European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 no is bricks the stars and stripes wednesday july 23,1986 sri Lanka bus bomb kills 29, injures 24 Colombo sri Lanka a a bomb demolished a passenger bus in the North Central a Yuniya District tuesday killing 29 people government spokesman said. A government communique issued by the National Security ministry said tamil terrorists were responsible Tor the blast. The communique said 24 people were injured and required Hospi  tamils who make up i8 percent of the Island nation s 16 million population complain of discrimination by the government. Buddhist sinhalese Are the majority in this Island nation off the Southern tip of India. Tamil moderates Are campaigning for greater autonomy while militants Are waging a guerrilla Campaign for Independence. Venezuelan executive becomes miss universe Panama City Panama a miss Venezuela 22-year-old advertising executive Barbara Palacios Defeated 76 other Young women Towin the miss universe title monday night. Miss United states Christy Fichtner 23, of Dallas was the first runner up. The other run ners up were in order the representative of Colombia Mana Monica Urbina Poland s Brygida Bziukiewicz and Tuul Polvi from Finland. The Brown haired Palac ios was crowned by the outgoing miss universe Deborah Carthy Deu of puerto Rico. Palacios faces year of worldwide travel interviews and photo graphic sessions. As the Winner of the35th annual pageant she Salados also will receive nearly $200,000 in Cash an prizes an extensive wardrobe a Diamond and a Mink coat a personal appearance contract Hollywood screen test and a sports car. She will share a luxury apartment in los Angeles wit miss United states during her reign. Special Salt ii session begins in Switzerland Geneva Switzerland a superpower arms experts tuesday began talks on Salt ii a special session proposed by the soviets and reluctantly accepted by the United states on condition that the discussions also Deal with alleged soviet violations. The soviet delegation arrived in two cars for the talks tuesday morning at the . Mission to the United nations. About two dozen reporters and photographers were barred from entering the Mission grounds. A soviet source said the talks began late tues Day morning. The source said the next meeting would be held thursday at the soviet Mission. The 1979 strategic arms limitation treaty has never been ratified by the United states and president Reagan has said he would not be bound by the treaty s limits because of what he called a pattern of soviet non compliance. American German receive kidneys from . Soldier Syjud Sarasohn medical writer dead . Soldier s kidneys were transplanted successfully monday into an american woman and a Ger Man Man. Lan Stuhl army medical Center officials Learned lat monday that the transplant operation at Walter Reed army medical Center for Ernestine Anderson was successful. Anderson who had been on dialysis treatment had accompanied one kidney to Walter Reed sunday night in the Hope that she could use it. She is the wife of or it. Col Robert Anderson commander of the Munchweiler health  has the same blood Type As staff sgt. Thomas har Greaves whose death sunday resulted in the donation of the kidneys. But whether a person s body accepts an Organ transplant is also dependent on other factors said  Paar a Lan Stuhl dialysis technician. It s working. As of 10 . Monday everything was functioning beautifully said Paar who had packed the kidney specially for transport by a . Air Force cargo plane to the states. Paar said that if Anderson s body is going to reject the kidney it would probably do so within the next 10 Days. The other kidney was transplanted into a 50-year old Man from Trier Germany. An official of the City Hospital of Kaiserslautern told Marie Shaw spokeswoman for the Lan Stuhl Hospital tuesday morning that the operation was a Success. The people in Kaiserslautern were Over very excited Shaw said. Hargreaves an my from we Bruecken died Al a German Hospital in Homburg after a blood vessel Buntin his brain. His wife Alice Hargreaves agreed to do Nate the kidneys. A German surgeon and or. Maj Cheryl Wesen from Lan Stuhl operated sunday evening to remove the kidneys at the Homburg Hospital. 64 cargo trucks delivered to Chad by Usa eur Drivers by the stars and stripes contingent of Usa eur truckers returned to Kaiserslautern monday after delivering military cargo trucks to Chad As part of $10 million in emergency Aid for the North Central african nation which Borders  vehicles 64 2 a ton cargo trucks were turned Over to Chad forces july 19 at Jamina after a week Long Convoy from the port of Doula in neighbouring Cameroon. Elements or the cameroonian army accompanied the Convoy to the Chad Border. The 4th trans come truckers braved pitted Jungle roads and rain forests along the 1,100-mile route and donned goggles to outlast the desert  first half of the trip was Over solid rough terrain with no hard topped roads said sgt. Rober Witkovski