European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ide stripes d joint  Effort urged to fight cancer Page 5 n monumental headache plagues Washington Page 6 n America s children reach out in sorrow Hope Page 13 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 44, no. 353 monday april 7, 1986 is nov of d 8693 a injury toll rises in Berlin bombing from wire and staff reports Berlin the toll of injured in the terrorist linked bombing of a West Berlin nightclub popular with . Service Mem ers Rose sunday possibly Topping 200, As police accounted for people who did not seek immediate medical help after the Early saturday morning explosion. The bomb blast killed a 21-year-old american Soldier and a 28-year-old turkish woman authorities said. Related stories picture on Page 3. The Berlin brigade Soldier was identified As sgt. Kenneth Terrance Ford of Detroit mich., said 1st it. Bill Kirkland spokes Man for the . Army in Berlin. Ford was unmarried. Ford was a member of the combat sup port co 4th in 502nd inf and had served in Berlin since september 1984, Kirklan said. The turkish woman identified by the associated press As Nermin Haney 28, had been living in Germany officials said. Berlin police said most of the injured were germans the a reported. Five arabs and two turks also were Hurt the said. Ford was the Only fatality among 64 americans known to have been injured in the explosion at the la Belle discotheque. Kirkland said there Are still some casualties whom officials have not yet identified. Kirkland said 18 of the injured Ameri cans were treated in Berlin and released. Another 45 Are still in army hospitals in Berlin and Lan Stuhl Germany and civil Ian hospitals in Berlin. Maj. Gen. John h. Mitchell commander . Berlin come sunday visited american victims of the blast. Speaking at the . Army Hospital in Berlin Mitchell greeted just released Vic Tims who were accompanied by friends and family members As they left the Hospital. As he spoke Mitchell described terror ism As something that tends to die in the full Glare of  one method of defeating International terrorism he said is to expose it for what it is a crime a senseless immoral act against defenceless people who deserve the right to be secure. Now that you have experienced this you have a responsibility to assist the Ber liners and our government in stamping it out just As you would if you were facing an enemy with a Rifle in your  the Berlin senator for the Interior Hein Rich Lummer accompanied Mitchell on the visit. Lummer presented Flowers to the hos Pital staff and a cake to the injured soldiers. He told the victims there is a special see bombing on Page 28 survivors Tell chaos a photo the . Ambassador to Germany Richard Burt left and Berlin s governing mayor Eberhard Diepgen inspect wreckage of the bomb blasted Berlin nightclub. Berlin a survivors of the West Berlin nightclub bombing said the discotheque s crowded dance floor turned to chaos saturday when a bomb blast sent patrons scrambling Over one another to flee through windows and a Hole in the Wall. The lights suddenly went out and then a deafening explosion and the ceiling and All these cables came Down on my head and i thought of god now i die " said re Nate Garrison 35, a German married to a former . Serviceman. There was blood All Over legs sticking out of the debris and people were walking on my head and i thought of i be got to get out of Here and finally i crawled through a Hole in the Wall said Garrison who said she lost hearing in one ear and suffered bad cuts. E "1 had just asked a German girl for a dance when there seemed be an electric Short circuit and right afterwards it the bomb went off and there was so much smoke and screaming and hollering said spec. 4 Larry Lampkins 34, of Milwaukee wis. The Force of the blast ripped the pants off my legs and there was a lot of blood on my upper body but not mine because i did t get cuts on my upper body said Lampkins of the 6th in in the Berlin Bri Gade. Lampkins who suffered a punctured ear drum and bruises seemed Shell shocked As the associated press interviewed survivors see chaos on Page 28 7 nations of French franc devaluation oot Marcum Netherlands a France won agreement from seven West european nations sunday to reduce the value of the franc by As much As 6 percent in relation to the others currencies officials said. The Deal stuck on the second Day of negotiations in this Eastern dutch Village is expected to give French Industry a competitive boost in european Trade. The agreement has no direct effect on the currencies value in relation to the american Dollar because the United states is not part of the european monetary system which links the values of the system s eight member currencies. Edouard Balladur the French finance minister told reporters after the Deal was announced that the new Cen Ter right government of Premier Jacques Chirac consid ered the currency devaluation an indispensable part fits new economic policy. He said the devaluation would be accompanied by a series of other measures to be announced later sunday in Paris aimed at liberalizing the French Economy and re straining wage increases. H. Onno Ruding the dutch finance minister who led the currency negotiations told a news conference he was pleased with the outcome. The nations involved in the negotiations were not immediately willing to accept a major devaluation of the French franc because it disrupts their competitive position in european Trade. The agreement As announced by Ruding Calls for a 6 percent drop in the value of the French currency against the German Mark and the dutch Guilder. The franc will go Down by 4 percent in relation to the danish Kroner and the belgian and Luxembourg francs. Also the French franc will go Down by 3 percent against the italian lira and the Irish Pound. Although Britain and Greece Are partial members of the european monetary system they do not participate in the Ems s Exchange rate mechanism. Thus sunday s agreement has no direct effect on the value of the British and greek currencies. Conference sources said France had held out on sat urday for As much As an 8 percent devaluation of the franc. Italy and some others refused to go along so the 6 percent figure was presented As a Compromise. Balladur said afterwards that the negotiations had been conducted in a cordial atmosphere without  he declined to disclose details but he said the main Points would be an easing of government controls on Capi Tal movements restraint of wages in state industries and an undefined adjustment of French monetary policy. He said the drop in the value of the franc particularly the 6 percent reduction in relation to the German Mark would make French exporters More competitive in West european markets. That is because it makes French goods cheaper in terms of the German and other six Ems currencies