European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28the stars and stripes tuesday september 24, 1985 Mexico death toll rises As cleanup begins Mexico City a mexican buried their dead sunday and prayed More survivors Vui uld be found As the mayor s office in Mexico cily raised the official death toll from last week s Tuin earthquakes to 1.952. Related photos. Page 3.1 the s spokesman Llumbert Romero said an other 2.000 people trapped under collapsed buildings Are feared dead. Other officials said 6,000 people were injured in the jolts thursday and i riday that left the Center of the City in shambles. In Washington suite department spokesman Dan Lawler said the mexican government had raised the death toll to 3,461 nationwide. Four americans have been confirmed killed. Lawler said. The death of a fifth . Citizen in Acapulco was unrelated to the quake. Names of the americans were not announced. Thousands of people Many wearing masks against the smell passed slowly through makeshift morgues looking for familiar faces among do composing bodies. Authorities worried about the threat of disease said bodies unclaimed after 48 hours would be buried in mass Graves. Air planes from around the world shuttled Aid to the stricken capital the world s largest with about 18 million people. Related Story. Page 5. A c-i4i arrived from Kelly fab in san Antonio Texas carrying a 19-Mcmbcr team organized by two construction companies. Spirit construction of Baton Rouge la., and the . Zachary company of san Antonio. They plan to evaluate structures for Demoli Tion. Dollar from Page 1 Mcnol in Congress toward protectionist Laws to Stem the flow of foreign goods into the United Stales and the resulting loss of american jobs. We Are All concerned about rising protectionist pressures Baker said at a news conference after the meeting. We agreed that turning toward protectionism would be very dangerous for the world Economy and that it is essential to resist protectionist pressures for restrictive Trade the Only other Way to reduce Trade deficits a Treasury official said is by de pressing the value of the Dollar. Congressional democrats praised the outcome of the meeting calling it an important philosophical shift for Reagan. But they said they would seek protectionist legislation because they fell the meeting did not go far enough to restore a healthy Trade balance. Currency traders said they would proceed cautiously because the ministers statement did not say specifically what was planned. Sunday s agreement of the five major Industrial countries All of whom vowed to tight protectionism could add new muscle to the president s commitment. Treasury officials said. The effect of the decision cannot be gauged until monday when the investors executives of multinational companies Bankers speculators and All the other peo ple who buy and sell currencies in the marketplace come to work. The Mere threat of official intervention by the five nations could set off widespread Selling of the Dollar and produce the decline that they desire. On the other hand the Many Market participants could defy the governments and hold on to their dollars if they conclude whatever the ministers say or however much they spend in the currency markets that the Dollar remains a sounder invest ment than other currencies. The five countries did not indicate How much Money they would be willing to spend in the currency markets to lower the value of the Dollar but they have tens of billions of dollars in their reserves and could raise much More. Treasury officials said the meeting was planned with an Eye to its possible Shock effect on the currency markets and historical significance. The meeting was held in the banquet rooms of the elegant Plaza hotel on a sunday and with such extraordinary secrecy that despite months of preparation not a word of the plan was known until late Friday when Baker s office began alerting newspaper reporters by Telephone and then swearing them to secrecy. In a nine Page statement that was characteristic in tone and detail to those of major multinational agreements the coun tries finance ministers and Central Bank governors said that the Exchange rates of currencies should better reflect fundamental economic conditions than has been the the officials believe that agreed policy actions must be implemented and reinforced to improve the fundamentals fur ther the statement said. A lower value of the Dollar is desirable it said. And it concluded they stand ready to cooperate More closely to encourage this when to do so would be Baker said the ministers agreed that for eign Exchange rates should better reflect fundamental economic conditions than has been the Case and that the United Stato stood ready to cooperate in Active intervention in the markets if necessary up re ported. This commitment was reinforced by Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker the Only Central Bank governor to attend a news conference following the meeting. Foreign Exchange rates Are important Over time there must be Correct fundamentals and intervention May be helpful at