assigned to he Del 53rd trans Fin. There was nothing but potholes and dirt out  trucks Are part of an emergency Aid package signed by president Reagan in March after libyan backed insurgents attacked Chad forces said usar eur spokesman Rex scribble. Gribble said the $10million is in addition to $5.7 million in military assist Ance Given Chad this year. Eighty six of the group were Drivers and mechanics from the 53rd trans in 37th trans group. They were assisted by about a dozen medics and other support sol Diers. The group flew to Cameroon july 10 and spent about a week transporting the vehicles. Two Days were spent on rest and maintenance along the Way. The Countryside was Beautiful said spec. 4 Ken Neth m. German of the 76th trans co. It looked like we were driving straight into the horizon it was t As hot As we expected it to  he added. It was 85 to 90 degrees during the Day and Cool at night surf Sot. Mil Man o do 4bi Tram come Pumo Mian Ohio Olonko my Lomi report Reagan from Page 1 speech that firmly rejected demands from democrats an Many republicans in Congress for a tougher policy to Ward South Africa. His White House audience consisted of foreign policy experts and some members of Congress. Western nations should not Cut off economic ties with South Africa but should become More deeply involved in its business Community so they can serve As agents 9f change and Progress and growth the president said. As one african Leader remarked recently Southern Africa is like a Zebra Reagan cautioned. If the White parts Are injured the Black parts will die  and he denounced South Africa s system of rigid racial segregation As morally wrong and politically  the House of representatives already has approve legislation to impose a total Trade embargo on South Africa similar legislation will be considered soon by the Senate. Senate republicans told Reagan monday legislation to impose sanctions is inevitable unless retakes new Steps. Reagan urged the South african government to free its political prisoners including Nelson Mandela the Leader of the outlawed african National Congress and to lift restrictions on Black political movements. He said the government and its opponents should begin a dialogue about constructing a political system that rests upon the consent of the governed where the rights of majorities minorities and individuals Are protected by  without suggesting any deadline Reagan said a timetable for elimination of apartheid Laws should be set he said the imposition of sanctions would destroy America s flexibility discard our diplomatic leverage and deepen the  Farmers from Page 1 Jerry Harrison a meteorologist with the National weather service in Columbia . It s a temporary thing. We just gota Little Relief. The cloudiness will be gone by tomorrow or the Day  with crop losses from the drought estimated at up to $700 million in Virginia the Carolines and Georgia the us damask Force toured farms in Georgia and Alabama on monday. On tuesday i toured hard hit Orangeburg county . Todd Arant who farms about 600acres and has 200 head of cattle told the group he s lost 80 percent of both his Corn and Hay crops to the dry weather. This is a terrible situation said assistant agriculture Secretary George Dunlop the task Force head. It s almost unbelievable to see the crops in this destroyed  monday at a farm near Haga the panel saw 12-Inch-High wilted soybeans still trying to Bloom 18-Inch sorghum not yet budded and knee High Corn without  the pastures were burned Brown. We saw some Fields where it would literally ruin the Field if you put an Ani Mal on it now Dunlop  the inspections end tues Day Dunlop said decisions on most drought disaster Aid would not come until late summer or Early fall. He suggested that Farmers could use Farmers Home administration Loans with 5 percent to 8 percent interest to repackage their loan  but Many said this won t help. I Don t know what the solution is but if it s Loans i Don t know How i can pay Back what i owe now com Fanner Donald Phillips told Dunlop during a visit to a farm in Madison county  we need is rain added buddy Leger a Melon and Pecan grower in Cor Dele a. But what we need besides that is Relief on this interest As we re going right now a Man who is Able to stay on his farm is not going to have enough equity in it to borrow the Money to make it another . Lindsay Thomas d-ga., said Southeastern Georgia is heading for one of the worst disasters Southeastern Agri culture has Ever  some officials and Farmers asked for Money and feed. What we re looking for is free commodities surplus commodities said sen. Mack Mattingly a a. Dunlop noted the Federal emergency feed assistance program which pro Vides surplus commodities at Low Cost but said there is no provision in the Law for free commodities. The heat since Early july has been blamed on 16 deaths in Georgia four each in North Carolina Missouri Indi Ana and Illinois two each in Kentucky and South Carolina and one each in Vir Ginia Louisiana and Michigan