European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes August 2 die As Dannys tornadoes hit the South by the associated press the last gasp of Danny proved More deadly than its full Hurricane spawning More than two dozen tornadoes that authorities said killed two injured 20 and demolished scores of houses and buildings before drenching the South saturday with heavy Trees were popping and wires were coming Down said an employee of Par who was driving Down main Street when the Tornado struck there were Drums and garbage cans and All kinds of debris flying around then the wind Slung me around in the which caused Little damage As it swept across Louisiana As a Hurricane on was reduced to a surface Low pressure area entered Over sout Central Tennessee Early moving slowly Northeast and carrying heavy the National weather service Twenty four tornadoes were sighted or appeared on radar Friday in nine North Alabama counties and several in authorities the twisters caused heavy damage and two deaths in Alabama and roared across causing wide spread damage but no serious one death and several injuries were reported before Danny was Down graded thursday from Hurricane thunderstorms and drenching rain stretched saturday across Northwest Georgia and the Southern the storm dumped up to 5 inches of rain on some parts of Mississippi and touched off flooding along the Tangipahoa River in Southeastern in a town of about 40 Miles West of Carolyn Gavitt watched helplessly from her House As a twister demolished the trailer across the Street where her Margaret was killed i saw it take the she i had just called her to Tell her to come Over in the Rural Cullman county Community of Gold Myrtle about died of an apparent heart attack As she and relatives huddled in a storm cellar for Protection from a sheriff Wendell Roden most of the damage occurred in Parrish and Gold said Gloria a spokeswoman for the Alabama emergency management Agency in Mont Twenty injuries were she tornadoes damaged barns and other buildings in Rural Morgan and Madison Power outages were widespread As winds Cut Down Utility poles and snapped the killer Tornado that first hit Parrish ripped off the roof of the Post Tore away a Church col lapsed the Walls of a car Wash and an Auto parts store and damaged 11 nearby a county seat of about was hit by a Tornado minutes damaging five Homes and a Coal Industry Supply said sheriffs Dis Patcher Steve a twister that touched Down in Gold a Community of about injured seven people and heavily damaged about 20 Homes and several big Chicken said sheriff Wendell a Tornado knocked out windows and overturned Trail ers of electronic gear at the army Redstone Arsenal near in Central several twisters touched Down in Giles causing an estimated in said Dennis a Tennessee farm Bureau Between 25 and 40 up to 40 barns and about 20 automobiles were destroyed or another twister hit Tennessee Lincoln uprooting said Roy director of the county emergency management in state inspectors fanned out in 13 parishes Friday to estimate Hurricane indicated As Light despite widespread Power winds that reached 100 Mph and As much As 7 inches of structural damage to Homes appears to be said Edwin As far As we can there is not any real damage to which was certainly one of the things we were very concerned Reagan signs measure providing Aid to contras Santa up president Reagan Friday signed a billion spending Bill that provides Aid to Egypt and Jordan and resumes assistance to nicaraguan the supplemental Money which cleared its final legislative hurdle also provides billion for National Secu Rity while the program that has been approved is More modest than i believe Nec we have clearly won bipartisan sup port on this very critical As Well As recognition and humanitarian support for those fighting the sandinista Reagan the Bill allows the government to spend billion on the authorized programs this fiscal year and including Domestic the million for the nicaraguan re Bels ends a congressional cutoff of Aid to the nicaraguan rebels but Falls Short of the million Reagan had the Bill limits the assistance to humanitarian such As clothing and medical opposition in Congress forced Reagan to drop his request for a resumption of Mili tary halted last year after disclosures of Cia involvement in the once Covert War in despite the lower funding Reagan said the Bill is an important element in our Overall Effort to assist neighbouring countries to defend themselves against nicaraguan attack and he said a prohibition against Cia or defense department involvement in disbursing the Aid unduly and unnecessarily restricts efficient management and administration of the an acknowledgement by the White House last week that a senior member of the National Security Council staff had been working closely with nicaraguan rebel