times Volcker volunteered As the meeting was breaking up up said. The Dollar s strength has been blamed for record . Trade deficits. A High Dollar makes . Goods More expensive overseas and makes imports cheaper in this country. The increased flow of imports has led to demands for Protection from imports in the United states. It is feared other nation might retaliate by restricting imports from the United states if protectionist measures arc implemented by Congress. Greenpeace from Paga 1 ing Center. It also reported that the Center s chief maj. Louis Pierre Millais directed the operation. It was not until Friday in submitting his resignation that Herne acknowledged that subordinates in his ministry had lieu to him. Quiles was immediately named to re place Herne and ordered to press on with the investigation. All of the press accounts of the bombing have said that Mitterrand was unaware of the French involvement until a week after the attack. The Tricot report said however that Gen. Jean Saulnier at the time Mitterrand s per Sonal military advisor and now chief of staff of the armed forces signed the order for funding the surveillance Saulnier has denied in writing that he gave any orders to sink the ship. In new zealand on monday Lange said the sad thing is. That this was no fortuitous Beau Gesla but it is instead a sordid act of stale backed terrorism and that is now acknowledged by the French he said the idea that acting under orders of a foreign Power gives anyone License to execute criminal acts in another country with immunity and remain inviolate from prosecution or Sanction is of course quite Lange said it would be sheer anarchy if that became the state of affairs which governed International relationships. That is exactly the sort of barbarity which we retreated from some thousands of years ago Lange said. He said Fabius had made no mention of previous promises to prosecute those found barmaid from Pago 1 to a meal remember it did t come in a cellophane bag from Safeway some Farmer put his whole life into growing that stadium lights used for football games were left out As darkness fell and Only a few spotlights illuminated the audience As four of the giants of country music Johnny Cash Waylon Jennings Glen Campbell and Nelson teamed up for a song. A steady rainfall began shortly after the concert opened at 10 . The rain stopped in the late afternoon and overcast skies greeted the evening performances carried live on 156 television stations. About 500 people received medical treat ment by Early evening and another 300 were expected to be treated by the time the concert ended at Midnight said or. Alan Baird co director of emergency services for the concert. We just had minor cuts scratches twisted Ankles he said. Baird said Mari Juana use was widespread. Three people were arrested on charges of aggravated Battery and resisting arrest and 35 were ejected for various reasons said Paul Dollins chief of the University of Illi Nois police. Soon after the concert began country Singer Hoyt Axton got some of the rain soaked audience up and dancing with Joy to the world then was joined by Tanya Tucker. By then television cameramen on stage had their video equipment wrapped in Yel Low plastic to keep it dry. Country Star Merle Haggard an outspoken supporter of struggling Farmers Sang his new song Amber Waves of Grain with the lyrics if there were no wheat or Barley anywhere would we buy our bread and butter from the Toyota Man and would an Idaho Spud be stamped made in Japan flanking the stage were huge red White and Blue barmaid banners featuring a tractor Flag and the slogan keep America twelve hours of the concert were being carried live by the Nashville network which serves about 25 million Cable television households and by More than 300 radio stations. Shots of the performers and the crowd were hashed on two huge television screens on either Side of the stage. Branch Falls kills 2 in Yosemite bus Yosemite Calif. A a tree Branch open air bus hauling tourists through semite National Park on saturday killing two people and injuring 11, officials said. The vehicle operated by the Yosey National Park and carrying 32 Phi a Branch _ beat it " the Bianch fell from about 15 feet above the bus and was 2 feet in diameter said Smith another Park spokeswoman. The and a Bibb Etc Ahey where the Accident victims were in their 20s, she said. Seven of the injured were taken by Heli copter to hospitals in Modesto and Fresno according to nursing supervisors at the facilities. Two More were hospitalized in Mariposa and two people were treated and officials. Those hospitalized were reported in stable condition with most suffering Frac Tures or head injuries. 50 Park employees and visitors Kame gency Aid at the scene Beatty Saint responsible. Lange said this was a Complete reversal of the assure acc Given to the world a Short time ago. When France was condemning the sink ing but denying the involvement France pledged itself to bring to Justice if they were French those who were involved he said. 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