European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes january 1981 blizzards isolate hundreds of italian towns from press dispatches Italy worst Winter weather in at least 19 years ravaged Sicily and the Southern part of the nation thursday causing crisis situations in Many gales and blizzards raging for 36 hours flooded coastal isolated hundreds of Mountain villages and offshore islands and caused damage to Citrus crops and houses running into millions of police re ports in four senators called on prime minister Arnaldo Forlani and Interior minister Virginio Rognoni to take very urgent Steps to help the distressed populations of a coastal Region of Calabria hit by violent cloudburst during the the Region was in the area where a landslide caused by hours of lashing rain and Snow derailed the Rome Oreggio Calabria express train killing three and injuring fifty firemen and other Rescue workers were still working to Clear the line the mayor of san Giovanni in near Cosenza in declared a state of emergency and called for army helicopters to take kidney patients and other invalids to Italy Domestic airline in the midst of a we Klong strike for better working agreed to operate Emer gency flights to the stricken among the worst hit were the tens of thousands rendered homeless by Italy november earthquake in Mountain Vil Lages East of winds gusting at up to 60 Mph blew Down tents and overturned House trailers in which the homeless were spending the the gales and blizzards were an intensification of the ice and Gal Force winds that have plagued most of Italy since weather experts said it was the worst Winter weather in at least 19 in some regions temperatures have plunged to 27 the lowest recorded since police gave no estimate of but said deaths due to accidents on icy and Snow covered highways alone ran into in the sicilian coastal resort of 20 Miles West of raging seas smashed a broke through tidal barriers and flooded the waterfront the 12foot Waves smashed bathing establish ments and a restaurant and damaged a hotel and other port in three Mountain villages of Northwestern Sicily the wind ripped the roofs off 500 prefabricated buildings in which the inhabitants have living since the Vil Lages were destroyed in a 1968 Earth some 250 families were moved into emergency quarters and the army set up a held Kitchen to feed on a Mountain Road near Messina 50 to lend million for jamaican recovery Washington a a million loan agreement has been signed by the United states and Jamaica to help the eco nomic recovery of the Caribbean the White in a statement announcing the agreement signed in said total Aid to Jamaica in fiscal year 1981 will be More than Mil the statement said prime ministered Ward Seaga has indicated he intends to re build his country with particular emphasis on revitalizing the jamaican Pri vate sector and we have repeatedly expressed american support of these people aboard a bus were stranded for 24 hours when the bus ran into Snow a few passengers managed to make their Way to a nearby Village to get Telephone and Cable traffic with offshore islands such As Ustica and the Lipari islands North of Sicily have been Cut for Lipari mayor Bartola Cannistra sent a message to the regional governor calling for emergency Aid after the gales wrecked Power the ice and High winds afflicted Mountain regions far to the North of the stricken Southern in the North Central province of Macerata a blizzard trapped 60 automobiles and rescuers brought about 80 people to a new wave of icy weather swept Greece closing roads with Snow cutting off villages and disrupting Domestic air a spokesman for olympic airways re ported cancellations and Long delays in Domestic citing High the Piraeus port authorities halted All inter Island ferry the Athens weather Bureau reported that the lowest recorded temperature wednes Day was in Northern where the Mercury dropped to 12 and four feet of Snow Athens is suffering less than the rest of the country with Dull Rainy but Snow was forecast for the Northern suburbs of the in some areas of Central and Northern Greece schools have been and a scheduled visit by Premier George rallis to Central Greece was postponed because of the weather two weeks ago freezing weather and storms had Cut off hundreds of villages and caused extensive damage to crops and livestock in Rural Anil How youve grown the builders of this snowman in Zue believe it is the worlds their frosty the Snow Man is feet tall and was built in 8 hours from cubic feet of Snow by 200 children and 50 effective before summer elections Israel drafts settlement speedup plan Tel Israel a prime min ister Menachem begins government has devised a scheme to finance accelerated construction of jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River before this Summers Israel radio reported it said agriculture minister Ariel Sharon and former finance minister Yigael Hur Vitz agreed to give Choice Jerusalem construction Sites to private contractors who build West Bank the property would be Given in lieu of Cash payments for settlement Sharon and who resigned a week ago sunday after the Cabinet agreed to raise teachers were not immediately available for the report sparked protests from the housing ministry and opponents of the governments settlement begin said last year his settlement plan called for 10 More jewish outposts in the West work has begun on at least bringing the total since the territory was captured from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast War to about the government has maintained the set Japan Avalanche kills 6 Tokyo up a predawn Avalanche smashed into a Home for the aged in Snow battered Northern killing six people and injuring seven police elements Arp needed for Security purposes but Sharon recently has been accused of planning settlements outside the Security a parliamentary committee is considering an Appeal by Deputy Premier i Gael Ladin against the decision last week to build two settlements near West Bank Mordechai Vershubsky of the opposition Shin i party introduced a motion in the israels which said the governments bungling policy Torpe does any possibility of reaching an accept Able solution in the occupied peace a movement which opposes the settlements As a threat to called on the opposition labor party to Challenge the peace now accused Sharon of creating obstacles in the Way of peace be fore he leaves the begins which has spent at least about million on West Bank settlements in the past lags behind the labor party in Public opinion Reagan Calls invites him to visit Bonn a president Reagan Pho Ned West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt late wednesday for an Exchange of views and to invite him to government spokesman Kurt Becker said thursday that during the Reagan expressed the Hope for a continuation of close cooperation with West Germany and said he hoped to see Schmidt in Washington once he had settled into his new sources in Bonn anticipated that Schmidt would probably Fly to Washington in april while foreign minister Hans i Etrich Genscher was expected to meet with Secretary of state Alexander Haig in reagans phone Call reached Schmidt shortly after the chancellors return from Frankfurt where he had met with former president Jimmy Carter who came Here to Greet the freed american hostages wednes Day Becker Reagan and Schmidt discussed briefly the political situation without going into much Becker and Schmidt took the Opportunity to reiterate his congratulations on the return of the hostages from