European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes . Vela Call off reunion with German soldiers Page 5 d Europe units prepare for gun smoke 85 pages 8, 9 the Usa eur band hits the Road daily Magazine the stars and stripes Utho Olieo unofficial publication i vol. 44, no. 156 saturday september 21, 1985 d 8693 a quake smashes Mexico City earthquake epicentre tidal wave feared Xico City s hold Regis lies in ruins As the clock next door is Frozen Al 7 22 a.m., the time the quake hit. Mexico City a a devastating earthquake struck Central Mexico on thursday morning toppling buildings triggering fires and trapping hundreds in rubble in the world s most populous capital. Police said at least 170 were dead and thousands injured but a far higher tollway expected. Hours later the and police patrolled ruined streets against looters As fires still soldered in Mexico City 250 Miles Northeast of the quake s Center on the Pacific coast. President Miguel de la Madrid declaring a National disaster toured stricken neighbourhoods and appealed for people to remain Calm and stay indoors. Unfortunately there appear to be Many dead do la Madrid said on mexican television. All of the hospitals arc on a slate of Alert to Lake care of the injured. The is in a stale of dozens of aftershocks rattled the area through the Day. Reports on the Mexico City to station televise said buildings continued to collapse and debris from others was falling into streets hours after inc quake. By Nightfall half the City lacked electrical Power. Local Telephone service had been restored but International Tele phone lines were still Down. Mexico s Channel 2 monitored in the Llo Duran capital of Tegucigalpa reported 770 people including 140 Chil Dren had died. The report was not attributed and did not say How Many of the victims were in Mexico City Al least 60 were dead in Mexico City a City of 17 Milli people where schools Hulk hospitals and High rises were flattened. Snapped Gas and Power lines touched off do ens of fires. In inc state of Jalisco. 100 Miles to the Northwest 110 to 150 people were killed and about 1,500 injured. I. Juan Manuel Sanchez said from the fire department s Headquarters in the state capital of Guadalajara. The mexican embassy in Washington reported damage in the slates of Guerrero and Michoacan which lie to the see quake on Page 28 Reagan rejects Weir s plea for hostage Deal Washington Dpi president Reagan will not make any deals with the captors of six kidnapped Ameri cans still in Lebanon despite the pleas of freed hostage the Rev. Benjamin Weir that their lives arc at stake a spokes Man says. Weir 61, a presbyterian minister urged the administration thursday to seize a new window of Opportunity to seek the release of the six other americans. Reagan who watched Weir s nationally televised news conference with a great Deal of interest and enormous sympathy rejected Weir s Appeal that he begin creative negotiations with the captors believed to be members of the Radical islamic jihad or holy War. Responding to a barrage of questions thursday Reagan said the United slates is continuing to do everything we can to win the release of the six men who like Weir were abducted on the streets of West Beirut in separate Inci dents Over the past 18 months. Reagan acknowledged criticism from some relatives of the hostages that the administration has not done every thing possible to secure their loved ones release. Unfortunately we can t Tell even the families All the things that we Are doing he said. We just have to take that criticism but it is not . At thursday s interview Weir recalling the end of 12 months of solitary confinement As a hostage in Lebanon said that he had to Over come a feeling of paranoia when his captors first allowed him to talk to four of the other six hostages. Weir said that after his first meeting with the Rev. Lawrence Jenco i Felt really kind of Para noid. I thought there was some trick to this. Maybe the room was Weir bugged. I did t know if it the end of solitary confinement was going to last just for a few hours or Weir said this fear led him to worry that his conversations with Junco were being bugged or that the captors would let Junco and me gel together unburden our selves Anu Ilion later they would separate us and pump Jenco scoffed at these fears and they proved unfounded. Weir said adding that later he and Junco and the other hostages developed a sense of Trust and Weir said at a news conference earlier thursday that he had been allowed to meet with four of the six remain ing hostages Jenco Terry Anderson David Jacobson and Thomas Sutherland and that icy All appear dwell. Weir said that on july 2 he and inc four other Ameri cans were brought into the same room with their Blind folds on and introduced by name to each other. They were allowed to hug but not to speak. That meeting just two Days after the end of the Twa see Weir on Page 28 service medical staffs urged to cooperate Washington two years after the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut and 16 months after a report Crit ical of the military s Handlin Salties the defense. Medical go Jwj essay he he problems with the defense for health affair Lem is that full i of making the services medical staffs pull together. I would like to say with perfect Confidence that a repetition of the kinds of confusion that we Mcc. I cannot say neither in Europe nor in the Pacific is there a plan for a designated person in charge who can give orders to each Branch of the service s medical in such an worked out plans for a joint service response to any future terrorist he also noted that he and car Weinberger have surgeon be a full time nag Job Hority to oversee medical see medical on Page 2 t
