer Cise Carbon Edge. Related stories Page 2 map p3. Rogers said that since 1972, the number of women in the army has increased from 12,500 to 50,000. Women Are doing a great Job in the army and they Are doing it in some unusual skills Rogers said. A special department of the army team of 25 officers and several enlisted data col lectors has arrived in Usa eur to assess the performance of women soldiers in the Field for the next three weeks. We Are proud of the fact that 90 per cent of our positions Are open to women Rogers said. He said that about 18 months ago the army took a look at All of its career Fields to determine what percentage authorities believed could be filled by women and still accomplish the Mission of those Fields and units. Based upon that study we be had on going for about a year a series of evaluations looking at five major career Fields maps maintenance signal units transportation units and medical units he said. The tests last 72 hours. Rogers said that 72 hours Are not enough to evaluate the performance of women sol Diers in the Field. People in the Field can continued on Page 2, col. 2 a car at Kansas City s country club Plaza shopping mall just North of the downtown area is piled crazily on top of after the storm another one of hundreds caught in the devastating floodwaters that ravaged the area monday night. A six foot Wall of water swept through stores adjacent to Brush Creek a Stream that normally runs at Only a trickle. A photo Princess Ashraf Pahlavi murder try on Shah s sister fails Antibes France a Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi s twin sister. Prin Cess Ashraf Pahlavi escaped unhurt Early tuesday from an assassination attempt on the French Riviera. But her lady in wait ing was killed and a male companion was wounded in the . Police reported. The two masked gunmen who stopped the 57-year-old iranian Princess s Rolls Royce on a Seaside Road about 4 . And opened fire escaped. The stolen car they used was found abandoned in Antibes. The motive for the assassination at tempt was believed to be political the gunmen made no attempt to Rob the occupants of the limousine and Small groups of iranians in France and other countries Are dedicated to the overthrow of the Shah s authoritarian Rule. Last november an Ira continued on Page 28, col. I Stokowski Dies at 95 London a Leopold Stokowski acclaimed As one of the world s greatest conductors died tuesday of a heart attack at his Home in Hampshire a spokesman for lbs records announced hero me was 95. Stokowski who last year signed a con tract that would have had him working until he was 100 years old died in his sleep the spokesman said. Although married a number of times he was unmarried at the time of his death. Stokowski suffering from a virus died at nether Wallop a Small Village of 610 inhabitants in Hampshire where he has had a House for several years. Leopold Anthony Stamslaw Boleslaws Wicz Stokowski was born in London on april 18, 1882, the son of a polish Cabinet maker and an Irish Mother. Attacked throughout his eventful career for dubious musical taste Stokowski con continued on Page 28, col. 2