European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes sex gis is men modify reunion plans Page 2 n nato Maneu vers winding Down Page 9 d bears beat Vikings in pro football Page 21 the stars vol. 44, no. 156 saturday september 21, 1985 i Oono d 8693 a new tremors Jolt Mexico Mexico City s hotel Regis Hes in ruins. The clock next door is Frozen at 7 22 ., the time the quake hit. Mexico City a new tremors Shook Centra Mexico Friday while Rescue teams clambered desperately through ruins in Mexico City pulling More bodies from the diva station of a massive earthquake that rolled Inland from the Pacific coast. Sec photos on Page 3. The american red Cross estimated that at least 7f 0 were killed and 4.632 were injured in the thursday morn ing quake but the toll was expected to go much higher. The Mexico City newspaper Al Universal reported3,000 dead in the capital and 300 others killed in the states of Colima. Jalisco and Michoacan. It gave no attribution for its information on the number of dead. Mexico s Channel 2 television in a report thai also was not attributed earlier reported 770 people were killed. I would not dare give a number said a grim faced mayor Ramon Aguirre. He said an estimated 1,000 people were entombed in collapsed buildings in this huge teeming City. Desperate Rescue teams clambered Over the ruins in search of the living and the dead. Five thousand other people had been treated for injuries Aguirre said. Mexico City and four coastal states. Colima Guerrero. Jalisco and Michoacan were hardest hit by the 7 18 Quake on thursday. It levelled cathedrals schools hospitals hotels and scores of of her buildings at least 250 buildings in Mexico City alone according to Aguirre. The tremor measured 7.8 on the Richter scale of ground motion making it the strongest to Rock Mexico since j973, a series of aftershocks followed the Strong est occurring shortly after 7 Friday. From Bogota Colombia radio station Caracol said mexican televise reported an aftershock at 7 16 almost 24 hours to the minute after thursday s quake. Children wandered the streets crying and calling out for their parents. I have been looking for my son since 9 o clock yester see Mexico on Page 28 of family donates daughter s kidneys to help 2 other people in the states by Judy Sarasohn staff writer Lan Stuhl Germany the death of the 13-year-old daughter of an air Force family thursday May Lead to Normal lives for two people in the states in need of kidneys. After Katie Wulf died from a burst blood vessel in her brain her parents maj. Stephen and Linda Wulf offered her kidneys for transplanting. Wulf is assigned to the 7450th tac intelligence so at Ramstein a Germany. Getting the kidneys to people who needed them was a cooperative Effort by the army air Force and a German surgeon who performed the operation at the . Army Hospital at lands Lull. Someone without at least one prop Erly functioning kidney typically May have to undergo dialysis treatment for four hours a session three times a week in order to live. My wife Linda and i want to be sure Katie gels the credit Wulf said. Katie was always a Happy kid and we Felt sure she would have wanted some one else to have the Chance to experience life the Way she did. We re Catho Lic and because of our Faith we feel there is no greater love anyone can ,. A photo tors a by spec. S Raylund prior Sec. Ronald Paar rushes kidneys from operating room give. Katie was on her Way to the lands Tull Hospital sept. 12 complaining of a headache when the vessel burst an air Force spokesman said. She was immediately taken into the operating room but she later died. Air Force and Hospi Tal officials said doctors determined that she had been born with a condition that led to the weakening of the blood vessels and it could not have been detected. The operation to remove the kidneys took about five hours thursday was conducted by or. Paul Walter a Homburg University Hospital surgeon experienced in kidney removal. Lan Stuhl officials said the army medical personnel did not have the experience to perform the delicate opera Tion on their own. The last time Suchan operation had been done at lands Tull was in 1983, officials said. Walter said he was pleased to help. It s an Honor for me to do that for the american said Walter adding that the assistance he received was quite there were 17 people assisting and observing in the operating room including army surgeons or. Capt see kidneys on Page 28 some overseas gis face audits of rental costs Washington Bureau Washington some service members overseas who receive the rent plus allowance will be selected next Yea for audits of their housing costs to help protect against abuse the director of the defense department s per diem travel and transportation allowance committee says. All those who receive the allowance will have to certify each ear that the Cost they have reported Are True and up to Date said the commit tee s director army col Michael Sirkis. Those lire two of a series of rent plus changes coming in the next 12 months. Sirkis said he did not know exactly when those changes would go into effect. At present off base rental costs arc recorded from the lease members must turn in when they first take an apartment or House. The members arc required to report any changes. The allowance will continue to be calculated so 80 percent of those receiving the allowance have All their eligible rental costs covered Sirkis said. But the committee will re Cramin whether the allowance for members with out families should stay at 80 percent of the Independent rate and it will study actual costs to Sec whether families of differ see audits on Page 28
