European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes August 1985 Beirut death toll hits 264 in 3rd Day of shelling Beirut a Christian and moslem militiamen rained artillery and rocket fire on Beirut and surrounding towns for a third Day and police said the death toll in the latest bout of the civil War was 264 killed and 775 Twenty one civilians were killed and 65 wounded in overnight artillery exchanges in and around Beirut that set Many buildings among the dead were two women in the Christian Mountain resort of radio stations in Beirut moslem and Christian sectors broadcast appeals to the civil defense corps and fire Bri Gades to Rush to burning they also warned people to stay in their police said 264 people have been killed in 10 Days of shelling and car More than houses sustained considerable damage and cars were destroyed in the shelling duels Between moslem and Christian gun ners in Beirut and the Hills overlooking the As the gunners dulled with 155mm 120mm mortars and truck mounted Multi barrelled rocket launch warring militiamen traded i Landrun grenade forays across Beirut dividing Green police they said the fighting along the three mile Green line forced the closure of All Crossings Between Christian East Beirut and moslem West the Headquarters of a Security committee representing the main militias and the lebanese army was hit at the mid City Racetrack by six shells at wounding a police police sources close to the who spoke on condition of said the four party body had no plans to meet wednesday to try to work out a new shells hit the airports Eastern runway on Beirut Southern air controllers and terminal staff took Refuge in underground bomb but no casualties were reported and flight operations were not police one Middle East airlines Boeing 707 landed moments after the it was the second time in As Many Days that the Airport has been shelled in the sectarian Christian units of the army that Are Loyal to president Amin Gemayel also were locked in a Duel with howitzers and m48 tanks with druse warlord Walid Jumblatt militiamen in Hills overlooking Gemay efs sub Urban Palace in druse gunners poured barrages of 100mm Cannon fire from soviet made t54 tanks and rockets from Multi bar Reed launchers known As Stalin organs at the Christian army Garrison in souk police the Hilltop town commands roads from the Central mountains leading to Gemayel Palace in Baarda and the adjacent Yarze District where the defense ministry and the residence of ambassador Reginald Bartholomew Are new Rule expected to help army defend benefits by Diana Valdez staff writer Germany a Regula Tion that takes effect 1 will help Arm officials fighting for soldiers College Tui Tio assistance a top army Edu cation official said Bruce chief of the army education said the revised a will require army continuing education system officers to compile More detailed information about services rendered with this information i will be Able to defend our which Means a continued Supply of tuition assistance for our he Battey was a keynote speaker tuesday morning during the opening ceremonies for the continuing education systems an Nual which is being held this week in about 350 education services guidance Counselor and other education experts from eight coun tries Are Battey said that the current quarterly reporting which funnel information to his have left him in a weak position to fight off proposed budget we didst fend off the proposed educational budget cuts last he last soldiers stood to lose a big chunk of their tuition assistance benefits when million was dropped from Bat toys million annual about 50 percent of soldiers army wide use the continuing education system for services ranging from the Basic skills education program to University graduate Battey said it was not his office that eventually retrieved the it was through the screams of military leadership and congressional he had we had perhaps More sound data and had organized ourselves we could have prevented that technique to get the Money the new which is causing some grunts and groans from the Field be cause it requires continuing education sys tem officers to gather More information than in the wont answer All the ques he and it probably wont Stop someone from trying to take Money from but it will place a management har Ness on our program and eventually make us better for 3rd suspected German spy disappears Bonn up another suspected East German spy disappeared from his Job at West Germany army Headquarters and May have skipped the country with secrets in the third such incident this a Justice official said a spokesman for the Federal prosecutor named the Man Only As Lorenz and said he was a courier at the army administrative Headquarters in but other intelligence sources said he was previously an elevator Engineer who maintained the systems installed at the govern ments nuclear War Bunker in the Ahr Val Southwest of the the sources said Lorenz was a close Friend of another suspected Ursula Richt who vanished from her Bonn Home 12 Days newspaper speculation suggests Richter was the Liaison officer for a ring of lon term Sleeper agents in the West German another government Sonja Luene disappeared 19 Days ago and is thought to also have been spying from her Post As an aide to economics minister mar tin All three Are now assumed to have bolted to East both women were born and they emigrated to West Germany via third countries using phony identity the mass circulation Bild which has closely followed the latest in a Long line of East West German spy scan said wednesday Interior minister Friedrich Zimmermann ordered new checks of workers with Security 3 1 girl earn scouting honors by the stars and stripes three boy scouts in Europe have earned the rank of Eagle according to transatlantic Council boy scouts of America officials in and one girl scout has earned the Gold girl scouting officials Jennifer daughter of Thomas Hicks and Lenore Hicks of has received the Gold the highest award in girl the Gold award was established in 1980 and is equivalent to the Eagle award in boy a student at Heidelberg High school and member of troop Spear headed a clothing drive for needy people of Michael of troop collected More than items of cloth ing for the red Cross As his Eagle a senior at the Ramstein High is the son of Hugh Oliver and Christine Richard of troop built a portable puppet stage for the Chil Drens program at the Hanau a a student at Hanau High is the son of Daniel Kidwell and Connie Michael Robert of troop achieved his Eagle award by collecting clothing for a Mission in a student at Arnold High school in is the son of senior master Robert Wehmeyer and Gerda Anna crash destroyed Many cafes Catalon orders Dallas Catalon orders addressed to cafes were among postal items that were damaged or destroyed in the crash of Delta flight 191 at Worth International Airport an Exchange spokesman the damaged orders were postmarked Between july 22 and july mostly from european Apos and customers who placed Catalon orders on those dates May experience delays in receiving their Mer customers who do not receive ship ment notification from cafes by 10 can assume that their orders were among the 50 percent of the mail on flight 191 that was and they should place their orders the spokesman Catalon officials Are receiving pieces of damaged mail daily from the Post office containing burned or water damaged Cata log checks and Money the spokesman customers whose orders included person Al checks that were damaged will receive notification from cafes to reissue their the damaged Money orders can be reissued by the postal service at the request of news update Driver sentenced Washington up a parolee convicted of blowing his car into a crowded bus killing seven has been sentenced to 35 to 105 years in prison for plus 90 Days for Drunken Robert pleaded guilty May 16 to two counts of Man Slaughter while five counts of manslaughter and Drunken he originally was charged with Sec on degree assault and Reck less seven including four Chil died in the Accident last 25 outside the Washington Navy Yard highest death toll on re Cord for a single traffic Accident in the nations negligence cited peking a the sinking of a ferryboat in the Songhua River near the northeastern City of Harbin was due to and police have detained those a newspaper said a total of 114 people died in the the official workers daily said the bodies of the dead had been re sixty passengers were rescued after the pleasure boat capsized As it sailed Back to the City from Sun is a popular recreation and convalescent Center in the an initial investigation attributed chivas worst ferry Accident in re cent years to and the boat operators responsible have been the newspaper it did not say whether any of the Crew sur and it did not identify those news reports said the boat Cap sized because its 300 passengers surged to one Side to watch a fist tomatoes banned Rome a authorities have banned the harvesting of tons of tomatoes suspected of being poisoned by officials re health ministry officials said they sequestered a plot of acres of tomatoes growing at near after allegations that the crop had been sprayed with a toxic pesticide produced by Union Carbide the ban will remain until Laboratory tests have established whether the tomatoes contain traces of the said the who spoke on condition they not be Ridenti the results should be available in a few in Temsik is authorized for use Only on sugar the health ministry officials