leaders raised questions about whether the administration was adhering to the spirit of congressional restrictions on Aid to the re Reagan said the billion in economic Aid for million for Egypt and million for Jordan will contribute significantly to our ability to provide urgently required Aid to our friends in the Middle East and will support our efforts to bring peace to the engaged in what to Date has been an unsuccessful Effort to revive the Middle East peace said All three nations have a vital role to play if there is to be peace in the the measure was one of four pieces of legislation signed by one of which was a Senate Resolution condemning a 1975 general Assembly Resolution that branded zionism a form of racism and racial the Resolution urges the administration to take All appropriate actions necessary to erase this shameful Resolution from the re Cord of the United the state department said the Resolution reflects substantially the administrations View of the matter and its strenuous efforts to counter Resolution 3379 and its Many manifestations throughout the sys spends 2 hours adrift on Pacific after being forced to ditch his plane Honolulu a after ditching his plane nearly 300 Miles from the Island of a Pilot spent nearly 12 hours adrift on the Pacific Ocean the William was ferrying a Cess a 182 to Australia from Bell said the plane developed fuelling Trou forcing him to ditch the plane in the Middle of the Bell inflated a Rescue Dinghy from the in attempting to disentangle lines holding the Dinghy to the Bell be came separated from and he was rapidly carried away by he was wearing a life Vest when i had a shark for company for about three he had a couple of lunges at me to see if he could get a Bell i kicked him away a couple of times luckily he want a very aggressive the search began Early Friday when the Federal aviation administration reported that Bell had failed to make a scheduled radio aircraft were directed to the scene by an emergency locator Beacon picked up by a search Andrescu coast guard spokesman Brice Kenney searchers found the partially submerged plane about 300 Miles Northeast of Kenney Bell was found about three Miles from the Engineer kidnapped in Colombia Bogota up six leftist guerrillas kidnapped an american Oil Engineer Friday and disappeared without a authorities colombian officials identified the victim As Michael an employee of a Petroleum company reportedly based in Jose Neira a retired army offi cer who was stewarts said six gun men intercepted the Oil engineers car North of identifying themselves As Mem Bers or the april 19 a leftist guerrilla that takes its name from the Date of a disputed National election in Neira said the whose de mands were not immediately first threatened to kill Stewart and then vanished with who was not harmed in the Abdul said the guerrillas were armed with handguns and automatic colombian authorities immediately began searching for Stewart but had re ported no Progress in the Case late Friday american Oil Engineer Kenneth Bishop was kidnapped by colombian gunmen in 1982 and later freed after his firm paid several million dollars in news update soccer riot victim Dies Brussels up italian soc cer fan Luigi pridome died in a Brus Sels Hospital 77 Days after being injured at the european champions cup final riot at the heysel officials pid omes death brings the number of fatalities from the riot to and the number of italians killed to had been in a coma Ever since the riot Between Liverpool and Juventud fans on May alleged terrorist held Spain up ish police Are holding an alleged red brigade terrorist whose identity was disclosed when he reported the theft of his the daily Diario 16 police made a routine Check of Sandro Stella when he appeared at a police station in 40 Miles South of to report the theft of a tent and other camping equip ment from his car july Stella presented his French pass port in a computer showed he was wanted in Italy for alleged involvement in activities car ried out by the extreme leftist red brigade terrorists in police held at a Toledo jail until Early August when he was transferred to a prison in pilots approve pact Dallas a leaders of the bargaining unit for american airlines pilots have approved a wage Amend ment that would increase pay for pilots with less a Union official we think it is a step for Ralph executive administrator for the Allied pilots As said following the approval of the groups executive the new wage amendment maintains the airlines two tier wage that provides that person Nel hired since the original 1983 con tract was approved will be paid on a lower american and the Allied pilots association have been in talks on the wage pact since said Ameri can spokesman Lowell Duncan it was the Only part of the master con due to expire May that was open for