European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Insid6 stripes o Bhagwan pleads guilty leaves for India Page 5 d agreement gives Irish role in governing n. Ireland Inge 8 d monday s Dollar buys 2.60 Marks Page 27 the stars vol. 44, no. 212 saturday november 16. 1985 lit daily and s d 8693 a . Rushes help to disaster area Panama City. Panama a twelve . Army helicopters and two . Air Force c-130 Hercules planes led for Colombia Friday from a . Southern come base in Panama carrying emergency Relief supplies and person Nel for Volcano disaster victims there. A Southern come statement said two of the helicopters were huge ch-47 chinooks loaded with medical support personnel and survivor and shelter equipment. The other 10 were Blackhawk specially equipped to evacuate the injured. The statement said the c-l30s were also loaded with fuel bladders to service the helicopters. It said that since 1970 the Southern come has participated in 80 disaster Relief operations to 30 countries. In Colombia Rescue helicopters Friday ferried numbed survivors of a devastating volcanic eruption out of the vast reach of Gray mud that covered four andean villages. The colombian red Cross said it expects the death loll to be at least 20,000. Those who lived through the blazing Ash and 15-fool High Wall of mud unleashed by the Nevado Del Ruiz Volca no inched on their stomachs across the mud to reach trapped neighbors. Hundreds of bodies were found. Tremors were fell Friday near the Volcano and steam still poured from the Crater stirring fears of new volcanic fury. But the colombian geophysical Institute said it detected Only Light seismological activity. The Volcano ended months of rumbling with a fiery see disaster on Page 28 the Coffee firming City of Armiro population 50,000, has been almost blotted out by a deadly sea of mud. Again Varns a it psf High Hopes for sum if Success Washington up presid Reagan told the nation thursday night that his highest priority in talks with Kremlin Leader Mikhail Gorbachev next week is to top the nuclear arms race but he warned that our disagreements on fundamentals will not  Reagan said the history of american so Viet relations does not augur Well for euphoria and he does not underestimate the difficulty of the task  see related stories. Page 9. In a nationally televised address two Days before he leaves for the Geneva Summit Reagan said we go without illusion but with hop Hope that Prog Ress can be made on our entire Agenda. My Mission simply stated is a Mission for peace he said. We go to Geneva Wilh the sober realization that nuclear weapons pose the greatest threat in human history to the survival of the human race that inc arms race must be slopped. I have no higher priority than to finally realize the dream of limiting and Ding the dangerous Competition in Nur dreams Reagan said. Be for about 18 minutes detail ing Abs fans Agenda for Geneva what he called a indispensable elements of a True pc wac the steady expansion of human Rign for All the world s Peoples support for Rawung conflicts in Asia Africa and latin bin circa that carry the seeds of a wider no broadening people to pc pc cd changes it can diminish the distrust and suspicion hat separate our two Peoples and the so vhf reduction of these awesome nuclear areal Bra until they no longer threaten the  must  Reagan said the United gone the extra mile in our offers have nol always been Delcos he cited . Proposals since 1977 deep reciprocal culs in strategic forces and said those offers have been rejected out of hand by inc soviets. News briefs Reagan signs debt limit increase Washington a president Reagan signed interim legislation thursday night raising the National debt limit to $1.9 trillion. Earlier in the Day with no debate and Only about two dozen members present the House of representatives on a voice vote approved the legislation which postpones a credit crisis through dec. 6 by raising the government s si.824 trillion line of credit by $80 billion. The Senate passed it wednesday night. Without action the government would have been in default. Reagan had ordered Federal agencies to Stop issuing new checks Starling Friday if Congress had nol increased the debt limit. Ood May limit contractors per diem Washington a Slung by revelations thai defense contractors billed taxpayers As much As $350 a Day for hotel rooms the Pentagon is moving to limit the Money these companies can be reimbursed for travel. A new defense department re Gullion would limit per diem expenses to inc same amount now paid Federal workers who travel. That Means $75 per Day for room and food cd Cpl for certain High priced areas of inc country. Sharon apology ends Israel crisis Tel Aviv a Ariel Sharon gave prime minister Shimon Peres an apology late thursday ending a crisis that nearly brought Down the coalition govern men. Cab incl ministers reported. Peres said wednesday that he would fire Sharon who is Israel s Trade and Industry minister because of Sharon s Bilter criticism of Peres and his policies. The affair is Over since Sharon addressed All the Points raised by the prime mini scr education mini scr Yizhak Navon of Peres labor parly said. As far As we re concerned there is regret or an admission that he i Lucr had not scam ii or retracted the position he  adm. Amoreau assumes command of a South Naples Italy adm. Arthur s. Moreau or. Became the commander of Allied forces Southern Europe and . Naval forces Europe Friday. During ceremonies at nato s Southern Region head quarters in Naples Moreau succeeded adm. Lee Baggott jr., who had commanded the Region since May. Baggett will become nato s supreme Allied commander Atlantic and commander of the . Atlantic come at Norfolk a. As commander of a South Moreau leads the larg est nato regional command. The command is responsible for the land and air defense of Italy Greece and Turkey and the defense of nato sea lanes throughout the Mediterranean and Black seas. The five nations of a South staff Are Italy the United slates Greece Turkey and the United kingdom. There arc about 5,000 military personnel assigned to a South and its subordinate commands. The ceremony included a speech by Gen. Bernard w. Rogers supreme Allied commander Europe and an italian air Force Salute of f-104 aircraft from the 4th Wing. Grosseto. Also participating were units from the italian armed forces and the . Navy and Marine corps