European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 27 thousands left homeless Africa flood kills scores Cape town up a Mountain of water ripped through the farming town of Laingsburg drowning scores of and swirling floodwaters crippled the Karoo Region of South Africa leaving thousands homeless in the worst natural disaster to Ever hit the police said up to 190 people were feared drowned in the Flash police at the scene said the figure could go higher As reports of further casualties trickled in from outlying the entire Southern Karoo an area the size of has been declared a disaster area by prime minister Pieter police reservists from All Over the country were being airlifted to the area to help civil defense teams in Relief and 14 air Force helicopters from the Oudshoorn air base were dropping medi Cal teams and five people who Clung to a rooftop for almost 12 hours were rescued by a Helicon but two others drowned when they Slid from a roof As a helicopter mane Vered for officials Relief efforts were hampered by mud and High winds that tossed some lighter helicopters around like the ministers of defense and health were flown into the area for a firsthand look at the thousands of people were left homeless in 170 Miles Northeast of Cape when the usually sedate Buffalo Riv swollen by three Days of heavy burst its Bank in the predawn hours and Soldier gets additional years Germany a 21yearold Sermersheim convicted of murder and rape in a court was Given a life plus an additional 14 years and nine according to a spokesman for the 21st support in fridays the sentence of 4 David of Btry 2nd 67th air defense was reported As 14 Hoffard was charged with driving two German girls to a Field near where he held them at gunpoint and raped one of the the spokesman he was convicted of shooting the killing one and wounding the the spokesman conversion rates London up mondays closing rates for the Dollar to other figures Are expressed in dollars to the Brit ish Pound and other local currencies to Dol 23 26 British German French dutch belgian italian Swiss austrian greek turkish Spanish Canadian these Are commercial rates and can be related Only to the use of foreign currency by forces for official sales of German Marks to personnel for personal use will be at the rate of tuesday based on a Price fixing at midday and allows for Standard handling Dow Jones new York a Dow Jones closing Range of averages monday High Low close change 30 industrials 20 transport 15 utilities 45 Stock roared through the main streets in a Flash three dams adding to the Tor 1 All roads into the area were Cut off by Rock slides and a bus loaded with at least 50 Black com Muters was swept off a Bridge near Laings and 21 of 34 residents at a Home for the elderly drowned in their unable to escape the the town is most of it is said a police Herman it looks like a piled on each and bodies Are All Over the a tent City housing victims has sprung up near the police station one of the few buildings not under As much As six inches of rain fell in the Region in a 24hour causing several Rivers to overflow and dams to rupture and raising havoc in nearby six towns were without electricity and fresh and health officials have warned of an outbreak of no other deaths were reported outside the Laings Burg police two passenger trains were trapped when 11 railway Bridges were washed severing the main line Between Cape town and rail service would not be restored for several officials said thousands of cattle were swept and hundreds of tame ostriches wrecking the multimillion Dollar Feather the areas vineyards were some of the farms that used to be Here Are a resident who fled the area the National weather Bureau said there is a possibility of further rain in the and makeshift dams have been erected to Ward off further Poland Walesa Fries hand of easing Farmers unrest continued from Page i take place in Gdansk wednesday and but the official said because of the situation in the commis Sion members had decided to move there for the Windup Farmers and workers who have been holed up at re shows Headquarters of the now defunct Trade Union Council have been joined by peasants and workers from some 30 different sources among their key demands has been registration of the peasants own also known As Rural the government and party leaders have repeatedly rejected official contending it was impossible because the retire continued from Page 1 the departments of Energy and education and the Gao said or per of All civil service retirees from 1973 to 1979 retired including who went out prior to the Law allowed Only involuntary Early retirements for employees who lost their jobs through no fault of their peasants Are in fact Walesa was expected to arrive at res Zow at Midnight for talks with the protes it was believed he would stay there for the National commission meeting of his Union strike threats the office occupiers have threatened area strikes if a government which is authorized to does not arrive by tuesday sources close to a strike committee set up by the group said that strikes at selected plants in the whole area would Start which has been declared a Day of Solidarity with Farmers by the As the students strike sever Al of their delegates were reported to have travelled to Warsaw to set up a kind of coordinating link with the students in the capital and possibly meet with officials of the ministry of sources in Lodz said that the widely known film Academy there and the poly technic school would Start another Satin All the students involved were apparently members of the Independent students Union that was set up last As lectures were suspended in occupied University people were reportedly bringing food for the protesting Stu who demanded also a free Choice of foreign languages and defense of political stocks Courtesy of Dean Witter Reynolds Frankfurt 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