European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Reagan signs Washington a president Reagan Sien a Allf legislation thursday rising the National debt limit to si.9 Jaap we a Wilh no debate Lam about two dozen members present the House of a vote approved the legislation which postpones credit crisis the Roual nov him ii government s si.824 trillion line of credit Senate Passi Uil fraction the government would have ordered Era agencies to Stop issuing new checks starting Friday my Jud not increased the debt limit. A Tomico unofficial pu1uca7ion Pom tin . Ammo pc of tics vol. 44, no. 212 saturday november 16, 1985 o d 8693 a Reagan expects Rocky Summit Washington up president Reagan told the nation thursday night that his highest priority in talks with Kremlin Leader Mikhail Gorbachev next weel is to hop the nuclear arms race bul he warned that our Dis agreements on fundamentals will not Reagan said the history of american soviet relations does not augur Well for euphoria and he does not underestimate the difficulty of the task in a nationally televised address two Days before he leaves for the Geneva Summit Reagan said we go with out illusion but with Hope Hope that Progress can remade on our entire my Mission simply stated is a Mission for peace he said. We go to Geneva with the sober realization that nuclear weapons pose the greatest threat in human history to the survival of the human race that the arms race must be stopped. I have no higher priority than to finally realize the dream of limiting and ending the dangerous Competition in nuclear dreams Reagan said. He spoke for about 18 minutes detailing As his Agenda for Geneva what he called the indispensable elements of a True peace the steady expansion of human rights Fornall the world s Peoples support for resolving conflicts in Asia Africa and latin America that carry the seeds of wider War broadening people to people exchanges that can diminish the distrust and suspicion that separate our two Peoples and the steady reduction of these awesome nuclear arsenals until they no longer threaten the world we both must Reagan said the United states has gone the extra mile in arms control but our offers have not always Iwen Wel he cited . Proposals since 1977 for deep reciprocal cuts in strategic forces and said those offers have n rejected out of hand by the soviets. My. However he said he is pleased with the soviet Lead-1ership s expressed interest in reducing offensive weapons. While Reagan insisted that any new arms agreement be see Reagan on Page 28 Colombia Volcano erupts thousands feared dead Bogota Colombia a a Volcano erupted melt ing its Snow Cap and burying four sleeping towns in a wave of mud in an Andes Valley thursday. Early estimates of the dead reached 20,000, and Hundred. Of bodies were being brought to a local soccer stadium. The Volcano had been rumbling to life for months. Blaz ing volcanic Ash rolled into the valleys wednesday night. A few hours later the mud Avalanche crashed through the towns. Their combined population is 70,000. If officials worst fears prove Correct the eruption of the Nevado Del Ruiz Volcano will rank As one of this Century s largest natural disasters. The Lagunilla River became a Wall of mud that destroyed at least 85 percent of Armero a Coffee farming town of 50,000 people 30 Miles from the Volcano and 105 Miles Northwest of Bogota. Armero does t exist anymore red Cross Rescue worker Fernando Duque said in an interview from the scene on Tod Clar radio. There s Only a big layer of mud where Armero used Tobe associated press photographer Carlos Gonzalez said thursday night a civil defense spokesman maj. Hugo Ardila told midday news conference in Bogota that about 10,000 peo medical readings in com Rij top urge says Judy Saks Ohnstaf Ner Ramstein a Ger july the senior american military doctor in tap Mays substantial improvement shave been made in mrkal readiness in the two years since the bombing of a Larine Barracks in Beirut. That Progress to now the military to care for Al wounded luring at least the first 30 Days of a convc5nal War said air Force maj. Gen. William h. Giff Dyke the is. European come sur Geon f stung by Nicis by the Lopic Stagon health official that Only Fth gains have been nude and Only three out Greendyke defended r with the stars pie had been found alive in Armero. They climbed Trees Clung to roofs above the mud and huddled behind a con Crete cemetery Wall. One of them Deliberto Nieto told Iron radio we heard a frightening noise and then a blast of wind bit us and we saw fire falling from the sky. It was horrible so horrible my wife was killed. My Mother was killed. My Little girl who would have been 4 years old tomorrow of my Sisters was killed and one of my Little Neph Marina Franco de Huez told the radio the Ash rain increased and the whole world began to scream. I woke up my daughter and we ran out to one of the streets around the cemetery. More than half of the population was buried under a torrent of mud that came with a horrible noise. I dragged houses cattle tree slumps and Gigantic rocks. The Church was buried the school the president Belisario Betancur flew Over Armero in helicopter and said in a broadcast later the situation is very grave. I Appeal for the Solidarity of All colombians. We Don t yet know the full scope of the hundreds of bodies were being taken to a soccer stadium in the Village of Guay Abal four Miles from Armero see Colombia on Page 28 this boy was dug from a House buried in mud. Of i0-year study by the army physical fitness Center it Benjamin Harrison ind. One of the Center its formation in 1982 was to examine the Stander a a see if they needed to be changed. The Stanon i Ere put together in the late 70swith Little Field Lesiw jct said. This time More than too soldiers at installation sin the United states and Oas were tested Over an 18-month Span. Essentially we found that standards that were in major need of repair Sukias sit Tetu said. For the last five years or so. We be know that women have the same abdominal strength As see physical on Page 28
