European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday october 11, 1977 Belfast residents Mairead Corrigan left and mrs. Betty Williams Cente shown with Britain s Queen flooding eases in North Italy Turin Italy up heavy Rains slackened and reduced prospects of More flooding in Northwestern Italy monday Fol lowing a weekend of devastation that left damage estimated to exceed $115 million. At least 16 persons were confirmed dead in the Rains and flooding that began last thursday and officials said More bodies might be found As Relief work continues. Officials said the setup in the rain also was taking pressure off the swollen to River and that fears of massive flooding in the River s Rich Farmland Basin to the East were receding. Even so the Rains and flooding left railways and highways Cut factories shut Down and countless Homes flooded with mud and debris in the North Western Piedmont and Liguria Region around Turin and Genoa. About 150 italian army soldiers were helping Relief efforts in the area and another two battalions were on standby to move in if necessary. The reduced rainfall Al Lowed authorities to reopen roads leading to the Mont Blanc Tunnel to France and the St. Bernard pass through the Alps into Switzerland to All vehicles. International rail line Cut still Cut however were the main inter National Railroad line leading to Geneva and Paris and another line leading to the Mountain City of Dom Dossola. Both were put out of commission by Bridge collapses brought on by raging flood Waters. Officials said the Domokos Sola Railroad line would be out at least 60days. Though most major highways and roads were Back in service authorities said dozens of smaller roadways were still blocked by debris or closed because of potential Rock slides especially in the Hilly Region near the City of Alessandria be tween Turin and Genoa. Officials at one town in the area Rocca Grimalda were considering evacuating Homes near the Edge of town because of Roc slide danger. Eleven of the weekend s flood victims died in the Alessandria area. Officials said a total of 82 towns and cities in the Region were heavily hit by flood damage and dozens of factories destroyed. Near Pavia flood Waters carried away an estimated 10,000 turkeys from poultry farm. The interrupted Railroad lines also threatened closure of two steel Mills near Novara that were unable to receive Ore and keep their blast furnaces going. Novara officials also said the flooding had done irreparable damage to grape harvests in the area and May have dam aged its extensive Rice crops. Officials at the main farming Center of Parma however said fears of massive flooding in the Priver Basin were diminishing. Soviets put arms freeze ahead of rights at meet Belgrade a the soviet Union military alliances a gambit to oppose said monday that debate of human rights Spanish entry to nato because of its is irrelevant until Man can live free from contradiction to the United nations Char the threat of military attack and repeated Ter which allows any country to contract its proposal to freeze military alliances alliances individually or collectively and ban first use of atomic weapons. France along with Britain Holland Western delegations at the 35-nation Norway and Canada said the disarm conference to review implementation of ment Issue should be considered in other the 1975 Helsinki agreement immediately forums and not the 3-5 month conference at rebuffed the soviet proposal. Belgrade to review the Helsinki agree France declared its firm no to any ments on Security and  initiative for a treaty on non first it use of nuclear weapons saying it would affect its own Independent nuclear policy and undermine its National defense. Winners of Nobel peace prize for 1976 Elizabeth at a reception aboard the Royal yacht Britannia off Northern ire land last August have been named win Taylor warns Senate on text of canal pact continued from Page 1 belter to leave the language alone. I would be very concerned with Tam Pering with the word age Taylor said. I think it would be very  the former military officer who once served As . Ambassador to South Viet Nam departed from of prepared text to give the committee his views on the ques Tion of trying to revise the treaty. He noted controversy that has increased in the past week Over evident differences in the Way . And panamanian officials interpret the treaty particularly its future Security provisions. A growing number of senators say the language must be Clari fied if the document is to win Senate ratification next year. The treaty says the . And Panama will share responsibility for maintaining the canal s neutrality after the year 2000. . Officials say that Means the . Could intervene or act in any other Way it saw fit. Panamanian leaders repeatedly have declared the treaty does not give the .any right to intervene in panamanian affairs. But published reports from Panama City Over the weekend said officials there were attempting to dispel the idea that the two governments Are in any Basic conflict Over the pact. There actually Are two treaties but they Are considered indivisible. Preceding Taylor As witnesses were two other retired military officers adm. Thomas Moorer another former chairman of the joint chiefs who opposes the treaty and adm. Elmo r. Zumwalt former chief of naval operations who Long has been treaty supporter. Zumwalt said he still backs the agree ment but now feels clarification is needed on exactly what it Means for the canal s future defense. He indicated he thought this could be done in understandings accompanying the treaty rather than by re negotiating the. Pact As some senators have suggested. Moorer said he thought the contradictions in . And panamanian interpretations of the treaty should be cleared up without  in addition to the question of a . Right to intervene he said the treaty should be modified to permit the . To continue stationing military forces in Panama after the year 2000. Trying to defend the canal from bases 1, 000 or More Miles away Moorer said would be far More costly in Money and lives than if the . Had communications and defense facilities on the spot. But Taylor said after the hearing that he c j t v/,."--� would not recommend tampering with the soviet Delegate Yuh Vorontsov the first treaty language or trying to define it More speaker to launch into closed session re precisely in any Way buthals of the nest week of opening he called the word intervene a code French Art Wrt Phil int a a i speeches spent 43 minutes detailing soviet word that is particularly obnoxious to their enc Delegate Phillipe Richard also disarmament efforts despite an informal Noole of latin America because of Bast attacked the soviet proposal not to enlarge time limit of 10 minutes per delegation. Us acts in ners of the 1976 Nobel peace prize for their efforts to end civil War in their Homeland. _ a photo rights group wins Nobel continued from Page 1 tent at the moment. We need to strengthen the organization in several Asiatic Afri can and latin american countries. " our work is important because there Are political prisoners in 60 to 70 countries. In More than 40 countries people Are Tor tured and in More than 120 countries there is still the death penalty. We see an in crease of the death penalty for political crimes he said. Amnesty International was formed in 1961 by British lawyer Peter Berenson whose original thought was that Al prison ers arrested for their political views should be Given amnesty. It has National committees in 34 coun tries 180,000 members in 107 countries and is the world s largest human rights inter National organization. The Nobel committee cited the Belfast women for forming their peace movement following the killing of three children in Belfast aug. 10, 1976. During a Short period of time the two women had set off a wave of Public sentiment within great parts of the population not Only in Belfast but throughout All Northern  Williams 33, is married to a Navy Engi Neer. They have two children Paul 13,and Debbie 5. Corrigan 32, lives with her parents i Belfast. Quake hits in Tonga stands Stockholm up the Uppsala seismological Institute said it registered a heavy earthquake in the area of the Tonga islands monday. Europe partly Cloudy to mostly Cloudy with morning fog and afternoon rain showers tuesday. Decreasing cloudiness and cooler wednesday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 60, Low 48. Sunset tuesday 5 44 . Sunrise wednesday 6 43  recorded monday get 6am 4pm 68 73 Adana cd 65 73 Athens p Valano r Berlin cd 6am 4pm 54 57 Frankfurt cd 52 59 London p Madrid p Munich r Paris p Rome it 58 63 Aviano a 56 66 54 .57 Berlin 56 54 54 57 Brussels p 52 55 54 57 Copenhagen cd 61 64 cd Cloudy a partly Cloudy a rain. Det 25,31 St weather so